extended from nine to 19 years. mr navalny was found guilty of inciting and financing extremist activity and creating an extremist organisation, charges he denied. he s already serving a nine year term for fraud and contempt of court, in a case which many see as politically motivated. today s court proceedings were held in the prison in melekhovo, where he has been held, and from where our russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports. this is the closest we were allowed to get to russia s most famous prisoner. we d been let inside the high securityjail where alexei navalny was already incarcerated. but journalists weren t allowed into the makeshift courtroom. all we could do was watch on a screen. at this trial behind bars, the kremlin critic was found guilty on extremism charges and handed a new 19 year prison sentence. he ll be transferred to a so called special regime colony and harsher conditions. we may have been allowed in here to watch the verdict on a tv screen, but keep
one of those on board is the british billionaire and explorer hamish harding. the titanic, which sank in 1912, lies nearly 4,000 metres beneath the surface, around 600 kilometres off the coast of newfoundland in canada. nickjohnson has the latest. small, with barely enough room to sit this is the titan submersible. tasked with diving to depths few other vessels can reach, now missing in the middle of the north atlantic. it s got one button, and that s it. the dive had been organised by the tour firm 0ceangate. its boss speaking to the bbc last year, and describing how titan is steered. it s basically a sony playstation style controller. if you want to go forward, you press forward. if you want to go back, you press back. you want to turn to the left, it s like that. the right, you turn to the right. the polar prince the ship carrying the sub left stjohn s in newfoundland, arriving near the wreck site on sunday. the sub then began its descent to the sea bed a journey t
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By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW (Reuters) -Allies of jailed Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said on Friday that it was still unclear where he was after prison authorities said he was no longer in the penal colony where he had been serving his sentence. Navalny, a former lawyer who rose to prominence by lampooning President Vladimir…