Wave of support from top performers. All of those stories here in just a moment. Sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, heres lizzy. Hello from the bbc sport centre. Were starting with the the news today that the future of the Commonwealth Games and its viability is being questioned, after alberta announced theyre cancelling their bid to host the 2030 event. It follows victoria, in australia, who also pulled out of staging the next games in 2026. Our correspondent, alex capstick, tells us where this leaves the games. It would seem to be in crisis. Without a house for the next two editions. Although they insist there is ongoing dialogue with potential hosts. It has been suggested india or malaysia might lodge a bid. But one committed and prepared to meet all of the financial demands of staging such a Big Multisports event has increasingly difficult. Fifa is investigating an official complaint that the zambia head coach, bruce mwape, sexually assaulted a player at the
Lets stop the length of that sentence, the prosecutors had been pushing for 20 years, we think it is 19 but there has been a little bit of doubt about that. Lets start with the length of that sentence. Yes, the trial was held at a makeshift courtroom at a prison about 850 mild east of moscow in a Village Cold Melekhovo where Alexei Navalny is serving a previous nine year sentence. The trial on Extremism Charges was held Behind Closed Doors and journalists who arrived at that Detention Facility were able to follow proceedings when the judge were able to follow proceedings when thejudge read out the were able to follow proceedings when the judge read out the verdict from a different room via a video link, but the sound quality was so poor that they had difficulty understanding what the actual sentence was. But now the consensus among those journalists seems to be at is 19 years. This is the latest sentence and it may not be Alexei Navalny s last. His defence team says that they have hear
not put her off. this whole thing will be a big learning experience and just because i received this amazing amount of support, i am not thinking tomorrow might not still have one. hello and welcome. we start in russia, where within the last hour, the jailed opposition leader alexei navalny has been sentenced to an additional 19 years in prison. he s already serving a lengthy sentence for fraud and other charges. mr navalny was accused of creating an extremist network, and financing extremist activity . there s already been some international reaction to today s sentence. the united nations said mr navalny should be released immediately. in the last few minutes, germany has described it as ,. pure in justice with more on this is vitaly shevchenko russia editor for bbc monitoring.
and just because i received this amazing amount of support, i am not thinking tomorrow might not still have one. hello and welcome. we start in russia, where within the last hour, the jailed opposition leader alexei navalny has been sentenced to an additional 19 years in prison. he s already serving a lengthy sentence for fraud and other charges. mr navalny was accused of creating an extremist network, and financing extremist activity . there s already been some international reaction to today s sentence. the united nations said mr navalny should be released immediately. in the last few minutes, germany has described it as i. pure in justice with more on this is vitaly shevchenko russia editor for bbc monitoring.