Papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timberfrom papers obtained by bbc panorama show drax took timber from rare forest in canada that it had claimed were no go areas. It comes as the government decides whether to give the firms yorkshire side billions more in environmental subsidies, funded by energy bill payers. Drax says its wood pellets are sustainable and illegally harvested. Lets get more on this from our reporter who conducted that investigation. What did you find . This is about a Power Station in england. This is the worlds biggest woodfired Power Station. It does say by burning wood pellets. It receives a huge amount of public subsidy, as you just mentioned, because these wood pellets, when you burn for electricity, that is counted as renewable energy. The Power Station gets through an awful lot of wood pellets each year, about 6. 5 million tonnes. All of these are imported into the uk from overseas, many of them coming from the us and canada, where drax runs 17 pell
Hell make the independent investigation into the allegations made against Christian Horner has been made against Christian Horner u; been completed, and made against Christian Horner i551 been completed, and red made against Christian Horner i51 been completed, and red bull, the Parent Company of the formula 1 team, has said that the grievance has been dismissed. They said that the complainant has a right of appeal, that they are confident the investigation has been fair, rigorous and impartial. No we arent actually getting any more details from red bull than theyve outlined in that statement, and thats because the investigation that they launched is entirely confidential. They hired an external barrister to look into the allegations against Christian Horner, which we understand related to inappropriate and controlling behaviour which he denied. We know Christian Horner had hours of interviews in front of the barrister but its ended a couple days before the season gets under way. Andy
Days. His mother said they had threatened her because they wanted the burial to take place in secret. The news of the funeral comes just before mr navalny s widow yulia is due to address the European Parliament in a speech about Political Prisoners which we will bring to you live later this hour. Lets speak to our europe correspondent nick beake. He is in strasbourg. These details just emerging about Alexei Navalny s funeral in the past half hour or so. What more do we know . Samantha, these details came from the team would use to work for Alexei Navalny and may have confirmed that the funeral will take place on friday, friday afternoon. There will be a service initially starting to be a moscow time and then a burial at a crematorium, a cemetery nearby. As you may recall the mother of Alexei Navalny had been told, it was reported, to agree to a secret burial and that if she didnt agree to that they would be a burial at the penal colony where he had been held for quite some time and whe
i m jessica dean in washington, d.c. in today for fredicka whitfield. a major move by the memphis police department. less than 24 hours after the release of the video showing the brutal building of tyre nichols, the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit will be disbanded. this move coming after nichols family and protesters around the country demanded the unit be dissolved. cnn s isabelle rosales has more on these developments. what are you learning? reporter: the police chief cerelyn davis, in a statement she put out, talking about how it was disbanded, she touted the quality work of this unit. clearly there s been tensions between the community and this s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit. what happened here is the police chief, she met with members that were not involved in the beating of tyre nichols and determined it was in the best interest of the community to disband. this goes to the direct wis activists and the family attorney as well. here is what we know about the s.c.o.r.p.i.o.n. unit. this
the united nations secretary general, antonio guterres, has asked the security council to urgently consider haiti s request for deployment now on bbc news, it s hardtalk with zeinab badawi. welcome to hardtalk with me zeinab badawi from south africa where my guest has been described as one of the world s greatest living artists. william kentridge is versatile, hard hitting and his talents span many different genres. he is william kentridge and this is a major exhibition of his work in cape town. in 2020 i travelled to his studio and asked how south african politics influenced his art. william kentridge in johannesburg, welcome to hardtalk. zeinab, thank you very much and welcome to the studio injohannesburg. you were born in johannesburg in 1955, the son of two prominent anti apartheid lawyers, wow did growing up under apartheid affect you? i think because my parents were both very much aware of and involved in legal questions around the anti apartheid struggle, from a young