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
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
Of the vote is in. A further 15 of democratic voters have declared themselves to be uncommitted not favouring any candidate. This is seen as strong pushback to biden from key demographics that he might need to win the state again progressives, voters of colour, and arab and muslim voters concerned by his stance on the israel gaza war. Activists in the state had been organising to send President Biden a message no ceasefire, no vote and encouraged voters to select the uncommitted option instead of the president s name. The movement has wide ranging endorsements, including congresswoman rashida tlaib, who posted this earlier. I was proud today to walk in and pull a democratic ballot and vote uncommitted. We must protect our democracy. We must make sure that our government is about us, about the people. When 74 of democrats in michigan support a ceasefire, yet President Biden is not hearing us. This is the way we can use our democracy to say, listen listen to michigan. Earlier we heard fr
, we are getting word of the suspects of five killings in texas have not been captured. The fbi will hold the news very soon. The alleged killer was asked by neighbors to stop shooting before he turned the gun on them. A nineyearold boy and his mother or among those who were senses the kilt. The suspect is an undocumented immigrant who have been deported four times over the last decade, so we will get the News Conference to you as soon as it happens just a short time for now but that is where cnns at 11 there is in texas right now. It, what do we know about this arrest . We know that town of cut and shoot texas, which is about 10 to 11 miles north of where we are here in cleveland area texas, which is about an hours drive north of houston. In the four days that Francisco Oropeza has been on the run from Law Enforcement, he has not traveled a great distance. I think what we have seen over the last couple of days with patrols in the area, theres always this inclination, this thinking tha
good morning, to our viewers in the usa and around the world. i m john avlon. it is monday, december 18th. it s 5:00 a.m. here in new york, noon in tel aviv, where the u.s. defense secretary is scheduled to meet now with his israeli counterpart. secretary lloyd austin s mission is to press israeli officials on specific milestones for progress in israel s war against hamas, as civilian casualties climb. here s democratic senator chris van hollen talking to abc this sunday. we do have unacceptable levels of casualties. we see loose rules of engagement, way looser than anything that the united states would exercise. we would not drop a 2,000-pound bomb on a refugee camp to target a hamas commander. a senior defense official tells cnn that austin will, quote, want to hear very clear articulation of the israeli self-assessment today. that same official has confidence in the israeli military and so he s there to ask questions and learn more about their plan. elliott gotkine