meeting them in california, he emphasized that navalny s legacy lives on through those mourning his loss and fighting for freedom and democracy. the united states government is expected to announce a new package of sanctions against russia on friday. navalny s mother says she s finally seen his body, nearly a week after officials said he died in an arctic prison. lyudmila navalnaya said authorities took her to a morgue on wednesday night, where she was presented with a death certificate, which she signed. navalny s team said the document states he died of natural causes. translation: according to the law, they should l have given me his body immediately. but they didn t. instead, they blackmail me. they put conditions where, when and how alexei should be buried. this is illegal. they receive orders either from the kremlin or from the central office of the investigative committee. they want it done secretly, without a memorial service. they want to take me to the edge of a sem
on bbc london. and coming up in sport on bbc news, the london marathon becomes the first in the world to offer equal prize money for its wheelchair and able bodied racers. good evening. almost a week after the sudden death of the russian opposition leader, alexei navalny, his mother says she has finally been allowed to see his body in a siberian morgue. he died last friday in a remote penal colony where he was imprisoned. the death certificate says he died of natural causes. his mother says the authorities won t release his body and she has accused them of trying to blackmail her into a secret burial. our security correspondent, frank gardner reports. alexei navalny, president putin s facejust alexei navalny, president putin s face just critic, alexei navalny, president putin s facejust critic, dead alexei navalny, president putin s face just critic, dead for nearly a week. , ., ., , , ., , face just critic, dead for nearly a week. , ., , ., , ., week. his mother has been fal
may. when, where, how alexei should be buried. should be buried. china plans to send a should be buried. china plans to send a new should be buried. china plans to send a new pair should be buried. china plans to send a new pair of - should be buried. china plans to send a new pair of panda l to send a new pair of panda bears to the san diego zoo sometime this year. in the last few minutes it s been confirmed that the odysseus lunar lander has touched down on the surface of the moon. it s the first time in american mission has returned to the moon and more than 50 years and the first ever by a private company. these are pictures of the launch last thursday, taking off on a spacex falcon nine rocket. it s not the first time the us has landed though that was back injune of 1966 when the surveyor one landed that s almost four months after the soviet union landed the luna nine spacecraft, and had the first controlled, or soft, landing. only three other countries
to meet with the president in a show of solidarity with the island. and panda diplomacy is back: china announces plans to send a new pair of bears to san diego zoo later this year. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and a warm welcome to the programme. we begin in space: a us firm has successfully landed a private spacecraft on the moon for the first time since the apollo missions five decades ago. odysseus was built by intuitive machines in south texas. it touched down near the south pole of the moon, where scientists hope there could be a source of water. this is the moment contact was established with the lander and announced by the mission director. what by the mission director. what we can confirm, by the mission director. what we can confirm, without - by the mission director. what we can confirm, without a - we can confirm, without a doubt, is our equipment is on the surface of the moon, and we are transmitting. so, congratu
on newsnight at10:30. dozens of mps call for lindsay hoyle to resign, as sir keir starmer denies threatening the speaker. are concerns over mps safety shaping the political agenda? we ll ask labour and the conservative mps. good evening. the prime minister has criticised the commons speaker, sir lindsay hoyle, over the way he handled a vote on a ceasefire in gaza last night. but rishi sunak stopped short of saying he should resign. more than 60 mps have now called for sir lindsay to go after he changed parliamentary convention in a way that ended up helping labour. the move sparked chaos in the commons as dozens of snp and conservative mps walked out. the speaker today apologised again, saying he had made a mistake. our chief political correspondent henry zeffman reports. this is another example of our politicians getting involved in bun fights. it stopped being about gaza and it became about them. it just takes you away from the real issue. l shocking. geopolitics descend