In a high security penal colony. Western governments and human Rights Groups universally condemned it but there is little they can do to help him. Having already allegedly poisoned him with nerve agent, it seems the kremlin intend to silence him forever behind the highest walls in the country. His treatment during imprisonment has been grim hes been subject to sleep deprivation, there have been long stretches of solitary confinement, he has even been forced to listen to Vladimir Putins speeches repeatedly. And he has been Hunger Strike. The Alexei Navalny on our screens today is a pale shadow of the man that was arrested two years ago. In the last hour or so following his extended sentence,we heard extended sentence, we heard from navalny in a post on x, the app formerly known as twitter. He told his almost Three Million followers 19 years in a maximum security penal colony. The number of years does not matter. I perfectly understand that, like Many Political prisoners, i am sitting on
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
Personally, iam really personally, i am really concerned. the heatwaves we are experiencing on land and the marine heat waves we have seen are happening in unusual locations where we have not expected them. but there is hope. scientists are learning more about how the ocean ecosystems function every day. we have the renewable technologies that can tackle climate change by reducing our use of fossil fuels. we just need to make the change quickly. around the world and across the uk, this is bbc news. let s look at some other stories making news. a man who murdered the cousin of world heavyweight boxing champion tyson fury during a bar brawl has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 28 years. liam 0 pray was convicted of stabbing rico burton in august last year. mr burton s mother has paid tribute, saying rico will never be forgotten by the traveller community .
Let s look at some other stories making news. a man who murdered the cousin of world heavyweight boxing champion tyson fury during a bar brawl has been jailed for life with a minimum term of 28 years. liam 0 pray was convicted of stabbing rico burton in august last year. mr burton s mother has paid tribute, saying rico will never be forgotten by the traveller community . a royal spokesman has said there will be no official public event to mark the first anniversary of the death of queen elizabeth. the king will spend the 8th of september quietly and privately . there are also no plans for a private gathering of the royal family on the anniversary. senior royals will be at balmoral in aberdeenshire over the summer the queen died there last year. the tiktok influencer, mahek bukhari, and her mother, have been found guilty at leicester crown court of the murders of saqib hussain and mohammed eye ja zuddin in a high speed car chase in february 2022. jurors deliberated for more than 28