let s 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. let s 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
to defeat hamas s remaining fighters. but there has been widespread international concern over the fate of the more than i million palestinians sheltering there. our security correspondent frank gardner is monitoring events for us from jerusalem. everyone s waiting for the hamas team to give its first formal response after they arrive in cairo. the cia director william burns is reportedly in cairo and that s very important because us support for this deal has been crucial. now, the sticking point in all of this is that hamas wants a commitment by israel that the fighting stops. israel won t give that commitment, partly for political reasons and partly for political military reasons. it believes the remaining four group battalions of hamas are hiding out in buffer, probably below ground entitles and yahya sinwar, the leader of us, the military leader and the architect the october seven massacre, is amongst them. hiding out there, possibly even surrounded by hostages. so the is
an independent investigation into israeli shelling that damaged the gaza office of the international committee of the red cross on friday. jordan condemned what it called israel s systematic targeting of civilians and aid agencies. in tel aviv, tens of thousands of people attended what organisers said was the biggest anti government protest since the war began. prime minister benjamin netanyahu is under continued public pressure as the families of 116 hostages held by hamas in gaza plead for a ceasefire. our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, has more on saturday s strikes. there have been more deadly israeli strikes on different neighbourhoods of gaza city. in beach camp, or shati camp, large strikes there. you can see these dark plumes of smoke in social media videos, several homes flattened, shocked people rushing to help the casualties who are at the scene. and there has been speculation in isreali media that a senior hamas commander was being targeted, but the o
all, you can see video shared on social media, a large plume of smoke, there are witnesses who say there were several air strikes, is one of the eight refugee camps in gaza, a densely populated place. although it was repeatedly targeted early on in the war, there are a senior hamas figures who have been based there, and are based there, and now people really felt much safer, they had gone back to this part of the camp there was more intact, a little more inland and you can see that there were panicked scenes as people were rushed to get the wounded away, several buildings completely flattened in one of the videos that are circulating. what videos that are circulating. what has the response videos that are circulating. what has the response been - videos that are circulating. what has the response been in - videos that are circulating. what has the response been in terms of what the idf has said and the palestinians? what the idf has said and the palestinians? , . ., , pale
you can see these dark plumes of smoke in social media videos. several homes flattened, shocked people rushing to help the casualties who are at the scene. there has been speculation in israeli media that a senior hamas commander was being targeted, but the official israeli military statement talks only about hamas infrastructure being targeted. the israeli military has also put out a statement saying that there was not a direct attack on an international committee of the red cross facility, in al mawasi, in rafah a day ago. that was where at least 22 people were killed, according to the red cross, when there was shelling on a tent camp for displaced people, and the red cross office nearby was also damaged. to the north of here, on the israel lebanon border, tensions remain extremely high. there s been an intensification in cross border violence with israeli forces and the lebanese armed group hezbollah. but the israeli military says today it killed a man there who was an ope