hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories and checking out the truth behind them. we start with the ongoing political row here in the uk about asylum seekers accommodation. the first people to be housed on a barge docked off the south coast of england have arrived with more expected later in the day. the barge called the bibby stockholm will be used to house up to 500 men while they wait for an outcome of their asylum applications. campaigners have expressed concern about the conditions on board, but the government insists the vessel is safe and that it will help reduce the cost of placing migrants in hotels. meanwhile, the charity care for calais which represents some of the refugees have said several asylum sekers have had their transfers cancelled today. protestors have gathered close to the barge in dorset. this was the view a little earlier. i am against the barge, i think it is extremely dangerous. as has been prov
the former pakistani prime minister, imran khan, has called on his supporters to protest peacefully, after he was found guilty on corruption charges and sentenced to three years in prison. a court in islamabad ruled that he had failed to declare income from the sale of gifts he received while in office. the verdict means he isn t allowed to hold public office for the next five years. pakistan is just months away from a general election. from islamabad, caroline davies reports. sirens blaring, police truck after police truck, arresting former prime minister imran khan. the judgment came from here. police filled every corner in islamabad s session court. mr khan says that the case is politically motivated. the court said he is dishonest. so, this is after months and months of waiting, we now finally have an announcement. imran khan has been found guilty and has been sentenced to three years imprisonment. outside court, shouts of, your show is over, khan. minutes later, we he
says the flooding there is the worst natural disaster in the country s history. now on bbc news sportsday with paul scott. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m paul scott at the bbc sport centre, here s what we ve got for you. history beckons: england s netballers reach the world cup final for the very first time. the bhoys are back: celtic see off ross county, as they make a winning start to the defence of their scottish premiership title. and comfortable wins for spain and japan, who are the first teams through to the quarter finals of the women s world cup. also coming up on sportsday: more success for great britain, as charlie hatton becomes mountain bike downhill world champion. and a remarkable comeback from scotland, as they beat france in their world cup warm up. we begin with bit of history for england s netballers. they re through to a world cup final for the very first time, after a nerve shredding victory over new zealand in cape town. there was nothing separatin
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
this was billed as a high level delegation that was meant to go to meet with the top military leaders to try and get them to step down. part of this delegation was a former military leader of nigeria, neighbouring nigeria, and then also an influential cleric. but the information we are getting right now is that this delegation was in the country forjust a few hours. they met some members of the military but they didn t really meet the top man himself, general abdourahamane tiani, or the deposed president, to try and mediate between the two of them possibly. we understand the delegation has now left. they reason why this is also important is because ecowas, the military bloc, had given the military a deadline of this sunday to step down, or otherwise they might use force to remove them from power. so right now the scene is set for this countdown to sunday to see if the military steps down, and if doesn t what happens next. you mentioned that deadline. is it any clearer whether