Alexei Navalny's mother is shown body
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 23 February 2024
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Mrs Navalnaya finally saw his remains on Wednesday after investigators secretly took her to a morgue outside the remote prison in Russia where he collapsed and died. Also: Firefighters in the Spanish city of Valencia have been trying to rescue people from a 14-storey building that's gone up in flames, and scientists finally work out the mystery surrounding why some of the largest whales in the ocean produce their haunting and complex songs.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:03.3 | I'm Paul Moss and in the early hours of Friday, the 23rd of February, |
| 0:09.9 | these are our main stories. |
| 0:11.5 | Alexei Navalny's mother has finally been allowed to see her son's body. |
| 0:16.4 | She says she's now under pressure not to give him a public funeral. |
| 0:21.8 | They want the burial done in secret with no farewells. |
| 0:25.0 | They want to take me to the edge of the cemetery, show me a fresh grave and say, |
| 0:29.0 | your son is here. I won't agree to that. |
| 0:32.0 | Firefighters in the Spanish city of Valencia are tackling a huge blaze at a 14-story block of flats. |
| 0:39.0 | Plus... |
| 0:40.0 | We are particularly in love as physicist with positronium. |
| 0:43.2 | It's a perfect system to do experiments with. |
| 0:46.3 | What is positronium, the so-called exotic atom that's got scientists' hearts all a flutter. Also in this podcast, President Biden condemns a court ruling in Alabama that says |
| 1:00.8 | embryos and fertilize eggs count as children and the world's biggest |
| 1:06.0 | trading partners have received the most pandas according to academic studies so |
| 1:11.0 | it seems that when China wants to improve its economy, it tends to lend out more |
| 1:16.1 | panda's. |
| 1:17.1 | Why China's returning to panda diplomacy? They want the funeral to be done in secret. They don't want any farewells. |
| 1:28.0 | The words of Alexei Navalny's mother who says she's under pressure from the Russian authorities not to give a proper send-off for her son. |
| 1:36.0 | Ljadmila Navalny was speaking after being allowed to see his body for the first time, |
| 1:41.0 | driven at night time to a municipal morgue near the penal colony where he'd been incarcerated. |
| 1:46.6 | The investigators apparently told her they know the cause of Alexei Navalny's death, but for the |
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