Marina Litvinenko on the death of Alexei Navalny
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BBC
4.3 • 6.6K Ratings
🗓️ 17 February 2024
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Today, we look at the death of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny and speak to the youngest peer ever to be appointed to the House of Lords.
Laura and Paddy are joined by Marina Litvinenko, the wife of Alexander Litvinenko whose killing in London is suspected to have been carried out by Russian agents in 2006. She discusses how Alexei Navalny’s death reminds her of the murder of her husband.
When asked about how he died, Dmitry Peskov, Mr Putin's spokesman, said "medics must somehow figure this out".
And Carmen Smith, soon to become the country’s youngest peer at 27 talks about her joining the House of Lords, and how she wants to see it abolished. You can join our Newscast online community here: https://tinyurl.com/newscastcommunityhere Newscast brings you daily analysis of the latest political news stories from the BBC. It was presented by Laura Kuenssberg and Paddy O’Connell. It was made by Chris Flynn with Gemma Roper and Joe Wilkinson. The technical producer was Mike Regaard. The assistant editor is Chris Gray and the senior news editors are Sam Bonham and Jonathan Aspinwall.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts. |
| 0:04.7 | Hello, Laura, did you see the Chris Mason's unmade bed, it made a bit of news? |
| 0:09.4 | It sounds like something I would deeply have disapproved of. |
| 0:11.6 | You wouldn't have liked it, because you would have thought it was a sign of men behaving badly. |
| 0:14.8 | I would have done and it would have brought back all sorts of terrible memories of |
| 0:17.8 | Chris leaving half eaten carrots around the New Room in Westminster of which used to make me |
| 0:21.3 | very cross. |
| 0:22.3 | Did he used to do that? |
| 0:23.0 | He did. |
| 0:24.0 | Shame. |
| 0:25.0 | That's a nice sign. |
| 0:26.0 | That's a good sign. |
| 0:27.0 | At least it's carrots. |
| 0:28.0 | Yeah, well, he just generally used to, |
| 0:30.0 | basically he used to just turn the new gym into a boy tip and I used to tell them off. |
| 0:33.8 | So there's nothing new in this. |
| 0:35.0 | I think I might even have said it on newscast before, but I haven't seen the unmade bed |
| 0:38.6 | and now I know about it. |
| 0:39.5 | I'm not going to go looking for it. |
| 0:40.8 | However, the unmade bed was on display while you were talking about the |
| 0:44.1 | by elections. Yes, and Slytherin's Chair, who's a discorder, said, will it get the art award? Probably not. |
| 0:49.4 | Oh, Tracy Eman. Yeah, but you could describe the by-election result as a tip for the Conservative. |
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