Navalny's team accuses Russia of 'hiding his body'
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2024
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
The mother of the dead Russian opposition leader, Alexei Navalny, was told by the authorities his body would be handed over, once a post-mortem examination had been completed. Also: President Biden blames US Congress for the fall of the Ukrainian town of Avdiivka to Russian forces, and Harrison Ford's Star Wars script sells for $12k.
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| 0:00.0 | In 1969, a plan to show support for an anti-racism protest turned the lives of 14 promising |
| 0:07.1 | black student athletes upside down. |
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| 0:18.8 | This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. |
| 0:21.8 | Hello, I'm Nick Miles and in the early hours of Sunday, the 18th of February, these are our main stories. |
| 0:29.0 | The whereabouts of the body of the late Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny remain unknown. |
| 0:34.9 | The Russian authorities are refusing to release it to his family. |
| 0:38.6 | The US President Joe Biden has blamed congressional inaction for Ukraine's defeat in the frontline town of Avdevka during a phone |
| 0:46.8 | call with President Zelensky. |
| 0:49.2 | Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted he won't bow to international pressure over Israel's offensive in Gaza. |
| 0:57.0 | Also in this podcast, a long time ago in a flat in West London. |
| 1:11.0 | The discarded Star Wars memorabilia feeling the force of the auctioneer's gavel. Russia has seen its biggest political protests for more than a year. |
| 1:18.8 | Reaction to the death announced on Friday of Vladimir Putin's most formidable opponent, Alexei Navalny. An independent monitoring |
| 1:26.0 | group says around 350 people have now been detained in cities across Russia as mourners |
| 1:31.9 | brought flowers to lay and impromptu memorials. |
| 1:35.0 | On Saturday some of Mr Naval's supporters went out onto the streets of Moscow. |
| 1:39.0 | This is very sad for us all but Alexi said not to give up and we won't give up |
| 1:46.4 | and let them think that they have won. That's not true. History, truth and goodness |
| 1:51.7 | are on our side. We will definitely win. |
| 1:55.0 | The name thing is truth, truth to power. |
| 1:59.0 | We only live once, moreover if we don't come out now, then when. |
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