opposition leader, is reportedly given an ultimatum about burying her son's body. his mother is told she must agree to his body being buried in secret or in the arctic penal colony where he died a week ago. explosions. two years on from the start of the war in ukraine, we have a special report from eastern ukraine. here in kyiv, ukrainians are now accepting this will be a long war. but they still insist it's a war they must and can win. as the unexploded second world war bomb in plymouth is taken out to sea, residents are told they can return home. a new experience. i'm glad it's over. it has been different, to say the least. what you're doing there, you shouldn't be doing. i and why this social media post by a female professional golfer went viral.

and shortly on bbc london... on newsnight at 10:30pm: two years ago, russia invaded ukraine. one year ago, it looked like putin had made a big mistake. today, russia is gaining territory and its economy is growing. what will the next year bring? good evening. the mother of alexei navalny — the prominent russian opposition leader — has reportedly been told she has just hours to agree to a secret burial or the russian authorities will bury him in the arctic penal colony where he died a week ago. that's according to a spokeswoman for mr navalny. the kremlin has continued to deny allegations that it was involved, calling western reaction to mr navalny�*s death hysterical. here's our russia editor, steve rosenberg. he died in prison a week ago, but

when and where will alexei navalny be laid to rest? for six days now, in this remote part of russia, his mother ludmilla has been trying to recover his body without success. in this video yesterday, she said investigators were threatening a secret burial. today, claims that they have given her an ultimatum. either agree to a funeral away from public view, or the opposition leader will be buried in the penal colony where he died. initially his mother was given three hours to decide. she refused to negotiate, and demanded his body. a wreath from president putin, but not for alexei navalny. president putin was marking the fatherland day. he has made no comment on the death of his most vociferous critic. but reaction from america to the war in ukraine and

alexei navalny�*s death. irate america to the war in ukraine and alexei navalny's death.— alexei navalny's death. we are announcing _ alexei navalny's death. we are announcing 500 _ alexei navalny's death. we are announcing 500 new _ alexei navalny's death. we are announcing 500 new sanctions | alexei navalny's death. we are l announcing 500 new sanctions in response... applause in response to putin's brutal war of conquest, in response to alexei navalny's death. because make no mistake, putin is responsible for alexei �*s death. mistake, putin is responsible for alexei 's death.— alexei 's death. tonight, back in moscow, alexei 's death. tonight, back in moscow. just — alexei 's death. tonight, back in moscow, just opposite _ alexei 's death. tonight, back in moscow, just opposite the - alexei 's death. tonight, back in i moscow, just opposite the old kgb building, the floral tributes keep coming. it isjust a building, the floral tributes keep coming. it is just a trickle now, but muscovites have still been coming out to play tribute to alexei navalny, although most of the flowers that have been laid here over the last week have been removed. it is if the authorities want to play down the scale of public mourning for the late opposition leader. people here see that as a sign of weakness from the

authorities, and believe those in power are still frightened of alexei navalny. they're scared, she says. they feared some russians will keep his memory alive. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. security council in new york. our correspondent andrew harding has returned to east of the country. he's been following the story of one ukrainian soldier, a medic working on the front line, who he first met at the start of the conflict.

two years of war, seen through the struggles of one ukrainian doctor. this was the first time we met oleg kravchenko back in 2022 in a besieged town called lysychansk. oleg had justjoined ukraine's army as a volunteer medic. look here. he drove us to his unit near the front lines. it's the same from russian. bomb. in those early days, a smiling oleg was full of confidence. it's my country. but the russians are pushing now. a lot. i hope maybe one and a half months, and we will shoot every... every russian. you'll push them out? yes. so you think you're winning this? yes, yes. but within weeks, the russians had destroyed and captured lysychansk. nice to meet you. it would be a year before

we met oleg again. his medical team was now working in another frontline town, bakhmut. lots of casualties from ukraine's struggling counter—offensive. the dangers growing. i am still live. you're still alive, yes. yes. but it's been a difficult year. very difficult. as if to prove the point, incoming fire. you're not worried about your safety? my faith. my faith is... hmm. i don't know. and now, two years into the war, we've come to meet oleg's team once again. as usual, they're in the thick of it.

this time in kupiansk, another furious battle under way. russia now inching forwards. gunfire. so the gunfire you can hear is ukrainian troops trying to shoot down a suspected russian drone. they heard it overhead. we've taken cover under some trees. not sure if they've hit it yet. the ukrainians have found a new russian target. but what of oleg? we'd lost touch with him for several months, but now hear news of an attack last october. a russian rocket hit the field hospital he was working in. three medics were killed. but oleg survived, his leg badly mangled. my friend died. it's difficult. difficult for me, and my mind is changed after that.

when we first met in lysychansk, you were hopeful that ukraine could win. when we met in bakhmut, you were tired and worried. very tired. now, how do you feel about the war? can ukraine win? um, yes. of course, i hope. but i think it's war. we will be long. a long war, then. medal of honour. it's from zelensky. and for oleg, medals and an early retirement after two years that have transformed every life in this country. andrew harding, bbc news, eastern ukraine. our chief international correspondent lyse doucet is in kyiv tonight. lyse, you have been there throughout, you were there at the start of the conflict. two years on, where does it go from here? well, it

feels very different, _ where does it go from here? well, it feels very different, as _ where does it go from here? well, it feels very different, as you - where does it go from here? well, it feels very different, as you just - feels very different, as you just heard in andrew's report, two years ago, after ukrainians recovered from the shock of russia's full scale invasion, they insisted to a person that this was a war they can win and they would win. a year ago at this time, president zelensky even said it would all be over by now. but now the ukrainians are accepting this will be a long war. and even more, that russian forces are now advancing in eastern ukraine from at least five directions. they are exploiting the delay in the deliveries of critical military support from its allies. most of all, the $60 billion security package that has been held up in the us congress by political infighting. on the front lines, ukrainian soldiers are exhausted, and they're running low on ammunition. everyone i've spoken to here, from people in coffee shops to top security officials, they all are grateful for

the aid from allies, but they are warning they need military support now. saying that if president putin wins in ukraine, he won't stop in ukraine. , , ., ~ wins in ukraine, he won't stop in ukraine. ,, ., ~ i, ukraine. lyse, thank you. lyse doucet in _ ukraine. lyse, thank you. lyse doucet in kyiv. _ it was described as one of the largest peacetime evacuations, but tonight more than 10,000 people in plymouth who evacuated their homes because of an unexploded second world war bomb have been told they can return. the device, which weighs half a tonne, was removed from a garden in the keyham area and taken out to sea. here's jenny kumah. on the move. the city brought to a standstill as the military carried its lethal cargo. just look at the size of it — 500 kilograms of explosives. this afternoon, the delicate operation to move it out of harm's way began. there was huge relief that it made its way through the city safely. so we've completed phase one of the operation, which is moving the device from its location into the sea,

and that's gone really well. but i must stress there's still another phase for myself and the operators to conduct throughout the night. the device has caused chaos for the local community. 3,000 people living in nearby properties were told to leave their homes over three days. some stayed with friends and family. others got put up in hotels by the council. then, this afternoon, bomb disposal experts announced the safest way to deal with it was to move it away for detonation. this by midday today, another 7,000 people living within 300 metres of the route were told to be out of their homes this afternoon. we heard the news... this landlord opened early to give people somewhere to go. people have come in and it's nice to help the community out. as a community pub, you know, it's nice to do that and it's nice for people to know that we're here for them. anything they need, they can come in. it's horrendous. we just want to get home. it's unfair on everybody, especially being ill.

it makes you wonder how many more bombs are laying around! _ by this evening, people got the good news that they could go home. this is posy, my nine—year—old little cat. she's come from a little trip from devonport today, because we couldn't stay. she didn't really enjoy it that much, but she got treated and stroked a lot by all the people. it's a new experience. i'm glad it's over. i'm glad everyone's at home. it has been different, - to say the least, but, no, eve rybody's been lovely. plymouth was heavily bombed during the war and unexploded devices do turn up now and again, but this time, what's been extraordinary is the level of disruption it's caused. there is a huge sense of relief here in the city after a week of anxiety and disruption. we are told the device is safely out at sea, and we understand there are plans to sink

it some a0 metres below the surface and detonated, and we understand that could happen later tonight. jenny, thank you. household energy bills in england, scotland and wales are set to fall to their lowest level for two years from april, under a new price cap set by the regulator. the amount suppliers can charge for each unit of energy you use will be just over i2% down on the previous quarter. that means on the typical bill a drop of around £238 a year. this is for bills in great britain, but prices are also moving lower in northern ireland. the regulator ofgem has however highlighted that energy debt has reached a record £3.1 billion, and people will continue to see their standing charges rise. a body recovered from the thames on monday has been formally identified as abdul shokoor ezedi. the 31—year—old was the suspect in a chemical attack on a mother and her daughters in london. he'd died from drowning.

shamima begum, who left the uk as a 15—year—old schoolgirl to join the islamic state group in syria, has lost her latest legal battle to get her british citizenship back. it was stripped on security grounds in 2019 — a decision the court of appeal has now upheld. she is now 2a and still in syria. our home and legal correspondent dominic casciani reports. for nine years, shamima begum has lived with her decision, voluntary or not, to leave home for syria's war zone. she was married to a self—styled islamic state fighter. their three children died, and since the regime collapsed, she's been in a detention camp. back in 2022, the bbc asked her what she would be doing in seven years' time. still be in this camp. really? yeah. you don't think you'll be home? nope. not at all? nope. why not? because isis was the worst

thing of the 21st century and i was a part of it, and now i have to face the consequences of my actions, and this camp is the consequences of my actions. she says she was trafficked into sexual slavery, but the court of appeal today ruled the home secretary had been entitled to deprive her of citizenship. it could be argued that the decision in ms begum's case was harsh. it could also be argued that ms begum is the author of her own misfortune. but it is not for this court to agree or disagree with either point of view. this judgement is an emphatic victory for the home secretary. it underlines the government's power to strip some terrorism suspects of their citizenship. all threejudges placed national security above credible suspicions of trafficking,

and that means that shamima begum may find it very hard to appeal to the supreme court. ms begum's lawyers said the ruling has left her stateless because she can't in practice get citizenship from her parents' country, bangladesh. shamima begum is held unlawfully in indefinite, | arbitrary detention, - which is banned by every international treaty. shamima begum's legal limbo is increasingly the exception. other countries have been repatriating their citizens from syria to rehabilitate orjail them. the 2a—year—old's lawyers say bringing her back would be the just thing to do. dominic casciani, bbc news. the united states has returned to the moon for the first time in more than half a century. it was a giant leap of a commercial kind — a private spacecraft touched down near the lunar south pole, but appears to be lying on its side. scientists hope it will study the moon's surface and look for signs of frozen water. our science editor rebecca

morelle has the details. we leave it. we came, and god willing, as we shall return. the voice of nasa's gene cernan as the apollo 17 lander left the lunar surface in 1972. no one thought it would take more than 50 years for america to return to the moon. but now they're back, this time with a private company in charge. we've reached the expected time of landing, but now is the process of waiting for comms. and we are in standby mode. there was a tense time at intuitive machines mission control waiting for the lunar lander to call home. we are checking our antenna reception. but finally, a faint signal. we can confirm without a doubt that our equipment is on the surface of the moon and we are transmitting. this is just the start for commercial missions to the moon. i this is a new way of doing businessl because it's a company—led mission.

and so nasa isjust one _ of the customers on this mission. and this is beneficial for nasa - because the risk of having a failure on the mission is no longer nasa's risk _ it's the company's risk. the spacecraft has landed close to the moon's south pole. deep craters there are permanently in shadow and frozen water could be inside. it could be split into hydrogen and oxygen and used as fuel. this and other resources make the lunar surface attractive. only a handful of countries have successfully landed on the moon. in the �*60s and �*70s it was the united states and soviet union. then in 2013, china, followed more recently by india and japan, and now intuitive machines with the first commercial landing and there are many more of these to come. so why the moon rush? well, it's the start of a lunar economy potentially worth billions. the vision is a permanent base, with people constantly coming and going, even a staging post for going to mars and beyond.

there are questions about how the lunar surface is governed. what happens if too many spacecraft want to go there? what's the equivalent of lunar air traffic control and so on? all these things, you know, they will be developed as they have been for air travel and for maritime travel. but it's just getting started and it's exciting but also quite worrying. there's no doubt this is just the beginning of a new era of lunar exploration. but the future of the moon is in all of our hands and we have to get it right. rebecca morelle, bbc news. it's a case that's gripped australia. now a serving police officer's been charged with murdering the missing australian tv personality jesse baird and his partner. the couple have been missing for the last four days and bloodstained clothes were discovered on wednesday. simon jones has more.

this is the moment a serving police officer hands himself in to colleagues in sydney and is taken away for questioning on suspicion of double murder. his face has been blurred in footage released by new south wales police. that officer is beau lamarre, the former boyfriend of tv presenterjesse baird — on the right — who's missing, feared dead, along withjesse's partner luke davies. they are both much—loved men with a wide circle of loved ones, family and friends who adore them. luke, of course, has an enormously supportive workforce... on the network where jesse used to work, the news is far too close to home. looking beautiful! jesse was a presenter, entertainmentjournalist and red carpet host, luke davies a flight attendant for qantas. these were their final posts on instagram last weekend at a pink concert. social media has been flooded with condolences and concern.

police said there was now enough evidence to charge one of their own officers with murder. the 28—year—old man facing these charges was in a relationship withjesse some time ago, which finished a couple of months ago, and so that would be a obvious line of inquiry in relation to a domestic—style incident. police fear the couple were killed insidejesse baird's house in this suburb of sydney on monday. it's thought a van was then used to move the bodies to an unknown location. beau lamarre was a celebrity blogger before hejoined the police. officers say he has not been assisting with their investigation. simon jones, bbc news. thousands of people have attended a state funeral in kenya for the marathon world record holder, kelvin kiptum. he was just 2a when he was killed in a car crash two weeks ago. figures from the world of sport and politics paid tribute, describing him as unique and humble. our deputy africa editor

anne soy reports. thousands paying their respects to a hero, a man who defied poverty, ran in borrowed shoes, and made a mark on the world at a young age. kelvin kiptum's achievements were extraordinary. he won race after race in his home country. then, ia months ago, he competed internationally for the first time in valencia and won. at the london marathon last year he set a new course record and in october he broke the world record in chicago. he's crushed the world record, ladies and gentlemen. amazing finish. incredible. the kenyan president led mourners in honouring a national hero. it was really a very heavy moment for us because in kelvin we saw the future of athletics in kenya. he was ambitious,

disciplined and focused. international and local athletes, led by the world athletics president sebastian coe, attended the funeral in the small village in western kenya. for me to think and think deeply that kiptum is no more has really hurt my heart. kiptum had set his sights on running the rotterdam marathon in april in under two hours. but that brilliant career was tragically cut short. he leaves behind a widow and two children. anne soy, bbc news, chepkorio. he rode almost 1,000 winners, but now the jump jockeyjamie moore has been forced into retirement on medical advice. the 39—year—old had hoped to return to racing after a fall last november, but was advised by neurologists to call time on his career after receiving the results of brain scans. laura scott went to meet him.

commentator: a first cheltenham success forjamie moore. _ in his 22 years as a jockey, he triumphed on the biggest stages. but while jamie moore's tally of winners is vast, so is his catalogue of injuries. last year he had three heavy falls, each of which knocked him out for more than four minutes, and now he's hung up his boots on medical advice. they way the doctor said it to me was, i see a lot of footballers, rugby players and boxers, and your brain, it doesn't like any of theirs. and i thought, this is quite good then. he says, it looks like a car crash victim. and that hits you and you think, right, definitely won't be race riding any more. after his latest fall at lingfield in november, moore underwent concussion tests and a ct scan. they had come back clear, but his pattern of injuries was such that he was sent for further scans. did a proper mri scan on my brain and, yeah, there'sjust a scattering of brain bleeds in there.

we couldn't say if it was from this fall in november, it could have been falls from years of being a jump jockey, years of falls. but i'm actually quite glad we've done that, because i think it will help us, help the whole sport with concussions that more lads will probably get more mri brain scans. the british horseracing authority said it had robust protocols in place which were always kept under review. it said all fallers are screened for concussion and their return to competition is based on meeting set criteria and follows bespoke assessments. it said it is through this process that cases where supplementary tests might be beneficial can be identified and as a result, on this occasion, an mri scan was arranged. are you at all concerned about further down the line the impact that these head injuries might have on your life in the future? yeah, definitely. just hope that it will be ok. i'll always do my best to keep it in as good a shape as i can now.

moore might have regrets about stopping sooner than he'd have liked, but his abiding emotion is one of feeling lucky he's been able to walk away from his falls. laura scott, bbc news, sussex. a female golf pro who posted a video on social media capturing the moment a male golfer critiqued her technique has been viewed more than 10 million times. georgia ball said the reaction in the a8 hours after she uploaded the clip to tiktok has been crazy. excuse me. what you're doing there, you shouldn't be doing. you should be... i was there just focusing purely on my goals of filming and working on my swing, so, you know, although it was an awkward conversation at the time, it's good that i can just kind of look back at it and laugh at it. i've been playing golf for 20 years. what you need to do is follow through a lot quicker than what you're doing there right now. i wouldn't be put off by this,

because golf is such a beautiful game, everyone's able to help each other, so certainly don't be put off. the palace have released images of king charles reading the many cards of support sent to him since his cancer diagnosis was announced. the king has previously said the messages had given him support and encouragement. the actorjohn savident, best known for his role in coronation street, has died. he was 86. he played the role of butcher fred elliott in the itv soap for over a decade. lizo mzimba looks back at his life. rovers return. fred elliott speaking. john savident�*s fred elliott was a regular on the street for more than 12 years. rarely softly spoken... he's at it again. lies, lies, lies. and that's the thanks i get for giving the lad a trade. ..beneath the character's bluster was a big—hearted man who fast became a fan favourite.

why don't we go and do it for real? what, the two of us together? why not the two of us on honeymoon? he was in some of the soap's tenderest moments, as well as being in some of its funniest. 0h! the humour he brought became one of the show�*s trademarks. you've made me a laughing stock in this town. before his time on the cobbles, he had small parts in productions ranging from yes minister... silly boy. ..to big—budget hollywood movies like bruce willis's hudson hawk. lot number 17. thought to be lost in the war and again last night. but it was coronation street that made him into a much—loved household name. i'll neverforget you. his long time co—star sue nicholls today thanked him for being in her life. i will certainly never forget you.

thoughts reflecting those of millions of coronation street fans across the country. the actorjohn savident, who's died. time for a look at the weather. here's chris fawkes.