this is news live from berlin guilty twice kremlin critic aleksei novelli will stay behind bars. a court upholds the russian opposition leader sentence for violating his parole. guilty of defamation in a 2nd trial also coming up. police in shoot at least 2 people dead officers far live rounds to disperse demonstrators and to lay calling for an end to military rule many more are reported injured we'll hear from a protester in the mandalay also coming up. in the in this league a defeat for league leaders in munich they go down 2 to one against on top frank 1st as the bonus league title race concept. i'm nick spicer welcome to the program a court in moscow has found russian opposition leader alex in a valley guilty of defamation earlier today another court rejected in the valleys appeal against a jail sentence in a separate case but it did reduce his sentence slightly taking into account time already served under house arrest. me now must spend around 2 and a half years behind bars for violating parole the kremlin critic was unable to meet his per. all officers because it was in a g

this is deja vu news live from berlin guilty twice kremlin critic aleksei novelli will stay behind bars. a court upholds the russian opposition leaders sentence for violating his parole and finds him guilty of defamation in a 2nd trial also coming up. u.s. president joe biden declares a major disaster in texas.

spicer welcome to the program a court in moscow has found russian opposition leader aleksei novelli guilty of defamation earlier today another court rejected no valley's appeal against a jail sentence in a separate case but it did reduce his sentence slightly taking into account time already served under house arrest around the now must spend around 2 and a half years behind bars for violating parole the kremlin critic was unable to meet his parole officers because he was in a german hospital receiving lifesaving treatment after being poisoned with military grade nerve agents. and correspondent emily sherwood has followed the court cases and joins us today from moscow emily you watched proceedings what were the highlights. well alex enough money in today in today's double bill of court cases with a good dose of humor and cynicism i think he was joking all day he was smiling he even joked with the journalists watching the case and waiting for the verdict that he had actually picked cooled cucumber is in his prison cell in a plastic bag he also very much to use today's court cases where the

this is deja vu news live from berlin guilty twice kremlin critic aleksei novelli will stay behind bars. a court upholds the russian opposition leader's sentence for violating his parole and finds him guilty of defamation in a 2nd trial also coming up. u.s. president joe biden declares a major disaster in texas where people have been forced to line up for drinking water after a winter snowstorm wreaked havoc across the state we'll get an update from houston . and police are shooting at least 2 people to officers fire live rounds to disperse demonstrators in mandalay calling for an end to military rule many more are reported. spicer welcome to the program a court in moscow has found russian opposition leader alex said the valley guilty of defamation earlier today another court rejected no appeal against a jail sentence in a separate case neither decision was unexpected but the judge in the appeal case did reduce the sentence by a month and a half. need to put judge's decision calmly. he's frequently used humor touring the troll to draw attention to the charges against him which he says a

west is trying to dodge the issue of finding the real truth of what happened when and where it's aleksei novelli by focusing on protests in russia on numerous requests to provide us with the results of his tests remain unanswered by germany france sweden and even the pope at the o.p.c. w. they say you already know everything well this is impolite at the very least and such are against on behalf of enlightened europe is absolutely inappropriate and unacceptable some countries including the us have already suggested imposing sanctions on russia over than about the case but a number of political analysts we spoke to believe that they should focus on putting their own houses in order. it's just that the hypocrisy of the west as we know it and this is it at its finest how can the west give lessons that to russia when we see the way for example the young the best movement was treated in france 3000 political opponents during these demonstrations were condemned in france 1000 political opponents were imprisoned and the mineral management state saying is that the developers be released why did he start

and i would begin in russia where a court has jailed prominent putin critic aleksei novelli for violating parole while he was recovering in germany from being poisoned he's been given a 3 and a half year sentence but his lawyer says he'll serve 2 years and 8 months because of time spent under house arrest his supporters are spent the past few hours protesting on the streets of moscow and wanted to say 700 people senator and 50 people have been arrested so far charlie rangel reports. once again alexina valley is paying a high price for his criticism of the kremlin as a court sentenced him to $3.00 and a half years the judge found the valley guilty of breaking probation failing to report to russian police over an embezzlement charge the fact he was in hospital in berlin was not accepted the valley was there recovering from nerve agent poisoning he alleges was carried out by the russian state the kremlin critic drew a heart on the glass in court for his wife and asked supporters to protest over. the aim of this hearing is disco era a great number of people it works this way jail want to scar