on monday police say he died from a compression to the neck and a murder investigation is underway luzhkov was granted political asylum in two thousand and ten and the u.k. had blocked attempts by russia to extradite him his death follows the poisoning of a former spy which the u.k. blames on russia russians aren't a vote for the next president on sunday and as election fever grows authorities in crimea reportedly been are tasked with producing an overwhelming vote for putin that would be a validation of the referendum that saw crimea become part of russia four years ago after the territory was annexed from u.k. ukraine or a challenge reports from crimea. crimea with its dramatic coastline has long held a romantic place in russian hearts and since it was an extreme ukraine four years ago it's russian once more. who says he took the decision to reclaim the peninsula held his last big campaign rally in the port of sevastopol on wednesday he thanked the crowd for voting in the two thousand and fourteen referendum which most countries never recognized and which so soured relations with the wes

more well this is an intriguing development and another twist in anglo russian relations nick clegg luzhkov left russia in two thousand and four he had fallen out with law to be a putin's government he had been imprisoned and he was given political asylum in this country he was still being pursued by the russian authorities up until the beginning of this week through british courts on monday evening of this week he was found dead in his house within the last hour the police have said that this has become a murder inquiry that the pathologists report said in plain english that he had been strangled you may recall that earlier this week amber rather the home secretary said that allay concerns around a number of suspicious russian deaths and associates of boris berezovsky the man to whom you alluded who died in two thousand and thirteen the friend of nick like luzhkov she was re opening inquiries into other deaths she was at pains to stress that she did not believe that the russian state was necessarily involved and the police have said today that there is no link between nick like lucia coffs

his home on monday police say he died from neck compression and a murder investigation is under way luzhkov was granted political asylum in two thousand and ten the u.k. had blocked attempts by russia to act extradited jonah hill has more from moscow. well the british ambassador laurie bristow was inside the foreign ministry here in moscow for just ten minutes during which he was handed a diplomatic note that spelled out russia's counter measures in response to to reason may's announcement earlier in the week and as expected diplomatic tit for tat twenty three u.k. diplomatic offices of being told to pack their bags declared persona non grata they've got to leave within a week that was largely expected there is precedent for this sort of tit for tat measure but then there were additional measures so-called asymmetric measures that the russians are thrown in here in response to the avenue that the reason they went down in terms of and to further n.t.s.b. knowledge measures and to get their money laundering anti corruption measures they have decided to cease the activities of the british cons

british police are investigating the mysterious death of an exiled russian businessman mikel like luzhkov was found dead in his home in london on monday from neck injuries police have refused to link the murder to the nerve gas attack against segue a script and his daughter relations between russia and britain further deteriorated after foreign secretary boris johnson accuse.

earlier this week businessmen nicholas luzhkov was found dead in a west london suburb on monday elise of confirmed the cause of death was compression to the neck sixty eight was a close associate of prominent who's an opponent boris berezovsky who was found dead in the u.k. in two thousand and thirteen an iraqi teenager has been found guilty of attempted murder for planting a bomb on a london train last september eighteen year old ahmed hassan will be sentenced next week thirty people were injured when his homemade bomb partially exploded apostles' green on the ground station in west london as on crime decide he smuggled himself into england on a truck in two thousand and fifteen. you without is there a it still ahead for you egypt demands on says over the death of this teenage student in the cafe. and the man who will not be president he's banned from standing in russia's election but alexina valmy is not sitting it out. how low will tropical cyclone marcus continue to bring some very heavy rain damaging winds across the far north of australia can see the circulation there much empla

british police are investigating the mysterious death of an exiled russian businessman mikel like luzhkov was found dead in his home in london on monday from neck injuries police have refused to link the murder to the nerve gas attack against segue a script and his daughter relations between russia and britain further deteriorated to foreign secretary boris johnson accused russian president vladimir putin of personally ordering the poisoning. turkish forces have bombed the only hospital in the kurdish held city of afraid.

british police are investigating the mysterious death of an exiled russian businessman nick alike luzhkov was found dead in his home in london on monday from neck injuries police have refused to link the murder to the nerve gas attack against segue a script and his daughter relations between russia and britain further deteriorated after foreign secretary boris johnson accused russian president vladimir putin of personally ordering the poisoning. turkish forces have bombed the only hospital in the kurdish held city of freeing in.

british police are investigating the mysterious death of an exiled russian businessman mikel like luzhkov is found dead in his home in london on monday from neck injuries police have refused to link the murder to the nerve gas attack against segue a script and his daughter relations between russia and britain further deteriorated after foreign secretary bars johnson accused russian president vladimir putin of personally ordering the poisoning. turkish forces have bombed the only hospital in the kurdish held city of a frame in syria according to observers up to sixteen people were killed thousands of civilians have been forced to flee a friend as well as eastern mass strikes have killed dozens in recent days. germany's new interior minister says he believes islam does not belong to the country host city hall for made the comments in an interview shortly after taking office this week chancellor angela merkel was quick to slap down her coalition partner saying that germany's four million muslims belong to the country as does their religion its early days since their parties and the s.p.d. of