Original version

BBC World Service East Asia

Newshour

News

Interviews, news and analysis of the day's global events.

BBC World Service Australasia

BBC World Service schedule for American satellite radio and the Caribbean

BBC World Service Americas and the Caribbean

BBC World Service

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa Schedule

BBC World Service East and Southern Africa

BBC World Service South Asia

BBC World Service News Internet

BBC World Service Online

BBC World Service Europe and the Middle East

BBC World Service West and Central Africa Schedule

BBC World Service West and Central Africa

Newshour: 13/03/2021 21:06 GMT: Almost 200 opposition figures are arrested in Moscow

Magazines & Reviews

Almost 200 opposition figures are arrested in Moscow

13/03/2021 21:06 GMT

13/03/2021 21:06 GMT: Almost 200 opposition figures are arrested in Moscow

BBC World Service - Newshour, Almost 200 opposition figures are arrested in Moscow

We hear from Maria Kuznetsova, one of the activists arrested.

The delegates from across the country were meeting to prepare for municipal elections; instead they ended up posting selfies from inside police vans.

Also on the programme, eight protesters in Myanmar have been shot dead by the security forces. And we go to Bolivia where the former president, Evo Morales, has demanded punishment for the people involved in what he described as a coup against him in 2019. His comment, in a tweet, followed the arrest on sedition charges of the woman who succeeded him.

(Picture: Selfie from inside a Russian Police van. Taken by Maria Kuznetsova)

Accessibility links

Programme Index

Newshour

13/03/2021 21:06 GMT: Almost 200 opposition figures are arrested in Moscow

Genres

Formats

Brand

BBC World Service East Asia

About BBC World Service