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Russian Presidential Hopeful Convicted

Alexei Navalny guilty of embezzlement, barring an electoral challenge to President Putin.

Key Russian opposition politician Alexei Navalny has been found guilty of embezzlement, barring him from running against Vladimir Putin in 2018's presidential election. Hear from a fellow opposition figure who believes that revolution is now more likely than elections to bring about political change in Moscow.

Also in the programme, the Catholic Church in the Philippines speaks out over extrajudicial killings. And could a new variety of quinoa help feed the world?

(Photo: Alexei Navalny speaks at an opposition rally in 2015. Credit: Dmitry Serebryakov / AFP / Getty Images)

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Wed 8 Feb 201721:06GMT
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