Belarus: 18 year sentence for opposition leader

We’ll reflect the conversation about the prison term given to a Belarusian opposition leader who rallied mass protests against disputed elections last year. Sergei Tikhanovsky was convicted of organising riots, in a trial condemned as a sham. We’ll speak to our correspondent covering the story and hear how Belarusians are reacting.

We’ll answer your latest questions on the coronavirus pandemic with the help of one of our regular experts, Dr Isaac Bogoch in Toronto. We’ll be following the debate and voting in the UK parliament over the latest Covid restrictions proposed for England in response to the omicron variant.

We’ll also hear a conversation between healthcare workers on their experience of abuse and harassment during the pandemic.

Picture: Opposition activist and blogger Sergei Tikhanovsky at a rally in Minsk, Belarus, in May 2020 (EPA / Tatyana Zenkovich)