The channel claims to have sources in Putin’s entourage and said medics ‘arrived within a few minutes, but could not immediately examine the president’.
This is because he is suffering ‘cancer of the gastrointestinal tract, as a result of which he already experiences serious problems with digestion’ – and the fall caused an ‘involuntary’ reaction.
The fall happened at his official residence (Picture: East2West News)
Despite the claims, Putin was still able to attend a conference for young scientists on Thursday (Picture: East2West News)
‘Before the examination, the doctors escorted the president to the bathroom and helped to clean up.’
Despite the claims, the president managed to speak at a young scientists conference on Thursday.
An investigation will now be carried out into the fall as Putin reportedly wears anti-slipping shoes at home.
Issei Sagawa, a Japanese murderer known as the 'Kobe Cannibal' who killed and ate a Dutch student but was never jailed, has died aged 73.
Sagawa died of pneumonia on November 24 and was given a funeral attended only by relatives, with no public ceremony planned, his younger brother and a friend said in a statement.
In 1981, Sagawa was studying in Paris when he invited Dutch student Renee Hartevelt to his home.
He shot her in the neck, raped her, and then consumed parts of her body over the course of several days.
Sagawa then attempted to dispose of her remains in the Bois de Boulogne park and was arrested several days later, confessing his crime to police.
But in 1983 he was deemed unfit for trial by French medical experts and was initially held in a psychiatric institution before being deported to Japan in 1984.
Hartevelt's family pledged at the time to push for Sagawa to be prosecuted in Japan so that 'the murderer would never go free'.
But on his arrival, he was ruled sane by Japanese authorities, who decided Sagawa's only problem was a 'character anomaly' and that he did not require hospitalisation.
Japanese authorities were unable to get his case files from their French counterparts, who considered the case closed, leaving the murderer to walk free.
Sagawa made no secret of his crime and capitalised on his notoriety, including with a novel-like memoir titled 'In the Fog' in which he reminisced about the murder in vivid detail.
The murder was also the subject of Japanese novelist Juro Kara's 'Letter from Sagawa-kun', which won the country's most prestigious literary prize in 1982.
Despite the heinous details of the murder, and his lack of remorse, Sagawa gained a level of celebrity and regularly gave interviews to domestic and international media in the years after his return.
He was featured in a magazine for his paintings of naked women, appeared in a pornographic film and produced a manga comic book that depicted his crime in graphic and unrelenting detail.
The sordid fascination with the murder even saw it referenced by the Rolling Stones and The Stranglers in songs.
Sagawa lived out his final years with his brother, reportedly in a wheelchair after a series of health problems including a stroke.
But he displayed no apparent sign of remorse or reform, telling Vice in a 2013 interview as he looked at posters of Japanese women: 'I think they would taste delicious'.
He also recounted details of the incident and his ongoing obsession with cannibalism in interviews and a 2017 documentary, 'Caniba'.
The film's directors spent months with Sagawa and his brother, and described themselves as 'conflicted' about the experience.
'We were disgusted, fascinated, we wanted to understand,' said co-director Verena Paravel.
China’s top zero-Covid enforcer says the fight against the virus has entered a “new stage” while state media have downplayed its risks, bolstering expectations that Beijing is easing its anti-pandemic approach just days after a wave of unrest.
Vice-premier Sun Chunlan said on Wednesday that the Omicron variant was becoming “less pathogenic” and pointed to higher vaccination rates, even as China recorded tens of thousands of new cases from its biggest outbreak.
Sun did not mention the term “dynamic zero-Covid”, a policy that has for nearly three years sought to eliminate all infections through mass testing, quarantine and lockdowns.
While the government has stopped short of any explicit policy change, Sun’s comments — which were followed by softer language about the virus in state media on Thursday — build on a decision to ease lockdown restrictions in parts of the southern city of Guangzhou despite high case numbers.
The relaxation in Guangzhou contrasts sharply with the example of Shanghai this spring, when Sun visited while the city was subjected to a severe two-month lockdown that emphasised the government’s commitment to eliminate the virus.
Analysts pointed to her comments and the Guangzhou decision as evidence of a reopening, which in the absence of any clear government plan has been the subject of market speculation for months.
Ting Lu, chief China economist at Nomura, who has closely tracked the citywide lockdowns, said they may “point to the beginning of the end of zero-Covid”. Analysts at ANZ, the Australian bank, suggested that China was instead shifting to “living with Covid”, citing the introduction of rules that allow people to quarantine at home.
State media this week shifted their tone to emphasise that Omicron was less deadly than earlier strains. On Thursday, the state-run Global Times cited domestic research that showed the mortality associated with the Omicron variant had declined.
“We should not be too afraid of Omicron,” an editorial in the paper said. “For the general population, with vaccine protection, Covid-19 has become much less harmful to the human body.”
Hu Xijin, former editor of the paper, wrote on Twitter that China was “speeding up to cast aside large-scale lockdowns”, citing the examples of Guangzhou and Beijing.
In Beijing, which posted record infections on Thursday, anecdotal reports emerged of officials allowing home isolation rather than centralised quarantine for close contacts of those with Covid-19. In Guangzhou, there were also reports of home quarantine for those with the virus.
Popular resistance against restrictions has gathered pace in recent days after a wave of public vigils and demonstrations following the deaths of 10 people in a fire in the western city of Urumqi, which were blamed on a lockdown. Authorities have denied the allegation.
Despite more confident predictions of a reopening, China’s approach is still characterised by confusion and inconsistencies across regions and cities.
Lu at Nomura suggested “the path to ‘living with Covid’ might still be slow, costly and bumpy”, pointing to the arrival of winter.
In Shanghai, authorities have tightened measures in the past week by requiring residents to produce PCR test results to enter some public places every two rather than three days. Visitors to the city are also blocked from entering public areas for five days.
For the Prince and Princess of Wales, if a trip to America means anything, it means dropping in on a game of basketball.
The last time they were in the United States, in 2014, they watched a match between the Brooklyn Nets and the Cleveland Cavaliers — and, while they were about it, had a casual courtside conversation with the Nets’ two most famous fans, Jay-Z and Beyoncé.
This time there was not quite the same star power. But they still appeared pretty enraptured as they joined 20,000 fans to watch the Boston Celtics play Miami Heat.
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The couple, who were there to promote William’s Earthshot prize awards, watched the game alongside the Celtics owners Wyc Grousbeck and Emilia Fazzalari, Maura Healey, the governor-elect of
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It was 3.18am in Melbourne when Mathew Leckie slotted past Kasper Schmeichel - and those who had stayed up went wild.
Flares lit up the darkness in Fed Square, and suddenly you could forget that football - or soccer - is, at best, the fifth most popular sport in Australia.
While that Socceroos side was filled with generational Australian talent playing for top European clubs, far less was expected of this squad comprised of domestic A-League regulars, along with players from the Scottish Premiership and English Football League.
The one solid link between 2006 and 2022 is the manager, Graham Arnold. He was assistant to Guus Hiddink 16 years ago, when Australia were only stopped by eventual champions Italy via a 95th-minute penalty.
Arnold told BBC Two after the final whistle: "I'm so proud of the effort. There was a short turnaround but their effort was incredible.
"These boys come in with a great mindset. We've been working on this for the last four years about the belief, the energy and the focus. I could see in their eyes, they were ready tonight."
It is quite the turnaround for Arnold, after an unimpressive qualification campaign in which they scraped through an inter-confederation play-off against Peru on penalties to secure their spot in World Cup Group D alongside world champions France, as well as Denmark and Tunisia.
Still questions surrounded Arnold, however the idiosyncratic Aussie has never lacked in self-belief and has now guided his country into the last 16 - not that he will be allowing any of his players to enjoy it yet.
"No celebrations!" he said. "That's why we won after a great win against Tunisia. No celebrations, no emotion, sleep, and no social media."
This message had not quite filtered through to Australia match-winner Leckie when he spoke to BBC Two straight after the game.
He said: "I'm proud, exhausted, everything. Hard to describe the emotions right now. We always believed as a group we could do it.
"We had our doubters but with our spirit, our belief, our work ethic and how close we are as a group, it shows on the pitch. That last 15-20 minutes, we battled until the end and it didn't matter what they threw at us. We weren't conceding.
"We'll make the most of it tonight but then it's all about recovery because we've got another coming up."
The doubters will have looked at the make-up of this Australia team, which on paper has none of the star power of 16 years ago.
Germany 2006 saw an Australian team featuring Liverpool's Harry Kewell, captained by Mark Viduka and with Mark Schwarzer in goal, both of who had just played in the Uefa Cup final for Middlesbrough. Tim Cahill, at 26, was in his prime.
The Australian team at Qatar 2022 has no Premier League footballers, and eight from the comparatively less well-regarded A-League compared to three domestic-based players in 2006.
There is more a sense of a new generation coming through for Australia. Arnold has nine players under 25 in his squad, compared to three in 2006.
But on Wednesday in Qatar, it was the experienced names who stood up to be counted. Leckie, 31, scored his 14th international goal - six more than the next highest.
Former Brighton and Arsenal goalkeeper Ryan won his 76th cap against Australia, the most in the squad. The captain made a fine save from Mathias Jensen in the first half, and he calmed nerves late on in the second, scrambling to clear a ball behind with his feet after a 94th-minute defensive mix-up.
The star of the show, however, was Stoke defender Harry Souttar. With him, Australia kept a second consecutive World Cup clean sheet, having had only one in 17 finals matches previously.
He made nine clearances - more than double any other Australian player - and won 13 of 17 duels, seven on the ground and six in the air. No wonder a sign in the crowd demanded he win the next Ballon d'Or.
It all came after Australia, for two-and-a-half minutes, looked to be heading out of the World Cup. That was the period of time between Wahbi Khazri giving Tunisia a shock lead against France, and Leckie finding the back of the Danish net.
Tunisia's win meant Australia needed to do the same, and an as-it-stands table was displayed in the Al Janu Stadium after Khari's goal showing both Australia and Denmark as eliminated.
Whether or not it solely inspired Australia into life can be debated - but Leckie produced the game's only real moment of magic to send his country through.
Another sign in the crowd asked Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to authorise a public holiday if the team won. Either way, it should be expected not many of those in Fed Square at 3.18am made it into work.
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The leader of a far-right militia has been found guilty of plotting to stop US President Joe Biden from taking office after the 2020 election.
A jury found Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes guilty of the rare charge of seditious conspiracy following a two-month trial.
He plotted an armed rebellion to stop the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Mr Biden, prosecutors said.
Four more were on trial with him related to the 2021 Capitol riots.
Three of the group - Jessica Watkins, Kelly Meggs and Kenneth Harrelson - went inside the building during the attack.
Meggs was also found guilty of seditious conspiracy on Tuesday. Both Rhodes and Meggs now face a maximum 20-year sentence on the charges.
Harrelson, Watkins and a fifth member, Thomas Caldwell - were found not guilty of seditious conspiracy.
All five of the group members were found guilty of obstruction of an official proceeding.
Rhodes, who prosecutors say acted as a "battlefield general" during the riots, was also found guilty of tampering with documents or proceedings. He was acquitted of two other conspiracy counts.
The verdict comes after three full days of jury deliberation.
Speaking outside the courthouse following the verdict, lawyers for Rhodes said they were not pleased with the outcome, but that it wasn't a clear-cut victory for the prosecution either.
"It's a mixed bag," said lawyer Edward Tarpley, adding he was grateful the jury found the defendants not guilty on some counts.
They intend to appeal against the convictions.
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This was the first conviction of seditious conspiracy in the US since 1995, when 10 Islamist militants were convicted for trying to plant bombs at New York City landmarks.
The Civil War-era charge was first enacted to stop residents of southern states from fighting against the US government.
In order to be convicted of seditious conspiracy, prosecutors must prove that two or more people conspired to "overthrow, put down or to destroy by force" the US government, or that they planned to use force to oppose US authority.
Alan Rozenshtein, a law professor at the University of Minnesota and a former US Department of Justice lawyer, said the conviction of Rhodes was significant because it shows that a seditious conspiracy charge is "a viable and legal path for punishing the most serious anti-democratic conduct" in the country.
He added the mixed verdict proved that juries were able to apply the conviction responsibly.
The verdict was also a confidence boost for the justice department in their quest to prosecute more people in relation to the Capitol riots, Mr Rozenshtein said.
Supporters of then-President Donald Trump, a Republican, stormed Congress on 6 January 2021 in a bid to thwart certification of Joe Biden's election victory.
So far around 900 people in nearly all 50 states have been arrested for taking part in the riot.
During the Oath Keepers trial, the court heard the defendants stashed dozens of weapons in a hotel room in Virginia, just across the Potomac River from Washington DC, and planned to bring them into the city in the event of mass civil disorder.
Defence lawyers argued that the fact the weapons were never used - or even brought into the city - bolstered their argument that the Oath Keepers were on a purely defensive mission, intending to protect protesters and keep the peace inside and outside the Capitol.
The jury also heard that Rhodes was taking phone calls and messages outside the Capitol while the riots were ongoing. Some messages seen by the court show Rhodes telling his followers to "rise up in insurrection".
The Oath Keepers were founded by Rhodes, a former US Army paratrooper and Yale-educated lawyer. Over the past decade, members have shown up at a number of protests and armed standoffs across the country.
Among the defendants, two, Meggs and Harrelson, are from Florida, Watkins is from Ohio and Caldwell is from Virginia. Rhodes is from Texas.
More Oath Keepers members, along with members of another far-right group, the Proud Boys, will go on trial later this year.
In the last century, another famous storming of the US Capitol also led to successful seditious conspiracy convictions.
In 1954, four nationalists from the US island territory of Puerto Rico fired shots onto the floor of the House of Representatives, wounding several lawmakers.
The attackers, as well as more than a dozen other members of the group, were found guilty of sedition.
The leader of a far-right militia has been found guilty of plotting to stop US President Joe Biden from taking office after the 2020 election.
A jury found Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes guilty of the rare charge of seditious conspiracy following a two-month trial.
He plotted an armed rebellion to stop the transfer of power from Donald Trump to Mr Biden, prosecutors said.
Four more were on trial with him related to the 2021 Capitol riots.
Three of the group - Jessica Watkins, Kelly Meggs and Kenneth Harrelson - went inside the building during the attack.
Meggs was also found guilty of seditious conspiracy on Tuesday. Both Rhodes and Meggs now face a maximum 20-year sentence on the charges.
Harrelson, Watkins and a fifth member, Thomas Caldwell - were found not guilty of seditious conspiracy.
All five of the group members were found guilty of obstruction of an official proceeding.
Rhodes, who prosecutors say acted as a "battlefield general" during the riots, was also found guilty of tampering with documents or proceedings. He was acquitted of two other conspiracy counts.
The verdict comes after three full days of jury deliberation.
Speaking outside the courthouse following the verdict, lawyers for Rhodes said they were not pleased with the outcome, but that it isn't a clear-cut victory for the prosecution either.
"It's a mixed bag," said lawyer Edward Tarpley, adding he is grateful the jury found the defendants not guilty on some counts.
They intend to appeal the convictions.
How I escaped my father's militia
The son of Stewart Rhodes spent years planning to escape along with the rest of his family. How did he rebuild his life outside of the militia world?
This was the first conviction of seditious conspiracy in the US since 1995, when 10 Islamist militants were convicted for trying to plant bombs at New York City landmarks.
The Civil War-era charge was first enacted to stop residents of southern states from fighting against the US government.
In order to be convicted of seditious conspiracy, prosecutors must prove that two or more people conspired to "overthrow, put down or to destroy by force" the US government, or that they planned to use force to oppose US authority.
Alan Rozenshtein, a law professor at the University of Minnesota and a former US Department of Justice lawyer, said the conviction of Rhodes is significant because it shows that a seditious conspiracy charge is "a viable and legal path for punishing the most serious anti-democratic conduct" in the country.
He added the mixed verdict proves that juries are able to apply the conviction responsibly.
The verdict is also a confidence boost for the justice department, Mr Rozenshtein said, in their quest to prosecute more people in relation to the Capitol riots.
Supporters of then-President Donald Trump, a Republican, stormed Congress on 6 January 2021 in a bid to thwart certification of Joe Biden's White House election victory.
So far around 900 people in nearly all 50 states have been arrested for taking part in the riot.
Another famous storming of the US Capitol also led to successful seditious conspiracy convictions.
In 1954, four nationalists from the US island territory of Puerto Rico fired shots onto the floor of the House of Representatives, wounding several lawmakers.
The attackers, as well as more than a dozen other members of the group, were found guilty of sedition.
During the Oath Keepers trial, the court heard the defendants stashed dozens of weapons in a hotel room in Virginia, just across the Potomac River from Washington DC, and planned to bring them into the city in the event of mass civil disorder.
Defence lawyers argued that the fact the weapons were never used - or even brought into the city - bolstered their argument that the Oath Keepers were on a purely defensive mission, intending to protect protesters and keep the peace inside and outside the Capitol.
The jury also heard that Rhodes was taking phone calls and messages outside the Capitol while the riots were ongoing. Some messages seen by the court show Rhodes telling his followers to "rise up in insurrection".
The Oath Keepers were founded by Rhodes, a former US Army paratrooper and Yale-educated lawyer. Over the past decade, members have shown up at a number of protests and armed standoffs across the country.
Among the defendants, two, Meggs and Harrelson, are from Florida, Watkins is from Ohio and Caldwell is from Virginia. Rhodes is from Texas.
More Oath Keepers members, along with members of another far-right group, the Proud Boys, will go on trial on seditious conspiracy charges later this year.
