the wall streetjournal reporter evan gershkovich is appearing in court in moscow for his appeal hearing against his detention. mr gershkovich was arrested on espionage charges in yekaterinburg last month. more than a0 countries led by the united states have called for the release of the journalist. the statement condemned moscow s efforts to limit and intimidate the media. us ambassador to russia visited mr gershkovich at lefortovo prison. these are the latest pictures of him, behind the glass, inside court. we have had a live feed up until the last few minutes from inside and outside, if you look at the outside of the court as well. this is an appeal hearing against the charges on which he is being held. of course, we cannot predict or know what the outcome proceedings will be, but many observers and washes of court proceedings in russia points to the fact that most of the time, once people are in the judicial system, very little changes, so most verdicts, when it comes to c
2005 world champion shaun murphy said he was relieved no one was hurt. i m an expert on, they all say that we are hurtling towards problems and some commentators would even suggest that we have gone past the point of no return. i am we have gone past the point of no return. iam not we have gone past the point of no return. i am not an expert on that at all. but you only have to watch one of david attenborough s shows when he comes in at the ends and tells us how much trouble we are in, these people do know what they are talking about and they tell us that we need to be doing more. i m thankful that no one was hurt and it is, after all, just a game of snooker. well, on day four of the world championship, we have seen some snooker played. we re still in the first round. let s take you to the crucible now. this is jack lisowski taking on a player from thailand. jack lisowski is leading 3 2. he reached the quarterfinals last year. he is taking another commanding lead. he is takin
there has been air strikes, shelling and other heavy gun fire reported. and in the last few hours, the general of the rsf the rapid support forces in sudan has approved a 2k hour ceasefire. general mohamed hamdan daglo tweeted. he had spoken to the us secretary of state antony blinken and agreed the pause to ensure the safe passage of civilians and the evacuation of people who are injured. mr blinken had called for the ceasefire during the g7 foreign ministers meeting taking place injapan. but, the sudanese army has released a statement denying any knowledge of the ceasefire. despite that tweet, these are the latest pictures from rsf paramilitary forces at khartoum international airport showing black smoke rising from burning plane. let s take a look at the area more closely. sudan is part of this eastern area of africa, known as the horn of africa and has a history of instability. the area s intergovernmental authority on development, or i gad, will send the presidents o
To release him. the us ambassador to moscow saying the charges are baseless and called for russia to release him. stay with us on bbc news. hello again. yesterday we reached temperatures of 21.2 celsius in kinlochewe in the north of scotland. today the north of scotland, or the north west, certainly favoured for some higher temperatures. over the next few days the temperatures will slip. it s going to be mostly dry. there ll be some showers across parts of england and wales at times, but this keen easterly breeze coming in across a cold north sea really accentuating the cold feel along the north sea coastline. we ve also got various fronts coming in across england and wales introducing thicker cloud at times and also some showers. this afternoon we ve got cloud coming in from a weather front across southern counties. the odd light shower is possible, but move north of that there s a lot
Hello again. yesterday we reached temperatures of 21.2 celsius in kinlochewe in the north of scotland. today the north of scotland, or the north west, certainly favoured for some higher temperatures. over the next few days the temperatures will slip. it s going to be mostly dry. there ll be some showers across parts of england and wales at times, but this keen easterly breeze coming in across a cold north sea really accentuating the cold feel along the north sea coastline. we ve also got various fronts coming in across england and wales introducing thicker cloud at times and also some showers. this afternoon we ve got cloud coming in from a weather front across southern counties. the odd light shower is possible, but move north of that there s a lot of dry weather and a fair bit of sunshine. it s not particularly windy, these white circles represent the average wind speeds, but we will have a brisk wind along