welcome to bbc news. we start in moscow, were a court has as i expected rejected the appeal of the us match one. evan gershkovich. evan gershkovich. have a look at these images of evan gershkovich appearing in court. the russian authorities accuse him of spying, charges which he and his employer, the wall streetjournal, strongly deny. he appeared at the same court where yesterday an opponent of president putin was convicted of treason and sentenced to 25 years in prison. here s our russia editor, steve rosenberg. this was the first time evan gershkovich had been seen in public since being arrested. the wall streetjournal reporter was appealing his detention. the appeal was rejected. he s the first western journalist here to be charged with spying since the cold war, a charge that he, his newspaper and his government categorically reject. the charges against evan are baseless, and we call on the russian federation to immediately release him. a rare glimpse inside the prison wh
we ll look ahead to what could be a defining week at the top of the table. after protesters disrupted the world snooker championship, we ll tell you how security s being stepped up at the crucible. i ll be very surprised if the protocols that were in place at the crucible yesterday are in place today. also coming up on sportsday before 7. how a special piece of kit s transforming how one woman s competing at this year s london marathon. we start tonight with the mountain chelsea have to climb if they re to salvage anything from this season. 2 0 down from the first leg, they need at least three goals against real madrid to remain in the champions league. a change of owner, half a billion pounds spent, yet another manager. nothing s transformed chelsea s fortunes so far as patrick geary reports. and so to chelsea s at last remaining bridge, the final road forward in a season of missed earnings runs through real madrid at stamford bridge but they have made things hard for themse
this is, remember the big scandal under george w. bush about the program monitoring people s e-mails, elon said the federal government is doing that actively in private communication. todd: an eye-opening interview. you are watching fox and friends first, i m todd piro. ashley: i m ashley strohmier in for carley shimkus. another major focus of the sitdown is musk warning about artificial intelligence and he gives us information on the software he is working on now. jackie ibanez is here. good morning, jackie. jackie: elon musk s candid interview with tucker carlson aired last night. musk called for stronger government regulation of artificial intelligence. listen. it s a danger to the public. when you have things that are danger to the public, like let s say, food and drug, that is why we have the food and drug administration and federal aviation administration, the fcc, agencies to oversee what affects the public when there could be public harm and you don t want c
former director of intelligence says the only explanation for the pandemic is a leak from the chinese laboratory. the damage caused is very real. pizza delivery man was in the right place at the right time as a suspect happened to run right by him. police thanked the policeman for the assist and said if he is ever interested in a job, they are hiring. steve: live from the avenue of the americas as you look up that green stuff up there, that s central park. it is the 18th day of april. it is tax day. attention all people if you have not put your taxes in the mail, you have got until midnight tonight. it s going to be a beautiful day here in new york city. we have got 48 degrees. ainsley: taxes finished for you? steve: yes. a couple of weeks ago. pete: do people still put them in the mail. ainsley: my dad always did at midnight. pete s pete i know you can. ainsley: downtown main library midnight i always rode with him. pete: out of protest? ainsley: no, st
to glue herself to a table. a man and a woman were later arrested by police. jamie broughton was at ahe crucible in sheffield while the evening session was just getting under way when a man and woman from the protest group to stop oiljumped over the barriers here from the seeds into the auditorium and the man climbed onto the table were robert and joe perry were playing their round match then opened a packet of orange power and entered it onto the table before security intervened and the woman try to get on the other side on the inside of the barricade format at the moment were marked atwood was playing. by were marked atwood was playing. by the match referee before they could do any damage to the table and play them a resume between allen but the other match was not able to continue as the cloth on the table needed to be replaced i can tell there was a lot of anger from those behind the scenes the fans there about what it happened. have we seen anything like this before and