on so many innocent people. hello. welcome to what is the last edition of outside source. but it s no different to all the ones that have gone before. we re going to have a detailed rundown of some of the biggest stories of the day. and we ll start in russia, because a court in moscow has ordered that a us journalist is kept in custody over spying charges. americanjournalist is american journalist is kept in custody over spying charges. american journalist is kept in custody over spying charges. the journalist in question is evan gershkovich. he works for the wall streetjournal. russia s security service the fsb it says the journalist was acting on us instructions. and that he had collected information constituting a state secret about the activities of a russian defence enterprise. the wall streetjournal denies he has done anything wrong. we ve heard from the kremlin too. translation: this is - the prerogative of the fsb. you already had a statement about this from the
where evan gershkovich was arrested. it s a place called yekaterinburg. the fsb has confirmed that mr gershkovich had accreditation to be there, and we know that earlier this week, his latest article looked at the russian economy and the challenges of, in his words, ballooning military expenditures . well, once taken into custody, evan gershkovich was moved from yekaterinburg to moscow, and it s there that the bbc s russia editor steve rosenberg is based. we know what the main charge is, and that s espionage. a criminal case has been opened against evan under article 276 of the russian criminal code, espionage. the maximum possible punishment, according to that article, is 20 years in prison. we know evan, he s well known to foreign journalists here,