forjoining us on sportsday. we start at the world athletics championship in budapest, and what a day for great britain sjosh kerr, he s taken gold in the men s 1500 metres after a thrilling race in hungary. he was neck and neck with norway s jakob ingebrigtsen going into the final 200m, before breaking his rival in the final50. the 25 year old clocked a season s best three minutes 29.38 seconds to make his first podium at a world championships. but it was history repeating itself for ingebrigtsen, the reigning 0lympic champion, beaten into silver as he was in similar circumstances at the last world championships in eugene. the day and the gold though belonging tojosh kerr. you know, a long time coming, so, it s quite an overwhelming experience, but i am so proud of myself. i m so proud of my team and my family that got me here. i didn t feel like i ran the best race either, so ijust threw my whole 16 years of the sport in that last 200 and didn t give up until the end. the of
wales and northern ireland. joshis josh is going to get there! its gold! and giving it his all britain sjosh kerr has a thrilling finish to win the 1500m race in the athletics world championships in budapest. and coming up on bbc news: manchester city s bid of £47 million for matheus nunes is turned down by wolves. we ll have the latest on that with just over a week left in the transfer window. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. aviation authorities in russia say the leader of the mercenary wagner group, yevgeny prigozhin, was on a plane that crashed in western russia yesterday. prigozhin, whose troops have fought for russia in ukraine, led a failed mutiny against vladimir putin injune. authorities say all ten people on board were killed after the private aircraft came down. so far the kremlin has not confirmed his death, but a social media channel linked to the wagner group reported the death and said he was killed as a result of actions by traitors of ru
he secures back to back titles for britain in the men s 1500 metres after a thrilling race at the world championships in hungary. at the world championships # why don t you, why don t you.# at the world championships can you remember the rest? at the world championships it s been 50 years since the show that encouraged kids to turn off the tv and do something less boring first hit our screens. today, sunshine and showers, some showers sundry, especially this morning, cross some southern counties. more persistent rain pushing up into the northern isles. all the details later. it s thursday, the 24th of august. our top story. russian authorities say the leader of the wagner mercenary group, who led a coup against vladmir putin this summer, was on a plane that crashed near moscow, killing all ten people on board. the kremlin hasn t confirmed yevgeny prigozhin s death, but a social media account linked to his organisation has accused russian air defences of shooting down the airc
lie. our correspondent has more from moscow. i was on a conference call a little earlier with president putin s spokesman. these happen almost every day with a select group of russian and foreign journalists, where you can more or less ask any question you want to, and i asked whether the kremlin had something to do with that plane crash two days ago that reportedly killed yevgeny prigozhin. and it s notjust western officials who think that. there are many russians who believe it too. mr peskovsaid the claims were an absolute lie. he also said when we talk about the issue, we should be guided only by facts. we have no facts at the moment. these need to be clarified during the official investigation. he was echoing some of those earlier remarks by president putin, who also called on people to wait for the results of the official investigation. now, will that convince people at home and abroad who believe that there is some sort of link between russian authorities and the death
hello and welcome to the programme. the man who led a mutiny against president putin and played a key role with his wagner mercenaries in the war in ukraine yevgeny prigozhin appears to be dead, in a plane crash in russia. this image has been confirmed by bbc verify as being from the crash scene near moscow. it s been confirmed that yevgeny prigozhin was on board the private jet. there s much we still don t know about this story. the uk government says it is monitoring the situation. in the us, president biden has said, there s not much that happens in russia that putin s not behind . our russia editor steve rosenberg has this report. caught on camera, the final seconds of a private jet. on board, reportedly, the head of a private mercenary group, yevgeny prigozhin. look over there by the farm, it is burning, the eyewitness can be heard saying. in the distance, a giant cloud of smoke. the plane had crashed north of moscow. yevgeny prigozhin s right hand man, the wagn