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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 pri ....
Behind bars in russia. america calls him wrongfully detained too, but he s still here. last year to free basketball star brittney griner, here on the left, washington agreed to a swap trading her for convicted russian arms dealer, viktor bout. but now a us journalist is in a moscowjail. what do russian officials make of that? are you worried that this once again will affect russia s international reputation? this journalist is seen as a hostage now. he s not a hostage. and i m sure that russia s reputation will not suffer greatly from this particular case. locked away here. all evan gershkovich can do is wait and hope forfreedom. steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. mikhail kasyanov is a former ....