joining 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. the olympic bronze medallist, timed his surge to perfection, 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 3.29.38 seconds to make his first podium at a world championships. but it was history repeating itself for ingebrigtsen. the reigning olympic 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. it s been a long time coming. it s been a long time coming. it is quite an overwhelming experience. but i m so proud of myself, i m so proud of my team and my family, they got me here. they didn t feel like they ran the best race either, ijust they ran the best
pictures have emerged of the aftermath of the crash, which happened about halfway through the flight from moscow to st petersburg, while the plane was at its cruising altitude. trajectory data suggest the aircraft essentially dropped out of the sky. russia s aviation agency shared what it claimed was a list of the passengers on the doomed flight among them, mr prigozhin and key wagner commander dmitry utkin. as police cordoned off the crash site, russia s emergency ministry claimed that ten bodies has been recovered from the wreckage. the bbc has not been able to independently verify this information yet. but outside the wagner group headquarters in st petersburg, mourners have been laying flowers and lighting candles. if mr prigozhin is indeed dead, it would be an abrupt end but it s not unexpected, as will vernon explains from moscow. i don t think this news has surprised anyone here today. around an hour after that plane crash, the russian federal aviation authority releas
security council resolution demanding an immediate ceasefire between hamas and israel. the us abstain from the vote, allowing the resolution to pass after numerous failed attempts. the resolution also requires the immediate and unconditional release of all hostages stop the us says it is disappointed by the cancelled visit as a separate visit by israel s defence minister, who is already in washington, is under way. is already in washington, is underway. benjamin is already in washington, is under way. benjamin netanyahu called the move a clear retreat from the previous us position. our international editorjeremy bowen is more on how this will impact their relationship. mr impact their relationship. ij i netanyahu, impact their relationship. m netanyahu, the israeli prime minister, has effectively been on a collision course with the americans for some time, because he has consistently rejected what started as advice and became insistence about reducing the level of palestinia
wales are just one game away from the euros in germany this summer. they take on poland in their euro 2024 play off final in cardiff on tuesday night, knowing only a win will do or they ll miss out on reaching their third successive european championships as tomos daffyd reports. shoulders, head! pressure? what pressure? the players seemingly unburdened by the big match ahead. you wouldn t think there is a high pressured game. they just take everything in their stride. they re excited by the challenge. they re not nervous about it, they re excited by it. they ve been exposed to pressurised situations. wales are aiming to reach their third successive european championship and while most of their players have changed since first appearance back in 2016, their ethos remains the same. every young player that comes into the team is very respectful and knows their place until that has been proven on the pitch. you know, you have to earn your stripes, so to say, and the boys coming
televised debate. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. 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 have died 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