the islamic state group in syria, is convicted in the us over the beheading of six westerners. shocking scenes in shanghai, clashes between the police and the people as the city s strict covid lockdown enters its third week. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky says european countries that continue to buy oilfrom russia are aiding the country s war against them, and they will have blood on their hands. he s urged western leaders to speed up the delivery of military aid to help ukraine. he s been talking to the bbc s clive myrie who sat down with president zelensky in his wartime bunker. mr president, clive myrie, a pleasure to meet you. it s good to see you. for the entirety of the war volodymyr zelensky has called this heavily fortified building home in the centre of kyiv. how difficult has it been for you to be here through all this without your family? it s myjob. i have to do it and it s difficult without a
jewish worshippers have been gathering at the western wall for passover prayers this morning. it usually draws tens of thousands of worshippers, with crowds spilling out from the wall s plaza into the surrounding areas. there is a heavy security presence today and officials are concerned there could be violence. just a short distance away hundreds of palestinians have barricaded themselves inside al aqsa mosque injerusalem. these are the latest images from the mosque. police said they were bracing for violence, but so far it has been calm. jordan, which manages the religious complex, has warned of catastrophic consequences if police storm the mosque. i m joined now by the bbc s middle east correspondent, yolande knell. yolande knell is injerusalem. there are concerns about what is going on in al aqsa mosque. tel is the latest because it was just last week that police stormed the mosque and there were really tense scenes, weren t there? talk us through what is going on. ~ . y
could not go unanswered, although ukraine hasn t declared any involvement. also in the programme: the latest trial of the hollywood film producer harvey weinstein has begun at a court in los angeles, where he is facing 11 further charges of abuse. saving sea life in britain, as the uk begins recycling fishing nets dumped at sea. and a bumpy ride for the iphone m as rollercoasters reportedly trigger the latest apple product to make emergency distress calls. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. president zelensky says ukraine won t be intimidated by the barrage of russian missiles that struck cities across the country, in the most widespread attacks since the start of the war. the air strikes happened in the morning rush hour on monday, killing at least 11 people, and damaging infrastructure. for the first time, missiles landed in the centre of the capital, kyiv, and the cities of lviv, dnipro, and zaporizhzhia
called on nato to stage a pre emptive strike on russia, to stop moscow using tactical nuclear weapons, but he told me he wasn t talking about a nuclear strike. he said he was referring to pre emptive sanctions. and he said it in english to make sure people got the point about the russian threat. they begin to prepare their society. that is very dangerous. they are not ready to use it, but they begin to communicate. what, you mean prepare society for using a nuclear weapon? it s. you know, it s. .. they don t know if they will use or if they will not use. i think that is dangerous even to speak about it. then i said, you have to do preventive kicks, not attacks. we are not ready to kill people like russians do it. then he switched into ukrainian. this is a very dangerous time, isn t it? because russia could they ve been warning that they might use some form of nuclear weapon, if not a large scale one, then a localised one. and president biden is talking about armageddon
few could match lester piggott. his statistics are staggering. nearly 5,000 victories across a career spanning almost half a century. he rode his first winner back in 1948 at the age ofjust 12. it was a feat that made the headlines, and plenty more would follow. in 1954, while still a teenager, he won the derby, the first of a record nine victories in the race. the youngest jockey to win the derby in modern times. but for all the adulation, piggott remained a shy, softly spoken man. how hard do you have to work, in fact? well, it s pretty hard work. you know, all day long, i and at night sometimes. at five foot eight, he was tall for a jockey, hence his nickname the long fellow. but his much imitated style in the saddle earned him the championjockey s title some 11 times. the success, though, was followed by scandal. good evening. the headlines at six o clock. lester piggott has been sent to jail for three years. - in 1987 piggott was jailed for tax evasion and stripped of hi