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 prison wh
80s and 90s. Reactions to it being signed were largely positive. For the generation to come, it will be fantastic, one of the greatest things in our history, anyway. Some were not convinced. I dont think we will ever see peace. Itll take something different. I have come to dromore, a town in county down, roughly 20 minutes outside of belfast, and is home to around 6000 people. Its also where i grew up and went to school. I was born in 1998, the year the good friday agreement was signed here in Northern Ireland. It means i grew up after the troubles ended and didnt have to worry as much as maybe my parents did, for example, about getting caught up in the conflict happening here. Me and others like me born after it was signed are known as peace babies and im keen to find out where they think Northern Ireland could be in the next 25 years. Just across from where i am now is my old school, dromore high. Theres me chuckles. I left here in 2017, but its where i was first taught about the
bruce willis is diagnosed with dementia at the age of 67. and in the capital: how london s firefighters saved 11 lives in turkey. and the doctor whose surgery has never been busier he tells us about the pressures he s facing. good evening. a spy at the british embassy in berlin has beenjailed for more than 13 years for selling secrets to russia. david smith was caught in an undercover sting which involved fake russian agents who in fact worked for the british security services. the 58 year old was passing details to russia of other members of staff, as well as photographs and videos of buildings. police described smith s actions as reckless and dangerous . our home affairs correspondent tom symonds reports. secretly filmed, david smith, the embassy security guard with an access all areas pass, stealing secrets for the russians. scottish, married but separated, a lover of military memorabilia, the court found he hated britain and felt sympathy for vladimir putin. sentenci
to glue herself to a table. a man and a woman were later arrested by police. jamie broughton was at ahe crucible in sheffield. the evening session was just getting under way when a man and woman from the protest group stop oiljumped over the barriers here from the seats into the auditorium and the man climbed onto the table where robert and joe perry were playing their first round match. he then opened a packet of orange power and emptied it onto the table before security intervened and the woman trid to get on the other side, on the other side of the barrier, but the match referee stopped her before they could do any damage to the table. play resumed between allen but the other match was not able to continue as the cloth on the table needed to be replaced. i can tell there was a lot of anger from those behind the scenes the fans there about what it happened. have we seen anything like this before and how is this likely we have seen protests before and we saw one protester ge
61 year old lu jianwang, pictured on the right and 59 year old chenjinping, pictured on the left are both new york city residents and face charges of conspiring to act as agents for china and obstruction ofjustice as us department ofjustice officials said in a conference this afternoon. these actions under the direction of the chinese government of flagrant violations of american sovereignty and thanks to our investigation and the rest today, with the fbi, the defendants will be held accountable and the body is on notice that we will not tolerate similar threats to our national sovereignty. the secret station is believed to be a part of a network of at least 100 operating across the globe in 53 countries, including the uk and the netherlands. last month, canada s federal police announced an investigation into two montreal area sites thought to be police outposts. the fbi s director christopher wray said in november:. our new york correspondent nada tawfik went to the justice