welcome to newsday — reporting live from singapore — i'm mariko oi. the headlines... more than 30 years after the lockerbie air—crash — the accused bomb—maker is charged at a court in the us. more covid measures eased in china — the government announces it's turning off a phone app that tracks people's movements. following the arrest of a group of alleged coup—plotters in germany — parliament considers tightening the country's gun laws. the european parliament's president says the institution — and european democracy — is under attack — following a bribery scandal.

live from our studio in singapore — this is bbc news. it's newsday. welcome to the programme. libyan man accused of making the bomb that destroyed a us bound passenger plane over lockerbie in scotland in 1988 has appeared in court. the explosion killed 270 people. the suspect, abi agila masud, is alleged to have been a member of the libyan intelligence service. he has been told he will not face the death penalty. our north america editor sarah smith reports. abi agila masud was told in court what the charges against him are and he could face life in prison if convicted. he's accused of making the bomb that killed 270 people when it blew

up pan am flight 103 over lockerbie in 1988. two years ago, that then us attorney general, william barr, announced former criminal charges against abi agila masud. why is it important that abi agila masud is brought to the us and tried in american courts? from a policy standpoint, i think it's important to let it be known that if you attack americans, you are going to be brought to justice, even if it takes 30 years. when we learned in november of 1991, when we came to the determination that this was the libyans that carried out the attacks, my own personal view was that it was not enough just to go and seek to try the individual agents who were acting on behalf of libya. obviously intelligent service doesn't go off on its own and do these things. so i felt we had to take direct action against libya and i felt that we should establish the precedent at that point that if you attack or engage in this kind of mass atrocity terroristic attack on the united states that you will be signing your own death warrant. while abi agila masud was in custody in libya on separate charges,

he confessed in his part of the lockerbie attack. are you convinced there's enough to guarantee guarantee a conviction? that is the standard for using the department ofjustice which is we bring charges unless we have admissible evidence sufficient to prove to a jury beyond a reasonable doubt that the individual is guilty. we know there was an interview he gave that to libyan law enforcement where he described his involvement in the lockerbie bombing. do you have evidence beyond that? i cannot get into talking about the evidence i saw while i was attorney general, and i certainly don't know what evidence has been developed in the subsequent time. but there is additional evidence? we did spend time developing additional evidence beyond his interview with libyan law enforcement. abi agila masud will appear in court again on the 27th of december, a full criminal trial will not begin until next year. sarah smith, bbc

news, washington. china has announced it will deactivate a phone app that has tracked people's movements during the pandemic. the communications itinerary card — which was operational for three years — went offline a few hours ago. the state—run app used phone signals to track whether someone travelled to a so—called high—risk area. this is the latest policy change that signals that the chinese communist party is abandoning its controversial zero—covid policy. following this — people with covid can now isolate at home — rather than in state facilities. the move to phase out the tracking app is symbolic for the nation — following widespread protests in several cities. earlier i spoke to jaap grolleman — a shanghai—based freelance writer — and i asked him about the mood in china after the easing of the measures. these changes came very fast. the mood is very mixed.

the main emotions are still relief, but also surprised because first we didn't know how long this is going to take. we saw some big events next year being cancelled, so be set how long is this policy going to last, until next year? the year after? suddenly one day to the next, the announcement of 90% of regulations don't apply tomorrow so i think most people are not sure yet how to fail but mostly relieved because now quarantine at home as possible. he no longer have to go to a quarantine centre. ——you no longer have to go to a quarantine centre. plus these regulations with more freedom of movement with the tracking being gone. of course, but at the same time, i understand there are some concerns among some residents about a new wave of infections because, of course, the virus is still very alien to chinese people. yes, for sure. i think these emotions, the fear of being infected is quite new to people in china.

there was never be a possibility of facts, ——there was never be a possibility of that, but the risk is very real now. i think some people they are not worried about this at all, but other people, some people are worried about their parents who might not have been vaccinated, so this depends a lot on who you ask. you mentioned vaccination and the government has been trying to encourage the elderly to get a booster shot or at least get vaccinated. do you see the change in attitude among those older generation who were reluctant to receive the covid jab? not sure. i saw some statistics like in the last few days there have been very long queues for vaccinations but it's a little bit late, you could say. the virus is already spreading very fast in shanghai and other cities.

yes, so... i think it depends a lot on who you ask, and many people are not sure yet how to feel about this new opening up. let's now bring you some breaking news, because the attorney general of the bahamas has released a statement saying that the police they have arrested the farmer fdx ceo, sam brinkman freed, also known as spf. the statement added that the bahamas has now received formal notification from the us of criminal charges against him in connection with the collapse of the crypto currency exchange. it's not likely that the united states will request his extradition, of course, ftx filed for bankruptcy protection last month and investors are thought to have lost billions of dollars. the expert appointed to salvage the company's assets

will tell the house of financial services committee there was an absence of management control under his leadership, spf is also do to get evidence on line from his base in the bahamas later on tuesday. nearly ten months into the ukrainie war — and despite hundreds of thousands of reservists being called up, russia is no longer advancing in any meaningful way on the battlefield. president putin insists his forces are "fighting brilliantly" and has called them heroes. but there are some who refuse to fight. we've heard testimony from servicemen, relatives and activists — which suggests, that some of them have been subjected to mistreatment, threats and even violence — to try to force them back to the front line. our russia editor, steve rosenberg, has been listening to their stories. the official view from the kremlin is that russians

believe their war in ukraine is a noble cause. one they are ready to die for. but after ten months of fighting, not all the soldiers think that. sergei has agreed to tell me about his son, stas, an army officer. we have changed their names to protect their identities. deployed to ukraine, his son refused to fight. he told me it was a difficult decision for him to take, i told him, better to take it. this is not our war. it's not a war of liberation. i will put that in writing, that i refuse to fight, he said. he and several others who refused had their guns taken off them and were put under armed guard. sergei travelled to the front line in ukraine to try to secure his son's release. eventually, stas was sent back to russia, and revealed the full drama of his detention

— how russian soldiers had tried to force him to fight. they beat him and then they took him outside as if they were going to shoot him. they made him lie on the ground and told him to count to ten. he refused, so they beat him over the head several times with a pistol. he told me his face was covered in blood and then they took him into a room and told him, you're coming with us otherwise we will kill you. but someone there said, i'll take him to work in the storeroom. and there are other stories. these mobilised russian troops were locked in a cellar after they said they won't go back into battle. basements turned into dungeons for those who don't want to fight. human rights activists say cases like these reflect the pressure russian soldiers are coming under in ukraine from their own commanders.

translation: it's a way| of making people go back into that bloodbath. but it's not possible to force people to fight in a war. the commanders know only violence and intimidation. they are used to it. why are some russian soldiers in ukraine refusing to go back to the front? in some cases, it is a moral decision. but for many others, having experienced the horrors of the battlefield, it is simply an attempt to stay alive. later, i speak to the mother of a russian lieutenant. she says he contacted her from ukraine to tell her he had been put in a basement after disobeying orders to advance. he was with four other officers. they hadn't been seen for five months. translation: i was later told that the building - they were in was shelled and that all five - men were missing. they said no remains

were found. - it doesn't make i sense, it's absurd. the way my son was treated wasn't only illegal, - it was inhuman. russia has inflicted enormous suffering on its neighbour. it's threatening its own people, too. my son told me, i never thought my own country would treat me this way. people here don't understand how much danger we are in, not from the opposing side but from our side. for this war, the kremlin is demanding total support. steve rosenberg, bbc news, russia. iran has carried out a second public execution linked to the nearly three—month wave of anti—government protests. the judiciary says majid reza rahnavard was hanged in the city of mashhad. he was convicted of stabbing and killing two members of the security forces. human rights groups have warned that protesters

are being sentenced to death after sham trials with no due process. the european parliament has been engulfed in a corruption scandal, with allegations that qatar has bribed eu officials to try to win influence. president roberta metsola said the assembly would be launching an internal investigation over the allegations. here, she is addressing the european parliament. the enemies of democracy for whom the very existence of this parliament is a threat will stop at nothing. these malign actors linked to autocratic technique autocratic third countries have allegedly but denies ngos, ——autocratic third countries have allegedly weaponised ngos, unions, individuals, assistants and members of the european parliament in an effort to subdue our processes. our correspondent jessica parker has

the latest from brussels. i think the details of this case so far is probably what has shocked people across brussels and beyond, so belgian prosecutors came out on friday and said that they carried out a series of raids on properties across brussels they'd seized 600,000 euros in cash and as well over the weekend we learned that among those arrested, four had been charged, among them is reported to be a greek mep, a vice president of the european parliament, one of 1a, and although she has now been stripped of her powers by the european parliament parliament, also reportedly a charge, francesco georgia, parliamentary assistant and her partner, so among the four charged, we are told.

now, i think for meps and the european parliament it'ds going to base some big questions and the european commission president has today come out and said there is a question now of public trust in the institutions of the european union. qatar, it's worth and, of course, currently hosting the world cup, so the story comes at a slightly awkward time for the gulf states, but they are very much denying any accusations of misconduct. we've also contacted the office for comment, but have not yet heard back. but i think for the european union, for the european parliament, this will be a subject of intensive debate and discussion, almost anyone is talking about, but also how deep this could potentially go. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme. joining up — bts starjin starts his mandatory south korean military duty.

saddam hussein is finished, because he killed our people, our women, our children. the signatures took only a few minutes but they brought a formal end to three and a half years of conflict, which has claimed more than 200,000 lives. before an audience of world leaders, the presidents of bosnia, serbia and croatia put their names to the peace agreement. the romanian border- was sealed and silent today. romania has cut itself off from the outside world i to prevent the details - of the presumed massacre in timisoara from leaking out. on trial for his political life, the lewinsky affair means bill clinton is guaranteed a place in history as only the second president

ever to be impeached. this is newsday on the bbc. i'm mariko oi, in singapore. our headlines... more than 30 years after the lockerbie air—crash — the accused bomb—maker is charged at a court in the us. more covid measures eased in china — the government announces it's turning off a phone app that tracks people's movements. in germany, parliamentarians have been holding private sessions to discuss whether gun laws need tightening to bolster national security. it follows the arrest of a group of far—right figures lasty week accused of plotting to replace the german government. ministers said the group posed a "very real" danger, and that their plans were far—reaching.

our europe editor katya adler reports from eastern germany, where the plot was hatched. hidden in germany's rural east, this aristocratic hunting lodge was at the heart of a plot to storm the german parliament and take over the country. all before christmas. there it is, in the trees. ghostly silence, now. this was the scene here on wednesday. one of the biggest security operations in german history, with arrests across the country. the plotters included top military brass, trained to kill. neighbours have told us that you had police here searching the property and one of the policemen commented that they were looking for possible weapons and explosives. hordes of weapons were seized in numerous locations. in the sleepy village, locals are still rubbing their eyes in disbelief.

it's crazy, christina told me, like a play, not real life. i have friends and family who agree with the plotters. that scares me. the alleged mastermind, dubbed the putsch prince, is hereditary loyalty. the head of his family, who lives in austria, told me he fears for their reputation. translation: we'd already distanced ourselves - from him as a family because of his racist conspiracy theories. he was a bitter man who got in with a dangerous crowd. dangerous because they had weapons and were ready to use them, but the police never believe that their coup would succeed. what really worries the security forces here is that this is a moment of social instability in germany as in many other european countries. on the back of the pandemic, the war in ukraine and

the rising cost of living. what more germans are fed up with their government and they seem more open to conspiracy theories and extremist groups say they are finding more willing listeners. lockdown protests at the height of the covid pandemic were big recruiting grounds for the far left and especially the hard right in germany. we are not any longer talking about those outsiders that you can identify very easily from the way they are living. we have nazis in pinstriped suits, extremism has grown like a cancer more in the middle of our society. death threats and attacks against those seen as the enemy, like this intelligence chief, have risen sharply. security is being stepped up here but the biggest worry for the german authorities is the new threat from within. katya adler, bbc news, berlin.

authorities in indonesia have said foreigners visiting the country will not be charged under its new law which criminalisses sex outside marriage. the legislation — which is set to take effect in three years, threatens up to a year in jail for unmairred couples who have sex. businesses are concerned that the stringent law will negatively impact indonesia's tourism industry, which is recovering from the covid pandemic. let's go to south korea now — where the eldest member of the boyband bts is starting his mandatory military duty on tuesday. jin is the first member to enlist since the group went on hiatus this year — and on sunday he posted this photo of himself with his new military—style buzz cut. all able—bodied men in south korea must serve at least 18 months in the military. i asked our seoul correspondent jean mackenzie about the fan reaction to the news.

the messages overnight and this morning have been saying how terribly they are going to miss him, urging him to be safe, to come back safely, and of course, they will be waiting for him. but when he posted that photo on sunday night, tens of thousands of fans got back to him to tell him how good their haircuts looked. and also to offer their own advice from the army, and my favourite was a fan who posted to say that he should bring lots of warm clothes with him how much he hated the cold. of course he's not the first pop star in south korea to do military service, but can you talk us through whether he and other members of the band, do they have a choice of doing this are not? they didn't really have a choice because, as you say, military service here in south korea is compulsory for all men, but are a few exceptions.

they have been rumours for a few months that the government was considering giving them an exemption so that they could skip the service on the grounds, really, that they have done so much already to serve their country and perhaps their time could be better spent out of the army, they could achieve more for south korea if they didn't go, but this exemption was by no means guaranteed, and it wasn't even looking likely. so in the end, all of the members of them that came out and decided to preempt that decision by enlisting. but as you say, this compulsory military service here in south korea, it is a sort of grievance for many young men who feel that it disadvantages them against women who don't have to do it, and also that it takes them away from their work and their studies and theirfriends. at a really pivotal time in their life, usually in their early 20s or mid—20s. if they had gotten exemption, and could've been quite significant backlash. so i think in the end they decided to do what they considered to be the right thing and to serve their country like

everybody else has to. netflix has released clips from the second half of the series on harry and meghan — in which meghan says she was "fed to the wolves" after she'd joined the royal family. harry suggests that the british media was "happy to lie to protect�* his brother — but never willing "to tell the truth" to protect the new couple. to see this institutional gaslighting. .. i wasn't being thrown to the wolves, i was being fed to the wolves. they were actively. recruiting people to disseminate disinformation. they were happy to lie to protect my brother. they were never willing to tell the truth to protect us. our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell, says the trailer leaves many questions unanswered. these are trailers, the programmes last week didn't live up to the hype of �*s

trailers, but in this instance, the presentation of these two sentences, they were happy to lie to protect my brother, they were never willing to tell the truth to protect us, it is ambiguous. who is the day that harry is referring to there? is at the palace or is that the british media? either way, what is the evidence? this i think requires more than vague generalisations. we had a flavour of this in the oprah winfrey interview. you will remember megan talked about the who made who cried between her and kate over but the bridesmaids wore, and she feels that that was leaked to the british media in an unflattering way to her. but surely there must be more than that behind this suggestion now. what also comes to very

clearly it's just how angry harry appears to be and how determined he has to get his truth out there. that's all for now — stay with bbc world news. hello there. for many of us, the cold weather is going to last for the rest of this week, and we had some sunshine on monday, but it was a fairly cold start to the day. temperatures here got down to —15.7, this is the lowest temperature recorded in the uk for over a year. and after such a cold start to the day, temperatures only got up to —9 in braemar, that made it the coldest day for over a decade according to professional data from the met office. the cold weather has been brought in by an area of high pressure over greenland. that's losing its grip, and as we head into began, there are signs of something of a change across southwestern areas with some of us seeing a return to milder weather.

before we get there, over the next few hous, we could have issues around with ice patches around, particularly for northern ireland, northern and eastern scotland, down the eastern side of england, mist and fog also causing problems. northeast england across the midlands, wales, lincolnshire, visibility and a few spots down to 100 metres in a few places, and we sometimes see some of the lowest temperatures at about 9:00pm at this time of the year, that temperature overnight low, record in braemar is under threat, it has been cold over recent hours. today, a bit of sunshine, the greater field to the weather generally of east anglia and south east england. further showers falling as snow across northern scotland to watch out for. cold for just about everyone, however, we are watching us is to move into the english channel. you might even see a little bit of wintering us from this. it's just something we are keeping a close eye on. away from that, as we look at the better picture into the middle part of the b, we are going to continue with into the middle part of the week, we are going to continue with those cold northerly winds. they will bring lots of snow showers to northern areas of scotland, and as the winds pick up here, we are

looking at some blizzards and some drifting up over the high ground. elsewhere, wednesday will bring a largely finance any day, elsewhere, wednesday will bring a largely will bring a largely fine and sunny day, a few showers coming down at coastal areas at time, some of them could be wintry, but for most it's a sunday that really cold kind of day with temperatures not really changing a great deal through the rest of this week. now we are looking ahead later in the week and really on into the weekend for that change to milder conditions. the transition might bring some rain and perhaps a little bit of snow for one or two of you for a time. eventually, south—westerly winds will bring that mild air. it looks like change will heading in time for the weekend. you can find out more about where you live by looking at the bbc weather app on android or apple.

this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines all all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour as newsday continues a straight after hard talk. welcome to hardtalk. i'm stephen sackur, and today i'm in oslo for the presentation of this year's nobel peace prize. there are threejoint winners, two of them human rights organisations, one from ukraine, one from russia, the third an imprisoned political dissident from belarus. now, obviously, he cannot be here, but i am joined by leaders of the two human rights groups from

kyiv and from moscow.