welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. i'm mariko oi. the headlines: police in the bahamas arrest the former head of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange — ftx — at the request of the united states. 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 its turning off a phone app tracks people's movements. the european parliament's president says the institution and european democracy is under attack following a bribery scandal. and joining up — bts starjin starts his mandatory

south korean military duty. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news — it's newsday. we start the programme with some breaking news the attorney general of the bahamas has released a statement saying that police have arrested the former ftx ceo sam bankman—fried, also known as sbf. ftx filed for bankruptcy protection last month. investors are thought to have lost billions of dollars. sbf was due to give evidence online from his base in the bahamas on tuesday. david willis is our north america correspondent.

this news comes as a surprise as it is the day before his testimony and we are now seeing a breaking news line that his testimony prepared for congress saying he deeply regrets giving in to pressure to sign farms that led to chapter 11 filings. the news just breaking that led to chapter 11 filings. the newsjust breaking in that led to chapter 11 filings. the news just breaking in the last hour and we have a statement from the attorney general of the bahamas in which he says the arrest follows the receipt of formal notification, as they say here, from the united states, that has filed criminal charges against sbf and is likely to request his tradition to the us. as a result of the notification received and the materials provided there with, was deemed appropriate for the attorney general to seek sam bankman—fried's arrest. it says

here this is thought to be the result of the receipt of a sealed indictment from new york prosecutors. we do not know what is in that indictment, what is in that indictment, what sort of charges they want to bring against mr bankman—fried but it is expected more of those details will be released tomorrow. meanwhile mr bankman—fried, of course, has remained in the bahamas since the collapse of the company and he moved there, he moved ftx's headquarters so that capital of the bahamas last year. it had previously been based in hong kong. he has acknowledged in a series of interviews that he gave over the course of the final weeks of november and december, rest management failures, has he wanted, but he said he never knowingly co— mingled funds

from ftx with another company, a propriety trading company he also runs, called alameda research. he sat on the record in the past this is not believe he has any criminal liability in this whole saga. nonetheless, mr bankman—fried is currently being held in custody into the bahamas. indeed, david, and wejust had a statement from bahamas police are saying he will appear in a magistrates court in the bahamas later this tuesday as well. but can you remind our view is exactly what happened and how many investors have lost quite a lot of money because of this collapse? well, traders in _ because of this collapse? well, traders in this _ because of this collapse? well, traders in this crypto _ because of this collapse? well, traders in this crypto currency l traders in this crypto currency pulled about billion dollars from ftx, the platform, over the course of about three days.

that was after they were reports that mr bankman—fried moved $10 billion of ftx customer funds to that other company of his. at least $1 billion of customer funds are said to have vanished as well so there are a lot of people with questions about what happened to their money and we were expecting to get some answers to those questions when mr bankman—fried gave testimony to a congressional committee on tuesday. well, now that will not be happening because he is in custody. not be happening because he is in custody-— in custody. indeed, david willis, thank _ in custody. indeed, david willis, thank you - in custody. indeed, david willis, thank you so - in custody. indeed, david| willis, thank you so much for the dates on this breaking news story. the 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 two

hundred and seventy 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. 0ur north america editor sarah smith reports. abi agila masud was told in court what the charges agaisnt are and that he could face life in prison if convicted. he is accused of making the bomb that killed 270 people when it blew up pan am flight 103. 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 agent who was acting on behalf of libya. 0bviously 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 in the lockerbie attack. are you convinced there's enough evidence to guarantee a conviction? that is the standard for using the department ofjustice which is we do not 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 in which 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 libyanlaw 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. this change came very fast so also the mood is very mixed. the main emotions are still relief but also surprise because first we did not know how long this was going to take. we saw some big events next year being cancelled so we were like, how long is this policy going to last? also next year, or also the year after? and then suddenly, one day to the next, it was the announcement 90% of regulations do not apply tomorrow. so i think most people are not sure yet how to feel but mostly

relieved because now quarantine at home is possible. 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 amongst some residents about a new wave of infections. because, of course, the virus is still very ailing to chinese people. yeah, for sure. i think these emotions, the fear of being infected is quite new to people in china. there was never the real possibility of that but the risk is very real now. i think, some people, they are not worried about this at all. other people... so it is quite mixed, the person who you ask. some people are also 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, especially the elderly,

to get a booster shot or at least get vaccinated. do you see the change in attitude among those older generations who were reluctant to receive the jab? um, i am not sure. i saw some statistics in the last few days. there have been very long queues for vaccinations, but it is a little bit late, you could say, because the virus is already spreading very fast, at least in shanghai but also in many other cities. yes, so, i think it depends a lot on the person who you ask and also many people are not sure yet how to feel about this new opening up. let's take a look at some other stories in the headlines: police in peru have clashed with protestors again as the anti government demonstrators blocked the airport in peru's second largest city, arequipa. demonstrators have been calling for the reinstatement of former president pedro castillo

after he was ousted last week. five people have now died in clashes with the security forces since the protests began authorities in indonesia have said foreigners visiting the country will not be charged under its new law which criminalises 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. chile is battling to control the spread of several wildfires that are impacting its central region. more than 4,000 hectares have been destroyed and local communities have been put at risk. authorities have asked residents to evacuate. the federal government and emergency agencies have met to discuss firefighters' progress and the threat of new outbreaks.

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 third countries have allegedly weaponised and ngos, unions, individuals, assistants and members of the european parliament in an effort to subdue our processes. 0ur correspondent jessica parker has the latest from brussels. i think the details of this

case so far is partly what has shocked people across brussels and beyond, so belgian prosecutors came out friday and said that they carried out and said that they carried out a series of raids on properties across brussels. they seized 600,000 euros in cash and as well over the weekend we learned that among those arrested, four had been in charge. among them is reported to be eva kaili who is a greek mep, a vice president of the european parliament, one of 1a, although she has now been stripped of her powers by the european parliament president, roberta metsola. also reportedly a charge francesco giorgi. a parliamentary assistant and her partner. eva kaili's partner, among the four charged, we are told. for meps, parliament, it is going to raise big questions and at the rear pin president has

today come out and said there is a question of public trust. —— european. qatar, it is with sam, currently hosting the world cup so the story coming at an awkward time but they are very much denying any accusations of misconduct. we contacted eva kaili's office for comment but for the european union and parliament, this would be a subject of extensive debate. everyone is talking about the revelations that have come out but how deeply this could potentially go. you're watching newsday on the bbc. still to come on the programme, the royal row rumbles on — more details emerge from the new netflix series starring harry and meghan.

cheering and singing 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 3.5 years of conflict — conflict that 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 in order to prevent the details of the presumed massacre in timisoara from leaking out. from sex at the white house to a trial for his political life, the lewinsky affair tonight guaranteeing bill clinton his place in history as only the second president ever to be impeached.

this is newsday on the bbc. i'm mariko 0i in singapore. 0ur headlines: police in the bahamas arrest the former head of the collapsed cryptocurrency exchange ftx at the request of america. more than 30 years after the lockerbie air—crash, the accused bomb—maker is charged at a court in the us. nearly 10 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 frontline. 0ur 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. 0ne 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 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. 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. i asked our seoul correspondent jean mackenzie about the fan reaction to the news. the messages that the fans overnight and this morning have been sort of just saying how terribly they are going to use him, urging him to be safe, to come back safely and that, of course, they will be waiting for him. but when he posted that photo on sunday night, tens of thousands of fans immediately got back to him to tell him how good his new haircut looked and also to offer their own advice for him in the army and my favourite was a fan who posted to say that he should bring lots of warm clothes with him because she knew how much he hated the cold. of course, he is not the first popstar in south korea to do military service but can you talk us through whether he

and other embers of bts, did they actually have a choice of doing this or not? they didn't really have a choice because, as you say, compulsory military service here in south korea is compulsory for all men bar a few exceptions. there had been rumours for a few months that the government was considering giving bts exemptions so they could skip the service, on the ground really that they have done so much already to serve their country and that 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 the members of bts came out and decided, almost pre—empted 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 itjust takes them away from that

work, from their studies and their friends, at this really pivotal time in their lives, usually in their early 20s or mid 20s so if bts had got an exemption, there it could have been quite significant backlash and some think in the end, they decided to do what they considered to be the right thing and to serve the 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 the new couple. see. i to the new coule. see. �* to the newcoule. see. �* , ., to to see. i wasn't being thrown to the world, _ to see. i wasn't being thrown to the world, i _ to see. i wasn't being thrown to the world, i was _ to see. i wasn't being thrown to the world, i was being - to see. i wasn't being thrown to the world, i was being fed | to the world, i was being fed to the world, i was being fed to the — to the world, i was being fed to the wolves.— to the wolves. they were actively _ to the wolves. they were actively recruiting - to the wolves. they were actively recruiting people to the wolves. they were i actively recruiting people to disseminate information. the? disseminate information. they were happy — disseminate information. they were happy to _ disseminate information. they were happy to lie _ disseminate information. they were happy to lie to _ disseminate information. they

were happy to lie to protect my brother, — were happy to lie to protect my brother, they were never wanting _ brother, they were never wanting to tell the truth to protect— wanting to tell the truth to protect us. 0ur royal correspondent, nicholas witchell, says the trailer leaves many questions unanswered. these are trailers, the purpose of the trailer is to attract attention and hype the contents of. the programmes last week did not live up to the hype, last week? 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�*s ambiguous. who is the day that harry is referring to that? is it the palace of the british media? either way, what is the evidence? this requires more than vague generalisations of. we had a flavour of this on the oprah winfrey interview, when megan talked about the who made her cry between her over what the bridesmaids wore and she feels that was leaked to the british media in an unflattering way to her, but surely there must be more than that then this suggestion now,

and what comes through is just how angry harry appears to be and how determined he appears to be to get his truth out there. that�*s it for now, thanks for watching. hello there, many of us, the cold weather will last for the of this week and we had some sunshine on monday, but it was a really cold start of the day, temperatures in braemar got down to —15.7, the lowest temperature recorded in the uk for over a year and after such a cold start of the day temperatures only got on to —9.3, that made it the coldest day for over a decade according to provisional data from the met office. the cold weather has been brought in by an area of high pressure over greenland, losing its grip. heading into the weekend there are signs of something of a change across south—western areas with some of us are seeing a return to my other weather. before we gather, over

the next few hours we could have a few issues around with ice patches around particularly for northern ireland, northern eastern scotland, down the eastern scotland, down the eastern side of england, mist and fog also causing problems in north—east england, the midlands, wales, lincolnshire, there is a possibility of visibility down to 100 metres in some places. the temperature is about nine o�*clock this time of year, the temperature overnight low, record is under threat, it has certainly been over recent hours of. through the day there will be a fair bit of sunshine, generally through east anglia and south—east england but still further showers falling snow across northern scotland to watch out for, cold forjust about everyone but we are watching the weather system just move into the english channel, we might even see a bit of menace from this, something we are keeping close eye on. looking at them by the picture into the middle part of the week we will continue with this cold northerly winds, northern areas of scotland and as the winds pick up here we are looking at some blizzards

are looking at some blizzards are drifting up over the high ground, and elsewhere wednesday will bring a largely fine and sunny day, a future was coming down our coastal areas, and it could be wintry, but the most it�*s a sunny but really cold kind of day with temperatures not sending a great deal through the rest of this week. we are looking i later in the week and moving on into the weekend for that change to my other weather conditions, the transition might bring some rain and some snow for one or two of you for a time and eventually south—westerly winds will bring milder other arianna looks like the change will head in its over the weekend, you can find out more on that by looking at the bbc weather app on android or apple.

this is bbc news. we�*ll have the headlines and all the other main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. hello everybody, a very warm welcome to talking business weekly, with me aaron heslehurst. let�*s go take a look at what�*s on the show. can the golden days of the office return as some companies demand that

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