russian television says this is the moment that moscow came under attack. the bbc has not independently verified the images russian tv showed. but from early morning, people in and around the russian capital did report hearing explosions. i heard them too. at home, my windows shook from the force of the blasts. russia's defence ministry accused ukraine of carrying out the attack, but said that russia's military had downed all the drones. ukraine has denied having anything to do with this. president putin clearly doesn't believe that. the kyiv regime has chosen the path of scaring russia and russian citizens by launching strikes on residential buildings. this is a clear sign of its terrorist activity. figs

of its terrorist activity. as they flew _ of its terrorist activity. as they flew towards moscow, the drones sparked disbelief. "look at that", the man says. "it is right above our house". one of the drones crashed into a high—rise apartment block. another flew into this residential building. anotherflew into this residential building. here is part of it on the ground. the explosives failed to detonate. the area was cordoned off and emergency services removed it. along the local residents, the sense of shock is palpable. translation: we sense of shock is palpable. translation:— sense of shock is palpable. translation: we are all on edae. i translation: we are all on edge- i don't— translation: we are all on edge. i don't know _ translation: we are all on edge. i don't know what - translation: we are all on edge. i don't know what we | edge. i don't know what we should do about it. i edge. i don't know what we should do about it.- edge. i don't know what we should do about it. i fear for my life. _ should do about it. i fear for my life. and _ should do about it. i fear for my life, and the _ should do about it. i fear for my life, and the lives - should do about it. i fear for my life, and the lives of - should do about it. i fear for my life, and the lives of my| my life, and the lives of my loved — my life, and the lives of my loved ones. things are not as calm — loved ones. things are not as calm and _ loved ones. things are not as calm and stable as we have been told _ calm and stable as we have been told. a, , . ., calm and stable as we have been told. , calm and stable as we have been told. moscow says there was minor damage _ told. moscow says there was minor damage and _ told. moscow says there was minor damage and no - told. moscow says there was | minor damage and no serious injuries, and the situation is under control. but for muscovites, this drone attack

is a wake—up call. a sign that this war, which many are still perceived as being far away, is coming much closer to home. that feeling has been growing since these explosions over the kremlin earlier this month. an apparent drone attack. and just days ago, a large—scale cross—border incursion from ukraine into russian territory was another embarrassment for the russian authorities and a sign of growing insecurity. but no sign of any political u—turn. after this morning's drone attacks, this message from the kremlin is clear. what it calls the special military operation in ukraine will continue. aras amiri should now be able to look forward in her life.

she is free, back in the uk, and pregnant with herfirst child. but every day her mind goes back to the prison where she was held for three years and to the friends she made it there. it and to the friends she made it there. . , . and to the friends she made it there. ., , ., ., and to the friends she made it there. .,, ., ., .,, there. it has a long lasting effects on _ there. it has a long lasting effects on each _ there. it has a long lasting effects on each other. - there. it has a long lasting effects on each other. she j there. it has a long lasting - effects on each other. she was held in the _ effects on each other. she was held in the much _ effects on each other. she was held in the much feared - effects on each other. she was held in the much feared evin . held in the much feared evin jail. like other political prisoners, she spent time in solitary confinement. she was interrogated around the clock, blindfolded and threatened. she still has nightmares about her time there the unfairness is the hardest thing. still in evin, along with nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, became her best friends in jail. zaghari—ratcliffe, became her best friends injail. niloufar, serving a ten year sentence, and sepideh. 50 serving a ten year sentence, and sepideh.— and sepideh. so lively and genemus- _ and sepideh. so lively and generous. so _ and sepideh. so lively and generous. so much - and sepideh. so lively and generous. so much loved| and sepideh. so lively and l generous. so much loved by and sepideh. so lively and - generous. so much loved by all the prisoners.—

generous. so much loved by all| the prisoners._ there the prisoners. why them? there has been pressure _ the prisoners. why them? there has been pressure on _ has been pressure on environmentalists in iran, who arejust doing thejob environmentalists in iran, who are just doing the job of conserving nature and wildlife in iran. �* . conserving nature and wildlife in iran. ~ ., , ., in iran. also in “ail is human, sepideh-s— in iran. also injail is human, sepideh's husband, - in iran. also injail is human, sepideh's husband, tracking | sepideh's husband, tracking footprints. there is a photo he took a critically endangered asiatic cheater. this cheat cub was being looked after by the group. while tracking while cheaters with cameras, they were of spying, although even members of the iranian government have acknowledged there is no evidence. it is there is no evidence. it is incredibly _ there is no evidence. it is incredibly unfair. - there is no evidence. it is incredibly unfair. every i there is no evidence. it 3 incredibly unfair. every day that they are in prison. and i think already they have been through so much. ijust want them to be able to be back with theirfamilies, their them to be able to be back with their families, their loved ones, nature, and to protect iran's wildlife again, which is what they have been always doing, and so dedicated to it. the director of the persian wildlife heritage foundation

died in suspicious circumstances in 2018, while under interrogation. norad founded the group. he has petitioned american citizenship and his family hoped it would be released alongside nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe last year, but he is still being held, along with tahar, amir hussein and sam. aras told me they are not only important scientist, but inspiring human beings. they really shared with us the love that they have for nature. the fact that they are still kept in, that is really hard raking, and a big loss for eran. ,, ., , eran. she thinks of them every da and eran. she thinks of them every day and says — eran. she thinks of them every day and says her— eran. she thinks of them every day and says her heartburn - eran. she thinks of them every day and says her heartburn is l day and says her heartburn is for them and for all they have endured.

and myanmar military jet circles and myanmar militaryjet circles a primary school. when they think it is safe, they run. but the plane circles back. across myanmar, the military is carrying out increasingly deadlier strikes. carrying out increasingly deadlierstrikes. on carrying out increasingly deadlier strikes. on the ground, they are struggling to suppress an armed uprising, demanding democracy. so they have taken this war against their own people to the sky.

they are under attack by revolutionary forces and they don't have enough men to fight back. so now the air force don't have enough men to fight back. so now the airforce is very important to the military. what would the myanmar military strike be like without the air force? ~ ., �* strike be like without the air force? ~ ., ~ ., . force? without the air force, it is very _ force? without the air force, it is very likely _ force? without the air force, it is very likely that _ force? without the air force, it is very likely that the - it is very likely that the military would fall. before defecting. _ military would fall. before defecting, this _ defecting, this captain upgraded the capital's airport for the arrival of advanced fighterjets. we prepared for six su—30s, we built three open sheds. so far, two of the sukhoi 30s have arrived from russia. they are the most powerfuljets in the air force's arsenal. altogether, more than 50 people were sent to russia to get training, to

operate these jets. captain ang didn't want to be one of those pilots. after 18 years in the air force, he fled with his family across the border to thailand. i family across the border to thailand-— thailand. i saw that they killed people. _ thailand. i saw that they killed people. i- thailand. i saw that they killed people. i don't- thailand. i saw that they| killed people. i don't like that wicked behaviour. i didn't like their cruelty against the people whom they are meant to protect. in people whom they are meant to rotect. ., , , protect. in the air, this is how the _ protect. in the air, this is how the resistance - protect. in the air, this is how the resistance is - protect. in the air, this is l how the resistance is trying protect. in the air, this is - how the resistance is trying to fight back. 25—year—old kin sen leads a group of female drone bombers. they adapt civilian drones to carry home—made bombs, and rely on public donations. translation: compared with the plane, our drone is like a inaudible. if we fly high, like 300 metres above, they don't even know that we are coming. so we can attack them effectively and they are scared of drones. but

they are scared of drones. but the military is dominating the sky, carrying out devastating attacks on civilian targets, including schools and hospitals. this is the aftermath of the bombing on a busy food market in syria. more than 30 people killed. here are bodies of ukrainian civilians, shot and burned by russian soldiers. these videos, that were posted online, show evidence of potential war crimes. but look

on the big social media platforms and you won't find them anymore. violent images are being removed for breaking rules on graphic content. but that means evidence needed to prosecute war criminals can be lost, and for good. war criminals can be lost, and for good-— for good. whether or not the social media _ for good. whether or not the social media companies - for good. whether or not the i social media companies publish it or take it down, you cannot afford to lose this material. these videos, these images, very— these videos, these images, very graphic. but it is important, because the world needs— important, because the world needs to _ important, because the world needs to know what is happening.

ten yea rs ten years ago, imad owned a pharmacy near the local market in his hometown of aleppo, syria. he was at work when a barrel bomb hit the area. it was an attack by the syrian government. imad's friends and

customers among the dead. he now lives in france. we have hidden his identity to protect his family back home. it is still hard for him to talk about what happened. he remembers a local tv company filming the attack, and had seen the footage online. years later, when applying for asylum in the eu, he looked for it again.

removed by facebook, twitter and youtube for breaking rules on graphic content, in the chaos of the country at war, the original footage was also lost. it appeared the image showing evidence of potential war crimes were missing from —— missing for good. and here lies the problem. social media companies have long been criticised for allowing easy access to distressing content. now they are increasingly cracking down swiftly to delete it, but by deleting it, evidence of crime and abuse can be lost forever. the evidence of crime and abuse can be lost forever.— be lost forever. the social media companies - be lost forever. the social media companies are - be lost forever. the social. media companies are being overcautious. they have copped a lot of criticism over the years for leaving graphic, violent stuff up. i think their instincts are to over moderate now and to take stuff down, because that seems like the

course of least resistance. most of this content is taken down by artificial intelligence, automatically finding things like violence, pornography and child abuse, and we wanted to see how it works, so we contacted a company called hive that helps companies such as facebook and reddit to monitor their programme. it searches for blood, corpse or nudity and gives a score from zero to one, a higher score meeting the machine is more confident in what it identified, and it correctly found dead bodies and our videos, correctly found dead bodies and ourvideos, like correctly found dead bodies and our videos, like these which got more than zero point nine. it is likely that this video will be removed automatically without being flagged for review, that it lacks the ability to spot human rights violations.— ability to spot human rights violations. ., _, , , violations. you could see why the had violations. you could see why they had developed _ violations. you could see why they had developed and - violations. you could see why l they had developed and trained their machines whenever they see something that looks difficult automatic, to take it down, and i think the next question for them is how do we

develop the machinery to then make more reasonable decisions? major content believes that graphic content can stay online if it is in the interests. our experiments suggest the opposite. we decided to see what the platforms would do with the videos tested instagram took down three of four within one minute, u—tube age restricted the same three but then gave us this morning ten minutes later and remove them all. there failed to upload altogether after we tried again. our appeal to restore the videos was rejected.

the videos we try to upload were from igor, from ukraine. he used to be a travel journalist, but since the russian invasion he has been documenting attacks on civilians. like this one, on a road outside kyiv. he posted the videos on facebook and

instagram, they were immediately taken down. he wanted to — immediately taken down. he wanted to share the images, to challenge the kremlin's land that the murder of civilians never happened. the russian war in ukraine has been called the most documented in history, so why does it matter that a few videos are being deleted? open source investigators say the loss of even one visual record can weaken their understanding of the whole event, whether it is in ukraine, syria or elsewhere, proving that war crimes have

been committed is incredibly hard, so getting as many sources as possible is vital. it's almost like piecing together a jigsaw puzzle, and some angle, like this one can help us understand the direction of travel of missiles, for example in some of the other videos, and you can see here with blood, the footage is here for you but for my colleagues is really important to understand how a person was wounded, and what caused the death, and the close—ups of videos can really help us determine that. in help us determine that. in order to save videos like these, some have taken it upon themselves to preserve them. this is a video of a bombing of a central hospital in ukraine. this is a video of shooting protesters in sudan.-

this is a video of shooting protesters in sudan. this is an organisation — protesters in sudan. this is an organisation based _ protesters in sudan. this is an organisation based in - protesters in sudan. this is an organisation based in berlin, i organisation based in berlin, and a small team has created a tool that quickly and automatically downloads and preserves footage from war zones before it is deleted. fin zones before it is deleted. on a daily basis, we monitor different countries for any content that is uploaded to social media. we archive this content related to different human violations, such as chemical weapons, human violations, such as chemicalweapons, ora human violations, such as chemical weapons, or a cluster munition. they have saved well over 700,000 images from war zones, before they were removed from social media. including three videos of the attack on the market in aleppo, where he mad represent two witnesses to that witnessed his friends and customers die. they can only focus on a couple of areas of conflict, leaving others to fill the gaps.—

conflict, leaving others to fill the gaps. bubble lives in the united _ fill the gaps. bubble lives in the united states _ fill the gaps. bubble lives in the united states and - fill the gaps. bubble lives in the united states and his i the united states and his family in ethiopia's northern tigray region. in recent years the country has been wracked with violence. i the country has been wracked with violence.— with violence. i knew when i was looking _ with violence. i knew when i was looking up _ with violence. i knew when i was looking up was - with violence. i knew when i | was looking up was horrible, and never looked at stuff like that before.— and never looked at stuff like that before. ., ., ~' that before. from her new york flat she spends _ that before. from her new york flat she spends her _ that before. from her new york flat she spends her spare - that before. from her new york flat she spends her spare time i flat she spends her spare time watching videos with dead bodies. it has been two years now. it bodies. it has been two years now. . , bodies. it has been two years now. ., , ., ., " bodies. it has been two years now. ., , ., ., ~ ., , now. it was hard, the work was hard, i now. it was hard, the work was hard. i spent — now. it was hard, the work was hard, i spent hours _ now. it was hard, the work was hard, i spent hours doing - hard, i spent hours doing research and so when you are seeing this content trickle in and you are trying to verify its using whatever open source intelligence tools you can get your hands on, but you don't know if your family is your hands on, but you don't know if yourfamily is ok, your hands on, but you don't know if your family is ok, it's really hard.

know if your family is ok, it's really hard-— really hard. shootings, massacres, _ really hard. shootings, | massacres, mutilation. really hard. shootings, - massacres, mutilation. all of these were saved. she says they feel compelled to document what is happening thousands of miles away as ethiopia's authorities tightly control the flow of information. bill tightly control the flow of information.— tightly control the flow of information. �* ., ., , information. all we had outside of regional _ information. all we had outside of regional and _ information. all we had outside of regional and government - of regional and government backed tv programmes that were coming out, the only glimpse in to what was going on back home was through social media. we all felt we had the responsibility to archive this information and be active online, to preserve this event, but i have seen things already get deleted and leave, and we as a community try to track videos down and we could not. when videos are deleted they pretty much become inaccessible. social media companies don't have any obligation to give them to

human rights group of lawyers, the only organisations that can demand access our law enforcement agencies but even this is not straightforward. investigators need to provide the precise url for the video they are looking for, which might be years after the incident. the complicated process in huge time involved is why the us state department's office of global criminaljustice department's office of global criminal justice says department's office of global criminaljustice says content must be preserved for years. tech companies have a role to play here and recognising and that while these wheels of justice do turn slowly but they do turn indelibly, so this could be critically important. we have already had situations in which the information that was on social media platforms such as facebook otherwise has been used as evidence in a court of law, so we need to be able to preserve this so that the potential evidentiary value demo value can lead to be mined when we have a better understanding about what happened and who might be responsible.— responsible. human rights organisation _ responsible. human rights organisation say _ responsible. human rights organisation say the -

responsible. human rights i organisation say the answers are the options to remove it or archive at. this would protect people while allowing the videos to be preserved for possible future use as evidence.— possible future use as evidence. ~ ., ., evidence. we are asking the social media _ evidence. we are asking the social media companies - evidence. we are asking the social media companies to l evidence. we are asking the - social media companies to allow for a system that international investigators could use to get access to content that has been taken down to investigate potential war crimes. activists sa the potential war crimes. activists say the mays _ potential war crimes. activists say the mays hill _ potential war crimes. activists say the mays hill - _ potential war crimes. activists say the mays hill - major- say the mays hill — major social media platforms are open to the idea but have yet to act. ~ . , to the idea but have yet to act. . ., , ., act. we have been engaging with companies _ act. we have been engaging with companies for— act. we have been engaging with companies for years _ act. we have been engaging with companies for years on _ act. we have been engaging with companies for years on this - companies for years on this topic and in these meetings they say all the right things, they say all the right things, they say all the right things, they say they are dedicated to ensuring accountability and they want their platforms to help ensure that accountability, but in reality they have not been willing to take any real tangible steps to solve this bigger problem. we asked youtube twitter and matter, the only —— owner of facebook and instagram what to think about that idea and requested an interview. they

declined. meanwhile, people affected by wars are doing what they can to ensure evidence, a history, are not lost. when i'm thinking about what does justice look when i'm thinking about what doesjustice look like, when i'm thinking about what does justice look like, it's really putting this material forward to so that we have not

forgotten about you. hello there. this fine, settled, dry and sunny spell set to continue throughout this weekend and indeed into much of next week as well. so largely dry and settled thanks to high pressure. always warmest and sunniest out towards the west, a little bit cool and cloudy at times closer to the north sea coasts but many places will stay dry bar the odd shower. the centre of our high pressure system sitting out towards the north—west of the uk, so we'll always have this east, north—easterly airflow which will be fresh over the next few days across the southeast corner,

and it will drag in low cloud into eastern england and the midlands for the early part of sunday. northern and eastern scotland also cloudy, but clearer skies further west temperatures 4—9 degrees. sunday morning starting off a little bit grey in central and eastern areas, the cloud should burn back to the coast. elsewhere plenty of sunshine, just the chance of an afternoon shower developing across scotland and northern ireland. very isolated, mind you, most places will stay dry, and again, the best of the temperatures towards the north and the west, bit cooler along north sea coasts. and then through sunday night, with that breeze in place across east—southeast england, it'll drag that low cloud back westwards across much of central, southern and eastern england, also northern and eastern scotland. clearer skies out towards the west. and temperatures again ranging from around 4—9 degrees for many of us. we do it all again to start the new week monday. a bit of a grey start central and eastern areas, that cloud slowly burning back to the coast, a bit more breeze again across the southeast, just pegging temperatures back.

the chance of an isolated shower again for scotland and northern ireland, but very isolated, most places dry. top temperatures again up to close to the mid 20s but generally the low 20s here, cooler along north sea coasts. same too for tuesday, a bit more cloud across eastern scotland, eastern england, with more of a breeze here. the best of the sunshine towards the south and the west. again, the low 20s at best but low to mid or high—teens along some north sea coasts. then some subtle changes towards the end of the week — this area of low pressure will hurtle towards our shores, throwing up some showers to southern and western areas but with a change in wind direction coming in from the south or southeast we could import some warmer air off the near continent towards the end of the week, certainly across parts of england. so many places will be dry but showers could increase across southern and western areas towards the end of the week but it'll be noticeably warming up. because that seems like the

course of least resistance.

live from washington, this is bbc news. strong words on taiwan from china's minister of defence at asia's largest security conference. if anyone does to separate taiwan from china, the chinese military will not hesitate for a second. —— dares. several activists are detained in hong kong out of the anniversary of the tiananmen square massacre. we speak with a former student leader of the 1989 protests. and borisjohnson is warned he could lose legal representation funding if he knowingly undermines the government.