paul adams, bbc news.h has been banned from all academy events or programmes for ten years after he hit the comedian chris rock at the oscars. it happened after mr rock made a joke about will smith's wife, jada pinkett smith. less than an hour after the incident, mr smith was given the best actor award. he has since apologised for his actions and has already resigned from the academy. so what does this ban by the academy mean in practice? clayton davis is senior awards editor at variety. in practice it doesn't mean much. in terms of, he can't attend the academy awards ceremony, can't go to any sponsored events, any screenings, can't receive any screeners through the academy platform. however he can still be nominated, he can still win an academy award over the next decade, so it hasn't really imposed anything too much in that regard. but there is still a lot of questions that surround the events of that evening, and how the academy and will smith have handled the situation. tell us more about that, because

paul adams, bbc news.iktor orban, has claimed victory in a fourth consecutive general election. his right wing populist party had been challenged by an alliance of six opposition parties. in his victory speech, mr orban criticised brussels bureaucrats and ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky, calling them "opponents". president putin has congratulated mr orban for his win. our correspondent nick thorpe is in budapest for us. can you fill us in? what happened, an enormous _ can you fill us in? what happened, an enormous victory _ can you fill us in? what happened, an enormous victory for _ can you fill us in? what happened, an enormous victory for viktor - an enormous victory for viktor orban. 53%, 35%, an 18% margin of victory. viktor orban's biggest ever election victory. he has been in power in hungary for 16 of the last 32 years. why did it happen? i think there are two real reasons. viktor orban presented a simple but coherent narrative to the electorate, especially in the countryside because after a

paul adams bbc news.or more on the situation inside ukraine i have been speaking with our correspondent dan johnson. there is more heavy military equipment on its way to ukraine. is it enough and what are you hearing from everyday ukrainians about whether they feel supported? dan: we know the ukrainian leadership have been crying out for more weapons. they said the priority was weapons, weapons and more weapons. we have seen the slovakian prime minister visit kyiv today with the e.u. commission resident, ursula von der leyen. he is sending air missiles to reinforce the ukrainian air defenses which have been damaged during the earlier stages of this invasion. we have also seen more support pledged by the british government and other european nations. some directly sending heavy military kit, some promising money to purchase more equipment. there has been talk of things like former warsaw pact countries offering their military equipment which shares more technology with what ukrainians are using and those n

paul adams, bbc news. another development on the war, it's currently the top story on our website. western officials say they believe russia is shaking up its military leadership in ukraine, with alexander dvornikov who commanded russian forces in syria given overall charge. you can get more on that on our website and app. where you'll also find our live page, updated around the clock with the very latest news lines as they happen. the actor will smith has been banned from all academy events or programmes for 10 years after he hit the comedian chris rock at the oscars. it happened after mr rock made a joke about will smith's wife, jada pinkett smith. less than an hour after the incident, mr smith was given the best actor award. he has since apologised for his actions and has already resigned from the academy. entertainmentjournalist perez hilton gave me his reaction to the ban. well, i think that the academy and board of governors who decided to ban will smith for a decade did what little they could do. yo

paul adams, bbc news.ornobyl former nuclear power site was occupied by russian troops, but is now back in ukrainian hands. there were concerns the plant may have been damaged in fighting. 0ur correspondent, yogita limaye, is one of the first journalists to reach the site, north of the capital kyiv, since russian forces left. access to chornobyl has onlyjust opened up on an off—road track. the bridge to it was destroyed to stop the russian advance. this is the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, among the first parts of ukraine to be captured when russia invaded. "they surrounded us with tanks and there were aircraft flying overhead", security officer petro says. russian forces broke into monitoring and control stations. electricity was cut off for a few days — a major threat. translation: we store nuclear waste. if we'd lost power, it would have been catastrophic. radioactive material could have been released. i wasn't really worried for my life, i was scared of what would happen if i wasn't here.

paul adams, bbc news. i'm joined now by ukrainian mp, inna sovsun. thank you forjoining us. this attack on the railway station in kramatorsk. {iii railway station in kramatorsk. of course, we are in shock. 50 people died, what we know as of right now, and 100 more are in hospital, severely wounded. many of them have their hands or legs blown off so we expect the number could be bigger. four victims are children. and we are still learning about the exact number of victims. we know for sure that the russians were specifically targeting this railway station. they knew people were trying to evacuate. we did hear some news on social media saying that for those that we care about, please do not use the railway tomorrow, it wouldn't be safe, so they were planning this attack. and they specifically targeted an area where 4000 people were trying to run away from them. that is considered an other war crime they have committed on ukraine's territory. in crime they have committed on ukraine's territory.— ukraine's territory. in the past number of _ ukraine's territory. in the past numbe

paul adams, bbc news.general with extensive experience in syria has been put in charge of moscow's operations in ukraine. general alexander dvornikov has been given the job of improving co—ordination between russia's forces. commentators say they expect new offensives in the south and the east of ukraine "sooner rather than later". and you can find out more on that story on our website and app, where you'll also find our live page, updated around the clock with the very latest news lines as they happen. in other news: the hollywood actor will smith has been banned from all academy events or programmes for 10 years after he hit the comedian chris rock at the oscars. it happened after mr rock made a joke about will smith's wife, jada pinkett smith. less than an hour after the incident, mr smith was given the best actor award. he has since apologised for his actions and has already resigned from the academy. entertainmentjournalist perez hilton gave me his reaction to the ban. well, i think that the academy a

paul adams, bbc news.mer nuclear power site was occupied by russian troops but is now back in ukrainian hands. there were concerns the plant may have been damaged in fighting. 0ur correspondent yogita limaye is one of the first journalists to reach the site, north of the capital kyiv, since russian forces left. access to chornobyl has onlyjust opened up on an off—road track. the bridge to it was destroyed to stop the russian advance. this is the site of the world's worst nuclear disaster, among the first parts of ukraine to be captured when russia invaded. "they surrounded us with tanks and there were aircraft flying "overhead", security officer petro says. russian forces broke into monitoring and control stations. electricity was cut off for a few days — a major threat. translation: we store nuclear waste. _ if we'd lost power, it would have been catastrophic. radioactive material could have been released. i wasn't really worried for my life, i was scared of what would happen if i wasn't here. it's not po

paul adams, our diplomatic correspondent. thanks. pauladams, our diplomatic correspondent.ies. the former radio i dj tim westwood is facing multiple allegations of sexual misconduct by women who say he abused his position in the music industry. the 6a—year—old is accused of predatory and unwanted sexual behaviour and touching in incidents between 1992 and 2017. the bbc and the guardian newspaper have heard detailed accounts from seven women in a joint investigation. their identities have been protected. tim westwood strenuously denies all the allegations. our correspondent chi chi izundu has this report. this is not about music now, and i'm just very, very scared. this is predatory behaviour. i was 17. if you are trying to remove an item of my clothing and i put it back on, that means i don't want it to be gone _ this is the story from a group of women. this was an assault. an abuse of power. seven women, who alleged they had been subjected to unexpected unwanted sexual behaviour from the former bbc radio1 dj, tim westwood. it's westwood. we are live on bbc two. this is how

paul adams, bbc news.colleague clive myrie spoke to the ukrainian prime minister, denys shmyhal. he first asked about the killing of civilians in the town of bucha. it was something terrible, absolutely terrible, and i can't even imagine that these crimes, this terrible thing can happen in the 21st century in my country near kyiv, 16—20 km from here. it's just terrible feeling inside. and now it's a game changer for all over the world, fair absolutely i think every person who will see those photos, those video pictures will change the minds and thinking and understanding russia's crimes here in ukraine. did you expect that kind of thing to happen? absolutely not. even after the invasion? before the war and even after the invasion, it was absolutely impossible to imagine such kinds of crimes which violte humankind, i can't even imagine this. terrible things. they raped children, girls, women, they killed civilians, they burned them, absolutely. so how do you explain it to? given that the reason moscow says

paul adams, bbc news.ident a little later in this bulletin. in other news: a former goldman sachs banker in new york has been found guilty of corruption and laundering money from the malaysian government's investment fund, imdb. roger ng helped embezzle hundreds of millions of dollars from the fund and bribed officials to win business for goldman. the guilty verdict marks the latest chapter in one of the biggest financial scandals of recent decades. let's go to europe now. latest polling suggests the french president emmanuel macron isjust 2 percentage points ahead of his main rival, the far—right candidate marine le pen, as france prepares to vote in the first round of its presidential election on sunday. there are nine candidates, mr macron and ms le pen the favourites to win the most votes and go through to a deciding run—off vote in two weeks' time. 0ur correspondent lucy williamson reports from the campaign trail. he won the presidency last time by standing out from the crowd. five years on, emmanuel

paul adams, bbc news.t time, whole districts have been destroyed, there's possible evidence of war crimes being committed, and more than ten million people have been forced to leave their homes. the war is transforming the nation. jeremy bowen has been reporting on the conflict for more than a month, and he's sent us this report. a warning, it does contain, some upsetting scenes. this man went back to the place where his daughter was killed. the war has changed everything for ukrainians. translation why did you burn her? these ashes, he says, are all that's left. she was a doctor, his only child. she was picking up medicines at a humanitarian centre when it was destroyed in one of russia's last attacks before the retreat from kyiv. in early march, the expectation was a russian advance into the capital. not a withdrawal. to escape it, thousands crossed into kyiv over the ruins of a bridge the ukrainians had destroyed to slow the russians down. 11 million people, about a quarter of ukraine's population, have

paul adams, thank ou.toring teams have examined those russian claims that the bucha shootings were "faked". you can read our analysis at bbc.co.uk/realitycheck a man has pleaded guilty to the murder of 18—year—old bobbi—anne mcleod. she disappeared near her home in plymouth last november. her body was found in woodland a few miles away, three days later. 24—year—old cody ackland was charged with her murder. live now to our correspondent, jenny kumah, outside plymouth crown court. a number of friends and family of bobbi—anne mcleod attended court today. those in the public gallery were visibly moved during the hearing. cody ackland came to the dock flanked by officers, wearing blue jeans and a dock flanked by officers, wearing bluejeans and a greyjumper, speaking only to confirm his name and date of birth and when he was asked to enter a plea he pleaded guilty to murder. thejudge asked to enter a plea he pleaded guilty to murder. the judge said asked to enter a plea he pleaded guilty to murder. thejudge sai

paul adams, bbc news. from all academy events or programmes for 10 years after he hit the comedian chris rock at the oscars. it happened after mr rock made a joke about will smith's wife, jada pinkett smith. less than an hour after the incident, mr smith was given the best actor award. he has since apologised for his actions and has already resigned from the academy. we can now speak to clayton davis who's senior awards editor at variety. he joins us from los angeles. thank you for being with us. as we said, will smith has resigned from the academy, this ban imposed by the board lasts ten years, what does it mean in practice? in ten years, what does it mean in ractice? , . practice? in practice it doesn't _ practice? in practice it doesn't mean - practice? in practice it doesn't mean much. l practice? in practice it| doesn't mean much. in practice? in practice it - doesn't mean much. in terms practice? in practice it _ doesn't mean much. in terms of, he can't attend the academy award ceremony, can't go to

paul adams, bbc news.laims have been continually denied by russia. here's the foreign minister sergei lavrov speaking this morning. translation: recently another fake attack was carried _ translation: recently another fake attack was carried out _ translation: recently another fake attack was carried out in _ translation: recently another fake attack was carried out in the - translation: recently another fake attack was carried out in the city - attack was carried out in the city of bucha in the key of region, a fake attack was staged there a few days later, and it has been fermented on all channels and social media by ukrainian representatives. the russian armed forces completely withdrew from bucha on march 30. on march 31, they can be maximally said he had everything in order, and two days later we saw the stage and organised in the streets. they are now trying to live lives that for anti—russian purposes. —— they are now trying to leverage that for anti—russian purposes. the mayor of mariupol has been

our diplomatic correspondent, paul adams, has more on russia's strategy.asion was premised on a quick assault of the capital and the installation of a puppet regime. that engine work, so the focus shifted to the donbas, extending those areas held by pro—russian separatists and securing that land corridor. that's why mariupol is so important. but you still do get glimpses of wider ambitions. you had a russian generaljust wider ambitions. you had a russian general just today talking about southern ukraine, created an even longer court or to another area in moldova. i think given russia's setbacks, that seems like a rather distant prospect. if the assault goes well... for ukraine, just repelling russia's advances in the west is hurling new and heavier weaponry back to where we were on february the 24th. it would reap all —— it would involve taking a lot of territory. thanks to paul for that analysis. a lawyer for the russian opposition politician vladimir kara—murza says he has beenjailed. he was convicted of spreading false information about russia's militar

our diplomatic correspondent paul adams is here.r of this well over 50 days so far of this conflict. what might success look like for either ukrainians or vladimir putin? i like for either ukrainians or vladimir putin?— like for either ukrainians or vladimir putin? ~ ., , , ., vladimir putin? i think for russia, clearly success _ vladimir putin? i think for russia, clearly success has _ vladimir putin? i think for russia, clearly success has been - vladimir putin? i think for russia, | clearly success has been redefined almost every day. the invasion was premised on a quick assault on the capital, removal of the zelinsky government and the installation of a puppet regime. that didn't work, so focus shifted to the donbas, extending areas held by pro—russian separatist and east and securing the land corridorfrom separatist and east and securing the land corridor from the separatist and east and securing the land corridorfrom the donbas to crimea, which russia annexed in 2014. that is why mariupol is so important. you still get glimpse

let's speak to our diplomatic correspondent paul adams who is in west london.ainst one of the largest russian banks. —— sergey lavrov. there is an end to investment of the uk into russia and an end of import of all russian coal and oil by 2022 ending which is a debate raging in europe where the eu is likely to ban imports of russian coal, too, but are struggling, both with oil and gas, which are much bigger issues. as far as nato is concerned, we have this meeting taking place today, what are they discussing and what other options? this what are they discussing and what other options?— other options? this is a regular s-urin other options? this is a regular spring meeting _ other options? this is a regular spring meeting of _ other options? this is a regular spring meeting of nato - other options? this is a regular spring meeting of nato foreign | spring meeting of nato foreign ministers but completely overshadowed and dominated by events in ukraine. you could say in a way this week has been dominated by what you could call the bucha effect, those things that a

paul: eric adams ran on an anti-crime platform, i think it's the reason he won.what's to going wrong, jillian? whyen can't he do anything? >> yeah, i think it's undoing bill de blasio's policies which caused an extraordinary amount of damage on this city over the course of his eight years. right now you're dealing with a police force that's very demoralized. they're felt for years like they don't have political support. you've got a system of prosecutors and judges that subscribe to social justice ideas that are soft on crime, and it's a really difficult situation to try to confront, and it's going to take some time. paul kim, are we seeing a political backlash here where democrats are looking at this and going, uh-oh, we're in trouble and we gotta back away from the defund the police or attacks on the police? >> yeah, you're seeing that everywhere. and at philadelphia those numbers that you described, i think, were very, very notable not just the mayor there proposing new raises for the police department, you have city council members who are putting out their o

with me is our diplomatic correspondent paul adams. who could look at those images coming out of bucha, and i imagine the address that president zelensky will give at the un will be incredibly powerful. i the un will be incredibly powerful-— the un will be incredibly powerful. the un will be incredibly owerful. ~ , , powerful. i think this will be a hiuhl powerful. i think this will be a highly emotionally - powerful. i think this will be | a highly emotionally charged affair, his foreign minister said yesterday, to anyone who was doubting whether the international community should take further action, whether it is severing russian banks from the international swift system, or country should carry on buying russian oil and gas, he said, just go to the mass graves in bucha and ask yourselves what you should do. an incredibly powerful argument, the ukrainians know it, and they are clearly going to use it as much as possible, you know, with the future of their country hanging in the balance, why wouldn't they? i think it is going to be a

>> david hackett fisher's book on paul revere i loved a lot, i liked the dual biography of adams, i really liked a lot, one of the important history books because it reminds us of these adversaries becoming friends and dying obviously on the same day, fourth of july. but their correspondence, i think there's an argument to be made that the adams/jefferson letters are also foundational documents in the sense that we're going to go at each other every four years, party system, we have to bury the hatchet. and you see jimmy carter and gerald ford becoming very close. you see george w. bush and bill clinton becoming close. they're consciously becoming close. they're making a larger statement to the public. but jefferson, with expansion, and books on the louisiana purchase, and jefferson as a writer and botanist, jefferson's being a slave owner, and washington, now reading about that, realizing that there needs to be more emphasis to look at slave-owning presidents, and what does that mean. you know, it's a very fertile field, presidential history. but i write on the 20th century. i've never wr

paul revere. i like to a lot. i loved gordon wood spot dual biography of jefferson and adams really liked that a lot. i think it's one of the more important history books because they reminds us of these adversaries becoming friends and dying obviously on the same day fourth of july, but their correspondence, i think there's an argument me to be made that the atoms jefferson letters are almost foundational documents in the sense that we're going to go at each other every four years party system. we've got to bury the hatchet and you see jimmy carter and joe ford becoming very close. you see george w bush and bill clinton becoming close. they're consciously becoming close they're making a larger statement to the public but jefferson with expansion and books on the on the louisiana purchase. jefferson as a writer in botanist, you know, jefferson's being a slave owner and his they and ann washington now reading about that realizing that there needs to be more emphasis to look at slave owning presidents. and what does that mean? you know, it's a very fertile field presidential history. right on the 20th

adams. talks about homelessness but he said that the subway system is doomed for failure. i don't know where that comes from. maybe it goes to his mental state. >> paulthink it does. i think we tend to like to put these things into very neat buckets. this person is driven by this, this person is driven by that. what you very often find is a hodgepodge of motivations and ideologies that are meshed together. this feels to me from what i've seen, that he is a consumer of a lot of the media that's out there. he's probably spending a lot of time online. we had a similar case with a guy named dale thompson who you might remember. he attacked cops with a hatchet. this guy had a hatchet. my sense is that he's looking at a lot of stuff online. he's piecing together a personal ideology that fed into some gripes. all of this by the way, is assuming that this is the guy. right. it does look like they are focused on him for specific reasons. i think you're going to find that his motivations are likely going to be personal. failures in his life, some sort of slipping down quality to his life. he was triggered by something. maybe trouble at work or something. >> da

in the fall 1 rand paul was spend for pushing a video discussing effectiveness of masks, concerns of left-wing media organizations on line, off-line dangerously misplayed eric adams go after people who don't fall in line with left wing orthodoxy even if mayor adams called it out they are not going to crack down, on actual violence let me remind people twitter youtube among social media companies they isis to post videos of be heedings atrocities for recruitment purposes didn't take them down until they got called out on it but they are worried about somebody talking about masks or donald trump. they will shut you o down if you do that. >> tried that every sunday on "sunday morning futures" youtube look at "sunday morning futures," sunday morning program always issues on youtube edited out stuff changed wording crazy things that i have winced on youtube that is why enter elon musk trying to get into situation change things by saying that he wants to acquire the entire company of twitter. for 43 billion dollars. we are waiting to hear from twitter management, in the a response, to this sec filing from elon musk, and whether or not this is going to actually change t