charges that he, the us and the wall streetjournal all deny.e is the first western journalist to be detained in russia since the cold war. emma, welcome to the show. i will ask you for the latest on the situation in a moment but can you just take us back and remind people the circumstances of his arrest back in march? evan is an accredited journalist in russia. he had full accreditation from the russian foreign ministry and he was doing what he always does, he was out reporting from the ground. he was covering a story over in the east of russia and while he was out on this assignment, he failed to check with us. we have a system forjournalists operating in difficult territories, which i am sure the other journalists will recognise, whereby we asked people to check in twice a day. he missed his morning check in and then he missed again his afternoon check in and overnight, it was confirmed he had been picked up and arrested and taken back to moscow to be held there. and after the first... i am sure people will be interested in the check in syste

a rough day for his colleagues at the wall streetjournal.world, including from the bbc and its viewers. we are very grateful for that. the american ambassador saw him last week and reported that he was in decent health and spirits, so we are confident he will be all right. very hopeful this can be brought to an end soon. can you tell us anything _ brought to an end soon. can you tell us anything about _ brought to an end soon. can you tell us anything about the - tell us anything about the conditions he is facing in prison and if he is able to have regular contact with his family, his wall streetjournal family, his wall streetjournal family, also us authorities? he is in a family, also us authorities? he: is in a security services prison in the middle of moscow, a pretty infamous one that used to be used by the kgb. isolated for much of the time, he has access to books, we understand he is working out. he has only had two visits from the american embassy in 100 days, which is pretty diabolical. really a contravention of international laws. t

finally, he said he was serious about prison exchanges to free the wall streetjournal reporter who iso is being wall streetjournal reporter who is being held currently in russia. three or four of the lines that emerged from the news conference. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. let's look at some of the other stories making headlines here in the uk. new figures suggest the uk economy shrank in may, but not by as much as economists had predicted. gdp fell by 0.1% compared with the month before. analysts had forecast a bigger drop because of the extra bank holiday in may to mark the king's coronation. drivers are being urged to brace themselves for higher costs when dropping off friends and family at some of the uk's biggests airports this summer. the rac says charges for short—stay visits have risen by almost a third. operators have defended the hikes, saying the extra revenue is reinvested into services to help keep costs down for passengers. the royal veterinary college has estimated that in 2021 more than 10% of puppies bought in the uk were imported illegally. t

and then we got caught by the wall streetjournal and exposed before we had a chance to... ..for the otherdid exposed the intellectual vacuity of this captured university progressive mentality, right? not exactly. not...if it were merely vacuous, it wouldn't be that much of a problem, but it forwarded certain conclusions that were not based in rigorous epistemology, that were moral... as alan sokal, who said — who's from the original sokal project, who now lives here in london — it forwarded morally fashionable conclusions, and so we played to those morally fashionable conclusions. butjust on the research misconduct — i want to talk about that quickly. so among the charges — i think you'll like this, stephen — among the charges they brought me up on, they brought me up on plagiarism. they said that i plagiarised adolf hitler's mein kampf. it was true, i did plagiarise adolf hitler's mein kampf. i admitted in testimony, in a sworn committee, that i plagiarised adolf hitler's mein kampf, the very charge they brought me up on, and then they found me innocent. chuckles and what they did — one

in an interview with the wall streetjournal, he said he was no longer seeking to give parliament the supreme court rulings. that's angered his far—right police minister itamar ben—gvir, who accused mr netanyahu of caving in to protesters. elon musk has announced new restrictions on how many tweets users can view on twitter. posting on the platform earlier, the ceo stated that the limit stems from �*extreme levels of data scraping and system manipulation�*. going forward, the majority of users, whose accounts are unverified will only be able to view up to six—hundred posts per day and new unverified accounts will be able to view only three—hundred tweets per day. users with verified accounts will be able to read up to six—thousand posts per day. earlier in the year, musk changed the way profiles are verified by introducing a subscription scheme for any users to sign up to for a monthly fee. the bbc has contacted twitterfor a response. a space mission to try and solve some of the biggest mysteries of the universe, has launched from cape canaveral in florida. the "euclid" spacecraft wil

the wall streetjournal reports the social media giant plans to sell chinese—made goods in the us.d tikok looked to find the success enjoyed by similar platforms like shein and temu. beginning in august, according to unnamed sources, the social media platform will offer the tiktok shopping centre, an amazon—like marketplace which will allow users to go to one place to view and buy their goods. tiktok, like amazon, will act as the conduit for retailers based in china, handling all the marketing and logistics. thejournal reports that chinese suppliers will only be paid, by tiktok, afterfinding us customers. the plan is to increase the total net worth of transactions on tiktok, from $5 billion last year to $20 billion this year. but it comes as the platform faces heightened scrutiny over users data security. in april, montana became the first us state to ban the app on personal devices — and now tiktok is fighting to prevent that becoming a us—wide reality. i spoke with bill mew, global cyber ambassador for the international association of risk and crisis communication and asked him a

on thursday, the wall streetjournal reported than at least 13 senior russian officers have been detainedspended from duty or fired. japan's plan to release treated radioactive water from the fukushima nuclear plant into the pacific ocean could start any day now. the un's nuclear watchdog backed the plans last week — but there's still been concern and anger in the country and region. 0ur tokyo correspondent shaimaa khalil has sent us this report. a triple disaster that crippled the country and shocked the world. japan's most powerful earthquake triggered a tsunami that swept through the east coast, killing more than 18,000 people. and causing this — a nuclear meltdown. this is the fukushima daiichi nuclear power plant now, surrounded by tanks filled with radioactive waste water. this is what more than a million tonnes of water looks like. think 500 0lympic sized pools and that's what you get in over 1,000 tanks. this is water that's been used to cool the destroyed reactors from the fukushima nuclear meltdown in 2011. the water is treated and then stored here, but now these tanks are runni

the wall streetjournal reported tuesday that the platform intends to develop to compete with other onlineurces, the social media platform will offer an amazon—like marketplace, the tiktok shopping centre, which will allow users to go to one place to view and buy their goods. tik tok, like amazon, will act as the conduit for retailers based in china. handling all the marketing and logistics. the journal reports that chinese suppliers will only be paid, by tiktok, afterfinding us customers. the plan is to increase the total net worth of transactions on tik tok, from $5 billion last year to $20 billion this year. joining me now is technology and digital marketing expert, dan sodergren. thank you for coming on the program. it is tiktok well suited to the sort of venture?— of venture? well, tiktok has got something _ of venture? well, tiktok has got something like _ of venture? well, tiktok has got something like 1.5 _ of venture? well, tiktok has got something like 1.5 billion - of venture? well, tiktok has got something like 1.5 billion users. | something like 1.5 billion users. it's been do

in an interview with the wall streetjournal, he said he was no longer seeking to give parliament theahu of caving in to protesters. a space mission to try and solve some of the biggest mysteries of the universe, has launched from cape canaveral in florida. the "euclid" spacecraft will make a 3d map of the cosmos to help scientists understand the nature of dark matter and dark energy. our science editor, rebecca morelle reports. three, two, one. heading into space to solve some of the most profound cosmic mysteries. the european space agency's euclid spacecraft is on its way. what we can see in the cosmos makes up a tiny fraction of what's really there. euclid will aim to shed light on what's called the dark universe. the challenge is we can't see it and scientists don't really know what it is. it's just like trying to set off on a ship before people knew where land was in different directions. now we're just trying to map out the universe and try and understand where we fit into it and how we've got here. the spacecraft will be making a vast 3—d map of the cosmos. it's trying to unde

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we're joined now by deborah ball — she's deputy world editor at the wall streetjournal. thank you veryindeed for coming on the programme this evening. what can you tell us about kevin's state of mind at the moment and where he is being held? 50 he is bein: held and where he is being held? 50 he is being held at — and where he is being held? 50 he is being held at the _ and where he is being held? 50 he is being held at the prison _ and where he is being held? so he is being held at the prison in _ and where he is being held? so he is being held at the prison in moscow, | being held at the prison in moscow, the fsp's mean prison. we have... he is doing as well as can be expected, from what we understand commits 100 days as of today that he has been detained. he receives letters and care packages from his family and friends from all of us in the newsroom as well. he reads a lot, he's able to write back out, he has some personal items, but he is in a small cell with a cell—mates, so clearly it's a difficult situation for him. . ., clearly it's a difficult situation for him. _, , ., clearl