false claims about what is going on, have been in abundance. journalists have been attacked and injured, so lots to discuss around the media s role. katya adler, the bbc s europe editor is with us. we have also gotjournalists who have been out reporting for french outlets. and we have got one of the bosses of agents france press, the big news agency. but before we get into that, i want to cross to new york and start with emma tucker, the editor in chief of the wall streetjournal. one of emma s reporters, evan gershkovich, has now been imprisoned in russia for more than 100 days. the authorities accuse evan of being a spy. charges that he, the us and the wall streetjournal all deny. he 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 any 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 rus
the circumstances of his arrest back in march? well, 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 for journalists 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 m sure people listening will be interested in the check in system. were you very worried after the first non check in? is it very rare for people not to check in? it s unusual.
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 system. were you very worried after the first non check in? is it rare for people not to check in? it is unusual. and i did not like it, but i did not panic because, you know, people lose internet access, they lose their phones, they get tied up doing something, so i did not like it, but i did then panic.
in system. were you very worried after the first non check in? is it rare for people not to check in? it is unusual. and i did not like it, but i did not panic because, you know, people lose internet access, they lose their phones, they get tied up doing something, so i did not like it, but i did then panic. i did not panic, i did then start to really worry when in the afternoon i was told the second check in had been missed and at that point, we all started to worry. i went home, i went to bed, i left my phone on and i said, call me if it is bad news, and my phone went off at four o clock in the morning. i get emotional thinking about it. it is so awful. he had been arrested. for espionage. absolutely. and you have been quite categoric that the charges he was arrested on are completely baseless. totally bogus. completely. everybody denies it. we denied, the us government denies it, his family is complete. complete rubbish.
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 were recognised, 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 system. were you very worried after the first non check in? is it rare for people not to check in? it is unusual. and i did not like it, but i did not panic because,