hello and welcome to the programme. we start today with russia it says a pro kremlin military blogger has been killed in a blast at a cafe in st petersburg, which is the second largest city after the capital, moscow. police say several others have been injured in the incident. vladlen tatarsky was one of a handful of reporters writing blogs on the telegram platform from the front line he was a vocal supporter of russia s war in ukraine. these are pictures before the explosion. tatarsky was a guest speaker at an event hosted by the cafe in st petersburg when the bomb went off. earlier, sergei goryashko, from bbc russian gave me this update on the story. so, for now we know that the explosion was around 6pm local time in st petersburg at a cafe where dozens of people gathered to meet vladen tatarsky and to listen to his account on the ongoing russia ukraine war. the blast went offjust after vladen tatarsky received a gift from one the visitors. he was given a statue, a smal
You are watching bbc news. Martin hibbert was left paralysed from the waist down after being injured in the Manchester Arena bomb blast. But he reached the summit of kilimanjaro in an epic five day charity climb in a specially adapted wheelchair. Bbc breakfast reported on his amazing achievement. Gentle string music i wanted something that people looked and thought, hes doing what . its hard enough for somebody with legs to do it, and heres a guy doing it in a wheelchair. It is a risk. Im putting my life on the line doing it. One, two. It was such a relief to get there. And know that wed done it. Just so proud, just so proud. Clapping and whooping thank you, thank you. Goodjob, goodjob, goodjob. Hello, hello, hello how are you doing . Im good, and ive got all of our stuff, as well. How are you . 0k . Martin hibbert has set himself an unbelievable challenge to climb the highest mountain in africa, kilimanjaro, in a wheelchair. In thejungle, the mightyjungle, the lion sleeps tonight. The
Now on bbc news, its time for a special programme. Global questions the taiwan, china conflict. Hello, welcome to global questions with me, zeinab badawi, from Liberty Square in taipei, the capital city of taiwan. The main island of taiwan lies about 160 kilometres across the waters from china. In the past few months, china has stepped up its military exercises, and fired missiles over taiwan, in growing tensions with the government here. The chinese president , xijinping, has reiterated the claim that taiwan belongs to china, and he says he does not rule out the use of force to take it over. Meanwhile, the United States, which supports taiwan, has hardened its position with President Biden saying he would send american troops to defend it. So, if china did invade taiwan, it would be a conflict with huge global dimensions, one that involves the two superpowers, the United States and china. That is global questions, taiwan, a flashpoint with china and the world . Applause welcome to the
Of Midnight Mass at the nativity church. And in his First Christmas message as monarch, king charles is to pay tribute to his mother, Queen Elizabeth ii. You are watching bbc news. Bend it like beckham 20 years on. Its not fair, the boys never have to come home and help. I wonder if i had an arranged marriage, would i get someone whod let me play football whenever i wanted . Who are you talking to . Move on up by Curtis Mayfield plays. Bend it like beckham was a huge success and it made history as the highest grossing film about football. Hush now, child. My mum probably hates the film because weve watched it that many times. There are so many elements of it that are still true today. I was like, this is me on screen. Shes found her people. Maybe i can find my people. The film actually gave me a bit of clarity on where i wanted to go with my life. Though you may find. People from marginalised communities can find themselves in it, even if its not their own culture. So, to celebrate its
Now, this, Sex Education guidance is due to be published tomorrow. But as always happens, it seems to have been leaked almost in its entirety to the press. And theres lots of different rules. So under 19 is complete ban on Sex Education. Theyre allowed to talk about under nines. Under nines. Sorry a complete ban on Sex Education. Apart from talking about nice things like families and, being nice to each other and having respect and all that, whats the most controversial thing, i guessis most controversial thing, i guess is a overall ban on teaching gender ideology, or essentially that you can change your gender . Yeah, i suppose some critics are saying that this is going to be over interpreted, and that schools are sort of going to tear books out of libraries and not not be able to say that transgender people exist, because some schools back in the days of section 28, when you werent allowed to teach that gay people existed or you werent allowed to teach lgbt issues , schools over inte