about the significance of the bridge being hit. it depends how quickly they repair the bridge. it is a huge symbolic setback because this bridge was mr putin s personal commitment to crimea. it opened in 2018, cost $3 billion, massively overpriced. one of his friends was in charge of the construction and he identified with this because this was a way of uniting the mainland of russia with what he took to be the mainland of crimea which was now going to be russian forever so the bridge is symbolically hugely important. in terms of logistics, the fact is, one carriageway seems to have survived this blast although it may only take light traffic and we don t know how bad the damage is to the railway grid above it. my guess is that although the russians will have a big motive to say that the bridge is reopen soon and all is fine, it will not reopen to military traffic which is very heavy so we will see how long it is before they can start to use the road and particularly the rail
have been killed in county donegal in the republic of ireland. hello and welcome. president putin has suffered an embarrassing setback in the war with ukraine, after a huge explosion on the only bridge linking russia with the crimean peninsula. the bridge partially collapsed but has now reopened to light traffic. russia annexed crimea in 2014, and after occupying these regions of ukraine in red it s managed to establish a corridor up through southern and eastern ukraine. the kerch bridge, connecting russia to the crimean peninsula in the black sea, was an important supply route for sending russian troops and artillery into ukraine. in the last few hours president putin has ordered his fsb secret service to tighten security on the peninsula. our russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports. it is the bridge the kremlin built, and it was under attack. an explosion at dawn. this was the result. russian officials claim a lorry had been blown up here and that the fire then spread t
have been killed in an explosion at a petrol station in the republic of ireland. president putin has suffered an embarrassing setback in the war with ukraine, after a huge explosion on the only bridge linking russia with the crimean peninsula. the bridge partially collapsed but has now reopened to light traffic. russia annexed crimea in 2014, and after occupying these regions of ukraine in red it s managed to establish a corridor up through southern and eastern ukraine. the kerch bridge, connecting russia to the crimean peninsula in the black sea, was an important supply route for sending russian troops and artillery into ukraine. 0ur russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports. it is the bridge the kremlin built. and it was under attack. an explosion at dawn. this was the result. russian officials claim a lorry had been blown up here and that the fire then spread to a fuel train. whatever the cause, you could see the damage. this is the bridge that links russia to annexed cr
now on bbc news.unspun world withjohn simpson hello and welcome to unspun world. this is kyiv, the centre of the city, just a fairly short time after a series of missiles have hit it. one landed here but it doesn t look to me, completely untutored, as though it s a full scale missile. this looks to me like it s a drone attack. we are in an area of the city which is mostly kind of ministries and official buildings and museums and so on, and it looks as though there was an attack on a specific car, which has just been taken away. details, we don t know any more of, but we can assume, i think, that this is part at least of russia s revenge for the attack on the kerch bridge between russia and crimea last saturday. there is a feeling that now we are at a crossroads, that there is a chance of further escalation in this war. what does president putin s good friend xijinping of china think about russia s feeble performance in this war? the government is now toning down its once very
nearly 130 people have been killed in violence after a football game on the island of java in indonesia. police say there was a stampede after about three thousand fans invaded the pitch and officers used tear gas to try to disperse them. around 180 people are being treated for their injuries in hospital and it s feared the number of deaths could rise. the indonesian president has ordered the football association to stop matches until an investigation is held. our reporter shelley phelps has more. the bbc s south east asia editorjonathan head told me more about what happened. from what i ve seen on video, it would appear that this i think we ll have to see what the investigation says but this really stems from the use of tear gas by the police. this was a very hard fought match between two teams, two cities close to each other with a long history of rivalry. indonesian football has very passionate following, sometimes turning violent, and at the end of the match, which ar