shooting on christmas eve say her family needs answers about her death. and more than 20 years in the making, how a group of retired aviation enthusiasts built a first world war plane from scratch. we begin in the us, where a congressional committee has released former president trump s tax returns, covering a six year period. donald trump had battled for years to keep the documents secret, taking the case to the supreme court, which last month approved their disclosure to the democrat controlled house of representatives. i m joined now by our washington correspondent gary o donoghue. just correspondent gary o donoghue. tell us more abol release, just tell us more about this release, because this is something, as we say, that donald trump had fought against for a long time. yeah, he had been fighting against this particular mover by this congressional committee since 2019. but of course, it goes back much further, right from 2015 when he announced his candidacy, he refused to
similar control measures. hello and welcome to bbc news. ukraine has been struck by a fresh barrage of russian missiles targeting several major cities. ukrainian authorities said more than 120 missiles had been launched at the population and civilian infrastructure. several cities from kyiv in the north, odesa in the south, kharkiv in the east and lviv in the west have been hit. the mayor of lviv says the city has lost about 90% of its electricity. earlier, ukraine s military intelligence chief said fighting is at a deadlock with neither ukraine nor russia able to make significant advances. and we can speak to hugo now. over to you. yes, the head of the ukrainian military intelligence agency said the situation of the ground was stuck because neither russia nor ukraine can make significant advances, and for weeks we been talking about have how fighting has been concentrated around the eastern city of bakhmut in the donetsk region, but across the front line we have not seen maj
you can get all the latest on our website. you are watching bbc news. now, time for the travel show. hello and welcome to this very special edition of the show, coming to you from the spectacular valley of the kings here in luxor in egypt. if you were watching last week, you d have seen me unearthing the story of how tutankhamun s tomb was discovered here 100 years ago this year. well, it s such a breathtaking location that we thought we d stick around for a while to bring you this our best bits of 2022. well, from the baking sun of here in egypt, let s switch to the snow of switzerland where, back in march, carmen got to experience a horse race like no other where the jockeys don t need saddles. they use skis. this is st moritz in the swiss alps. it s the place, so they say, where the concept of the winter holiday was born. it also occupies a unique place in sporting history. it s where the bobsleigh was created, but skijoring is an even stranger sporting event than that
city of kherson, president zelensky says air strikes will not diminish the spirit of ukrainians. hello and welcome to bbc news. king charles has used his first christmas message to reflect on the cost of living crisis. he spoke of the great anxiety and hardship for those struggling to pay their bills and keep theirfamilies fed and warm . the king also paid tribute to his mother queen elizabeth, who is buried in st george s chapel where the king delivered his speech. our royal correspondent nick witchell was listening to the speech and earlier he gave us his verdict. there is, i think, a strong sense of social awareness in this christmas broadcast. to put it in context, a long history of a broadcast at christmas time by the monarch, going right back to the 1930s when king george v started on radio, and queen elizabeth took it up on television in the 1950s. this broadcast, the first by king charles, was recorded in st george s chapel at windsor, close to the spot where queen
ukrainians spirits. pope francis has called for an immediate end to the war in ukraine during his christmas day message. he was speaking in front of thousands of worshippers gathered in saint peter s square in the vatican. you are watching bbc news.now it s time for click. rock version of we wish you a merry christmas plays. well, ho. ho! ..hoand. both: merry clickmas! it s the first one from our new glasgow base, so we are here in the middle of pacific quay in the studio. yoo hoo! good, innit? and we ve got all of the latest tech decks. low carbon log fire. ..cgi baubles. ..and sustainable signage. now, this is our last show of 2022 and i think we can all agree it s been a year, hasn t it? it s been a year. here we go. so he s doing the launch sequence now. ten. nine. seven. six. five, four, three, two, one. launching. whoa! i started it with the maddest idea i ve heard of in ages launching satellites into space by throwing them into orbit. right. eating on camera is alwa