hello and welcome to the programme. we start today with russia. it says a pro kremlin military blogger has been killed in a blast in a cafe in st petersburg. police say 16 others have been injured in the incident. the city is the second largest in russia after the capital, moscow. vladlen tatarsky was one of a handful of reporters writing blogs on the telegram platform from the front line and 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. i m joined now by sergei goryashko, journalist at bbc russian. thank you so much forjoining us on the programme. i know information is coming in fast and fluid but if you could talk us through what we know at this point. for could talk us through what we know at this point- at this point. for now we know that the explosion at this point. for now we know that the explosion was at this point. for
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furniture that floyd home dot com. good morning, everyone we do begin with breaking news this morning. hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield and we start with dramatic video from st petersburg, russia, showing an explosion at a cafe that reportedly killed a prominent russian military blogger. officials say at least 25. others were injured, six of them in critical condition and you can see the blast causing part of the outside of that building. to collapse. cnn s matthew chance is in russia. matthew what more can you tell us about this blogger and the circumstances of his death now? yeah flat. lynn to toschi is his name and he s one of russia s most prominent military bloggers , which means he s pro war has got more than half a million followers on his telegram channel, and he is notoriously outspoken. shall we say about the need for russia to do even more in ukraine to go in harder ? he was swept to notoriety after he appeared in one