we start with the developing news that russia 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. it is not clear at this time who s responsible for the blast. these are live pictures from the scene, where there is a security presence further down the street, as you can see. it has been cordoned off. but at the moment, the scene is pretty clear. let s get the latest on this. i m joined now by sergei goryashko, a journalist at bbc russian. welcome to you. tell us what more we know about this. we welcome to you. tell us what more we know about this. know about this. we already know that those who know about this. we already know that those who suffered
for bronchitis. /pheul /treu resistance against the hello and welcome to bbc world news. russia 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. it is not clear at this time who s responsible for the blast, but in the last few minutes, the russian foreign ministry has paid tribute to victim. paid tribute to victims. sergei goryashko, a journalist at bbc russian, has been giving us the latest. we do know that among those who suffered in that blast in a cafe were 25 people, according to the local authorities. there are different leads about what actually caused the blasts. and according to one of them, he has been given a bust, a sculpture of himself, ac
in the case of british men, two of whom are pictured here, who were arrested by the taliban in afghanistan earlier this year. in nomine patris, et filii, et spiritus sancti. amen. pope francis presides over palm sunday mass at the vatican just a day after leaving hospital in rome for treatment for bronchitis. russia says a pro kremlin military blogger has been killed in a blast in a cafe in st petersburg. police say several 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. it is not clear at this time who s responsible for the blast. the russian foreign ministry has paid tribute to victim. i m joined now by sergei
russia says a pro kremlin military blogger has been killed in a blast in a cafe in st petersburg. police say several 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 frontline 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. it is not clear at this time who s responsible for the blast. the russian foreign ministry has paid tribute to victim. earlier, i spoke to sergei goryashko from bbc russian who started by telling us about what is known from what happened in the cafe. minutes ago we received an update from russian state news agencies, according to their sources, a person who allegedly has given a statue, small statue to vladlen tatarsky and it is believed after that, the b
we will start in iran. politicians in iran are insisting that wearing headscarfs should be enforced rigorously they re demanding that judges enforce the law. across the country, a growing number of women are going out without hijabs in public. joining here with me is parham ghobadi from bbc persian service. just talk us through what is happening right now. why are authorities cracking down now? because of what we see is happening today in iran is that many women in big cities like tehran and other major cities, theyjust walk big cities like tehran and other major cities, they just walk around on the streets without headscarves and without hijab. without hijab, not only headscarves, for four decades iranian women had to wear to walk in the streets. now we see especially young women walking on the streets without any sort of hijab and iranian politicians and iranian dutch mic that has frustrated iranian hardliners. so the regime rigid regime is a a difficult position becaus