macroeconomics this is bbc news. the headlines: prince harry wins his phone hacking case — and is awarded £140,000 in damages. he describes it — as �*a great day for truth�*. what now for ukraine — after hungary's prime minister blocks a $55 billion eu aid package — and threatens to pull the handbrake�* on future payments.

a un report says the taliban is sending female abuse survivors to prison — because shelters have closed. let's turn now to the war in ukraine — because hungary has blocked more than $50 billion in eu aid for ukraine, hours after agreement was reached on starting membership talks with kyiv. after late—night negotiations, the hungarian prime minister victor orban posted on social media: he then left for the night. speaking to reporters, charles michel — the president of the european council — focused instead on what he saw as a positive — the opening of those membership talks with both ukraine and moldova. he added that the eu would attempt to reach a unanimous decision on aid to ukraine next year. i spoke earlier to oleksander merezhko, a member of ukraine's parliament and head of foreign affairs committee. we started from the reaction

to the aid being blocked by hungary. first of all, we are happy to start negotiations on ukraine's accession to the european union but unfortunately the decision to block aid we desperately need right now when ukraine is bleeding during the war, this is a bad sign, but i'm sure that this mistaken decision will be corrected as soon as possible. it comes off the back of a similar blockage in washington. just hand on heart, how nervous are politicians and people there in ukraine that perhaps countries in the west are beginning to waver? first of all, i think, i am sure that the aid from the united states and from the european union will continue. there are several reasons to be optimistic.

first of all, there were a number of statements, strong statements of unwavering support on ukraine made by the president of the united states, made by republicans, democrats and made by the leadership of the european union. the second reason to be hopeful is that it is in the best national interests of the united states, for instance, to support ukraine to continue to provide us with the necessary weapons. because as president biden put it, it's the best investment in american security. i'm just going to put onto the screen pictures from only a few days ago when president zelensky actually met viktor orban in the setting of the inauguration of argentina's new president. it is mute, there is no sound on the video. do you happen to know what your president said to viktor orban? actually it was a very impressive video and there were many guesses what our president said.

but our president later said that he asked him a very simple question. given me at least one reason why the european union shouldn't start. —— give me at least one reason why the negotiations for ukraine's accession to the european union shouldn't start. i understand judging by this picture, judging by this video, viktor orban had absolutely no convincing answer. he was at a loss, or at least he looked taken aback by the question of our president. so he directly confronted him about that. let's go back to the aid issue. because it is so crucial, so many people have said that, including your president. in terms of military help, ammunition, all those sorts of things, tanks, how much supplies do ukraine have when there is this blockage in the pipeline for more? well, we are in desperate need,

especially when it comes to shells, to ammunition. because let's not forget that we are fighting against a huge superpower which has more than enough. we are outgunned basically and outnumbered by russian troops. that's why in order to save lives in soldiers and civilians we need enough munitions. we were promised 1 million shells to be provided by the european union but unfortunately so far we have not received yet most of these shells. while russia has received 1 million shells from north korea. just briefly, factually, do you have any sort of timeline how much your supplies last for before you need all of those stocks to be replenished from the west? we don't have such deadlines but unfortunately we have to be very economical to save, for example, shells.

but in our case it's a matter of life and death. you are having to decide already... sorry to cut across you, you're having to decide when to use shells and when to not use them because you don't have enough? we don't have enough shells, it is true, because russia has more and they can afford to bombard us, to fight with more quantity of shells. this is true. but, you know, we will be fighting even without having enough weaponry because we have no choice. a final brief question, we heard vladimir putin in the news conference say yesterday he was winning the war. his strategy seems quite clear, draw this out,

hopefully the west splinters, trump perhaps comes in in the next presidential election. that may be a strategy. what is the counter strategy from ukraine? our counter strategy is to continue to fight, to continue to first of all reinforce our defence and of course we rely on the support of our closest friends and allies. but you know, our strategy is not to have negotiations, peace talks, because it makes no sense, and to continue to fight no matter what at all costs because again we don't have any other choice but to fight tooth and nail. 26 people were injured in a grenade attack in ukraine. these are the dramatic pictures released by the national police of ukraine showing the members of the attack. reuters is reporting no one in the room was killed but a man, deputy of the british council, enters a meeting room and takes grenades out of his pockets. there is obvious fear and

panic in the room before the grenades actually explode. goodness, those are extraordinary pictures. the first time i've seen them. extra ordinary pictures released by the police in ukraine, local media report not surprisingly that the security service is now investigating. those pictures reaching us in the last little while. let's return to a separate question from bbc verify. a tiktok has been looked at in terms of whole account that was being run by the russians in terms of fake information. bbc verify has been looking at that and has done a long

investigation. apologies for that, just as i started to read that piece, it seems to have disappeared. so apologies for that. we will try and re—establish that report and return to it in the next little while. while we wait for that, let's turn to a separate story because parents of children whose deaths were linked to social media and the internet have accused the government of watering down online safety legislation. the proposed new law will be debated in parliament next week. our chief political correspondent henry zeffman has this report. correspondent henry zeffman has this re ort. , u, correspondent henry zeffman has this re ort. , h, ,., , report. very caring soul, he put other peeple — report. very caring soul, he put other people first. _ report. very caring soul, he put other people first. we never . report. very caring soul, he put - other people first. we never thought he was in danger. brad other people first. we never thought he was in danger.— he was in danger. brad was clever, helful, he was in danger. brad was clever, helpful, looked _ he was in danger. brad was clever, helpful, looked after— he was in danger. brad was clever, helpful, looked after his _ he was in danger. brad was clever, helpful, looked after his triplet - helpful, looked after his triplet siblings— helpful, looked after his triplet siblings and he was my right—hand mart _ siblings and he was my right-hand man. , . ., , , man. the bereaved families. they were in the _ man. the bereaved families. they were in the house _ man. the bereaved families. they were in the house of—

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abroad. bbc verify�*s olga robinson has the story. bbc verify has uncovered a major propaganda campaign involving thousands of tiktok accounts. their videos pushing disinformation about the war in ukraine as some have had of views. ——have had millions of views. let's take a closer look at some of these accounts. many of them use photos of celebrities like that of ian mckellen or scarletjohansson to pose as ordinary users from germany, israel, ukraine, france and poland, and in some cases they use some stolen profile pictures over and over again. now, they have no personal information on their accounts, as you can see here, and most of them only ever posted one video. tiktok told me this is a tactic they have not seen before and some experts say the approach appears to be tailored to the platform's unique algorithm. because they're not necessarily trying to get followers for those accounts because of the unique way

that tiktok pushes out content. perhaps the sort of single serving effort is a way to avoid detection of any individual account, whilst still having your content up there on the platform. so how do we know these accounts are part of a russian propaganda effort? firstly, the content. all of the accounts we found promote propaganda about ukraine that echoes russian state tv. like this video that went viral earlier this year injuly. it claims that the daughter of former ukrainian defence minister oleksii reznikov bought a luxury villa in france. i spoke to anastasiya shteinhauz and asked her if this was true. unfortunately, no! laughter i still don't have it either in great britain or france or anywhere, not in ukraine. we also traced the property pictures to this real estate website. and the agent confirmed to me it is still for sale, as you can see here. now, there are also linguistic mistakes typical of russian speakers.

for example, in this french video the name of the british officials, james heappey has been misspelled as hippie. in russian one letter e is used for both short and long e sounds and that suggests that the person writing the script was likely working off a russian cyrillic translation. we know this was likely to be a co—ordinated effort because the accounts often use identical scripts, like these two videos that were posted on the same day. the visuals are different, but the text is the same. we reported nearly 800 of these accounts to tiktok, who confirmed to us that they were part of a major influence operation originating in russia. they say they have now removed more than 12,000 fake accounts. we still don't know who exactly in russia is behind the network, but i am continuing to find evidence of new accounts that appear to be

part of the same operation. tiktok told us they were continuing to monitor the situation, and so will we. olga robinson from bbc verify reporting there. a new report by the un has shed more light on the suppression of women in afghanistan and says that the taliban government has started sending female abuse survivors to prison because state—sponsored shelters have been closed. gender—based violence against afghan women and girls has been on the rise since the taliban retook power in 2021. heather barr is from human rights watch and gave me this reaction. this report documents what afghan women have known ever since august 15th, 2021, which is that one of the first things the taliban did after they took over was to dismantle the whole system that had been put in place

by the government and ngos to respond to violence against women. it took them a bit longer but after that they largely dismantled the legal system. and so there's been more attention to banning girls from education and women from work but this is an important piece, too, of their systemic deprivation of the rights of women and girls and that crackdown is continuing and getting worse as we speak. taliban officials have said they would ask male members of the family to make "a commitment not to harm women survivors of abuse." even when i read that out, that seems absolutely extraordinary. the taliban have sent a very clear message that women are the property of their male family members. they have also said that if women go out and are not dressed as the taliban thinks they should be they will punish the male family members rather than the women themselves. so women are in this situation where their male family members

are really being seen by the taliban as their owners and their keepers. it's an impossible situation for them. they have been waiting a long time for the international community to respond appropriately to this very serious crisis, which is the worst situation for women in the world right now. i'll come back to that thought in a moment but shelters have been closed, are there any sort of safe spaces for women left? one safe space that existed until a couple of months ago was beauty salons, that might sound silly but it was one of the only spaces where women could go and speak to other women, get advice, perhaps get some kind of protection. the taliban closed them about three months ago at a cost of 60,000 jobs for women and also the loss of one of the only spaces left where women could get help from other women. that was heather barr from human rights watch talking to me early on

the programme. it was a long interview and we will play more of that on our next edition of verified live. more on that story coming up. you're watching bbc news. it has been 23 years since the animated children's film chicken run was released which to this day is the highest grossing stop motion film. the sequel, chicken run: dawn of the nugget, has been released on netflix today. john maguire went to find out more. uh—oh! i haven't seen that look in a long while. you can't right all the world's wrongs, duck. meeting tonight. spread the word. here we go again. that's right. ginger, rocky, and the rest of the chicken run flock are back in a sequel that, like top gun, comes a generation after the first film. and, once again, what makes them so unique is that blend between clay

model reality and fantasy. you're aware that these are puppets, but they're alive, and i think that's where the magic is, which you don't get, in myjudgment, you don't get from computer animation because, superb as it will no doubt be, it's a great story, but what else is it? it's stuff in the computer. it's zeros and ones in the computer. whereas here you can see they're puppets and they're alive. the two things. and i think that, to me, that's like the magic of childhood. 23 years after the first movie, the basic techniques of stop frame animation remain, but much has changed. the faces are almost entirely clay, actually, but their hands, in the first movie, these were clay as well. and now it's silicone. the magical clay is actually quite a small proportion, but so important. that's because that's where all the performance is. can we go over there? where, love? the other side of the water. chicken run 2 has taken

six years to hatch. not surprising when you consider that a good day here at the aardman studios near bristol accounts for around two seconds of the final film, and there are 12 movements captured now by digital cameras for every second, a blink of an eye. and this is how they do that, by the way. so we grab just two frames there to head back off again, move the hair, and then i'm just going to push down a little a little bit more on that brow and then just simply pop on these eyelids. yeah. so i'm just going to do a slight bend down with the head, grab another couple of frames there. the object is that we're trying to make these puppets look like they're thinking for themselves, and that's where we spend all of our time. most of it is around this eye area as well, just the tiniest, subtlest of shifts of the eyes just to bring it to life. stop frame animation is famously painstaking, but the end result

must still entertain. biggest challenge is to remember that sense of spontaneity and how it will be received by a general audience while we're working so painfully slowly, you know, just to kind of remember not to get lost in unnecessary details, but to remember to focus on the very necessary details that make you feel that this is just happening before your very eyes. just one of the, quite frankly, mind—boggling aspects of the production of this movie is the different scales. just look at the size of this set here. but let me just take you over to the desk of one of the animators and get an idea of some of the fine detail. these are the mouthpieces for one of the characters, molly, beaks really, making all sorts of different phonetic sounds. so different shapes for e, 0, a. the attention to detail is quite phenomenal. holy moley!

hear that? it's like a party in there. obviously, i have 3d objects here, but i could literallyjust move around and sketch out the idea first. and to create the extraordinary sets, designer darren debicki immerses himself in the poultry—verse using virtual reality. his vision for the sinister theme park in the chicken factory is transformed from his imagination to physical spaces. the two adventurous chickens, they go off when they realise this is not quite right. there's something ominous about the feel of this place, and they realise by looking at the other chickens that they're different for some reason and maybe they're being watched. ah! and, actually, we do reveal that they are being watched via these big crazy golf chicken heads. aha! someone is watching

them via this eye. there's a camera lens inside the eyeball. dawn of the nugget, as it's subtitled, is being released on netflix six years on from that kernel of an idea — although kernel is not a word they like around here. john maguire, bbc news, bristol. 0k, everyone, it's go time. isn't that incredible, watching all of that. let's take a break and catch up with the weather details with sarah keith—lucas. hello. it's a reasonably mild, but cloudy, day out there for most of us. most places also looking dry, which is good news after the fairly soggy start to december that many of us have seen. as we head into the weekend, a lot of dry weather around, mild and breezy, lots of cloud. a lot of dry weather around, the a lot of dry weather around, exceptions in the nort the the exceptions in the north—west of the uk, north of scotland where we have wet and windy weather on the cards. high pressure holds on to the south, keeping things mostly dry but the weather fronts moving at times through the weekend across the far

north of the uk, quite persistent as they produce that heavy rainfall. friday evening overnight into saturday, lots of cloud across the board generally, some light rain and drizzle for western scotland, we will see some is clear spells here and there further south but enough breeze and cloud to keep things well and truly frost free. temperatures in the south between about 4—8 c but we are staying in double figures, in scotland and northern ireland with the wind and the cloud and the wind is coming in from a mild south—westerly direction, importing this mild air, you can see the orange colours across the map, blue colours, the cold air in the north and where the air masses meet we have this frontal system which will be a bit of a troublemaker in the far north—west. saturday, the rain becomes quite persistent across north—western parts of the highlands, into parts of the western isles and northern isles also seeing some rain. splashes of rain for the likes of the cambrian fells, northern ireland, but further south and east we will stay dry. milder than friday, temperatures in double figures across the board. but then as we move through saturday night into sunday, that rainfall continues

to pile in, we could see up to 175 millimetres of rain falling across parts of highland towards argyll and bute. the met office have issued a number weather warning for the heavy rain which is likely to cause some flooding problems across the region. so moving through sunday, it is looking drierfurther so moving through sunday, it is looking drier further south, so moving through sunday, it is looking drierfurther south, a bit of rain for northern england and northern ireland, should be dry for the east of scotland and mild, 14 in aberdeen and around 11 in london. into the new week, and on monday the weather front slips further south, it is quite a weak affair so fizzling out but it will bring a fair amount of cloud once again in a few showers. further ahead, fair amount of cloud once again in a few showers. furtherahead, pretty wet day few showers. further ahead, pretty wet day for few showers. furtherahead, pretty wet day for many few showers. further ahead, pretty wet day for many of us, especially in the south on tuesday. it stays reasonably mad and unsettled, though, through the course of next week. bye for now.

live from london, this is bbc news. a court rules that prince harry was a victim of phone hacking, awarding him damages. the former daily mirror editor issues this denial. i also want to reiterate, as i've consistently said for many years now, i've never hacked a phone or told anybody else to hack a phone. and nobody has produced any actual evidence to prove that i did. israel says its opening the border at kerem shalom for aid — a decision welcomed by washington —— and the world health organization. a british boy — found alive six years after he disappeared — is due home in the coming days. french authorities say he walked for four days through the pyrenees.

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