in decades — devastates the french indian ocean territory of mayotte. days before taking charge of the church of england — the archbishop of york faces calls — to resign over his handling of a sexual abuse case. this case was not acted on when he knew information at the time. how can you have the moral and ethical authority to lead an institution with that? territory of mayotte. and — tributes are paid to zakir hussain — one of the world's greatest tabla players — who's died at the age of 73. hello, i'm matthew amroliwala. let's begin with that news breaking in the last couple of hours — that an alleged chinese spy with links to prince andrew has been named after a court order

protecting his identity was lifted. the businessman, named as yang tengbo, had previously only been known as h6 and was banned from the uk last week by a semi—secret national security court. mr yang, who agreed to have his anonymity lifted, said he had done nothing wrong and descriptions of him as a spy were "entirely untrue". our home and legal affairs correspondent dominic casciani was in court for the ruling. quite an extraordinary and very short hearing this afternoon. not what we were expecting. we were told to come to court at 2:00 because of a basically an urgent application in court. and we expect that we were going to have a bit of a battle over whether or not h6, who we can now say is yang tengbo, also known as chris yang, whether or not we could name him. and as we came into court, it became clear that mr yang's lawyers were going to apply to have his anonymity lifted. this is a very, very unusual situation because typically in a case such as this, before the special immigration

appeals commission, the semi—secret court applicants who have been effectively banned from the uk, either as a national security risk because they are a suspected spy, or for or perhaps a suspected terrorist, tend to want to keep their anonymity because of effectively, the potential crushing blow this allegation has to their reputation were it to be public. but mr yang said he wanted to go on the front foot and to be public about this and through his, um, through his lawyers. he told the court that there had been an enormous amount of media reporting and speculation about his relationship with prince andrew, and about his identity and about his activities. and also he was aware of the possibility, the chat that he may get named in parliament and the parliamentary privilege. that's effectively the means by which an mp can say something in parliament, even though there is a reporting restriction in place in court. and therefore mr yang wanted to effectively say publicly who he was to end that

speculation and to put his story out there, that he says it is entirely untrue that he is some kind of spy for the chinese communist party. he says he is a legitimate businessman, and he's going to fight on to try to clear his name. so that's where we've got to this afternoon. days and days of speculation, to be frank, some reporting in some parts of the foreign press already identifying mr yang, but now we're able to name him here in the uk as well. conservative mp, and former security minister tom tugendhat — introduced plans for a register of hostile state agents which didn't get implimented because of the general election. he told me, there is a pattern of chinese hostile activity. well, i don't want to speak about the individual case, if you'll forgive me. but what i will say is that there is a pattern of hostile activity by china, organised by its so—called united front work department, trying to influence and gather intelligence, and notjust in the uk, but around

the world, and trying to influence everybody from academics and journalists, business people, politicians, people in the public eye — to try and change the debate, to try and change the nature of the conversation about china. and that's really what this report is all about. in terms of the objectives, tell me more about what you think the chinese are trying to do here. well, china has long held a view that it should be influencing the way in which it is spoken about in other places. so we've seen academics being pressured and on occasion, silenced. we've seen individuals in the united kingdom, sometimes chinese citizens, sometimes hong kongers, who have been pressured to change what they're saying. and we've seen, of course, standard espionage. you know, the stealing of intellectual property, economic secrets, and so on in order to profit china. we've also seen, of course, that those overseas police service stations,

as they were called in glasgow, in croydon and a few other places where we've seen the attempt to influence to pressure people in the united kingdom. and, of course, most egregiously, perhaps, we've seen the chinese consul in manchester beating up or attempting to beat up various different people who were protesting outside the chinese consulate. so we've seen a pattern of activity, and that's why having the foreign influence registration scheme in action as soon as possible is so important. that's why i set it up and would have been in action had the election not come a little bit earlier than i think any of us were expecting. had it come in november, it would have been ready in time. and it should be ready now because we need to see china on the enhanced tier. that's exactly what mi5 have asked for, because that would create the ability to gather the information, to make sure that this kind of an action could be identified much earlier, so that we were able to stop it. plus research what we learned in the last half an hour so

have told the bbc prince andrew will notjoin the royal family at sandringham for christmas. this whole story has been hugely embarrassing for the palace, it is —— is this development a reflection of that. development a reflection of that. i think so in does attempt to avoid the embarrassment of christmas day the world from walking to go to the torch —— church service in sandringham and having prince injure front and having prince injure front and centre and having prince in'ure front and centr— and centre and in him becoming the story and — and centre and in him becoming the story and he _ and centre and in him becoming the story and he may _ and centre and in him becoming the story and he may be - and centre and in him becoming the story and he may be could l the story and he may be could have been the talking point if he had gone a long but there had been stories earlier today that prince andrew had been urged to voluntarily step back and making sure that he was not visible, keep a low profile over christmas and that we have learned this afternoon that is going to happen. that he is expected to stay in windsor and his ex—wife sarah while the rest of the royals will gather for their traditional get together at sandringham. so it is an awareness of how it does look and even of the palace will say, we don't have to

speak for prince andrew, as you suggest it is the embarrassment about the association, he is a member of theirfamily and about the association, he is a member of their family and will be at family events in this way they will not be seen together. thank you very much. the german chancellor, olaf scholz, has lost a parliamentary confidence vote as expected, paving the way for a general election in february. it follows the collapse of his coalition government last month in a row over spending, amid a deepening economic crisis. polls suggest the opposition conservatives could make big gains in the upcoming election, partly because they're talking tough on immigration. under germany's constitution, losing a confidence vote is the only way to trigger early elections. the de facto leader of syria — ahmad al—sharaa — has said, all armed factions will be dissolved under the new administration. al—sharaa — who led the rebel offensive, that toppled the assad regime — told journalists that only the syrian state army

would carry weapons. the semi—autonomous kurdish administration in northeastern syria, has already called for an end to fighting, and a "comprehensive national dialogue" with the new rulers in damascus. our middle east correspondent lina sinjab gave me her analysis from damascus. i think this is an important step forward to control the gun used in the country and to prevent any malicious or different factions from disorder. he is trying to have a control, a hierarchal control over all of the fighters on the grounds so they are going with one system, one leadership, all of them together. and i think this will give assurances to people that there will be one central command of the army and whoever holds up weapons. this also is challenging because you

need to see how other factions will be reacting. they made a coalition with the factions in the north and the south fight assad and topple assad but we have not seen reaction yet from other factions about the statement that he has put out today. in statement that he has put out toda . . , , _, , today. in the last few seconds the uk foreign _ today. in the last few seconds the uk foreign secretary - today. in the last few seconds| the uk foreign secretary david lammy have spent talking and has just said lammy have spent talking and hasjust said uk lammy have spent talking and has just said uk officials will meet with the interim syrian authorities. another indication of those diplomatic moves that are now under way, eight days since assad fell. david lammy saying uk officials will meet the syrian interim authorities. syria's deposed president, says he never intended to flee the country to russia — in his first comments since the fall of damascus eight days ago. that statement put on telegram, though it is not clear who currently controls it or whether he wrote it. the

deposed president said he never intended to leave our russia editor, steve rosenberg gave us more details. i'm just going through the statement now. yeah, these are purported to be his first comments since assad was forced to flee. they amount basically to an attempt to justify his actions and a denial that he abandoned syria. the statement says that he had remained in damascus until the early hours of sunday, december the 8th. but then he'd moved to the russian air base, the khmeimim air base in latakia, after which it became clear, according to the statement, that the final positions of the syrian army had fallen. then, he says, the russian air base came under attack from drones that moscow, he says, decided on an immediate evacuation and that he moved to russia. he says, "at no point during these events did i consider stepping down or seeking refuge." again, an attempt to deny that he abandoned syria. so interesting comments

from mr assad. no comments from vladimir putin. he hasn't said anything publicly about the fall of assad or events in syria. even though today he addressed senior military chiefs at a big meeting, everything he said was about the war in ukraine. no comment from the kremlin leader about syria. we we re we were looking at that news conference a short while ago with donald trump and he has been taking more questions and has called the rebellion in syria, "an unfriendly takeover by turkey". turkey fighting the kurdish rebels in the north use of the country. interesting the latest comments from donald trump on the situation current on situation in syria calling it an unfriendly takeover by turkey. the archbishop of york is facing calls to resign — days before he takes temporary charge of the church of england — over his handling of a sexual abuse case. a bbc investigation has found that, as bishop of chelmsford,

stephen cottrell let priest david tudor remain in post — despite knowing he'd been barred by the church from being alone with children. archbishop cottrell says, he didn t have the legal power to sack the priest until a new claim came forward in 2019, when he was suspended. david tudor didnt respond to our questions. our religion editor aleem macbool reports. in three weeks' time the archbishop of york, stephen cottrell, is due to take temporary charge of the church of england. but we can now reveal a case that raises serious questions about hisjudgement. and the children... it relates to this man, david tudor, who for ten years was a priest under stephen cottrell, even though since the late 19705 tudor had faced allegations of abuse against children. he abused his position of trust and it's had a huge effect on my life. having that huge secret pulled me away from my parents. i've lived with shame for a0 years. debbie, not her real name, says she was sexually abused by reverend tudor

between the ages of 13 and 15. her case, and that of two other girls, went to court in 1988, and he was found guilty of indecent assault and jailed for six months. the convictions were later quashed on technical grounds, but subsequently the church found enough evidence to ban him from being a priest, but only for five years. by the late �*90s, he was back as a vicar on canvey island in essex, and for years moved through the ranks, though the church did say he couldn't be left alone with children. that's where stephen cottrell comes in, made tudor�*s boss in chelmsford in 2010. to share this service with you... well, within days of arriving here as bishop, stephen cottrell was told about david tudor�*s past and that he was a priest who was banned from being left alone with children. two years later, he found out that david tudor had paid

£10,000 to a woman who'd come forward to say he abused her as a child. but then, not only did david tudor under stephen cottrell remain in post, he was made honorary canon of chelmsford cathedral. archbishop cottrell�*s office says it was a highly unsatisfactory and problematic case, and that it was never open to him to revisit or take disciplinary action against david tudor as there were no live or new complaints that had not already been dealt with. but members of clergy are among thosejoining with tudor�*s victims to call for archbishop cottrell to resign. i think it completely undermines his credibility that this case was not acted on when he knew information at the time. how can you have the moral and ethical authority to lead an institution with that? you can't. so, yes, i do think he needs to consider his position. only two months ago, david tudor admitted sexual

misconduct and was sacked by the church. but he leaves difficult questions for those who for years allowed him to continue as a priest. aleem maqbool, bbc news. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

france says it's mobilizing resources to provide relief and security to the people of its indian ocean territory of mayotte, with hundreds of people feared dead. three government ministers are in the territory, to see the devastation. there's growing concern over essential supplies of food and water. the authorities are trying to co—ordinate airlifts, including firefighters, security personnel and engineers, using another french indian ocean territory — reunion — as a staging post. some have criticised

the state's preparedness. i have talked to the coordinator of the msf response to the cyclone and asked what they have been able to get into they have been able to get into the island so far in what was actually needed. 50 the island so far in what was actually needed.— actually needed. so far it is complicated _ actually needed. so far it is complicated for _ actually needed. so far it is complicated for us - actually needed. so far it is complicated for us to - complicated for us to intervene, we did not have operations so we try to send some people in mayotte but logically it is complicated the airport has been partially destroyed and there is no commercialflights. so right commercial flights. so right now commercialflights. so right now we are trying to send to some people on the ground. we arty have one person used to be there and has started to see what would be the need and how we can help them but it is completed to co—ordinate. i think one of the main challenges for the response would be to face all the logistical constraints. the

-ictures logistical constraints. the pictures we _ logistical constraints. the pictures we are _ logistical constraints. the pictures we are running on the screen as you are talking show the extent of the devastation. it is extraordinary. the pictures, so many of these areas were pretty flimsy and have been really battered. also you have a situation where large numbers of migrants were undocumented and that makes things very, very difficult to try to work out exactly how many people you are looking for. , . , ., many people you are looking for. , ., ., ., for. yes that is one of our main worries _ for. yes that is one of our main worries as _ for. yes that is one of our main worries as well - for. yes that is one of our main worries as well is i for. yes that is one of our - main worries as well is because even before the cyclone, when we operated from the cholera outbreak in the summer we could have seen that a lot of these people did not have access at all to a lot of services to our services, not to water or our services, not to water or our services and with the cyclone we are very worried about them and how the services will be provided to them and how they will be able to reach the

centres and the services that would be set up by the authorities.— would be set up by the authorities. . , authorities. the latest there on that relief— authorities. the latest there on that relief operation. - on that relief operation. plenty more on that in the coming hours. zakir hussain, one of the world's greatest tabla players, has died at the age of 73. known as the maestro with the dancing fingers, hussain was a four—time grammy award winner. through his performances, he transformed the tabla into a globally loved solo instrument that was the star of the show. let's have a listen to him playing the tabla at the taj mahal back in 2014. he plays tabla

with me is bbc asian network presenter, dj bobby friction. unmistakable, unmista kable, that sound. unmistakable, that sound. your reaction because i know through the course of today you have been talking to many people who actually plead with him. for been talking to many people who actually plead with him.— actually plead with him. for a start come — actually plead with him. for a start come from _ actually plead with him. for a start come from people - actually plead with him. for a start come from people who i actually plead with him. for a - start come from people who have actually played with him and people who play tabla, this is akin to losing prince and bowie and john lennon but one person. that is how exalted he was, thatis that is how exalted he was, that is how revered he was. and there is a lot of lost musicians at the moment after losing this colossus. it is musicians at the moment after losing this colossus.— losing this colossus. it is so interesting. _ losing this colossus. it is so interesting. i _ losing this colossus. it is so interesting. i alluded - losing this colossus. it is so interesting. i alluded to - losing this colossus. it is so interesting. i alluded to it i losing this colossus. it is so | interesting. i alluded to it in the introduction, until he came on the scene, it was seen as an instrument that was an accompanying instrument, not the main thing.— the main thing. definitely tabla was _ the main thing. definitely tabla was usually - the main thing. definitely tabla was usually seen i tabla was usually seen alongside other instruments including for example the

sitar, but what he did was the same as what hendrix would have done with the qatar and took tabla made it centrestage and his way of playing it was also something that left people agog because you just saw that clip, the new york times famously said that the speed of his fingers was like the speed of a hummingbirds wings which is a great example ofjust how good he was. i great example of 'ust how good he was. ., , ., great example of 'ust how good he was. . , ., ., ,., he was. i was reading about him he was. i was reading about him he came from — he was. i was reading about him he came from a _ he was. i was reading about him he came from a musical - he was. i was reading about him he came from a musical family | he came from a musicalfamily playing concerts by the age of seven and by 19 was playing 150 concerts a year, playing with absolute legends. rab concerts a year, playing with absolute legends.— concerts a year, playing with absolute legends. rob a shock as we know — absolute legends. rob a shock as we know was _ absolute legends. rob a shock as we know was almost - absolute legends. rob a shock as we know was almost like i absolute legends. rob a shock| as we know was almost like the icon of indian classical music. and his father was already the virtuoso and what he did was have the collaborations and

gigs and tabla stars and take the act of playing it to a global level and managed to spread in the way that the legend did. we spread in the way that the legend did-— spread in the way that the leaend did. ~ ., legend did. we were hearing him -la a legend did. we were hearing him play a little _ legend did. we were hearing him play a little earlier— legend did. we were hearing him play a little earlier i _ legend did. we were hearing him play a little earlier i want - legend did. we were hearing him play a little earlier i want to i play a little earlier i want to play a little earlier i want to play you a more recent recording. let's have a listen to performing with the symphony orchestra of india in birmingham in 2019. just fantastic seeing some of those old clips, but he played

with george harrison, van morrison, it was incredible the influence. ihis morrison, it was incredible the influence-— influence. his influence when it came to — influence. his influence when it came to even _ influence. his influence when it came to even western i it came to even western musicians, they revered him. the reason for that is if ravi shankar introduce the beatles and the west to indian classical music, what he did is bent at the next step and he was faking the fusion famously with the bands like shut and diverse rural —— virtuoso guitarjust so diverse rural —— virtuoso guitar just so that long diverse rural —— virtuoso guitarjust so that long story of indian classical music spreading across the world essentially were in his hands. ravi shankar started it, he carried it on and took it to the next level. for grammy awards and seven nominations, he was touchable. figs awards and seven nominations, he was touchable.— he was touchable. as well as the big names, _ he was touchable. as well as the big names, and - he was touchable. as well as the big names, and the i he was touchable. as well as| the big names, and the latter years he was really keen not to play a lot with those people, but to be associated with young talent. ~ ., but to be associated with young talent. ~ . ., ,

but to be associated with young talent. . . . , , talent. what he did was broke the system- — talent. what he did was broke the system. indian _ talent. what he did was broke the system. indian classical . the system. indian classical music is based around kinship and a group systems see ended up and a group systems see ended up being a guru and teach people, he got to a point where he was the guru of all tabla groups so he started working with people who possibly were not that famous in that it is because he always felt he was a teacher and a student and even in the later years of his life he talked about still needing to be a student himself. thank ou so to be a student himself. thank you so much — to be a student himself. thank you so much for— to be a student himself. thank you so much for being - to be a student himself. thank you so much for being here i to be a student himself. thank| you so much for being here and taking us through some of the conversations you have been having through the course of the day after this news broke a little earlier from his family. thank you for your time. one final start to bring you. sir paul mccartney has returned to the uk for the first concert on home soil since he headlined at glastonbury in 2022. over the weekend, he performed two

nights at the co—op life arena in manchester after touring the us, australia, mexico and brazil. it will also be performing at the 02 brazil. it will also be performing at the o2 arena on wednesday and thursday in london. that brings us to the end of this particular addition of the programme. thank you for watching and stay with us. next up watching and stay with us. next up we will have more of the headlines. do not go away. hello there. temperature—wise, this week is going to be one of two halves. we're starting the week off mild with wet and windy weather thanks to low pressure always nearby and then by the end of the week it will be turning colder for all areas and we'll see mixture of sunshine and showers east with a wintry element to them over hills in the north. so we're in this wedge of milder air, quite a bit of cloud around, a bit of sunshine too, but the mild air is pretty much

right across the country, on the boundary with that milder and colder air to the north of scotland. we've had this almost stationary weather front, which has brought some very high rainfall totals to parts of northern scotland, particularly the northwest highlands. but elsewhere today it's going to be mostly dry. variable cloud and some sunny spells temperatures into the low teens, but we could be looking up to 150mm of rain falling across the northwest highlands by the time monday is out, so that's likely to cause some issues. we've already seen some localised flooding in places, and that rain then starts to push northwards as we switch wind directions coming up from the south. this new area of low pressure, which will bring breezy and wet weather to northern and western areas as we go through tonight. milder here, but some chillier spots across the east and southeast of england where winds will be light and we'll see clearer skies tuesday, then it's a rather cloudy one. breezy, windy out west. outbreaks of patchy rain. scotland, northern ireland, northern and western england and wales, but i think mostly dry up the shower further east and again, given some brightness it will be quite mild, but temperatures generally ten to 12 degrees. wet and windy weather spreads across the country during tuesday night. one area of low pressure clears away gradually.

another one will arrive across southern parts of england and wales later in the day, but in between, should be drier with some sunshine around. still quite breezy. few showers across northern and western areas and signs of something a bit cooler beginning to dig in here. now, this next area of low pressure looks like it will swipe most of england and wales with wet and windy weather. as we move through wednesday night into thursday, it moves away, takes the mild air with it and then we're into this cold north north—westerly wind for thursday day itself. there'll be plenty of sunshine around on thursday, but it will be noticeably cold. scattering of showers, mainly in northern and western areas, and these will be wintry over the hills and temperatures back into single digits across the board. these values actually closer to what we expect this time of year, and it stays blustery for the end of the week and into the weekend with sunshine and showers again. these will be wintry on hills in the north.

this is bbc news — the headlines. an alleged chinese spy — with links to prince andrew — has been named as yang teng—bo — after a court lifted an order keeping his identity secret. he denies any wrongdoing. sources tell the bbc prince andrew won't be joining the royal family for christmas at sandringham to avoid being a distraction. days before taking charge

of the church of england — the archbishop of york faces calls — to resign over his handling of a sexual abuse case. trying to protect children from harm online — new rules are spelled out — we'll be talking to the regulator — 0fcom. and from pop—star to primate — we talk to robbie williams about his new biopic — where he's depicted as a monkey. now for all the latest sport. all coming up. all hello from the bbc sport centre. let's head straight to switzerland �*where england and wales women are finding out who they'll face at next summer's euros — with the draw for next year's tournament in switrzerland. england are of course, defending champions — and booked their place by finishing as runners—up in their qualification group. wales will be debutants at the tournament — after beating the republic of ireland in a play off.

england are in pot 2 and wales are in pot four