live from london. this is bbc news. the man accused of the attack on a christmas market in germany is remanded in custody charged with five counts of murder and multiple attempted murders. a church of england priest with a history of child sexual abuse allegations was twice re—appointed to a senior position, the bbc finds. israel's military carries out a fresh wave of attacks across the gaza strip, hitting targets in gaza city, rafah and khan younis. syria's new rulers spark concern for ethnic and religious minorities. and is this the end for the gipsy king? tyson fury storms off after losing the title fight against the defending world champion.

hello, i'm luxmy gopal. a man has appeared in court in germany, charged with five counts of murder and multiple counts of attempted murder after friday's attack on a christmas market in the city of magdeburg. this is the scene live from the market. it seems to be open and plenty of people are milling around there. more than 200 others were injured when they were struck by a car driven through the crowds. the suspect — a 50—year—old doctor originally from saudi arabia was named as taleb al—abdulmohsen. he was placed in pre—trial detention when he appeared in court last night. his social media posts appear to suggest he had been critical of islam. our correspondent anna foster, has been in bernburg today, the home town of the suspect.

this is where he lived for almost 20 years after coming from saudi arabia to germany backin from saudi arabia to germany back in 2006. this is a fairly small, quiet town. it has its own christmas market of its own actually, which is very, very quiet this afternoon, just in the centre of the square. this is a place where he worked as a psychiatrist and the town from which he travelled to magdeburg on friday evening. what we are learning more about all the time is him as an individual, notjust his work and home life in this town here, but also about his views, and often in his own words. back in 2019, taleb al—abdulmohsen was interviewed by the bbc and he talked about what he did here in germany, not specifically about his work, but about what he did in his free time. my name's taleb. i'm from saudi arabia, i'm an activist. i created a website to help people seeking asylum, especially from saudi arabia and the gulf region.

five years ago taleb al—abdulmohsen described how he spent his free time helping people. 90% of people who approach me are women between 18 and 30 years old. now he has been charged with killing five people at magdeburg's christmas market, speeding a powerful car through the packed alleys between the stalls, causing terror and panic. he was arrested at the scene. this video showing armed police telling him not to move from the ground. he made thejourney to magdeburg from this quiet town where he lives, bernburg, around 25 miles away, and more detail is coming to light about his background and his views. he came to germany from saudi arabia nearly 20 years ago and works at this clinic as a psychiatrist. ulrika's relative is being treated here. she was shocked when she heard the link. yes, i was very shaken.

yeah, it's horrifying, it's terrible. it makes me sad and makes my whole family very sad and everything i know is sad. from his home on this peaceful street, taleb al—abdulmohsen built an online presence which will be key to the police investigation. in 2019 he spoke to a german newspaper about what he called his activism, telling them, "i'm history's most aggressive critic of islam, just ask any arab if you don't believe me". attention is now turning to safety and security, whether this market was protected enough and whether authorities had any warnings that taleb al—abdulmohsen may have posed a threat. germany is waiting for the answers. and as people lay those fresh flowers again in magdeburg this afternoon, there are lots of questions

as i was saying that that people want answers to, no doubt. particularly about how this could have happened, about what was known about the man's background, what conversations may have happened, perhaps in the security services in germany. but also simpler questions how these christmas markets are protected. there have been attacks before. people had a certain expectation of safety and security when they went to a place like this. but the police talked about their investigation, they released more of the details yesterday. they have said they are still looking into potential motives. although this body of evidence and background and taleb al—abdulmohsen speaking in his own words, what they don't know is what drove somebody to go to the christmas market to target german families enjoying a night out in just a few days before christmas. and while he has been remanded in pre—trial custody and those charges have been brought, the police say there is still a lot they want to be doing in their investigation to really try and line up

what might have been and why. anna foster, live in bernburg. the bbc has found that a church of england priest with a history of child sexual abuse allegations was twice re—appointed to a senior position when the current archbishop of york, stephen cottrell, was the bishop of chelmsford. a woman who says she was groomed by david tudor has described the renewals of his contract as "an insult to all of his victims". harry farley reports. david tudor was an area dean in charge of 12 parishes in essex when stephen cottrell took over as the bishop of chelmsford in 2010. but tudor was banned from being alone with children and in the late �*80s had been jailed for the indecent assault of three underage girls. the convictions were quashed on a technicality and after a five—year ban, he was allowed back to minister as a priest. stephen cottrell was fully briefed on the concerns about tudor, but he was not suspended until nine years later in 2019, when a fresh police investigation was opened.

the now archbishop of york previously said the situation he faced was horrible and intolerable, but there were no legal grounds to act earlier. what we can now reveal is david tudor was reappointed twice, in 2013 and 2018 into his senior role as area dean at both points. stephen cottrell was the bishop with overall responsibility and knew that david tudor had paid £10,000 to a woman who says she was sexually abused by him from the age of 11. one of david tudor�*s victims, who did not want to be identified, said these were not the actions of a bishop dealing with a situation that was intolerable to him. she reiterated her calls on the archbishop of york to resign. a spokesperson for stephen cottrell said he accepts responsibility for david tudor, remaining as area dean acknowledges this could have been handled differently and said that no one advised him that david tudor should not continue as area dean. this morning, the bishop of newcastle said archbishop cottrell�*s expressions of regret did not square with his actions, but other bishops are notjoining her

calls for him to stand down. i know that archbishop stephen is a conscientious and honourable and prayerful man, and he will have been thinking deeply about what is best course of action is, and i really don't think it's for me to second guess in public what he should do. and i also feel, you know, safeguarding is, is much, much too serious a matter for all the attention to be focussed on that kind of question. weeks after the archbishop of canterbury was forced to resign, the church of england heads into christmas with mounting calls for his number two to do the same. harry farley, bbc news. gaza's civil defence agency says at least 28 people, including children, have been killed in a wave of attacks by the israeli military across the gaza strip. targets were hit in gaza city, rafah and khan younis. a school sheltering displaced families and a hospital

in northern gaza were among the sites struck. staff at the kamal adwan hospital say the facility has been repeatedly targeted by the israeli military. israel says it is carrying out precise strikes against hamas militants. meanwhile, hamas and two other palestinian armed groups have said that an agreement to end the fighting is now closer than ever. the statement says a deal for a truce and the release of hostages would depend on israel not asking for new conditions in negotiations. let's take you live to syria, and this the scene in the capital damascus over umayyad square, where life is returning to normal after that stunning rebel advance reached the capital, ending the assad family's 50 years of iron—fist rule. but the takeover by hayat tahrir al—sham, or hts, has sparked concern for ethnic and religious minorities. hts is a sunni muslim group,

and its leader ahmad al—sharra has a jihadist past. minorities say they are worried about islamic rule, and those from bashar al—assad's alawite community are worried there might be retribution against them. allison mcmanus, managing director of national security and international policy at the centre for american progress told me about some of the concerns of minority groups. many concerns relate, of course, to the rise of hts, the rebel group that sort of commandeered the push and the fall of assad. and that's now taken a primary seat in the transitional period in terms of politics and governance, as you mentioned. hts had previously been al—nusra front, was aligned with al qaeda and its leader, ahmad al—sharra, who also has gone by the name jolani, was himself actually affiliated with the islamic state. so for minority groups, there's great concern that this sort

of islamic primacy of sunni groups might impact the transitional governance period in a way that would be less than inclusive. i will say that what we've seen so far is actually quite moderation of these previous positions and other hts leaders have been, at least very rhetorically insistent on their desire to include minorities and notjust in rhetoric, but actually have done a lot of outreach to leaders of christian, druze and other communities when it comes to the alawites, of course, the alawites are a demographic of shia muslims who are quite aligned with bashar al—assad. the assad family is an alawite family. these alawites tended to enjoy privileged positions in the government, in the military, and their concerns relate more to to retribution.

from the centre of american process speaking earlier. i want to take you live now, the scene here, a press conference after a meeting in damascus. turkey's foreign minister and syria's de facto leader ahmad al—sharra are expected to hold a press conference after a meeting in damascus. there are live scenes there, live in damascus at the moment, a meeting between turkey's foreign minister and syria's de facto leader, they are expected to hold a press conference following their meeting. now it's time for a look at today's sport. five matches in the premier league today, four of them have already kicked off and are into the second half. chelsea could move to the top of the table for a few hours at least.

they are at everton. no goals at goodison park or craven cottage either. but look at that. what a start for the new wolves manager. 3—0 up at half—time against leicester. manchester united are trailing 1—0 to bournemouth just as they did last december, last season, they lost 3—0. dean housen with a first—half header. the late game is at tottenham, leaders liverpool will guarantee top spot at christmas with a win. just the two games in scotland today. one of them has already finished. leaders celtic were held by dundee united, goaless at tannadice. so celtic stretching their lead over rangers by a single point to nine points. hearts host stjohnstone in a clash of the bottom two.

no goals there. across europe, there was a fourth win for claudio ranieri since his return to roma as they beat his former club parma 5—0 in serie a. later, atalanta can reclaim top spot from napoli if they avoid defeat at home to empoli. in spain's la liga, real madrid can close the gap on city rivals atleti to a single point with a win over sevilla, while valencia are off the bottom on goal diference after an injury time equaliser at home to alaves. meanwhile, in germany, dortmund face the prospect of dropping into the bottom half of the bundesliga, at the midway point of the season if they fail to beat wolfsburg. tyson fury said that he should have won last night's rematch against 0leksandr usyk. it went the distance but the judges gave it to the ukrainian by a unanimous decision in riyadh. six months after usyk unified the heavyweight

division by beating fury, this fight went the same way. the judges gave just four of the 12 rounds to fury, who tired in the second half of the fight. all three judges scored it 116—112 to the champion, as he retained the wba, wbc and wbo belts, tyson is a great opponent, he's a tough man, a big boxer. a good man. there is a lot of talk, it's just show. i very respect tyson fury. 2a rounds — listen, now it is already history. england'sjohn parry has won the mauritus 0pen, his first win on the dp world tour in 1a years. parry started sunday's final round five shots off the lead but this eagle on the twelfth helped him to a closing round of 64 and took him to the top of the leaderboard, two clear of the rest. the 38—year—old almost gave up golf a few years ago and only earned his place back on the tour in september.

it is massive. i don't know how long ago it was, five or six years ago, i was back on the euro pro. i was close to giving up euro pro. i was close to giving up golf after winning when i was 23 out here. so it has been a long battle back but worth every moment this week. rickey henderson, the man who scored more runs in major league baseball than anyone else, has passed away aged 65. henderson played for nine teams from 1979 to 2003 but is most associated with the oakland athletics, where he had four spells. nicknamed the man of steal, henderson achieved 2,295 runs. he also hold sthe rcord for stolen bases, 1,a06. twice a world series winner with 0akland in 1989 and the toronto bluejays in 1993.

no more goals, but there has been a penalty for bournemouth at manchester united. a clear penalty as well. so bournemouth looking to go 2—0 up at old trafford. i will tell you what happened with that penalty in the next half hour. as we heard, the ukrainian boxer 0leksandr usyk has won the biggest bout in boxing — the men's world heavyweight title, beating britain's tyson fury. sports journalist iryna kozyupa is a ukrainian sports journalist and says the result is a welcome boost for morale across ukraine. i would say that yesterday night was unbelievable and absolutely fantastic for ukrainian, for all ukrainians, not only fan of the box or sport or fan or supporters of usyk. like so many people were so happy with this victory and i saw absolutely fantastic video

and pictures from the soldiers from the front line, and they were so happy to see the victory of usyk in yesterday's fight with tyson fury. so, you know, it means it's much more than sport for ukrainians now in our situation during the full—scale war with the russian. so first of all, of course we everybody happy with, usyk to, uh, once again show his that his champion and probably a great of all the time and in the top list of the best boxers in the world. but second, everybody also pleased with this, all his messages to the world about ukraine and the situation in the country. so, yeah, the victory was really unbelievable. and make people in ukraine more like, you know, like usyk always said, very feel and gorgeous to be ukrainians. the hollywood actress

blake lively has filed a legal complaint against her it ends with us co—star justin baldoni alleging sexual harassment and a campaign to "destroy" her reputation. lively says she wants to "pull back the curtain on sinister tactics used to harm people who speak up about misconduct." mr baldoni's legal team told the bbc the allegations are "categorically false". earlier, i spoke to our reporter, matt graveling, about what exactly we know. it's a complaint by the actress blake lively, and it accuses the actorjustin baldoni and his team of sexual harassment and a campaign to destroy her reputation. now, to understand how we got to this point, luxmy, we do need to first rewind a little bit. lively and baldoni were stars of the netflix film it ends with us, which came out in the summer. now, the film did very well with viewers, but this paperwork filed in california has made us aware of some big disagreements on the set.

now it states that on the 11th ofjanuary, a meeting was held to address a hostile work environment. now, the meeting was attended by baldoni, who was also the film's director and the co—chairman and co—founder of wayfarer, who the production company for the film. blake lively, also attended with her husband and the hollywood actor ryan reynolds, who wasn't in the film alongside other members of the film's production service. now, blake lively�*s lawyers allege that both mr baldoni and the wayfarer ceo, jamey heath, engaged in inappropriate and unwelcome behaviour towards her and towards others on the set. now the meeting included a list, luxmy, of 30 demands relating to the pair's alleged misconduct to be met to ensure the production of the film could continue. now, among them, blake lively requested. there's to be no more mention of mr baldoni or mr heath's previous pornography addiction. there's to be no more descriptions of their own genitalia, and no more adding of sex scenes outside of the script that blake lively had already approved when signing onto the project.

now, just very briefly, matt, we know what was discussed at the meeting injanuary, but where are we now? well, this came out in august, this film, luxmy. but fast forward to now and blake lively team have filed that complaint against baldoni, alleging the sexual harassment and the campaign to destroy her reputation. and the accusation is that baldoni and wayfarer studios led a multi—tiered plan to wreck her reputation, saying this was the intended result of a carefully coordinated scheme to silence her and others from speaking out about that environment. blake lively says she hopes her actions will help pull the curtain back on the sinister, retaliatory tactics to help people who speak up against misconduct. now, responding to the legal complaint, baldoni's lawyer said the allegations are categorically false, luxmy. it's a shame that miss lively would make such serious accusations. and finally, luxmy, mr baldoni's legal team also accused miss lively of making numerous demands, threatening to not show up to set, threatening to not promote the film which would end up ultimately leading to its demise during its release if her demands were not met.

around a hundred arrivals and departures have been cancelled at heathrow airport affecting 15,000 people as strong winds continue to disrupt christmas travel. let's speak to simonjones who's there for us a lot of festive plans are scuppered, what's the situation now? is scuppered, what's the situation now? , . , scuppered, what's the situation now? , , scuppered, what's the situation now? , ., now? is a big christmas getaway is well under _ now? is a big christmas getaway is well under way. _ now? is a big christmas getaway is well under way. we _ now? is a big christmas getaway is well under way. we have - is well under way. we have travel experts called it frantic friday and snarl up saturday and for many people wanting to travel today it has not been a smooth sunday, particularly for people here at heathrow airport. as you say, around 15,000 passengers hoping tojet off to around 15,000 passengers hoping to jet off to sunnier climes, many of them, because i have to say it is a very cold and windy here this afternoon. well, they will have been disappointed by those flight cancellations. heathrow tell us that because of the strong winds, what they

have had to do is effectively reduce the number of flights able to use the airport for safety reasons. and that is why we have seen so many cancellations. i was down at terminal five earlier, cancellations. i was down at terminalfive earlier, it cancellations. i was down at terminal five earlier, it was busy, because there majority of flights are still managing to take off and landed normally, just that extra space between them. but it is notjust places like heathrow that are being affected. we have had problems on the ferries, notably between dover and calais. dfds, on the ferries, notably between doverand calais. dfds, one on the ferries, notably between dover and calais. dfds, one of the ferry companies, have cancelled seven surfaces today. also problem on the ferries across the irish sea. also railway passengers are being advised to check before they travel. scott rail for example have put speed restrictions in place on a number of lines. that of course is really busy on the roads today as well with people heading off to do christmas shopping or perhaps their christmas break to see

family and friends. the weather warnings are in place for the rest of today until about 9pm. those warnings for strong winds affect all of scotland, northern ireland and wales and large parts of northern england and western england. those warnings mean they could be ongoing problems on the transport network. transport groups say the amount of traffic, the amount of people wanting to travel added with the strong winds described as a perfect storm today, which feels quite apt standing here. the weather is set to improve from tomorrow, things will be much calmer, but you a few are hoping for a white christmas, i am afraid the met office said todayit am afraid the met office said today it is more likely to be a grey christmas.— grey christmas. our reporter simon jones. _ grey christmas. our reporter simon jones. thank- grey christmas. our reporter simon jones. thank you. - now, lets take you to spain, where people have been watching the big, festive lottery draw known as el gordo, or the fat one in english.

the top winning number has now been drawn. apart from that, there are hundreds of other prizes, it operates as a raffle distributing a specific number of prizes which all have their value set before the draw starts. that is different from the euro millions lottery where the euro millions lottery where the prize fund goes up depending on how many people buy tickets, and if the numbers don't come up no one wins the prize. so the odds of winning the el gordo jackpot arrow around one in 100,000. this year, it is possible as many as 193 ticket holders could have the same numbers in the raffle. if they came up, all of them would win a 4 million euros jackpot. the total price on this year is more than 2.71 billion euros and the winning

ticket number this year was 72480. the magic numberfor some people. stay with us here for some some people. stay with us here forsome 0n some people. stay with us here for some 0n bbc news. hello there. earlier on today we had some snow falling over some of the hills. gradually through tomorrow, we will start to bring in weather from the atlantic. ahead of that, the showers that we have had earlier on are becoming fewer, they will die away to northern parts of scotland. many places will become dry, the wind continuing to drop and where we have clear skies it will be cold. lowest temperatures are in scotland in the north—east of england. a slight frost and icy patches following the earlier showers. eastern parts of the uk are going to start dry and sunny, already cloud coming into these

western areas and some pockets of rain and drizzle and the cloud will gradually push its way eastwards through the day. gradually, though, we are pushing into milder air on the western side of the uk, temperature getting close to double figures later in the day. it will be quite cold for eastern areas, no more than four or five eastern areas, no more than four orfive in some places. that cold air is not going to last, it gets pushed away and things turned milder as we head towards christmas. the air coming all the way from the tropics, this is tropical maritime air because of the long sea track it will bring a lot of cloud and there may well be a little light rain or drizzle, many on the west of scotland with the winds are a bit stronger. 0therwise scotland with the winds are a bit stronger. otherwise the winds will be quite light, cloudy skies, and what a difference to those temperatures. after all the cold and windy weather over the weekend, temperatures could be “p 1547 00:27:51,594 --> 00:27: