ukraine, live from london. this is bbc news. a nine—year—old child who died in the christmas german market attack has been named as andre gleissner. the man accused of the attack is remanded in custody, charged with five counts of murder and multiple attempted murders. the bbc finds that a church of england priest with a history of child sexual abuse allegations was twice re—appointed to a senior position festive cheer sweeps through spain, with more than two billion euros handed out as part of the world's biggest lottery. and we're at london's st pancras station, as a ukrainian choir sings carols for hope, with a special guest. happy christmas, keep strong, keep the faith in who you are, keep the faith in ukraine. slava ukraini.

hello and welcome. the boy who died in the attack at the magdeburg christmas market has been named. andre gleissner was nine years old. his identity was confirmed by the fire department, who said he had been a member of the children's fire brigade in the town of warle, about an hour's drive from magdeburg. there's a memorial where people have been laying flowers and lighting candles. andre was one of five people who were killed. the identities of the other four, who were all adult women, have not been made public. the man held by police following the incident, taleb al—abdulmohsen, has been charged with five counts of murder, and multiple counts of attempted murder, and remains in custody. he is a doctor, from saudi arabia, and his motive remains unclear. his social media posts appear to suggest he had been critical of islam. our correspondent

anna foster reports. this is andre, nine years old, looking forward to christmas, enjoying a night out at the festive market when he was killed. a fundraising account for his devastated family has on social media. his mum said, "let my little teddy bear fly around the world once again." taleb al—abdulmohsen has been charged with andre's murder and that of four other people at the christmas market. german investigators are building up a picture of the saudi doctor, including in his own words. my name is taleb. i'm from saudi arabia. i'm an activist. in 2019, he was interviewed by the bbc. he talked about how he used his free time to help people. i created a website to help people seeking asylum, especially from saudi arabia and the gulf region. now, he's 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. the attack unfolded in the city's central square at around 7:00 on friday evening. the car turned off a nearby road and onto a pedestrian crossing, entering the market through a gap in the concrete security perimeter that had been left open for emergency vehicles. it drove into the celebrating crowds, injuring more than 200 people, a0 of them seriously. minutes later, the car left the market on the east side and joined the main road. but the suspect couldn't get through the traffic, and this video shows armed officers arresting him, telling him not to move from the ground. taleb al—abdulmohsen lives in this quiet town, bernburg, around 25 miles away from the site of the attack, 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. um, yeah. it's horrified. it's terrible. it's, it's made me sad. it's made 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�*s 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.

anna forster, bbc news. our correspondent bethany bell is in magdeburg and updated me on the investigation. i'm in the market now, this has been cordoned off ever since the attack. but this afternoon they opened it up again and people have been coming to look. and many are asking how it was that there was such a lapse in security as the way one man put it, and how it was that a car was able to drive at such speed into this area. the authorities have said that the car drove through a street that was meant for emergency vehicles, and it wasn't cordoned off like the rest of the market. and many, many questions there. and we know that there'll be meetings at tomorrow, both at a national and federal level looking at those questions. and also people are asking, you know, how it was that there were warnings about this man? apparently saudi arabia

tipped off the german government about him and possible extremist views. but germany's authorities say they weren't deemed specific enough at the time. and bethany, as you said, the market reopened a few hours ago. you've been speaking to people there. what is the atmosphere there like this morning? it's sad. it's quiet. it's a little eerie. this is an area that on a day like today, the sundayjust before christmas, should be packed with people. the heart of german christmas celebrations. and instead, all of the stalls are dark. they won't be opened again this year. and people are coming to look at the areas where this car raced through and ask themselves how it was possibly that an evening at a christmas market became such a nightmare. earlier i spoke to tim rohn, head of investigations at welt. tim and his team have been investigation the attack since friday. he told us what he has discovered.

well, i mean, that is the big question everyone is asking, what to we know about potentials, potential motivations, of the attacker, mine i guess it is the most difficult question so far, because as i heard in bbc right now, and we wrote it as well, he was for a long time portrayed as a critic, as a strong critic of islam, and as an opponent of the regime in saudi arabia, in one interview, ijust read again from 2019, he said he is probably the biggest critic when it comes to islam, later on he started accusing the federal government of not protecting him, the german federal government of not protecting him and other secular arabs, that is why he announced, and on the other hand, he supported afd position, so positions of the

right—wing party in germany, he supported the front woman of the afd, other, so many people call it a right—wing extremist act compared with christchurch already, then we have the theory it was a false flag operation, he is not an islam critic but in reality, an islamist, so it is so hard, at this moment, to say what was behind its, and i think, we tried to be very careful here, to only state facts, and separate them from speculations.- separate them from speculations. separate them from seculations. , ., ., ., speculations. there is a lot of work for the _ speculations. there is a lot of work for the investigative - work for the investigative authorities there, isn't there. when journalists are concerned they are looking into reports that the authorities perhaps received warnings about a possible attack, what do you understand about that side of the story?le_ understand about that side of the sto ?le ., ., the story?le yeah, i mean, the thin , the story?le yeah, i mean, the thing. the _ the story?le yeah, i mean, the thing, the real, _ the story?le yeah, i mean, the thing, the real, the _ the story?le yeah, i mean, the thing, the real, the really- thing, the real, the really special thing was this attack is that this person, he

underwent this radicalisation, in plain sight, so to speak, he gained some international recognition, as i said as a critic of islam, he had 115,000 followers on twitter, and mostly about different topics, but then, in between all those statements, there were repeated messages when he was actually announcing that he was going to attack germany. that he was going to take revenge, that germany will pay a huge price for betraying him and other arabs, so other refugees, and so actually it was visible for everyone that something really, really bad could happen, and then, what we were able to reveal yesterday was that even the authorities, the german authority, they knew about him, they had him on the radar, and a couple of months ago, in the end they decided, or they concluded, that he is not a

threat, so they were considering to approach him, to talk to him, but in the end that i said to no, we don't do it, he is probably not a threat. i mean we have seen what happened on friday, that was, that was a wrong assessment, which maybe has cost lives. because maybe it was possible to stop him before, if you look at his tweet, right now, it isjust shocking. the bbc has found that a church of england priest with a history of child sexual abuse allegations against him 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 the priest, david tudor, has described the renewal of his contract an insult to all 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 of chelmsford in 2010. and the children... but tudor was banned

from being alone with children. in the late 80s, he'd 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 tudor 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 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. the bishop of gloucester was asked on radio four if she still supports the archbishop of york. i think there are very important conversations and processes to go on that are not going to take place over public media. i do think there are big questions to be looked at. i heard that news with shock and dismay. weeks after the archbishop of canterbury was forced to resign. 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. 0ur relgion editor aleem maqbool told me exactly where the investigation now stands. it was just on monday

that we put out this investigation, and at that time, immediately, the archbishop of york said, yes, he acknowledged that he knew about this priest in his charge, david tudor, he knew about the abuse allegations in the past, he knew this was a priest who was banned from being left alone with children. he later learned, two years later, that this man, david tudor, had paid £10,000 to an alleged victim, but he says that it was a situation that was awful to live with, for him as a bishop, and to manage. so, the question, of course, that we had, on behalf of the very brave women who came forward to speak with us, was ok, so what did you do about it? if you were so troubled by this every day, what attempts did you make to remove this man from the church? because that was what was galling to these victims of david tudor, that they had suffered and he was still in the church.

well, the archbishop of york said that the focus was on managing the risk posed by this priest. a lot of people will say, well, why do you need to manage the risk posed by a priest? if you have to do that, why are they a priest at all? but the archbishop of york said there was nothing legally he could do, and now we find this, that on trying to find evidence that would tell the women they were the centre of any decision being made here were found something very different, which is that he had his position renewed in this senior position in the diocese, as area dean. that was renewed on two occasionses after the archbishop of york knew all of these things. like i say, his defence is he was focussed on managing risk. that is really not enough for a lot for the victims in this case. i want to ask more about that. what has the reaction been to the church's response, where does this go from here? yes, i mean, so, not only have

i spoken quite a lot to the victims in this case, who, as i said, were brave enough to come forward, but other women who have come forward, since then, since we broadcast this a week ago, and they are waiting for a sense that they will get a personal apology perhaps, it is not for us to say what the archbishop of york should do. they certainly don't feel that they have got enough as yet, and every time there are more details revealed it strengthens their feeling, yes, he should step down, but also much more. they want to get a sense that things are going to change, that there is a sense of urgency, because a lot of viewers will be forgiven for thinking they hear about abuse cases all the time and things don't change, and i think some of those victims who took a lot of courage to come forward want to feel perhaps what is they have done might lead to some major urgent change.

turning to syria now, where the country's de facto leader ahmed al—sharaa, has said that all weapons in the country will come under state control, including those held by kurdish—led forces. speaking during a meeting with the turkish foreign minister, mr al—sharaa said that armed factions will soon be absorbed into the syrian army. in a separate meeting, mr al—sharaa told lebanon's druze leader, that he hoped to build a close strategic relationship with lebanon. translation: we are starting a new era with lebanon. - we respect its sovereignty and strength, and we are trying to serve it as much as we can. lebanon has always been a strategic depth for syria, and syria is a strategic depth for lebanon. we are seeking, with all regional and international partners for lebanon to become the best it can be. now it's time for a look

at today's sport. thanks, it's been an extraordinary day in the premier league and a day of extremes. liverpool are still flying high at the top of the table, but theirs is now a four point lead after they inflicted a 6—3 defeat of tottenham in london. luis diaz and mo salah both got two goals against a spurs side who looked tired, having played with the same team in the league cup three days beforehand. but it's a welcome return to league form for liverpool who are firmly back to winning ways. i know liverpool is a club thaw is always playing for every trophy, but, yeah you also look back at the last two seasons, and two seasons ago they ended up and two seasons ago they ended up six, last season with third, but they could compete till the end, or not till the end but for a long time. so, yeah, end, or not till the end but fora long time. so, yeah, if you start you wonder what is going to happen, but the players bought into the playing style immediately because of what we have done before. the

result until now, is the way we wanted it. you are scoring goal forcing fun but are conceding too many. it is 13 conceded, do you put that down to the fact you are short of your first choice defence or is it a bit more than that?— defence or is it a bit more than that? ., ., ., than that? look, i am going to stop answering _ than that? look, i am going to stop answering these - than that? look, i am going to | stop answering these question, if people — stop answering these question, if people can't see the obvious i if people can't see the obvious lam _ if people can't see the obvious lam not — if people can't see the obvious i am not going to point it out. make — i am not going to point it out. make what you will, we are conceding goal, if you want to discount — conceding goal, if you want to discount we are missing a goalkeeper, and a centre back and left — goalkeeper, and a centre back and left back, i don't what to say any— and left back, i don't what to say any more, people make up their_ say any more, people make up their minds in their own way. well, meanwhile at old trafford, fans left early as manchester united were beaten 3—0 by bournemouth for the second successive season. it's three league defeats in four games for united, who are 13th in the table. in contrast, bournemouth are fifth, which could be enough for a champions league

place next season. it isa it is a one off our focus, to maintain the calm when you suffer a goal, even the last match was the similar larg we suffer one and another goal very quickly so we have to manage this moment, pass to player, understanding that the game has different moment, you have to manage this different moments, wejust have have to manage this different moments, we just have one way to improve, is to train, to try again. there was a dream start for wolves�* new manager, vitor pereira, when his side beat fellow relegation strugglers leicester 3—0 away. two of pereira's changes were on the scoresheet as well matheus cunha, who's now got nine goals this season. in contrast, the other games were both goalless. chelsea were held at everton — a blow for chelsea's title hopes, but a good result for everton's new owners. in europe, real madrid kept up the pressure on la liga leaders atletico, with a 4—2 home win over sevilla. borussia dortmund won at wolfsberg and atalanta are still top of serie

a after beating empoli. 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. britain's ben maherjust missed out on successfully defending his title in the world cup qualifier at the london international horse show. ireland's darragh kenny took the prestigious win. in a big class, just five riders made it through to the jump off, and then only kenny and maher were clear. kenny set a blisteringly quick time on his partner eddy blue and the olympic gold medallist maher couldn't quite beat it. and that's all

the sport for now. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, says israel will continue to act against the houthis in yemen, whom he accused of threatening world shipping and the international order. his statement comes a day after a missile fired from yemen fell in the tel aviv area, causing a number of mild injuries. carol services are a time to come together and commemorate the year gone by. but for ukrainians, christmas time can be a bitter reminder of what and whom they have lost. tonight, london's st pancras station is hosting a charity service — ukrainian carols of hope. 0ur reporter 0lga malchevska has been at the carol service, where she was joined by the broadcaster and comedian stephen fry. thank you for coming here, today and for waiting to speak to us, why do you think it is important for you to come here and support the event? i had the extraordinary - experience two years ago i was

invited by madame zelenska, the wife, the first lady of ukraine, the wife of the president, who holds every year a conference, and two years ago she wanted to hold a conference on mental health, which is a subject i am very involved in, over here, i am president of mind, the largest of our mental health charities, and i am so fascinated that a country that is at war could have the honesty and the openness to talk about the mental health of its citizens, and it just was a reminder to me of the difference between ukraine and russia. in russia they never talk about their mental health, which is in a terrible state, as you can imagine. it is drunkenness and drugs and criminality is the only out let for the russian citizen, the ex—soldier, but in ukraine they care about their people, and they care about the mental health of their soldiers, the soldiers coming back, and of the families, and of the children, and the citizens of ukraine, and they were very anxious to discover more about what could be done to help, and to be honest and open and to encourage ukrainian

people, who are not used to it, just as we weren't in britain, we never talked about it 20 years ago, it is quite new to talk about mental health with openness and without shame or stigma, and the ukrainian people are starting to do this, and it is very healthy to do it. that's the paradox. it is healthy to talk about ill health. if you don't talk about it, it gets worse. thank you so much. apologies for interrupting. i know you went to ukraine, what was one thing which impressed you the most, or maybe surprised? oh, the people. the humour, the laughter. although there is a terrible situation of course, they are, you know, people of great strength, and again, a sign of health is to laugh, and they laughed. i mean, it is black humour, dark humour sometimes, but it is also humour that connects themselves to each other and reminds them who they are. they are ukrainians fighting to be ukrainians, to stay

ukrainians, not to be invaded. i mean, most british people are not aware of the history of your country, things like the holodomor, the unbelievable suffering that has been undergone by the ukrainian people over the past 150 years, in their fight to be an independent people. and yet, as you were saying, humour is so important for ukrainians, that they once even elected a president who used to be an actor, working as comedian, the most popular comedian in the country, right. and ijust wanted to jump on that as well, and just to ask you, well, you have here in britain all generations who are united in the love to you and your art. you have people who remember you about your masterpiece, a bit of laurie and fry, and you have people who are watching you on tiktok today, a younger generation. what is your message to all the ukrainians,

a very short one, then we willjump to the choir? happy christmas, keep strong, keep the faith in who you are, keep the faith in ukraine. slava ukraini. thank you so much, let us listen to the beautiful ukrainian choir, who will sing silent night for us, which is in ukrainian. let's listen to them. they sing in ukrainian. you can keep up—to—date with all the top stories on the bbc news website. we will be back with plenty more, stay with us

here on bbc news, thanks for watching. hello there. it's certainly been a windy weekend and today has felt quite a bit colder as well, but there are big changes in the weather pattern as we head towards christmas. at the moment we've still got those cold, strong northwesterly winds, but as the low pressure that brought the windy weather this weekend moves away, the winds will ease a bit overnight and gradually through tomorrow we'll start to bring in some weather from the atlantic. ahead of that, though, the showers that we've had earlier on are becoming fewer. they'll even die away from northern parts of scotland. many places will become dry, the winds continuing to drop, and where we have the clear skies, it's going to be cold. lowest temperatures are going to be in scotland and the north east of england. a slight frost here and some icy patches following those earlier showers. eastern parts of the uk are going to start to dry and sunny already. cloud coming into these western areas. this weather front will bring with it some pockets

of rain and drizzle, and the cloud will gradually push its way eastwards through the day. gradually, though, we're pushing into milder air for the western side of the uk, temperatures getting close to double figures later in the day, but it's going to be quite cold for eastern areas, perhaps no better than four or five degrees in some places. that cold air, though, isn't going to last. it gets pushed away and instead things turn 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's going to bring with it a lot of cloud. and there may well be a little light rain or drizzle, mainly for the west of scotland, where the winds are a bit stronger. otherwise the winds will be quite light. cloudy skies and what a difference to those temperatures after all this cold and windy weather over the weekend. temperatures could be up to 13 or 1a degrees, so very mild, and temperatures aren't going to drop too much. as santa arrives, we stay in the mild airfor christmas day. there is colder air to the northwest of the uk. the boundary between the two is that weather front there,

and that's producing this rain, which just could clip the northwest of scotland. otherwise it's going to be dry. again, sunshine i think, will be a bonus. expect cloudy skies for many. the winds will be light and it's still going to be mild on christmas day. perhaps not quite as mild as the day before, but still. as the day before, but still, we've got temperatures of 11 or 12 degrees. now, it's not going to be a white christmas. it's more likely to be a grey christmas because of the milder air and all the cloud. the winds will be lighter than over the weekend and it will be mostly dry.

now on bbc news — the big cases: my husband the monster. a warning this programme contains some upsetting scenes and descriptions of sexual violence. i'm a rapist, like the others in this courtroom. they knew everything. they treated me like a rag doll. like a garbage bag. the abuse went on for years, in secret. a husband drugging his wife. he would put her into a coma state for around seven hours each time he did this. allthe time, dominique pelicot was filming, sometimes with a fixed camera, sometimes with his phone, but every time he was filming. strangers invited to act out their darkest urges. the video evidence would show a smiling man looking at the camera, sometimes doing a thumbs up — extremely

confident of what he was doing. i think the scale of it is - what shocked a lot of people, because there are at least 50 men who are indicted. - is there not, within you, any shred of feeling of responsibility for what you did? translation: i have my share of responsibility. . applause but then the wife stands defiant, casting off her shame, and challenging us all to ask hard questions about how such horrors could happen and how to stop the next dominique pelicot.