steve rosenberg, bbc news, st petersburg.ve rosenberg, bbc news, st petersburg. two boys aged 12 have been charged with murdering a 19—year—old in wolverhampton. shawn seesahai died when he was fatally stabbed on monday evening. the pair, who cannot be named due to their age, are set to appear before birmingham magistrates' court tomorrow. scotland's health secretary has apologised after revealing that his sons had used his government ipad on holiday in morocco and run up a bill of almost £11,000 in roaming charges. michael matheson, who's under pressure to resign, has initially claimed that he had been using the ipad for parliamentary work. asa as a parent i wanted to protect my family from being part of the political and media scrutiny associated with this, something i believe any parent would want to do. i am a father first and foremost. the simplest truth is they were watching football matches. england's maternity units have the poorest safety ratings of any hospital service insepcted by the health regulator. nearly 70% o

steve rosenberg, bbc news, st petersburg.liopter with the icelandic coastguard over the volcano and sent this report. there are some places you can only fly to. this land of steaming volcanoes is one of them. dormant for 800 years, eruptions began in this area in 2021. this looked like this two years ago. the difference now is the earth—shattering effects on a community. we are now flying over the evacuated town of grindavik, and looking down the streets are completely empty. ripped apart by earthquakes, there are fears volcanic lava could cause even more destruction. the coastguard do a quick supply drop to their colleagues out at sea. this is all part of the icelandic authorities constantly monitoring the area around where they think the volcanic eruptions may occur. they don't know when that could happen. it could be days, it could be weeks. it's thought the is—kilometre tunnel of magma runs right under this ridge. the possible eruptions led to defences being built up around a geothermal plant. ultimately we have to, as we

steve rosenberg, bbc news, moscow. for his 1980s christmas hit fairytale of new york, he was infamous for his drinking. david sillito looks back at his life. # it was christmas eve, babe # in the drunk tank # an old man said to me...# "happy christmas your expletive, i pray god it's our last." fairytale of new york — a bleak, drink—sodden duet about lives gone wrong isn't your normal christmas classic. but it was trademark shane macgowan. # and dreamed about you...# his band, the pogues, brought a rambunctious attitude to irish folk, born out of his years in the london punk scene, but shane o'hooligan, as he called himself, had also won a literary scholarship to public school. # as i wondered down the long lonesome highway...# there was behind it all a writer, a rare talent. he created beauty and poetry out of hard lives and even harder drinking, something he understood well. it's true that i am out of it most of the time, right, but i...but i can write songs when i'm out of it. in fact, it's easier for me to write son

there were also foreign media, the bbc, steve rosenberg, the financial times, max seddon, and namariagerman ard. they all listened to the holo-rag on the foreign press, all of this will most likely fly apart in an instant. whoever you are, a diplomat representing the interests of unfriendly countries, an individual. a foreigner, a citizen of the russian federation, no one gives you the right to discredit the participants in our special military operation, in our country these things are criminally punishable, if we assume we see that there is and will be a need to make changes to the current legislation in order to stop such covens, then we are ready to quickly and efficiently prepare amendments to the current legislation, if you look closely at the lists of invitees, venediktov was not present at the closing, there were no diplomats there was a lot, i’m sure, mr. roland galalar, he told me, let ’s talk to you afterwards, but after that i didn’t have the desire to communicate, but i think he did, because i’m sure he did there was a pre-prepared political action with which he came to m

from the embassy of latvia, there were even two representatives, there were foreign media: bbc, steve rosenberg and namaria rak from the german ard. they all listened to galarago on the foreign press, all this will most likely fly apart in an instant. whoever you are, a diplomat representing the interests of unfriendly countries, a foreign individual, a citizen of the russian federation. no one gives you the right to discredit the participants in our special military operation, in our country these things are criminally punishable, if we assume, we see, there is and will be a need to amend the current legislation for in order to stop such covens, it means that we are ready to quickly and efficiently prepare amendments to the current legislation; if you look closely at the lists of invitees, they include, for example, foreign agent alexey venediktov, the former chief executive of echo of moscow, which was liquidated in russia. true, he did not come to the closing of the festival. venediktov was at the opening, there were definitely venediktovs, i only found out later that he was, at the closing

bbc, steve rosenberg, financial times, maxed, and namaria rak from german ard. of unfriendly countries, a foreign individual, a citizen of the russian federation, no one gives you the right to discredit the participants in our special military operation, in our country these things are criminal... the need to amend the current legislation for in order to stop such covens, it means that we are ready to quickly and efficiently prepare amendments to the current legislation, if if you take a closer look at the list of invitees, you will see, for example, foreign agent alexey venediktov, the former editor-in-chief of echo of moscow, which was liquidated in russia. true, he did not come to the closing of the festival. there were venediktovs at the opening, there were definitely venediktovs, i only found out later that he was there, at the closing venediktov was not there, he wasn’t, but there were a lot of diplomats, i’m sure, mr. roland galalar, he told me, let’s talk to you later, after that , well, after that i didn’t have the desire to communicate, but i think he

i asked the bbc�*s redoubtable russia editor steve rosenberg for his thoughts about the way things wereve that russia is getting the upper hand, and there's a bunch of reasons why i think he probably believes that at the moment. the russians seem to believe that the ukrainian counter—offensive has not been nearly as successful as kyiv had hoped. you could say the same thing about western sanctions, as well, right? the west had hoped that the tsunami of sanctions imposed on russia would cause huge problems, huge difficulties for the country. well, russia this year is set to enjoy, i think, 3% economic growth. and i think the feeling is in the kremlin that the geopolitical situation may be changing slightly in russia's favour. you know, president putin looks at the situation in america — a very polarised country, republican voices grow louderagainst, erm, massive aid for ukraine. i'm sure the kremlin is hoping that donald trump will come back to the white house, and that could change the situation hugely. but also, there's a feeling here that perhaps in europe, there's now a degree of ukr

this report is from our russia editor, steve rosenberg.ing. "i declare the international lgbt public movement an extremist organisation," thejudge says, "and ban its activities in russia." even though no organisation with that name exists. how can you ban something that doesn't exist? oh, it's easy. we can ban any activities from lgbt international organisations here in russia. that's nice. sergei troshin, a city councillor in russia who has come out as gay, believes the court ruling will be used to launch a broad attack on lgbt groups. translation: this will mean that| anyone the state considers an lgbt activist could receive a long prison sentence for participating in an extremist organisation and an even longer prison term for organising a group. anyone who has displayed extremist symbols, and that would probably include the rainbow flag, could face prosecution. this is real repression. apologies for that. former pupils at two well—known private schools in scotland have been speaking about the alleged sexual and physical abuse they expe

i asked the bbc�*s redoubtable russia editor steve rosenberg for his thoughts about the way things wereld cause huge problems, huge difficulties for the country. well, russia this year is set to enjoy, i think, 3% economic growth. and i think the feeling is in the kremlin that the geopolitical situation may be changing slightly in russia�*s favour. you know, president putin looks at the situation in america — a very polarised country, republican voices grow louder against, erm, massive aid for ukraine. i�*m sure the kremlin is hoping that donald trump will come back to the white house, and that could change the situation hugely. but also, there�*s a feeling here that perhaps in europe, there�*s now a degree of ukraine fatigue. and then, you�*ve got gaza, of course, gaza. the attention of the west has switched to a large degree from ukraine to what�*s happening in the middle east. so, for all these reasons, i think, the kremlin believes that it can outstay. it�*s got the staying power — more than the west, more than europe — the staying power to see this through and emerge the winner her

rosenberg. >>> meantime, apple, one of the last big tech names to report, seeing revenue decline for four straight quarters. steve kovach is in san francisco this week and joins us to talk about it. i guess there was a couple -- there were a couple analysts, steve, who said that event on monday night might have been a precursor to concerns about, say, macs in particular. that got borne out. >> i asked tim cook about that directly, has the mac business bottomed out? it was down more than 30% for the last quarter. cook told me, you know, they expect the mac business to kind of resurge again because of those new models they announced, those new m3 chips. look, that's not going to be enough, carl. this weaker than expected guide is a lot due to just -- we're seeing weird comps from what happened last year over in china, over the product release cycle. the earnings call last night was kind of this excuse-a-thon explaining why they're not going to be able to return to top line growth as the street was expecting. they're guiding towards flat to no growth. and also saying, look, we have these really tough comps. we relea