0:00:03 > 0:00:12This is BBC World News.
0:00:12 > 0:00:12Our top stories:
0:00:12 > 0:00:15Vladimir Putin's supporters nominate him to run as an independent
0:00:15 > 0:00:17candidate in next year's Russian elections.
0:00:17 > 0:00:19His political rival is barred from standing.
0:00:19 > 0:00:20Counting votes in Liberia's Presidential election,
0:00:20 > 0:00:23where former world footballer of the year, George Weah,
0:00:23 > 0:00:24is seeking the country's top job.
0:00:24 > 0:00:27Peru's former leader, who was serving a long prison
0:00:27 > 0:00:29sentence for human rights abuses and corruption,
0:00:29 > 0:00:31asks for forgiveness, after receiving a Presidential
0:00:31 > 0:00:45pardon.
0:00:45 > 0:00:49I am aware that the results produced by my government were well received
0:00:49 > 0:00:53by some but I recognise that I have let others down. To them, I ask for
0:00:53 > 0:00:56forgiveness from the bottom of my heart.
0:00:56 > 0:00:59And English footballer Harry Kane smashes a 22-year-old record
0:00:59 > 0:01:13for most Premier League goals scored in a calendar year.
0:01:13 > 0:01:18Hello and welcome to BBC World News.
0:01:19 > 0:01:21A group of Russian electors have formally given their support
0:01:21 > 0:01:24to Vladimir Putin as a candidate in next year's Presidential election.
0:01:24 > 0:01:27Mr Putin is seeking a fourth term in office
0:01:27 > 0:01:29and will run as an independent this time.
0:01:29 > 0:01:32He still needs 300,000 signatures before his nomination is confirmed.
0:01:32 > 0:01:34On Monday, Putin's main rival, opposition leader Alexei Navalny,
0:01:34 > 0:01:36was barred from standing in the election.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39But the move has already prompted a call for an opposition boycott,
0:01:39 > 0:02:11and has raised fears of a lack of political choice.
0:02:11 > 0:02:14Absent from this presidential nomination was Vladimir Putin,
0:02:14 > 0:02:22apparently so confident of winning this election he did not turn up.
0:02:22 > 0:02:26That did not dampen the enthusiasm of his reporters. They voted
0:02:26 > 0:02:34unanimously to back Mr Putin for an fourth term. TRANSLATION:Our
0:02:34 > 0:02:37country has been transformed from a country that was destroyed and
0:02:37 > 0:02:44without future, it into a really powerful state.Their candidate,
0:02:44 > 0:02:49meanwhile, was he with children. Invited to a New Year 's party at
0:02:49 > 0:02:55the Kremlin. This was Vladimir Putin the benevolent. Thinking of the
0:02:55 > 0:03:01future of his country. Earlier, Russian saw images of put in the
0:03:01 > 0:03:09powerful entering his Cabinet. Here he told a boy of the ruling a
0:03:09 > 0:03:14country Russia was not hard. But after 18 years of him doing just
0:03:14 > 0:03:18that, the Kremlin is struggling to inject energy into this re-election
0:03:18 > 0:03:21race to ensure people come out to vote when everything is so
0:03:21 > 0:03:27predictable. This man is now planning to make their task even
0:03:27 > 0:03:35harder. Navalny calls himself the only real rival to Vladimir Putin
0:03:35 > 0:03:37but this week the popular anticorruption campaigner was ruled
0:03:37 > 0:03:43out of the presidential race the big he has a criminal conviction he says
0:03:43 > 0:03:46was politically motivated. TRANSLATION:It is not about me. It
0:03:46 > 0:03:50is about the fact that a candidate is needed who will finally come to
0:03:50 > 0:03:53the election and speak openly about everything that happens in our
0:03:53 > 0:03:57country now. Who will describe darl' reality honestly. The absence of
0:03:57 > 0:04:03prospect, poverty. I did that and that is why you don't know -- want
0:04:03 > 0:04:09to let me take part in the election. So now, Mr Navalny is calling for a
0:04:09 > 0:04:13boycott of the entire process, to undermine its legitimacy. Mr Putin
0:04:13 > 0:04:19will not be too worried with a boycott and in street protests grow.
0:04:19 > 0:04:24Otherwise, he is betting that his message of strength and stability
0:04:24 > 0:04:27will secure him another six years in power.
0:04:27 > 0:04:30In the past hour the International Committee of the Red Cross said that
0:04:30 > 0:04:32the evacuation of critical medical cases had begun
0:04:33 > 0:04:34from Eastern Ghouta in Syria.
0:04:34 > 0:04:36Eastern Ghouta, a suburb near Damascus, has been under
0:04:36 > 0:04:39the control of the rebels and almost 400,000 people
0:04:39 > 0:04:41besieged by forces loyal to President Bashar al-Assad.
0:04:41 > 0:04:44The United Nations had pleaded for him to allow the evacuation
0:04:44 > 0:04:56of patients who will die without medical care.
0:04:56 > 0:04:59Counting is under way in a runoff election to choose the next
0:04:59 > 0:05:00president of Liberia.
0:05:00 > 0:05:02It is a straight fight between the current vice president
0:05:03 > 0:05:05Joseph Boakai, and world renowned footballer George Weah.
0:05:05 > 0:05:20Umaru Fofana reports from the capital, Monrovia.
0:05:20 > 0:05:22Voting went peacefully with no reports of incidents. Accompanied by
0:05:22 > 0:05:28his supporters, Vice President Joseph Weah cast his vote. He
0:05:28 > 0:05:32sounded confident. Asked as to whether he would accept the results
0:05:32 > 0:05:39he responded with a qualified yes. After that a decision will be made.
0:05:39 > 0:05:46Were willing to work for whatever the final result is.For supporters
0:05:46 > 0:05:52of the former football superstars George Weah it looked like a victory
0:05:52 > 0:05:56dance when he went to vote. The man who will won in the first round
0:05:56 > 0:06:05sounded confident.I'm not associated with losing. I will win.
0:06:05 > 0:06:13Boakai cannot win, and George Weah can.What happened cannot happen
0:06:13 > 0:06:16again. Initial indications are that the run-off was better organised
0:06:16 > 0:06:21than the first round. Materials arrived on time and there have been
0:06:21 > 0:06:24no complaints so far of multiple voting according to the main local
0:06:24 > 0:06:30observation group. Turnout seemed low. It has been quiet here at this
0:06:30 > 0:06:38high school. Election officials are nibbling around without a lot to do.
0:06:38 > 0:06:42They say there's been like this for most of the day. Only one person has
0:06:42 > 0:06:47come here in the last 30 minutes to cast their vote. Was a result
0:06:47 > 0:06:50expected this week, Liberians are looking forward to the outcome. This
0:06:50 > 0:06:54is the first time in over 70 years that this country has set the stage
0:06:54 > 0:06:57for a peaceful transfer of power from one elected president to
0:06:57 > 0:06:59another.
0:06:59 > 0:07:02A British woman has been sentenced to three years in an Egyptian prison
0:07:02 > 0:07:05after being found guilty of smuggling drugs into the country.
0:07:05 > 0:07:07Laura Plummer, who's 33 and from England's north,
0:07:07 > 0:07:10was arrested in October when she was found carrying 290
0:07:10 > 0:07:12tablets of the painkiller, Tramadol, in her suitcase.
0:07:12 > 0:07:20Daniela Relph reports.
0:07:20 > 0:07:23Laura Plummer's family and friends say she is naive,
0:07:23 > 0:07:24not a criminal.
0:07:24 > 0:07:26But today the 33-year-old shop worker from Hull is beginning
0:07:26 > 0:07:30a three-year sentence in jail in Egypt.
0:07:30 > 0:07:32Her mother, Roberta, and her Egyptian partner,
0:07:32 > 0:07:34Omar Caboo, have been at court to support her
0:07:34 > 0:07:42during the hearings this week.
0:07:42 > 0:07:45Laura Plummer had been travelling to the Red Sea resort of Hurghada
0:07:45 > 0:07:47to visit Omar in October when she was stopped
0:07:47 > 0:07:48by the authorities.
0:07:48 > 0:07:51In her suitcase were 290 tramadol tablets, a painkiller which is legal
0:07:52 > 0:07:54on prescription in Britain, but banned in Egypt.
0:07:54 > 0:07:56She said the tablets were for her partner,
0:07:56 > 0:07:59who suffers from severe back pain, but she was arrested and has been
0:07:59 > 0:08:09held since then in a communal cell with up to 25 women.
0:08:09 > 0:08:11Her family at home in Hull have described today's
0:08:11 > 0:08:12sentence as horrendous.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15She's just a normal girl who works in Hull.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17She just sells clothes, she comes home, she watches telly
0:08:17 > 0:08:19and she goes to bed.
0:08:19 > 0:08:21She doesn't drink, she doesn't smoke, she doesn't do anything.
0:08:22 > 0:08:23She lives to go to Egypt.
0:08:23 > 0:08:24She loves Egypt.
0:08:24 > 0:08:25She loves the Egyptian people.
0:08:25 > 0:08:27She's in love with Omar.
0:08:27 > 0:08:29We cannot believe this has happened to her.
0:08:29 > 0:08:44We are absolutely devastated.
0:08:44 > 0:08:48Her supporters say she has been let down by the country she has loved.
0:08:48 > 0:08:51This woman doesn't deserve to be incarcerated in an Egyptian prison
0:08:51 > 0:08:54and, to be honest with you, as much as I respect the customs
0:08:54 > 0:08:57of Egypt and the laws and the judiciary and everything
0:08:57 > 0:08:59else, this will put people off travelling on holiday
0:09:00 > 0:09:02to Egypt in the future, and I think the Egyptian authorities
0:09:03 > 0:09:05need to be mindful of that.
0:09:05 > 0:09:07The Egyptian legal system is complex.
0:09:07 > 0:09:09Laura Plummer will now appeal against the three-year sentence,
0:09:09 > 0:09:12a jail term her family say is shocking and unjust.
0:09:12 > 0:09:24Daniela Relph, BBC News.
0:09:24 > 0:09:27The United States has placed sanctions on two North Korean
0:09:27 > 0:09:28officials, Kim Jong-sik and Ri Pyong-chol, over
0:09:29 > 0:09:30the country's nuclear programme.
0:09:30 > 0:09:33The US treasury says both men were key leaders of North Korea's
0:09:33 > 0:09:34ballistic missile programme.
0:09:34 > 0:09:36The UN Security Council imposed new sanctions on North Korea
0:09:36 > 0:09:39on Friday in response to ballistic missile tests.
0:09:39 > 0:09:43North Korea said the move was "an act of war."
0:09:43 > 0:09:47A heavy snow storm on the island of Sakhalin in Russia's Far East has
0:09:47 > 0:09:50caused severe disruption.
0:09:50 > 0:09:53The authorities have opened mobile 'warming centres' for pedestrians,
0:09:53 > 0:09:57many of whom were forced to walk after public transport
0:09:57 > 0:09:58all but ground to a halt.
0:09:58 > 0:10:01A pensioner is recovering in hospital after being blown
0:10:01 > 0:10:01off a balcony.
0:10:02 > 0:10:11The airport and the ferry service with the mainland were closed.
0:10:11 > 0:10:14Angry Kosovans have hung hundreds of neckties on the fence outside
0:10:14 > 0:10:16the government's headquarters on Tuesday.
0:10:16 > 0:10:18It's after Prime Minister Ramush Haradi-naj said he was justified
0:10:19 > 0:10:21in doubling his own salary, because wearing smart clothes
0:10:21 > 0:10:29was part of his job.
0:10:29 > 0:10:32He sparked outrage by passing a measure raising his
0:10:32 > 0:10:34salary from about $1800 to $3,500 a month.
0:10:34 > 0:10:37A Peruvian football official accused of taking bribes has been cleared
0:10:37 > 0:10:39by a jury in the US.
0:10:39 > 0:10:41Manuel Burga, who led football in Peru until 2014,
0:10:41 > 0:10:44was accused of taking cash in exchange for distributing
0:10:44 > 0:10:45marketing and media rights to matches.
0:10:45 > 0:10:48Two other South American football officials were convicted by the same
0:10:48 > 0:10:55jury on Friday.
0:10:55 > 0:10:57Peru is divided over the legacy of its former president,
0:10:57 > 0:10:58Alberto Fujimori.
0:10:58 > 0:11:01Some see him as the man who saved Peru from economic
0:11:01 > 0:11:03collapse and communism.
0:11:03 > 0:11:05To others, he was a ruthless autocrat who authorised
0:11:05 > 0:11:15death squad killings.
0:11:15 > 0:11:18He had been serving a 25-year prison term for human rights abuses.
0:11:18 > 0:11:20But the current President, Pedro Pablo Kuczynski,
0:11:20 > 0:11:22has granted him a medical pardon.
0:11:22 > 0:11:25In a video posted to Facebook, Fujimori said he's deeply grateful.
0:11:34 > 0:11:38TRANSLATION:This has had a strong impact on me. I have had mixed mixed
0:11:38 > 0:11:42feelings of extreme joy and sorrow. I am aware that the results produced
0:11:42 > 0:11:46by my government were well received by some at a whole I recognise that
0:11:46 > 0:11:50I have let others down. To them, I ask forgiveness from the bottom of
0:11:50 > 0:11:51my heart.
0:11:51 > 0:11:54Michael Reid is a senior editor on Latin America at The Economist.
0:11:54 > 0:11:59He joined me from Lima a short time ago and I asked him what the mood
0:11:59 > 0:12:01is like there.
0:12:01 > 0:12:07It came as a huge surprise to people. Demonstrators took to the
0:12:07 > 0:12:11streets on Christmas Day in large numbers and I think there will be
0:12:11 > 0:12:16continuing protest. Just as important is the reaction and
0:12:16 > 0:12:18political opinion here and internationally.As you mentioned
0:12:18 > 0:12:24here is a divisive figure and many protesters believe this pardon was
0:12:24 > 0:12:29somehow a legally wrought about. What is the general opinion among
0:12:29 > 0:12:35the people you speak to.It was always going to be controversial. He
0:12:35 > 0:12:42has been in jail for over ten years. He was found guilty in an exemplary
0:12:42 > 0:12:50process of human rights violations. But the circumstances in which the
0:12:50 > 0:12:56pardon came about are quite suspicious too many Peruvians
0:12:56 > 0:13:01because it came three days after a vote in Congress in which President
0:13:01 > 0:13:10Kuczynski survived an attempt to impeach him, thanks to the
0:13:10 > 0:13:16abstention of ten Congress members supported of Fujimori. It looks too
0:13:16 > 0:13:23many Peruvians like a sordid quid pro quo, however much the government
0:13:23 > 0:13:27proclaims that its main motivation was that it was worried for the
0:13:27 > 0:13:32deteriorating health of the iMac and did not want him to die in jail.To
0:13:32 > 0:13:36what extent do you think the current government and President Kuczynski
0:13:36 > 0:13:40is in a weakened state as a result of this?He is in an extremely
0:13:40 > 0:13:46weakened state. There is no doubt about that. Were -- he only just
0:13:46 > 0:13:53survived the attempt to impeach him, which was, one must say, an attempt
0:13:53 > 0:13:59at political vengeance by the Fujimori majority in Congress. He
0:13:59 > 0:14:04has only a small group of supporters in Congress. He did survive that
0:14:04 > 0:14:12vote by appealing to the country as a Democrat who is being faced with a
0:14:12 > 0:14:18Parliamentary coup by what he saw or what he portrayed as an undemocratic
0:14:18 > 0:14:22group of Fujimori supporters. Those who gave him the benefit of the
0:14:22 > 0:14:26doubt and supported him, many of them now feel that he betrayed them
0:14:26 > 0:14:32by immediately turning around and pardoning Fujimori.
0:14:32 > 0:14:37This is BBC World News. Stay with us because still to come, Australia
0:14:37 > 0:14:43rules of the Ashes. After winning the series their batsmen make the
0:14:43 > 0:14:51English visitors were card in the fourth test. -- work hard.
0:14:51 > 0:14:53We saw this enormous tidal wave approaching the beach,
0:14:53 > 0:14:56and people started to run, and suddenly it was complete chaos.
0:14:56 > 0:14:59The United States troops have been trying to overthrow the dictatorship
0:14:59 > 0:15:00of General Manuel Noriega.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03The Pentagon said the operation had been 90% successful
0:15:03 > 0:15:05but it's failed in its principal objective -
0:15:05 > 0:15:06to capture General Noriega
0:15:06 > 0:15:11and take him to the US to face drugs charges.
0:15:11 > 0:15:13The hammer and sickle was hastily taken away.
0:15:13 > 0:15:16The Russian flag was hoisted over what is now no longer
0:15:17 > 0:15:17the Soviet Union,
0:15:17 > 0:15:21but the Commonwealth of Independent States.
0:15:21 > 0:15:23Day breaks slowly over Lockerbie,
0:15:23 > 0:15:26over the cockpit of Pan Am's Maid of the Seas,
0:15:26 > 0:15:27nosedown in the soft earth.
0:15:27 > 0:15:30You could see what happens when a plane eight storeys high,
0:15:30 > 0:15:35a football pitch wide, falls from 30,000 feet.
0:15:35 > 0:15:36Christmas has returned to Albania
0:15:36 > 0:15:38after a Communist ban lasting more than 20 years.
0:15:38 > 0:15:41Thousands went to midnight mass in the town of Shkroda
0:15:41 > 0:15:49where there were anti-Communist riots ten days ago.
0:15:52 > 0:15:56This is BBC World News.
0:15:56 > 0:15:59The latest headlines:
0:15:59 > 0:16:02Vladimir Putin's supporters nominate him to run as an independent
0:16:02 > 0:16:03candidate in next year's elections.
0:16:03 > 0:16:07His political rival is barred from standing.
0:16:07 > 0:16:09Votes are being counted in Liberia's Presidential election,
0:16:09 > 0:16:12where former World Footballer of the Year, George Weah,
0:16:12 > 0:16:19is seeking the country's top job.
0:16:19 > 0:16:21Now to some action from the Ashes.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24Australia opener, David Warner, struck a century, as England endured
0:16:24 > 0:16:27a tough time in the field on the opening day of
0:16:27 > 0:16:28the Boxing Day Test in Melbourne.
0:16:28 > 0:16:31Warner dazzled with some fine stroke-play in a one-sided morning
0:16:31 > 0:16:34session against an England side that looked flattened after surrendering
0:16:34 > 0:16:35the Ashes in Perth.
0:16:35 > 0:16:38The tourists fought back and Warner could have been dismissed on 99,
0:16:38 > 0:16:41only for Tom Curran to be denied his maiden Test wicket
0:16:41 > 0:16:49when replays showed that he had overstepped.
0:16:49 > 0:16:51The BBC's Patrick Gearey is in Melbourne for us,
0:16:51 > 0:16:54and I asked him if Australia was looking to take home
0:16:54 > 0:17:04their advantage today.
0:17:04 > 0:17:10They are. That is because who they are going up against. Steve Smith,
0:17:10 > 0:17:17the immovable object, the omens are not good for him. The last time he
0:17:17 > 0:17:23was out on a test match on this this ground was in 2014. He scored 434
0:17:23 > 0:17:28runs since that dismissal, and is averaging 140 on this ground. That
0:17:28 > 0:17:32is even more than the great Sir Donald Bradman, the best there ever
0:17:32 > 0:17:38was. 65 not out, Smith. England will be desperate to get rid of them
0:17:38 > 0:17:42early on the second day. To their credit, they did well on the first
0:17:42 > 0:17:49day after the swashbuckling century from David Warner. But things will
0:17:49 > 0:17:52not get easier for them on the second day. The temperature is
0:17:52 > 0:17:57expected to reach 35 degrees, really high, not the weather you want to
0:17:57 > 0:18:03run in. Australia will feel they can back them out. It will be an
0:18:03 > 0:18:11endurance test for the bowlers and fielders.The sunny day having an
0:18:11 > 0:18:16impact.It has been a great day for the home crowd. There has been
0:18:16 > 0:18:20criticism of the pitch at the Melbourne Cricket Grounds. There
0:18:20 > 0:18:28has. It is called a drop-in pitch. That is because it is all so use for
0:18:28 > 0:18:32AFL. It has been criticised for being slow and flat. Shane Warne, a
0:18:32 > 0:18:39man of Melbourne, called it flat as an ironing board. Jimmy Anderson
0:18:39 > 0:18:45said it was not the right surface for a contest for the big crowds at
0:18:45 > 0:18:50the MCG. If you are to take wickets on this pitch, you have to bowl
0:18:50 > 0:18:54defensively and dry up runs. That is not a thrilling spectacle. Whichever
0:18:54 > 0:18:59side wins, they will have to fight hard. That victory will be earned in
0:18:59 > 0:19:08sweat.
0:19:08 > 0:19:11English footballer, Harry Kane, has set a new record of 39 goals
0:19:11 > 0:19:14in the Premier League in a calendar year, doing it in style,
0:19:14 > 0:19:16with a hat trick at Wembley.
0:19:16 > 0:19:19Kane headed in a free kick from Christian Erikson to give
0:19:19 > 0:19:21Tottenham Hotspur a 1-0 lead over Southampton and break
0:19:21 > 0:19:22Alan Shearer's 22-year-old record.
0:19:23 > 0:19:26A second goal followed just before half time as he swept
0:19:26 > 0:19:27in across from Son Heung-min.
0:19:27 > 0:19:30And midway through the second half, Son was again provider,
0:19:30 > 0:19:32as Kane completed his hat trick with a delicate chip
0:19:32 > 0:19:33over the keeper.
0:19:33 > 0:19:36That takes his haul for club and country to 56 goals,
0:19:36 > 0:19:40making him the leading goalscorer in Europe for 2017.
0:19:40 > 0:19:42Earlier, the BBC spoke to Bradley Allen.
0:19:42 > 0:19:46He has been a coach at Spurs for 13 years and coached Harry Kane
0:19:46 > 0:19:47as a youngster.
0:19:47 > 0:19:49He also witnessed Harry Kane make history at Wembley
0:19:49 > 0:19:51as a co-commentator for BBC Radio London.
0:19:51 > 0:19:54My colleague Geeta Guru-murthy began by asking him what he made
0:19:54 > 0:20:01of his new record?
0:20:02 > 0:20:08It is a remarkable achievement. Something all of Tottenham Hotspur
0:20:08 > 0:20:17is' supporters and the academy and those who worked with Harry Kane on
0:20:17 > 0:20:22this incredible journey, they have loved it and it has been an
0:20:22 > 0:20:27outstanding year.Has anyone heard from him since?I have not had the
0:20:27 > 0:20:33opportunity to actually watch him live this afternoon, working on my
0:20:33 > 0:20:46media capacity. I have seen develop and have worked with him as a 14-15
0:20:46 > 0:20:57year old kid. He has become a great footballer. This is just the number
0:20:57 > 0:21:04visible achievement.Did you spot it early? Were the signs there?He
0:21:04 > 0:21:11showed glimpses. One of the biggest compliment I could give him if he
0:21:11 > 0:21:18was just a fantastic learner. -- compliments. It is just a small part
0:21:18 > 0:21:30the coaches have played along the way. He deserves a lot of credit.
0:21:30 > 0:21:38The new club owner has allowed him to blossom.Can you explain what it
0:21:38 > 0:21:50is he does so well? Strength? Speed? Skill? What makes him so good?Any
0:21:50 > 0:21:55idea he was given, he would be prepared to work on those aspects of
0:21:55 > 0:22:02his game and more, you know? I think a player of Frank Lampard's
0:22:02 > 0:22:07attitude. Frank Lampard really got the maximum amount of the ability
0:22:07 > 0:22:13that he had. The same with young Harry Kane. You know? He comes from
0:22:13 > 0:22:19a tremendously stable and supportive family. He is just a lovely and
0:22:19 > 0:22:24humble young man. He is a credit to himself and the people around him.
0:22:24 > 0:22:28How big is his future career potentially, do you think?His
0:22:28 > 0:22:33achievement is exceptional. I think Tottenham supporters will be hoping
0:22:33 > 0:22:39in a few years, with the new stadium on the horizon in the fascinating,
0:22:39 > 0:22:48that Harry Kane will play his best football. -- in 2018. You have the
0:22:48 > 0:22:53World Cup in Russia next summer, of course. And to be truly regarded as
0:22:53 > 0:23:06one of the greats, Harry would most definitely know he would have to
0:23:06 > 0:23:09achieve and produce at the biggest tournament. He will be looking
0:23:09 > 0:23:12forward to that. First and foremost, he loves playing for Tottenham
0:23:12 > 0:23:14Hotspur. He thoroughly enjoys scoring goals.
0:23:14 > 0:23:16Formula One World Champion, Lewis Hamilton, has apologised
0:23:16 > 0:23:18after sharing a video, on Instagram criticising his nephew
0:23:19 > 0:23:31for wearing a dress.
0:23:31 > 0:23:34In the video, which has since been deleted, the driver says "boys don't
0:23:35 > 0:23:35wear princess dresses."
0:23:35 > 0:23:38The post was then the subject of an online backlash.
0:23:38 > 0:23:41Hamilton later made an apology in a series of tweets,
0:23:41 > 0:23:42calling his behaviour unacceptable.
0:23:42 > 0:23:45Out of all the photographers waiting to snap a picture of the royal
0:23:45 > 0:23:48family at the Christmas Day service in Sandringham,
0:23:48 > 0:23:51it was a mum from Norfolk who managed to capture the perfect
0:23:51 > 0:23:52image on her phone.
0:23:52 > 0:23:55The photograph taken by Karen Murdoch has now been used
0:23:55 > 0:23:57by publications from all over the world.
0:23:57 > 0:23:57Mike Cartwright reports.
0:23:57 > 0:24:00The photograph that's gone everywhere.
0:24:00 > 0:24:04The picture that everybody wanted.
0:24:04 > 0:24:10Taken, not by the press pack or a royal photographer,
0:24:10 > 0:24:11but Karen at Sandringham with her daughter
0:24:11 > 0:24:12on her phone.
0:24:12 > 0:24:15The two of them and their dog, Luna, back there today.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17That picture, all over the papers.
0:24:17 > 0:24:19It wasn't intentional, it was just that it captured
0:24:19 > 0:24:22the right moment at that time, and there was no planning,
0:24:23 > 0:24:25it was just fun.
0:24:25 > 0:24:25It was lovely.
0:24:26 > 0:24:28I caught the moment, and it was great.
0:24:28 > 0:24:30Somewhere in the crowd, the two had been here
0:24:30 > 0:24:31on Christmas Day before.
0:24:31 > 0:24:34But they wanted to see Meghan.
0:24:34 > 0:24:37Walking to church, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge,
0:24:37 > 0:24:43Prince Harry and Meghan Markle.
0:24:43 > 0:24:48Karen never dreamt she'd scoop this.
0:24:48 > 0:24:50A picture that may go down in history, and now,
0:24:50 > 0:24:52help pay her daughter's college fees.
0:24:52 > 0:24:56I don't know how much I am expected to get.
0:24:56 > 0:24:57A bit, I've been told.
0:24:57 > 0:25:00Anything.
0:25:00 > 0:25:03For me, when somebody said, £50, I was like, "Yes!
0:25:03 > 0:25:03Yes!
0:25:03 > 0:25:0450 quid!
0:25:04 > 0:25:07But it's going to go on my daughter.
0:25:07 > 0:25:10I work on my daughter, she's my pride and joy.
0:25:10 > 0:25:12Oh, I think it's fantastic.
0:25:12 > 0:25:14I think my mum deserves it.
0:25:14 > 0:25:17I know she didn't do it intentionally, but good things
0:25:17 > 0:25:18happen to good people.
0:25:18 > 0:25:21Now shared dozens of times on social media, that moment captured
0:25:21 > 0:25:24by Karen in the right place at the right time.
0:25:25 > 0:25:27Mike Cartwright, BBC Look East.
0:25:27 > 0:25:29Several people, including six children, remain in a serious
0:25:30 > 0:25:31condition in hospital after a fireworks explosion
0:25:31 > 0:25:34at a popular Cuban carnival on Christmas Eve.
0:25:34 > 0:25:36Amateur video captured the incident in which injured 39 people
0:25:36 > 0:25:38in the central town of Remedios.
0:25:38 > 0:25:41The centuries-old Parrandas festival takes place every year and draws
0:25:41 > 0:25:42thousands of Cubans and tourists.
0:25:42 > 0:26:04Authorities say the cause of the explosion is being investigated.
0:26:04 > 0:26:04That is