This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service.

I'm Valerie Sanderson and in the early hours of Monday,

the 3rd of April, these are our main stories.

In Russia, a well-known pro-cremlin military blogger has been killed

in an explosion in a cafe. Some of the world's biggest oil exporting countries say they're

cutting production by a million barrels a day. A French government minister has been

criticised for appearing fully clothed on the cover of Playboy magazine.

Awesome this podcast.

We look back at the life of the influential Japanese composer and music producer,

Ruchi Sakamoto, who's died.

But first, spiders consume each other inside a jar.

That's how President Zelensky's advisor, Mikhail Podoljak,

described events in Russia in the wake of the death in a bomb blast in the St. Petersburg

Cafe of the pro-cremlin military blogger, Vladlin Tatarsky.

Internal terrorism was becoming an instrument of political infighting, he suggested.

The blood and chaos of the ruined cafe in St. Petersburg stood in sharp contrast to

Vladlin Tatarsky's bombastic statement six months ago at a reception in the glittering halls

of the Cremlin.

We'll defeat everyone. We'll kill everyone. We'll rob everyone.

Everything will be as we like.

Police said Vladlin Tatarsky died when a statue with a homemade bomb inside exploded as he was

accepting the gift. Tatarsky had been the star attraction that to get together of a pro-war

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