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

I'm Alex Ritzen and in the early hours of Monday the 25th of March, these are our main stories.

Russia charges two suspects over the deaths of at least 137 people in the attack on a Moscow concert hall.

It was a big shot because I live nearby and I saw it from my windows. It's horrific.

Ukraine says it struck two Russian ships and the major communications post for Russia's Black Sea fleet in occupied Crimea.

And the supreme leader of the Afghan Taliban defends stoning and public whipping of women.

Also in this... and public whipping of women.

Also in this podcast, more than 130 school children abducted earlier this month in Kaduna State in Nigeria have been freed. And... Here's a group of animals we've had their photographs

in our shoeboxes for all these years trying to figure out who they are and they've been our

mystery animals to realize there is a pattern here. The remarkable discovery of what's thought

to be a new population of killer whales in our seas. Four men, the Russian authorities claim are suspects in the attack on the concert hall on Friday

have appeared in court in Moscow. State media said two of them had been charged with committing

an act of terrorism and that one of them from

Tajikistan had pleaded guilty.

137 people were killed in the massacre at Croker's City Hall.

Flags were lowered across Russia on Sunday as Muscovites donated blood for the wounded.

Our Russia editor Steve Rosenberg reports from Moscow.

This was a country in mourning.

And in shock, across Russia, flags flew at half-mast for the victims of the concert hall

massacre. And at the scene of Friday's attack, Crocus City Hall, the cues grew longer and longer. of Fridays

grew longer and longer. The cues grew longer and longer. The National Day of

Morning experienced most acutely here. There was an outpouring of sympathy, a mountain of tributes to the dead.

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