by her three heirs. prince louis lapped up the proceedings. a colourful pageant closed the celebrations. it marked each of the queen s decades on the throne. tens of thousands of street parties also took place across the uk even though many had to wrap up against the weather. despite the rain everyone s got a smile on their face and everyone s just happy, full of energy as well, it s brilliant. and also coming up on tonight s programme. he on tonight s programme. lines it up and gets it ir gareth bale ends a 64 year wait for wales to get to a world cup russian missiles strike ukraine s capital for the first time in more than a month. in bangladesh an explosion and fire at a storage depot kills at least 49 people. and a century from joe root takes england to victory in the first test against new zealand at lord s. good evening from buckingham palace, where the queen has most sincerely thanked the many people who thronged the streets to celebrate her platinum jubilee. in a st
was found guilty of fraud and money laundering last month. also in november, the ceo of binance, the world s largest cryptocurrency exchange, pleaded guilty to anti money laundering and us sanctions violations. he paid a $50 million fine and the company paid a $4.3 billion fine. but bitcoin, it seems, is no worse for the wear. the price climbed above $44,000 tuesday and shares of coinbase global, the largest us crypto exchange, were up as well. bitcoin miners traded higher too. here s some of the wind in their sails. us regulators are expected to approve an exchange traded fund that directly holds bitcoin. it could happen as early as next month and traders are betting on it. data out overnight said higher interest rates are causing businesses to cut costs including recruiting new workers. we re nearly half way in to this year s round of climate talks known as cop28 and there seems to have been progress on some deals already. under one agreement, 110 governments have commi
good morning. a frosty and foggy start to the day to day. some freezing fog will linger for much of the day. the sunnier skies will be the day. the sunnier skies will be the further east you travel. a return to wet and windy conditions in the west. all the details later on in the programme. it s wednesday, the 6th of december. our main story. the former prime minister boris johnson will give evidence to the covid inquiry today and face two days of questions about his time leading the uk during the pandemic. he s expected to apologise to people who lost loved ones but claim that he and his government got the big decisions right. our correspondent ellie price reports. from this evening, i must give the british people a very simple instruction. you must stay at home. in the end, it was his call. he was responsible for the biggest decisions made during the pandemic. that is why people will only be allowed to leave their home. but how he came to make those decisions will be at the
recently released hamas hostages and the families of those still being held that currently it was not possible to bring all the captive israelis back. meanwhile, more details are emerging of the 7 october attack. the bbc has been hearing evidence that women in israel were sexually assaulted, raped and mutilated by hamas. israeli investigators have gathered more than a thousand testimonies from witnesses and those who handled the bodies of victims after the attack. our middle east correspondent lucy williamson has more from jerusalem. a warning, her report contains some distressing details. out of the chaos and mass trauma of the hamas attacks, new stories are starting to emerge of rape and sexual assault, including graphic testimony from an eye witness interviewed by police. i realised they were raping her one by one. then she was passed to another man in uniform. she was still alive when she was being raped. the scale of sexual violence here is not clear bodies were muti
and then the collapse of the ftx cyrptocurrency exchange in november 2022, and the ftx founder was found guilty of fraud and money laundering last month. also in november, the ceo of binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange, pleaded guilty to anti money laundering and us sanctions violations and paid a $50 million fine and the company paid a $4.3 billion fine. but bitcoin, it seems, is no worse for the wear. the price climbed above $44,000 tuesday and shares of coinbase global, the largest crypto exchange in the us were up as well. bitcoin minors traded up as well. here are some of the wind in their sails. us regulators are expected to approve an exchange traded fund that directly holds bitcoin. that could happen as early as next month and traders are betting on it. australia s economy barely grew in the third quarter with gdp rising just 0.2%, the slowest growth in a year. households have been cutting back on spending and exports have also been flagging and data further