and hundreds gather at the sydney opera house to remember the comedy superstar barry humphries. hello, welcome to verified live. prince harry has been awarded £140,000 damages in his phone hacking case against the publishers of the daily mirror. a high courtjudge ruled this morning that on 15 occasions, the duke of sussex was the victim of hacking or other unlawful methods of getting stories about him. in a statement, prince harry said it s a great day for the truth and called on the police to launch a criminal investigation into mirror group newspapers. our media correspondent david sillito reports. this has been a landmark case. prince harry said his life had been blighted by illegal press intrusion and, today, the judge mrjustice fancourt ruled that, yes, his phone had been repeatedly hacked by mirror group newspapers. outside court, a statement was read out on behalf of the duke. today s ruling is vindicating and affirming. i ve been told that slaying dragons will get
for truth, the duke has been repeatedly exposed in recent years as someone who wouldn t know the truth if it slapped him around his california tanned face. also tonight the israeli military expresses deep remorse after it mistakenly shoots dead three hostages being held in gaza. in the us, rudy giuliani donald trump s former lawyer is ordered to pay over £100 million for false claims of vote tampering in the 2020 election. the british boy alex batty found this week after six years french officials give details of what happened to him. and on the eve of the strictly final we hear from the three couples giving it their all in the hope of dance floor glory. on newsnight at10:30. i ve never hacked a phone or told anyone else to hack a phone and nobody has produced any actual evidence to prove that i did. that wasn t the ruling delivered by high courtjudge today. good evening. earlier this year prince harry became the first senior royal of modern times to give extensi
hello, welcome to verified live three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. the us defence secretary, lloyd austin, made a statement at a joint press conference with his israeli counterpart in tel aviv. he met that is really prime minister, lloyd austin said the us commitment to israel was unquestionable. he also met his counterpart in the past hour the pair held a news conference in which amongst other matters he confirmed they discussed the past or future for gaza. israelis and palestinians both deserve a horizon of hope. so the united states continues to believe, as we have under administrations of both parties, that it is in the interest of both israelis and palestinians to move forward toward two states, living side by side in mutual security. here s the israeli defence minister, yoav gallant, who also made a statement following talks with his us counterpart. in northern gaza, our troops have eliminated thousands of terrorist, destroyed mil
i wasn t trying to pull the wool over anyone s eyes, and i regret, and i am sorry, for not saying straight out, yes i am involved. i will be representing the uk at the eurovision song contest! pop star and actor olly alexander is announced as the united kingdom s entry for next year s eurovision song contest. hello, i m tanya beckett israel has opened one of its crossings into gaza to aid for the first time since it began its war and stepped up its siege of the strip. it s hoped the opening of the kerem shalom crossing will double the amount of food and medicine reaching gazans. until now, aid has only been able to reach the territory through the rafah crossing from egypt. aid trucks entering through rafah were mobbed by crowds of people earlier highlighting the growing hunger and desperation in gaza. vehicles were boarded and stripped of their supplies. the un says hungry people helping themselves to food is making it almost impossible for them to distribute aid. israel ke
hello. hello welcome to bbc news. the us national security advisor, jake sullivan, will visit the occupied west bank city of ramallah later on friday, for talks with palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas to discuss issues, including stability in the west bank and the future governance of the gaza strip. it comes after he met the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and other officials in tel aviv on thursday, during which he called for restraint on the war in gaza. the united states has called on israel to scale down its war on hamas in the near future , with president biden urging more to be done to protect civilian lives in gaza. gaza s health ministry says that more than 18,500 people have been killed since the war began. internet and phone networks across gaza had gone down again overnight, according to the region s main telecomms company. and in the last few minutes the israeli military have said its specialforces have recovered the body of a hostage held