hello, i m sarah campbell, welcome to the daily global, where we ll bring you the top stories from around the world. we start with prince harry. it s been his second day of being cross examined in the high court. the prince said he found it suspicious, that difficult conversations between him and an ex girlfriend appeared in stories in the daily mirror. the paper s publisher denies using unlawful means to gather information about the duke saying its reports were based on publicly available sources. our culture editor, katie razzall, was in court. the interest in this story shows no sign of waning. for the second day world s media gathered in a cul de sac in central london waiting for the high court s star witness. prince harry arrived here for another bout of cross examination. the mirror group is determined to show he is wrong to claim that articles about him were based on unlawful information gathering. mgn s barrister told him there was not a single item of evidence in the
the prime minister arrives injapan for a summit of g7 world leaders in hiroshima. how exactly do our bodies get older? the bbc s medical editorjoins volunteers being body scanned to reveal the secrets of ageing. # i ll send an 505 to the world and a special honour for sting at the ivor novello awards for songwriting. and coming up on bbc news, frosty conditions delay the start of the second golf major of the year, the us pga at oak hill in new york. good afternoon. water companies in england have apologised for not doing enough to stop sewage from flowing into rivers and seas. last year there were 800 untreated discharges every day on average, which has caused mounting public anger. the water companies have promised to spend £10 billion to put it right by modernising sewers, although it will mean higher bills for customers. our environment correspondentjonah fisher. for years, campaigners have complained about the amount of sewage that flows into our waterways and that profi
Likely a prelude to a new stage of conflict with incredibly high stakes for israel, the palestinians and for the United States and the world. Air strikes in gaza have intensified today ahead of a possible Ground Invasion intended to crush hamas. Nbcs ellison barber captured this video of a steady stream of tanks about two miles from the border with gaza. U. S. Secretary of state Antony Blinken was in israel today reiterating the yaunts decades long and steadfast commitment to israel. Here is what he had to say about the conflict ahead. On the humanitarian situation in gaza, i think its first important to remember fundamental issue that makes this complicated. Hamas continues to use civilians as Human Shields, something thats not new, something that theyve always done, intentionally putting civilians in harms way to try to protect themselves or protect their infrastructure or protect their weapons. So thats one of the basic facts that israel has to deal with. Of course, civilians should
Shirley ballas has been named as the new head judge on strictly come dancing, replacing len goodman. Good morning, its tuesday the 9th of may. Im rachel schofield, welcome to bbc Newsroom Live. The conservatives have vowed to cap Energy Prices if they win the General Election. Under the plans theresa may would give powers to the industry regulator, ofgem, to set a limit for people on standard variable rates. Under the new plans, new powers would be given to ofgem to set a limit for people on standard variable rates. Elsewhere labour leader Jeremy Corbyn is due to formally launch his partys general Election Campaign, where hes expected to say that the issue of Whether Brexit happens has been settled. The uks highest electorate campaigning on the nhs, and the green party is on the Isle Of Wight the uks highest electorate campaigning on the nhs, promising to end what it calls the privatisation experiment. Well be live In Manchester ahead of labours Campaign Launch shortly but first more o
what has happened here. on top of everything else, on top of the occupation. it s a city already on its knees. it s an environmental catastrophe amidst an active war zone and it doesn t get more active than kherson because of where it sits close to the river. but now, of course, the river has come to the city. it s not yet clear what caused the dam in ukraine to fail. although moscow and kyiv blame each other. and the uk ministerial of defence is also avoided pointing blame. the white house says it s too early to say and the uk s ministry of defence has also avoided apportioning blame. so what caused it and who might have done it? 0ur correspondent rajini vaidyanathan has been working with the bbc verify team and is in the verify hub with more. well, the team here at bbc verify have been looking into more detail