The red arrows flew over central london, and there were flypasts in edinburgh, cardiff and belfast. Music a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square by vera lynn i may be right i may be wrong but im perfectly willing to swear. And, ahead of a special evening of celebration, well speak to the welsh soprano, katherinejenkins, who has performed a medley of wartime favourites to an empty Royal Albert Hall. In other news, theres to be limited easing of lockdown restrictions in wales. At 5 00, well bring todays Coronavirus Briefing from downing street, led today by the environment secretary, George Eustice. Good afternoon and welcome to this bbc news special. Well be bringing you all the latest on coronavirus with the downing street News Conference at 5pm. But first, a two minute silence has been held across the United Kingdom to commemorate the 75th anniversary of ve day. Events are taking place all day, but public gatherings have been cancelled as the country remains in lockdown because of coro
Business experience is yet to receive the damage. And helping new will. Help workers shipped in from outside to relieve a city overwhelmed by the birth of christ. Christine wonder welcome to the Program Europe is marking 75 years since the end of world war 2 on may 8th 1905 nazi germany surrendered and condition each to allied forces the knowledge the moral events that were planned at the nih the cancelled all scaled back due to the current virus pandemic invented the Royal Air Force red arrows quadrant st to cross the capital skyline training the kind theres all the union jack in scotland Prince Charles laid a wreath at the woman. At balmoral. Meanwhile in france president Emmanuel Khan paid his respects at the tomb of the unknown soldier in paris. And here in berlin the german chancellor Angela Merkel to pawson the ceremony at the main memorial to victims of war and dictatorship. The bell rang out across an empty city to mark the moment. Germanys president fine quite a shrine my and
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To. I am. Thank you for joining us indias Main Opposition Congress party is you to hold a rally in a few hours a contra against a controversial new citizenship law Prime Minister Narendra Modi has defended the legislation which opponents say discriminates against muslims in india large demonstrations were held again in the capital new delhi and several other states on sunday at least 25. 00 people have died in violence since the law was passed in Parliament Earlier this month Elizabeth Warren im is in new delhi where the protests are building. For the last week we have had mass protests across the country against this law they have been mostly led by students by Civil Society now the Main Opposition Party and the of the Congress Party is holding whats expected to be a very large rally right here in the capital new delhi and theyre doing it at the resting place of Mahatma Gandhi they are doing this to emphasize that the countrys founders Mahatma Gandhi. Mary wanted a secular india which
His country will not be able to cope with the influx warning of consequences for europe too also coming up afghanistans president to a struct county appears to have been reelected by a narrow margin in the long delayed results from septembers election but his rival of below below warns he wont concede. Plus firefighters in australia hope of tracon scorching weather will help them battle the massive bushfires raging across vast stretches the country at least 6 people have done and more than 100 homes have been destroyed. Hello im terry martin good to have you with us Syrian Government forces backed by russia and other allies are pushing to retake the it liberates in the last major bit of rebel held territory in syria and hope. Home to 3000000 people tens of thousands are fleeing the violence heading towards turkey turkeys president edge of time fears they could eventually enter turkey which is already home to nearly 3700000 syrians the largest refugee population in the world everyone ha