in the last few minutes, prince harry has withdrawn his libel action against the associated newspapers. hello, i m matthew amroliwala, welcome to verified live, before we turn to the headline stories, i want to show you pictures coming from japan. in the next 20 minutes, we are going to see if all goes well, japan is set to make a latest attempt at a soft touch down on the moon. it is the smart lander investigating the moon, it is known as slim, it is hoping to touch down in about 20 minutes time. it is very difficult to land on earth s natural satellite safely, about half of all attempts have succeeded. now slim is set to begin descent manoeuvres from an altitude of about 15 kilometres about now, that process is supposed to be starting now, and if all goes well the craft will touch down on the lunar surface in 20 minutes time. we will take you through all of that here on bbc news in the next 15 minutes, so do stay with us and we will have plenty more on that attempted land
who were captured by hamas on october 7th. what now for ukraine, after hungary s prime minister blocks a 55 billion dollar eu aid package and threatens to pull the handbrake on future payments? hundreds gather at sydney opera house to remember comedy superstar barry humphries. welcome to verified live. let me show you the pictures from outside the home of the former daily mirror editor piers morgan. we are expecting a statement from him in the next few minutes. it comes after prince harry won his phone hacking case against the publishers of the daily mirror. 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. we will return to that story in a moment. i also want to show you pictures from toulouse. we expect an update on that extraordinary story that broke 2a hours ago that the british teenager alex batty, do you back in the uk in the next few days after he was found in franc
anthony albanese takes to twitter to pay tribute to barry humphries, calling him one of a kind and gifted . a deadly restaurant fire in madrid. two people have died and 12 others are injured. we and 12 others are injured. will be live at the scenei very we will be live at the scene for the very latest. and eyes are on hollywood star owned wrexham, which hopes to return to the english football league for the first time in 15 years. we start in sudan, where the army says foreign nationals from the uk as well as the united states, france and china, are to be evacuated in the coming hours . these are saudi state tv pictures of a boat reported to be carrying saudi citizens and some other nationals arriving injeddah, across the red sea from sudan. other ships are said to be due to dock injeddah later. the head of sudan s military agreed to facilitate the evacuation, as fighting in the capital khartoum enters its second week. the saudi broadcaster says the evacuees were carried
has not changed. officers are able to be as brutal as they want, and nobody holds them to account. and until that happens, there s no way the police are going to move forward. in the us, fox news comes to a 600 million pound settlement with the voting machine company dominion over its reporting of the 2020 presidential election. and ukraine s eurovision hopefuls happy to pose for selfies but the war is never far from their minds. and coming up on bbc news, manchester have one foot in the champions league semi finals as they go to germany with a 3 0 lead, aiming to finish the job against bayern munich. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. soaring prices for bread, cereal and chocolate meant the cost of living rose more than expected last month. inflation, which measures the rate at which prices are going up, was at 10.1% in the year to march. that is down from 10.4% in february, but it had been widely expected to fall below 10%. food prices have remained stubbo