extent of the damage. but this morning, you can the rocket has completely ripped into the back of the shopping centre here. you can see it s completely folded. and at london s high court, the case of the footballers wives rebekah vardy denies leaking information to the press, as she gave evidence in her libel action against coleen rooney. live from singapore. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and 3.30am in colombo where security forces have been ordered to shoot anyone seen looting or damaging public property, in the latest attempt to stop anti government protests. in sri in sri lanka. since last month, the country been rocked by demonstrations over soaring prices, power cuts, and a lack of medicines. demonstrators are calling for the resignation of president gotabaya rajapaksa. his brother, mahinda rajapaksa, stepped down as prime minister on monday, following violent street clashes. protesters have defied
parliament. and vardy versus rooney but this time in the high court. the so called wagatha christie trial gets under way. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 4.30am in sri lanka where security forces have been ordered to shoot anyone seen looting or damaging public property, in the latest attempt to stop anti government protests. since last month, the country has been rocked by demonstrations over soaring prices, power cuts, and a lack of medicines. demonstrators are calling for the resignation of president gotabaya rajapaksa. his brother, mahinda rajapaksa, stepped down as prime minister on monday following violent street clashes. protesters have defied an island wide curfew, and at least eight people have died and 200 have been injured as our correspondent rajini vaidyanathan reports from colombo. a capital under curfew. troops told to shoot at sight at anyone who damages public property or threatens lives. the
much anticipated trial, which her legal team have summed up as being about betrayal. one minute later, rebekah vardy, who is suing herfor libel, strode in. both women very used to cameras, but not the courtroom. inside, coleen rooney sat next to her husband at one end of the front bench. no more than ten feet away was rebekah vardy. there was almost zero eye contact between the two former friends. at the 2016 euros, they had cheered on england together from the stands. but everything changed in october 2019, when coleen rooney did some online detective work to investigate who was leaking information about her to the press. she wrote three fictitious tales on her private instagram stories, including ones about returning to tv and their basement flooding to see if they would end up in the sun and they did. only then did coleen reveal, after the use of 10 dots to ramp up the tension, that the one account she d allowed access to read them was rebekah vardy s. in court today, we heard the
in the sun, and indeed they did. only then did coleen reveal, after the use of ten dots to ramp up the tension that the one account she had allowed access to read them was rebekah vardy s. in court today we heard the details of rebekah vardy s case, that she had been left with no choice but to bring this libel claim to establish her innocence and validate her reputation. it was stressed that this legal battle was being reported as entertainment but, in fact, it had had a hugely damaging impact on rebekah vardy s life. and then it was the turn of coleen rooney s legal team to set out her case. they claimed that rebekah vardy s agent had leaked the stories, and that this was like hiring a hit man although rebekah vardy hadn t pulled the trigger, she was still responsible. they also accuse rebekah vardy s team of widespread and significant loss of evidence, including a phone being dropped into the north sea. towards the end of the day rebekah vardy was questioned