the actor stephen tompkinson tells a court it would be career suicide for him to assault someone as he denies inflicting grievous bodily harm. # instead i wrote a song. and they re off heading to liverpool for the first eurovision semifinal tonight before saturday s big showdown. and coming up in bbc news. manchester city fans are building up to their champions league semifinal with real madrid in spain. it is a repeat of last year when the spanish side put them out. good evening. the head of the metropolitan police has insisted they had serious and reliable intelligence that protesters had planned to disrupt the coronation on saturday. sir mark rowley says they had intelligence that rape alarms and loud hailers were going to be used which would have frightened horses during the procession. he spoke out to defend officers who arrested and detained six anti monarchy demonstrators, the first arrests to be made under the sweeping public order act. but scotland yard now say
is the army said the target was an anti ms. also. live now to our middle east correspondent, yolande knell. more strikes number. at least 15 people have been killed in gaza through the course of the day. that air strike a few hours ago was in the south of the gaza strip. two men were killed in their car and you can see in pictures, that car was on fire. the is really military says that they were transporting anti tank missiles but it s a confusing picture because don t militant group in gaza has said they were members of their organisation. there are some local sources saying that perhaps these two men were just relatives who were farmers in that area. at the same time, we ve had the israeli prime minister coming out in the past two hours, speaking about israel s operation in the gaza strip, saying that he had ordered that cherry action as early as last week in response to the rocket fire that took place just over a week ago. he said the idea was that this cuts off the top of
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Beco i was born here, i grew up here. I see whats happening with this judicial system. And is all kangaroos. To rule from the bench and determine its a witch hunt. It needs decisiveness. We have phenomenal we have won the case many standard. John thats a look as they return to the courtroom as the Criminal Trial enters its final stretch. About one hour and 15 minutes away from that lom don roberts in washington. Here we go again, sandra. Sandra we do, im sandra smith in new york and this is america reports. Witness testimony has wrapped, both sides have rested their cases. We await the ever important Jury Instructions. The judge to hear arguments from the prosecution and defense teams on exactly how the jury should be charged before they had into deliberations. Sandra we have an allstar team of legal and political voices to take us through the next two hours. John first the former federal prosecutor trey gaudi has been in the courtroom all morning and, trey, if they wrap up the case no
the general election. disappointment for england as denmark cancel out harry kane s opener with the two countries drawing 1 1 at the euros in frankfurt the actor donald sutherland known for his roles in klute and ordinary people has died aged 88 after a long illness. this is bbc news, hello, i m russ adkins, welcome to the spin room at the university of york, under 30 minutes away from bbc question time leaders special, lots of people rather than in the spin room, some politicians, lots ofjournalists get into roach and respond to the two hours will hear from leaders under question time audience. let me redo some copy coming into the bbc news room that may be of interest. certainly if you re following the election campaign. so the former conservative minister chris skidmore said he would vote labour and is accusing the prime minister rishi sunak of cider with climate deniers, he was on for various measures to tackle climate change. he s accusing the conservatives of extrem