Contestants says they will not do the final rehearsal. Almost 2,000 people have been evacuated from ukraine s Kharkiv Region a day after russia sent troops across the north east border. And the most powerful solar storm in 21 years triggers spectacular celestial light shows in many parts of the world. Hello and welcome to bbc news. We start this with the order by the Israeli Military for more residents in the city of rafah in the Southern Gaza strip to leave neighbourhoods in the east. The israelis have declared a narrow coastal strip at al mawasi to be a safe humanitarian zone but the un says it has no Running Water or proper sanitation. Says it has no Running Water or propersanitation. Israel says it has no Running Water or proper sanitation. Israel is planning an assault on Hamas Fighters In Rafah and has ordered Tens Of Thousands more residents from eastern districts of the city to leave. Evacuation orders have also been issued for thousands of people in parts of northern gaza. Las
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Im Maryam Moshiri live in malmo outside the arena where the Eurovision Grand Final will be taking place. Some Breaking News now, and the dutch Artistjoost Klein has been disqualified from the Eurovision Song Contest. This all happened after the contestant, joost klein, the dutch contestant, joost klein, the dutch contestant was disqualified from the competition after what the ebu, the organisers describe as an incident just before one of the rehearsals yesterday. Confusion was around this area yesterday when people were told he wouldnt be performing and yet no one really knew exactly the reason why. Now we are hearing from the dutch press that the Swedish Police have confirmed there is an investigation ongoing into an incident involving joost klein and a team member, a member of crew at the malmo arena. Lets get more on all of this. Adrian bradley. You have been in the media centre for the whole of this week practically, what are people saying about this
Tonights Eurovision Song Contest final . And the most powerful solar storm in 21 years triggers spectacular celestial light shows in many parts of the world. Hello, im sarah campbell. Israel has called on residents in new parts of Eastern Rafah in the gaza strip to evacuate and head to what it describes as a humanitarian zone on the coast. The move comes as a un official warns that supplies are hitting the bottom of the barrel with no aid able to enter via gazas southern Border Crossings. This is the scene live at a location which has been labelled an expanded humanitarian area by the Israel Defence forces. In a separate Evacuation Order on monday, thousands were told to leave rafah, ahead of what israel called a limited operation. Theres been fighting in parts since. These developments have happened as a long awaited Us Government report has criticised israels use of american supplied weapons in the gaza war, saying its reasonable to assess they have been used in breach of Internation
You are watching bbc news. Lets return to our Breaking News that the dutch artist, joost klein, has been disqualified from the Eurovision Song Contest after a backstage incident. Police are investigating a complaint made against the singer by a female member of the production team. The organiser of the event, the european broadcasting union, said it would not be appropriate for him to continue in the contest. The dutch broadcaster said it was shot by the decision, describing it as disproportionate. Joost klein had qualified at the malmo, with his song, europapa, a tribute to his late parents. We will bring you more on that with Maryam Moshiri. Here in the uk , a Police Officer has been shot in the leg with a crossbow in buckinghamshire. After responding to a reported stabbing in high wycombe last night. Our reporter frances read has the latest from the scene well, the Police Officer was apparently responding to reports of a stabbing in this area when he was then shot in the leg with a
Earlier on today. Tonight the jury final takes place, that means all the 26 acts will sing for the jewellery. Today all the acts were going through their rehearsals in the order that they would do them on the order that they would do them on the actual night tonight. For some reason, the skip past the dutch act, joost klein. There was no indication given as to why this happened, now indication other than there was an incident involved a dutch act, which was why she couldnt contain to do the rehearsal. The props for his shout was on stage when a decision was taken. Earlier there was a little bit of an incident during a Press Conference of the israeli delegation and joost klein. Lets have a little listen to this. You will Hearjoost Klein asking eden golan, the israeli at a question. Have you ever thought that you bring risk to have you ever thought that you bring risk to other participants and the public risk to other participants and the public prayers you dont have to answer public pra