it s seven in the morning in singapore, and midnight in london, i m monica miller borisjohnson has been referred to the police by the cabinet office, over new claims he may have broken lockdown rules during the pandemic. the allegations have come to light during preparations for the covid public investigation. mrjohnson has replied to the allegations in a statement. in the statement, mrjohnson s team says the assertion by the cabinet office that there have been further covid rule breaches is totally untrue . and says, many will conclude that this has all the hallmarks of yet another politically motivated stitch up. our political correspondent jonathan blake has more on the story. there is no investigation yet to what happened here is the lawyers going to boris johnson s a ministerial diary during the time of the pandemic in the process of preparing evidence for forthcoming public inquiry which will examine the uk s response to the pandemic came across diary entries which w
welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. the former uk prime minister borisjohnson is referred to police over new claims he broke covid lockdown rules. russia says it has defeated insurgents who attacked the belgorod region on the border with ukraine. after receiving a rock star welcome in sydney the indian prime minister prepares for talks with his australian counterpart. spanish police make several arrests in their investigaton of racist abuse aimed at the real madrid footballer, vinicius junior.
our correspondent guy hedgecoe has the latest on the arrests from madrid. age between 18 and 21, all of those arrested are fans of valencia football club these are three individuals who viniciusjunior confronted during sunday s game between real madrid and valencia in the stadium and he was pointing at and telling the referee that they had been racially abusing him and aiming monkey chance. that is what we know so far and as far as other arrests of people are suspected of having hung in effigy of viniciusjunior from effigy of vinicius junior from a effigy of viniciusjunior from a bridge with a rope wrapped around its neck back in january. that s the investigation going on for some months now and they been four