uk officials in france are preparing to fly home a british teenager who was found after being missing for six years. alex batty, now 17, disappeared after travelling to spain with his mother and grandfather. the boy was discovered on wednesday near the city of toulouse. in the past hour, manchester police gave a short update to the media. i think ithinki i think i speak on behalf of the whole of the greater manchester police when we say we are relieved and overjoyed to say we received the news from the french authorities they believe alex batty has been found safe and well. it has been six years since his disappearance. this is a huge moment for alex, his family and the community in oldham. alex went missing whilst on holiday in 2017 when he was just 11 years old. on wednesday, a member of the public reported a potential cycling in toulouse area of france. the young man identified as alan alex was taken to a french police station. the young man and alex s, the spoke on a vide
for truth, the duke has been repeatedly exposed in recent years as someone who wouldn t know the truth if it slapped him around his california tanned face. also tonight the israeli military expresses deep remorse after it mistakenly shoots dead three hostages being held in gaza. in the us, rudy giuliani donald trump s former lawyer is ordered to pay over £100 million for false claims of vote tampering in the 2020 election. the british boy alex batty found this week after six years french officials give details of what happened to him. and on the eve of the strictly final we hear from the three couples giving it their all in the hope of dance floor glory. on newsnight at10:30. i ve never hacked a phone or told anyone else to hack a phone and nobody has produced any actual evidence to prove that i did. that wasn t the ruling delivered by high courtjudge today. good evening. earlier this year prince harry became the first senior royal of modern times to give extensi
than 100 years. the reason for that, thatis than 100 years. the reason for that, that is probably quite a deep, dark story but prince harry has always maintained he was prevented from taking legal action against newspapers by buckingham palace. that they didn t want him giving evidence in the witness box went the argument. of course, buckingham palace denied that. it has tried to settle claims here and there when it could come against the many newspapers who have been involved in this long saga. just to give you some of the background to this, before we get into what s happening here today, back in 2006, it became known that newspapers had been accessing people s mobile phone voicemails. most of us don t leave voicemails. most of us don t leave voicemails any more, do we? we leave text messages or we do video calls. but in the 90s, and 2000s of the people often left voice mail messages and journalists worked out that because the pin numbers were not changed very often, they c
for eight days after his arrest on corruption charges. his detention has sparked protests across the country and at least eight people have died in clashes during the ongoing violence. this has happened in different cities across pakistan, and the conviction would disqualify imran khanfrom and the conviction would disqualify imran khan from standing for election. our correspondence sent this report from islamabad. burning into the night. protests from lahore, karachi, peshawar. this was the singed aftermath, the reaction to imran khan s arrest yesterday. but the unrest is far from over. morning in islamabad. police blocked roads into the compound where imran khan was due to appear in front of a judge. some party officials were stopped at the gates. have you spoken to him since yesterday? no, we have no access. that is why i m demanding access. we are being denied access. beyond the boundaries of the compound, imran khan s supporters began to gather. this is the path through t
of south west england. and this is the one day of the year when i turned from a serious bbc correspondent into a eurovision cocktail pianist. more details coming up. and coming up on bbc news. treble chasing manchester city are two games away from lifting their first champions league trophy after a kevin de bruyne wonder strike earned them a draw at real madrid. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. at the start of a trial about alleged phone hacking of several high profile figures including the duke of sussex, mirror group newspapers has been accused of using illegal methods on an industrial scale to get stories. the company, which has previously admitted phone hacking and paying private investigators, said it would never be repeated. prince harry and three other people are bringing claims at the high court against the group that publishes the mirror, the sunday mirror and sunday people. the claimants argue that executives at the company knew about widespread