and hundreds gather at the sydney opera house to remember the comedy superstar barry humphries. hello, welcome to verified live. prince harry has been awarded £140,000 damages in his phone hacking case against the publishers of the daily mirror. a high courtjudge ruled this morning that on 15 occasions, the duke of sussex was the victim of hacking or other unlawful methods of getting stories about him. in a statement, prince harry said it s a great day for the truth and called on the police to launch a criminal investigation into mirror group newspapers. our media correspondent david sillito reports. this has been a landmark case. prince harry said his life had been blighted by illegal press intrusion and, today, the judge mrjustice fancourt ruled that, yes, his phone had been repeatedly hacked by mirror group newspapers. outside court, a statement was read out on behalf of the duke. today s ruling is vindicating and affirming. i ve been told that slaying dragons will get
hello. hello welcome to bbc news. the us national security advisor, jake sullivan, will visit the occupied west bank city of ramallah later on friday, for talks with palestinian authority president mahmoud abbas to discuss issues, including stability in the west bank and the future governance of the gaza strip. it comes after he met the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and other officials in tel aviv on thursday, during which he called for restraint on the war in gaza. the united states has called on israel to scale down its war on hamas in the near future , with president biden urging more to be done to protect civilian lives in gaza. gaza s health ministry says that more than 18,500 people have been killed since the war began. internet and phone networks across gaza had gone down again overnight, according to the region s main telecomms company. and in the last few minutes the israeli military have said its specialforces have recovered the body of a hostage held
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