and get in. you will not be able to, all the tickets are allocated. eight o clock, at the concert, and you can watch it tonight on bbc. watch it tonight on bbc. thank you very much- the culture secretary lucy frazer has backed the metropolitan police s arrests of more than 50 people during the coronation yesterday. protest groups, including the anti monarchy group republic, have criticised the met one saying it was the kind of policing you d expect in moscow, not london. robin brant has the latest. chanting: not my king! not my king! as tens of thousands celebrated and cheered, a far smaller number hundreds protested and booed. across london, some of them dozens were arrested and detained. the police were forced to defend their actions, actions that were justified, according to a cabinet minister. they will have made operational decisions on a case by case
basis as to what steps they should have taken. and i know that they took into account, and i think they were quite right to take into account, the context of the event as a whole. we were on the global stage, there were 200 foreign dignitaries in the uk, in london at an event. among the 52 arrested where environmental campaigners and anti royalist republicans. london s met police said its focus wasn t peaceful protest but potential disruption. it said it had received intelligence about plans to deface monuments or disrupt the coronation procession. the leader of anti royal campaigners republic, graham smith, was one of those taken in. after almost 16 hours, he was released, saying there was no longer a right to peaceful protest and they can k. protest in the uk. labour wants more of an explanation.
live from london. this is bbc news. celebrations are continuing across the uk, a day after king charles iii s coronation. princess kate and prince william are out and about in windsor meeting royal fans. meanwhile, festive big lunches are held across the country thousandsjoin in, inluding the first lady of the us and the british prime minister. the un s nuclear watchdog has called for immediate action to prevent the threat of a severe accident at the zaporizhzhia power plant in ukraine. hello, i m luxmy gopal.
icon and shadow, milford haven and newark and echo and knightsbridge are the six horses during this coach, as it continues down the mall. it s a rainy day in london, but that doesn t seem to have put the crowds off.