the actor stephen tompkinson tells a court it would be career suicide for him to assault someone as he denies inflicting grievous bodily harm. # instead i wrote a song. and they re off heading to liverpool for the first eurovision semifinal tonight before saturday s big showdown. and coming up in bbc news. manchester city fans are building up to their champions league semifinal with real madrid in spain. it is a repeat of last year when the spanish side put them out. good evening. the head of the metropolitan police has insisted they had serious and reliable intelligence that protesters had planned to disrupt the coronation on saturday. sir mark rowley says they had intelligence that rape alarms and loud hailers were going to be used which would have frightened horses during the procession. he spoke out to defend officers who arrested and detained six anti monarchy demonstrators, the first arrests to be made under the sweeping public order act. but scotland yard now say
this was the moment he arrived at the prime minister s residence in rome, where he was greeted by italian president sergio mattarella. shortly after this, he met italian prime minister giorgia meloni. she s been one of ukraine s more vocal backers, although polls suggest that italian people overall are opposed to sending ukraine more weapons. as are some of her coalition partners. live now to the bbc s sofia bettiza in rome. out, members of the rmt union are back on picket lines. another 24 hour strike at their long running dispute, with live now to the bbc s sofia bettiza in rome. president zelensky has had a meeting with his counterparts. this private meeting lasted for 25 minutes and some of these things discussed were economic functions against russia, the kidnapping against ukrainian children, and they need to set up. after the meeting, president zelensky said i want to thank italy each italian one by one for to show italy s continued support for ukraine. quite a few sym
we start off in islamabad, where pakistan s former prime minister, imran khan, is at the high court defending himself against corruption charges. he attends the hearing as a free man, after the country s supreme court ruled his arrest on related charges as illegal. he has called for all charges to be dropped but has told the bbc he expects to be arrested again. this was the scene as mr khan arrived at court he s in the middle of this scrum wearing sunglasses, surrounded by what are thought to be a mix of his supporters, and security officials in uniform. as you can see, the situation is rather chaotic. you will remember that this week, at least ten people died in protests sparked by his detention on tuesday. the pakistani government has said it will have him rearrested. bring us up to speed with what has happened in the last hour, hour and a half. i happened in the last hour, hour and a half. , ., ., happened in the last hour, hour and a half. y., ., , happened in the last
ground with new details. why did you shoot my daddy and me heartbreaking words from a six year old north carolina girl after neighbors say she and her father were shot over a basketball we re tracking a major threat in the skies more than 50 million people from texas to wisconsin could be hit with severe weather after deadly tornadoes tore through oklahoma overnight following these major developing stories, and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central. right now. crews are searching through debris in oklahoma for survivors after a deadly tornado touched down just south of oklahoma city. at least two people were killed. officials fear they could find more victims as they comb through destroyed homes looking for survivors. several tornadoes tore through the strait. this is ariel video that shows heavy damage. to a neighborhood in oklahoma city homes. they re completely flattened in some cases, and here we re going to show you some severe damage to a lows in the c