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
israeli police clash with palestinians at the al aqsa mosque in another flare up of tensions. life coaching or a cult? the bbc investigates a self improvement business, accused of taking over the lives, of its clients. how do you feel, paul, about the fact that so many people think you re running a cult. we re not running a cult. they don t know what a cult is. and the miraculous escape after hitting a gas pipe. a new digital map of our underground utilities, could prevent future tregedies. coming up on the bbc news channel. frank lampard emerges as a surprise contender for the chelsea job until the end of the season. their former captain was sacked by the club two years ago. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. after an extraordinary day in american history, donald trump has told his supporters, he s the victim of election interference. he s the first former president to face criminal charges, 3a counts in all, of falsifying business records. he appeared in cou