over the reins and retire. and coming up in the sport on bbc news. with severe thunderstorms on the horizon, the course at augusta has been cleared ahead of this the start of this year s masters. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a service of hope and reconciliation has been held in westminster abbey a fortnight after the attack near the houses of parliament. khalid masood drove a car into pedestrians on westminster bridge, killing three people, and fatally stabbing a police officer, before he was shot dead. the duke and duchess of cambridge and prince harryjoined families and the emergency services attending the multi faith service. ina in a moment we will be for the first time from melissa cochrane who was injured in the attack and whose husband was killed. but first. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. you lot, get undercover now! get undercover! two weeks ago the area around the abbey at westminster was caught up in the chaos of that aftern
into the river thames during the westminster bridge terror attack has died of her injuries. ambulances under pressure figures show a sharp rise in the number being turned away by accident and emergency departments in england. and, it s ladies‘ day at aintree on the second day of the grand national festival. the united states has carried out a missile strike on a syrian air base, in response to the suspected chemical weapons attack earlier this week in idlib province. it s the first direct us military action against forces commanded by syria s president. russia, which backs the assad regime, has condemned the strike. the americans say they fired 59 cruise missiles at the shayrat airbase in the west of syria. six people are thought to have been killed, and the pentagon says aircraft and buildings were severely damaged. according to the united states, the shayrat airbase was used to launch tuesday s chemical attack on the town of khan skeikhoun, which killed and injured scor
looks like danny will be here on sunday but he will have two present the green jacket to the new champion, we reckon. live coverage of the whole weekend begins at 7:30pm, bbc two tomorrow night. we had a runaway leader after day one. he s been well and truly building today. thank you. onto football and after leading celtic to the scottish premiership title manager brendan rodgers has agreed a new four year contract at parkhead. he s been on a rolling i2 month deal since joining celtic last summer but after leading them to a sixth consecutive league title and still on for the treble, rodgers has commited his future to the club calling them the greatest in the world. liverpool s top scorer sadio mane will miss the rest of the season. he suffered a knee injury in last week s victory over everton and managerjurgen klopp said he s pretty sure mane needs surgery. liverpool haven t won all season without mane. meanwhile arsenal manager arsene wenger believes his striker englan
after labour did not back it. thanks to ed miliband. supposedly that put america off doing their own strikes in response to this. some unusual people are supporting trump and what he has done because he has reinforced a red line which they say 0bama and cameron and miller band and everyone, it should have done. it has taken bizarrely and america first, isolationist, pro russian american president perceived to be pro russian to actually go out and do it. the daily mirror takes it one step further, suggesting trump is 110w step further, suggesting trump is now one step from war. warning that the world is in fear. arguably bevan, there are many proxy wars going on already, notjust in syria but in iran. there are. but in iraq. very dramatic language. trump himself has been very categorical in his comments on what this represented as an atrocity. the idea that we are one step behind war, it seems that a russian war strip in the black sea has been diverted to the black sea has
This month, catch an online catalogue of African art, stories of survival at Constitution Hill, new work from Neo Matloga, a tribute to Robert Hodgins and an extensive auction of Irma Stern’s works