a new picture of the princess from the palace to mark a new stage in herjourney. it s been almost three months since the princess revealed that she was undergoing chemotherapy, something that followed surgery earlier in the year. the surgery was successful. however, tests after the operation found cancer had been present. my medical team therefore advised that i should undergo a course of preventative chemotherapy and i am now in the early stages of that treatment. since then, prince william has worked alone, and the palace has remained silent, although last week, when asked about kate s progress, the prince said she was getting better. she would have loved to have been at the d day commemorations, he said. from the princess this evening, a message about these past long months. i am making good progress, she wrote, but as anyone going through chemotherapy will know, there are good days and bad days. tomorrow is the king s birthday parade, trooping the colour, one of the bi
so, in every general election, the tonight programme does a series of profiles of all the main party leaders in britain and so, those conversations begin pretty much as soon as the election is called. so, we start having a conversation with the conservative party, in this case, and saying, here are the days that we could do. is he available on any of these days? this is the date when we d like to broadcast the programme. therefore, we have this amount of time to actually put the programme together, and the conversation goes from there. when did the date of last week come up? so, by wednesday of last week, we still didn t have a date with the prime minister. and on that wednesday, they offered the thursday and said that it was the only slot available. the thursday didn t particularly suit us, actually, as a programme, because that is almost a week before we go to air we like to record the interview a little bit closer to air as we ve seen, elections move pretty quic
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julian nagelsman took charge late last year and his side have got off to a great start early on florian wirtz scoring the opening goal inside 10 minutes and then they had made it 2 0 just before the 20 minute start. jamal musiala with a cracking finish. tough start for steve clarke s scotland side. what a start for the hosts, germany. they came into the tournament under some pressure. it has been a turbulent few games for them. they are off to a flying start. 2 0 up and you can follow it on the bbc. elsewhere, england goalkeeper jordan pickford says they ve got to enjoy the pressure of being one of the favourites. gareth southgate s side kick off their campaign on sunday against serbia. pickford is one of five senior players with over 50 caps in the england squad and he believes the best is yet to come from him. i work hard off the pitch and on the pitch, i work hard, i do everything right to move to the best of my ability and i always want to improve. i m 30 now and i wa
the princess of wales has said she s making good progress following her cancer diagnosis and will attend tomorrow s trooping the colour to mark the king s birthday. she hasn t taken part in any public engagements since christmas. in a statement, she said her treatment was ongoing and would continue for a few more months. south africa s parliament is expected to elect cyril ramaphosa to a second term as president, after a dramatic first day of the new parliamentary session. his africa national congress concluded a coalition agreement with their historic rivals, the centre right democratic alliance, and two smaller parties. in the uk elections, sir keir starmer has said he is prepared to make enemies over issues such as planning in order to pursue economic growth. speaking to the bbc, the labour leader rejected conservative suggestions that labour would have to cut spending, raise taxes or increase borrowing. in a major ruling for gun access, a divided supreme court has struck