as veteran broadcaster ken bruce signs off from his radio 2 show for the last time. borisjohnson may have misled parliament over law breaking parties at downing street during the coronavirus pandemic. that s according to mps investigating the former prime minister s conduct. the privileges committee says evidence strongly suggests breaches of coronavirus rules would have been obvious to mrjohnson, and identified four examples where he may have misled the house of commons. mrjohnson said there was no evidence he knowingly misled parliament. our political correspondent, iain watson is at westminster. joining me now is caroline slocock director of the independent think basically the privilege committee just be clear who they are as a committee of eight mps appointed by the whole house of commons and are answerable to the house of commons. the conservative majority on a committee so borisjohnson s party, some of his own mps in majority on a committee of its chaired by harri
should receive immediate six figure compensation, rules a judge. two people are arrested, after a nine year old girl died in a suspected stabbing. and i m in birmingham, as we head into a huge weekend of sporting action. hosts england made it a golden start to the commonwealth games. alex yee stormed to victory in the triathlon with more medals up for grabs this evening. and how the lionesses are inspiring at the next generation as england prepare to take on germany in the euros finals on sunday. and coming up in sportsday on the bbc news channel: we ll round up all the action on day one of the commonwealth games, including a look at the 3x3 basaketball, which is making it s debut. hello and welcome to the bbc news at six. rebekah vardy has lost her libel case at the high court. in what had become known as the wagatha christie trial, the wife of the former england footballerjamie vardy had sued coleen rooney after she accused vardy of leaking private information about her t
and will smith apologises to chris rock over his infamous 0chsner slap. i m reeta chakrabarti live from edgbaston, where the t20 women s cricket has made instead of you in the commonwealth games made its debut. welcome to bbc news. it s good to have your company. we begin this hourin have your company. we begin this hour in ukraine, and we are getting more details about the rocket attacks thought to have killed a0 ukrainian prisoners of war. it happened in the east of ukraine. the bbc s diplomatic correspondent is in kyiv and he gave us this update. is in kyiv and he gave us this u date. , is in kyiv and he gave us this udate. , , ., ., ., is in kyiv and he gave us this udate. , ,., ., ., , update. this is a war of competing narratives over update. this is a war of competing narratives over a update. this is a war of competing narratives over a particularly - narratives over a particularly gruesome episode. what i ve seen and i do not recommend that people watch this i
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in the 1,500m this morning to qualify for the final. the scot was a world bronze medallist last year and is the favourite for gold this time round as she looks to add to her double gold hauls from 2017 and 2019. ellie baker and katie snowden are also through. it is just a matter of trying to conserve as much energy as possible. it was close at the finish but i would rather that than be ahead. you want to just qualify ideally. five gold medals at this championship, that would be pretty cool. i like even numbers but i will take five over four. it is very exciting to be on the cusp of potentially doing that. i want to make the team proud. great britain s beth potter won her first triathlon world series event today. it was the season opening event in abu dhabi and the scottish athlete, who only took up the event in 2017, finished in 57mins 56secs. and there was more gb success in the men s event. olympic silver medallist alex yee was the winner as he got his season off to the best possib