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Parts of southern england that are inundated. At a quarter to eight, private eyes editor ian hislop joins the bbcs media editor to look back ona the bbcs media editor to look back on a fascinating year of front covers, cartoons, and satire. Good evening. Three and a half years after the uk voted to leave the eu, mps have resoundingly voted in favour of the government cosmic brexit bill. It paves the way for borisjohnson to deliver his promise that the uk will leave the eu at the end of next month. Well, the per minister won the vote easily by 358 votes to 234. Six labour mps rebelled and voted with the government. Now, the Withdrawal Agreement, now approved in principle by mps, says that the uk will leave the eu on the 31st of january and allows a transition period until the end of 2020. During which time, we will still abide by eu rules. It also says that we will pay the eu a divorce bill of around £33 billion, and it sets ....
the i m helena humphrey, great to have you with us. king charles crowned in a sacred and solemn ceremony centuries old at westminster tens of thousands of people are first reported from nicholas witchel. our first report is from our royal correspondent, nicholas witchell. may 6th, 2023. coronation day. in the abbey church at westminster, where these things have been done for nearly 1,000 years, a congregation to represent the britain of today had come together, with honoured guests from the wider world. the flags of the realms, the 1a other nations of which the british monarch is also head of state, were borne in procession. god save the king! at buckingham palace, the military detachments were drawn up. the only blemish the weather. as predicted, it left a lot to be desired. the king and the queen consort left the palace in steady rain. at the abbey, the king s family were taking their places, the duke of sussex making a brief visit to london, without his wife, and t ....
her predecessor, borisjohnson, left downing street earlier this morning. we have some in depth analysis of the claims he made in his final speech later in the programme. in that final address at the downing street podium, he also urged the conservative party to unite behind his successor. it s time for politics to be over, folks. it s time for us all to get behind liz truss and her team, and her programme, and deliver for the people of this country. and behind me, here on downing street, we ve seen ministers we see brandon lewis going into number ten there. we heard boris johnson earlier, calling for conservatives to get behind liz truss and her team. and we re learning more about what her team is as the evening goes on because liz truss is in the process of appointing cabinet, that s why we re seeing a range of conservatives going in through the door and bit by bit, we are learning who liz truss s top will be. top team will be. we are getting details all the time of ....
ijust want i just want to sum ijust want to sum up i just want to sum up where we are. welcoming all our viewers in the uk and around the world. it has been confirmed that borisjohnson will resign, afterfacing criticism from the cabinet, from ministerial ranks, from backbench mps, a wave of protest, concerns that he was perhaps threatening even the unwritten constitution by staying on, despite having lost the confidence of the conservative party and no longer able to command parliament and under those circumstances he had no choice, but to step down. there was a fear he would try to cling on longer and force a backbench vote of no confidence and a lot of criticism about perhaps even pseudo trumpian ian tactics and now the prime minister has confirmed he will step down. let s get more reaction with john maguire. the newsjust filtering through to us on college green, people starting to realise what s happened. we talked about it so much over the last few months, but certainly c ....
bbc verify has been working on geolocating some of the videos of strikes posted on social media. and as we ve been reporting, israel has again been using leaflets to urge people in some areas of gaza to move. merlyn thomas is in the bbc verify hub with more. after the seven day temporary ceasefire between israel and hamas came to a shuddering halt, these are some of the images we ve been seeing coming out of gaza today. the hamas run health ministry in gaza says dozens of people have been killed in a series of attacks. we verified three videos of strikes in rafah and khan younis, all in southern gaza. and this is a video posted in rafah on social media this morning. we verified and located it and matched it up with other photos we ve seen from news agencies. you can also see this logo briefly here of an injured child being taken into the centre, which we ve also matched it up with this location. and this is another video we verified from khan yunis. this appears to be t ....