Good morning. Welcome to breakfast, with tina dahely and Steph Mcgovern. Our headlines today work to prevent a dam in derbyshire from bursting continues in the face of a new warning of more thunderstorms and flooding. Prime minister Boris Johnson visits those affected in Whaley Bridge and promises to make the area safe. Because this is a major problem. If that dam goes, you know the potential destruction that can wreak on the whole of the village below. The home secretary, priti patel, says she wants criminals to feel terror at the thought of being caught. A day to remember for rory burns, as he hits a first test century to give england the advantage, heading into day three of the first ashes test against australia. And breakfast enters the robot wars but can our mean machine overcome the heavyweight champion of the world . Some drier weather on the way for the majority of the uk, but tomorrow, the prospect of further heavy showers, particularly across Northern Britain. Its saturday th
this was the view across the israel lebanon border earlier today where we ve seen a thick plume of black smoke in the sky as hostilities continue in that border area. so, let s start this hour by hearing from israel s prime minister. translation: last night, - i talked again with president biden. i do appreciate us steadfast position at the security council a position which backs our war effort. yesterday, i told president biden that we will fight until total victory, as long as it takes. the us understands this. i saw false reports that claimed the united states has prevented us from operational activities in the region. this is not true. israel is a sovereign country. our war decisions are based on our operational considerations. this is the live scene over the israel gaza border, where we ve seen continued bombardement this weekend. an israel military spokesman says it s expanding its ground operations in the southern and northern parts of the gaza strip. reuters is
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
round up, from the bbc sport centre. hello thanks forjoining us. manchester united manager erik ten hag says he s expecting brighton to be out for revenge tonight. they only met ten days ago. when united won their fa cup semifinal on penalties. preventing brighton from getting to their first cup final in a0 years. they go again today this time the prospect of european football being on the cards. brighton are 8th in the premier league but with three games in hand, while united travel to the amex knowing a win could move them up to third, 7 points clear of fifth. if you get beaten, you want to have revenge. and that is normal that they have a huge motivation to beat us but we have to match that. not only match that, we have to do more. we have to show more, that we have more hunger than they have to win this game. they set one that he and hodgson are two rough sex premier a total of 30 managers have been sacked this year. i a total of 30 managers have been sacked this ye