cheering across three days in may, the nation celebrated the newly crowned king and queen. at a star studded concert, a poignant tribute from prince william. as my grandmother said when she was crowned, coronations are a declaration of our hopes for the future. and i know she s up there fondly keeping an eye on us. and she ll be a very proud mother. cheering also this year, prince harry reveals family secrets in his bestselling memoir and in evidence as he takes on the british press. and digging deep on his first official royal engagement, five year old prince louis. crowd: god save the king! god save the king! may the sixth, 2023. the national anthem plays light rain fell as king charles and camilla, queen consort, made their way to westminster abbey for the first coronation in 70 years. # i was glad.# prime ministers, presidents, foreign kings and queens, as well as community and charity representatives, joined the king s own family in a ritual dating back 1,000 years. your
warning the volume of aid reaching the territory remains woefully inadequate. our middle east correspondent yolande knell sends this update. there have been street battles, once again, very intense between israeli soldiers and hamas fighters in khan younis in the south of the gaza strip, seen as a stronghold of hamas. israeli warplanes have also been pounding the three urban refugee camps in the centre of the territory. this is an area from which tens of thousands of people have fled in recent days. and one local health official there said that 100 people had been killed by israeli bombings injust the last 2a hours. and he said that the local hospitals really overwhelmed by the numbers of casualties that were coming in. now, israel says it s not limiting the amount of aid that is getting into gaza. and it says that earlier in the day it allowed a four hour humanitarian pause in the fighting. but at the same time, there is this complaint from the un that it s really woefully
to political supporters and former aides include three life peerages, one for ex vote leave chief matthew elliott, another for businessmen and conservative donor john moynihan, and thirdly, ruth porter, a long term adviser. there were also damehoods for the writer and maths education campaigner shirley conran and the former conservative ministerjackie doyle price. another ex conservative minister alec shelbrooke gets a knighthood. critics have expressed dismay at the list. remember, liz truss was prime ministerfor ao odd days. she and her conservative colleagues pushed the economy off a cliff. families across the country are paying more on their mortgage, more in tax, more on their credit cards, as a consequence of decisions taken by liz truss. and these are rewards for failure. speaking to bbc radio 4 s today programme, a former minister who served in liz truss s cabinet defended her right to put people forward. liz truss took on the most senior politicaljob in the country,
of plastic pollution. just one of the issues under discussion on world environment day. it s seven in the morning here in singapore, and 3:30am in odisha in india, where the country s worst train disaster in decades happened. there s a growing sense of shock as the scale of the crash becomes more apparent. the rescue operation has now been called off with more than 275 people known to have been killed. a major investigation is under way. officials have confirmed that signal failure may have been a factor, but there are broader concerns, too. our correspondent archana shukla has been at the scene, we ll hear from there shortly, but first, let s show you this report. a painful search. sifting through photos. from hospital to hospital, and now morgue to morgue. inconsolable and traumatised. 22 year old himanshu can barely speak. his brother was on the train that crashed. can i see my brother, just once? he keeps repeating. at this makeshift morgue, he is just one of the many
yevgeny prigozhin seemed determined to march his men to the top of the hill. then, he marched them down again. political persecution like something straight out of a fascist or communist nation. this is southern israel and that is gaza, and the war here has dominated the news agenda since early october. tragic and polarising, it s one of the biggest stories of 2023 and one that i have followed here and reported on throughout, speaking to people in israel and in gaza about how they re living through it. the year has seen many important and profound stories, from the war in ukraine to donald trump s legal affairs in the us and for india, a successful moon landing. i m going to bring you just some of those moments. we begin in turkey and syria and the devastating earthquake that struck early on the sixth of february. these images show the moment the first quake hit. with a magnitude of 7.8, it destroyed hundreds of buildings and killed thousands of people. a second powerful trem