The red arrows flew over central london, and there were flypasts in edinburgh, cardiff and belfast. Music a nightingale sang in Berkeley Square by vera lynn i may be right i may be wrong but im perfectly willing to swear. And, ahead of a special evening of celebration, well speak to the welsh soprano, katherinejenkins, who has performed a medley of wartime favourites to an empty Royal Albert Hall. In other news, theres to be limited easing of lockdown restrictions in wales. At 5 00, well bring todays Coronavirus Briefing from downing street, led today by the environment secretary, George Eustice. Good afternoon and welcome to this bbc news special. Well be bringing you all the latest on coronavirus with the downing street News Conference at 5pm. But first, a two minute silence has been held across the United Kingdom to commemorate the 75th anniversary of ve day. Events are taking place all day, but public gatherings have been cancelled as the country remains in lockdown because of coro
And in sport, aston villa end a run of three Successive Premier League defeats as they beat Newcastle United 2 0 to spoil steve bruces return to villa park. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at nine. Britains most seniorjewish leader the chief rabbi, Ephraim Mirvis has intervened in the general Election Campaign, condemning what he says is the labour leaderships failure to deal with anti semitism and questioning ifJeremy Corbyn is fit to lead the country. Writing in todays times newspaper, he says a new poison sanctioned from the very top has taken root in the party. Mr mirvis says, the overwhelming majority of britishjews are gripped by anxiety at the prospect of a labour victory in the election, adding, i ask every person to vote with their conscience. Be in no doubt, the very soul of our nation is at stake. Today, the archbishop of canterbury head of the church of england reacted, saying such an unprecedented statement ought to alert us to the deep sense of insecurity and fea
Electric. I have been in 14 and were live in leeds constituencies already, and the a city with five universities, numbers of people coming out to work so were here this morning talking to students about their concerns in and support and campaign for labour the run up to next months election. Is already much greater than it was the jury in the trial of a man accused of murdering british at the start of the 2017 election. Backpacker Grace Millane in new zealand are shown cctv footage of her last known moments. 0ur party and our members are so up for this fight, so up for this trying to break the world battle, we are going to win this land speed record the british team say theyre feeling confident. Election and we are going to win it because we offer something very different. I dont suppose there are too many people in this audience that we the daily telegraph. Its all right if you do it in private, i good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. Im annita mcveigh. Understand it had a bizar
Southeast. There will be new hospitals, schools, railways, better broadband, new connections, and opportunities for every part of our great nation. As the uk Election Campaigns kicks into gear both parties set out their economic plans today and well talk about that in a minute. But first the Opposition Labour Party has again faced allegations of anti semitism even a former labour cabinet minister calling for voters to back boris johnson. But labour Leaderjeremy Corbyn has sought to keep his campaign on track. He gave a speech in manchester a short time ago. Because if we dont do that and get that investment, what kind of future and what kind of hope is there for people in areas that have been totally left behind ever since the ravages of Margaret Thatcher and the tories in the nineteen eighties . If we are to give hope to communities that have had nothing for so long, then we have to invest in them, and thatis then we have to invest in them, and that is the absolute priority that we wi
Silenced. Im also delighted to let you know that this program is being filmed by cspan to be aired at a later date, so if you enjoy tonights program and would like to see it again or if you think your friends would like to see it, you should check periodically over the next few weeks to cspan. Org and see if its up. Sometimes it takes a couple of weeks for them to run a show and other times it can be one or two months. So its worth checking periodically. It is my pleasure to introduce our speaker, dr. Lindsay fitzharris. Dr. Fitsharris tells me as a little girl she used to drag her grandmother from cemetery to cemetery so that she could hunt ghosts. So some thought she was obsessed with death from an early age. She likes to think she was simply fascinated with the past and with the people who lived there. Thus began her lifelong obsession with history. Dr. Fitzharris received a doctorate in in science, and technology. In 2010 she was granted a postdoctoral fellowship by the Welcome Tru