Showdown. Discussing all tonights topic topics with me are. My Brilliant Panel tonight are kezia noble, andrew eborn, and Jonathan Colgan. But first, lets get your latest News Headlines from tony richardson. Sorry. Tony richardson. Sorry. Thank you. Right, our breaking story tonight, the ministry of defence has confirmed the death of an raf pilot after his spitfire crashed into a field in lincolnshire, describing it as a tragic accident. They said the incident took place near raf coningsby. Police and Emergency Services responded just before 120 this afternoon and the pilot, who has not yet been named, was declared dead at the scene. Its thought that the aircraft was taking part in a battle of Britain Memorial event. The mans family has been informed and an investigation is now underway. Rishi sunak has described the pilots death as awful news, whilst sir keir starmer said he was deeply saddened. Well, the was deeply saddened. Well, the Prime Minister is claiming voters and their famil
Parole hearings be done in. Public . Thats all to come before 7 00. But first, lets cross live for tonights latest news headlines. News headlines. Very good evening to you. Its just after 6 00. Im sam francis. A look at the headlines this hour. A teacher has been this hour. A teacher has been convicted of having sex with two schoolboys becoming pregnant by one of them. Manchester crown court heard 30 year old Rebekah Jones was lonely and flattered by the teenagers attention. Jurors were told today that she brought one of the boys, who cant be identified, a £350 gucci belt detective constable Beth Alexander said earlier that miss jones will be sentenced in july, is a sexual predator. The Israeli Military says its recovered the bodies of three hostages from gaza. All of them had been attending the nova Music Festival in southern israel when it was attacked by hamas. Among them was the german israeli woman, 22 year old shani luke. A photograph photograph of her twisted body on the back o
A series of operations across the country. Officials wont confirm how many people have been detained or where they were taken into custody. So far , the taken into custody. So far, the fda trade union, which represents senior Civil Servants, is threatening legal action over the plan. Well, action over the plan. Well, meanwhile, gb news can reveal that more than 1700 small boat migrants have crossed the engush migrants have crossed the English Channel in just over a week. Early this morning, a boatload of around 70 people was taken to dover harbour by lifeboat. In total, around 400 people have been taken to the border force. Migrant processing centre. Today, the 14 year old boy killed in a sword attack in North East London yesterday has been named as daniel anderson. The met police says a 36 year old man remains in custody on suspicion of the teenagers murder. Daniel was a pupil at bancrofts same school in east london, attended by Grace Omalley Kumar , who was murdered omalley kumar, wh
The duchess of edinburgh visits ukraine, a certain pugnacious panellist has a thing or two to say about the sussexes upcoming visit to nigeria, plus the row over whether britain made its wealth from slavery may have been decisively settled , as been decisively settled, as a new report claims. Slavery may have even made britain poorer. State of the nation starts now. Ill also be joined by my most pugnacious panel this evening. Former editor of the sun, Kelvin Mackenzie, and the historian and broadcaster tessa dunlop. As you broadcaster tessa dunlop. As you know, as always, i want to hear from you. Its a crucial part of the programme. Email me mailmogg gbnews. Com. But now its what youve all been waiting for. The news bulletin with ray addison. Thanks, jacob. Good evening. Our top stories tonight. The government looks set to face more legal challenges over its rwanda plan. After detaining the first group of migrants to be deported, both men and women have been taken into custody in a ser
Hello and welcome to the programme, which brings together leading uk journalists with the foreign correspondents who file their stories for the folks back home with the dateline london. Thats normally what we do, but you dont need telling that these are not normal times, so for the next weeks well be bringing our guests together virtually. Joining us today annalisa piras, italian writer and film maker and henry chu, europe editor for the los angeles times. A warm welcome to both of you. And here, sitting two metres away, the social distancing were practising in the uk, is lyse doucet, the bbcs chief international correspondent. Lyse, very good to have you with us. Even at a distance, shaun however far or close you are, its always good to have you. Now, the uk governments mantra as it imposed restrictions to try to contain the covid i9 virus were all in this together. The government was as good as its word. On friday, we learnt that borisjohnson, the Prime Minister, and his Health Secre