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
people from asking for help. we begin with breaking news from russia, where the kremlin claims ukraine tried to assassinate vladimir putin in an overnight drone attack. this video, purports to show an explosion over the kremlin. wait for you. it you see it in the middle of your screen. russia has provided no clear evidence to back up this claim. a spokesperson for ukraine s president told local media that kyiv had nothing to do with this alleged incident and called it an expected trick from our opponents. moments ago, secretary of state blinken was asked about this during a press freedom day event. i can t in any way validate them. we simply don t know. i would take anything coming out of the kremlin with a very large shaker of salt. let s see. we ll see what the facts are. it s hard to comment or speculate without knowing what the facts are. joining us now to take a closer look, chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, and military analyst, barry mccafrey, and dan d
is the army said the target was an anti ms. also. live now to our middle east correspondent, yolande knell. more strikes number. at least 15 people have been killed in gaza through the course of the day. that air strike a few hours ago was in the south of the gaza strip. two men were killed in their car and you can see in pictures, that car was on fire. the is really military says that they were transporting anti tank missiles but it s a confusing picture because don t militant group in gaza has said they were members of their organisation. there are some local sources saying that perhaps these two men were just relatives who were farmers in that area. at the same time, we ve had the israeli prime minister coming out in the past two hours, speaking about israel s operation in the gaza strip, saying that he had ordered that cherry action as early as last week in response to the rocket fire that took place just over a week ago. he said the idea was that this cuts off the top of
At six, britain s most senior police officer defends the arrests of six anti monarchy protestors at the coronation on saturday under controversial new legislation. sir mark rowley says the force had reliable intelligence that demonstrators planned to disrupt the coronation procession on saturday. one said he should not be held. the idea that one said he should not be held. lie: idea that people one said he should not be held. tue: idea that people are suffering discomfort to ensure the greater good, despite the action of no illegality, i don t want this precedent set. also on the programme. president putin tells russians they re in a battle for their existence at the annual victory parade in moscow.
Are you in this? yes, yes. that s you there? yes. peter royle was a captain in the royal artillery. 80 years on, he watches this younger version of himself at the victory parade after the capture of tunis. peter s role as a forward spotter in that campaign had put him on the front line of the advance on german defences. you were shot at, shelled, bombed, mortared, everything, and you got that dreadful feeling, of sickness in your tummy. oh god, it is going to be the last time. i was lucky. victory in the desert turned the course of the war. it prepared the way for the liberation of southern europe. when you have a shell bursting three feet away from you, about where you are now, you don t expect to live. it happened to me in my first battle