found in france, after he went missing six years ago will return to the uk in the next few days. possums, yes, it s me, dame edna, and aren t i looking gorgeous? and remembering the late barry humphries king charles and sir eltonjohn are among those paying tribute at a state memorial in sydney. and coming up on bbc news, we will hear how england s women are heading for defeat in mumbai almost 500 runs behind india in their one off test. good afternoon. prince harry has won his phone hacking case against the publishers of the daily mirror. a high courtjudge ruled this morning that on 15 occasions the duke of sussex was the victim of hacking or other unlawful methods of getting stories about him. he s been awarded £140,000 in damages. in a statement, prince harry said it s a great day for the truth and called on the police to launch a criminal investigation into mirror group newspapers. here s our media correspondent, david sillito. this has been a landmark case, prince
welcome to bbc news now three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. prince interviews and reaction. harry has called on interviews and reaction. police and the financial regulator on police and the financial regulator to investigate mirror group newspapers after he was awarded £140,000 in damages in a historic lawsuit for phone hacking. the high courtjudge. mrjustice fancourt rules that phone hacking was rife within mirror group and that prince harry s personal phone was targeted between 2003 and 2009. he says 15 of 33 sample articles were the product of phone hacking or the product of other unlawful information gathering. the duke of sussex became the first senior british royal for 130 years to appear as a witness in court this summer, after he sued the publisherfor damages. the mirror group has apologised. a statement issued by the spokesperson for the publisher says, where historical wrongdoing took place, we apologise unreservedly, have taken full respon
for truth, the duke has been repeatedly exposed in recent years as someone who wouldn t know the truth if it slapped him around his california tanned face. also tonight the israeli military expresses deep remorse after it mistakenly shoots dead three hostages being held in gaza. in the us, rudy giuliani donald trump s former lawyer is ordered to pay over £100 million for false claims of vote tampering in the 2020 election. the british boy alex batty found this week after six years french officials give details of what happened to him. and on the eve of the strictly final we hear from the three couples giving it their all in the hope of dance floor glory. on newsnight at10:30. i ve never hacked a phone or told anyone else to hack a phone and nobody has produced any actual evidence to prove that i did. that wasn t the ruling delivered by high courtjudge today. good evening. earlier this year prince harry became the first senior royal of modern times to give extensi
and tributes to the legendary singer, actor, and civil rights activist harry belafonte, who s died at the age of 96. hello and welcome to the programme. we begin in sudan, where an uneasy truce appears to be holding. thousands of people have been fleeing the country due to the violence there, as countries from around the world work to evacuate their citizens. people living in sudan have spoken of their fears of looting, vandalism and hunger. andrew harding has this report. safely out of sudan, the first plane carrying british nationals landed back in cyprus this evening. the rescue mission had begun early in the morning, several raf planes setting off for sudan s capital, khartoum, not knowing if a ceasefire in the city would last days or even hours. it has been incredibly challenging because of the changing nature. we have had to work up complex plans involving numerous royal air force aircraft and a great number of military personnel, who ve been flown in from the uk over t
bombing that killed dozens at kabul s airport has been killed by the taliban, that s according to us officials. 70 civilians and 13 american troops were killed when a bomber detonated his device among packed crowds as people tried to flee afghanistan, in august 2021. the officials did not reveal the name of the man, who was the leader of an islamic state cell. they said the leader died weeks ago, but it took time to confirm his death. us officials say intelligence gathering and monitoring of the region led them to conclude the leader had died, though they did not provide further details on how they learned that he was responsible for the bombing. and the us began notifying families of the deceased troops about the death of the is leader on monday. in sudan, a shaky ceasefire seems to be holding in capital city khartoum while foreign nationals are evacuating from the country. these picures are from cypus late tuesday local time, when the first uk evacuation flight carrying 3