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. god save the kings 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 majesty, a
time, talking about her career, women s rights in iran and much more. stay with us to watch the whole interview. sport and for a full round up, let s go to the bbc sport centre. hello from the bbc sport centre. we ll start with tennis where it s women s semi final day at the french open. the top two seeds are in action. iga switek faces brazil s beatrix haddid maia later but first up it s australian open champions aryna sabalenka against unseeded czech karolina muchova. a tight first set has just gone the way of the cheque and she is 2 1 up in the tie break in the second set. she has never been past the third round prior to this year. alexis macallister has sais his gratitude will be eternal as he bid farewell to brighton. he s joined liverpool in deal worth up to 55 million pounds. the 24 year old midfielder has signed a five year deal and will wear the number ten shirt at anfield. the world cup winner, who helped brighton qualify for europe for the first time, added that
the bbc finds evidence of major success in clamping down on opium growing in afghanistan. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. thank you for being with us. we start in ukraine, and the attack on a crucial dam in the south of the country. thousands of people have been forced to evacuate, because of rising flood waters. the dam sits between russian held territory to the south and ukrainian territory to the north. kyiv says that moscow is to blame, and so do nato and the eu, which has called the destruction a war crime . at a un meeting, russia has accused ukraine of sabotage. the uk prime minister, rishi sunak has said to kherson now, and this report from our ukraine correspondent, james waterhouse. i think it is still if you go by what us officials are saying just today it is still in its early phases. it has started nevertheless where ukrainian forces, small new units are probing different parts of this vast front line. they re trying to fin
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let s stay with the subject of whether it s breaking news coming to us today from the uk health security agency. it has issued a weekend heat health alert. the heat health alert has been erased from yellow to a more severe amber, with warnings in three different regions of england, the midlands, eastern and southern england. the amber alert which is more severe than what we had before comes into effect from 9am on friday and indicates that high temperatures could affect the whole population and perhaps more importantly could also affect the health service. now this is what the weather watchers have been calling an iberian plume, a plume of very warm weather that has come in from the spanish peninsula. we will not last especially long and probably will be over by sunday but it comes and cuts across spain and portugal, bringing across spain and portugal, bringing a lot of high pressure and with it temperatures that could at some point touch 30 degrees, which may be normal for p