excited, a bit nervous. obviously a big day ahead but can t wait, actually. the commissioner of london s metropolitan police sir mark rowley says security for the coronation will be the biggest operation in the force s history. this is an immense operation, and in fact, tomorrow, saturday, it would be the biggest single deployment we have done in london, ever, for this operation. there will be well over 11,500 officers involved. our other main story this hour: in england, the conservatives suffer significant council losses in local election results. and the world health organization says covid 19 no longer represents a global health emergency , a major step towards ending the pandemic. welcome to bbc news. i m christian fraser, live at buckingham palace where final plans are being put in place for the coronation of king charles tomorrow. my colleague katty kay is outside westminster abbey where the coronation ceremony will take place. we will bring you all the build up to th
business owners and leaders, civil society leaders all came out with a lot of force, cautioning and pleading with the opposition leaders with the government to dialogue, and to call those demonstrators to stop the violence. today, the scenes were a lot more muted, the government seems to have changed their tactic and how they re dealing with demonstrators while protecting the central business district, we ve seen less use of force, we ve seen more tactical engagement with protesters, and we have had some things that were almost entertaining in some parts where demonstrators were watching on the streets and boiling stones to show they are hungry. so we see that the government has changed tack, they ve reopened schools schools were not open today and they seem to be using a different playbook. no we
which he would know, as a member of us forces, of course, was absolutely a possibility for sometime now, the us has specifically said that us citizens should not go to north korea of the risk of detention by authorities there so we are getting authorities there so we are getting a clear picture of some of the woes he s been involved in since september and october last year, from nightclub fights to abusing south korean police officers. but we still don t know what made him cross over there s been speculation even on official grounds that it could have been an impulsive, rather than thought out decision. the opposite theatre you is floating about as well. it doesn t matter how much we talk about this the opposite theory. it s you now a willing participant and remaining in north korea? if he s not, then it s certainly a bargaining chip and he gives the north koreans some degree of advantage while the americans
me is carol walton and author on jewellery and she has a podcast if jewels could talk. if there s one question, carol, or one issue everyone want to talk about is the crown jewels stopped so, i mean, crownjewels stopped so, i mean, we do see them from time to time but we don t see them in the r rated that we will see them tomorrow. ihla don t see them in the r-rated that we will see them tomorrow. no we don t. we will see them tomorrow. no we don t- because we will see them tomorrow. no we don t. because we we will see them tomorrow. no we don t. because we haven t - we will see them tomorrow. no we don t. because we haven t had - we will see them tomorrow. no we don t. because we haven t had any| don t. because we haven t had any coronation for 70 years so they stretch back to the fourth century, the or this piece will be the royals being spoon that was used and goes back to the 12th century. most of the crown was melted down after the civil war and after charles the first was exe
overall sense that there s no there there enterms of some of the very pressing questions that you raised in the piece? well, my first reaction was, oh, wow, he confirmed there was an investigation involving trump that durham handled, so that s interesting. we didn t have knanyone on the record confirming that before so that was nice of him. maybe he s right it went nowhere. we don t know. we just don t know what that thing was. we don t know what steps durham took. we don t know s what he found o. we don t know why he chose to bring more charges. perhaps it was as bill barr said there was no there there. nevertheless it s extraordinary it happened at all and no one knew about ittr and when it lead durham s administrative review had evolved into encompassing a criminal investigation. everyone thought that meant he d found evidence ofha a crime by people who had investigated