will receive the £400 to help with rising energy bills in six monthly installments from october. # neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours #. tears on ramsey street as the last episode of the soap opera neighbours airs in the uk later today. and coming up on the bbc news channel. england have won the first gold of the commonwealth games. olympic silver medallist alex yee took the title in the triathlon. good afternoon and welcomes to the bbc news at one. rebekah vardy has lost her libel case, which had become known as the wagatha christie trial, at the high court. vardy had sued coleen rooney after the latter accused her of leaking private information about her to the tabloid press. both women have huge social media followings and business interests, having leveraged their exposure as the wives of famous football players. our correspondent, colin paterson, has been following the trial and is at the high court this lunchtime. this court this lunchtime. has been a disast
energy companies post big increases in profits as uk customers face soaring household bills. right on time! tributes are paid to the star of the railway children and narrator of the wombles bernard cribbins, who has died aged 93. and coming up on the bbc news channel. the lionesses will take on germany in the euro 22 final at wembley after the eight time champions saw off france in their semifinal. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at 0ne. the commonwealth games 2022 opens here at the alexander stadium in birmingham later today. this huge space seats 30,000 people and although we don t entirely know the themes of the opening ceremony, you get hints of how they want to celebrate birmingham, with a mock canal and brickwork heralding its industrial past and graffiti and skateboard ramps celebrating its gritty present. 0rganisers say it s the biggest in the event s history. prince charles will represent the queen tonight and performances will include local music and danc
to actor bernard cribbins, famous for his many roles including in doctor who, the wombles and the original railway children who has died at the age of 93. a report looking into events leading up to the death of a 13 month old boy in cumbria has found that the woman who killed him misled social workers about her mental health, her alcohol use, and her debts. leiland james corkill was killed injanuary last year by laura castle, a woman who had hoped to adopt him. a safeguarding report found that relevant information about castle was not shared between agencies. it concluded that checks on people who want to adopt should be strengthened. first, our special correpsondent ed thomas has this report, it contains some distressing details. mummy, please don t be sad. i miss you so much too. i m safe. it s so beautiful up here. but i do worry when i see you cry. laura inhales sharply the words of laura corkill read at the funeral of her son, leiland james. .. and what do you re
and the return of the tiger why nepal kept its promise to double numbers in the last decade. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 7am in singapore, and 7 in the evening in washington where president joe biden spent more than 2 hours on the phone with his chinese counterpart, xijinping. the two leaders warned each other over taiwan which again emerged as a key point of tension. this time the tensions started because of a possible visit there by the us house speaker nancy pelosi. although the visit hasn t yet been confirmed mr biden told xijinping, that washington strongly opposed any unilateral moves that would change the island s status or undermine stability across the taiwan straits. president xi said: those who play with fire will only get burnt. joe biden responded to that with on taiwan. the us policy has not changed. so where does that leave us? well, with an assessment of that phone call here s the bbc s barbara plett usher i