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good evening. he s insisted numerous times since the general election was called that he would not stand as a candidate but today he changed his mind, and possibly how the election will play out. nigel farage says he s going to take over leading the reform uk party and will run as a candidate for it in the seat of clacton in essex. he put down his sudden change of heart to the millions of people he says he doesn t want to let down. our special correspondent lucy manning has all the details. mr farage, are you standing? well, we ll find in a moment, won t we? why did you change your mind? who knows? who says i have? well, you said a few weeks ago, well, you said ten days ago you weren t going to stand, so why the change? did you ever change your mind about anything ever? he said he wouldn t, but now he will. a major u turn. a change of heart thrust nigel farage into the heart of the general election campaign. i ve changed my mind. it s allowed, you know. it s not always a si ....
the centre of attention jude bellingham basks in the glory of champions league victory. his england team mates say they can t wait to see him back. and success at last for laurie canter, as the englishman has the edge in a tight field at the european open. hello there and welcome to the programme. to the fallout at the french open first, where the concern over late finishes continues to be raised by the big names. the defending champion iga swiatek and world number three coco gauff today saying matches ending at 3am are unhealthy . it follows the five setter which saw novak djokovic, the men s champion, wrapping up his win to make the fourth round at 3.07am in the morning. our tennis correspondent russell fuller was covering it all the way to the end and told me how djokovic reacted. after the match yesterday, he gave a brief press conference to a fewjournalists at 3:30am and said that he feels the scheduling could be handled differently, but now is not the time to t ....
happens to be our national capital may be atypical of the wider uk. later on, you did an interview with him and i had to laugh, not at your interview because it was very good and interesting, but the actual setting, the main camera shot was you and him in a room where there was unionjack bunting on the walls. it looked like you were leaning against the bar in a traditional pub and then you could see there was quirky mugs and floral wallpaper. it was like you were in a middle england theme park. yeah, totally. there were unions like absolutely everywhere. funny enough, i saw kind of cardboard box that had union flag written on it as part of the kind of paraphernalia of election campaigns that the various party leaders all carry around the kind of helpe create the staging and choreography of these kind of events. there was a bit of concern as they were sort of setting up the spot where i did the interview and various journalists at that their interviews, because i think ....
we are hearing from there that a number of homes have been completely flattened, there is a video showing people among the debris and they are trying to rush the wounded away from the scene. in one of the neighbourhoods, we are hearing that some of the houses have been destroyed, this is one of the larger israeli strikes that we have seen in recent days, although al shati was also hit yesterday. there are some reports in israeli media that the israeli military has been targeting a senior commander in hamas, but no comment on that from hamas. it did put out a short statement really threatening those that carried out this attack, saying that civilians had been targeted. the israeli military said that it has been targeting hamas infrastructure and that it will give more details soon. this really comes after a day where we also heard of at least 20 people being killed in a shelling in the south of the gaza strip, close to rafah, with the international committee of the red c ....
panorama that he d previously said he admired vladimir putin as a political operator but disliked him as a person. the prime minister, rishi sunak has joined other politicians critcising mr farage. he said the leader of reform uk s comments were dangerous. what he said was completely wrong and only plays into putin s hands. this is a man who deployed nerve agents on the streets of britain who s doing deals with countries like north korea. and this kind of appeasement is dangerous for britain s security, the security of our allies that rely on us and only emboldens putin further. ukrainian officials say mr farage s comments mirror the claims of the kremlin. our security correspondent, gordon corera, is in kyiv. one source in the presidential office did tell the bbc that, in their words, the virus of putinism unfortunately affects people and can be even worse in its consequences than covid, and that that virus needs to be nipped in the bud. and i think you can hear from ....