live from london. this is bbc news. prince william and kate meet royal fans as parties continue a day after the coronation of king charles. there's a touching royal hug to comfort one little girl overcome with emotion. fans lined the road up to windsor castle stars have begun to arrive for the special coronation concert. the un's nuclear watchdog has called for immediate action to prevent the threat of a severe accident at the zaporizhzhia power plant in ukraine. and let the eurovision song contest begin — the opening ceremony kicks off in liverpool.

excitement is building in windsor ahead of the coronation concert which starts in less than two hours time — let's go live now to lucy hockings. hello excitement really building here ahead of the coronation concert i think it starts in less than two hours�* time. the crowds have been queuing in the afternoon sunshine. the warmest day of the year so far at windsor. it has been a lovely atmosphere. everyone queuing politely. they are dressed up in their finery with some people with crowns and in full evening regalia as well. a lot of union jacks as well. 20,000 people gathered here expecting to watch artists including lionel richie, katy perry, and take that as well. we are gearing up for a fantastic evening here at windsor. "you have been numerous street parties that have been held. 50,000 under the collective title of the

coronation big lunch. and people were lucky enough, some of them to have some official guests appear. members of the royal family. i was at the one here in windsor today and that was an incredibly special moment because the prince and princess of wales made an unexpected appearance here meeting loads of well—wishers. no one knew that they were coming so it was a lovely surprise people. the sense of excitement, it was celebrity in its nature, see how people responded. lots of people utterly starstruck by the fact that kate and william were here. and there was a tender moment between catherine in one little royal fan. between catherine in one little royalfan. broadcast between catherine in one little royal fan. broadcast these between catherine in one little royalfan. broadcast these pictures live on bbc news at the time. she is under such pressure, keep to move along the line but she spent quite a lot of time with his little girl who came overwhelms at meeting her. kate found out that she was appearing in

one of the performances this evening and she was incredibly nervous apparently she talked to her about what a greatjob she was sure she was going to do. and how to overcome her nerves and something that she experienced all of the time as well. some of the nervousness and it was really reassuring. what other thing had to point out is a moment that i also saw. with this. this is a return of the king, or gannett coronation l and william a right to create a family who had a picnic blanket and all of their food in it that said that this has been especially brewed for the king here in windsor. this organic coronation ale, the gift prince william and said can you please give it to your diet and see what he thinks. so we promise to take

it away and give it to his father the king and we will wait to see what he thinks another nice moment and this is a souvenir for all of us here as well. they are in hot demand, have to tell you. let�*s talk about the concert because it is going to be an incredibly exciting evening for those 20,000 people who are attending backstage for us is our correspondent. the atmosphere is building. the crowd we can hear them from where we are and one of the highlights of course is going to be the coronation choir. i am joined by two people behind the incredible venture. gareth malone and amanda holden. for people but don�*t know this coronation choir is manned up of amateur singers and amateur choir groups from around the country that you search out and put together and said, "oh by the way you "will be performing for his majesty the king, millions across well," not much pressure. how has it been? huge amounts of pressure. it really has is obviously cannot afford to - make a mistake and as you've just said there there is lot of amateursj in there who are all absolutely will do their best, overall it sounds - incredible. i was listening to a rehearsal with gareth and it made mel cry. it's gorgeous. it is like willy wonka in the chocolate factory

system is the golden ticket for a singer, many of them and never thought they would come as far as london never mind as far as coming to the castle. it is an incredible for us as well. it's a something beautiful about the country, the nations, all coming together people of all walks of life, creeds and colours and everything. it's about real people. of course some many people performing tonight, professionals of the top of the game, many of whom who performed to rule or royalty many times in the past. i�*m just pointing out the facts. but how have the choir been? are the nerves there? what their friends help them through because there are so many of them so that they are not on their own. i think so. there is a wave of noise happening now and i can feel that the significance of the event, the history of this event, is impressing on them. we are just doing that quick rehearsal he could feel it coming out of here, their heart. the rehearsal i have to say i

was absolutely phenomenal. you are right, havingi everyone in one room at once has given them that - solidarity and that confidence in all they're doing now is they know if they. have the king and queen in front of them they actually are - performing for themselves and their loved ones and everyone else| watching so it is for everyone. when they are out there singing that beautiful song, that was revealed in the documentary on friday night, how will you feel as, i suppose proud parents watching that go out. that's how i feel! i'm always on the edge anyway. that is exactly how i i described my feeling when i watched them for the first time. - she has waterproof makeups were fine. i'll be there right in front so it is lovely for me to be right there watching their faces and to try something out of them. gareth is absolutelyj brilliant as a leader. he instills all of the confidence and they love you. _ and i love them. i love you. gareth and amanda thank you so much. beautiful perfect weather, i�*m sure they would

be fantastic, thank you so much forjoining us and have a wonderful evening. i know so many people have got their fingers crossed for a beautiful amazing performance from all of the singers. thank you so much. gareth malone and amanda holden two people behind the coronation choir, the group of amateurs who will be performing tonight. having been brought together in a nationwide search alongside some of the biggest names in music who will be daunting for absolutely anyone. great to see you. he will be with us with the build up as well the build up as well bejoining me here is linda executive chair of the world commonwealth association and also charlotte gallagher who has been out soaking up the atmosphere as well and as we are here today. lovely to see you, how was yesterday first because i know you were there? amazing. it was historic and it was actually solemn but touching. at times and i think you can

really get a sense of the royal commonweath society it was also really lovely to see all of the flags in troops and remind us that he is our king. but also the king of the uk it also head of the commonwealth, the countries that actually really started and developed under its mother. and the commonweath was well represented yesterday. so great to see and actually we as a charity are lucky enough to be here to go to the concert today as well. i think the concert line—up is also quite diverse and we also going to be able to go to the garden party on tuesday which i think buckingham palace will be the last fish coronation offence if i�*m not wrong. the atmosphere here is incredible. —— coronation of events. it was magicalfor those. the other worlds have been to some other big lunches. the other royals have been to some other big lunches. they have indeed in a real pleasing moment for

many people up and down the uk seeing the royals up close and personal, having chats them. to the princess royal and her husband, they went to a street party in swindon. chatting to people. the duke and duchess of edinburgh were in surrey. the duke at one point helping a child reunite with his welly. he was probably expecting weather like yesterday, the kid that where the wellies because it had been so sunny today. princes eugenie and beatrice have been out and about as well for some of the king and queen had not done anything today officially. they must be exhausted. it was not just the ceremony yesterday, two hours long charles was wearing a crown that was eight, i'm sorry two kilos, it really exhausting and also the long rehearsals that they've been doing and the functions they have attending. i was trying to think of how many hands he had been taking over the last week. it must've been hundreds if not thousands. all the walkabouts that they have been doing the king queen putting their feet up we think inside of windsor castle

state they will be at the concert tonight with other members of the _ royal family, we think prince william might make a speech as well paying tribute to his father and it_ is a chance for the younger royals to have a bit of the night out. see acts like you're saying, lionel richie, take that, are really star—studded line—up. and of course some of those acts were at the coronation yesterday. we saw katy perry wearing a very large hat. she was looking under her hat trying to find out where she was seated. a real weekend for them notjust being of a concert but being in the coronation as well with world leaders. reflecting on the role of the younger royals and we know the king charles obviously is trying to reach out to younger members of the commonwealth as well because so many members of the commonwealth are under the age of 30. what is he particularly doing to try and make that connection with them. i think it is absolutely, one thing about what he said yesterday, they had a reception and a lunch for the

commonwealth leaders and the number of things that they did it one day was actually pretty amazing and then they have the coronation yesterday. it has been quite a few days of various things. and the commonwealth has 60% of its population of its 2.5 billion people are under the age of 30. the king has a long—standing interest in young people. the work that he has been doing through his various charities and with us really do focus on the environment and can ——young people. the queen, queen camilla, she supports us a great deal with the flagship pricing programme that we have, because the queens commonwealth competition that we had 26,000 people under the age of 18 commonwealth essay competition that we had 26,000 people under the age of 18 submit these incredible pieces of work that celebrated service and the lucky winners, we flew them to london with their parents and they got their award at buckingham palace. this happens every year and so between the environment and young people, i can really see how their long—standing interest just go very nicely into what makes

the commonwealth unique. which is the royal family and the people and charities within it. what about the little ones, so much interest yesterday, and louis�*s brief disappearance during the coronation, charlotte what she was wearing. do we know if they will be at the concert? they were at the jubilee concert at one point prince george is looking very bored and switching between the laps of his parents and _ he was on his granddad lap, the now king, at one point. the future of the world family honestly rests, it is a lot of pressure for them but it does rest on these children and their parents and practically, charles is in his 70s now charles is in his 70s now so is camilla, so we will see the younger royals, key and _ william doing more official visits especially over seas trips and young people generally feel less attached to the royal families. so they do want the royals, to see the younger

royals out and about because people are likely to identify more with people at their own age. we saw that they were taking selfies, happy to be in videos, take phone calls from people they had influencers on some of their trips. so it is clear that the royal family know that they need to push these younger royals forward and in a real shame that prince harry and meghan are no long a part of that because they were such huge starts. i was at one of meghan's visits when she went to a school and it was like a walk star had walked into the stew building, like harry styles had come in, people screaming and cheering in the royal family know that they need to keep popular among the young. a quick question have you both had some coronation quiche? i�*m asking everyone this question. i do have a flag from yesterday which i will keep. no quiche but i have had coronation chicken. people are divided on track to find out with whether quiche or chicken is more popular today. good to see you both, that will be

covering all of the events throughout the evening. a beautiful evening as we can see here in windsor, back to the studio. studio: an amazing night for lucy and it's it�*s some live shots of windsor cashel which starts at eight o�*clock uk time which is about 45 minutes —— castle. 20,000 people lucky enough to get tickets and the last few are filing in there as we can see. gorgeous weather unlike yesterday when it was pouring with rain all the concertgoers should be in for a very good night and they will stay dry as well. away from windsor. the head of an anti—monarchy group who was arrested before a planned protest on coronation day has called his detention, and that of dozens of others, a �*direct attack on our democracy�*. graham smith, who was released on saturday night after nearly 16 hours in police custody, said officers should hang their heads in shame. the culture secretary, lucy frazer,

has backed the metropolitan police, following criticism of the arrest of more than 50 people yesterday. robin brant reports. chanting: not my king! not my king! as tens of thousands celebrated and cheered yesterday, some protested and booed. but before it got to that, anti—monarchy campaigners had already been targeted by police. some were arrested, their placards confiscated. graham smith from the group republic was one of them. they were hoping to stop us from staging a large peaceful protest on the edge of the coronation. i think that that was a spectacularly poor decision for all sorts of reasons, not least because there were no grounds for arresting us. and it is an affront to democracy and an attack on our rights. 52 people in all were taken in. some, like mr smith, under a controversial new law, the public order act. it gives police new powers to proactively target people they think are planning to disrupt. but using those powers was justified according to a cabinet minister.

they will have made operational decisions on a case—by—case basis as to what steps they should have taken. and i know that they took into account, and i think they were quite right to take into account, the context of the event as a whole. we were on the global stage. there were 200 foreign dignitaries in the uk, in london, at an event. the commissioner of london�*s met police was out with a distinctly peaceful bunch for lunch today. his force said its focus yesterday wasn�*t protesters but potential disruptors. it said it had received intelligence about plans to deface monuments or disrupt the coronation procession. labour wants more of an explanation, though. people can disagree, and disagree well, i hope. i think it is for the met to explain the arrests and make sure they got the balance right. and as we've seen, if they didn't get it right, you know, i think the casey review demonstrates it's important to hold your hands up. obviously no one i

likes to be arrested! the senior officer in charge of the security operation said the context of these arrests was key. democracy not monarchy! but with a former chief constable warning about the spectre of a totalitarian police state, the met�*s now fending off claims it acted like counterparts in moscow. robin brant, bbc news. local us media is reporting that seven people have been killed after a car ran into pedestrians in the city of brownsville in texas. a male suspect is in custody. the city�*s police department said the crash occurred at 8:30 a.m. local time near 0zanam centre, a shelter for migrants and the homeless. 0ur reporter duncan kennedy is in the newsroom with more. i know the details are limited so what can you tell us?— what can you tell us? first of all we know that — what can you tell us? first of all we know that it _ what can you tell us? first of all we know that it is _ what can you tell us? first of all we know that it is the _ what can you tell us? first of all. we know that it is the second-most we know that it is the second—most shocking incident in texas in the space of less than 2a hours. coming

the day after shooting incident in dallas which is about 500 miles north of brownsville. frontal itself is a city right down on the mexican border and we note that it did have happen at 830 local time on sunday morning and as you said, seven people were killed in this incident, what we don�*t know yet is exactly what we don�*t know yet is exactly what happened. what we know, it happened outside this centre here to my right. a place called the 0zanam center which is a home for migrants and homes people, a couple of roads ran alongside the centre. this here is the dual carriage rate a bit further on the right, there is a single carriageway lane, we don�*t know which side of the building where the centre the incident happened. it that those people were standing at a bus stop waiting for a bus and this car came and there was some kind of collision. not the brownsville police are not saying what kind of collision it was, we know it was a car. we don�*t know what direction it came from or what

speed it was doing. but seven people killed, six others were injured. some of those are seriously injured and are now in hospital. all brownsville police are saying is that a man, we know it was a male driver, is in hospital as well. he is under 2a hour guard and he is also being tested for alcohol and drug use but that is standard procedure for police in america. they are not speculating at all on what that this was a simple accident or there was something more sinister to this instant. extremely high death incident, death rate to result from this collision, seven dead, six more injured, as is a coming less than 2a hours after the shooting in the mall. 500 miles north in dallas. 0r another eight people died. certainly a shocking 2a hours for the people of texas and the people of the united states.— the people of texas and the people of the united states. thank you very much for the — of the united states. thank you very

much for the update. _ live to italy now. their first win in 33 years. jubilant fans there are welcoming home the football team for another celebration. it is not the first celebration that they have had. they celebrated two days ago after not believe with you to an easy to quench the title. hundreds of people crowns together in piazzas singing but today is the football team returned to the city, napoli, to celebrate with their fans. that is a party it looks like it could last sometime. now to russia�*s war on ukraine — and reports are coming in that a village in western russia has been hit by shellfire. spodaryushino sits in the belgorod region very close to the border with ukraine, an area which has often been targeted since russia�*s invasion. the regional governor said that

power lines and a gas pipe were hit, though there were no injuries. meanwhile there are warnings over renewed shelling around the zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant in ukraine. the head of the un�*s nuclear watchdog has voiced extreme concern as russian occupying forces begin evacuating residents from the area. rafael grossi described conditions as increasingly unpredictable and potentially dangerous — and called for immediate action to prevent the threat of a severe nuclear accident. i got the latest from professor michael fitzpatrick, a nuclear energy expert who teaches at coventry university. firstly it is worth reiterating the zaporizhzhya plant has been shut down for nearly ten months. so the likelihood of an extremely severe incident with significant release of radioactivity is now much lower than it would have been a year ago. so that is the good news. but the iaea have repeatedly asked for

intervention to ensure that the plan as well away from any conflict zone. and it is not. there is continued, as we�*ve heard shelling near the plant and that is what the concern is. that there could be an incident where you have a shell strike on the plant that breaches support of a containment and you end up with a local release of radioactivity. so if the power plant is in a state of shut down at the moment what is actually taking place inside? it is a nuclear site. you have the fuel elements still on site, when a nuclear plant is shut down, as we saw at fukushima it cooling, active of the core because the nuclear reactions that are used provide the energy, they gradually decay over a period of time. it�*s not like turning off of a light. after ten months,

the amount of heat being generated is much lower. but you do still need to have power supply to the plant in orderfor it to be maintained and a safe condition. so it is really about the safe maintenance of a plant where you have nuclear materials on—site and doing that in a way that is in accord with international best practice. we had this morning from the international atomic energy agency about zaporizhzhya. what are the actually doing to protect people who live around it? it seems that what is happening is that there are concerns around the military activity, that is likely to occur around the plant and that that is leading to the evacuation. and that is then what is leading to the concern of there potentially being a strike on the site itself. rehearsals are well underway in liverpool for the eurovision song contest. the city is hosting the event

on behalf of last year�*s winners, ukraine, with the first stage of the competition on tuesday. and this year�*s eurovision entrants have been taking part in a welcome ceremony at st george�*s hall in liverpool. this is loreen, from sweden arriving to the red carpet — which is actually turquoise for sponsorship reasons. loreen won in 2012 and she�*s back in the competition as one of the favourites with her song �*tattoo�*. but, of course, anything can happen and according to the bookies, other acts like france, spain or finland are also tipped to do well. this is the finnish singer kariija. a very charismatic performer. his song �*cha cha cha�* has been going down a storm with live audiences. 0ur eurovision reporter daniel rosney has been following eurovision�*s opening ceremony from liverpool. this is the official opening ceremony at the eurovision. sandwiched in between slovenia to my right and cyprus to my left. ask from the 37 countries participating have now arrived in liverpool. it is

one of a number of events happening in liverpool. there will be a concert happening in front of the iconic st. george�*s hall where the original line—up and the classic line—up including hollyjohnson from frankie goes to hollywood will be performing together for the first time since 1987. you may be able to hear the ukraine havejust been introduced on the turquoise carpet. let�*s remember, the uk is hosting the eurovision on behalf of last year�*s winners, ukraine. across the city, you can feel that this is very budget ukraine�*s competition as well. tonight there will be a simultaneous rave with hundreds of people in the report and at the same time, there will be raving in kyiv. busy and exciting time in liverpool in of course the party is beginning

in of course the party is beginning in windsor as well and in of course the party is beginning in windsor as wel— in of course the party is beginning in windsor as well and half an hour the coronation _ in windsor as well and half an hour the coronation concert _ in windsor as well and half an hour the coronation concert do - in windsor as well and half an hour the coronation concert do to - in windsor as well and half an hour the coronation concert do to start. | the coronation concert do to start. some gorgeous weather for everyone there. that should be quite a spectacle. you are watching bbc news. hello there. it�*s been a fine and warm day today for many areas with just a few showers, mainly across eastern scotland and eastern england. now, the showers fade away this evening. 0vernight, many places will be dry, but rain and a stronger breeze will be pushing in from the west. and that will make for quite a cloudy and a damp bank holiday monday. here it is showing up clearly on the pressure charts. it will arrive across northern ireland certainly later on today into the evening. some of the rain will be quite heavy at times and eventually through the night it�*ll transfer towards central and western parts of britain. now, ahead of it, it�*ll stay dry. the showers that fade away through this evening will leave clear skies through the night and temperatures will dip into single digits in one or two of the chillier spots, but generally out west, temperatures will be rising

as this rain moves in. so we could start off with some early brightness eastern england, east anglia, in the south—east, but it won�*t last. the rain will arrive here later in the morning, through the afternoon. skies brighten up for scotland and northern ireland, but some heavy showers will develop. could see some significant thunderstorms developing across northern ireland. so some torrential downpours in places. in the sunshine, where you get it, then the high teens, but for most, i think, the mid—teens where it�*s raining, cloudy and quite breezy. as we head through monday night, it looks like the rain will tend to push away into the north sea and leave a legacy of clouds and mist and murk. one or two showers continuing across scotland and temperatures range from around 9 to 12 degrees. so still quite mild for most of us. now, into tuesday, lighterwinds. you can see fewer isobars, but we have a couple of weather fronts. these will enhance the shower activity. so many places will start dry with some sunshine around. showers or long spells of rain will continue across northern and eastern scotland. a few showers peppering eastern

parts of england and showers also get into northern ireland, south wales and south—west england. these spots most favoured for the showers elsewhere, could stay dry altogether. in the sunshine, temperatures of 17, 18, maybe 19 degrees in the warmest spots. however, things do turn cooler as you move deeper into the week. low pressure always nearby, so it�*s going to remain unsettled. these low pressure systems also bringing some slightly fresher air to our shores as we push towards the end of the week. at the moment, friday could be the driest day of the working week, but sunshine and showers return for next weekend.

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