nick garnett, live at manchester — week, as well.k garnett, live at| manchester crown court, thank you. ukraine says there has been another wave of russian missile attacks overnight — targeting the capital, kyiv, and other cities. but — and we can't independently verify this — ukrainian officials say that of 30 missiles fired, 29 were shot down. russia says that all of its targets were destroyed. 0ur diplomatic correspondent james landale is kyiv. he spent the night listening to the sirens. another busy night over the capital. the ninth time the capital was targeted, we think, since the beginning of the month. we heard some explosions during the evening, we saw some smoke on the horizon. and as you say, the army now says there were 30 missiles launched against kyiv and throughout the country, of which 29 were brought down by ukraine's air defences. 0ne managed to get through. here in the capital, as far as we know, nobody was injured. there was some damage to property in two eastern parts of the city as a result of debris from the in

in the itv drama dci banks — was accused of punching karl poole in the head. 0ur correspondent nick garnettuff, stephen tompkinson has been in the mall, but he found himself involved in something he would rather not have been involved in —— brassed off. he was soaking up by two men off. he was soaking up by two men aside, very drunk, one in his underpants, one of the men fell over, hit his head, broke his skull. the prosecution case was mr tompkinson punched the man to the ground, mrtompkinson's tompkinson punched the man to the ground, mr tompkinson's case was he acted in self—defence, put his hand up, the man walked into it, fell over. no one disputed the fact the injury had taken place. the actor told the court that during his time as an actor, he said any member of the public is potentially a member of your audience and you have to treat them with respect. after he got many fears for ballykissangel, my father said, you must always treat people with respect, you have been invited into their hands. it would be career suicide to do something as outrageous as assaulting someone. as the jury

cover up shortcomings on the neo natal ward, where she is accused of murder. 0ur correspondent nick garnettg place. this trial began last october and is going to carry on untiljuly. so far we've had the prosecution case and the defence has started. and as part of the defense, lucy letby went in the witness box to give her side of events as the nurse at the center of this case. now, she's being cross—examined by the prosecution, who are testing the evidence against her — going line by line, through her evidence to check and to go through it in detail. she's been in the witness box now for six days. and lucy letby today, who's accused of the murder of seven children and the attempted murder of ten others, has been asked about the first of the children to have died. she told the court she had nothing to do with the baby's death and talked about what was called a gang of four, a group of consultants at the countess of chester hospital who she said they were trying to pin the blame on her in an effort to cover up what she said were hospitalfailings. nickjohnson kc, who's leading the prosecution

nick garnett, our north of england reporter, has more. this is a trial that started last october.ugh all four seasons. today is the sixth day that yi lucy letby has been in the witness box. up till now she has been giving her defence of her position, the allegations against her and to date is changed the prosecution talking to her and going to the detail of what she is alleged to the detail of what she is alleged to have done and her answering those questions. as she faces 22 counts. they relate to 17 different children. she is charged with the murder of seven and the attempted murder of seven and the attempted murder of seven and the attempted murder of ten. she is accused of attacking children with a variety of different means and she denies all the charges but today under cross—examination she said that there was a conspiracy of medics who were trying to blame herfor there was a conspiracy of medics who were trying to blame her for what happened. she named them, for doctors. three of them have been named and another can't be named for legal reasons. she said they all worked at