china wins the first gold of the olympics in the 10m mixed team air rifle event while team gb bags a diving bronze in the women's synchronised three metre springboard. welcome to this hour. we begin in the middle east, where gaza's health ministry says at least 30 people have been killed in an israeli strike on a school which was sheltering displaced people. israeli missiles hit the khadija school compound in deir al—balah in central gaza, it had been housing palestinians who'd been forced to flee their homes since the war began. the israeli army says the strike targeted a hamas command and control centre which was inside the school. ambulances brought those killed and injured, including children, to a nearby hospital

in deir al—balah. let's hear from palestinians caught up in the strikes. translation: in an instant, rockets dropped on us and we were already wounded, it has only been a couple of months since i came back from egypt and now my daughter is wounded and in hospital. i egypt and now my daughter is wounded and in hospital-— and in hospital. i was sitting in a tent with our _ and in hospital. i was sitting in a tent with our neighbours, - and in hospital. i was sitting in a tent with our neighbours, i - and in hospital. i was sitting in a tent with our neighbours, i headi tent with our neighbours, i head strikes _ tent with our neighbours, i head strikes and started running, my daughter— strikes and started running, my daughter was in one place and i anothen — daughter was in one place and i anothen i— daughter was in one place and i another. i still be boring towards a place _ another. i still be boring towards a place that— another. i still be boring towards a place that was struck, the people sheltering in the school are all wounded — sheltering in the school are all wounded and they are innocent and this should — wounded and they are innocent and this should not have happened to them _ this should not have happened to them. ., . , ., ., , them. voices on the ground in deir al-balah. meanwhile further south in the gaza strip, the israeli army's ordered an evacuation of southern parts of khan younis, previously designated a humanitarian zone. this is a map of where palestinians have been ordered to move. the military says the evacuation was in response to rocket fire. our correspondent mark lowen is observing developments from jerusalem.

these were israeli missiles that fell on that school compound in central gaza this morning, and the bbc has verified footage from the aftermath of the attack that shows some of the victims were children, i have watched other footage that shows women and children bloodied, being rushed in ambulances to the nearby hospital. the gazan health ministry has said at least 30 people have been killed in that attack, the israeli defence forces said it was an attack based on precise intelligence that showed, in their words, a hamas command and control centre was embedded within that school compound from which hamas was launching attacks on israeli soldiers and also stockpiling large quantities of weapons and every attempt was made to reduce the number of civilian casualties, but along with other attacks around khan younis in southern gaza today, it has taken the death toll today

so far in those attacks to more than 55. you mentioned khan younis, we also mentioned about how the israeli army has an evacuation order for southern areas of khan younis, these are areas that were previously designated as humanitarian zones but the army are saying this is all in response to rocket fire. what more do we know about what is happening there? this is a strip of territory called al—mawasi, on the outskirts of khan younis, a coastal strip which isjust 16 square kilometres, ten square miles, and it had been designated a humanitarian zone and it is massively overcrowded because it contains many people who had been told by the israeli army to go there because it was relatively safe, and there have been attacks on this area in recent weeks, so it is a place of relative safety. the israeli defence forces have now said they have adjusted the border of the humanitarian zone in that

area because they say that hamas is operating in a corner of it and launching attacks on israeli soldiers, so they have basically reduced the size of the humanitarian zone and dropped flyers and sent messages to people telling them to move that area. it's the second time in a week the idf have adjusted the boundaries of that humanitarian zone. last week they did so just before an operation by idf soldiers there to retrieve the bodies of five israeli hostages seized by hamas on the 7th of october. we do not know what kind of operation would be launched now but the israelis say they are preparing for what they call a forceful operation and an intervention in that area. hassan morajea, from the norwegian refugee council, is in deir al—balah where the strike took place and told us about the situation there. from what we can see,

two schools that were being used as displacement centres for population civilians who had moved from other areas in gaza were targeted by multiple rockets, they were hit multiple times. it was not the one school but two schools, we believe, next to each other, and the results were catastrophic. while i am not at that scene itself, i have watched multiple videos from the site itself and the pictures are horrific. it is very telling of the constant state that populations in gaza and civilians in gaza specifically are under, this constant state of complete unpredictability, of either being targeted or being told that they need to vacate the space they are currently in.

the bbc has verified a video which shows children were amongst those injured at the school as well. there are so many people across gaza who are displaced and, from what we understand, many have been victims of that attack. yes, absolutely, people are being displaced on a daily basis in gaza. as your report noted, on a couple of weeks, a couple of instances over the past week, there have been relocation orders from khan younis, further reducing that humanitarian zone that the idf initially set up as a safe place for people to relocate to. now that place is shrinking and that has resulted in hundreds of thousands of people relocating further west towards the shoreline — those areas are extremely crowded.

your second report showed some images of that coastline, in al—mawasi, extremely terrifying place for anybody to live. the standards of living in gaza are extremely poor. the new wave of displacement — we heard unconfirmed reports that some people have started setting themselves up at cemeteries due to unavailability of space elsewhere. it is one of the biggest issues we are dealing with, is where people can move to and remain relatively safe. so you are saying that because people have nowhere else to go, they are now setting up camp at cemeteries? according to a couple of reports we have heard, yes. what is the solution and what other challenges for agencies like yours to try and deliver that much—needed humanitarian aid to people when they are struggling with, as we have seen, sanitation, getting clean water,

these are conversations we have been having for months now, as the conflict continues on, what are the ongoing challenges you are facing the ground? the challenges have not really changed. there is a raging conflict and extreme bureaucratic impediments preventing us from bringing aid in. we as the norwegian refugee council have not received anything in our warehouses since 3rd of may and that continues to be the situation for a number of organisations. we are here and ready and willing to work but without that assistance coming in, with it being blockaded at every entry point, it is very challenging do so. there is plenty more on that story on the bbc news website. the first full day of the paris olympics is in full swing, with china taking an early

lead in the medal table. let me take you through some of the big news of the day so far. australia won its first gold of this olympics, grace brown taking out the win in the women's cycling time trials. great britain's anna henderson won silver. china won the first gold medal of the olympics in the mixed team air rifle shooting. china also took out gold in the women's 3m synchronised diving. britain's yasmin harper and scarlett mewjensen has won team gb�*s first medal of paris 2024 with diving bronze in the women's synchronised 3m springboard final. the men's basketball is under way with australia securing a 92—80 victory over spain in the opening game at bercy arena. in the men's hockey, ireland have lost 2—0 to belgium in their opening game of pool a.

the defending champions scored a goal in each half from tom boon and alexander hendrickx. and plenty happerning in the pool today as team gb�*s men qualifty for this evenings four by 100m freestyle relay. so those are just a few of the headlines coming out of the sport — my colleague maryam moshiri is in paris, she has more on events there. people are recovering here after the amazing opening ceremony last night, the crowds around the river seine and millions of viewers around the world were treated to a wonderful spectacle call for of music, dance, culture and an odour to france, wasn't it? the french media have picked up on that story this morning and all the paper's front pages are reflecting the same feelings, that the opening ceremony was generally, despite the rain, huge success.

we have the figaro newspaper, and the front page has a beautiful picture of the river seine and the eiffel tower in the background, a big barge carrying athletes along the river and it says "paris 2024 all on the river seine." then we have le parisien, "breathless," their headline, and a beautiful picture of the lit up eiffel tower and athletes with their flags underneath it, the ceremony in le parisien�*s mind was an amazing spectacle. and here we have a reference to the rain, but also a reference to the bouncy, bullet—like speedy nature of some of the events, including that big explosion of red white and blue smoke along the bridge along the river seine. and we have l'equipe finally, which has a beautiful picture of that hard air balloon which doubled up as the olympic flame, the cauldron, if you like. after it was lit by the two

athletes, it then lifted up into the air majestically and it is still there and will be for the duration of the olympics and paralympics, and then celine dion began singing. "imagine" is the headline, referring to the song and to the imagination used for such an amazing ceremony. it is raining behind me, the rain is still here. organisers have said the rain will likely impact quality of the water in the river seine over the next couple of days. they say the training session in the river on sunday may be cancelled, but they say they are still confident that the triathlon on tuesday will take place as planned in the seine. it's taken a long time to get the river seine up to standard. let's look at some of the highlights. we mentioned the olympic flame, it was carried by a host of global sporting stars.

that included rafael nadal, serena williams and zinedine zidane, was used to light a huge cauldron on a hot—air balloon that rose high into the paris sky. the culmination of the show included an emotional return of canadian icon celine dion — her first live performance for four years. she sang on a spectacularly illuminated eiffel tower for the first time since revealing a serious health condition. well, the opening ceremony followed a day of transport chaos after rail networks were paralysed. today, french authorities say rail travel is likely to remain disrupted during saturday, with seven out of ten high—speed trains running, with delays of one or two hours. the french transport minister, patrice vergriete, says traffic on the network should be back to normal service by monday. translation: we deployed very much i more significant means immediately i afterwards, certainly. but these kind of security measures are reinforced on a regular basis. and obviously, in years to come, we will continue to increase those security measures.

so there's no problem about supporters coming to paris in the next couple of days. i think there will be some disturbances tomorrow, but the sncf certainly has a transport plan for tomorrow and for the days ahead. but certainly for today and tomorrow, there will be emergency measures. authorities are still investigating the incident as the french capital remains on high alert. paul hawkins has more. a visible sign that france is on alert. these were extinction rebellion protesters questioned by police in paris this morning. the authorities taking no chances with the security.

after friday's attack on three high—speed rail lines, no—one has claimed responsibility but the investigation is ongoing, with engineers working overnight to repair the damage but disruption will continue through the weekend. meanwhile, passengers continue to check departure boards and their phones. three out of ten high—speed trains have been cancelled today, with those that do run on major lines in and out of paris facing delays of up to two hours. that means a quarter of eurostar services are also cancelled. and those that are running are packed. today, eurostar was planning to run 15 trains from london to paris, gare du nord. four of those have been cancelled. that means 3,000 people are now looking for alternative ways to get to paris. including some world leaders, like this one, meeting team gb athletes today. i'm not going to pretend it wasn't frustrating, because it was. and for very many people,

it made travel so much harder. we had to change our plans. i'm not complaining about that, but it's just an example of how frustrating it was. normal service isn't expected to resume until monday. by then, the french rail company sncf say 800,000 people will have been affected, not to mention the start of the world's biggest sports event. paul hawkins, bbc news. the investigation continues by french authorities. i asked our security correspondent, gordon corera, what we know about who might be responsible for the attacks. the indications are that it could be a number of different actors but they are clearly being cautious while the investigation goes on. it was a sophisticated, well thought through attack, they knew exactly where they were going for, the points at which the railway split to make maximum damage, suggesting a level of planning

and inside knowledge. it is also noticeable that there is a huge amount of security around the games, tens of thousands of police in paris where you are, but those people who carried out those arson attacks, of course, that act of sabotage went around that by going to pretty remote sites where they knew these train cables, communication cables were. so, significant disruption, the investigation goes on. one of the groups behind it fled, but it does not appear that anyone has yet been arrested. that was the security correspondent talking to my colleague. she will be joining us throughout the evening and throughout the olympic games. time to take a look at the rest of the day's sport. a busy day today. the men's road

trials have gone ahead, the weather affected the events. and a hendrix claimed silver in the women's. the american fell less than a second of henderson's time. france are into the final, coming from behind to beat south africa 19—5 in the semifinal, fiji overcame the shock of australia taking the first try to overwhelm them 31—7, fiji are going for the third consecutive gold in rugby sevens. the first gold—medal came around two hours from the capital, in the ten metre air rifle mixed team event in which china defended the title they won in tokyo, beating south korea 16—12.

the duo lived up to their favourite tag by becoming the first champions paris 2024, kazakhstan completed the podium having beaten germany five in the bronze medal match. china also won the gold in the three metre springboard final. america took silver and there was a historic bronze fat great britain, a first women's diving medalfor bronze fat great britain, a first women's diving medal for 64 years. first medalfor this women's diving medal for 64 years. first medal for this event and team gb's first medal for this event and team gb�*s first medal of the games in paris, they benefited from a shocking mistake from the australian pair. it is the first opening day gold—medal since 2004. world number one and four—time french open champion iga swiatek is off to a win in her olympic campaign. she beat romania's irina—camelia begu in round one in straight sets, winning 6—2, 7—5. in other big matches today,

novak djokovic beat matthew ebden 6—0, 6—1. awinfor a win for carlos alcaraz and taylor fritz as well. in the formula i, in the formula 1, max verstappen has used two many engines this season, he has been given a tenth place grid penalty, charles leclerc will start at the start of the grid. england and west indies are back out after lunch on day two of the third and final test. rain has stopped play. the tourists made 282 in the first innings, joe roofs made 282 in the first innings, joe root�*s 87 helped him pass 12,000 test runs to seventh in the all—time

list. english 240 747 at tea. —— 247-7. some football news and pep guardiola says he could stay at manchester city beyond the end of the season. his contract expires at the end of the coming campaign, and in the aftermath of city's historic fourth successive premier league title success, guardiola raised doubts over his own future when he said, he was "closer to leaving than staying". the spaniard has been in charge of city for eight seasons and has won the league title six times. speaking to reporters in new york ahead of city's preseason encounter with ac milan, guardiola said nothing had been decided. it's a lot of years, so we will see what happens, but i don't rule it out absolutely to extend the contract, so i would love to stay because i would love to stay. so that is why i don't want to deny my feelings, i want to see my players. nine years today in the same club is an eternity. that is all the sport for now. we will keep you updated throughout the afternoon. see you soon.

a number of protests are being held across central london today. around 8,000 supporters of the far—right activist tommy robinson have filled trafalgar square, with around a thousand police officers deployed. 1,000 officers have been on duty. police barricaded whitehall, and mobile units were parked in side streets around westminster. a demonstration from stand up to racism has also been taking place. and these are pictures from a trans pride event in central london. our reporter tom symonds is in central london. bring us up—to—date on what is happening where you are. bring us up-to-date on what is happening where you are. there are rotests in happening where you are. there are protests in central— happening where you are. there are protests in central london _ happening where you are. there are protests in central london pretty . protests in central london pretty much every weekend, but this weekend's particularly difficult for the police force to deal with here. over here we have our line of one unit of police, brought in when there is trouble, they are standing by, we have not seen too much trouble. as you said, three

different protests. a transcribed protest, stand up to racism protest, and a large protest that has been put together by the far right activist tommy robinson. i have reported on a few of his protests in the past and i think this is the biggest i have seen. trafalgar square is full of his supporters, they are calling it a festival of britannia, but they have talked about their opposition to immigration, they have said things which i think most would regard as somewhat racist in some ways, and they are waving english flags and unionjack flags. to be fair, there are very few people of colour in that crowd. but they would say that they are a legitimate protest movement led by tommy robinson, with the real name stephen yaxley lennon, in court on monday fighting a continued libel case he is involved with, very controversial figure.

what is interesting about this is the possibility that has been swelled perhaps by the outcome of the election campaign. wide? because tommy robinson himself asked people in the crowd who they voted for, asking if they voted labour, people said no. he asked if people voted conservative, people booed at one point, and then he asked if anybody had voted reform uk. everybody cheered. is this a group of reform voters? possibly? but he said he had also invited the leader of reform nigel farage to come here and was told he could not make it. perhaps a new sort of protest movements, a bigger sort of protest movement than we have seen in the past. it starts to look a little bit like the make america great again protests we have seenin america great again protests we have seen in the united states but here nobody is running for office. thank ou. an nobody is running for office. thank yom an update — nobody is running for office. thank you. an update here, _ nobody is running for office. thank you. an update here, we _ nobody is running for office. thank you. an update here, we have -

nobody is running for office. thank you. an update here, we have heard from london metropolitan police, two men have been arrested on gbh. the arrests were made after a participant in the stand up to racism protest was assaulted. we will have more updates on matter. do stay with us. hello. the sunshine's a little hit and miss today. it was really quite sunny earlier on, but a weather front is approaching if it hasn't reached you already. and that does mean a rather overcast afternoon and some outbreaks of rain. most of them shouldn't last very long, should be quite fleeting.

now, here's the satellite picture and the radar — where you see the blobs of blue, that's where it's been raining. notice quite a few showers there across parts of northern england, especially the lake district and into southern scotland as well. but they are showers, so they don't last for very long. and that does mean that for most of us it should be a dry day. the best of the sunshine, i think along the south coast of england and actually come the afternoon it should brighten up in the west as well. temperatures fairly modest — 22 or 23 in the south east, mostly the high teens elsewhere. now, this evening and overnight, those clouds will melt away and we'll have a clear night, a bit of mist and fog forming by the early hours of sunday, and the temperatures first thing hovering around the mid—teens in the south east of england, about ten or so in the lowlands of scotland. tonight the skies were clear, very quiet on the weather front and early morning temperatures around mid—teens in london and the south—east, around 10 celsius in more rural spots of central scotland. lots of sunshine right from the word go. a few clouds will bubble up, fair weather clouds, but in scotland and northern ireland, turning hazy come the afternoon with just that little bit closer to a weather front out in the atlantic. warmer tomorrow, weather front out in the atlantic. warmertomorrow, more weather front out in the atlantic. warmer tomorrow, more humid, merseyside around the mid 20s and yorkshire seen temperatures into the mid—20s. monday will be hotter, we will see very warm air streaming in

from the southern climes, and in france averages will climb through the course of this week, in the uk, lots of sunshine on monday. temperatures not far 30 in london and the south—east but more typically are talking about the low to mid 20s right across the uk, but a weather front brushing the north—west, perhaps some spots of rain on monday. the hot air will continue to stream in from the south across france towards the uk, sparking thunderstorms across france. in the uk, dry on tuesday but hart, 30 is on the cards, mid to high 20s across part of northern england. well into the 20s in scotland and northern ireland. here's the outlook into next week. could be thundery for a time mid week by wednesday, but it does look like those high temperatures will not last very long. we should be back into the mid—20s midweek.

this is bbc news, the headlines... gaza's health ministry says israel has struck a school housing displaced palestinians, killing at least 30 people and injuring more than 100. israel's military says the attack targeted a hamas command and control centre embedded inside the building, in central gaza. further south in gaza — israel's military orders an evacuation for southern areas of khan younis, previously designated as a humanitarian zone.

the army says it was in response to rocket fire. the idf issued similar orders last week, altering the boundaries of what it describes as a humanitarian zone. china wins the first gold of the olympics in the 10—metre mixed team air rifle event while team gb bags bronze in women's synchronised 3m springboard. the cinema chain, cineworld, has announced plans to close six branches, which could put hundreds ofjobs at risk. now on bbc news — surviving the post office. the headlines this morning — i the metropolitan police says it's investigating possible fraud linked to the it scandal which led - to the conviction of _ hundreds of sub—postmasters and sub—postmistresses. from the age of 13, my childhood was gone. it was nonexistent. it all happened in whispers.

it all happened like stigma. it all happened by pointing fingers.