this is bbc news. the headlines: police in manchester are treating a shooting in the city's moss side area as attempted murder. ten people, including two children, sustained pellet—type injuries. nasa's ambitious mission to the sun launches from cape canaveral, 2a hours after its launch was cancelled due to a last—minute hitch. dozens of sunday train services across north—west england are cancelled for the second week running , rail operator northern blames crew scheduling "difficulties" for the disruption. cyclists who kill pedestrians could face a new charge of ‘death by dangerous cycling' — under new government proposals. a rememberance service will take place shortly, to mark this week's 20th anniversary of the omagh bombing, 29 people were killed in a car bomb attack in the county tyrone town in 1998.

and the click team meet france's very own rocket man, that's in half an hour's time, here on bbc news. ten people, including two children, have been taken to hospital following a shooting in moss side in manchester. one adult has serious injuries, from what are said to be pellet wounds. a carnival had been taking place nearby, but had finished some time before the attack took place. police have described it as "a reckless act that could have had devastating consequences". our correspondent megan paterson reports from the scene. less than 2a hours ago, this street was busy with people taking part in the nearby caribbean carnival. thousands enjoyed the event peacefully. but at 2.30am this morning,

officers were called after shots were heard. this footage was taken by an eyewitness. today's ongoing investigation is upsetting for those who work in the community. i live in moss side, i love moss side, i breathe the air of moss side. i've been there for a long time. i'll continue to spread the good word about this community, but situations like this don't help and it is about sending messages to the people. extra reassurances are today being given to people in the area. the police are doing everything they can to make sure that people are safe. there will be a heightened presence in that area now and for the next few days. police have described the attack as a reckless act which could have had serious consequences. a short while ago, greater manchester police gave this update on the investigation .

her officers received reports from the public. we attended the scene. what they discovered was a large group of several hundred people within this area. the majority of those people had been at the caribbean carnival and celebrating. they had been enjoying festivities. sadly, a small number were injured. our priority was to administer first aid and establish what had happened. what i can confirm is that we have

established that ten people were taken to hospital. one of those individuals has been discharged by themselves. nine people remain in hospital. their injuries are serious but not life—threatening. they could have been much worse. the nature of the injuries are pellet injuries. we are attributing those to the discharge of a shotgun. we are not sure it if it has been discharged one or more times. we are investigating attempted murder. we have senior detectives investigating. we have assumed that is ongoing. —— a scene. we are

unclear about the actual motive. as always, we are working closely with the community. there will be people out there who know who's responsible. i would appeal to those people to come forward and help us. lowers to solve this incident. we need to identify who is responsible. our correspondent andy gill is in moss side for us. anger but also some sense of relief

that there were not more serious injuries. i think that is right. the police say it was a shot gun that was fired possibly up to three times. this incident could have been a lot more serious. it was reckless whoever fired this camp. they are not sure whether this was a dispute between individuals or groups are whether somebody was firing the gun into the crowd. a lot of anger here amongst the community because of the u nwa nted amongst the community because of the unwanted attention this shooting has brought back nadir. 30 years ago, this area had a major problem with gun crime. there has been a huge amount of work on the community to turnit amount of work on the community to turn it around. they got rid of the gangs and made a safe place. the fa ct gangs and made a safe place. the fact that 16,000 people were here

yesterday, which we are told is a record under, shows how positive things can be. to have this happen in the early hours of sunday morning, unconnected with the carnival, still brings media attention on the media. it has cost attention on the media. it has cost a lot of area. the local councils are determined that this will not affect the community cohesion. the community is stronger than it was 30 yea rs community is stronger than it was 30 years ago and it will continue to work together. what we know about those who have been injured? those injured are aged between ten and 50. we think the children's ages are ten and 12. that is not confirmed. they have pellet injuries. the police say

they are serious but not life—threatening. one man dead have serious injuries to his legs and he is said to be in a serious but sta ble is said to be in a serious but stable condition. one person has already discharged themselves. more people may be discharged later today. nasa's mission to send a spacecraft to the sun is under way. the parker solar probe blasted off from cape canaveral in florida this morning. it will fly within about four million miles of the sun and through its outer atmosphere. michael cowan reports. five, four, three, two, one, zero. nasa's parker solar probe taking off this morning from cape canaveral in florida. a daring mission to shed light on the mysteries of our closest star, the sun. it was a relief for many after yesterday's planned launch was aborted with moments to go. trajectory looking good.

travelling at speeds of up to 430,000 mph, it will be the fastest man—made object in history. and it's the first time the spacecraft has been named after a living person. 91—year—old solar physicist eugene parker, he was the first person to describe solar winds in the 1950s and he was at the launch. all i am going to say is wow, here we go, we're in for some learning over the next several years. it will take three months for the probe to get there and it will pass by venus on its route in six weeks' time. it's the closest we will have ever been to the sun, about 4 million miles from the surface. the probe will stay in the outer atmosphere, known as the corona, spending seven years looping around the star. but it's hot, around 1300 degrees celsius, meaning one of the keyjobs for nasa was keeping this probe cool, as dr nicky fox explains.

we have a wonderful heat shield that we keep orientated between us and the sun, and so it keeps everything in the main body of the spacecraft nice and cool. it kind of creates a shadow. from the corona, the sun releases charged particles and magnetic fields, which are carried to earth on solar winds. these winds create breathtaking spectacles like the northern lights. but bigger outbursts from the sun can be problematic, causing disruptions to communications, knocking satellites off—line and can cause power grids to surge. nasa's hope is that this research will result in more accurate forecasting making us better prepared for solar weather events. michael cowan, bbc news. the government says its planning to introduce new offences of causing death by dangerous or careless cycling. under the proposal cyclists who kill pedestrians would be treated in a similar way to dangerous drivers, who face a prison sentence up to 1a years.

cycling campaigners are calling for wider reform of road safety legislation. simonjones reports. kim briggs was knocked over by a cyclist in london in 2016. she died a week later. the bike that hit her shouldn't have been on the road — it was designed for the velodrome, with no front brake. charlie alliston was riding it. he was cleared of manslaughter butjailed for 18 months for causing bodily harm by wanton or furious driving, under a law from victorian times. there is no cycling equivalent of the offence of causing death by dangerous driving. with the support of kim briggs' family, the government will now consider whether that should change in england, scotland and wales. we were very concerned because there has been a worry that there was a gap in the law relating to dangerous and careless cycling and the potential offence of death or serious injury caused by that. of course, the gap was highlighted by the alliston case last year.

campaigners say adding an couple of new offences specific to cyclists isn't going far enough. the government are missing an opportunity. what they should be doing is having a full review of all road traffic offences and penalties. they've ducked that. four years ago, they said they would do it. what we've ended up with is a review of cycling offences on their own. the whole system in relation to road traffic offences and penalties isn't working. the government says it is also doing more to keep cyclists themselves safe, with improvements to the highway code planned to try to stop drivers passing too closely to bikes. simon jones, bbc news. a remembrance service is under way in county tyrone to mark the 20th anniversary of the omagh bombing. 29 people — including a woman pregnant with twins — were killed in a car bomb attack on the town's high street in 1998. it was carried out by the dissident republican real ira, several months after the signing of the good friday agreement. our correspondentjohn campbell is in omagh and just

before the ceremony began, he spoke to some of those who were gathering to remember their loved ones. the inscription on the memorial gives you some idea of what happened here. it says, "ordinary people, doing ordinary things, on an ordinary day, and in one fateful moment lives were changed for ever." 29 people were killed on these streets, among them a grandmother, two schoolgirls who were volunteering in a charity shop, some schoolboys who'd been on a school trip. one of those who lost a loved one is kevin skelton. his wife, mena, died in the bomb. he's here with me now. kevin, give me an idea what the last 20 years or so has been like for you and your family? the last 20 years have been very, very hard, because we had no chance of grieving. because everything was fast, fast, fast, between legal cases and everything else. omagh was always in the spotlight and you never got time to yourself. i'm just hoping that after today, that we can be left in peace to move on with what's left of our lives,

because some of the things that have gone on just have to go, because you're only annoying other people as well as ourselves. the ceremony here today is due to be effectively the last big public ceremony. you're also involved with an event on wednesday. do you think it's right now that the commemorations happen less often? yes, i think this is the 20th year. if they're going to have one again, have it in 30 years, for them it's about, but it's time now to draw a line. but if other people want to have their day every year i'm not going to tell them not to. but for me this is it. in terms of the struggle for the omagh families, nobody has ever been subject to a criminal conviction for the attack which happened here, although some people were held to be liable in a civil sense. do you ever see anybody being successfully convicted

for your wife's murder? no, nobody. i've said it 18 years ago that nobody will be convicted and i say it today again. we are not the only ones. let's not forget there's a hell of a lot of victims out there who have the same story to tell, that their loved ones were murdered and nobody was convicted. nobody will be convicted, because the peace process is the most important thing to certain individuals in this country, and nothing else matters. we're going to get no justice or truth. would you like to see a process of truth recovery, where there are not necessarily convictions but everything comes out about what happened in northern ireland during the troubles? well, unless you're going to get the whole truth, no — because the british government might give you half a truth, the irish government will give you half a truth, gerry adams and the ira will give you no truth, so you're not going to get any truth, so we might as well forget about it. put a lid on it. i know it's going to hurt people, but people have been hurt before, but we've got to take the pain now and move forward for the good

of all, and to make sure this never happens again. as i was saying, this is the last, if you like, annual ceremony for the remembrance of the omagh bomb victims, but this is a town which is not going to forget. as kevin was suggesting people will continue to remember their loved ones in their own ways. people are attending this event. the event is on the 15th. a song is currently being performed in tribute to those who died that day. marking the 20th anniversary of a

car bomb that caused so much carnage in the town. there will be a public reflective event mid—afternoon and annabelle will be wrong 32 times at 310 to mark the exact time of explosions. 31 of the bells are for the victims and the 32nd ring are for those who continue to lose their lives in terrorist attacks across the world. the headlines on bbc news... police say the ten people hurt in a shooting in moss side in manchester were likely injured by a shotgun. officers are investigating the incident as attempted murder. nasa's ‘parker solar probe', which will analyse the sun's atmosphere for the first time, has successfully launched from cape canaveral in florida. rail passengers in north—west england face a second sunday of disruption, as operator northern cancels around 80 services. the rail service northern has

cancelled about 80 rail services today for another weekend. services across north—west england have been affected as engineering projects caused problems with scheduling crews. well, earlier today i spoke to craig johnstone of the rmt union, who told me the cancellations are damaging the economy in the north of england it isn'tjust on sundays we are having this problem. on fridays, according to the passenger user group, they cancelled around hundred services cancelled more on friday. it isn'tjust sundays. services cancelled more on friday.

it is happening on weekdays as well. services cancelled more on friday. less services. services cancelled more on friday. the basic thinking is that they would be able to run a more robust timetable. however, that doesn't seem to be the case. on weekdays it is a shambles as well. people just don't find it reliable any more. the family of the airport worker who stole an empty passenger plane from seattle airport — before crashing into an island — say they are "devastated" and "in complete shock". richard russell — an employee with the ground staff — performed aerobatic manouevres before crashing on a nearby island. it's thought he was killed instantly. no—one else was on board. jenny kumah reports. this is the man thought to have stolen a passenger jet from seattle airport on friday. a member of the public recorded the plane as it performed erratic manoeuvres across the evening skyline, forcing the airport's closure. we are just trying to find a place for you to land safely.

soon after, two fighterjets escorted the plane out of harm's way, but according to authorities, they were not instrumental in bringing it down. a family friend described richard russell, whose nickname was beebo, as a family man, and spoke of their shock. on behalf of the family, we are stunned and heartbroken. it may seem difficult for those watching at home to believe, but beebo was a warm, compassionate man. it is impossible to encompass who he was in a press release.

he was a faithful husband, a loving son, and a good friend. a childhood friend remarked that beebo was loved by everyone, because he was kind and gentle to each person he met. this is a complete shock to us. we are devastated by these events. the fbi say they are working alongside agents from the national transportation safety board to establish the full circumstances surrounding the incident, but they believe richard russell was the only person on board. the nobel prize winning author, sir vs naipaul, has died at the age of 85. his best—known books include a house for mr biswas, a bend in the river and in a free state, which won the booker prize. born in trinidad to an indian father, many of his works focused on the traumas of post—colonial change. the author, paul theroux, said vs naipaul had been "one of the greatest writers of our time". several years ago he spoke

to the bbc about his work. the writer, playwright and broadcaster — farrukh dhondy — is a close friend of vs naipaul. i really got to know him when the bbc called me and said, will you review his book called india, a million mutinies? that is the third book he had written an india and as i read it to review it and go on the bbc to book a programme he wanted to speak to me and i said to him, we will do this. and he said, what should we talk about? and i said, we will talk about your books, and he came with the kind of spirit about what this book man will say to him and when we sat down in front of the cameras, i said, you seem to have made progress from your first two books on india. it's a much more gentle book. and he said, oh, dear, you are already giving me marks. he was opinionated and pompous and did not sufferfools gladly but he did it because his world

vision divided the world, he had no idea of nationalism so if he saw people on the streets sir vs naipaul, who's died at the age of 85. there's been a rise in the number of single women choosing to have ivf. according to the government's advisory body, the human fertilisation and embryology authority, the number of people without partners opting for the treatment has gone up by 35%. but experts say there's a shortage of sperm donors. anisa kadri has more. holly kerr from oxford was both nervous and excited when she decided to have ivf. noah was born this year, after the treatment worked second time round. if i wanted to have a baby, i came to needed to get a move on because i was 36 when i first started thinking about it. i became aware that

i had not been in a relationship for some time. if i didn't go down the ivf route, it might never happen. holly is one of a growing number of single women having ivf. she used an anonymous sperm donor. how prepared are you for noah turning around and saying, i want to meet my dad? i feel very torn. when he turns 18, he can start to find out. that will be quite a poignant moment for me. if there is a chance that he has half—brothers or half—sisters, i know how much i have loved having a sister and i think that would be lovely for him to find out about. ivf involves an egg being fertilised with spam in a laboratory. the number of treatments for patients without a partner has gone up nationally. it has been over a thousand since 2014. that is an increase of 35%. oxford fertility says it is seeing the same increase and will treat more than 20 single women this year.

unfortunately, ivf is expensive. it could be between five and £7,000 per cycle. the success rate might be between 30 and 50% depending on the woman's age. the clinic says there is a shortage of sperm donors. the law in the uk is that when children are born with a donor and they are 18, they can trace the donor. perhaps that puts some people off. ivf can be free on the nhs if certain criteria is met. holly never thought she would end up using money she saved on the treatment but there came a point where she thought it was her best option. the boccia world championships start in liverpool later. it's the fastest growing paralympic sport and 181 athletes from 33 countries will take part in the competition. it can be played by people with some of the most severe disabilities. our disability correspondent nikki fox has been trying it out: boccia is a bowls—type game

for those with severe disabilities. we are the most severe in the paralympic games. i love the sport. no matter what your disability, you have the ability to take part at the highest level. my name is david smith, i am a boccia player for the gb boccia team, i am paralympic champion, european champion, world number one and i received an mbe 18 months ago. not much. pretty good, happy days. i feel inadequate! so the object of the sport is to get closer to the white than your opponent. six red balls, six blue balls, you can propel them in any way that you can. in theory, with six balls, you can end up scoring six, maximum per end, 24 points per game. i've only achieved that once. ooh! until you've sat on court for a couple of hours with smithy

and you see how he goes about things and how he communicates, you will never truly experience what it's like to be world—class. you can't put that bit in, that i've been lovely about him. what are we going to do? are we going to have an actual game? yeah, we are going to play boys versus girls. boys versus girls. i think we know who is going to win. yes, we do. so what's this? you've got to get over the white line. this could be disastrous, i have no arm strength. 0h, hello. there you go. who'd have thought there would be a sport fopr a mobility scooter? it's the perfect sport, it encourages participation. i can participate against an able—bodied person and be confident about winning. that's not bad. yeah, we'll do that! sweet! this competition is bigger and better than any i have ever seen. it's on par, if not better,

than the paralympics. some of the players are incredible, they are all incredible, how they manage to achieve what they do with what they got and that's what's great about boccia, it is like formula 1 but with the body. you've been given a set...this is my design and got to make the most of it. can you move forward a little bit? certainly. i'm sorry, david, am i in yourway? shot! do you think that boccia gets the media attention that it should? media coverage has been poor, frankly, and it does my head in. bigger than that, i think it's more about the legacy. the hope is that suddenly boccia becomes not something that people go, what's that, but, it's boccia, we did that in liverpool, we have a club down the road. boccia, i'm coming for you. yeah, the athletes become more like superstars and notjust poor little disabled athletes who play boccia. it has been a cloudy day.

there have been heavy showers and thunderstorms. some heel and heavy rain. some more reading to come across south—east parts of england. a mild night to come. 1415 degrees. tomorrow should be an improvement. there will be some rain in parts of scotland. the weather will improve from the south. there will be more sunshine for northern ireland, wales and southern england. temperatures will be up to 23 degrees. 1718

degrees and is gone. it should remain fairly unsettled. that should be drier towards the south—east. hello, this is bbc news.