welcome to bbc news, i'm david eades, ourtop stories: 20 people have been killed in israeli air strikes on gaza say local health authorities, after rockets were fired from the territory towards jerusalem. injerusalem, israeli security forces fired stun grenades and rubber bullets during clashes with palestinians in which hundreds were injured. us regulators have authorized the pfizer vaccine for use in children as young as 12 years old. and are the movie awards losing their lustre? tom cruise returns his three golden globes, following growing outrage over the organization's lack of diversity.

and the sorry tale of the stranded whale in the river thames, as rescue efforts fail to save it. welcome to the programme. the volatility in israel continues to rise. and now the death toll is rising with it. the palestinian health authority says 20 people including nine children have died after israeli air strikes aimed at militant targets in the gaza strip, where rockets were earlier fired towardsjerusalem. israel's parliament was evacuated as sirens sounded, and there were renewed clashes outside, and inside, al—aqsa mosque between israeli police and palestinians. in all more than 200 people were injured. 0ur middle east correspondent, yolande knell reports.

"0ur blood is a cheap price forjerusalem," shouts this bereaved gaza grandmother. while this woman, who lost four children, can only weep. the casualties, mounting, after israeli air strikes. translation: this evening, | jerusalem day, gaza's terrorist organisations crossed a red line and attacked us with rockets on the outskirts ofjerusalem. israel will react very forcefully. his response to a barrage of rockets fired by palestinian militants. israelis ran for cover when one reached jerusalem for the first time in years. while angry palestinians cheered.

tensions were simmering on this holiday, when israelis mark the capture of eastjerusalem over 50 years ago. there is a party atmosphere, as israelis gather from across the country to head down towards the western wall. for them, this is a big day of celebration. for the palestinians, this march as a provocation. why am i here? because we are not going to let anyone win of when they are going to threaten us and try to stop us from being here and celebrate and dance. it is unbelievable. earlier, inside al—aqsa mosque, ramadan worship had quickly turned into violence. stun grenades and stones on this site, sacred to muslims and jews. here, there was frustration at damascus gate as police

stopped jews from entering. tonight, the al—aqsa compound was literally ablaze. the israeli celebrations continued. the fire was put out. what has flared up here may be harder to extinguish. let's speak now to ambassador dennis ross. for more than 12 years he was the lead middle east negotiator for the united states. he's in washington. ambassador, thanks very much indeed forjoining us. there seem to be so many elements to this flareup, i wonder how you even think about setting out a way to resolve it. it’s even think about setting out a way to resolve it.— way to resolve it. it's a very aood good question, because you had a confluence of events that came together in a very explosive when they are all combined. so you have the end of ramadan, you havejerusalem

day which celebrates the israeli reabsorption of all of jerusalem. you have the issue in sheikhjarrah, and the eviction of the people who have lived there and then you have hamas, cancelled elections, playing on frustrations there, all of those things have come together in a way that is a very combustible mix and now you have rockets fired from gaza, seven towardsjerusalem itself. you have both what is happening injerusalem and what is happening in gaza and somehow you have to re—establish calm injerusalem re—establish calm in jerusalem and re—establish calm injerusalem and you have to see if you can re—establish what is some kind of ceasefire in gaza. it's not easy to put all of this together but unless there are some very rapid moves to try to

calm the situation, it runs the risk of taking on a life with — make a life of its own. risk of taking on a life with - make a life of its own. antony bunken make a life of its own. antony blinken said _ make a life of its own. antony blinken said all _ make a life of its own. antony blinken said all sides - make a life of its own. antony blinken said all sides need - make a life of its own. antony blinken said all sides need to | blinken said all sides need to de—escalate but you work through countless administrations at various stages and personifications if you like of a peace process of sorts. what do you think president biden can and indeed will do in terms of us involvement at this stage? also a very good _ involvement at this stage? also a very good question. _ involvement at this stage? i"r a very good question. obviously the administration has not wanted to make this a priority and yet as we are seeing, the middle east issue has a way of imposing itself. i do think what is going to be required is, in an effort to try to work with the israelis to contain what is going on. i think talking to the egyptians so that they can work with hamas and the israelis to try to calm things in gaza. talking also to thejordanians things in gaza. talking also to the jordanians because things in gaza. talking also to

thejordanians because they manage the temple area and i think all of these things together are probably required, it will require taking a number of steps in parallel by the administration to cf, as i said, you can calm the situation and also re—establish the ceasefire. it situation and also re-establish the ceasefire.— the ceasefire. it is interesting, - the ceasefire. it is interesting, you . the ceasefire. it is i interesting, you took the ceasefire. it is - interesting, you took two areas where you can bring in other actors to perhaps seek an answer. what about one or two of the specifics. let's take the settlements for example, in the settlements for example, in the population has exploded since the 90s, of course, continues to grow. joe biden has previously expressed considerable distaste for them, would he dare to put his head above the parapet now or the settlements a foregone issue? i'm not sure that is the issue to raise right now. we don't know what government is going to emerge in israel and in the current setting, there will be an impulse, i think, current setting, there will be an impulse, ithink, not current setting, there will be an impulse, i think, not to look like they are making major concessions, so why don't think biden administration wants to

adopt a position on an issue that makes it unlikely it can succeed. if it is going to play a role here it needs to, in a sense, so it can get something done. evertries sense, so it can get something done. ever tries to elevate an issue that it can't do anything about at least for the moment, it's going to highlight, in a sense, our inability to do things which will reduce the administration's ability to play a role. administration's ability to play a role-— administration's ability to -la arole.~ . , play a role. we are 'ust about out of time h play a role. we are 'ust about out of time but _ play a role. we are 'ust about out of time but can- play a role. we are just about out of time but can you - play a role. we are just about out of time but can you give l play a role. we are just about. out of time but can you give us a grain of hope? i out of time but can you give us a grain of hope?— a grain of hope? i do think that if we _ a grain of hope? i do think that if we can _ a grain of hope? i do think that if we can get - a grain of hope? i do think that if we can get the - that if we can get the situation calm, we do need to think about how you use arab states playing a bigger role in this than perhaps they have in the past stopping the outreach towards israel can be used to also get the israelis to take certain steps towards the palestinians. i think we also have to think about how the arabs can play a role in helping to break the stalemate between israelis and palestinians. �* ., between israelis and palestinians. ., palestinians. ambassador ross, thank ou palestinians. ambassador ross, thank you very _ palestinians. ambassador ross, thank you very much _ palestinians. ambassador ross, thank you very much indeed. - palestinians. ambassador ross, j thank you very much indeed. my thank you very much indeed. ij�*i pleasure.

a cyber—criminal gang that took a major us fuel pipeline offline over the weekend has acknowledged the incident in a public statement. darkside wrote on its website that its goal was to make money and not to create problems for society. work to restore service is continuing. the pentagon says a us naval ship has fired multiple warning shots after more than a dozen fast boats from iran's revolutionary guards came close to an american submarine. a pentagon spokesman said the iranian boats came to within 130 metres of the us vessel. a russian doctor who treated the opposition activist alexei navalny has emerged safe and well, three days after going missing on a hunting trip. police had spent much of the weekend looking for dr alexander murakhovsky in swampy siberian forests. the us state of georgia has abolished legislation passed during the civil war that allowed residents to make citizens' arrests. the move comes just over a year

after a black man who was out jogging was shot and killed by a white man who said he suspected him of being a burglar. us regulators say they will allow children as young as 12 to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. they are being offered the pfizer—biontech jab, which had previously been limited to those aged 16 and over, under emergency use rules. the us food and drug administration said it had carried out a thorough review of all available data before reaching the decision. most children who catch covid—i9 develop no symptoms, or only mild ones, but can still spread the illness to others. we know that this ia a big step for our country. vaccinating a younger population brings us closer to returning to a sense of normalcy and to ending the pandemic. now parents and guardians can rest assured that in making our decision the agency undertook a rigorous and through review of of all averrable scientific data as we have with all

the covid—i9 vaccinations. it would usually be one of the biggest nights of the hollywood calendar. after it was announced that nbc has refused to screen the event. tom cruise has returned his three awards and scarlett johannson has called for reform of the hollywood foreign press association which organises the awards ceremony. that ceremony second only to the oscars in prestige. in a statement, nbc said: "we continue to believe that the hfpa is committed to meaningful reform. however, change of this magnitude takes time and work, "and we feel strongly that the hfpa needs time to do it right. as such, nbc will not air the 2022 golden globes. i'm joined by kj matthews, an entertainmentjournalist based in los angeles. thanks very much for your time.

how much are they getting wrong at the golden globes? fiat! how much are they getting wrong at the golden globes?— at the golden globes? oof! it is such a huge _ at the golden globes? oof! it is such a huge story - at the golden globes? oof! it is such a huge story here - at the golden globes? oof! it is such a huge story here in l is such a huge story here in los angeles and especially hollywood. this has never happened before, this show is a huge moneymakerfor the huge moneymaker for the hollywood foreign huge moneymakerfor the hollywood foreign press association, so for them to pull out and leave the hollywood foreign press association with absolutely no telecast for the next year is just really unheard of. the problem is, the hollywood foreign press association has been doing business as usual for too long, way too long. we heard in february they had no black members we also heard that members in the organisation were receiving huge amounts of money for various activities including junkets and whatnot and people weren't quite sure why they would be receiving large amount of money for that. there were so many things that they were

getting wrong but they really weren't doing anything about it until an investigative report came out weeks before golden globes telecast, and then of course hollywood was in an uproar and really urged them to make changes. at that time they said yes, we are going to make changes and we would like to sit down at the table with various parties and we would like to make those changes over 18 month. the problem with that is that often times in hollywood, when you say not now, later, means never. given everything _ now, later, means never. given everything that _ now, later, means never. given everything that we _ now, later, means never. given everything that we have - everything that we have experienced over the last few years, regarding the oscars and issues of diversity, it looks like the most extraordinary complacency. like the most extraordinary complacency-— like the most extraordinary complacency. like the most extraordinary comlacen . , , ~ complacency. absolutely! and we learned, there _ complacency. absolutely! and we learned, there were _ complacency. absolutely! and we learned, there were 86 _ complacency. absolutely! and we learned, there were 86 or- complacency. absolutely! and we learned, there were 86 or 87 - learned, there were 86 or 87 members, most of them we found out were older white males and not a single black member. we are in hollywood 2021, you still can't find a black

journalist that is worthy of being a member of the hollywood foreign press association? it was just a horrible look, and then the fact that they were receiving so much money to visit various film sets or junkets and then we found out that some of those movies or tv shows were somehow nominated, it just shows were somehow nominated, itjust really shows were somehow nominated, it just really was shows were somehow nominated, itjust really was a bad look and now, right now in hollywood with the hollywood foreign press association, there are talks. i5 press association, there are talks. , . , press association, there are talks. , ., , press association, there are talks. , ., talks. is there any reason to believe that _ talks. is there any reason to believe that they _ talks. is there any reason to believe that they will - talks. is there any reason to believe that they will get . talks. is there any reason to i believe that they will get over this? there are plenty of other awards anyway who do their own thing and do them very well, is the golden globes' time done? it may be unless they make these changes. they have issued a response, saying we're not going to spread this out of 18 months, we understand now is the time. so now they are saying they are going to enact all of the changes by august the second and they have detailed a list of every single week, how they are going to make those changes and the two significant changes are they are getting rid of their

current board and they are getting rid of their ceo. say they are bringing in new members, a new board and a new ceo and they are hoping if they can sit down with the various networks and public relations agencies and journalists and make these changes, by august the second, then people will give them a second chance. shill give them a second chance. all riaht, give them a second chance. all right. we _ give them a second chance. all right, we will see you in two and a half months. thank you very much indeed. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: hsbc is trialling zoom—free fridays, in an effort to tackle stress caused by working from home. "the pope was shot, the pope will live" — that is the essence of the appalling news from rome this afternoon that, as an italian television commentator put it, terrorism has come to the vatican. the man they called the butcher of lyon, klaus barbie, went on trial today in the french town where he was the gestapo chief

in the second world war. winnie mandela never looked like a woman just sentenced to six years injail. the judge told mrs mandela there was no indication she felt even the slightest remorse. the chinese government has called for an all—out effort. to help the victims - of a powerful earthquake — the worst to hit the i country for 30 years. the computer deep blue has tonight triumphed over the world chess champion, gary kasparov. it is the first time a machine has defeated a reigning world champion in a classical chess match. america's first legal same—sex marriages have been taking place in massachusetts. god bless america! this is bbc news. i'm david eades. the latest headlines: twenty people have been killed in israeli air strikes on gaza after rockets were fired from the territory towards jerusalem. this follows clashes at one

of the most sensitive sites injerusalem, between israeli security forces and palestinians. us regulators have authorized the pfizer vaccine for use in children as young as 12 years old. the decision comes at a time when the vaccination rate in the us has slowed significantly. china hasjust released data from its 2020 national census, showing that mainland china has a population of 1.111 billion people, a 5.38% increase on the figure from 2010, which was 1.34 billion. this means the population growth rate has slowed by nearly half a percent since the last census, ans is the lowest rate since the one—child poilicy was enforced in the 1970s. joining me now is lynette 0ng, professor of political science at the university of toronto. thank you forjoining us. you better tell me what that means

because the growth sounds pretty healthy to me? it means is that growth _ pretty healthy to me? it means is that growth has _ pretty healthy to me? it means is that growth has been - is that growth has been declining in china for several decades now and it is expected to register its first decline, even though it has not been announced but various people have talked about it a month ago that population growth in china is expected to register its first decline since the late 50s and that is of major symbolic significance because of the disastrous economic policies in the late 50s that resulted in millions of deaths and then the country went on to embrace stringent one child policy and then the reversal of the 1—child policy in 2015 and

then you see this population decline. ., ., , ., , decline. that reversal was only five or six _ decline. that reversal was only five or six years _ decline. that reversal was only five or six years ago _ decline. that reversal was only five or six years ago so - decline. that reversal was only five or six years ago so too - five or six years ago so too soon to be expressed through the senses?— the senses? yes, i think several— the senses? yes, i think several things _ the senses? yes, i think several things are - the senses? yes, i think several things are going | the senses? yes, i think- several things are going on. the one child policy embrace in the 70s was very straight and resulted in forced sterilisation and a series of human rights abuses and in rural areas, where conservative chinese people had a preference for boys rather than girls, it lead to infantile genocide. and that led to the situation we are seeing today.— are seeing today. sorry to interruot _ are seeing today. sorry to interrupt you, _ are seeing today. sorry to interrupt you, do - are seeing today. sorry to | interrupt you, do you think are seeing today. sorry to -

interrupt you, do you think the government therefore is going to feel the need in any way to stepping again and try to engineer a change in direction or not? i engineer a change in direction or not? ~ , or not? i think they were anticipating _ or not? i think they were anticipating that - or not? i think they were anticipating that for - or not? i think they were | anticipating that for some or not? i think they were - anticipating that for some time now which is why they reversed the 1—child policy several years ago. it takes decades to realise, to see results and i do not see any major policies will be embraced in the very near future but what we are seeing is policymakers talking about lifting or increasing the retirement age which is currently 60 four men and 55 for women. they are still pretty young and people live longer these days in china so i think it is natural and logical to lift the retirement age. thank you very much. the banking giant

hsbc has announced zoom—free friday afternoons for some uk staff, in an effort to tackle stress caused by working from home during the pandemic. it comes after the issue of work—life balance was highlighted by one hsbc employee who suffered a heart attack while preparing for the new working week. mark lobel reports. — — i have been speaking to a doctorfrom — — i have been speaking to a doctor from the university of washington who says working from home has made the timeline below it. yeah, i mean, certainly, working from home does have its advantages for many people but you know i think we have to remember that we're notjust working from home, we are really kind of working from home under emergency circumstances, so many of us are balancing work with childcare, with caring for older adults and so it can be a lot.

and when you are on zoom all day, every day, with few breaks, you may not have time to go to the bathroom, get lunch, get up and move around. also without that physical divide that we have between leaving our homes to go into a work place, work can start to drift into even more hours than it did before. particularly, early in the pandemic we would hear workers say, "well, i don't really have anywhere else i can go, so i'm just going to work." borisjohnson has confirmed the next stage of easing restrictions can go ahead in a weeks time so pubs and restaurant will be able to serve customers indoors, theatres, cinemas, hotels and all reopened and he said friends and families can hug again but urge people to use theirjudgement.— theirjudgement. from next monday. — theirjudgement. from next monday. we _ monday, we are updating the guidance on close contact between friends and family. setting out the risks for everyone to make their own choices. this does not mean we

can suddenly throw caution to the wind. in fact, more than a year into this pandemic, we all know that close contact, such as hugging, is a direct way of transmitting this disease so i urge you to think about the vulnerability of your loved ones, whether they have had a vaccine, one or two doses and whether there has been time for that vaccine to take effect. a young minke whale stranded in the thames in london has been put down. the calf was freed in the early hours of monday, but became stuck again later in the day. despite the hopes of hundreds of onlookers, its condition deteriorated rapidly, and vets from london zoo put it to sleep. tim muffett reports. a sad end to what has been an extraordinary day at teddington lock in south—west london. the minke whale that had become stranded in the river thames was euthanised this evening.

animal welfare experts say it was the only way to avoid any more unnecessary suffering. the whale was first seen late yesterday afternoon. it had become stranded on a concrete ramp on richmond lock, around two miles along the river. and a seven—hour rescue operation began. during the night, the whale was towed away so that vets could try and carry out a health check. but it swam free from its harness. today, crowds gathered in teddington, along with the rspca and the rnli, after it was spotted again. for a while, the whale captivated onlookers as it swam by the lock gates. but at around 2:30pm this afternoon, it found itself unable to leave shallow waters by the riverbank. so the whale has become stranded yet again in the shallow waters here and now all efforts are under way to try

and set it free. those efforts unfortunately were not enough to free the whale. this evening many are wondering how an animal typically found in the north atlantic and pacific oceans could have swum so far up the river thames. it could been ill, it could be sick, separated from its mum. wouldn't have been feeding. if it was weaned, then maybe it has had a problem actually feeding for itself. but something has happened. we won't know what that is, but the pathologist, the vat pathologist at london zoo will do an autopsy and they will work out the history of the animal. a captivating site for many over the past 2a hours, but sadly this minke whale was unable to return to the open sea. tim muffett, bbc news. it is just it isjust a it is just a very sad story there. we have more on it on there. we have more on it on the website as well and also if you want to get in touch, i am

on twitter. always good to hear from you. you are watching bbc news. hello. as yesterday, today is shaping up to be a day of sunny spells and showers. the devil is going to be in the detail, though, for the next few days. those showers circulating this large area of low pressure, with still fairly tightly packed isobars today. but as the week goes on, the low pressure remains with us, just slowly meandering southwards, but the winds become lighter, so the showers will become slow—moving. lengthier spells of rain even as we pick up another area of low pressure within our main one. so that means most of us will have some wetter weather as we go through this week, in the form of showers. but you can see those rainfall totals are going to be totting up. for the day ahead, as i say, it's a day of sunny spells and showers.

best of the sunshine will be through this morning but as yesterday those showers will be pretty intense as we go into the afternoon, with thunderstorms around. and we've got more persistent rain. across the north—west of scotland, still further showers to come. they're not easing away everywhere, and it will be a coolish night but largely frost free. a few showers will come into southern and western parts of england, possibly wales as well, towards dawn. any bits of mist and low cloud first thing will meander out of the way. plenty of sunshine to come, as you can see, through the morning hours but won't be long before that strong may sunshine gets to work, bubbling up the cloud, showers develop more widely. still a fairly brisk wind, as i say, in southern and western areas. 0ur rain slow to clear but gradually clearing for the north—west of scotland, but a real rash of showers following behind, with hail, thunder, squally winds. in between, 16 and 17, feeling quite pleasant, but clearly, in those downpours, there could be quite a lot of localised standing water. and they continue well through the evening and overnight. once again, temperatures falling back into

single figures, but largely frost free. and then we're really chasing those showers. the devil really will be in the detail this week, with showers. it might be that we've still got that more persistent rain hanging around in the north—west of scotland, possibly more meandering into western areas. possibly even with a low pressure pushing into the far south of england. but what we do know is there will be heavy downpours around becoming more slow—moving by wednesday. still 15s and 16s between the showers but some lengthy spells of rain when they do come along, with hail and thunder. and as i say, it's a pretty showery picture for much of the rest of the week. as ever, there is more on the website.

this is bbc news, the headlines: the health ministry in gaza says twenty people, including nine children have been killed in israeli air strikes the strikes were retaliation after a barrage of rockets was fired from the territory towards jerusalem. israel says it killed three militants. us regulators say they will allow children as young as 12 to be vaccinated against the coronavirus. children aged between 12 and 15 will be offered the pfizer—biontech jab. it had previously been limited to those aged 16 and over. the us television network, nbc, says it will not broadcast the golden globes ceremony next year, joining a growing wave of criticism about the organisers' lack of diversity and ethical stance. the hollywood foreign press association has come under pressure after it emerged that there were no black members.