this is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. palestinian officials say at least seven people, including four children, have been killed in the latest israeli air—strike on gaza. britain's prime minister warns that the new indian variant of coronavirus could pose a serious disruption to tackling covid. as the countdown continues to the tokyo olympics, fresh concerns over whether the games will actually go ahead. and china makes space history, becoming only the second country to land a rover on mars.

hello and welcome. the palestinian health ministry says an israeli air strike on a refugee camp in gaza has killed at least seven people. an official said the dead included a woman and four children, who were inside their home in the al—shati camp, west of gaza city. there was no immediate comment from israel. since the conflict began on monday. palestinian militants have responded to the air strike by firing rockets towards the israeli city of beersheba, hitting the city of ashdod. from jerusalem here's our middle east editor, jeremy bowen. the sectarian crisis that nobody expected is deepening. arab protesters are on the streets of northern israel. this was nazareth. israel's arab citizens have forced themselves back into the wider conflict that includes gaza and jerusalem. it's ugly and angry in towns shared byjews and arabs. violence between citizens

could be a bigger crisis for israel than gaza. this was a burnt—out jewish school. yelling. police broke down the door of this family in haifa. they deny accusations their sons were attacking jews. the police say their officers behaved correctly. child screams. the father, the imam of a mosque, and his two sons were arrested for attacking police officers. the woman who filmed this said they're scared not ofjews, but of racist police. a local rabbi visited, she said, to apologise. child cries. in gaza, they buried 13—year—old mahmoud tolba. he was hit during an israeli air strike while he waited

for a new haircut to celebrate the end of ramadan. half of gaza's 2 million palestinians are children. this is mahmoud's brother. in the occupied territories and in israel, events this week have exposed once again the mutual hatred and fear that are the essence of this conflict. this was hebron during a day of protests on the occupied west bank. more palestinians were killed. fireworks pop. injerusalem, palestinians pelted jewish settlers with stones and fireworks. gunfire. the settlers hit back with live bullets. gunfire. this was sheikh jarrah, where attempts to evict palestinians from their homes helped start the escalation to war. the conflict crosses borders. injordan, the country next door, security forces kept protesters back from the frontier.

palestinians make up more than half thejordanian population — mostly refugees from past wars not permitted to return by israel. history never dies in this conflict. people do. jeremy bowen, bbc news, jerusalem. well earlier i spoke to the bbc�*s internet producer in gaza, rushdi abualouf and asked him to update us on the latest israeli airstrike in gaza. it has been a very long night involving killing ten people according to palestinian health ministry officials. the recent israeli air strike struck a three—storey building. it's in the middle of a refuge decamp in the middle of gaza city, the biggest city in the whole of gaza strip. as a result of the attack, seven people were killed including four children and a woman, and that's according to dr yousef al—rish who is the director of the palestinian health ministry, who described to the bbc what happened as an ugly massacre,

as he said. shortly after the attack, her mother said that they fired ten rockets towards the array of is really city, about a0 kilometres away from gaza and they were fired in retaliation to the killing of the recent civilians, according to the statement by the armed wing of us, sent to the bbc. this here in the uk, the prime minister boris johnson has said that the new indian variant of coronavirus could pose a serious disruption to progress made in tackling the virus. cases have more than doubled in a week, mostly in england.

here's our medical editor, fergus walsh. long queues for immunisation in bolton, which now has the highest level of coronavirus in the uk. it is one of several areas where the indian variant has now got a foothold, encouraging people to get the jab. personally, the reason for me getting the vaccine is because i live with elderly people and i don't — obviously want to have them have less worries. it is thought vaccines will continue to protect against serious illness but the threat from the indian variant has led to a shift in policy. the gap between first and second doses for the over—50s is being cut from 12 to eight weeks in a bid to boost their immunity. the prime minister warned the final lifting of restrictions in england onjune 21st was now in doubt. i have to level with you that this new variant could pose a serious disruption

to our progress and could make it more difficult to move to step four injune. and i must stress that we will do whatever it takes to keep the public safe. the indian variant, bi.6i7.2, was first identified here less than a month ago, linked to travel from india before it was put on the red list for hotel quarantine. cases have more than doubled in a week to over 1,300, but that will inevitably be out of date because it takes time to sequence samples. it now accounts for around 10% of coronavirus cases in the uk. but we're in a far better place than we were just a few months ago. back at the peak injanuary, there were 1.25 million people infected with coronavirus in the uk. that is one in 50 people.

the latest survey from the office for national statistics suggests that is down to around a7,000, or one in around i,a00 people. get used to this — you are likely to see more of it. queues for pcr surge testing here in formby, merseyside — one of 15 areas in england where the new indian variant has established itself and maybe displacing the kent variant, known as bii7. this is more transmissible than the b117 and we expect over time this variant to overtake and come to dominate in the uk in the way that bii7 took over and, indeed, othervariants have taken over prior to that. the scientific advisory group sage says the indian variant could be as much as 50% more transmissible. if it is, they warn that

could lead to a substantial resurgence in hospitalisation. but for now, the number of covid patients continues to fall — at its lowest level for eight months. the big question — what will happen in the next few weeks? fergus walsh, bbc news. japan has declared a state of emergency in three more regions hit hard by the pandemic, casting further doubt over whether the tokyo olympic games should go ahead. 70% of japan's population is now under coronavirus restrictions. courtney bembridge has the details. the countdown to the olympic games continues, with the opening ceremony less than 70 days away. but as infections continue to rise injapan, the government has declared a state of emergency in three more regions. translation: by implementing such measures, we will protect i people's health and lives and i think it is more possible to hold a safe and secure games, and i wish to push forward with preparations.

all chant: no, no olympics! many people injapan aren't convinced. this week, there have been protests and a petition with more than 350,000 signatures calling for the games to be scrapped. recent polling shows 37% of respondents want the games cancelled, and another 28% want them postponed. the union representing hospital doctors agrees. it has warned the games could become a superspreader event for global coronavirus variants. translation: it is a tough - story for athletes, but someone has to say that the games need to be cancelled. we think medical workers are required to speak up. sponsors, too, are nervous. one major olympic partner, toyota, said this week "we are conflicted every day over what the best course of action is". test events are already under way. on friday, it was skateboarding. the sport is due to make its olympic debut at tokyo.

the world athletics president says we must move forward. it is important to reflect on one statistic, and it's a sobering one — 70% of olympians only make it to one games. so, you know, to lightly, you know, to lightly, as some are suggesting, pull stumps on this, move it a year down the line, is effectively saying for three quarters of olympians, "that's it. that's your chance." and i think we should make every effort, if we can do it safely and securely — which i believe we can — i think we really should go that extra mile. elsewhere in the world, they are getting ready. this is brazil's government vaccinating its athletes, coaches, referees and accredited media. overseas spectators have been banned, and a decision on whether the japanese public can attend is due injune. if it does go ahead, this

is sure to be a very different olympics. courtney bembridge, bbc news. china has successfully landed a rover on mars. the zhurong had been circling the planet since february, while its carrier craft mapped out a safe landing site to avoid boulders and craters. the united states. dean cheng is a senior analyst at the heritage foundation think tank focussing on china's space programme. he told me just how significant this was for china. if you are chinese scientists, you have every reason to be absolutely delighted and proud. your nation has now successfully landed a probe on mars. hasn't quite deployed the rover yet — that will come in the next few hours or day or so probably — but it's a huge achievement and it makes china only the second nation to successfully land on the red planet. and the space programme in china, it's advanced pretty

quickly, hasn't it, in recent years? what is china's goal in space? china's goal, broadly speaking, is to use space to improve all of the aspects of what they term comprehensive national power. from the chinese perspective, space benefit chinese diplomacy, chinese technology, it's a great advertisement — it reinforces the legitimacy of the chinese communist party to its own people. space always has military implications. and conversely, by going to mars, it demonstrates that china can contribute to what they term the global pool of human knowledge. china is the second successful country to land a rover on mars. why is it the russians, the europeans, the japanese haven't tried to do it — or have they? various people have tried. the joke is that martian air defence is actually pretty good. chuckles. but realistically speaking... don't scare me, dean! chuckles. no, but in all seriousness, the reality is, it is rocket science.

it is a matter of getting everything to go right. human error has been a factor. one of the probes that failed, the beagle, people used the wrong units — some people apparently used feet and some people used metres. we're not quite sure why the european schiaparelli probe failed. russian and soviet probes — in many cases, this was in the early days of the space age — simply weren't ready for it. the russians, to their distinction, are the only other country to have landed but their probe mars 3, in 1971, only lasted about two minutes and took about 70 lines of one image. dean chen. this is bbc news. a reminder of the headlines: palestinian officials say at least seven people, including four children, have been killed in the latest israeli air strike on gaza. as the countdown continues to the tokyo olympics, fresh concerns over whether the games will actually go ahead.

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and children lost their lives. in this place, unfortunately, there was a terrible murder, a terrible mass genocide. this town was — terrible mass genocide. this town was the _ terrible mass genocide. this town was the first _ terrible mass genocide. ti 3 town was the first place of extermination after which the nazis put it on a conveyor belt, the extermination of the jews. ~ ., ., ~ belt, the extermination of the jews. ~' . . ~' ., jews. ukraine mark for the first time _ jews. ukraine mark for the first time the _ jews. ukraine mark for the first time the day - jews. ukraine mark for the first time the day of- first time the day of remembrance of ukrainians who saved jews during the war. but nearly 80 years on, the role ukrainians played in the holocaust is still a controversial issue in the country. though to me as country's first us president, was not there because of other commitments. —— firstjewish commitments. -- first jewish president-— president. this place is a - lace president. this place is a place where _ president. this place is a place where all - president. this place is a place where all of - president. this place is a place where all of the . president. this place is a | place where all of the pain experienced in the second world war is particularly sharply

felt. a map of the sky was painted on its ceiling, with spas positioned as they were on the night of the massacre. it stands as a stark reminder of what happened here, in the hope that such atrocities are not to be repeated. ever again. that such atrocities are not to be repeated. everagain. soumer daghastani, bbc news. andi bernabe was a high school student in texas when he came out as transgender. over the past year, andi's been documenting hisjourney into young adulthood, and sharing the formative moments with us, and with the rest of the world. here's a look at his story. asa kid, as a kid, i definitely wore a lot of boys clothes. i did not enjoy wearing skirts, dresses, all that. may be that was early symptoms of my dysphoria. gender dysphoria is the

discomfort and distress in individuals whose gender identity is different from what they were assigned at birth. i didn't really find out what lgbtq even meant until, like, middle school years, when i had access to the internet on my phone. no adults ever taught me about it, told me anything about it, told me anything about it. about it, told me anything about it— about it. bisexual, transgender, - about it. bisexual, i transgender, queer, about it. bisexual, - transgender, queer, lgbt people. transgender, queer, lgbt eo - le. transgender, queer, lgbt neale, ., ., transgender, queer, lgbt --eole. ., ., ., people. the notion of homosexuality. - people. the notion of homosexuality. gay l people. the notion of- homosexuality. gay couples on the ste -s homosexuality. gay couples on the steps of — homosexuality. gay couples on the steps of city _ homosexuality. gay couples on the steps of city hall. - homosexuality. gay couples on the steps of city hall. and - the steps of city hall. and every day. _ the steps of city hall. and every day. it _ the steps of city hall. and every day, it gets - the steps of city hall. and every day, it gets better. | the steps of city hall. and i every day, it gets better. my dysphoria — every day, it gets better. my dysphoria started to manifest around the start of freshman year, i would say. it'sjust around the start of freshman year, i would say. it's just a uncomfortable feeling that feels like it's clawing at the back of my neck and itjust won't go away. at the time, my

hair was like about this long, it was like, really long. it was really heavy, and it was causing me neck pain. sol was really heavy, and it was causing me neck pain. so i was like, ma'am, iwant to causing me neck pain. so i was like, ma'am, i want to get my haircut. i would use that reasoning almost as, like, a cover—up excuse for deep down, why i actually really wanted my haircut. overtime, why i actually really wanted my haircut. over time, the feeling got stronger and stronger, and i realised i think there is something different here at play. basically, igot something different here at play. basically, i got it all chopped off. i immediately started bowling. i'm so happy! i wanted this for so long! when i wanted this for so long! when ifinally, like, realised why i felt like that, it was like lightbulb explosion. oh, my god. it got me so excited. it was probably the big changing

moment to make me realise, yeah, no, i'm probably — probably transgender. the note before my birthday, i kind of was awake the entire time. i feel like a make—up guru. i remember walking into school and thinking, oh, my guide, i am an adult now. i am a legal adult. it's my birthday. i am eating. then i got a text from a friend, bella, and she was like, hey, can you come up to the choir room real quick? she doesn't get upset much, so i thought it was a serious problem. i was greeted with the entire room filled with a bunch of people yelling... entire room filled with a bunch of people yelling. . ._

of people yelling... surprise! ha - of people yelling... surprise! happy birthday _ of people yelling... surprise! happy birthday to _ of people yelling... surprise! happy birthday to you! - of people yelling... surprise! happy birthday to you! she i of people yelling... surprise! i happy birthday to you! she spun me around _ happy birthday to you! she spun me around after— happy birthday to you! she spun me around after they _ happy birthday to you! she spun me around after they stopped i me around after they stopped singing happy birthday, and then she said, so, since you are like a legal adult now, we kind of raised enough money for you to change your name. and i just, as you can see in the video, completely broke down. 0h! �* video, completely broke down. 0h! ~ , ., . , video, completely broke down. 0h!�* ,., _ 0h! and started crying. looking back on it _ 0h! and started crying. looking back on it makes _ 0h! and started crying. looking back on it makes me _ 0h! and started crying. looking back on it makes me so - back on it makes me so extremely happy, honestly. the video went viral.— video went viral. andi has so many people who love and support him. it wasn't a difficult task to get the money raised for him, rather than having him have the burden himself. �* having him have the burden himself. . , ., having him have the burden himself. �* , ., ., himself. and you can hear the rest of andi's _ himself. and you can hear the rest of andi's story _

himself. and you can hear the rest of andi's story if - himself. and you can hear the rest of andi's story if you - himself. and you can hear the rest of andi's story if you go l rest of andi's story if you go to the website, bbc.com/news. prince harry has spoken publicly again about his life as a member of the royal family, saying he wants to "break the cycle" of "pain and suffering" he experienced while growing up, to spare his own children. speaking on a podcast, prince harry compared his life as a royal to being in a zoo. buckingham palace and clarence house have declined to comment. our royal correspondent, nicholas whitchell, has more. they did their best to walk in step for the duke of edinburgh's funeral, but this is a family which has been shaken and hurt by recent comments by harry and his wife. and now, there are more — harry's reflections from his california home on the theme of parenting and the pain and suffering handed down to him. there's no blame. yeah. i don't think we should be pointing the finger or blaming anybody but certainly, when it comes to parenting, if i've experienced some form of pain or suffering because of the pain or suffering that perhaps my

father or my parents had suffered, i'm going to make sure that i break that cycle so i don't pass it on, basically. there's a lot of genetic pain and suffering that gets passed on anyway. we, as parents, we should be doing the most we can to try and say, "you know what? that happened to me. i'm going to make sure that doesn't happen to you." we're going to have a family tea party. however bewildered they may find such unburdening, harry's family isn't showing it. prince charles was in south wales. sir, do you agree with prince harry, about the suffering and pain in the family? nice try, but to no avail. but it's the questions implicit in harry's latest musings which will trouble the family. they've accepted that he needed to get away from royal life for the sake of his mental health. what they didn't expect was for him to go public on such private matters. here he is on his father's upbringing. this is where he went to school. this is what happened. i know this bit about his life. i also know that's connected to his parents. yeah. so, that means that he's treating me the way that he was treated. exactly. which means how can i change that for my own kids?

and, well, here i am. harry says he feels a little more free in his new life in california. his family may wonder how many more reflections he and his wife will feel obliged to share. nicholas witchell, bbc news. now, how's this for a hard luck story? a californian woman claims to have missed out on a $26 million lottery prize after the winning ticket was destroyed in her washing machine. she says she left it in the pocket of her trousers. the bbc�*s tim allman has the story. this is the place where, but for an overly aggressive spin cycle, a life might have been changed forever. it was at this convenience store in the suburbs of la that one not—so—lucky woman bought a ticket for the superlotto plus. her numbers came up, a big prize was tantalisingly within her grasp, but there was one tiny problem with her ticket.

her clothes were washed and so, when she pulled it out it was all crumpled up, like, in little pieces, and she said she frantically tried to put them all together but she couldn't. there is apparently cctv footage of the moment she bought the ticket, but the california lottery says any claimant needs "compelling, substantial proof" they were a winner. lotto fever isn't exactly a rare occurrence in the us — huge jackpots prompting long queues and furious excitement. any unclaimed prize money will be donated to the state's public school system. plenty of sympathy for the unlucky non—winning winner, but some sage advice too. i guess now, you know, the lesson is that taking pictures of your ticket or, you know, keeping a record of it somehow. and always check your washing. tim allman, bbc news. how frustrating. you can reach me on twitter — i'm @bbcmaryam. thank you so much for watching bbc news. bye—bye from us.

hello there. if you're waiting for a prolonged, dry, warm spell of weather, you'll have to keep on waiting because this weekend it is going to stay cool and there will be plenty more heavy, thundery downpours. now, on the atlantic satellite picture, you can see this big pipeline of cloud just ploughing its way from west to east. you can think of this line of cloud as something of a barrier. it's keeping the warm air away from our shores. that warm air will lift temperatures across parts of southern spain this weekend into the low to mid 30s. but for us, we are stuck in cool air and we are stuck under the influence of low pressure. this will bring showers or longer spells of rain through the weekend. a band of cloud with outbreaks of rain drifting north—eastwards across england and wales, clipping into northern ireland as we head through saturday morning. behind that, well,

we revert to that mix of sunshine and showers. some of the showers will be heavy with hail and thunder. not too many showers across scotland, certainly across the northern half of scotland as we go through the day, although for shetland, it will stay pretty grey and damp all day long. temperatures struggling for north—eastern areas — just 11 degrees. but even in the best of the sunshine, 15 or 16 — that is it. and then through saturday evening, the showers will try to fade but actually, i think through the early hours of sunday morning, the showers will pep up again down towards the south—west. that is the first sign of what is going to be quite a turbulent day of weather on sunday as this area of low pressure moves right on top of the uk. that means the air will be very, very unstable. so while most places will start with some dry weather and some sunshine, keep an eye on the skies — you will see big thunder clouds developing. some really intense downpours with frequent lightning, some hail, some very squally, gusty wind and some particularly strong winds down towards the channel islands. there will be some sunshine between the showers but temperatures below

par, 11 to 15 degrees. and as we head in to the start of next week, low pressure will still be close by. that means we will see further showers or longer spells of rain through the week ahead. some of those showers always with the potential to be heavy, possibly thundery. some sunshine in between, but no sign of anything warm on the horizon.

this is bbc news. the headlines: the palestinian health ministry says an israeli air strike on a refugee camp in gaza has killed at least seven people. an official said the dead included a woman and four children, who were inside their home in the al—shati camp. there was no immediate comment from israel. china's first mission to mars has succeeded in putting a spacecraft safely on the planet's surface. the tianwen—1 lander touched down by parachute after surviving the treacherous descent known as the seven minutes of terror. the next phase is to deploy a six—wheeled solar powered rover, named zhurong. japan has declared a state of emergency in three more regions hit hard by the pandemic, casting further doubt over whether the olympic games in tokyo should go ahead. a petition has been submitted to the capital's governor calling for the entire event to be cancelled. now on bbc news, this week's travel show comes