this is bbc news — i'm shaun ley — the headlines at six o'clock. the family of 12—year—old archie battersbee confirm he has died after his life support was withdrawn. can ijust say, i am the proudest mum in the world. such a beautiful little boy. and he fought right until the very end. and i'm so proud to be his mum. conservative leadership contenders set out their approaches to dealing with the economic downturn forecast by the bank of england. the palestinian health ministry says 15 palestinians have been killed in the gaza strip — where the israeli military is targeting members of the palestinian group islamic jihad. a bus carrying passengers to a roman catholic pilgrimage has

crashed in northern croatia — killing 12 polish people and injuring more than 30 others. the effects from a cyber attack on the nhs 111 system could take until next week to resolve — after phone lines and electronic gp referrals were disrupted. world championjake whiteman has to settle for a bronze medal after coming third in the 1500 metres at the commonwealth games. we'll have all the latest from birmingham in sportsday at 6.30.

the family of archie battersbee, the 12—year—old boy who's been unconcious since april, has announced that he's died. after a legal battle between his parents and doctors, the royal london hospital was given permission to end his treatment today. archie's mother, hollie dance, described him as "a beautiful little boy," adding that she was "the proudest mum in the world". here's simonjones. saying their final farewells, these pictures were released by archie's family in the hours before his life support was withdrawn, following a series of legal battles pitting the family against doctors. archie passed at 12:15 today. can ijust say i am the proudest mum in the world. such a beautiful little boy and he fought right until the very end and i'm so proud to be his mum. the 12—year—old was found unconscious at his home in april. he had suffered catastrophic

brain injuries. the doctors treating him said there was no hope of a recovery, but his family maintained he needed more time. barts health nhs trust, which runs the royal london hospital, went to court to ask for treatment to end. the case was referred to the high court, the court of appeal, the supreme court and the european court of human rights, butjudge afterjudge agreed with doctors. after careful thought we refuse permission to appeal. the family eventually had to accept they had exhausted all legal roots. they had exhausted all legal routes. no family should ever have to go through what we have been through, it's barbaric. tributes to archie left outside the hospital today. his family had wanted him moved to a hospice away from what they saw as the noise and chaos of the hospital. that was refused, the trust arguing that archie was in such an unstable condition it was too great a risk. in a statement, barts health nhs trust said its thoughts and condolences were with archie's

family and said that treatment had been withdrawn in line with court rulings about his best interests, and it said staff had shown extraordinary compassion over months caring for archie and in often distressing circumstances. archie's family have said they are broken. the end of a life played out in the courts and in the public domain. simon jones, bbc news. dr emma nottingham is a senior lecturer in child law and medical ethics at the university of winchester. earlier, i asked her to summarise why there was so much batting back and forth within the court system. cases like this are usually decided outside of court. it is quite rare to see these types of cases in court although there have been a handful of high—profile cases in recent years. again, it is quite unusual for it to go through that many layers of litigation.

i think what has happened in this instance is many different possible avenues the parents could have tried and it was important to them to make sure that they had exhausted all of those avenues. and ultimately that is why we ended up seeing many different cases being heard, all with regard to this one instance. the early stages focused on whether or not archie could be declared brain stem dead, i think the correct phrase is, in the end, there was some confusion over what the ruling was over that and in the end that does not seem to have been at the heart of the courts�* judgments on this. initially the case started off as being about whether they could do the brainstem testing. court permission was given for the testing to take place, then it turned out that the hospital were unable to do the usual brainstem test that they would

normally do because archie did not pass, was unable to have the initial precautionary test before the brainstem test. what the courts then had to do was make an assessment based on the evidence they had before them, using different medical evidence and mri scans to be able to make an assessment. the courts initially did declare that he was brainstem dead and then the court of appeal overruled that and said the lower court had been wrong to decide that because there were certain elements of the test that could not be done, and it has to be the official criteria that is met. at that point, he had to be treated as alive, which meant that we needed to do a best interest assessment, that moved the case on, to use the best interest dialogue. the question is, are there alternative ways that these kinds of cases could be resolved?

actually, i do not think either side would say this is a satisfactory way of bringing this to resolution. that is the key question we are left with following cases like this, the court process is extremely distressing. it is important to remember that it a last resort, the clinical team will have gone through many layers, sought second opinions, taken advice from clinical ethics committees. mediation is also an option as well but there are some sad, tragic circumstances were sometimes there is a breakdown of relationship and the parties cannot agree. at that point, we have no choice but to use the court system. dor emma nottingham, lecturer at university of winchester, on the case of archie battersbee, who died today. the two conservative party leadership contenders have set

out their approaches to dealing with the economic downturn, forecast by the bank of england. liz truss says she'll help people with the cost—of—living crisis by lowering taxes, not giving "hand—outs". but her rival, rishi sunak, warned that the tories could "kiss goodbye" to winning the next election, unless inflation is quickly brought under control. 0ur political correspondent, damian grammaticas, has more. applause. thank you. liz truss in the sunshine in the west midlands, chasing the votes of tory party members. the looming economic crisis is now weighing on this race. ms truss today said if she was prime minister, she would not be giving more hand—outs to those struggling to pay their bills. she would cut taxes instead. well, what i will do from day one is reduce taxes, so reverse the national insurance rise, and also have a temporary moratorium on the green energy levy, so people are spending less of their money on fuel bills.

but what i am about as a conservative is people keeping more of their own money, growing the economy, so we avoid a recession. rishi sunak on the south coast said her tax cuts would amount to less than £200 for many average households, and he would look at doing more. we need to get real about this situation. it is simply wrong to rule out further direct support at this time, as liz truss has done, and what is more, her tax proposals are not going to help very significantly people like pensioners or those on low incomes, who are exactly the kind of families who are going to need help. mr sunak�*s message to his party is that inflation is what matters. average annual energy bills could go up another £2000 in the coming months, and it is thought 40% of people are already struggling to pay. ms truss says her approach is about optimism, stimulating the economy, and not talking the country into a recession. damian grammaticas, bbc news. six people have been arrested following an altercation at a holiday park in east sussex

in which a man died. the incident happened at parkdean resorts in camber sands, just before 11pm on friday. paramedics attended the scene but the man was declared dead shortly after midnight. israeli fighterjets have struck palestinian militant targets in gaza for a second day, with residential areas hit. at least 15 palestinians have died, including a five—year—old child and two women. israel says its offensive is targeting the rocket launch sites of the group islamichhad, which in response has fired more that 200 rockets towards israel. most have been intercepted but air raid sirens have sounded on saturday as far away as tel aviv. from jerusalem, yolande knell reports. palestinians scatter as an apartment building is hit in gaza, minutes after a warning call. it is only day two of fighting here, and israel's military says its new operation targeting

islamichhad militants could last a week. a commander of the group was killed in an early strike. this woman who lived nearby is afraid and angry. translation: we were safe - in our home, we were thrown out of it by the bombing. we were just sitting there. my son is getting married and we were preparing his bride's new clothes. why didn't they warn us that they would bomb? the funeral of the top militant brought huge crowds of mourners onto the streets. islamichhad swore revenge, and afterwards it fired dozens of rockets at israel. many intercepted by its air defence system. but warning sirens still went off in southern towns, sending israelis running to bomb shelters. isreali forces hit back at what they said were missile launch sites in gaza, releasing these pictures. israel carried out a precise counterterror operation against an immediate threat.

0ur fight is not with the people of gaza — islamichhad is an iranian proxy that wants to destroy the state of israel and kill innocent israelis. the exchange of fire continues, with palestinian rocket trails and smoke from israeli air strikes in the gaza sky. and there have been new palestinian casualties. so far, hamas, the powerful militant group which governs gaza, haven't been drawn into the fighting. much depends on whether it stays that way. yolande knell, bbc news, jerusalem. in croatia, at least 12 people have been killed and 32 injured after a polish bus veered off a highway early this morning. the bus was heading in the direction of the croatian capital

zagreb when it crashed near the city of varazdin. it was on its way to a well known catholic pilgrimage site in bosnia—herzegovina. three priests and six nuns were among the bus passengers. warsaw's prosecutor's office is to launch an investigation into the cause of the crash. 0ur warsaw correspondent adam easton explained to us what authorities believe happened to the bus. this bus set off from poland yesterday, on friday, and it was travelling southwards to that small southern bosnian town. it was in northern croatia when the crash happened, which took place at 5:40am local time, so round about dawn. apparently, it veered off the highway and rolled into a ditch, causing the deaths of at least 12 of those passengers, and injuring all 32 other people on board. we know there were two drivers, there was some speculation in croatian media about one of the drivers, the driver obviously behind the wheel at the time, but that's. . . possibly falling asleep, but that is just speculation, it has not been confirmed at all by any

of the official sources. and, yes, as you mentioned, this is a hugely popular pilgrimage for people here in poland, and they have been going since the early 1980s to this small bosnian town. poland, of course, remains a very roman catholic country, one of the most roman catholic countries in europe. ever since the 1980s when some local children in the town said they saw a vision of the virgin mary in 1981, pilgrimages have been taking place to this town every year. it is estimated 2.5 million people across the world make the pilgrimage to the town, many of them from poland. so, the catholic bishops across the country have announced that at the mass services on sunday, there will be prayers for the victims and the families of the victims all across the country.

warsaw correspondent adam easton. the headlines on bbc news... the family of 12—year—old archie battersbee confirm he has died after his life support was withdrawn. conservative leadership contenders set out their approaches to dealing with the economic downturn forecast by the bank of england. the palestinian health ministry says 15 palestinians have been killed in the gaza strip — where the israeli military is targeting members of the palestinian group islamic jihad. the head of the international atomic energy agency says he's extremely concerned by shelling at ukraine's zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant, the biggest in europe. kyiv says russian troops were behind the attack, which is reported to have forced the closure of a reactor at the plant. but russia blames ukrainian forces. the iaea's director general rafael grossi says the attack underlines the very real risk of a nuclear disaster threatening ukraine and beyond.

0ur correspondent hugo bachega is following developments from kyiv. it is really hard to independently confirm those claims coming from both sides because the zaporizhzhia power plant has been under russian occupation since the beginning of march, even though ukrainian technicians have been operating the facility. yesterday, ukrainian and russian officials have traded accusations, the ukrainians say that russian forces shelled the site and then one of the reactors had to be disconnected from the system as a result of one of those attacks. now, the russians have denied those allegations, they say that the ukrainians are the ones behind these attacks. for days, we have been hearing from ukrainian and us officials who say that the russians have essentially turned this nuclear power plant into a military base and they are launching attacks

against ukrainian positions from this site. and the mayor of a nearby city told me essentially what the russians are doing is that they are using the site as a nuclear shield. hugo bachega there. the effects from a cyber attack on the uk's nhs111 system could take until next week to resolve. it affected the phone lines and electronic referrals to out—of—hours gps. the service helps people get the right advice and treatment when they need it. i spoke to chelsea jarvie about what sort of risks there are to the nhs from using third party contractors. to save us developing systems internally, it is useful to us to use different services and suppliers, but that comes with the additional security risks where those supplies have to be maintaining their own cyber security

and keeping that good cyber hygiene in place so that we are not then impacted by an attack on their side. there was an attack on the nhs, slightly bizarre attack, a few years ago that seemed to be linked to north korea. yes, the wannacry attack was five years ago now, it was a massive ransomware attack which affected organisations and governments right across the globe. the nhs was caught in a crossfire with that attack. so, it wasn't a targeted attack, in particular, so we do see some people come under targeted attacks from cyber security hacking groups, and then others, it is just a fluke. somebody has clicked on a phishing e—mail or you have just been unlucky, really. you see, that is very striking, that one could think that one keystroke by one person using part of the service that relies on a particular software, can actually end up disabling,

potentially, the whole service. that seems to be almost an in—built vulnerability, that is quite worrying. we talk about security in depth and defence in depth, so for somebody to click on a link or download an attachment in an e—mail, and for that to have such a big chain reaction does require other vulnerabilities to be in the system, so we have to look at security of all different levels and across all different systems and suppliers, and people as well, so trying to get people to understand the impact they can have on the security position of an organisation and not to click links and things. so it is important for businesses to look at security right across the board. it should be something that in a sense it is not like there is just one defence, they should be several defences. absolutely.

so there are lots of different controls that we have to put in place — from people, processes, technology as well. i think with this one, they have invoked their incident response plan, the nhs, which is another thing that is really important, to have those plans in place, and to test them to make sure you know what to do in an incident. in security, we talk about, not if a cyber attack is going to happen but when, because we are fighting off malicious activity on a daily basis, so it really is something we are working on every single day to keep ahead of. chelsea jarvie. as parts of england start to enforce temporary hosepipe bans this summer, concern is now turning to the risk of wild fires across the uk. fire chiefs have warned that our cities need to be better prepared by learning from the rural services that have been tackling and preventing fires in the countryside for years. claire marshall reports. the searing heat coupled with the lack of rain has made the countryside bone dry.

wildfires normally seen on moors or grasslands have come closer than ever to houses. in early summer, this blaze began on a country parkjust south of birmingham. it came within a few metres of local homes. we went to look at what was left behind. the wind direction changed and it's pushed it this way, north. so the houses, where are the houses? just over there? the houses are sort of down here, through the trees, yeah. so when that happened, the decision was made to start evacuating some of them houses. not one house was damaged. david swallow�*s team managed to contain the blaze, helped by his expertise as the uk's leading wildfire tactical advisor. he had been monitoring temperatures and the wind for weeks. you know, 40—degree heat in the uk with humidity that's down to 20% — they are mediterranean, western us seaboard—type conditions that we've never experienced before. losing a whole row of houses, it's not...

it's not something that happens in the uk, but i think it's something that we're going to have to be better prepared for. head south, and these are the malvern hills — a haven for plants and animals. this is the kind of landscape that needs protecting. but everything is really dry, and it's very vulnerable. look at this — someone's tried to light a barbecue here on the bare grass. this is just one of dozens found every week in the summer. local managers here work closely with the fire service. they manage the risks from rising temperatures, and also the rising numbers of summer visitors. the fire brigade, having a clear plan of knowing where they can get to, that is critical. as we see ourselves, the number of people accessing our land, the number of — the frequency of firestarter events where you've got barbecues, small fires, glass that's left out — we are seeing that increasing pretty much year on year.

back on the country park, two days after the fire broke out, it still wasn't completely out. city council ranger dave — not a trained firefighter — has learned to work alongside the crews. how many fires have you put out so far this year? this year? i'm looking at probably about six or eight. how do you look ahead to the summer? the climate's changing, things are getting hotter. it's... it's scary. as the world heats, it's where the countryside spaces meet the city that will become a bigger part of the front line in the fight against wildfires. claire marshall, bbc news. keeping children entertained during the summer holidays is challenging enough, but with rising prices, many families are also worrying about providing healthy meals while schools are closed. phillip norton has been seeing how one organisation in hull is helping to make sure children don't go hungry during the holidays. all right, are you ready? whistle blows. a few years ago this park was an area to steer clear of.

go, go, go! this is one of the most well—deprived areas in hull. the peel project was born out of tragic circumstances — the murder of abdullah balouchi in a nearby street in 2020. but it galvanised this community, who wanted better. the focus this summer holiday is health and food... ..for the young people who live here. we have had instances where kids are playing in the middle, playing, they are feeling dizzy, they haven't got water or they haven't. .. and when you go and question them, they haven't eaten anything or they haven't got food at home, so for us to be able to provide that as part of the package is absolutely brilliant. put all your rubbish in the bin... after a few hours of football, everyone gets a free lunch. really bad. cost of living, our electric, gas, ourfood. we are coping, luckily, but there are families around here that can't cope, so these free meals are good for their children. the holidays are a big

worry for parents. saving money for days out and feeding them — because kids do eat a lot in the holidays, don't they? it is very, very important to feed the kids. footballer marcus rashford brought the issue of providing free school meals outside of term times to national attention during the pandemic. while meal vouchers are still being provided to families to help with costs, many are still struggling. we saw that when the children were coming in, some of them haven't had breakfast, some of them don't have, you know, lunch or dinner to go home to and that is when we realised that, like you mention, it is one of the more deprived areas, so having these facilities here, it is helping a lot more people. i have been starving because i didn't have breakfast, so that is why i was really thankful. i like them, especially. the chicken sandwiches. i am really happy because marcus rashford and all the other people helped us. i feel very...

..full — i feel like i could do more football now. the situation is getting worse day by day. 0rganisations out there need to come out, need to come forward to people like us to be able to help these parents and the standard of living for them. tomorrow's activity? ice skating, and the reassurance of another meal. phillip norton, bbc news, hull. brighton pride has been back on the streets, after being cancelled for the past two years due to covid—19. the singer, christina aguilera, is headlining a concert this evening. paloma faith is the headline act tomorrow. sam harrison reports. a celebration finally back to its brilliant best, but this time it simply meant more. this morning, thousands gathered on hove lawns to send off the long—awaited pride parade. i felt a bit emotional when i first got here because we've had such

a long time away from each other. so it felt extra special. this is the first year that it's been back on since covid. it's our first time having family and dogs here, so it's quite an exciting pride for all of us. it's really kind of like my first proper pride in general, and honestly it's kind of amazing already. with the parade in full swing, you can feel the excitement here and you can see just what it means to people to be back celebrating this world—famous event. back in 2019, these smiling faces weren't to know what was round the corner, and for those running events today, it's a reminder that this celebration can never be taken for granted. this is still a protest. us being here is a protest. you know, today the cameras will pan round and see people of all ages, colours, sexualities, genders, and that is a protest. and there will be somebody who is not here and look at that and go, but i want to be part of that because that's me. those are my people. after a packed day of parades and parties, attention this evening

turns to the concert at preston park, and with headline performer christina aguilera in town, it's set to be a night to remember. it's going to be electric! we've been waiting for this for three years, for it to come back, for pride to come back, so we are so excited. we can't wait. really looking forward to christina aguilera, aren't we? yeah. and then coming tomorrow as well, so looking forward to paloma. brilliant. _ absolutely brilliant. a big night ahead, then, after a day ofjoy and celebration. pride 2022 is already proving to be a pride to remember. sam harrison, bbc south east today, brighton. judith durham — who was lead singer of the 60s folk band, the seekers — in australia. the seekers were the first australian group to achieve broad international success — selling more than 50 million records around the world. they were named australians

of the year in 1967, butjudith durham left the band a year later to pursue a solo career. but was back for some later performances and tours. their biggest hits included georgy girl and i'll never find another you. # hey there, georgy girl #. now it's time for a look at the weather with darren bett. hello, much of the country will stay dry over the week ahead and it is going to get hotter as well. these are the more comfortable temperatures that we have been seeing this afternoon. highs in the mid 20s across the south—east of england. not particularly warm in scotland and northern ireland, still some rain in the north of the country and that will continue into the night. it will slip down across the western side of scotland and it will be light and patchy.

elsewhere, dry with clear skies, and temperatures in rural areas dipping down to around eight celsius. breezy tomorrow in scotland, with western scotland seeing light rain or drizzle. drier and brighter the further east. some cloud and sunshine for northern ireland and the far north of england, and lots of sunshine across the rest of england and wales. it is continuing to heat up in the strong sunshine, so temperatures reaching the mid—20s in the south—east, up to 26 or 27 celsius. across england and wales many places will move into heatwave conditions by next week, and mid—30s by thursday in the south—east. hello this is bbc news. the headlines... the family of 12—year—old archie battersbee confirm he has died after his life support was withdrawn. conservative leadership contenders set out their approaches to dealing with the economic downturn forecast by the bank of england. the palestinian health ministry says 15 palestinians have been

killed in the gaza strip — where the israeli military