paul murphy, bbc news, heysham. the headlines on bbc news...talks, as the conflict between israel and palestinians in gaza continues for a seventh day. the secretary general has pleaded for peace. efforts to combat the india variant of covid ramp up in england, ahead of lockdown restrictions being relaxed tomorrow. a young child has died and two people have been seriously injured, after a gas explosion at a residential area in heysham in lancashire. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here's jane dougall. good afternoon. tottenham are up to 6th in the premier league after a 2—0 win over wolves. harry kane hit the post early on before opening the scoring on the stroke of half time with his 22nd league goal of the season. pierre—emile hojbjerg doubled their advantage, reacting first after wolves keeper rui patricio had parried a gareth bale shot to slide the ball home. totttenham go above west ham on goal difference. crystal palace beat aston villa 3—2 at selhurst park in the premier league's early kick—off. palace twice cam

paul murphy, bbc news, heysham. united nations security council meets today to discuss the escalating violence between israel and the palestinian militant group, hamas. the israeli military has carried out more air strikes on gaza, while hamas launched further rocket attacks on southern israel. paul adams reports from jerusalem. israel says it has nothing against the people of gaza. crying. but through the long hours of another hellish night, that's not how it seems to them. women and children once again caught up in the mayhem. in crowded, impoverished gaza, nowhere is safe. explosions. israel insists it's only attacking hamas. overnight, it hit the homes of the group's leader in gaza, yahya sinwar, and his brother. it says it's killed 30 key members of hamas and the other main militant group, islamichhad. and it says almost half of those killed so far were combatants, not civilians. it's a hard claim to verify. hamas is very secretive. how long will this go on? pressure for it to end is building, but israel says i

lancashire fire service were called to a row of terraced houses in heysham the early hours.t's listen to that now. shortly after 2:1i0am this morning, emergency services were called to residential properties following a report of a large explosion at the address. there was significant damage to the houses. at least two have been destroyed and a third is significantly damaged. as a consequence, a number of people have been injured. tragically, a young child has been killed as a consequence of what has happened. my thoughts of both myself and the emergency services are with the family at this distressing time. our thoughts are also with those individuals who have been affected by this incident. the information, as we know it, is that there are four persons have also been injured in the incident. two of them are seriously injured and two others remain under medical assessment. there is a multi—agency response in place, at the moment we are in the search—and—rescue phase, so our officers are working hard to make the area safe, not only for those in the immediate area but the loc

lancashire fire service were called to a row of terraced houses in heysham the early hours.n to some of that now. there was significant damage to the houses. to have been destroyed and another is damage. a number of people have been injured. tragically, a young child has been killed as a consequence of what has happened. troop reinforcements in myanmar have entered the town of mindat, where opposition activists took up arms against the military government three weeks ago. members of the group say they have withdrawn to spare the town further bombardment. the volunteer force, which opposes the military takeover in myanmar, began launching attacks against troops last month. it has demanded the release of detained activists. critics of the military government had warned of serious humanitarian consequences if the burmese military took control of the town. has lockdown left you yearning for the wild outdoors? well, if it has, there may be a job out there that's just for you. st michael's mount, a remote island only accessible by boat or at low—tide, is advertising for a live—in

died and four people have been seriously injured, after a gas explosion at a residential area in heyshamhern england. leicester celebrate winning one of football's most famous trophies in front of the biggest crowd since the pandemic began. and coming up — fancy a job as a live—in officer st michael's mount is hiring. hello and welcome to bbc news. israel has carried out more air strikes in gaza — as the latest round of violence entered its seventh day. the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, said military action would continue until security was restored. in response to the latest airsrikes, palestinian militants fired more rockets at cities in southern israel. the us presidentjoe biden has expressed his grave concern at the rising number of casualties. that now stands at nearly 150 people in gaza, according the health ministry, and ten in israel. these are some of the latest pictures from gaza. health officials said israeli air strikes overnight killed three palestinians and left many others injured. israel says the home of the hamas chief in gaza was among the targets. palesti

has died and two people have been seriously injured after a gas explosion at a residential area in heyshamngland. there was significant damage to the houses. at least two have been destroyed and a third is significantly damaged. as a consequence, a number of people have been injured. tragically, a young child has been killed. now on bbc news, this week's travel show comes from tokyo, where carmen roberts looks back at some of her favourite recent stories from japan. coming up on this week's show... we're approaching the first rapid, and it's meant to be the deepest and most exciting. whoa! imitating a drunk monkey driving a car. and that's it? i do kind of feel ninja—like here. laughter. hello and welcome to the travel show. coming to you this week from tokyo, a city that's been my home for a little over seven years and where the big talking point is whether this summer's olympic games will definitely go ahead and, if they do, what form will they take? it was back at the end of march last year that the ioc and the japanese authorities decided to postpone the tokyo olympic and paralympic ga

paul murphy, bbc news, heysham.ng drafted in to help run polling stations during local elections last month. their union says many begged to be released from election duty, fearing for their health as india's ferocious second wave took hold. from the state of uttar pradesh, our international correspondent orla guerin reports. now, they must stand alone, without their father to guide them and with their grandmother, rajvati, crushed by grief. she tells us the election killed her son, sushil kumar. he was forced to attend election training. by voting day, he was gasping for breath. that night, he was dead. it was the very picture of a superspreader event, an election in a pandemic in uttar pradesh, a state with more than 100 million voters. critics say for prime minister narendra modi, votes count more than lives. this 21—year—old says her family lost its guiding light. my father was like the god of us. he was everything for us. i can't forget him in my entire life. i love him, and my mum also. her mother, vimlesh, is

paul murphy, bbc news, heysham. it is 8pm. —— 8:20pm.to celebrate the team's league victory, in violation of covid rules and several days of clear warnings. later there was violence in the city centre, where five police officers were injured. 0ur scotland correspondent, jamie mcivor, reports. it should have been a day all rangers fans would remember for the right reasons, a famous victory over aberdeen to end a season when they'd gone unbeaten. 0utside ibrox, fans gathered to celebrate. then they made their way to the city centre. and in the city centre, the party atmosphere went sour. it was the biggest gathering in scotland since the first lockdown despite pleas to stay away from players, politicians and police. it's bad enough, first of all, that they gathered despite that advice, but the scenes we saw last night were completely unacceptable. drunkenness, loutish behaviour, thuggishness — it will not be tolerated on the streets of glasgow. and this morning, the hangover. scotland's biggest civic space showed the scars. some rangers fa

paul murphy, bbc news, heysham. now it's time for a look at the weather with matt taylor.d, in fact, that we saw this area close to the somerset coast. a funnel cloud which may have had impacts on the ground, making it a tornado. and we continue that sort of disturbed atmosphere as we go through the next few days, in fact, with some more thundery downpours changing the areas from one day to the next. staying on the cool side, too, and then a spell of potentially quite wet and windy weather later in the week. now, it's low pressure that's in charge throughout and it's low pressure that's been on top of us today, hence the thunderstorms we've seen. slowly pushing its way eastwards, but because it's still close by, it means many of the showers through the day, whilst they will lose intensity, some will keep going. so, there'll be a few showers dotted around during the night into the morning, plenty of cloud, some clear breaks, but it should be a frost free night for just about all. if we are going to see something close to a frost, it could be in northern ireland, maybe far s

paul murphy, bbc news, heysham.2—0. elsewhere, west brom and liverpool are drawing 1—1 that's it for now. we're back with the late news at ten. now on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. hello. this is bbc news. reports from myanmar say soldiers have taken control of the town of mindat, in northwestern chin state. 0pposition activists there took up arms against the military government three weeks ago. members of a group calling itself the chinland defence force say they have withdrawn to spare residents further bombardment. 0ur southeast asia correspondent jonathan head told me more about what's happening there. this is a remote town. of course, the military has shut down a great deal of internet services in myanmar. over the last few days, residents have been able to get out bits of video that have shown the military bombarding mindat with artillery. quite repeatedly, at times. flying helicopters over the town, possibly bombing from the air, we're not sure. they have been using the helicopters to bring t

paul murphy, bbc news, heysham. now it's time for a look at the weather. hello. our weather watchers. a funnel cloud, the early stages of a tornado on the west coast of somerset. and the turbulent atmosphere which brought those conditions still with us through the next few days. more thundery downpours to come, nice in the sunshine where you've got it, but overall, rather cool and then potential for something much wetter and windier later in the week. now, out there into the start of monday, the area of low pressure that was with us on sunday moves a bit further eastwards. that allows a bit more of a northwesterly flow across the country and a subtle shift in where we will see some of the heaviest of the showers. now, some of the showers will continue through the night into the morning. a fair bit of cloud around to start your monday, but it will be frost free — temperatures around 5—8 celsius. best of the brightness will be in the west, in fact, in western areas, it will be a drier day overall. one or two showers though in the west to begin with, but notice how

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has died and two people have been seriously injured after a gas explosion at a residential area in heysham in northern england. there was significant damage to the houses. at least two have been destroyed and a third is significantly damaged. as a consequence, a number of people have been injured. tragically, a young child has been killed. and fancy a job as a live—in officer at a medieval castle on a remote island? st michael's mount is hiring. now on bbc news, can tech turn back time? click meets a community of biohackers who believe they can use data to stop ageing in its tracks and live on to well beyond 100. this week... ..we meet the biohackers... ..the super—agers... ..and the brain trackers... ..to find out if tech really can stop us from getting old. welcome to click. we're outside again. great to see you in the flesh again. and you. i can't believe it. no matter how long it is since i've seen people, as soon as i see friends and family again, it's like we've never been apart! yep, too right. although this time round, i think everybody�*s really gone for it with their hair, since

two—year—old george hinds died in the blast in heysham just over a week ago.nvestigation. the bbc board has announced a review of the corporation's policies on editorial matters and whistle—blowing following the dyson report into the circumstances surrounding the interview with diana, princess of wales in 1995. the chairman, richard sharp, says the board will look at the culture of the bbc to assess the effectiveness of policies and practice. he also confirmed there will be an investigation into why the journalist involved, martin bashir, was rehired in 2016. let's turn to today's news on the pandemic. the latest government figures show 2,439 new infections and three deaths in the latest 24—hour period. cases have been rising slowly over the past few weeks, and the number of people who have now died is 127,724. in the vaccination programme, 126,357 people have received a firstjab in the past 2a hours. in total, just over 38 million people have now had their firstjab. that's just over 72% of the uk adult population. 252,139 people had their second dose in the p

has died and two people have been seriously injured, after a gas explosion at a residential area in heysham in lancashire. now on bbc news, nesta mcgregor speaks to victims, social media companies and those charged with cleaning up football. why is the abuse happening and what can be done to stop it? this programme contains references to racial slurs from the start which some viewers may find offensive. they are not fans, they are racists. it makes you feel very dehumanised. you feel like nothing. there is nothing you can do can. you are helpless. the weekend saw more racist abuse of players online. - the amount of times we are seeing troy deeney or raheem or even myself report things, nothing has been done about it. we are humans and it is a throwaway comment to you, but when i open my phone and see myself being called this and that for no reason, it does affect you. racism and bullying across platforms. . racially abused on social media. things like i look like a monkey orjust saying the n word, everything that i'm getting now, i have heard it before. i have had death threats put- at my s

has died and two people have been seriously injured, after a gas explosion at a residential area in heyshamantly damaged. as a consequence of that, a number of people have been injured. tragically, a young child has been killed. talks are under way at the united nations,

at least two houses in heysham were destroyed in the blast in the early hours of this morning, and severalfrom above, the incredible force of this explosion is apparent. two homes were destroyed, many more have been damaged. debris is scattered across the neighbourhood. residents described the blast atjust after 2:30am this morning as something that felt like an earthquake. it sounded like a bomb going off this morning just after two o'clock and it literally shook the whole bed. we felt like we were going through the floor and then we jumped out of bed and wejust ran, just to see what was going on. it's just awful. this evening, the child who died has been named as two—year—old george hinds. his parents were both injured, but not seriously. another man and a woman are critically ill in hospital. around 30 residents were evacuated overnight to a nearby leisure centre. some of them must now wait while their damaged homes are safety checked. many residents are still in their houses or have gone to friends, so it is quite a small number of people who are actually at the evacuation centre at th

died and four people have been seriously injured, after a gas explosion at a residential area in heysham in northern england. leicester celebrate their first—ever fa cup win, in front of the biggest uk crowd since the pandemic began. and, fancy a job as a live—in officer at a medieval castle on a remote island? st michael's mount is hiring. we have just about recovered from the thrills and spills of the fa cup final. john has got all the aftermath of that, and the rest of the sport. good morning. 21,000 fans inside wembley and they were treated to a goal worthy of winning any fa cup final. yuri tielamans with a moment of magic that won leicester the trophy for the first time in their history. natalie pirks was there. singing. it's been a while since leicester city had an fa cup final to savour — 52 years, in fact. so happy to be back! the mere thought of winning it for the first time brought out all the emotions. i've dreamt of it as a kid. it's something i've always wanted to do, come to wembley and watch leicester... we've been waiting for this for all our lives. it's starting to feel

two—year—old george hinds died in the blast in heysham just over a week ago.inal investigation. the bbc board has announced a review of the corporation's editorial and whistleblowing policies, following the dyson report into its 1995 interview with diana, princess of wales. the chairman, richard sharp, says the board will look at the "culture" of the bbc to assess the "effectiveness" of policies and practice. he also confirmed there will be an investigation into why the journalist involved, martin bashir, was rehired in 2016. eight people have been arrested on suspicion of fraud, in a series of dawn raids targeting scam text messages. the scam messages ask people to pay a fee to retrieve a royal mail parcel before stealing the victim's personal and bank details. officers from the dedicated card and payment crime unit, a city of london and metropolitan police unit, carried out warrants in london, coventry, birmingham and colchester in a week of action. dogs could become one way of trying to prevent the spread of covid because researchers have found that some br