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At least 30 Palestinians are killed and hundreds more are injured | :00:07. | :00:10. | |
after shells hit a UN school and a market place in Gaza. | :00:11. | :00:14. | |
A terrified child - one of at least 3,000 refugees who'd been sheltering | :00:15. | :00:20. | |
at a UN compound when it was hit in the early hours of this morning. | :00:21. | :00:22. | |
This afternoon, at least 15 Palestinians were killed | :00:23. | :00:27. | |
at a crowded market. It's thought shoppers believed | :00:28. | :00:29. | |
a ceasefire was in place. We'll be looking at Israel's | :00:30. | :00:31. | |
military strategy. Also tonight: | :00:32. | :00:34. | |
Tough new rules for bankers who break financial rules. | :00:35. | :00:38. | |
They may have to pay back bonuses up to seven years | :00:39. | :00:40. | |
after they were awarded. Firefighters are tackling a massive | :00:41. | :00:43. | |
fire which broke out on Eastbourne's historic pier this afternoon. | :00:44. | :00:51. | |
What do you think of the Commonwealth Games? | :00:52. | :00:57. | |
historic pier this afternoon. Awesome, says Usain Bolt - | :00:58. | :01:00. | |
back on track and on message after allegedly being rather less | :01:01. | :01:02. | |
complimentary about Glasgow 2014. Tonight on BBC London: | :01:03. | :01:05. | |
The BA pilot accused of abusing children in African orphanages. | :01:06. | :01:07. | |
Victims say they'll sue the airline. And HSBC criticised | :01:08. | :01:09. | |
after it closed the accounts of three Muslim organisations. | :01:10. | :01:30. | |
Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six. | :01:31. | :01:33. | |
The United Nations has accused Israel of launching a deadly attack | :01:34. | :01:37. | |
at one of its schools in Gaza where thousands of Palestinians had been | :01:38. | :01:43. | |
seeking shelter from the fighting. The shelling began at dawn, | :01:44. | :01:46. | |
killing at least 15 people. The Israeli military has denied | :01:47. | :01:48. | |
targeting UN schools, saying militants had fired on its | :01:49. | :01:51. | |
soldiers from within the vicinity. The number of Palestinians killed | :01:52. | :01:54. | |
in Gaza is now said to have reached 1,300 since | :01:55. | :01:59. | |
the fighting began three weeks ago. 58 Israelis have died so far - | :02:00. | :02:02. | |
56 soldiers and two civilians. A Thai national was also killed. | :02:03. | :02:04. | |
Our international correspondent, Ian Pannell, | :02:05. | :02:08. | |
sent this report from Jabalia where the UN school was shelled. | :02:09. | :02:12. | |
You may find some of the details and images in his report disturbing. | :02:13. | :02:24. | |
The terror of the conflict in Gaza stamped on the face of a | :02:25. | :02:33. | |
five-year-old. He was sleeping when the shells landed. They had been | :02:34. | :02:44. | |
sheltering in a UN school. The casualties have come into one of the | :02:45. | :02:49. | |
main hospitals. We believe about 70 people have been injured. We have | :02:50. | :02:53. | |
seen women and children and elderly men. The precise figure is not | :02:54. | :02:57. | |
known. The debate will begin about who is responsible for this. The | :02:58. | :03:11. | |
victims streamed into a -- into A, overwhelming a hospital already | :03:12. | :03:14. | |
struggling to cope. The youngest and most honourable shattered and | :03:15. | :03:20. | |
shocked. -- most vulnerable. Two little girls sharing a bed, bloody | :03:21. | :03:26. | |
and bruised. One is just eight years old. She and her friend were in one | :03:27. | :03:34. | |
of the classrooms when it was hit. We were sleeping when the air strike | :03:35. | :03:38. | |
happened, she says. What do we have to do with all of this? The hospital | :03:39. | :03:52. | |
grounds overflowed with bereaved flummery -- briefed families. Every | :03:53. | :03:57. | |
day in Gaza seems to look like this. The UN says Israel attacked the | :03:58. | :04:03. | |
school. Two very precise holes were punched through the walls of | :04:04. | :04:13. | |
classrooms. Some signs that families had been living here. There was | :04:14. | :04:18. | |
mortar fire fired by Palestinian terrorists from next to the school. | :04:19. | :04:23. | |
We were responding to fire in the vicinity. We are reviewing the | :04:24. | :04:28. | |
incident. Those who live here are shattered and shocked. It was | :04:29. | :04:32. | |
supposed to be safe. On days like this, it feels like nowhere is. I | :04:33. | :04:40. | |
want to tell you that in the school, we don't have any weapons, we don't | :04:41. | :04:46. | |
have any militants and we escaped to search for security here but we did | :04:47. | :04:51. | |
not have any because of the Israeli occupation of the terrorism. It has | :04:52. | :04:57. | |
been another day of bloodshed in Gaza. Each incident has its own | :04:58. | :05:04. | |
tragic story. Last week we reported on a baby girl delivered from her | :05:05. | :05:19. | |
dead mother's body. Today she died. With bombs falling nearby in a | :05:20. | :05:26. | |
cemetery full of makeshift graves they buried her next to the mother | :05:27. | :05:30. | |
she had never known. One more death on a day marked with violence. She | :05:31. | :05:34. | |
was just five days old. Palestinian health officials say | :05:35. | :05:47. | |
at least 17 people have been killed and more than 160 wounded | :05:48. | :05:51. | |
in an Israeli strike on a crowded market in Gaza this afternoon. | :05:52. | :05:53. | |
The Israeli military says it's investigating the incident. | :05:54. | :05:55. | |
Our correspondent, Jon Donnison, joins us live from Jerusalem. | :05:56. | :05:58. | |
There are reports that people thought a ceasefire was in place? | :05:59. | :06:04. | |
That is right. Earlier this morning the Israeli military had said that | :06:05. | :06:11. | |
there would be a humanitarian truce for four hours a dream 3pm and 7pm | :06:12. | :06:20. | |
local time in parts of Gaza -- between 3pm and 7pm. The | :06:21. | :06:26. | |
neighbourhood where it happened on the edge of Gaza City has been one | :06:27. | :06:32. | |
of the most intensely bombarded. That area was not included in the | :06:33. | :06:37. | |
humanitarian truce. It may be of course the fact that there were | :06:38. | :06:41. | |
hundreds of people out on the streets at the market suggesting | :06:42. | :06:45. | |
many people had not got that message. Either way, the number of | :06:46. | :06:51. | |
civilians killed continues to rise. Israel says it does not ever | :06:52. | :06:57. | |
deliberately target civilians. But it clearly is prepared to accept a | :06:58. | :07:01. | |
large number of civilian casualties in order to meet its goals which is | :07:02. | :07:06. | |
taking out Hamas's weapons stores and taking out the tunnels and | :07:07. | :07:13. | |
killing Hamas fighters. The government here has public support | :07:14. | :07:18. | |
for its actions. The number of Israeli soldiers being killed, three | :07:19. | :07:22. | |
more killed today, bringing the number 1056, as well as Israeli | :07:23. | :07:30. | |
civilians. -- bringing the number upturn 56. The Israelis say they | :07:31. | :07:35. | |
will continue until they have met their ends. | :07:36. | :07:41. | |
thought a ceasefire was in place? The Bank of England has announced | :07:42. | :07:44. | |
some of the toughest restrictions on bankers' pay anywhere in the world. | :07:45. | :07:49. | |
Bankers will be forced to return their bonuses up to seven years | :07:50. | :07:52. | |
after they were awarded if found guilty of misconduct. | :07:53. | :07:54. | |
The measures follow the financial crisis of 2008 | :07:55. | :07:56. | |
and other subsequent scandals. Our economics correspondent, | :07:57. | :07:57. | |
Simon Jack, has the details. For success for bankers big bonus | :07:58. | :08:05. | |
checks have come to be expected. After the financial crisis, scandals | :08:06. | :08:09. | |
and public anger, from January of next year 's future checks may end | :08:10. | :08:14. | |
up going back. Let us say it has been a great year and I am in line | :08:15. | :08:19. | |
for a hefty bonus. In three up to five years time, I can spend it on | :08:20. | :08:23. | |
whatever my heart desires. In the new rules, up to seven years after I | :08:24. | :08:28. | |
get the bonus, I may have to return the money. Barclays set aside | :08:29. | :08:33. | |
another ?900 million to date to compensate people mis-sold | :08:34. | :08:38. | |
insurance, a timely reminder that misconduct can take many years to | :08:39. | :08:44. | |
unearth. We now have the toughest regime in banking pay of any global | :08:45. | :08:48. | |
financial centre. Bankers are paid less here compared to New York and | :08:49. | :08:52. | |
Singapore and Hong Kong. This could have an impact on the | :08:53. | :08:56. | |
competitiveness of London as a financial centre and the jobs and | :08:57. | :08:59. | |
tax paid here. There are also proposals which could see bankers | :09:00. | :09:04. | |
jailed. A former investment banker thinks it will grab attention. This | :09:05. | :09:10. | |
is a very bold package of measures. First of all, it raises the spectre | :09:11. | :09:16. | |
of criminal sanctions. Secondly, it hits bankers in their pockets. | :09:17. | :09:21. | |
Thirdly, it defines everyone's role is clearly so that the regulators | :09:22. | :09:25. | |
know exactly where to go. One other point to make is that if bankers do | :09:26. | :09:31. | |
run offshore as they are threatening to do, it is a terrible indictment | :09:32. | :09:37. | |
on the industry as a whole. Interest rate rating, mis-selling, these | :09:38. | :09:41. | |
scandals have cost the City its reputation and taxpayers hundreds of | :09:42. | :09:45. | |
billions of pounds. What about the individuals? It is hoped the tough | :09:46. | :09:51. | |
new rules will change the culture of the people working here in the heart | :09:52. | :09:56. | |
of banking. Can you imagine every banker hitting a lawyer and going to | :09:57. | :09:59. | |
court? You have to think through the methodology. Going back seven | :10:00. | :10:04. | |
years, really? That would be tough, really tough. Yearly would | :10:05. | :10:10. | |
definitely be the way forward. Seven years is ridiculous. I would | :10:11. | :10:17. | |
probably leave. Find myself a new career. They are not accountable for | :10:18. | :10:22. | |
the way they behave and you would be in any other industry. I would | :10:23. | :10:28. | |
support that move. The bonus party may not quite be over but some of | :10:29. | :10:33. | |
the champagne they have to go back on ice for a little while longer. | :10:34. | :10:37. | |
Simon Jack, has the details. Firefighters in Eastbourne are | :10:38. | :10:40. | |
tackling a huge blaze on the pier. The fire started this afternoon in a | :10:41. | :10:43. | |
games arcade and quickly took hold. It's not thought anyone | :10:44. | :10:45. | |
has been injured. Angus Crawford reports. | :10:46. | :10:48. | |
A tower of smoke in a clear blue sky. Flames ripped through the | :10:49. | :11:00. | |
Victorian pier. The arcade, a magnet for holiday-makers, now a skeleton | :11:01. | :11:04. | |
of twisted metal. It is thought the fire started behind wooden panelling | :11:05. | :11:09. | |
just after 3pm this afternoon. There is at least a dozen firefighters and | :11:10. | :11:15. | |
emergency services on the scene at the moment. They firefighters are | :11:16. | :11:21. | |
dealing with it as well as I can. They have fire hoses all over the | :11:22. | :11:26. | |
place. It is just a really bad site at the moment. More than 50 | :11:27. | :11:31. | |
firefighters are tackling the flames now in a desperate attempt to stop | :11:32. | :11:35. | |
the entire structure being destroyed. Even the local lifeboat | :11:36. | :11:40. | |
has been called out to assist. There have been no reports of any injuries | :11:41. | :11:44. | |
and tourists are being kept behind a police cordon. Some taking to the | :11:45. | :11:50. | |
beach for a better view though. A historic attraction terribly damaged | :11:51. | :11:55. | |
in peak season. The local Council is calling it a tragedy. | :11:56. | :11:59. | |
Angus Crawford reports. A former firearms officer is to be | :12:00. | :12:02. | |
charged with the murder of Azelle Rodney who was shot dead by police | :12:03. | :12:05. | |
in North London in April, 2005. Mr Rodney was one | :12:06. | :12:08. | |
of three men travelling in a car that was stopped by police. | :12:09. | :12:11. | |
They were looking for a group of men who they believed were | :12:12. | :12:13. | |
on their way to commit a drugs-related armed robbery. | :12:14. | :12:17. | |
No police officer in the UK has ever been convicted of murder as | :12:18. | :12:19. | |
the result of a firearms operation. June Kelly can tell us more. | :12:20. | :12:27. | |
Inside a police car which was part of a convoy in pursuit of a | :12:28. | :12:33. | |
suspected armed gang. By the time the chase was over, one of the gang | :12:34. | :12:39. | |
was dead. A police marksman fired eight bullets at 24-year-old Azelle | :12:40. | :12:44. | |
Rodney in the back of the car. Six bullets hit him in the head and | :12:45. | :12:49. | |
body. Now that firearms officer is facing a murder charge. His identity | :12:50. | :12:53. | |
is being protected. He is known only as E7. Azelle Rodney under | :12:54. | :12:58. | |
surveillance just a short time before he was shot. Today his mother | :12:59. | :13:03. | |
said she was very pleased by the decision to charge the officer. But | :13:04. | :13:06. | |
all of these years after the shooting, from one of his former | :13:07. | :13:14. | |
colleagues, this was the reaction. People will not be prepared to go | :13:15. | :13:18. | |
out on the streets doing the risky job where they are risking their | :13:19. | :13:19. | |
lives on pretty much a job where they are risking their | :13:20. | :13:22. | |
lives on pretty daily basis if the result of that is a charge and a | :13:23. | :13:28. | |
possibility of imprisonment. This case goes back nearly ten years. In | :13:29. | :13:34. | |
2005, Azelle Rodney was killed. The next year the Crown Prosecution | :13:35. | :13:38. | |
Service announced no officer would face charges. The family were told | :13:39. | :13:42. | |
they could be no inquest because secret intelligence evidence was | :13:43. | :13:47. | |
involved. In 2009, Azelle Rodney's mother took her fight to the | :13:48. | :13:51. | |
European Court of Human Rights. In 2012, there was a public inquiry. It | :13:52. | :13:55. | |
found there was no lawful justification for the shooting. | :13:56. | :14:00. | |
Nearly a decade on, what happened here is going to come under scrutiny | :14:01. | :14:05. | |
in the criminal courts. The officer involved retired from the Met Police | :14:06. | :14:09. | |
a few years ago. He is going to make his first court appearance in | :14:10. | :14:12. | |
September head office trial for the murder of Azelle Rodney. -- ahead of | :14:13. | :14:22. | |
his trial. Our top story: At least 30 Palestinians are killed and | :14:23. | :14:26. | |
hundreds more injured after shells hit a UN school | :14:27. | :14:29. | |
hundreds more injured after shells Gaza. Still to come, no new for a | :14:30. | :14:33. | |
driver, why this car could be on our roads as early as next year. | :14:34. | :14:37. | |
June Kelly can tell us more. Coming up later on BBC London: | :14:38. | :14:40. | |
Protests as plans to shake up hospital services in West London | :14:41. | :14:42. | |
move a step closer. And why you might soon be seeing | :14:43. | :14:44. | |
cows in your local park - The latest outbreak of the Ebola | :14:45. | :14:57. | |
virus in Africa is the deadliest yet. | :14:58. | :15:00. | |
Today the Foreign Secretary, Philip Hammond, chaired | :15:01. | :15:03. | |
an emergency meeting in London. He said Ebola was | :15:04. | :15:06. | |
a potential threat to the UK, but was unlikely to spread here. | :15:07. | :15:08. | |
Symptoms of the deadly disease include fever, | :15:09. | :15:13. | |
diarrhoea as well as vomiting. It is highly infectious | :15:14. | :15:15. | |
and contagious. There is no cure. | :15:16. | :15:19. | |
Its fatality rate is high - between 50% and 90% of those | :15:20. | :15:23. | |
infected with Ebola die. And it has killed more than 670 people in | :15:24. | :15:29. | |
West Africa this year alone. Our Global Health Correspondent | :15:30. | :15:31. | |
Tulip Mazumdar has travelled to Gueckadou in South East Guinea, | :15:32. | :15:33. | |
where the outbreak started. The latest and one | :15:34. | :15:38. | |
of the youngest victims of Ebola. Wrapped in layers of plastic bags | :15:39. | :15:51. | |
is the body a four-month-old. His family are too scared to attend | :15:52. | :15:55. | |
his burial so he is carefully laid to rest by strangers. | :15:56. | :16:08. | |
Adel looks after him in his final moments. TRANSLATION: I was there | :16:09. | :16:15. | |
with him just before he died. I had been feeding him milk. I stepped | :16:16. | :16:19. | |
away for a break, but I was called back and he was dead. I was totally | :16:20. | :16:23. | |
devastated. At times I just go outside and try. Health workers know | :16:24. | :16:33. | |
they are at very high risk. The virus is extremely contagious, so | :16:34. | :16:38. | |
they seal themselves in suits where temperatures hit 40 Celsius. Samples | :16:39. | :16:41. | |
from sick patients are sent to this shift diagnostics lab. British | :16:42. | :16:49. | |
scientists are among those testing for It is spread in a specific | :16:50. | :16:53. | |
manner, normally with close contact with fluids. Any end stages, | :16:54. | :16:57. | |
particularly with bodily secretions like saliva sweat. | :16:58. | :17:02. | |
Having that in your head while you are dealing with these samples is | :17:03. | :17:08. | |
obviously very important. In remote villages, devastated by a bowler, | :17:09. | :17:14. | |
the fear is palpable. Fear is helping spread the virus. Some think | :17:15. | :17:22. | |
medics are bringing it here. Others don't believe the virus exists. A | :17:23. | :17:25. | |
few days ago, health workers couldn't even get into this village. | :17:26. | :17:30. | |
They have made a breakthrough here today. People are bringing out their | :17:31. | :17:33. | |
sick relatives and agreeing to be tracked over for symptoms. There is | :17:34. | :17:41. | |
no cure for this virus, but it is not an automatic death sentence. | :17:42. | :17:48. | |
With early treatment, like keeping people well hydrated, people can | :17:49. | :17:53. | |
pull through. When I was sick, it was really, really difficult to eat, | :17:54. | :18:03. | |
to wake up. But now I work myself, I greet my children and so on. So I am | :18:04. | :18:11. | |
very, very happy. Another Ebola survivor has come to see his little | :18:12. | :18:15. | |
sister. It's good news. Initial tests for Marion have come back | :18:16. | :18:21. | |
negative. But Ebola is indiscriminate. Their mother also | :18:22. | :18:25. | |
has the virus and may not survive. She, like many others, is infected, | :18:26. | :18:30. | |
isolated and fighting an invisible killer. | :18:31. | :18:38. | |
Our science editor David Shukman is with me now. There was a crisis | :18:39. | :18:43. | |
meeting held in London today. How much of a risk is there? All of the | :18:44. | :18:48. | |
experts we have been speaking to have emphasised that the risks are | :18:49. | :18:51. | |
very low. It is technically possible that someone with the infection | :18:52. | :18:55. | |
could get on a plane in West Africa and fly to Britain, and then pass | :18:56. | :18:59. | |
the virus on to people they are close to. But the airlines are on | :19:00. | :19:03. | |
the lookout, the health authorities here have been on the alert for | :19:04. | :19:06. | |
weeks. We have the technology in this country to cope, should someone | :19:07. | :19:10. | |
make it through all that with Ebola. The real problem, I think, is in the | :19:11. | :19:15. | |
source of this, in West Africa. You have countries that are very poor, | :19:16. | :19:19. | |
with very weak health infrastructure, without the ability | :19:20. | :19:22. | |
to respond. There have been outbreaks, dozens of them throughout | :19:23. | :19:26. | |
the last 30 or 40 years, and they have all been contained through | :19:27. | :19:29. | |
simple measures, where possible. Quarantine, perhaps protective | :19:30. | :19:33. | |
clothing. But these countries are developing and that is difficult to | :19:34. | :19:37. | |
do. As we heard in the report, there is some distrust among local people. | :19:38. | :19:41. | |
It is not over yet. We are waiting to see if the numbers are falling or | :19:42. | :19:43. | |
rising in the next few days. The five-year prison sentence handed | :19:44. | :19:49. | |
down to Rolf Harris will not be referred to the Court of Appeal | :19:50. | :19:51. | |
for being too lenient. 150 people had complained to | :19:52. | :19:53. | |
the Attorney General about the decision to jail | :19:54. | :19:56. | |
the Attorney General the disgraced entertainer for five | :19:57. | :19:58. | |
years and nine months for a series of indecent assaults against girls. | :19:59. | :19:59. | |
But the of indecent assaults against girls. | :20:00. | :20:02. | |
didn't think the court of appeal would extend the sentence. | :20:03. | :20:08. | |
A senior News of the World journalist, Neil Wallis, has been | :20:09. | :20:13. | |
charged with phone hacking. His colleague, Jules Stenson, the former | :20:14. | :20:18. | |
features editor is also due to be charged. At the Sunday Mirror, a | :20:19. | :20:22. | |
journalist, Dan Evans, may have hacked the phones of another 400 | :20:23. | :20:26. | |
people, the BBC has learned. This is the first time a figure has been | :20:27. | :20:30. | |
disclosed estimating the number of victims of hacking by Mirror titles. | :20:31. | :20:32. | |
would extend the sentence. Ever wondered what it would be | :20:33. | :20:34. | |
like to be in a car with nobody behind the wheel? | :20:35. | :20:37. | |
Well, driverless cars, guided by cameras and sensors, could be | :20:38. | :20:44. | |
on our roads by January next year. Up to three cities will | :20:45. | :20:47. | |
be chosen to pilot them. Each trial will last | :20:48. | :20:49. | |
between 18 months and three years. If successful it's hoped they | :20:50. | :20:52. | |
could transform the way we travel. Rory Cellan Jones reports. | :20:53. | :20:55. | |
On a motor industry test track, a car is being put through its paces. | :20:56. | :20:58. | |
But the driver has taken his hands off the wheel | :20:59. | :21:01. | |
and his foot off the accelerator. A sophisticated GPS system is | :21:02. | :21:05. | |
guiding the car around the track. This is one of a number | :21:06. | :21:07. | |
of driverless car experiments underway in the UK. | :21:08. | :21:11. | |
Now the Government wants to see the technology move to the next stage. | :21:12. | :21:16. | |
This car is being tested in a very controlled environment. | :21:17. | :21:19. | |
But from next year, more advanced vehicles with lots of sensors | :21:20. | :21:22. | |
on-board will be allowed out on to the open road, and then we'll see | :21:23. | :21:29. | |
how the Great British public reacts to the idea of driverless cars. | :21:30. | :21:33. | |
The Government's original plan was to allow driverless cars | :21:34. | :21:36. | |
onto public roads last year. Now, there will be a review of road | :21:37. | :21:39. | |
regulations and a competition, with towns bidding to be pilot areas | :21:40. | :21:45. | |
for the new technology. But Britain is playing catch-up. | :21:46. | :21:48. | |
Google has been testing its driverless car on Californian | :21:49. | :21:50. | |
roads for some time. While Sweden's Volvo has pioneered | :21:51. | :21:59. | |
a system where cars line up in convoy behind a lead vehicle | :22:00. | :22:01. | |
which controls their speed. Car technology continues to evolve, | :22:02. | :22:09. | |
but how do drivers visiting the Beaulieu Motor Museum view | :22:10. | :22:12. | |
the prospect of vehicles which can do it all themselves? | :22:13. | :22:17. | |
Things can go wrong with computers, and when they do you're going to | :22:18. | :22:20. | |
have a big accident, aren't you? I don't like the idea of it, | :22:21. | :22:23. | |
to be honest. I'd feel a bit more safe if I'm | :22:24. | :22:26. | |
actually controlling what I'm doing in a vehicle. | :22:27. | :22:28. | |
I would love to have a driverless car. | :22:29. | :22:30. | |
I do a lot of travelling with work and the thought of just getting | :22:31. | :22:34. | |
into a car and it's taking me to work is just the best. | :22:35. | :22:37. | |
A lot more research is needed. This project is looking | :22:38. | :22:39. | |
at how groups of self driving cars might learn to interact. | :22:40. | :22:42. | |
But the Government hopes today's moves will help Britain become | :22:43. | :22:44. | |
a leader in the future of motoring. It's day seven of the | :22:45. | :22:53. | |
Commonwealth Games in Glasgow and it's brought another gold for | :22:54. | :22:56. | |
England in the men's gymnastics. But much of the focus today has been | :22:57. | :23:00. | |
on Jamaica's Usain Bolt - not for his sprinting, but instead | :23:01. | :23:02. | |
for negative comments he allegedly made about the Games yesterday. | :23:03. | :23:06. | |
Today, though, he appears to have changed his tune. | :23:07. | :23:07. | |
Andy Swiss is at Hampden Park. Yes, Usain Bolt is not racing here | :23:08. | :23:20. | |
until the relay heats on Friday. Even so, he is already making the | :23:21. | :23:27. | |
headlines. Bolt, the biggest name in these games, might have talked | :23:28. | :23:33. | |
himself into trouble. This piece contains flash photography. Usain | :23:34. | :23:36. | |
Bolt was supporting Jamaica's netball team this morning. | :23:37. | :23:40. | |
But the world's fastest man has charged into controversy. What do | :23:41. | :23:44. | |
you think of the Commonwealth Games? Awesome, was his reply. Very | :23:45. | :23:48. | |
different to what he was supposed to have given yesterday. Shortly after | :23:49. | :23:51. | |
meeting members of the Royal family, it is claimed he spoke to a reporter | :23:52. | :23:55. | |
and described the so-called friendly games in less than friendly terms. | :23:56. | :24:00. | |
Today he denied the claims on Twitter. I am waking up to this | :24:01. | :24:04. | |
nonsense, journalists, please don't create lies to create headlines. | :24:05. | :24:09. | |
Usain Bolt is used to being the centre of attention, but not quite | :24:10. | :24:13. | |
like this. The focus in Glasgow is not on how he might run, but on what | :24:14. | :24:17. | |
he might have said. By the afternoon, he was back at the | :24:18. | :24:20. | |
athletes village. His press team say afternoon, he was back at the | :24:21. | :24:22. | |
athletes village. His press team he is frustrated because he needs | :24:23. | :24:26. | |
security everywhere and he can't roam about. The newspaper is | :24:27. | :24:29. | |
standing by its quotes and fans have been left bemused. He was just in a | :24:30. | :24:36. | |
bad mood, or something like that? It's quite unlike him, it's | :24:37. | :24:39. | |
fantastic. I think we've done really well, I think the city is showing | :24:40. | :24:43. | |
its friendly side. Everyone is going all-out to make it a great games. | :24:44. | :24:48. | |
Organisers who welcomed Usain Bolt to Glasgow at the weekend have | :24:49. | :24:53. | |
defended their star attraction. We take him at his word, we are pleased | :24:54. | :24:56. | |
with how he responded and that is our position. These are a fantastic | :24:57. | :25:01. | |
aims. Away from the controversy, sport continued. In gymnastics, | :25:02. | :25:06. | |
another gold England. Max Whitlock took victory in the men's all-around | :25:07. | :25:10. | |
final, head of Scotland's Dan Keating 's. The Glasgow games came | :25:11. | :25:13. | |
to Edinburgh, where the diving began with silver for Sarah Barrow and | :25:14. | :25:19. | |
Tonia Couch. It was a day when a sprinter caused the biggest splash. | :25:20. | :25:23. | |
As he trained tonight, he will be hoping it is his feet that now do | :25:24. | :25:24. | |
the talking. Back now to the fire at Eastbourne | :25:25. | :25:34. | |
Pier which started this afternoon in eight games arcade and quickly | :25:35. | :25:37. | |
became a huge blaze. Sian Williams is there. Is it still on fire? I've | :25:38. | :25:44. | |
just spoken to a couple of eyewitnesses that have walked past. | :25:45. | :25:47. | |
They say that, thankfully, it looks like it is out. It started at about | :25:48. | :25:55. | |
3:15 in an amusement arcade, amid some wood panelling. About 12 fire | :25:56. | :26:01. | |
crews were coming and going. They have the lifeboat jetting water to | :26:02. | :26:06. | |
try to douse the flames and two of their inflatable 's. It is owned by | :26:07. | :26:11. | |
a private company, and they have spent a lot on the pier. It has been | :26:12. | :26:16. | |
well maintained, and those that grew up here and spent many happy hours | :26:17. | :26:20. | |
on it, know it has been well looked after. There are going to be a lot | :26:21. | :26:22. | |
of questions as to why that happened. I've just spoken to the | :26:23. | :26:27. | |
local MP, Stephen Lloyd. He said, thank goodness no one has been | :26:28. | :26:30. | |
heard. What we are praying for is that this wonderful pier can be | :26:31. | :26:35. | |
repaired. It is the height of the tourist season and it is a very, | :26:36. | :26:40. | |
very attractive place to go on the pier. Eastbourne will be hoping it | :26:41. | :26:41. | |
can be put back together again. A bit of a change in the weather for | :26:42. | :26:53. | |
many of us. There will be some rain around and not many places managing | :26:54. | :26:57. | |
to escape it. It will largely be in the form of showers. Still some | :26:58. | :27:01. | |
sunshine in between. We will see most of the showers today across the | :27:02. | :27:04. | |
northern half of the UK. Overnight, they will start to creep further | :27:05. | :27:08. | |
southwards. One or two heavy ones turning up here and there towards | :27:09. | :27:11. | |
the end of the night, particularly across the western coast sandhills. | :27:12. | :27:15. | |
As we go on was through tomorrow, as the showers become more widespread, | :27:16. | :27:19. | |
some of them could turn heavy and thundery, the afternoon. Lowering | :27:20. | :27:24. | |
along England and Wales, by some fairly brisk winds. At least they | :27:25. | :27:28. | |
move through. Not many reaching the south-east of England. As the | :27:29. | :27:31. | |
showers tend to line up, you might find you get quite a few coming | :27:32. | :27:35. | |
through where you are, where it is either side of that line, seeing | :27:36. | :27:38. | |
very few. There are some sunshine coming through between the showers. | :27:39. | :27:41. | |
When it does, we get temperatures up to where they should be for this | :27:42. | :27:45. | |
time of the year. Sharp showers for Northern Ireland and Scotland. The | :27:46. | :27:50. | |
wind is a little bit lighter across Scotland. That will help for the | :27:51. | :27:54. | |
feel of the day. For the athletics in Hampden Park, the breeze easing | :27:55. | :27:59. | |
down. Still a little on the cool side, hopefully the showers dying | :28:00. | :28:02. | |
away as well. We keep the unsettled thing going for Friday. Eastern | :28:03. | :28:07. | |
areas might get away with a dry date. You will notice the showers | :28:08. | :28:10. | |
dying up across Wales and south-west England. That tells us what is to | :28:11. | :28:14. | |
come for the start of the weekend. This is how the weekend pans out | :28:15. | :28:19. | |
generally. An area of showery rain moving largely northwards through | :28:20. | :28:22. | |
the course of the day. Brisk wind in with that as well. Slowly, dry and | :28:23. | :28:27. | |
brighter weather pushes up. Get some sunshine and it will feel like | :28:28. | :28:30. | |
summer. With the breeze, it will feel on the cool side. A different | :28:31. | :28:34. | |
kind of summer weather for the weekend. | :28:35. | :28:35. | |
kind of summer weather for the A reminder of our main story, at | :28:36. | :28:41. | |
least 30 Palestinians killed and hundreds more are injured shells hit | :28:42. | :28:45. | |
a UN school and a crowded marketplace in Gaza. That is all | :28:46. | :28:47. | |
from the BBC News | :28:48. | :28:48. |