01/08/2014 BBC News at Six

Another humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza collapses.

Israel and Hamas blame each other as the death toll rises.

For less than a couple of hours , residents in Gaza started to return

to what's left of their homes. It's unclear who broke

the ceasefire but soon the fighting began again in earnest.

An Israeli soldier is believed to have been seized by Hamas.

His father calls for his return. TRANSLATION:

We are certain that the army will not stop under any circumstance

and will not leave any stone unturned in Gaza and will bring

Hadar back home safe and sound. We'll be looking at how the reported

capture of the soldier could affect the chances of ending the conflict.

Also tonight: A former army intelligence officer

tells the BBC an investigation into child abuse at this home

in Belfast was stopped by MI5. The race to unlock thousands

of genetic codes and transform the treatment

of rare diseases and cancers. And the 16-year-old from Bristol

tumbling her way to her fourth gold at the Commonwealth Games.

The failings at the private school where a paedophile teacher

was able to prey on pupils. And searching for the killer

of this actor - police say a suspect has fled to Nigeria.

Good evening and welcome to the BBC News at Six.

A three-day humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza has collapsed,

just hours after it began, with both sides blaming each other.

It followed a heavy exchange of fire in the southern city of Rafah,

where at least 50 Palestinians were killed and 200 wounded.

Two Israeli soldiers have been killed and one is

believed captured by Hamas. The last soldier seized

by Palestinian militants in 2006 was held for five years.

Jon Donnison reports from Gaza City. This morning, at last, some hope in

Gaza. Quadruplets, born on the EU for they suppose it's cease-fire. --

born on the EU filed a supposed cease-fire. Combined weight, seven

kilos. They're exhausted mother tells me she went through five years

of failed IVF treatment and that at last, in these difficult times, she

has some happy news. We hope that Israel and Palestine respect the

cease-fire, because we have two take a rest for this massacre and

disaster in Gaza Strip. But what kind of life awaits these children?

One-day-old, born into a world upturned. This is what is left of

Beit Hanoun, right on the boundary with Israel. It has been pounded for

more than three weeks. By mid-morning, as word of the

cease-fire spread, it had sprung back to life. More than a quarter of

Gaza's population has been displaced. Food, water and power are

in short supply. People are using this brief lull in the fighting to

return to their homes, and many are finding them completely flattened.

They are just picking up what they can and heading to seek shelter. And

all the while, there is the stench of dead bodies, still trapped under

the rubble. But the cease-fire was over or most as soon as it started.

More Israeli air strikes and Palestinian rockets. At least 50

Palestinians were killed today, many more wounded. And then, from Rafah

in the south of Gaza, the news that could see this war escalates still

further. An Israeli soldier suspected to have been captured

alive by Hamas fighters, after they crossed the border through a tunnel.

Israel says that one fighter detonated a suicide belt as he

emerged from underground. Two soldiers were killed and 23-year-old

had our golden was dragged back into Gaza. -- had our golden. We want to

support the Israeli army in its fight against Hamas in Gaza and we

are certain the Israeli army will not stop and will not leave any

stone unturned in the Gaza Strip and will bring my son back home safe and

sound. Hamas will see this as a huge result. It took more than five years

for Israel to free the last soldier captured in Gaza. Israel has said it

will respond with crushing force. People in Gaza are preparing for

this tiny strip of land to be hammered. Jon Donnison, BBC News,

Gaza. The reported capture of an Israeli

soldier is likely only to inflame tensions between Israel and Gaza.

The US secretary of state John Kerry has called it outrageous

and barbaric. James Robbins is here.

What chance is there now of persuading the two sides to lay

down their weapons? For a few hours, it looked as if the

United States might be succeeding in its mission to establish

a pause in the fighting, then try to build that into a rolling ceasefire

and an end to this conflict. Instead, we now have a war of words

over which side broke the ceasefire first, an Israeli soldier apparently

captured, and hopes of fuller negotiations shattered once again.

For America's top diplomat, today is a setback. John Kerry has spent most

of his waking hours in the past three weeks trying to talk the sides

down from conflict, only to get a cease-fire that was not. The

collapse back into violence means that efforts to draw Israelis and

Palestinians into discussion about the underlying causes of their

conflict have taken another heavy blow. Diplomacy is never dead. We

have to keep trying, but it is obviously extremely depressing that

this cease-fire that we have worked so hard to get broke down so

quickly, and if the reports that Hamas broke the cease-fire are

correct, then that is very serious indeed, as is the kidnapping of the

Israeli soldier, which will make it all the more difficult to

re-establish a cease-fire. As if to underline that, Israel's government

made clear they are in no mood to think about a longer term settlement

with Hamas. Hamas, by breaking the cease-fire, not only killed Israelis

and slammed the door shut on diplomatic solutions, but Hamas has

unfortunately destroyed the chance of the people of Gaza receiving

humanitarian help that they so badly need. Hamas rejects all of that,

insisting Israel provoked the breakdown.

TRANSLATION: The Israeli enemy breached the truce. When Israeli

special forces entered the eastern side of Rafah. Palestinian

resistance clashed with them, and this was our right to defend

ourselves, according to our understanding. There is little

prospect now of the sort of quiet for quiet deal which stopped past

conflicts. That won't be enough this time. Israel wants the complete

disarming of Hamas, ending rocket attacks and destroying its tunnel

system. Hamas wants an end to Israel's 80 year Gaza blockade, the

lifting of restrictions on the flow of goods, and the opening of border

crossings. Today, a new gesture of support from America for Israel and

its Iron Dome missile system. Congress is rushing through

legislation to restock the defence against Hamas rockets.

negotiations shattered once again. In 24 hours, pressures on each

side have been turned upside down. Then, the United States was rebuking

Israel for attacking civilians. Now Washington has switched back to

condemnation of Hamas, and the ruins of the briefest

of ceasefires make the search for peace harder than ever.

This current Gaza Conflict began 25 days ago.

More than 1500 Palestinians, mostly civilians, have been killed.

On the Israeli side, 66 people have died, 63 of them soldiers.

Orla Guerin joins us live. What is your assessment on the

ground of how this reported capture of the Israeli soldier is going to

change this situation? Well, we know this soldier has been captured. That

has been confirmed by the Israeli defence force. At the Defence

Ministry in Tel Aviv, the Cabinet is meeting to discuss next steps. We

know there will be escalation, that is guaranteed. The only question is

what degree. We have already seen an intensification in Gaza with heavy

shelling immediately after the kidnapping. I spoke to a former

senior official in Israeli intelligence who told me the

strategy would be "to flatten the area", which he said would be done

to stop the kidnappers getting away, even if it risked the life of the

Israeli hostage, because the army would not want to see a living

soldier in Hamas hands. The Cabinet will be considering what kind of

escalation to make. There will be serious pressure on Benyamin

Netanyahu to bring the soldier back alive. If there is intelligence, we

could see a pinpoint operation to go in and try and pluck him out, but it

is not clear if that intelligence exists. What can you tell us about

reports that the soldier may have British connections? There were

suggestions earlier today that he was a British national. We now know

that is not the case. The Foreign Office has made that clear. But we

do know that this 23-year-old Second Lieutenant in the Israeli army had

spent a lot of time in the UK, in Cambridge where his father was an

academic. He was recently engaged and his family tonight, as you

heard, have come out strongly in support of the Army, saying they

believe Israel will do everything they can to bring him home safe and

well. Orla Guerin joins us live.

And you can find full analysis of the conflict,

as well as the history behind it, on our website at bbc.co.uk/gaza.

Time now for the rest of the day's news.

Rolf Harris has applied for permission to appeal against his

conviction for indecent assaults. The 84-year-old entertainer was

jailed in July for five years for 12 indecent assaults on girls.

A judge will now decide if his appeal bid should be given

a full hearing. Dozens of international

investigators have been working at the crash site of flight MH17 today.

Despite heavy fighting close by, the Dutch and Australian forensic

experts began a painstaking search for up to 80 victims whose remains

are still in the area. It's the largest group

of investigators so far to make it to the site.

Earlier pro-Russian separatists ambushed a Ukranian convoy and

at least 10 Ukranian soldiers were killed.

Police investigating Wednesday's fire that badly damaged

Eastbourne Pier say they are now treating it as suspicious.

Sussex Police say they believe the fire was "started by someone -

either deliberately or accidentally".

They're also warning people to stay away from the beach around the pier,

describing the site as "very hazardous".

The organisation that represents UK travel firms is advising air

passengers travelling through Gatwick this weekend to pack

essential items in their hand luggage.

ABTA issued the advice after chaos last weekend

when some passengers were told to go home without their bags.

Richard Westcott is at the airport. This will be a very busy weekend

for air travel. Is Gatwick going to be able to cope?

They are absolutely insisting the airport will be fine, so that is the

good news. Let me take you back to how this started. The early hours of

last weekend, hundreds of passengers arriving back from holidays had to

wait five hours for their bags, to get a bag from an aircraft to a

baggage carousel. It was because the company that was supposed to do it,

Swissport, was caught out with a flurry of late planes and did not

have enough staff on. At Wick airport, which is not meant to be

moving the bags at all, is drafting in 60 people, managers losing their

weekends, just in case there are problems this weekend. And Swissport

are drafting in 40 people. We have also had this advice, pack important

things in your hand luggage, just in case. Medicine, mobile phone

chargers, that sort of thing. This affects bags coming into the UK. If

you know someone abroad and they are coming, tell them to pack important

things in their hand luggage. But it is meant to be fine.

Is Gatwick going to be able to cope? A former army intelligence officer

has told the BBC that an investigation into abuse

at a boys' home in East Belfast back in the 1970s was stopped by MI5.

Five years later the police discovered evidence

of abuse at the Kincora home. Northern Ireland's First Minister

has described the child abuse there as a "national scandal" that needs

to be the subject of a new inquiry. Here's Chris Buckler.

Throughout the 1970s, teenage boys were taken to Kincora when they had

nowhere else to go. They arrived from broken homes and dysfunctional

families but they ended up in a place where many were routinely

sexually abused. In the early 1980s three men, including the prominent

loyalist William McGrath, were convicted of a series of offences.

But five years earlier, at the height of the troubles, an Army

intelligence officer had raised concerns based on information from

an agent known as Royal flush. However, a senior MI5 man ordered

him to hold his enquiries. He told me not just to stop any

investigation into Kincora and McGrath, but to drop Royal flush.

That was it. There have long been claims of a cover-up at Kincora and

suggestions that people of influence were involved in abusing boys here.

There is an enquiry taking place in Northern Ireland into historical

institutional abuse, which includes Kincora. However, its powers of

investigation are extremely limited and Northern Ireland's First

Minister has indicated he does not believe it is capable of uncovering

what truly happened here. As a result, he has written to the Prime

Minister and asked for the scandal to be included in the abuse enquiry

that is being planned by the Home Office. People did take their lives

after having been questioned by police on these issues. They are

matters which when put together indicate the knowledge of people in

very high positions in Northern Ireland at that time. And some claim

that what started at this care home add links to places and people far

from the streets of East Belfast, where Kincora is a word associated

with scandal and shame. Paedophile groups in the 1970s formed close

alliances, purely for protection, if nothing else, and it may be that

some of those links are very important, when we think of why, for

example, the army and police were not allowed to take action. Like so

much of the sexual abuse now under investigation, the crimes at Kincora

are regarded as historical. But for victims like Clint Massey, it is a

past that still haunts. I want to see the building gone. I want to

turn up and see an empty space. Then I will know it has gone. This house

he had many secrets, and some of them are still waiting to be

exposed. Our top story this evening - a truce

in Gaza between Israel and Hamas breaks down after just two hours,

with each side blaming the other. Still to come, gold number four for

Claudia Fragapane. with each side blaming the other.

Later on BBC London: A new gadget for buses

which could save the lives of pedestrians and cyclists.

Beach volleyball is one sport you won't see at the Commonwealth Games.

We meet the athletes campainging to change that.

It's a project which could transform the treatment

of rare diseases and cancers. The project is to map 100,000

complete genetic code sequences in England, known as genomes, in

the process, making Britain a world leader in this type of research.

The resulting DNA analysis could transform the treatment

of three million people affected by rare diseases.

And it could open the door for new treatments for cancer.

Some scientists say it could even mean an end to chemotherapy.

Our health editor, Hugh Pym, reports.

If you look at the whole population, one in 17 of us has a rare disease

which is little understood. For them and thousands more diagnosed with

cancer every year, today's announcement could pave the way for

a much better understanding of their condition and how they might be

treated. A major new investment at this centre near Cambridge will hold

the key. Mapping one patient's genetic structure used to take

years. Now at laboratories like this it is done in days, and that is set

to revolutionise some areas of medicine. This is about a national

reservoir of data that will make this country and the NHS the leader

in designing the drugs of tomorrow and the preventative medicines. The

genome is a person's personal genetic code mapped out from DNA

samples taken from blood or tissue. Using this and comparing it with

other members of the patient's family can indicate whether a

condition is hereditary. For catch-up -- cancer patients, healthy

and tumour cells can be compared. Long-term, that could help doctors

decide which drugs will work best. The process has provided peace of

mind to Cathy. She has a serious condition affecting her blood

pressure. After tests she now knows her daughters have not inherited it.

For me personally it was really important, and for my family, to

know whether I had put it onto my children and my girls. They are 19

and 21 at the time and they were really keen to know if they might

carry the gene for it. There is clearly great excitement in the

scientific community about the work going on in labs like this. But

patients will want to be reassured that their personal genetic data is

stored securely and is not potentially available to outside

commercial interests. What will patients be told and where will the

data go? Will patients have to trust those decisions or will they know?

Will they know their data is being used to cure this type of cancer and

that hereditary disease? Project chiefs say the data will be a

non-eyes, made available only to read it it medical researchers and

not insurance companies, but they have been been urged to -- they have

been urged to make very clear to patients what it will be used for.

reports. A piece of artwork spray-painted

by Banksy on the wall of a house in Cheltenham has been vandalised.

The piece, depicting men snooping on a phone box, appeared in April,

three miles from the government listening post GCHQ.

Earlier this week, it was announced a deal was almost

complete to keep Spy Booth in the town, after campaigners

raised the money to buy it. Schools in England have been told to

expect big variations in GCSE results because of the largest set

of changes to exams for years. The exams regulator Ofqual says it's

down to factors such as a return to end-of-course exams.

Our education correspondent Alex Forsyth is at the Department

for Education for us. Alex, what is this likely to mean

for pupils who'll be anxiously waiting for their results?

Well, there have been lots of changes to GCSEs of the revolt -- as

a result of new education policy. So far fewer will take their GCSEs

early, aged 14 or 15, and now they will sit their exams at the end of

two years rather than taking them as modules through the course. In

English, for example, speaking and listening assessment is no longer

count towards the final grade. The extent to which these changes affect

schools will differ depending on how they have done things in the past

but the exams regulator Ofqual says this could mean a loss of variation

in results, with some school seeing their results going up or down and

lots of difference between the schools. But what they are keen to

stress is that the standards on which students are judged will not

change, so each pupil should get the grade they deserve for the work they

do. Of course, they will find out when they get those results in three

weeks time. waiting for their results?

It's been another successful day in the gymnastics

at the Commonwealth Games. Scotland have won another gold,

but the big story of the day is that 16-year-old Claudia

Fragapane has picked up her fourth gold medal of the tournament.

She's the first British woman to manage this feat since 1930.

Our sports correspondent Natalie Pirks is in Glasgow.

As you say, the medals just keep coming for the home nations.

Scotland's Daniel Purvis, he won gold on the bowls. And then on the

high bar as well. -- on the bars. But today, Claudia Fragapane

attempted to make Commonwealth Games history.

With a grace and composure far beyond her 16 years, Claudia

Fragapane has the world of gymnastics in a spin. At just four

foot seven, the pocket rocket from Bristol has been winning over the

fans with her power and smile, but those who coached her since she was

six always knew she was destined for the podium. She has a wisp in a

bubbly character but always very determined and wanting to work hard.

Gazzaniga she has always been. She said to her pair -- we said to her

parents, weight and she will be good. The fans have been doing a lot

of waiting and watching the first test of nerves for her parents was

the beam. Her daughter was not quite ready and there were a few wobbles.

Wow! That is a great dismount! An element of risk there and the crowd

seemed to love it. What do the judges think? It wasn't enough and

she could only finish fifth. But the flaw was up next, and in that, she

is world-class. Mum could not watch. Italian dad Paolo Wachtel nervously

in his Ferrari shirt. A performance oozing class. -- watched on

nervously. As the middle sister of five went for gold, the rest of the

family held their breath. But they need not have worried. Surely it is

a golden floor routine! And when gold was confirmed... Scream label

the reaction of a family whose star gymnast has just won the most golds

of any British woman in a single games for 84 years. It has been

great being here as I'm only 16 and it has just been great just coming

out and getting four gold medals. Absolutely amazing! A smile

sparkling as brightly as the golds, she just can't stop smiling. With

two more days of competition, plenty more medals to be won and records to

be broken. At this has not just been about the sport.

Glasgow - warm and welcoming, and, for days now, full of fans. Here for

sport and discovering the city itself is a highlight of the Games.

What you think? Amazing! We are just taking in the city of Glasgow. We

have already done the athletics. And then there are other volunteers.

Generous with their Azzurri always friendly. Everybody has been jolly.

It has just been immense! Look at this! In these Games, it has not

always been the winning that counts. The Ugandan rugby sevens

team did not make the medals but were a hit nonetheless with the

fans. This is the first time we're riding into the stadium and I was

like, really?! And they were like, yes, this is for Uganda.

Unbelievable! Other memorable moments have happened on the pitch

-- off the pitch, not on. This garnered attention around the world.

And the Games mascot has also proved popular with spectators and their

cameras. It is such a good thing to be a part of. It is amazing to see

everyone and everybody loves it as much as I do. Throughout the Games

Glasgow has been packed with thousands of athletes and hundreds

of thousands of visitors. And the city really has surpassed its

reputation for friendliness. Confident, resume a risk on a

helpful. Glasgow and its people have proved the stars of this

Commonwealth show. Elsewhere today, Scotland won a

second lawn bowls gold. A second medal in the men's synchro and a

fascinating prospect in the women's flyweight boxing. Nicola Adams up

against Northern Ireland's Michaela Walsh.

Thank you. Time for a look at the weather. Had it all change -- is it

all change from that picture? Don't make this the last forecast

you see this weekend because the details could change. Some very

gusty wind but some will see some sunshine. A lot of cloud on the

satellite picture and some sharp bursts of rain towards Northern

Ireland. This is the zone would be potentially wet weather developing.

Diagonal and heading north eastwards through the night. The risk of some

thunderstorms for a time through the early hours but the main event will

be further west. By cool under the clearest skies over Scotland and

Northern Ireland, where it will be a dry start. -- quite cool. Behind

this, rather more broken cloud with some sunshine through tomorrow

morning emerging. That is for southwestern parts of England. Not

an awful lot of rain here. Things will brighten up through the day

with a gusty wind. Rain continues moving northwards with the heaviest

around how far it extends. Some fairly wet weather for Scotland and

eastern England. A pretty bleak day for Scotland. Quite chilly with

gusty winds developing. The rain continues to move northwards with

brighter skies further south. A few showers and the gusty wind factoring

in at 40 or 50 miles an hour. Pretty windy for this time of year. Fast

forward to Sunday and the rain is still there across Scotland with

some gusty winds but for the rest of us, and improving story with

sunshine and decent temperatures eventually through the afternoon.

A reminder of our main story - a truce in Gaza between Israel

and Hamas breaks down after just two hours,

with each side blaming the other. That's all from the BBC News at Six,

so it's goodbye