30/07/2014 World News Today

This is BBC World News Today with me Babita Sharma.

At least 30 Palestinians are killed and hundreds more injured

after shells hit a UN school and a market place in Gaza.

A terrified child, one of thousands of refugees who had been sheltering

The UN have called it an attack of universal shame.

Another tiny victim of the Ebola virus as three West African

countries battle to overcome a massive outbreak

I was there with him just before he died.

At times, I would just go outside and cry.

Bankers in Britain feel the pressure.

New rules could force them to repay some bonuses and even land them

And could computers turn us all into backseat drivers?

We'll take a look at a more hands off approach to life

Now this car is being tested in a very controlled environment

but, from next year, more advanced vehicles with lots

of sensors on-board will be allowed out on the open road.

Yet again more deaths on the streets of Gaza and today.

At least 15 people have been killed and 160 people have been injured

after an explosion at a busy market, according to Palestinian officials.

And the United Nations has accused Israel of launching a deadly attack

Thousands of Palestinians had been seeking shelter from the fighting

The shelling began at dawn killing at least 15 people.

Both the US and the UN have condemned the shelling

of the school, but the Israeli military has denied targeting it

saying militants had fired on its soldiers from within the vicinity.

The number of Palestinians killed in Gaza is now said to have reached

1,300 since the fighting began three weeks ago.

Our International Correspondent, Ian Pannell,

sent this report from Jabaliya, where the UN school was shelled.

You may find some of the details and images in his report disturbing.

The terror of the conflict in Gaza stamped on the face

Gosam Barakat was sleeping when the shells landed.

She had been sheltering in a UN school.

The casualties have just come into one

We believe about 70 people have been injured.

At the moment, the precise figure isn't known.

The debate will begin immediately about who is responsible for this.

Overwhelming a hospital already struggling to cope.

The youngest and most vulnerable, shattered and shocked.

She and her friend Sarma were in one of the classrooms when it was hit.

We were sleeping when the airstrike happened, she says.

The hospital grounds overflowed with bereaved families.

Every day in Gaza seems to look like this.

The UN says Israel attacked the school.

Two very precise holes were punched through the walls of two classrooms.

Amid the dust and rubble, some signs that families had been living here.

There was a mortar fire fired by Palestinian terrorists

We responded to fire in that vicinity.

We are currently, reviewing the innocent incident itself.

Those who live here are simply shattered and shocked.

But on days like this, it feels like nowhere is.

We escaped to search for security here but we did not

have security because of the Israeli occupation, the terrorism.

And each incident has its own tragic story.

Last week, we reported on a baby girl delivered

graves, they buried her next to the mother she'd never known.

One more death on the day marked with violence.

Dr Mustafa Barghouti, member of the Palestinian Legislative Council,

Thank you very much for being with us. I understand you have been in

touch with Hamas and met with Palestinian president. Tell us what

has been said. All of us without exception want to achieve an

immediate, and as soon as possible, a cease-fire. All Palestinians are

unified in that because we want the bloodshed to stop. It has become

clear to everybody now that Israel's decisions is to kill as

many Palestinian civilians as possible. Their whole strategy is

based on trying to aggravate Palestinians against each other. And

each time this is tried, they kill more civilians. As you have

reported, 1320 Palestinians have been killed. 90% civilians, children

and women. About 7000 300 people have been injured. Today, they

committed two huge massacres in a market while they were claiming they

were declaring a cease-fire, and another one in a school, the second

school. The six school attacked by the Israeli army. Each time, they

are exposed, they said I investigate in the matter. This is so horrible.

Anyone who remains silent about these massacres taking place today

will be considered complicit with these crimes. One decision we have

made will be fulfilled within the coming few hours is to go to the

international committee court to sign the Rome Statute and have

Israel responsible in front of the world for the are committing against

the Palestinian people. Nobody should allow... You say that you've

had conversations with Hamas and the Palestinian president and you agree

there is a need for a cease-fire. How realistic do you believe a

cease-fire can be reached with the Israelis given the fact that the

ones which have been imposed before have faltered after just days? In

the first two weeks of this aggression, unfortunately, people

now are discovering the truth. The first fact it was Israel who started

this war and not the Palestinians. Secondly... How do you believe the

agreement can be reached? I am coming to that. The second thing is

this is not Hamas. The Palestinians accept to have a cease-fire and

Israel refused. Just now, 30 minutes ago, it was declared that Benjamin

Netanyahu decided to expand the Israeli military operation in Gaza.

In my opinion, the people will realise his aim is to occupy Gaza

completely causing horrible, horrible human damage and creating

the worst human material in crisis ever in this region and may be

worldwide. He must be stopped for speed cannot be allowed to

continue. Forgive me, the question was specifically about how you will

conversations with Hamas can reach a cease-fire agreement? How do you

move forward to bring an end to the violence, the counterattack and the

attack on both sides of this conflict? When can you reach an

agreement? As soon as the world pressures Israel enough to stop this

attack. We can reach it through Egypt in negotiations that could be

held in Cairo and Palestinians are ready to send a delegation there,

including Hamas and every body else. Or through an immediate decision by

the Security Council to say Israel must stop the aggression and stop

the siege on Gaza, an act of aggression which has been going on

for eight years. In the framework of trying to agree a cease-fire, will

Hamas to understanding stop its activity in launching rockets and

missiles to Israel? Of course. Hamas is not shooting rockets to kill

people. It is our understanding, from reports we had today on the

ground there where a number of Palestinian rockets and missiles

fired to Israel during a partial cease-fire today? If you allow me to

respond, please, and not interrupt me, I will explain. So far, during

this war, which is completely asymmetrical, the Israelis have lost

56 people, as you said. Two civilians. 54 were soldiers. Israeli

soldiers killed inside Gaza while they were invading and affecting

people. On the Palestinian side, civilians are killed. That means

Hamas has proven its not aiming at killing Israeli civilians. It is

fighting the Israeli soldiers while the Israeli soldiers are bombarding

air strikes, bombarding us with artillery, with tank fire. And

killing people. This army which claims to be working at the

pinpoint, with sophisticated equipment is now killing civilians.

It's clear their decision as to kill as many civilians as possible hoping

that Palestinians will turn against each other, which is impossible

because every Palestinian today has a problem with Israel after all

these killings. The elimination of 30 families. We have to leave it

there but the Israeli counterargument what you've just

said is they are protecting the rights of the Israelis against

attack, but, for now, thank you for your time. We have to be it there,

I'm afraid. The Ebola outbreak in West Africa

continues to spread. Medical charities are now warning it

will likely last until the end In the latest development, Liberia

has announced it will close all schools across the country as part

of a new anti-Ebola action plan. Several West African airlines have

now stopped flying to Liberia and Sierra Leone amid concerns

about the spread of the disease. The virus has claimed hundreds

of lives across the region, so what are the symptoms and how

many people have died so far? The virus causes internal bleeding

and organ failure It is spread person to person

through direct contact. Its symptoms include bleeding,

diarrhoea and vomiting. The first reported cases of Ebola

were in Guinea in March, with many of the initial infections

reported in the town of Gueckedou 427 cases have lead to at least 310

deaths across the country. The virus has also spread to Liberia

where it has killed And it has spread to Sierra Leone

where more than 220 people have And now, Nigeria has confirmed

a death from the deadly virus. Our Global Health Correspondent

Tulip Mazumdar has been to the affected area of Gueckadou

in South East Guinea. The latest and one

of the youngest victims of Ebola. Wrapped in layers

of plastic bags is the tiny body His family are too scared to attend

his burial, so he is carefully laid Adele looked after baby Faya

in his final moments. I was there with him just

before he died. I stepped away just

for a short break but then I was At times,

I would just go outside and cry. The virus is extremely contagious so

they seal themselves in suits where Samples from sick patients are sent

to this makeshift diagnostics lab. British scientists are

among those testing for Ebola. It's spread

in a very specific manner. Mainly by close contact with patient

fluids, bloods and, in the end stages, particularly with bodily

secretions, saliva and sweat. And having that in your head while

you're dealing with these samples In remote villages, devastated

by Ebola, the fear is palpable. And that fear is helping spread

the virus. Some people think medics are

actually bringing Ebola here. Others simply don't believe

the virus exists. A few days ago,

health workers couldn't even get into this village, but they have

made a breakthrough here today. People are bringing out

their sick relatives, and they are agreeing to be checked

over for symptoms of Ebola. There is no cure for this virus

but it's not When I was sick, it was very, very

difficult for me to eat, to wake up. Another Ebola survivor has come

to see his little sister. Initial tests

for Marion have come back negative. Their mother also has the virus

and may not survive. She, like many others, is infected,

isolated He's the Director for

Health Protection with Thank you for joining us. Great

alarm seeing those figures in the report. Are we right to be alarmed

thinking about this disease spreading to the UK or Europe? Of

course we are concerned about the outbreak in the three main countries

concerned in West Africa. So we are doing two things within Public

Health England, working across colleagues -- working with

colleagues in Government. We are doing all we can to support the

response in Africa. It is important to get the outbreak is controlled as

possible and end up with that concluding and there being no

further cases. The risk that we assessed the UK does remain low. So

we do not expect to have cases of Ebola virus in the UK or Europe. But

it is not impossible and we're making sure that all for

identifying, what we have got in place, people who may have symptoms

of an unknown infection, we must get those tests in place but the

assessment of risk is low in the UK. There has never been an outbreak of

the disease in Europe? That is correct. There has never been a case

from an outbreak in Africa imported into the UK or Europe. That is a

very important fact to bear in mind. Even if we saw a case in the UK, we

would be... We're going not expecting an outbreak. If we see

anything, it will be with someone who comes back to the UK with the

virus and we treat that in the UK. Let's talk about that. You read the

headlines surrounding the disease and that it is not curable, a quick

death, sometimes within 24 hours, what other symptoms and what happens

in it? Incubation, the time from point of infection to getting

symptoms can be from two days up to three weeks. So there is a

significant length of time with which people might be harbouring the

disease. What symptoms? Initially, fever, malaise, headache, generally

feeling unwell. It is in the later stages of the disease that people

get diarrhoea and formatting and bleeding, which can in so many cases

cause the death of the individual. It is not until the stages where the

disease is infectious and transmitted, mostly by direct

contact with the bodily fluids of someone in the severe stages of the

disease or after the death. That is why with infection control

arrangements in place in the UK, even if we do get a case coming in

from Africa, we would be unlikely to see the spread of that. But we are

giving the advice that if you have been to one of those three

countries, Ciera Le?n, Guinea Liberia, and particularly in one of

the areas where the outbreak is ongoing, and you have retirement and

have any of those symptoms of fever within three weeks of coming back,

seek medical advice quickly and the doctor must you see will trigger the

right assessment. -- Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.

Now a look at some of the days other news.

Rescue workers are digging through piles of mud and rubble to try

and reach survivors of a landslide in western India.

Officials say 17 bodies have been recovered so far, but more than

A suicide bomber has killed at least six people at a university in

The blast happened as a large crowd of students gathered to check

It's the fifth attack in Kano since Sunday.

The last surviving member of the US air crew that dropped

an atomic bomb on Hiroshima has died in Georgia, aged 93.

Theodore Van Kirk, also known as Dutch,

was 24 when he became the navigator of the Enola Gay - the aircraft that

It killed an estimated 140,000 people.

The Bank of England has announced some of the toughest restrictions on

Bankers will be forced to return their bonuses - up to seven years

after they were awarded - if found guilty of misconduct.

The measures follow the financial crisis of 2008

Our economics correspondent Simon Jack has the details.

For successful bankers, big bonus cheques have come to be expected.

But after the financial crisis, a string of scandals and public anger,

from January next year, future cheques may end up going back.

So let's say it has been a great year,

I cannot spend it yet, but within three or five years, I can spend

But under the new rules, up to seven years after my bonus, I might have

Barclays set aside another ?900 million today compensate people

mis-sold payment protection insurance, a timely reminder

that misconduct can take many years to uncover and why these

We now have the toughest regime in banking pay

Bankers are paid less here than they are compared to New York,

Ultimately, this could have an impact on the competitiveness

of London as a financial centre and the jobs and tax paid here.

There are also proposals which could see bankers jailed.

One former investment banker, who now writes about the City,

This is a really very bold package of measures.

First of all, it raises the spectre of criminal sanction.

Secondly, it hits bankers in their pockets.

Thirdly, it defines everyone's rules very clearly so that regulators know

I suppose one other point to make is that

if bankers really do run offshore, as they are threatening to do

in the event of these rules coming in, it is a terrible indictment

Recklessness, interest rate rigging, money laundering, mis-selling.

These scandals have cost the City its reputation,

and taxpayers and shareholders hundreds of billions of pounds.

It is hoped these tough new rules will change the culture

of the people working right here in the heart of banking.

Imagine every single banker taking a lawyer, bringing him to court.

I mean, you would have to think through the methodology

They want to go back seven years, right?

Yearly would definitely be the way forward,

They?re not accountable for the way they behave and you

So, yeah, I would support that move, for sure.

The bonus party might not quite be over, but some

of the champagne may have to go back on ice for a little while longer.

They could be the answer to road rage - driverless

cars, which could be on our roads from as early as next year.

Up to now, concerns about legal and insurance issues have stopped

their arrival, and motoring organisations continue to say that

British drivers will be wary of letting a computer take control.

Rory Cellan-Jones has been along for a driverless ride.

On a motor industry test track, a car is being put through

its paces, but the driver has taken his hands off the wheel

A sophisticated GPS system is guiding the car around the track.

This is one of a number of driverless car experiments

And now the Government wants to see the

Now this car is being tested in a very controlled environment.

But from next year, more advanced vehicles with lots

of sensors on-board will be allowed out onto the road.

And then we will see how the Great British public reacts to

The Government's original plan was to allow driverless cars

Now there will be a review of road regulations and a competition,

with towns bidding to be pilot areas for the new technology.

Car technology continues to evolve, but how do drivers visiting this

motor museum view the prospect of vehicles

Things can go wrong with computers, and when they do, you're going to

Do not like the idea of it, to be honest.

I feel a bit more safe if I am actually controlling what I

I would love to have a driverless car.

I do a lot of travelling for work and the thought

of getting into a car and it taking me to work is just the best.

This research is looking at how groups of self-driving cars

But the Government hopes today's moves will help Britain become

Just time to bring you these pictures from Eastbourne

in southern England, where a fire has broken out.

As we speak, fire crews are battling to save it.

It began this afternoon in an amusement arcade and spread to

the pier, which is a two-storey structure that dates from 1870.

Stay with us, you're watching World News Today.

Today's weather has been a tale of halves across the UK, with the North

seeing most of the showers. They might looks for many is if it will

be dry and fine but there will be