02/08/2014 BBC Weekend News

Israel has carried out fresh attacks on Gaza and Palestinian militants

have launched more rockets into Israel as a hunt continues

Two Israeli soldiers have been killed since the failure

of the latest ceasefire plan yesterday and more than 100

Palestinians, according to the Health Ministry - mainly in Rafah.

Our correspondent Martin Patience reports now from Gaza.

The nightmare continues. Among Israel's targets was Gaza's Islamic

University. Officials say 40 homes and three mosques were also hit. As

the sun rose, the scale of destruction was revealed. More

buildings bombed, more lives ruined. They began the morning's search for

survivors among the rubble. This man says three children and their

parents were killed in an Israeli air strike. It is external and a, he

says. Israel says it does not target civilians and was bombing what it

calls terrorist infrastructure. Most of the the past 24 hours has

happened in the southern town of Rafah, and Palestinian officials say

dozens of civilians were killed in the fighting after how mass captured

an Israeli soldier. Israeli troops are still searching for the missing

soldier, but Hamer says they don't know where he is and it is likely he

was killed in an Israeli air strike along with its fighters. The Israeli

military has reportedly said it is close to finishing its operation

here, but for Palestinians in Gaza, the conflict grinds on.

Tens of thousands of pounds have been raised for

a surrogate baby who was abandoned by an Australian couple when they

The baby was born to a woman in Thailand,

but he has a heart condition and needs urgent medical treatment.

The Australian couple took his healthy twin sister home.

Born with Down's syndrome and a life-threatening heart condition, he

is in the care of his surrogates mother, who lives south of Bangkok.

She was paid to carry twins by an Australian couple. They rejected him

and returned home with his help the system. TRANSLATION: Because of our

poverty and debt, that money was a lot for us. The money would have

paid to educate my older children. Online donations and help from

charities should ensure he received a medical attention he urgently

needs. His surrogates mother cannot understand why his Australian

parents have deserted him. TRANSLATION: I felt sorry for the

boy. Why did he have to be abandoned when the other kid has it easy. I

love him. I love him as if he was my own child. Surrogacy groups in

Australia say they are outraged baby has been separated from his twin and

abandoned. The Australian couple are unknown and their side of the story

has yet to heard. President Obama has admitted that

suspected terrorists were tortured in America after

the September 11th attacks in 2001. The Central Intelligence Agency is

preparing to release a report The President has urged Americans

not to condemn security officials, saying they were under enormous

pressure at the time. Britain has become the latest

country to temporarily close its embassy in Libya because of concerns

about escalating fighting between More than 200 people have been

killed in Tripoli and Benghazi The Foreign Office said operations

would be suspended from Monday. Gatwick Airport says it's business

as usual today, saying extra staff have eased the baggage handling

problems which afflicted passengers last weekend. A spokesman said early

indications showed all flights had so far met the time targets for

returning luggage to the baggage claim area.

The largest number of gold medals is up for grabs

at the Commonwealth Games, on the penultimate day of the event.

Northern Ireland has a chance of winning its first gold

in the boxing, which will also feature the Olympic

There's action too in the diving competition,

and for more on that, live to Edinburgh and our correspondent

Yes, as you say, today is the day for Olympic superstars. Usain Bolt

will be back to run in the final of the four times 100 metres. Nick

Aladdin is fighting the gold in the boxing, and in Edinburgh right now

Tom Daley is an action, taking part in the preliminary rounds of the ten

metre platform. That decides the order in which the divers will go

into night's finals. We've just seen his first died. But there was a bit

of a splash when he entered the water, so I imagine he will be

looking for more success in the coming guides. When he takes part

tonight, he will be defending the Commonwealth title that he won in

Delhi in 2010. And of course this is the event in which he won the

Olympic bronze medal in London 2012. So, as usual, all eyes will be on

Tom Daley in the diving pool. Good news for the home nations women, all

four of them qualify for the finals of the three metres springboard.

Those medals will be contested at around 6pm this evening before Tom

Daley rounds of the day's action, going for gold to go with the silver

he won here yesterday. You can see more on all of today's

stories on the BBC News Channel. The next news on BBC One is at

5.20pm this afternoon - bye for now. It is fairly mixed across the UK, we

have got low-pressure weather is this weekend. It is taking the main

area of rain northwards. You can see this weather front is producing some

showers and will continue to do so, but moving fairly quickly, so a bit

of sunshine behind. The cloud is bigger further north, so some heavy

and persistent rain affecting