:00:00. > :00:13.At least 15 people are killed including United Nations staff.
:00:14. > :00:17.The Secretary General condemns the attack, but falls short of laying
:00:18. > :00:28.Hamas leader, Khaled Meshaal, tells the BBC what it would take for
:00:29. > :00:43.We want a cease-fire as soon as possible.
:00:44. > :00:46.An Algerian passenger plane with more than 100 passengers and crew
:00:47. > :00:49.on board is believed to have crashed in the Sahara desert.
:00:50. > :00:52.A week since flight MH17 was shot down, the
:00:53. > :00:55.site in Ukraine is still not secure because of fighting in the area.
:00:56. > :00:58.And the epic journey from the middle of the Atlantic to Scotland.
:00:59. > :01:01.We follow the team of St Helena who are competing
:01:02. > :01:22.Officials in Gaza say 15 people have been killed, more than 200 injured,
:01:23. > :01:25.after a strike on a school which had been turned into a
:01:26. > :01:30.It was being used by Gazans forced by
:01:31. > :01:41.The head of the UN Relief Agency on the ground said it was
:01:42. > :01:45.the fourth time in four days that Israel had hit a UN compound and UN
:01:46. > :01:49.So far at least 736 Palestinians have died since the start
:01:50. > :01:52.During that time, 34 Israelis have been killed - among
:01:53. > :02:01.The Gaza Strip is 30 miles long and just seven miles wide.
:02:02. > :02:04.The UN says Israel's military has designated nearly half
:02:05. > :02:09.of it a "no-go zone" and told residents to leave.
:02:10. > :02:18.Today's strike on the compound happened in Beit Hanoun.
:02:19. > :02:22.In a moment, we will hear from one of the Hamas leaders and a spokesman
:02:23. > :02:24.for the Israeli government, but first our correspondent sent
:02:25. > :02:43.Angry, distraught and beyond consolation. These women and the
:02:44. > :02:49.little children had fled the fighting from their homes in
:02:50. > :02:59.northern Gaza and taking shelter in a UN school. It's too was caught up
:03:00. > :03:08.in the bloody violence. TRANSLATION: The Israelis hit us in the school.
:03:09. > :03:18.The dead and wounded were brought here to hospital. 100 are entered.
:03:19. > :03:26.Many people have been killed. They are children, young children. Then,
:03:27. > :03:32.while we are filming, an Israeli tank shell explodes just outside the
:03:33. > :03:37.hospital gates. Once again, that is panic. The front line of the
:03:38. > :03:41.conflict reaches even hear. Nearby, this school is deserted. As
:03:42. > :03:45.conflict reaches even hear. Nearby, away, people left their belongings
:03:46. > :03:50.behind. There are bloodstains and pieces of shrapnel. This was
:03:51. > :03:54.supposed to be a place of safety. But nowhere in Gaza is safe
:03:55. > :03:57.nowadays. The school took a direct hit. This is how the same school
:03:58. > :04:01.that when the BBC visited a few days hit. This is how the same school
:04:02. > :04:12.ago. It was full of families. Know hit. This is how the same school
:04:13. > :04:21.to be fired upon. That was a designated emergency shelter. It was
:04:22. > :04:29.well-known. It is outrageous and shocking. Survivors of the school
:04:30. > :04:34.explosion now find themselves displaced yet to get on. We find
:04:35. > :04:38.many here in a corridor in the hospital. They are small fraction of
:04:39. > :04:55.the tens of thousands left homeless by the ongoing conflict.
:04:56. > :05:04.What would it take for how Mars to sign onto a cease-fire now?
:05:05. > :05:13.TRANSLATION: We want a cease-fire as soon as possible. That includes a
:05:14. > :05:20.listing of the siege on Gaza. I call on the United Nations to go to Gaza
:05:21. > :05:25.and ask them what they want. I am prepared to accept 100% the answer
:05:26. > :05:30.of the people in Gaza. What the Americans seem to be working on is a
:05:31. > :05:34.two stage deal, where there will be a close and the violence will stop.
:05:35. > :05:46.Then there will be a serious negotiation about how to boost the
:05:47. > :05:55.garrison economy -- the economy of Gaza. Are you prepared to accept
:05:56. > :06:00.that? TRANSLATION: Irrespective of the mechanism, we must lift the
:06:01. > :06:07.siege on Gaza. We have had promises in the past, but nothing was done.
:06:08. > :06:12.Gaza is a part of the Palestinian land. 1.8 million people live there.
:06:13. > :06:17.They need to live without a blockade. They need a port and an
:06:18. > :06:24.airport. The need to open up to the world. This is the biggest prison in
:06:25. > :06:31.the world. They cannot get medical treatment. Why are the people being
:06:32. > :06:40.punished? This is a crime. We want an end to this siege. We will accept
:06:41. > :06:44.clear up clause is about a cease-fire. We are eager that the
:06:45. > :06:51.bloodshed should stop. You talk of resistance. How can any idea of
:06:52. > :07:02.resistance justify putting rockets in a school building? TRANSLATION:
:07:03. > :07:09.This is a lie, frankly. With respect, this is not something which
:07:10. > :07:15.has come from Israel. This is the UN aid relief agency who are saying
:07:16. > :07:20.that up to 20 rockets were deposited in a school building inside Gaza.
:07:21. > :07:23.They are furious. The Secretary-General of the United
:07:24. > :07:28.Nations has expressed his outrage. He has said those responsible are
:07:29. > :07:33.turning schools into potential military targets and endangering the
:07:34. > :07:37.lives of innocent children. TRANSLATION: This is not true.
:07:38. > :07:45.Rocket launches belong to the resistance. They are underground.
:07:46. > :07:56.Israel is hitting hospitals, mosques, towers and buildings. It
:07:57. > :08:04.committed massacre. The world has witnessed another massacre. This is
:08:05. > :08:14.a butchery in Gaza. The world is sitting idle and it blames how Mars.
:08:15. > :08:19.-- Hamas. More now on the deaths of
:08:20. > :08:22.at least 15 people after One of the UN's spokesman in Gaza
:08:23. > :08:27.said the Israeli military were aware that civilians were sheltering
:08:28. > :08:32.in the UN run school that was hit. The Israelis were formally passed
:08:33. > :08:37.the precise coordinates of the school, just as they have the
:08:38. > :08:40.precise coordinates of all of our installations in Gaza. We have spent
:08:41. > :08:47.the day trying to arrange a window of opportunity so that civilians,
:08:48. > :08:49.women and children, men who are not part of the conflict, could be
:08:50. > :08:50.evacuated. We're joined now from Jerusalem
:08:51. > :09:05.by the Israeli government Thank you for joining us. Firstly,
:09:06. > :09:11.the question must be, would you accept or perhaps deny that this
:09:12. > :09:16.strike was an Israeli strike? Well, to be brutally honest, we don't know
:09:17. > :09:22.yet. Their investigation is still ongoing. We will get to the bottom
:09:23. > :09:31.of it. It is a difficult conflict situation. Earlier on Twitter it
:09:32. > :09:38.said that Hamas rockets were following in that area, so we cannot
:09:39. > :09:44.rule that out, but we also cannot rule out that it was errant Israeli
:09:45. > :09:51.fire. Given the degree to which you can talk about precision targeting,
:09:52. > :10:02.you must surely know where your rockets are following? Yes, but in a
:10:03. > :10:11.conflict situation the make the -- there might be an exchange of fire.
:10:12. > :10:17.Original reports are saying that there was an exchange of fire. We
:10:18. > :10:20.have been urging people to leave. There was a special humanitarian
:10:21. > :10:28.corridor established to allow people to leave. We have information to
:10:29. > :10:33.suggest that Hamas forced people to stay. It is possible there was a
:10:34. > :10:41.situation of some sort of firefight with our forces. It could have been
:10:42. > :10:49.Israeli fire. It would be a grave mistake and something which we do
:10:50. > :10:57.not want to see. Robert Turner is saying four Israeli hits on four UN
:10:58. > :11:00.site in four days. One is bound to come to the suspicion that you know
:11:01. > :11:07.what you're doing and you know what you're getting. The head of Hamas
:11:08. > :11:13.was denying that rockets were being placed on these buildings, would you
:11:14. > :11:21.consider that a legitimate military target if they were using rocket
:11:22. > :11:26.launchers on those sites? The Secretary-General himself says, when
:11:27. > :11:30.they put rockets and their war machine inside UN facilities, they
:11:31. > :11:34.are endangering the lives of innocent civilians. That has to be
:11:35. > :11:40.condemned. It has been condemned by the Secretary-General and he has
:11:41. > :11:50.ordered an investigation as to how it is that UN institutions are being
:11:51. > :11:54.turned into war zones. You would accept those as military targets?
:11:55. > :12:00.That is not correct. In this situation, we ask people to leave.
:12:01. > :12:04.It could have been errant fire, we are not sure. We do not target
:12:05. > :12:14.civilians, I want to be clear on that. There is a public message that
:12:15. > :12:19.Hamas wants to accuse us of terrible things. If the UN had not itself
:12:20. > :12:24.said there was Hamas fire falling on that area, I would be accused of
:12:25. > :12:33.issuing propaganda. But when the UN says there is Hamas fire following
:12:34. > :12:36.on this area, let's be clear. Points taken. Thank you.
:12:37. > :12:39.Aviation officials in Algeria say an Air Algeria flight has crashed.
:12:40. > :12:41.150 people were on board, 50 of them French citizens.
:12:42. > :12:46.The plane was flying from Ouagadougou Airport in Burkina Faso
:12:47. > :12:49.But the French Government said the plane disappeared from radar
:12:50. > :12:57.over eastern Mali, in an area to the north of the city of Gao.
:12:58. > :13:02.Our correspondent Alex Duval Smith joins us from the capital Bamako.
:13:03. > :13:11.Do we have any clear indication of precisely through this plane is? For
:13:12. > :13:15.the first time, we have reports of wreckage having been spotted. What
:13:16. > :13:21.is confusing is that they are coming from different sources and giving
:13:22. > :13:33.different locations. The president of Mali has called for a minutes
:13:34. > :13:41.silence. A group of editors were informed that wreckage had been
:13:42. > :13:50.found near the town of Gao. There are reports that wreckage has been
:13:51. > :13:56.found much further north. So not possible that it could be the same
:13:57. > :14:01.explosion. Very far north. So, yes, I think it is beginning to look like
:14:02. > :14:02.wreckage has been found, it is just that we need to know where the
:14:03. > :14:08.location is. Thank you. More than 50 French citizens were
:14:09. > :14:11.on board the Algerian Plane. French jet fighters are helping
:14:12. > :14:18.to search for the plane. Hugh Schofield joins us now
:14:19. > :14:21.from Paris. Obviously, traumatic for France,
:14:22. > :14:30.given the numbers of passengers involved. Do we have a clear idea of
:14:31. > :14:32.who these people were? Well, we know there were 51 French nationals on
:14:33. > :14:35.board. there were 51 French nationals on
:14:36. > :14:38.They could be nationals with relatives from Burkina Faso. They
:14:39. > :14:45.could be people who are working out there. People on holiday. We really
:14:46. > :14:50.don't know. Many other people who were not French nationals but were
:14:51. > :14:56.coming to France as this flight was to connect in Algiers with other
:14:57. > :15:05.flights on to France. Was here in Paris and in other French cities,
:15:06. > :15:11.there are psychological units to help and comfort worried families.
:15:12. > :15:17.Connecting flights were to have arrived this afternoon. Thank you.
:15:18. > :15:20.The European Union has agreed to increase its sanctions
:15:21. > :15:23.against Russia in response to the crisis in Ukraine.
:15:24. > :15:27.The EU says it will now hit people and companies that support
:15:28. > :15:39.Two more military aircraft carrying the remains of victims of
:15:40. > :15:41.Malaysia Airlines flight 17 have landed in the Netherlands.
:15:42. > :15:43.The Australian and Dutch planes arrived in Eindhoven.
:15:44. > :15:47.298 people were killed in last week's crash, 194 of them Dutch.
:15:48. > :15:49.Meanwhile, it's emerged that the crash site of
:15:50. > :15:52.Flight MH17 has yet to be secured a week after the plane was shot down.
:15:53. > :16:04.Tim Willcox is in Kharkiv in eastern Ukraine for us.
:16:05. > :16:16.A week to the day since the flight was shot out of the sky and still
:16:17. > :16:21.the crash site has not been sealed. Anyone can walk through there and
:16:22. > :16:31.wreckage could be tampered with. Growing international concerns about
:16:32. > :16:38.that. 50 Australian police officers have been dispatched to London, with
:16:39. > :16:44.they hope an international force can be created.
:16:45. > :16:48.When we arrived, there were no guards, no workers, the wreckage
:16:49. > :16:56.still spread from miles. The smell of human remains. These left behind
:16:57. > :16:56.by emergency workers, civilian volunteers
:16:57. > :17:10.of human remains. These left behind by emergency and the militia. A
:17:11. > :17:13.place open to any who passed by. For all the outrage expressed by the
:17:14. > :17:18.international community, it has seemed powerless to ensure this site
:17:19. > :17:24.is properly detected or due respect is shown to the remains of the dead.
:17:25. > :17:26.With the war escalating, it becomes ever more difficult to ensure that
:17:27. > :17:30.as a credible investigation. Australia has offered to send police
:17:31. > :17:32.to protect investigators, who are waiting
:17:33. > :17:34.in government-held territory. And then, at mid-morning,
:17:35. > :17:37.a sight so familiar in war zones, those who will cross any front line
:17:38. > :17:41.for the sake of humanity. The International Red Cross
:17:42. > :17:45.arrived with a clear mission. Our role here is to just,
:17:46. > :17:48.as I mentioned, to ensure the dignity of
:17:49. > :17:52.the dead, the dignified management of the dead and the fulfilment
:17:53. > :17:57.of the rights of the families. But fighting is still going
:17:58. > :18:05.on nearby. Just 35 kilometres away,
:18:06. > :18:08.rebels used missiles to bring down All talk of investigations
:18:09. > :18:16.and recovery efforts must be seen A major challenge for European
:18:17. > :18:22.observers who have been the most Is anybody in control?
:18:23. > :18:29.I can't comment on this. It speaks for itself, doesn't it?
:18:30. > :18:35.It looks like that, doesn't it? In the capital, Donetsk,
:18:36. > :18:38.where observers are based, Here, looking for help from rebel
:18:39. > :18:50.officials to escape the fighting. We heard a whistling noise
:18:51. > :18:52.and then someone said get down, I lay on my child to protect him,
:18:53. > :18:58.and the blast lifted us In the hands pressed to windows
:18:59. > :19:22.of buses taking refugees to Russia Tim, as if all this isn't chaotic
:19:23. > :19:29.enough, the government in Kiev is resigning, what impact will this
:19:30. > :19:34.have? It will create even more uncertainty. The prime minister
:19:35. > :19:38.resigned today, there have been scuffles in Parliament, brawls over
:19:39. > :19:42.the last few weeks and months, but he resigned because he asked the
:19:43. > :19:46.parliament to approve certain green laws to improve energy supplies to
:19:47. > :19:50.try and fix this financial mess the country is in, and you wanted extra
:19:51. > :19:54.funding for the Army, given the fighting in the east of the country.
:19:55. > :19:59.Parliament refused to do this, the coalition fell apart and it means
:20:00. > :20:02.that there would have to be a new election. It could be a ploy to get
:20:03. > :20:06.rid of some of the people in the parliament, the people he does not
:20:07. > :20:13.ready what on his side, but it is a risk for the country and for the
:20:14. > :20:19.president also, and it adds to the chaos here. Thank you.
:20:20. > :20:22.Now a look at some of the days other news.
:20:23. > :20:24.The Sudanese woman sentenced to death on contested charges
:20:25. > :20:26.of renouncing Islam has arrived in Rome with her family.
:20:27. > :20:28.Meriam Yahia Ibrahim has since met Pope Francis,
:20:29. > :20:31.who said her perseverance had been a testimony of her Christian faith.
:20:32. > :20:33.A Taiwanese airline, TransAsia Airways, has said bad weather caused
:20:34. > :20:36.the crash of a domestic flight on Wednesday, despite claims by the
:20:37. > :20:40.48 people died when the plane crashed
:20:41. > :20:43.as it tried to land for the second time in heavy rain on the island of
:20:44. > :20:51.A Liberian man in his 40s is being tested for
:20:52. > :20:54.the deadly Ebola virus in Nigeria's commercial capital of Lagos.
:20:55. > :20:57.Ebola has killed 632 people across Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone
:20:58. > :21:02.since an outbreak began in February, straining a string of weak health
:21:03. > :21:11.The European Court of Human Rights has ruled that Poland violated
:21:12. > :21:13.the human rights of two Al Qaeda suspects by allowing
:21:14. > :21:16.the CIA to detain, interrogate and torture them on Polish territory.
:21:17. > :21:20.The Saudi-born Palestinian and Saudi national, who are now being held
:21:21. > :21:35.in Guantanamo Bay, will each get 135,000 dollars in compensation.
:21:36. > :21:37.The Commonwealth Games in the Scottish city
:21:38. > :21:39.of Glasgow are well underway now, with some 4,000 sportsmen
:21:40. > :21:41.and women from 71 countries and territories competing.
:21:42. > :21:46.BBC Sport's Nick Marshall McCormack is in Glasgow, he joins us now,
:21:47. > :21:54.what are the highlights of day one?
:21:55. > :22:08.The sunshine is shining for another day in Glasgow and those medals are
:22:09. > :22:10.glimmering around the neck of those victorious. It started a Strathclyde
:22:11. > :22:14.park this morning with the women's triathlon and that was won by Jodie
:22:15. > :22:17.Stimpson. She beat the Canadian athlete. Vicky Holland from England
:22:18. > :22:25.took bronze. In the men's triathlon, it was the Bramley brothers and
:22:26. > :22:30.their battle from the 2012 Olympics. It was the Alistair Brownlee and
:22:31. > :22:36.Jonny Brownlee battle. He beat Johnny who took silver. In the
:22:37. > :22:40.velodrome, all of the action on Thursday afternoon, it has been loud
:22:41. > :22:44.and raucous and Anna Mears, the Australian, she broke the
:22:45. > :22:49.Commonwealth records to take the gold medal. She has won that event
:22:50. > :22:52.at the last Commonwealth Games. Stefanie Morton from Australia took
:22:53. > :23:06.silver, Jessica Boenisch from England took the bronze. -- Jessica
:23:07. > :23:14.varnish. In the women's para sport, Sophie Thornhill took the gold medal
:23:15. > :23:19.from Scotland. Brandy O'Connor took the bronze model. That is the medal
:23:20. > :23:24.tally so far today on Thursday, David. The bad news for the
:23:25. > :23:29.organisers is that Mo Farah, the Olympic and world champion in the
:23:30. > :23:32.5000 metres and 10,000 metres, he pulled out because of injury. That
:23:33. > :23:38.was bad news for the organisers who were touting him as one of the big
:23:39. > :23:42.draws in these games. But there are so many more inspiring stories that
:23:43. > :23:46.will bring us highlights during these games, including the team from
:23:47. > :23:48.St Helena, whose journey to get to Glasgow is like no other, as Alex
:23:49. > :23:52.South reports. Getting from St Helena to Glasgow
:23:53. > :23:54.isn't simple. We leave the island on the 11th
:23:55. > :23:57.of July, we get to Cape Town on the 16th and then from there we
:23:58. > :24:01.fly from Cape Town to Amsterdam, A Royal Mail ship, two flights,
:24:02. > :24:05.8,500 miles An incredible journey
:24:06. > :24:13.and one not for the faint of heart. It's the only way to fulfil
:24:14. > :24:19.the team's Commonwealth Games dream, will not be completed for another
:24:20. > :24:25.two years. Is this your first trip away from
:24:26. > :24:28.St Helena? No, I've been away a few times,
:24:29. > :24:30.two previous games The party of eight did all
:24:31. > :24:38.they could to stave off the boredom by
:24:39. > :24:40.making a video documentary, playing games and even having a night out,
:24:41. > :24:47.or should that be a night in?! Not the best preparation
:24:48. > :24:50.for a major sporting event, In a few hours time, we will dock in
:24:51. > :24:58.Cape Town, so we will see you all in Finally, on dry land,
:24:59. > :25:08.and a typical Scottish welcome It is horrible to think it,
:25:09. > :25:15.but in less than two week's time, they will have to start that
:25:16. > :25:19.lengthy journey all over again. The team are now safely inside the
:25:20. > :25:22.athletes village, it is the sixth time that St Helena have actually
:25:23. > :25:26.been to the Commonwealth Games and they haven't yet won a medal, but
:25:27. > :25:30.surely, everyone agrees, after their epic journey,
:25:31. > :25:46.they definitely deserve one now. One of so many lovely stories to
:25:47. > :25:50.bring from the Commonwealth Games, but it helps when the host nation
:25:51. > :25:58.has a moment to savour, what are they got to look forward to? Michael
:25:59. > :26:01.Jamieson, he is about to dive off the blocks into the water for the
:26:02. > :26:06.200 meter breaststroke final, he wasn't the fastest in the heats this
:26:07. > :26:11.morning, and in the semifinals, he was beaten by Ross Murdock, its
:26:12. > :26:13.compatriots. He is worried about him. Michael Jamieson has been
:26:14. > :26:21.second to him a few times, and murder occurs been faster. Alan Tate
:26:22. > :26:24.came third. It is a big night for the Scottish tonight, it would be
:26:25. > :26:30.raucous and loud. Some breaking news, Hannah Miley from Scotland,
:26:31. > :26:34.she has won the gold medal in the 400 metres individual medley and she
:26:35. > :26:40.just came ahead of Amy Wilmott England in that race. Back the
:26:41. > :26:45.studio. Thank you. That is it from us this evening, the weather coming
:26:46. > :26:55.up shortly, but from me and the team, goodbye.
:26:56. > :27:02.Hello, from the heat of the new Forest to the mountains of
:27:03. > :27:08.Sutherland, temperatures reaching the high 20s once again today. It
:27:09. > :27:12.will happen again tomorrow. Similar areas with similar temperatures.
:27:13. > :27:14.Nothing much to shift the pattern at the moment. Low pressure in the
:27:15. > :27:15.Atlantic will have