i don t know about you, but this how i spent my time growing up. while lara was out with friends, i was exploring the universe in my cobra mk iii spacecraft. excuse me, i was a pretty good bmxer in my time. still can t ride an actual bike that well, but as long as i was steering with a keyboard i was a totally rad rider. 0fficial terminology, there, i m sure. definitely. 0k. look, gaming became really important to a whole generation in the 1980s, and although we re now no longer kids, many of us are still playing, which is why games can afford to be big budget blockbusters, and last year the uk games market was worth more than £7 billion. another result of the amount of time that video gaming has been around is the way it s permeated into other areas of our lives. yes, and equally it s started to draw on and draw in other parts of our culture and that includes music. prodigy s firestarter plays. the first time i realised that games decided to take their music scores seriou
she promised her little boy she d do to try to save him. i m the proudest mum in the world. such a beautiful little boy and he fought right until the very end. also tonight. 2a palestinians have died in israeli air strikes on the gaza strip, including six children. israel says it s targeting the militant group islamichhad. and it was a diving one two three at the commonwealth games for england. good evening. archie battersbee, the 12 year old boy at the centre of a legal battle over his care while lying unconscious in hospital, has died. his life sustaining treatment was withdrawn earlier today. archie s mother, hollie dance, described him as a beautiful little boy, adding that she was the proudest mum in the world. it brings to an end a stand off between doctors who said archie was brain stem dead and his parents who wanted his treatment to continue. our correspondent simon jones has the details. saying their final farewells these pictures were released by archie s f
families there before the volcanic eruption. hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. this is bbc news. 2a people are now known to have died in israeli air strikes on the gaza strip, including six children. israel says it s targeting the palestinian militant group, islamichhad, which in response has fired more than 300 rockets. yolande knell has the latest from jerusalem. explosion the full force of israel s new military operation in gaza. this building hitjust minutes after a warning strike. palestinians racing away. a year of relative calm now shattered. this is where one of the first israeli air strikes killed an islamichhad commander, leaving his neighbour in shock. we were safe in our home. we were thrown out of it by the bomb , says maryam. why didn t they warn us? tonight, islamichhad fired heavy barrages of rockets in revenge, it said, for its leader s death. most were intercepted by israeli air defences. but earlier, a missile hit th
this is bbc news, with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. 2a palestinians have died in israeli air strikes on the gaza strip. israel says its targeting the militant group, islamichhad. the head of the un nuclear watchdog says he s increasingly concerned for the safety of europe s largest nuclear power plant which is occupied by russia in southern ukraine. archie battersbee, the 12 year old who had been at the centre of a legal battle between his parents and doctors, has died. 12 people are killed after a bus carrying pilgims to a catholic shrine veers off a road in northern croatia. a glimpse into life in pompeii archeologists discover new rooms in a house there shedding new light on the lives
we ve seen taiwanese naval vessels going out and shadowing the chinese ships, but not challenging them. taiwan is basically doing everything it can do not escalate this crisis and make it more dangerous. analysts say that is the right thing to do, but it has a big downside for taiwan, in that it is allowing china to set new baselines. for example, it was very possible now that, on thursday, china did fire ballistic missiles over the top of the island into the pacific ocean. that s certainly what china is claiming, and it seems that s also what the japanese defenc ministry thinks happened. china has never done anything like that before, and yet here in taiwan, they are saying nothing. that is allowing china to normalise the sort of military pressure on the island that, in the past, would have been seen as extremely provocative. the headlines on bbc news. 2a palestinians have died in israeli air strikes on the gaza strip. israel says its targeting