For pushing one man onto the tracks of the London Underground and trying to do the same to another. The uks first gambling addiction clinic for young people is to be opened by nhs england its thought more than 50,000 children have a problem. And, ahead of his return to the glastonbury stage, former 0asis frontman Liam Gallagher talks to the bbc about politics and fears his children could fall victim to knife crime. Ive got kids that are that age, you know what i mean . Out and about, going and doing their thing, you know what i mean . Living, being young and all that type of. So that freaks me right out. Good afternoon. The tory leadership race has become more personal, withjeremy hunt urging rival borisjohnson not to be a coward about facing public scrutiny. He said that mrjohnson should man up and debate with him on tv before most conservative members vote. It comes as sky news announced it was cancelling a planned debate for tomorrow, because mr johnson had declined to take part. Me
Surf is up. Hello and welcome to todays verified live. Downing street has described as unacceptable remarks alleged to have been made by one of the Conservative Partys biggest donors about the mp diane abbott. The guardian reports that during a Business Meeting in 2019, frank hester said diane abbott made him want to hate all black women and that she should be shot. Mr hester has admitted making comments about her which he described as rude. Mr hester has issued a statement saying that at the meeting in question, he said he abhorred racism. Diane abbott has also released a statement responding to his alleged comments. She said. Government ministers have faced questions from the media and they called his comments unacceptable but stopped short of calling them racist. Well, its clear that what he said was inappropriate. He has, as i understand it, apologised for those remarks. I think the Critical Point here is i dont think what he was saying was a gender based or a race based comment, b
We start with a Special Report from gaza where medical staff have told the bbc they were detained, beaten and prevented from carrying out vital duties after a raid at their hospital last month. Theyve said, that some detainees were stripped, kept in Stress Positions for several hours, or had muzzled dogs set upon them. Israel said, it occupied the Nasser Hospital site believing it was used by hamas and that severalfreed israeli hostages have said, they were held there. You might find some parts of this report by wyre davies distressing. Not for the first time in this war, Israeli Soldiers have been filmed standing over stripped and kneeling detainees in gaza. But these are medical staff, detained after the israeli army overran the Nasser Hospital in khan yunis. Most of them are still held captive. For weeks, the medics had witnessed israels military advance closing in around their hospital. The fighting in khan younis was fierce. Thousands of people whod sought refuge in the grounds, f
A brighter day for you, with sunny spells. A few showers, but very windy across the far north east and into the northern isles, where it will be quite chilly for lerwick. For wednesday, will be quite chilly for lerwick. Forwednesday, not will be quite chilly for lerwick. For wednesday, not a bad day stop we will start to see some sunshine around. Some may stand murkiness and western areas, with some trend in the south east, after 2a degrees. Low 20s further north. It will turn increasingly humid. Towards the end of the week we start to tap into some warmth in the near continent. It will be turning dry and warm for many of us. This is a short lived speu many of us. This is a short lived spell of warm weather. See temperatures up to the mid 20s across scotland, may be the high 20s for england and wales. Good spells of sunshine. It doesnt last long, low pressure out in the atlantic starts to sweep in during friday and that will bring showers and longer spells of rain to northern and weste