good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. six new claims of inappropriate behaviour by the former deputy chief whip chris pincher have emerged, days after he was suspended as a tory mp over allegations he groped two men. mr pincher denies the latest claims, which are reported in several sunday newspapers. borisjohnson is facing questions about how much he knew when he appointed the mp as the deputy chief whip in february. here s our political correspondent helen catt. it was what it s claimed happened on an evening of drinking here at london s carlton club that led to chris pincher s resignation from the government on thursday night and later his suspension as a conservative mp. in today s papers, there are more claims, denied by mr pincher, of incidents at other locations, stretching back a number of years. among them, that he made unwanted physical advances towards three male mps, including once in a parliamentary bar and once in his office. one of those mps, it s reported, t
an adviser to prime minister benjamin netanyahu told the bbc that israel was making the maximum effort to avoid killing civilians. israel has been dropping leaflets with maps, showing gazans the areas it plans to strike. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams explains why that often isn t protecting civilians. this has been a problem throughout the past two months. israel believes and says it is giving as much notice as it possibly can to the civilian population to leave certain areas where the fighting is most concentrated. they believe these new maps, with this detailed grid, numbered grid, should help that process because they are saying to people in certain numbered areas, these are the areas you have to leave. the trouble is people don t know where they should leave to. israel is also hitting targets outside of those demarcated areas. anything that the israelis regard as a high value target where hamas might have some of its infrastructure or where acre hamas commande
Oi its later. That usually means four or five days later. This is a bank holiday weekend, a major holiday weekend. My heart goes out to everybody, but i am afraid they are stuck with it. A huge disappointment. Thank you. Thank you forjoining us, it would be great to hear from British Airways, we would be glad to hear from you lets take a look at the Weather Forecast with stav. Although many southern and south eastern areas have enjoyed a fine afternoon, different story further north, Northern England seeing Flash Flooding and thunderstorms. Those storms will continue to move into central southern scotland, tending to peter out overnight, a legacy of cloud and rainfor out overnight, a Legacy Of Cloud And Rain For Northern and western scotland. Further south, a dry night with clear spells, fresher than recently. Into sunday, the northern half of the country will hang on to the cloud, cloudy all day, feeling cooler. Central and southern areas will see warm sunshine, across the south more
this is bbc news. the headlines at apm: six new claims of inappropriate behaviour by former deputy chief whip chris pincher have emerged, days after he was suspended as a tory mp after allegations he groped two men. russia says it now controls the whole of the luhansk region in eastern ukraine, but ukrainian officials say they can t confirm the reports. thousands of residents in australia s largest city sydney have been ordered to evacuate their homes after torrential rain and flash flooding. the influential british theatre director peter brook, whose career ranged from radical interpretations of shakespeare to broadway musicals, has died at the age of 97. and coming up at a30, the bbc s sophie long spends three weeks at a family planning service in arkansas, looking at the supreme court s abortion ruling.