convoy of ships. warnings that millions of children in england could go hungry this summer because councils have reduced or scrapped free school meal vouchers over the holidays. french officials trying to rescue a beluga whale trapped in the river seine come up with a new strategy to free it find out how they plan to return it back to sea. and 72 artefacts forcibly removed from benin city during a british military incursion in 1897 will be returned to nigeria by a london museum. good afternoon. hopes are high of a truce between israel and gaza after three days of violence that s reported to have killed dozens of people. eygyptian mediators are understood to have brokered a truce that s due to start at around 10pm, although the details aren t yet clear. at least 31 palestinians, including children, have reportedly been killed since friday, while israel says around 600 palestinian rockets have been fired over the border. from jerusalem, our middle east correspondent, yolande
writers there. england are gunning for a first ever gold in the women s hockey. they re taking on the australia s hockeyroos at the university of birmingham. england needed a penalty shootout to beat new zealand in the semifinals but australia did too to get past india. currently in the first quarter. just coming towards the end of the first quarter. still no goals in that one. 16 boxing finals today. 15 involving home nations fighters. wales rosie eccles became only the second welsh woman to win commonwealth boxing gold after she won the light middlewight title. the 26 year old beat australia s kaye scott, forcing two standing counts with the referee calling it a day in the second round. i can t believe it, if i m honest. i thought i deserved it and i delivered that 3 to split. ijust thought, i don t want it to be the judges. the best advice from my
i m glad you re with us. i m randi kaye. some reaction after republican presidential hopeful mitt romney picked paul ryan to be his running mate. our political analyst acosta takes us on the road for a view of what they re calling amera s comeback team. reporter: mitt romney descended from the battle ship uss wisconsin to call for a campaign of republican arms. we take another step in helping to restore the promise of america. reporter: and there s no bigger gun in the conservative movement than the gop s vice-presidential candidate congressman paul ryan. wow. hey! and right in front of the uss wisconsin, huh? reporter: his persona is fiscal nice delivered a message right out of train gospel. we won t duck the issues, we will lead. we won t blame others. we will take responsibility. reporter: romney campaign officials say the gop contender made his decision and called ryan on august 1st, one day after he returned from his overseas trip. the two men then met