Vaccinating some babies against polio, a day before a mass immunisation programme is due to begin. Palestinian health workers carried out the vaccinations in nasser hospital in khan younis. Unicef says the vaccinations will take place for six and a half hours every day until wednesday. Israel and hamas have agreed to three localised pauses in fighting to enable the vaccination of more than 600,000 palestinian children. With more from jerusalem here s our correspondent, jon donnison. The official polio vaccination campaign doesn t start until sunday morning. It is being coordinated by the united nations but we do understand that the first babies have been vaccinated today in khan younis in the south of gaza. What it s going to involve and get under way as a series of threeday, area specific pauses in fighting that both israel and hamas have agreed to. The key words there are area specific, so we re not talking about the formal ceasefire that diplomats have been pushing for weeks and mo
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But the final test at least gives them the opportunity to end the tour on a high. Theyve made one change for the match in daramsala, mark wood coming in for ollie robinson. Heres our sports correspondentjoe wilson. Seven weeks on tour, and england find themselves at the summit of the cricketing world. Topographically. The territory of daramsala offers all sorts of different perspectives. Some met the speeches spiritual leader of buddhism. We expect the dalai lama remains neutral. Englands captain has his perspective on that. I think thats not. I look at it differently with completely different angles. I think weve definitely progressed as a team. Although weve not got the results we wanted. But you know, 3 2 sounds better than 3 1 or 4 1. We look to win every game we go about and play. Its not worked out that way in terms of results, but weve got one last push here. India always is tough when you play five games. Weve got one last big push here. Yeah, theyre excited for this week. For
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following claims she requested a private speed awareness course to avoid points on her driving licence after she was caught speeding last summer. and a woman from saudi arabia will make history later when she blasts off from florida to spend 10 days on board the international space station. now on bbc news, it s time for sportsday. hello, and welcome to sportsday this sunday night coming up on the programme. celebrations at the etihad stadium as manchester city are crowned champions of england again. on the brink of relegation leeds lose at west ham to leave their premier league fate hanging by a thread. all the players need to do is roll their sleeves up and try and beat tottenham and have the other results go in ourfavour. late drama at ibrox as glasgow city dramatically snatch the swpl title from celtic in the dying seconds. also coming up on the programme before seven. justin rose and rory mcilroy are among the chasing pack trying to catch brooks kopeka at the pga c