In half an hours time, we take a look back on events earlier in the year, marking the 75th anniversary of the d day landings. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Spanish police have named a british holidaymaker and his two children who drowned in a Swimming Pool on Christmas Eve. Gabriel diya had been staying with his family at a resort on the costa del sol. Police say the pool appears to have been working normally at the time. The hotel says its continuing to co operate with the investigation. Emily unia reports. According to Spanish Police, gabriel diya, who was 52, died trying to rescue his nine year old daughter comfort after she got into difficulties in this hotel Swimming Pool. His 16 year old son praise emmanuel tried to help and also died. Postmortem examinations confirmed that all three drowned. A 14 year old girl, the childrens sister, raised the alarm. A british tourist whos staying at the resort told the bbc she spoke to the childrens mother. I noticed a woman was walki
Watched Christmas Day programme of the decade. And later on i will be looking at the stories that weve covered from britain by the coastal towns this year, thats an half an hour with me simon mccoy. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Spanish police have named a british holiday maker and his two children, who drowned in a Hotel Swimming Pool on the Costa Del Sol on Christmas Eve. Gabriel diya, who was 52 and from london, died with his 16 year old son, praise emmanuel and his nine year old daughter, comfort. The family had been staying at the Club La Costa world resort, near fuengirola. An investigation into what happened is under way. The owners of the hotel have described it as a tragic accident. Helena wilkinson reports. This is gabriel diya, the 52 year old father who died trying to rescue his daughter. Here he is with nine year old comfort, on a family holiday when, on Christmas Eve, she got into difficulty in this Hotel Swimming Pool. Despite her fathers efforts, she also died,
Looking unstoppable. Liverpool thrash Leicester City 4 0 to go 13 points clear at the top of the premier league. Sam curran stars for england taking four wickets on day one of the opening test in south africa. And clan des obeaux makes it back to back wins in the King George Vi chase with victory at kempton. Hello and welcome to sportsday. Welcome to the programme. First to liverpools statement win tonight they are 13 points clear at the top of the premier league with a game in hand, after thrashing second placed Leicester City 4 0 at the king power stadium. It comes just five days after they won the Club World Cup in qatar. Patrick geary reports. A chance for leicester to look livable in the eyes. To keep them on their side of the horizon. There is a probable chasing liverpool, the relentless pace, most are stretched leicester to breaking point and the just about stayed intact. Like managers all over the world, Brendan Rodgers tried to crack the puzzle but if you focus on one red mena
Good morning, welcome to bbc news. At least 12 people have died, after a passenger plane crashed in kazakhstan. The bek air flight had just taken off from the countrys biggest city, almaty, and was travelling to the capital, nur sultan, when it crashed into a building. 60 others were injured in the crash. 98 people were onboard the flight, including five crew. 0ur moscow correspondent Sarah Rainsford gave us this update. The latest that we are getting here are the extraordinary account of the people who have survived this crash. A couple of people have been telling their story to local media and even describing how they managed to walk away from the wreckage of this plane. One man, a businessman, who was flying up to the countrys capital, nur sultan for business meetings today, he was sitting in the 15th row of the plane, just over the wing. If you look at the wreckage, its the front part of the plane in front of the wing that was the most badly destroyed as the plane ploughed into tha
Wins out of four in the group stage. Despite a disappointing start to the season in england, Manchester United are also through to the last 32 of the europa league. Mason greenwood set them on the way to victory, over pa rtizan belgrade. Anthony martial and Marcus Rashford also scored either side of the break as united won 3 nil at old trafford, to qualify for the knockout stage with two games to spare. That was the reason we played the three of them as well. We felt if we played a strong team, create chances and we need the players out there to ta ke and we need the players out there to take them, very pleased with all those finishes. All three goals were high class. Of course, quite a few more as well. The first one settles that one, i think. Celtic are through to the last 32 after coming from behind to win at lazio. Ciro immobile scored the opening goal after only 7 minutes. By half time, the visitors were level James Forrest with the equaliser for the scottish champions. The match