she promised her little boy she d do to try to save him. i m the proudest mum in the world. such a beautiful little boy and he fought right until the very end. also tonight. 2a palestinians have died in israeli air strikes on the gaza strip, including six children. israel says it s targeting the militant group islamichhad. and it was a diving one two three at the commonwealth games for england. good evening. archie battersbee, the 12 year old boy at the centre of a legal battle over his care while lying unconscious in hospital, has died. his life sustaining treatment was withdrawn earlier today. archie s mother, hollie dance, described him as a beautiful little boy, adding that she was the proudest mum in the world. it brings to an end a stand off between doctors who said archie was brain stem dead and his parents who wanted his treatment to continue. our correspondent simon jones has the details. saying their final farewells these pictures were released by archie s f
families there before the volcanic eruption. hello, and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. this is bbc news. 2a people are now known to have died in israeli air strikes on the gaza strip, including six children. israel says it s targeting the palestinian militant group, islamichhad, which in response has fired more than 300 rockets. yolande knell has the latest from jerusalem. explosion the full force of israel s new military operation in gaza. this building hitjust minutes after a warning strike. palestinians racing away. a year of relative calm now shattered. this is where one of the first israeli air strikes killed an islamichhad commander, leaving his neighbour in shock. we were safe in our home. we were thrown out of it by the bomb , says maryam. why didn t they warn us? tonight, islamichhad fired heavy barrages of rockets in revenge, it said, for its leader s death. most were intercepted by israeli air defences. but earlier, a missile hit th
the mp patrick grady steps away from his snp membership while police investigate allegations of sexual harassment against him. good evening. russian missiles have struck the capital of ukraine just as g7 world leaders gather in germany and as president zelensky warned the war was entering a difficult phase. the russian strike hit a nine storey residential building in kyiv, killing one person and injuring six others, including a 7 year old girl. our correspondent nick beake has been at the scene. once again, ukraine s capital is under attack. this video said to show the city s horizon as more russian rockets hit. explosion and once again, civilians are in the firing line. a residential block in the centre of kyiv smouldering, ripped apart. screams inside, rescuers reach a young girl, pinned down by debris. they manage to bring her to safety and then taken to hospital. moments later, ukrainian official appears outside, brandishing a russian passport, saying that one woman sti
there s always talk about it being so unpolitical but ijust don t see how it is. tonight with the context, lord bilimoria president of the confederation of british industry and founder of cobra beer and ron christie former senior advisor to president george w bush. welcome to the programme. after weeks of dicussions, eu leaders have agreed on a partial embargo of russian oil imports. the plan is expected to affect up to 90% of russian oil imports by the end of the year. it will only affect oil that arrives by sea that s around two thirds of imports. but not pipeline oil, following strong opposition from hungary. first, this is the eu s foreign policy chief. we were in versaille bursae a few weeks ago, not many observers would ve thought it would ve been possible for us only in a few weeks to take such a concrete and historic decision. we have decided to sanction russia by banning russian oil, this is extremely important and we will succeed in the following months to i
First line of russian defences and part of the south. Now mine fields have been blocking the troops for weeks. That means when they are blocked, of course they are vulnerable to russian shelly. Its been dangerous, but careful my Clearing Operation has been making it where they can advance. Ukraine says gains have been made in the south and have expanded their units towards the town of tokmak, Logistics Centre for russian forces. In the last hour or two we have these pictures into the newsroom of zelensky there visiting with troops on the front line. This is it donetsk. I spoke to drjenny mathers. She is a Senior Lecturer at the department of International Politics of the Aberystwyth University in wales. I asked just how significant this is. I think its potentially very significant both symbolically and in material terms because i think weve known for the last several months that the russian defences were very formidable. They would be difficult for the ukrainians to get through, and th