tens of thousands of adults with disabilities and long term illnesses are being sued by local councils for failing to pay their social care bills. and a pivotal day in welsh rugby players are due to reveal whether they will strike during the six nations, over contractual disputes. hello, good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. shamima begum, who travelled to syria and joined the so called islamic state group when she was just 15, so called islamic state group when she wasjust 15, has so called islamic state group when she was just 15, has lost a legal challenge to the covenant decision to deprive her of british citizenship. it means she remains stuck in a camp in northern syria, and is barred from returning to the uk. in 2019, the then home secretary sajid javid stripped ms begum of her british citizenship after receiving advice that she was a threat to national security. shamima begum is now 23. here s our home affairs correspondent, daniel sandford. in february 2015, eight y
denied. a government spokesperson from israel said there were no civilian casualties during the operation, but the bbc has found evidence that civilians were killed. from jerusalem, are middle east correspondent, and you may find her report difficult to watch. amid ruins that reeked of death. ..palestinians poured over what was once gaza s biggest and best equipped hospital after israeli forces withdrew. israel s military raid in march was the second at the site and it was dramatically destructive. four mass graves containing local search teams say hundreds of bodies have now been dug up at al shifa, prompting international calls for an investigation into possible war crimes. there are reports of suspicious finds shared with us. translation: we ve - discovered bodies of women and children and people without heads, as well as torn body parts. israel s military says it exhumed bodies which palestinians had buried earlier as it searched for hostages seized by hamas. but some
today. but as is typical with our weather at the moment it will be raining before the end of the day. two zones in our weather looking at the satellite picture, northern england, scotland, northern ireland, sunshine and showers. but the rest of england and wales turning cloudier as the system moves in from the south west with rain and stronger winds. that rain patchy in nature through southern england but more persistent for us and edging northwards in wales. cloud increasing in eastern england where we have seen sunshine today. patchy rain working to parts of the midlands and north west england. elsewhere in northern england we are back into sunny spells and a few showers and a few for northern ireland. more especially into scotla nd ireland. more especially into scotland and could be thundery. sunny spells in between. it s cool and breezy across the uk and a windy end to the day to the south west as this rain becomes more extensive across england and wales for a time going
Closest to this area of low pressure, and a brisk northwesterly wind continues to feed showers and around that low. we start off and a chilly note thursday, sunny spells through scotland and northern ireland. furthersouth, cloud ireland. further south, cloud should ireland. furthersouth, cloud should break up. there s a risk of one or two isolated showers, but hopefully fewer and far between. with a little more shelter in the southeast, we could see temperatures peaking at 80 degrees. fresh on expos coast, only iii i8 at 80 degrees. fresh on expos coast, only iii 18 degrees. 10-14 in coast, only iii 18 degrees. 10 14 in scotland. as we move out of thursday, rain developing, but that is where the cooler air is going to sit into the far northwest. temperatures just below par, but there inclinations of warmer weather brightening. to
Prospects. hello, there. the weather this afternoon is looking predominantly cloudy, and we ve got some showers in the forecast, too the heaviest of these affecting parts of wales, northern ireland and western scotland, where at least there will be some bright spells getting through at times. eastern england, eastern scotland, thick cloud around this afternoon with some patches of mostly light rain on and off. temperatures seven to ten degrees celsius, so cooler than it was at the start of the week, and those temperatures are actually closer to average for this stage of february. overnight, any patchy rain becomes restricted to southern areas of the uk. with clearer skies in scotland, northern ireland and northern england, here it s a cold night with a widespread frost, and temperatures diving down to about minus three degrees. but at least it is for these northern areas that will have the best of the morning sunshine. any rain will clear away from the south tomorrow, with the weathe