and which festive favourite is the christmas number one? and coming up on bbc news. we ll be at villa park where sheffield united are the visitors on a night when victory can take aston villa top of the premier league. hello and welcome to the bbc news at six. in the last hour, the united nations security council has passed a resolution to address the continuing conflict in gaza and the appalling conditions faced by around 2 million people there. it follows days of argument at the un in new york. the resolution calls on asians to create the conditions for the cessation of hostilities and the unhindered delivery of assistance to gaza calls on nations. the resolution the uae has put in blue this morning responds to the calls for a sustainable cessation of hostilities and a massive scale up of humanitarian aid. often in diplomacy, the challenge is meeting the moment in the world we live, not in the world that we want, and we will never tire in pushing for a full humanitarian
very impressive and says russia s operations over the winter largely failed. the us general petraeus commanded forces in iraq and afghanistan. he spoke to our diplomatic correspondent james landale. i believe we will see the results of true combined arms effect, so tanks protected by infantry against anti tank guided missiles, artillery keeping heads down, engineers reducing the obstacles, breaching the fortifications that the russians have established, air defence keeping the russians off the ukrainians, electronic warfare jamming the russians already inadequate command and control, all orchestrated by very good ukrainian command and control, and using drones over the russians to attack them in depth with the precision munitions that the us and uk and others have provided. and this is going to break, i think, the front lines. where they will do this attack, i m not going to speculate, although the ukrainians have said that their objective is to sever the ground lines of com
to the bbc news at one. police investigating the death of a 12 year old girl and a 17 year old boy at bournemouth beach yesterday say there was no physical contact between the children and any vessel on the water. eight other people were treated in hospital after the incident yesterday afternoon. a man in his 40s was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter. our correspondent duncan kennedy is in bournemouth this lunchtime. this was a distressing incident that played out across a packed beach. it involved and ended in the tragedy of two young lives being lost in the waters behind me. in the past few minutes, dorset police have been holding a press conference and they have gone into a few more details, saying nojet ski have gone into a few more details, saying no jet ski was involved have gone into a few more details, saying nojet ski was involved in the incident and that nobody had beenjumping off the pier behind me. one officer described this as a devastating incident. for seve