it had hired a hall not far away from the embassy, to the centre, south of tel aviv. and earlier in the week, as you were saying, there were activists within the eritrean community — they mostly reside in the south of tel aviv — who had warned against hosting this. they say that the authorities didn't heed their warnings. certainly the israeli authorities, the police, the hospitals as well seem to have been really caught by surprise with what happened here. there were attempts to break through police barricades. the israeli police then ended up using all of these different riot control methods, as they described them, to try to push people back. but you could see as well from some of the videos that have been shared on social media that there were actually also street fights going on, notjust with the police, but also involving asylum seekers who are against the eritrean regime and those who are in favour of it. and that has been something that we've seen in the past, not on this scale, in the south of tel aviv. there has been previous violence between the two sides. and we have had one hospital, one of the main hospitals in tel aviv, saying that it really was overwhelmed by the number of casualties that it saw coming in, some of them serious injuries, some people injured by the gunfire, other people with serious bruising, people who'd been hit in the head and said these take it back to the days of the second palestinian intifada about 20 years ago, when they saw some serious incidents, bus bombings and the like and other bombing attacks in tel aviv. the hospital itself was really quite overwhelmed by what happened. and, yolande, is there any suggestion that this is the end of it? because some of those activists have said that they plan to continue. well, the israeli police say that finally the situation is under control. and you can still see there's a heavy israeli police presence on the streets of tel aviv. i've been speaking to my colleagues there who said that during the day, it really was like a war zone. they had police helicopters constantly buzzing overhead, the sound of sirens. and the israeli police told residents, of course, people were off. it's thejewish sabbath on a saturday. they told people to stay away from this area unless they were involved in what was going on. it really now is is the clear up that we're seeing with businesses complaining that some of their shops have been smashed up, some privately owned cars have been smashed up in all the trouble that there has been. and i think it does really threaten to increase the tensions that there are between asylum seekers and other residents in tel aviv. that is a middle east correspondent there. —— are a middle east correspondence. in the uk, labour is calling for an urgent audit of the concrete in public buildings, with some hospitals and courts known to contain the potential dangerous concrete known as raac. more than 150 schools in england, and 35 in scotland, were found to have the material, with some having to close over fears it could collapse. harry farley reports. emergency classrooms being set up in bingley, west yorkshire. more schools are expected to close next week. parents are facing an anxious wait to know whether it's safe for their children to return to the classroom. in one school, i have ten rooms and a staff room i cannot use. my second school — 16 rooms, the gymnasium and some toilets. and in my third school, 12 rooms. so, you can see it's quite considerable. but it's notjust schools. the department of health said 2a hospital sites like hitchin brook hospital in huntington had weak concrete, known as raac. other public buildings are also affected, like harrow crown court, which could be shut for nine months. labour is calling for an urgent audit of all public buildings. it doesn't always need an expensive inspection, but an audit, some of that would be a desk audit, if you like, done on paper. some of it would then require further inspection, further audits by structural engineers and others. so, we do need to know the scale of the problem. this is the aerated concrete used in buildings in the 1960s, �*70s and �*80s that is causing so much concern. we don't really know the scale of the problem. there is no central record, although individual government departments are being required to keep a log, that's not public information. do we know about that risk in schools and also in hospitals and other public buildings? have you come across it in other types of buildings as well, in your experience? the areas that i've seen it in office buildings and shopping centres tends to be in incidental parts of the building rather than the building as a whole. so, a plant room or a store room or something of that nature. a non—public area. the government says it closed schools because the guidance on raac changed. but with no firm idea of the scale of the problem, there is concern this is just the tip of the iceberg. harry farley, bbc news. let's get some of the day's other news now. the army in gabon, which led a coup on wednesday, says it's opening all the country's borders with immediate effect. military officials appeared on state tv to make the announcement. the borders were closed when army officers deposed president ali bongo, shortly after his declaration that he'd won a third term in an election widely seen as lacking transparency. large crowds have been protesting in niger against the presence of french troops in the country. demonstrators rallied near a french base in the capital niamey to back niger's army, which launched a coup injuly. protesters held up banners saying "french army leave our country". france has deployed some 1,500 soldiers in niger, to help fight an islamist insurgency in the region. pope francis, on the second day of his visit to mongolia, has said that countries have nothing to fear from the catholic church, because it has no political agenda. his comments appear directed at mongolia's neighbour, china, where relations are strained. earlier, the pope spoke of the need to combat environmental degradation and dispel what he called the dark clouds of war. india has successfully launched its first observation mission to study the sun. large crowds gathered to watch the rocket, carrying the aditya—li satellite, blast off from the sriharikota space centre in the southern state of andhra pradesh. the mission aims to work out what drives space weather, and gather a better understanding of the dynamics of solar wind. azadeh moshiri has more on what it entails. this was aditya—li's lift off. the launch was from sriharikota on saturday after an hour and four minutes of flight time, the indian space research agency declared it mission successful. this is india's first space—based mission to study the sun. the aim is to help scientists understand solar activity, its effect on earth and near—space weather in real time. a few thousand people gathered in the viewing gallery set up by the indian space research agency. it was near the launch site to watch the blast off. now, let's break down what's in store for the spacecraft itself. it has to orbit the earth several times before being launched to its destination. that's li. l1 is 1.5 million kilometres away from the earth. that's 932,000 miles. and according to scientists, the distance between the earth and l1 is equivalent to approximately i% of the distance between the earth and the sun. even so, according to india's space agency, the journey will take four months. once there, that's when the spacecraft can begin to orbit the sun. now, of course, this is a huge moment of pride for india. you can see here students celebrating as they're watching the live stream of the launch. and it's also only a week after india celebrated its first unmanned landing on the moon that became the world's first ever probe near the lunar south pole. and it made india only the fourth country to celebrate a soft landing on the moon. now, of course, these are big gains for india's space ambitions itself. but india's scientists also insist these will be big gains for the scientific community at large. i spoke earlier to pallava bagla, a science journalist and the co—author of �*reaching for the stars: india'sjourney to mars and beyond'. from a moonwalk to a sun dance — india is now on the seventh heaven, having successfully soft landed on the moon near the south pole. and some great scientific data is emerging from the lunar surface by the rover and the lander. and now, today, india's first space—based solar observatory called aditya. and aditya is the name of india's sun god. it's already on its journey to study the sun. it will have a continuous view of the sun when it reaches the 1.5 million km halo orbit. and that will help india decipher many mysteries of the sun. and it will also help protect india's 50—plus satellites. because when the sun gets angry, it can strike many satellites like we saw in the starlink constellation recently. so, india wants to prepare and be safeguarded against solar storms. it's beautifully put there when you talk about the sun getting angry. and i suppose that's something that that scientists have really had to consider, isn't it? if you're sending a piece of very technically sophisticated equipment towards the hottest thing that we know, how do you put in place mitigations to to protect it, to make sure it... well, notjust does its job, but survives? very simple, you don't send it all the way to the hot star. even though the sun is the nearest and largest star, the best thing is to stay away in the goldilocks zone, which is where the earth is situated, where life can flourish. so india is sending the aditya—l1 mission only about 1.5 million kilometers away from earth, which is just about 1% of the distance between earth and the sun. so, it's not going to face that much heat. but yes, it is a long distance away. it's a marathon of 125 days, which the spacecraft has to survive. and reaching the l1 orbit is not easy, and india needs to overcome all of that. but having achieved a mission, three missions to the moon, one successful to mars, indian scientists are very hopeful that the aditya l1 mission, which has been more than a decade in the making — and scientific missions take that long, and it's a very cheap mission at under $50 billion — would give great scientific insight and not just for india, but for the world, because there are only very few probes which are looking at the sun on a continuous basis with an unobstructed view. and almost everybody in the solar physics community is applauding india having sent a probe toward the sun. the nobel foundation has reversed its decision to invite russian and belarusian ambassadors to this year's nobel prize award in stockholm. a number of swedish mps had warned they would boycott the ceremony. however, the ambassadors are still invited to the awarding of the nobel peace prize in oslo, which is organised by the norwegian nobel committee. franak viacorka is chief political advisor to the exiled belarusian presidential candidate sviatlana tsihanouskaya, who campaigned against the invitation. hejoined me earlier to give his reaction to the decision. of course, we welcome the decision of swedish foundation not to invite lukashenko as ambassador and the russian ambassador lukashenko as ambassador, belarusian ambassador to the ceremony, but still up to the norwegian committee to decide what will happen in oslo. but we believe there is no place. it shouldn't be any place for lukashenko�*s representatives because he is illegal president and it will be very bad message to belarusian people and political prisoners, including belarus last year, nobel laureate who is injail right now. it was interesting that the from the nobel point of view, they said that it was important to try and spread those values far and wide. it is a change of position on what they decided to do last year. do you think there is any merit in trying to to bring in people who might not share those those views and values? definitely these people will not change their views. they are advocates of the devil. they are advocates of anger, of hatred, of war. and they will be using nobel ceremony as theirforum, as a tribune to promote their ideas, not to build bridges. in order to do something good, nobel committees can show the example how to behave in regard to those who violate international freedoms, human rights, who put their opponents injail. and what about the norwegians? will you continue your campaign to try and get them to change their mind as well? of course, we are trying to explain to norwegian public the norwegian nobel committee and the norwegian government that it will be perceived very bad by belarusian population. right now, more than 1,500 people are in prisons for political reasons. half a million had to flee repressions and terror in the country. just imagine what these people will feel if the representative of the regime who conducts the terror against the people will be invited to represent their interest. of course they will be disappointed, frustrated. and let's not give these guys, guys who sparked the war against ukraine and who continue the terror against population. let's not give them a carte blanche. and sviatlana and sviatla na tsikhanouskaya and sviatlana tsikhanouskaya was invited last year, but that doesn't seem to be the case this time round. again, is there any sign that is likely to change? we again, is there any sign that is likely to change?— again, is there any sign that is likel to chance? ~ ., . likely to change? we did not receive any invitation _ likely to change? we did not receive any invitation yet. _ likely to change? we did not receive any invitation yet. i _ likely to change? we did not receive any invitation yet. i think— likely to change? we did not receive any invitation yet. i think the - any invitation yet. i think the nobel committee sent the invitations, and they later posted to the ceremony, but last year was spectacular. when belarus and human rights defender received the prize, and many have his friends and human rights defenders came to the ceremony. sviatlana tsikhanouskaya ceremony. sviatla na tsikhanouskaya was ceremony. sviatlana tsikhanouskaya was invited instead of lukashenko's representative, and it was a very powerful message of support and solidarity, that the nobel committee still commits to the freedoms of international human rights, so i think this year could be a repeat of the same. 0ther representatives can be invited, but not to lukashenko's representatives. the uk's home secretary has order a review into police impartiality after accusing officers of being involved in political activism. suella braverman has said there has been an "unacceptable rise" in the number of police "taking sides on controversial issues" here's 0ur political reporter, tony bonsignore with further analysis of this review. this is very familiar ground for swelling braverman. she has long been critical of some elements of the police getting involved in things like political marches and parades, and taking the knee, for example. —— suella i man. getting involved in issues of gender, whether is quarterly, or politically contested as she would say. what she has done today is written to his majesty's inspectorate of constabulary, the body that inspect policing or in behalf of the government and the taxpayer, and said, look, it was to look into these issues, and she wants it to look specifically at a couple of things. one, whether it is diverting attention away from what she would call common sense policing, day—to—day policing, investigating and responding to crimes. and also, she said she wants them to look into whether it is affecting public confidence in policing. she has also written to chief constables, the heads of all these police forces at the same time too, and she wants this body to reports by the end of march. as i say, this is familiar territory for the government and put suella braverman in particular, who is well—known for getting involved in these sorts of issues, but she has gone the step further now, by ordering this review. rail passengers in england are enduring a second day of disruption as thousands of rmt union members go on strike. some journeys into scotland and wales have also been affected. train drivers with aslef walked out yesterday, as both unions continue disputes with rail operators and the government over pay. here's our business correspondent, marc ashdown. today's rail woe shifts from the working week to leisure travel. whether it is trying to visit friends or family over the weekend or travelling to a sporting fixture, would—be rail passengers are likely to be disappointed. up to 20,000 rail workers at the rmt union, typically station staff or guards, are on strike for 2h hours. it is part of a long—running dispute over pay, jobs and working practices. the rail delivery group, which represents more than a dozen operators, has offered a 5% backdated pay rise and a pay rise of 4% this year if changes to the way staff work can be agreed. we would have to agree to these draconian cuts in ticket offices. we would have to agree to cuts in catering, engineering and other grades. we simply can't do that. i'm not going to get my members to vote for their own demise. at the moment, there is no stand—alone pay rise for us or any of the other grades in the industry or any of the other unions. they are all dependent on us accepting these drastic cuts to service and cuts to jobs. fewer than half of rail services in england are expected to run today, although it will vary in different parts of the country. some services into wales and scotland could also be affected. all of this follows a 24—hour strike by train drivers at the aslef union yesterday. they took to the picket lines in their dispute over pay. drivers are back to work today but are refusing to do any overtime. the rail companies and the government said the pay offer to unions is reasonable and should be put to members for a vote. no fresh negotiations are planned, so after more than a year of industrial action, there is still no end in sight. marc ashdown, bbc news. there is still no end in sight. let's get some of the day's other news in the uk now. two people have been arrested on suspicion of murder after human remains were discovered off a cliff—side path in bournemouth. the partial remains of a man were found by a member of the public near manor steps zig zag last weekend. a 38—year—old woman and a 48—year—old man are being held. the nhs is launching a new awareness campaign after research showed around half of uk adults are not confident they could recognise the signs of a heart attack. the "help us help you" lists symptoms including dizziness, sweating and anxiety as well as shortness of breath and pain in the chest, jaw, neck and back. people in the netherlands are paying their respects this weekend to those who fought to liberate their country from nazi occupation in 19114. british veterans have always attended the annual event — thanks in part to a fleet of black cabs which takes them, free of charge. graham satchell caught up with the veterans — and the cabbies — as they got ready for the trip. one by one, the veterans arrive in their black cabs. they've come from all over the country to harwich in essex, ready for a late night ferry to the netherlands. ijumped nine times out of the aeroplane and drilled in holland as well. ray whitwell flew to arnhem in september 19114 as part of operation market garden. but you were there, were you, when holland was liberated? oh, yes! yeah. and what was that like? wonderful. laughter everybody made us very happy. ray is now 104 and the oldest veteran to be making the trip back to the netherlands. john is going to remember lost friends. it's so important to go to meet the people. one of my most pleasures is walking round military cemeteries and looking at the names in the different regiments. and paying my homage to them. 0peration market garden was one of the largest airborne assaults in history. its aim — to seize a number of bridges in the netherlands still under nazi rule. the mission wasn't successful, but every year, the dutch still celebrate the soldiers who eventually liberated them. for the last ten years or so, servicemen have been taken to the netherlands by the charity london taxi drivers for military veterans. they are guests of honour at the so—called wandeltocht — a march to remember the battle for arnhem. thank you for giving us the freedom. it's history to me. i love history and history is not for everybody. however, i do believe with these guys, the golden generation, as they're called, we should always remember what they gave for this country in its darkest hour. archive: disabled heroes of two | world wars left the star and go | to richmond and four other homes to be taken by taxis— to worthing for the day. the london taxi charity is now in its 75th year. it takes veterans for days out to places like worthing. this film is from 1961, but veterans were back at the seaside just a few weeks ago. the sea air is so good you can eat anything, j and a lot to look at! what do you think of the taxi charity? what do i think of them? i could not praise them enough. they have been wonderful, they really have. they'd do anything for us. anything. and that's no lie. they're marvellous. bill was just 18 when he parachuted into europe. he was shot in the leg and ended up spending three years in hospital. let's hope it gets to the right years. —— the right ears. let's hope there is no more wars because i mean, admit it, we and the others won the war but it was very expensive. lots of young lives still lay out there. the veterans head onto the ferry in their black cabs. they will be celebrated for their bravery and courage when they get to the netherlands. graham satchell, bbc news. sir eltonjohn has led tributes to the american singer—songwriterjimmy buffett who has died aged 76. sir elton hailed him as a "unique and treasured entertainer". jimmy buffett�*s biggest hit, margaritaville, was a song about drinking cocktails in the sun and it spent 22 weeks on the us singles chart in 1977. a statement said he'd lived his life like a song, till the very last breath. he released more than 20 albums and earned two grammy award nominations. finally, this half hour we wanted to show you some pictures of a sea otter showing off some unusual skills. juno, who lives in oregon zoo, is a big fan of basketball. she loves, as you can see her, practicing her slam dunks. her keepers taught the 9 year old how to put the ball through a hoop to help keep herjoints moving as she gets older. juno can also dribble the ball, pushing it with herfeet. she may be a pro in the otter world, but we're not sure she's ready for the nba yet though. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there. one of the features of this year's summer season is temperatures didn't get that high. 32 celsius is the highest temperature of the year. more often than not, we've seen temperatures into the mid 20s, and although we might not quite reach 32, in the week ahead, 29 of 30 degrees as possible. some of the warmest weather of the year so far. there has been plenty of sunshine today. this is in cornwall earlier today. the early morning cloud melting away across most of the uk to reveal those sunny skies, and yes, it felt pleasantly warm, with temperatures putting on into the mid 20s across parts of south—east england and the midlands also. 0vernight sites, the majority stay dry, with a view mist and fog patches possible, however, for northern scotland, outbreaks of rain will turn more persistent and heavier here through the night. —— overnight tonight. tippett is on the mild side with 12 to 15 celsius, and looking at the picture over the next few days, we have this area of high pressure to thank for the fine settled sunny spell of weather this most of us will see. —— temperatures on the mild side. just a few weather fronts around the periphery. 0ne on the mild side. just a few weather fronts around the periphery. one of those where fronts will be with us for northern scotland on sunday, and here, the cloud will be taken up with occasional patches of rain, but away from scotland, it'll be another dry day, with any ready patches out of the way. it will feel warm in that september sun, with temperatures in scotland and northern ireland is 20 to 21, warm enough. and up to 25 in england. and then we have more of that sunshine on the way as we look at the pork is deep into the new week. this is how munday looks. it isjust deep into the new week. this is how munday looks. it is just the final for scotland where you might see a few passing patches of rain, with shetland, the hebrides, and ireland's most likely to see that. temperatures likely to rise otherwise. 27 degrees around the london area, and it is set to get even hotter than that as we get all the middle part of the week. just the middle part of the week. just the outside chance of a shower door is the south—west on tuesday. that whether print or northern scotland should get a bit more squished on tuesday, so a better chance of staying dry and bright here as well. wherever you are, in the sunshine, it will feel pleasantly warm. that's only warm weather stays with us for most of the week. certainly, it is only really that we get into the next weekend that we see a change come up with the weather becoming cloudier, cooler, with the threat of some rain. it almost, a lovely spell of weather. —— but for most. this is bbc news. the headlines: more than a hundred people have been injured in clashes between israeli security forces and eritrean asylum seekers in tel aviv. police said they fired live rounds in the air and deployed stun grenades and tear gas to disperse large groups of supporters and opponents of the eritrean government. labour is calling on english ministers to conduct assessments of public sector buildings that may be at risk due to lightweight concrete. over a hundred schools and colleges have had to shut or partially close due to concerns about structural safety. the government says it took a decisive action this week in response to the new concerns. india launches its first observation mission to the sun, just days after the country made history by becoming the first to land near the moon's south pole. the studies will help scientists understand solar activity. now on bbc news: africa eye: sickle cell: the enemy within.