it s the hottest day of the year so far in the uk, with 30 degrees recorded in southern england, and heat health alerts for some areas in the south and east. djokovic, martina, all of us. do you eat the grass? just put it in our pockets, it s for good luck, it s great! tennis legend billiejean king, now also famous for her social campaigning, talks to the bbc about issues she believes are important today. every generation has to fight, because things are fragile constantly. i think it is really important to think about things being in a tenuous position always. and coming up on the bbc news channel, salt peppers the netherlands with runs as he claims his first century in an england odi match in the first of the three match series. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. britain s second busiest airport says it will limit the number of flights across the peak summer period because it hasn t got enough staff. gatwick airport said it was aimed at creating a more relia
temperatures across the uk rose with a level three alert, and some rider means the uk could be hosting next year s eurovision contest. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the uk s second busiest airport says it will limit the number of flights across the peak summer period because it hasn t got enough staff. gatwick airport said it was aimed at creating a more reliable service for passengers. usually 900 flights run a day, but it ll be 825 injuly, and 850 in august. it comes after the government and regulators wrote to airlines telling them to make sure their summer timetables were deliverable . the decision means thousands of people will have their holiday plans disrupted, as theo leggett reports. this is what airlines and airports want to avoid. over easter and around the jubilee holiday, hundreds of flights were cancelled. some while passengers were preparing to board. people want to travel, but staff shortages at airlines and ground handling companies have become a s
Into the infected blood scandal, widely considered to be the biggest Treatment Disaster in the history of the Uks National Health Service , has identified a catalogue of failures by the nhs and successive governments. A reminder of key points. 3,000 people have already died, while others are still living with the ongoing effects of infection. In this hour were going to speak to some of the people directly impacted by this. Sarah and Antonia Akoni in hertfordshire. Sarahs husband and antonias dad, 0mololu akoni, received Blood Transfusions for sickle cell in the 1980s, before discovering that he was infected with hepatitis c via the transfusions. Thank you both forjoining me here. Good to talk to you. I wanted to ask you if you could tell me a little bit more about what happened to your husband and dad. He bit more about what happened to your husband and dad. Husband and dad. He had Sickle Cell Anemia. Husband and dad. He had Sickle Cell Anemia and husband and dad. He had Sickle Cell An
Scouring the mountains of north west iran all night. Thick fog and heavy rain have hampered efforts, but in the early hours of this morning, this, a drone sent by turkey identified a source of heat. Footage shows an aerial view of a landscape at night and a Dark Blotch On what appears to be a hillside. When rescuers eventually reach the wreckage on foot, they found the helicopter which had been carrying irans president and the Foreign Minister was completely burned with no signs of life. And soon after, confirmation that both irans president Ebrahim Raisi and the Foreign Minister have been killed in the crash. The servant of the iranian people, president raisi, the president of the republic of iran was serving the people of the public of iran. President raisi, seen here on the left, had been visiting a dam project. This is footage of him earlier in the day travelling in a convoy of three helicopters. He became the president in 2021 and was responsible for tightening Morality Laws and o
Is it fair to keep pursuing him in this way . We will speak to the uns special rapporteur on torture. Good evening. The Chief Prosecutor of the International Criminal court says he is seeking Arrest Warrants for the israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the Defence Minister yoav gallant on charges of war crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in gaza. Karim khan has also applied for Arrest Warrants for three leaders of hamas, for war crimes and Crimes Against Humanity in connection with the October 7th Attacks in israel. 1,200 people were killed and 252 others were taken hostage. Since then, more than 35,000 people have been killed in gaza as part of the idf operation, according to the territorys hamas run health ministry. In the request that has been sent to the icc panel ofjudges, the prosecutor has alleged there is evidence to suggest starvation has been used by the Prime Minister and his Defence Minister as a method of war against civilians. He also alleges the israeli leaders