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
we d like to see the pause extended because what it has enabled, first and foremost, is hostages being released. it as enabled us to surge humanitarian assistance into the people of gaza who so desperately need it. that was secretary of state antony blinken earlier this morning. he is getting ready to head to israel right now. the final hours of the truce between israel and hamas are ticking away and intense negotiations are underway to extend that truce. hamas is set to release more hostages today after handing over another group of women and children yesterday. and yesterday in gaza we saw gunmen with rifles slung over their shoulders hand over an 84-year-old woman in a wheelchair as a crowd cheered and recorded with their cellphones. also release a 17-year-old girl clutchinger dog in her arms. the family of the youngest israeli hostage telling cnn they have been notified the baby, the 4-year-old brother will not be among the hostages freed today. this is the latest
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now will prevent chaos later. now, obviously, this is going to inconvenience a lot of people. even a 95% of people booked on flights over the summer will still get their flight running on schedule, some will not, and that will be upsetting for them. at the point is that if the airport doesn t do this, and if the airport doesn t do this, and if the airlines, which have been working with gatwick on this, do not accept they need to cut schedules, the chaos could be worse. so what is happening now is people are being given a couple of weeks notice, and you have airlines like easyjet are saying they will try to put people on alternative services, so there will be disruption, but the plan is for services to run much more smoothly over the summer as a result. thank you, theo. a passenger with restricted mobility has died at gatwick airport after leaving a plane. gatwick said staff were helping three other passengers with restricted mobility to disembark at the time. the man decided to leave