convoy of ships. warnings that millions of children in england could go hungry this summer because councils have reduced or scrapped free school meal vouchers over the holidays. french officials trying to rescue a beluga whale trapped in the river seine come up with a new strategy to free it find out how they plan to return it back to sea. and 72 artefacts forcibly removed from benin city during a british military incursion in 1897 will be returned to nigeria by a london museum. good afternoon. hopes are high of a truce between israel and gaza after three days of violence that s reported to have killed dozens of people. eygyptian mediators are understood to have brokered a truce that s due to start at around 10pm, although the details aren t yet clear. at least 31 palestinians, including children, have reportedly been killed since friday, while israel says around 600 palestinian rockets have been fired over the border. from jerusalem, our middle east correspondent, yolande
European gold medal winner Gabriel Dossen won't fight in this weekend's National Elite Championships. The extremely talented Olympic Galway fighter entered the tournament at 80kg and was initially drawn against Jason Clancy, whom he was set to face in the National Stadium this Friday. However, the Galway fighter, who transitioned from middleweight to light heavy
team. ijust went judges. the best advice from my team. i just went and judges. the best advice from my team. ijust went and did a proper job. it is always gone the distance, and to get it every second round like that, i m over the moon, man. just over the moon. samuel hickey s won scotland s first commonwealth boxing gold since 2014. he was pushed all the way by 19 year old australian callum peters but won by split decision in the middleweight final. another soon followed for scotland with sean lazzerini beating wales taylor bevan in the light heavyweight final. as a result, birmingham 2022 will go down as scotland s most successful commonwealth games outside of glasgow 2014. still more medals to come for them hopefully. england s kiaran macdonald missed out on the gold medal by unanimous decision, as india s amit panghal upgraded the silver medal he won four years ago in australia. there was no medal of any colour for england s cricketers.
closing ceremony. another golden moment for team gb cyclistjason kenny, making him the country s most decorated olympian. lauren price wins the women s middleweight final, becoming the first welsh boxer to claim olympic gold. reports from northern afghanistan say there s heavy fighting in the city of kunduz, where government forces are trying to push back taliban militants. new changes to the uk s covid travel restrictions come into force. thousands flee their homes in greece as forest fires burn out of control. the country faces its most intense heatwave in more than 30 years. now, on bbc news hardtalk. welcome to hardtalk. i m stephen sackur. those of us lucky enough to live
and what a finish forjason kenny he s now the first british man to win seven olympic golds, overtaking sir chris hoy. it was a spectacular defence of his keiren title sprinting clear with three laps remaining. it follows the silver won in the team sprint, and takes his overall olympic medal total to nine. i gave it a little squeeze and got bigger and i sort of went for it. i did not feel like i was one of the favourites going into the final. i was not as quick as i wanted in the sprint team spent they fell like i had nothing to lose and ijust went for it. it was such a way and it felt like the last lap took about half an hour and i cannot believe i crossed the line on my own. and britain s second gold of the day came in the boxing ring, where lauren price beat china s lee chee un in the middleweight final. for price it s an incredible