the inquiry looking at the uk s response to the covid 19 pandemic starts hearing evidence today. it s expected to last at least three years, with witnesses including borisjohnson and matt hancock. police in nottingham say they ve closed a number of roads in the city as they deal with what they re calling an ongoing serious incident. officers have been called to several locations. trams are also suspended. figures show regular pay not including bonuses were 7.2% higher in the three months to april, helped in part by the rise in the national living wage. but despite the surge, pay continues to be outstripped by rising prices. the american actor, treat williams, has died in a motorbike crash in vermont he was 71. in a 50 year career, he had more than 130 on screen credits, including the musical hair and tv series everwood. yes, the covid inquiry. what do you want? it starts today. remember all those five o clock faces, rishi sunak, chris whitty, patrick vallance and the
security services make an unprecedented joint appearance, warning of the national security and economic threat posed by china. is posed by china. set whatever it technical and is set whatever it technical and using it to undercut your business. and japan plans to pump water from the fukushima nuclear plant into the pacific. we hear from the fishermen protesting the move. the british prime minister, borisjohnson, is clinging on to power in downing street despite the resignations of more than a0 of his own mps from their government roles. he s continuing to defy calls for him to step down from some of his most senior colleagues. they believe he has clearly lost the confidence of most of his party. our political correspondent david wallace lockhart reports. outside downing street the press assembled, inside around the same time some cabinet ministers were spelling out the situation to the prime minister, wanting him the support of his party had drained away. one who expressed th
A dead man walking. We will get them, every single one of them. Hello, im matthew amroliwala. The bbc has confirmed that Young Children were among those killed in an air strike on a convoy of vehicles leaving Northern Gaza of friday along a route designated by israel. Our team at bbc verify analysed two videos of the strike on the vehicles heading towards southern gaza. Both videos have been verified, these first images show a Lorry Carrying at least 30 civilians, on the move, moments before it was hit. And these are still images taken from a subsequent video from the aftermath of the strike. The full video is too graphic to show in detail. The video shows men running to a lorry, part of the same convoy, trying to help those whove been hit. There are at least 12 visible dead bodies in the video. We will be talking to our bbc verify team on that in the next few minutes. Israels Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, has visited troops near the border with gaza. Speaking to the soldiers, he
khan younis immediately. the hamas run health ministry in gaza says more than 15,500 people have now been killed there since the start of the conflict between israel and hamas, which is considered a terrorist organisation by the uk government. this is the scene live outside al nasser hospital in khan younis an area that has been under frequent assault. the scenes both inside and ouside the hospital are traumatic. these pictures were shot today. children are among those being driven to the hospital carried inside by family and friends. for many, the journey to hospital was too late. a senior adviser to the israeli prime minister has insisted israel is doing all it can to minimise the number of civilian deaths in gaza, after the us defence secretary, lloyd austin, said israel had a moral responsiblity to minimise casualties not linked to hamas. our diplomatic correspondent paul adams has this report, and a warning it contains images some viewers may find distressing. in gaza s
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