Also tonight. Former premier league footballer dalian atkinson was killed five years ago he was tasered and kicked twice in the head. Pc benjamin monk of west mercia police was convicted of manslaughter, but cleared of murder. It s mainly relief, we rejust relieved that it s finally over. It s been a really long journey. One of thousands of women in scotland hoping for a formal apology, after they were forced to give up their babies for adoption half a century ago. And coming up on the bbc news channel: who will be crowned cricket world champions? new zealand chase the title, as india slump to 170 all out at the hampshire bowl. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Russia says its patrol ships and fighterjets have fired warning shots and dropped bombs in the path of a royal navy destroyer sailing in the black sea near crimea this afternoon. The russian defence ministry said that hms defender had violated its territorial waters. But the ministry of defence has flatly denied
Populations at very low risk. Police prepare to excavate a cafe in gloucester, searching for mary bastholm she disappeared in 1968, and it s thought she may have been murdered by the serial killer, fred west. When mary went missing in 1968, she was wearing a blue coat, a blue and white dress and a blue bag. From looking at the material, i can t say if it s a bag or a coat or dress but what i can say is, it s a blue bit of material within a void. Palestinian protestors and israeli security forces clash in the west bank town of bethlehem president biden hasjoined calls for a ceasefire in the conflict between israel and hamas. Hospital admissions for obesity related treatment in england reach a record high of more than a million a year. And coming up, kiyan prince the teenage footballer who was killed in a knife attack 15 years ago is honoured virtually with an appearance in computer game fifa 21. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. The prime minister says he will be able to t
There s been further escalation in the conflict in the middle east today after an israeli airstrike destroyed a building in gaza city housing international media. It follows rocket attacks by hamas militants, which killed one man in tel aviv. An israeli strike overnight on a refugee camp, killed at least 1a people, ten of them from one extended family. Our middle east correspondent yolande knell reports from the west bank. Within seconds, another tower block erased from gaza s skyline. Journalists for international networks who worked inside rushed out after a warning from israel that it was about to strike. It says hamas intelligence used the building. Earlier, a barrage of rockets hit tel aviv for the first time in two days, with deadly results. Emergency services unable to save a man here. In gaza there has been almost no time to mourn as the numbers killed mount up. Mohammed lost almost everyone in his family. His wife and their children were staying with her brother when the missi
prince charles and camilla view some of the floral tributes laid in memory of his father, as more details are released about the duke of edinburgh s funeral. two years after a huge fire devastated notre dame cathedral in paris, workers are finally preparing to begin the vast restoration project. this is one of the thousand oak trees that have been specially selected for notre dame. smaller tree trunks will be used to rebuild the medieval rafters. big ones like this will go to reconstruct the spire. and while the coronavirus pandemic has kept most humans locked down, it s given the animal world rather more freedom. we thought that animals for example, penguins in south africa have survived perfectly well, we think. but in fact, when we retreated we discovered that the penguins actually normally would be doing very much better than they have been doing for decades. and coming up on the bbc news channel. 0le gunnar solskjaer warns his side not to blow their two goal advantag