over the reins and retire. and coming up in the sport on bbc news. with severe thunderstorms on the horizon, the course at augusta has been cleared ahead of this the start of this year s masters. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. a service of hope and reconciliation has been held in westminster abbey a fortnight after the attack near the houses of parliament. khalid masood drove a car into pedestrians on westminster bridge, killing three people, and fatally stabbing a police officer, before he was shot dead. the duke and duchess of cambridge and prince harryjoined families and the emergency services attending the multi faith service. ina in a moment we will be for the first time from melissa cochrane who was injured in the attack and whose husband was killed. but first. our royal correspondent nicholas witchell reports. you lot, get undercover now! get undercover! two weeks ago the area around the abbey at westminster was caught up in the chaos of that aftern
anniversary. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the un security council has held an emergency session to discuss the suspected gas attack on a rebel held town in syria. the attack is believed to have killed more than 70 people, including children. the syrian government has denied responsibility, while its ally russia says the gas came from rebel weapons on the ground. but those claims have been widely rejected by western governments, as our chief international correspondent lyse doucet reports. all this five year old knows is he went to sleep in his spider man suit and he woke up in a nightmare. now he s in hospital bed, grandparents at his side. his father is among the dead. the many victims of a toxic cloud which enveloped their village yesterday. breathing in poisonous gases as they slept. my grandchildren were sleeping, everyone woke up to a loud noise. they went outside and that is when they came across the chemical attack. they just fell to the floor and died. world
to help homeless people living on the streets. good morning. welcome to bbc newsroom live. a father who refused to pay a fine after taking his daughter out of school for an unauthorised holiday has lost his case at the supreme court. jon platt, who s from the isle of wight, had argued that all the law required of him was to ensure that his child attended school regularly. the high court had originally ruled that the holiday did not constitute regular absenteeism but this morning the supreme court has overturned thatjudgement. this is how lady hale announced the ruling. unauthorised absences have a disruptive effect. not only on the education of the individual child, but also on the work of other pupils and of their teachers. if one pupil can be taken out whenever it suits the parent, then so can others. different pupils might be taken out at different times, multiplying the disruptive effect. any educational system expects people to keep the rules. not to do so is unfair to t
up if you have points you want to pick up on you can contact us on social media. 0n on every edition of outside source we pull together all the elements of all the most relevant stories. 0ne of our reporters has been speaking about bashar al assad has been talking about the alleged chemical weapons attack. stage one, the propaganda, stage two, the military attack, that is what we believe is happening. 0nly 48 hours between the play and the attacks, no investigation, no concrete evidence about anything. the only thing was allegations and propaganda and then a strike. mr assad thinks the attack was fabricated to justify us military action. multiple sources suggest over 80 people died. independent tests on some victims show the presence of a nerve agent such as sarin. it s also important to note that this new syrian claim contradicts this russian account of what happened. according to the objective data of the russian airspace control, syrian aviation struck a large terrorist