championship. shortly, he will have a lot of sponsorship deals ahead too, a lot of instagram and x followers as well. he took his gcses just six months ago. i understand his next ambition is when he turned 17 later this month, to start to i7 later this month, to start to learn to drive! thank you very much, joe and carl! thank you very much, joe and carl! thank you. let s talk now to jamie caven, himself a former world youth champion of darts and now a director at the professional darts players association, where he oversees youth darts. jamie, first of all, how are you feeling about what has happened tonight with luke? high. yes, it has been phenomenal. . hi. he has probably got an older head on young shoulders. i have known him forfive or six years, and when i first met him, he showed signs then. he was only i! or 12, so he has been phenomenal through the event, and the media coverage has been mayhem, really, and that is just down to the fact that this young lad has take
in a us drone attack. it happened in the southeastern city of kerman, it s not clear at the moment what caused the explosions and if they were some sort of attack. we ll bring you more on that when we have it. explosions in iran are a ceremony where i ceremony was being held. in gaza, israel s military continues its campaign with shelling and air strikes of residential areas. the army also said it raided a weapons storage compound in the southern city of khan younis. and the israel defense forces are again dropping leaflets there, urging people to leave specified areas, designating them combat zones . the palestinian red crescent society says its headquarters was struck twice by israel bombardment killing at least five people, including a new born baby, and injuring three others. the chief of the world health organization condemned the attacks on tuesday, described the bombing as unconscionable. hundreds of displaced palestinians were seeking shelter at the premises. let s
hello, i m lucy hockings, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast moving news, interviews and reaction. we begin in the middle east and the aftermath of several acts of deadly violence in different countries which, it can be argued, are all linked in different ways. there s no end in sight to the fighting in gaza with israeli forces continuing with their military operation against hamas. there are reports of dozens more deaths following israeli air strikes in southern gaza. in lebanon, a funeral will be held shortly for a senior hamas figure the group s deputy leader who was one of several people killed in an explosion in beirut on tuesday. hezbollah a powerful paramilitary and political group in lebanon has blamed that atack on what it says was flagra nt israeli aggression. both hamas and hezbollah have close ties to iran which itself is holding a day of mourning, after 85 people were killed by explosions near an event to mark the anniversary of the d
and the japanese authorities say a coastguard aircraft involved in yesterday s fatal collision at tokyo s haneda airport wasn t cleared for take off. the smaller aeroplane collided with a japan airlines passengerjet on the runway, leading to a fireball and the deaths of five people. russia and ukraine have agreed to exchange hundreds of prisoners of war, after what moscow described as difficult negotiations. this programme continues on bbc one. today, two other parties are out of the starting blocks. on the eve of big speeches from the labour and conservative leaders, today we had a farage free reform uk press conference. and a lib dem stunt. richard tice, the reform leader, and daisy cooper, deputy leader of the lib dems, are here. all politicians are up against some grim economic warnings. i think it s more likely than not we will see the uk entering recession over the course of 202a. it is a coin toss if you look at economic forecasts. so how will the economy play into t
the end, he still showed a lot of great and it was a really tough game, one of the hardest games had been involved in. it is a long three weeks, a gruelling tournament but over the last three months i have achieved so much and all that experience has paid off in the end. despite losing in the final, 16 year old luke littler, is the one whose stolen the show at alexandra palace. there have been record viewing figures and a huge rise in interest in the sport on the back of his amazing run in the tournament. no one likes losing and i have not really lost much blood to lose on that stage, you can t be angry at yourself. the only thing i was angry with i was losing a lot of legs, i was chasing every set from about five or six games, so i have another seven for ten years to come. i ve got a lot of experience and stage experience myself, i m in the top 32 so it is another busy year ahead. i hope i ve captured loads of young people s mines to get on the board and try it out and if th