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St michaels mount, a remote island only accessible by boat or at low tide, is advertising for a live—in employee to work at its medieval castle. andrea ormsby has been to find out more. they say an englishmans home is his castle. well, st michaels mount is quite literally that for around 30 people. now theres room for one more, a live—in castle officer. weve had an overwhelming response, which has been fantastic. we need people who are happy with boats, happy with heights. i just think a rea...

This is what were trying to put out. i suggest you look at this rocket, your viewers look at this rocket and understand that we are defending our lives against a terror organisation that is out to kill us. they dont need an iron dome. their iron dome is very simple, stop attacking israel and all gaza citizens will be safe, thats the iron dome that we suggest. the bbc�*s paul adams is injerusalem. earlier, iasked him if there was any sign of the conflict ending anytime soon. well, you look at t...

Israel will continue hitting the hamas terror group until we feel and understand that we reached our objectives. you know, hamas decided to start this round, but they are not going to decide when to end it. you cantjust shoot rockets on israeli citizens unprovoked and then hope for the best. but the rockets are still flying. hamas says it can keep this up for months. it almost certainly cant, but the group is not about to admit defeat. an american envoy has been here since friday. diplomatic eff...

But it is there if people needed. as fire investigators begin their work, george hinds parents said they were devastated at the loss of their beautiful and precious son and had no words to describe how they were feeling. paul murphy, bbc news, heysham. now its time for a look at the weather. hello. it may come as a shock to those of you who sat under sunny skies on sunday, but elsewhere, there was some severe storms, some flash flooding and also this was sent into us from one of our weather watc...

And this pandemic — even in places where people have been completely vaccinated. —— to end this pandemic. new deals with different vaccine suppliers and manufacturers are already under way to try and get the covax scheme back on track. but right now, theres a gaping hole in supplies which is threatening the global plan to end this pandemic. tulip mazumdar, bbc news. as much of the uk looks forward to easing the lockdown, theres a warning for people to be cautious because of a rise in cases...

Good evening. some of you will spend the day under sunny skies, blissfully unaware how disturbed the atmosphere has been. so disturbed, in fact, that we saw this area close to the somerset coast. a funnel cloud which may have had impacts on the ground, making it a tornado. and we continue that sort of disturbed atmosphere as we go through the next few days, in fact, with some more thundery downpours changing the areas from one day to the next. staying on the cool side, too, and then a spell of p...

Were combatants, not civilians. its a hard claim to verify — hamas is very secretive. how long will this go on? pressure for it to end is building, but israel says its up to hamas. israel will continue hitting the hamas terror group until we feel and understand that we reached our objectives. you know, hamas decided to start this round, but they are not going to decide when to end it. they cant just shoot rockets on israeli citizens unprovoked and then hope for the best. but the rockets are st...

In the past, once the trees had been felled in strung together, the rafters would ride them down the river to the destination. today, with travellers on board, the rafts are safer. there are life jackets, handrails and a bench plus additional measures for coronavirus, like masks and reduced capacity. but its still very open to the elements. so were approaching the first rapid and its meant to be the steepest and most exciting. hang on! woo! whoa! this is great! laughter.

This is the slower part of the ride, so to speak, but its just fascinating to think this is what they would have been doing 600 years ago to transport all the logs down to the city to make the temples and the shrines. so, were approaching a rapid now and we stand up so we dont get too wet. here we go! woo! laughter. whoa! on the side! so, that was our last rapid. it so interesting to watch these four guys navigate this seven—tonne log raft down a riverjust like they would have 600 years ago.

This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. the un pleads for peace, as the conflict between israel and palestinians in gaza enters its seventh day — ten children are among the dead following an israeli air strike on gaza. but theres no sign of a ceasefire, as the attacks continue, with each side accusing each other. israel is persecuting our people, committing war crimes and crimes against humanity. hamas is criminally attacking us from civilian neig...