Yesterday. And coming up in half an hour, David Sillito reports on the shortlisted buildings including the winner for the 2019 Riba Stirling prize, one of the most prestigious awards in architecture. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. Thereve been fierce clashes between turkish troops and kurdish militias in northeastern syria. Much of the fighting has been in the border area near ras al ain. Turkey claims its military has entered the town, but the kurdish Led Syrian Democratic forces dispute this. Since fighting broke out on wednesday, nearly 50 civilians are believed to have been killed and more than 100,000 people have fled their homes. Ankara says it wants to establish a 20 mile deep buffer zone, across the frontier with syria, to keep out kurdish militias and resettle syrian refugees. From akchakale on the turkish side of the border our middle east correspondent, martin patience, has sent us this report. Despite the growing international pressure, turkeys not backing down. At t
Part of this challenge and every time they go past this point near the finishing line, they rotate. Just one of the many steps that have been taken by the organisers to ensure that kipchoge ducks under that two hour mark. Special shoes propelled the kenyan further forward with each pace. They calculated the optimum course and weather, taking into account his biorhythms and even projected a laser onto the road. But all this means it cant be ratified as a world record by athletics world governing body. Hes pointing. Come on, he says. As the finish line approached, the pacemakers stepped away and kipchoge strode into history. Into the final 20 seconds, Eliud Kipchoge. Looks over his shoulder. 1 59 40 the unofficial time. Im the happiest man to run under two hours. In order to inspire many people. To tell people that no human is limited. You can do it. I expect more of that, for all of the world to run under two hours. Already a great athlete with world and olympic titles, kipchoge will no
Two members of the public are praised for helping to stop a suspect who stabbed three people in Manchesters Arndale Shopping Centre yesterday. And well be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers, joe twyman and Yasmin Alibhai brown. Stay with us for that. Good evening. There have been fierce clashes between turkish troops and Kurdish Forces in northeastern syria. Since hostilities began on wednesday, nearly 50 civilians are thought to have died on both sides of the frontier, and more than a hundred thousand people have fled their homes. Much of todays fighting has been in the border area near ras al ain. The Turkish Military have entered the strategically important town, but theyre facing stiff resistance from the kurdish led, Syrian Democratic forces. Ankara says it wants to establish a 20 mile deep buffer zone across the frontier with syria, to keep out kurdish militias and resettle syrian refugees. From the turkish side of the border, heres our International Corresp
ridden by derek fox. at least three people have been killed in sudan, in heavy fighting between the army and paramilitary forces in the capital, khartoum. a man is pinned down and arrested by security staff in japan as the prime minister, fumio kishida, is rushed to safety after an explosion. the french president has visited notre dame cathedral, which was nearly destroyed by fire four years ago. the restoration is expected to be finished on schedule. you re watching bbc news. and we want to bring you some breaking news. we are hearing the royal mail and the communication workers union have reached an agreement over pay and employment terms. the postal company cw have said in ajoint terms. the postal company cw have said in a joint statement. now, we understand executives are going to meet and consider the agreement on monday and tuesday this week. and thatis monday and tuesday this week. and that is following a year of talks and strikes. so agreement does seem to have been m
you re watching bbc news, now it is time for sports day. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m olly foster. this is what is coming up. the start was delayed by protestors, but there was a stunning finish from corach rambler to win the grand national. haaland hits the net again, manchester city narrow arsenal s lead at the top. and manchester united hold off brighton to reach the women s fa cup final. also coming up on sportsday. it s been another golden day for great britain at the european gymnastics championships in turkey. obviously, the goal is always to win so, yeah, that was probably the best routine of my life. welcome along. well, let s start at aintree, where corach rambler the 8 1 favourite has won the grand national. the race was delayed by m minutes. has won the grand national. animal rights activists had threatened to disrupt the world famous steeplechase and a number of protestors managed to get onto the course. so far, 23 arrests have been made. patrick geare