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Our Ireland Correspondent Sara Girvin reports. After years of strained relations, this was the Moment Sir Keir starmer was given A Hundred Thousand welcomes to dublin. There were smiles and handshakes as he and his irish counterpart were presented with football jerseys. This will be proudly worn in north london before too long. Both leaders said this was an opportunity to renew and deepen the friendship between britain and ireland. I know as two new leaders of our respective countries, we both s...

Beating World Number one Iga Swiatek on thursday. She followed that up in her semi with a battling victory over the czech player Karolina Muchova 1 6, 6 4, 6 2. It isa it is a childhood dream, what i wanted when i was a kid. It is a lot of work, a lot of Hard Work Put in and you couldnt even imagine how much goes into it. It would mean the world to me. Imjust it. It would mean the world to me. Im just happy to be in a final, but i come here to want to win the title. So here is whats to come late...

The paralympic champion. And the Winning Streak continues for Paralympics Gb as they build on the 12 golds they won on super sunday. And on sportsday later on the hour in Bbc News both champions are now out of the Us Open at flushing Meadows Coco Gauff bowing out in the fourth round to fellow american emma navarro. Good afternoon, and welcome to the Bbc News at one. Ofsted inspectors will no longer Rate State schools in england with one word grades, like outstanding or inadequate. A new system o...

Of the summer for england as they beat Sri Lanka in the second test at lords. Also coming up on sportsday before 8pm. Marc marquez ends a three year Barren Run to win the spanish motogp. And 15 stages in to the vuelta a espana, but its still not clear whos going to win the Red Jersey yet. Welcome along, thank you forjoining us. We start at Old Trafford, where before the Game Manchester united manager erik ten hag had asked his team to bring the fire, but it was liverpool who burnt far brighter t...

We managed to be world champions, but this is going to motivate a lot of young women to play football and other sports. Its wonderful. Translation ive been playing football since i was little. I feel like i was them. I wish i was there to celebrate. Its so exciting. The only goal of the game came from the spanish captain olga carmona, who slotted the winner past goalkeeper mary earps in the first half. It means englands wait to win a first womens world cup title goes on. In london, there were te...

Programme. Could you hazard a guess as to why Ocean Temperatures are so vastly greater at the moment than they ordinarily would be . Vastly greater at the moment than they ordinarily would be . There are a number of they ordinarily would be . There are a number of theories they ordinarily would be . There are a number of theories being they ordinarily would be . There are| a number of theories being explored at the moment by climate scientists. The first, youve already mentioned, is this transit...

Its been four weeks since he apparently evaded an order to fly back to the us, and made his way to the Demilitarised Zone which separates the two koreas before running to the northern side. Pyongyang has now claimed private king was driven to come to north korea because of inhuman maltreatment and Racial Discrimination while serving in the us army. And the State News Agency goes on to claim that private king has admitted to crossing illegally, and has asked for refuge in the north. It is the fir...

Those earlier rumours from washington had sent pulses racing among some people, hoping that there may be an imminent agreement for a cease fire, however temporary, between hamas and israel. And the hamas delegation arriving in cairo today for the talks also expressed hope that a deal could be reached. And again, Optimism Sort of grew, but there were significant obstacles. And anybody covering this story over the last few months will know that often hopes of a ceasefire are dashed by realities on...

Some thundery, but there will be some thundery, but there will be some sunshine around. Because the air is coming down from the north, a cool direction, these temperatures are below par, generally the mid to high teens for most, 20 or 21 in the south east. Eitherthe high teens for most, 20 or 21 in the south east. Either the heaviest of the showers Eastern Scotland and eastern england, some of them could be quite thundery and could cause some localised flooding. Further west, a better chance of ...

The first place. More on that breaking story on the bbc sport website. Two time winnersjeonbuk were held to a 1 1 by ulsan draw in the first leg of their all korean semi final of the afc Champions League. It tookjeonbuk less than four minutes to make the breakthrough as song min kyu made no mistake from close range. The hosts were handed a great opportuity to double their lead from the spot 16 minutes later when lee dong jun was fouled for a penalty but brazilian thiago orobo was unable to capit...