Sport with sarah now. Straight to chester le street, where englands cricketers are in a must win match if theyre to keep their one Day Series against australia alive. England won the toss and chose to field and started strongly Jofra Archer with two wickets including the dIsmIssal of Steve Smith thanks to a great catch from brydon carse. But a late flurry of runs including an unbeaten 77 from Alex Carey Saw Australia set england 305 to win and englands chase has not started well losing two early wickets. England are currently 47 2 after 11 overs. Jackson brooks at the Crease Setting things up. Arsenal Manager Mikel Arteta has defended hIs sides tactics in their 2 2 draw with Manchester City insIsting they were normal. Having played the whole of the second half with ten men, arsenal were accused of Time Wasting against city, who eventually equalIsed in the 98th minute. Arteta has also alluded to the fact hIs team werent play acting, but instead had legitmate fitness Issues, which will i
Thousands of people have already left, those who remain have been told there are two safe routes to the south, one to the centre of the gaza strip and one along the coast. They have been told to move south. Israeli troops say they are preparing to hunt down and destroy hamas, which is regarded as a Terror Organisation by many western governments, including the uk. There are reports that hamas commander, who led the attack, is already dead. Officials say at least 2215 people have been killed so far in an israeli air strikes on gaza. Limited rates have already taken place and there are reports that bodies of some israeli hostages had been recovered. Those reports earlier in the media today. Later the Israeli Defence force denied that those that the hostages were snatched a week ago by hamas militants in raids which left this is the scene. 1300 people killed. There are tanks amassing on the boundary between gaza and israel. We have been watching these images for the last hour or so and ha
minister imran khan is freed from custody, a day after it was ruled his arrest on corruption charges was illegal. the fan of the royal family who came to see the coronation and ended up in handcuffs. and we re live in liverpool as the city prepares to host the eurovision song contest on behalf of ukraine. we now know which countries will be performing tomorrow. last night s semifinal saw australia and austria among those to go through. and the city does feel like it s embraced eurovision, there is already quite a party going on behind me in the fan zone! coming up on bbc news, david moyes praises his west ham side as they come from behind to beat az alkmaar in the first leg of their europa conference league semifinal.
89.3% of people aged 16 and over have had theirfirstjab. 81.5% are now double vaccinated. in an unprecedented diplomatic move, france has recalled its ambassadors to america and australia, following this week s s surprise announcement of a new security and defence pact between the us, australia and the uk. the move, which took the french, a nato ally, by surprise, also saw australia renege on an agreement to buy submarine technology from france. 0ur north america editorjon sopel is in washington now. the french, not consulted about this trilateral agreement and now expressing extreme irritation, to say the least. to say the very least. it is an extraordinary and i would say unprecedented move for the french to recall their ambassador from the united states. you almost need to