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We will have more on all of those stories coming up. First, lets cross and catch up with the sport headlines. Sarah mulkerrins is there. Matthew, good evening. Lets start at the cricket at trent bridge, where australia are Chasing 316 to beat england in the first of five one day internationals. England won the toss and decided to bat with Ben Duckettjustifying his elevation to opener with 95 off 91 balls. He set up a good platform, didnt get to his century, with groans around the ground when he ...

Fraud. Ina in a moment it will be time for sportsday but will we look at what else is coming up on bbc news. We will be speaking to survival international, the Global Movement for tribal people about this the wildfires. And will be talking to the chairman of a Football Supporters Association asbury fc news expulsion. And at 10 1i0pm at 11 30pm we will look at what will be in the papers. I will bejoined by during foster, journalist at the guardian. That is all ahead here and bbc news. Its now tim...

Left behind but at the moment its certainly completely the opposite of what we have seen throughout the day when this hall where im standing now and the one beneath the arrival all were completely packed jam packed. Joshua long is a leading voice in hong kongs prodemocracy movement he says the territorys government isnt doing anything to address protesters demands. But its brutality does not get way out the can people might not be fully. Agree on what or the behavior years of protest or how home...

13 showed their resilience, their determination to win this game and we have had so many setbacks im really proud of the team, not only in this game but the whole season there have been so many setbacks and they can deal with it. There are very strong it helps also that the defence behind us and we got the win. Defence behind us and we got the win. So lets take a look at how those semifinals line up. Manchester united taking on coventry, who got the better of wolves in another late thriller this...

From the south, a hello, and welcome to sportsday im hugh ferris. Coming up on the programme. Galloping away from the field at cheltenham again. Galopin des champs wins back to back gold cups. And back to back gold cups. Im live at the Festival Witi The and im live at the festival with the trainer of Galopin Des Champs, Willie Mullins. The grand slam might be gone, but not many would rule ireland out of a second straight six nations title on the tournamen� ts final weekend. Tournaments final w...

President ial election, which is certain to hand ballots have been cast over Vladimir Putin another six years in power. Ballots have been cast over three days. There has been some vandalism and a number of arrests at Polling Stations, but the final result is not in doubt as mr putin has no credible opponent. It comes as supporters of the late Opposition Leader, Alexei Navalny, have urged people to turn out en masse at midday in each time zone and vote for any candidate other than mr putin or spo...

Welcome to the programme. Lets start with the europa league, where west ham have comfortably beaten freiburg to reach the last eight of the competition. West ham were 2 0 up at half time, to take a 2 1 lead on aggregate in the tie, then went on to win 5 0 on the night Mohamed Kudus with a brace to help them on the way to the win. It means david moyes has led the team to a european quarterfinal for the third year in a row. Hugely pleased with the goals and the level of the performance and how wel...

Then went on to win 5 0 on the night Mohamed Kudus with a brace to help them on the way to the win. It means david moyes has led the team to a european quarterfinal for the third year in a row. Hugely pleased with the goals and a level of the performance and how well the players did tonight. We were really unhappy from the first game. All the staff, the players, we felt we shouldnt have come out with the result we had. We had to live with that and try and put it right and tonight we did. There w...

To help them on the way to the win. It means david moyes has led the team to a European Quarter Finalfor the third year in a row. Hugely pleased with the goals and a level of the performance and a level of the performance and how well the players did tonight. We were really unhappy from the first game. All the staff, the players, we felt we shouldnt have come out with the result we had. We had to live with that and try and put it right and tonight we did. There were remarkable scenes as Bayer Le...

Had called on people to turn out at midday in moscow and other cities to spoil their ballots or vote for any other candidate. These were the scenes in moscow. Thereve been no Protest Chants the authorities warned that activists could be arrested. A Rights Monitoring Group in russia says more than 70 people have been detained. Vladimir putin is almost certain to win, giving him another six years in power. The kremlin has ensured he faces no credible opponent. Protests were also held at russian em...