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as now it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. goodnight. hello and welcome to sportsday i m gavin ramjaun. former wimbledon champion simona halep is banned forfour years over intentional anti doping violations, according to a tribunal. football s oldest fixture celebrates a landmark anniversary. it s scotland against england at hampden, and we ll have all the build up. and england s tom curry is banned for two matches following the early red card in the world cup win over argentina. we ll hear what it means for the side. also coming up on sportsday. and the cruellest of blows for aaron rodgers the star nfl quarterback ruled out for the season during the opening stages of his new team s victory. hello there and welcome along to sportsday. and we start with some developing news this afternoon the former wimbledon champion simona halep has been banned from tennis for four years, after a tribunalfound her in bre ....
overshadowed spain s world cup winning moment a kiss from the federation president that s brought three weeks of fallout. now, luis rubiales has stood down from his post. you re going to resign? yes, cos i cannot continue my work. in this situation now, i think i have to do. the player he kissed, jenni hermoso, said it wasn t consensual and football s world governing body had already taken action. rubiales is currently suspended by fifa from all football activity. tonight, he added in his statement: waiting and holding on is not going to contribute to anything positive, neither to the federation nor to spanish football . last month, rubiales had refused to resign, but as he stayed at the helm, more and more spanish players said they would refuse to play. much of the women s squad remain on strike. rubiales now follows the winning coach in leaving his position. the former president says he wants to bring stability as spain bid to host the men s world cup. for the wo ....
and victory for novak djokovic at the us open as he equals margaret court s all time record of 2a major singles titles. and coming up on bbc news: we look ahead to wales against latvia in riga. a win is all but essential for rob page s side as they try to automatically qualify for next summer s euros. the retailer wilko is set disappear from uk high streets, after a rescue deal for the chain collapsed over the weekend. all of its 400 stores across the uk will close by early october, the gmb union has said. it was hoped that a bid from the billionaire owner of hmv would save 300 shops, but rising costs complicated the deal. it leaves the future of more than 12,000 workers and hundreds of stores uncertain. 0ur cost of living correspondent colletta smith has been speaking to shoppers in greater manchester. they always had the stuff in there and it was good stuff. i m just gutted. in and it was good stuff. i m “ust cutted. . ., ., , gutted. in the corner of this showing ....
been left standing. residents are searching through the rubble in hope of finding survivors or belongings as they wait for help. the red cross has warned time is running out to prevent what it calls a disaster within a disaster if water and food aid don t reach survivors soon. at least 300,000 people have been impacted by the quake that s according to un estimates. disaster experts from the us arrived in morocco on sunday to help assess the damage and response. the moroccan government says it has accepted aid from four other countries the uk, spain, qatar and the uae. meanwhile on the ground, aid groups are working to help survivors. the red cross and red crescent federation says, quote, the search and rescue effort is the focus at this point and trying to get heavy machinery into those remote areas of the atlas mountains to help with that is a priority. our partner on the ground the moroccan red crescent is really working to provide first aid ....
katzir. 47 years old, he was seized from nir oz in the early hours of october the 7th in southern israel. during that assault, his father was murdered, while his mother was abducted then later released. the israeli army said the body of elad katzir was retrieved from the khan younis area of southern gaza. it once a day more to do bring the hostages home but also change the way it is fighting the war. presidentjoe biden of the united states, one of israel s strongest allies from the beginning of the war has in the past few days significantly toughened his language. in what was widely described as a very tense telephone conversation on thursday, israel s rai mr benjamin netanyahu, he warned if israel didn t change the way that they were fighting the war, america would have to change its s policy. the us and many other countries around the world are asking israel to do much more to get aid into gaza, protect civilians, and bring about a ceasefire which could bring the host ....