Football. Well start with football, and one of the games Greats Rafael Varane has announced his retirement at the age of 31. The french World Cup Winner injured his knee last month on his debut for newly promoted como in serie a, and its forced him call time on his career. He won the Fa Cup with Manchester United last season, but the defender will be most closely associated with Real Madrid before that, a 10 year spell the Spanish Giants that saw him win 18 trophies including three La Liga titles and four Champions Leagues. He was capped 93 times for his country, winning the World Cup in 2018 Manchester United start their Europa League Campaign later. They face dutch Side Fc Twente at old trafford. Its the club where the united manager erik ten hag made his name as a player and then cut his teeth as a coach under Steve Mclaren at the time. Ten hag says he still has a soft spot for his former side and would rather not be playing them but knows the competition offers a path to the Champi
Arsenal players chase off armed carjackers and escape unharmed, tweeting this morning, were fine. A game changer treatment for women with a hereditary form of Ovarian Cancer, will be made more widely available on the nhs. Tens of thousands of gamers gather in new york for the World Championship of fortnite with more prize money on offer to the winners than wimbledon. Coming up on afternoon live, all the sport. After yesterday was abandoned with threats of thunderstorms, its all heading towards a lightning fast finish at lords. Englands bowlers striking again and again in their one of test match against ireland. More on a record breaking day, very shortly. A lot of the relief for commuters this morning. It is cooler and fresher today but we still have heavy showers and thunderstorms but we have lost the peak of the heatwave. All the details for the weekend and about 30 minutes. Also coming up. Meet 16 year old hollie, who is set to make Rugby League History this weekend as the youngest
So i know, i have children as well and so itll make you feel, put that spirit, in your heart that you can go in there and do what you have got to deal and come back out and ijust thank god i am able to compete and compete at the highest level. Every timei compete at the highest level. Every time i have got to fight, you know, and makes me think that you can go on there and you may not get out. But we are the craziest people, i say, all of us fighters have a Mental Illness because we fight each other. We are crazy. But boxing is one of those things that will grab you and hold you tight. It is a year round sport. It is an emotional support as well. Netball lastly where jess thirlby has been named as the new head coach of the england team succeeding tracey neville. When she was 13, thirlby was told there had been a mistake and she was too young to have trials for the national team. 26 years later after a 15 Year International career she says she wants to build on the success that neville
With club side, jiang su suning, with the reported wage, a Million Pounds a week. It isa it is a cooler and cloudier weekend for all of us. There will be some rain around as well but it is not going to be a complete wash out. Join related for all the details. Its saturday 27th july. Our top story. Donald trump says the uk and United States are working on what he called a very substantial post brexit trade deal. The president spoke with borisjohnson on the phone yesterday and claimed trade could be worth up to five times higher than current levels. Boris and i just spoke. I congratulated him and hes all set to go. Hes gonna be i think hell be do a greatjob. Were working already on a trade agreement. And i think it will be a very substantial trade agreement. You know, we can do with the uk we can do three to four times we were actually impeded by their relationship with the european union. We were very much impeded on trade. Lets get more on this now from our Political Correspondent tom