Koepka. It remains impossible to talk of a couple of major without mentioning tiger woods, but this will be a championship unlike any other. Most of the time, when you go toa tee, other. Most of the time, when you go to a tee, people yelling, that part is different. That is the new world we live in and we just have to get use we live in and we just have to get use to it. Dissident the longest gap between majors since the second world war. The tournament promises much, even if they will be no one there to see it. Adam wild, bbc news. Still to come on sportsday a decade after a life changing accident, we speak to wheelchair basketballer Sophie Carrigill about looking adversity in the eye and aiming for paralympic gold. And well have all the latest for you from the World Snooker championships at the crucible. When team gbs hockey players travelled to rio for the last olympic games, there was just one non white player in the squad thats men and women. Now, four years on, english hockey is being accused of having an endemic race issue in the national side. In a hard hitting letter signed by nine clubs, the organisation is urged to take action to tackle the problem. Gurmej singh pawar is chairman of barford tigers, an inner city birmingham based club who play in english hockeys third tier. When the whole blm movement started gaining traction a couple months ago, i saw england hockey put out a statement about the movement, and i is thought to myself, you cannot be the diversity and inclusion when you have presided over a system that definitely is not diverse and inclusive. I believe that this system that england has created as been built to benefitjust a small section of society, to create a leak structure which benefits the top clu bs structure which benefits the top clubs and clubs from a university system. I also think that england have just pushed hockey towards the southern counties, and they push the whole england set up towards the southern counties as well, which then only benefits, again, just a small section of society. I think, first of all, england hockey needs to reckon us publicly that there is a problem and need to openly state that, and second, i think they need to educate themselves internally as well, because i dont think at the moment that they fully grasp the issues and i think my thirdly, the need to put together a fully independent panel to advise them on education programmes, coaches, management, umpires, and that is not a panicked response, such as sending out invites one day after the guardian have contacted them for inclusion board. Needs to be a little been more structure and independent, like the kick it out system that exists in football. Well, england hockey said in response to the letter that diversity has been on their agenda for some time now. They say theyve set up an external Advisory Group to share and ascertain the facts around diversity and inclusion within our sport, so we can create a strategy based on first hand evidence. Snooker and Barry Hawkins is safely through his first round match at the World Snooker championship. But four time champion Stuart Higgins is in a real battle with norwegian kurt maflin. Lets get more from the bbc snooker team, steve davis and john parrott. It has been another very exciting day of snicker at the crucible. Snooker. How did you think gary hawkins performed . Pretty solid. Did what he had to do. I think it was a baptism of fire for the swiss player. And Barry Hawkins. For Barry Hawkins, nice, easy round. What wont be easy come a date with Neil Robinson in the second round next round. No. He can look forward to a better. 5, but Barry Hawkins knows he has been. He does not shy away from this big stage. We have been enjoying a good round of snooker between higgins and kurt maflin. This is been brilliant. This isa maflin. This is been brilliant. This is a test. A really high quality match, lust to be play for in the second session. We have seen some great snooker from kurt maflin. He looks confident out there stop loop yes, but higgins, a ticket has been his best session at the crucible. I think it has been. Great character, something perhaps missing from his game, but he is on the way up, he is moving in the right direction as a snooker player. He has got to sleep on the overnight lead 5 3, come back tomorrow, slightly the favourite, a few more eyes on it. Here is an easy one for you. Williams against and what do you thing about that match . Im going to. Laughter coming up at 7pm tonight. Ten years ago, teenager Sophie Carrigill was in a car accident while on holiday in the united states. The 16 year old from yorkshire broke her spinal cord and suffered serious internal injuries. She was left paralysed from the waist down but she eventually returned to sport and is now part of the Great Britain wheelchair basketball team. Shes been talking to the bbc about the moment that changed her life. I was bleeding internally, for my liver, had lost parts of my stomach and my intestines and my bowels were all damaged, punctured by lungs mccoy did a really good job. Along with that, i also broke my back and broke my spinal cord. When i first woke up, no one broke my spinal cord. When i first woke up, no one ever broke my spinal cord. When i first woke up, no one ever had to tell me that i wasnt going to walk again. I just knew. For some reason, i must have been taking a lot of information for the three weeks that i was information for the three weeks that iwas ina information for the three weeks that i was in a coma. But my parents were saying, what nurses were saying, so nobody ever had had that conversation with me, which im quite glad about, because i imagine thats a tough conversation to have, but i remember saying briefly to my mum,| but i remember saying briefly to my mum, i know im not quite to walk again. And then after that, we never really spoke about it. I remember my dad always told me when i accident first happened to you are not disabled, youre just different the abled. Having started playing wheelchair basketball and sort of developing my skills, i guess got scouted by the gb team, who were trying to recruit as many players as possible for after the london games. I always dreamt about the olympics asa i always dreamt about the olympics as a young kid, thinking, what could idoto as a young kid, thinking, what could ido to be as a young kid, thinking, what could i do to be that cool and compete for my country . Is the only thing missing out of my collection, is a paralympic one. An amazing tournament at the World Championship in 2018 and we came away with a silver metal, so second in the world is just amazing. Ten yea rs ten years is such a long time, really. Anyone would change, i think, throughout those years, but for me, i am just. I think, throughout those years, but for me, iamjust. I believe think, throughout those years, but for me, i am just. I believe and how strong i am. I would say to you, just dont give up. Never give up. I think thats the biggest thing that idid. I think thats the biggest thing that i did. I am always pushing to do Something Else or to challenge myself. Or to look adversity in the face and look at barriers and say, no, i face and look at barriers and say, no, lam face and look at barriers and say, no, i am going to still do that. Things might be more difficult, things might be different from what youre used to, but everything is still possible, and just do what you love and find a way to do it. Best of luck to sophie as she prepares for the peril and paralympics in tokyo. Just before we go, pakistan finished the first test at old trafford at 139 2, england desperate to make inroads when the action resumes. But thats offer must on sportsday. Thanks for watching. All from us on sportsday. Good evening. Youre watching bbc news. The mayor of luton has stepped down from his role today after breaking coronavirus guidelines to attend a large garden gathering. Councillor tahir malik said he regretted his actions and believed it was in the towns best interests for him to resign. He was forced to apologise last month after he was pictured with two other councillors at an Outdoor Party with his mask hanging below his face. Bbc look easts reporter sam read has been following the story, and we can speak to him now. Sam, just tell us a bit more about just what happened. This was a party, but it was all about the context where it was happening, because luton had the highest rates of coronavirus in southern england at the time, when pools, swimming pools could open at that time, they could not. This film emerges which shows three labour councillors from Luton Council, at a gathering, bridging those rules. At the time, all of the three councillors apologised, and the mayor tahir malik said the disciplinary process is to come through initially, but tonight he says, after talking to his family, he says it is the time to step down. He has apologised again. He says there were no excuses and others should learn from all of this. We have also had a state from the leader of Luton Council a statement. She says he has made a fantastic contribution to luton overall and this is the right decision and he is right to go. What has been the reaction to this news . There is a real dividing line to this, some people have said this is a mistake, that youve got to move on. Others have said what we have heard on a national scale, it is one rule for one and one row for another. People of said. Is not like Greater Manchester where there is great political power with the rule, so this was always more about symbolism, but the opposition liberal democrats, as you imagine, say there are more questions to answer. In urban complaints now but all three councillors at this gathering and the council say they are engaged in the normal process. Many thanks. That is sam read reporting there. Thank you. Now its time for a look at the weather with alina jenkins. Hello. For those that have had a lot of rain recently, there are some drier days ahead. But for those who need the rain, very little, im afraid, in this forecast. Bit of rain to clear way through this evening and overnight, left over from this afternoon, across parts of Northern England and scotland. But as that clears away into the north sea, most places become mainly dry overnight. A lot of cloud, though, some patchy mist and fog another mild, muggy night across much of england and wales. Much fresher than it was last night across scotland. For thursday, most of us are going to start the day with a fair amount of cloud, thick enough perhaps for some patchy, light rain and drizzle for a time across southern counties of england. But for most, its a dry day. The cloud will thin and break, so we should all see some spells of sunshine. Its not as windy as it has been recently. Still quite breezy for the western isles, but certainly feeling warmer around Northern Ireland and the far north of england compared to recently. Temperatures here in the low 205 for many, up to 26 or 27 across the southeastern quarter of england. And those temperatures keep on rising as we go into friday, potentially up to around 35 celsius across southeast england. And on bbc one we nowjoin the bbcs news teams where you are. This is bbc news with the latest headlines for viewers in the uk and around the world. A two week state of emergency is declared in beirut following last nights deadly explosion. A number of port officials have been placed under house arrest, pending an investigation. Rescuers continue to sift through the rubble searching for survivors. At least 135 people were killed, many are still missing and thousands injured. Many are still missing live the war and never seen like i live the war and never seen a day like that moment. Already, the Health Care System is about to collapse. And this is what is left of the port. Almost all of the lebanons food was imported through here
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