A bad day in baku for britain s lando norris as his formula one title hopes suffer a blow in qualifying for the azerbaijan grand prix. Also coming up on sportsday before 7. . . Red roses in bloom england make it 17 matches also coming up on sportsday before. . Red roses in bloom england make it 17 matches unbeaten as they see of the world champions new zealand, and defending champions somerset beat surrey to reach the t20 blast final we ll have the latest from edgbaston as they take on gloucestershire. Welcome along, thank you forjoining us. We start with the shock of the season so far in the premier league liverpool s winning start under new manager arne slot has come to a crashing end thanks to an outstanding performance from nottingham forest who ve got their first win at anfield in over 55 years. Joyous celebrations for manager nuno espirito santo and his team at the end as forest tasted victory here for the first time since february 1969. Substitue callum hudson odoi with
The eastern part of romania. Authorities are creating displacement camps and sending emergency aid to those forced to evacuate their homes. The cyclone rains have also hit several other countries in the region including the czech republic, where 38 locations have declared the highest flood alert. Authorities there say the worst rainfall and flood risk should be experienced in the coming 2a to 48 hours. Poland, too, has also experienced heavy rain. Our correspondent in warsaw, adam easton, has the latest. Well, what this cyclone is doing, catherine, is causing extremely heavy rainfall which is leading to dangerously high river levels water levels in the rivers across the region. Many rivers have burst their banks, and that s causing flooding in many countries particularly as you mentioned in romania, where four people have been found dead in the east of the country by the river danube delta. 5,000 homes have been damaged in the flooding and the romanian authorities have, as you sa
Say the worst rainfall and flood risk should be experienced in the coming 2a to 48 hours. Poland, too, has also experienced heavy rain. The government in poland has warned of a critical night ahead with the country facing severe flooding. Authorities have shut a border crossing with the czech republic after a river flooded its banks. They ve also closed several roads and halted trains. Polish prime minister donald tusk has been visiting flooded areas in silesia. Translation: the low pressure that brought translation: the low pressure that brought these translation: the low pressure that brought these heavy translation: the low pressure that brought these heavy rains i that brought these heavy rains to poland and the czech republic is not entirely predictable. These forecasts has changed within 48 was but generally they are not optimistic. What awaits us tonight and part of sunday will be heavier, record breaking rainfall in many places. Our correspondent in warsaw adam easton h
In england and wales. That policy sees the proportion of sentences which some inmates must serve behind bars temporarily cut from 50% to a0%. But latest government figures suggest more than a quarter of prisoners will go on to reoffend within a year of being released. The problem is there are no guarantees that anybody who is released early will not reoffend, because we ve got to do ourjob in our prisons of trying to rehabilitate people. We simply cannot do that if they re used as human warehouses and we re overcrowded. We must be given a chance to give people hope. The ministry ofjustice says it cannot comment on individual cases but insists that anyone who breaks their licence conditions upon release, or who commits further crimes, will be punished, and the government says without the early release scheme, police would not be able to make arrests and the courts would not be able to hold trials. The prison population in england and wales has dropped by more than 2,000 in a week follow
Volodymyr zelensky has accused the west of emboldening vladimir putin with its hesitation over long range missiles. President biden and sir keir starmer had met to decide whether to allow kyiv to use storm shadow missiles against targets inside russia. I don t think much about vladimir putin. Despite this put down there is still a cautious approach and no official change in policy. This wasn t a meeting about a particular capability, that wasn t why we got our heads down today. It was to allow ourselves the space, which we took, and the time, which we took, to have a strategic discussion. These long range missiles are at the heart of the talks. The uk already supplies storm shadows to ukraine, but only for use within ukraine. The coming weeks could see that the change with them being allowed to be fired into russia at military installations. Some military observers say ukraine isjustified in wanting to stop the attacks at source. Now, what may happen here is some of us may get loosened