taking centre stage rebecca welch will become the first female referee of a premier league game. brighton and west ham are hoping tojoin liverpool in bypassing the europa league playoff round with an immediate place in the last 16 a possible prize tonight. seven wickets, but a bit of sunburn england s bowlers have a tough first day of the women s test against india. also coming up on sportsday a world champion, an olympic champion and pete the horse they re all part of the international horse show in london this week. hello again. will come along to sportsday this evening. the premier league will have a female referee take charge of one of its matches for the first time. it represents another landmark along a path of growing influence of female officials in men s sport. joy neville has been doing it in rugby union since 2016. while at the last men s rugby league world cup, kasey badger made history by taking charge of a game. this summer, sue redfern made the breakt
appropriately, from the artificial intelligence summit at bletchley park. the other big story this week, though, has been the quite eye popping testimony at the public inquiry into how the government handled various phases of the covid epidemic. and, i mean, it has massively, massively taken me back to those scary, uncertain days in early spring 2020. and i spent a lot of those days sat in this very studio and the person sat across from me and being very reassuring at all times was laura k, who s back in the studio. not in the studio. no, i m not. but i m logistically distanced today, not socially distanced. and i m very pleased to hear that i was reassuring back in those early days of march 2020. you were one of the only people i saw! well, i m pleased. well, it was very nice. we were a tiny little band of people, carrying on, trying to do ourjobs as everybody wondered what on earth was going on. and it s been a very strange experience watching this, hasn t it? because i was
hello, i m anna foster, this is bbc news life from jerusalem. live from jerusalem. the exit of foreign citizens from gaza has been stopped at least temporarily. no one has used the crossing so far today. we are hearing that border authorities will not permit foreign passport holders to cross into egypt until the injured people in gaza s hospitals are allowed to travel to rafah. hundreds of foreign citizens have escaped egypt through the crossing in the past few days. meanwhile, the diplomatic efforts to relieve the humanitarian crisis in gaza are stepping up again. the us secretary of state antony blinken is in amma meeting leaders from lebanon, qatar and jordan. mr blinken is pushing for pauses in the fighting in gaza. the regional leaders want an immediate ceasefire. but israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu insists there will be no temporary truce until all hostages are released. while in gaza, an official from the un agency for palestinian refugees warns there is
hello, i m anna foster. we begin with some breaking news about the rafah crossing, the exit of foreign citizens from gaza it appears has been stopped for now. none of them have come out of the crossing so far today. the egyptian authorities are suggesting that no foreign passport holders will be permitted to cross into egypt from gaza until injured people in gaza s hospitals are allowed to travel to rafa. hundreds of foreign citizens have escaped from gaza into egypt through the crossing in the last few days. i vejust been through the crossing in the last few days. i ve just been talking to our producer in cairo and he says that what is unclear at the moment is what is unclear at the moment is what bar is being put on this, whether it is all of the injured in hospitals in gaza or whether it is a question of the numbers actually rising again because there was nearly 80 injured palestinians who left through that crossing on the first day it was opened and that number has droppe
earth: episode one. no matter where you live, you probably noticed that 2023 was hot. in fact, the summer was the hottest on record. and as we continue to burn fossil fuels, the science says our planet will continue to get hotter. so how do we keep the cities we live in cool? well, there are some real life solutions here and now. i m carl nasman and this is future earth. welcome to the new series shining a light on the simple real world solutions we already have to help us solve the biggest challenge of our lifetimes. each week, we ll be taking you on a journey from our forests to the oceans, examining where we live, how we travel and what we eat. we ll show you some paths for tackling the climate crisis, meeting the innovators, action takers and climate heroes who are truly making a difference. coming up this week, we meet the volunteers working to keep the city of atlanta cool and keep these trees from disappearing. the simple solutions that are already making a difference,