Hello and welcome to sportsday, with me 0lly foster and ben croucher. Thanks forjoining us. Heres whats been making the headlines on this scorching saturday joy for pakistan, they beat afghanistan in a world cup thriller and thats very bad news for england its a double for the dutch, they beat italy to reach the womens world cup semi finals. Charles leclerc takes pole for ferrari at the austrian grand prix but Lewis Hamilton is penalised by stewards and bumped down to fifth also coming up in the programme. Lets play ball. London prepares to host Major League Baseballs first game in europe. Evening, weve had some fantastic games at the cricket world cup recently. Todays match at headingley went down to the final over as pakistan pipped afghanistan to win by three wickets and keep their tournament alive. They are now up to fourth in the standings at englands expense. Well have the latest from edgbaston ahead of their game against india tomorrow, but first heres how pakistan stormed into
Good evening. The United States and china have agreed to resume talks to ease the trade war between the worlds two largest economies. President trump and the chinese leader, xijinping, reached the agreement at the 620 summit injapan. As part of the truce, mr trump said American Companies can once again sell components to the chinese tech giant huawei, ending a us ban on such sales. From osaka, nick bryant sent this report. This was the day when the 620 summit of the worlds wealthiest nations essentially became a g2, these talks between donald trump and xijinping by far the most consequential meeting of this global gathering. It ended with a ceasefire in the trade war, an agreement to restart talks that fell apart last month. But the us president made a major concession, lifting some restrictions on huawei, the chinese tech giant at the centre of whats felt like a commercial cold war. We had a very good meeting with president xi of china. Excellent, i would say excellent. As good as it
Ina in a moment we will have sportsday but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. At 6 50pm we will be speaking to a humanitarian rights activist about the damning oxfam sex abuse report. At eight oclock the latest from the battle to be the next conservative leader and Prime Minister as rival candidates set out their policies. And at 10 1i0pm candidates set out their policies. And at10 40pm and candidates set out their policies. And at 10 1i0pm and 11 30pm we will ta ke and at 10 1i0pm and 11 30pm we will take a look at tomorrows front pages. That is all head for you on bbc news but now it is sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday. Coming up on the programme. The road to euro 2020 continues but can scotland pull off a shock win against the team ranked world number one . The wait is over for the United States as the defending champions begin their bid for a fourth world cup title. But the waiting continues in bristol as a record third game is rained off at t
The contest to become the next Prime Minister will intensify on tuesday when tory mps cast their votes in their second secret ballot. Ontenders will need to secure at least 33 votes. Now on bbc news live to singapore for Asia Business report. Jet airways bankruptcy. Creditors to start Insolvency Proceedings against the debt laden indian carrier. And turning trash into tracksuits. 0ur global sportswear brands are tackling the rising tide of plastic pollution. Hello and welcome to Asia Business report. Im sharanjit leyl. West arthurjet airways, because creditors are to begin Insolvency Proceedings against the stricken indian airline. We start with. Theyre trying to find a suitable buyerfor theyre trying to find a suitable buyer for what was once the countrys biggest carrier. Ellis taylor told me how the shutdown will impact the Aviation Industry. In some ways, the indian Aviation Industry has already adjusted to shutdown ofjet airways. This has not operated afloat since the 17th of april
A warm welcome to the programme, briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And we would like to hear from you about facebooks soon to be launched cryptocurrency. Will you be signing up . Do you trust facebook with your spending . Get in touch. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. The United States is to deploy another 1,000 troops to the middle east, as tensions rise with iran. The us military has released what it says is further proof that iran was behind the attacks on two oil tankers in the gulf of oman last week. The government in tehran has denied any involvement. 0ur north america correspondent peter bowes reports. More evidence that iran is to blame. These are the photographs the pentagon says offer further proof that the attacks on two tankers in the gulf of oman were carried out by iranian forces. This image shows what the us military describes as the remnants of the magnetic attachment device of an unexploded limpet mine placed on one of the tan