Offence, that she more than any other athlete should understand that if you have taken anything it is your responsibility to tell people, to declare it on the correct literature. Her defence was that the reason for her failed test in february was that she had visited a hospital where she had received treatment for an eight the pregnancy, one outside the womb, and had received a blood transfusion. Atopic. She never spoke about the pregnancy order spoke about it on any anti doping literature, and did not mention it when the officials visited her, because to have a pregnancy like this, she said, was a taboo. She didnt even tell her husband, who is also her coach. To some sad news from the world of baseball now, and former Philadelphia Phillies pitcher roy halladay has died after a plane he was flying crashed into the gulf of mexico on tuesday. The ao year old retired in 2013 after 16 seasons in major league baseball, 12 with the toronto bluejays and four with the phillies. He won two cy y
Putting your regime in grave danger. Two of the Big Six Energy companies are looking to merge. Im taking a look at what that will mean for their millions of customers. In sport andy murray targets a return to competitive tennis next year. The former world number one has been out of action with a hip injury, but faced Roger Federer in a Charity Match in glasgow last night. Carol has the weather. Good morning. It is a cold start to the day, there is quite a bit of frost around, some patchy mist and fog but for most it will be dry and sunny. However, in the south east there is more cloud, some rain and drizzle, and we have got some wet and windy weather coming in from the north west. I will have more details on that 15 minutes. In 15 minutes. Good morning. First, our main story downing street is examining new information about the International Development secretarys unauthorised contacts with senior Israeli Government officials. Priti patel apologised for meeting israeli Prime Minister B
Also this hour who ewe looking at . How sheep can be trained to recognise a familiar face from a photo including barak 0bama and the bbcs fiona bruce. Good morning. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. The future of the International Development secretary, priti patel, is in doubt after details emerged of further undisclosed meetings she had with israeli politicians. Ms patel is currently flying back from africa, after being ordered to return to the uk by the Prime Minister. She apologised to theresa may on monday about unauthorised meetings with israeli politicians in august, but it appears she did not reveal details of further meetings held in september. Joining us from westminster is our assistant Political Editor norman smith. Is there any course of action open to theresa may other than to sack priti patel . It is very hard to see any other outcome, all the signs are priti patel, when she landed back in london, will be summoned to meet the Prime Minister, and she will be asked to give her
First, wales were playing in their first game since missing out on the world cup play offs, but a trip to paris without gareth bale proved a step up too far as they were beaten 2 0 by france. Nick parrott was watching this one for us. A month after their world cup dreams endedin a month after their world cup dreams ended in a nightmare, wales came to paris looking for a pick me up. The result against france boasting a strong attacking side, it would be some achievement. Unsurprisingly wales were on the back foot for much of the match. The pace and touch taught them to pieces, but Wayne Hennessy kept them out. That should have boosted the crystal palaces goalkeepers confidence, but he slipped up. While france boasted flair, wales relied on experience. Their second most capped player making his 80 appearance. But the defender has yet to score for his country. He was sharper in his own penalty area, denying what could have been a second call. Wales werent helping themselves at times, but
Fire. In my 29 years in the London Fire Brigade i have never seen a fire of this nature and i have seen many high rise fires. Around 70 people are being treated in six london hospitals, 18 of them are in a Critical Condition. In the us, a gunman opens fire on republican members of congress during a Baseball Practice in virginia. The attacker is killed by Police Officers. We are united in our shock. We are united in our anguish. We are united in our shock. We are united in ouranguish. An we are united in our shock. We are united in our anguish. An attack on one of us is an attack on all others. Of us. 21 hours after this fire started in g ru nfeld 21 hours after this fire started in gru nfeld tower, the 21 hours after this fire started in grunfeld tower, the fire is still blazing. The fire service had been working tirelessly to put the fire out. They have managed to get a hydraulic Crane Imposition and they are firing water remotely into the upperfloors of are firing water remotely into