Loss against sweden. Three us players, inlcuding theirstar, megan rapinoe, missed in the deciding penalty shootout. Now on bbc news sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday, im paul scott At The Bbc Sport centre heres whats coming up. Not to be england fall short in their bid for Netball World Cup glory. Over and out megan rapinoe s dream of further world cup success comes to an end, as sweden book their place in the last 8. And bouncing back Mathieu Van Der Poel recovers from this crash to become world road champion. We start with disappointment for englands netballers. They have fallen just short in their quest for world cup glory, after losing to australia 61 45 in the final in cape town. Ben croucher reports. In cape town, if you try to take on all the dramatic scenery, you could miss what is right in front of you. Cut out the distractions, remove the noise for englands roses, their sights were set on one thing. A step into the unknown in a first World Cup Final. England started o
Hello, iam none hello, i am none to thanks for joining us on bbc news. First to niger where, in the last two hours, a deadline for the militaryjunta to step down has passed. The leaders of nigers coup have hours to restore the ousted president , or face the possibility of Military Action. Thousands of people gathered in nigers capital to support the militaryjunta as that deadline expired. Despite International Condemnation of the soldiers actions, thousands of nigeriens continue to show support for the army 7 hoping it can offer the country stability. Some neighbouring countries including mali, burkina faso and guinea have voiced support for the coup leaders. And algeria, which Borders Niger to the north, has said it is categorically against armed intervention. France says it will support efforts by ecowas to restore nigers elected president. Niger s Prime Minister was in paris on saturday 7 meeting lawmakers and greeting protestors outside the countrys embassy. He has dismissed pro co
Respects, england, to have a penalty overturned. Unlucky. The referee said it wasnt to be a penalty for a glimpse of the got through that 0 0. Nigeria with a better team in the first half. The second half starts again with nigeria at the stronger team, hitting the woodwork twice in the second half. It looked at one point that they were going to score a goal and england would have to come out and try and attack this nigerian side, but it didnt happen and laurenjames was sent off in the second half for england, as well. It looked like it was going to be difficult for them to turn this around. Laurenjames given a red card after var intervened again in one of the nigerian players. At that point she had flashbacks to the englands mens teams in different eras going out on penalties. It was gorgeous after extra time. Then the penalties. It was a nervous time for ed byrne. Stanway missed for england first up, then nigeria missed on their reply. Beth england scored for england from the second p
Vaping and smoking, but the Office For Budget Responsibility warns the government could find it hard to balance the books. Heres our business correspondent, emma simpson. Did you catch any ofjeremy s budget . It was a chance to turn around the fortunes of the Conservative Party. But was it enough . I think its good that the workers are going to get money back in their pockets. But then if you think about the Cost Of Living and how everything is going up, then maybe they could have given a little bit more back. Anything that cuts taxes, i wish he would have done something a bit more for savers, were in a position where were living off savings. I think theyre trying to do it in light of a General Election and probably not really thinking about what the benefit to the country is. The centrepiece of this budget was a £2 billion cut was a 2p in the pound cut to National Insurance, a tax paid by workers. So who are the winners and losers if you include all the changes to tax and thresholds
He did not commit. A man who was wrongly imprisoned for rape has welcomed a government decision to scrap rules which meant people who had been cleared by the courts could be charged for living costs incurred injail. Andrew malkinson told the bbc the change was a step in the right direction, but said more needed to be done to support people who were wrongly convicted. 0ur correspondent Sarah Campbell has this report. To add insult to injury, the rules, at this point, said he would have to pay back his living costs while wrongly imprisoned. I pay back his living costs while wrongly imprisoned. I thought, to a these wrongly imprisoned. I thought, to pay these peeple wrongly imprisoned. I thought, to pay these people for wrongly imprisoned. I thought, to pay these people for doing wrongly imprisoned. I thought, to pay these people for doing what l pay these people for doing what doing to me is the most sickening, abhorrent, repugnant thing i could imagine. The guilty dont pay, why should t