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good evening. coming up tonight hello and welcome to sportsday i m jane dougall. england and scotland have both qualified for the euros but who else willjoin them in germany? scotland drew last night, but southgate says england have to improve when they play north macedonia later. what about the defending champions? can italy come full circle and qualify for this tournament? it s not guaranteed they must avoid defeat to ukraine later. we look at the impact a winter world cup in qatar has had on the premier league. and injuries lasting longer and costing clubs more money. also coming up on sportsday. a record sixth world cup for australia we look at what went wrong for hosts india. and, it s a new sport for the 2028 olympics, we look at the growth of flag football in the uk. it s a safer version of american football, so i think this is better. it s a safer version, you don t have to worry about the kids getting injured in flag football. welcome to the programme. the
anyway, so just before we dive into this episode of newscast, just a little moment to explain what we actually do. so, we and some of our other kind of bestjournalistic pals in the bbc get together every night, chew over what s happened in the election that day, and then publish it as a podcast, which is newscast. and you can get that every night wherever you get your podcasts. and it sjust, for me, as a journalist, it s really kind of fun, but also kind of in depth way ofjust processing what s happened in this big, crazy news event, which is the general election of 202a. that s right. and i think what we also try to do is open up our notebooks and give people more of the kind of conversations that you have with politicians, advisers, staffers, privately and some of the things, frankly, that you can t necessarily fit into a news bulletin when you ve got 60 seconds or two and a half minutes to explain a story. and we also want to hear from you and you in the next half hour c
so today she ll be presented with france s highest honour, the legion d honneur. i m just amazed, really. i m not expecting that sort of thing. president macron will give christian her medal here in ver sur mer, so she says she s brushing up on her french. i spent the morning trying to go through my french dictionary to find some really polite things to say in french, because i used to be absolutely bilingual when i was young and i lived in france for a whole year, and now i ve forgotten it all. but as we witnessed at a school here in northern france last month, christian is being far too modest about her linguistic skills. she speaks french. i feel wonderful. thrilled by it all. yesterday she was flown from portsmouth with pat owtram, also a recipient of the medal. i like yours very much. yes. i ve always been ratherjealous of it. ..wishing her bon voyage. have a good trip. thank you very much. very exciting. with the distinctive red ribbon and white cross, the people of fra