Two centuries for pakistan gave england a difficult first day in multan as the visiTors battled the heat and a flat pitch. And they chased they won england have beaten South Africa by seven wickets in the Womens T20 World cup, well show you how they did it. Also coming up on sportsday we hear some incredible sTories from england womens amputee team, ahead of their World Cup in columbia. Being able To stand with our chests held high. Just representing this nation. Its given us so much. Welcome To the programme. Contrasting interpretations of a vital ruling. Manchester city have said that they have won their legal dispute with the Premier League over their regulations on Sponsorship Rules or associated party transactions. Its after a tribunal found that aspects of the rules were unlawful. However, the Premier League have said that the verdict was a vicTory for them, because It Upheld the need for the apt system as a whole and rejected the majority of Manchester City s challenges. The cas
And what would you do with a spare 25 Billion Euros . Thats the question facing the irish Government Today as it delivers its budget following a huge Tax Windfall from Tech Firms. Live from london, this is business today. Im lukwesa burak. We start in the us where in the last 30 minutes tens of thousands of East And Gulf Coast Port workers have started striking for the first time in nearly 50 years. This comes after the international longshoremen s association and the us Maritime Alliance were unable to reach an agreement on the terms of their contract. The strikes will halt trade in a wide range of goods and disrupt the Countrys Economy just as we enter the final weeks before the president ial election. Our North America Business correspondent Ritika Gupt the two major sticking points between international longshoreman s association and the us Maritime Alliance are wages and automation for the workers are unhappy with the current contract which spanned the pandemic and dockworkers st
With big interviews and our regular panel of newsnighters, and of course look at what the papers are saying about tomorrows news. Just a few hours ago, huge plumes of smoke could be seen rising from the Capital Today after israel fired a series of rockets into beirut. Israel said it was targeting the headquarters of hezbollah and its leader but its not clear whether he is alive or dead. The initial Death Toll from the explosion is that two people were killed but that is expected to rise. We are told 70 injuries have been reported so far and in the last hour the idf has issued warnings for people living in certain parts of those Southern Suburbs to evacuate their homes, which suggests more strikes may be due overnight. Iran, which backs hezbollah, has called the attack on the capital in the Southern Suburbs a dangerous, Game Changing Escalation. In a moment well speak to our international editorjeremy bowen, who will give us the latest on whats happened and look ahead to whats happened
The Met Office has issued an Amber Warning for more Heavy Rain in central and Southern England today. Hitchin, luton and dunstable were some of the worst affected areas last night, with roads underwater. Vehicles were partially submerged there. Bedfordshire has reportedly seen a Months Worth of rain in a day. Our correspondent Nicky Schiller is in the village of Marston Moreteyne in Central Bedfordshire with the latest. This is the main road behind me. I will turn the camera around so you can see it is completely and utterly flooded. The road has been closed. In the middle of your screen you can probably see a car that has been submerged. It looks like the back of the car has come up. We dont know what has happened to the people who were in that car but you can see the amount of water that has fallen on this road. This is the main road between Milton Keynes and bedford. You can see that the road is completely closed. You can see that the traffic is having to be diverted and the water,
Good afternoon. In the last hour, Rachel Reeves has used her fIrst Labour Conference Speech as chancellor to promIse that therell be no return to austerIty. After weeks of warnIngs about the dIre state of the publIc fInances, she trIed to convey a brIghter message, sayIng she Is optImIstIc about the uks economIc future. She was brIefly heckled by one protestor at the start of her speech. Our polItIcal correspondent Helen Catt reports. As you can see behInd me, people are stIll fIlIng out from the Conference Hall where Rachel Reeves gave her speech In the last hour or so. A much traIled speech, very antIcIpated because, as we know, there has been crItIcIsm about the gloomy outlook that the chancellor and the PrIme MInIster have been talkIng about. So durIng her speech today, we had the Chancellor Attempt today, we had the Chancellor Attempt to Inject some optImIsm, talkIng about the brItaIn that she hoped to buIld for the future. There were some focus on what labour had already done In