should receive immediate six figure compensation, rules a judge. two people are arrested, after a nine year old girl died in a suspected stabbing. and i m in birmingham, as we head into a huge weekend of sporting action. hosts england made it a golden start to the commonwealth games. alex yee stormed to victory in the triathlon with more medals up for grabs this evening. and how the lionesses are inspiring at the next generation as england prepare to take on germany in the euros finals on sunday. and coming up in sportsday on the bbc news channel: we ll round up all the action on day one of the commonwealth games, including a look at the 3x3 basaketball, which is making it s debut. hello and welcome to the bbc news at six. rebekah vardy has lost her libel case at the high court. in what had become known as the wagatha christie trial, the wife of the former england footballerjamie vardy had sued coleen rooney after she accused vardy of leaking private information about her t
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Commencements since becoming president. It comes after the white house fallout of the sudden dismissal of james comey during the fbi investigation into possible ties between the Trump Administration or rather trump campaign, i should say and russia. Now this is as four candidates prepare to interview today for the fbi director job. We have a team of political reporters and analysts standing by here. Lets begin with cnn washington Correspondent Ryan Nobles who is at the commencement. You see him there on the left. What are you hearing from the crowd there . I understand theres about 7,000 students and families who will be watching. What are they saying . What do they expect . Reporter well, this is expected to be a pretty friendly crowd for the president. This is a group of people and voters in particular that generally supported him during the election and, of course, here at Liberty University their president Jerry Falwell jr. A very influential evangelical leader that allowed the th
are playing here in saudi. we hope that the saudi league will become as good as the other leagues in europe. the ambitious project to make saudi arabia a football powerhouse started with the arrival of cristiano ronaldo at al nasr last year. this was followed by another record deal when karim benzema moved to al ittihad from real madrid injune. since then, there has been an influx of foreign players. a couple of months ago. the top four saudi clubs were bought over by the piff, which is the country s cash rich sovereign wealth fund. now, what it s done is that it has enabled clubs like al hilal to offer eyewatering salaries to attract some of the biggest names in global football. sports is one of the main pillars of the country s vision 2030 economic diversification programme, which aims to reduce saudi arabia s reliance on oil revenues by building new industries and attracting foreign companies in line with that objective. the saudi pro league plans to