no hollywood ending for wrexham in the fa cup, as the blades prove to sharp in another for the all action affair sheffield united through after to two late goals. we ll be live with rylan clark, emma willis and 0ti mabuse, as they set off on the challenge of a lifetime for red nose day. good morning. this morning there is some mist and fog to watch out for imperative england at wells. quite dense in places. it will slowly lift and we will see some sunshine. for scotland and northern ireland, more cloud heavy rain and squally winds. details later in the programme. good morning. it s wednesday, the 8th of february. nearly 8,000 people are now known to have died, following two devastating earthquakes which hit turkey and syria. that death toll is likely to rise significantly, as rescue workers and civilians continue to search the rubble, and survivors trapped beneath it succumb to bitterly cold weather. the earthquakes were the biggest in the region since 1939, and they trigge
they produced the upset of the fa cup fourth round we ll hear how grimsby town s victory over luton town last night has gone down with the mariners players and fans. it was a record that seemed set in stone but history has been made as lebronjames sets a new nba all time career scoring record. also coming up in the programme. we speak to great britain s sophie mckinna who s had her shots stolen and says it s disrrupted her paris olympic preparations. and we hear from justin rose after his first pga they ve it s not as if they don t have any value. it s a could put them somewhere so that i could get them back. good evening and welcome along to sportsday. we will start with tonight s premier league action. manchester united host leeds at old trafford. erik ten hag s side will be seeking to close the gap to premier league leaders arsenal. as for leeds, they go into this evening s fixture managerless after relieving jesse marsch of his duties on monday, and as michael redford
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i m ben brown in the studio our other top stories this hour... as the regulator ofgem lowers the price cap for gas and electricity, there are fresh calls for the government to stop a rise in energy bills in april. a new panorama investigation uncovers evidence that women are being misled and manipulated about abortion by some crisis pregnancy advice centres,in the uk. the first female speaker of the house of commons, betty boothroyd, dies at the age of 93. good afternoon from windsor, where rishi sunak and the eu have struck a new agreement to amend post brexit trading rules with the eu. the prime minister said the deal marked a decisive breakthrough after years of wrangling, allowing smooth, free flowing trade while preserving the belfast agreement, the setttlement which underpins devolved government in northern ireland. mr sunak said the agreement would remove any sense of a border in the irish sea, the chief complaint of unionists who have boycotted stormont in prote
atmosphere of calm. and i remember we went to film in a supermarket. there was no panic buying. the shelves were full. we met a lady called tatiana, who was 7a, and very feisty. and, i remember, she almost seemed angry that we had dared to ask the question, will the russians invade all? maybe it was denial. maybe it was disbelief. i ve thought about her so often since, and i wondered, did she survive? i m a bbc ukrainian bilingual correspondent, and i ve been covering the war in my country since its very beginning. on the first day of the russian invasion, i was in kyiv. the bbc s zhanna bezpiatchuk, who s sheltering with her parents as i speak in a residential suburb in kyiv. for the moment, the whole country, all of ukraine became the front line. at some point i had to take some breaks between lives and just get out of my home and watch what was happening. if any missile strikes were in the air in the skies over kyiv. i wanted very much to do everything that it was possible