personally towards the end, i was vieira out but if you d said we d be going back to roy hodgson, i think i would ve rather stuck with vieira. i m really fond of roy, but we did move away from him for a reason. so going back to roy now after having a season of playing more progressive football, it does feel like a backward step. hodgson s been a coach since 1976. there have been highs and lows. but through countries and continents, it s at place he s most at home. so good was his first spell, he got the freedom of croydon now south london hopes the man five years off his 80s can steer them to safety. joe lynskey, bbc news. tottenham midfielder pierre emile hojbjerg says his manager antonio conte needs to be more precise, following the italian s outburst on saturday. after tottenham gave up a two goal lead against bottom club southampton, conte called his players selfish and criticised the club s culture. it s now expected that conte will not be in place for tottenham
government narrowly survived a vote of no confidence over the plans to raise the retirement age from 62 to 64. now on bbc news, the travel show. this week on the travel show. ..mont saint michel marks its millennium. that view is pretty amazing. there s the shadow of mont saint michel on the sand. the parps and toots that make this port one of a kind. horns blaring one, two, three, four, five. and saving these bundles of fluff from extinction. twittering and squawking yeah, he s thinking about it. all right. we ll give him some time. there he comes. i m beginning this week in northern france on a journey that 2.5 million people take each year. you re kind of getting an idea of how popular this place must be because it s off season, it s super cold, but this bus is packed. you can see it. i ve just got a glimpse of the abbey. it does look pretty special. this is mont saint michel, one of france s most visited sites. it s an island off the coast of brittany in normandy, con
to take over from borisjohnson as leader of the conservative party and prime minister. magnificent seven for novak djokovic as he overpowers nick kyrgios to maintain his domination of wimbledon. in the last few minutes, president gotobaya rajapaksa of sri lanka has confirmed he will resign after having fled when crowds stormed his palace. it s not clear whether, as suggested, he will return to to the country this week to formally quit. hundreds of protesters furious about corruption and economic mismangement are still in the presidential house and grounds. they say they won t leave until mr rajapaska has gone. our south asia correspondent, rajini vaidyanathan, reports from colombo. these scenes would have been unthinkable days ago. sri lanka s seat of presidential power now a sightseeing destination. security nowhere to be seen, as thousands push their way into a palace taken over by protesters. this is a really surreal moment for sri lanka. a building that is normally heav
magnificent seven for novak djokovic as he overpowers nick kyrgios to maintain his domination of wimbledon. hello and thanks forjoining us. the speaker of sri lanka s parliament has said that president gotobaya rajapaksa is no longer in the country but should return by wednesday when he has promised to resign. the president fled when huge crowds stormed his palace and set fire to the residence of the prime minister, in protests against corruption and economic mismanagement. hundreds are still in the presidential house and grounds. they say they won t leave until mr rajapaska has gone. our south asia correspondent, rajini vaidyanathan, reports from colombo. these scenes would have been unthinkable days ago. sri lanka s seat of presidential power now a sightseeing destination. security nowhere to be seen, as thousands push their way into a palace taken over by protesters. this is a really surreal moment for sri lanka. a building that is normally heavily fortified, now a free
search for survivors from wednesday s earthquake in the south east of the country has ended. more than 1,000 people are thought to have been killed in the remote part of the country. doctors say many children may be among the victims. strikes are expected to be announced injuly and august. works on the railways walked out of the second time this week on thursday with just one in five trains running and another strike is planned for saturday. here is our transport correspondent katie austin. demand for travel has taken off since covid rules eased but there s already been disruption amid aviation staff shortages. now hundreds of british airways workers at heathrow airport, most of them check in staff, have voted to walk out on dates yet to be confirmed. the unite and gmb unions said the action was over a 10% pay cut imposed during the pandemic which hadn t yet been reinstated. our members are primarily low paid, part time women workers, who have been asking nicely for over a ye