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
here s elizabeth rizzini. time for a look at the weather. hello, thank you. just the right amount of retreating command centre for hamas? tonight, the idf has shown the footage you just saw, which they say is part of a tunnel underneath the hospital. mark s here. it plays an important role in israel s case for its gaza operation, so how close are they in succeeding to their wider objectives? scotland s health secretary says his sons racked up his 11 grand bill on his parliamentary ipad. why is scotland s conservative leader calling for his resignation? we ll ask him. also tonight. why are so many maternity units in england deemed unsafe by the regulator? we ll hear from one couple whose baby daughter was stillborn, after failures by their hopsital. i thought, these are my colleagues, they ll do a good job, i ll get safe care. so i didn t think there was anything wrong, until we were told she was dead. and after a week of rows in this country over migrant policy, we re in ame
but the us secretary of state is en route to the middle east as the pressure mounts on the white house to limit civilian casualties. we will hear tonight from the rafah border, where another 400 foreign nationals have crossed into egypt today. and we will get the thoughts of the qataris who are playing an important role in the backchannel negotiations with hamas. later in the programme, we will assess the widespread damage caused by storm ciaran across southern england and the channel islands. and a first outing tonight for our new segment ai decoded, at the end of a two day summit at bletchley park at which 28 countries pledged to collaborate on safety. welcome to the programme. the israeli army says it has now completely encircled gaza city, as the prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, said the height of battle had been reached. the army says it is beginning the work to dismantle the series of hamas tunnels. the prime minister said he will reject all calls for a cease fire.
what it shows. the dramatic rescue after a plane crashes into the everglades and our nbc news exclusive. the creators of friends speaking out. the last conversation one of them had with matthew perry before his tragic death announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening and welcome. israel s push into the heart of embattled northern gaza is not coming without a deadly cost, and the images of suffering are no easier to take tonight. a hamas-run hospital says dozens are dead and hundreds injured in an israeli air strike on a palestinian refugee camp, though nbc news cannot independently confirm those numbers. israel not denying its forces hit the camp, calling it a known hamas stronghold, and saying its strike killed a top hamas commander involved in planning the october 7th terror attacks on israel fierce battles are under way in northern gaza tonight israel rejecting calls for a cease-fire determined to crush surprise hamas over the surprise att
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