And record breaking joe root makes history as england continue to dominate the second test against sri lanka. Welcome along, thank you forjoining us the latest on a history making day forjoe root to come we start tonight with football and manchester city who are looking to maintain their hundred percent start to the season. They re away at west ham in the late game where it s half time and they currently lead 2 1. Both goals coming from that man erling haaland. The norwegian opened the scoring after ten minutes before a ruben dias own goal made it 1 1. But this strike has pep guardiola s side ahead with the second halfjust about to get under way. Earlier, last season s runners up, arsenalfailed to make it three wins from three. As did brighton. With both sides sharing the points at the emirates. The defining moment of the game came early in the second half as declan rice was sent off. Arsenal were made to pay thereafter as alex fletcher reports. The end of the transfer window and t
Due this autumn, will be painful because of what he called a black hole in the public finances, inherited from the previous administration. More than 3,500 current and former workers at next have won a six year legal battle for equal pay. An Employment Tribunal said store staff, who are predominantly women, should not have been paid at lower rates than employees in warehouses, where just over half the staff are male. Police in india have fired tear gas and water cannon to disperse hundreds of protesters marching in the eastern city of kolkata. They are demanding the resignation of a state minister, following the rape and murder of a Junior Doctor at a City Hospital earlier this month. It is an extremely rare occurence that a Military Operation to free and rescue a hostage ends successfully. But the family of Qaid Farhan Alkadi, a 52 year old Bedoin Israeli abducted on october 7th, are celebrating tonight, after he was freed by israeli commandoes from a tunnel in Southern Gaza. Mr alkad
Welcome back. The relationship between the United States and china has been severely tested during president biden s term in office. But since may last year, the Us National Security adviser Jake Sullivan has developed something of a connection with wang yi, the senior Foreign Policy official in beijing who answers directly to xi jinping. They met four times in the last year, a channel of communication that has served as something of a Shock Absorber when tensions arise over taiwan, ukraine, the south china sea. Today, sullivan arrived in beijing to continue that conversation, with some suggestion that the two president s might be laying the ground for another meeting Beforejoe Biden Leaves office. Its really interesting, this, annabel, because it seems Jake Sullivan is the back channel between washington and beijing right now, and to what and . Because theres been some Sabre Rattling in respect of ukraine and the special materials ageing is applying to russia will do you think it coul
The new Lockdown Craze sweeping the globe. Welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. Major trials of a new vaccine have shown its effective against some new variants of covid 19, helping to reduce fears that they might prove resistant. Novavax is an american jab but its being produced in the uk. Its also easier to roll out than some previous vaccines since it doesnt need to be kept at ultra low temperatures. The news came amid a deepening row between another vaccine maker, astrazeneca, and the European Union over shortages. Our medical editor fergus walsh reports. Once again, science has triumphed in the fight against coronavirus. The Us Firm Novavax has released results of its british trial showing the first proven efficacy against the new, more contagious uk variant. There were more than 15,000 volunteers on the trail throughout the uk. Over half the cases of covid recorded were the result of the new variant. The results showed the vaccine was 95 effective agains
We start with an Epic Battle Raging On Wall Street that has seen small time Amateur Investors take on the titans of the hedge fund industry. Its all centred around this company the struggling us computer Game Retailer gamestop. It shares have soared at much as 1700 after a group of private investors used online forums to drive up their price. And that has raised serious questions about how Financial Markets operate in the era of social media, as paul hawkins reports. This is a story of david versus goliath, of the amateur online investor beating the Big Traditional Wall Street traders. At the centre of it, gamestop, a struggling American Retailer Selling dvds and video games. A number of the Wall Street Traders picked up on its problems and bet money that its share price would fall, known in the business as shorting a stock. Only for this particular stock, Amateur Investors swapping tips on the social media site reddit saw it as an opportunity. They bought shares, which actually drove