the bbc football commentator john motson, who has died at the age of 77. also coming up in the programme. australia hold their nerve to reach their seventh consecutive women s t20 world cup final with a tense five run win over india. hello and welcome to sportsday. we start today s programme with news that a new independent regulator of men s football in england is to be established for the first time. the announcement follows a recommendation by a fan led review last year. the main purposes of the proposed new regulator will be stopping english clubs from joining european breakaway leagues, preventing financial failings at clubs, introducing more stringent owners and directors tests, giving fans more power and ensuring a fairer distribution of money down the english football pyramid. the significant move aims to protect english football s cultural heritage. here s just some of the reaction to the proposals starting with the premier league chief executive richard masters. w
hello, i m maryam moshiri. this is outside source. the united nations is set to vote on a resolution calling for russia to withdraw from ukraine and for hostilities to end. tomorrow marks a year since russia s invasion. we ll get the latest from our correspondents on the ground. i was expecting to find a certain weariness but it s actually quite the opposite. they still to a person say this is a war that we can and will win. more violence between israel and the palestinians militants in gaza and the israeli military exchange fire after yesterday s deadly west bank raid. and in northern ireland, a police officer is in critical condition after being shot by gunmen in front of his son.
and then five of those intercepted by israel s iron dome missile defence system. one of them came down in an open area, and very quickly afterwards, the israeli military used warplanes to attack sites it said were linked to hamas in gaza. we re not getting any reports of injuries there. now let s return to what happened in nablus on wednesday. israeli troops killed at least 11 palestinians during a raid there. it s the worst such violence in the west bank in about 20 years. it started with israeli undercover forces entering nablus in disguise. then more troops stormed streets packed with people. that led to a gunfight with palestinian militants. israeli troops opened fire and blew up a building. the israeli army says it killed three militants holed up in a house who refused to surrender, but a number of civilians were killed and dozens injured.