We begin in niger, where the Breaking News in the last half an hour is the military leaders who staged a coup say they have closed the countrys airspace over what they called the threat of intervention against them. The announcement came as a deadline expired for them to restore the ousted president or face the possible action from the west African Regional grouping known as ecowas. Earlier thousands of people gathered in nigers capital to support the militaryjunta, despite International Condemnation of the soldiers actions. Some neighbouring countries including mali, burkina faso and guinea have voiced support for the coup leaders. And algeria, which Borders Niger to the north, has said it is categorically against armed intervention. France says it will support efforts by ecowas to restore nigers elected president. Nigers Prime Minister was in paris on saturday, meeting lawmakers and greeting protestors outside the countrys embassy. He has dismissed that pro coup protests are taking p
two bridges in territories occupied by russia. the bridges connect mainland ukraine with crimea and both were damaged by ukrainian missile strikes. football now. at the women s world cup, the holders, the usa, have been knocked out of the competition after losing on penalties to sweden. and in a few hours, england will take the field in brisbane in theirfirst knockout game, against nigeria. but the team isn t the same as the euro winning team from last year. three of their players are out with knee injuries. it s a surprisingly common issue across the women s game and, as katie silver reports, for many it can massively impact their careers. this is not the way chloe logarzo imagined she d be spending this world cup. a midfielder who played for the matildas 49 times, as well as in the us and bristol, she expected
three of their players are out with knee injuries. it s a surprisingly common issue across the women s game and as katie silver reports, for many it can massively impact their careers. this is not the way chloe logarzo imagined she d be spending this world cup. a midfielder who played for the matildas 49 times, as well as in the us and bristol, she expected to be on the field rather than talking about it. i was hoping, you know, 28, 29 that this would be the peak and then things would come from this. but it wasn t to be. fresh off the olympics at a training camp in ireland two years ago, she collided with a defender, injuring her anterior cruciate ligament, or acl. i think the difference between any other injury and the acl injury and the reason why people grieve a harder way than doing a normal injury is because you ve seen all of the athletes who can potentially come back not the same.
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