And pose a real threat. Yellowknife is now blanketed in smoke and fires are burning close to the one major road into and out of the city. Rebecca alty is the mayor of yellowknife. She told us what things were like there. Right now, its residents are evacuating by road. As many people as possible are doing that. Theres also, for folks who dont have vehicles, we are starting the air evacuations, so flights. We still have commercial flights, so some people have booked onto a commercial flight, but we have the Evacuation Flights also starting at 1pm. So getting folks registered for that just began an hour ago. So folks have been good, theres long line ups i think there was kilometres worth of a line up, so a bit of a snail s place out of town, its just one road in, one road out. That highway is where the fire is, so the highway can close. But right now, it is open. If the conditions change, if the smoke gets too heavy, if the fire were to approach the highway, the highway would be closed a
And of course, they went on to say that Player Welfare is the sports number one priority, hence why youre hearing from a lot of charities at the moment, including headway, about why this is so important. Now we have heard very recently that the hearing will be early next week we dont have exact details of that yet but you can see, with the Rugby World Cup so close, why world rugby will want this in some way to be resolved. Well, as sara alluded to there, there has been plenty of reaction to the decision to initially overturn the ban and then world rugby s decision to appeal. Luke griggs is Chief Executive of the british Brain Injury Charity headway, and hes criticised the process. I think its been a huge embarrassment to the world rugby, and i think the way this has been handled, this is a problem with our own making. Itjust adds to the confusion about what is safe and is not safe. On the Community Level is much as anything else and thats always where our major concern is because Commu
aimed at tackling rising regional threats. as regional threats. we count down to sunday s women s as we count down to sunday s women s world cup final, we see how women s domestic league is being promoted. li’se how women s domestic league is being promoted. being promoted. live from our studio in singapore, being promoted. live from our studio in singapore, this- being promoted. live from our studio in singapore, this is - studio in singapore, this is bbc news it s newsday. welcome to the programme. we begin in canada, where emergency workers are evacuating thousands of residents of an entire city in the north west of the country, which is in the path of a huge wildfire. more than 20,000 people in yellowknife, the capital city of canada s northwest territories, have been told to leave by friday. authorities say the wildfires have taken a turn for the worse