Of thursdays general election. In other news police in india arrest the owner of a delhi factory where a fire killed more than a0 people overnight. A Murder Investigation is launched after the death of a woman in northamptonshire. A 13 year old boy is among the suspects. And coming up at 4. 30 to mark the 20th anniversary of talking movies, tom brook meets the prolific bollywood actor, Shah Rukh Khan. Good afternoon. In the final days of the election campaign, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Corbyn are telling voters that thursdays poll is an historic chance to move the country forward. The conservatives say a points based immigration system would reduce low skilled migration. Labour is using the day to set out its plans for social care. Our Political Correspondent, Susana Mendonca, reports. Not long left until voters make their call, and borisjohnson is hoping theyll give him a ringing endorsement. Hello, mr walker, hi. This is borisjohnson. At a call centre in london today he focused on con
now on bbc news, it s time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. our headlines this evening. fran kirby kick starters chelsea s season as the wsl champions get their first win. early wickets holt england s progress as they try to take a 3 1 lead in the t20 series against pakistan. and joe joyce announces himself as the latest heavyweight talent with a world title shot on the cards. hello again, welcome to sportsday. the wsl season is riding a wave of popularity as the women s game enjoys a post euro buzz, but so far it has been pretty unpredictable. to teams who surprisingly lost their opening match is at last weekend played this afternoon, with the champions chelsea beating manchester city to belatedly get their first victory of the campaign. having lost their opening game of the season, there was little room for error for there was little room for error for the champions against manchester city and they nearly had the perfect start. fran kirby could not take advant
facing a target of 230 herbert losing the early wickets suggested otherwise. the dismissal proved decisive, hitting 3a from just 16 balls. he was then caught out but forced to watch on as pakistan s harris ralph removed debbie tenant 0llie stone with his next ball and with a dramatic finish, topsy turvy game of cricket ended and the series tied at 2 2. meanwhile, cricket s lawmakers have reiterated the rule that charlie dean fell foul of yesterday in england s women s 0di defeat to india when she was run out at the non striker s end. the mcc have formalised the relevant law and it will come in officially next month but in the meantime have called for batters to remain in their crease until they say they have seen the ball leave the bowler s hand. the reaction has been widespread and pretty passionate on both sides, as stuart broad noted. very happy for others to feel differently. a pragmatic approach from him, perhaps not from liam livingstone who highlights the confusion t
For Palestinian Prisoners. Unconfirmed reports in us media say israel has given hamas a week to agree to the current proposal or it will begin its long threatened offensive in rafah. But there has been Widespread International concern over the fate of the more than one million palestinians sheltering there. Our correspondent, anna foster is injerusalem. I asked her about the increasing pressure on hamas to reach a deal. Yeah. Were at the same stage samantha where an israeli deal has been put on the table. It was described at the start of the week by the us secretary of state, antony blinken, as extraordinarily generous. And it seems to be that in this latest iteration of the deal, there had been some movement in terms of potentially agreeing to talk about a permanent ceasefire. Now, from israels point of view, of course, its priority at the moment is trying to ensure the release of all the remaining hostages that are being held in gaza. One of hamas s key priorities is to try and get s