now on bbc news, the sport. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m gavin ramjaun. .. a tense day in the battle for supremacy in the premier league liverpool did go top. but are they still there? it took a while, but arsenal found the winning moment at molinuex late on against chelsea to clinch the women s league cup. and celtic are back on the top of the scottish premiership as livingston s problems deepen. also coming up on sportsday. italy are off the mark in the womens six nations as they spoil ireland s day in dublin. hello and welcome along to the programme. rivalries resuming in the tense battle at the top of the premier league today following the international break. arsenal started the day top, taking on champions manchester city at the etihad. more on that game in a moment. but it was liverpool who held their nerve first of all in the early game coming from behind to beat brighton at anfield. andy swiss was watching that one. you could shield their belief. liver
in lipstick and mascara. harvesting the wax from palm trees in brazil is an industry in which, according to brazilian authorities, companies are failing last year, more than 3,000 workers across all industries were rescued from situations including forced labour and degrading work last year, more than 3,000 workers across all industries were rescued from situations including forced labour and degrading work conditions a ill year high. the bbc was given exclusive access to a raid with the federal police on a carnauba wax plantation. katy watson has this report from the state of piaui in north eastern brazil. we re heading to a farm where authorities suspect workers are being exploited. nobody knows we re coming. they want to catch the culprits red handed. we find the workers sheltering from the midday sun. who s in charge here? , the lead investigator asks. one by one, the men are interviewed. the boss is nowhere to be seen. it s so hot. we stop for a bit because otherwise
his office says that mr netanyahu s deputy, yariv levin will serve as acting prime minister during this time. he s due to give a press conference shortly. this comes a hamas offical says israel and hamas too far apart for talks to progress. discussions over a possible new gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal are expected to resume in cairo, according to egyptian media. israel is sending a delegation of security and intelligence officials to the indirect talks. meanwhile, a freelance journalist working for bbc news is among seven media workers injured after the israeli military carried out an air strike inside a hospital compound in central gaza. this is the moment it happened. the israeli military says it carried out the air strike on an islamichhad command centre in the courtyard of al aqsa hospital in deir al balah. the journalists were among hundreds who are sheltering in makeshift tents in the grounds of the hospital. at least four people were killed and others injur
for the national living wage. previously you had to be 23 years old to qualify, but that s been reduced to 21. it has been just over £10 an hour just over £12. it s going up to just over £11 an hour. our business correspondent marc ashdown has the details. barista sam loves hisjob, but after paying his essential bills he s often left with just a few hundred pounds a month to live on. pay rises just help him stay afloat. i think they balance, because obviously everything else goes up in price so it sort of evens out every single year. maybe for, like, a month you ll be like, ooh, i ve got money this month! and then it lljust be, like the next month will be a bit of a rough one. workers across the uk in some of the lowest paid jobs are about to get a boost in their pay. from tomorrow, the national living wage is going up from £10.42 an hour to £11.44 an hour. that s an increase of 9.8%. the age at which a worker qualifies has also been reduced from 23 to 21 years old
hello. we begin in the middle east where israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu will undergo surgery on sunday for a hernia his doctors discovered during a routine examination. mr netanyahu will be fully sedated during the procedure his office says that mr netanyahu s deputy, yariv levin will serve as acting prime minister during this time. he s been speaking in the last half hour. my medical statement is transparent, it is known. sure, a lot of people are saying crazy things, but of course no boundaries. my wife went to an appendectomy and people said that she spent a whole week at a villa somewhere, and ijust had the flu, people said that i was where? where was i? that i was in hospital. absolutely no boundaries to the lies. i just went through examination, and thank you to all the people asking for my well being. i promise you that this operation that i m undergoing tonight i will also go through very quickly and i will be back to my duties as fast as possible. be