triumph in the final on sunday. i am ina triumph in the final on sunday. i am in a misty leeds looking at how the team s performances are inspiring the next generation. the fourth day of strikes in just over five weeks as 40,000 network rail workers walked out at midnight. i will look at why things have not moved forward and what it might mean for you. i foryou. iam on for you. i am on the motorway. i think you already have a million calls about an accident. the chilling 999 call after a lorry piles into stationary traffic. we hear about the lives affected one year after the crash. good morning, we start with some sunshine in places. the cloud will build, producing showers. 0verthe next days, it will turn warmer. all the details throughout the programme. it s wednesday, the 27th ofjuly. whoa! england are through to the final of the women s european championship after thrashing sweden in last night s semi final. we were cautious yesterday saying it was a real challenge. i was
to resign and flee the country. and an unprecedented win ireland make history with their first ever series win in new zealand. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. temperatures are soaring across continental europe with wildfires burning in parts of france, spain and portugal. strong winds and tinder dry conditions are fuelling the flames. more than 300 people are known now to have died in spain and portugal due to the high temperatures. more than 12,000 people have been evacuated so far in france s gironde region as fires continue to burn out of control. in southern spain, near the costa del sol, about 2,300 people had to flee a wildfire spreading in the mijas hills. and it comes as a national emergency has been declared in the uk after a red extreme heat warning was issued for the first time , as temperatures could hit a0 degrees celsius. mark lobel has our first report. it s still sweltering in south western europe where wildfires have come
on twitter @annitabbc. a decision is expected today over whether hundreds of gmb union members working as check in and ground staff at heathrow airport will take strike action. the taliban appeals for international help in afghanistan after a powerful earthquake kills more than 1,000 people. we are desperately trying to work with local partners to get through that rubble and see if there are any survivors that we can administer first aid to get to local hospitals. borisjohnson arrives in rwanda for a meeting of the commonwealth s heads of government with food security, climate change and the government s migrants policy expected to be on the agenda. polls have opened in two parliamentary by elections which are taking place today in wakefield, and tiverton and honiton. eight medical staff who treated the football legend diego maradona in the days before he died are to stand trial for alleged criminal negligence. dat two of glastonbury gets underway. more than 200 thousand fest
and rina shah, a political strategist and former republican aide. a powerful earthquake has killed at least 1,000 people and injured 1,500 in eastern afghanistan. it is the deadliest earthquake in the country in two decades and a major challenge for the taliban, the islamist movement which regained power last year after the western backed government collapsed. the quake hit near the pakitsan border, with tremors felt as far away as india. the extent of the damage is still emerging but there have been pictures of houses reduced to rubble and people digging for survirors. 0ur correspondent secunder kermani is there. there is a rumbling and my building began to shake, he tells us. the ceiling fell down. i was trapped but i could see the sky. my shoulder was dislocated fourth in my head was hurt, but i got out. i m sure seven or nine people from my family in the same room as me, they were dead. at the hospital, patients are treated for their wounds. there is a fight to save liv
for instance, officials initially said an officer had engaged the gunman before he entered the school. but now we re being told that is not true. in fact, the shooter was outside the school for about 12 minutes before entering through an unlocked door. bill: all that adding to the confusion after police waited for about an hour before entering the classroom and killing the shooter. texas dps on the front lines of the investigation. the shifting timelines, the shifting facts were the focus of a contentious news conference that took place yesterday afternoon that went a bit like this. it was reported that a school district police officer confronted the suspect that was making entry. not accurate. he walked in unobstructed initially. how did he get in? it was supposed to be locked during the school day. so right now during the investigation it appeared as unlocked. so we will look at that and try to corroborate that if that s what we can. wasn t there a school officer