Left more than 20 people dead. Paris is on high alert for flooding. Water levels are continuing to rise along the river seine, following some of the heaviest rain for a century. Now on bbc news, sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday, with me olly foster and katherine downes. These are the headlines tonight will griggs on fire once again for wigan blasting west ham out of the fa cup 4th round. But only for a replay as kane keeps spurs in the cup league 2 Newport County are going to wembley, but only for a replay as kane keeps spurs in the cup there was always going to be a new champion at the Australian Open, Caroline Wozniacki has her first grand slam title after a thriller in melbourne. Also coming up in the programme, find out how rory mcilroy and the rest of the british contingent are getting on at the dubai desert classic. Good evening, lots coming up over the next half an hour, but its been a very busy day in the fa cup. One tie still to be played, weve had a couple of upsets
Rocked the Afghan Capital of couple. It comes after a Major Taliban attack on a high profile hotel in which more than 20 people died. Three teenage boys have been killed when they broke it by a car in west london. A man has been arrested. Police are investigating links between the incident as an altercation which took place after the collision. Paris is on high alert forflooding. Record rainfall has caused the river sent to banks in one of the wettest january is in paris in more than a century. The release of serial sex attackerjohn worboys has been put on hold. It comes worboys has been put on hold. It co m es after worboys has been put on hold. It comes after two of his victims won the first stage of a legal challenge. It is time now to cross to the bbc sports centre. Hello and welcome to sportsday, with me 0lly foster and katherine downes. Will griggs on fire once again for wigan blasting west ham out of the fa cup 11th round. While notts county earn themselves a replay against anot
Walter becker, who co founded the us band steely dan, has died aged 67. In the groups heyday in the 1970s it scored hits with reelin in the years, do it again, and deacon blues. And in sport, britains Lewis Hamilton celebrates after winning this afternoons italian grand prix in monza. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. President trump has said north korea is hostile and dangerous to the United States after their latest nuclear test and is to hold an urgent meeting with his National Security team. When asked if he would attack the rogue state he replied, well see. Pyongyang claimed it had tested a Hydrogen Bomb many times more powerful than those used in previous tests and hailed it as a perfect success hours after seismologists had detected an earth tremour. The test took place at a site in the north east of the country. Analysts say the claims should be treated with caution, but that north Koreas Nuclear capability is clearly advancing. From seoul, in south korea, Yogita Limaye s
This is the second hour of daybreak asia from bloombergs u. S. And asia headquarters. It is just after 7 00 p. M. Here in new york. I am betty liu. We are marching ever closer to the friday jobs report here in the u. S. Some see it as the last data points before we get the fed decision next week. It could swing either way. Ifit is bad, i do not know that 100 chance holds. I know the correlations are not strong. But that adp report was a blowout figure. All but solidified this was 100 when it comes to the fed it next week to read also watching oil very closely. At 50, that hid the Energy Players in australia. With check out the market sophie. Oil producers in focus given that 5 drop in wti overnight. We have the nikkei and the kospi coming online. The nikkei 225 snapping a fourday drop, up 4 10 of 1 . A lot of focus given what is happening. Toshiba has concerns about chip sales. Asahi reporting it may not meet its earnings update by march 14. Over on the kospi, up 1 10 of 1 , extending
Of the assad regime. Russias continued defence firefighters in hertfordshire have launched an investigation into what caused a fatal blaze at a Residential Care home. Two people died and 33 others has to be rescued at the newgrange care home in cheshunt this morning. Swedish police say theyre increasingly certain that the uzbek man theyve arrested is the one who carried out yesterdays attack in stockholm but they believe others may also have been involved. Officials in paris say French Police have found dozens of guns and hundreds of kilograms of explosives, after the Basque Separatist group, eta, revealed the locations of its arms dumps. Earlier, eta passed details of the sites to the authorities, under its promise to completely disarm. Now on bbc news, sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday with mejohn watson. The headlines this evening one for arthur wins the Grand National the first scottish trained winner since 1979. The League Leaders chelsea lead bournemouth in the race for t