Were england weary in this test match, at times they looked it. Were they complacent, they will definitely deny that. There will always be ups and downs with their style of test match cricket, maybe this will be a sobering defeat for them as they try to develop a ruthless streak that was definitely missing in this test match. In test match cricket in places like sri lanka, well maybe this victory in the broader scheme of things is just what cricket needs. Well, england had the victory in their sights, in what was a topsy turvy match with standin captain ollie pope s heroics from the first innings. He knows that his england side let this one slip through. We played some really good cricket through the summer but couldn t put it together over the four days here after two days we were in a good position and did not capitalise and unfortunately with the bat we were not good enough and should have had a few more runs. We know the pitch at the oval gets better as a test match goes on, so di
Several metres deep. In the north of the territory, the un says a convoy of its staff carrying out polio vaccinations was held at gunpoint for eight hours by the israeli army on monday. The staff have now been released, but the un says it s not sure whether it can continue the vaccination campaign as planned. Meanwhile, syria says at least 18 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of israeli air strikes. Syrian state media says multiple sites were targeted including scientific research centers. Monitoring organisations say that one of the sites, in the city of masyaf, was housing proiranian weapons experts. Iran rejected reports that iranian sites were hit. Israel says it will not comment on reports of the strikes. Israel has previously acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in recent years on targets in syria that it says are linked to iran. Our middle east correspondent, hugo bachega has more on the reports from beirut. There has been a sharp increase in the nu
So, obviously, my immediate question was, can we go? can we get there? setting it up with the ukrainians was not the hard bit. Actually, it was convincing my editors and, you know, layers of management back at the times that this was a safe thing to do, or that we could mitigate the risks involved in it. Because they weren t just about the danger there. They were also these legal risks about. . . . . The legal consequences of illegally crossing into russia, which is how the russian government have perceived the trip. But you obviously persuaded them, cos you went. Just to explain, then, who you did speak to and what the terms were. I suppose the question is, whether you were changing names to protect russians, because getting people, presumably, in russia to speak candidly to western journalists must be very hard? well, yeah, these are people who lived in a very quiet corner of russia, and probably had never had anything to do with a journalist, even a russian journalist, never mind a
Several metres deep. In the north of the territory, the un says a convoy of its staff carrying out polio vaccinations was held at gunpoint for eight hours by the israeli army on monday. The staff have now been released, but the un says it s not sure whether it can continue the vaccination campaign as planned. Meanwhile, syria says at least 18 people have been killed and dozens injured in a series of israeli air strikes. Syrian state media says multiple sites were targeted including scientific research centres. Monitoring organisations say that one of the sites, in the city of masyaf, was housing proiranian weapons experts. Iran rejected reports that iranian sites were hit. Israel says it will not comment on reports of the strikes. Israel has previously acknowledged carrying out hundreds of strikes in recent years on targets in syria that it says are linked to iran. Joining me is frank lowenstein, who served as united states special envoy for middle east peace under president barack oba
Senator lindsey graham, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you. Senator, why has the replacement ofjoe biden with kamala harris, on the democratic side of this presidential race, why has it knocked the trump campaign so badly off balance? i think it was a. . . It s taken a while for them to get their sea legs, but i think they re good to go now. I thought he would be replaced. You know, we were all saying, as republicans, the guy is not capable. He s in decline. And all of a sudden he leaves. You know, it sjust switching up candidates that late, it took a while to absorb that, but i think he d be ready. . . This coming tuesday is the debate, and i think it ll be probably the most consequential debate maybe in a long time, if not ever. You talk about the way in which, for so long, the trump campaign was built around the idea thatjoe biden was too old, he wasn t competent. Yeah. Right, right, right. There s a big problem now for trump, isn t there? he s the old guy. He s 78 years old. And people