with our families. the warning comes as two of the biggest teaching unions have called for tougher covid measures in schools in england to combat a rise in infections. a welcome from england s city regions outside london for an announcement of nearly £7 billion to improve their transport networks but they say more money is needed. a warning that some dog owners are pretending their lockdown pets are strays in order to get rid of them. now on bbc news, it s time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m gavin ramjaun. no gayle force, as england blow away the west indies to win their opening match at the t20 world cup. mounting a title challenge mason hits a hat trick as chelsea put seven past struggling norwich. and a clean sweep across the channel. england s men s and women s rugby league teams brush aside france. hello there and welcome to the programme. england produced a ruthless performance at their opening t20 world cup match today. they bowled west indies
to be reckoned with. but england had the answer, in the form of david miller s catch. 31 for 4, and it quickly turned into catching practice. the west indies all out forjust 55 in 14 overs. over to you, england. jason roy understood the assignment. roy goes over extra cover. excellent batting! the west indies needed something special. akil hussain provided it. jos buttler snuffed out any thoughts of a comeback, steering his side home. the best possible start for england. a day to forget for west indies. earlier, australia beat south africa by five wickets in the opening match of the super 12 round of the tournament in abu dhabi. neither of the sides has won this competition and south africa didn t get off to the best of starts when quinton de kock dismissed himself in bizarre fashion forjust seven runs. aiden markram top scored with a0 as south africa set australia a target of 119. it ended up being a tight contest with marcus stoinis clinching the victory with just two balls
he gave the state department the very best of his leadership for the up very best of his leadership for the up his experience, his patriotism, he gave us his decency and the state department loved him for it. colin powell: paul department loved him for it. colin powell : paul was one of the architects of the iraq war. architects of the iraq war. who later said he regretted the case he made for military invasion as a blot on his reputation when the intelligence turned out to be wrong. and uefa has ruled that the england football team will have to play at least one game without fans over the chaos at wembley during the euros final. here in the uk, it s been a day of reflection as politicians paid tribute to the murdered mp sir david amess at a special parliamentary session. he was stabbed to death during a meeting with his constituents in essex on friday. in the last few minutes a remembrance service for sir david has ended. the service was held at st margaret s church, in
democrats are aware that mcconnell is playing pure politics with this and have yet to signal whether his offer is feasible in their view. one democratic senator has already called it, quote, b.s. for the u.s. the stakes could not be higher. if republicans follow through on their obstruction effort in effect they would be responsible for the delay of benefit payments to tens of millions of retirees, medicare, and medicaid providers and numerous rouse others receiving checks from the u.s. treasury. it could lead to a catastrophic default on the nation s deb. the government has never defaulted on its obligations so how this all works is unclear. but its impact to be wide ranging. this morning, six former secretaries of defense who worked in republican and democratic administrations sent an urgent letter to congress warning them of the national security implications of a default writing, quote, if they default on the full faith and credit of the u.s. it will send a signal to our
needs to be invested to keep facebook from being dangerous. and the absolute insanity of ongoing covid deaths around the country as health care workers face violent threats for trying to save lives, when all in starts right now. good evening from new york, i m chris hayes. federal judges have gotten increasingly fed up with the light sentences the department of justice, the prosecutors, have been recommending for the people who engaged in the seditious storming of the capitol to violently overthrow the government on january 6. there s been a whole bunch of judges hand wringing over this. today for the very first time, a judge handed down a harsher sentence than what the government was asking for, sentencing one rioter to 45 days in prison and saying, quote, there have to be consequences for participating in an attempted violent overthrow of the government beyond sitting at home. the government had asked for home confinement. there have to be consequences beyond sitting