Hello and welcome to sportsday, with me 0lly foster and ben croucher. Thanks forjoining us. Heres whats been making the headlines on this scorching saturday joy for pakistan, they beat afghanistan in a world cup thriller and thats very bad news for england its a double for the dutch, they beat italy to reach the womens world cup semi finals. Charles leclerc takes pole for ferrari at the austrian grand prix but Lewis Hamilton is penalised by stewards and bumped down to fifth also coming up in the programme. Lets play ball. London prepares to host Major League Baseballs first game in europe. Evening, weve had some fantastic games at the cricket world cup recently. Todays match at headingley went down to the final over as pakistan pipped afghanistan to win by three wickets and keep their tournament alive. They are now up to fourth in the standings at englands expense. Well have the latest from edgbaston ahead of their game against india tomorrow, but first heres how pakistan stormed into
The first stop of Pope Franciss Spanish Speaking tour of latin america. And the penalty shootout win over argentina in the copa america, giving chile their first major title so we begin in greece. The birth place of democracy where history is in the making. Greeks are voting yes or no in a referendum on their financial future and ultimately whether or not they stay in the eurozone. Its been a hectic few days of campaigning. The greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras and his finance minister are urging a no vote. So far, though it looks as if the country is evenly split. The vote will decide whether or not greeks choose to accept International Creditors proposals for more austerity in change for rescue loans. The European Commission one of the troika of creditors, with the International Monetary fund wants athens to raise taxes and slash welfare spending to meet debt obligations. The greek debt stands at a whopping 340 billion euros. On the eve of the referendum the greek finance minister
And clean water. A fight against drug resistant bacteria. How the slow pace of research is making matters worse. Within the past hour turk turkeks Prime Minister has confirmed its military has launched more airstrikes in is ill. Its also hitting areas in Northern Iraq. The targets belong to the kurdistans workers party, the pkk. Its considered a terrorist organization by turkey. I have said the massacre was an attack against turkey against democracy in turkey and public order in turkey. Is ill was behind it is. There are some who wanted today accurately chaos and they were supported by the pkk. Their actions were targeting fundamental rights. Mohammed jamjoon is following developments prime prime. The kurds in the southeastern region specifically. They accused the turkish government much collaborating with is ill. These are accusations turkey denies. They call them nefarious lies. Like i said, its a tricky situation right now. Clearly what we are seeing several turkish high level offic
Have been stepping up efforts to stop the vote claiming that most voting stations have been closed. It follows a raid at the Catalan Governments i. T centre to disrupt electronic voting. The vote is considered illegal by the government in spain. The National Police have sealed off over a thousand schools which are intended to be polling stations. Its prompted the president of the Catalan National assembly to make this plea. Translation i want to make a plea to the police and appeal to their sense of responsibility and community. Well, this was the scene in madrid earlier people against the vote showing their support for a united spain. But many catalans say they are determined to vote. Heres our correspondent tom burridge who is in barcelona. This is how parents and people in this part of barcelona a scene repeated across the city and across the region of catalonia, are trying to keep this school open. They hope the police cannot get in if they organise activities with their kids and s
An essential part of spain as the crisis intensifies well go live to barcelona also coming up the Czech Republic is poised to elect a populist Prime Minister we look at the man theyve dubbed the czech and donald trump and ask why the country is so critical of the European Union doing as being a good and theyre going. And can german rob make it in america we follow the bavarian band sex as they take their Foreign Language flow to the home of hip hop. A warm welcome to the program im marrying in evanston its good to have you with us the crisis over catalonia is independence bit is at another crucial juncture today Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy is holding an emergency Cabinet Meeting to pave the way for establishing Central Control in the region now this comes after a Catalan Leader carlos pushed him out refused to abandon his threat to declare a breakaway state. A brief run on catamaran banks a symbolic protest to put pressure on madrid yet some Financial Institutions a so worried theyve