hello, i m 0lly foster. here s what s coming up on sportsday this evening. human rights groups have slammed fifa for telling teams to just focus on the football in qatar. the red roses are fully focussed. we ll head live to new zealand ahead of their rugby world cup semi final. it s the first of the quarterfinals at the rugby league world cup. can lebanon stop the reigning champions? also coming up in the programme. good evening. welcome along. injust over a fortnight, the world cup in qatar will be under way. the tiny gulf state, the most controversial host in the history the tournament, says everyone is welcome . human rights groups have contested that for the last 12 years since they were named as hosts, and today, fifa has been criticised for a letter that has been sent to all 32 competing nations, telling them to concentrate on football and not get involved in any protests. joe lynskey reports. the world cup starts here in 16 days, the stadium in the north of qatar wh
reported across 11 countries. there will be a full roundup of the day s news at ten o clock. first, it s newscast. welcome to the newscast studio this week. and we re going to bejoined by all sorts of interesting people who will be popping in and out throughout this episode. but first, chris, you ve had a busy old day covering what you could describe as maybe the beginning of the end of the downing street party story. yeah. so the metropolitan police today have said that they are done. they ve been looking into this since january. and so we have the figures for the final count. after a bit of back and forth, it s a bit confusing. where they confuse fines and people. but we now know that they issued 126 fines to 83 people. so most of those fined got one fine. and we know that the prime minister was one of those, as was the chancellor and the prime minister s wife. we know that 28 people got between two and five, so at least one person got five! so who is the party animal? i ve
The government is expected to publish the Brexit Strategy in an hours time. The white paper will set out its priorities for negotiations with the European Union after Parliament Takes the First Step Towards britain leaving the union, as mps vote overwhelmingly in favour of triggering article 50. Last night mps voted 498 to 114 in favour of approving legislation which gives the Prime Minister the power to start negotiations with european leaders. 47 labour mps, one in five, voted against the bill despite a three line whip imposed by the party leader, Jeremy Corbyn. And what will happen next . As mentioned, at around noon, Brexit Secretary david davis will announce the governments white paper on exiting the eu. This will allow parliament to send the bill on Forfurther Amending and scrutiny, before it becomes law. Our assistant Political Editor, norman smith, is at westminster with the latest. What are we going to find out . Probably very little. I think most people expect it to simply fl
northern ireland, the rain then getting into parts of western scotland, north east scotland holding on to some brightness. through the afternoon, the channel islands should see plenty of sunshine and we will see sunny spells across england and wales as well, the odd rogue shower across england and wales. temperatures, 17 degrees for liverpool. we will see showers across northern ireland and outbreaks of rain drifting eastwards across scotland although the far north east should hold on to something little brighter, albeit with just the odd shower. saturday night, rain goes across northern scotland, and they will be missed in murk and low cloud around western coasts and hills. sunday will be between two weather fronts, a warm front here, confront here, there ll be lots of mist and murk and low cloud and higher temperatures on sunday, especially towards the south east corner. sunday is whether