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
but cast your minds back to christmas day, 1986. anyone remember this? this, my sweet, is a letter from my solicitor telling you that your husband has filed a petition for divorce. happy christmas, ange. that was dirty den handing angie watts divorce papers after she d lied to him about having six months left to live. 30 million people tuned in to watch that episode of eastenders, more than half the population. today, the show averages between 4 and 6 million per episode, much of it through iplayer. so do soaps matter any more? what s their place in the cultural landscape? are we going through a messy den and angie divorce with them? or is it still enduring love, like scott and charlene? i m joined by sir phil redmond, creator of three of the biggest british soaps of all time grange hill, brookside and hollyoa ks. daniel kilkenny is soaps editor for entertainment news website digital spy. tv critic and soap fan emma bullimore is here, and charles collingwood, who s been far
dark comedy there, as i say, in the way that this woman is kind of paying tribute to her past and feeling a little bit guilty about what they ve done with the family farmhouse. they ve demolished it basically for this incredibly gleaming, modern home. and she and her husband are up to some pretty shifty business. and then, kind of a lot of guilt comes out when she has memories of her mother. there s a lot about welsh folklore, about the land, about the environment, about our connection to the past, about the dangers of wealth and greed. there s also an element of the seven deadly sins in there. it becomes increasingly kind of dramatic when all four members of the family have dinner guests and things take a bit of a turn, to put it mildly. and it s nicely filmed, isn t it? it looks, visually, it looks really impressive. very crisp, very beautiful. i was with it all the way. it s one of those films where there s more to talk about at the end than there is perhaps to learn. ther
this is bbc news. i m lewis vaughan jones. the headlines: eight days of strike action by staff at the uk s largest container port, felixstowe. the unite union is in a dispute over pay. the boxer tyson fury has called for an end to knife crime after his cousin rico burton was stabbed to death in cheshire. a 17 year old was also injured in the same incident. the met police say they had contact with student nurse owami davies on the day she was reported missing by her family. a car bomb in moscow kills the daughter of putin ally alexsandr dugin, a vocal supporter of the war in ukraine. the exam board pearson has apologised after some btec students didn t get their results on time, putting their university places in doubt. now on bbc news, the travel show s lucy hedges heads for the big this week i m taking a journey across yellowstone national park as it celebrates its 150th anniversary. oh, my god, just spectacular. i will meet the people using this milestone to address the par
as she was driving home. the exam board pearson has apologised after some btec students did not receive their results as expected last thursday, throwing university places into doubt. and if you havejustjoined us, a warm welcome to bbc news. we begin at this hour with the strike at felixstowe port. dockers at britain s largest container port, felixstowe, have gone on strike for the first time in three decades. almost 2,000 workers are taking part in the eight day action, after rejecting a 7% pay offer. there are warnings that the strike will cause disruption to supply chains for shops and other retailers half of britain s container trade goes through the port in suffolk. the government says supply chains are resilient. here s our business correspondent mark ashdown. the summer of strikes has reached felixstowe docks. these workers would normally be making sure essential goods find their way to households, but today, 1,900 members of the unite union are starting an eight day