For the weekend, temperatures for Northern Ireland and scotland reaching into the low 20s in the warmest spot and perhaps the Mid 20s in the warmest areas of eastern england. So fine weather for the weekend. Thats it. Now, lets join our colleagues for the news where you are. Have a very good evening. Hello and welcome to sportsday im Olly Foster Paris prepares for part two, after the success of the olympics, the paralympics starts tonight and british atheltes are ready i will be ready to fight, and there will be a battle. The Transfer Window closes on friday, italian forward Federico Chiesa has agreed to join liverpool and leading from the front, Ollie Pope says he cant let the England Captaincy affect his batting also coming up on sportsday. Is this the end of The American Dream . Louis Ree Zammit is left out of the chiefs Playing Squad ahead of the Nfl Season two and half weeks after the olympics came to a close, we are just half an hour away from the paralympics Opening Ceremony. 11
Hello, welcome to the Bbc News at ten. Tens of thousands of people have gathered on the streets of Paris Tonight to watch the Opening Ceremony of the 2024 paralympics. 4,400 athletes from 184 delegations will compete over the next 11 days of competition with these games featuring a Record Number of delegations and of female athletes. Our Sports Correspondent Andy Swiss is watching in paris. A perfect parisian evening and a paralympic Curtain Raiser like no other. Welcome to paris at Place De La Concorde an Opening Ceremony exploring attitudes towards disability. French Star Christine and the queens with a modern take on an Edith Piaf classic. And soon it was time for the athletes. Parading down the champs elysees, more than 180 countries united by a commonjoy. And here comes great britain. The british team, led by Terry Bywater and lucy shuker, were welcomed by the Prime Minister, Sir Keir Starmer. Paralympics gb have 215 athletes competing here and after finishing second in the Medals
then this photo of star swimmer riley gaines and leah thomas after they raced each other spurred this issue. gaines was shouted down when she spoke out to support herself and other women athletes. so today the majority gop in the house of representatives passed a bill to protect female athletes while democrats called this bill and them for doing so trans bullies. this bull fuels a virulent hate campaign against kids. you want to be a transgender, that s your right. but what about my rights? what about the rights of my daughters? house republicans make trans kids participating in sports sinister and conniving. that couldn t be further from the truth. women wake up early and train from a young age, sacrifice only to find a biological man to compete. extreme maga republicans are trying to sensational an issue that doesn t really exist. the very class of biological females that they want to uphold with abortion rulings and things like that, they re coming after you gi
on tonight but we have to begin with shocking breaking news. what appears to be a very very serious injury. tonight, monday night football game. between the buffalo bills, the cincinnati bengals. the bills safety, lamar hamlin, collapsed on the field after making a tackle in the first quarter of the game. this is where joe is so good. but now another bills players down. of the we can tell exactly who that is. maybe hamlin? good jordan player was able to go it was indeed hamlin. he was number three on the bills. we are watching it, he appeared to stand up for a moment before collapsing. it is incredibly disturbing to watch what is happened. we don t yet have all the information on his current condition. but we do know that in absence was brought on to the field and according to the espn broadcast, and then received cpr. on the field before being driven out of the stadium in that ambulance. bob costas joins us now on the phone. bob, so scary to see that. to watch consecutiv
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