you re watching bbc news. now it s time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday i m gavin ramjaun. at the masters, a rain delayed second round concludes, as rory mcilroy misses the cut. haaland s on fire as city keep the pressure on arsenal at the top of the table. and getting the party started early as celtic go 12 points clear, following victory in the old firm derby. also coming up on sportsday. salford red devils get the edge on leigh leopard in a thrill for super league s rivals round. hello there and welcome along to sportsday. all the talking points from the premier league to come but first to the masters, which has been heavily affected by the weather. we saw trees fall on the course at augusta yesterday, as concerns over storms delayed the second round. on day three, the rain is still falling but it s no longer an issue for rory mcilroy whose masters is over. brooks koepka leads the way on round three, on 13 under, jon rahm not far behind. earlier i
it s arrived. he s the chairman of the qatar islamic bank, which is one of the leading banks in qatar, he s the son of a former prime minister and he says the bid plans to return the club will seek to place the fans at the heart of manchester united football club once more. he says the bid will be completely debt free which will look to invest in the football teams, the trading centre, the stadium and wider infrastructure. he says the vision of the bid is for manchester united football club to be renowned for footballing excellence and regarded as the greatest football club in the world. there will be few questions about this because a qatar consortium already own the champions. could that lead to a potential conflict of interest? some fans have expressed human rights about qatar s health record. but this is clearly a fairly significant move. 18 years under the glazers, they ve been criticised heavily for burdening the club with a lot of debts. i think a lot of fans ears pri
thank you. it was parts of north east england and scotland that bore the brunt, the strongest dust of all recorded on the coast of aberdeenshire, 83 mph, but further south across the uk it was mild weather making its presence felt with temperatures in worcestershire climbing above 17 celsius. this small of cloud, that was storm otto, now hurtling toward scandinavia and behind it another weather system bringing rain, not as potent as storm otto but moving its way through with snow ever higher ground in scotland with the potential for some ice. it will be chilly across northern parts of scotland but further south, very mild, 10 11 celsius, the overnight lows for many. the heaviest rain clearing quickly eastwards tomorrow. some rain hanging back across parts of central and southern scotland and the far north of england, perhaps northern ireland for a time, with a band of drizzle towards the south of england but in between some spells of sunshine, just the odd rogue shower, 17 ce
Our latest headlines two of the three teenage boys killed after they were hit by a car in hayes in west london have been named locally, as George Wilkinson and harry rice. A 28 year old man who was in the vehicle has been arrested. The attorney general has acknowledged that very serious mista kes over the disclosure of evidence by prosecutors have led to the collapse of recent trials in england and wales. A bomb hidden by the taliban in an ambulance in the Afghan Capital has killed at least 95 people and left more than 150 injured. It comes a week after an attack on a hotel in kabul killed more than twenty people. Paris is on high alert for flooding. Water levels are continuing to rise along the river seine, following some of the heaviest rain for a century. Now on bbc news, hundreds of industrial towns across russia face extinction. Once the pride of the soviet union, many have been abandoned and millions have lostjobs and homes after the collapse of their local industry. The governme
Welcome to bbc news. Three teenage boys were killed when a car hit them near a bus stop in west london on friday evening in what police have called a horrific crash. Two of the boys, who had been heading to a birthday party, have been named locally as George Wilkinson and harry louis rice. A man aged 28 who was in the vehicle is under arrest in hospital. Our correspondent ben ando reports. Friends, classmates, mourners. Three, two, one. Grieving together an improvised memorial for a tragedy as shocking as it was unexpected, to mark the deaths of three teenagers struck by a speeding car in hayes, middlesex, yesterday evening. The teenage boys have not been formally identified, but have been named locally as george, harry and josh. Two were 16, the other 17. Earlier their families had visited the bus stop where the boys had lost their lives. Jake webb was one of the first on the scene immediately after it happened. I could see the incident in front of me. I had called them at that point.