Prime minister rishi sunak is due to speak to his israeli counterpart Benjamin Netanyahu today to urge restraint after irans unprecedented missile and drone attack on israel on saturday night. Lets go live tojerusalem for the very latest and our chief International Correspondent lyse doucet. Two days after the skies of israel was killed by iranian cruise and Ballistic Missiles as well as suicide drones, israel is making it clear that it will hit back. The question still is, how and when will it retaliate . What seems clear now is it will, at least it hopes, take many forms. This morning, israels Foreign Minister has said he is leading a political war against iran. He has written to dozens of countries urging them to sanction irans irg sea to isolate iran. We have heard from the military officials as well. Yesterday the israeli Chief Of Staff visited the airbase which was struck by several iranian missiles. Israel says it suffered limited damage but he took that occasion to say that isr
and former prime minister boris johnson is expected to apologise to the uk covid inquiry acknowledging that the government did not get everything right during the pandemic. hello and welcome to sportsday this saturday night. i m chetan pathak coming up on the programme. finding out theirfate next summer s european championship will begin with scotland playing germany on the opening night. we are up against, its nice to be involved in the first game and hopefully we can set up on a good match. a kinder draw for england on paper at least you ll hear from gareth southgate as they hope to go one better than runners up. the team to catch at the top of the premier league table again are arsenal as they edge past wolves at the emirates. also coming up on sportsday. ronnie rockets into the final of the uk snooker championship in york. and adelaide strikers beat brisbane heat to become back to back women s big bash league winners. welcome along, thank you forjoining us. wi
hello and welcome to sportsday this saturday night. i m chetan pathak coming up on the programme. finding out theirfate next summer s european championship will begin with scotland playing germany on the opening night. we know what we are up against, its nice to be involved in the first game and hopefully we can set the tournament off on a good match. a kinder draw for england on paper at least can gareth southgate s side go one better than runners up this time? the team to catch at the top of the premier league again are arsenal as they edge past wolves at the emirates. also coming up on sportsday. ronnie rockets into the final of the uk snooker championship in york. and adelaide strikers beat brisbane heat to become back to back women s big bash league winners. welcome along, thank you forjoining us. with six months to go until euro 2024 kicks off in germany the draw for next summer s tournament has been made in the last hour and scotland will play the very firs
the centre of attention jude bellingham basks in the glory of champions league victory. his england team mates say they can t wait to see him back. and success at last for laurie canter, as the englishman has the edge in a tight field at the european open. hello there and welcome to the programme. to the fallout at the french open first, where the concern over late finishes continues to be raised by the big names. the defending champion iga swiatek and world number three coco gauff today saying matches ending at 3am are unhealthy . it follows the five setter which saw novak djokovic, the men s champion, wrapping up his win to make the fourth round at 3.07am in the morning. our tennis correspondent russell fuller was covering it all the way to the end and told me how djokovic reacted. after the match yesterday, he gave a brief press conference to a fewjournalists at 3:30am and said that he feels the scheduling could be handled differently, but now is not the time to talk ab
hello there and welcome along to sportsday. i m gavin ramjaun. history for djokovic, but not as he d like it, at the french open. the world number one with a new benchmark for a late finish in paris. the centre of attention jude bellingham basks in the glory of champions league success. his england team mates can t wait to see him back. and success, at last, for laurie canter, as the englishman has the edge in a tight field at the european open. hello there and welcome along to sportsday. that s all to come, but we start with news that s reached us in the last half an hour or so that rugby league legend rob burrow has died. he was 41 years old. burrow was diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2019, just two years after he ended his playing career with rugby league side leeds rhinos. he, his family and his great friend and former team mate kevin sinfield have raised millions of pounds for mnd charities. sally nugent reports. rob burrow s life is defined by his defiance of