it. george floyd. as many as half a million workers go on strike, across the uk, the biggest day of industrial action, in over a decade. the funeral of the controversial australian cardinal george pell begins in sydney shortly. the fbi search president biden s home in delaware as part of their investigation into his handling of classified documents. welcome to bbc news broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. we begin in the us, where the funeral of tyre nichols, the 29 year old black man who died after being beaten by police, has taken place. the us vice president kamala harris was among the thousands attending the service at mississippi boulevard christian church, in memphis, tennessee. following tyre nichols s death, five officers, all of them black, were charged with murder. several other police officers and emergency staff have also been fired in recent days. our north america editor sarah smith was at the service. # you lift me up. the grief was over
many of us particularly former players and the capital feel that visit saudi should not have the opportunity to be sponsoring a world cup which after all, is in a country where we take gender equality and sport seriously. we are proud in the australian football community of the fact that our mathilde does, our national football team have equal pay and conditions to our mail team, the soccer roots in only a couple of years ago that agreement was put in place and in that press conference was both captains of both teams. across cricket in many of the sports we see this in australia that is an absolute necessity. not to skip across all global sports. so this world cup in australia and new zealand this year will be so much the theme about gender equality through sport and from sport into broader society. therefore with
how twitter posted. twitter aparentally worried that the story could have been the result of a russian hacking operation, but trump had this take, boasting, quote, a massive fraud of this type and magnitude allies for the termination of all rules, regulations, and articles, even those found in the constitution. well, the white house responded swiftly saying, quote, attacking the constitution and attacking all that it stands for is a a anathema to the soul of our nation. the world cup round of 16 is underway right now in qatar, and saturday was a good day if you root for argentina and the netherlands, but not so much if you back the u.s. or australia s soccer roots.
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