Eric cantona reinvents himself as a musician. Also this hour, a palestinian restaurant in london says and coming up in sportsday later in the hour on bbc news. Well get the latest from france and the Rugby World Cup semi finals, england are prparing to face the world champiosn south africa tomorrow. Good evening. Three people have been killed in the high winds and flood waters brought by storm babet and another danger to life red warning has been issued by the met office for the north east of scotland from midnight tonight. Hundreds have had to be evacuated from their homes. You can see the areas worst affected by the heavy rainfall since midnight last night, and theres more to come with warnings in scotland in parts of angus and aberdeenshire. Well be live with our correspondents in derbyshire and north yorkshire, but first, lets go james cook in brechin. This has been an extraordinary and exceptionally difficult day and tonight there is still a major operation under way here in brec
When a score of a00 had looked likely. In response, pakistan started brightly with an opening stand of 134 helped by some bad australian fielding. But the loss of set batters, including rizwan, threatened to tilt the contest in favour of australia again. This is the latest from bangalore. Pakistan now 297 8 in the 45th over. Weve arrived at the Semifinal Stage of the rugby world cup. England take on south africa tomorrow, but less than three hours to go now until new zealand play argentina. The all blacks are heavy favourites to reach their third final in the last four tournaments and avoid a repeat of their defeat at this stage four years ago. From the experience, you learn a lot, and it is clear weve got some outstanding leaders in the team. For the much all of them were there. And i know that that sort of loss is driving some of them. I know it is four years on, but you can still look back to that week and think about what you learned from it, and i guess make sure that, yeah, it do
Were in israel visiting family. Hamas said the pair were freed for humanitarian reasons. The white house says that President Biden has spoken to the released us hostages and theirfamily by phone. In a Statement Issued shortly after their release was secured, President Biden said. Us Secretary Of State Antony Blinken has said he was relieved the women had been released but reminded that many others are still being held. Theres still ten additional americans who remain unaccounted for in this conflict. We know that some of them are being held hostage by hamas, along with an estimated 200 other hostages held in gaza. They include men, women, young boys, young girls, elderly people, from many nations. Every single one of them should be released. Our correspondent Barbara Plett usher brings us more from inside the halls of the State Department. The release of the hostages disrupted the day here at the State Department. We were sitting down for the daily briefing, and then we were told that
Jeremy bowen has this assessment on how things have changed in that time. Palestinians on the west bank held protests when theyd finished their noon prayer, as they have done so many times in the long years of the israeli occupation. But nothing about this is routine for either side. Almost two weeks into this war and thousands of lives later, the uneasy, unpleasant but mostly predictable rhythm of the conflict has gone. This was an israeli raid on the west bank, the other side of Occupied Palestinian Territory that is separated from gaza by the israeli state. Arrest operations like this happen often, but palestinians said israel used more force than usual. One israeli soldier was killed and the arrests were accompanied by a drone strike. Among the palestinian casualties, 13 were killed, including five boys. At the mortuary, palestinian families said goodbye to the boys, bystanders, the bbc was told, aged from 11 to 15. The pain of loss cuts across palestinians and israelis. In tel avi