i never want to be in a position where my presence is affecting the team and a negative way. and i didn t believe that was the case. and i didn t believe that was the case. the line up for the women s final of the australian open is complete. as wimbledon champion elena rybakina stays on course for another grand slam title. a storm in a tee peg, problems on and off the course at the dubai desert classic. also coming up in the programme. it s set to be the biggest change in rugby union history but communuity clubs have hit back at plans to lower the height of tackling. and once upon a time in burnley the transfer announcement that united the internet. hello and welcome to sportsday. all that to come shortly, but we start tonight with two time british shot putt champion amelia strickler who d told the bbc that world athletics is betraying women with plans to continue to allow transgender athletes to compete in female track and field events. strickler says she s terrified that
supersonic spy drone. china is preparing cutting edge technology that could give beijing and espionage edge over the us this new discovery comes from classified documents leaked online reported in the washington post. lawmakers have plenty of questions understandably and will get a briefing from intelligence officials just hours from now. midnight deadline. the supreme court up against the clock to decide whether to take up a controversial case on medication abortion. this could set the stage for the biggest abortion rights case since the court overturned roe versus wade last year with the future of a commonly used abortion pill at stake. and an innocent mistake leading to two cheerleaders being shot after one of them confused someone else s car for her own. one of those victims is now in critical condition. we re following these major developing stories and many more all coming in right here to cnn news, central. today 21 year old suspected pentagon leaker jack to scherer wa
i m anita mcvey. our top stories. to all intents and purposes, then, the uk only news channel seems to have almost disappeared, although there s been no announcement to that effect. viewer chris sharman was already telling us a few weeks ago. and on monday, julian bray was surprised to observe, later in the week after watching some of the output, rick from manchester wondered, will the news channel be aimed for the uk or american viewers? we asked again for someone from the bbc to talk to about the new channel, but our request was declined. instead, they gave us this statement. well, instead, we re delighted to talk about this issue to richard eyre, who s a former controller of editorial policy, former deputy chief executive of bbc news. he s also been a member of the bbc trust and of the 0fcom content board. welcome to newswatch, richard. now there used to be two bbc news channels. now there s essentially one with the uk opt outs, is that right? that s right. let me give yo
By thursday afternoon, talk had moved on to who might take over as Prime Minister and on the bbc s news at 6 00, one name in particular reach featured strongly. Bring back boris. Is that what you would like to see . He did a good job on brexit. I think somebody over there agrees with me so yes, bring back boris. Personally, id bring back boris, thats my answer. I some viewers felt that those members of the public selected to give their opinion on air were not representative. Here is nick major Elizabeth Cook agreed. And Ruth Maddison begged now, last week, we featured your reactions to the ending of dateline london. That wasnt the only News Channel Programme to have its final addition last weekend. Here is jane hill with mark kermode on the last ever film review. Thank you. It has been an absolute pleasure and a privilege. Although ive sat here since 2018 and ive still not got to the end of a horror movie, have i . The amount of times i have sat opposite the amount of times i have sat
with a drone attack on russian fleets near the crimean port of sevastopol. there s major disruption to rail services across scotland due to a 24 hour walkout by scotrail workers. more than 2,000 rmt members are on strike. and at li.30pm here on the news channel, bbc wales investigates and today the team is asking, what s killing our rivers? good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. i m samantha simmonds. the household energy supplier octopus energy has reached a deal to buy bulb, which was one of the largest energy companies to collapse last year because of soaring wholesale gas and electricity prices. the government has spent billions of pounds keeping the company afloat since it went into administraton. the agreement means octopus will take onboard bulb s one and a half million customers. our business reporter ramzan kamali has the details. bulb is the biggest - green energy company. it was the biggest energy company to go bust. last november, bulb found itself in administr