Hello, this is breakfast with Rachel Burden and ben thompson. Its 8 31am. Heres a summary of this mornings main news. The queen will host a meeting with senior royals at her sandringham estate tomorrow, to discuss how the duke and duchess of sussex step back from their roles. The talks, which also be attended by Prince Charles and Prince William, are aimed at finding the next step in the process. A number of options are to be discussed with prince harry. Iran was in breach of International Law when it arrested the uks ambassador thats according to the foreign secretary, dominic raab. Rob macaire was detained in tehran after attending a vigil for those killed in the ukranian passenger plane that was shot down on wednesday. He was released after three hours. Many vigils in iran turned into protests, with hundreds of people condemning the government for previously denying downing the jet. President trump has expressed his support for protestors in iran, with tweets being sent from the pre
About her path to success so far. Having played football at the highest level, ive had the exposure and equally i did an economic degree, worked for Deutsche Bank for years, made Investment Bank and now im full time at chelsea working with the commercial team. I still have the football input but now im learning about how the business is run as well. The board of directors as lewes fc is 33 female, the premier league says 50 of club boards have women on them, but the total number of female Board Members in the top flight amounts to around 11 . Those working to increase diversity on boards so it is critical to address the gender balance. If you want to get change and get more young women playing football which is a big driver for the fa, then every club needs to take ownership and that ownership is not going to happen unless you get different voices on the board and women are a very, very important part of our society and sport matters. As a Community Owned club, lewes say they want thei
A blustery day and starting to feel fresher. Hello and welcome to sportsday, with me, ben croucher, and holly hamilton. Good evening. The headlines this evening aubameyang sees red as arsenal draw with Crystal Palace in a feisty london derby. Remember southamptons 9 0 defeat to leicester last year . They got revenge by winning at the king power stadium. 200 Manchester United games for Marcus Rashford and he celebrated with two goals as they eased past norwich. Also coming up in the programme itll be rafa against novak, but not as we know it in the final of the atp cup in australia. And its a massive weekend in the nfl. Eight teams still in with a chance of making it to super bowl liv, well look ahead to the play offs. Hello. A very good evening to you. All the days rugby to come too and the very latest from the Tottenham Hotspur stadium asjose mourinho becomes the latest boss to try and stop the juggernaut that is the premier league leaders, liverpool, but we start tonight with a londo
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Borisjohnson has said that irans admission that it shot down by mistake a ukrainian passenger plane over tehran is an important first step. Four britons were among the 176 People Killed in wednesdays crash. A Senior Iranian military official said the airliner was misidentified as a cruise missile. Irans president rouhani has called the downing of the jet an unforgiveable mista ke. Our Diplomatic Correspondent Caroline Hawley has more. This is the moment iran made a catastrophic error, firing a missile into a passenger plane, killing everyone on board. For three days, in the face of mounting evidence, iran adamantly denied it was responsible. But this morning brought an extraordinary about face. On state run television, a Senior Commander of the powerful revolutionary guards came out, on the orders of the supreme leader, to come clean. He explained that irans air defences had been on alert. They thought american cruise missiles had been fired. A quick deci
Been fired. Some have given press statements a quick decision was behind us. We saw Arlene Foster go taken and it was wrong. Translation in these in with the dup mlas and sinn fein difficult circumstances, i am here before you to explain what happened. Went ten as well. They are all now in the chamber, the processes were but before that, i have to say supposed to get started at one that we accept all the oclock, i think things were ever so responsibility for the accident and we lay ourfate into our higher slightly delayed. But it is northern officials hands. There is anger that the plane ireland, things never go to time was allowed to take here. We are going to get the offjust after iran had fired speaker and deputy speakers missiles at american bases in iraq, nominated and sworn in, and once and when the country was braced for a response. That happens, then we get into the the disaster has piled pressure nitty gritty, the processes of on the regime both from within iran and from getti