Decided that is the way to go. It is interesting because in recent times, with lopetegui, with previous managers, wolves have gone down the continental managerial route. Now, almost for the first time in a decade, they are going to get an english guy in charge and it will be interesting to see how that goes. West ham have agreed a fee of 30 million pounds, thats around 38 million dollars, for both southampton captainjames ward prowse and Manchester United defender harry maguire. The England International had slipped down the Pecking Order at old trafford under erik ten hag who took the captaincy off maguire at the start of preseason. Its not thought agreeing personal terms will be a problem. Manchester united had this man Wout Weghorst on loan last season and once again hes left his club burnley on a temporary deal. The dutch striker has joined hoffenheim on a season long loan. Four time winners river plate have been knocked out of the Copa Libertadores. Beaten on penalties in the last
Hello. This is bbc news. We start with the latest on the israel gaza war. In the past hours, weve heard that the heads of the us and Israeli Security agencies have met to discuss the hostage situation. The Israeli Prime Ministers Office said the cia and mossad bosses met on friday in efforts to advance another hostage deal. In cypius, final preparations are being made for the first aid vessel to use the sea corridor to gaza. The un says a quarter of gazas population is on the brink of famine, and children are starving to death. This is the scene live in larnaca in cyprus where 200 tonnes of food and medical supplies have been loaded onto a barge. It will be towed by a Spanish Charity ship to gaza. The sea corridor is a joint operation between the eu, us, uk and united arab emirates, aiming to take supplies from cyprus to the gazan coast. This video shot today along the Israeli Border into gaza shows more aid being dropped. The parachutes carrying the boxes of supplies to the people of
President Volodymyr Zelenskyi expressed his condolences to the families of the victims and added that the search will continue as long as necessary. And on the night of march 12, the authorities of nine russian regions immediately reported drone strikes, in the morning the ministry of defense of russia announced that during the night Russian Air Defense destroyed and intercepted 25 ukrainian drones, but in the afternoon they named another figure over. Drones attacked russia, says the ministry of defense Russian Federation officially, the ukrainian authorities do not confirm involvement in such attacks, but also do not deny which regions of russia are involved. The message says that seven drones were destroyed over the belgorod region, 11 over another kursk region, for example, two drones each over the moskovskaya and orlov regions. One drone was shot down in bryansk, leningrad and tula regions. And at the same time, the ministry of defense of the Russian Federation does not mention the
We start with the situation in gaza. A ship carrying humanitarian aid is expected to set sail to the territory from cyprus this weekend as part of a planned maritime aid corridor. Its a joint operation between the eu, us, uk and United Arab Emirates aiming to bring supplies from cyprus to the coast of gaza. The un says a quarter of gazas population is on the brink of famine, and children there are starving to death. Organisers hope the plan could allow large amounts of extra aid, but say it will be complex and continue to press israel to allow more deliveries by road. These are the latest pictures from larnaca, in cyprus, where, as you can see, aid is being loaded onto a ship, which is due to depart in a couple of hours. Earlier i spoke to hiba tibi shes the Country Director of Care International palestine and she explained the challenges of getting aid into gaza. Any plan that is being taken currently to increase aid in gaza is welcome. These are, unfortunately, aiming to save as many
Wave of support from top performers. All of those stories here in just a moment. Sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, heres lizzy. Hello from the bbc sport centre. Were starting with the the news today that the future of the Commonwealth Games and its viability is being questioned, after alberta announced theyre cancelling their bid to host the 2030 event. It follows victoria, in australia, who also pulled out of staging the next games in 2026. Our correspondent, alex capstick, tells us where this leaves the games. It would seem to be in crisis. Without a house for the next two editions. Although they insist there is ongoing dialogue with potential hosts. It has been suggested india or malaysia might lodge a bid. But one committed and prepared to meet all of the financial demands of staging such a Big Multisports event has increasingly difficult. Fifa is investigating an official complaint that the zambia head coach, bruce mwape, sexually assaulted a player at the