hello and welcome to sportsday. i m gavin ramjaun. the perfect start england get their rugby union world cup campaign going in record breaking style against fiji. hardened on target again for manchester city, who cook top tonight in the premier league. could this be the perfect weekend for max verstappen? he s claimed pole for the japanese grand prix, where he could retain his world title. hello there and welcome along to sportsday. as far as opening games to a world cup campaign go, they really don t come much better than england s. earlier today, they blew away fiji, scoring 1a tries in a record breaking victory in new zealand. they won 84 19, extending their record winning streak in test matches. jo currie reports. the year long covid delay means these players have had a long wait for this moment. england s red roses are expected to bloom at this world cup. fitting, then, that they get their campaign under way in eden. for emerging fiji, a first ever appearance at the to
to an end to the industrial action. progress for the three dads and their campaign for suicide prevention on the curriculum. they visit a school where lessons are already being taught. the race is on in the premier league title race as manchester city beat chelsea to narrow the gap between themselves and leaders arsenal to five points. it might be a wet and windy start to divide upon spots of scotland but todayis divide upon spots of scotland but today is a drier and brighter day for most. it s friday the 6th of january. more revelations from prince harry s autobiography, spare, have emerged, four days before the book is due to be officially released. in the latest leaks, harry says he took cocaine aged 17, killed 25 taliban fighters whilst serving in afghanistan, and that he and his brother william urged their father not to marry camilla. our royal correspondent sarah campbell reports. across the commonwealth, it s prince harry s book which has war in the house of windsor, a
million abpprehensions at the southern border in the last year. the new number tonight. our rachel scott asking the president, why is the border more overwhelmed under your watch? his answer. and the texas sheriff tonight launching a criminal investigation over the plane of migrants from texas that florida s governor ron desantis planned and sent to martha s vineyard. tonight, former president trump, whose team fought for a special master to review those documents seized at mar-a-lago, well, tonight, that special master now demanding answers from the trump team. at one point, saying, you can t have your cake and eat it, too. pierre thomas is here. the war in ukraine tonight. and with russia suffering those heavy losses, ukrainians pushing them back in several towns and communities. now vladimir putin s new plan to hold referendums. tonight, the white house calling it a sham. and both vladimir putin and president biden set to speak about this war tomorrow. back here at
charges over indonesia s football stadium disaster we hear from survivors and families of those killed in the crash. piling on the pounds, why alaska s brown bears are big news. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news. it s newsday. it was a massacre that shocked the nation and the world. now, thailand s king is expected to visit the town of uthai sawan. it s where at least 38 people, mostly young children, were killed by an attacker at a nursery school. the man responsible was a former police officer who was facing a trial on drug charges. he carried out the attack with a gun and a knife and killed children and teachers before shooting himself dead. our south east asia correspondent jonathan head is at the scene. and a warning his report contains some very distressing images. this is a community now consumed by grief and shock. that children so young had been deliberately killed by a fellow parent. the children were taking a midday nap inside the nursery when t
your day? fix. are still standing. what was your day? your day? a little smidgen optimistic your day? a little smidgen optimistic decompression | optimistic decompression between two of the conferences, labour and conservative, and then the s&p tomorrow and there is still the treasury union congress rearranged in the morning a little after that. they were both extraordinary. labour was extraordinary and newsworthy. it was kinda quite serene. it was a party that was upbeat. they weren t buyers breaking out in the corners or political fights that. frankly for labour they have been frequently in the past. for the opposite reason, the conservatives, there were political scraps breaking out very visibly in public. then, that kind of briefing that was going on and private from seniorfigures down was going on and private from senior figures down was also volcanic as well. you have a conservative party to put it at its gentlest is not at ease with itself with a new prime minister