Into the History Books with the fastest ever odi hundred for england. Englands women take on sri lanka at leicestershire� s grace road. With the game to 31 overs each, the visitors won the toss and decided to field Tammy Beaumont and alex capsey went cheaply. But Nat Sciver Brunt gaining her hundredth odi Cap Steadined the ship, hitting the englands fastest ever odi century, coming off 64 balls. Coming off 66 balls. She was eventually caught four 120. England are currently 256 5. They currently lead the series 1 0. Its transfer deadline day in the womens super league, and Manchester United have announced the signing of spanish world cup winner Irene Guerrero from atletico madrid. The midfielder is uniteds sixth signing of the off season. The window closes at 11pm uk time, and you can keep across all the latest deals on the bbc sport website. Meanwhile, united winger jadon sancho will train away from the first team until issues between the player and manager erik ten hag are resolved, the club confirmed in a statement on thursday. This follows ten hags revelation that sancho had been left out of his squad for the Premier League defeat at arsenal earlier this month because the winger� s training performances were not up to the level required. However, sancho countered with his own statement on social media, saying he rejected the dutchmans claim and felt he was being made a scapegoat. The captain of the scottish womens football team, rachel corsie, has withdrawn an inequality case against the sfa on the day the hearing was due to start. Corsie was due to represent her National Team mates after accusing the Governing Body of not treating the women fairly on pay and conditions. However, a new statement from the sfa now says both parties are pleased that the matter has been resolved. Heres scotland manager Pedro Martinez losa. Im pleased obviously that the players felt there was an agreement reachable that things could be resolved. And obviously i have to say that has never defaulted on the professionalism or application of the players since day one. You have seen the unity and performance of the team in the workday today, and im pleased that now we can move forward and focus on the natch objectives and the next challenge as an entity together which is always been the case with the staff and players. Tottenham hotspur stadium has been designated the official home of the nfl in the uk. It comes after tottenham extended its deal to host nfl games at its stadium until 2030. The new expanded partnership will ensure a minimum of two regular season nfl games a year will be held at the spurs� stadium. Opened in 2019, the north london venue is the first purpose built American Football Stadium outside the us. Shane lowry is looking to continue his return to form as he defends his title at the Pga Championship at wentworth. The irishman achieved a first top ten finish since february, coming joint third at the irish 0pen. There had been some criticism of his selection for europes ryder cup team, particularly given polands Adrian Meronk won three events, including mays italian open at the ryder cup course. But its been a good time for lowry to find some form, a solid first round at wentworth, with a three 3 under five shots off the lead. Despite a double bogey at 17, swedens Ludvig Aaberg who was also given a wild card spot on the european team, still managed to card a li under 68. Denmarks Marcus Helligkilde leads the field at 8 under, hes two shots ahead of the chasing pack. Sepp kuss has retained his overall lead after stage 18 of the vuelta a espana. Reigning champion Remco Evenepoel rode to victory, finishing almost five minutes clear of the next rider in northern spain. Kuss, though, doing what he needed to do, supported by Hisjumbo Visma team mates Premoz Roglitch and yonas vingergaur. The american finished ahead of them in tenth place to maintain his eight second overall lead. And thats all the sport for now. 63 projects have been chosen to share £145 million of Government Funding to help support englands most endangered species. The money is part of the 25 year Environment Plan to reduce species decline. Injanuary, the Conservation Charity the Wildlife Trusts said ministers needed to commit an extra £1. 2 billion a year if it was to meet its uk targets for nature. Live now to cambridge to speak to tonyjuniper, chair of Natural England. Welcome here to the programme. I think its 50 of the countrys species are at risk. This is delightful this news, so many of those groups actually try to combat all of that. , ,. , all of that. Yes, indeed. This is an important all of that. Yes, indeed. This is an important step all of that. Yes, indeed. This is an important step in all of that. Yes, indeed. This is an important step in our all of that. Yes, indeed. This is an important step in our species important step in our Species Recovery programme weve been running at Natural England after more than three decades. And weve had some notable successes over the years, including the return of the bittern, that beautiful wetland bird which is so iconic in our wetlands and now much more widespread. The red kite, which 30 years ago was a very scarce bird in the british isles, now very widespread and can be seen in many places. What we now need to do is build on those achievements to go to the next age and relate scale of this work. And today, we are supporting the fact of £145 million now being invested in 60 projects that will help 150 different species ranging from the water bowl through to the butterfly and from the white Cloth Crayfish through to the brown trout. And many others besides. This is an Urgent Programme of action because if we are going to meet the targets the government has set, and their good targets, to eliminate Extinction Risk and to improve the abundance of wildlife, that we are going to take these targeted actions to take some of these very rare and declining species literally back from the brink and to get them into recovery. We are seeing some of those species on the screen, pictures of them as you speak to us. In terms of the projects he decided to back, how did you decide . Projects he decided to back, how did ou decide . ~ projects he decided to back, how did you decide . You decide . Well, we wanted to back roects you decide . Well, we wanted to back projects that you decide . Well, we wanted to back projects that had you decide . Well, we wanted to back projects that had a you decide . Well, we wanted to back projects that had a good you decide . Well, we wanted to back projects that had a good chance you decide . Well, we wanted to back projects that had a good chance of. Projects that had a good chance of success, that would be giving good value for money. As Appellate Money Thatis Value For money. As appellate money that is giving and really those are the two main criteria. Lots of detail behind all of that. We were delighted to see a lot of very high quality applications come in, and to the point where we were able to back 63 projects totalling £145 million getting on board. So this is good and i do hope over the next couple of years during the lifetime of these projects we will see things beginning to turn around. And actually visited one this morning in southwest london, which is a programme of work along the hartsville river. That is a beautiful little stream, a chalk river, which means is one of the rarest kinds of rivers on planet earth and it runs through from the north downs around epsom down to kingston. And its got a lot of pressure on it. Its got urbanisation up to the edges of it in some places, sewage works located along different parts of the river. There are Runoff Problems coming from roads, but really great work going on from the southeast rivers trust that i saw today whereby for example theyre going to put a new wetlands into the catchment which will take water coming from one of the tributaries and clean it before it goes into the main river and create a new habitat in the process. We were delighted to put £a00,000 into that particular project. Just indicative of the great work thats going on amongst our Conservation Groups right across the country. Aha, groups right across the country. A final question then because you mentioned and talked about the 14. 5 million but i said in the introduction that figure from the Wildlife Trust of 1. 2 billion a year to meet the targets for the uk on nature. Today, this is in reality a fraction of what is needed, is it not . 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Our colleagues at the Environment 0ur Colleagues at the Environment Agency investing in various schemes that are complementary and indeed joint schemes with what were doing and of course there if the force a commission as well, plus also dont the fantastic work of the rsp beat, the fantastic work of the rsp beat, the national trust, the Wildlife Trusts they were also putting in hundreds of millions of pounds through all of their good work, too. So today is a great contribution to all of that but is not the only thing by any means. But we do need more, im not saying that we are there yet. But its also not meant to say this is the only thing thats coming out. To say this is the only thing thats coming out to say this is the only thing thats coming out. To say this is the only thing thats cominu out. ,. ,. ,. , coming out. Tony, we are to leave it there, coming out. Tony, we are to leave it there. Chair coming out. Tony, we are to leave it there. Chair of coming out. Tony, we are to leave it there, chair of natural coming out. Tony, we are to leave it there, chair of Natural England, there, chair of Natural England, thank you so much for taking him to speak to us there for gamebridge, thank you. Downing street has refused to guarantee that the Hs2 Rail Line will run to manchester as planned after reports the Prime Minister and chancellor are in talks about scrapping it. Number 10 suggested the government would need to balance the interests of passengers and taxpayers when asked whether the scheme could be shelved in the face of spiralling costs and delays. The Prime Minister has acknowledged that his target of reducing nhs Waiting Lists is in doubt, as the number of people waiting to start routine Hospital Treatment in england reached a record high. Nhs figures released today show an estimated 7. 68 Million People were waiting to start treatment at the end ofjuly, up from 7. 57 million injune. It is the highest number since records began in august 2007. Its estimated that at the end ofjuly, 7289 people in england had been waiting more than 18 months for routine treatment. That number was also up onjunes figure. The Prime Minister sat down with our Health Editor hugh pym a little earlier. Heres the moment he conceded the target may not be reached. Well, with Industrial Action, its very hard to continue to meet these targets, but what i would say is we are making very Good Progress despite Industrial Action. Last year, we virtually eliminated the number of people waiting two years for treatment, and earlier this year, we practically eliminated the number of people waiting a year and a half. Now those were interim steps that we had. We have delivered those, and we also were delivering a record amount of care. But Industrial Action obviously makes meeting these targets very challenging. Are you saying that without Industrial Action, you wouldve met your targets . Yes, im confident that we would have, and thats what all our plans showed. The evidence for that is before Industrial Action really intensified, we had actually met our interim target of virtually eliminating the number of people who were waiting a year and a half. But now that target is in doubt, is it . Well, of course it is with Industrial Action. I mean, weve now had over half a million appointments cancelled because of Industrial Action. Half a million appointments cancelled, half a million treatments that have not happened as a result of the Industrial Action. And thats in spite of the government. And if you dont mind, this is important this is in spite of the government investing record sums in the nhs. Thats a fact. This is in spite of the government accepting in full the recommendations of the independent pay review bodies. Its not my view on what pay should be, its independent. But why as Prime Minister can you not get round the table with the doctors to try and find a way through this . Why cant you initiate some talks . We have tried in the past, and actually im really grateful to the over a million nhs workers, including all our nurses, who did do exactly as you described got round the table, worked it out with the government, came to a sensible resolution. But no talks with the doctors for months, nothing at all. Well, as i said, over a million nhs workers and half a dozen nhs unions did do exactly as you described, work constructively with the government. Im very grateful to them for all their hard work. 0n the doctors, we have a process. We have a process where an independent body. This is not the government. This is an independent body that sets a recommendation on pay, and the government accepted it. The labour leader, sir keir starmer, says if he becomes Prime Minister, he would work closely with the European Union to target the gangs trafficking migrants across the channel. He visited the hague, where the uk gave up its seat at the eu Law Enforcement agency, europol, after brexit. Sir keir denied the talks with the Eu Institution meant he was reversing his position on brexit and rejected conservative claims that the uk would be forced to accept thousands more Asylum Seekers as part of any eu agreement. He told the bbc� s mark easton his government would end the use of hotels for Asylum Seekers. The government has completely lost control of this, and the cost now to the taxpayer year on year for Hotel Accommodation is £2 billion. So what i would do is use a small amount of that money to recruit more caseworkers to get the cases through and to ensure that, you know, within a reasonably short period of time lets say 12 months from when this is operational that we would clear out all those that are currently in Hotel Accommodation. Earlier, i spoke to our Political Correspondent peter saull. We are seeing here the labour party trying to get on the front foot of an issue that Rishi Sunak Has made one of his top five priorities, to stop the boats. When we get to the general election at some point next year, no doubt this will be a key battleground, and were seeing, i think, today what labours approach to this issue starting to crystallise, this idea of getting all Asylum Seekers out of hotels after a year. He wants to get a new Security Agreement with the eu to help with things like data sharing, and also the possibility of this returns agreement, too, which would mean that the uk would be able to send back some of the Asylum Seekers who arrive on uk shores back to the continent. Now, the potential issue with that is what does