the scottish national party s chief executive has resigned with immediate effect after they were forced to reveal a dramatic drop in membership this week. now on bbc news, it s time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. it s crunch time in dublin as ireland go for the grand slam against england we ll have the latest. earlier france kept alive their hopes of snatching the title, with a win over wales in paris. and reunion at the etihad but will burnley s vincent kompany come away all smiles against his former boss in the fa cup quarterfinals? a blow for f1 champion max verstappen he won t be on pole, for this weekend s saudi grand prix. we ll tell you why. and a big fight at the 02 can we expect fireworks in the ufc, in the rematch between leon edwards and kamara usman? hello there, and welcome along to sportsday. plenty to come, but we start with the six nations and ireland are within touching distance of a first six nations title since 2018. they re on course to
has urged china to provide detailed information about the level of covid infections in the country. 60,000 covid related deaths have been reported injust over a month, but the chinese government has been accused of not releasing the full details of the pandemic. now on bbc news: the media show hello. this week i m talking with michelle donelan, the secretary of state for digital culture, media and sport. she is the 11th conservative in the role since the party took power, and she has a huge remit everything from the tech companies to museums and art galleries to broadcasters like channel 4, whose privatisation she halted last week, and even eurovision. but before we get onto that, i wanted to get a sense of her news habits. how does she keep up to date through the working day? and there s a mention here right at the start to checking playbook first thing in the mornings. that s a daily newsletter produced by the political magazine politico, in case you decide you want to mi
open it up slightly, with a lot of attacking players on the pitch was disappointed today. we attacking players on the pitch was disappointed today. attacking players on the pitch was disappointed today. we lost against arsenal and against disappointed today. we lost against arsenal and against leicester - disappointed today. we lost against arsenal and against leicester here. | arsenal and against leicester here. our reaction has been fantastic stop 0ur reaction has been fantastic stop we are 0ur reaction has been fantastic stop we are trying to connect with our supporters we are trying to connect with our supporters and, of course, winning today supporters and, of course, winning today makes us happy and i want to share today makes us happy and i want to share that today makes us happy and i want to share that with the players and without share that with the players and without supporters here. a big point for leicester according to their boss brendan rodgers, whose whose
0ur reaction? well, we talked in that interview about the publication of prince harry s book spare, which came out earlier this week. and i want to focus now on a high profile media figure to come into criticism from prince harry, who is rebekah brooks. she s the chief executive of rupert murdoch s news uk. and harry doesn t hold back. listen to this from the audio book. who the hell is this editor? loathsome toad i gathered everyone who knew her was in full agreement that she was an infected pustule on the humanity, plus excuse for a journalist. that is prince harry reading the audiobook of his autobiography, spare, he says rebekah brooks made up a story about him going to rehab. lara, what do you think about what he said? spicy, isn t it? i mean, he should be a writer. it was really interesting. i did he write it, though? he had to go. right? well, let s see. well, you know, he s kind of giving back what he s received over the years. it s interesting because rebekah brooks, so she
surrounding this issue and the opposition feels that this has been a huge mistake by pedro sanchez. so let s look now at the reaction in catalonia. the majority of those in the region are in favour of the pardons around 60%. but there are critics. they say the pardons don t go far enough. elena jimenez is from a catalan grassroots organisation ? whose president is one of the prisoners pardoned today. 0ur reaction is that pardons do not cite the political conflict between catalonia and spain because that division is amongst those who want a referendum or to hold our political future in catalonia and those who don t and we have 80% of the population that would like to decide our own political future like scotland and that does not stop the spanish oppression. the background to this