Hello and welcome to sportsday this wednesday night. Im chetan pathak. Coming up on tonights programme. One game away from being World Champions england beat australia to reach sundays final in sydney. Incredible. Weve didnt say where dreaming of the semi but now this is what is the World Cup Final with this group, yeah buzzing. As lionesses fans on both sides of the world celebrate well bring you reaction from australia and england. And with the Cricket World Cup on the horizon, ben stoke reverses his decision to retire from the one day game. Also coming up on sportsday before 7. Well be looking ahead to the Rugby Union World cup too as scotland reveal their squad for the start of the tournament in france next month. Welcome along, thank you forjoining us. As youve been hearing england are World Cup Finalists. The lionesses will awake in sydney in the coming hours and begin their preparations for one more match. If they can beat Spain On Sunday The European champions will be World Cha
The european comission as he addresses the European Parliament. And the robot making its debut as the conductor of an orchestra in italy. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Fire officers say full Sprinkler Systems can save lives in high rise buildings and fitting them should be compulsory. But a bbc investigation of half the association and council owned high rises in england has found that only 2 are fitted with them. The Public Inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire injune which left at least 80 people dead begins tomorrow. Londons fire commissioner has said that the Grenfell Tower fire must be a turning point in fire regulation and has called for sprinklers to be installed in all High Rise Council flats. Graham satchell reports from Grenfell Tower in west london. When the inquiry opens tomorrow, it will ask fundamental questions, why did it start, why did it spread so quickly and why did so many die and how do we prevent a fire like this in the future . Fire experts we have spoke
Rape. The secretary general of the United Nations has described the humanitarian crisis facing them as catastrophic. Would you like a paper bag with that . That would be great. We speak to the Booker Prize Nominated author who also happens to work in a book shop. Good evening and welcome to bbc news. A £37 Million Pound fund has been established for victims of the breast surgeon ian paterson, who duped his patients into unnecessary operations, including mastectomies. He was convicted of 20 offences in april. He is serving 20 years injail. The bulk of the fund will come from spire health care, which runs the private hospitals in which many of the operations took place. Its thought that more than 700 women might have a claim. Sima kotecha has the story. Breast surgeon ian paterson, jailed for 20 years after carrying out hundreds of unnecessary operations. Here are the faces of some of his victims. Now, more than 700 of them will get compensation from a pot amounting to £37 million. One
Aimed at confronting what it calls tehrans aggression and preventing it from acquiring nuclear weapons. Her uber launches its appeal against london transports decision can keep using the app for now also this hour more than 30 people have died and hundreds more are missing as wildfires sweep through parts of Northern California. Windy conditions hamper the work of thousands of firefighters as officials warn conditions could worsen this evening. And bookers best well speak to short listed author ali smith on her novel autumn, partly set around last years Eu Referendum. My world change when the Eu Referendum happened. So i went with it and the book, to some extent, is about the surface reaction. Good morning, its friday 13th october. Im annita mcveigh. Welcome to bbc newsroom live. More public figures have spoken out against hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein in a sexual allegation scandal thats dominating hollwood. Actress rose mcgowan has become the fourth person to allege she was rap
Philip hammond regrets describing eu negotiators as the enemy and says it was a poor choice of war. The chief medical officer has called for governments around the world to put more effort into stopping the overuse of antibiotics. At least 31 people are known to have died and over 100 are missing in what are being called the most deadly fires in californias history. Ina history. In a moment, it will be time for sportsday, but first, a look at what else is coming up on bbc news this evening. We will get reaction to the news that President Trump wont certify the iran nuclear deal. We will discuss ali smiths latest novel, nominated for the man booker award. And we look at the top film releases in the film review. Now, time for sportsday. Here is whats coming up tonight two years at anfield forjurgen klopp what better way to gauge progress than a match against Manchester United 7 strachan out, mackay in to run. Scotla nd strachan out, mackay in to run. Scotland have a quick spec a quick fi