here s chetan. hello from the bbc sport centre. england will be without both owen farrell and now billy vunipola for their opening game of the world cup with argentina after bans for both players were confirmed. farrell has been handed a four match ban after world rugby successfully appealed against the decision to overturn his red card against wales. he ll miss the opening two games of the world cup in france next month. vunipola, who was sent off against ireland, has been banned for three games but it could be reduced to two if he completes the world rugby coaching programme on tackling. our reporter sara orchard has been telling me about how it impacts england s chances at the tournament. ultimately, it has been disruptive, losing your captain for what would be the two most important games of england s pool stage, and argentina and japan are the strongest in their group. however, the rugby world cup draw was done a long time in advance and that means that those pools are e
this is bbc news, the headlines. pakistan says all of those on board a stranded cable car dangling almost 300 metres above a river have now been rescued. new claims of corruption are levelled in ukraine against defence officials running army recruitment we have a special report. and could it be your optician who spots parkinson s disease? we look at ground breaking reasearch on early detection. in pakistan all eight people trapped in a suspended cable car up of a ravine have all now been rescued. rescue attempts by helicopters were suspended due to dakrness and high winds, but other efforts to free the trapped passengers continued. you can see the helicopter with a rope connected and then the person is moved out of the cable car before being carried away. the rest on board, six children and their teachers, appear to have been brought down by the supplier. you can see from these pictures but it is now the middle of the night. these are pictures of the final two of those on boa
this is bbc news. the headlines: china s president xijinping meets his south african counterpart for talks ahead of the brics summit injohannesburg. presidentjoe biden pledges long term government support for hawaii after touring the wildfire damage in maui. claims of corruption are levelled in ukraine against army officials running recruitment. more now on the summit getting under way injohannesburg. in the last half an hour we have seen south africa s president ramaphosa presenting the chinese leader with gifts at the opening session. the brics group of nations consists of brazil, russia, india and south africa. there s a surge of interest from more than 20 countries injoining the bloc and china s leader, xijinping, is particularly keen on welcoming new members. analysts say brics could emerge as a challenger to western dominance in world affairs. xijinping hasjust said that his country and south africa stand at what they call a new historical starting point. this meeting i
that the helicopters. as much as they are part of the rescue operation, the helicopters are a challenge. some of the additional wind that the rotors on the helicopter create, can also be problematic in that very precarious and delicate rescue operation. if you re just and delicate rescue operation. if you rejustjoining us on bbc news we can tell you now that for children have been rescued from the helicopter in pakistan. we got that confirmation from the central secretary of information from the pakistan s peoples party. i spoke to him earlier today. just a reminder that cable cars are used quite often in pakistan, especially in remote mountainous areas. you can see on the map there. this cable car was used to transport children from the village that they lived in to the school that they go to. that is when tragedy struck earlier today. as the rescue continues there is a challenge because the sun has now set. it is dark now, it is evening and that remains a huge challenge. no
live from our studio in singapore this is bbc news. it s newsday. welcome to the programme. it s seven in the morning in singapore, and four a.m. in islamabad. relief across pakistan. six children and two adults who got stuck in a cable car above a ravine in the north west of the country have been rescued. the group was left dangling hundreds of feet in the air for more than 1a hours after a cable snapped. the military tried to reach them first with helicopters then with zip wires. huge crowds gathered to watch the rescue attempts. our pakistan correspondent caroline davies has the story. shouting. through the darkness and forest, the sight the crowds had been hoping, waiting and praying for strapped to the cable, the final rescue, waiting arms and shouts of god is great. 15 hours earlier, the children were taking the cable car to school when a cable snapped. makeshift cable cars are common in the rural mountains of pakistan, taking minutes over ravines while roads