in afghanistan earlier this year. coach travellers in dover are still facing long delays sometimes upto 8 hours, despite extra ferries being laid on overnight to try and help clear the easter getaway backlog. the port said pver 100 coaches were waiting to cross the port said over 100 coaches were waiting to cross the english channel earlier today. and pope francis has led mass in st peter s square in front of more than 30 thousand people, kicking off the year s easter services, just a day after leaving hospital in rome following treatment for bronchitis. you re watching bbc news. coming up. click. but first, sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday i m gavin ramjaun. brendan rodgers pays the price at leicester city, 0n he departs afterfour years in charge. newcastle move above manchester united into third after beating them at st james park and who can stop england another record extending womens six nations victory, with italy no match today. also coming up on sports
there is the wreck of the mary rose. it has come to the surface. and it s exactly a0 years since henry 8th s flagship the mary rose was raised from the bottom of the solent, after 437 years under the sea. the bank of england has been forced to intervene once again in the markets warning of a material risk to financial stability. the emergency move this morning will see the bank buy a wider range of government debt, in order to restore conditions in the markets. it follows on from yesterday s announcement of further meaures aimed at ensuring an orderly end to its emergency bond buying scheme. today the institute for fiscal studies think tank warnted the chancellor will need to make big and painful spending cuts to put the country s finances on a sustainable path. it suggests the chancellor could increase working age benefits in line with average earnings, limit public investment to 2% of national income and cut the budgets of every government department except he
In my tennis career. The crowd have been amazing with me, supporting me since the beginning of my tennis career. The super excited to be able to play One More Time here. The defending champion Daniil Medvedev will get his italy open campaign under way on friday and will play jack draper. Medvedev was forced to pull out of the quarterfinal at the madrid open with a leg injury, but hes confident that he is ready for rome. Every match was an unbelievable feeling because of the end result. Honestly, i think it gave me a lot of confidence for this year. But where this is the first of second year, together with last year, where i am ok to play on clay. I dont really hate it. I know there are some parts of my game which are may be a not adopted 100 , but i know i can win the big players, i know i can win the big players, i know i can win the big players, i know i can win big tournaments on clay. I am feeling good about it and it helps a lot for the mental part. Naomi osaka put in one of her b
Tanks are massed on the border with Southern Gaza. Thousands of palestinians are on the move from the eastern part of rafah with the ports throughout the day of more explosions. Not the full invasion, not yet, but it is starting to feel like it is imminent. President biden has now acknowledged on camera that he has caused one shipment of arms bound for israel and he signalled that more will be held back at this goes ahead. Civilians have been killed in gaza as a consequence of those bonds and other ways in which they go after population centres. I have made it clear that if they go into rafah, they have not gone into rafah yet, but if they go into rafah, im not supplying weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, to deal with the cities, to deal with that problem. We are going to continue to make sure israel is secure in terms of iron dome and responding to attacks like came out of The Middle East recently. It has prompted fury in israel. The far right minister Itamar