When a score of a00 had looked likely. In response, pakistan started brightly with an opening stand of 134 helped by some bad australian fielding. But the loss of set batters, including rizwan, threatened to tilt the contest in favour of australia again. This is the latest from bangalore. Pakistan now 297 8 in the 45th over. Weve arrived at the Semifinal Stage of the rugby world cup. England take on south africa tomorrow, but less than three hours to go now until new zealand play argentina. The all blacks are heavy favourites to reach their third final in the last four tournaments and avoid a repeat of their defeat at this stage four years ago. From the experience, you learn a lot, and it is clear weve got some outstanding leaders in the team. For the much all of them were there. And i know that that sort of loss is driving some of them. I know it is four years on, but you can still look back to that week and think about what you learned from it, and i guess make sure that, yeah, it do
Israel has confirmed that two american hostages have been released by hamas. Judith and Natalie Raanan, who are mother and daughter, were taken after the hamas attack on israel earlier this month. The groups Telegram Channel says qatar had helped mediate their release, which was done for which was done for humanitarian reasons. President biden says he is overjoyed. Just a few lines to bring you from president macron, whos been speaking in the last few minutes about this. He says he hopes the release of fridays hostages leads to similar operations in the coming days, including for french citizens. He also says the French Military Intelligence Directorate has concluded that the gaza hospital blast, which we report on tuesday, was not due to an israeli strike but probably a misfiring palestinian rocket. That would tend to echo what Us Intelligence is saying. Hes also saying they are going to be supplying more humanitarian aid to the Rafah Crossing to support the aid coming across. Some li