hello and welcome to sportsday. there s a barnes stormer at stjames. harvey s the hero for newcastle as they beat west ham scotland make a fight of it in the women s six nations, pushing france all the way in edinburgh. and the light blues lead the way, but they have to forgo a famous boat race tradition. the premier league is back with a bang after the international break, the top three might all be playing tomorrow but there are 8 games today, and we ve had so many late goals, there were a couple at st james park as newcastle united came from 3 1 down to beat west ham 4 3. craig templeton reports. st james s park hosted the return of premier league football after a two week post for the international break. it would prove worth the wait. anthony gordon made his england debut in that time, and was lively early on, during a challenge from vladimir sue file. just two minutes in, a penalty. whenjamaal limped off injured, they found a new gap in the defence. the visitors then g
and warned the targeting of observers was unacceptable. israel has denied any involvement. also, there are reports from the us that the biden adminstration has cleared the way for the transfer of bombs and fighter planes worth billions of dollars to israel. our correspondent yolande knell is injerusalem. a shell exploded near these un military observers while they were on a foot patrol in southern lebanon, along the blue line, which divides that area from the north of israel. now, unifil, the peacekeeping mission in that area, says it s investigating the cause of the blast. but this is an area where israeli forces and the lebanese armed group hezbollah regularly exchange fire. we ve seen an increase in tensions in that whole area in just the past few weeks, and that has really raised fears about further escalation related to the war in gaza. now, when it comes to those reports in the washington post and reuters about arms transfers worth billions of dollars being made from
hello and welcome to sportsday. there s a barnes stormer at stjames. harvey s the hero for newcastle as they beat west ham. scotland make a fight of it in the women s six nations, pushing france all the way in edinburgh. and the light blues lead the way, but they have to forgo a famous boat race tradition. the premier league is back with a bang, the top three might all be playing tomorrow but we ve had some great games today, seven results so far and so many late goals, there were a couple at st james park as newcastle united came from 3 1 down to beat west ham 4 3. craig templeton reports. st james s park hosted the return of premier league football after a two week post for the international break. it would prove worth the wait. anthony gordon made his england debut in that time, and was lively early on, drawing a challenge from vladimir coufal. just two minutes in, a penalty. alexander isak kept his cool from the spot. his 17th goal of the season. whenjamaal lascelles lim
sirjeffrey donaldson, has resigned after being charged with rape and other historical sexual offences. he was arrested on thursday along with a 57 year old woman, who s been charged with aiding and abetting additional offences. they ll both appear in court next month. sirjeffrey is northern ireland s longest serving mp at westminster. he says he ll contest the charges. earlier i spoke to ben lowry, editor of the unionist newspaper the belfast news letter. i asked him how the dup have reacted to the news. well, in a way, it is difficult to find out, because i do edit a unionist daily newspaper, so we have good contacts with dup, and we were trying yesterday to phone everybody we could think of, and most of the phone calls were ringing out. so there wasn t enthusiasm to talk to the press, even to elements of the press that they speak a lot with. but we did of course get hold of some people in dup. and i think the easiest way to describe it is they are reeling. i mean, this is a
politics has been thrown into turmoil with the news that the leader of the democratic unionist party, sirjeffrey donaldson, has resigned after being charged with rape and other historical sexual offences. he was arrested on thursday along with a 57 year old woman who s been charged with aiding and abetting in connection with the alleged offences. they ll both appear in court next month. sirjeffrey is northern ireland s longest serving mp at westminster. he says he ll contest the charges. our correspondent dan johnson has more. politicians here in northern ireland are saying business as usual. this is a shock, but they will try to carry on. they are determined that things won t be destabilised here because they ve been so determined, they ve been working so hard. they ve put things in place to get northern ireland s government operating again in the last two months, after two years of political instability, disruption when things weren t working, so so much effort is being put