luton a famous premier league win. a new manager so far unbeaten. and now with a cup final in his future, philippe clement s rangers run takes them past hearts at hampden. a first wsl defeat of the season for manchester city as arsenal grab a late winner. also coming up on sportsday: in the spotlight again virat kohli makes a record equalling century as india sweep aside another world cup opponent. hello again. welcome to sportsday. luton were moments away from a first ever premier league home win. but it was luis diaz who denied them. a week and a day after his father was kidnapped, the colombian came off the bench to secure liverpool a one all draw at kenilworth road. diaz was named as a substitute at his own behest after missing two games withjurgen klopp revealing the decision had been made three days ago. starting in his position, diogojota had the best chance of the first half but was denied by thomas kaminski in the luton goal. after darwin nunez had missed a gloriou
welcome to bbc news. a british woman accused of smuggling drugs into egypt has been sentenced to three years in jail. laura plummer, who s 33 and from hull, was arrested in october with 290 tablets of the painkiller, tramadol, which is banned in egypt. a spokesman from the foreign office says they will continue to provide assistance to the family. this family, we are disgusted that it has been able to carry on this long. in what country are you actually allowed to submit a 38 page document in arabic for somebody to sign it without having an interpreter. from day one this has been a complete nightmare and yesterday in the court she wasn t even allowed to have her own interpreter, she had to get the court interpreter who was interpreting the wrong answers, so we are disgusted and we are so upset, absolutely devastated. do you know what happened in court today? was itjust a sentencing? we just thought she was in court, our lawyer gave a fantastic case, she has got amazing eviden
snap election. good evening and welcome to bbc news. a british woman has been sentenced to three years in prison after being convicted of smuggling drugs into the country. a british woman has been sentenced to three years in prison in egypt after being found guilty of smuggling drugs into the country. laura plummer, who s 33 and from hull, was arrested in october when she was found carrying almost 300 tablets of the painkiller, tramadol, in her suitcase. daniela relph reports. laura plummer‘s family and friends say she is naive, not a criminal. but today the 33 year old shop workerfrom hull is beginning a three year sentence injail in egypt. her mother, roberta, and her egyptian partner, 0mar caboo, have been at court to support her during the hearings this week. laura plummer had been travelling to the red sea resort of hurghada to visit 0mar in october when she was stopped by the authorities. in her suitcase were 290 tramadol tablets, a painkiller which is legal on prescr
joseph boakai cast his vote. he sounded confident. asked as to whether he would accept the results he responded with a qualified yes. after that, a decision will be made. but we are willing to work for whatever the final result is. for supporters of the former football superstar george weah, it looked like a victory dance when he went to vote. the man who won in the first round sounded incandescently confident. i m not associated with losing. today s victory is set in and i will win. boakai cannot win, and george weah can. it s an exceptional case. what happened cannot happen again. initial indications are that the run off was better organised than the first round. materials arrived on time and there have been no complaints so far of multiple voting according to the main local observation group. but turnout appeared low. it has been quiet here at this convent high school in central monrovia. election officials are nibbling around without a lot to do. they say there s been lik
pyong chol is believed to be one of the top people in charge of the controversial programme. kimjong sik is thought to be behind the work to switch from liquid to solid fuel. new united nations sanctions were introduced last friday in response to north korea s latest intercontinental ballistic missile test in november. earlier, i spoke with dr balbina hwang, visiting professor at georgetown university s centre for security studies. she explained what effect, if any, these sanctions are likely to have. well, we have to remember that there are un security council sanctions as well is unilateral sanctions and these latest sanctions levied by the united states government are targeting individuals. these are really symbolic more than anything else. they are a very important part of president trump s maximum pressure on north korea, but they will have little practical effect because it is only about us jurisdiction and it is unlikely either of these two men have any assets, certain