rangers match, head to bbc sport website. winners of the champions league last year, manchester city, will have to do without manager pep guardiola until after the international break following surgery on his back. the club confirmed their manager has had a routine operation and will complete his rehab in barcelona. assistant managerjuanma lillo will take control of the first team for city s games against sheffield united and fulham. before taking leave it seems pep was busy securing a new signing. manchester city have agreed to deal for belgium wingerjeremy doku from rennes for over £55 million. the 21 year old is set to become city s third major signing of the summer, after mateo kovacic and josko gvardiol. 0wen farrell and billy vunipola will discover sometime today if they can play at the rugby world cup. both face disciplinary panels over their recent red cards. for farrell, it s the second time in a week he s been through it, after world rugby appealed the decision to
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
your players are about to play the biggest game of their lives, when you look in their eyes, what do you say? i see calmness, we are in a good place, everyone is fit, the team is confident and we want to play our best game. this is a tournament the line have had to battle the lionesses have had to battle through, overcoming injury, the suspension of a star player and a penalty shoot out. but despite such adversity, the team has prevailed. i think everyone knows how big this is. i think it s been players dreams for years, so everyone already knows that. we know how passionate the nation is back home, and how much they want us to win, but for us as a process we have a game plan to execute, and we need to play the game of our lives. so these are the players that stand between england and world cup glory. like the lionesses, spain s campaign began slowly, they were beaten 4 0 in the group byjapan, but it s gathered pace despite several missing stars because of a player revolt. t
we have been watching this run off here that has been coming just roaring down this wash that goes into a golf course. a lot of rain in palm springs and in the valley where we are getting a couple of inches of rain which equals about half of what this area gets in a year. authorities have closed a lot of the roads that goes over these washes. they did that pre emptively before the storm rolled in. they have done some of that here over the last few hours as the floodwaters grew and you see the gusty wind and some of the heavy rain has stopped over the past few hours but now on the backside of the storm this is really starting to gust as hillary moves on to the north. we can see the wind picking up there and in terms of the people who are living there, jason, how accustomed are they to this? you mentioned this is about as much rain as they usually get in a whole year. how vulnerable is this community? they are not accustomed to this at all. this morning i was at a station where
exports via the black sea for another two months. the existing deal was arranged last july to tackle a global food crisis caused by russia s invasion of ukraine one of the world s top grain exporters. it was due to expire today, thursday. arnaud petit, executive director of the international grains council says the extension is vital for many countries food security. you re right, it is very important to have this extension, particularly for north african, sub saharan african countries, which would import much more grains that we have seen in the past season, so really it s good news for them that they can already plan some buying contract with producers in ukraine and also in russia. and important, as you say, about russia because there maybe is a tendency to think that russia is just blocking those exports from ukraine, but this is also good news for russia, isn t it? indeed, both ukraine and russia exported 70 million tonnes of wheat during the current season and we ex