list is announced. they include the british divers who rescued a young football team from a cave in thailand, twiggy, who is made a dame and michael palin, who is knighted. now on bbc news, the summer s world cup in russia saw england make a memorable journey to the semi finals. the bbc‘s olly foster was there and reports on the highs and lows of the tournament in review 2018: football fever. france, champions of the football world! this is the stuff of brilliance. absolutely extraordinary! he has only gone and done it! blast in by musa! coutinho! 0h! modric. great goal! oh, it s a scorcher! saved by pickford. dier does it! world cup 18 has exploded with surprises. # right here, right now a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. that was churchill s russia 80 years ago. vast, impenetrable. what of russia in 2018? a country criticised for its human rights within its borders, and strained political and sporting relations around the globe. entrusted with the 21st fif
at the weather with chris fawkes. many of us will have seen showers or some lengthy outbreaks of rain to the day to day. by looking at the weather picture to the north and west you can see we have got some shower crowds showing up in their going to continue to bring some downpours overnight across the north and west of the country. staying quite went for a time, the rain with us quite went for a time, the rain with us for northern england tending to ease in intensity as we go on through the night. it will be a mild and breezy night for most of the uk with temperatures in a range of five toa with temperatures in a range of five to a degree celsius but turning colder across the northeast of england and northern areas of scotla nd england and northern areas of scotland and there will be a few patches of frost to start saturday morning. saturday is a sunshine and showers kind of day. most of the showers kind of day. most of the showers will be affecting the northwest of the uk an
of rain and drizzle but i m hopeful skies brightened as we get towards the northeast of england and parts of scotla nd the northeast of england and parts of scotland doesn t sunshine towards the south, highs of eight and 11 degrees not bad for this time of year, another quiet day to come friday with lots of cloud, saturday could bring rain. the board. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines this hour. japan confirms it ll restart commercial whale whale hunting in july it ll restart commercial whale whale hunting injuly defying an international ban. the president trump has made a visit to iraq to thank us troops. in the first lady made the suppression of yesterday. despite dues for boxing day sales a number of people visiting the high street today falls for the third yearin street today falls for the third year ina street today falls for the third year in a row. president putin witnesses the final test of a hypersonic missile which he says can penetrate any missile defens
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the real madrid midfielder beat his former teammate cristiano ronaldo and liverpool s mohammed salah to the top prize at a star studded ceremony in london. it s just the third year of these particular awards, after fifa ended its association with the ballon d or. it was just one of the prizes on offer on the night, our sports correspondent richard conway was there. it has been an incredible 12 much for luka modric, of course helping real madrid to a third consecutive champions league victory and of course taking croatia to that world cup final. a were beaten by france, but it was a remarkable achievement which he captained and help drive forward. can i take he has been crowned in london of the best player of the season. this is what he had to say. it has been a great year for me. to win the champions league, to win so many trophies with madrid, with croatia as a captain, reach a world cup final, to win some individual awards has been amazing. it is difficult to find the wo