Can she go all the way? also tonight. The head of mi5 warns that the taliban s takeover of afghanistan may well embolden so called lone wolf terrorists. It comes on the eve of the 20th anninversary of 9/11, as america prepares to remember almost 3000 people who died that day. Whether it is 911, whether it is january 13th, whether it isjuly seventh, i miss my dad and that will never change. Scotland sees its highest level of covid infections since estimates began the first minister says the nhs is under more pressure than ever before in scotland. And disappointment and frustration for the sell out crowd at old trafford as the fifth and final test is cancelled at the last minute because of covid. And coming up on the bbc news channel: yorkshire cricket apologise to their former player azeem rafiq and say he was the victim of racial harassment and bullying. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Tomorrow night, britain s emma raducanu will step on court for her first grand sla
translators interpret. as you can hear, there s quite a lot of hungarian being spoken at the moment, as we wait, let s listen in, the uk defence secretary responding. the very thing he fears, which is more nato closer to russia would be a consequence of a strategic error of invading a sovereign country such as ukraine. that is what happened in 2014. and that is why we have more forces in estonia, latvia, lithuania, as nato, that is why we see an increase in air policing around places like romania and bulgaria because that is the ultimate consequence, nato members would feel and fear and worry about what is next and i think that is why it is important to signal we are serious, that is why the united kingdom has offered to nato a range of capabilities including more air policing, more ground forces and more readiness as a way to act as a deterrent and we will obviously be in the hands of nato and the secretary general and the supreme allied commander of europe and how those wou
at this stadium were canada and brazil and the united states were eliminated, colombia and jamaica help to avoid a similarfate. for the winners, england await. the first half was physical and tense, but ultimately goalless. there was nothing new forjamaica s defence, who have been impenetrable in this tournament. when catalina usme brought a long time ball in the area perfectly, she ended that run. the second goal for columbia s captain on the night. it sends the colombians in the stands into raptures! over 300 minutes had gone by before jamaica conceded their first goal of the tournament, and it brought them to live. moments later they struck the woodwork. colombia spotted an opportunity and immediately hit on the counter. a chance to double their lead to no avail. england will watch this cautiously, something for them to keep in mind for the next round. jamaica came this close to an equaliser. a cross, a free header, agonisingly wide. the fairy tale for jamaica ends here. c
coming up on bbc news, england quarterfinal opponents will be columbia who got the better of jamaica and the women s world cup of a i jamaica and the women s world cup of a i- 01 jamaica and the women s world cup of a i 01 victory. hello. thousands of people, including politicians and pop stars have turned out, to pay tribute to the singer, sinead o connor. the private funeral service took place in her hometown of bray in county wicklow, with well wishers lining the streets, as the cortege passed by. she died in london last month, at the age of 56. colin paterson has the story. they had come in their thousands to pay tribute to that woman they loved. my mother is 93 and she wanted to come out here. it was your mum s idea? yes. she was a woman that spoke what she wanted, you know? yeah. for the people. she was a warrior - and a weapon standing up to the powers that be before anyone else was. i sinead o connor lived on the sea front in bray county wicklow for 15 years. she lo
south eastern parts of the uk but into this evening and overnight we will keep some showers coming in on the northerly breeze for a while, particularly across parts of northern england. scotland and northern ireland should see skies clearing, we make it clear skies across north west wales and england, so there could be a frost, may be as low as “4 in glasgow. across east midlands, yorkshire, east anglia and the south east, temperatures should be above freezing, enough cloud, enough breeze, but even here tomorrow we will find the breeze easing, the crowd breaking up and any showers won t last long at all and it should be a dry day for most of us with some spells of sunshine. we see more cloud and drizzle arriving at the far north west later in the day so 9 degrees here but elsewhere we are looking at highs around 6 8 c, near normalfor this time of the year. heading into the weekend that weather front is going to bring some rain down from the north west but it s running close