The british empire. And england play montenegro tonight needing just one point to take them to the euros next summer, but theyll have to do it without star player Raheem Sterling who was dropped after his bust up with liverpoolsjoe gomez. Good morning and welcome to the bbc news at 9. The army is preparing fresh defences for flood stricken parts of South Yorkshire as more heavy rain is forecast across the uk. Forecasters are warning there could be a danger to life in the village of fishlake near doncaster where hundreds have been forced to leave their homes and businesses. A yellow weather warning for rain is now in force around sheffield, doncaster and nottingham, and will last until the early hours of friday morning. Tim muffett reports. The floodwaters are dispersing, but more heavy rain is expected here, so soldiers from the light dragoons cavalry regiment have been building barriers to try and protect fishlake. Youve got sandbags here. Yep. You have barriers as well. How does it w
this is bbc news, the headlines. a major development in the uk s biggest miscarriage ofjustice rishi sunak announces a new law to compensate and clear the names of hundreds of postmasters wrongly accused of theft. opposition activist alexei navalny is seen for the first time since disappearing from a central russian prison last month. and 80 years after d day, we speak to the woman who helped map the beaches for the normandy landings. those are stories coming up in a moment or two. let s head to the bbc sports centre. anne marie is there for us. hello from the bbc sport centre. we start with snooker and, mark allen is taking on two time champion john higgins for a place in the quarterfinals of the masters at alexandra palace. and it s higgins who took a lead into the mid session break. the score currently 3 1 with both looking for a place in the quarter finals, with the fifth frame just under way. mark selby faces robert milkins in the final last 16 match later. football
They should be allowed to compete. Now one of the unmet criteria was the reinstatement of the Russian Anti Doping Agency by the world body but the Russian Paralympic Committee is not responsible for this organization so i why did they i. P. C. Make this demand on it. I think nicky that they had to try and give reasons why de were going to not just bought a russian athletes were trying to sort of say well look even dog rosado not a crazy were still left new zealand so theyre trying to use lots of reasons that really would not hold water in a court of law. Situation where sod they said themselves that the situation has greatly improved we no doubt living here ourselves and working here ourselves we see it daily. It doesnt make sense whatsoever and again we go back to thirty to thirty five our seats will go right now we believe but i do believe just more twists and turns yet to come in this tale. So we know that. No russian symbols and south korea the only places the athletes will be able