resumes this weekend. hello there, and welcome along to sportsday. fast bowler ollie robinson is back in the england side for the first time since the third ashes test last summer. he s one of two changes for the fourth test against india in ranchi. is recalled for leg spinner rehan ahmed. india are 2 1 up in the five match series we do like to look at the pitch two days out and one day out because that is how we like to prepare. you want to give yourself some idea or indication about what will give you the best chance and looking at that i think there will be assistance with spin. we look at the picture assistance with spin. we look at the picture and assistance with spin. we look at the picture and give - assistance with spin. we look at the picture and give our i at the picture and give our opinion at the picture and give our opinion but that at the picture and give our opiare but that at the picture and give our opi are going at at the picture and give our opi are
is recalled for leg spinner rehan ahmed. india are 2 1 up in the five match series and the wicket could cause some problems for batters, with large cracks already appearing. we do like to look at the pitch two days out and one day out because that is how we like to prepare. you want to give yourself some idea or indication about what will give you the best chance and looking at that i think there will be assistance with spin. we look at the pitch and give our opinion but that does not mean we are going on with too many preconceived ideas. the pitch could be as flat as a pancake, who knows and if it is we will adapt and if it is more than what we think it is we will adapt to that as well. stokes could reprise his role as an all rounder. this week he said he d be open to bowling again, after building back up following a knee operation in november last year. our chief cricket writer stephan shemilt explains. you definitely would not want to play poker against ben stokes. i don
against india in ranchi. robinson comes in for mark wood while off spinner shoaib bashir is recalled for leg spinner rehan ahmed. india are 2 1 up in the five match series and the wicket could cause some problems for batters, with large cracks already appearing. we do like to look at the pitch two days out and one day out because that s how we like to. you want to give yourself some idea or indication about what you think is going to give you the best chance. looking at that, there is going to be of assistance to this man. we give our opinion but that does not mean that we are going in with too many preconceived ideas was of the pitch could be flat as a pancake, who knows? but if it is, we will adapt to that but if it does more than we think, we will adapt to that as well. stokes could reprise his role as an all rounder. this week he said he d be open to bowling again, after building back up following a knee operation in november last year. our chief cricket writer stephan
for russia s president for alleged war crimes, and now vladimir putin s most vocal critic is dead. let s speak to boris bondarev, a former russian diplomat who resigned from his position to oppose russia s war against ukraine. hello to you. thank you so much for joining us here. ijust wonder as we reach that two year anniversary, your reflections on how russia has changed over the last two years. well, i think the situation in russia has deteriorated in many ways. that regime has become more sincerely repressive. it took off its mask and does not pretend to be some kind of european regime with some kind of european regime with some kind of sovereign democracy. no, they say, yes, we are a dictatorship with putin is our autocrat, dictator. he can do whatever he pleases, and we want this to be. this is the message vladimir putin and his cronies and they have frightened many into submission. and yet there are people who disagree, and yet there are people who have courage to show,
significant breaking news coming to us from europol, just word of a us from europol, “ust word of a large-scale us from europol, just word of a large scale operation involving law enforcement and judicial authorities from three countries, belgium, france and germany, all coordinated by europol, leading to the dismantling, they say, one of the most active networks involved in the smuggling of migrants across the english channel in small boats. the investigation focused on iraqi kurdish network suspected of smuggling made in eastern and east african migrants from france to the uk, with the use of low quality inflatable boats. and of course that story has dominated the british political scene for many, many months, one of rishi sunak s five pledges, but those are the pictures of the operation. now, the operation itself happened yesterday, let me give you the details of what they are telling us. 19 arrests have been made in germany, they also tell us that five high value targ