Two centuries for pakistan gave england a difficult first day in multan as the visiTors battled the heat and a flat pitch. And they chased they won england have beaten South Africa by seven wickets in the Womens T20 World cup, well show you how they did it. Also coming up on sportsday we hear some incredible sTories from england womens amputee team, ahead of their World Cup in columbia. Being able To stand with our chests held high. Just representing this nation. Its given us so much. Welcome To the programme. Contrasting interpretations of a vital ruling. Manchester city have said that they have won their legal dispute with the Premier League over their regulations on Sponsorship Rules or associated party transactions. Its after a tribunal found that aspects of the rules were unlawful. However, the Premier League have said that the verdict was a vicTory for them, because It Upheld the need for the apt system as a whole and rejected the majority of Manchester City s challenges. The cas
Brent crudejumping as much as 5 , though its since fallen back. Iran is the seventh largest Oil Producer in the world. The markets fear a further escalation of the conflict in the Middle East could mean iran blocks the Straits Of Hormuz a key waterway for Oil And Gas shipments. Meanwhile, israels Military Offensive against the iranian backed Hezbollah Militia goes on after the killing of its leader Hassan Nasrallah last week. Lebanese officials say at least nine people were killed and 14 injured in an israeli Air Strike on a building in central beirut. The multi Storey Block housed a hezbollah affiliated Health Centre Israel said was hit in a precision attack. Its thought the target was a Hezbollah Official who lived in the building. This is a rare israeli strike in the Heart Of The City in the bachoura district, close to lebanons parliament building. Our middle East Correspondent Hugo bachega lets go live. We can cross to beirut and my colleague Anna Foster. We have seen strikes right
Leonid volkov in lithuania, welcome to hardtalk. We need to begin, i think, by establishing what kind of contact you have with Alexei Navalny right now. Do you have any means of contacting him . Now the only way to contact him is that his lawyers, not even the relatives, but the lawyers are allowed to visit him two or three times a week and they dont enjoy privacy during those visits. So its like supervised contact, but still, we manage at least to pass some basic information about, like, whats going on. But to tell that alexei is now orchestrating the protests from his cell is a little bit too much. He actually isnt able to do it. But his political structure, the structure he has built that im now managing, is capable of, at least for some time, of keeping pace, of running forward, along with the directions we discussed with him when he left berlin for moscow a week ago. What kind of condition is he in . Because im mindful that he recovered from a Near Death Experience with the novich
Now on bbc news its hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. As donald trump and family revel in the pomp and circumstance of a state visit to london, his staunchest political foes back home continue to plot a pathway to impeachment. My guest today is funding much of that effort. Tom steyer is a californian Hedge Fund Billionaire turned deep pocketed backer of liberal causes. His focus was Climate Change. Now, its impeachment. He is a powerfulforce in the Democratic Party. But is he in danger of pushing the party in the wrong direction . Tom steyer, welcome to hardtalk. Stephen, thank you for having me. Would it be fair to say that, over the last couple of years, the impeachment of President Donald Trump has become your political obsession . Well, let me say this. I started an organisation called nexgen america, that is the largest Grassroots Organisation, political organisation, in the United States, which did the largest youth voter mobilisation in American History last year
ending child marriage. we ve been invited to their first field trip together, and they ve come to ludzi secondary school in malawi. when i was your age, there were people in my community that didn t think a girl like me, who didn t have money or wealth or connections, could do the things that i did. i even had my second form teacher tell me that i shouldn t apply to the colleges i applied to because she didn t think i could get in. so i ignored her and i applied to princeton. i got in and i went to law school and became a lawyer. and i ve worked at a university, i ve run an ngo, i ve done all sorts of things. so i know that there are so many girls like all of us all over the world where people are underestimating them. they re telling us what we can t do. and i refuse. you know, i see my daughters in those girls. you know, we tend to think that poverty and people who are disadvantaged, it looks like a certain. ..it has a certain look. it s a corrugated roof. it s a mud hut. i