In greece, as firefighters continue to battle an unprecedented outbreak of wildfires. Its Gold Medal Number 20 for Team Gb Asjoe choong takes Top Spot in the mens Modern Pentathlon. While indias have got theirfirst ever Athletics Gold Medal at the olympics Neeraj Chopra winning the javelin. Now on Bbc News, its time for sportsday. Hello, and welcome to sportsday im gavin ramjaun. Britains first gold of the games in Boxing Galal Yafai Wins in style in the mens flyweight. Another day, another gold in the Modern Pentathlon for Team Gb thanks to history makerjoe choong. And Tom Daley adds a bronze to his collection as the medals keep coming on the penultimate day of tokyo 2020. Also coming up in the programme. Its the deciding test, well have the latest from the lions against South Africa in cape town. And a maginficent century from Joe Root gives england a chance against india. Hello and welcome to sportsday. Team gb Have Theirfirst Boxing Gold of the Tokyo Olympics. Galal yafai won the f
and barcelona s bid to get rid of the wild boars besieging the city and stealing people s sandwiches. now the sport with sarah mulkerrins, let s start with the news a manchester united are set to get rid of ole gunnar solskjaer. there has been no official confirmation but we understand that the club s senior figures, including owners the glazers, have discussed solksjaer s future and decided the watford loss would be his last game in charge. everyone was waiting to see if there would be a reaction for manchester united after the international break. not the one they would have wanted they conceded four goals at waford and captain harry maguire was sent off. it s been a terrible run of results, united have won just four of their last 13 games. looked like a wave goodbye afterwards. strong comments from players saying it was a nightmare. technical director darren fletcher is set to take over as there s a big week ahead with a champions league trip to villarreal. at the to
and her coach in a restaurant. good evening. the world health organisation has called for an urgent tightening of measures across europe to halt spiralling transmission rates of the coronavirus. it has warned that 500,000 more deaths could be recorded by march, unless urgent action is taken. let s have a look at how the uk is performing in comparison to other european countries. based on figures from two days ago, this graph shows a rolling sevenday average of daily cases per million people in italy, germany, and here in the uk. but when the netherlands and austria are included, the numbers rise sharply to more than double those rates for the uk and germany. with cases surging in parts of europe, my colleague martine croxall, spoke to dr hans kluge the world health organisation s regional director for europe. he pointed out that, while cases are high, authorities know how to handle the situation and what measures to implement. we are definitely worried. but the good news is
phil tufnell was commentating on the games for 5live.. and said england could use today s defeat to test their temperament in the latter stages and learn from some of their mistakes. it was a little bit sloppy for me, england, especially in the field. gave away to, i think, half a dozen overthrows, there was a few missed fields and weren t quite on it with the ball as well and obviously missing some on the backend to blow those lovely 90 mile an hou short balls and back of the hand bouncers. just a little bit sloppy but it is good to get one of those out of the way in the group stages then they can regroup, come together, and perhaps there might be a little bit of finger waving and then they got away with. jason roy, look pretty bad. ifeel for him because he has had a couple of injury problems in the last world cup as well and missed out on a hamstring. it looked bad and we saw him at the end of the game on crutches. it was, you know, iced and taped and strapped up. yeah, i
intensive aerial bombardment of gaza of gaza since the attacks inside israel two weeks ago in which 1,400 people were murdered and 210 taken hostage. the health ministry says around 4,400 gazans mainly civilians have been killed since then in israeli air strikes. that includes 55 people overnight. israel s military has warned civilians in gaza to keep moving south for their own safety, as it prepares to increase pressure on hamas there. hamas is labelled a terrorist origanisation by the uk, us and other western governments. the israeli defense forces said one of its aircraft targeted a mosque in the palestinian city ofjenin, in the west bank. it says hamas and operatives from islamichhad when using it as a base to organise attacks against israel. the un s humanitarian chief says talks have been taking place to allow a second aid convoy into gaza later, after two weeks in which israel stopped supplies of food, water and medicine entering gaza. aid groups say the situation