hello, and welcome to sportsday i m chetan pathak. coming on tonight s programme. after his win in court, nova djokovic is back on court but could he still be stopped from defending his trophy at the australian open? after a weekend of fa cup shocks, can aston villa pull off an upset at manchester united in the last of the third round ties? we will be at old trafford. sadio mane to the rescue senegal are saved by a stoppage time penalty in their opening match at the africa cup of nations. also coming up in the programme before 7pm. after a dramatic final weekend of the regular nfl season we take a look at the play off picture which is now complete. welcome along, thank you forjoining us. this time next week, the first tennis grand slam of the year will be under way and, as things stand, the world number one and defending champion, novak djokovic, will be able to play at the australian open after winning a court battle that overturned his visa cancellation. within ho
with bloomberg media. with me in the studio is celia hatton, the bbc s asia pacific editor. welcome it is lovely to see you again. will discussed last week and, it is onlyjust been confirmed as a variant of concern. first identified first identified by identified doctors in south africa, first identified by doctors in south africa, president ramaphosa told his countrymen that in one province new cases had risen from 500 per day to 1600. he, like the leaders across the globe has to announce restrictions latest on friday evening came from ireland with nightclubs not being closed and people being restricted in the number of families that are in the number of families that are in their households a one time. how would you characterise the global response to this latest, only believe latest variant of covid i9? everyone is panicking and the market has tanked and i was a sign of the real panic. the reality is we have very little real walk data to cause this panic. yes, there are re
a booster shot of pfizer or moderna the best all round protection from covid according to the latest trials. the energy regulator ofgem launches a review into the response to storm arwen as repair works continue, one week on. a woman has beenjailed for life for murdering her partner s six year old son after months of abuse. emma tustin has been told she will serve at least twenty nine years in prison for killing arthur labinjo hughes at their home in solihull. the boy s father, thomas hughes, has been jailed for twenty one years for manslaughter. thejudge at coventry crown court said it had been one of the most distressing cases he d dealt with and described the couple as spiteful and sadistic . phil mackie was in court. are you going to play for england, arthur? this is how his family want him to be remembered. after when i ve played for liverpool, i will play for tottenham. as a football loving six year old and not the emaciated child who was so sick he could barely
josé diaz-balart picks up our coverage right now. good morning. it s 11:00 a.m. eastern, and 8:00 a.m. pacific. i am josé diaz-balart. we are moments away from a critical white house meeting between president biden and kamala harris and members of congress. can they come to an agreement with just four days until a partial government shutdown? a sign of things to come for biden and trump this november. overseas, a new report about a deal for a cease-fire. president biden says he hopes to see an agreement by next week. prosecutors asked for a gag order, and trump s attorneys try to keep some witnesses from testifying. we begin in washington where the clock is ticking toward a potential partial government shutdown this weekend. soon president biden will sit down with the top four congressional leaders at the white house to discuss a path forward on keeping the government open. they are also expected to discuss the president s request for billions of dollars to help ukr
contempt of parliament over his own lockdown behaviour, and says he should recuse himself. we ll be asking the political writer and johnson biographer andrew gimson and the shadow leader of the house thangam debbonaire how they think this sorry tale will end. also tonight. with gilt rates throught the roof and inflation refusing to plunge, will interest rates have to rise and result in more mortgage misery? we ll be asking an economic adviser to chancellorjeremy hunt and a former bank of england insider. we have a report from the palestinian territories on how young people see the political situation there. what do you hope for? we all hope for the same thing, to liberate palestine. but what does that really mean? and what does the question really mean, what do you hope for? i can hope for many things. and whatjust happened in california? it s a new world record. tonight we ll bejoined by a record holding super cuber who s going to show us how its done. good evening. in the h