On women in afghanistan, banning them from working for the ngos, just days they were banned from studying at university. Hello and welcome to sportsday im gavin ramjaun. Leicester come back to take the honours against gloucester and win the first ever slater cup in the premiership. Brentford get frank. The dane commits to another contract at the club ahead of the Premier Leagues big boxing day return. And we meet the sailor who picked up some of his crew from the pub whos preparing to lead britains entry in one of the Worlds Toughest yacht races even if the seas make him a little queasy. Hello there and welcome along to the programme. The premiership match between leicester and gloucester had extra meaning today to honour theirformer player it slater. Player ed slater. The 34 year old retired from rugby this summer, after being diagnosed with motor neurone disease. And it was leicester who fought back the win the first ever slater cup. The victory a first for their new Interim Head Coa
reaches the third round of the world darts championship. good morning from the cotswolds. this is a reindeer herd, we are surrounded by christmas trees. today is less windy than yesterday, some rain in the forecast and some snow largely in the hills of the north east of scotland but at lower levels in the northern isles. all of the details throughout the programme. it s friday the 22nd of december. our main story. the czech republic has declared a national day of mourning tomorrow after a gunman killed 14 people and injured 25 at a university in prague. police say the gunman was a 24 year old student at charles university and was later found dead. police were already looking for the gunman, after they discovered his father s body hours earlier. our eastern european correspondent sarah rainsford reports. the centre of prague was suddenly transformed into a major crime scene. armed police rushed towards a university building as a gunman stalked the corridors there. at this poin
is a sovereign nation, our military decisions are based upon our own calculations. israel has pledged to continue its military operations, but admitted that it is protracted and difficult . this is the live scene over the israel gaza border, where we ve seen continued bombardement this weekend. an israel military spokesman said it was expanding its ground operations in both southern and northern parts of the gaza strip. and these are live pictures from outside nasser hospital in khan younis. we ve seen more injured arriving there in the past few hours. further north, this was the view across the israel lebanon border. in the past couple of hours, we ve seen a thick plume of black smoke in the sky there. the white house has said that in a phone call with mr netanyahu, president biden stressed the importance of allowing civilians to move safely away from areas where there s fighting in gaza. greg mckenzie has this report. president biden told the israeli prime minister, ben
disruption. gales or severe gales. it will be windy wherever you are. cloud and outbreaks of patchy rain in the west moving south, from the north, a return to sunshine and blustery showers, perhaps a bit of wintriness over the higher ground of scotland and temperatures up to about 13 in london but only five in aberdeen. moving ahead towards friday, it will be another blustery sort of day but not as windy as it will be tomorrow. thanks, sarah. and that s bbc news at six. you can keep up with all the latest developments on bbc website. good evening to you. hello, and welcome to sportsday i m hugh ferris. the headlines this evening. santo, just in time for christmas nottingham forest turn to nuno. there s one more place left in the efl cup semi finals. it ll go to either liverpool, or west ham. and liverpool, orwest ham. police and liverpool, or west ham. police investigate after a i’u ns and police investigate after a fan runs onto the pitch and into the newcastle goalke