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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 valu ....
hello and welcome to sportsday this thursday night. i m chetan pathak. coming up on the programme: ollie robinson returns in ranchi, as england look to keep their series against india alive. a historic moment for sport the london marathon becomes the first in the world to offer equal prize money for its wheelchair and able bodied races. i think other sports and other organisations will maybe wake up and see we are truly great athletes and we deserve what s coming for us. and furbank in at full back, as england make five changes for the calcutta cup. we ll have team news ahead of all saturday s games. also coming up on sportsday: we speak to the women sailing around the notorious horn off the southern tip of south america. welcome along. thank you forjoining us on the eve of england s make or break test match in india. win and they ll be level 2 2, but lose and it s all over. after that bruising defeat in the third test in rajkot england s largest in terms of runs fo ....
is there. good evening to you, gavin. thanks, matthew. 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, which starts tomorrow in ranchi. robinson comes in for mark wood while off spinner shoaib bashir is recalled for leg spinner rehan ahmed. 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 pick our 11. you want to give yourself some idea about what 11 is going to give you the best chance. and looking at that, i think there is going to be assistance to the spin. we get asked a lot about the pitch and we give our opinion. but that doesn t mean that we are going in with too many preconceived ideas. if if it is, we will adapt. if it does do more, then we will adapt to that as well. the celtic and former england goalkeeperjoe ....
this is bbc news, the headlines. high stakes in the us as the supreme court hears an unprecedented case whether to kick donald trump off the 2024 presidential ballot. polls close in pakistan, after millions vote in general and provincial elections. a new study suggests erectile dysfunction drugs could also reduce the risk of alzheimer s disease. the biggest mass migration in the world is under way in china as millions of people head home for new year with their families. sport and a full round up from the bbc sport centre. first to the news that uefa president alexander ceferin has made the surprise decision to step down in three years time. at the annual congress on thursday, a motion was passed that allowed him to stand for a fourth term the english fa voted against that, by the way, but he says he made the decision six months ago. i have decided, let s say around six months ago, that i am not planning to run in 2027 any more. the reason is that after some time ....
hat. i need this because i m not having the greatest hair day. so welcome back. let me have that back. i m having a horrible hair day and i don t have any red on. welcome back. a lot of fun. kid had a great time in orlando. so happy to come back and see it will be 70 something here. yeah. so perfect. when is last time phillies actual i had had an opening day game, where it wasn t like 42 degrees. i don t remember. usually we can probably look it up and figure it out but usually it is pretty bad weather. the it is something we get used to for phillies. the this is unusual and in a good way, we are starting off in 43 degrees his hour of the morning. things are already okay but, calm wind relative humidity at 62 percent. our sunrise at 6:38 as these days get longer but frontal system pretty far to our north. it will go down closer to day but not effect our weather at all. we have not a cloud in the sky and it is looking good to start but it is chilly to ....