A catastrophic fire warning is issued for parts of eastern australia including sydney amid record breaking temperatures following months of severe drought. These are very difficult and trying times, were now up to day 105 of this bushfire emergency across New South Wales and the community really is going to have to stay alert and understand what theyre going to do if threatened by fires. The government approves the takeover of uk defence and aerospace specialist, cobham, by an american company. A man who confronted the fishmongers hall attacker, with a narwal tusk, describes his deep hurt that he couldnt save the two people who died. Prince philip has spent day in hospital in london, to be treated for whats being described as a pre existing condition. Nearly 90 flood warnings in place across england and the situation could get worse, with heavy rain forecast overnight. Now on bbc news its time for sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday, with me Lizzie Greenwood and gavin ramjaun. Th
Borisjohnsons brexit deal unless changes are made. Millions of californians face having their power cut as the state battles a surge in wildfires. Now on bbc news, its time for sportsday. Hello, and welcome to sportsday, with me Lizzie Greenwood hughes and jane dougall. One of the most incredible matches of the Rugby World Cup so far england knock out the defending champions new zealand to go through to the final. Will that win inspire wales . Their semi final against south africa is tomorrow, Warren Gatland doesnt want it to be his last match in charge. And whats in a name . Well, quite a lot dispute over who scored manchester citys second goal against villa. Also coming up in the programme. Taking to the pitch for the first time in more than a decade, but it wasnt the fairytale return that Great Britains Rugby League Lions were looking for. And london hosts a great boxing night with fighter josh taylor aiming to become the only british boxer with two world title belts. Evening, lots
We re to be. Certainly not the news they were hoping to receive. They were told by the Emergency Services what was happening in a residence meeting before the media. This press conference has just finished entering this despite all the work that Emergency Services have done over the last 26 hours or the structure is still very critical and theres still a risk to life. There being advised not to go back to Whaley Bridge. And Emergency Services are looking at ways in which they can let one member of family back in for a short period of time to gather essentials, pets, medication, that sort of thing. What was interesting was over the last 26 hours they managed to reduce the water levels on the dam by about half a metre. But what they said here is that they are hopeful of saving the dam but they still need to lower it by several metres. Take that water level below the problem that water level below the problem that a on that spillway before the engineers can be confident that Whaley Bridge
a new conservative government. the international edition of the financial times focuses on the uk leader reshuffling his cabinet. jeremy hunt and james cleverly remain, respectively, as chancellor of the exchequer and foreign secretary. the guardian calls the prime minister s reshuffle a gamble, referencing suella braverman s return as home secretary after being sacked from the role due to a security breach less than a week ago. the express reports on mr sunak s solemn tone in his first speech as british premier, vowing to earn the nation s trust. refusing to smile when they were shouting out for him to do so. mistakes were made, i ll fix them is the headline in the telegraph, referencing the last tory government s mini budget which spooked global markets. let s start. welcome to you both. a lot to get through, and so many elements, in terms of who is out, who is in, is this continuity, is this unity? claire delest to start with the ft. sunak confronts prolonged crisis. if