Hello and welcome to sportsday. Theres a Barnes Stormer at stjames. Harveys the hero for newcastle as they beat west ham. Scotland make a fight of it in the womens six nations, pushing france all the way in edinburgh. And The Light Blues lead the way, but they have to forgo a famous boat race tradition. The Premier League is back with a bang, the top three might all be playing tomorrow but weve had some great games today, seven results so far and so many late goals, there were a couple at st james park as Newcastle United came from 3 1 down to beat west ham 4 3. Craig templeton reports. St james s park hosted the return of premier League Football after a two week post for the international break. It would prove worth the wait. Anthony gordon made his england debut in that time, and was lively early on, drawing a challenge from vladimir coufal. Just two minutes in, a penalty. Alexander isak kept his cool from the spot. His 17th goal of the season. Whenjamaal lascelles limped off injured
That the Biden Adminstration has cleared the way for the transfer of bombs and fighter planes worth billions of dollars to israel. Our correspondent yolande knell is injerusalem. A shell exploded near these un Military Observers while they were on a foot patrol in southern lebanon, along the blue line, which divides that area from the north of israel. Now, unifil, the Peacekeeping Mission in that area, says its investigating the cause of the blast. But this is an area where Israeli Forces and the Lebanese Armed Group Hezbollah regularly exchange fire. Weve seen an increase in tensions in that whole area in just the past few weeks, and that has really raised fears about further escalation related to the war in gaza. Now, when it comes to those reports in the Washington Post and reuters about arms transfers worth billions of dollars being made from the us to israel, these are listed as 1,800 2,000lb bombs, 500 500lb bombs and 25 f 35 fighterjets. Most of that already approved by the us c