Not just for the players, but for the fans, and also for people living in this part of the world. will the true world cup experience kick in when qatar kick off the tournament on sunday? you wonder if travelling fans are potentially limiting the time and costs as well of being here, the first world cup in the middle east with flights, accommodation and ticket prices. you wonder whether they will essentially come in for those matches to come. we talk about the temperature, 36 degrees at the moment and those are the temperatures england and gareth southgate having to contend with and training at the moment. these are live pictures from their training base. 25 of gareth southgate s 26 man squad trained yesterday. just james maddison was missing yesterday. he was setting out to manage his workload. interesting that wales, as i was saying, moved their training sessions to later in
Played an hour for england? i assume that may be callum wilson. i m - played an hour for england? i assume that may be callum wilson. i m not i that may be callum wilson. i m not sure in the exact amount of minutes players have played but there are number of players who haven t played many games are don t have many caps that are in them. conor gallagher is a very young player. as you mentioned before that 26 man squad allows gareth southgate to pick players who meant not the many minutes but it would be a great experience. and connor gallagher is one of those players who may gain from being in squad but we won t see you on the period that much. callum wilson has been in great form for newcastle united and will probably be the deputy to harry kane should he get injured which hopefully doesn t happen. 0bviously we ve got calvin phillips who hasn t paid much football this season but he did go to the europe s and paid very well there. he s kind of not got much fitness or many minutes in th
Game, face netherlands next. and the dutch themselves lead that group with two wins out of two. they beat namibia today chasing down 122 with five wickets and three balls to spare so they have a good chance of making the super 12 stage. wales rugby union captain dan biggar has been ruled out of their autumn series. the fly half suffered a knee injury playing for his club northampton earlier this month and misses out the 35 man squad. five new caps have been called up, but pivac hasn t yet named a replacement skipper. we had not planned on changing the captain but obviously, with dan s injury that is something we ll be looking at in the coming days but it has been an interesting squad selection with a number of injuries, unfortunately. but with that comes opportunity and in terms of dan, his
Plenty more on the bbc sport website, us open golf. rory mcilroy is having a so so opening round, in the third men s major of the year. also england have named their 14 man squad for the next week s third test against new zealand. uncapped surrey seamerjamie overton has been called upjoining twin brother craig you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. i will have an update for you in the next hour. see you then. i will have an update for you in the next hour. see you then. thank you very much- new figures show the health service in england is still under intense pressure as the country recovers from the pandemic. the number of people waiting for a routine operation climbed to nearly 6.5 million in may that s1 in every 9 people in england and the highest since records began in 2007. but the nhs says there are signs of progress with a fall in the number of people waiting more than two years. in a&e, 73% of people
Officials spotted it was the same man by checking his fingerprints against their records. by 2020, he d lost again but was still not removed from the uk. today the home office has refused to comment on emad al swealmeen s case, or whether there will ever be an enquiry. dominic casciani, bbc news. it sjust after 1:15pm. our top story this lunchtime. the prime minister orders an inquiry into an mp s claims that her muslim faith was given as a reason for her sacking as a minister in 2020. looking back on a life in music. a new film celebrating the life of the beach boys brian wilson. coming up on the bbc news channel. england head coach eddiejones is expected to turn to george ford to replace his injured captain owen farrell ahead of rugby union s six nations tournament. ford was initially left out of the 36 man squad.