hello and welcome to saturday sportsday i m chetan pathak coming up on tonight s programme: most of spain s coaching staff from their world cup win resign but luis rubiales still refuses to go for kissing a player despite fifa now suspending him. all smiles in the end but manchester united suffer an almighty scare against nottingham forest. and england s nightmare preparations for the rugby world cup end in another defeat as fiji beat them for the first time. welcome along, thank you forjoining us. the president of the spanish football federation has today been provisionally suspended by football s world governing body fifa. the pressure continues to grow on luis rubiales who is refusing to resign after kissing player jenni hermoso on the lips following spain s women s world cup final win over england. in the last few hours, spain s entire coaching staff from that world cup win, except for head coachjorge vilda, have resigned over the row. joe lynskey reports. spa
hello and welcome to saturday sportsday i m chetan pathak coming up on tonight s programme: most of spain s coaching staff from their world cup win resign but luis rubiales still refuses to go for kissing a player despite fifa now suspending him. all smiles in the end but manchester united suffer an almighty scare against nottingham forest. and england s nightmare preparations for the rugby world cup end in another defeat as fiji beat them for the first time. welcome along, thank you forjoining us. the president of the spanish football federation has today been provisionally suspended by football s world governing body fifa. the pressure continues to grow on luis rubiales who is refusing to resign after kissing player jenni hermoso on the lips following spain s women s world cup final win over england. in the last few hours, spain s entire coaching staff from that world cup win, except for head coachjorge vilda, have resigned over the row. joe lynskey reports. spa
it s toone! reports from sydney. wow! reports from sydney. having booked their place in the world cup final with a memorable victory over the co hosts australia. it s russo! ..england s preparations have continued to go smoothly in sydney, a fully fit squad enjoying a final training session on the eve of the match. intent on surpassing the european crown they claimed last year. your players are about to play in the biggest game of their lives. when you look into their eyes, what do you see? i see calmness. we are well prepared. we are in a very good place, everyone is fit, the team is confident and we really want to play our best game. england into the world cup final. this is a tournament the lionesses have had to battle through, overcoming injury, the suspension of a star player. smash as they go through! ..and a penalty shoot out. but despite such adversity, the team has prevailed. i think everyone knows how big this is, i think it s been the players dreams for years, so
later in the programme. but now, let s turn to the middle east. the us military says its helicopters have destroyed three small boats in an attack on a container ship in the southern red sea. it s the second assault by iran backed houthi rebels on the ship within 2a hours. the us says the gunmen who launched the raid from yemen attacked in four boats, coming within 20 metres of the vessel. the fourth craft fled the area. the houthi rebels say their actions are in protest against the gaza war, where there were more air strikes by israel overnight. israel s prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, is insisting that the war in gaza will continue until all hostages have been released and hamas has been dismantled. shaimaa khalil reports from jerusalem. street by street, the battles on the ground in gaza rage on. israel is concentrating its ground offensive on the centre and the south of the strip. with hamas fighters continuing to resist the idf s advances. translation: the war
the rest of the world are using fireworks as a way of welcoming in 2024. i now want to take you to russia and this is moscow. as you can see, it is a very different scene in moscow. now, in previous years there would have been fireworks in red square in moscow but, as last year, there are no fireworks at all. they have been banned in russia. you can see people are on the streets there but not that many and that, of course, all because of the war with ukraine and the operation there. so the fireworks and pyrotechnics were banned last year and again this year. there are no fireworks displays in russia as moscow welcomes in the new year. two totally different celebrations in qatar and russia. don t forget that you can follow all the celebrations of 2024 on the bbc news website and app where there is a special live page. she is europe s only reigning queen. she is europe s only reigning queen. she said her son would take over on the 14th of january. the 83 year old queen said her