zuma fended off a no confidence vote, we ll bring you the latest reaction from capetown. and after a man died attempting to swim across the channel, we ll speak to an expert on the challenges of extreme swimming. now on bbc news, it s time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m olly foster at the london stadium. the norovirus hits the 400 metres final. one of the favourites, makwale, is told he can t run it s set to be another lean night for great britain, unless kyle langford can stun the field in the 800 metres. i m nick marshall mccormack in salford and, away from the athletics, we ll be looking ahead to the uefa super cup where manchester united take on real madrid. jose mourinho‘s side are bidding to win a fourth trophy injust over a year. it is the ee of the women s rugby world cup in ireland and i have been tilting to the english, irish and welsh squad square victoria derbyshire. good evening. they fired at the world athletics championships. we are halfan
and coming up in half an hour, stephen sackur speaks to dmitry peskov, the spokesman for russian president vladimir putin, in hardtalk. good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. the prime minister, theresa may, says she has absolute faith in the trident nuclear missile system, despite claims that an unarmed test firing veered off course. it s claimed an unarmed rocket fired from hms vengeance in the atlantic ocean shot off in the direction of the united states last year. but on the bbc‘s andrew marr programme this morning, mrs may declined to answer if she d been made aware of the incident before a crucial vote on the future of the trident programme in parliament, as daniel boettcher reports. this is what the launch of a trident missile looks like. lastjune, the royal navy carried out what it calls a routine unarmed test launch from hms vengeance. but according to the sunday times, it went wrong. the paper says the submarine was about 200 miles off the coast of florida. it
Quins charged back, overcoming two yellow cards thanks to tries from danny care and two from cadan murley. with five minutes remaining, quins looked to have snatched it. finn russell was adjudged to have deliberately knocked on earning racing their third yellow card and the visitors a penalty try. but la garrec s late penalty snatched victory from the jaws of defeat and handed racing a dramatic win also in pool a. edinburgh came from behind to beat french side castres. ben vellacott scored edinburgh s all important fourth try that secured a bonus point victory. they have won two of their three pool matches. castres remain bottom after three straight defeats. in pool b. london irish paid the price for poor discipline and tackle technique as they ended their match against the stormers of south africa withjust 13 men. the exiles battled on valiantly despite having two fewer men, scoring twice, but it wasn t enough to prevent them
Than 20 seconds after the restart for the second half. but led by the irrepressible marcus smith in his first game after injury, quins charged back, overcoming two yellow cards thanks to tries from danny care and two from cadan murley. with five minutes remaining, quins looked to have snatched it. finn russell was adjudged to have deliberately knocked on earning racing their third yellow card and the visitors a penalty try. but la garrec s late penalty snatched victory from the jaws of defeat and handed racing a dramatic win also in pool a. edinburgh came from behind to beat french side castres. ben vellacott scored edinburgh s all important fourth try that secured a bonus point victory. they have won two of their three pool matches. castres remain bottom after three straight defeats. in pool b. london irish paid the price for poor discipline and tackle technique as they ended their match against the stormers of south africa withjust 13 men.