Stories coming up in a few moments but let s pause and have a look at the sport. Each of the rugby word cup quarterfinals pits a Northern Hemisphere team against one from the south. And it s so far argentina who have started things off well for those from the southern hemisphere. Now new zealand can join them in reaching the last four in france. The three time winners are playing world Number One Team ireland in paris. 1310 is 13 10 is the latest score in favour of the all blacks. They have played just under half an hour at the stad to france. So the winner of that match will face argentina, who beat wales, coming from behind twice to make the last four. Wales led 10 6 at half time and looked in control, but argentina fought back in the second half to lead 12 10 and then 19 17, before securing victory with a second try late on to win 26 17 and reach the semifinals for only the third time in their history. Argentina are tough, they stayed in the fight and i ve got to give them credit, c
Hello there, and welcome along to the programme. And we start at the Rugby World Cup, where wales have been knocked out by argentina, in the first of the quarter finals. It all started so brightly for Warren Gatlands side in marseilles, but the pumas had the edge In A Stunning Second Half comeback. Our correspondent was at the game. Argentina then came back for penalties and lead just after half time 12 10. Came back for penalties and led after half time 12 10 but wales came back and retook the lead. A try from Tomos Williams as he raced through to score. That gave wales the lead with about 25 minutes to go. At that point you thought wales were probably going to win but then a moment of controversy when argentinian s shoulder caught the head of Nick Tompkins and they thought he should have been some sent off but the ref decided he was not and then a legal challenge. From there argentina came back, the pressure eventually told. They got a try with about ten minutes left and he rumbled o
Assessing the first week of the israel gaza conflict. Hello. Imjackie leonard, the host of the Global News Podcast. Today, weve teamed up with a new bbc podcast, the conflict, for a special programme, answering your questions about whats going on in israel and gaza. Werejoined by the host of the conflict, the bbc s chief International Correspondent lyse doucet, who is in ashdod in israel, north of gaza, and also by our International Editor jeremy bowen, whos injerusalem. So welcome, lyse. A relatively easy question to kick off with. Can you give us a sense of the size and location of gaza in relation to israel . Who lives there . Whos in charge . And who are its neighbours . Well, thats a sort of a wikipedia of the gaza strip. The gaza strip is a coastal strip of land on the mediterranean. Once on one side, its on the mediterranean. The other side, the southern side, its connecting to egypt. And then its other neighbour is israel. It is described as one of the most densely populated pl
Hello, im ben thompson. Israels military says its forces are deployed across the country and are ready for the next stage of the war, which is expected to have significant ground operations. A spokesman said the coming phase could include, what he called, combined and co ordinated strikes from the air, sea and land. The goal, he said, was to completely destroy the governing and military capabilities of hamas. Its a week since hamas, classed as a Terrorist Organisation by many western governments, including the uk, killed more than 1,300 people in israel and took dozens hostage. Israel has warned the 1. 1 million civilians in gazas north to move south beyond the wadi gaza here. The Military Spokesperson said they should not return until israel said they could do so. The authorities in gaza say more than 2,200 people have already died in retaliatory israeli bombing. On saturday, israels Prime Minister visited some of his troops and asked them if they are ready for the next stage. 0ur C