their celebrations, that s for sure. also celebrating today, is kate cross. she s been named in england s squad for the ashes test with australia after recovering from illness. the pace bowler needed multiple rounds of antibiotics to treat a parasite infection, but has been included in a is player squad for the four day test at trent bridge starting on 22nd june. she said on social media, it s always so special . the test is followed by three t20s and three one day internationals. full details of the squad are on the bbc sport website and app. it s a huge day for women s sport in england. last year was the baroness this morning euros. this summer at the ashes. the winners of the ashes in particular, for us, i think is much as we can we would encourage people to get out. and watch what we are hoping will be some really entertaining cricket. meanwhile, the men s ashes starts in four days time and australia got the perfect warm up by beating india on sunday to become world tes
Bad is the economy . Tom that was dazzling. He was like a power pitcher. Thor is your picture and the league. We will get the story and a bit. Lets get to our first word news. U. S. And Russian Diplomats meeting for the First Time Since russian jets started attacks in syria. The Obama Administration considers a Major Administration shift in the crisis. Trying to revive efforts to the catastrophic civil war. In washington, officials are setting up a Officials Say setting up a nofly zone is on the table. At least 42 people are dead a truck crashed. More stimulus by the European Central bank. Indicators point to the risk of a slowdown. Mario draghi suggested more stimulus may be needed by the end of the year. Hill, vote counting. The next speaker of the house will be paul ryan. The job. Ccept a formal vote will be held next week. Congress has 10 days to raise the debt ceiling. s jeff bezos third richest person. Shares jumped 10 after an upbeat report. Tom let me do a quick data check. Fut
Sanctions. Plus. [music] the copyright ruling against robin thicke and Pharrell Williams that could change the music business. And Champions League football outspoken on the match match. Thank you for joining us. We begin the program in iraq where Government Forces and shia militia are advancing into the city of tikrit. Their aim is to capture it since last june. The iraqi forces are said to be moving into tikrit from the north, where were in control of a military hospital. Theyre also pushing into the center of the city. This shows troops and militiamen along side heavy vehicles into the neighbor recapturing tikrit would give iraqi forces a supply link to launch an offensive against isil in mosul. Stephanie dekker has more. [ gunfire ] reporter this is northeastern tikrit, the iraqi army shia militia and some sunni tribesmen are trying to push isil out of the city. We want to tell the iraqi people that tikrit will be liberated and retaken from isil terrorist groups. Security forces ha
Dead after a Police Car Chase plus. Im lee welding of headquarters in zurick where the executive meeting is closing and we will have news on the world cup of 2022. And walking in the footsteps of st. Francis the pope makes a historic visit to cc. But we open with the migrant boat tragedy off the coast of si sicilly and we know 127 have died and more than 150 have been rescued and several hundred are still missing. The coast guard is searching in the sea and the migrants have been on an amazing journey and many are from east africa and we will talk to peter in the capitol in a moment. According to survivors, the migrants traveled to libya and from there took the boat to lampadoosa and previous and similar occasions such voyages began on tunesia and closer to europe and 70 kilometers and sherry is there for us and lets go to the scene of the tragedy, the waters off of lampadoosa with soyia and the search must be continuing not just for survivors but of course the bodies too in what im to
Hello, the Italian Coast Guard is searching for 200 migrants missing after their boat sank and the vessel believes to be carrying around 500 people set sale from the libyan port city and 127 people are confirmed dead but this is expected to rise. It had nearly finished the 400 kilometer journey before it sank. What is the latest . The weather conditions are hampering the search and rescue operations. So far we have been talking to the coast guards and they are saying because of the weather conditions they are unable to actually tackle the search and rescue operations as fully as they would like to. They have a boat out and trying to get divers into the structure of the boat that is submerged in the water but they are finding it incredibly difficult to do so so that is slowing things down. Its crucial for them to get those bodies out of there. They have appeared to have noticed some of the bodies which are still on the boat and even on the seabed, so much have been spotted on the seabed