the bbc football commentator john motson, who has died at the age of 77. also coming up in the programme. australia hold their nerve to reach their seventh consecutive women s t20 world cup final with a tense five run win over india. hello and welcome to sportsday. we start today s programme with news that a new independent regulator of men s football in england is to be established for the first time. the announcement follows a recommendation by a fan led review last year. the main purposes of the proposed new regulator will be stopping english clubs from joining european breakaway leagues, preventing financial failings at clubs, introducing more stringent owners and directors tests, giving fans more power and ensuring a fairer distribution of money down the english football pyramid. the significant move aims to protect english football s cultural heritage. here s just some of the reaction to the proposals starting with the premier league chief executive richard masters. w
situation with no fuel in the ventilators have stopped working in the main building. we feel it every few seconds hear from the al shifa hospital. the people who try this morning with a ventilator from the hospital had been shot in the streets and some of them have been killed and some injured. no one can arrive to the hospital. we cannot get outside of the building because thatis get outside of the building because that is shooting everywhere. we don t have electricity, we don t have water or even food and we are afraid that is in the middle of the night we lost electricity to the main i see you and the prenatal i see you and one of the team was hurt in the neck and was paralysed. we don t want to have any breaks due to dead bodies outside the main generator which is not working because we don t have fuel to run this generator. this is the situation now. at gaza s largest hospital, al shifa , the international charity msf says attacks intensified overnight, adding it has los
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vessels joined the attack. they were supported by over 11,000 planes. the allied troops landed on beaches along an 80 kilometre stretch of the normandy coastline. today it is the veterans who were there 80 years ago are guests of honour. around 200, mostly from america, britain, and canada have travelled to mark the anniversary of a day which britain s wartime leader sir winston churchill, called the most complicated and difficult operation of world war ii. thoughout the day we will have live coverage of the key commemorations but first our correspondent sophie long looks back at the events which have taken place so far. let s just stay here because we have an amazing looking flyover happening right now. that is over the beach in normandy, as i mentioned before, planes played a pivotal role with 11,000 of them alongside the boats and ships across the water from england to normandy. let s turn to our correspondent sophie long who looks back at the events that have
ithink he was almost an anorak but he, and i think you he was almost an anorak but he, and i think you have got to be that a little i think you have got to be that a little bit i think you have got to be that a little bit to be a commentator. john motson who has died at the age of 77. that s all from sportsday. they ll be more thoughout the evening on the bbc news channel. from myself and team, thanks forjoining us. hello there. good evening. plenty of blue sky and sunshine to set off those early spring flowers across the central swathe of the uk, in particular today, especially for the midlands and for much of wales. cloud in the north continues to sink southwards overnight. the skies will stay clearest for longest across southern counties of england. here, maybe a touch of frost into the start of the day tomorrow with lightening, winds and the gales across the far north of scotland and shetland will ease down throughout the night. so, this is how we re starting off friday morn