Activists last weekend. Now on bbc news, its time for sportsday. Hello, and welcome to sportsday. After 20 stages and thousands of kilometres ridden, the Tour De France is set to have its youngest winner in a century. Not even being ill can stop Lewis Hamilton at the german grand prix but mechanical problems stop the ferraris. And from big bash to challenge cup Courtney Hill inspires leeds to victory over castleford, as warrington and st helens reach the mens final. Also coming up in the programme. England name their test squad for the ashes opener and theres a first call up forjofra archer. And find out how the Tokyo Olympics are set to bring new life to an area devastated by a Nuclear Disaster. Thanks forjoining us. Egan bernal is set to become colombias first the Tour De France. Hell go into tomorrows final stage to paris uncontested, as is the tradition. Bernal has a one minute, 11 second advantage over the defending champion, geraint thomas, who is also his team mate. Todays stage
Attacked pro democracy activists last weekend. Good afternoon. The Prime Minister has pledged to fund a new high speed rail route between leeds and manchester. Borisjohnson says it will turbo charge the economy. It is thought the new route is part of the governments wider investment commitment to the north of england set to cost around £39 billion. But labour have cast doubt on the plan, saying mrjohnson failed to deliver on infrastructure when he was mayor of london. Tom barton reports. In manchester, theyre expanding the tram network, spending millions on improving public transport. But the new Prime Minister says he wants to go further, promising to build a fast railway line between this city and leeds, 35 miles away. I want to be the Prime Minister who does with Northern Powerhouse rail what we did for crossrail in london, and today, im going to deliver on my commitment to that vision with a pledge to fund the leeds to manchester route. But while local leaders have welcomed that p
Between remain and whatever option borisjohnson decides to put to them at this time. Borisjohnson decides to put to them at this time. These are the scenes in hong kong with protesters gathering as the territory continues to be engulfed by huge Anti Government demonstrations. A last ditch effort to save the nuclear deal with iran Senior International diplomats will hold an emergency meeting today. Democrats in the United States have renewed accusations of racism against President Trump after he criticised an African American congressman 15 year old jaden ashman from essex has won nearly a Million Pounds after placing second in the world cup finals of the online game fortnite alongside his dutch team mate. Columbian egan bernal is poised to be the youngest Tour De France winner in more than a century as he has the Yellow Jersey going into todays final stage in paris. Coming up on dateline london at 11 30, Carrie Gracie takes a look minister borisjohnson. The government is now working on
Attacked pro democracy activists last weekend. Hello and good afternoon. The Prime Minister has pledged to fund a new high speed rail route between leeds and manchester. Borisjohnson says it will turbo charge the economy. It is thought the new route is part of the governments wider investment commitment to the north of england, set to cost around £39 billion. But labour have cast doubt on the plan, saying mrjohnson failed to deliver on infrastructure when he was mayor of london. Tom barton reports. In manchester, theyre expanding the tram network, spending millions on improving public transport. But the new Prime Minister says he wants to go further, promising to build a fast railway line between this city and leeds, 35 miles away. I want to be the Prime Minister who does with Northern Powerhouse rail what we did for crossrail in london, and today, im going to deliver on my commitment to that vision with a pledge to fund the leeds to manchester route. But while local leaders have welc
brindley and leads wrote to the premier league to question every ten s finances, at the time tamimi remember that they were involved in an almighty relegation struggle and everton ultimately stayed up among those huge celebrations that you could see at goodison park. but what the other clubs were questioning was that everton had posted losses of £370 million over a three year period. and under primarily rules, clubs are only allowed to post losses of £105 million over a three year period. now everton insisted they had complied with the rules. they said that a large amount of their losses were caused by covid and that those could be written off. everton had issued a statement saying that they strongly contested the allegations and say they are entirely confident that they remain compliant with the financial rules and they will robustly defend their position. the case will now be heard by an independent commission if everton are found guilty, they could face a fine, they coul