england s lionesses, the european football champions, have now qualified for next year s women s world cup. the manager said england s qualification for next year s world cup has made herfeel proud, especially on the back of not having had much rest following their success at the euros. they beat austria 2 0 to book their place at the tournament with a game to spare. natalie pirks reports from veener noyshtad. at the euros, quarterfinalists austria may have won new fans but england won the trophy, albeit fans of the lionesses were a rare breed in wiener neustadt. after the summer we have completely fallen in love with women s football. we are lucky, we live here so there might a few of us here, but i don t think there will be many. i would have preferred it to be in the big stadium in vienna because i think the lionesses deserve a bigger crowd. yes, this tiny stadium was a far cry from wembley, and that wasn t the only difference. unlike her super sub role in the euros, ale
at an emotianal concert to pay tribute to foo fighters drummer taylor hawkins, who died in march. the lionesses are going to the world cup. victory in austria sends england through to next summer s tournament in australia and new zealand. hello, good morning. we ve still got some heavy rain about at the moment. it will clear away northward, we will be left with a few showers, but also some warm shum shine. sunshine. i ll have more details later on. it s sunday the 4th of september. our main story: the foreign secretary liz truss who looks likely to become the next prime minister on tuesday has given her clearest indication yet of how she plans to tackle the cost of living crisis. writing in the sunday telegraph, she says she would set out immediate action on energy bills. her opponent, the former chancellor rishi sunak, says nothing is off the table to ease the pressure on households. ben wright reports. as borisjohnson as boris johnson packs as borisjohnson packs
hello, good afternoon. the funeral is taking place of mikhail gorbachev the last president of the soviet union, who helped bring the cold war to a peaceful end. he died on tuesday at the age of 91. russian president vladimir putin is not attending due to what he described as constraints on his schedule. our russia editor steve rosenberg reports. it was the final farewell to the man who changed the world. in the columned hall of the house of unions, mikhail gorbachev lay in state. a steady stream of mourners filing past his open casket. there was a guard of honour, but the last leader of the soviet union had not been honoured with a full state funeral. a sign that today s kremlin has little interest in guarding mr gorbachev s legacy. many russians blame gorbachev for the fall of the ussr, the collapse of their superpower. yet out on the streets muscovites were queueing up to pay their respects. gorbachev had given many here their first taste of freedom and democracy. in
propellant to deal with. nasa has been working with that since the 1960s, since the original moon programme. i m sure they will fix it, it is a question of time, and asjonathan said, it is a big, complicated system, it really is the biggest rocket that nasa or anyone has ever built, so there are a lot of things to get right. but, you know, nasa is probably the organisation to do it, but it will take some time. some people will say, they have had 50 years. it was quite a while since we last went to the moon, we have done this before, why all the publicity and the fanfare and it still not be working properly? well, that is a really good point. first time for a human mission round the moon since 1972. has the technology really advanced since then? fundamentally, no, perhaps except that the capsule is a bit larger and the electronics are modern, but they are still using, for example, incredibly outdated and environmentally unsound rocket boosters, they are still having difficulti