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tv   Sportsday  BBC News  November 21, 2023 1:30pm-1:46pm GMT

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where your bag is, if you block from where your bag is, if you go back to 3681 and 3802, you should find your bag. you can see here their box of tools disappearing into the space as the two astronauts tried to fix a solar panel. we are told the tool box is now orbiting earth at a speed of 17,000 miles per hour. time for a look at the weather. here's helen willetts. cold weather is on the way, a bit of a shock to the system as it has been so mild so far this autumn. we are between weather systems today, not altogether dry but looming large tonight is tomorrow's band of rain and associated wind. we have a few showers tonight, that was from the midlands. sunshine too to enjoy. showers are few and far between, generally speaking lots of dry and bright weather to scotland, northern
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ireland, northern england and western fringes but we have more cloud across southern and eastern areas and is winds making it feel cooler than yesterday. rain starting to approach the far north—west of scotland on a strengthening wind later, but lots of dry and bright weather between. not especially warm colour temperature is a bit down yesterday, it will be milderfor most of us tomorrow because look what happens overnight, the wind and strengthens and rain comes into the north. furthersouth, strengthens and rain comes into the north. further south, the cloud will melt away and the winds are easing. frost on the cards first thing tomorrow and the old pockets of fog, milder further north because we had stronger winds and rain on and off throughout the day, patchy rain for northern ireland, northern england and north wales, but further south, once the patchy morning fog clears away, it should be fairly dry and bright. temperatures on the up, particularly across scotland and
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northern ireland, much milder than today. but it is a brief window of milder weather, today. but it is a brief window of milderweather, because today. but it is a brief window of milder weather, because it's weather front starts to stream across the north and south bridge on thursday and there is really cold air waiting in the winds. rather cloudy skies underneath the rain band, patchy sunshine further south at relatively mild but that cold air is knocking on the door, coming right the way down from the arctic. this blast will last through friday, saturday, possibly sunday. the question is how long the cold snap will last budget will be cold and feeling cold are still through thursday and into friday, embracing northerly winds, showers falling as snow to lower levels in northern scotland, lots of bright and crisp weather on friday, those temperatures are the highs, four to about nine or ten and feeling even colderfor four to about nine or ten and feeling even colder for scotland four to about nine or ten and feeling even colderfor scotland is eastern scotland by the winds will be stronger, so a bright and crisp
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start to saturday morning, will it last into sunday? we will keep you updated. thanks, helen. and that's bbc news at 0ne. you can keep up with all the latest developments on the bbc website. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it's time to join our hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm jane dougall. a must—win match for wales and even then, they may not get to next year's euros. beth mead is back! the arsenal striker is recalled to the england squad for the first time since the serious knee injury that ruled her out of the world cup. and the icc takes a major decision, banning trans women from the international women's game.
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we start with the euros qualifiers. wales must win their match later against turkey in cardiff and hope that croatia don't beat armenia. it's a been a golden period for wales in qualifying for major tournaments, but qualification is out of their hands for next year's tournament in germany. 0ur wales correspondent tomos dafydd has more. the players seemingly happy at training, despite their chances of making it to another major tournament narrowing. while a playoff place is guaranteed, automatic qualification is out of their hands heading into the final round of matches. but the manager insists the campaign is not over. if you're with us in training today and yesterday, you'll see that they don't believe that for one minute.
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we're having no talk of playoffs. you know, if we continue to talk the playoffs, you just want to call the game off tuesday. that's our mentality. that's our attitude. so we're fully focused on the job we've got. you just spoke about regrets. we don't want any regrets when that final whistle goes tomorrow evening. their campaign faltered in yerevan at the weekend. armenia have been wales' bogeymen in this group by taking four points from them, but they now need a huge favour from a team ranked 95th in the world. should they deny croatia victory tonight, then wales would qualify with a win over turkey at the cardiff city stadium. amid the gloom of a rather flat performance in armenia, it's worth remembering that wales clinched a playoff place at the weekend, thanks to other results across europe going their way. should they fail to qualify automatically, they'll have a second chance, with playoff matches scheduled for march. we've put in some amazing performances in cardiff over the years, and and we've had some special nights there. look, we have to be hopeful
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that we can do it again. we can only control what's in our control. and on the night we'll have to hope that some things go our way. but we can't give up that hope. that hope will be shared by the home fans, praying their team can make it to their third successive european championship. tomos dafydd, bbc news. beth mead has been called up to the england squad for the first time since the serious knee injury that ruled her out of the world cup. the arsenal striker is part of the 23—player squad for england's nations league fixtures against the netherlands and scotland. she tore her acl a year ago, but is back playing for her club. midfielder grace clinton and goalkeeper khiara keating also retain their places after their first call—ups to the senior squad in october. manager sarina weigman said phoning mead with the good news was a happy moment. she is a character that brings
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positive energy on pitch and off pitch. it is good to have her back. her experience, the way she plays, she is different than other players on the wing, she brings different things, that is good for the team, so we have different opportunities again. i expect on and off the pitch she will give us some extra energy. she was already training. i just wanted to see more. that is what we have seen now. her health is good. she can just have seen now. her health is good. she canjust go. she has have seen now. her health is good. she can just go. she has shown have seen now. her health is good. she canjust go. she has shown in games that she is in a good place. she has shown enough for me and for my technical staff to bring her own. when we go into a camp we want to
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win games, and we haven't than that which they know our games, that is what we want to do, but our approach will not all of a sudden change, we reviewed our last game, we get prepared for the netherlands first, and the process we do will not be a lot different, because i think we still do good things we just have to do better in moments of the game. the international cricket council has banned trans women from playing in the women's game, saying its priority was to protect the integrity and the safety of players. it's one of several decisions taken today, involving female cricketers in afghanistan and the continued punishment of sri lanka. joe wilson has been covering this. a contentious issue. can you explain the decision on trans cricketers? you are right, it is a topic that provokes strong opinions from many
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positions, it is an emotive issue. what cricketers tried to do, in line with what other sport i try to do, is to try to find a position of certainty and a perspective of fairness. from now on, to compete internationally in women's cricket, you need to go through puberty as a woman. to put it from the other side, there is no no facility to go through male—to—female gender reassignment post puberty and then play women's international cricket. this does drink tickets broadly into line with the standards that international sports in general are trying to take on this issue. —— this does take cricket into line. in a broader sense, this does take cricket into line. in a broadersense, in this does take cricket into line. in a broader sense, in terms of this issue of gender equality, and other decision made today by the icc, is that men and women and pirates will now get paid the same whether they are standing in male orfemale
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international cricket. —— men and women umpires. sri lanka not been frozen out, as it might have seemed a few weeks ago. sri lanka had been suspended from all international cricket, that has changed, they will be to take part in international cricket matches, although there are still some punishment is ongoing, for instance, icc will take control of the money that it gives to sri lanka, and sri lanka will not be able to host the under 19 is men's world cup in january. this all came from a position where the icc saw interference from the sri lankan government in the running of sri lankan cricket, and that goes against their rules and regulations. there is no mention of afghanistan from the icc board today. bear in mind there is no women's or girls cricket in afghanistan, that is in breach of icc regulations, and that is because government in afghanistan does not allow pathway for girls or women to play cricket. put that in
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context with what has happened to sri lanka, that difference, that clash, seems to remain, as being a glaring and obvious one, albeit we enjoyed the performance of the afghan men in the recently concluded world cup. and finally, prince harry, the duke of sussex, dropped the ceremonial puck ahead of a nhl clash between the vancouver canucks and the sanjose sharks. the drop took place to mark the countdown to the 20251nvictus games — which take place in vancouver. prince harry founded the invictus games to aid the rehabilitation of service members and veterans by giving them the challenge of competing in sports events similar to the paralympics. you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.co.uk/sport. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre,
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goodbye. it's been a month since storm babet brought devastating flooding across the uk. more than 2000 properties in england were submerged, forcing families from their homes. catcliffe in south yorkshire was one of the worst affected areas — charlotte leeming reports. more than 1200 homes have been flooded so far, and seven people are now known to have died. just to give you an idea of how deep the water was here, this car was almost completely submerged. a tiny fraction of the roof was still showing. storm babet battered britain for days. the aftermath could be felt by some for years. a major incident was declared in chesterfield, where water forced its way into hundreds of homes and businesses.
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richard eden's house on windermere road was one of a0 that flooded when a nearby brook overflowed. his house was submerged under five feet of water. wow, that's awful. a month on and progress is slow, with the arduous task of clearing out mud—soaked possessions. but richard doesn't have any time to spare. his 18—year—old daughter, emily was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. the family is currently living in a hotel, but emily desperately wants to be back in the home where she grew up. builders are working around the clock to try and make that happen. she's said to me, "dad, if i come back home, "obviously i'm in a hospital bed downstairs, "what if it floods again and i'm there in that bed?" now it could be middle of the night — what do we do? this were five foot deep. well, it's not rocket science what the outcome will be. a few miles away at the northern tea merchants, it's a busy lunchtime
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for ownerjill benson and her team. and whilst the coffee and cakes are now flowing, it's been a difficult time after this new business was flooded just weeks after it opened. the water was 18 inches deep. everything was sodden, basically covered in mud, slime, anything you can imagine. it wasjust horrendous. butjill, the community spirit here has been amazing, hasn't it? we borrowed a workbench and an oven from one of the churches. another church where we were cleaning came down and offered help and anything, and they brought us takeaway cups so we could have a cup of tea, because it's those little things, isn't it, that actually, it'd just be enough to sit and have a cup of tea that someone's brought you the cup for, it just felt really nice. the damage and disruption in chesterfield is echoed in the yorkshire village of catcliffe, where hundreds of homes were flooded when the river rother burst its banks. we were with residents chris lloyd and sophie skidmore when they first returned to their home last month. chris and sophie have been
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staying in hotels ever since. they've been told it could be a year before they can move back in. it's four weeks and we've got no further forward. nobody answers phone calls, emails — you're just constantly trying to get hold of people chasing this, chasing that. we're just living out of a suitcase. you're going here, there and everywhere. you can't settle anywhere. this is why we're trying us hardest to get a rental property, at least we can try and put some sort of life back together. i don't think anybody would buy these houses now knowing they flood. ideally, we would like to move somewhere that doesn't flood, but the people next door had sold their house, that's fallen through. nobody's going to buy them. whilst chris and sophie play the waiting game, back at richard's house, the building work is moving at a fast pace. do you know a date where we think we'll...? i'm hopeful for 23rd i of december this year. because everyone wants emily to come home. obviously, as a dad, i can't cure the cancer, but i can make sure she's got a house to come to.
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