there are on board because obviously there are world champion, commonwealth champion warning team. date claimed gold early this year, can they recreate that at the world cup next year? that parliament is now seven months away and the two friendly‘s this week the players final chance to impress the manager before the end of 2018. let's take a quick look at some of the day's other stories now. wayne rooney won't captain, or start for england when he controversially returns to the national side for a friendly later this month. he'll earn his 120th cap from the bench in a one—off appearance to honour him and his charity. former sunderland forward steven fletcher has been re—called to the scotland squad for theirfinal two nations league group games against albania and israel later this month. the sheffield wednesday player's last appearance for his country was more than a year ago. and england's tom curry has been ruled out of the rest of the autumn internationals. the flanker went off in england's win over south africa at the weekend, with what head coach eddiejones calls a "severe ankle injury".

the world karate championships began in madrid today. it's the last major event for the sport before it makes its olympic debut at tokyo 2020, so there are major qualification points up for grabs. britain's defending world champion jordan thomas is in action tomorrow and bbc sport's nick hope is in spain for us. record number of athletes and nations entered this year world championships showing how much the sport grows ahead of the olympic debut in tokyo 2020, we saw growth in both discipline, they had to combat. that we will come to the moment the first to this one that kicked off this morning, he is —— it's 50 minutes of preset moves combining strength and technique

when theyjudge they look at technical and athletic performance is not all completely traditional it's very much athletic and much more difficult than it looks to be honest., who claimed europeanjunior bronze earlier this year is 16 years old and won her first contest before exiting the second round as did england's. my performance i feel is better than ever it's amazing i work so better than ever it's amazing i work so hard and it's playing off for everyone in the sport to say they could potentially go to the olympic. japanese athletes underline whites included with both defending champs easing into their respective finals. they wanted the early contest, well spider defeated a polish fighter. the contest continues into the evening here, but tomorrow is the big one for england has been a defending champion competes in the under 60,000 kg vision not an easy

to years, and he suffered a detached retina laster. with my gloves you can him, and when you miss, you're in dangerof can him, and when you miss, you're in danger of caught it in cop by the time and it went right into my eye, and it tore it open. when you have and it tore it open. when you have an injury like that very hard to then go back into normal routine and commit to everything knowing that you potentially could get hit in the same place. i had to build up my confidence and i have done that and how confidence and i have done that and now i have done that and now i'm back. does much more on a story on the bbc sports website if you can stomach it, head to the page to check it out and then head to the website this weekend for saturday sunday all the finals will be live. the bridesmaid finally got his massive white wedding. those the words of welsh cyclist geraint thomas in his new book, the tour according to g, about winning the tour de france for the first time earlier this year. he nipped into the bbc sport centre today to have a chat about what has been the best season of his career. think five days in a row, just going

everywhere, cop back from tokyo yesterday, i'm enjoying it for sure. to talk about the relationship between you both for leadership and frustration, the decisions made by the team, how did you deal with that? i think obviously it was tough, for example the teens like that i was told they would away for me ifi that i was told they would away for me if i got it crashed great thing it's about that and at the time i was frustrated about it because i wa nted was frustrated about it because i wanted them to wait for me if anything happened, but it in the end of the day they didn't take the decision lightly, and they would have thought about it all night whatever but the chance of that happening was slim anyway so i had to a cce pt happening was slim anyway so i had to accept that and move on otherwise ifi to accept that and move on otherwise if i sort of got emotional take it with me for the rest of the three weeks, probably would not have one, so weeks, probably would not have one, so yeah, it was ok me and.|j

weeks, probably would not have one, so yeah, it was ok me and. i guess there are some questions about how there are some questions about how the relationship will be managed going forward as well, i mean did you have offers on the table did you come close to leading? i had one serious offer on the table as well. but it was a new team, so it was a bit of a risk for me. i grew up in the system. and since i was 17, i know a lot of it and the guys there it feels like him, it certainly gets the best out of me and this year especially, could it have been any better, so it was kind of an easy decision in the end to stay. what about next year? i mean, you have unfinished business we want to defend your tour title, will be the priority for you? at the top one i guess. i crashed out last year because of a bike in the road and that caused me to crash and i ended my chances with that so feels like unfinished business but at the same

time being current champion in tour de france i would love to go back and defend that, so i have options for sure and not sorted is what i look into for the next weeks. it's half—time, liverpool to nail down the eu can follow that with commentary at five lives and the bbc sport website but that is all website but that that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. good evening. we are set to continue with some very mild weather throughout the rest of the week ahead. we are getting pulled up from the continent and it's been particularly warm and switzerland on tuesday, 60 degrees above average in a high of 23 celsius normally only about seven. pulling in the warm air

from the south bend area of low pressure however will feed a weather front into the west throughout the course of the night tonight, it'll stay clear and misty and murky but more heavy rain particularly for wells and the southwest of england also extending across scotland and central areas on wednesday. punchy showers possible with the southwest of england and wales with hail and thunderfor the of england and wales with hail and thunder for the early morning rush hour, and outbreaks of rain further east the more persistent rain perhaps starting to care for wells by this stage the pushing back into galloway and partner scotland particular northeast, drier and brightest first thing for the northern isles editing staying find out the day. cannot promise that for the northeast of the mainland. some of the heavier rain from eastern england will ease, but in the afternoon we could see decent sunshine in east anglia and northeast england elsewhere, the

rain certainly looking like it'll set in for much of the day, far west of northern ireland and linda dreyer, temperatures very 13, 1a, 15 celsius, it'll be a defining feature of the day particularly gusting along the english channel coast and parts of the west country. the weather front will fizzle out and move away wednesday night and thursday but another one pushes in around the big area blood pressure and where will it come dressed on thursday? the focused is on southwest england and wales targeting heavier rain there later in the day pushing it across northern england and into the southwest of scotland. northern ireland has a drier day and centre all a ireland has a drier day and centre alla —— ireland has a drier day and centre all a —— eastern areas have not —— 1540 all a —— eastern areas have not —— 15110 degrees. the week though is likely to come to a wet and windy close, i think for all of us, thanks to low pressure again coming into the atlantic, but the west will bear the atlantic, but the west will bear the brunt of it. you're watching beyond one hundred days... how much

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