cup final. it's a hugely proud, and passionate moment for them. it's the biggest moment in that nation's sporting history. they have been inundated with well—wishers this week, including from wrestler and actor the rock, who is of samoan heritage. things are ramping up at old trafford. it gets under way on bbc one shortly.— old trafford. it gets under way on bbc one shortly. adam wild at old trafford, thank _ bbc one shortly. adam wild at old trafford, thank you. _ it's the penultimate round of autumn internationals this weekend in rugby union. owen farrell will win his 100th cap for england when they play the all blacks at twickenham later. new zealand have won all three of their autumn internationals so far. elsewhere, ireland host australia, while wales face georgia and scotland take on argentina. less than a week after becoming world t20 champions, england have lost their one day series against australia. they were beaten in the second game in sydney. steve smith top—scored for the aussies with 94 in their total of 280—8 off their 50 overs. and while it wasn't a huge target, england lost two wickets inside the first over without scoring a run. from there they were always struggling and slipped to a 72—run

defeat, bowled out for 208. the final match is on tuesday in melbourne. the european tour's season—ending championship is taking place this weekend. england's matt fitzpatrick led the race to dubai at the start of the third round. he's still in the mix. as is northern ireland's rory mclroy, who has produced some stunning golf. this approach at the 8th almost went straight in for eagle. his round of 7—under—par puts him just two shots off the lead. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport. that's it for now — the next news on bbc one is at 6:25pm. bye for now.

this was a catastrophe that stunned the world. it is mass murder. 298 people were murdered. a passenger plane shot out of the skies over europe. international investigators blamed a unit of the russian armed forces, but moscow has always denied playing any part. the world will find the truth and will bring justice. eight years on, a verdict for the families searching for truth and justice in the criminal trial linked to the mhi7 air disaster. on the 17th ofjuly 2014, 283 people boarded malaysia airlines flight 17 here at amsterdam's schiphol airport. they were bound for kuala lumpur.

the passengers had packed their suitcases in preparation for dream holidays, family reunions, trips of a lifetime. 15 crew members were there to greet them and see them to safety. in a flash, all plans for the future were obliterated. flight mhi7 never reached its destination. the plane was cruising at 33,000 feet over eastern ukraine. it was the early days of russia's efforts to control parts of the country. at the time, this was a relatively low—key conflict zone. but the fighting had recently been expanded into the air. in the preceding months, a number of military planes had been shot down. in response, ukraine closed the airspace at lower altitudes, up to 32,000 feet, but, as this flight radar data shows, planes were still

crossing the country. the malaysia airlines jet was flying 1000 feet above this restricted airspace. at 13:20 gmt it lost contact with air traffic control. malaysia 17, how do you read me? malaysia 17? wreckage from the airliner was found on the same day. not far from the russian border, in territory now occupied by russian forces. there were no survivors. the victims came from across the globe. there were ten brits on board. more than half of the passengers were dutch. i still miss him. it still hurts when i think of them, when i look at their pictures, it still hurts. that doesn't go. it is a horrible feeling.

silene fredriksz has left her son, bryce, and his girlfriend, daisy�*s room untouched since the day they headed off to bali. here we are at the beach. it was also the place she went with friends _ it was the centre of her world. hans de borst�*s daughter, elsemiek, was one of the 80 children on board. she was a child, like hundreds of thousands of other children, but she was my child, so she was the most important one in my world. she was my only child. hans recalls the moment he found out. i was called by a friend of mine at about

5:00 and he said, "hans, immediately put on, switch on the television because there is a message about a flight to kuala lumpur." and immediately i saw that it was bad news because there was only one flight going from amsterdam. and first there were 30 dutch people aboard, a bit later on they were aboard, so... yeah. and you see with big eyes, you are looking at this news, but you can't understand it. it was silene fredriksz�*s husband, rob, who would tell her the news. and then i got rob on the phone, my daughter couldn't tell me. and he was screaming, "bryce and daisy crashed, shot down," i don't remember exactly his words, but... "you have to come home, you have to come home." families at the epicentre of this disaster have placed their faith in dutch prosecutors to deliver truth and justice for their loved ones. it is extremely

important to me because it is that feeling ofjustice to be done in a world that kills people who just go on holiday. thatjustice is not being done, then your whole we will never get our children back, we know that. some people sometimes tell us... "why are you still fighting for this, for this case? "you will not get your children back." we know that. but we need the truth. we need the truth... and we need justice. this is a small part of ourjustice. in the days and weeks following the crash, the priority was to recover the bodies. the wreckage was strewn around fields in the donetsk area of ukraine, territory controlled by russian backed separatists. it took intense political

wrangling to get assurances the warring sides would hold fire, so investigators could comb the land for human remains. it took almost a week before the first repatriation flights landed in the netherlands. i still remember the silence when the planes came forward to us and... you heard the motors and then they were switched off and then the silence, and you hear the... ting, ting, ting from the flags. and the last post. and then all the coffins came out. and in every coffin, they could be bodies, there could be bodies, parts and pieces of our children. but they were home. it felt like they came home. present on the tarmac to welcome them, the dutch

prime minister, king and queen, who stood alongside the families, waiting for the people they lost. hans was one of the first to receive confirmation elsemiek had indeed come home. her documents were also recovered. this is elsemiek's passport, which came completely intact back from ukraine. including the boarding card. but other parents craved that tangible proof. your brain needs confirmation. you know it, but... ..it is very hard to understand that they are gone, they went away. we have not seen them any more, there were no bodies. silene had to wait six weeks. even then, all the forensics found

was a burned fragment of her son, bryce's, foot. but there was still no trace of daisy. i am robby oehlers, the cousin of daisy, that was shot down with her boyfriend in the airline back in 2014. exactly three months after the crash, patience was waning. robby decided he would go to ukraine to search for daisy himself. the reason why i went is that we wanted the truth and we wanted to see what really happened. that is the reason. that was the main focus. we as a family decided that we have to go there and try to find her. or her suitcase or anything that, you know, binds her to that moment. robby didn't find daisy. the family would have to wait another few days before she would be identified from a piece of hip bone. a visit to the crash

site helped me to show the rest of the world and especially my country that it is time to remove all the remains and the plane. so the focus changed. and helped. in the end. eventually, hundreds of pieces of body parts and possessions were gathered up and transported to the netherlands. the dutch then led the investigations from that moment on. the crash site would be just the start of discovering what happened to mh17. the justice we are now witnessing here has been a long time in the making. two separate inquiries were launched, one focusing on what caused the plane to break up in midair, the other on who was criminally responsible. a reconstruction of the returned

wreckage helped investigators to study damage patterns, distinctive metal fragments were discovered and detectives could pinpoint the exact warhead that perforated the plane. they found the weapon used to shoot down flight mh17 was a russian supplied surface—to—air missile fired from territory that was at the time controlled by pro—russian separatist forces. via intercepted telephone calls, witnesses, photos, satellite images, cell phone data and social media posts, they were able to point the finger at three russians and one ukrainian. the most prominent is igor girkin, who prosecutors say is a former colonel in russia's fsb intelligence service. they were all tried in absentia, but their trial featured a trail of evidence back across the border. i think at this point,

and especially with a guilty verdict, anyone who would claim that russia wasn't involved with this shoot down is really a ridiculous person. meet the founder of bellingcat, a platform specialising in open source intelligence. elliot provided reams of material that fed into the official investigation, including details of the 53rd anti—aircraft missile brigade of the russian ground forces, suspected of transporting the missile system. when we first started doing the investigative work on mh17, bellingcat was basically me and a bunch of volunteers kind of figuring out all the stuff as we went along and we were not thinking of the work we're doing in the context of legal accountability either. that only came quite some time later, when we started being contacted by the joint investigation team, i was interviewed as a witness and we had more people reaching out to us about using what we had found as evidence in legal processes. based on his findings, elliot is confident that the downing of flight mh17 was an early warning

of what was to come and what could perhaps have been avoided. i think we really need to think about would the events of february occurred had there been a strong response to what happened in 2014? notjust in regards to mh17, but the increasingly clear evidence that there was russian troops and russian military equipment crossing the border to create the separate entities in eastern ukraine. it was the creation of those entities that really allowed the current situation to occur, let alone the really lack of response from the west to what was effectively a russian invasion, even if the russians didn't call it that. moscow has always denied responsibility. for many of the families who have been fighting for answers, the criminal investigation has succeeded in delivering one definitive truth. all the investigators never reacted on all those theories brought in.

theyjust worked day and night to find the truth of it. that is special to me. and... the thing that... that happened, that was the disaster itself. but the next disaster, i would say, was that russia never cooperated and frustrated all those days, all those hundred months we are talking about to not be presented as the ones responsible. and that gave extra pain for all of us. thisjudgment is a reminder that russia's military presence in ukraine started long before this year's full—scale invasion. many of the victims' families see this verdict as a vindication of their belief that if the world had taken a tougher stance against russia eight years ago, that invasion and all the subsequent deaths and geopolitical instability

could have been avoided. and the fact their relatives were shot down over a country now battling for its own survival has only intensified their sentiment. putin has never been stopped. and still has not been stopped. and he will not stop. until he is stopped. and after all those years, finally the moment silene and the other bereaved families had been waiting for. please be seated. translation: the court holds - that the consequences of the offence are so severe and that the attitude of the accused are so detestable that a mere time prescribed prison sentence would not suffice. this court found three of the suspects, two russians and one ukrainian, guilty of shooting down a flight mh17 and killing all 298 people on board. they were sentenced to life in jail.

a third russian, oleg pulatov, was acquitted because of a lack of evidence linking him to the weapon. this verdict has brought hans and silene some peace. in knowing the world now knows what really happened. you can't describe that, how much you miss the children. the word murder... ..feels so good to me. i am sorry, but... it was murder. it was mass murder. 298 beautiful souls were killed in a war they didn't even know of. piecing together this evidence has revealed the truth, which for now is as close to justice as they can get.

a drier day ahead for most, albeit a rather chilly one, but we still have the legacy of the last three days of rain across eastern areas and the north—east of scotland still having severe flood warnings in force. that weather front is still with us, still blowing a gale through the northern isles, but the rain is gradually petering out and some bright weather between, patchy fog clearing, but more rain for northern ireland before dark and it will feel chilly out despite that hazy sunshine. overnight the rain will make its way across most parts of the uk, again another 15—20 millimetres possible in places, so

as a result of the wind strengthening and that rain it won't be quite as chilly as it was last night. but another wet start for eastern areas before that clears out of the way and then a day on sunny spells and scattered, heavy showers, the odd rumble of thunder and again feeling a tad chilly.

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