welcome to sports day. saudi arabia offers a world record transfer fee for kylian mbappe. priscilla strikes fast in early as a gorgeous hat trick in the 4-0 as a gorgeous hat trick in the 4—0 thumping of panama. starting new lives in australia, big catch up with players in the afghan national women's team. hello and welcome along to sportsday where we start with the news that saudi arabian side al hilal have been given permission to talk to kylian mbappe, after reportedly making a world record bid of over 330 million dollars for the paris

saint—germain forward. the 24—year—old france captain only has a year remaining on his contract and french footballjournalist robin biner thinks it may happen. you have to consider the money thatis you have to consider the money that is involved in the fact that is involved in the fact that they want kylian mbappe to the club and the fact that kylian mbappe is quite happy to leave in 2024 and wants to move to madrid, but talking about a potential deal without them here. and any chance given the money involved, we're talking perhaps the salary of 700 million euros per year and that's going to be very hard for him to turn down and talking about that money, the chance of accepting this offer and kylian mbappe is one of the best players in the world and so that when the most coveted players in the world if you look at the club slurred chasing in the summer, you looking at chelsea, manchester united, arsenal, liverpool, we

have all expressed an interest and saudi arabia can afford to sign them and it will be a really positive message from them and really flexing the financial muscles to be the biggest message they can send out to the world came that they're serious about going forwards and attracting not only stores like cristiano ronaldo but current stores that kylian mbappe. the premier league's chief executive richard masters feels the saudi pro league won't pose a threat to english football's top flight. speaking to our reporter alex howell in new york — as part of the league's summer series of matches in the usa. masters said it would encourage competition — and understood why big names could be attracted to the country, with the high wages on offer... saudi arabia pro lincoln stated they want to be a top ten league by 2030 and invest in players and managers to raise the profile of the lead in the

clubs it's taken us 30 years to get to the position that we have been times where profile competitiveness and revenue streams that we have. so, i would be concerned at the moment but obviously, saudi arabian clubs have as much right to participate as everyone else but the premier league is a £6 billion operation and that money is spent and invested into the ditch. all of the nafta revenue streams to back them up. are streams to back them up. are ou streams to back them up. are you worried — streams to back them up. are you worried they _ streams to back them up. are you worried they could go quicker than the premier week —— grow with the financial backing that they have into challenge you as an elite league?— challenge you as an elite leaaue? ., �* ., league? no, i'm not concerned. buildina league? no, i'm not concerned. building it _ league? no, i'm not concerned. building it for _ league? no, i'm not concerned. building it for this _ league? no, i'm not concerned. building it for this position - building it for this position come with a fantastic competition and it speaks for itself and last night with under 5000 people coming to the premier league, it feels like we are making an impact are not

just the domestic but international scale as well. tributes have been made to britian�*s first million pound player trevor francis who's died at the age of 69. the former england striker, broke the record, with his move from birmingham city to brian clough's nottingham forest in 1979. he went on to win back to back european cups with forest and played for his country 52 times. former england captain gary lineker has described him as a �*wonderful footballer and lovely man.�* now to the women's world cup in australia and new zealand — brazil had a comfortable win in their opening match, beating debutants, panama, 4—0 in adelaide. ary borges was the star of the show scoring a hatrick. the pick of the four brazillian goals though was the third, scored by bia zaneratto, but the beautiful backheel to set it up came from borges. that puts them top of group f ahead of france and jamaica who have a point a—piece. germany began their world cup campaign in style with a 6—0 win in melbourne, beating another team making a first up appearance in morocco.

alexandra popp scored twice in the first half as the germans completely dominated the match. they continued to cause problems after the break, as lea schuller completed the rout following two own goals from morocco. the win puts them top of group h on three points, with rivals colombia and south korea to play their opener in sydney on tuesday. elsewhere italy scraped past argentina, winning 1—0 in auckland. striker cristiana girelli came off the bench to head the 87th—minute winner. it looked like it was going to be a frustrating day for the italians who had two goals chalked off for offside offences. )co—hosts new zealand return to action later on tuesday co—hosts new zealand return to action later on tuesday when they face debutants the philippines in wellington. also in group a, switzerland play former champions norway. and in the early kick off colombia face south korea in group h. away from the world cup — when the taliban took over kabul nearly two years ago —

many in the afghan national women's escaped to australia. they've now settled in melbourne and are continuing to play — but because the taliban have banned women's sport, fifa has refused to recognise them as a national team. 0ur correspondent shaimaa khalil has been spending time with the players. this is not prep for a world cup game, but these women have already come a long way. two years ago, they were running for their lives, fleeing their home country after the taliban takeover. they're safe now, following their dreams. but it's not lost on them that millions of their country women can't do the same. everything you see here, the jerseys they're wearing, the hairstyles, even the laughter is enough to get them severely punished or killed had they stayed in afghanistan. now there are many people who are in a voiceless journey, and i have to be the voice for them.

i have an obligation to represent those ladies back in my home country. those who cannot study, those who cannot work, and those who cannot play soccer or do anything they like. so now i'm representing them and i feel more strong and proud and it will be awesome to represent that country that women and ladies are banned from everything there. it's a bittersweet moment for these players representing afg ha nista n nearly two yea rs after they fled their home country. many say this is much more than just about football for them. "we play for afghan women," they tell me, "and we pray for their freedom." none of them take this moment for granted. the taliban government has banned women's sports, which means they're not officially recognised by their country or fifa. i'm very sad. i was expecting a lot from the governing bodies of football. to stand with these women,

when taliban say the women of afghanistan belong to the kitchen, these women sacrificed a lot to change that mindset, that women don't belong to the kitchen, women belong to everywhere in the society and that's what we want — the leadership. we want a strong voice to stand with us and just don't keep silent. we've asked fifa for a response and they sent us this statement, saying that "the selection of players and teams representing a member association is an internal affair," adding that "fifa does not have the right to officially recognise any team unless it is first recognised by its own association." they also said that they'll continue to closely monitor the situation of the afghan team. doing what they love comes at a heavy price. the constant anxiety about the safety of family and friends back home and the loneliness of having left everything behind. these players have given up a lot for football and they're hoping that football doesn't give up on them.

shaimaa khalil, bbc news. west indies and india have seen the second and final test match of their series end in a draw due to the weather in trinidad. after winning the opening match it meant india clinched a fifth consecutive series triumph in the carribean with no play possible because of rain on the final day. west indies had closed day four at 76 for two having been set a victory target of 365 to square the series at queen's park 0val. while pakistan are in a strong position heading into day two of the second test against sri lanka in colombo. sri lanka won the toss and elected to bat and were dismissed for 166. in response pakistan closed the opening day on 145 for two with abdulla shafique and shan masood both unbeaten after making half centuries. pakistan lead the series 1—0. germany's liane lippert won

the sprint for the line as she claimed victory on the second stage of the tour de france femmes. in a rainswept finale 25—year—old lippert came through to take the win. while belgium's lotte kopecky retained the overall race lead by 49 seconds with six stages remaining. 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, goodbye. hello. some parts of the uk, particularly parts of northern england and northern ireland, have already seen the wettestjuly on record. and you probably won't be too surprised to hear that we have got more rain in the forecast

at times through the remainder of this week. now, tuesday brings a mix of sunny spells and scattered showers. we won't all be seeing the rain during the day on tuesday, but let's look at the rest of the week. this is the jet stream. these winds you can see here continuing to drive areas of low pressure in towards our shores with showers or longer spells of rain moving their way through from the atlantic and pushing gradually eastwards. now, tuesday morning, a few spells of showery rain across parts of central scotland. also the odd shower for wales, south west england, east anglia too. heading through the day, this area of cloud and rain nudges further south and then we start to see showers bubbling up for eastern scotland and eastern england, which could be really quite heavy, potentially thundery, with some hail mixed in too. a bit more cloud and a few showers later on for northern ireland, but some sunny spells elsewhere. northern scotland, wales, south west of england, with just 15—21 degrees at best, a little below par for this time of year. heading through the overnight period, not into wednesday, then, most of the showers

tending to ease away, one or two continuing perhaps parts of wales, north west england to start the day on wednesday. but another fairly fresh night with temperatures getting down into single figures, in the countryside at least. heading through wednesday, here's the next area of low pressure, only gradually moving its way in from the west. so ahead of that, a fair amount of dry weather, particularly through the morning for much of scotland. few showers parts of northern and eastern england, but some sunshine for east anglia in the southeast. there's the cloud and the rain spilling into northern ireland, parts of wales, in the south west of england. later in the afternoon, the wind picking up too. temperatures, perhaps a degree or so up, but still below average, onlyjust i4—2i, perhaps 22 in the south. moving through into thursday now and low pressure sits out towards the north west of the uk. so we've still got a few lingering weather fronts. could be a bit more rain for parts of northern scotland, perhaps around the south coast of england where it'll be quite breezy. elsewhere, we're looking at a day of sunny spells again and a few showers cropping up. still, temperatures only

about 15—21, perhaps 22 degrees on thursday. and then that unsettled showery spell continues right through the end of the week and the weekend into next week, too. perhaps something eventually a little bit drier and warmer as we head through towards the second week of august. bye for now.

welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. i'm mariko 0i. the headlines: in israel, mass protests continue as mps approve

a controversial law restricting the power ofjudges. wildfires continue on the greek island of rhodes. the country's prime minister says it shows the climate crisis is already here. and tributes are paid to george alagiah — one of the bbc�*s most respected journalists, who's died at the age of 67. welcome to the programme. we begin in israel, where the parliament has approved restrictions on the powers of the supreme court, which have led to some of the largest protests in israel's history. the move preventsjudges from blocking government decisions they consider unreasonable.

critics say it will destroy israel's democracy,