as owen farrell kicked his team back in front and in the tent city finish, they held on, and look what it meant. england, to the light of theirfans, into the world cup semifinal. what a match and what relief for england. they'll need to improve to reach the final but they are through to the last four in the most dramatic fashion. meanwhile, it was even closer at the stade de france. a thrilling first half provided six tries, including two from french prop cyril bay. the hosts led at the break, after which a much more tense second period had just the one try. but even etzebeth paving the way for south africa to grab an advantage they wouldn't relinquish winning byjust a point, 29—28, and ending france's involvement in their home world cup. defending champions england have suffered a shock defeat at the cricket world cup, losing in delhi to afghanistan, who in turn have registered the most significant one day win in their history. patrick geary has more. afghanistan believe they're getting closer to england and belief has always been important in their cricket.

it allows them to clear hurdles. but few expected the sheer force gurbaz unleashed in the opening overs, he hammered england's bowlers unsparing, unsettling time to change direction. and that's adil rashid's area, their lead spinner, their match turner with skill and the helping hands of his captain, jos buttler, he halted the afghan charge. others followed along his curving path, notablyjoe root. england back on top. but the sun had not yet set on afghanistan, finishing as they started. they smashed themselves up to 284, a total far more than it might have been. so in the delhi darkness they had something to conjure with. get root early and you know you're in business. getjos buttler too... well, they tell you the significance. england four down nearly 200

short, more wickets fell. harry brook was left trying to steer through the crisis, but without support and against an increasingly irresistible force. yeah! the magic mujeeb knew. everyone knew this was happening. england have time to recover. but this was about afghanistan. 20 years ago, they didn't have a proper national team. today they beat the world champions by 69 runs. no wonder they believe. patrick gearey, bbc news. at no time really, i think, when we were batting did we think we were running away with the game. we thought we had a decent total, but we had to bowl well and field well and the guys did that. so i think it's very pleasing and there's a lot of confidence that will hopefully come from this when competing against the bigger nations, and it'll have a knock on effect for all the other games, but not only in this world cup, but for the future as well. just what afghanistan cricket can achieve. it's a big setback, obviously.

you know, before the tournament starts, you have a different idea of how the first three games would pan out. you know, we've got to show a lot of character, a lot of resilience within the team and most of all, a lot of belief. you know, there's a lot of excellent players in there and we haven't played well enough today, but we must keep that belief. spain have booked their place at euro 2024 with a 1—0 win in norway, a victory that also sends scotland to their second european championship finals in a row. gabi scored early in the second half to help the three time winners go through to the tournament in germany next year. norway, who last appeared in a major tournament back in euro 2000 and their star striker erling haaland, can now only potentially qualify through the play offs. turkey also made it by thrashing visitors latvia 4—0 on sunday to make sure that they will finish in the top two in their group. that's group d and in that same group, wales beat croatia to reignite their hopes

of qualifying automatically. belgium head coach domenico tedesco says the national team have achieved a big target with qualification for the euro finals, and especially so given the country's so—called golden generation of players have mainly retired now. belgium were one of the first to guarantee a place in germany after a 3—2 victory against austria on friday, and their next match is against sweden on monday. my state of mind is that we want to be first in this group and we want to answer this question already tomorrow when to win this game in front of our fans with a good mood, with a good flow. this is the first thing. and then in november we will see. i don't have this camp now in my completely focus, but if you ask me now, we have nothing to, how can i say, no presence to give? we have no time to lose.

soirjim ratcliffe�*s ineos group wants to take control of the football operations side of manchester united as they look to buy a 25% stake in the club, worth an offer of an estimated $1.7 billion. the british billionaire is thought to be increasingly confident of securing what he hopes will be the first stage of an eventual buyout of the glazer family, who currently own manchester united. the bbc has been told that his principal rival, qatari banker sheikh jassim, has withdrawn from the bidding process, having failed to meet the glazers�* valuation of more than 6 billion and had grown frustrated with the american�*s demands. rangers have appointed the former monaco and club brugge head coach philippe clement as their new manager. the former belgium defender succeeds michael beale, who was sacked earlier this month and he signed a three and a half year deal at ibrox. his first match in charge will be against hibernian next weekend. he can't do worse than michael beale because the last game against aberdeen was not acceptable. it's unacceptable how the seam has been performing this season and they

need to start playing underneath the manager. i think it's a great _ underneath the manager. i think it's a great appointment. - underneath the manager. i think it's a great appointment. we - it's a great appointment. we need — it's a great appointment. we need to— it's a great appointment. we need to probably kick on and try to — need to probably kick on and try to recover the damage thars— try to recover the damage that's been made in the league. i didn't— that's been made in the league. i didn't want to see michael beale — ididn't want to see michael beale go— i didn't want to see michael beale go but_ i didn't want to see michael beale go but change - i didn't want to see michael beale go but change had i i didn't want to see michael beale go but change had toj beale go but change had to happen _ beale go but change had to ha . en. , beale go but change had to ha en. , ~' beale go but change had to hauen. , ~' , happen. sounds like good news. seems to have _ happen. sounds like good news. seems to have a _ happen. sounds like good news. seems to have a decent - happen. sounds like good news. seems to have a decent record | seems to have a decent record in belgium. 50 seems to have a decent record in belgium-— seems to have a decent record in belgium. manchester city are top of the women's super league in england. after a 5—0 victory over bristol city, jill roord and khadija shaw both scoring twice in that game. elsewhere, manchester united and leicester drew one all two goals in stoppage time, so arsenal snatch victory against aston villa, other winners on the day spurs and everton. hubert hurkacz has won the shanghai masters, beating andrei rublev in dramatic fashion. in three sets, kurkacz completed the victory in the deciding set tiebreak after 2 hours and 9 minutes on court. it's his seventh tour title. it's his second in the masters event. he moves up to 11th in the rankings, significant

because it's not long until the season ending atp finals. so we'rejust, you know, going back and forth. and it was just such a, you know, such a tricky match. i mean, andrei was playing some really great shots. i was you know, i was trying to respond with some good ones as well. but yeah, wejust, you know, just one of those matches just just got to stay in it, believe it, keep believing it till the end. and yeah, just super happy how i managed at the end. australia's ben woolley won his first title in two years at the macau open on sunday, completing a wire to wire victory. the world number 46 finished off an exceptional weekend with a final round of 63. that meant he ended up on 30 under par. overall, a new tournament record and two short of the asian tour record. thailand's poon saksinsan finished two shots behind lee. it's been a good weekend in the moto gp championship for ducati's francesco bagnaia. he won the indonesian grand prix to restore his lead in the riders standings

and his title rival jorge martin had replaced him on saturday at the top of the standings by clinching the sprint race, but he crashed out on lap 14. 0ne rider's pain meant another�*sjoy as bagnaia fought back from 13th to seal his sixth victory of the season. and he now leads martin by 18 points. there is, of course, much more reaction to all the events at both world cups, the rugby and cricket editions on our website and indeed our app as well. head to bbc.com or indeed bbc.co.uk if you're in the uk. but for me in the team, that's it for now. goodbye. hello. there are big changes happening weatherwise again this week, but at the moment, still feeling very much like autumn.

temperatures below the seasonal average, lots of dry weather, blue sky and sunshine, pretty autumn colours over the weekend and high pressure still dominates as we head through monday. it will push ever so slowly further eastwards, eventually allowing low pressure systems to push in from the southwest. it's another chilly start to the day on monday, but a patchy frost again possible across england and wales in particular. temperatures a little milder across northern ireland and scotland with more in the way of cloud. but that cloud will tend to break up, i think, as the day wears on. so some brightness and sunshine emerging, especially through the afternoon. maybe a few isolated showers. we'll see some showers towards north sea facing coasts for england and wales. it's a sunnier start to the day, but more cloud will build through the afternoon. temperatures likely to peak again a little below the seasonal average, 11 to 14 degrees celsius. it's still windy across the northern isles on monday and it will turn windier towards these channel coasts too, as we head towards the end of the day. why? well, this area of low pressure pulls in from the southwest. it's going to turn pretty

unsettled for much of the rest of the week. but on tuesday, again, it is largely dry, quite blustery, with a brisk easterly wind, especially towards the south there'll be outbreaks of rain edging into parts of cornwall, western wales, i think by the time we get to the end of the day. further north, largely dry, top temperatures peaking between 11 and 15 degrees celsius, starting to draw some milder air in along with these weather fronts. and they're due to push further northwards and eastwards as we head throughout the night on tuesday and into wednesday. so turning much more unsettled across the border, brisk easterly to south easterly wind blowing. there'll be outbreaks of rain. some of that rain likely to be heavy at times, especially across the south west of england, wales, those showers pushing up through to parts of scotland as well. but in the milderfeeling air, temperatures will rise as high as perhaps 18 or 19 degrees celsius across the south west and the channel islands. but then the focus of that rain will change as we head through thursday and friday. and it's quite likely that we'll see some of the heaviest downpours across central and eastern areas of scotland. and there are already

met office weather warnings in force. there could be some exceptionally heavy rain in these areas. severe gales, too, towards the east coast. here's the outlook for our capital cities, turning milder but much more unsettled. bye bye.

welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm arunoday mukharji. the headlines. release the hostages and let

aid in — the double appeal to hamas and israel from the un secretary general as he warns the middle east is on the verge of an abyss. israel continues its bombardment of the gaza strip, with fighter planes and drones striking targets across the territory. the white house says israel has turned on the water supply in southern gaza following a conversation between the us president and the israeli prime minister. and the us secretary of state antony blinken is to return to israel following talks in the region — he says israel should take every precaution to avoid harming civilians. welcome to the programme. starting with the developments in israel, where the military says it's preparing for a major

ground offensive into gaza.