in test cricket, moving to number five on the all time list. he's been betting on day three of the first test against pakistan in multan. root needed 71 runs to surpass the english record of 12,102 held by sir alistair cook, who was commentating on the moment for bbc radio. he's been playing in test cricket for 12 years and is nowjust 3 and a half thousand shy of india legend sachin tendulkar, who holds the world record for runs scored in test cricket. no doubt there is a knighthood on the way at some stage for joe root. it'sjust a matter of when. just a little wave to the dressing room, his team—mates and staff on the balcony. there wasn't a massive cheer like you would have got in england, but a little wave to the dressing

room to say thank you. i guess an acknowledgement. england are batting in reply to pakistan's 556. and root has scored his 35th test century. harry brook is 79 not out. england are 386—3. a first ever meeting in women's cricket between scotland and south africa is the opening game of the day in the t20 world cup. scotland need to win to avoid going out in the competitino�*s group stage... while south africa have designs on going above england into top spot. they won the toss and chose to bat. they are 81—1. jurgen klopp has a newjob. his first since leaving liverpool. the german manager has been appointed the head of football operations for the red bull clubs. it's not a hands on coaching role for klopp, who left anfield after nearly nine years saying he needed a break.

instead he'll lead the strategy for rb leipzig, red bull salzburg, as well as the teams the energy drink own in mls and brazil. it's being reported in germany that the contract includes an exit clause which allows him to take over the national team if it becomes available. novak djokovic is just getting under way at the shanghai masters against roman safiullin in their round of 16 match. djokovic has taken the first game and they are on serve. the winner will progress to the quarterfinals. one man who has reached the last 8 already is top seed jannik sinner after defeating ben shelton in straight sets. sinner will now face 5th seed daniil medvedev on thursday for a place in the semifinals after he beat stefanos tsitsipas. carlos alcaraz had a very similar afternoon to sinner... the man he beat to claim the china open title last week. he got past gael monfils in two hard—fought sets and the third seed will play tomas machac next. coco gauff is through to the last 16 of the wuhan open in china but her fellow american emma navarro was beaten on a day a number of seeded players fell. not so the number one... aryna sabalenka beat

katerina siniakova in straight sets for her 50th victory this year and 16 out of her last 17 matches. she will face yulia putintseva in the round of 16 on thursday. the san diego padres are within a win of knocking the los angeles dodgers out of the major league baseball playoffs after taking a 2—1 lead in their national league division series. the padres beat the dodgers 6—5 despite teoscar hern ndez hitting a grand slam in the third inning to bring la to within a run... but it was san diego's relief pitchers that kept their opponents at bay... robert suarez with a strike out to end four scoreless innings. and the game... with the padres one victory from their second championship series in three years. it's hard to describe how good we are. i feel it's hard to describe how good we are. ifeel like it's hard to describe how good we are. i feel like everybody asks, if you ask single players, how can you describe that? it's crazy. we do everything together, no matter what the situation is, whatever goes down, we have each other�*s

back. it's the trust and love that we have. 26 back. it's the trust and love that we have.— that we have. 26 players, everybody _ that we have. 26 players, everybody has _ that we have. 26 players, everybody has to - that we have. 26 players, everybody has to be - that we have. 26 players, - everybody has to be available in whatever capacity. we have to win — in whatever capacity. we have to win tomorrow night to pick up to win tomorrow night to pick up the — to win tomorrow night to pick up the pieces for game five. i don't — up the pieces for game five. i don't know how that's going to work — don't know how that's going to work. these guys came up with energy— work. these guys came up with energy and we responded with a bil energy and we responded with a big tail— energy and we responded with a big tail homer and i feel good about— big tail homer and i feel good about preventing runs but we still have _ about preventing runs but we still have to play good defence. the new york mets won game three of their national league division series to go 2—1 up on the philadelphia phillies. pete alonso got them on their way to a 7—2 win with a home run in the first inning with game four in both playoff series later on wednesday. the nhl�*s newest franchise won their first game in the league on tuesday, the utah hockey club defeating the chicago blackhawks 5—2 in salt lake city. it was dylan guenther who made nhl history when he scored the first—ever

goal for the new team that has relocated from arizona and used to be the coyotes. guenther later went on to score again — the win capping a historic day for utah. the florida panthers celebrated their 2024 stanley cup triumph on tuesday night before going on to beat the boston bruins in their season opener. aleksander barkov brought the trophy onto the ice before their first championship banner was lifted. sam bennett scored twice in the panthers' 6—4 win in sunrise. much more on the website to keep up with the cricket. there is much more reaction tojoe roofs is much more reaction tojoe root�*s record—breaking innings in the first test in pakistan. hello. you are watching bbc news. the so—called wagatha christie legal battle has gone

back to the high court in london. rebekah vardy is challenging the size of the costs claimed by coleen rooney after their blockbuster libel trial two years ago. let's go over to our correspondent at the royal court ofjustice. take us through what's been happening this time in court and the arguments being made. i am at the high court, where that wagatha christie dispute is back. you might remember that rebekah vardy lost that high—profile libel battle against coleen rooney, which was around two years ago, and the general rule when things like this happen is the loser ends up paying most of the winner's legal costs, so rebekah vardy was asked to pay the legal costs for coleen rooney, and she was told to pay around 90% of those costs, and those were originally estimated to be around £540,000. the latest we are hearing is that

has gone up to £1.8 million. that is the issue at stake here today. that is what being debated at this hearing this week. yesterday, when this debate was already going on, thejudge ruled that debate was already going on, the judge ruled that coleen rooney's lawyers did not mislead or commit misconduct over those legal costs but there are still other lines of debate that are being discussed, and that's going on today. there was also the headline grabbing claim around rebekah vardy�*s lawyers making that coleen rooney's lawyers, who were allegedly, they were saying, racked up high bills, five star hotels, also dinner, drinks and a minibar bill. yesterday, coleen rooney's lawyers said that was actually inaccurate, so this hearing is going on at night the protagonist is here, but we are expecting their hearing to conclude later today. we remember the first time

around how high—profile the case was. there was a tv drama created of it. how much media attention as it attracted this time? definitely less than last time, and that's partly because coleen rooney and rebekah vardy themselves are not here at this point, but what we know is this isn't the end of this battle, because today we will get some sort of conclusion to the hearing but it will be back going to line by line of those costs, so at some point this will come back to court and they might show up again. i was looking at some of the reports around this morning and i saw some stuff about soccer wives some stuff about soccer wives so you can imagine there is no interest even in the states, so it hasn't completely gone away. our correspondent outside the royal courts ofjustice in royal courts of justice in central royal courts ofjustice in central london. we are waiting to go to westminster in a few

minutes for the first prime minister's questions for some weeks because a party conference season. ben wright is in the lobby at the comments in advance of it beginning again. it's been a few weeks, what a lot has happened. i wonder what we will be hearing about rishi sunak, questioning the prime minister today. has many choices. _ the prime minister today. has many choices. it _ the prime minister today. has many choices. it has been a busy four weeks since the chamber last night for pmqs, and he is filling up now so it will get under way in the next few minutes. we broke for the party conferences, and they were strange. i thought labour's was slightly morose, is the challenges of government really hit home with party members. the tories were strangelyjubilant, despite strangely jubilant, despite their drubbing in strangelyjubilant, despite their drubbing in the election, and the lib dems cock—a—hoop after the election result, so i wonder if those dynamics will be detectable in pmqs, but a lot has happened. primarily,

one of the stories dominating has been the row over the scale of donations that the prime minister received, in particular, in his time in opposition and once he was in number ten, thousands of pounds of clothes, spectacles, and this rumbled on and on and gave the opposition a bit of an open goal, really, and the rules around donations have subsequently been changed a bit, but there is a lot that rishi sunak might decide to go on. there obviously also been the shake—up in number ten itself over the weekend, replacing sue gray, the prime minister's chief of staff, with morgan mcsweeney, after weeks of speculation that her future and rows of discontent that were obvious to see inside downing street. rishi sunak may decide to pick up on that. another important issue, small boats crossing the channel, the numbers remain high. on sunday there was a new record total for the year, 900 small boats

crossed over, attempted to make the crossing, and i think that brings to about 25,000 the number of people who attempted to cross the channel so far this year, so that could be an issue that rishi sunak decides to go on. issue that rishi sunak decides to no on. , to go on. something else attracting _ to go on. something else attracting a _ to go on. something else attracting a lot _ to go on. something else attracting a lot of - to go on. something else i attracting a lot of attention later today is the tory party leadership contest, the next segment, if you like, when three are reduced to two. bring us up to date with what's happened so far. i5 us up to date with what's happened so far.- us up to date with what's happened so far. is the big drama here _ happened so far. is the big drama here at _ happened so far. is the big| drama here at westminster today. the final stage of the tory mps' involvement in this lengthy process. by the end of the day, we will know which two candidates will be sent forward to the party membership, who will have the final say over who their next leader is, who will replace rishi sunak. we had a vote yesterday, when four became three, with tom tugendhat being knocked out, after only getting 20 votes.

today, his 20 supporters are up for grabs at least. it remains a fascinating and unpredictable content, as tory leadership races are invariably offered up yesterday, james cleverly leapfrogged into first place in the ballot, and i think it looks pretty certain that he will be in the final two unless something extraordinary happens today. there seems to be a real battle on for second place between robertjenrick and kemi badenoch. they both see themselves as standard bearers of the party, making similar pitches in some way. robert jenrick has lost some ground in the last weeks and i think he is probablyjittery at the last weeks and i think he is probably jittery at this stage, and i think nobody could have foreseen that a week or so ago. kemi badenoch has some passion supporters among mps but also some pretty strong critics, so i think it will be interesting to see the final result. i'm not going to protect it. there is going to

be three more intense hours of arm twisting and controlling and promises have been made to tory mps. there might be tactical voting, all sorts of shenanigans, as some mps try to work out who they want to be the leader of the party and who, which of the two they want to see put membership, and that is going to be fascinating what happens when we get the result at 3:30pm. i think the real fight is for the second place spot and, at the moment, the winner is on a knife edge. the last two then _ winner is on a knife edge. the last two then get _ winner is on a knife edge. the last two then get put to the wider party membership. we are not going to know who will be the next conservative leader until after this government but first budget. until after this government but first budget-— first budget. there is disquiet and grumbling _ first budget. there is disquiet and grumbling in _ first budget. there is disquiet and grumbling in the - and grumbling in the conservative party about how long this process has taken steps rishi sunak announced he was standing down injuly and

nominations for thejob was standing down injuly and nominations for the job closed at the end ofjuly and there were then an initial couple of rounds of voting among mps, as they began to narrow down the field, then we had the conservative party conference last week, when the four many candidates made their pitches and ricocheted around the conference centre in birmingham, with their supporters trying to drum home their message. this is the centrepiece of that conference. on that day, it was widely thought that james cleverly pulled off a surprise and stole the show, in his speech, and i think that has done an enormous amount to give him a boost in parliament and give him that magic ingredient in politics, momentum, as we head to the final stage of this part of the content and onto the membership. but now, after today, there will be another protracted stage to the content, as the two remaining candidates take their campaigns out to the grassroots.

they are the people that tend to be a little bit older. a little bit more prosperous. they will decide who... i take this opportunity _ they will decide who... i take this opportunity to _ they will decide who... i take this opportunity to reiterate l this opportunity to reiterate that the hostages must be released. i reiterate our call for an immediate ceasefire in gaza and lebanon. mr speaker, this week the government will deliver on our promise to the british people on the biggest upgrade to workers' rights in a generation. the employment rate bill will ensure employment pays, forge a new partnership with business, and reset industrial relations that have cost our economy so much in

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