"one of the biggest wins ever." that is how the south africa captain, laura wolvaardt, described their shock victory over australia to reach the final of the women's t20 world cup. the heroine, anna caboche, who lived up to her name with a brutal batting performance. henry moran reports from the dubai international stadium. a quite extraordinary result in the first semifinal here at the women's t20 world cup. six—time champions australia beaten by a south africa side whose fans behind mejubilant, waiting for their heroes to board the team bus. 135 was the target for south africa. frankly, australia weren't brave enough with the bat. they were asked to bat first. they were too timid. in the middle overs, things were on the go—slow.

south africa bowled very well indeed, but with australia's batting line up, theyjust couldn't get going to fall. at the end of their innings, only five wickets down, they could potentially have made it to eight wickets down but have scored 15, 20 more runs. they didn't do that. that opened the door for south africa, who were bold and brilliant in their run chase. huge credit to annika bosch. it's the highest score that she has made in t20 international cricket. her unbeaten 7a was a fabulous knock. it means south africa head to the t20 world cup final here in dubai on sunday. up against who? well, west indies or new zealand. it means that potentially it'll be a new name on the trophy. certainly it is going to be the first women's world cup final in any format that doesn't feature either australia or england. for the organisers of the competition, that is something to be celebrated. it shows the game has depth and strength. south africa outstanding here in dubai to book their place in sunday's final. well, staying in asia and over to multan, where pakistan are in pole position to level the three test series with england.

the touring side will resume day four on 36—2 in their second innings, chasing an unlikely 297 to win. 16 wickets fell in total on thursday as england's first innings was wrapped up before pakistan made 221. in their second, salman agha top—scoring with 63 on a tricky spinning pitch. well, we are ahead of the game, there is no doubt about that. but as you know, as we all know, england is someone who can put the momentum very quickly to their side. so we need to be aware of that and we need to be doing the good things we are doing. if you thought england had a tricky day, that pales in comparison to india. bowled out for their third lowest total in test history. india skipper rohit sharma says he's hurting after electing to bat and seeing his side bowled out for just 46. the black caps will resume on 180—3, a lead of 134 thanks largely

to devon conway's 91. on to football, and the big news for the last 48 hours has been the appointment of that man, thomas tuchel, as the new manager of the men's national team. should the england manager be english, though? vice captain kyle walker has had his say. i can understand the english public thinking that it should be an english manager obviously taking control of the national team. but for me, just like what you said there, it's about who's going to get the results and it's proven, you know, at big clubs that he can go and manage. you know, big players with big you know, characters. you know, look at the likes of ps6. went to chelsea won the champions league against manchester city. he's gone to bayern. you know obviously didn't probably have the season that bayern technically normally have. but i think they came up against a good leverkusen team. so rightfully they won it, and, you know, that was it. but you know i think it's a it's a great appointment. well, after the international break the premier league returns this weekend. no prizes for guessing what the managers have been

asked about in their pre—match press conferences. i'm happy for him, so i really admire him. ithink, uh, he proved that in the past that he can be very successful with his teams and he can build a successful team quite, quite fast. and i think that's also a challenge, especially for for the national teams. so when we look at this, um, like this club, the former clubs, he always was able to be successful in the short time. and i think that's exactly the challenge he will face for england. i spent all my life - watching english football being part of it. i think most would have liked an english coach. i that's the general feeling i get from people i've - spoken to in the game, and the general kind i of viewpoint from - the masses, it seems. but on the other hand, i think the game is- diversifying all the time. it's someone who's right - for the job, and he clearly has got a record that suggests he can do the job, - and that's for sure. so i think, you know, . that's just the way it is. i think results will be|

important for obvious reasons, but they always are if you manage for. england, i'm sure of that. on to cycling. it is day two of the track cycling world championships in denmark, and the home crowd has been at full volume for the men's team pursuit. carl fredrik, niclas larsen, frederik madsen and tobias hansen pull clear of the british quartette in the final kilometre to defend their title from last year. elsewhere, britain won the women's team pursuit. new zealand's ali wollaston surprised belgian great lotte capecchi to win the elimination title, and japan's kento yamazaki won the men's keirin. 2025 women's rugby world cup hosts england have been handed a favourable draw as they look to reclaim the trophy they last won back in 2014. the world number one ranked red roses will avoid either canada ranked number two in the world or the defending champions, new zealand, until a possible final, having been drawn against australia, the usa and samoa in pool a. canada, they're in pool b alongside scotland and wales, whilst

new zealand have been drawn in pool c with ireland. the tournament gets under way on august the 22nd next year. four games in the uefa women's champions league on thursday. the pick saw the last two runners up meet in germany, and it was lyon who came out on top. wendie renard and lindsey horan penalty saw them pass wolfsburg 2—0. theyjoin roma on two wins from two, a 31 win at 20 preserved. chelsea's perfect start to group b. real madrid eased past celtic 4—0, with the scottish international caroline weir grabbing a spectacular first. time then, for a closer look at one of the five players shortlisted for this year's bbc women's footballer of the year award. today we will hear from the spanish midfielder aitana bonmati. she was in the barcelona team that created history this year, winning the quadruple and scoring in the champions league final on the way to winning her third winner's medal. i have the lucky to be

part of this great teams barca, spanish team, because i'm playing with a lot of great players. that makes you the best player. in the past, we had the talent, the skills. but maybe we didn't have the physique, the mentality, the winning mentality. putting these three things together, i think we became a winning team. we want to win everything. it's like the mentality is so important for me, being so ambitious, being ambitious every year and every year more than the past year. you know? you can have the talent, but if you don't, if you can't compete against the best teams like lyon, chelsea, wolfsburg, you are nothing. but now we have everything. i think spain can dominate the world. yes, of course we have a very

good team, talent, players, unique in the world. but also i think that we have a good generations growing up. they are young, but i think we have players for now and for the future. but also, i want to respect the other teams because women's football is improving a lot and they are there are very good teams and national teams. then i was young, i have to study and play football at the same time. so it was so difficult for me, because we train at 8:16 at night and i arrive at home at1:00. so yes, it was difficult for me. the next morning got up and going to to school and study. it was tough years, but now i look and what what i achieve. and these years

it was a few years. i have the lucky to be become a part of the team of barca and also spanish team. i'm so lucky for that. and because we are winning teams. and voting closes at 0900 gmt on monday 28th of october. the winner will be announced on the 26th of november. barbra banda, naomi girma, caroline graham hansen and sophia smith are the otherfour nominees. you can find out much more about them on the bbc sport website as well. there's plenty more over there and the app, including all of the talking points ahead of the us grand prix this weekend, including why lando norris believes that this season can be a success even if he doesn't win the title. but for me and all of the sportsday team, thank

you very much for watching. we'll see you again soon. bye— bye. hello there. plenty of clear skies across england and wales have given our weather watchers the chance to see the hunter's moon, the third supermoon of the year so far. this was darlington a little earlier on, but the clear skies are quite widespread across england and wales, and the supermoon can be seen as far south as hampshire as well. we have got more cloud the further north and west, with strengthening winds ahead of this weather front that's going to arrive during the morning rush hour, but with those clear skies, because it's been so wetjust recently, fog is forming and some of it will be quite dense in places for the early morning rush hour or the journey to school. so that fog will lift away during the morning, and central and eastern england, along with eastern scotland, will keep some sunny spells throughout the afternoon.

out to the west, some showery rain and strengthening winds with gusts close to a0 miles an hour. but with the sunshine, we still have some pleasant warmth with highs of 17 degrees. now, the rain could turn quite heavy through northern ireland, particularly on the back edge of that, and the same, too, for western scotland. some torrential bursts of rain not out of the question, accompanied by gusts of winds close to 70 miles an hour. perhaps eastern scotland will stay dry for most of the afternoon — top temperatures here of around 13 degrees. but that weather front will continue to push its way steadily eastwards during the early hours of saturday morning, and still quite windy with it as well, although the strongest of the winds slowly easing down. so we start off saturday morning with rain down through the spine of the country — fairly light and patchy as it continues to push its way slowly east, and it may take most of the day to clear away. but behind it, sunny spells and a few scattered showers for most of us on saturday afternoon, and temperatures from 12—17 degrees, so still above the average really for this stage in october. as we move out of saturday, though, into sunday we could

see more of a significant area of low pressure. plenty of isobars squeezing to the southern flank of that low. it could bring some gales or severe gales, and it may well become the first named storm of the season, so keep abreast of the forecast on sunday — some wet and significantly windy weather due to sweep its way north and east. and once it does so, well, for england and wales, we'll see some quieter weather into next week. it stays unsettled further north.

live from singapore, this is bbc news. israel says it has killed hamas leader yahya sinwar, considered the chief architect of the october 7th attacks. we'll have the latest reaction, and assess what sinwar�*s death will mean for the future of the year—long conflict in the region. politicians in australia's northern territory pass a law to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 12 to 10. also on the programe — our team is on the ground in arizona, one of the key us battleground states where early

voting in the presidential election is already under way. 0n the other side of this fence is mexico. arizona is the only battleground state on the border, so issues of immigration and border control are of massive importance to the voters here. welcome to newsday, i'm steve lai. there has been a dramatic turn in the middle east conflict with israel announcing that it has killed the leader of hamas, yahya sinwar, the man widely believed to be behind the october 7th attacks. dna tests confirmed the 61 year old died along with two other hamas members during an israeli ground operation in the city of rafah on wednesday. one of israel's top targets, officials hold sinwar responsible for organising and directing the worst—ever attack on the country.