welcome welcome so what are these new rules and why is custom when you're fighting them well caster semenya of course is at the center of this but we'll get to just one second basically the chief said. women who have testosterone levels above the bodies limit for female athletes are just simply not allowed to compete now the idea is looking to force so called hyper drug and its athletes or those with differences of sexual development to seek treatment to actually lower their levels lower prescribe demand now the reason why they want to do this is because they're saying that it's to create a level playing field for all their female athletes but this goes against what experts have been saying most notably in the british medical journal they said that there is a lack of evidence about the effects of testosterone on the court or figure is arbitrary and as i mentioned before caster semenya is directly affected by this as are other athletes and because of the international association of athletics federations the idea that i have said that they're going to delay implementing its regulations becau

i absolutely have lots of sympathy for caster semenya she has obviously done nothing wrong except that are brought in that are only produces just after all and that's not in itself illegal but if she wants to compete she will have to go through formal therapy if i if get it their way and you could say that she is colored and she is a woman but that's just speculations but i wonder whether the center thing would happen in a similar situation for a white male and not certain about that ok you know it's a very emotional and complex. do you believe is the best way to resolve. or i think today nobody can tell us exactly what kind of advantage one might have by having more testosterone but if anybody wants to regulate this fear it should be ruled by open communication transparency sharing of data and consensus and the opposite is what we have seen in this case and i would like to add also that it's a fundamental problem that the i hate only eth is doing the interview this year since themselves in a field where they are the main actor and stake all their they have a conflict of interests so t

and fighting for female sport — paula radcliffe backs the iaaf in the caster semenya case. welcome to sportsday. so plenty of sport for you, but we're starting with football, and as the premier league returns tomorrow, so does the question of how to tackle racism from fans. the abuse of callum hudson odoi and raheem sterling, playing for england this week, prompted the pair to speak out, and now their managers have warned they'd back their players walking off the field if it happens again. adam wild reports. i feel very uncomfortable, but i am feeling i am hearing racial chanting when danny rose is picking up the ball. football's international break may be over, still the controversy continues, england's victory was marred by racist abuse, and as the premier league prepares to resume, the debate turns yet again to combatting the issue. among those targeted, raheem sterling, his club manager today saying the problem is getting worse, and they could be left with no choice but to walk off the field. we could do that, so football is in a strong weapon, it is a strong weapon to

the court of arbitration for sport has postponed caster semenya's hearing against athletics' world governingone levels in female runners. the iaaf, is attempting to limit the levels of testosterone in her body, which they claim gives her an unfair advantage. a decision in the case has been delayed until the end of april. the denver nuggets were — the western conference, they've beaten the washington wizards. the wizards still need to win games that to make the eastern conference. until next time, goodbye. hello, 18 degrees in the sunshine in yorkshire on 13th, and the cloud as ministers friday starts. there are changes on the way. as this weather front moves southwards, it will bring cooler conditions but more of us will get to see some sunshine over the weekend. this is how friday starts. cloudy, damp, drizzly in places, misty and murky but very mild. bearing down from northwest scotland and as it moves, we see the win strengthening. this is where we will see the strongest gusts during the day, in excess of a0 miles per hour, in excess of 60 across the northern and western isles. so the rai

international human rights mourns and standards they also backed a challenge by south african runner caster semenya in the court of arbitration for sport the nouveaux state that she and other hyper androgynous athletes must seek treatment to lower their just off from levels if they wish to continue competing as women. coming up next tonight groups stephanie and the girls houses of music remember you can always stay up to date on our website that's t w dot com thanks for talking. to. us talking to take one story from. face to. talk to search the you will find. time to look for yours and contact with. it's time for details. coming up ahead. good evening and welcome to our extraordinary.

of testosterone in female runners contravene international human rights. 0lympic 800m champion caster semenyaiaaf‘s bid to force female athletes with high levels of testosterone to take medication or race against men or change events if they refused. warrington‘sjosh charnley has been selected in england's 30—man performance squad for the first time since switching back from rugby union last year. the winger has scored 32 tries in his 35 appearances for the wolves since joining from sale sharks. rob gronkowski, the new england patriots tight end, says he is retiring from the nfl. he leaves as a three—time super bowl champion after nine seasons. he's been dogged in recent seasons by back, knee, ankle and arm injuries. paul casey won the tournament at the weekends. great win for paul casey, just in few weeks out now from the masters? something he's never done before, the timing is fantastic with the masters in a fortnight‘s time. he knows he's in excellent form after missing the cut at the players championship. he says in hindsight, that was probably a good thing. he spent the weekend on the ra

the double olympic champion caster semenya who has elevated levels of the hormone because of hyperandrogenism cas to stop the world athletics plans and she has also received support from the united nations human rights council. ido i do not think there is an outcome thatis i do not think there is an outcome that is fair to anybody in all of this. sadly. we have to go in my view be something that is fair to the majority, 99.9% of female athletes come and try to protect female sport as a category. it may down the line come to a stage where we have a sport divided into categories according to the range of testosterone that you fall into. but it is essentially what the iaaf are trying to do with laws they have put in place, to protect that category of female elite sport. england will go into this summer's women's world cup as the third ranked team in the world. the lionesses have jumped above the french with just the usa and germany ahead of them — that's after they won the shebelieves cup earlier this month. scotland are still 20th, as they prepare for their first world cup. ferrari have set the

in female athletes critics say talent not testosterone is behind the success of athletes like caster semenya well south africa's olympic champion is waiting for the court of arbitration for sport to decide if the rules proposed by the idea are legal or not so many was subjected to a gender test in two thousand and nine and was banned from competing for almost a year before being cleared to run again well the say the changes will ensure fair competition for female athletes and are the result of years of scientific research it only applies to running events between four hundred metres and fifteen hundred metres which would hit so many hard because she competes in the eight hundred and fifteen hundred affected off lease who want to keep participating must either take medication for at least six months run a longer distance events or start competing against men well it boy is a professor at the university of oslo he coauthored a report which says the data being used by world athletics is forward. it was lovely report good results from two world championships where we have classified the female a

standards they also backed a challenge by south african runner caster semenya in the court of arbitration for sport the nouveaux state that she and other hyper androgynous athletes must seek treatment to lower their just off from levels if they wish to continue competing as women. coming up next tonight groups stephanie and vehicles houses of music remembering and always stay up to date on our website at c.w. dot com thanks for joining. us this time to take one step further and they still want to. talk to search the. fine. talk to overcall drinkers in this context. it's time for d.w.i. . coming up ahead. good evening and welcome our extraordinary video. well come to night groups and the whole shrink tonight we have a triple header the voices of the legendary band's sweet tends to see the hollies are in the house pete billing called mick wilson and peter how often aka the frontman and we're also looking forward to the most chilled out voice and speak left been vacationing on the granting of a percent you got it in the past this is tell you in song stomp the charts now he's also singing in

the last moment and at that moment i felt that i could have died right there and been satisfied caster semenya has returned to the athletics track has been left in limbo after a decision was delayed over new rules for testosterone levels in female athletes south africa's olympic champion is waiting for the court of arbitration for sport to decide if the rules proposed by the i.w.a. f are legal or not that was set for march twenty sixth but has been delayed to the end of april one of the potential rule states that an athlete would have to take six months of medication to lower t. levels which could put some money in doubt for the world championships in qatar in september former colombian international footballer john v. offer has been arrested in connection with drug trafficking after i was detained on a us warrant after being involved in a car accident near the city of cali the ex premier league midfielder played for colombia thirty four times he's suspected of involvement in one of the country's drug cartels. players and stuff of english side less to sit here in thailand to honor their late t

olympic champion caster semenya has hit back at comments made by the head of world athletics sebastian coe so many as challenging an effort to bring in new rules that will restrict testosterone levels and female runners in a newspaper interview coa said the reason we have gender crossing cation is because if you didn't the no woman would ever win another title or break and other record that so many has issued this response via her lawyers the scars that miss the manuf developed over the past decade randeep re in the comments of mr coe this weekend open those old wounds mr crow is wrong to think ms a man yet is a threat to women's sport and the spirit of fair play is alive and well among young footballers in turkey the captain of gala tests arise under fourteen team missed a penalty on purpose followed what he believed was the wrong call by the referee thirteen year old back now as bekoff fell inside the box and was awarded a penalty and instead of trying to double his side's lead he kicked the ball out of play his team though did go on to win three nil. and that's all your support for

caster semenya has returned to the athletics track has been left in limbo after a decision was delayed over new rules for testosterone levels in female athletes south africa's olympic champion is waiting for the course of arbitration for sport to decide if rules proposed by the idea legal or not that was set for march twenty sixth has been delayed to the end of april one of the potential laws states that awfully would have to take six months of medication to lower tier levels which could put so many in doubt for the world championships in september former colombian international football jhangvi author has been arrested in connection with drug trafficking via offer was detained on a us warrant after being involved in a car car accident near the city of cali the ex premier league midfielder played for colombia thirty four times he's suspected of involvement in one of the country's drugs cartels players and staff of english side leicester city are in thailand to honor their late owner of the site donna probert was killed along with four other people in a helicopter crash at the club stad

olympic champion caster semenya has hit back at comments made by the head of world athletics sebastian coe so many as challenging in effort to bring in new rules that will restrict testosterone levels and female runners in a newspaper interview co said the reason we have gender class cation is because if you didn't the no woman would ever win another title or break and other record that so many has issued this response via her lawyers the scars that mr mannion has developed over the past decade randeep reading the comments of mr coe this weekend open those old wounds mr coe is wrong to think ms mannion is a threat to women's sport and the spirit of fair play is alive and well among young footballers in turkey the captain of gala tests arise under fourteen team missed a penalty on purpose followed what he believed was the wrong call by the referee thirteen year old back now as bekoff fell inside the box and was awarded a penalty and instead of trying to double his side's lead he kicked the ball out of play his team though did go on to win three nil. and that's all your support for now m

the last moment and at that moment i felt that i could have died right there and been satisfied caster semenya is returned to the athletics track has been left in limbo after a decision was delayed over a new rules for testosterone levels in female athletes south africa's olympic champion is waiting for the court of arbitration for sport to decide if the rules proposed by the. legal or not that was set for march twenty sixth but has been delayed to the end of april one of the potential rule states that an athlete would have to take six months of medication to lower t. levels which could put some money in doubt for the world championships in qatar in september. former colombian international football a john v. offer has been arrested in connection with drugs trafficking after i was detained on a u.s. warrant after being involved in a car accident near the city of cali the ex premier league midfielder played for colombia thirty four times he's suspected of involvement in one of the country's drug cartels. plays and stuff of english side less to sits here in thailand to honor their late owner the

the last moment and at that moment i felt that i could have died right there and been satisfied caster semenya return to the athletics track has been left in limbo after a decision was delayed over new rules for testosterone levels in female athletes south africa's olympic champion is waiting for the court of arbitration for sport to decide if the rules proposed by the i w a f are legal or not that was set for march twenty sixth but has been delayed to the end of april one of the potential rule states that an athlete would have to take six months of medication to lower the levels which could put so many in doubt for the world championships in qatar in september former colombian international footballer john v. offer has been arrested in connection with drug trafficking after i was detained on a us warrant after being involved in a car accident near the city of cali the ex premier league midfielder played for colombia thirty four times he's suspected of involvement in one of the country's drug cartels. plays and stuff of english side less to sit here in thailand to honor their late owner. on a

olympic champion caster semenya has a hit back at comments made by the head of world athletics sebastian coe simonyan is challenging an effort to bring in new rules that will restrict testosterone levels and female runners and a newspaper interview co said the reason we have gender classification is because if you didn't the no woman would ever win another title or break an other record semenya has issued this response via her lawyers the scars missa man your has developed over the past decade randeep reading the comments of mr coe this weekend opened up those old wounds mr coe is wrong to think mr mannion is a threat to women's sports. well number one know about jock's which has suffered another surprise defeat for the second straight tournaments jockey bitch has failed to make it beyond the fourth round this time he was beaten by roberta liberties to a good at the miami open and he richard sent reports. all is not entirely well in the world of novak djokovic. the game's top ranked player has suffered another early tournament exit last week he went house in round three to indian wells m

olympic 800m champion caster semenya is challenging the iaaf‘s bid to force female athletes with naturallytake medication. under the rules, they would have to race against men or change events if they refuse. the un say the plans contravene international human rights. world rugby‘s plans to revamp the game by creating a world league have been met with opposition since they were announced last month. the new 12—team league, scheduled for next year, has drawn criticism from england captain owen fa rell, but it might also affect the smaller nations. it could omit the pacific islands teams of samoa, fiji and tonga, and a former tongan international has told bbc sport that world rugby are out of touch and the future of international rugby union in the country is at risk. it's a death swipe, really, if they go into this new competition without promotion/relegation, without merit on who's involved, and look in teams like america and japan, use a lot of oui’ like america and japan, use a lot of our players, then basically you're cutting off the pipeline. our kids will have to go and play for other

it follows caster semenya's appeal to cas to stop world athletics' plans to deal with the issue.received support from the un human rights council. radcliffe says she just wants to protect female sport. i don't think there is now compared to everybody and all of this, sadly we have to go in my view it's something that's fair to the majority to 99 point something percent of female athletes, and try and protect female sports as a category. it may at some point down the line come to a stage where we actually have sport divided into categories according to the range of testosterone that you fall into, but it's essentially what the high —— by trying to do with the rules they put in place, its protected category of female athletes point. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in sportsday at half past ten. let's return to brexit now, and business groups have said they are "devastated" after parliament's latest rejection of the prime minister's eu withdrawal plan. they urged mps and the government to find a solution and avoid a no—deal brexit. we can speak now to mike cherr

right to form thailand's next government after the election and then sports the olympic champion caster semenya hits back in her legal fight with world pathetics governing body. but first the political leader of hamas has made his first public appearance in gaza since his office was bombed is. office was one of a number of buildings destroyed tuesday night. dozens of rockets were also fired into israel and the air has declared victory and says a ceasefire brokered by egypt is now in place. palestinian resistance kept its would and israeli enemy received the message the resistance can deliver its message in the proper time and place i call on our people to commemorate the anniversary to refresh their belonging to their land especially as the great march of return started a year ago i would like to greet our egyptian brothers for the efforts to reach the ceasefire understanding and to stopping the israeli aggression and gaza. border fence. the real test will come this weekend when palestinians in gaza mark one year since the start of the great more should return which has seen tens of thousands o

olympic champion caster semenya is challenging the iaaf‘s bid to force female athletes with naturallye medication. and jos buttler‘s controversial dismissal in the indian premier league leaves many questioning if the match was played in the spirit of the game. it's called mankad—ing — and although it's perfectly legal, it is frowned upon. the controversial, mcgregor has announced his retirement from the spot of mixed martial arts. he has said he is going on to new ventures. we what they are? we know he has a whiskey brand. i think we might see him in some kind of superhero movie. did you just pluck that out of the air? there you go. starting that remote now. raheem sterling delt with an incredibly well. notjust post match but also during the match. i heard him speak afterwards and he was incredibly mature. his interview in radio 5 was a masterclass in a calm, mature response to what happened to him on the pitch. it was chilly out this morning, carol, what is going on? yes, it was, and it is still chilly. some parts of southern england, especially south wales, are seeing pockets of fro

it follows caster semenya's appeal to cas to stop world athletics' plans to deal with the issue.ved support from the un human rights council. radcliffe says she just wants to protect female sport. i don't think there is an outcome fairto i don't think there is an outcome fair to everybody in all of this. sadly we have to go in my view with something that is fair to the majority, to 99 point something percent of female athletes and try and protect the amounts for it as a category. it may at some point down the line come to a stage where we have sport divided into categories according to the range of testosterone that he fell into. but it is essentially what they are trying to do with the rules they have put in place and protect that category of female elite sports. we'll have more for you in sportsday at 6.30. let's rejoin joanna gosling in westminster. welcome back to westminster, where there is huge political uncertainity after the commons voted for a third time to reject the withdrawal agreement which theresa may struck with the european union. the prime minister said the vote

olympic 800—metres champion caster semenya is challenging the iaaf‘s bid to force female athletes with they would have to race against men or change events if they refused. the un say the plans "contravene international human rights". former australian captain steve smith has returned to top level cricket after serving a ban for his role in a ball—tampering scandal. he is currently playing for rajasthan royals in the ipl against kings xi punjab. and he has just come to the crease is bizarre circumstances. england's joss buttler seemed to be crusing his way to a quick fire 100, hitting a number of boundaries. but moments ago, he was run out. for 69 by bowler ravi ashwin. buttler leaving his crease as ashwin came to bowl he stopped and took the bails off. buttler unimpressed as he left the field. cricket‘s rules allow it — though some think it's not in the spirit of the game. ashwin's kings went onto win the game by 1a runs. afterwards he said the wicket was within the rules of the game. the wicket has caused a lot of negative reaction across social media — england captain eoin morgan sa

in female athletes critics say talent not testosterone is behind the success of athletes like caster semenya south africa's olympic champion is waiting for the court of arbitration for sport to decide if the rules proposed by the idea. are legal or not so many alyssa jacked it to a gender test in two thousand and nine and was banned from competing for almost a year before being cleared to run again the idea say the changes will ensure fair competition for female athletes and are the result of years of scientific research it only applies to running events between four hundred meters and fifteen hundred meters which would hits the menu hard because she competes in the eight hundred fifteen hundred affected athletes who want to keep participating must either take medication for at least six months run longer distance events or start competing against men eric boy is a professor at the university of oslo he coauthored a report which says the data being used by world athletics is flawed. your study report good results from two world championships we have classified the female athletes as and we'r

olympic champion caster semenya has hit back at comments made by the head of the world athletics sebastian coe the man yet is challenging an effort to bring in new rules that were strict testosterone levels and female runners in a newspaper interview ko said the reason we have gender classification is because if you didn't then no woman would ever win another title or break an other record so many has issued this response via her lawyers the scars mr mann your has developed over the past decade randeep reading the comments of mr coe this weekend open those old wounds mr coe is wrong to think mr mannion is a threat to women's sports. tiger woods is getting ready to tee off at the world championship match play event for the first time in six years woods has injured four box surgeries in that time to win this match play title i have to get through seven rounds in five days i haven't played a whole lot of match play you know since two thousand and thirteen and. i'm looking forward to looking for the. the fight that adds to the focus on one guy. each and every shot so different and you don't re

caster semenya is challenging the iaaf public bid to force female athletes with naturally high levels would have to race against men or change events if they refused. the un say the plans "contravene international human rights". with the masters starting in less than three weeks, there's more british golfing success to report. paul casey became the first player to retain the valspar championship after an incredible final day in florida. he led by one overnight but dropped shots early on, before winning it at the last hole. he finished a shot clear ofjason kokrak and said it was "mega" for his confidence. the timing is fantastic, with the masters, they will be heading there ina masters, they will be heading there in a fortnight‘s time so he knows they are in excellent form, he has had his ups and downs in a career that i think the longevity really deserves an awful lot of admiration now. he goes to the masters feeling he can be one of the contenders. he has never won a major title but he is up to number 11 of the world rankings, and yes, he is someone to look at as a potential masters

caster semenya says lord coe has "opened old wounds" with his claim that "gender classification" is neededand harmful". does snooker have a problem with sexism? rebecca kenna is ranked third in women‘s world snooker, but she‘s had to give up on her local league because some clubs have a men—only policy. the governing body says it‘s ‘disappointing and unacceptable‘. i was told i will not be able to play in that fixture, i will have to stay home. what reasons did they give you? we don't let our wives in, so we won't let you in, we don't have facilities for a lady. how did that make you feel? outraged, really. to be told you can't play the sport you love because of your gender is ridiculous. it's quite upsetting remembering, but... humiliating? yes. finally — rough, bunkers, trees — some of the hazards you‘d expect to encounter on the golf course. unless you‘re playing in savannah harbour in georgia... when this is another of the challenges you could face — an enormous alligator marching across the green. it‘s not unusual to see them on the course in that part of the us — but this one stood o

of sexism in relation to new rules for hyper androgenic athletes idle f f wants the likes of caster semenya to use medication to reduce testosterone levels we spoke to athletics writer stuart where who doesn't think there's anything suspect about the announcements timing is not this is the i don't really have this so please let's do something for women because they have consistently given the same prize money to women. with the same priority. of course they have women represent to go over. i mean it's not with thing when you think back to one thousand nine hundred sixty which is in my lifetime women were not allowed to run anything longer than four hundred meters on till the one thousand and sixteen olympics and of course we routinely see the same number of women finishing martinson's as men so there has been credible development fix in my life and i think this is all positive for him personally i am quite comfortable with their position on taxes and requiring someone to take medication for which the new baby girl just feet keisha and forwards and may be side effects is something i thought