. —— efl.games are coming to birmingham in two years' time, but find out why two sports might be taking place thousands of miles away in delhi. also coming up in the programme: two years ago, victoria evans had never rowed before. now she's looking to cross the atlantic ocean on her own in record time. hello and welcome to sportsday, i'm ben croucher. welcome along. we'll start in cape town where it seems there are no end to ben stokes' talents. after that 2019 with the world cup final performance and his heroics at headingley, he turned in a true all round display in the second test against south africa to help england to a first test win at newlands since 1957. he followed five catches in the first innings with a quickfire 72 in the second and then stormed in with some hostile bowling just when it looked like south africa might sneak a draw. south africa looked to be frustrating england for much of the day with pieter malan batting for almost six hours in the second innings before he fell for

in football, tonight's manchester derby saw city take a lead over united in the first leg of their efl semi—final. and at 11:30 we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers, with our reviewers, john kampfner and caroline wheeler. stay with us for that. good evening and welcome to bbc news. at least 50 people have been killed and more than 200 injured in a crush in iran, as huge numbers of people turned out to attend the burial of qasem soleimani, the iranian commander killed in a american drone strike. the funeral, in his hometown, was postponed for several hours. soleimani was considered the second most powerful man in iran. tonight the us insisted that it acted legally in killing him in iraq last friday. jeremy bowen has been following developments from baghdad, in iraq, and sent us this report earlier. millions of people have turned out since the coffin left here in iraq to go back to iran. it has been toured around the country. there has been a crush on the street, hundreds of people killed. that has been this massive turn up, notjust i suspect people of at least supporting the r

a high surf advisory remains in efl unfe9 ti a ec appear before a judge for a preliminary hearing.ife in prison is what he charges. in all, he faces 46 charges. he was identified through dna and genealogy websites. he worked at uc berkeley for 25 years until being arrested in september. >>> uber and lift claim they are not getting paid. the two women from sacramento say they are owed each more than $500. they don'a lot of drivers from coast to coast talking about this problem not with just lift, uber also. there are millions of dollars floating around of our money right now. >> this could be retaat e must bmbe classified as an empyee and be offered benefits and paid minimum wage. no response from uber or lift. >>> pfizer has increased prices on 200 drugs nationwide. prices went up on drugs from hiv and ms treatments to arthritis and asthma medications. according to the drugmakers all of the price increases will below 10%be and half of them ar in the range of four to 6%. >>> illinois is the 11th state to allow the sale of recreational marijuana. long lines were at dispensaries. cann

attacks, assassination attempts, sicyber attacks, political manipulation in iraq and afghanistan and efls where, and by the way, the trump administration seems to agree with this because whatever they've said, i think, obviously falsely about imminent attacks they were seeking to avoid, they've stepped up security across the region. they've reduced military activities in iraq against isis. as you just reported, they've stepped up security here in the united states. >> right. >> so they're well aware that more might be coming. >> jarrett, thank you very much. >> thank you. >> thank you for your expertise. >>> we also have new satellite images today of the al asad air base in western iraq that appeared to show damage to several buildings there. our cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward is in erbil, iraq, where multiple locations were targeted. i know you've just gotten your feet on the ground there. i don't know how much you'll be able to see. can you talk me through about any damage or anyone in the area, their reaction to this? >> reporter: so, you know, i have to tell you,

called on more fa ns to pep guardiola has called on more fans to back his side on wednesday in the eflly our fans can come, more people than today, to support us more. and make an intelligent game to qualify for the final. did you feel today there is not as many fans today as you would have liked here? yeah, ido today as you would have liked here? yeah, i do not know the reason why, but there was not that many. liverpool are half an hour into their match against league one shrewsbury at the new meadow. as expected, the premier league leaders resting several big names — withjurgen klopp fielding a young side — including 18—year—old curtisjones, whose stunning goal knocked out merseyside rivals everton in the previous round. liverpool are 1—0 up at the moment thanks tojones. around ten minutes to go till half—time. 15 matches in the women's fa cup fourth round to tell you about today. liverpool women the big winners of the day, thrashing women's championship side blackburn 8—1. tottenham also dished out a hammering, they beat women's national league side barnsley 5—0. and arsenal got the

we don't have to subpoena rudy giuliani what efls he was up to went on tv and told us what he was up it's hard for rudy to justify, you know, what he was up to here. he was acting on behalf of the president personally. he had no official role. i think that's one of the most difficult things for republicans, which is one of the reasons why there is the focus on the phone call. >> i think it's going to be very important to push back, because the house managers have to anticipate some of what the president's legal team is going to say. and one bit of misinformation that's out there that this is a fight over policy. you just don't agree with the president's policy, that's why you're trying to impeach him. they have to remind senators, because a number of the senators are real foreign policy experts, that this isn't about disagreement over policy. this is over whether he used the national security system for the president's own personal needs. we can disagree on how you define "national interest," but american national security should never be used for personal interest. that's a very imp

var will be used for this month's efl cup semi finals and in the competition for the first time.er consultin the monitor, something referees are advised not to do in the premier league. the draw for the fourth round of the fa cup will take place tonight, ahead of arsenal's game against leeds united. the arsenal manager mikel arteta captained the club the last time these two sides met in the fa cup 2012 but it was a returning hero who stole the show. thierry henry scored the winner at the emirates in his first appearance since re—joining on a short loan from the new york red bulls. arteta says he has total respect for the fa cup it's a competition that is very attached to this football club in recent years, and we have to take it very seriously and we have to try to go to the next round. the way they play, the manner they behave, i follow their coach for a long time, i know how tough it is going to be to play against them. the last fa cup third round match kicks offjust before 8pm coverage of arsenal against leeds united is live on bbc one and before kick off you can watch the fou