it's gold again for britain's emma finucane, who defends her women's sprint world title after poweringhampionships. good morning. well, a weekend is shaping up to be a tale of two halves. a bad start on saturday. we've got rain clearing eastern england, scattered showers and sunny spells but by sunday, we have our first named storm of the season, storm ashley. while it is going to win —— bring —— well, it is going to bring an extremely wild set of weather. it's saturday the 19th october. our main story: the father of liam payne has visited the hotel in argentina where the former 0ne direction singer fell to his death from a balcony on wednesday. geoff payne also took time to look at the tributes left in memory of his son and thank well—wishers gathered outside. it follows tributes from liam's former partner, the singer cheryl,

the women's team sprint trio of katy marchant sophie capewell and emma finucane here on the final lapld title to the olympic crown they won in paris in august. it's great britain's first track world championship gold in the event since 2008. all three are hoping for more medals as the week goes on. for me, personally, it felt harder than winning the olympic gold medal because of the high that we'd had from the games. you know, to get back into training and to get back prepared and get in the headspace after what's been an absolutely exhausting year, to be able to come to a world championships and produce three really really solid rides to win a gold medal. it's really really tough like really really tough. and yeah i'm so proud that we were able to do that today. so well done, girls. as well as their medals all the cyclists are receiving a swan. svend the swan is the official mascot of the championships in denmark. the mute swan which is an actual species of swan is the country's national animal famous for featuring in hans christian andersen's ugly duckling danish fairytale. nothing

britain's emma finucane will have her sights set on a third track world championship gold medal later 500 metre time trial after she retained her women's sprint world title. the 21—year—old dominated the individualfinal, beating hetty van de vow of the netherlands with a race to spare. japan's mina sato took bronze. finucane�*s victory came just two days after she took gold in the women's team sprint. and india's cricketers have given themsleves an outside chance of pulling off a great escape in their first test against new zealand in bengaluru. you'll remember india were bowled out forjust 46 in theirfirst innings. new zealand then made 402. second time round india have fared much better. sarfaraz khan made a century and rishabh pant was out for 99. although a flurry of wickets means new zealand are still favourites. at tea india were a38 for 6 a lead of 82, with one day of the match still remaining. keep across it on the bbc sport website. that is all for now. to the united states and the race for the white house. and both donald trump and kamala harris have been campaigning in the

sophie capewell, katie marchant and emma finucane matched their victory in this summer's 0lympics withtherlands to become the first british women's squad to be crowned sprint world champion since 2008. gb have also qualified for thursday's men's team pursuit final, where they'll face the hosts, denmark. for me personally, it felt harder than winning the olympic gold medal because of the high that we'd had from the games, you know, to get back into training and to get back prepared and get in the headspace after what's been an absolutely exhausting year, to be able to come to a world championships and produce three really, really solid rides to win a gold medal, it's really, really tough. like, really, really tough. and yeah, i'm so proud that we were able to do that today. so, well done, girls. elsewhere, great britain cut new zealand's lead in the america's cup to 11—2 by winning both races on wednesday. ben ainslie's ineos britannia team went 4—0 behind on monday in the best of 13 series in barcelona. new zealand have won the past two america's cups, while britain have never won the

squad by 11 olympic medallists from this summer's games in paris, including team sprint champions emma finucanety marchant not much life support about but plenty more on the bbc sport website, back in the next 30 minutes. israel is a country still traumatised by the events of october seventh. changed irrevocably by what unfolded. what confounds people is that israeli intelligence had no inkling of the plans of hamas, and yet as we have now discovered had thoroughly penetrated and outwitted hizbullah. hezbollah. it has also sparked within the country a bitter debate about how best to respond. whether to prioritise the complete destruction of hamas, or whether to now strike a deal to secure the release of the remaining hostages. this is now the longest war between israelis and arabs since the end of the conflict that set the boundaries of the israeli state in 1949. it is also by far the deadliest. i'm joined now by the political analyst, dahlia scheindlin — she joins us from tel aviv. thank you for being with us. you have written plenty of books on politics and shifting political opinions, how do

sophie capewell, emma finucane and katy marchant matched their victory in this summer's paris olympicsother gold in the women's team sprint. the trio defeated the netherlands with a time to become the first british women's squad to become sprint world champions since 2008. great britain have also qualified for tomorrow's men's team pursuit final where they will face the host nation denmark. great britain have cut new zealand's lead in the america's cup to 11—2 by winning both races today ben ainslie�*s ineos britannia team went 4—0 behind on monday in the best—of—13 series in barcelona. new zealand have won the past two america's cups, while britain have never won the competition in its 173—year history. races seven and eight take place on friday. and that's all the sport for now. as the war in ukraine enters the winter months, with russia making gains, president zelensky has presented a five point plan, he believes would be enough to end the conflict. mr zelensky presented his so—called "victory plan" to ukraine's parliament — one of the main elements of his proposal was for nato to i

britain's emma finucane won her second gold medal of the track cycling world championships, as she defendeds really hard trying to defend the title, it is then hard trying to race and do it with the expectations but i'm proud of the person i've become and it means more than anything and it means more than anything and yeah, it's hard everyone but was like you can win or you should win now is like, it's a really hard bike race, it's not easy. earlier in the day, josh charlton finished second in the men's individual pursuit, despite breaking the world recond in qualifying, the brit lost out to italian, jonathan milan, who broke charlton's record to take gold. charlton's team—mate dan bigham took bronze on what was his final international race. a big game in the championship to tell you about — and it looks as though sheffield united will miss the chance to go top of the table. they're losing at leeds united, with the game into injury time. tributes were paid to former sheffield united player george baldock — before the match. after the defender passed away at the age of 31, at his home in gre

squad by 11 olympic medallists from this summer's games in paris, including team sprint champions emma finucaneger winds are set to arrive. so we've still got this area of low pressure with us at the moment, and that's driving these frontal systems around that area of low. so for the next few hours we could see some really intense thundery downpours developing, moving out of south west england and wales, up into the midlands and the north of england. they will continue to push their way steadily northwards during the early hours of thursday morning, further showers tucking into the southwest, with the cloud and the showers around we keep double digits. a slightly cooler start into scotland. so first thing tomorrow morning we've got that rain through northern ireland, northern england drifting towards the scottish borders. this is the dividing line. we've got this cool northeasterly flow developing in scotland, a little bit quieter and drier here but not quite as mild. further south, plenty of frequent showers. again, we can't rule out the odd rumble of thunder, but in the sunnier moments it wil

and it was emma finucane and sophie capwell and katie marchant won the team sprint. there they are yesterday. good on them . look at them. they won on them. look at them. they won the gold medal as well in the olympics. you know what the shirts are all about. are you familiar with that shirt? the rainbow thing there. >> it's very retro. >> it's very retro. >> well, that's a world champion shirt and there are rules around that. so if they ever race in a competition in the team sprint, no matter where they are, they can wear that shirt . it's not can wear that shirt. it's not they can. they have to wear that shirt . that's the law. so it's shirt. that's the law. so it's they can it's not that they can wear it, they have to wear it. and if they actually are seen in a competition. so for example, if you just had one lap of the of the track and you won that competition, you were the world champion. if you ever raced anywhere in that competition or doing one lap, you'd have to wear that, or else you'll be fined because you have to show i'm the world champion. oh that's it.

it's gold again for britain's emma finucane, who defends her women's sprint world title after powering to victory at the track cycling world championships. good morning. well, a weekend is shaping up to be a tale of two halves. a bad start on saturday. we've got rain clearing eastern england, scattered showers and sunny spells but by sunday, we have our first named storm of the season, storm ashley. while it is going to win —— bring —— well, it is going to bring an extremely wild set of weather. it's saturday the 19th october. our main story: the father of liam payne has visited the hotel in argentina where the former one direction singer fell to his death from a balcony on wednesday. geoff payne also took time to look at the tributes left in memory of his son and thank well—wishers gathered outside. it follows tributes from liam's former partner, the singer cheryl, and simon cowell, who formed one direction after their appearances on the x factor. barry caffrey has the latest. a father morning his son and paying tribute to his child at a father morning his son and paying tribute to hi