somebody like jim mallinder has a lot of experience.e scottish national party team and all other aspects of scottish roby performers will be headed up byjim mallinder. what we know the man taking the decision to defect from england to scotland ? taking the decision to defect from england to scotland? after a plain career that brought him to claps for —— catherine, he moved into coaching and had a spell with england academy. his greatest achievement came with northampton where he wa nted came with northampton where he wanted premiership title and european challenge cup before returning to the england set up in 2018 as performance pathway coach. now he is heading north to link up with scotland. tremendous appointment out of the blue. taking him from england to scottish rugby, it will make a difference in the timing is perfectjust before the world cup. coming off a bad defeat against france. he could come in and make a big difference. they could go to the world cup, and when it, i don't see why not. jim mallinder an interested spectator as

the scottish rfu have named jim mallinder as their new performance director.hampton and sale coach had been in charge of nurturing england's young players through the system for the last year. mallinder said he was really impressed with the setup in scotland. rangers have been ordered to close part of ibrox for next week's europa league play—off second leg against legia warsaw. uefa has ruled some of their fans were guilty of "racist behaviour" — a charge which incorporates sectarian singing during the europa league first round. the us open has confirmed carlos ramos will not umpire any matches involving serena or venus williams at this year's championships. ramos penalised serena williams a point and then a game for her outburst in last year's final against naomi 0saka. england suffered a humiliating 8—nil defeat to the netherlands in their eurohockey semi final. the world champions were always favourites in antwerp but the manner of england's defeat will raise serious questions just a year out from the olympics — that's if great britain even qualify. david m

jim mallinder has been named the new performance director for scottish rugby, leaving his post with the player pathway system in june 2018. but he's now moved to work with the scottish senior team, and says he's relishing his new role. that's all the sport for now. you can find more of those stories on the bbc sport website. bbc dot code dot uk/ sport. and i will bring you the full round—up in sportsday at half past six. see you then. holly, thank you very much indeed. good afternoon. that water trying to put out the flames. but resources are an issue here as there is a vast area with few people on the ground in a tight budget. the amazon fund we were told was key for example to help finance an aeroplane used in oversight operations. but low humidity and strong winds and to the challenge as sometimes the fire can spread its fastest 30 —40 sometimes the fire can spread its fastest 30—40 kph. professor anthony pereira is the director of the brazil institute at king's college london. good evening. a word first about jair bolsonaro's policy towards the amazon. he has got a lot of criticism

jim mallinder has been named the new performance director for scottish rugby, leaving his post with thecottish senior team, and says he‘s relishing his new role. that‘s all the sport for now. let‘s get more now on our main story, and the prime minister has ‘expressed concern‘ about the fires burning in the amazon and has called for international action to protect ra i nforests. borisjohnson has been speaking in the few minutes... i passionately share the view of immanuel macron about what is happening in brazil. and one of the things i quickly raising at the g7 is the horrific loss of habitat and species around the world. —— immanuel macron. this is an extension of biodiversity across the planet. there are down to about 15,000 lions left in the world. elephants declining at a rate of 8% per year. —— 1500 lions. we need to set targets for the improvement and maintenance of habitat and stop this terrible loss of biodiversity. set targets for keeping the species that we inherited on this planet. meanwhile, the labour leader, jeremy corbyn has accused brazil‘s government for allowing the fi

jim mallinder has been named the new performance director for scottish rugby — leaving his post witheer in premiership rugby, mallinder took charge of england's young player pathway system in june 2018. but he's now moved to work with the scottish senior team, and says he's relishing his new role. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in the next hour. the home secretary, priti patel, is to raise the issue of migrants crossing the channel by boat with her french counterpart — after more than 60 were intercepted by the border force yesterday. four vessels were stopped off the coast of kent, and two others were found on a beach in sussex. keith doyle has more. it was one of the busiest days yet for the border. they said they we re yet for the border. they said they were from iran, guinea, kuwaitand the ivory coast. another 2a people arrived in two votes in sussex and we re arrived in two votes in sussex and were detained by the authorities. —— boats. sussex police said it was very concerned by another boat. more than 900 people, including 80 children, have crossed the ch