a wonderful off—load from jonathan davis to set them up, diving into the corner.allowed whales to get a bit of a foothold into this game. liam williams added a bit of gloss to the score line, with a fourth try, securing that bonus point of course. wheels running out 29 points to 17. they are through to the quarterfinals with a game to spare, but they have been through one hell ofa but they have been through one hell of a battle here. scotland kept their hopes of reaching the quarterfinals alive with a convincing win over russia in shiz—oka. that result means that the scots need win well against hosts japan in their final pool game on sunday — and hope other results go their way. our sports correspondent andy swiss was watching. a scorching day, scotland's fans arrive going to keepers very much on. to spare, but they have been through one hell of a battle here. —— knowing the heat was been through one hell of a battle here. —— knowing the heat was very much on. anything other than victory against russia, in their world cup hopes we re russia, in their world cup hop

the news that jonathan davies has been named in the team is obviously encouraging for wales fans.e said we hope he is fit which does suggest a degree of doubt. jonathan davies missed the quarterfinal against france with a knee injury and he has had strapping on that leg for much of the week is welsh fans will be keeping theirfingers of the week is welsh fans will be keeping their fingers crossed. we have had a news fullback liam williams will miss the rest of the he picked up an ankle injury in an accidental collision during training which is obviously far from accidental collision during training which is obviously farfrom ideal. at least wales had a pretty impressive replacement in the shape of leigh halfpenny, immensely experienced. more than 80 caps for wales but even so warren gatland admitted that the loss of liam williams is a blow. he is undoubtedly a big loss from an attacking perspective. and what he has achieved in the game in the last year or so. bringing has achieved in the game in the last yearorso. bringing in has achieved in the game in the last year orso. bringing

jonathan davies and hadleigh parks both feature, despite themselvesbeing injury doubts for the game.fpenny will replace williams who picked—up that ankle injury in training. that match is also in yokohama sunday morning. is undoubtedly a big loss and what he has achieved in the game in the last year or so by bringing in the experience with someone like leigh halfpenny is giving us a different element and i think he is probably defensively the best fullback in the world. away from the world cup, there has been some domestic rugby union action tonight... including a surprise win for bath as they beat exeter13—io to secure their first win of the new premiership season. a penalty from rhys priestland proving to be the difference. it's the first time in three years that bath have beaten exeter. in the pro 14, munster have gone top of conference b — after beating the ospreys 28—12 — michael haley with the second of theirfour tries. ospreys have won just one of their first four matches. a win too for ulster. they beat cardiff 23—14 — billy burns with the second of their two tries. ulster st

centres jonathan davies and hadleigh parkes are expected to be fit but training today had one extra specialprince charles — if the picture hadn't given it away by now. his royal highness and andy swiss too. it was a day rugby royalty met the real thing. after spending yesterday ata real thing. after spending yesterday at a ceremony for the new japanese emperor, a very different gathering for the prince of wales, given a signed assurance by the welsh players, ahead of their world cup semi final. the prince presented new arrival, owen lane, with his tournaments capped, but what words did he offer about the south african team? quite a big people who, he said, and the message certainly got through. hejust said they through. he just said they are bloodied big... and left it at that, hejust wished us all the best, and we had a little chat. you know, just wishing us little chat. you know, just wishing us all the best, really. well, whales‘s of preparations may have had royal approval today, but now it's all about the rugby, can they reach history and reach their first world cup final? this time la

let's hope from a welsh point of view that some of the players, jonathan davies, those important playersfinal. for them to win against south africa, they are going to need everything in their squad to do so. new zealand are favourites, but you just never know. it is very exciting but i am very hopeful for england andi but i am very hopeful for england and i will keep my fingers crossed for wales because they are a northern hemisphere team and it would be nice to see them in a final. you might have watched the draft for the hundred across the bbc last night. the eight teams are beginning to take shape for next summer's it really was a first for british sport, sarah. 540 cricket players from across the world available to draft, with 96 eventually picked by one of the eight teams. all of them already had three english players, so the draft was all about filling the rest of their 15—man squads. the earlier a team picked a player, the greater the value of their contract. well, each team had three representatives at the draft last night and they had 100 seconds to make their decision before mo

jonathan davies is in the starting 15 despite missing the quarterfinal.ave. it's a bit wet. we have got the edge of a typhoon at the moment. we have had torrential rain all day but i'm delighted to bejoined by a group of intrepid fans who have joined me. we have five pink lions supporting england and over here, wales supporters for sunday. we will start with the pink lions. andy, who are the pink lions? myself, andy, scotty, helen, tracey. and briefly, why are you the pink lions? we were six ex army lads who decided to go ona six ex army lads who decided to go on a lions tour, went to new zealand in 2017 after all army careers. a couple of hundred people a day shaking our hands saying it looked great, which we could do it. we said, right, let's do lions in pink toys and that was the idea. how confident are you about england's chances? the fact new zealand are switching their team around which they didn't do the whole of the last world cup, i think they are on the back foot. i am confident we can do this. how excited are you to be here injapan? this. how e

jonathan davies and hadleigh parks are in the team despite being injury doubts.e last year or so. but bringing in the experience of somebody like leigh halfpenny is... i think it gives us a different element. i think he is probably defensively the best full—back in the world. england take on tournament favourites new zealand in the first semi—final tomorrow morning. england have been training today in very wet weather in yokohama. it is expected to clear up for saturday but it did mean that england's training session was delayed today. head coach eddiejones has been spending the week putting the pressure on the all blacks — saying they are expected to win but what is his plan to beat them? he has been speaking to our sports editor dan roan. we just want to attack them. to beat new zealand, you can't sit and be a spectator at the show. you have got to be on the stage. you have got to be making the script. ourjob is to make the script on saturday. what has changed about this team? only a few months ago in that game at twickenham at the end of the six nations, it wa

missed the last pool match with a concussion the squad is back to full strength with a return of jonathan daviesnd hadley parks well the houston raw astro's are on the verge of their 2nd appearance in 3 years in baseball's world series they opened up a 31 lead on the yankees in the american league championship series with a victory in new york on thursday george springer and carlos crabb sparse sparking of the astros to an 83 when both getting 3 run homer is the yankees will hope to make home advantage count in game 4 later on friday at the washington nationals await the winners in the world series that starts on tuesday. a south african cricketers' been sentenced to 5 years in prison for his role in a spot fixing scandal in 2015 was accused of offering money to players in local domestic cricket in return for certain illegal actions during matches he pleaded guilty to 8 counts of corruption but he represented south africa in a 21 day internationals and won t 20 international in 22007. now it's no tour de france but the conditions are just as harsh arguably for the 80 cyclists competing in the cr

but no jonathan against the french serves them well. but nojonathan davis.third time. these are the latest pictures. some of the fans may have been at the match between the two eight years ago at the tournament in new zealand, their only previous world cup meeting. france won that game nine points to eight after captain sam warburton was sent off early on. france haven't played for a fortnight, their final pool game against england was called off due to typhoon hagibis. they should be fresh and you can never undersestimate them at world cups they always seem to up their game. —— underestimate them. iam sure —— underestimate them. i am sure they were very disappointed. obviously they have this crumb and the power game. it is going to be a good challenge upfront. and we are relishing that. we have worked all week on that and have analysed it. we are excited to get out there and get into it now. that match is in oita down in the south of japan, but in the capital, the hosts are preparing for the biggest match south africa stand bewteem them and the semi—finals.

tore his hamstring and limped off in the first half of their quarterfinal win over france, and jonathan daviesappointing. he has been very influential and important for us. in the last year. it is disappointing for us to get a player ruled out but in saying that these games are so physical and to have only lost one player at this stage is positive for us. player at this stage is positive for us. and that is all your support for now, good night. the next couple of days not looking too bad, quite a bit of dry weather around, not completely dry across the board, because we have this weather front affecting the far north of the uk, we will have lost that weather front across the south—east, bringing the rain on monday. on tuesday, starting on a dry and chilly note, early mist and fog, it should tend to lift, then plenty of sunshine for england and wales through the day, more cloud further north, and rain affecting the far north of the country. temperature—wise, 12 to 13 or 15, brighter spells further south. tuesday night, many central and southern areas stay dry, variable cloud, turning chilly in

jonathan davies and hadlee parkes both feature despite being injury doubts before the game.s like lewis hamilton will have to be until next weekend to secure his sixth world cup title after struggling in practice at the mexican grand prix. sebastian vettel topped the time sheets. hamilton could only manage fifth, he needs 14 points more than his mercedes team—mate to claim the title. boxing now and scotland's josh taylor takes on regis prograis to become the super lightweight champion this weekend. the peer region earlier today but the american was one as over the limit so he dropped his underpants to make the weight. thankfully a towel was on hand to preserve his modesty. no problems for taylor. the title takes place tomorrow night at the 02 stadium. that is all the sport for now. hello again, heavy and persistent outbreaks of rain will continue to affect parts of wales and england notjust through that night—time but well on into saturday as well. this is our rain bearing cloud and it is a weather front thatjust does not stretch out to the atlantic that goes all the way int

there's good news for wales at the rugby world cup injapan they're confident that centre jonathan daviesfrica this weekend; he has recovered from a knee injury. also, the team have had a special guest at training — the prince of wales dropped by to wish them well. andy swiss reports. it was a day rugby royalty met the real thing. after spending yesterday at a ceremony for the new japanese emperor, a very different gathering for the prince of wales. given a signed shirt by the welsh players ahead of their world cup semifinal. the prince presented new arrival owen lane with his tournament. but what words did he offer about the south african team? quite big people, he said. and the message certainly got through. he just said, "they're bloody big huggers, aren't they!" and left it at that. but no, he just wished us all the best and we had a little bit of a chat. butjust wished us all the best, really. wales's preparations might have had royal approval today, but now it's all about the rugby. can they make history and reach their first world cup final? jenkins, to gareth davies... this time l

they will be keeping their fingers crossed that one of their star players, jonathan davies, is fit to with a knee injury. wales looking to reach their first ever world cup final. it should be some weekend. indeed, many thanks, andy swiss, there. leading democrats in the us have accused their republican rivals of compromising national security, after more than 20 of them forced their way into the impeachment inquiry into president trump. the hearings are considering whether mr trump put pressure on ukraine to investigate one of his political rivals. richard galpin reports. this is the moment a group of republican lawmakers moved in to disrupt the ongoing impeachment inquiry. let's see if we can get in. it followed encouragement from president trump for tougher action against the attempt to impeach him. the republicans here demanding the hearing be open, as they say happened in previous impeachments. the press was in the room for nixon and clinton. the legal counsel for the president was allowed in the room. all of that is being denied by the chairman, running this one—sided, soviet sty

they managed to patch up their inspirational centre jonathan davies for this game, but in the first half. it was an attritional, scrappy game. south africa went in at half—time and all the points had been scored through the boot of the respective fly halves. in the second half, andrei pollard scored the crucial points with another penaltyjust four minutes from time, making it 19-16. the four minutes from time, making it 19—16. the welsh had fought back bravely, and josh adams tried, bringing them level at 16—16. in such a tight encounter, who scored next would win. wiles ultimately, their resistance broke and they had no response. south africa have the chance to win what would be a third world cup. england will start favourites after the way they performed against new zealand yesterday. that was a dominant england performance. you think they will be pretty confident of beating south africa? not complacent or taking anything for granted, but confident? they will be, because new zealand have one like the last two world cups, they are a formidable opposition and they have ruled rugby over t

jonathan davies missed the game with any problem and should be fit for the semifinal against south africagland should have a fully fit squad to choose from for their semifinal against the reigning champions, new zealand, next saturday. they had been worried aboutjonny may, their winger scored two tries against australia, he had a twinge in the hamstring and is expected to be fine for the match on saturday. even with all their players available, how can england get the better of the all blacks? their assistant coach says it's all about making a positive start to their semifinal. there are certain things we want to do in the first 15-20 things we want to do in the first 15—20 minutes and went to get that right. we need to focus on what we do. if we do well, hopefully we will replicate the same sort. some sides are more attacking, but i think is pretty all their set pieces are strong, the transition game is strong. they defend exceptionally well. andy murray will turn out for great britain at next month's new look davis cup finals in madrid. he was instrumental back in 2015 and won the europ

he‘s named his team for sunday‘s semi final against south africa — jonathan davies and hadleigh parkse game. leigh halfpenny will replace liam williams who was injured his ankle in training. he is undoubtedly a big loss from an attacking perspective and what he has achieved in the game the last year or $0. has achieved in the game the last year or so. but bringing has achieved in the game the last year orso. but bringing in has achieved in the game the last year or so. but bringing in the experience of someone like lee halfpenny i think gives us a different element. i think he is probably defensively the best full—back in the world. incredibly wet conditions meant that england had to delay their training session today, affecting preperations for their huge match against new zealand in tomorrow‘s semi final. it is expected to clear up for saturday‘s match, but how do you beat the two time reigning champions who haven‘t lost a world cup game in 12 years? we just want to attack them, mate. you know, to beat new zealand you can‘t sit and be a spectator at the show, you have got to be on t

jonathan davies has been named in the well starting team for their game against south africa while leighhe former boxing heavyweight champion tyson fury has said he is injured ahead of his wwe fight at the end of this month. he will face the american ron stroman in saudi arabia. back with more on all those stories at 2:30pm. two further arrests have taken place after the bodies of 39 people were found in a refrigerated lorry in essex. the victims — who are believed to be chinese — were discovered in the early hours of wednesday, after the container arrrived from belgium. postmortem examinations are being carried out on some of the bodies. richard galpin is in essex for us now. first of all tell us more about these two first of all tell us more about these two arrests. first of all tell us more about these two arrests. this first of all tell us more about these two arrests. this is first of all tell us more about these two arrests. this is a first of all tell us more about these two arrests. this is a very significant development. two more people have been arrested. it is a man and woman

jonathan davies, who missed that game with a knee problem, should be fit for the semifinal against southmportant for us, so it's disappointing for him. so it's disappointing for us to have a player ruled out, but, in saying that, these games are so physical and to have only lost one player at this stage is a real positive for us. england on the other hand should have a fully fit squad to choose from for their semifinal against reigning champions new zealand on saturday. they had been worried aboutjonny may, who scored two tries in their quarterfinal win over australia. he had a hamstring twinge but is expected to be fine. jack newell is also back in contention. that is all of the sport for now. it is still goalless between sheffield united and arsenal. lots more for you at10:30pm. abortion is set to be decriminalised in northern ireland from midnight tonight. opponents of the change, following legislation from westminster, made a late attempt to block it, recalling the stormont assembly, which hasn't sat for nearly three years. but a bad tempered debate followed by walk—outs failed, and

15 minutes away from their match against france in japan, but they've had a late injury blow, jonathan davieso pull out of the game. and we'll ask if mike's hip thrusting take on the samba is enough to see him through to next week's strictly... the weather today isn't looking too bad at all. for most of us some sunshine on offer and the forecast for the beginning of the week is not looking too bad either. it's sunday the 20th october. our top story. after defeat in the commons yeterday, borisjohnson has sent a letter to the eu, asking for an extension to the uk's withdrawal date — but he's refused to sign it. the prime minister did sign a second letter warning against any further delay. he was legally obliged to ask for an extension after mps voted yesterday to withhold approval of his brexit deal, until all the necessary legislation was in place. so what happens next? eu leaders will now consider the prime minister's request for an extension to the brexit deadline. ministers will publish the withdrawal agreement bill, which would put the deal into law. the government may even ask mps to back

wales expect centres hadleigh parkes and jonathan davies will be fit for their rugby world cup semifinalmissed the last eight win over france, whilst parkes has been carrying knocks for a while. away from match preparations, the squad met the prince of wales at training in tokyo, and our correspondent andy swiss was there. wales have had a special visitor at their training wales have had a special visitor at theirtraining camp wales have had a special visitor at their training camp here today, prince charles, who's been here in tokyo for the enthronement ceremony of the new emperor. that happened yesterday, but today he met up with the wales players. first, he met warren gatland, the coach, and the captain, alun wyn jones, warren gatland, the coach, and the captain, alun wynjones, before meeting up with the rest of the wales players. he was presented with a signed rugby shirt by the wales squad. after that, prince charles said he was sure the players would make everyone proud. he went on to present one of the players, owen lane, with his rugby world cup cap, because owen lane has just ar

yes, dan biggar has had a couple of head injuries, but to have him fit, hadley parks, and jonathan daviesand full of confidence. does that make them of the most likely home nation to get through? tough question. i think that you've got to back wales in this game. speaking to a few people close to the french camp recently, and they accept that wales are the clear favourites. 0ne journalist i spoke to gave france a 20% chance. so that is the mood out here in japan. ireland 20% chance. so that is the mood out here injapan. ireland are up against it, against new zealand. you would have to back the all blacks. but this ireland team do know how to beat new zealand. as for england, they've beaten australia six times ina row, they've beaten australia six times in a row, they've got a strong team out, like wales, injury—free, so you have got to back them. i can't see all three going through but an excellent chance that two of them should. and there's loads more from chris and the team injapan on the latest episode of rugby union weekly which is now live on bbc sounds. the premier league will step

but centre jonathan davies, quarterfinal win over france., should be fit for the semifinal. very disappointing for him. he has been very influential, very important for us in the last year, so important for us in the last year, so it is disappointing for us to have a player ruled out. but in saying that, these games are so physical and to have only lost one player at this stage is a real positive for us. england should have a fully fit squad to choose from for their semifinal against reigning champions new zealand on saturday. they have been a little bit worried about jonny may, who scored two tries against australia. he had a twinge in his hamstring but he should be ok for that match. jack nowell is also backin for that match. jack nowell is also back in contention. two men have been arrested in somerset by police investigating alleged racist abuse that caused an fa cup tie to be abandoned on saturday. haringey borough's players walked off during the game against yeovil town, saying their goalkeeper had been spat at and hit by an object thr

centres jonathan davies and hadleigh parkes have also been passed fit, after suffering from knee andght games and the one we lost was the 100 minute game in paris, where they scored in the last minute, so, but even in saying that, they have a lwa ys but even in saying that, they have always been close, close games, and but we are going in with you know a lot of belief, a lot of self confidence. england play australia and ireland play new zealand on saturday. the other game on sunday is japan v south africa — all the build up and coverage on bbc five live. there is more fall out on racism when england and bulgaria met a few days ago. the bulgaria national coach krasimir balakov has resigned. he was in charge of the team in the 6—0 defeat to england in sofia on monday night which was marred by racist chanting and nazi salutes from home supporters. he had claimed after the game that he couldn't hear any of the racist abuse directed at england's black players. balakov and the entire bulgarian football union executive committee are said to have resigned. because of monkey noises and nazi

jonathan davies missed that game with a knee problem, he should be fit for the semifinal against south been worried about johnnie may who scored two tries in their win over estonia. he had a twinge ina their win over estonia. he had a twinge in a hamstring but is expected to be fine for the match in yokohama on saturday. the england batsmen, jason roy, say that the new 100 competition will be a great watch for spectators. he has already been picked for the oval invisibles, ahead of the first played out in a british board that took place last night. the four week competition sta rts night. the four week competition starts nextjuly. night. the four week competition starts next july. as far as we are concerned as players, we are hugely excited about working towards it, finding new formulas, how to play. he will be difficult to get hits around tactic sides of things. as players, we are excited about it, it isa players, we are excited about it, it is a huge tournament on home soil, played by some of the best players in the world. andy murray says his first singles title for over two yea rs

be shifted towards the fijians, josh adams scored his hat—trick try, a wonderful off—load from jonathan daviesam williams added a bit of gloss to the scoreline with a bit of gloss to the scoreline with a fourth try, securing that bonus point, of course. wales is running out 29—17 winners, and they are through to the quarterfinals with a game to spare, but they have been through one hell of a battle here. meanwhile, as you mentioned, simon, scotla nd meanwhile, as you mentioned, simon, scotland have had a good day as well, because they have kept their quarterfinal hopes alive with a co mforta ble quarterfinal hopes alive with a comfortable bonus point win over russia. the scots must take four more points from their final match against hosts japan on sunday if they are to reach the last eight. here is our sports correspondent and the swiss. scorcher, and scotland's fans arrive knowing that heat was very much on. anything less than victory against russia, and their world cup hopes we re russia, and their world cup hopes were finished, so how about this for the perfect start? adam hastings, son of

jonathan lost key players. they managed to patch upjonathan davies, their inspirational centre, for this game but in the first halfnd in the end, that really told, i think. it was a really scrappy game especially in the first half. windy conditions here at the stadium tonight. south africa went in at half—time. had been scored through the boot. in the final reckoning, in the second half once again, pollard, the young south african scored the crucial points with a penalty four minutes from time. that made it 19—16. the welsh fightback bravely. but in such a tight encounter at the ivy that whoever then scored, that would prove decisive. and polite scored that penalty. he was nervous all night, he scored four penalties and conversion, too. in wales ultimately, their resistance broke and they had no response and south africa go through and they will have a chance to win what would be a third world cup but i think england will be a start favourites after they performed here yesterday against new zealand, of course. time to look back at the week with the victoria derbyshire programme. hello, and welcome. over the next 3

davies forjustin tipuric. so he will start alongside his brother jonathan for the first time.hey could be the tier two team to offset some of the big countries, they have not quite worked, they had the shock defeat to uruguay, beat george and iran australia close but a mixed tournament from then. they are a fast and flamboyant team, they did very well at the olympic sevens. they have the potential to cause wales problems but i think they will be confident of winning three three. there is much which could be moved because it —— a match which could be moved because of the super typhoon this weekend? that's something that organisers have been following closely, the latest is that the super typhoon is making its way towards japan, it looks like it will hit the yokohama tokyo area over the weekend. england play france there on saturday, scotland have a pivotal game againstjapan, on saturday, scotland have a pivotal game against japan, the on saturday, scotland have a pivotal game againstjapan, the final group match on sunday. i chance potentially that organisers could be forced to

jonathan no alice. he was a parent and director of the civil war institute. located in davist that he's the author and editor including the civil war legacy and it's the reunion and reconciliation. he's the author of 100 bucks and was part of seaspan tv and many others. he has a variety of different projects included the national park service and the civil war trust and the battlefield foundation. our very own know steve and came in contact with him as a student and highly recommended and looking forward to hearing from him because he has a story about how escaped and will give it over to dr. jonathan for the keynote presentation this morning. (applause) we >> thank you came for the introduction and to watch burn and the service for the invitation today. i've been very fortunate over my career to have all sorts of guests in the audience by think this is my first one having the members of congress and blue all us in attendance.. people when they withdrew from in front of the arrange of feelings ripped through his command and for regular generals they ordered to pull out of ste

jonathan davies and hadleigh parks are in the team despite being injury doubts for the game against southl replace liam williams who was injured his in training... he is undoubtedly a big loss from an attacking perspective and what he has achieved in the game over the last year or so. but bringing in the experience of someone like lee halfpenny is, i think, it gives us a different element. i think he is probably defensively the best full—back in the world. england's match against the tournament favourites new zealand is tomorrow morning. england have been training today in very wet weather in yokohama. it is expected to clear up for saturday, but it did mean that england's training session was delayed today. head coach eddiejones has been spending the week putting the pressure on the all blacks. he says they are expected to win but, what is his plan to beat them? he's been speaking to our sports editor dan roan. we just want to attack them, mate. to beat new zealand you can't sit and bea to beat new zealand you can't sit and be a spectator at the show, you have got to be on the stage maki