and the only one of the eight debutants to make it through to the last 16. i think we are the lowest ranked team coming into the world cup, at least one of them. come out of a group where nobody had their many hope, they lost 6—0 to germany in the first game. what was so impressive at the moroccan team is the... that they showed. the girl that wore the hijab, for the growth for the game, for whizzing does knack for muslim women, i think that is crucial going forward. so here they are taking their place in the knockout stage where they'll play france. that'll be the final last 16 match. it all starts on saturday with spain against switzerland. holders the usa meet sweden on sunday, while european champions england face nigeria, one of the now three teams from africa who've qualified from the groups. that's on monday. seven time super bowl champion

tom brady has become the latest high profile sports star to get involved with an english football club. lebronjames has a small share in liverpool. jj watt is a burnley shareholder. and now brady has become a minority owner at a second tier team. heroes the deal. i am officially coming on board at birmingham football club. birmingham's new owners say they've entered into a partnership with the nfl legend, who will become the chair of an advisory board, offering up his expertise on nutrition and opening up possible new commercial deals. brady retired from playing earlier this year, while birmingham finished 17th in the championship and haven't been in the premier league since 2011. well, there's another world cup going on right now, and there was a significant win for england over australia in the netball tournament in cape town. both had qualified for the semi finals before their meeting, but england's 56—55 victory is their first over the world number

ones in this competition. jamaica's win over defending champions new zealand means they finish top of their group. and will face australia in the last four. england's opponents will be new zealand, unless south africa beat uganda by a massive margin. that match next to another change to the rugby league world cup — it was due to held in france in 2025 that was postponed a year but after they withdrew for financial reasons. the southern hemisphere will now host the tournament in 2026. the last edition of the competition was held in the uk in 2022, the same year france was awarded hosting rights for the next one after initial plans for it to be held in north america for the first time were scrapped. the ashes test series has also been reinstated with england's men and women to tour australia in 2025. the reality is competitions are significant in their organisation. it was always going to be difficult for france. isa

is a truncated one. that's another 12 months less than france had. we did get a proposalfor 2025 from a country but we fought from a country but we thought the gratitude and its success was to move it to 2026 and in a different format as well. not only for this world cup is a future world cups going forward. and that's all the sport for now. not quite. a bit more sport now. particularly what has been adding at the women's world cup. we will be returning to this place, washington, because this is where donald trump will be appearing at a federal court later. we have been getting some reaction from donald trump, he will be formally charged later for allegedly plotting to overturn his 2020 election defeat, and he has been

posting on his website, saying that this is an unprecedented weaponisation of the justice system. donald trump is expected to appear at 1600 local time in washington, thatis at 1600 local time in washington, that is thought that he will appear in person. he was given the option of a virtual appearance, but the expectation is that he will appear and plead not guilty. and a little more on the sport now — morocco�*s nouhaila benzina who was on the pitch again today as her team go through to the knockout stages — made history as the first player to wear a hijab at the world cup. there has been some criticism over her presence in france who was on the pitch again today as her team go through to the knockout stages — made history as the first player to wear a hijab at the world cup.

there has been some criticism over her presence in france wherejust last month a hijab ban was upheld by the french football federation — reporter yasmin khatun dewan is in the newroom with more. here she is, nouhaila, playing for her team, morocco, earlier today. last week she made history as the first women to wear a hijab at the women's world cup or any football tournament of this scale. that became possible because of a ruling in 2014 which allowed for the presence of religious symbols like the head scarf. that ruling came aboutjust before the under 17 women's world cup injordan. you can see here are some images from that time of young women from thejordanian team here training before some of the matches in the under 17 women's world cup. before that change in 2014, women who wore a hijab their day—to—day life would either have to take them off before participating or not be allowed to join in. the president of fifa, gianni infantino, here hailing nouhaila's presence on the field with her hijab as a win for inclusivity, tolerance and diversity, saying, #nodiscrimination.

but that same enthusiasm hasn't been felt everywhere. some french media outlets, you can see your one journalist some french media outlets, you can see one journalist called nouhaila's presence with the hijab on the field regressive, and another writing that it was highly controversial. this of course comes a month on from the high court ruling in france maintaining the ban on the hijab in football. a group of muslim women who wear the hijab took the french football federation to court, but the ruling against wearing the hijab was upheld. you can see here the statement, the ban enacted by the french football federation is suitable and proportionate. france is of course home to the largest, one of the largest muslim minorities, minority communities here in europe. and of course it has got the paris 0lympics next year, so lots of questions will arise over, you know, athletes within france and what will happen with their own presence

within their own teams, in the sports that they participate in, and athletes coming from further afield and the reception they might receive. us and canadian fire crews are still battling to contain a wildfire that nearly engulfed the town of 0soyoos in british columbia over the weekend, forcing hundreds of people to evacuate. teams on both sides of the border have been carrying out controlled burns to create a fire break. nada tawfik reports. canada has never experienced a wildfire season as treacherous as this one. in the 0kanagan valley region of british columbia, they're still battling the blazes that nearly engulfed the town of 0soyoos over the weekend, forcing hundreds to evacuate to safer ground. all the smoke came out, started just blazing through. the maynards are still cleaning debris out of their back yard. that's all ash. the eagle bluff fire initially spread so quickly from the us border

that it wasn't long before fire crews told them to evacuate immediately. within the five, ten minutes of packing up and going out and it was the engulfment, you could see it in the backside just coming over and from there to the time we went to our friends house and sitting on their deck and watching it, it was already at the point of our place within minutes. for hours the maynards and residents watched the inferno building in front of them. the wildfire is still growing, but at least for now, it's expanding away from town. crews like these water bombers have been working relentlessly over the last few days to try to contain this fire. but despite that, they have still classified this eagle bluff wildfire as out of control. we've seen some significant growth on that west side of the fire. the fire is estimated at 3,044 hectares in size. and we're working with the incident management team on the us portion of the fires and looking

at objectives that we can identify and assess along that west flank. this small desert town of 5,500 people is a popular summer destination for canadians because of its natural beauty and lakes. it is also well—known for its wineries. there is a pile of dead standing timber there with no needles on it. that is the result of the 2003 fire. for matt, wildfires are not new, but some are costlier than others. his family vineyard lost 80% of its sales in 2021 because of smoke damage to the grapes. smoke tainted wines are basically of low, low value. farming here, we don't aim for low value wines. 0ur wines have to be premium. the eagle bluff wildfires, one out of more than 1,000 burning across canada right now, believed to be fuelled by higher than usual temperatures and drought. what's happening here is yet another indication of what lies ahead in a warming world.

stay with us here on bbc news. hello. the weather is not looking too bad over the next couple of days, generally sunshine and showers knocking around. a however, as we head into saturday, it's going to turn very wet, particularly so across northern ireland, england and wales. and bear in mind parts of the south of the uk, even though we're only three days into the new month, have already had a third of the average rainfall. there's more on the way, as i say. today is an ok day, though. sunny spells and passing showers. the showers probably most frequent across parts of the midlands running into eastern england. quite a few showers for northern ireland, but they'll tend to be quite light and i suspect the showers become a little bit less widespread for wales and south west england. so more in the way of dry weather here increasingly through the afternoon. so some of you will stay dry

with sunny spells coming through from time to time overnight. a few more showers will keep going, particularly around coastal areas and especially across northeast england, north and east scotland. temperatures about 11 to 14 degrees overnight. and then tomorrow, yeah, it's another showery kind of day. however, as we head into the afternoon, the showers will want to concentrate in one area especially, and that's across eastern england. that's because we've got one of these convergence zones where the winds bash together. it will concentrate the showers here. but if you're away from that, for example, across wales, western england, parts of northern ireland, west scotland, it should be largely dry tomorrow afternoon with some fairly decent sunshine coming through, but temperatures still a bit below par for the time of year. it's through friday night and into the weekend that we've got our next batch of really wet weather to come through. also very windy, too. now the heavy rain will initially start off in northern ireland. quite gusty winds here for a time too, before it works in across england and wales, especially as we go through saturday. and with gusts of wind around 50 or 60 miles an hour across parts of wales, 40 to 50 miles an hour

or so for parts of southern england, could bring some localised disruption. then we've got the heavy rain too factor in as well. now it won't be raining everywhere all the time. across scotland it'll be ok. sunny spells here a few passing showers, but the unsettled theme does continue, i'm afraid, through sunday and into the early part of next week as well. however, after that, it looks like we'll see our first area of high pressure building in for some seven weeks, and come thursday, might only last a day or two, it looks like we'll see something drier, sunnier and warmer. temperatures in the warmest spots could reach the high 20s or even low 30s.

live from london. this is bbc news. the bank of england raises interest rates to 5.25% — the highest for 15 years — in its battle to tackle inflation. donald trump faces another day in court. he'll be formally charged with plotting to overturn the result of the 2020 presidential election. this is the court building live in washington — where mr trump will be making an appearance in a few hours. us pop star lizzo hits back at allegations of harrasment and discrimination — she says they're "as unbelievable as they sound". four people are arrested after greenpeace activists climbed on to the roof of prime minister rishi sunak�*s

house in yorkshire. hello, i m maryam moshiri. welcome to verified live, three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. the bank of england has raised interest rates again. the base rate has gone up by a quarter of a percentage point to 5.25%. it takes borrowing costs to a fresh 15—year high, amid persistently high inflation in the uk. the speed and scale of rate increases over the last year has put pressure on many mortgage holders — but the bank has said it doesn't expect the country to fall into recession. let's talk to our work and money reporter peter ruddick. why is the bank doing this again? the 14th rate rise in a row, and

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