Today we're taking a very difficult decision to cancel two Rubble World Cup pool matches to be played on Saturday, the England-France game in Yokohama Stadium and the New Zealand-Italy game in the city of Toyota.

The reason for those cancellations, an unprecedented decision for Rugby World Cup,

Typhoon Hajibis that is heading towards Japan and will make landfall on Tokyo

is predicted to have very significant and widespread impact,

and we feel that making an early decision gives everyone the best chance

to make the right decisions for safety.

Tournament director, world rugby COO, Alan Gilpin there, confirming the news that we fear that nobody

wanted to hear that England's match against France has been cancelled alongside the All Blacks

match against Italy.

Geez, Tommy, it ain't ideal, is it?

Dave, you've gone straight in for the kill.

I know you've been throwing your weight around on Twitter about this typhoon.

All the experts, you know, guys, there's risked to thousands of lives, all this sort of stuff, crazy, massive natural disaster, whatever it's called, not a natural disaster, but it's massive typhoons coming in massively dangerous but

Barry from Swindon thinks they should crack on and get it played so can we just get on with it boys yeah

so it's a shame it is just a shame there's nothing you can do about it is there and of course what

might happen is that it gets to friday saturday sunday and it's a nice warm couple of days in Tokyo

and no one notices anything else except a stiff breeze and a spot of rain might happen.

Imagine it even hit Tokyo after all this, but there's nothing you can do.

It's a typhoon. It's a severe typhoon.

The last one killed four people.

It costs something like half a billion pounds worth of damage.

This is serious.

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