Across the league also chose to kneel during the playing of the star spangled banner. Its the biggest demonstration since the protests first began in 2016. Well the president has spoken to reporters and responded to the widespread day of action across several teams. One of those involved the new England Patriots owner robert kraft who released a statement backing his players. I watched a little bit, and i will say that there was tremendous solidarity for our flag and our country. Your friend robert croft said he was disappointed by the remarks on friday. Thats ok. He has to ta ke remarks on friday. Thats ok. He has to take his ideas and go with what he wants. I think its very disrespect for to our country. I think it is very, very disrespectful to ourflag. I like him very much, he gave me a super bowl bring a month ago. He is a good friend of mine. Iwant month ago. He is a good friend of mine. I want him to do what he wants to do, but we have a great country. We have great people representing oui we have great people representing our country, especially our soldiers and first responders, and they should be treated with respect. And when you get on your knee and you dont respect the American Flag or the anthem, that is not doing that. Well after their game jalen ramsey from the Jacksonville Jaguars spoke to the bbcs caroline barker. They reflected onjaguars owner shahid khan joining in with the show of unity. Your thoughts on those players taking the knee in unity . Our owner came down and showed us that he has oui came down and showed us that he has our back and he is with us, so we unified together. We decided to take any, we believe that is what is right. We believe it is a pressing issue right now in america. By doing so, we did it together as a team, standing together and locking arms, it is just standing together and locking arms, it isjust a standing together and locking arms, it is just a way of doing that. Standing together and locking arms, it isjust a way of doing that. How important is it that you feel like the owner has your back . Is very important. It is notjust the players all the coaches, it is the whole organisation from the top down. It was good. Do you think anything will change as a result . Were not sure, but well. Thats kind of why you do these things, to bring awareness to it and hopefully something does change. President trump is happy with one sports team at least. He tweeted this earlier the Golden State Warriors say they chose not to attend a ceremony at the white house. Golf now, and pga champion Justin Thomas has secured the fedex cup and with it, a ten Million Dollar bonus for winning the season long race. The second place finish in atlanta, was enough to give him the title. Another major winnerjordan spieth kept himself in contention for both titles with this eagle at the tenth. That took him to seven under, but he couldnt do better than that and a sixth place finish. Thomas could have won at east lake as well, but his putt for birdie on the eighteenth just missed, and he finished 11 under. And that left rookie Xander Schauffele to go one better as he birdied the last to win by one shot. And after 112 European Tour competitions, Lucas Bjerregaard has won his first title. The dane had a final round of 65 at the portugal masters to win by four strokes. He finished the tournament on 20 under par. Its the 26 year olds biggest pay day by far earning him just under 400,000. Cricket now. India have moved top of the one day rankings thanks to their series win over australia. Hardik pandya scoring 78 in indore as the home side sealed a five wicket victory. India now have an unassailable lead in the five match series. The fourth game of the series is in bangalore on thursday with the final encounter in nagpur on sunday. Englands Third One Day International against west indies ended with victory by 124 runs. Moeen ali starred, moving from 50 to 100 in 12 balls, the fastest half century in international cricket. Joe root managed 84 as england made 369 at bristol. Chris gayles 94 was the best turn for the windies who were all out for 245. It was a good time to come into bat, clear myself out of it. Have a bit ofa clear myself out of it. Have a bit of a licence to clear the small robes. I gave myself a good boundary. Did you feel like you could hit every ball once youd cleared the ropes a couple of times . The crowd going wild, you could hit every ball for six . I think they bowled a lot in that way, for myself and. I bowled a lot in that way, for myself and. Icould bowled a lot in that way, for myself and. I could have easily hit one straight, but everything seemed to go for six. Europe have won the inaugural laver cup in tennis, beating the world team in prague. It was Roger Federer who won the decisive match, but he was pushed all the way by australias nick kyrgios. The swiss eventually won 11 9 in their deciding set. That gave the europeans victory by 15 points to nine overall. Caroline wozniacki ended her string of final failures by beating Russias Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova in tokyo on sunday. Its her second consecutive pan pacific open title. It gives wozniacki her first title this year. Peter sagan has won his third consecutive world title after a dramatic finish at the mens World Championships road race. The slovakian barely featured throughout the 166 mile race in bergen. He was in 80th place approaching the final climb but timed his ride to perfection beating home favourite the norwegian Alexander Kristoff by just a quarter of a wheel to become the first man to win three consecutive world crowns. Australias Michael Matthews took third place. The photo finish shows just how close it was. Defending champion marc marquez has won the Aragon Motogp to open up a 16 point lead at the top of the World Championship standings. This was his second consecutive victory. It means he now has the outright championship lead with four races left. Dani pedrosa finished second, and jorge lorenzo, who led for most of the race, came third. Nine time champion Valentino Rossi who suffered a double leg fracture just three weeks ago finished fifth on his yamaha. The next race is the japanese grand prix on october 15th. Climbing is among four sports set to make an olympic debut in tokyo in 2020. But not all are happy about the way it is structured. We have been finding out more at the edinburgh world cup this weekend. Olympic fans will love watching the spiderman and spider women at tokyo in 2020. But this is not enough to win the medals. The aim is to climb as high as possible with a harness, and they will also have to contest bouldering disciplines which ta ke contest bouldering disciplines which take place a short distance from the ground. The three disciplines need different qualities, you need strength in your fingers, different qualities, you need strength in yourfingers, endurance as well. Combined climbing is a very big skill. | as well. Combined climbing is a very big skill. I am a bit upset, but i wa nt big skill. I am a bit upset, but i want to compete in the olympics and i will try my best to do it. It is very ha rd to i will try my best to do it. It is very hard to learn to boulder, but i will try for the olympics. They are prepared to fight, but some speed climbers say they will not attempt to qualify for the olympics. Some have said they could boycott the games as they are not happy with having to learn an alien event. It is clear that while not everyone is happy, the general consensus is that having climbing in the olympics is a positive thing. Potentially in 2024, they could look at individual events for the three disciplines. We hope that if you see it work, we can do it. We hope that 2020 will be good for climbers, and we can ask for more and more after. Frances one of the strongest competitive climbing countries, so perhaps they will be able to perfect their technique in time. You can get all the latest sports news at our website thats bbc. Com sport. But from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. Hi there. Most of us will have enjoyed some fairly warm weather for late september over the weekend. The highest temperatures, in a few spots, up to 23 degrees celsius in the warm spots, about five Degrees Higher than it is at this stage of september. We have also had a weather front with us, for some that has brought outbreaks of rain. The rain has been getting a little bit more widespread. This weather front has wiggles of cloud all over it, parcels of rain working along the front. Certainly not an even spread, some getting more than others. Some dampness around to start today for much of scotland, england and wales, it will be a mild start. Through monday, this weather front finding it difficult to move east because of this locking area of High Pressure a cross scandinavia and europe. The weather front is weak and going nowhere fast. For the far west of wales and parts of south west england, some brighter spells worsening. Many areas, rather cloudy to start the day. Mild with the risk of some rain. Northern ireland is different. A mix of sun and dense patches of fog. It could cause problems on the road. Scotland damped to start the day. Through the west, the weather front staying in the same area. Rain fizzling out as it continues to weaken through the rest of the day. By the afternoon, most of us will have dry weather, perhaps brightening up across east anglia and south east england. The best of the sunshine further west, especially in Northern Ireland after we get rid of the fog. Here is the chart for tuesday. The front is still with us across england and wales. Rarely any rain left on it at all. Today, cloud thinning and breaking up. Increasing amounts of sunshine coming through. In the sunshine, pretty warm for this time of year. Highs 16 21 for most of us. Some changes towards the middle part of the week. This weather front moves in from the west and will bring some heavy and persistent rain across ireland and Northern Ireland. Could get around 30 40 millimetres of rain. Perhaps even more over the hills. Coupled with that, some Gale Force Gusts extending through irish sea coast. To the east, bright, dry and relatively warm. Temperatures peaking into the low 20s. For this week, generally more unsettled with more rain at times. Quite windy, and those temperatures coming back down to normal. Thats your weather. Welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. My name is duncan golestani. Our top stories it looks like a fourth term in office for Angela Merkel but her party is punished by german voters. Translation lets not beat about the bush. Of course wed hoped for a better result, but lets not forget weve just had a very challenging four years. For the first time, the right wing nationalist afd wins seats in parliament it becomes germanys third party. Elsewhere, defying donald trump american Football Players kneel in protest against racism and police violence. In a few hours kurds in iraq will vote on independence, despite warnings of regional chaos
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