championship. shortly, he will have a lot of sponsorship deals ahead too, a lot of instagram and x followers as well. he took his gcses just six months ago. i understand his next ambition is when he turned 17 later this month, to start to i7 later this month, to start to learn to drive! thank you very much, joe and carl! thank you very much, joe and carl! thank you. let s talk now to jamie caven, himself a former world youth champion of darts and now a director at the professional darts players association, where he oversees youth darts. jamie, first of all, how are you feeling about what has happened tonight with luke? high. yes, it has been phenomenal. . hi. he has probably got an older head on young shoulders. i have known him forfive or six years, and when i first met him, he showed signs then. he was only i! or 12, so he has been phenomenal through the event, and the media coverage has been mayhem, really, and that is just down to the fact that this young lad has take
i m sally bundock with the top business stories. and we begin here in the uk where, as you ve been hearing, the nhs in england is braced for six days of strike action starting in an hour and a half, so 7am. and this marks the longest stretch of industrial action in the history of the national health service. junior doctors have been pushing for a 35% pay rise, which they say would restore their earnings after inflation to 2008 levels, but the government says this is unaffordable. for many decades, healthcare spending in western economies as a share of gdp has always risen, but recent research carried out by the economist claims that is no longer the case. so what is the cost of providing healthcare? an issue that will dominate in the run up to a general election here in the uk and a headache for most governments around the world. let s unpack this. i m joined by dr rocco friebel assistant professor of health policy at the london school of economics. good to have you on the
welcome to the programme. we start in the middle east. iran s supreme leader says there ll be a harsh response, after at least 95 people were killed, by two explosions in the southeastern city of kerman. the blasts were near the saheb al zaman mosque, where thousands of people had gathered to mark the anniversary of the death of a senior general, who was killed in a us drone strike in 2020. caroline hawley reports. the roads leading to the cemetery were packed with people who had gone to qasem soleimani. officials say the bombs had been planted in bags and were apparently set off by remote control. whoever did this was clearly aiming to cause mass casualties. the iranian red crescent said their efforts to evacuate the injured were complicated by the size of the crowds. and a first bomb was followed swiftly by a second, more deadly explosion. it comes four years to the day since qasem soleimani was killed himself in an american drone attack while on a visit to iraq. general so
very well and this is rafael nadal we re talking about, a 22 time grand slam champion. i think the other advantage of winning two matches here already and having a third against jordan thomson of australia is that will be three matches in four days. if he wins the quarterfinal, then four matches in five days and this exactly what you need when you re returning to the tour having had a year away. there were two hours and 15 minutes on the clock when that third set began. we just need to be reliastic, if you ve been out since april and you have had three minor operations, two on her hand and one on her left ankle, then you re going to tire in the third set of a match of that quality and physicality. she was really going for her shots, we know that is the way she plays and wants to play. but her defence was very, very good. again, it s been a really encouraging couple of rounds for her. i think certainly above expectations given that she s had so little tennis in 2023. india hav
it s 8am on thursday morning in singapore. we start in the middle east. iran s supreme leader, says there ll be a harsh response, after at least 95 people were killed by two explosions in the south eastern city of kerman. the blasts were near the saheb al zaman mosque, where thousands of people had gathered to mark the anniversary of the death of a senior general who was killed in a us drone strike in 2020. caroline hawley reports. the roads leading to the cemetery were packed with people who had gone to pay their respects to qasem soleimani. officials say the bombs had been planted in bags and were apparently set off by remote control. whoever did this was clearly aiming to cause mass casualties. the iranian red crescent said their efforts to evacuate the injured were complicated by the size of the crowds. the first bomb was followed swiftly by a second, more deadly explosion. it comes four years to the day since qasem soleimani was killed himself in an american drone attack