Hello and welcome to sportsday, with mejane dougall and ben mundy. The headlines this evening. Tears again for england as the roses crash out of the netball world cup to new zealand. His to new zealand. Putter has been on fire today. Shane his putter has been on fire today. Shane larry has been throwing the crowds at royal port rush, but will the irishman take the clericjob. You dont have to tell Geraint Thomas stage 14 of the Tour De France is known as the long mountain, the defending champion loses more time to julian alaphilippe. Also coming up on sportsday. The anniversary games return. Paula radcliffe looks back at the afternoons action from the london stadium. Nothing welcome to sportsday. We start with the news that englands netball world cup dream is over. There were tears from the players and head coach after an incredibly tight match against new zealand, ended with the roses losing by 2 goals. Thats now eight world cup semi finals that england have lost and they now face sout
Hello and welcome to bbc world news. The British Foreign secretary jeremy hunt says britain will do what it takes to keep International Shipping safe after a uk registered oil tanker was seized by iran in the gulf. Mr hunt said tehran had assured him last week that it wanted to de escalate tensions in the region but was now doing the opposite. Iran has released footage of the moment its troops seized the vessel. This is the Moment Iranian revolutionary guards took over the stena impero, descending from a helicopter onto the deck of the tanker, as fast boats circled nearby. Iran says the ship had broken International Regulations following an accident involving a fishing boat. The ships owners have not confirmed this and say it was obeying the law. It is now being held at the port of bandar abbas. We are calling on iran to reverse this illegal act. We are looking for ways to de escalate the situation, but we are also very clear that we will do what it takes to ensure the safety and secur
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like desantis, haley, pence, scott, for this fund-raiser. the bulk of the g.o.p. field will be here. before they come to the iowa fairgrounds, some campaigning to do across the country. you are going to see a lot of us in south carolina. florida governor ron desantis hits his third early voting state of the week, south carolina after campaigning in iowa and new hampshire. don t let anyone tell you they can do this in 24 hours or six months or anything like that. this is going to be trench warfare. ron desantis is responding to former president donald trump was arguing could break the country in six months. desantis says that the republican president would need to go consecutive terms to rein in government. trump wrapped his two day iowa trip with a town hall in des moines and responded to reports that federal prosecutors have the reporting of the present acknowledging that he had a classified document about about iran war plans. everything i did was right. the
that s it. new ball. shots are 2-2. got by him. comes back with it! you try to put your entire being mentally and physically on automatic pilot while you re playing tennis. everything is concentrated on the razor s edge and you forget the score. you forget where you are. you forget what your name is. i feel like my body s floating within myself. the game of tennis is a symphony in white. players in white suits hitting a white ball back and fort. in all white country clubs but a new, young player has come along and he is one of the greatest we have ever produced and he is not white. i sense confusion in what an athlete should be, especially an african american context. does still persist in the world about black athletes because we tend to do disproportionately well in athletes. i like to fight the myth. there are lots of us who can think as well as run, jump, hit tennis balls, dunk basketballs. and the challenge now is to convince young black athletes that the