match of the day sees andy murray face stefanos tsitsipas. there s a host of grand slam champions elsewhere too and keeping across it all at the all england club is chetan pathak. chetan, bring us up to speed. the rain going on with the death first and second round matches played this in time but the sun is out in tennis is relentless. cheer on centre court behind me when liam brody the british wildcat he was a upset last year is playing casper ruud who is the fourth seed who has reached three of the last four grand slam finals and brodie has levelled things up and is two set since heading to a shoot out on centre court and whoever wins the deciding set will be in for the third round and other casper ruud is not a natural glass course player and his biggest success have come in a different court and he says he is still figuring out at the surface but the whole crowd is getting behind him. he beat british world champion before. three time grand slam champion is through to the
earths just days ago. i think she really wants as she said to get communications open. we are trading a lot with china, china depends on the us, us depends on china but at the same time, security and geopolitical interests are coming into conflict. i would say it is a little bit like good cop bad cop, blinken being the bad cop and now yellen going in as the good cop trying to say, look, we have a lot in common, let s see what we can do together, but boy, back home in the united states, both the democrats and the republicans are bashing on china, trump put in tariffs on hundreds of billions of chinese goods and president biden, who has reversed every trump policy he can, has kept that one. but despite those cooling tensions, the trade between the two have actually been growing but of course just ahead of her visit, beijing announcing those export controls on rare metals, also introducing some new laws on foreign relations and counterespionage and so on. is beijing playing ha
since israel s retaliation for the october 7th attacks, us military bases in syria and iraq have been attacked more than 170 times. the group behind the deaths at the tower 22 base called islamic resistance in iraq are part of an iranian sponsored network across the middle east. known as the axis of resistance , there s a number of pro iranian militias based in iraq, syria, lebanon, the palestinian territories and as far south as yemen. all are opposed to israel and the united states. from washington our north america editor sarah smith has the latest. in the situation room, president biden with his defence secretary is considering his military reaction. we are told he is weighing his options. he needs to retaliate, but without causing more conflict. we do not seek another war. we do not seek to escalate. but we will absolutely do what is required to protect ourselves, to continue that mission and to respond appropriately to these attacks. shortly after he learned of t
border. it s one of many american bases across the region. there have been dozens of drone and missile attacks in recent months, but no american personnel have been killed until now. joe biden, seen here attending church, was quick to point the finger. we know it was carried out by radical iran backed militant groups operating in syria and iraq, he said. it s not necessarily a tipping point into uncontrolled escalation between the united states and iran, but it s another very dangerous step because, as i say, the us will have to respond even more strongly than it s done to previous attacks. carefully cultivated over years, iran has a wide network of allies and proxies operating in countries across the middle east. they re all opposed to israel and the united states. it s sometimes called the axis of resistance. there are pro iranian militias in lebanon, the palestinian territories, gaza and the west bank, plus iraq and syria. and far to the south, there s also the houthis i