president biden will have two. thank you for that, peter. have to make. novak djokovic will face rafael nadal in the french open semi finals, after battling past matteo berrettini in a match that saw spectators ejected from roland garros midway through. tennis fans were allowed into a night session for the first time, following a relaxation of paris s curfew from 9pm to 11pm. aruna iyengar has the details. celebrating new freedoms. tennis fans toasting the chance to watch the tennis greats at new night sessions at roland garros. 5,000 fans were allowed in to court philippe chatrier for the quarterfinal. an electric atmosphere as top ranked djokovic was ahead in the first set. but the cheers turned to jeers as the quarterfinal
late on wednesday night, air force one arrived in cornwall, where the summit is taking place. he ll meet the prime minister, borisjohnson at carbis bay on thursday, before the summit begins on friday. 0ur north america editor jon sopel has this report on the start of the us president s visit. for the first time since becoming president injanuary, joe biden stepps out from air force one on to foreign soil. the soil of suffolk and raf mildenhall, to be precise, on a perfect summer s evening. the president wants this first foreign trip that will take him to cornwall, brussels and geneva, to be seen as a decisive break from the trump years america no longer isolationist. points he drove home to us servicemen and women at the base, once he d told them to relax. please, at ease. i keep forgetting i m president.
where the us is watching with some unease british attempts to amend or renegotiate the northern ireland protocol that puts a de facto border for trade between mainland britain and the province. the us says the achievements of the 1998 good friday agreement have played such a decisive role in bringing peace to northern ireland and must not be put in jeopardy. whatever way they find to proceed must at its core fundamentally protect the gains of the good friday agreement and not imperil that and that is the message president biden will send when he is in cornwall. and if he had any indication that it would imperil the good friday agreement, would thatjeopardise a future us uk trade deal? i don t want to sit here today and negotiate in public around linkage or make some claim or threat. i would just say that our concern runs very deep on the northern ireland issue. the g7 leaders will be relieved to see a more familiar style of american president
for instance, because the indians are licensed, they are able to produce the astrazeneca vaccine within their country, and then export it abroad. of course, nobody predicted that they themselves would fall victim to such a huge surge of the coronavirus. and china and russia seems to be making a lot of headway here. is america going to look like it s constantly catching up? no, i don t think so. i think at this point, if you offer the average person the sinovacs, which is the vaccine from china, or one of these modern vaccines either the pfizer vaccine, or the moderna, or thejohnson &johnson vaccine they re going to choose the latter, they re going to choose those ones that work. raja krishnamoorthi, thank you forjoining us. when president biden meets his russian counterpart vladimir putin next week, he ll be discussing the treatment
welcome to bbc news, i m mark lobel. our top stories: president biden arrives in the uk for the g7 summit it s his first foreign tour since taking office injanuary. he promises a multilateral america with a warning to russia and an appeal to support democracies around the world. the united states is back and democracies of the world are standing together to tackle the toughest challenges. the eu says its patience is wearing very thin with the uk, in talks aimed at avoiding a trade war over border checks with northern ireland. political organisations linked to the jailed kremlin critic alexei navalny are banned