in the women s draw, the quarter finals are complete. aryna sabalenka continued her sparkling form at roland garros. and it was a comfortable win for second seed she eased past emma navarro in straight sets, 6 2, 6 3 and will play 17 year old mirra andreeva in the quarter finals. on match day, i m really focused. ifeel all the pressure, to be honest, and i m dealing with that, but on a day off, i am able to completely switch off and forget about tennis, but on a day off, i am able and go out, have fun, doing something for my mental health, to be stronger, ready for the next round, so it s all about how you are able to manage the energy. fourth seed elena rybakina is through, matching her best result at roland garros. she beat fifteenth seed and wimbledon semi finalist elina svitolina in straight sets 6 4, 6 3 and will play italianjasmin paolini next, after she beat russian elina avenesyan in three sets. in football news france forward kylian mbappe says it is a dream com
you said this is the most sold calendar in italy? ..and still allows its sympathisers. as it draws to a close, the finale. ..with a chilling throwback to italy s dictatorship decades. all: presente! presente! these kinds of demonstrations with the fascist salutes happen across the country year in, year out. the state allows them to take place and society somehow seems to tolerate them. i want to find out why, and why some of the images associated with the dark chapters of italy s past still infuse the present. presente! for the hardcore believers, a return to where it or rather he began. the small town of predappio in north east italy, the birthplace of benito mussolini, the country s fascist dictator, assassinated in 1945 after a ruthless 20 year rule. every year on the anniversary of his death, the faithful gather to honour him. not for them the established narrative of his reign of terror. down the road, mussolini merch. from the traditional to the tacky, an extraordin
derek black, welcome to hardtalk. your book is called the klansman s son, and your family as a whole were close to david duke, who s one of the most notorious ku klux klan leaders. the anti defamation league has called him perhaps america s best known racist and anti semite. describe for us first the home and the environment in which you grew up, in florida in the 1990s. right, thanks for having me. i grew up in a place that i think often doesn t look like what most people expect. it was relatively urban. it was in south florida, it was very racially diverse. i lived in a neighbourhood with people from lots of different countries, and although i grew up in an anti semitic movement, there was a very largejewish population in the area. and that was ok for my family, because their world view is what separated them from the rest of the country. it was that they saw themselves as a part of a movement that they had been building since decades before i was born, and they wanted to c
ms sheinbaum is an environmental scientist turned politician. she is considered a protege of the previous president although she insists he will wield no influence over her government. as president, she says she ll priotise welfare programs, improve the lives of women and tackle security. the elections were marred by violence and threats, and a candidate was reportedly murdered after the polls closed this weekend, among dozens of candidates killed over the campaign. after a historic night, today has been more prosaic for claudia sheinbaum and her team. no doubt they got some sleep after a gruelling election campaign and a tiring night. but during the day, she put out that she had been receiving messages of congratulations from the length and breadth of the continent, from the president of chile to president biden in washington. not necessarily political allies too, like president bukele in el salvador. she hopes for a super majority in congress, two thirds of the seats, which
she is considered a protege of the previous president although she insists he will wield no influence over her government. she says she will prioritise welfare programmes, improve the lives of women and tackle security. if the elections were marred by violence and threats, and a candidate was reportedly murdered after the polls closed this weekend, among dozens of candidates killed over the campaign. it s a new day in mexican politics. after two centuries of men in power, when voters eventually chose their first female president, it was with a landslide. the victory itself was a moment to savour for claudia sheinbaum, and she was quick to acknowledge the many women who blazed a trail before her. i didn t get here on my own. we got here together, she said. thanks to our ancestors, our mothers, our daughters and granddaughters. in a nation of such entrenched machismo, what claudia sheinbaum has achieved here is no small feat. other women have tried and failed, but her offer