the conservative leadership contest, joining a field of eight people, including two former health secretaries, sajid javid and jeremy hunt. the current favourite is the former chancellor rishi sunak, who resigned from his post on tuesday. now on bbc news, the travel show. this week on the travel show i m in the great american outdoors for a close encounter with some grizzly bears. we re heading to australia to wish a very happy birthday to one of the most iconic bridges in the world. and in mexico, we meet the people breathing life into an ancient ballgame that predates football by around 3,000 years. hello, and welcome to yellowstone park here in the united states. this is one of the oldest national parks in the world. it celebrates its 150th this year. now, this is a vast and mesmerising place. a little later on in the show i will be coming up close to one of yellowstone s most famous and fearsome residents the grizzly bear. but we re starting this week somewhere where
wins the women s singles title, representing kazakhastan. in the last hour, the united states has urged the sri lankan government to work quickly to address discontent in the country. discontent is putting it mildly protesters have stormed government buildings, and the president and prime minister have pledged to step down. it s all due to to months of economic mismanagement. sri lanka is suffering rampant inflation and is struggling to import food, fuel and medicine. our correspondent anbarasan ethirajan reports from the capital, colombo. the barricades were meant to keep the protesters back, but they were no barrier for the furious and desperate crowds, all suffering the effects of living in economic collapse. police used water cannon and fired shots in the air, but the crowds were more determined. and they kept surging forward until eventually they converged on the presidential palace and took over the home and office of the man they want to force from power. he had alre
support for the governing liberal democratic party, of which mr abe was the leading statesman. the uk chancellor nadhim zahawi has added his name to the conservative leadership contest, joining a field of eight people, including two former health secretaries, sajid javid and jeremy hunt. the current favourite is the former chancellor rishi sunak, who resigned from his post on tuesday. now on bbc news, dateline london with shaun ley. hello and welcome to the programme which brings together leading uk columnists with foreign correspondents who write, blog and broadcast from the dateline: london. britain s conservatives like to think of themselves as belonging to the natural party of government. this week, it s looked more like the natural party of farce. two cabinet ministers announced publicly that they d had enough of boris johnson. mrjohnson had not had enough of himself and for 48 hours, he dug in his heels, refusing to resign as prime minister, even as, one after another,
leadership contest, joining a field of eight people, including two former health secretaries. now on bbc news, it s time to click. this week, we re at wimbledon to find out if ai can predict the winners, although spencer s concentrating on the more important parts of the event. choose my blanket design. got to get the food sorted first. lara gets her trainers on to put some of the latest fitness devices through their paces. they say that i run like an elephant. the question is, is it true? probably! cheering. it s men versus machine as omar and paul kick off against the robots. and we check out the tools hoping to make sports more accessible. it s one of the biggest events on the sporting calendar. the players, powerful. ..light of foot. ..lightning fast. it requires physical endurance and nerves of steel. and that s the reason that every year the crowds spill out to watch wimbledon. you see that there? that is centre court and it s been in that spot now for exactly 100 years