Showers off. After a really cold start, most of you should have a dry day with sunshine. The exception is Northern Ireland, where we will see a band of rain moving into the afternoon, so it will be Turning Wetter year. Into the weekend, we are eventually going to see the when switching to a south westerly direction. It will be bringing wet and windy Weather Conditions to the North East of the Uk North west of the uk, it should stay dry to the east. Temperatures will climb quite a bit and be much closer to average for the time of year. If you are fed up for the time of year. If you are fed up with the unsettled weather, next week it looks dry, sunny and quite warm. Hello and welcome to sportsday. Im Olly foster. A strong start against the finnish, great britain make a winning start in their Davis Cup Group. Looking to the future, theres a fresh feel to the England And Australia sides as they start their T20 Series in southampton tonight. And Lee Carsley is also looking ahead, after a pe
Our Ireland Correspondent Sara Girvin reports. After years of strained relations, this was the Moment Sir Keir starmer was given A Hundred Thousand welcomes to dublin. There were smiles and handshakes as he and his irish counterpart were presented with football jerseys. This will be proudly worn in north london before too long. Both leaders said this was an opportunity to renew and deepen the friendship between britain and ireland. I know as two new leaders of our respective countries, we both said we wish to really place British Irish Relations on a new path, and i really appreciate the time that youve given to that since taking office. Its really important to me and to my government, and i think it is the moment for reset, and its when we put meaning behind those words. International matters took Centre Stage following a roundtable business discussion. We have to be clear in the face of russian aggression, we have to stand together to coordinate, stand with our allies and give ukrain
Hello, im christian fraser. Youre watching the context on bbc news. The Gender Gap widens in the us election well take a look at what that might mean for the campaigns. We are hearing from the united states that Dick Cheney, former Vice President , now 83 years old, has said he will be following his Daughter And Voting for Kamala Harris at the election. The republican former Vice President following his daughter, who course did say this week, Liz Cheney, she would vote for Kamala Harris. We will maybe talk about what that might mean for the democratic campaign. But now the opposite side of the age scale. Every four years in a us election, political analysts like us Start Splitting up the electorate into different subgroups, who might this time be the difference. Suburban mothers in michigan. Retired folks in arizona. Latinos in nevada. Black voters in georgia. And so on and so on. But one of the things that really stands out in this election, is the Gender Gap. It is there in all the S
Jack draper, the british number one, is celebrating the biggest win of his career. He beat the australian tenth seed alex de minaur at the us open to reach his first grand slam semifinal. He was rarely troubled in what was also his first quarterfinal at a major tournament, and it was the first time that he d played on the main arthur ashe show court in new york. He d lost his three previous meetings to de minaur but took the first set 63, and despite needing treatment for a groin problem in the second set, he won that 75 and breezed through the third 62. He is the first british man to reach the last four since andy murray in 2012, the year he won it. Draper is yet to drop a set in the tournament karolina muchova overcame illness to reach her second consecutive us open semifinal. The czech won in straight sets against the brazilian beatriz haddad maia. But muchova had to dash to the rest room four times during the match before eventually winning 61, 64. She s yet to drop a set on the ev
Win of his career. He beat the australian tenth seed alex de minaur at the us open to reach his first grand slam semifinal. He was rarely troubled in what was also his first quarterfinal at a major tournament, and it was the first time that he d played on the main arthur ashe show court in new york. He d lost his three previous meetings to de minaur but took the first set 63, and despite needing treatment for a groin problem in the second set, he won that 75 and breezed through the third 62. He is the first british man to reach the last four since andy murray in 2012, the year he won it. Draper is yet to drop a set in the tournament karolina muchova overcame illness to reach her second consecutive us open semifinal. The czech won in straight sets against the brazilian beatriz haddad maia. But muchova had to dash to the rest room four times during the match before eventually winning 61, 64. She s yet to drop a set. On the eve of the nfl season, louis reeszammit has been speaking to the