round up from the bbc sport centre, here is gavin. the latest from the gulf in a moment but some breaking news from tennis and rafael nadal want to be defending his french open title this year after pulling out of roland garros. speaking at a press conference to m time french open champion said next year could be his last as a professional. he hasn t missed a french open since 2004 and has gained the nickname the king of clay. he hasn t played since january after a hip injury at the australian open. the us pga championship is under way and the world top three are out after the start of round one was delayed by frosty conditions in upstate new york. kazuki higa has the early lead so far and brooks koepka is out, at parfor the round as they have just started, as is rory michael roy who is after his third us pga overall. level after his first hole. he is with the current championjustin thomas who has birdied his first of the day. that is the leader board on your screen as we spe
another area of low pressure developing on this one is working into the central mediterranean and will bring again some extreme rainfall. it has been named by the authorities as storm nino. it will be wet for corsica and sardinia and most of mainland italy but the extreme rain will be across north western areas of the country particularly around the piedmont area and we could be looking at 300 millimetres of rain. again we are talking about extreme rainfall with a really high chance of seeing severe flooding and landslides as well. it isjust severe flooding and landslides as well. it is just an enormous amount of rain and of course the ground is saturated, given that we have had a succession of these rainfall events. if we look at the extreme weather in italy over recent times, at the start of the month, amelia romagna was hit with flooding rain that caused a number of fatalities, we have seen storm minerva bring half a year s worth of rain in 36 hours, we
willie. i want to dig in a little bit. sarah palin and that you had a great line that she was john the baptist to the coming of trump. talk about a little bit about what she started, governor palin started and what she responded to in this post 9/11 world. she said it at a fundraiser which is places where politicians on the campaign trail tells the truth. he said she loves coming to the real america where the hardworking patriotic people grow our food and fight our wars. she was dividing us into the real and fake america which presumably is where we live in new york. but, she was in north carolina in the piedmont area which suffered tobacco textile and
in this post-9/11 world. she said it at a fund-raiser, which is the only place that politicians on the campaign trail actually tell the truth. think about obama with guns and religion, hillary clinton with the deplorables, mitt romneys with the takers and the makers. she said, she loved coming to real america, where the patriotic, hard-working people who grow our foods and fight our wars live. so she was dividing us into the real and the make america, which is presumably where we live in new york. but she was in north carolina, in the piedmont area, which had suffered the loss of tobacco, textiles, and furniture making. the same kind of hallowing out that joe was talking about in michigan. and it was no longer the america she was imagining. it was a place of many pathologies and social ills with multiple generations in poverty and on public benefits. it did not look like the real america of sarah palin s imagination. and that america had become