on the women s side, elena rybakina, roared past shelby rogers. other winners included andy murray, who maintained his record of never losing in the wimbledon first round. here s chetan pathak with a round up of the best of the day s play. rain here washed out play for most of tuesday, certainly on these outside courts, but on the show courts, underneath those roofs, play was completed as scheduled, and that saw elena rybakina, the women s defendant champion, in the end survive a scare against america s shelby rogers. she has been having a virus and needed to come back from a set down to beat the american. with the band now listed on russian and belarusian players, aryna sabalenka east past in straight since. there was also a straight set win for last year positive eaten finalist. in the men s draw, carlos alcaraz of the men s draw, carlos alcaraz of the number one, looked supreme again, seeing offjeremy chardy in three. and any murray, now 36 and playing with that middle hi
us will not allow houthi attacks to imperilfreedom of navigation and britain s prime minister rishi sunak saying the uk will always stand up for freedom of navigation and free flow of trade. the big question is will the strikes work? britain s defence ministry says the strikes have already been a blow to the hootie s ability to threaten merchant shipping. the real risk is that the conflict in gaza will escalate throughout the red sea region. major shipping lines and oil giant bp have already diverted vessels around southern africa adding time and cost to journeys rather than risk the red sea. if the crisis continues the increased cost of oil as well as goods could be passed on to consumers. hampering efforts to curb inflation and reduce interest rates. the houthi have attacked 27 ships to date disrupting commerce on those key shipping lanes between europe and asia and they account for about 15% of the world s shipping traffic. the boss of shipping giant maersk has told the bb
campaign is on his mind while on this trip to scotland and ireland. he says a victory for him would make america greater than ever before. he said earlier we will be leaving for scotland and ireland soon in order to inspect my great properties there. the second largest bank failure in history unfolds in the us as regulators shut down first republic bank and sell its assets tojp morgan. and solving london s housing crisis how one community is building its own solution selling affordable housing to locals. welcome to world business report, i m ben thompson. also in the programme we re going to take a look at the state of the commerical property sector, in the post covid world. but first. let s start in the united states, where us regulators have closed down first republic bank, and sold the troubled lenders assets tojp morgan. it was one of six banks that submitted bids to buy first republic, at an auction run by regulators. it makes it the second largest retail bank failure
and peter murrell the husband of scotland s former first minister nicola sturgeon has been arrested as part of a police investigtion into the finances of the scottish national party. 58 year old peter murrell was the snp s chief executive until he quite last month. in a statement, police scotland said they had taken a 58 year old man into custory for questionining over the party s funding and financing. the investigation was launched into donations raised by the party which was ostensibly to campaign for and hold a second independence referendum. it is alleged that money instead was used to help with the party s day running costs. in a short statement, the police had a 58 year old man has today, wednesday the 5th of april, been arrested. as part of an investigation into the funding of the scottish national party. he is being questioned by detectives. officers are also carrying out searches at a number of addresses as part of the investigation. they said i report will be s