The champs elysees to the place de la concorde. The first of 11 days of sporting action takes place on thursday as france hosts a summer paralympic games for the first time. So the opening ceremony is complete. And after tokyo had no fans due to covid, and rio was dogged by financial issues, the pressure is on the french capital to rival or even better london 2012. Beyond the sport, however, those involved say they re mindful of a secondary purpose for the games. It is always important, we are here winning at least four medals but we are part of the incredible global movement, the paralympic movement which on and off the field want disabled people to be recognised in society. Those performances on the field can only help us in that cause. Now to the us open tennis, where the wimbledon champion barbora krejcikova is out. She was beaten in the second round by the romanian qualifier elena gabriela ruse ruse, beating the czech player 6 4, 7 5 to reach the third round of a grand slam fo
Also painted the skies above with the french flag. A,500 athletes made up the parade from the champs elysees to the place de la concorde. The first of 11 days of sporting action takes place on thursday as france hosts a summer paralympic games for the first time. So the opening ceremony is complete. And after tokyo had no fans due to covid, and rio was dogged by financial issues, the pressure is on the french capital to rival or even better london 2012. Beyond the sport, however, those involved say they re mindful of a secondary purpose for the games. It is always important, we are here in elite sport. Winning medals is what we re about, but we are also part of an incredible global movement, the paralympic movement, which on and off the field of play wants disabled people to be recognised wholly in society. Those performances on the field can only help us in that cause. Now to the us open tennis, where the wimbledon champion barbora krejcikova is out. She was beaten in the second r
White and red fireworks. The patrouille de france also painted the skies above with the french flags, 4,500 athletes made up the parade from the champs elysees to the place de la concorde. The first of 11 days of sporting action takes place on thursday as france hosts a summer paralympic games for the first time. So the opening ceremony is complete, and after tokyo had no fans due to covid and rio was dogged by financial issues, the pressure is on the french capital to rival, or even better, london 2012. Beyond the sport however, those involved say they re mindful of a secondary purpose for the games. It is always important, we are here winning at least four medals but we are part of the incredible global movement, the paralympic movement which on and off the field want disabled people to be realised in society. Those performances on the field can only help us in that cause. Now to the us open tennis where the wimbledon champion barbora krejcikova is out. She was beaten in the second r
Can only help us in that cause. Now to the us open tennis where the wimbledon champion barbora krejcikova is out. She was beaten in the second round by the romanian qualifier elena gabriela ruse, beating the czech player 6 4, 7 5 to reach the third round of a grand slam for the first time. Krejcikova who was knocked out of the quarterfinals at the olympics chose not to play any hard court warm up events going into the tournament, and withdrew from the tournament in toronto with a thigh injury. In the men s draw, fourth seed alexander zverev is in action in the louis armstrong stadium. He s taking on alexandre muller of france, the two have never met before. Zverev has taken the first two sets the second one a closer affair, went to a tie break. Zverev leads the third set 3 1. While the former semi finalist grigor dimitrov is through to the third round, the bulgarian ninth seed beat australian rinky hiji kata in straight sets. Cricket and england and sri lanka are making their final
Hello, i m samantha simmonds. You re watching the context on bbc news. The uk sets out plans for an ambitious reset with europe as the prime minister visits germany. Sir keir starmer has made his first bilateral trip as uk prime minister on a two day visit to some of europe s biggest powers. In the last few hours, we ve seen him arrive in paris where he met with french president emmanuel macron at the elysee, ahead of the paralympics opening ceremony. Earlier, the pm met with german chancellor olaf scholz in berlin. The pair announced they re working a new bilateral treaty to deepen cooperation on areas such as security, and the economy. Keir starmer said it was part of a wider reset with europe. A new uk anew uk a new uk germany treaty, and once in a generation chance to deliverfrom once in a generation chance to deliver from working people once in a generation chance to deliverfrom working people in britain and in germany. A new agreement, a testament to the depth of potential