Very positively and i would be very surprised if it is the opposite, but it is not in a situation where i feel comfortable, that is for sure, because i thought it was over, but now we have it once again. It is not easy. From one Us Open champion to another. But Aryna Sabalenka has lost for the first time since before her run to the title in New York. Beaten by Karolina Muchova in the quarter finals of Hte China open. Sabalenkas defeat in beijing ends a winning streak of 15 matches. But after fighting back from a set down and having a break in the decider, she lost the third set 6 4 to muchova who will play chinas olympic champion Zheng Qinwen in the semi finals. The highest court in the European Union has said that Fifa Rules which govern the way some Football Transfers work break the eus laws, in a ruling that could have a big effect on future deals. Its after a long running legal battle between former Chelsea And Arsenal Midfielder Lassana Diarra and fifa that has been won by the ret
Others express caution. Hello, im matthew amroliwala. Welcome to todays bbc verify. We start with the crisis in the middle east. Irans Supreme Leader, ayatollah khamenei, has defended his Countrys Missile Attack on israel earlier this week as a minimum punishment in a rare public speech, as He Led Friday Prayers in tehran for the first time in five years. He told a huge crowd of supporters that iran and its allies must prepare for action as He Led commemorations for the Hezbollah Leader, Hassan Nasrallah, who was killed by israel last week. Iran fired nearly 200 ballistic missiles into israel on Tuesday Night in retaliation for his assassination, and israel has promised to hit back. Overnight, there were more huge explosions in beirut, close to the main airport. Us officials say israel was targeting the potential successor to nasrallah. There have also been reports of 20 rockets being fired from lebanon into israel. Lets go to the live pictures from beirut. Smoke can be seen rising ov
That was the Dock Strike which ports shut down and was going to be a disastrous. President biden helped get that thing fixed fast. They have agreed tentatively to a 62 increase in wages over the next six years. The first offer that the union turned down, just to show you how far apart this was, was 40 . That is where this began so the pressure the union put on really did work and of course, the Court Companies are hoping that President Biden would feel the pressure of this and just order a Tafthartley Return to work by that union to get through the election and you can imagine how the companies that the president is going to have to do this because this will be so difficult for the Harris Campaign but the president just kept the administration pushing both sides to an agreement they had at 5 30 you can imagine how this was at the White House. White House Chief of staff on resume, Pete Buttigieg and others in the administration with both sides forcing them to get together and so both si
Hezbollah is part of the political game here in lebanon. It is almost the only party that is, you know, armed and lebanon and also has representation in the parliament. But has engaged in fights and conflict with israel since it started in 19805 until this latest confrontation that we are living these days. Frank, a lot of people i think certainly after the attack we saw a couple of nights ago, that unprecedented attack in terms of Scale And Size that iran launched on israel. One question which people are asking is why did iran Attack Israel and will israel now Attack Iran . Ok, so this really goes back to april the 1st, when the israeli Air Force carried out an airstrike on Irans Consulate in damascus, killing a number of Iranian Revolutionary Guards officers, including allegedly the man who was coordinating the flow of arms from iran through syria to hezbollah in lebanon. And that was an attack on a diplomatic premise, the international outrage was pretty muted. Iran said it would re
Start of the gaza war and we will bring you more information on both stories as that comes into us but turning back to lebanon because early in the day israel carried out air raids against what it called hezbollah s intelligence headquarters in southern beirut. Our middle east correspondence sent us this report. Another night in beirut and more israeli air strikes. War returns to this city. And this attack came with no warning. We went to inspect the damage. A residential building near the lebanese parliament. Beirut appears increasingly under threat. This is where an emergency response group linked to hezbollah operated, now gone. There were just emergency service workers. This is the truth. We only saw them helping people out, says mustafa, who lives on the tenth floor of the building hit. The damage in this building gives you a sense of the power of this attack, and they ve been cleaning up the rubble here, but we can still see some surgical masks and gloves and bandages as well. An