with the level the top of the leaderboard after three level on eight under. recording the lowest first rounds at the us open with eight under scores of 62 on the first day. they are back out a little bit later on. dustinjohnson. quadruple bogey on par four second hole. defending champions matt fitzpatrick xxx hole in one on murray mcelroy just dropped murray mcelroyjust dropped a shot at the 13th and dropped to seven. a hole from defending champion mats for accurate but is struggling to gain ground. england declared on 193 for eight on the first day of the ashes series for more than lived up to the hype. joe root unbeaten 118 holding them back for a position on the hundred and 76 5. captain ben stokes made the surprise decision with the close approaching the earliest christenings declaration in ashes history for the up there a half centuries from jonny bairstow and opener zak crawley for them in reply to her border to australia to for the their half centuries from jonny bai
welcome to the programme. russia strikes kyiv again, just as a delegation of african leaders visit the ukrainian capital to discuss peace solutions. also tonight: a two year investigation into the minneapolis police department in the wake of the killing of george floyd has found that officers routinely used excessive force and discriminated against black people for years. we ll have an update from kalamata, in greece, where officials have denied a series of reports that suggest the migrant boat which capsized 50 miles off the south coast did so because a rope was attached to it by coastguards. and the rapid rise of artificial intelligence technology has led to a lot of fear and concern, but also a lot of new and exciting solutions. we ll look at one example from devon, where ai is being used to predict pollution in waterways before it happens. but first let s focus in on ukraine, where the capital, kyiv, has come under missile attack at the same time that a delegation of af
hello, i m nancy kacungira. you re watching the context on bbc news. from making headlines to writing bylines, former prime minister borisjohnson has released his first publication as a newspaper columnist one day after a parliament report said he deliberately misled the house. less than a week after resigning from parliament and just over 2a hours since the release of the damning report which found he had misled mps over partygate borisjohnson has a newjob. as a new columnist for the daily mail. so back to his journalistic roots.
hello, i m nancy kacungira, you re watching the context on bbc news. from making headlines to writing bylines again. from making headlines to writing bylines again. former prime minister borisjohnson has gone from making headlines to writing his byline. one day after parliament reports that he deliberately misled the house. we will get to all that very soon. let s get the sport. for a full round up here is the bbc sport center. thank you for that wyndham clark is been the big mover on day two of lozenges open in los angeles