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I am pleased to say we will not be going ahead with plans for Vaccine Passports. The Trade Union Congress warns that up to 660,000 jobs could be at risk, if the uk fails to reach net zero Carbon Emissions as quickly as other countries. The Anti Immigration Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor 0rban, meets Pope Francis in budapest. Britains18 year old Emma Raducanu has won the Us Open in one of the most dramatic victories in modern tennis. She beat19 year old Leylah Fernandez of canada in two sets 64, 63. Raducanu only made it into the tournament as a qualifier, but she won the title without dropping a single set. Shes the first british woman to win a grand Slam Singles Title in 44 years. Heres our sports correspondent, joe wilson. The borough of queens on a sunny day, and the extraordinary progress of one young woman. Shes been absolutely amazing this whole tournament. She has a lot of energy. Shes so composed and. Ruthless. Shes going to smash it. You know who theyre talking about. Well, there were two teenagers in the Us Open final canadian Leylah Fernandez at the top of the screen. As early as the second game, we saw intense rallies and we saw Emma Raducanu prevailing here. Both players settled immediately to display a full range of their abilities. Points were hard earned, skilfully won. Nerves . No sign. Two things were clear. We had a final worthy of the occasion, and raducanu had the first set, 6 4. She was broken early in the second set, broke back like that. Now fernandez was struggling to hold her serve. 44 years of waiting, one hour 51 on court. And one more serve. It is right to realise what this means for british tennis, but also for world tennis. It was an outstanding match, an astounding champion. Really, its yours its all yours. These images will be the posters and the posts displayed for decades. If the point of sport is to uplift and amaze, Emma Raducanu is already at the pinnacle. Joe wilson, bbc news. The queen sent her congratulations to the teenager, saying in a statement, the statement goes on. The Duke And Duchess of cambridge tweeted, the Prime Minister, borisjohnson, tweeted, and the former tennis champion, martina navratilova, said, 0ur Correspondent in New York, samira hussain, managed to catch up with emma and asked her about her sudden rise to fame. Ive got no idea whats going on, not at all. Ive got no clue. But anything that comes my way im ready to deal with it, and ive got great people around me to take me through these moments and they got me here, and, yeah, im very excited to celebrate with them later and also go home and see everyone back home. What was it like to receive a message from the queen . It meant everything to get a message from her majesty. She is such a great Inspiration And Role model for the whole country, so to have a note from her, i was extremely honoured and very, very grateful that she took notice of my tennis. I cant believe it, im maybe going to frame that letter or something. The last time i spoke to you on monday, i asked how you celebrate and you said frozen yoghurt. Whats the flavourfor winning a championship . Flavour doesnt change imean. Its chocolate with more chocolate and some chocolate brownie. I mean, im one of those. They laugh. So. The last week we havent managed to, actually, because of late finishes, but tonight, i am sure we will go to town on everything. They laugh. The chocolate brownie, the feud of champions axeman meanwhile. The feud of champions 0ur sports reporter, laura scott, has been to Bromley Tennis Club where Emma Raducanu trained for years. She watched the match with players and fans and found out what the win means to them. Seeing their home grown Star Seal the most extraordinary of triumphs, elation for emma erupted. Cheering and applause. She has just stunned the world on the iconic courts of Flushing Meadows, but it was here at Parklangley Club in beckenham that as a six year old she started the work that led to Grand Slam glory. Those who had seen the first signs of her potential could barely believe it. The grind of being a tennis coach, strengthening and conditioning coach. It is tough, and moments like this make it all worth it. Hours on from her remarkable win, is this the Emma Effect already on display . Local Boys And Girls back in bromley telling us they are keener than ever to take to the court. It inspires me a lot to play more, to be more enthusiastic about how i play, how i can progress and yeah, all of those different experiences are really nice. I watched a little bit last night and my parents told me that she won. And i already knew that she played here, and i thought it was really cool, and so i wanted to come here today to see how well i could. Train here too. While the celebrations within british tennis are still in full flow, the pressure is on those in charge of the sport to capitalise on raducanus success. The fact that she is still a teenager, a lot of girls drop out of tennis aged 15, i6, and seeing herjust finished her A Levels and hopefully they can relate to that and hopefully it will keep them playing and also it will inspire the crop of british players weve got. The phones are ringing off the hook at bromley tennis centre, where a certain E Raducanu lifted one at her earliest one of her earliest trophies back in 2009. There is hope that will now get many more racquets in hands. I really think it is going to really inspire some young girls, in particular, but i think children, both Boys And Girls, will be really excited by the win, fancy getting into tennis, look up their local venue. This relatable young Role Model has made rewriting Tennis History Look easy and fun. For those involved in growing the sport, it is notjust an exciting moment, but a crucial one. Laura scott, bbc news, bromley. The government has scrapped plans to introduce Vaccine Passports in england just days after saying they would be going ahead in nightclubs and other large events at The End of the month. The Health Secretary, sajid javid, said the scheme would instead be kept as a potential option for the future. Speaking to the bbc, mrjavid said he also wanted to get rid of Pcr Tests for foreign travel. This report from our political correspondent, ione wells, contains flashing images. No jab, no entry. That was the message ministers sent last week, saying Vaccine Passports in england would be needed for venues like nightclubs at The End of this month. If you look at what has happened in other countries, where nightclubs were opening and then shutting again, Opening And Shutting again, its that. We want to avoid that disruption. We will almost certainly be doing it for nightclubs. We will make a determination i as to whether we need to move more broadly than that. Today, a change of tune from the Health Secretary, sajid javid, who said, while the plans will be kept in reserve, they wont go ahead at The End of the month. What i can say is we have looked at it properly and, whilst we should keep it in reserve as a potential option, im pleased to say we will not be going ahead with plans for Vaccine Passports. Labour dont look set to oppose the decision, with shadow Health Secretary Jonathan Ashworth saying they would rather see an emphasis on ventilating spaces. I think the problem with Vaccine Passports is people thought that was the key to everything, but the point about nightclubs and crowded events is you have to have other measures in place, theyve got to be well ventilated, you have got to have clean air and it is one of the things we have been arguing for months now, especially when it comes to schools, to put the clean Air Facilities in place. In scotland, people will need proof they have been fully vaccinated to enter nightclubs and other large events from the 1st Of October and, in wales, a decision is expected next week. The Prime Minister will announce his covid Winter Plan for england on tuesday, outlining plans for boosterjabs and also contingencies that could be needed if the nhs risks being overwhelmed, such as the use of face coverings. But the Direction Of Travel is clear. Sajid javid has said he wants to get rid of Pcr Tests for double jabbed travellers as soon as possible and he said he didnt see how we could get to another lockdown in england. While he stressed it would be irresponsible to take everything off the table, he was clear ministers want life to return to normal as soon as possible. Ione wells, bbc news. The tuc has warned that up to 660,000 jobs could be at risk, if the uk fails to reach net zero Carbon Emissions as quickly as other countries. As its annual conference gets underway, unions are particularly concerned about heavy industries like steel production. The government said it doesnt recognise the tuc� s figures, and said it would cut Carbon Emissions by almost 80 by 2035. Our business correspondent, katie prescott, reports. Making steel can be a dirty business, but there are ways around it. In sweden, they are using new technology to produce steel without using coal. Workers in Blast Furnaces like this one fear that, if the uk doesnt go the same way, they could lose theirjobs. The whole infrastructure needs looking at and it all needs to be coordinated. People are thinking, where i going to be working . What is going to happen to the plant that i work in at this moment in time and what does the future look like . There is no doubt that industry will have to undergo a Green Revolution and that will inevitably have an impact on jobs, butjust how severe that impact will be will depend on how its planned and, of course, how its paid for at a time when there are already so demands on the public purse. As this years trades Union Congress gets underway, it is the major talking point. Companies are going to think about locating in countries where they get support from their government to make those adaptations, to invest in the new technology, to think about how you produce those currently heavy carbon goods in a low carbon way, and that is why the Uk Government needs to step up so that our businesses can compete. The government says that the tuc� S Claims are untrue, saying the uk has grown its economy by 78 while cutting emissions by 44 over the past three decades. And it launched an independent Task Force to develop plans for good quality Green Jobs by 2030. Many say the move to a green economy, handled well, brings opportunities. If we can move people toward safer, healthier, better rewarded Remunerated Careers with better well being, that may leave some of thosejobs behind, that is probably, on balance, a good thing. The challenge is building a low Carbon Future that includes industry and workers. Something else for next months budget. Katie prescott, bbc news. Pope francis has had a brief meeting in hungary with the countrys Prime Minister, Viktor 0rban. The two men have radically different interpretations of what constitutes a christian approach to migration. The pontiff has severely criticised the reluctance of some European Leaders to take in refugees, but Mr 0rban says hes defending what he calls christian europe. If if we have a look here these are some pictures now of the visit during the meeting. He was speaking, as i said, to the hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor 0rban, but this was his visit in slovakia at the moment and there are some images there of his visit, where he had arrived following that trip to hungary and the plan, his plan was to visit the capital, bratislava, and to end his trip at the basilica of the lady of our sorrows and that is of course the main Pilgrimage Site in the country of slovakia, which is predominantly catholic, so some images there the popes visit. 0ur Central Europe correspondent, nick thorpe, is in budapest. Ahead of this visit, both sides the vatican and the hungarian government were keen to smooth over any differences. The vatican stressed that this is, above all, a spiritual visit for the pope to celebrate mass in Heroes Square in hungary for Tens Of Thousands of christians, especially catholics from around the world, the Closing Event, the climax of a week of the Eucharistic Congress, only held every four years. From the hungarian governments side, the government has been keen to stress it is a great honour to have the pope in hungary, even for such a short visit, but of course behind the scenes, there are huge differences between the two men. While the pope, from the start of his papacy, has stressed the need for europe, for christians in particular, to welcome people of other faiths, to help those in need, those fleeing from war and violence, Asylum Seekers and refugees, whereas Viktor 0rban, as the head of the hungarian government, especially since 2015, has set himself up as a champion, as he puts it, of christian europe, of trying to keep europe as it is, and often that seems to be an anti islamic, anti muslim message. You also have a situation where, just six months ahead of the hungarian elections, this visit is very interesting to both sides, both to the government side, with Viktor 0rban welcoming the pope and really seeking in some way some sort of support from the pope for his own policies in defence of christian europe, in defence of persecuted christians around the world, whereas the more liberal opposition here seeing this as a liberal pope, really, and there have been posters going up all Over Budapest welcoming the pope as a champion of human dignity, human rights, of civil rights. So very different views here. The two men only had half an hour or so of talks before the meetings went ahead with the hungarian bishops, with people of other faiths and then of course the big mass, the Closing Event of the Eucharistic Congress in budapest, and the pope then, after this, on his way to slovakia for this longer three day trip. The headlines on bbc news. Emma raducanu makes history at the Us Open, beating Leylah Fernandez to become the first british woman to win a Grand Slam singles final in 44 years. The uks Health Secretary says the government will not introduce Vaccine Passports in england, ahead of plans to protect the nhs from rising covid cases this winter. The Anti Immigration Hungarian Prime Minister, Viktor 0rban, meets Pope Francis in budapest. Sport and for a full round up from the bbc sport centre, heres kat. We will get to all the action in the tennis, Emma Raducanu, but first. Both of the formula i Championship Leaders are out of the italian Grand Prix after a dramatic start in monza. Max verstappen started from Pole Lewis Hamilton in fourth. But as hamilton was returning to the track from the pit lane, he and verstappen collided the Red Bull going right over the top of hamiltons mercedes. The Safety Halo around the cockpit prevented any serious injury to hamilton both drivers out of their cars safely, but furiously. De crash is being investigated and i driver could be penalised. Daniel riccardo went on to claim his first win for three years and mclarens first for almost nine years. All day weve been reflecting on Emma Raducanus incredible win at the Us Open, but there have been more british History Makers at Flushing Meadows Gordon Reid and Alfie Hewett have become the first men to win all four Wheelchair Slam double titles in the same year, they beat Gustavo Fernandez and Shingo Kunieda 6 2 6 1 in the Us Open final. And Joe Salisbury has become the first briton to win two Doubles Titles at a Grand Slam in the open era after winning the Mixed Doubles Title at the Us Open, a day after winning the mens doubles. Salisbury and american partner Desirae Krawczyk beat mexicos Giuliana 0lmos and el salvador� s Marcelo Arevalo 7 5 6 2 at Flushing Meadows. It wasjust pure emotion, i guess. Just a joy and excitement. Yeah, a bit of disbelief. But yeah, i walked away and said i wasnt really thinking anything, i was just enjoying the moment. So history made for Gordon Reid, Alfie Hewitt and Emma Raducanu and there could be more record breaking in New York later when Novak Djokovic takes on russias Danil Medvedev in the mens final aiming to become the first man in 52 years to complete the calendar Grand Slam. Thejob is not done. Excitement is there, motivation is there, without a doubt. Probably more than ever. But i have one more to go. It is going to be a battle against another guy who has been in tremendous form, medvedev. He has won a lot of matches on Hard Court so far. He has already got a couple of Grand Slam finals behind him, so i think experience wise it is different for him now. I am sure he is going to give it all to win it. Away from the tennis. In the wsl, reigning champions chelsea made up for their Opening Day Loss with a 4 0 thrashing of everton, Fran Kirby opened the scoring before two goals from Sam Kerr gave The Blues a 3 0 lead. Beth england then rounded off the match after erin cuthbert� s chance rebounded off the post. A second 4 0 defeat for everton but a massive improvement for emma hayes� side. I think we should have scored more goals. If you think about it on the balance of play for us to come in 1 0 at half time i thought was disappointing. But i thought we were composed, delighted we kept a clean sheet and we defended properly as a collective. Going forward i though we had plenty of options under the composure of options and the composure amongst the group is growing at like i said it is early days. Elsewhere in the wsl. Brighton are 4 0 up away at birmingham, Manchester United are ahead at Leicester And Arsenal have a 4 0 lead over reading. The late game sees Manchester City take on tottenham hotspur. Leeds united and liverpool meet in the days only game in the Premier League that kicks off in just over 15 minutes at elland road. Both clubs were boosted by the News Yesterday that their brazilian contingent of players will be eligible to play after controversy over whether or not they should travel to join up with brazils national team. The sides drew i i towards The End of last Season And Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp is expecting another tough test today. The game itself is already tricky. In the last two games we played against them, so that was the first time for me playing leeds and it was really exciting, both games, so they have a specific way of playing football obviously, of playing the game, with a strict man marking Philosophy Or Idea in defending. They are very, very flexible and very brave, dynamic in possession, so it is a really good Football Team and yeah, we have to be at our best to get something there. There was just one game in the scottish Premiership Today as hearts took On Hibernian in the edinburgh derby. Either side could have gone top of the league with a win, but instead played out a goalless draw. Both sides maintain their unbeaten start to the season and remain level on points. After three days in the Leaders Jersey Ethan Hayter was denied overall victory on the final stage of the tour of britain. After more than four hours of racing it culminated with a Sprint Finish in aberdeen. Belgiums Wout Van Aert won it to overturn a four second deficit to the briton, who could only finish iith. Thats all the sport for now. More news from me on all the latest in the football and of course we will be reflecting more on Emma Raducanus win in the next hour. Back to the studio. Thank you. A team at Cranfield University is competing in an international competition to develop a robot that does the shopping in supermarkets. It might sound easy, but identifying different objects by sight and picking them up neatly is a significant challenge in robotics. Heres our science correspondent, richard westcott. In a nervous corner of an Aircraft Hangar in bedfordshire. Guys, we need to go as soon as possible, really. A team is competing in a three day global competition, to programme a robot to identify and then move some shopping. Not as easy as you might think. It is all a bit tense because they are actually doing the Competition Run now. It is being watched in italy. Keeping an eye on us via live Video Link are judges and other competing teams at the main event in bologna. And we have the overview here, where we have already the Robot Standing and looking into the container. 13 international teams are competing in this competition. Six of them remotely, including cranfield. Gilbert, that was very expertly done, but the reality is a child could do that. Why is it so hard for a robot to do it . Something that seems so easy for us humans to do is actually extremely complicated for robots because firstly the robot will have to be able to see the item through its camera. Secondly, it will have to process the image using some really clever algorithm to identify what type of object it is, what orientation the object has been placed in, and then secondly, doing some calculation in orderfor the Robot Arm to be able to identify the correct position to then grab onto it using its fingers. Has it been good fun . Yeah, i would say it was great fun and challenging in the meantime, and we learned a lot during this process, and yeah, i think everybody is quite happy to get involved with this. So theres quite a Big Push at the moment for human robot interaction, so caregiving robots in hospitals, and care homes, so maybe for patients who are lonely and dont have anybody to come and visit them. Some of the money for the team comes from a big company whose future will rely on this kind of technology. Certainly with the high level skills, we find difficult in recruiting. Theres a shortage, there is high demand because lots of industries are now going for this level of robotics. So being engaged in these competitions allows us to keep in touch with the Recruitment Pipeline and some of the excellent research that is going on. A bit of Talent Spotting . Definitely. Robots are the future, but programming them to be as good as humans at some tasks is still many years away. Richard westcott, bbc news, cranfield in bedfordshire. A film about illegal abortions in 1960s france has won the main golden Lion Prize at the venice film festival. Audrey diwan who Directed Happening said shed made the movie out of a sense of anger. Tim allman looks back at a busy night on the Red Carpet and his report contains flash photography. For all the attention they get, you might imagine the rekindled romance of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez was the only thing of note happening at this years venice film festival. But there was the small matter of some awards being handed out. The Golden Lion for best film to. Levenement. Happening by Audrey Diwan. The biggest of them all going to the french film happening its director visibly moved by the honour. Set in the 1960s, it tells the story of a young woman looking for an abortion at a time when the procedure was illegal. It is an intense journey a vivid depiction of desperation, trauma and shame. I did this movie with anger. I did the movie with desire, also. I did it with my belly, my guts, my heart and my head. The best Actress Prize went to spains Penelope Cruz for her part in parallel mothers her latest collaboration with acclaimed Film Maker Pedro almodovar. Best actor was John Arcilla from the Philippines Star of the crime Thriller 0n thejob the missing 8. And it was quite a comeback for new Zealands Jane Campion named Best Director for the power of the dog her first film in 12 years. But the big winner was Audrey Diwan for a film set in the past that still seems strangely relevant. Tim allman, bbc news. Now its time for a look at the weather with tomasz shaffernakker. Hello. Well, a decent enough day. Hello. Well, a decent enough day for many of us today, but certainly not the case in wales and parts of South Western england. Some quite heavy rain here affecting coastal areas, but particularly around wales. Some of that rain also moving into the midlands through the second half of the day. Quite fresh in the north, only 12 degrees in aberdeen. At least it is dry here with some sunshine. 22 in the south this evening. This rain is very slow moving, quite a compact area of rain affecting wales and parts of the midlands through the night. Dry tonight across scotland and northern ireland, around 6 10 celsius. Still mild in the south at around 14. So another cloudy and damp, if not wet at times, picture in the South West of the uk on monday. Some of that rain will move around the Irish Sea as well, but generally speaking the north, east and the far south remains dry through monday. Goodbye hello this is bbc news. The headlines. Emma raducanu makes history at the Us Open, beating Leylah Fernandez to become the first british woman to win a Grand Slam singles final in 44 years. The uks Health Secretary says the Government Wont introduce Vaccine Passports in england, ahead of plans to protect the nhs from rising covid cases this winter the Trade Union Congress warns that up to 660,000 jobs could be at risk, if the uk fails to reach net zero Carbon Emissions as quickly as other countries. Now on bbc news. Its political thinking with nick robinson. Hello and welcome to political thinking. A conversation with someone who shapes our political thinking about what has shaped theirs, their background, their views and their values. This week we heard talk of a political crisis. Weve heard talk of an election within weeks, talk, too,

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