Years since the mylan a crushing of the student uprising against the military dictatorship. Rajapaksa the man accused of Human Rights Violations during the fight against rebels is declared sri lankas next president. And on peace women with all the day support controversial quarterback Colin Kaepernick holds a tryout session in front of team scouts but only after a last minute change of venue that and more coming up later in the program. Police in hong kong have warned they poisoned to break up a standoff with protesters for hours theyve been battling demonstrators who barricaded themselves in at a University Campus mcbride has more from. A long day of fighting at this College Campus has continued well into the night and most of the battling has been taking place at this. Junction behind me but in recent hours more police have been arriving and they have been confronting protesters that the number of different other entrances and to this campus most notably a fly over behind me where pr
There was a scare for world number 11 david goffin who dropped the first set, but fought back to beat colombias daniel galan in three sets. It gave belgium a 2 0 lead after they won their opening singles match as well. Welcome to bbc news, im mike embley. Our top stories colombia playing at the top level of in hong kong, younger activists are led out of the besieged 00 01 28,924 2147483051 37 29,177 university campus, 2147483051 37 29,177 4294966103 13 29,430 but a hundred protestors remain. Tennis for the first time, won the double match. All that action only took place after this Opening Ceremony in madrid, with rafa nadal taking part for the hosts spain. Its the first year the davis cup is seeing this format, with 18 countries split into six groups of three, with the Group Winners and two best placed runners up into the knockout stage. Great Britains Andy Murray says hell only give his thoughts on the revamp once the tournaments over. For years, mens tennis has been dominated by fed
Into israel hours after a truce went into place. Hello im Maryanne Demasi in london with the top stories from europe including investigators probing the shooting down on the Malaysia Airlines flight in 2014 telephone calls showing close links between top russian officials and rebels and ukraine. And in sports as much cricket as sets returns of pakistan for the 1st time since 2009 acts on the host sri lanka 10 years after the Sri Lankan Team were attacked by gunmen in look. We begin this news hour with the global effort to defeat Foreign Ministers from more than 30 nations are in washington to discuss how to eliminate the group but on the other side of the atlantic turkey is sending more suspected i. So fighters and their families back to their home countries 7 german citizens accused of the longing to iceland in a short while ago another 23. 00 european nationals are expected to be deported in the next few days Officials Say just over 1200. 00 eisel fighters are currently being held in
Never been done home and away, back to back. I am looking forward to the challenge and obviously you learn things from doing it the first time. It is nice to have the opportunity to go and do it again. So matthew delighted to be taking up the role and she will be doing it with a tried and tested formula. She will bring back her vice captains from 2019, catherine emery, Suzanne Pedersen and laura davies. Although Suzanne Pedersen ended up playing at that event. So plenty of opportunity to bring on 2021. Matteo berrettini has become the first italian to win a match at the season ending atp finals. Hed already been knocked out of the tournament, but put that disappointment behind him to beat Dominic Thiem in straight sets at the 02 arena in london. Thiem is already in the semi finals. Theres a big match this evening, in the same group as berrettini and Thiem Novak Djokovic and Roger Federer play for a place in the semi finals. The pair havent met since djokovic won wimbledons longest sing
Punjab province and 10 other people. The pressure is on as south sued an ease rival fact factions talk about ending the war. First in syria, Government Air strikes targeting a rebel helgd town have kill held town have killed 100 people according to al jazeera sources. They say more than 200 others were wounded in the attack on a crowded market in doumas north of damascus. We get the latest from beirut. The Second Attack in a week but most of the casualties, because it was a market, were civilians. And the opposition is calling it a massacre. Dozens killed, dozens wounded. It targeted a market place, a rebel strong hold not far from the syrian capital, the city center of damascus. There was an air strike and people gathered at the site of the impact to help evacuate people and more raids hit. That is why there is such a high death toll. This area regularly comes under attack by syrian war planes. Some are linking this to the recent developments on the ground. Yesterday a number of oppos