now on bbc news, sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday i m hugh ferris. the headlines this evening: britain s last man but standing strong. one of cameron norrie s best ever grand slam wins takes him to the australian open s second week. he s back. ivan toney scores in his first match after serving an eight month ban for breaching betting rules. what winter sun can do for you. fresh from a trip to dubai, arsenal have their first win a month. while palace are plummeting. the spartans broken by hearts in the scottish cup but not without a goal to remember also coming up on sportsday: a magical day for lewis lynagh as he comes off the bench to score a try of the year contender for harlequins in the champions cup. two out of two. both the women and men secure a place for great britain in the olympic hockey tournament. hello again. he s flying the flag alone for britain in the singles, but cameron norrie is through to the fourth round of the australian open for the first
now on bbc news, the travel show: city kids on the high seas. ready to tack in three, two, one. it makes you just feel so powerful and strong. but it also makes you feel free. it has real, tangible benefits for the students that do it. it was pretty rough conditions, like 20 knots, wind against tide. let s keep behind, let s keep behind. the weather was crazy. right? and is the ambulance on the way, is it? the coastguard apparently lost contact with it. so when my parents first found out i was sailing, they were like, what s sailing? you re just on a boat. but once i qualified and now i m a sailing instructor, they realise that i m actually getting somewhere. it s not what they expected. the main reason why i do this whole programme is that it has real, tangible benefits for the students that do it. i ll probably use the helm one. sometimes it s hard for me to articulate myself. and when you re a boat with different people, you have to kind of communicate. if not, it can g
now on bbc news, political thinking with nick robinson. hello and welcome to political thinking. a conversation with, rather than a news like interrogation of someone who shaped our political thinking about what has shaped the layers. my guest this week made the cover of time magazine when they profiled the first muslim leader of a western democracy. he is at the headline put it, the new face of scotland. the youngest leader this country has had in course of a century of having a devolved scottish government. but this, admits humza yousaf, here in glasgow, has been a difficult year for him. difficult for his party, too, don t buy a police investigation, criticised for failing to deliver, and divided about when independence might actually be possible. humza yousaf, first minister, thanks forjoining me. my pleasure. it has been quite a year! you re telling me! how much do you feel you have aged in that time? i think people can probably look at pictures of before i became first
ariel has successfully had her two extra legs removed, months after being dumped outside a supermarket in wales. we ll have the latest on all those stories coming up. hello and welcome to sportsday i m hugh ferris. the headlines this evening: britain s last man, but standing strong. one of cameron norrie s best ever grand slam wins takes him to the australian open s second week he s back. ivan toney scores in his first match after serving an eight month ban for breaching betting rules. what winter sun can do for you fresh from a trip to dubai, arsenal have their first win a month, while palace are plummeting. and hearts of spartans scare to fight treatment find a way to the last 16 of the scottish cup. also coming up on sportsday: a magical day for lewis lynagh as he comes off the bench to score a try of the year contender for harlequins in the champions cup. two out of two. both the women and men secure a place for great britain in the olympic hockey tournament. hello ag
now on bbc news, newscast. chris, we re going to have a foreign affairs focus in this episode. what was the most memorable foreign trip you ve done as a journalist? can i do two? 0k. and they re at opposite ends of the kind of spectrum. so the first one was being in kosovo when it declared its independence, and seeing the power for a people and a nation of that moment. but it was a contested moment because there were countries around the world that didn t recognise kosovo. serbia in particular was pretty angry about it. so that would be my serious one. and then because news is the full spectrum, the world santa claus congress in copenhagen, which involved hundreds of santas cycling around the danish capital for the hell of it. i remember being on newsround and going to delhi to cover that festival where everyone throws coloured dye each other. but for some reason, we didn t factor in enough time for us to get showered and clean our clothes before the next stage of our trip, w