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schauffele becomes the first player to win those two majors in the same year since rory mcllroy achieved the feat a decade ago. england'sjustin rose kept himself in contention throughout the final day at royal troon, but finished in joint second place. ben croucher reports. he is the olympic champion, the pga championship and now xander schauffele is the open champion. when you shoot a six under par to win mha for the second time in three months, that is some pedigree. we started the day with billy horschel in the lead. justin rose challenged at one point. we had a 4—way tie for the lead and were set for our titanic trestle, but one by one the challenge is fed away birdie by birdie, xander schauffele clenched his grasp on the claretjug ever
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tighter. playing alongsidejustin rose, the british crowd are willing the englishman own, but in the end it was the american soaking up the adulation on the 18th, with a two shot victory. another fascinating open championship, another deserving champion. let's do it all again next july in portrush. champion. let's do it all again next july in portrush— july in portrush. winning the first one helped _ july in portrush. winning the first one helped me — july in portrush. winning the first one helped me a _ july in portrush. winning the first one helped me a lot _ july in portrush. winning the first one helped me a lot today - july in portrush. winning the first one helped me a lot today on - july in portrush. winning the first one helped me a lot today on the back nine i had some feeling of calmness come through and it was very helpful on what has been one of the hardest back nines i've ever played in a tournament. it is a dream come true to an two nature of one year, it took me forever to win one year, it took me forever to win one and to have two now is something else. mclaren�*s lando norris said it was difficult, but ultimately the right decision to let team—mate oscar piastri through to win a drama—filled hungarian grand prix. the australian had taken the lead at the first corner from pole—sitter
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norris and led for most of the race until the second round of pitstops, when team tactics meant they swapped position. after a series of fraught exchanges on team radio, norris eventually handed the place back with two laps to go to give piastri his first win in formula one, but the victory was inevitably overshadowed by events on the track. it's always tough when you're fighting for a win, and a win means so much to me and also to him. every driver's selfish and you want... you have to be selfish in this, in this game. but when you're just thinking of your own benefits, you know, you're only thinking of the good things. but of course, um, i put myself in his shoes and i realised, uh, yeah, i had to do what was right. rafael nadal says he was not satisfied at the level of his tennis after being beaten in his first final in two years. the spaniard was defeated by portugal's nuno borges in straight sets at the swedish open in bastad on sunday. nadal had been using the tournament to ramp up his preparations for the olympics in paris in a week's time, and afterwards he reflected on his week.
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in some way i felt that i arrived here practising much better than i played in the tournament for the whole week. i arrived here feeling that i was playing at a good level and i was not able to show that during the whole week and that is something i am not happy with. newly—crowned tour de france champion tadej pogacar says the sport of cycling is the "cleanest sport" pogacar underlined his dominance of this year's race with a victory in the final time trial, extending his winning margin to six minutes, becoming the eighth rider in history to win the giro d'italia and the tour in the same year. the slovenian says that despite the doubts of whether the sport is fully clean from doping, the idea of doping is simply not worth it.
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i think this is one of the cleanest sports in the whole world, of sport in general. because of what happened so many years ago, because there was so many years ago, because there was so much abuse, but i tell you now it is not worth it. taking anything that can risk your health, risk your heart is super stupid. mark cavendish has confirmed that he has competed at his last tour de france. the brit broke the record for most stage wins on this year's tour with his 35th, but says that completing the race one last time was the most fulfilling aspect ahead of his expected retirement. just to finish the tour to france, that was a challenge in itself. i didn't need to, there was no sprint in paris at the end, it was more for pride, forgetting through arguably
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the hardest sporting event in the world and a race that is given me everything i have in my career, so to show the race the respected deserves is pretty important. with four days to go until the start of the paris olympics, the athlete's village is filling up ahead of the opening ceremony on friday. many of the apartments in the village — which will house around 111,250 athletes and officials during the course of the games — now carry the flags of competing countries and athletes could be seen arriving with their luggage, while some of the others who had already checked in took a stroll around the surrounding streets. you can follow all the latest sports news on the bbc sport website, but that's all the sport for now. police have arrested six people on suspicion of murder after a teenage boy was shot dead in west london. the metropolitan police said officers were called after reports of a shooting in a park in ladbroke
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grove. the six males who were arrested on suspicion of murder remain in custody. the victim's identity hasn't yet been released. still a pretty heavy police presence here. as you might expect, forensic teams are on the ground, and the blue and white tent behind me is where the body is located, and that's where those forensic experts are operating now. their shooting happened around about 7.20 last night. they'd actually been a family fun day taking place in the park, uh, just next door. music, food, that sort of thing. so it will have been busy. police say they believe the young boy who was shot was 15 years old. he's not yet been identified. officers say they're working to get in touch with his family and confirm his identification. but as you say, six males arrested and they are being questioned on suspicion of murder.
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ofcom have fined bt £17.5 million for failures over their handling of 999 calls. the regulator said the telecomms company fell "woefully short of its responsibilities" and was ill—prepared to deal with what it described as a "catastrophic failure" of its emergency call handling service last summer. during the incident, almost 111,000 emergency calls weren't connected. bt says is sincerely sorry for the distress caused. prime minister sir keir starmer has set out plans to curb reliance on foreign workers by improving skills training in england. speaking at the farnborough air show, the prime minister announced a new body to address what he called the "fragmented and broken" training system. it cannot be right that some people don't get to feel the pride of making a contribution, the dignity of work, just because we can't find
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a way of creating a coherent school system. that can't be right. i have to say that we won't be contentjust to say that we won't be contentjust to prove the easy leader of importing skills. we are turning the page on that. i want to be clear, as well, we are going to make sure that there are highly motivated, ambitious, talented young people who want to work in your business. that is our long term ambition. we are going to fire up the training of more uk workers and match people's aspirations, which i know are there, with more opportunity. in doing this we will drive growth, because if there is one thing we know that will drive innovation and accelerate productivity, it is having the skilled workers you need to grow your business, so from the get go, skills england will work with the
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migration advisory committee. we will identify current and future skills gap. put in place plans to address those gaps and reduce our long—term reliance on overseas workers. our political correspondent nick eardley has more. what the government were saying is that we need to reform the system, it doesn't work any more. the government is setting up this body, skilled income, which will be able to decide where cash goes, where the priorities are. keir starmer has also done something quite explicit, which is to link this with bringing down net migration, something he promised to do during the election campaign, something that was likely to happen anyway, but the question then becomes how quickly can be skills be implemented to make sure that as keir starmer says there is
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not that over reliance on overseas workers. i put that question to him at the end of the speech and the simple answer is that the government isn't putting a timeframe on it. keir starmer said it would be arbitrary to do so. there are no quick fixes. it is a slightly interesting backdrop to all these announcements and speeches keir starmer is given. he is talking about change, fixing things which he says are broken, but there is always that caveat is that it is going to take time, these things don't have a magic bullet, or a silver bullet i should say, to stop them. it seems like with this, the issue of small boats chosen —— crossing the channel, the economy, it is setting out its stall at the moment, but the results may take a bit of time. now it's time for a look
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at the weather with carol kirkwood. hello again. as we go through this week the weather is fairly settled. there will be showers at times, rain today and on thursday but a lot of dry weather as well, with temperatures close to where we would expect them to be at this stage injuly. something about today, though, is the pollen level is moderate or high across many parts of the country and we're still talking grass and nettle, although starting to subside in the south—east in terms of the grass pollen. we also have various weather fronts moving across us, they have been introducing a fair bit of cloud through the course of the morning and some showers moving from the west to the east. but the cloud breaking up with more sunny spells developing. any showers in the south rattling through on a brisk wind. further north they will be slow moving and here too you might get the odd heavy one and the odd rumble of thunder. temperatures, 1a in the north to a pleasant 25 degrees as we push further south. by the end of the afternoon the cloud will be building across northern ireland and south—west england, introducing some patchy rain which will cross parts of england and wales through the
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course of the night. a lot of the showers further north easing and under clear skies in rural areas temperatures could slide away to about 5 degrees. but in towns and cities, 9—16 will be more like it. tuesday night into wednesday we've got this ridge of high pressure across us. you can see weather fronts waiting in the wings so we say goodbye to the dregs of the weather front in the south—east and then a lot of dry weather. yes, there will be the odd isolated shower and breezy down this north sea coastline which will take the edge off the temperatures here. but top temperatures, 15 to about 2k degrees. tuesday into wednesday, this high pressure squeezed further east and then these weather fronts do come in from the west. so on wednesday itself there will be a lot of dry weather, variable amounts of cloud here and there, thick enough for the odd spot of light rain. but its later in the day we have the thicker cloud, murky conditions, some patchy light rain coming in from the west. top temperatures once again up to about 2k degrees.
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wednesday into thursday, the fronts continue to come in from the west and push eastwards so you can see a lot of us are going to have a cloudy day and there will also be some rain or some showers around. but as we head on into friday, it is drier, some showers in the north and west, potentially a little bit of rain to start in the south.
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live from london. this is bbc news. kamala harris says she intends to "earn and win" the democratic nomination asjoe biden exits the us presidential race. the president and top
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democrats on capitol hill are backing ms harris to beat donald trump in november's election. for his part, mr trump says it will be easier to beat kamala harris than mr biden. our other main headlines. a student leader calls for a pause in the bangladeshjob quota protests which have left more than 150 people dead. and more than 20,000 people take to the streets of majorca in the latest protest against mass tourism. hello, i'm annita mcveigh. welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast—moving news, interviews and reaction. a growing number of senior democrat politicians and supporters of the party are backing kamala harris to be their candidate for the us presidency, after president biden withdrew
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