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in a thrilling finale on day four of the world athletics championships in london. man of the match and man of the series, moeen ali spins england to victory in the fourth test against south africa. and paying tribute to a club that refuses to give up. barcelona host chapecoense to honour the brazilian side as they continue to rebuild after last november's tragedy. hello and welcome to the programme, where we start with the world athletics championships and four golds were won on monday. day four at london stadium sawjust the one session which was held in the evening and it finished with a classic, as andrew lindsay reports. a high—class field and sparkle from the start. predicting a winner in the start. predicting a winner in the women's 1500 metres would not the start. predicting a winner in the women's1500 metres would not be easy, it rarely is. after winning in rio, kenya's faith kipyegon must
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have fancied her chances but a host of others had gold in their sights, among them two—time 0lympic of others had gold in their sights, among them two—time olympic champion caster semenya. after tactics and truffles ca m e caster semenya. after tactics and truffles came the mad —— for medals, faith kipyegon made her move on the final straight and never looked back as britain's laura muir tried to get bronze but... after the disappointment of the men's and women's 100 after the disappointment of the men's and women's100 and is, jamaica finally has something to cheer about. 0mar mcleod led from start to finish in the 110 metre hurdles adding the world title to his 0lympic hurdles adding the world title to his olympic gold. defending champion should think of competing as a neutral got the silver with baji of hungry taking the surprise bronze. time for overdue celebrations. this
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was the overwhelming favourite to win the gold in the hammer and there we re win the gold in the hammer and there were no surprises. win the gold in the hammer and there were no surprises. the pole showed her dominance to win a third world title. the recordholder, she is unbeaten in more than three years. the triple jump was a fight between this colombian athlete and another. the experienced 0lympic this colombian athlete and another. the experienced olympic champion against her young rival from venezuela. the 21—year—old set the mark, 111.91 to beat. she came close with her final jump, but mark, 111.91 to beat. she came close with herfinaljump, but row has found the time to shine and take venezuela's first—ever world title. andrew lindsay, bbc news. now to cricket where england sealed victory by 177 runs in the fourth and final test against south africa at old trafford on monday, handing them a 3—1 series win. it's also england's first home test series win against the proteas since 1998. england were bowled out for 2113 in their second innings leaving the tourists to score
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an unlikely 380 to win the match and tie the series, but they were dismissed for 202. 0ur reporter patrick gearey was watching on in manchester. so england wrapped up an impressive win with more than a day to spare, which isjust as win with more than a day to spare, which is just as well because we're expecting rain tomorrow in manchester. we did get a bit of rain earlier in the morning session, that happened after england finished their second innings, moeen ali left not out and south africa set 382 win, that always looked unlikely and it looked even more so when they lost wickets before lunch. the top order all gone. we then got the period of rebuilding led by hashim amla and faf du plessis, the south africa captain. amla is one of the few players in world cricket capable of batting for long periods and frustrating teams and the key moment today came when he was dismissed lbw after a review by england, it all came down to whether amla hit the ball before the pads, the third
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umpire decides he hadn't and he was given out and from that moment he knew south africa couldn't get through this. moeen ali ripped through this. moeen ali ripped through the remaining batting order, he got five wickets, man of the match and man of the series, a superb summer so far for him. where does this leave the sides? 20 of doubt around south africa after a poor champions trophy earlier in the summer. england moved ahead of australia in the world rankings ahead of the ashes this winter but significant doubts over their batting lineup. jennings hasn't convinced in this series. having said that, in his first series as captain and without a series win at all for england in the past year, joe root will be pretty happy this evening. barcelona defeated chapecoense 5—0 in the joan gamper trophy at camp nou on monday, but it wasn't really about the result. the match was a chance to honour the brazilian side after a devastating plane crash last november that killed 19 players and 2a club officials when they were on their way to face colombian‘s atletico nacional in the final of the copa sudamericana. on an emotional night
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for the visitors, chapecoense were captained by alan ruschel while nieto and jakson folman the only other two surviving players kicked off the match. and when it got going it didn't take the hosts long to assert their superiority with lionel messi getting his name on the scoresheet, albeit with a bit of luck as he grabbed the third and his strike partner luis suarez slotted a fourth from a tough angle as 65,000 people witness the catalans helping rebuild a brazilian club hit by tragedy. former barcelona player neymar‘s world record transfer may have happened last week but people are still talking. the brazilian moved from the catalan club to paris st germain for a world record fee of more than $250 million. now the general secretary of fifpro, the international professional footballers union, says
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the fee was ridiculous and has called for urgent measures to transform the transfer market, seeking to bring an end to transfer market madness. you could ask the question, is this a never—ending story? we were talking about transfer sums already from let's say five years ago of 50 million, 60 million and we thought, where is the end? and there is no end. we have a lot of concerns about this because if this is the new trend, if this is now normal and we are fighting against this already for a couple of years, then i think that will damage the professional football in general and of course we have to protect professional football also for the future and these kinds of amounts are, in my opinion, ridiculous. the party still hasn't ended in the netherlands where fans have been celebrating the
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women's euro 2017 win. this was the scene in utrecht on monday after their 11—2 victory over denmark. more than 10,000 fans turned up to greet the players. a sell—out crowd of nearly 30,000 watched the final, with around three million more watching at home. before sunday's big match the netherlands' women's team had never reached the final of a major tournament. the two—time tour de france winner, alberto contador, has announced he'll retire from cycling after this month's vuelta a espana. the spanish cyclist announced on social media that the vuelta would be his final race. here's how he announced the news. roger federer says rafael nadal would absolutely deserve it if he gets to world number one during this weeks atp montreal masters event in canada. nadal only needs to make the semi—finals if he is to move ahead of andy murray, who's not featuring in this event as the build—up to the us open continues. i remember when he was injured at the end of the last year and here he is, a few matches away from clinching world number one. in a way
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it seems very far yet it's very near but he's just got to stay focused and hopefully him for his sake he is going to make it, and if not i'm happy for andy to get another week at world number one because the run he showed as well last year was tremendous. i have unbelievable respect for andy that he was able to do to number one and finished the year at world number one, that was nice to see. now it's probably going to bea nice to see. now it's probably going to be a changing of the guard at world number one level in the near future and hopefully rafa can get there again, he would absolutely deserve it after his 10th french 0pen win in the summer here. french open champion jelena 0stapenko has been knocked out in the first round of the wta tournament in toronto by qualifier varvara lepchenko. the 31—year—old recovered from losing the first set to win 1—6, 7—6 , 7—6 on monday. the american veteran is ranked 68th in the world but was too good against the 12th—ranked latvian to move into the second round. petra kvitova is through to the second round after seeing off spain's carla suarez navarro in straight sets. after winning the first set 6—1,
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she had a realfight on her hands in the second and had to come from 4—1 down to clinch the match on a tiebreak. former world numberfive sara errani has been banned for two months after failing an anti—doping test. from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye no sign of summer for tuesday or wednesday. very mixed. this was cambridge and rain in henley—on—thames in 0xfordshire. tuesday will be no different. a real mixed bag on the way.
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brollies at the ready. you can see how extensive the cloud is right now across the southern half of the uk. through the night, rain from the south—west across the midlands into lincolnshire. even here there could be downpours and cracks of thunder. in the north it will be clearer. quite a stark temperature contrast tonight. these are the towns and cities. look at the rural spots. six degrees in southern scotland, even in the sheltered glens, barely above freezing. tuesday's forecast. we are close to an area of low pressure in france, to the south of us. those of us in the south are quite close to that so this is where most of the downpours will occur. in the morning, some rain i think across the midlands into the north. scotland and northern ireland will be fine, with sunshine and the odd shower. the clouds will really get going across the south during the latter part of the morning into the afternoon, and we're in for some downpours. downpours means we will have sunshine, downpours, then sunshine again. a real mixed bag across the south on tuesday. most of the heavy downpours are in the south—east, east anglia, eventually
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into lincolnshire as well. lighter rain across northern england. better for cumbria, belfast, glasgow and edinburgh. the lowlands of scotland might end up with a fine, sunny day. feeling pleasantly warm as well. how are we doing compared to the rest of europe? not too good. 20 degrees in london and paris, we match 0slo. most other major centres are quite a bit warmer than that. moscow at 23. let's have a look at wednesday. that low pressure that was across france, remember, has actually moved to the north. quite an unusual direction for a low pressure system to take, tracking from south to north. usually they go like that, this one's going south to north. we're still closer to the low there, across east anglia and the south—east, so again, downpours in store on wednesday. look at wales. wales, northern england and scotland are in the clear, in for a fine day, but the weather will turn unsettled in other areas
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and i think some of us will get some rain towards the end of the week. bye— bye. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: defiance from north korea. it says new sanctions won't stop it developing nuclear weapons. embracing the strongmen. the american secretary of state meets philippine president duterte before heading off to greet thailand's military rulers. venezuela's opposition—controlled parliament refuses to recognise president maduro's sacking of the country's chief prosecutor. and 200 days since donald trump took office, business people in wisconsin tell us they need more migrant workers not fewer.
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