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lewis hamilton wins the united states grand prix in texas but the world championship will have to wait after title rival sebastian vettel finished second. harry kane scores twice as tottenham beat liverpool 4—1 in the premier league at wembley stadium and john john florence closes in on consecutive world titles with a surfing masterclass in portugal. hello and welcome to the programme, where we start with the formula one news that lewis hamilton has won the united states grand prix in texas — but hasn't clinched the world championship just yet. the british driver, who claimed his 62nd career victory gentleman starjudd engines and let's get ready to rumble! for the
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most pa rt let's get ready to rumble! for the most part this year formula 1 has been a straight fight between lewis hamilton and sebastian vettel. in the red corner sebastian vettel got to the front, the delight lasting all of six laps before the mercedes powered past and what proved to be the race winning than ever. the battle outfront front light so sebastian vettel tried to make his peak to become one, the second pit stop leaving him with a late charge through the field. valtteri bottas offered little resistance to the german but he could not catch the other mercedes, he had to be wary the flying dutchman, max verstappen producing a flying past to take third only for the stewards to deem ita third only for the stewards to deem it a legal and autumn. nobody was taking the win from lewis hamilton. an incredible year so far, i was not expecting the pace we had on sebastian this year, i mean today. but the car felt fantastic, got the right balance at the start, three to
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90, right balance at the start, three to go, three mortar win. the banners might have been a bit premature but fifth in mexico next weekend and the title will be his. now to the english premier league where we've seen emphatic wins for both tottenham hotspur, and arsenal on sunday. tottenham are now level on points with manchester united in 3rd. they thrashed liverpool, 4—1 at wembley. harry kane scored twice — as mauricio pochettino's side dominated early on. son heung—min was on the scoresheet, as well as dele alli. in a match that set a premier league attendance record. liverpool are now 12 points off the top after 9 games having won just once in their last six league matches while spurs are just 5 off the pace ahead of their next league match which will be away to manchester united on saturday. we were very clinical and well—received recreate the chance and we score, i think yes always it's important. not only playing
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well, but to be clinical in front of goal and i think today both these in the first half we showed great performance. we put it on a plate again and of course we don't, it's not about confidence. it's just about being 100% spot on, you cannot get anything in a game like this against tottenham if you are not like this, at your best. earlier, arsenal climbed up to fifth after thrashing everton 5—2 at goodison park. the defeat increases the pressure on under—fire toffees manager ronald koeman — who's team drop into the relegation zone as arsene wenger‘s side move level with chelsea. everton were also reduced to ten men in the second half. what is most important for me today is that we have not won away from home until now and i know it's important to get the first win, if
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you don't do that it can become a psychological hurdle and we did that ina psychological hurdle and we did that in a convincing way and we are showing all the ingredients in our game, questioned last week especially. it's a really tough time, the team is not performing well, the position on the table is not the position that everton should be on everybody knows that that even after today i see a lot of positives, how difficult that is because it's a negative situation for the team and everything is negative but i am not like that. in spain's primera division real madrid have kept the gap to leaders barcelona to five points after winning 3—0 at home to eibar. goals from marco asensio and marcelo added to an early own goal for a convincing victory at the bernabeu while all three teams directly below real, atletico madrid, leganes
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and villareal also secured victories. in italy's serie ajuventus narrowed the gap on leaders napoli to three points after a thumping 6—2 win away to udinese. sami khedira scored a hatrick despitejuve playing with ten men for more than hour after mario mandzukic was sent off for a second yellow card. lazio and roma also picked up respective victories over cagliari and torino. while in france's ligue un neymar scored a goal and was sent off as leaders paris st—germain scored late through edinson cavani to salvage a 2—2 draw away to marseille. in the other two matches nice continue their fall from grace losing to strasbourg who remain in the relegation zone while lyon put five past troyes. psv eindhoven tightened their grip on top spot in the dutch eredivisie with a 3—0 home win over heracles. marco van ginkel poked in from close range for the secon while their third came in controversial circumstances in stoppage time — a red card for robin propper for a push and a penalty too although it looked outside the box — van ginkel stepped up and put it away for his second goal of the game.
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the wimbledon champion garbine muguruza continues her bid to win both the wta finals and year end world number one crown beating jelena 0stapenko in straight sets in singapore on sunday. the freshly crowned wta player of the year won 6—3, 6—4 in 85 minutes to open her challenge at the eight—woman season finale. muguruza, playing in the white group, is one of seven players who can finish the year on top of the rankings by winning this event. in the opening match, of the round robin format — it was third seed karolina pliskova against fifth seed venus williams. the czech took the first set 6—2 and it was the same again in the second — as she beat the american co mforta bly. on the atp tourjo wilifried—tsonga has won the european open with a straight sets win over diego schwartzman in antwerp.
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the victory is the fourth title for the frenchman this year as he overcame the argentine 6—3, 7—5 to boost his chances of qualifying for the atp finals in london next month. it was the 32 year old's first final in five months after overcoming a knee injury suffered last month. new zealand have beaten india by six wickets to win the opening one day international of their three match series in mumbai. tom latham and ross taylor put on a prtnership of 200 as the black caps chased down a victory target of 281 with an over to spare. all this despite indian captain virat kohli hitting his 32nd odi century after winning the toss and electing to bat. the second match will be in pune on wednesday. the masters champion sergio garcia won his sixth european tour title victory on home soil after a final round of 67 to finish 12—under—par, one shot ahead ofjoast luiten, at the andalucia valderrama masters. birdies for garcia on the 10th and 11th took him three shots clear of the rest of the field.
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but the gap came down to one as dutchman luiten birdied on the 13th and again on the 15th taking him level but a miss on the 18th gave garcia the title and the spaniard had the luxury of two—putting from close range on the final hole for his third victory of the season it's difficult to describe what it means to win at home and to win at your favourite golf course, here for me. but it was a hard day, i played very well but, joost played unbelievable, never let me get away with it or anything like that. you know, jothohn florence is closing on a second consecutive world surf league title after advancing
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through the early rounds in portugal. the 25—year—old american who currently leads the men's championship tour standings, advanced with a best two ride score of 14.74 out of 20 to defeat portugal's vasco ribeiro. the event in peniche is the tenth of 11 this season and florence can clinch another win if results play out in his favor. the volvo round the world ocean race set off from alicante in spain on sunday with a fleet of seven 22—metre yachts racing across 11 legs with the final one due to start injune 2018. among the ports visited will be hong kong, melbourne, guangzhou and auckland. but the opening leg which finished in lisbon almost saw catastrophe as two of the yachts had to weave among spectator boats with a metre at best separating the vessels, thankfully a collision was avoided and the race moves on to the next leg on the way to completing 83 thousand kilometres. that's a very long way. that's about all we have time for, for everything
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else head to the website. till next time. goodbye. after a weekend of being battered by brian you are probably relieved to see what remains of that low now in the north sea very innocuous life. another big low to the west of us in the atlantic, driving the weather for the week ahead, nothing like the strong winds we have had in the last week but it will be feeding weather fronts are a way which is what we have first thing today, grey and gloomy prospects with outbreaks of rain in the west, clearer skies in the east, chilly start first then other cloud will start to move in and the breeze will pick up and let the temperatures. quite a grey
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beginning for scotland, northern ireland also, brightness quickly following on, cloudy to get the day underway across wales and the midlands and the south—west. quite a bit of cloud i think although perhaps a dry start for east anglia and the south east but give it a couple of hours and you will see the rain moving through pretty quickly. marty is well across the hills, a lot of low cloud first thing. northern ireland does break in nicely through the morning and by the time you get to the afternoon you will start to see brighter skies quickly sweeping across scotland and northern england, wales and the midlands. southern and eastern counties could be stuck with more persistent cloud through the second half of the day but it should be mild, up to 17 degrees in the south—east, good deal more mild than it was to finish the weekend. overnight monday into tuesday, low pressure swirling in the atlantic, more fronts coming tuesday daytime, cloud and rain across england and wales, heavier rain for wales in the north—east of england for time, register on tuesday, northern
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scotla nd register on tuesday, northern scotland with a few showers. drier weather to the south, gloomy conditions but without the temperatures, 18 in london. mild air to the size of this front, it will try to battle its way north to read the middle part of the week, the north always more clear and bright and always cooler, some of this warm air should temperatures in brightness to the south up to 18 for the low 20s. wednesday looks like a front also thoroughly south and so a good portion of the northern half of the uk bright and on the fresh side, pushing further north, gloomy weather on thursday but belle in mind the more mild weather as well, brea ks mind the more mild weather as well, breaks in the cloud could see temperatures up into the high teens on the low 20s. that is the odd leak still changeable, rain at times but lighter winds than the week we've had going by and warmer weather as well. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america
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and around the globe. my name is gavin grey. our top stories: japan's prime minister shinzo abe declares victory in his country's snap election and pledges to reverse the country's pacifist constitution. demonstrators in malta demand justice for journalist daphne ca ruana galizia who was murdered last week. acid threat to our oceans — scientists warn that rising co—2 levels will effect all sea life with catastrophic results. as tensions remain high over the korean peninsula — we speak to south koreans trying to live a normal life.
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