after a couple of years and there is no better place in the world to really make a comeback. this is a sacred place for the world of tennis, i always dreamt of holding this trophy, as a young boy, starting to play tennis, so this is very special. yes, novak djokovic showing signs of getting back to his best. there was british disappointment today, jamie murray alongside victoria azarenka in the final of the mixed doubles, they could not win today's final, u nfortu nately, could not win today's final, unfortunately, for jamie could not win today's final, unfortunately, forjamie murray, could have gone on and won what would have been a third mixed doubles title here at wimbledon. for now though, that is all on the final day of the championships. chris is in the studios, he has the rest of today's sport. it was a bumpy ride for the cyclists in france. chris froome crashed again, this time during stage nine of the tour de france but he got back on his bike to finish in the main bunch. drew savage reports. most people would struggle to ride a

bicycle on these roads, let alone race one. if you want to win the tour, it's imperative to stay upright, and out of trouble. australia's richie porte couldn't. one of the pre—race favourites forced to retire hurt, before the race had even hit the cobbles. stage nine was brutal and relentless, testing riders, teams and bicycles to the limit, and beyond. so easy for the yellowjersey contenders to lose time, lose concentration for a second and you could lose minutes waiting for help to arrive. these cobbled roads ended chris froome‘s tour in 2014, this time, he managed to get back on his bike and back in the race. rigoberto uran, last year's runner up, wasn't so lucky, he lost a minute and a half as the peloton pressed on. froome and thomas among them ahead the yellow jersey pressed for the stage win. greg van avamart couldn't beatjohn degenkolb but extended his overall lead. everyone behind them, simply happy to have made it across the line. south africa's brandon stone has won the scottish open golf

thanks to an almost record—breaking round of 60. if this had gone in, on the final hole, it would have been the first 59 in european tour history. but still a course record though. stone finished ahead of england's eddie pepperell, who had led late on the last day. both of them qualify to play in the open at carnoustie next week. let's get back to the main event moscow, the world cup and olly foster. main event all over, wonderful final, dishing out a few other awards, kylian mbappe, young player of the tournament, french teenager, luka modric, of the tournament, french teenager, lu ka modric, croatia of the tournament, french teenager, luka modric, croatia captain, player of the tournament. golden ball. golden globes, best goalkeeper, thibaut courtois, belgian, and harry will get the golden boot for his six goals with england, and the french

held aloft the greatest prize of all. -- held aloft the greatest prize of all. —— golden gloves, best goalkeeper, belgium's thibaut courtois. celebrating in the rain, from all of us in moscow, it is spasiba. tommy orange has written an unusual american novel. unusual because, for most of his readers, it will be their firstjourney into native american life, to the sound of a dozen voices of the characters who are bound for the big powwow and who each tell their own story about how their way of life has become urbanized, about the anger that's always simmering underneath, because many of them have become outcasts in their own country. about the tragicomic scene at the powwow itself, when they put on the feather headdresses and do traditional dances. the novel, there there, is a funny and sad picture

of contemporary american life from a startling and original point of view. welcome. did you think consciously when the book was taking shape, that you were talking to many of your readers about something of which they would know very little? i actually wrote more for other native people. i was in a native writing community, the school that i teach at is the institute of american indian arts in santa fe, new mexico. and even though some of the information, some of the native audience knows, i wanted to write in a compelling way that would be interesting even to people who already knew the information, so i really tried to hone specifically the prologue and the interlude, so even if that audience already

knew the information, i wanted it to be compelling and to feel new. well, you mentioned the prologue and i think those who are not familiar with the story of the native americans experience or at least familiar with it only in the broadest terms, outside the united states, for example, will find it very raw and fierce. yeah, i mean, it was surprising to me because i did research myself. you don'tjust come into being native with knowledge and the schools definitely don't teach, if anything they teach a candy coated version meant to make it seem more like a heroic adventure across an empty frontier. so, in the research i was doing, i wasn't surprised to find a lot of facts that were very easy to look up, if you care. and so, i also, you know, i wanted to make all the information, notjust preachy, this was a sad and bad and you all should feel bad. i wanted to make it

something that was readable. well, it's a novel. it's a story about a dozen people who are heading for this great powwow. now, how would you describe the great powwow itself? how would you, to an outsider, what would you say it meant? so, i chose the powwow as the setting for the ending because, so, the urban indian experience is what i talk about. this is native people that were born and raised in the city, so a powwow and an urban indian have a lot of parallels. urban indian people tend to be intertribal, because you have a lot of people coming from reservations in the ‘505 and ‘605 on relocation and a lot of different tribes coming together into one place, so you had intermarriage and people that ended up two or three tribes, so powwows are a whole bunch of tribes coming together, all celebrating sort of one culture in a sense. there is a sort of pan indianism there, that certain tribes, they liked to keep their particular tribal essence intact and are sort of against pan indianism. but there's something beautiful about everybody coming together

and celebrating a culture of native american people and what all our sameness is instead of our differences. to people of your generation, how important do you think the preservation of the culture and some of the traditions is? it varies. there is a lot of young people, their lives are very similar to any other person in america or anywhere else. and they say that is gone, it's passed. they might not even have a position on it, they are just into their phones, liking or not liking school and it does not necessarily occur to everybody to think about responsibility and connection to cultural heritage. sometimes it's a privilege to even have the time to notjust be surviving and to be, sometimes the day—to—day grind does not allow for it. —— and they say that is gone, its past. the stories in the book and we hear voices telling the story, their approach to the powwow, are very funny in many places

but they are also poignant and sad because what you're talking about here is the destructive effect, really, of contemporary life on individuals and families, aren't you? yeah, and i wanted to, i wanted to make it real, this effect, this echo, from centuries of at first massacre and genocide, and then genocidal policies and how affect those people living today, because sometimes you get the sense that people are well like that happened long ago, forget about it, get over it, and living in the community and knowing a lot of people in the community, there are ways that those things play out in individual lives today. one of the themes that plays out in the book is of course the extent of which putting on the feather headdresses and doing traditional

dances is a proper honouring of tradition and respectful, or the extent of which it's become something for tourists, to make money, and that is one of the tensions that you are really exploring. it's at the heart of the book and it's funny but it's sad. and something about powwows that i've noticed, if you don't know powwow culture, some people think it's a show to be put on for outside but it's actually, when you go to a powwow, it mostly native people and it's actually a dance competition to win money, so people tour the whole country, call it the powwow trail, they try to win dances and they will win the drum competitions and singing competitions, you sell your food and you sell your jewellery. like rodeo or something. it's that kind of thing. it's very much an internal celebration as opposed to a show, putting on a show for outsiders. would you describe it as an angry book? yeah. i think there's a palpable anger and a lot of people who have been oppressed for many years continue

to be, and for native people specifically, because we are a small percentage of people in the united states and that is for a very specific reason. and so it is hard to find voice and it is hard to hear your own voice, see your own image, and so when you suppress something like that, and you don't feel like the story has been told correctly, you get mad. when you're writing the book, and i would be interested to know how the scheme of it took shape, did you intend it to be polemical and angry? i sense in the book that you don't want to sound as if you are preaching. on the other hand, you cannot help

saying this matters. i neither intended it to be angry nor funny and have been surprised when people react in those ways. i just wrote it as true as i could and tried to pay attention to the craft level and sentence level as best as i could write sentences. you were trying to get in the heads of the characters whose voices you are telling the story through. correct. so i was not surprised to hear that it was angry sounding. i have that in me and i know it is in my community. i was a little more surprised by it being funny for people. but i think it's good to mix sadness and humour. i think that's a really important mix. well, and they are pretty close together, sometimes, aren't they? yeah, they are. if the world is mad, all you can do is laugh at it. yeah. native people have a long history of making tragedy into comedy.

there were relatively few writers from the native american community who are known by outsiders. there are some, but few in number. do you think there could be more? i would hope that the success of my book would lead to publishers being more open to publishing other native authors. that would be the most amazing thing to happen from my book because, the problem has been that we have had one image, one monolithic image and so i am certainly not trying to just bring in another monolith and say this is the voice. i think we need a dynamic range of voices and that is part of why i chose 12 characters. when you had finished the book, and you had said what you wanted to say in there there, what had it achieved for you? forget about the reader. for you in writing this down and telling the story. i think, and i touch on this in the book throughout, i think there is something powerful and almost mysteriously powerful in telling the story itself and what the telling of the story can do and i would like to keep its mystery. i don't want to explore it too much. i know what it did for me. it was a powerful experience to get involved with the novel and finish it and it was tough, and i am proud of it. i don't know exactly what it's done or what it's doing in the world but i am happy

for what what is happening. tommy orange, author of there there. thank you very much. thank you. and since this is the last meet the author for the time being, thank you to all of you, too. another dry, sunny, quite hot day, cloudier skies across scotland and northern ireland, even some rain, clearing northern ireland, further outbreaks of rain will push further east across scotland, those areas stay dry during the day, by the end of the night, some rain reaching westernmost parts of england and wales, fear across much of england, temperatures in the range of ten to 15 degrees, fresher, western scotla nd 15 degrees, fresher, western scotland overnight tonight, into tomorrow, showers begin to pull away

from scotland, they will gradually move further east across england and wales, potential for some move further east across england and wales, potentialfor some heavier and possibly thundery downpours, some places will avoid them altogether and stay dry, and that some may get some decent rain on the garden, wind remains right away from the north of scotland, some heat, particularly across eastern parts of england, where is behind the area of cloud and share was, its going to feel a bit cooler and fresher. —— showers. this is bbc news, i'm samantha simmonds.

the headlines at eight. fran ois crowned the world football champions. allez les bleus. french jubilation in moscow, after a thrilling 4—2 victory over croatia to win the world cup. now mbappe with a shooting chance. kylian mbapp was among the french goalscorers, the first teenager to score in a world cup final since pele 60 years ago. after leaving the uk earlier, the us president donald trump, has arrived in helsinki, where he's due to hold talks with vladimir putin tomorrow. the prime minister has revealed the advice she was given from us president donald trump about brexit. he told me i should sue the eu. sue the eu? sue the eu. not go to the negotiations, sue them. actually, no. we're going into negotiations with them.