hello, this is bbc news. i'm carole walker. the headlines... sir cliff richard has won his high court privacy battle against the bbc, and was awarded £210,000 in damages. theresa may addresses a meeting of tory mps amid bitter divisions in their ranks over her brexit policy. it comes after the former foreign secretary said the prime minister's blueprint would leave the uk in a "miserable, permanent limbo." their first public appearance since being freed from a flooded cave — the thai schoolboys talk of the moment they were found by british divers. the leader of the neo—nazi group national action has been sentenced to eight years in prison for keeping the organisation going after it was banned as a terrorist organisation. in a moment it will be time for sportsday, but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news... theresa may insists there's

still time to negotiate a brexit deal with the european union, but borisjohnson says there's a ‘fog of self—doubt‘ over britain's ambitions. we'll hear the thoughts of conservative mp dominic grieve and labour's stephen kinnock — two remainers on opposite sides of the political divide. help is being offered to people with private support —— private water supplies because some springs in scotla nd supplies because some springs in scotland are being dried up because of the weather. the scottish commences river levels are low. and joining me later for our first look at tomorrow's front pages i'm joined by the broadcaster david davies and political commentator, daisy mcandrew. that's all ahead on bbc news. now on bbc news it's time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm azi farni. coming up in the next 20 minutes...

carnoustie is ready to test the best on the eve of the 147th 0pen golf championship. i'mjohn watson, i'm john watson, live at the course, whether british contingent will ask themselves just how do they stop the american stranglehold at the majors? former wales captain sam warbuton retires from rugby at the age of 29. geraint thomas wins stage 11 of the tour de france and with it takes the leader's yellowjersey — chris froome is now in second. hello and welcome to sportsday, i'm azi farni. thanks forjoining us. the open championship returns to carnoustie this week, with rory mcilroy among the home players hoping to break an american

stranglehold on the majors. all four of golf‘s biggest prizes are held by us players, withjordan spieth the defending champion. 0ur reporterjohn watson is there. john, a big weekend ahead? yes indeed. the world's best golfers are gathered to battle it out over the next four days to call themselves the champion golfer of the year. they had to wrestle the american control over the four majors currently. carnoustie staging the 0pen currently. carnoustie staging the open for the eighth time, it has staged some memorable moments in 0pen history, who can forget vandevelde's stainless meltdown in 1999 when he blew a three shot lead heading into the final hole? he famously had his shoes and socks off

as he ended up in the barry burn before losing in the play—offs to paul murray. padraig harrington won yearin paul murray. padraig harrington won year in 2007, back—to—back open micro championships in 2007 at 2008. —— back—to—back 0pen championships. there was a famous amateur in the field that year, rory mcilroy. 0f course, they will be battling the americans. they have a stranglehold on all four majors, they have won the last five. would they win six, it would be the first time the americans have won six in a row since 1982. rory mcilroy and the other british players are only too aware of the challenge the americans will pose. it's so much depth, if it's not jordan it'sjustin, if it is not him it is brooks, patrick, there are so many great players and it seems like at this point they are all playing really good golf at the same time

and it will be tough to beat them this week, tough to beat them in france, that is how it is. europeans had a nice little run a few years ago and these things work in cycles, right now all these guys are playing really good golf and they are some of the best in the world, deservedly so, they will take some beating. 0ne one of the more inspiring stories heading into this 0pen is that of the english golfer ashton turner, who when as a one—year—old fell into a fish tank and fractured his skull, it is only during the operation that followed that the doctors realised he had a form of cerebral palsy. the physiotherapy that followed, his family encouraged him to take up golf. here he is on the eve of an 0pen golf. here he is on the eve of an open and will be competing alongside

the likes of rory mcilroy and tiger woods. he has spoken to adam pope. it was difficult growing up, obviously. diagnosed with a mild form of cerebral palsy when i was young. the doctors' first thoughts we re young. the doctors' first thoughts were i might not be able to walk properly, pretty much. i was too young to remember that, probably for the best. so i fell into doing physio, my dad thought what better way to practice balancing into golf. i was cleared medically when i was six, and then i played it ever since. what are your abiding memories of golf? i can remember smashing the lawn in the back garden, that is not my dad thought we had better move to a golf course. those are my earliest memories. and my coach, i have been there ever since. being here, is it like huge validation for everything you have been through and what your parents have done for you? but it is nice

for, especially for my parents, to give back to them. they started getting into golf to practice my balance they did not think i would like it as much as i did. it is all the hard work they did when i was younger in getting me to where i am, it is nice for them. ashton and the other golfers will have to deal with the tough conditions awaiting them when play gets under way tomorrow. the warm weather and hartson has baked this call is really hard and different, really scorched earth, you can expect the ball to run and run. very changeable conditions with links golf, so what can expect over the coming days? simon king has looked for us. as any golfer will know, conditions have been lightning quick on the fairways, it has been much triads warmer and those fairways are scorched. that is no exception in carnoustie for the start of the

147th carnoustie for the start of the 1a7th 0pen taking place on thursday morning. initially some sunshine in carnoustie, we will keep sunny spells into the afternoon. fairly lighter winds picking up throughout thursday afternoon, with temperatures getting up to around 20 01’ temperatures getting up to around 20 or 21 celsius. thursday night into friday, we will see some rain spreading. for the early tees and friday mornings, different conditions. maybe slower before things dry out into the afternoon. more cloud around and temperatures up to around 19 degrees. the weekend remains largely dry, burying wins on saturday. 0n sunday, a west or south—westerly wind. good news as far as the rain is concerned, just small showers forecast into friday. let's look at what is to come tomorrow won the opening day. let's look at some of the selected tee times. jordan spieth goes out withjustin

rose, what a duo that is, alongside keira aphibarnrat, that is at 9:58am. with pointing out that tiger woods goes out late tomorrow afternoon. you can expect huge crowds as he makes his 0pen return after a two—year absence. it is set to get under way early tomorrow and we will haveit under way early tomorrow and we will have it all covered live from carnoustie over the next four days. thank you, john, we will catch up with you a lot over the next four days. mps have been debating the fa's proposed sale of wembley stadium and the future of english football today. the fa say that only one in three pitches at grassroots level is of an adequate quality. they say that selling wembley gives an opportunity to change the poor state of community football facilities. 0ur sports correspondent

andy swissjoins me now. bring us up to date on what's happened today. this hearing was arranged specifically to talk about the wembley issue. first we heard from former england international gary neville. 0f former england international gary neville. of course he is a tv pundit 110w. neville. of course he is a tv pundit now. he said he was opposed to the sale of wembley, not for emotional regions but because it was, in his words, desperate. that would for emotional reasons. the fa say that selling wembley would give them an extra £70 million a yearfor grassroots facilities, gary neville was the point is that there is so much money sloshing around at the top of english football at £70 million was a pittance and could be raised to putting a levy on agents‘ fees or getting premier league teams to ta ke fees or getting premier league teams to take a slight cut in prize—money. he said selling wembley would come back to haunt them. the fa feel to fund a grass—roots programme they have to sell a national asset, a national stadium? it is, quite simply, ridiculous.

i completely agree with everything you put in that statement before the question finally came. this is a nonsense. it's a nonsense. this is not me being emotional about wembley. i'm not emotional about wembley, forget wembley, what is it next? st george's park goes because we had to build another 500 pitches? this is not long—term thinking. gary neville, not one to mince his words. we know what he thinks, what are the fa say? we heard from the chief executive, martin glenn, who said he was initially shocked when the idea was first put to him, that he believes selling wembley would allow them to accelerate change rather than wait for someone else to give them money to improve grassroots facilities. the fa say they believe it is a transformative opportunity which would allow them to develop a new generation of 3g artificial pitches and improve the

current facilities. we heard from the fans‘ representative, katrina law from the football supporters federation. she said her organisation had conducted a poll which said that fans opinions was generally split, around a third in favour, third against and a third waiting for more details. any sale would have to be approved by the government and sport england and the government who would put money into the rebuilding of wembley. the indications from the sports minister tracy croucher is that the sale will get our backing. and useless, thank you forjoining us. the new chelsea boss says he wants to keep eden hazard at the club. hazard, who‘s been linked with real madrid, recently said that "it might be time to discover something different" after six years at stamford bridge. but maurizio sarri, who gave his first press conference as chelsea manager today, say he thinks he wants to meet hazard, who‘s away on holiday after representing belgium at the world cup. translation: hazard is a very high

level player and i think he is one of the top two three european players. and so i hope that i will manage to improve him. this is very difficult, given that he has reached a very high level. liverpool have agreed a world record fee with roma for brazilian goalkeeper alisson. the £67 million deal is the most any club has ever paid for a keeper. the 25—year—old joined roma from brazilian side internacional two years ago, playing 37 serie a matches last season. alisson played in all five of brazil‘s world cup matches, keeping three clean sheets. liverpool‘s 70 million euro bid, would overtake the current record for a keeper, which was 53 million euros paid byjuventus to parma for gianluigi buffon in 2001. meanwhile, liverpool will be without alex 0xlade—chamberlain for

the majority of the upcoming season. the midfielder sustained multiple ligament damage when attempting a tackle during a champions league match against roma at anfield in april. liverpool say that the estimated length of his lay—off wasn‘t revealed because 0xlade—chamberlain, didn‘t want the news to distract from the reds‘ ongoing champions league run. celtic face armenian side alashkert in the second leg of the first round of champions league qualifying tonight. they lead 3—0 from the first game but captain scott brown has urged other scottish premiership sides to improve in europe to boost their chances of regular group—stage involvement. it just gets itjust gets harder and harderfor us itjust gets harder and harderfor us to get in. until everyone else sta rts us to get in. until everyone else starts helping us out in the champions league, we could‘ve done better scotla nd champions league, we could‘ve done better scotland in the past few yea rs, better scotland in the past few years , we better scotland in the past few yea rs, we have better scotland in the past few years, we have to do it so we need

to make sure we are fit and ready as $0011 to make sure we are fit and ready as 50011 as to make sure we are fit and ready as soon as it comes along. to make sure we are fit and ready as soon as it comes alonglj to make sure we are fit and ready as soon as it comes along. i signed the celtic 11 years ago, that was to play in the champions league, play against the best players in the world, show them you are just as good. i know everyone underestimates scottish football little bit but if we get into the champions league we have done ourselves proud. former wales captain sam warburton has retired from rugby at the age of 29. the former british and irish lions captain hasn‘t played since leading the 2017 lions to a drawn series against new zealand. he won 79 test caps and made 11 world cup appearances. here‘s our rugby union reporter chrisjones. we know that wooperton has not played since the third test for the lions against new zealand back in july 2017, almost one year to the day. many thought, warburton himself, he would come back fit and firing after a good pre—season having had over a year out of the game. but after so many surgeries, the mental and physical toll would

have taken, he got back into pre—season training and his body could not deliver what it has done in the past. it is a great shame he is having to give about 29. you feel it is far too young for a player who might have had so much to give. but we can celebrate a fantastic career for a manner highly respected on and off the field. britain‘s geraint thomas has won stage 11 of the tour de france. he finished ahead of the netherlands‘ tom dumoulin and his team sky team—mate chris froome to take the leader‘s yellow jersey from belgium‘s greg van avermaet, who had led since the third stage. drew savage reports. if anyone was wondering how strong tea m if anyone was wondering how strong team sky would be, stage 11 will provide the answer. it is where the race got serious. mountains are not greg van avermaet‘s thing. he surprised many by hanging onto the yellow jersey yesterday, it would surprised many by hanging onto the yellowjersey yesterday, it would be a stage too fire in the alps. with jerome thomas second this morning,

this was team sky‘s chance to take control, but everyone else was as determined to stop them, including tom dumoulin, second to froome at the giro d‘italia. forcing sky to reveal their hand. thomas rode away from some of the best riders in the world, chris froome followed. the defending champion held his own, gaining half a defending champion held his own, gaining halfa minute defending champion held his own, gaining half a minute most of his main rivals are moving to second. the man of the day was his team—mate. no stopping the run thomas, overhauling tom dumoulin on his way to his first mountaintop stage win. a lead of one minute and 25 seconds. anthony joshua says he‘s still hopeful of a fight against american deontay wilder. joshua will defend his ibf, wba and wbo world heavyweight titles against alexander povetkin at wembley stadium on the 22nd of september. but does he feel let down that this fight is not against wilder? what can i do? i have been waiting

for the since 2017, and after i beat wilder, the next question is when will you fight fury? i can‘t think that because wilder is not here and iam upset... that because wilder is not here and i am upset... even when i beat him there will be more to do, i still had to fight. 0n there will be more to do, i still had to fight. on both ends, there is a lwa ys had to fight. on both ends, there is always more to do, i am rolling with the punches, focusing on myself and making sure i am in the best mindset to face whoever is ready, because people talk and some people do. of the world was not best athletes will be up against each other this weekend at the anniversary games in london. —— some of the world‘s best athletes. there is a new crop of british sprinters and some talk about whether any will beat a record which stood in british athletics for 25 years. here is what they will try to beat. they got away first time.

christie comes through to become champion of the world! a town just outside the world record. that, of course, was linford christie running the 100 metres in 9.87 seconds at the world championships in stuttgart in 1983. 0ne championships in stuttgart in 1983. one man hoping to beat that is arnel hughes, the fastest man outside of the us. —— is zarnel hughes. it is so the us. —— is zarnel hughes. it is so exciting for british sprinters at the moment. how does it feel to be in the mix of exciting new talent? really exciting for me, especially because i mostly known as a 200—metre runner. it has been an exciting year, i have been learning a lot more in the hundred, it has been going really well. the other quys been going really well. the other guys have been doing tremendously well, it is exciting for me now to

be part of that and to see how much further i could go. you are the fastest man outside of the us, the statistics don‘t lie, here they are. sixth fastest at the moment. how confident are you getting closer?” definitely think i can do much better. this year has been a learning curve in terms of the 100 metres. i have gotten much sharper now, as the european championships is getting closer, my speed has got up is getting closer, my speed has got up there so i think i can reckon with the great guys from the usa. you could‘ve already won your first major championship at the commonwealth games earlier this year, you crossed the line ahead of richards of trinidad and tobago. you thought you had won it, then you are disqualified for impeding him.