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a government review is expected to report by the end of the year. and liverpool's loris karius has completed his two—year loan deal to turkish side besiktas. the german keeper has lost his place at anfield this season, and made two costly mistakes in the champions league final in may. karius says he is still young and hopes to make the next step in his career. we started the programme with tennis and now we are ending with it. is this britain s oldest tennis player? 99 and still going strong. many players half his age would have hung up their rackets long ago. but tom hicks, from royston in south yorkshire, still plays three times a week and has no intention of giving up the sport he loves. dave edwards has been to meet him. for more than a0 years, tom hicks has been coming to this tennis club
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near wakefield. now aged 99 he still plays three times a week all year round. for me it is the fresh air, the friendship and it is good for you. it is good for my figure, as you. it is good for my figure, as you call it. how hard is it on the body at 99? i never noticed, ijust kept going. the final of the men's singles. there are not many people left who remember this. tom was 15 when fred perry won his first wimbledon in 193a. ten years later during world war ii, he was part of the assault on an. it was only after returning home that he took up a sport that he has loved ever since. in those days it was all wooden rackets and the court was all rough and we had coloured balls instead of yellow and grey. playing three times
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a week at 99 is pretty impressive, but tom has still got some way to go if he is going to get into the record books. according to guinness world records the world's oldest tennis player was a mexican man who reached the tender age of 101. what a shock! if you are getting older, it isa a shock! if you are getting older, it is a thing you must do. keep moving, keep playing sport, keep exercising. walker, do anything, but don'tjust sit there exercising. walker, do anything, but don't just sit there and vegetate. so what about that world record? don't just sit there and vegetate. so what about that world record ?|j have so what about that world record?” have got two years to go yet. you will beat it, though. hopefully, i will beat it, though. hopefully, i will let you know when i do. hopefully, i will let you know when i do. iam sure i am sure he will. there are no excuses for any of us. tom hicks there. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening.
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people have lined the streets of phoenix to pay tribute to the late u.s senator, john mccain. a hearse carrying the former republican presidential candidate's body arrived by police escort at the arizona statehouse where it will lie in state on what would have been his 82nd birthday. his body will then be transferred to washington for a memorial service before a private funeral on sunday. the vietnam war veteran died on saturday after battling an agressive brain tumour for more than a year. a year after violence in myanmar prompted hundreds of thousands of rohingya muslims to flee the country, the un secretary general has said those responsible must be held to account. the security council met overnight to discuss a report published on monday which called for myanmar‘s military leaders to face charges including genocide. the actor and un goodwill ambassador
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cate blanchett recently visited bangladesh where thousands of rohingya muslims have been forced to flee. she's been speaking to our correspondent nada tawfik. well, i think that, you know, part of the security council's remit is to highlight and to continually and unfailingly not give up, you know. i'm just coming from speaking to the secretary general and you know when a situation is impossible, you have to push harder, you know. and despair is something that we cannot give in to. and when you see the resilience of the refugees themselves and when you sit in a school with children who have lost parents, children who have seen their grandparents pushed back into burning buildings and set on fire. you know, i sat with one particular girl who was 1a who had her three—year—old brother dismembered and thrown into a fire in front of her. and when you see them, you know, moving forward positively,
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trying to go to school, it galvanises me and makes me want to not forget those individual faces in the magnitude of the numbers that we hear. and i think it's beholden upon the international immunity to shine a spotlight on it. it may seem impossible, but it's not an excuse for not doing anything. have you been disappointed that aung san suu kyi as the de facto leader and with her moral authority as a nobel peace prize laureate, hasn't done more to prevent the violence? i think it's imperative that the government of myanmar now sets about concrete paths towards giving the rohingya citizenship. you know, every human being... we're sitting here, we have a nationality, you know, we are able to vote. we have the right to an education and basic health care. and these people have none of those rights. and so i think it's absolutely vital
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that the government of myanmar now, a year on from the crisis, starts to make positive, concrete steps towards making sure that things happen. it's, you know, of paramount importance. and after visiting the camps, being here to speak to international leaders, i wonder how you reflected at all on the fact that there had been warning signs for decades, incitement of violence against the rohingya for decades? and yet international leaders did not prevent this from happening. i think when we are dealing with stateless people, the problem can often be invisible. and you can feel, particularly in the west, that there is cultural barriers. but when you sit with a mother, newly arrived, who has not even unpacked her bags because she was worried that the latrine she has built, you know, right above her, is going to collapse when the rains come. you realise that there are human beings inside this crisis and i think it's really important
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that even though we talk about the numbers, that we don't lose sight of the human beings. so i suppose part of my role as a goodwill ambassador is to re—score that human face. now it's time for a look at the weather. good evening. wednesday was a day of contrasts. we had weather fronts moving their way south and east across parts of the country and they brought some rain. we had three quarters of an inch close to count and it stayed pretty dull for most of the day. it took awhile for the cloud too thin and break. but behind those of france we also saw some decent spells of sunshine today. further north and west it was a beautiful story with sunny spells in the afternoon. it looks as though we will continue to see those guys clearing as we go through the
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evening and overnight. a cloud in the south—east melts away and under those clearer skies the wind will be light with a north—westerly. temperatures will fall away. we will see the green penetrating down through the spine of the country and that means temperatures will fall into single figures. it will be actually start to thursday morning, but it will be a straightforward day, quite a quiet story. any morning mist will fade away, we will see some sunshine. cloud develops in the afternoon and further west there will be more cloud. but it is a largely dry day. the showers will be few and far between. 15—21d. it is high pressure that is controlling the story at the moment despite these weather fronts pushing the story at the moment despite these weatherfronts pushing in the story at the moment despite these weather fronts pushing in from these weather fronts pushing in from the atlantic. they weaken as they bump into that high and they will not make that much of an impression.
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but there will be a west— is to divide developing into the weekend. 0n divide developing into the weekend. on friday it is a chilly start, a little bit of cloud developing, but the favourite spot for sunshine is the favourite spot for sunshine is the further east you are. 16—21d. but that high pressure is not going very far very quickly and again it is killing off these weather fronts in the far north—west. into the weekend we are not expecting much in the wake of significant rain, but it could have an impact on where the cloud will sit. it is likely the cloudy skies will be the further north and west you are and warming up north and west you are and warming up in the south—east by the end of the weekend. by president trump. but he's also an amazing dad. you're watching
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beyond one hundred days. american voters rush for the extremes — on both ends of the political spectrum. a very telling vote in florida showed strong support for donald trump and strong support for progressive democrats. the election for the governorship of the sunshine state will now pit an african american liberal against a pro trump republican. the official death toll from last yea r‘s hurricane maria is revised upwards — nearly 50 times upwards. almost 3000 people are now thought to have died. also on the programme. british and french fishermen clash in the english channel in the latest stage of a long running war over scallops. in the oval office, donald trump is handed the referees cards, by the world governing body fifa — and no prizes for guessing who got the red one.
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