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all of his he's knocked out all of his opponents so far, coming off a huge win against the ortiz when he rallied from the brink of defeat to win in spectacular fashion, rallied from the brink of defeat to win in spectacularfashion, he is expecting another spectacular night when he meets tyson fury. because of his awkward style, look, listen. i know what i can do. i have already saidi know what i can do. i have already said i am very experienced, very good and what i can do to a human's body. but i'm not taking him lightly. when i first... when we first did some type of promotion for this, i looked at him and i said no, not only did i see him, he's nervous. i seen not only did i see him, he's i'iei'vous. i seen i'iei’vous, not only did i see him, he's nervous. i seen nervous, i seen him look in fear. but you know, he's coming to fight. he is coming to fight. this was the first up on their promotional tour. they will meet in new york tomorrow, then los
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angeles. you can expect plenty more shenanigans on the build—up. you can't write off tyson fury, he defeated fatimid klitschko in front of 60 thousand fans into two door. it was the prettiest performance will ever see in times terms of heavyweight fighting when he beat klitschko but it was hugely effective. could be an interesting night. but while will go in as the favourite. so tyson fury is looking to return to the top, great britain's latest world champion is callum smith. he knocked out george groves in the final of the boxing super series last friday night to take the wba super—middleweight belt. he also holds the prestigious ring magazine title. hejoined me here earlier in the bbc sport centre and told me about what it's like to become world champion it's something i work for, i always believed i was capable of it since i
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was a little boy but they finally do it, on the night, it still taken a bit of time to process and sink in. it sounds nice when i say it in the out loud. that's the big one, the spoils of what you have achieved. talk us through the others. that one is very important, the ring magazine... that once as an world champion but there's also three others in division. that once as our number one, the best in the world so that 1's a little bit special. that one is a bit harder to win. there's not many ring magazine champions so that one is special. they recognise you as the best super middleweight out there. you can only the mayor when the top to fight each other or one of the top five, if it goes to a ball panel and no one besides. i'm very proud to own that belt.
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strangely it was in saudi arabia, the first time they have hosted a major boxing event. what was back as —— what was that atmosphere like?” expected the atmosphere to be quite dull and stuff but the atmosphere was brilliant, the place was fun, the people could not do enough for us. the people could not do enough for us. it was good to be the first to have a fight in saudi arabia, especially for the results to go my way. i look back at the time of the world title and it's just a bit different. the fact i won my first world title in saudi arabia, i will a lwa ys world title in saudi arabia, i will always look back with fond memories. as long as the result goes my way, i said that in the build—up, i was sure i would look back at it with good memories. you raise the issue of autism. your younger sister has the condition. on your shorts and
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sparkly letters, the word autism. very close to my heart, we have a little sister holly, she was diagnosed with autism when she was two. 15 years ago i did not really understand, did not know what it was, not many people did so we a lwa ys was, not many people did so we always used our platform, we fight on tv, to raise awareness. if you get the odd person who asks what it isa get the odd person who asks what it is a you explain, it's another person who is more familiar with autism and getting to know if they see an autistic child in a restau ra nt, see an autistic child in a restaurant, they were just put it down to being a naughty kids, they will understand, they are autistic. it's just helping raise awareness. we give the money to the local schools around liverpool and stuff make the families with autistic children's lives easier. callu m callum smith says he wants to fight at his beloved anfield next. that's just about it from sportsday this evening. the budget airline,
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primera air, has announced it will go into administration at midnight tonight. the airline said over the past two years, a series of unforeseen misfortunate events had severely affected its financial standing. our correspondent tom burridge is here. i suspect there may be some people are have not come across this airline so first tell us a bit more about it. it started in 2000 the scandinavian version of thomas crook chartered flights but within the last year was so it really changed its business plan which ultimately went wrong. basically started running flights primarily from the
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uk, from stansted, birmingham until august. and from manchester to destinations around europe but in may the airline basically announced it was going to start running transatlantic routes. it's a budget airline, a smallairline, transatlantic routes. it's a budget airline, a small airline, it had roughly ten aircraft if you think about ryanair, it has around 400. easyj et close about ryanair, it has around 400. easyjet close to 300. it was small, it ran about 90 routes but one for a very ambitious business plan which was to take on the likes of norwegian which are running cheap flights across the atlantic now. ultimately failed. this ambitious business plan is what has gone wrong. essentially, yes. the airline has blamed tonight firstly that it cannot finance is long—term plan so basically it was taken on the lights of norwegian but it could not basically secure long—term financing and on top of that explains blames the fact that a fleet of new airbus
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arrived late in that cause the airline to basically have to lease other aircraft or cancelled flights. on twitter this evening, as the rumours started to swell, you really got a sense of how many people have been let down by primo ryanair before it basically went bust. —— let down by primera air. people have had theirflights let down by primera air. people have had their flights cancelled, someone had their flights cancelled, someone had their flights cancelled, someone had theirfight had their flights cancelled, someone had their fight across the atlantic from birmingham cancelled at the last minute. he was basically trying to get compensation on the airline has several weeks. now he's in a very uncertain position, due to fly with primera air, about whether they will get any compensation at all. we only have ten seconds because we must get to the weather but briefly if you have booked tickets, what should you do? on the website tonight there is a short statement that says check the website in the next three days for updates and contact next three days for updates and co nta ct all next three days for updates and contact all operators and agents they are involved for any
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information, it's just they are involved for any information, it'sjust not they are involved for any information, it's just not certain at this point in time whether people will get compensation. thank you. now to the weather. things have been clouding overfrom the north—west during today. through this evening and tonight, cloudy skies here is captured by a weather watcher in chester will spread further south—east of the outbreaks are patchy rain. we will be bringing some fairly warm, moist air in from the antics are likely to turn quite misty and murky in wales and the south—west. temperatures will drop too far because here we will be developing a pretty brisk breeze. the wind is a real feature of the weather in northern scotland tomorrow, 15 or 16 miles an hour. northern ireland, wales, the midlands, the south of england, cloud patchy rain southwards but any
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brighter breaks could live temperatures to 21 degrees. lots of dry weather through wednesday and thursday the cloud as well, some rain and temperatures around 15 to 19 degrees will. you're watching beyond one hundred days. is it a real fbi investigation or is it a fig leaf that gives republicans cover to vote for brett kavanaugh? the reopened background check into mr trump's nominee for the supreme court has already fallen victim to america's intensely partisan politics. the president isn't totally clear on the scope of the probe but he is defending his man. what's his wife is going through, what his beautiful children are going through is not describable, it is not describable and it is not fair. the death toll from the indonesian earthquake is still less than a thousand but that figure will
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