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that leaves karolina pliskova is it. that leaves karolina pliskova is the leading players here, the second seed and now highest ranked. she started off with a relatively comfortable success. it was really important for her. didn't have the toughest opponent, a little inexperienced, but she has had about a month which hasn't gone terribly well for her at the french and at birmingham and it is one of those matches, she has got herself into the tournament. i liked what i saw but there will need to be a better level as she progresses. her service, six aces, 6—3, 6—3. the other big match was 0stapenko to come back from two breaks to win in straight sets. she has been so quiet since she won in paris two years ago, rankin going the wrong way, and maybe she hit, for her, rock bottom.
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mum has got more involved, who a lwa ys mum has got more involved, who always coached her, but i have seen her on court a lot. you never know with 0stapenko, if she gets hot eve ryo ne with 0stapenko, if she gets hot everyone else is in trouble. she looked hot and fiery, join us for more coverage from 1pm tomorrow, johanna konta in action. finally... there are some people who like to roll around in a bit of mud. these guys definitely do. this is a swamp football competition in a russian forest around 60 kilometres from saint petersburg. this is a clearly exhausting form of football that lasts 13 minutes. the winning team were victorious in the final by a goal to nil, meaning they will represent russia at the next world cup in finland. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening.
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let's bring you more now on one of the key stories today on facebook because the senior facebook executive and former liberty prime minister nick clegg says he wants to create a new oversight board for the company with the power to create independent rulings over whether questionable content should be removed. he was speaking to bbc head ofa removed. he was speaking to bbc head of a major speech in germany this evening and said facebook should play at your role in advocating rather than shunning legislation. in westminster studio as damian collins, chair of the digital culture media and sport committee who led an enquiry into facebook earlier this year. they called for compulsory code of ethics to be imposed on social media companies. thank you forjoining us. do you think the suggestion goes far enough? no. i welcome think the suggestion goes far enough? no. iwelcome any think the suggestion goes far enough? no. i welcome any move facebook make to bring more scrutiny into their practices but this has to
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be done by an outside body independent of facebook and with the legal powers to launch investigations into the company when things go wrong, otherwise we are in a position where we are largely reliant on facebook deciding what it will share with us and if there are independent investigations seeking to frame those investigations. if anyone is going to have confidence in those processes we need to create a proper regulatorjust as we have in broadcasting with ofcom, a proper regulator with teeth you can investigate these companies when things go wrong. nick clegg also said today there was no evidence of russian interference. i know you posted twitter again refuting that. facebook themselves told us in the past that they found a small amount of evidence that the russians were trying to buy advocates during the referendum. —— adverts. we know there are substantial activity from russian news organisations during the referendum which had a very high share of the voice, and this is not just about the referendum but a bit
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pattern of behaviour that has run through the recent european elections, we have seen it in america and around the world. the russians and other bad actors around the world are exploiting social media to spread their messages and disrupt politics and other countries, and it has only been through internal investigations that parliamentary inquiries, investigative journalists and so on have got to know anything about this. facebook have been entirely reactive and at times failing to acknowledge the scale of the problem. can you explain how you think the regulation should operate? do you think breaking up these tech giants would help? in terms of regulation we need to establish in law that companies have a clear duty of care to their users and that means acting against known sources of harmful and illegal content and we should create an independent regulatory body, or give ofcom the task of assessing whether the companies are being effective enough at taking down this harmful and illegal content, and if they don't, they should have the power, just as
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we currently have the power with data protection issues, the power to fine the companies and run an investigation to find out what has gone on. it is only when we have the sort of oversight regulation established in law, something that is normal in most other industries, but we will start to see tech companies being held to account. and has either boris johnson companies being held to account. and has either borisjohnson orjeremy hunt said they will follow your recommendations? the current government has accepted many of the recommendations we have made and have found in the online harm white paper. i have discussed the work with the select committee chair and theseissues with the select committee chair and these issues with borisjohnson, i will be taking a keen interest, and will be taking a keen interest, and will be taking a keen interest, and will be making sure my next prime minister is one who embraces that agenda. i know you are supporting mr johnson. why do you think he is not agreeing to show up for any of these tv debates before the voting opens. he is not doing the sky news debate. he is not doing the sky news debate. he has already done a debate on the
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bbc, he has agreed to do an itv debate. he is engaged in a programme of 16 regional debates for conservative party members, so the idea that he is not opening himself up idea that he is not opening himself up to questioning is not true. as a candidate he has the right to decide what is the best use of his time. is it going around tv studios are getting out and meeting the people who will be voting for him. thank you for your time. let's catch up with the weather. it has been at a very humid day across the whole country but noticeably across england and wales. tonight we could see severe weather and moving up from the south across parts of england in particular and feeling exceptionally humid. the humidity in the heat being drawn up from the near continent, this weather front acting as a trigger mechanism to fire up showers and thunderstorms. one such area moving across the eastern half of england as we move through the early hours of tuesday. other warnings particularly for wales where we
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could see heavy rain but this is the focus of the thunderstorms. starting dry but through the night we see this area of rain move up from france initially into central and southern england and across the south—east. continuing to move north into eastern parts of england as we start to use the first thing. vivid colours indicating some torrential downpours which could give rise to some flooding and frequent lightning as well. very humid with the temperature 15—18. sunday a bit more co mforta ble temperature 15—18. sunday a bit more comfortable across the north. tuesday morning we could see further disruption to travel with standing water on the roads, parts of central and southern england. clears away but the chance of further showers and thunderstorms across the middle and thunderstorms across the middle and southwards as the tempter rises and southwards as the tempter rises and the high 20s with high humidity. further north variable cloud and the temperature in the high teens. until wednesday this area of high pressure brings a brief quiet spell and also
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a slightly cooler and fresher spell to the country. northerly winds across england and wales means it feels fresher particularly across the north sea coast, variable cloud but for scotland, we should see the best of the sunshine through the day, 20—24 in edinburgh. 23 further south but cooler for the east coast. high pressure re—establishes towards the east of the country, starts to drag up very hot and humid air once again of the near continent so the temperature on the rise again as we end the week with highs potentially into the low 30s, across southern areas. much hotter through the latter pa rt areas. much hotter through the latter part of the week, more humid as well with the risk of thunderstorms increasing as we head up thunderstorms increasing as we head up to the start of the weekend.
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