the lionel messi of cycling. three—time second—place and in the last few years so it was always the talk that he was the guy he was going to do it when they have the accident and he was going to cody 15 with thomas. there was a possibility but also in the back of our minds we are like we have been so close but we did not want to get over excited but then on friday and saturday and then once he attacked that friday stage and he got i think all of columbia knew that he was not going anywhere else. back to cricket now and with the ashes just days away and australia looking to succeed in england for the first time since 2001, one englishman has been leading the way down under. and you've probably

not heard of him. charlie hemphrey was spat out of the english game eight years ago without playing county cricket. after working as a baggage handler in brisbane, he's since gone on to become the first english player to score a first class century in australia since 1978, won their domestic competition and now at the age of 29, is finally getting his first shot at the county game over here. ben croucher has been to meet him. i have had enough here. i thought i was going to end up moving to australia, i did not see anything funny anywhere. timing is everything in cricket. in 2013 having been rejected by essex, charlie thought his time had run out. he decided to up his time had run out. he decided to up steaks, head out to australia, pay a bit of cricket and make a fresh start in between training and pain he is scratching a living.

working mornings and evenings, getting these pains in and out.- the same time, his cricket career was taking off. scarring so many runs, the queens and giving him his first debut. he wanted the domestic competition known as the sheffield shield, top scoring in the first innings of the final. last season it was the highest scoring englishmen in the sheffield shield, it led to a long—overdue opportunity in english cricket to be exact, here in wales. it shows that actually you can have things, they will not just it shows that actually you can have things, they will notjust be a really simple progression through your career really simple progression through yourcareerand it really simple progression through your career and it does not necessarily mean that you would get, we have signed him to be somebody who's a long—term part of the club to help us build and develop a strong team over time. now he feels he still got plenty of time left and he's been through more levels than players of his age and a throwaway remark from his wife helped him move

those darker days. somewhere in tuscany she said something to me that i never forgotten and they stay pretty close and it's played a game that you want to play and i perhaps fallen away from that for a bit. still look to improve in the areas and not so strong at but never forget what you're good at. what he's good at is scoring runs. you kept him in the hunt for promotion for the first time since 2005. he returned to australia over the winter as a 30—year—old having completed his first full year as a professional cricketer. it may be an indian summer but he could still have lots of time to shine. 11—year—old brazilian rayssa leal wows the crowd by winning the women's final at the street skateboarding league world tour event in los angeles.

she respected by tony hawk in a skate park as a seven—year—old. there she is. confirming that moment of her victory over the weekend. huge future for her, what a story. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. authorities in ethiopia psa volu nteers authorities in ethiopia psa volu nteers across authorities in ethiopia psa volunteers across the country have planted 200 million trees since the beginning of the day. it was thought to bea beginning of the day. it was thought to be a new world record, the initiative is being led by the permit in an attempt to counter the

effects of deforestation and climate change. the aim is to plant a total of four billion trees. here's the bbc‘s habtamu tibebu. today ethiopia is in a countrywide campaign of planting trees. this is part of the green legacy initiative by the country's prime minister abiy ahmed to fight climate change and environmental degradation. for the past two weeks, the country has been getting ready for this day, digging millions of holes and preparing seedlings. and today, ethiopians from different walks of life are taking part and the public offices are all shut down for civil servants to join the campaign. the prime minister himself today planted seedlings in the towns. in his recent message, the country's prime minister abiy ahmed called for collective action to fight climate change by planting trees and today, he asked his country's citizens to care for the trees he planted. ethiopia has planned to plant 4 million trees in four months.

let us find out what the weather is doing here now. the main focus in the days i is by some heavy thundershowers, many of us got off toafine, thundershowers, many of us got off to a fine, dry start today the new working week. we have had some showers around, parts of scotland, northern ireland and also across southwest england and these will continue overnight becoming more widespread for southwest england and wales, working towards the midlands, northwest england and northern ireland. elsewhere aside from a bit of patchy rain across northern scotla nd of patchy rain across northern scotland it's mainly dry mixture of the above amounts of crowd and also clear spells. it's a fairly muggy night, temperatures across central and southern england not much lower than 16 or 17 celsius and parts of scotla nd than 16 or 17 celsius and parts of scotland going up to 1a or 15 as well. this area of low pressure is the driving force behind our weather through the working week. notice how

they are quite close together as well, not just to they are quite close together as well, notjust to become a thing to be showers, some windy conditions as well and to tuesday, showers initially across wales, southwest england in the midlands will slowly become more widespread across england and wales extending into northern ireland, parts of southern scotland, northern scotland as well when we see the showers they would bring a lot of rain in a short amount of time. thunder, lightning, gusty winds, quite widely, they can mph, 5041 said southern and southwestern coast and a cooler if you want to stay compared to monday, save for some eastern counties of england and scotland sunshine here, fewer showers, because he temperatures up to around 24 at 25 celsius and going to keep the showers from being around to tuesday evening as well. torrential rain and places with frequent —— frequent thunder and lightning. as we go into wednesday. here's our area of low pressure. starting to drift further north and east rights. there wednesday they showers will start to ease from southwest england and

wales to the site here through the morning. the main focus on wednesday will be to a north wales, east anglia, northern england and much of scotland. again we will see the showers 20 to 30 mm of rain and places, locally up to 50 which could well exacerbate any flooding that we saw for the weekend. certainly a very cool funeral on wednesday. towards the end of three, still some heavy showers with thunder and lightning on thursday but slowly for friday and saturday things do start to turn dryer and the wings with you as well. goodbye.

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