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now it is time for a round—up of the sport. hello and welcome to the bbc sport centre, i'm paul scott. let's go straight to wimbledon, because the action is under way on day 2. chetan pathak is there for us. yesterday it was novak djokovic in action, today's it's the reigning women's singles champion who'll take to the court. yes, the show courts will get going in the next couple of hours. the princess will sit here today and we have tennis royalty on centre court because we will see roger federer get a special ceremony, an eight
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time champion here who retired last year. so many talking point for what was an eventful day one. venus williams slipping on centre court on her match on monday and eventually going out. there was a lot of talk about that center court surface. novak djokovic drying it at one point when it got wet. much to look forward to on day two. katie boulter is playing at the moment. dominic team is playing now. the women's defending champion, that's a price run last year to the final which see her beach ons jabeur. we are not sure what sort of fitness she has at the moment, she has been battling a virus and was forced to withdraw midway through the french open and she has not looked the same since. she has won a couple of events this year. she will be challenged... you
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mentioned — year. she will be challenged... you mentioned venus williams, roger federer. anotherformer mentioned venus williams, roger federer. another former wimbledon champion is andy murray and he gets his campaign up and running later today, as well. it is his campaign up and running later today. as well-— today, as well. it is incredible to think it is ten _ today, as well. it is incredible to think it is ten years _ today, as well. it is incredible to think it is ten years since - today, as well. it is incredible to think it is ten years since his - think it is ten years since his first wimbledon title. we have a mouthwatering match in many ways on centre court. he will be the second match. he is playing ryan peniston. he had a good run last year at queens. andy murray, with a metal hip, 36 years old. had an impressive run of the australian open this year. he says he is feeling good, moving well. we had a disappointing first round defeat at queens, but prior to that a couple of challenger
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tournament victories for him at nottingham and surbiton. andy murray will be targeting the second week of a grand slam, something he has not been able to do since that hip resurfacing surgery. we will also see carlos alcaraz, who won the title at queens, later on. there was a big question about how quickly he would figure out playing on grass, but the answer was pretty fast. he will play isjeremy chardy, who has said he will retire after the match, i think he meant retire after the tournament, but i think that shows you what chances he thinks he has against the top seed.— belgium's jasper philipsen sprinted to victory on stage three of the tour de france, but britain's adam yates retains the leader's yellowjersey. philipsen edged out germany's phil bauhaus, with australia's caleb ewan in third, in the first bunch—sprint finish of this year's tour.
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stage four gets under way later on tuesday. meanwhile, at the women's giro d'italia, the italian national champion elisa longo borghini sprinted to win stage four. defending champion annemiek van vleuten, in the leader's pink jersey, finished third. she leads by 49 seconds with five stages to go. in rugby union, england's danny care has said that despite his "rollercoaster" of an international career, this years world cup gives him a chance to take care of some unfinished buisness in the tournament. the 36—year—old has been named in steve borthwick�*s england training group as one of only three scrum—halves — and care says it is his dream to make the squad. for many, any time an england coach wants you to come in and give it a crack, the answer is always yes. that is why i have stayed in england for 18 years as a player, i have always wanted to play for my
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country, it means an awful lot to me. ifeel like in world cups it hasn't really been what i wanted it to be, so i will give anything to try to get in that 33 going to france. ifeel really try to get in that 33 going to france. i feel really good, as good as i have in years. given that chance of someone saying i think you can help us here, come and show us, then, yeah, i'm in. the netherlands have kept their men's cricket world cup qualification hopes alive with a 7k run win overoman in harare. vikramjit singh's maiden odi century helped the netherlands set a total of 362—7 and saw him pick up player of the match. in reply, oman were behind on the dls par score when bad light brought proceedings to an end to give the netherlands victory. well, despite that win, the netherlands can only qualify if scotland beat zimbabwe. zimbabwe won the toss and elected to bowl. scotland have just completed their innings, where, michael leask top scored with 48 as they set a total of 234 for 8.
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that's all the sport for now. just some breaking news to bring you. this has come to us within the last few moments. reports are coming in of a suspected car ramming and stabbing attack intel i eve —— tel aviv. a medical condition has said that the suspected assailant was shot dead at the scene. israeli police are referring to the incident as a terror attack. this comes as israel's military operation continues injenin, in the occupied west bank, about a0 kilometres north—east of tel aviv. israel said
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this is an anti—terror operation that they are carrying out injenin. they say they are targeting the jenin brigade, that includes members of that proscribed terrorist organisation. this is ongoing at the moment. palestinian state thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes. so, ten people have been killed, several of those may have been minors. the world health organization says they have been prevented from entering the refugee camp injenin and they have criticised the israeli operation there. so, a suspected palestinian car ramming and stabbing attack may have entered as many as ten people in tel aviv. tote have entered as many as ten people in tel aviv-— in tel aviv. we will bring you more in tel aviv. we will bring you more in the story — in tel aviv. we will bring you more in the story when _ in tel aviv. we will bring you more in the story when we _ in tel aviv. we will bring you more in the story when we have - in tel aviv. we will bring you more in the story when we have it. -
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in the story when we have it. analysis by the bbc has found thousands of adverts for rental property state people with children or pets are not welcome. mps are considering more protections for renters in england. answer equality laws, blanket bans against children had been found to discriminate against women. it is almost a full—time job. sarah has been searching for summer to rent for a year without any luck. there is a big problem with having children under the age of 18. being a single parent on benefits is another big barrier. also, the fact that i'm a student is a big barrier. so there's all these hurdles that i'm having tojump over, and then i find another one, and then i find another one. landlords turning down applications from tenants with children
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isn't against the law, but lawyers say it could be considered as discrimination. there's concern, too, about whether pets are welcome in rental homes. we found about a quarter of the property available on open rents did not want children, on soup plate there was less than 1% of the total. nearly three quarters of adverts on open rents were keen on applicants with pen pets. many animals that come through our gates because people cannot move into a new property with a pets. rising costs and competition are making it harderfor tenants rising costs and competition are making it harder for tenants to find somewhere to live, but under a proposed new law for england it would be tougher for a proposed new law for england it would be tougherfor a landlord to refuse any tenant with a pets. those
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plans would allow renters to request to keep a pet which a landlord could not unreasonably refuse, but many landlords are worried about the risk of damage caused by pets. property market, the trade body for lettings agents, says a cap on deposits has made owners even more wary of the potential cost. there's also a general acceptance that not every property is suitable for children. the listing sites we looked at were clear that there were no blanket bans on tenants with pets or children. ., .., ., ., bans on tenants with pets or children. ., ., ., , children. the dog i can leave at my ex-husband's. _ children. the dog i can leave at my ex-husband's. but _ children. the dog i can leave at my ex-husband's. but with _ children. the dog i can leave at my ex-husband's. but with the - children. the dog i can leave at my| ex-husband's. but with the demand for rental preperty _ ex-husband's. but with the demand for rental property size, _ ex-husband's. but with the demand for rental property size, for - ex-husband's. but with the demand for rental property size, for mums l for rental property size, for mums like sara the search goes on. another developing story in the last few moments, here in the uk thames water has been fined £3.3 million after pleading guilty to format charges relating to polluting rivers near gatwick in 2017. the court
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heard the firm pumped an estimated millions of litres of undiluted sewage into rivers near gatwick airport in the south—east of england, causing the water to turn black and kill more than 1,000 fish. thames water pleaded guilty in february to four charges relating to polluting the river is, in one incident the court heard a storm pump at crawley sewage plant was unexpectedly diverting sewage to its storm tank for 21 hours and went unnoticed, meaning more than six hours of untreated sewage spilling into the river. it is understood nearly 1a00 dead fish from the rivers were recovered by environment agency officers. we will bring you more on this story when we have it. lucy is here at the top of the hour. now it time for a look at the weather. good morning. we've had a rather mixed picture so far this morning. there's been a bit of sunshine across parts of wales, through northern areas of england,
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but elsewhere it's been fairly cloudy. that was the scene this morning in essex. a lovely start to the day there on the beach, but we've got a bit of rain across southern areas at the moment. south wales, southern areas of england, some patchy light rain and drizzle here. a bit more in the way of rain also across western scotland at the moment. that's going to move its way southward. the rain in the south will turn heavier as the afternoon goes on, but in between those areas of cloud we've got the swathe of sunshine through north wales into northern areas of england. there could be one or two heavy, perhaps thundery showers, north—east england, south—east scotland later on this afternoon, maybe one or two in the south, as well. temperatures generally about 16 to 19 degrees — the highest temperatures where you've got that bit of sunshine across northern parts of england. now through tonight, that area of rain will continue to move its way eastward. there could be some thunderstorms mixed in with that. it will clear to the east there'll be some showers moving their way into western areas. there will be some showers moving their way otherwise, clear spells into tomorrow morning and overnight temperatures down to about 9 to 11 degrees. that's the area of low pressure bringing that rain across eastern areas tonight. it's going to scoot away out into the new continent. then we're left with a slightly
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drier picture on wednesday. there will be some showers, though. they will be popping upjust about anywhere across the uk, so you may well catch one or two of those showers as the day goes on, but in between those showers there will be some lengthy dry spells with a bit of sunshine, as well. temperatures perhaps a degree or so higher than today — 21 celsius in the south—east, about 17 or 18 degrees in central areas of scotland. into thursday, we've got this little ridge of high pressure moving in, so for many of us it's going to stay dry, but this area of low pressure will slowly move its way into parts of northern ireland into the afternoon. the breeze picking up here, as well. elsewhere, though, it's going to stay largely dry. after some sunshine in the morning, we'll see the cloud generally increasing into the afternoon. temperatures up to about 22 celsius again. we start to pick up a south, south—westerly wind and that south—westerly wind will bring in warmer and more humid air as we go into the end of the week. we'll see those temperatures rising across many areas on friday, saturday and sunday. temperatures up to 27
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