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the and she was the first against the american keys. but credit to maddison keys, she turned things around, she won the deciding set by six games to two. she's an andy murray superfan, she six games to two. she's an andy murray super fan, she was asked how many grand slams she thinks she is going to win and she said 30, hugely ambitious, she has a really natural grasp of the game. but out she goes. the defending champion is through to the quarterfinals, having beaten beatriz haddad maia who had to retire. she seemed to be struggling with lower back pain. she tried to carry on for one more game which she then lost and had to call it quits in tears, understandably. elena rybakina said that is not how she wanted to progress but there she goes. she will be against last
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year's finalist. in the men's draw — with top seed carlos alcaraz also back in action. daniel medvedev has progressed too. daniel medvedev has progressed too. daniel medvedev has progressed too. daniel medvedev into his first—ever wimbledon quarterfinal after his opponent retired. jiri lehecka went into this match having played five sets against tommy paul which took close to five hours and really affected his feet, blisters in particular, he had treatment for that in the first set against medvedev but couldn't continue and so daniel medvedev is through to the quarterfinals. he is now a wimbledon quarterfinalist, dimensions novak djokovic, he is up to sets against hubert hurkacz and he is potentially asset away from reaching another wimbledon quarterfinal. it is 1—1 in
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the third set. early doors in terms of the resumption of play. later, it is the top seed alcaraz who will be playing the top seed. he had his work cut out for him in the last game. you missed out on a quarterfinal last year. can he make the last eight this time?— the last eight this time? thank you very much- — allisen corpuz finished three shots clear of england's charley hull and jiyai shin of south korea to win the us women's open at pebble beach. the 25—year—old american closed out her tournament on nine—under—par, enough to clinch her first win on the lpga tour. and claim the $2 million prize, the richest ever for an lpga major champion. my my mind is racing. this is really a dream come true. it was something i
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dreamt of but at the same time kind ofjust never really expected to happen so it's really special. 20, 30 years from now, i thinkjust the fact it's a us open means a lot to me but knowing that it's at pebble beach makes it even sweeter. dutch para—athlete fleurjong has taken gold in the t64 women's long jump at the world para—athletics championships in paris. shejumped a championship record on herfifth attempt, adding to her paralympic and european titles to complete the set. she's also competing in the t64100 metres later this week. and that's all the sport for now. students at a school in gloucestershire, where police enforced a lockdown after a suspected stabbing incident, are now being allowed to go home. a teenage boy was arrested, and a male member of the teaching staff was taken
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to hospital with suspected stab wounds, at the tewkesbury academy. the headteacher said there had been a serious incidentjust before nine in the morning, and all pupils are safe and well. the train drivers union aslef has announced two new strike dates which will affect the london underground on wednesday the 26th and friday the 28th ofjuly. the dates coincide with industrial action which is being taken by members of the rmt union who work on the tube. aslef leaders say they are acting to protect penions, working conditions and agreements. all police forces in england and wales will begin using a new approach to rape and sexual assault investigations from this week in an attempt to increase the low number of prosecutions. official figures show that between april and december last year, less than 2% of the 50,000 reported rapes have so far resulted in a prosecution. our home affairs correspondent june kelly reports. he pushed me into cupboards, strangled me, and sort of came to a head with the rape and strangulation, again, to the point
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that i passed out. and then beyond that, he was threatening to kill me. and that's when he was finally arrested. emma, and this is a pseudonym, reported her former partner to the police last year. the man, himself an ex—officer, wasn't charged with anything. it took... well, really seven or eight months for them to come back to me specifically on the rape and say, well, it's your word against his and there's not enough to charge. it feels very much like they are... it's down to the victim to prove themselves beyond reasonable doubt that this happened before the police will do anything about it. from this week, all 43 police forces in england and wales will be part of operation soteria, aimed at transforming the response to rape. nearly half of forces have already adopted it. it's a partnership of police, prosecutors and academics, and the focus should be on the perpetrator rather than the victim.
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two years ago, we might have focused on the victim's account, where they had been, what they were wearing, how many drinks they had had. we would be focusing on their behaviour, now we are focusing on the suspect. what did they do that night? why did they buy the drinks? rape prosecution rates remain very low. they're better in areas which have been involved in operation soteria the longest. but even here, fewer than one in 12 complaints has so far resulted in a prosecution. louise, and this is not her real name, saw her case get to court. the man she accused was acquitted. as she was about to go into the courtroom, she was told her 999 call to the police would not be played to the jury. tearfully: i felt like i was kind of being thrown to the lions. - ijust felt like i don't want to go in there. | but of course, i had to go in there.
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i felt destroyed after the trial. and i did have suicidal. thoughts after the trial. the trauma of the trial was probably worse than the trauma of what that person did. _ prosecutors and police acknowledge they still have much more to do. and the government says there has to be a transformation in rape investigations. june kelly, bbc news. heavy rain is continuing to batter northern india, causing widespread landslides and flooding. dozens of people are known to have died and buildings and bridges have been swept away. 0ur correspondent arunoday mukharjiis is in delhi with the latest. it's been like that for the past 48 hours, really. and usually around this time of the year, you don't see this kind of incessant rainfall. but that's what analysts are saying, that this is the monsoon period from june to september. but the intensity of the rainfall has certainly changed. and they are, of course, attributing it to climate change triggered by global warming.
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butjust to give you a sense of what's happening, the northern part of india is where the rains have been concentrating, especially in the hilly states of himachal pradesh, up north as well as uttarakhand. this is where this is the foothills of the himalayas as well. and these are frequented by a lot of tourists. and that's why there is a lot of attention that's been given by the administration in these areas. we've been tracking the news on social media and looking at videos, verified videos that have been coming in and circulating on social media, showing the extent of damage, flash floods in various areas, cars being swept away by heavy rainfall as well as the current due to the flash floods. we've seen buildings also being being torn down here in the capital city of delhi, where i am over the last two days, it's seen very heavy rainfall. as i was saying, people have been complaining about waterlogging in several key areas as well, as a result of which the delhi state administration also asked all schools to shut down as well today. so that really is the situation here in the capital. but it's notjust the northern states, even the northeastern states like assam as well.
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we've seen heavy rainfall over the past few days, which is also led to displacement of thousands of people. and the administration is on alert because weather officials have warned of similar conditions and heavy rainfall for at least the next two days. and then one day i saw that delhi had registered its highest daily rainfall for more than a0 years. things do seem reasonably under control in the capital, though. but what about further north? are they having to evacuate people? well, at the moment, evacuation orders have not been issued as such, but the administration is on alert. they are monitoring the situation on the ground. relief and rescue teams are on standby, especially, as i said, the hilly areas which have seen incidents of flash floods. a lot of people have been relocated to the slightly, slightly safer areas, is what we're hearing at the moment. and just one more word on the capital city, just a a little further south. it also has a river
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running through the city, which officials say is also flowing very close to the danger mark. so officials are also on alert here in the capital city as well. record rainfall in delhi,. residents of south africa's biggest cityjohannesburg have been stunned by the first snowfall in more than a decade, with some children seeing snow for the first time ever. while some parts of south africa regularly experience snowy winters, johannesburg last saw snow in august 2012. cold weather conditions are expected to continue through the week. many people injohannesburg on monday seem enchanted by the rare sight of snow in their city. hello. good afternoon. it's looking distinctly unsettled, the weather, through the coming week. showers are longer spells of rain, very few places escaping the showers but
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there will be sunshine as well as we've already seen today and this will continue in some areas but it really has been quite wet, for wales for example this morning, the rain advancing northwards and eastwards. south and east of that, largely dry, unsettled but wetter weather working to the midlands, northern england is already heavy, across parts of northern ireland, thunderstorms around here and into scotland. sunny spells in northern scotland and it might brighten up in wales and the next few hours and to the south and east of the band and rain —— band of rain it should stay dry. just the outside chance of a shower at wimbledon. this evening, the cloud tends to move in, the heavy rain coming in across southern england, the midlands into east anglia. further north, it's a scattering of showers and heavy showers with rumbles of thunder and wet weather making its way into the northeast of scotland. it's going to be a muggy night further south with all that moisture around as well as heavy
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rain that will linger into tuesday. quite a wet start across east anglia, parts of england and that will take a while to clear. 0nce anglia, parts of england and that will take a while to clear. once it does, afresh a day, whence from the north and west, gusty winds during today and this evening and overnight will tend to ease a little bit across southern areas into tomorrow and that changing wind direction, notable in the north, still heavy showers, heavy frequent showers with rumbles of thunder but slightly fresher air coming across our area of low pressure as it drifts out into the north sea, we shift the wind direction down to a northwesterly. 0n wind direction down to a northwesterly. on wednesday, a fresher day further south with sunshine but look at the heavy showers, slow—moving showers close to that area of low pressure and there will be some real downpours around with hail and thunder. there could be some local flooding with spray and standing water. 30 may be less showery with a brief ridge of high pressure coming in but by friday we got these next areas of
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live from london. this is bbc news. this is bbc news. us presidentjoe biden is at windsor castle for talks with king charles. for talks with king charles. earlier, mr biden met earlier, mr biden met prime minister rishi sunak in downing street — prime minister rishi sunak describing the us—uk relationship as "rock solid".
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