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the women's semi—finals are underway at wimbledon. so let's head straight over to sw19. tech level —— technical problems here. i can tell you that elina svitolina is on the comeback trail as we speak. she had lost the first set, it looks like it was going all the way to the czech player. she had lost seven games in a row and yet what we have seen is elina svitolina when the next three. is this the fightback of all fightbacks? she put out iga swiatek at the start of the tournament and serena williams. she has been playing much more in the
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last few games. causing problems, bringing variety. she has a chance now, she will serve in the second set and it looks like she was heading out in straight sets. we also have a second semifinal to come. onsjabeur, also have a second semifinal to come. ons jabeur, trying to make history for the north african and arab world. she is going to have a mammoth protest in front of aryna sabalenka. she of course has given us some of her best moments at these championships. really getting to grips a lot more where the grass. we
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know she is more comfortable and harder services but we can see she is more at ease. a lot of people when you're speaking to them, they are saying it is partly between aryna sabalenka or ons jabeur. elina svitolina tries to level things up. she is staying with a mate of hers in southfield and she had only rarely arranged to be here for the first week maximum. he wasn't expecting her to be there for the second week. she could well be a wimbledon finalist. nobody saw this run coming and nobody saw elina
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svitolina's run coming. she had taken maternity leave for most of last year. she gave birth to her daughter in october. many listen to her in her press conferences, she says being a man gets given her the perspective that —— being a mum has given her perspective. she is fighting to stay alive in the second set. that is all for now. a bbc investigation has found new evidence that casts doubt on the greek coastguard s account of the migrant boat sinking in the mediterranean a month ago. 82 people are confirmed to have drowned in the tragedy, but it s feared a further 500 may have died.
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now, survivors claim they were told to keep quiet after raising concerns about the coastguard's handling of the disaster. nick beake from bbc verify has the story. in a park in central athens, we meet two survivors who ask us to hide their identity. they say the greek coastguard caused their boat to sink. they attached a rope from the left. everybody moved to the right side of the boat to balance it. the greek vessel moved off quickly, causing our boat to flip. they kept dragging it for quite a distance. the men allege that when survivors tried to speak out about what happened, they were quickly silenced. the army man said, "you have survived death, stop talking about the incident and don't ask more questions about it. "stop talking about this. "stop making accusations. " "you are safe now." "that's the most important thing." "mind your business."
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we returned to the port of kalamata in southern greece, where the coastguard interviewed survivors. but there are now doubts about that process. our bbc investigation last month showed that in the seven hours before it went down, the boat had hardly been moving at all. and now, using court documents, witness statements and the evidence of a new whistleblower, we can see a pattern of behaviour by the greek coastguard. after farzin khavand watched our bbc verify investigation last month, he contacted us. he wanted to explain that he worked as a translator in a previous people smuggling case, where he believed an argument was built against two innocent men, with fellow survivors being threatened. they were told, if, unless you specify such and such, that these were the individuals who were people smugglers, you will be treated unpleasantly,
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you will be put in prison and be returned to taliban. as for this summer's shipwreck, the greek authorities have charged nine egyptian men with manslaughter and people smuggling. the greek coastguard refused an interview and have not replied to our latest allegations. but this new video, and these new claims, raise more questions about their actions. the hollywood actors�* union has ended talks with the body representing major studios afterfailing to reach a deal over pay — and assurances that their work won't be replaced by artificial intelligence. the screen actors guild said its negotiators had voted unanimously to recommend strike action. that would see 160,000 actorsjoin writers on picket lines for the first time in hollywood since 1960.
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98% of the union's members have previously authorised their leaders to call a strike if there was no agreement. now, those of us heading for the great outdoors this summer are being asked to think about how hobbies like water sports, fishing and walking impact wildlife during the all important breeding season. here's lorna gordon to explain. slowly, carefully, a specialist climber inches towards a nest that dominates the horizon. he's about to find out how many young ospreys it contains. two chicks. the birds are being gently and briefly removed to under a specially granted licence. yeah, i think i'm happy they come down together. all those involved are wildlife officers experienced in handling raptors. those look like nice, healthy chicks. the five week—old ospreys are weighed and measured, checked and ringed. very useful. and it's helped us to learn a lot about the birds,
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about where they go, how long they live. and of course, when we learn about where they go and the habitats that they're using, it helps us to protect them. but there's a growing issue of people causing distress and disturbance to birds and other wildlife, too. from rubbish left behind after camping to fires and fishing. this is really common, to find bits of fishing gear entangled into the nest. we've found chicks actually completely tangled in the wire and tangled into the nest as well. we've seen adult ospreys flying around with bits of fishing wire stuck on their legs as well. so it can be a big problem for the birds. from the ground beneath our feet to the canopy above, the majority of us who come to enjoy this beautiful scenery avoid causing harm. i will stay away from habitats. i'll stay on a path. i'lljust gently take care of that environment. i really think that anyone out -
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and about should leave no trace. leave it as you found it. take your rubbish home. and on the water, too. with people increasingly seeking out places that are off the beaten track. the amazing things about kayaking is that it gets you out into these wonderful landscapes and it's a good way of being in contact with the natural world. and yeah, it's definitely something i think about. obviously within that, just trying to make the minimum impact possible on habitats and disrupting the kind of natural patterns of species. others, though, who seek out scotland's remote places oblivious to the harm they cause. so this is another area where we've got clear evidence of human disturbance. we've got a lot of rubbish left here, an old firepit, and we are directly adjacent to an osprey nest which has failed. i don't think a lot of what we are seeing here is deliberate disturbance, so it'sjust making sure that people are aware of the signals and cues that the birds give and taking action. so, whenever you encounter a bird alarm calling above you or you can see birds visibly distressed in the area, just move away as quickly as possible.
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giving these rare and beautiful birds the space to grow and thrive. lorna gordon, bbc news in the trossachs. stay with us here on bbc news. hello there, it's another one of those days where the cloud is building up to give us some showers, probably not quite as many or as heavy as yesterday, and it's not quite as windy, either. but temperatures are very similar to yesterday, and they're not quite as high as they normally are at this time of the year. we still have some showers late afternoon into the evening, particularly heavy in northern scotland, but there is more cloud coming up from the south—west which is going to bring a few pockets of rain through
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northern ireland, northern england into southern scotland but it is this wet weather arriving in the south—west which will bring us quite a significant change tomorrow. it will be south—western areas which could be really quite windy tomorrow, may be gusts approaching gale force, some rough seas picking up as well. and not only that, we have this rain. the first area of rain is somewhat lighter, heading northwards into scotland, but this rain will develop more widely across england and wales and northern ireland, could be heavy and possibly even thundery in places, perhaps not so much rain in the south—east, could be quite muggy here for a while, but again those temperatures aren't really changing too much. the winds pick up across england and wales and it is all around that area of low pressure here, this is not a typical summer weather pattern, that low pressure is pushing northwards over the weekend and it is going to bring with it some unusually windy weather for this time of the year. there is some rain around as well which could be heavy and thundery and it is staying rather cool as well. we have got some windy weather for england and wales on saturday, the biggest impact is more likely to be across this area
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where the winds could be gusting 50 to 55mph, particularly around southern coasts and hills. but it will be windy across the whole of england and wales, with downpours developing more widely, perhaps even thundery. not so windy for scotland and northern ireland but we do have some rain here as well. all dampening down those temperatures to around 18—20. there may be a little bit of sunshine in between those downpours. we may see a bit more sunshine for the second half of the weekend, as the low pressure continues to move northwards, tending to pull away and taking away the strongest of the winds. the strongest winds are more likely to be across scotland, northern england, northern ireland, still some showers around but a bit more sunshine to come as well. those winds not as strong across southern parts of the uk but it is still cool.
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