hello to you from the bbc sports centre. let's start at the women's world cup, shall we? new zealand produced a huge upset to beat norway with hannah wilkinson scoring the winner in front of what was a record crowd for a football match in new zealand, that was the only goal of the game with new zealand missing a penalty in the closing minutes. massive result for the co—hosts who had failed to win any of their previous 15 world cup games. i still previous 15 world cup games. i still have goose — previous 15 world cup games. i still have goose bumps. _ previous 15 world cup games. i still have goose bumps. i— previous 15 world cup games. i still have goose bumps. i still— previous 15 world cup games. ist ll have goose bumps. i still have emotions in me. we waited for this moment for such a long, long time and having this opportunity at home,

beating norway, strong opposition, hearing our fans beating norway, strong opposition, hearing ourfans behind us, that is just unforgettable as a moment. in just unforgettable as a moment. in the second match of the day, the other hosts, australia, or dealt a huge injury blow in their main player sam care was ruled out of their opening two matches. it did not trouble them too much as the second half saw the matildas begin their campaign with victory over the republic of ireland. —— they are a key player sam kerr. moving on to cricket now are a partnership of moeen ali and jack crawley has helped england get off to a great start. the very first ball of the morning helped dismiss and josh hazlewood dismissed not long after to leave australia out out for 317 with ben stokes side suffering an early blow to their innings with the

loss of ben duckett for one run but they steadied the ship, both passing their half centuries and moeen ali eventually falling on 5a, being caught and joe root is now in an england currently 151—2. as well as the world cup in the ashes, today is also the first day of the open. australian cam smith looking to defend his title from last year but it's been a lesser—known name making the headlines on day one, we go live to our reporter ben croucher who has been watching the opening rounds. and it is a south african amateur. not many people are talking about the four the tournament. and it is

christo lamprecht. tommy fleetwood just up the coast here in the north west of england making three birdies in a row to join christo lamprecht at the top of the leaderboard on five under par as he is going down the 18th playing his final hole, big chance of a birdie there as well but he put his drive into the rough and if we take a look at a bit further down the leaderboard, 2009 open champion stewart cinq, brilliant opening round for him to sit on three under par, local lad year with the very first tee shot of the day, he is alongsidejordan spieth and the us open champion with scott scheffler... and the defending champion throwing a shot back to sit on one over par and we are awaiting very shortly for throngs of crowds

to be gathering over on the first because in the next few minutes rory michael roy who one year in 2014 will be teeing off. —— in the next few minutes we will see rory mcilroy teeing off. exciting stuff. there's a warning from the uk children's charity, the nspcc, that predators are using virtual reality gaming to target and groom young people. the charity found that three quarters of parents were concerned that children were at risk of being sexually harassed in vr worlds. police have called the technology an emerging threat. angus crawford reports. enter a virtual world. how old are you? seven. seven, cool. rec room says it's a place to hang out, chat and explore. it looks innocent enough, but not for this child — home alone, playing

on her vr headset. one time when i met some boy... she tells a researcher what happened to her. it's graphic and shocking. he told me to go on his bed and he started doing stuff. all that was going on in one of these. now, put on the headset, choose an avatar, a virtual you, and a whole range of worlds opens up. both good and bad. vr and the so—called metaverse promised a world without limits, a new level of gaming, lifelike graphics, where a headset could take you anywhere you wanted to go. but in a space with few rules, for children that can be dangerous. behind this door, someone who knows that only too well. she spends hours each day in vr. theresa?

yes. how are you? i'm good, thank you. that's an interesting outfit. thank you. see the pole? well, theresa uses it for dancing in a game called vr chat. it's fun and she feels safe, but worries that there is adult content, racist abuse and bullying of women and girls harassed by predatory men. grooming is a big issue. it's an unsafe space for children in general. it's unmoderated, it's a wild west. police say a child's life is in danger... a wild west which has even led to children being abducted. we have breaking newsjust in... in the us, we know of at least three cases where children have met predators on vr. this is the new frontier. what's really sad is a lot of these companies, they haven't learnt . in the last 15 years from us telling

them they need to do more - to protect children. and they have gone ahead, - innovated at speed, rolled products that frankly do not have the safety features on them to make - sure children are safe when they use them. | rec room told us it takes the safety of players on the issues raised in a report extremely seriously. and that it works proactively with law enforcement around the world. as for vr chat, it says user safety is a top priority. it insists underage users are not permitted and if detected on the platform are immediately banned. he told me to lay down like this. on his pillow. a virtual world with few rules and a very real dangers. if you've been affected by any of the issues in this story, information and support is available via the bbc action line website.

in other news... a rare plant at the university of leicester's botanic garden, has finally bloomed again much to the delight of fans who have been waiting a very long time for it to happen. yes the agave succulent plant last flowered in 1998 — 25 years ago, as helen astle reports. standing at over 15 feet tall and peeping through the roof. this is no ordinary plant. the agave succulent is also called the century plant because originally early explorers thought it took a hundred years to flower. thankfully, they were wrong and it's just been the 25—year wait. it then has to be grown indoors. there are a few botanic gardens that have got them and they nearly always have to take glass out the roof to get them to flower because the greenhouses is not tall enough. so we've had to take the top of the plant, which was an almighty shame. now, the last time the agave plant was flowering was back in 1998.

tony blair was prime minister. the search engine google had just been launched and interest rates weren't 5% like they are now. they were seven and a half percent. we were there too to capture the moment. now, there are some weird plants in here gathered from around the world, settled in leicestershire, but none is settled better and none is weirder than this. the plant is certainly attracting a lot of attention. botanic gardens had a big plant sale and family day at the beginning ofjuly, and for the first time ever, people were queuing to get in the greenhouse. i was just looking at the stem and it's like that big. i think it's pretty incredible. it kind of amazes me. well, it's quite extraordinary, really. we've never seen anything like it before. just absolutely amazing. yeah. so i've been giddy as a kid. ram singh and his wife saw the last

agave flower and have come back to see this one. 25 years is a long time. although it doesn't look long. it seems as if it's going like that. what does it mean to you to see it? better than even looking at taj mahal or something like that? it's much better than that. better than the taj mahal? because it is, of course, in nature. once it's finished flowering, it will gradually die and the whole plant will die. by the end of the year it will have been removed. visitors are being encouraged to come and see the once in a generation flowering plant as soon as possible. interesting to see a new report from 1998, 25 years ago. if you want to watch or see anything more of the stories you have seen on bbc news you're welcome as always to go to the bbc news website and you can get the bbc news website and you can get the latest from the bbc�*s news app. don't go anywhere, stay with us on bbc news.

hello. 0ur fairly unsettled spell of mid—july weather is set to continue. we've got relatively cool conditions out there at the moment. next few days, we'll see sunny spells and scattered showers. temperatures on the cool side for this stage of the month, but then wet and windy weather moves in during the course of the weekend. so this is the rainfall that we're expecting to accumulate over the next few days. some areas receiving 50, perhaps as much as 70 millimetres of rain. so some wet weather certainly on the way, and it's really looking unsettled for the remainder of the month. now through this afternoon, sunny spells, a few scattered showers, particularly across parts of scotland. this is an occluded front here. cool to the north of that, just 13 or 14 degrees.

further south, high teens, low 20s. few scattered showers for parts of eastern england, one or two further west, but they fade away through the evening and overnight for most of us. bit more rain working in tonight across parts of northern ireland. and we've got a few patchy showers across parts of scotland as well. to the north of that, a fairly cool night, eight or nine degrees and we could see temperatures down in single figures for parts of central england too. so tomorrow morning then starts off for many of us on a dry and bright note. more cloud moving in across northern ireland. also parts of northern england into wales as well will see a bit more cloud bringing the odd shower. during the afternoon, sunny spells and again scattered showers. like previous days, most of them are going to be across parts of eastern england, but you could catch one elsewhere. 15 to 19 degrees for most of us, perhaps the low 20s in the southeast. but of course, for the men's ashes and for the open golf that continues, the weather is looking,

i think, predominantly dry, but there is at both of those events, a chance of a passing shower. heading on into saturday now, and this area of low pressure moves its way in from the atlantic. so really from the word go, it affects western parts of the uk. gales developing down towards the southwest in particular. but wherever you are it's going be a blustery day with that rain spreading eastwards, i thinkjust the far north of scotland getting away with some slightly quieter weather there. temperatures between about 17 to 19 degrees for most of us on saturday. and it looks like low pressure lingers into sunday as well. so here it is, just slowly edging its way eastwards. quite a few isobars on the map. so a spell of blustery weather for sunday into monday. we've still got the tail end of that area of low pressure as well. so it is looking a little bit up and down for sunday and into monday. some sunshine, but also some scattered, blustery and at times fairly heavy showers. bye— bye.

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