welcome to sportsday. let's start with the golf because brian harman is the toast of hoylake after becoming the new open champion. the 36—year—old american finished six shots clear of the field at hoylake to claim his first major title. it was his first tournament win in 6 years. ben croucher sent us this from the royal liverpool course. the sunday at the open can provide tension and drama and do funny things to the best golfers in the world. here in the driving rain at hoylake, brian harman reduced any hopes of a battle for the claretjug. in truth, he won't mind one bit. he did most of the damage on friday, surging clear to a lead he was never headed.

on sunday, after two bogeys his lead reduced to three, the american produced a nerveless display, the only question, not how he would win but by how much. john rahm, jason day, tom kim and sepp straka ending on seven underpar but that merely afforded harman the luxury of strolling down the 18th, able to enjoy the adulation from soggy but supportive stands. he closed with a comfortable par and a final round of 70 and a six shot victory. at 36 years old, he said it was better late than never and that he couldn't be happier. from hoylake, we saw a golfer and a game in perfect harmony. harman�*s lead in the final round never dropped below three strokes despite bogeys on the second and fifth holes, the latter coming after he drove his ball into a bush, seeing him drop to 10 under. very aware of my own emotions and i knew at some point i would drop some shots. really difficult day out today. haven't typically been a very good rain player. i was nervous starting the day, so to make those

two birdies on six and seven today was really good. australia's cricketer�*s have retained the ashes. the final day of the fourth test was a complete wash—out at old trafford which means that england cannot win the series. after losing the first two tests they were attempting to become the first england team to come from 2—0 down to win an ashes series and they were in a really strong position to level it, australia trailing by 61 runs with only five wickets in hand. but the weather put paid to any hopes that england had. a real anti—climax after the hosts had put up such a fight. the final test starts on thursday at the oval. yeah, it feels a bit weird. really nice to retain it. obviously not in the circumstances we would have liked. you kind of look back at the last series and the first two games here and to get ourselves into this position, albeit the rain might have helped us out but great result. i think we look at the

cricket that was played. we win the toss and bowl, straight up for 320, score 570 at 5.5 runs an over, we have australia five down and then we get three hours play after that. i think regardless of what we did, we would have put them in the same position. sometimes the weather gets the better of you. it is unfortunate. we could moan about it but it is what it is. it is just unfortunate after the cricket we did play, we find ourselves here drawing this game when we felt we were in a great position to be able to win it. let's bring you right up to date with the latest games at the women's world cup in australia and new zealand, jamaica held france to a goalless draw. that's the reggae girlz best result in the tournament. the runners—up four years ago, the netherlands beat portugal and sweden left it late in their win over south africa patrick gearey reports. very much wellington weather. in new zealand, sweden officially the world's third best team, came into this world cup through a storm and a scare.

courtesy of south africa who so surprised the swedish keeper that she queued up hilda magaia who both scored and netted. sweden were in a bigger tangle. for them, what a relief when they squeezed in an equaliser. the first time in this tournament that both teams had scored. south africa were headed for a precious point until the 90th minute when they rose above the rest. with that, sweden were home, if not dry. further south from wellington to dunedin where portugal's first world cup appearance was low—key. beaten by a flying dutch woman. stefanie van der gragt header enough to secure victory for the netherlands. france have recently found peace. gone are the rows and rancour, replaced by a new spirit and new manager. not enough to beatjamaica. they came as close as anyone but despite having their star

khadija shaw sent off late on, jamaica picked up theirfirst ever world cup point. for france it seems you can have too much calm. patrick gearey, bbc news. let's get some reaction to that historic point forjamaica with that goalless draw against france. massive for us. the past few weeks, past year, we faced quite a lot of stuff. together as a team we knew that we stuck together behind the scenes and we knew we wanted to come here and cause upsets and get what we deserve out of the game because we are a good team ourselves and a lot of people put us down and say we have not got a chance of getting out of the group, don't have this, don't have that. what i do know is that group of players have a lot of togetherness and are passionate about this tournament. translation: it was a frustrating match i because we had more than one chance to score. in the first half we missed too many chances. we lacked the technical accuracy to be able to put their team in more difficulty. there were a very compact, very aggressive. but we got a point.

we will have to win the other two matches. three more games on monday, italy take on argentina and brazilface panama, but all eyes will be on the second encounter of the day, where two—time champions germany take on tournament debutants morocco. mani djazmi is in melbourne for us. germany are women's world cup aristocracy. they have been to every tournament, won it twice in three finals. their heyday was at the turn of the century when they dominated world and european football. then they were overtaken by other countries until last year where they reached the final of the european championship. that match had a bigger tv audience than any of the men's games at the qatar world cup. in those glory filled days, martina voss—tecklenburg played 125 times and reached the very first world cup semi—final. now she is the coach.

translation: we are aware | of the responsibility we carry. we want to be able to play the game to our best quality and that is what i can promise. that is what we're going to go and give. we want to take the people with us. we want to bring emotion to their lives. we want to be part of bringing happiness to their lives. especially in times when not everything is as rosy. the game here on monday at the melbourne rectangular stadium will be between history makers in morocco and germany who will hope on this pitch they will take the first step on the road which they want to end on the podium at stadium australia on august 20. red bull have set a formula one record with their 12th victory in a row. lewis hamilton had started on pole in the hungarian grand prix but by the first corner max verstappen had overtaken him and he held on to take the chequered flag. dan ogunshakin reports.

first pole since 2021 had raised hopes of lewis hamilton ending his 33 race drought. but things turned sour almost immediately. max verstappen, oscar piastri and lando norris dropping the mercedes into fourth. it will be a long, hot race. one corner in and the wheels had come off. not the way they had for pierre gasly. mclaren continued their upward trend with a consecutive podium for norris as a frustrated hamilton fell increasingly behind. how have they got nine seconds all of a sudden? that is a crazy amount. as they have all season, red bull had pace to burn. sergio perez taking the podium from ninth. max verstappen making a record 12 wins in a row for the austrian outfit as their utter domination showed no signs of stopping. for the team, 12 in a row is incredible. what we have been going

through the last few years has been incredible and hopefully we can keep this momentum going for a long time and to work with the whole team is always very enjoyable. always good to look into, yesterday for example, to keep pushing, wanting to be better and a day like today is perfect. defending championjonas vingegaard has won the tour de france, after the final, largely processional, stage in paris. the dane finished seven and a half minutes ahead of second—placed tadej pogacar. british twin brothers adam and simon yates were third and fourth place overall. vingegaard has confirmed that he'll race in next month's vuelta a espa na. the final grand tour of the year as the men finished the tour, the 8 stage tour de france femmes got going in clermont ferrand. belgian lotte kopecky broke away to win the first stage. pre—race favourites annamiek van vleuten and demi vollering finished in the leading group 43 seconds behind. you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website

that's bbc.co.uk/sport. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye. hello there. the full uk forecast in a moment — but first of all, the extreme heat continues to affect parts of the mediterranean. and later on monday, we might actually see one of europe's highest ever temperatures — 48 celsius possible to the southwest of catania. now, the significance of that is the all—time european record currently stands at 118.8, so we'll be very, very close to that. on sunday, though, here in the uk, it was a very wet day across central portions of the uk. we have 91 millimetres of rainfall in preston, three—and—a—half inches — that's about a month's worth. these figures only go up to saturday, but even at that stage, there were a number of places that were getting close to double

the july average rainfall. our weather pattern, then, is a bit stuck at the moment, and it was this weather from the kind of rained off the cricket in greater manchester. the front itself is starting to push its way southwards, so the rain is going to eventually swing across wales, into the midlands and parts of east anglia, with the skies clearing behind. now for scotland, northern england, northern ireland, with those clearer skies, temperatures get down into single figures, so it'll be quite chilly air. but underneath the front into the south, it's a relatively mild start to the day for monday. cloudy, though, with further rain — east anglia, south midlands selling hounds of england. the rain then pulls away to leave us with a day of sunny spells and showers. and, ok, the showers shouldn't last too long, there'll be large portions of the day that stay entirely dry. our temperatures a little bit below average for the time of year, but still feeling ok in the july sunshine. now, i think there should be a bit more of that sunshine to look forward to across england and wales, with not many showers here for tuesday. further north, though, for scotland and for northern ireland,

there will be quite a few downpours developing through tuesday afternoon, so another fairly unsettled day. now, heading into wednesday and thursday, another area of low pressure will form in the atlantic and move towards our shores, so we have more rain on the cards. now wednesday, it might well be to the northeast of the uk that it stays largely dry with some sunshine. but certainly further west, the cloud will gather, outbreaks of rain will swing into northern ireland, and probably reach western parts of england, wales, and scotland. certainly through wednesday night, it turns wet for most of us, with the rain still hanging around for thursday. might start to clear for western areas with, again, the weather brightening up. but on the whole, temperatures staying below average. the weather staying unsettled.

live from washington, this is bbc news. raging wildfires force thousands to evacuate from the greek islands

of rhodes and corfu. israel sees massive protests, ahead of a key vote onjudicial reform. and barbie can add another thing to her list of achievements, as the movie makes box—office history. we begin in greece, where authorities have declared a state of emergency in southern rhodes, one of at least two greek islands where firefighters are battling wildfires. greek police say 19,000 people have now been evacuated from homes and hotels in rhodes, while new evacutation orders are in place tonight on the island of corfu. three hotels there have reportedly burnt down, and many others are in the danger zone. this is the damage at one hotel in the town of kiotari. and some fires are still burning — these pictures have come into us from the turkish ministry of agriculture,

taken from one of their planes, which is helping to fight