aryna sabalenka has won the women's us open, beating the americanjessica pegula in straight sets. hello. in his first major interview since becoming prime minister of the uk — keir starmer has told the bbc the government is going to have to be unpopular to change the country. speaking on sunday with laura kuenssberg he said the only way to change the country was to do difficult things now even though he knows they are unpopular. he has to not run away from her decisions as he accuses previous governments of doing. our political correspondent georgia roberts joins us. he is able to lose popularity in order to tackle issues. this is one of the earliest of one of the decisions that this government has taken. he is to vote for it next week and several are going to make this unhappiness known. this morning he defended his plans to cut winter fuel. he defended his plans to cut winterfuel. i he defended his plans to cut winter fuel.— winter fuel. i get that it is tou . h winter fuel. i get that it is tough and _ winter fuel. i get that it is tough and it _ winter fuel. i get that it is t

sabalenka, then, takes on the americanjessica pegula, who had lost her past six major quarterfinals beforeting world number one iga swiatek on thursday. she followed that up in her semi with a battling victory over the czech player karolina muchova 1—6, 6—4, 6—2. it isa it is a childhood dream, what i wanted when i was a kid. it is a lot of work, a lot of hard work put in and you couldn't even imagine how much goes into it. it would mean the world to me. i'mjust it. it would mean the world to me. i'm just happy to be in a final, but i come here to want to win the title. so here is what's to come later on friday in the men's semifinals. world number one jannik sinner goes up against the new star of british tennis jack draper on the arthur ashe court. that will be followed by the all—american clash between the number 12 seed taylor fritz and frances tiafoe for a place in sundays us open final. at the paralympics in paris, britain's sarah storey has won a record—extending 19th paralympic gold medal. she beat french rider heidi gaugain, 27 years herjunior, in a thrilling sprint finish to the c

aryna sabalenka has won the women's us open, beating the americanjessica pegula in straight sets. in isreal itself, up to half a million people have demonstrated in tel aviv, calling for the israeli government to bring home the remaining hostages held by hamas. rallies have been held every night since the bodies of six israeli hostages were recovered in gaza eight days ago. despite the protests and a general strike earlier this week, the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, remains resolute, insisting that any concessions to hamas would be "immoral" and "insane". i'm joined in the studio by said shehata, from bbc arabic. welcome to you to bring us up—to—date on these developments. let's start on the exchange of rocket attacks between hezbollah and israel, what is the latest on that? this is a continuation of the conflict between the two sides. hezbollah said it fired rockets at israel in response to the israeli attack that killed three despite the protests and a general strike earlier this week, the israeli prime minister, benjamin netanyahu, remains resolute, insisting tha

sabalenka, then, takes on the americanjessica pegula, who had lost her past six major quarterfinals before

aryna sabalenka has won the women's us open, beating the americanjessica pegula in straight sets.

aryna sabalenka has won the women's us open, beating the americanjessica pegula in straight sets. it's the second grand slam title she's won this year. and it's the final day of the paris paralympics, with m gold medals up for grabs before the closing ceremony later today. china is top of the medal table followed by great britain. lots more on the bbc website. now on bbc news, click. this week: should we go for a ride? i think we should. alasdair keane strapped into a truck with a distance. —— difference. but how hard is it to power a drug by battery? you can start with lots of robots. it is quite mesmerising to watch. love a robot. i know you do. plus from ten wheels to do but how about a scooter powered by gas? we have also been overrun by rats this week, but ai has a solution in its sites. and there is something weird lurking in the water. those are my toes you are talking about, and they were freezing. if you leave them in their long enough you will real story here is we are exploring the depths by robots. the world of transport wants to go electric, but some vehicles are easi

the belarusan beat americanjessica pegula in straight sets., after his loss in straight sets to the world number one, italy's jannik sinner. it was his career�*s biggest match to date — and at times, the pressure was simply too great. he's been talking to our sports news correspondent laura scott. it's been a big breakthrough in the big apple forjack draper. having had some time to reflect after his semi—final defeat... i've had a better time to rest... he told me he woke up determined to put himself further. i wanted to give more, but it was tough in that situation last night. but overall from last two weeks, i've taken a lot of confidence. facing the world number one in the most important match of his life, draperfound it hard to keep things calm down. it's happened before. how keen are you to focus on addressing that? definitely going to go home, this has happened a few times now in different situations for me. i will relook into the issues i have, mentally and i have to work on that and understand and make myself better in order to compete

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in new york, americanjessica pegula gives the home crowd plenty to cheer as she storms into the us opene'll begin at an overcast 0val, where england have been put into bat on the first morning of the third test against sri lanka. 20—year—old bowlerjosh hull is ready to make his test debut, but they are all being made to wait as bad light brought an early end to the morning session. matt graveling has been watching. england were looking to the brightest of periods under the gloomiest of skies. it has been two decades since they won every test played over a summer, but the lads are likely 2—0 diogo. the last time was in 2004 in this man had just been born, joe show given is a good debut. it was sri lankan bowling first, invisibility that seemed to confuse the band and the wicketkeeper. the run started to come, ben duckett having back—to—back boundaries. is he had his flow, lauren said this. lawrence out for just five. coming his flow, lauren said this. lawrence out forjust five. coming on, captain 0llie pope, a player supposedly under pressure. what pressure? the first six of the match. w

aryna sabalenka has won the women's us open, beating the americanjessica pegula in straight sets.