alex marquez will be joining his older brother at the honda team —like season. lorenzo is retiring.e won the moto two championship this year. the new—look davis cup finals are under way in madrid. it's been thoroughly revamped by a group involving the barcelona striker gerard pique. because many top players were choosing not to represent their countries, it's now an 18—team end—of—year competition, as our correspondent russell fuller explains. not enough of the top players were playing consistently throughout the season playing consistently throughout the season and the organisers, the international tennis federation, who got $3 billion worth of investment from an investment group decided they would try to get it all done in one week and get attention on the event. i think there will hopefully make a difference. whereas, if your country was knocked out before the final, unless you are a hardcore tennis fan, you probably didn't pay much attention to the finals taking place in november. the hope is that one big global event, whoever is in the final, there will be a big global audience

alex marquez will be joining his older brother at the honda team —like season. lorenzo is retiring.ship this year. the new—look davis cup finals are under way in madrid. it's been thoroughly revamped by a group involving the barcelona striker gerard pique. because many top players were choosing not to represent their countries, it's now an 18—team end—of—year competition, as our correspondent russell fuller explains. not enough of the top players were playing consistently throughout the season playing consistently throughout the season and the organisers, the international tennis

and alex marquez will be joining his older brother marc at the repsol honda team next season, replacinghis year's moto2 championship, while marc clinched his sixth motogp crown. on to tennis with the new look davis cup under way in madrid. rather than the old format of home and away ties through the year, there are i8—nations competing in six groups with the final on sunday, belgium got off to a flying start wining both their singles matches to win their opening tie against colombia. steve darcis won his match in straight sets, and then david goffin beat daniel galan in three to secure the victory ahead of the doubles match. karen khachanov and andrey rublev claimed an opening win for russia over defending champions croatia. rublev snapped a five—match davis cup losing streak by posting a convincing straight sets victory over borna gojo, before khachanov recorded his first win in three meetings with borna coric and earn russia an unassailable 2—0 lead over the croatians. canada beat italy 2—0 as denis shapovalov and vasek pospisil produced two tight victories in the singles. pospisil op

there were more celebrations for the marquez family in moto gp after alex, the younger brother of marc the malaysian grand prix following a tough race against winner brad binder. that finish was enough for marquez to take an unbeatable lead in the standings with just one race remaining this season. brother marc has already secured his sixth moto gp title. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more in the next hour. riot police in iraq have fired live ammunition and tear gas during anti—government protests in the centre of baghdad. several people were wounded, and there are reports of two deaths. the demonstrators say they are responding to corruption and unemployment. officials have promised early elections. protests have continued on the streets of chile over the weekend, marking two weeks since major unrest began. at least 20 people have died and thousands of people have been arrested since last month. the demonstrators are worried that planned economic reforms could leave them worse off. 0ur south america correspondent katy watson reports from santiago. the desire for change is st

the extended marquez family as younger brother alex took his maiden moto 2 title after finishing 2nd in his race is the 2nd time the pair of one world titles in the same. rory mcilroy has won the world golf championships events in shanghai on the 1st hole of a playoff the northern irishman had the chance to win the tournament on the 18th hole but missed his birdie putts set up a sudden death playoff with defending champion is on the show floor who's struggling with almost all week marker hitting a bet it's a shot on the extra hole setting up his 4th win of the year and kenyon athletes have once again dominated the top positions at the new york marathon jeffrey cumorah won the men's race for the 2nd time in 3 years his compound should just win jet cosco i was making her mouth and debbie she wanted that sign that was just 7 seconds off the course record. ok that is nice force looking for now let's get back to lauren in london and i thank you very much indeed and that's it for mayor and taylor for this news hour back in a moment with an awful wrap up thanks for watching and. centuries i

well it was a successful day for the extended marquez family as younger brother alex took his maidenmoto 2 title after finishing 2nd in his race is the 2nd son the pair have won world titles in the same year. rory mcilroy has won the world golf championships events in shanghai on the 1st hole of a playoff the northern irishman had the chance to win the tournament on the 18th hole but missed his birdie putts set up a sudden death playoff with defending champion is on the show flay who's struggling with almost all week my career hitting a bad it's a shot on the extra hole setting up his 4th win of the year and kenyan athletes have once again dominated the top positions at the new york marathon geoffrey cumorah won the men's race for the 2nd time in 3 years his compound shit just in jet cosco i was making her marathon debbie she won in a time that was just 7 seconds off the course record. ok but it's always forefront more later. but that's it for me for this news hour to be more news in just about. every weekly news cycle brings a series of breaking stories join the listening post as we