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petra nets she passes on her experience of tacking daunting to rain. is what slides the browns the ground is a bit like a dance partner you don't know you get impulses and you pick them up on the bike and use them on the road you do everything to keep the times from sliding out but here it's let it slide its funds. among the festival highlights on the sprint race is beautiful constance riders compete against one another in various. according to the power of the engine. 200 meters from start to finish one of the compared to this channel to cooper check she finished 2nd in this race but for her having fun comes 1st. so you're kind of outside time and space sort of like you're in a tunnel it gives me the jitters and i feel like i'm floating it really getting a conflict launched the picture let's festival in 2016. she hopes it will continue to strengthen the female community. for me there's a certain thing i really like the exchange with other women and we see things i saw i. so as in my personal. perience you don't have to prove yourself or have shop. her

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the women only at europe's a motorcycle event for girls called petra let's bikers come from all over the world cardboard only a french artist can charge gigantic buildings out of this material. but 1st it's coming up roses in brussels that's because roses and other colorful flowers are decking the halls and rooms of the city's gothic town hall for the by annual flower time exhibition more than 30 international florus are taking part to show off their creations during the 5 day event while we accompanied a belorussian flower designer to see how her creations represent the belgian capital. i deep in concentration the tiniest account of a is making a few final tweaks she and her team have arranged thousands of flowers with a big opening just around the corner she wants everything to be perfect but she knows how important it is to stay calm. get a run around and check everything if something doesn't work i go over and say with details need to be changed i'm never stressed on big projects because i trust my team i'm on it. today is the big day for natalia. in just a few alice flower time

sixth seed petra kvitova eased past her fellow czech opponent, denisa allertova, with a 6—2, 6—4 victoryimbledon champion will now face germany's andrea petkovic for a place in the last 32. cani can i be prepared for her? i know how she is playing, we know each other very well, so we will see but it will be another tough battle. the know she likes to put pressure on her opponent as well, playing fast, and that is what i am going to try as well. former wimbledon champion, and number 2a seed, garbine muguruza is out, though. she lost 2—6 6—1 6—3 in the first round to alison riske. the american is ranked 11 places below muguruza, and this is herfirst win at flushing meadows since 2013. for the spaniard, it's the second grand slam in a row where she's been knocked out in the first round. in the men's draw, the 8th seeded greek, stefanos tsitsipas, is out after losing in four sets to unseeded russian, andrey rublev. the 21 year—old didn't have an enjoyable day and he was docked a point during the nearly four—hour encounter for this incident. tsitsipas: i have to change. umpire: it is too late

the number nine seed from belarus enjoyed a comfortable straight sets win over petra martic from croatiawon 6—1, 6—4. boxing promoter eddie hearn has been defending the decision to stage the rematch between andy ruinunior and anthonyjoshua in saudi arabia. it's reportedly costing the authorities there some $96 million to stage it. ruiz caused a huge upset when he beat joshua, in new york injune, to take his four world heavyweight titles. but the decision to stage a re—match in diriyah, near riyadh, has caused quite a stir, with many calling into question saudi arabia's record on human rights. we really want to ensure human rights around the agenda and that eve ryo ne rights around the agenda and that everyone who is going to be viewing this fight, some are going to be interested in it, actually aware of the awful human rights record that saudi arabia has. you know, one of the top executing countries in the world, systematically discriminates against women, we see women, human rights activists in prison for peaceful activities, it carries out indiscriminate bombings in yemen at the moment

puerto rico has a new governor lawyer petra pier luigi was sworn in after a week long protest force his predecessor to step down share the wheezy said that the island senate will vote on whether to confirm his position hundreds of people chanted and rang bells outside the governor's mansion to mark the change of leadership. the king of the indigenous population in new zealand has visited a plot of land that's been occupied by protesters the area near auckland is considered sacred to mari's and protesters are angry at plans to turn it into a housing development that mari king says he visited to try to help the protesters find a solution. europe's historic heat wave has now hit greenland with its ice sheets melting at dramatic rates 11000000000 tons of ice melted on wednesday alone the biggest volume of ice lost in a single day this season scientists say the recent high temperatures have been exacerbated by manmade climate change. to moscow now where opposition protesters are again trying to hold a rally despite an official ban on the event and a sweeping police crackdown on previous marc

the number 6 seed petra kvitova is also out.e lost 6—4, 6—4 to world number 88 andrea petkovic. the two—time wimbledon champion, who's been struggling with an arm injury, was broken in the 10th game as the german took the opening set. petkovic broke twice more on her way to the win and she'll now play the 25th seed, elise mertens, in the next round. the top seed and defending champion naomi osaka is through to the 3rd round after a straight sets victory over poland's magda linette. osaka won the first set 6—2 — but then survived a brief scare, with linette, who's ranked number 53 in the world, winning the first 3 games of the second set. osaka recovered to take the set 6—4 — ad she'll face either coco gauff or timea babos next. going into this match eye was very calm, because i was thinking there was no way my nerves could be worse than they were the day before. —— i was come. for me, they also had that comfortability of knowing i had played magda before. so there is a lwa ys played magda before. so there is always that added st

i was i was very pleased with how it played and i was also pleased with how the match went i think petra played well i played well and i just the few opportunities that i had i was man i managed to to really seized and take them and i was very pleased with that over on the men's side germany's 6th seed alexander is vera of was pushed all the way against american frances for their of it needed 5 sets to defeat the world number 45 it was a seesaw battle in new york between a 22 year old and a 21 year old the german won the 1st and 3rd sets while the americans took the 2nd and 4th their revenge li won the match by claiming the 5th set 63. 62 of european football's biggest spending clubs have been drawn against each other in the champions league group stages on thursday. and real madrid will do battle in group a alongside a club in. 5 time champions byron munich and last year's runners up at tottenham hotspur have been drawn against each other in group b. manchester city might feel they have a straightforward task in group c. while you ventus and athletico madrid find themselves paired toget

showed very little resistance as williams swept her aside in straight sets 6362 the american faces petra martin of croatia next. second seed ashley barty was also a winner on friday the french open champion defeated greek 30th seeded maria to cari in straight sets 7563 although the former world number one did need some help from hawkeye right at the end to confirm the victory there is so carrie's challenge ultimately more in hope than anything else elsewhere czech food seed catalina push cover is also through to the 4th round her match on friday was not a straight forward of that of williams robotic to his years on. pushed klitschko over to 3 sets the czech eventually triumphing 614664 she will meet britain's you had a concert in the last 16 of the she defeated. in straight sets. i think the serve india was better and save me some great points and i was just able to hit lower 1st serves which was important and i and senior good so it was a big fight not for sure not the best feeling but i want so it's good. on the men's side 20 time grand slam champion roger federer overpowered britain's

i was i was very pleased with how i played and i was also pleased with how the match went i think petra played well i played well and i just the few opportunities that i had i was man i managed to to really seized and take them and i was very pleased with that. over on the men's side germany's 6th seed alexander is vera of it was pushed all the way against american francis awful needed 5 sets to defeat the world number 45 it was a seesaw battle in new york between a 22 year old and a 21 year old the german won the 1st and 3rd sets while the american took the 2nd and sort of eventually won the match by claiming the 5th set 60. 3 to appear to pan football's biggest spending clubs have been drawn against each other in the champions league group stages on thursday. and real madrid will do battle in group a alongside a club in. 5 time champions byron munich and last year's runners up at tottenham hotspur have been drawn against each other in group b. manchester city might feel they have a straightforward task in group c. while you ventus and athletico madrid find themselves paired together i

unidentified gunmen have reportedly fired on a tourist bus injordan near the ancient city of petra.ncy said the bus was not carrying any passengers at the time and there were no injuries. an estimated 40,000 people have turned out in the german city of dresden for a rally against far right extremism, ahead of state elections in saxony next weekend. some held placards that read, "racism is not an alternative." saxony‘s minister for integration said the event sent an important signal beyond the state's borders. don't forget that you can get all our top stories on our website including analysis from our correspondent. this is abc news. —— bbc news. queen elizabeth's second son, prince andrew, has released a statement about his friendship with the disgraced financierjeffrey epstein. it's the first time he has spoken directly about his links since epstein took his own life in a new york prison cell earlier this month. prince andrew said "at no stage" did he "see or suspect" any criminal behaviour. epstein had been awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges when he killed himself. here's o

i was i was very pleased with how it played and i was also pleased with how the match went i think petra played well i played well and i just the few opportunities that i had i was man i managed to to really seized and take them and i was very pleased with that over on the men's side germany's 6th seed alexander is vera of was pushed all the way against american frances for their of it needed 5 sets to defeat the world number 45 it was a seesaw battle in new york between a 22 year old and a 21 year old the german won the 1st and 3rd sets while the americans took the 2nd and 4th is there ever been surely one the match by claiming the 5th set 63. 62 of european football's biggest spending clubs have been drawn against each other in the champions league group stages on thursday paris and real madrid will do battle in group a alongside club and. 5 time champions byron munich and last year's runners up at tottenham hotspur have been drawn against each other in group b. manchester city might feel they have a straightforward task in group c. while you ventus and athletico madrid find themselves

unidentified gunmen have reportedly fired on a tourist bus injordan near the ancient city of petra. bus was not carrying any passengers at the time and there were no injuries. british airways has apologised after wrongly telling some passengers their flights were cancelled, and telling them to book new ones. the mistake, which caused confusion for passengers, came after pilots announced three strike dates for next month — and the airlines advised some people with flights on non—strike days to rebook, or get a refund. our business correspondent katy austin reports. josie spent time and thousands of pounds planning a september trip to florida, catering to the needs of her disabled mother. then last night an e—mail saying their flight was cancelled. we don't know whether it's the outbound flight or the inbound flight, as well. we've called british airways 67 times since 6am. we got through once after a 44 minute wait on hold. some of the thousands who received cancellation messages overnight expressed confusion and frustration on social media that they had been unable to rebook online

unidentified gunmen have reportedly fired on a tourist bus in jordan near the ancient city of petra.news agency said the bus was not carrying any passengers at the time and there were no injuries. an employee at the british consulate in hong kong who was detained in mainland china has been released. china says simon cheng was detained for visiting a prostitute. but his supporters have dismissed that claim and suggested his case was linked to the political crisis in hong kong — which erupted again today, with the worst violence in more than a week. 0ur china correspondent john sudworth is there. hong kong's protesters have become battle hardened... gunshots ..with the crisis well into its third month. what began as opposition to a proposed extradition law is now a full—scale, pro—democracy movement, fuelled by fears that the city's freedoms are being eroded under chinese rule. just before the barricades went up, news came that a staff member at the uk consulate in hong kong had been released from custody in mainland china. but the claim that simon cheng was detained for playing a pros

unidentified gunmen have reportedly fired on a tourist bus injordan near the ancient city of petra. said the bus was not carrying any passengers at the time and there were no injuries. you can get all of the top stories ona you can get all of the top stories on a website, you can get a lot of analysis as well and pictures of what has been happening in the amazon. that's all on a website or download the bbc news app. you're watching bbc news. queen elizabeth's second son, prince andrew, has released a statement about his friendship with the disgraced financierjeffrey epstein. it's the first time he has spoken directly about his links since epstein took his own life in a new york prison cell earlier this month. prince andrew said "at no stage" did he "see or suspect" any criminal behaviour. epstein had been awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges when he killed himself. here's our royal correspondent nicholas witchell. what was prince andrew doing at the home of a convicted paedophile in new york in 2010, peering out through the door as young women came and went? the questions about

unidentified gunmen have reportedly fired on a tourist bus injordan near the ancient city of petra.ngers at the time and there were no injuries. stay with us on bbc news, still to come: brazil begins a major operation to fight fires in the amazon. more than forty thousand troops are to be deployed across six states. he's the first african—american to win the presidential nomination of a major party and he accepts exactly 45 years to the day that martin luther king declared, "i have a dream." as darkness falls tonight, an unfamiliar light will appear in the south—eastern sky. an orange glowing disc that's brighter than anything, save the moon — our neighbouring planet, mars. horn toots there is no doubt that this election is an important milestone in the birth of east timor as the world's newest nation. it will take months, and billions of dollars, to repair what katrina achieved injust hours. three weeks is the longest the great clock has been off duty in 117 years so it was with great satisfaction that clockmakerjohn vernon swung the pendulum to set the clock going again. big ben b

checks six seed petra kvitova is added after losing in straight sets to world eighty eight andrea activists. seven c. d. birch's came from a break down impose sets to defeat anastasia pile of. chicken coop and reach the third round for the second year running. madeline malone guys world champion under seventy eight kilograms at the junior world championships in tokyo. french athletes it. quite soon. the reigning world champion beats it by a magnificent upon the fifth medal for the french team. one second surprised everyone by winning the gold medal in the under one hundred kilogram category the portuguese defeated with a final. russians and solves the bronze medalist last year. about seven months to decide to station one is coming out with me in the team and for minutes time 08/30/19 08/30/19 [captioning made possible by democracy now!] amy: from new york, this i is democracy now!w! things, the trump administration is continuing to separate families of the border. now they want to indefinitely detained families and they're trying to have an asylum ban at the southern border, which would mea

thank you puerto rico's house of representatives has approved the nomination of petra paralyse as the u.s. territory secretary of state putting him in line to be the island's next governor but the decision still has to be approved by the territory senate potentially triggering a constitutional crisis to succeed outgoing governor a card or a sail sail was forced to resign following mass protests over the leaking of offensive messages. has also been accused of incompetence and corruption cable elizondo has been following the situation for us from san juan where there are mixed feelings of the bedrock their release is confirmation. a lot of people like the new governor pierre louis c. he's pretty well respected that he has no ties to no one any corruption at this point a pretty well respected however there's a real sense on the streets here that they want a totally new government younger people that are not connected with any former governments at all. pierre lisi as i mentioned was a congressman in washington d.c. representing puerto rico for several years so there's a lot of apprehensi

showed very little resistance as williams swept her aside in straight sets 6362 the american faces petra martin of croatia next. second seed ashley barty was also a winner on friday the french open champion defeated greek 30th seed akari in straight sets 7563 although the former world number one did need some help from hawkeye right at the end to confirm the victory there is so carrie's challenge ultimately more than hope winning the thing. elsewhere check food seed catalina push cover is also through to the 4th round her match on friday was not a straight forward of that of williams' robotic. pushed pushed over to 3 sets the czech eventually triumphing 614664 she will meet britain's you had a concert in the last 16 of the she defeated. in straight sets. i think the serve in the air was better and save me some great points and i was just able to hit lower 1st serves which was important and and good so it was a big fight not for show not to the best feeling but i want so it's good. on the men's side 20 time grand slam champion roger federer overpowered britain's world number 58 dan evans

showed very little resistance as williams swept her aside in straight sets 6362 the american faces petra martin of croatia next. second seed ashley barty was also a winner on friday the french open champion defeated greek 30th seed akari in straight sets 7563 although the former world number one did need some help from hawkeye right at the end to confirm the victory there is so kerry's challenge ultimately more in hope than anything else elsewhere czech food seed catalina push cover is also through to the 4th round her match on friday was not a straight forward of that of williams robotic to his ears on. pushed pushed over to 3 sets the czech eventually triumphing 614664 she will meet britain's you had a concert in the last 16 after she defeated. in straight sets. i think the serve india was better and save me some break points and i was just able to hit lower 1st serves which was in britain and i and senior good so it was a big fight not for sure not the best feeling but i want so it's good. on the men's side 20 time grand slam champion roger federer overpowered britain's world number 5

now spain's acting prime minister petra sanchez will hold more talks in a bid to break the deadlock over forming a new government he says he'll meet with the far left the demos party and others including catalan separatists by the end of the month sanchez has twice failed to secure a parliamentary majority in support of his administration a socialist leader has 6 weeks to be confirmed as prime minister or to put forward another candidate for the job failing that a new election will be called for november we know who they have been removed from but i do something at the end of august we will have an open progressive proposal ready we will discuss with the different political parties that could support the confirmation of the socialist and spain's government we will talk with the national party and we will also talk with the customer national forces and logically we will talk with today most to see if we can reach an agreement the forms of government. elsewhere rival cypriot leaders have failed to make progress in reviving un backed peace talks that collapsed more than 2 years ago the cypr

the firm's founder, petra barran, joins us now. welcome to business live. how did this all begin? which was pretty much everyone because everyone loves chocolate. did you meet charlie?” because everyone loves chocolate. did you meet charlie? i met people at festivals, parties all over the place and this was an amazing dash when there was an amazing itinerant community that existed as traders without the bricks and mortar and i thought we should get together, organise, create strength in numbers and make ourselves more visible because there is so much great food being cooked up in the street. what are you actually doing for these traders? we are incubating them. we bring them in. firstly, we run workshops to help people with an idea because people always walk around markets and think, i would love to do that, it would be so much fun, and it is about how to turn that into a reality and school them into mainly how hard it is, what are all the bumps involved, and then we put those traders we choose with the really bright ideas and the really good vision through our incubator programme

while also political issues in spain the acting prime minister petra sanchez will hold talks in a bid to break the deadlock over forming a new government he says he'll meet with the fall of the demos party and others including catalan separatists by the end of the month sanchez's twice failed to secure a parliamentary majority in support of his administration the socialist leader has 6 weeks to be confirmed as prime minister or put forward another candidate for the job failing that a new election would be called for november. so let the end of august we will have an open progressive proposal ready we will discuss with the different political parties that could support the confirmation of the socialists and spain's government we will talk with the national spots party and we will also talk with the customer forces and logically we will talk with today most to see if we can reach an agreement that forms the government. about the activist says he feared for his life off the stall beat him for climbing on to the roof of his country's embassy in london during a protest in july with someone

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she will face petra martich tomorrow.s the 15-year-old, cocoa gua gauff -- coco gauff who is talked about. and tennis fans loco for coco, doing whatever they could to get a glimpse of her in doubles. tonight coco faces the toughest competition yet against naomi on, sack adjust 21 herself -- naomi osaka, just 21 herself. the eyes will be on the match. even serena's. >> i think it's super exciting tennis. coco is obviously much, much younger than naomi -- if you can say that because naomi's incredibly young. it's shocking to say that coco's six years younger. i definitely think it's the future. women's tennis. and i -- i'm really excited to just be a fan girl and kind of watch. >> reporter: coco's and naomi's ages together is still younger than serena's. >>> football back in full throttle. fans got upsets, tied with three seconds left, calling on the walk-on, a freshman in his first college game ever. drills a 56-yard game-winning field goal. the wolf pack storming back from 14 down in the fourth against purdue, beating the

or political problems in spain as well the acting prime minister petra sanchez will hold more talks in a bid to break the deadlock over forming a new government he says he'll meet with the fall of the demos party and others including catalan separatists by the end of the month sanchez has twice failed to secure a parliamentary majority in support of his administration the socialist leader has 6 weeks to be confirmed as prime minister or put forward and now the candidate for the job failing that a new election will be called. we'll hear the person's economy's contracted for the 1st time in almost 7 years output fell 0.2 percent in the 3 months to june amid rising price that uncertainties and weakening global growth performance is worse than economists expected the pound has fallen more than 4 and a half percent against the dollar since the start of july is the government is pushing the country towards a no deal exits at the end of october auerbach raney activist is saying he feared for his life off to stop beat him for climbing onto the roof of his country's embassy in london during a p

open in new york has officially started petra committal the and jay leno have won both garbin will goto out have won although that person's out but it was roger federer answering a williams who lit up the opening night i still have malik reports. it was one of the most anticipated 1st round matches in u.s. open history 6 time champion serena williams taking on 2006 when a memory a sharp over. but despite the billing it wasn't even close i maybe that should have been expected with williams beating old rival 18 time straight going into this one . on top of the williams looked like she had a point to prove off the infamous loss to naomi osaka in last year's final. the american completely dominated sharp over looked a shadow of the player this 15 tennis major. williams finished her off inside an hour taking the match in straight sets 6161. that $24.00 grand slam title is now one step closer she's such a good player you know it when you play or you have to be super focused so every time i come up against her i just bring out some or a best tennis. shara pope was not the only former champio

had the hog confinement building near the corn field and you've got to -- you've got to look at the petrale pockets where natural gas is the cheapest and there's so many opportunities within the natural gas. that's flight our lap in west virginia. >> governor, you just switched okay >> switched parties that is. >> you could be still a democrat and you could, seeing your most moderate candidate at the debate the other night, joe biden, say no fossil fuels in ten years get off fossil fuels in ten years. when you're in detroit and you say that, in michigan. if you're in west virginia if you're in ohio, how do you possibly win those states when you say you're going to put the hydrocarbon -- >> you don't win those states. >> in the next ten years >> we hope and pray you don't win those states i mean -- >> but you'd have to -- right now have to be backing joe biden if you were still a democrat. >> yeah, but no way on god's earth i would do that. even when i was running as a democrat i wouldn't back hillary. up know? i good not endorse hillary in any way, shape, form or fashion. >> manchin, too,