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tv   Sportsday  BBC News  August 29, 2023 1:30pm-1:46pm BST

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every five seconds, someone new was coming up and saying, hi, it's ozzy, it's the guy from the killers, he's the drummer. and everyone was so lovely, just like really down to earth people, you know, being lovely. so are you then just known as ozzy from near bath? pretty much. for two days i was known as ozzy from near bath. a dream come true for this teenager who is off to college to study music soon, but playing to an audience the size of reading festival will be a hard one to beat. well done,. here's ben rich. let's head into a popular holiday destination for brits. the storm centre is probably going
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to hit northern parts of florida around the panhandle, early wednesday local time. gusts could approach 150 mph so a very powerful storm, then it will sweep across the south—eastern states delivering nasty weather and flooding, i am sure we will hear all about it. 0utlook sure we will hear all about it. outlook for the next few days, sunny spells and weather fronts are sweeping across the country and there has been persistent rain across parts of scotland, more showery this afternoon. quite a bit of cloud across the south, more showers in wales and eventually reaching the south—east. modest temperatures today, 16 for glasgow, 17 for liverpool, up to 21 in london. this evening, showers across the south—east, if you showers in the north but plenty of clear spells. a bit of a nip in the air first thing bit of a nip in the airfirst thing in the morning. 12
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bit of a nip in the air first thing in the morning. 12 degrees in london. tomorrow starts off quite sunny but the northerly breeze creates a bit of unstable air mass so the cloud will start growing and the sun is still strong and we see if you showers developing but generally speaking tomorrow should be a little bit brighter compared to today and again the temperature will be about the same. that was wednesday, heading to thursday, low—pressure suites and so we are anticipating thicker cloud in the period of rain for a time at least on wednesday, anywhere from wales across southern england into the midlands, may be a bit of northern ireland. but if you are in newcastle, glasgow, aberdeen, in the northern isles, it is looking bright. so fine if you are in aberdeen but not so fine in the isle of wight. that is thursday and towards the end of the week and the weekend we are expecting this weather front to move out of the way because of the jet stream pattern, the bulge in thejet
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because of the jet stream pattern, the bulge in the jet stream, indication of high pressure building across the uk. so i want to point out, over the summer every weekend came and we had an area of low pressure. just as the summer holidays end this weekend, high pressure and some nice weather for you, that's it, back to you. thanks, ben. and that's bbc news at one. you can keep up with all the latest developments on the bbc website. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it's time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. goodbye. hello and welcome to sportsday. coming up on the programme. back at the top. novak djokovic will replace carlos alcaraz as the men's world number one following his victory in the first round of the us open. there are more calls for spanish football federation president luis rubiales
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to resign follwoing his world cup final behaviour. and saudi arabia have a new head coach...in former italy and manchester boss roberto mancini. novak djokovic will replace rival carlos alcaraz as the men's world number one after a comfortable win on his us open return. djokovic, who lost the wimbledon final to alcaraz, came through his first round tie against frenchman alexandre muller having not been allowed to play in the us last year because he wasn't vaccinated against covid—19. patrick geary reports. they have stamped his passport, they call his name.
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43 the us is open again. his french opponents must have feared the worst, novak djokovic is made of a steel that doesn't rust. first set, 6—0. how do you face a phenomenon? smaller battles like holding serve. novak djokovic was soon further on top. no restrictions on his movement this year. his opponent's last act was a double fault, and perhaps a sigh. it was a greatjoy fault, and perhaps a sigh. it was a great joy to fault, and perhaps a sigh. it was a greatjoy to be stepping out on the court. the performance explains how i felt tonight, particularly in the first two sets,
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it was lights out tennis. he is guaranteed to be world number one. a message to america that he is back. in the women's draw, sixth seed coco gauff survived a scare as she fought back to beat german qualifier laura siegemund. gauff is among the favourites to challenge iga swiatek for the title, having picked up the two biggest crowns of her career — at washington and cincinnati — in the build—up, but was outplayed initally losing the first set 6—3. she rallied though to win the next two sets, to set up a meeting with 16—year—old russian mirra andreeva in the second round. there are six british players on court later today — alongside the likes of katie boulter, cam norrie, jack draper, dan evans, jodie burrage is andy murray, back in grand slam action after that second round defeat at wimbledon. england midfielder ella toone says the behaviour of spanish football federation president luis rubiales at the world cup final was "unacceptable" and has overshadowed spain's success. there have been numerous
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demands for rubiales to resign immediately after he kissed the spanish playerjenni hermoso following their victory over england. spanish prosecutors have opened an investigation into whether the incident amounts to a crime of sexual assault. toone insists the right action has to be taken you don't expect something like that ever to happen any aspect of life, especially in the women's game. unfortunately things like that are still happening. it is a tough situation. it is not ideal when spain have done so well throughout the world cup, they have won the world cup, then it is overshadowed by something like that. the lioness has put a statement out, standing strong withjenni hermoso, and the spanish national team. hopefully the right thing is done to stop how did that statement come about? the leaders of the group had conversations and put the statement together and spoke to the rest of the group, and we all obviously
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agreed with the statement, and that we are all going to put it out together. we put it out on social media, and hope that would somehow help, and that we could get our point across, and show that we stand in solidarity with jenni point across, and show that we stand in solidarity withjenni hermoso and the national team, but like i say, it is sad that they think that i still happening, and we are talking about that every single day after the world cup, when we should be praising spain and thinking how well we have done in the world cup, and how far the women's game has come. it was a strong statement that you put out. unfortunately luis rubiales is still in post. do you think he should resign?— is still in post. do you think he should resign? yes, i think so. it is too far gone — should resign? yes, i think so. it is too far gone now _ should resign? yes, i think so. it is too far gone now for _ should resign? yes, i think so. it is too far gone now for an - should resign? yes, i think so. it i is too far gone now for an apology. not something you can apologise or move on from, it is bigger than that now. hopefully the right thing is done. he now. hopefully the right thing is done. , ., ., ., staying in spain, four people have been arrested for an alleged attempt to sabotage yesterday's stage of
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the vuelta a espana. police said they were planning to spill hundreds of litres of a liquid similar to motor oil on the road. they were arrested on saturday and released today pending further investigation. they're thought to be part of a group seeking catalonian independence. chelsea striker romelu lukaku is set to join serie a side roma on a season—long loan. it will see him reunited with former bossjose mourinho and includes an £8 million loan fee. roma will also be covering the belgium international�*s wages. inter milan had hoped lukaku, who's not part of mauricio pochettino's plans at chelsea, would return to the club where he spent last season on loan. lukaku's belgium team mate timothy castagne has joined fulham from leicester on a four—year deal. castagne spent three seasons at the king power stadium. he's signed for an undisclosed fee until the summer of 2027, with an option to extend that deal by a further 12 months. former italy and manchester city manager roberto mancini says the arrival of top players in the saudi pro league will only help impove the national side. mancini,
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who led italy to euro 2020 triumph and suprised many by stepping down from the role early this month, has taken charge of saudi arabia and will reportedly earn just under £20 million a year. the next ten days will be important, but in the last ten days we have watched and read a lot about the team and the players. also, we have four friendly matches before starting qualification for the world cup. we have to work hard, we need enough time. great britain rugby sevens star jasminejoyce is to return to action with wales, who have also handed professional contracts to another seven players. joyce, who has not played 15—a—side rugby since the 2022 world cup, joins the wales squad alongside kayleigh powell on new hybrid contracts with team gb.
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wales now have 32 full—time players. joyce and powell will be available for wales in 2023—24 but will also be aiming to represent team gb at the paris olympics in 2024. the us solheim cup captain stacy lewis says golf officials have missed a chance to promote the women's game next month. for the first time ever, the solheim cup and the ryder cup are being played in back—to—back weeks. the american team to face europe includes the world number one lilia vu, who took the british open title this month — her second major. lewis thinks there should've been more tie—ins between the two big events. i don't think we have. i would have liked to see more collaboration between the men's and women's games. we have two weeks of team golf, patriotism, playing for your country, back to back weeks. honestly, we could have done more. and finally — we know football fans
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love a song on the terraces, often taking well known songs and reworking the lyrics to reflect people at their club. well, tottenham have done that to a robbie williams track about their new manager ange postecoglou. and williams has only gone and sung it. have a listen. # everywhere, we play the way we want to _ # it's big and bold, # so you can keep your pochettino # conte and mourinho # because everywhere we go # i'm loving big ange instead.
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you can get all the latest sports news 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. let us get more now from our scotland correspondence. for a while these figures were dropping. the figure for last year, 2022, 1276 people died as a result
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of alcohol in scotland. an increase of alcohol in scotland. an increase of 31 on the year before. national records for scotland, which puts out these figures, says that in terms of these figures, says that in terms of the death rate, the number dying per 100,000, that is not a significant increase year on year. at one of the things that people will look at in these figures, the number of deaths of men has stayed the same, the number of deaths of women has increased, by 31, to 440. that possibly suggests may be an alarming trend in terms of problem drinking for women. trend in terms of problem drinking forwomen. 0ne trend in terms of problem drinking for women. one of the other things i think people will look at is comparing these alcohol figures with the deaths related to drugs, which came out last week. the figure for alcohol is now higher than it is for drugs. that will be a concern. critics of the scottish cup and may say that they have spent a lot of
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time and effort trying to deal with drug—related deaths, not so much on problems with alcohol. —— critics of the scottish government. the midpoint of their minimum unit alcohol pricing policy that came in 2018, minimum price per unit of alcohol designed to deal with problem drinking. some experts will see that these figures would be even worse if it was not for that, possibly. but what you can see is that scotland has big problems, both with drugs and with alcohol. the scottish government would see that they are trying to deal with both of those at the same time. i read that minimum unit pricing coming in back in 2018. it was controversial then. coming in back in 2018. it was controversialthen. is coming in back in 2018. it was controversial then. is there any chance they would take this even further now? that is something people will want them to do, people who are in favour of that policy will be seeing, it has not increased in line with inflation, therefore the impact of that minimum price per unit of
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