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for reference, they use actors typically for body movement and whatnot, 0k? but obviously now, we're seeing more notable actors, who are usually noted in films, moving into gaming, and it's a sign of the times. like a good hollywood tale, we now find ourselves in the final act of the cyberpunk story. fans will decide if the game finds the redemption it's been seeking. guy lambert, bbc news. on tonight's six o'clock news we have a special investigation looking at vaping by children and young people. doctors say the public health message that vapes are 95% safer than cigarettes has failed children and must be changed to stop more taking up the habit. much more on that tonight at six. time for a look at the weather.
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here's stav da naos. good afternoon. a little more unsettled today than yesterday but you could almost still call this the calm before the storm, tomorrow will be very windy, this afternoon will be sunshine and showers. the storm tomorrow, storm agnes, is still out at the atlantic. we have a couple of weather fronts that have brought pretty heavy rainfall today and rumbles of thunder. it has almost cleared into the north sea but the next rain band is bringing heavy rain to western scotland and will continue to rattle north and east through the afternoon, becoming confined to the north of scotland. elsewhere, sunshine and showers, most towards western areas, better chance of staying dry towards the east and south—east where it could be up to 23 degrees. the showers rattle for a time this evening but will fade
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away, winds will turn lighter, clear skies across the northern half of the country, quite chilly in scottish glens but temperatures will rise across the south as the wind and cloud builds up ahead of wednesday's storm, storm agnes, which is likely to bring gales and heavy rain to more western parts of the country. you can see on the pressure chart ireland will bear the brunt but strong winds and heavy rain will spread up the irish sea, gusts of 60 to 70 mph and exposure for parts of west wales into north—west england, south—west scotland and parts of northern ireland too. later the strong winds transfer across scotland. much of the day will start dry with early sunshine, northern edges scenarios might escape the rain and the wind, afine might escape the rain and the wind, a fine day across the south—east. heavy rain spills up the irish sea, accompanying the gales, temperatures no higher than 15 or 16 but up to 21
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in the south—east, given sunny spells. storm agnes continues to weaken as it pushes northwards, eventually exiting north—east scotland during thursday morning. we are in between weather systems on thursday so quieter, spells of sunshine for eastern england, more cloud out west about the next frontal system will work into northern ireland and western scotland later. 20 degrees in the south—east, mid—teens further north and west. weather fronts will continue to affect parts of the country through friday on the weekend, mainly in the north and west, staying dry and warm across the south and the
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hello and welcome to sportsday, i'm will perry. there's a relaxed mood in the european camp ahead of the ryder cup which starts this friday — we'll have the latest. warming up nicely: england's batters get off to a flyer in their final 0di before jetting off to the world cup in india next week. and back home, sarina wiegman returns to the netherlands with her world cup finallists england in the nations league. after all the excitement of the solheim cup at the weekend, attention turns to friday when europe and the usa face each other in the ryder cup. europe's captain luke donald hopes his team can take inspiration from their female counterparts —
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after they produced a stunning fightback to retain their trophy at the weekend. europe's players seemed in great spirits as they vebtured out onto the course today for the official photocall. last time out, europe were thrashed by 19 points to nine two years ago in wisconsin, their heaviest ryder cup defeat. on paper the americans have the superior team this time, with ten of their 12 players currently in the world's top 20. donald and us captain zachjohnson will reveal their opening pairings for friday's foursomes on thursday evening and donald is keen not to be overawed by his opponents these seem very unified to me, they seem like a great group of guys, really getting along with each other and already creating that sort of unbreakable bond between the 12. i think every team is different, this is a team that has obviously some new faces and some guys that have been part of the ryder cup that aren't here but they understand at
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it is their opportunity now to write their story and write their history this week and start writing and creating that history for themselves so they are very excited to be here and very ready. so the united states will go into the tournament as slight favourites, but their captain doesn't see it that way. the way i see it, when it comes to favourites others that the other we are not favourites because of what has transpired and they have got a really good team playing well so i love that, our backs against the wall and that's the way we'll approach it. england have got off to a flying start in their third and final one—day international against ireland at bristol ireland won the toss and might be regretting putting england in 0pners phil salt and willjacks put on 50 injust 21 balls, the quickest half century in 0dis for england, salt reached 50 offjust 22 balls.
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a few moments ago england were 144—2 in the 15th over. tonight, there's a busy fixture list in women's nations league to look forward to — including a very special occasion for england manager sarina wiegman. she'll come up against her home nation — and former employer — the netherlands, as the two sides meet in utrecht. it'll be the first time wiegman has returned to the netherlands with her current side, as england aim to make the dutch, a step up again in quality and rankings from what scotland are in scotland were a bit more fitness ready and lasted better in that game against england on friday and i think the dutch will give us another tough test tonight.
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in the same group, scotland are at home to belgium — whilst wales have a home game against denmark. northern ireland are also at home, they face albania, looking for their first win of the tournament, after losing to the republic of ireland in their opening match. manager tanya 0xtoby says her players are looking forward to the occasion. from our point of view we had a plan coming in and were trying to follow that process and rest recover and get the players ready to go and see where we are at but we're pretty confident we are a good place and from our point of view really excited to get going. spain forward mariona caldentee says she hopes the women's team can compete at the olympics next year — as long as its under the conditions the players think they deserve. many of them went on strike, afterformer president of the spanish football federation luis rubiales kissed a player following their world cup triumph last month. rubiales has since resigned...but many players remained on strike
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until a deal was made with the federation over further changes. spain beat sweden on friday and face switzerland on tuesday in the nations league group stage. the two finalists in the competition — should spain make it that far — will appear at the olympics in paris translation: this is a global fight and all the women players own it, | and we say we are football players but at the same time we have global responsibility to help leave women in a better place than when we arrived. now we are fighting this fight almost unintentionally because what we want and what we do best is to play football. 19 months on, and with the 2022 beijing winter 0lympics'team figure skaters still waiting for their medals, russia's kamila valieva's doping case is set to be heard by the court of arbitration for sport on tuesday. valieva failed a drugs test after winning team gold in beijing. the russian anti—doping agency found that valieva bore "no fault or negligence" for the positive test but the world anti—doping agency is appealing those findings. here's our sports news
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correspondent alex capstick. it was a huge in 2022 when camilla valieva, 15 years old, helped team russia and took gold in the team event but days later it emerged she had tested positive for a band it's substance in the previous december at the russian championships and she was banned and then reinstated with the panellist saying she was too young. she competed in the individual paint but fell in the long programme and was in tears several times and failed to make the podium. the case was sent back to russia to investigate and medal
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ceremony was postponed. we got the decision this year because she had taken the substance but it was not her fault because she'd been so young. the world anti—doping agency has shown that the session along with international skating union and they want valieva —— challenge that decision and they want the ban to be at least two years. the court of archer patient —— arbitration will last at least three days. valieva we'll give her evidence from russia as well others during the sessions. we don't know when a finaljudgment will be, certainly not this week. to the nfl now, where the philadelphia eagles continued their unbeaten start to the season with a 25—11 win over the tampa bay buccaneers on monday night.
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quarterbackjalen hurts rushed for a touchdown and threw another as the eagles made it a 3 and 0 start in consecutive seasons for the first time since 1992. the reigning nfc champions are one of three unbeaten teams in the league, alongside the miami dolphins and san francisco 49ers. we do a greatjob stepping up and making a play at crucial moment the game but obviously having an opportunity, so many things like that, we have a lot to clean up but we definitely enjoy the work. in the other monday night game, the cincinnati bengals edged out the la rams 19—16 to record their first win of the season. the bengals' star quarterback joe burrow, who had been a doubt to play beforehand due a lingering calf injury, threw for 259 yards to lead his team across the line. all the stuff that you weigh when you're making that decision,
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there is risk to go out there and potentially reinjure it but there is the risk to go out there and be on three so i want to go out there for my guys and do what i needed to do. and british driverjessica hawkins has become the first female to test a formula one car in five years. the 28—year—old drove 26 laps in aston martin's 2021 car in hungary last thursday. hawkins is a former british karting champion and podium finisher in the all—female w series. formula one has not had a woman start a grand prix since leila lombardi raced
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in austria in 1976. 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. the leader of the liberal democrats is due to make his first speech in a few hours' time.— is due to make his first speech in a few hours' time. one of the greatest roblem is few hours' time. one of the greatest problem is that _ few hours' time. one of the greatest problem is that the _ few hours' time. one of the greatest problem is that the liberal _ problem is that the liberal democrats have is getting noticed. he will have almost wall—to—wall coverage and be all over the newspapers tomorrow. we are expecting him to really hone in the issue of the nhs and they say when it's up to voters on the doorstep it is the one issue that keeps coming up, people are unable to get a gp
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appointment and abulous delays and expect him to attack the conservatives on that and the records in office and we expected tackle ruthlessly conservative held seats in the south of england in rural areas and also in commuter areas and they believe they can really build on recent by—election successes. i think there is a quite optimism in bournemouth about their prospects when the general election starts and last night i was and at an event called the liberal democrat glee club where they all get together and have a singsong and rising themselves up for the battles that lie ahead and that is one of the things ed davey need to do today, to rally the troops ahead of the campaign and speak to the voters out there and give them a clear sense of what the liberal democrats
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