we ll be in rome for the latest. also coming up on sportsday. it s a battle of the brits in nottingham dart and boulter go head to head, as the grass court season begins. and more milestones forjamie chadwick. she speaks to us after victory at a prestigious indy car event at the weekend. hello there, and welcome along to sportsday, and we re kicking off with the countdown to the european championship which starts on friday, with the hosts germany against scotland england s campaign begins at the weekend. they re one of the tournament favourites and received a royal send off before flying out today. gareth southgate and the team will be based in the centre of the country, an area called blankenhain in the city of erfurt, ahead of theirfirst game in gelsenkirchen to face serbia on sunday. they ll then go on to play denmark and slovenia. a big couple of weeks ahead so let s speak to our correspondent andy swiss who is at the england base for us. andy swiss who is at
carlos is the new king on clay. alcaraz beats zverev for a first french open title. at the men s t20 world cup, india have it all to do against pakistan, and we ll get more on england s faltering campaign. a super scottish send off. next stop germany and euro 2024 forjohn mcginn and co. and i am at the european athletics championships in rome, where britain already have one gold medal, and there are hopes for more tonight. thanks forjoining us. we have been treated to an epic men s singles final at roland garros this afternoon, where after more than four hours and five sets of tennis, carlos alcaraz is the new french open champion. he beat alexander zverev to win a third grand slam title in a match that swung one way then the other then back again, as craig templeton reports. three names have loomed largest in men s tennis for decades. nadal, djokovic, federer. the first french open in final without any of them since 200a. for carlos alcaraz and alexander zverev, the time is
it reads. our correspondentjoe inwood has the latest from the island of symi. i ve been here for three orfour days now following the attempt to find michael mosley and you hear that statement from clare bailey mosley, and it is very sad, it is a very heartfelt statement for a man who so many people clearly loved and held in great affection. he was a very well known broadcaster, a doctor, a medical expert, but he was also a husband and father. a friend to many people and that is what came through in there. as you say, it was the news that we had been expecting from this morning and certainly, the longer it went on, the longer the search went on, the more unlikely it was that he would be found alive and well. it is incredibly hot here, incredibly difficult conditions, those hills behind me, those aren t the hills he was found on but but they are very similar geologically, they are the same sort of height, it is very rough terrain, very difficult, very exposed. it was right in t
good evening. we start with the european elections. it s still early with exit polls coming in from around europe, but we ve had our first projection of what the next european parliament will look like, and in many countries, far right parties have made big gains. exit polls show a historic win for marine le pen s national rally in france and is on course to trounce president macron s party. far right parties have also made substantial gains in austria and germany. exit polls say 27 countries voting, most of them since thursday, 373 million people were eligible to vote. that is considerably more than the 244 million who will be taking part in the united states in november. so, this is a very big deal, not only because it will set the direction for this parliament at a critical time in europe, with war in ukraine, the economy stuttering, migration a major concern for many, but because what happens in this election so often has a bearing on the direction of domestic politics in