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it s one of the biggest events on the sporting calendar. the players powerful, light of foot, lightning fast. it requires physical endurance and nerves of steel. and that s the reason that every year, the crowds spill out to watch wimbledon. that is centre court and it s been in that spot now for exactly 100 years. a centre court centenary. indeed! nice line. i know how much you love wimbledon but are you like my aunt, who shouts at the tv for two weeks? i absolutely love it and i absolutely am like your aunt. this is the most stressful two weeks of the year for me. my heart rate goes through the roof and i m just watching the thing on tv. oh, you need one of my activity trackers. i ve got a few to spare to track your heart rate. ah, yes! how did you get on with those? well, i ll tell you and you about that in a bit. right you are. yeah, wimbledon has been at the forefront of trialling new tech, both on and off the court, and we ve been lucky enough to see a fair ....
is sweet for novak djokovic, who wins his seventh wimbledon men s singles title. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. it s 6am in singapore, and 3.30am in colombo, sri lanka where protestors have been celebrating what they believe to be the toppling of the country s leadership. president rajapaksa whose family has dominated sri lankan politics for the best part of two decades has announced he will step down on wednesday after demonstrators stormed his official residence and set fire to the prime minister s house. our south asia correspondent rajini vaidyanathan reports from inside the presidential palace, which is still overrun by protesters. these scenes would have been unthinkable days ago. sri lanka s seat of presidential power now a sightseeing destination. security nowhere to be seen, as thousands push their way into a palace taken over by protesters. this is a really surreal moment for sri lanka. a building that is normally he ....
This is newsday on the bbc. i m karishma vaswani in singapore. our headlines. the speaker of the sri lankan parliament says president gotabaya rajapaksa fled the island following the storming of his official residence. japan s governing ldp is set to increase its majority in the upper house folllowing an election overshadowed by the assassination of its former boss, shinnzo abe. leaked documents show president emmanuel macron and a former eu competition commissioner held a series of private meetings with uber. at the time, the ride sharing app had been banned in france and sparked protests across europe from taxi drivers who felt their livelihoods were being threatened. as part of an investigation by the international consortium of investigativejournalists, the bbc has discovered how uber used political contacts to get what it wanted. richard bilton reports. ....
Welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i m karishma vaswani. the headlines. continuing chaos in sri lanka, as more crowds occupy the presidential palace they say they ll stay until there are resignations. this is a really surreal moment for sri lanka. a building that is normally heavily fortified, now a free for all. japan s governing ldp is set to increase its majority in the upper house, following an election overshadowed by the assassination of its former boss, shinnzo abe. in the uk, ten candidates are now vying to take over from borisjohnson as prime minister but whose tax plans are the best to revive the economy? and in tennis, victory ....