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andy murray will be on court in a couple of hours, and novakjokovic starts his bid for the championship later on tuesday. we speak to the woman who s run 150 consecutive marathons and just completed an epic run across australia. live from our studio in singapore. this is bbc news. it s newsday. hello, and welcome to the programme. we begin in the uk where the government has decided to block a controversial scottish bill designed to make it easierfor people to change their legal gender. it is the first use of a section 35 order, which can block scottish laws. scotland s first minister nicola sturgeon called the move a full frontal attack on the scottish parliament and vowed to oppose it. here s our political editor chris mason. this is the ceremonial mace. it represents the scottish parliament s authority. we re seeing it here at the opening of its sixth session the year before last. and next, the crown of scotland, a symbol of royal authority. but power is shared ....
Wanted mafia boss is a major blow to organised crime. he was arrested in sicily. the new spark celebrations on the streets of the sicilian capital, palermo. that s the news spark. thousands of iranians have demonstrated outside the eu parliament demanding the body lists, or list the iranian national guard as a terrorist group. since the death in custody of mahsa amini in september. the british television presenter and newspaper columnistjeremy clarkson says he has written to the duke and duchess of sussex to apologise over a newspaper column in which he said he hated meghan. our culture and media editor katie razzall told us more about what he said and the repercussions. ....
11th, 2001, some are now in college. early monday morning, about a thousand students slashed in the water at ohio state university s mirror lake when they heard the news that bin laden had been killed. a similar scene played out at penn state. huge crowds gathered on campus to express how happy they were. and at west virginia university, in morgantown, students draped themselves in flags and took to the streets to celebrate. steve and timothy are students at the university of oklahoma. great to see you. hi, contessa. so let me ask you, you both were so young when 9/11 happened. why did this news spark such a need to go out and spontaneously celebrate, tim? it was really a feeling of relea release. for ten years we had been searching for him. and i remember being in middle school and seeing the attacks on 9/11 and the relief came from ....