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And we re starting at the us open tennis where britain s jack draper has scorched into the quarter finals of a grand slam for the first time in his career. Draper hasn t dropped a set all tournament and he kept up that record in his victory over tomas machac in new york. Adam cottier reports. After the retirement of andy murray, here comes jack draper. On top of his game after a superb fourth round win in new york. He looked sharp from the start against machac and in a blink of an eye he powered through the first two sets in the type of form that suggests he has the potential to go even further. The 22 year old left hander won his first career title injune and with box office stars novak djokovic and carlos alcatraz already out of the open, his ruthless edge could serve him well. He took his place in the final eight afterjust one hour and 42 minutes. He went four games without dropping a set now at flushing meadows and is the first british man to reach the quarter finals in new york si ....
A Government Expert says its a big step forward. It means that we can spread the vaccine around, it means that we can really start to impact on this pandemic notjust here but right the way across the world. Some Primary School children in wales could be back in the classroom after half term, if Infection Rates continue to fall. And the trailblazing African American actress cicely tyson has died at the age of 96. And coming up in sport on bbc news, Dina Asher Smith makes a winning return to International Athletics as she storms to 60 metre victory at the World Indoor Tour event in g ....
Republican leader Mitch Mcconnell says President Trump is right to protest the vote cap. The u. S. Sanctions more people in hong kong over chinas increasing control. Washington has suspended its treaty with hong kong and ended reciprocal treatments on shipping. Haidi lets take a look at this market situation we are setting up for. It is firmly risk on after all the really bullish view overnight on account of the high efficacy from the biotech vaccine. Asx 200 trading higher by 1 10 of 1 . It is a handful of asiapacific markets there is or going into overboard territory. One of those is new zealand. We are seeing kiwi stocks of about 9 10 of 1 . We have the rbnz decision ahead of us this week but that market is up now for six consecutive sessions. Nikkei futures reversing pretty dramatically at the moment. Above looking at opening 25,000 for the first time in 30 years. Tradi ....