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hello, i'm mark edwards with your sports day for. it's day five of the french open in paris and the women's world number one, aryna sabalenka has breezed through to the fourth round. she saw off the challenge of serbia's olga danilovic in straight sets. the three-time grand slam champion will face american sixteenth seed amanda anisimova in the next round. so this is how things are looking on friday. frenchman quentin halys took the first set off tenth seed holger rune before the dane hit back to take the second. the queen of clay, iga siwatek
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is on court right now against jaqueline cristian of romania, and is already a set up. swiatek has won four of the last five french opens. in the last hour, the spanish football giants real madrid say they've agreed a deal to sign liverpool and england right-back trent alexander arnold. liverpool have accepted a fee to release the 26-year-old from his contract before it was due to expire next month. the move means alexander-arnold will join real in time to play in the club world cup. the england right-back had already confirmed he would leave liverpool at the end of the season. the champions league final is tomorrow and both the paris saint-germain and inter milan squads have landed in munich to join the tens of thousands of fans who have already descended upon the bavarian capital in germany. inter milan will be looking to go one step further than they did two years ago when they were beaten in the final by manchester city, having agonisingly also come second in serie a this season by a solitary point behind napoli. while for psg history beckons, could they finally win their first
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champions league title? it's our dream. not since 15 years, since so since 1992. the most important game of my life. we lost the italian cup, the super cup. the fans are also frustrated now a little. we want this cup. we want to win this champions league to make the season at the end good. in cricket, england women are in action against the west indies in the first of three one day internationals under new head coach charlotte edwards. england won the toss and batted, and it's proving a good decision so far, openers tammy beaumont and amy jones both making half centuries. england are 147 for no wicket after 28 overs.
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the gujarat titans take on mumbai indians shortly in the eliminator round of the indian premier league. the winner will then have to beat the punjab kings for a chance to play the final against the royal challengers bengaluru, who thrashed the kings on thursday by eight wickets. it means the challengers are playing their first ipl final since 2016. we picked up on that momentum and kept going. we're back to the unit that has bowled for most of the term. there is a bit the wicket to be honest, the bounce was probably a bit inconsistent. so we utilised that as best we could. we have probably surprised a little bit. we have only played here once before and it was a pretty good wicket, it was a day game. so yes, a bit surprised. the edmonton oilers are going to their second stanley cup final in a row after beating the dallas stars 6-3 on thursday night in game five to wrap up the western conference final. connor mcdavid had a breakaway goal to make it 4-2 and added
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an assist as the oilers booked their place in the final. edmonton now get a chance for revenge, taking on the defending stanley cup champion florida who they lost to in the seven game series last year. game one is on wednesday night in edmonton. (pres)and that's all the sport for now. and that's all the sport for now. mark, thank you. poles will vote for a new president on sunday in a tight election that will have major consequences for the future of the country's pro-eu government. the office is a largely ceremonial role, but the president has the right to veto legislation, and the coalition government lacks a big enough parliamentary majority to overturn it. for more on this we can speak to our correspondent adam easton who is in warsaw. the last day of campaigning before that second round of voting on sunday, and the polls suggest the contest between mau'u ayew mayor and the
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right-leaning conservative, they suggest it is a very close contest. domestically, explain more what the result of this vote will mean for poland. -- pro eu mayor. the opinion polls suggest it is too close to call. we have a contest between warsaw's liberal mayor, who are supported by people generally in big cities, he is seen as a left liberal sort of guy, who supports lgbt+ rights, minority rights, migrants' rights, and he would liberalise the country's very strict abortion law, legalise civil partnerships and the like and all the other side we have this socially conservative who is backed by the main opposition party and he is supported by people or in the countryside,
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small towns, he's very big on traditional roman catholic values, the family, he is seen as a strong guy, somebody who stands up for ordinary polls. it is far too close to call. as you said, it is a presidential election so it's a largely ceremonial role but the president has an important power, he can veto government legislation. now, the pro-eu government of donald tusk has been in power for about 18 months and it has had the excuse that the current conservative president andrzej duda has been using his veto to block his programme. mr tusk has failed to deliver many of his campaign promises including liberalising the abortion law, lowering taxes, civil partnerships and the like, and that has been his excuse. the president has been vetoing this. some if mr necropsy wins he will continue to use that veto... adam, a little bit of
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break up on your line, i will try it one more question if i may. so that's the domestic picture. beyond the borders of poland, depending on who wins, what will it mean for poland's neighbour ukraine and for the eu? for the eu, a strong relationship with germany and france. mr nawrocki is basically very big on 70 and he would form alliances, his very sceptical with germany, he would form alliances with smaller regional partners. for ukraine, both candidates support continued assistance to ukraine, but in a more nuanced fashion. mr nawrocki is much more ambivalent about ukraine joining nato or joining the eu because he thinks it's not
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necessarily in poland cuz interests, whereas the other candidate would like to integrate ukraine into the major eu and nato organisations. atom, we are out of time but thank you for sitting at the picture for us ahead of sunday. businesses across the uk are preparing for the ban on disposable vapes, which will come in on sunday. the government hopes it will help reduce the number of young people taking up the habit and limit the environmental impact of the devices. penalties for those caught flouting the rules range from fines of £200 to prison sentences for repeat offenders. let's speak to dr sarah jackson from university college london's tobacco and alcohol research group. thank you very much for joining us. what do you think the impact of this ban will be on the uptake of people wanting to vape? well, i think the ban is coming in under environmental legislation, so the main driver behind it is to reduce environmental waste from
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disposable types. a secondary aim is also to reduce young people taking up vaping. we have seen large numbers of young people taking up vaping since these disposable devices, to the market. but the thing is, young people are not using them because are disposable, is not the fact you can throw it away which is the big appeal, is the fact that they come brightly coloured, attractive packaging, nice flavours, they are cheap, and they are widely available. they are in every corner shop or supermarket, wherever you go, there are disposable vapes in nice big colourful displays. and to be honest i don't think the ban will change that. what we have seen is already in new factories of the leading disposable models have responded to the ban by supplying very similar disposable like devices that meet the new regulation. so one of the questions that has been asked as well and i'm going to ask you to give us a brief answer unfortunately, as we only have about a minute left,
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is this going to drive more people back towards smoking? because obviously the idea of vaping in the beginning was the suggestion that it was a better to smoking. yes, and it definitely is, the evidence is really clear, it is much less harmful and it is effective in helping people to quit so it needs to be handled very carefully, we need good messaging to stop is not the fact that vaping is harmful that is the reason these products are being banned, it is because they are particularly attractive to young people and they create a lot of environmental waste. ok, doctor sarah jackson, thank you very much for taking the time to talk to us. and that's it from me and the rest of the team. matthew will be here with you next. do stay with us for more of the main stories of the day, we will be looking at that speech that president macron made in singapore, lots of other
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live from london. this is bbc news. trump's trade tariffs are back on, a ban that had blocked the president's plans, is temporarily lifted. the former sinn fein leader gerry adams wins his libel case against the bbc, and is awarded 100,000 euros in damages. we'll bring you the latest reaction. the un says 100% of the population in gaza is now at risk of famine. the bbc finds that eu member states are paying more money to russia, for its oil and gas than in the aid it gives to ukraine. a ban on single-use vapescomes into force on sunday in the uk, but there are concerns, the ban does not go far enough.
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