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I'm Oliver Conway, and we're recording this

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at 13 hours GMT on Monday, the

1:29

1st of July. Is the far right

1:31

about to take power in France? But

1:43

President Macron is calling for centrist and

1:45

left wing parties to unite against the

1:47

National Rally in the second round of

1:49

voting next Sunday. It

1:52

was the earliest category for hurricane

1:54

ever recorded. Now Storm Beryl is

1:56

taking aim at the Caribbean and

1:58

the US Justice Department. is accused of

2:01

offering Boeing a sweetheart deal over fatal

2:03

737 MAX airline

2:05

crashes. Also,

2:08

in the podcast, we hear about the

2:11

Sudanese children fleeing the conflict in Darfur.

2:13

We suffered a lot because of

2:16

the security situation. Now, I

2:18

believe I'm in a safe place. Even

2:21

for my pupils, they can't get

2:23

a good education if they don't feel safe.

2:25

When we look back at the life of

2:28

the Albanian writer and poet Ismail Kadare, who's

2:30

died at the age of 88, and

2:33

an admission charge to climb Mount

2:35

Fuji. But

2:41

first, one thing that's clear, after the first

2:43

round of the French election, the far right

2:45

is now closer to power than at any

2:47

time since the Second World War. Marine

2:50

Le Pen's Rasson Blant Nationale won a

2:52

third of the vote on Sunday, and

2:54

as Campani gets underway for the second

2:57

round next weekend, President Macron has called

2:59

for centrist and left-wing blocs to join

3:01

forces to stop the far right winning

3:04

control of Parliament. So what

3:06

does France make of the results so far? Here's

3:08

the view from Paris. It's

3:11

scary. The far right is a bit of a

3:14

shock. It's a bit difficult for young people, that

3:16

there's a party who's in the lead who cares

3:18

very little about us. We're wondering

3:20

whether others feel the same way. Do

3:22

other young people feel the same way? It's

3:24

a bit difficult. What

3:27

do I think? A bit disappointed in France,

3:29

actually. It's not the France that

3:31

I knew as a child. But now that's

3:33

how it is. That's what happens. It's chaos, in

3:35

fact. Our

3:38

National Rally candidate, Ivanka Dimitrovet, says the

3:40

party wants to unify all the people

3:42

of France as long as they live

3:45

like the French. I think

3:47

the work that we have started a long

3:49

time ago has given its

3:52

first results. We

3:54

are convincing people that

3:56

our party is not the monster.

4:00

been presented as and that

4:02

the fact that we love our country

4:04

and our people does not mean that

4:06

we hate others, not at

4:09

all. Our Paris correspondent, Hugh Schofield,

4:11

told us more about how people in

4:13

France have reacted to the national rally's

4:15

success. They're not surprised because the

4:17

polls said this was coming. It's come. No

4:20

one can say that there wasn't

4:22

any forewarning. Nonetheless, there

4:24

is a sense of us moving into new

4:26

terrain and that requires a sense

4:29

of adapting your brain to

4:31

a new reality. Among many

4:33

people, particularly in the big cities

4:35

like Paris, there's absolute dismay and

4:38

anger. But, you know, let's

4:40

not forget, Paris and the other big

4:42

cities are not France and it's quite

4:45

clear that outside of the big cities,

4:47

the national rally is hugely popular and

4:49

there people are no doubt saying, well,

4:52

things are moving our way. What is clear

4:55

and what unites everyone is a feeling

4:57

that France is on

4:59

the verge of some major political change.

5:02

What that change will be hasn't

5:05

been determined. There is another round of this

5:07

election and a lot hinges on that second

5:09

round because it will make the difference between

5:11

a national rally government with

5:13

an absolute majority and thus able to govern

5:15

and one that has no majority or only

5:18

a relative majority and is thus unable to

5:20

do anything in Parliament, which means a whole

5:23

new set of problems for the country. Yeah, I mean, let's

5:26

look at how things will

5:28

pan out next weekend. The

5:31

national rally got about a third of the vote. That means two

5:34

thirds of people didn't vote for them. Will

5:36

they be able to join forces because you've

5:38

got the centrist, but then also this new

5:41

popular front on the left, which also has

5:43

some extreme elements. There's the rub and

5:45

we just don't know. You know, you look on paper and

5:47

you think, well, in the natural

5:49

course of events, there's more people who are against

5:51

the national front than there are people who are

5:53

for it. Therefore, they should be

5:55

able to keep it out or keep the gains

5:57

down. If this was a presidential election, that would.

6:00

certainly apply and, you know, at least

6:02

it's certainly applied in the past

6:04

and, you know, at every presidential

6:06

election when it's, you know, been

6:08

marinely penned against someone else people

6:10

come together to block the National

6:12

Rally candidate. This is a different

6:14

situation because it's constituency based. There

6:16

are local candidates with local loyalties

6:18

and so on and also the

6:20

whole, the political world is changing.

6:23

People are far, far less reluctant

6:25

to say openly that they vote

6:27

for the National Rally. The normalisation

6:29

is complete. On the left you

6:31

have this alliance which includes the

6:33

party, the LFI, the France Unbowed,

6:35

which is, in many people's eyes,

6:37

also totally unpalatable and unacceptable.

6:39

In Le Figaro, for example, the Conservative

6:42

newspaper, for the first time they had

6:44

an editorial today saying that LFI,

6:46

the left, the far left, is worse than

6:48

the far right. So effectively saying, you know,

6:50

if we have to choose, we will choose

6:52

the far right and that's new. Q.

6:56

Scofield in Paris. The National

6:58

Rally has said it wants to combat

7:00

what it calls Islamist ideologies and would

7:02

like to change the law to make

7:04

it easier to close mosques and ban

7:06

the Muslim headscarf. One in

7:09

ten adults in France identifies as Muslim.

7:11

Rob Young has been gauging opinion on

7:13

the rise of the National Rally and

7:15

its policies at a mosque in northern

7:17

France. The

7:28

call to prayer by the Imam

7:30

signals the start of the main

7:32

weekly worship. Hundreds of men and

7:34

women have streamed into this large

7:36

mosque outside Lille, their shoes removed

7:38

and neatly arranged in the corridors.

7:41

Religious duty is the main thing

7:43

on their minds but there's also

7:45

anxiety about the possibility of a

7:47

National Rally government. Here's

7:49

Nardine who's an IT engineer and moved

7:52

to France from Morocco 40 years ago.

8:00

father of four children, all my children

8:02

are educated and taking on higher studies,

8:05

as are many people of the Muslim faith. Muslims

8:08

in France are a minority. And within that

8:10

minority, there's perhaps a minority that's a little

8:12

lost when it comes to education and their

8:14

future. And so there's a

8:17

focus on these people rather than the

8:19

80 percent of law-abiding Muslims. So

8:21

that creates a feeling of worry in

8:23

France, and the media zooms in on

8:26

this and incites a far-right electorate will

8:29

be watching where things go. I think there are a

8:31

lot of Muslims who will make a decision. There's

8:33

testimony from many highly qualified Muslims who are

8:35

leaving France because the pressure on them is

8:37

just too much. My

8:40

name is Belal, and I'm 18

8:42

years old. I'm a little bit

8:44

worried about the rise of the

8:46

Front National because discrimination

8:48

they make about Muslim people

8:51

is going to be really

8:53

difficult to a Muslim to

8:55

live in peace in France

8:58

if the Front National come to power.

9:01

I love France for many reasons,

9:03

like it's my country. I want

9:05

to live in France for the

9:07

rest of my life. But if

9:10

I have a choice to

9:12

the religion for the country,

9:14

I'm going to choose my

9:16

religion. In

9:19

the part of the mosque reserved for women,

9:21

Dr. and mum of three men

9:23

who left Tunisia 18 years

9:26

ago is wearing a black headscarf known

9:28

as a hijab, a garment the National

9:30

Rally wants to ban in public places.

9:36

As a Muslim woman in France, there

9:38

are already difficulties, but there are limited.

9:40

What worries me is

9:42

new laws like the National Rally's promise

9:45

to ban the hijab in public space.

9:48

This is a country we chose.

9:50

We chose it for its values,

9:52

human rights, its values of inclusion,

9:54

freedom, equality and fraternity. So having

9:56

a party like the National Rally

9:58

come to power. tend

12:00

to be quite localized around the eye

12:02

of the storm. And so if you

12:04

travel 30 miles outside of the eye,

12:06

then the winds drop off quite dramatically,

12:09

below 70 miles an hour, for example, below

12:11

about 110 kilometres an hour, or

12:13

around about that speed. Now, I think

12:16

one of the things with Beryl is it's moving

12:18

quite quickly forward. So it's moving

12:20

at a forward speed of about 20 miles an hour, and

12:23

the only good thing I'd say about that is

12:25

it doesn't allow enormous rainfall totals to build up,

12:27

because it moves through quite quickly. And

12:29

so we're looking at something like 100 to 250 millimetres

12:31

of rain. It's still

12:33

enough to cause some significant, even some severe,

12:36

flooding problems, but in the grand scheme of

12:38

hurricanes, it could be worse. Talking about the

12:40

grand scheme of hurricanes, we're quite early in

12:42

the season, runs from June to November. Beryl,

12:45

the first Category 4 ever recorded in June,

12:48

and we're also seeing tropical storm

12:50

Chris forming around Mexico. What

12:53

is in store for this season? Well, you're

12:55

right. This season is expected to be exceptionally

12:57

busy, and there's a few

12:59

reasons for that. If we look at the ocean

13:02

temperatures around the planet, we've had

13:04

13 consecutive months of

13:06

not just above-average temperatures, but

13:08

of record temperatures. And

13:11

it's the heat in the oceans

13:13

that actually powers these hurricanes, so that's one

13:15

factor. The other is actually, you might have

13:17

heard about El Nino, La Nina kind of

13:19

patterns. We had El Nino last year, and

13:22

one thing with hurricanes is they don't like

13:24

strong winds around them. It kind of disturbs

13:26

the circulation. And so in El Nino years,

13:28

you find that you don't often get very

13:31

many Atlantic hurricanes. So last

13:33

year, relatively quiet. This year, we're coming

13:35

away from that. We're in a neutral pattern

13:37

at the moment, and we're heading towards a

13:39

La Nina pattern. And that also

13:41

increases the likelihood of storms. So in terms

13:43

of the season as a whole, this year

13:45

we're expecting 8 to 13 hurricanes. An average

13:48

season would bring us 7, and

13:50

of those hurricanes we're expecting around 4 to 7

13:52

major hurricanes. The average is 3. So,

13:56

Beryl, the first major hurricane in

13:59

what is expected to be... on.

16:00

So the DOJ is basically saying, look,

16:02

Boeing has broken that agreement, improvements have

16:04

not been made, so we're going to

16:06

charge them with fraud for breaking that

16:08

agreement. But with this

16:11

option of a plea deal, and

16:14

clearly that's not gone down well with the

16:16

families. Yeah, tell us more about how they

16:18

are likely to react to this. So

16:21

we've been told that they will strenuously

16:23

object to this plea. That's

16:25

a quote. I mean, it's already been

16:28

called a sweetheart deal by the lawyers,

16:30

you know, Boeing getting off lightly. And

16:32

even when it comes to the fine,

16:34

we've had no confirmation, but there is

16:36

that sort of figure of around $250

16:38

million ish. When you consider

16:40

that the families are asking for 25

16:42

billion, you can see how disappointing

16:44

an outcome this would be for them. It's

16:47

not set in stone. Like I said, we've had no

16:49

confirmation from Boeing or the DOJ, and

16:51

a judge would still need to

16:53

approve this plea deal. So it's

16:55

not all finalised. But if it

16:57

does materialise, it would be a

16:59

very controversial development indeed for Boeing,

17:01

for the families, for everyone really.

17:04

Nick Marsh, our business correspondent.

17:07

The Albanian writer and poet Ismail Kaderay has

17:09

died at the age of 88. As

17:12

the first winner of the International Booker Prize in 2005,

17:16

Kaderay was regarded as one of the most

17:18

accomplished European writers of our times. His works

17:20

have been translated into more than 45 languages.

17:24

Arian Kochi looks back at his life. Ismail

17:26

Kaderay defied simple categorisation. For much

17:29

of his literary career, he was

17:31

lauded as a potential Nobel Prize

17:33

winner, but also criticised as a

17:35

sycophant of the Albanian Communist dictatorship

17:38

in the 1960s and 80s. His

17:40

stories are rooted in events and

17:42

myths of his native Albania, but

17:45

critics say his novels have a

17:47

timeless relevance and universal Born

17:50

in 1936 in Girocaster in

17:52

southern Albania, Kaderay studied literature

17:54

in Tirana and Moscow. His

17:57

return home in 1960 coincided with our Albania's

18:00

diplomatic rift with the Soviet Union,

18:02

which Cadare chronicled in his work

18:05

The Great Winter, which has been

18:07

criticised for praising the communist Albanian

18:09

leader Enver Hoxha. Cadare did not

18:11

help matters with his honest admission

18:14

that he never considered himself a

18:16

dissident, insisting he was not a

18:18

political writer. Although he was deeply

18:21

interested in Albanian politics, he took

18:23

refuge in historical and allegorical fiction.

18:25

His masterpiece, The Palace of Dreams,

18:28

is set in Istanbul, the capital

18:30

of the Ottoman Empire, where dreams

18:32

are scrutinised for signs of political

18:34

unrest. It is seen as an

18:37

allegory of the authoritarian regime's mania

18:39

for surveillance. In awarding

18:41

him the first international Booker Prize

18:43

in 2005 for his whole body

18:45

of work, the jury described Cadare

18:47

as a writer who maps a

18:49

whole culture, a universal writer in

18:51

the tradition of storytelling that goes

18:54

back to Homer. Arianne Kocion Ismail

18:56

Cadare, who's died at the age

18:58

of 88. And

19:02

still to come on the Global News

19:05

Podcast, the pop star who saved the

19:07

day for football-hungry fans at Glastonbury Music

19:09

Festival. The

19:52

fighting between rival factions in Sudan has

19:55

forced millions of people, many of them

19:57

children, to flee with huge numbers now

19:59

low. living in refugee camps across the

20:01

border in Eastern Chad. A

20:03

new school at the Mece camp, which

20:05

hosts over 40,000 people, is

20:08

giving some of the children a chance to resume

20:10

at least a semblance of normal life. The

20:13

BBC's Paul Njie travelled to Mece to

20:15

find out more. I

20:17

made my mind! I

20:19

made my mind! The

20:22

boy-strust singing of Sudanese children, living

20:24

at the Mece refugee camp in

20:26

Eastern Chad, relies the

20:28

horrors of war that they witnessed

20:30

in the Darfur region. They

20:36

now welcome life in their new school, built

20:39

with tin roofs and flapping tarpaulin

20:41

walls. Even though

20:43

the children sit on mats instead of

20:45

desks and benches, their

20:47

enthusiasm to learn remains

20:50

strong. This is capital E.

20:52

All of you say capital E. T.

20:55

Johanna Adam, herself a refugee in

20:57

the camp, takes them

20:59

through the paces of the day's lesson.

21:03

She relieves the challenges they

21:05

faced when the rebel rapid

21:07

support forces targeted civilians in

21:09

her native West Darfur state.

21:13

We suffered a lot because of the

21:15

security situation. Now, I

21:18

believe I'm in a safe place. Even

21:20

for my pupils, they can't get

21:23

a good education if they don't feel safe.

21:28

Twelve-year-old Ahmed happily joins in

21:31

the lesson. I

21:37

spent seven to eight months without

21:39

education because of war. And

21:41

when I arrived here in Chad, I

21:43

was out of school for months. Now

21:46

I have found this school and I'm very

21:48

happy because I got new friends. I

21:51

thought I had no future. Unfortunately,

21:55

only 1,800 of the 23,000 children living in the camp... can

22:00

attend the new school due to

22:02

limited resources. After

22:07

school, Ahmed takes us home

22:09

to meet his younger brother Jamar al-Din,

22:12

who hasn't secured a place in the school.

22:16

The situation is very bad. I'm

22:19

not happy because while my brother is in

22:21

school, I am out of school. This means

22:23

my future is not great. The

22:29

Norwegian Refugee Council runs the

22:31

school. Shelter officer

22:33

Isam Adam says they need

22:35

more support to expand the

22:38

project. In

22:40

Mecha Elun, we need more than four

22:42

schools. There are about five

22:44

other camps in Eastern Chad also in

22:46

need of education, plus

22:49

other aspects like shelter. For

22:55

now, the children in

22:57

teacher Hanan's classroom keep their

22:59

dreams of a brighter future alive.

23:52

They wanted the Goza

23:54

area to be a government space, but

23:57

the government wanted to resettle the people

23:59

in the room. settlement plan has

24:01

gone far. So they prepared this

24:03

attack in order to sabotage the

24:05

effort of the government. That is

24:07

what we can say for now.

24:10

But the fact is terrorists took

24:12

advantage of social assembly. And they

24:14

were going forward. What we would

24:16

do is to beef up security

24:18

protocol during gatherings to make sure

24:20

that such an event do not

24:22

take place again. The government would

24:25

only start to work harder than

24:27

ever before in order to make

24:29

sure that this event does not

24:31

repeat itself again. Enough is enough.

24:34

Professor Uzman Tarr in Nigeria. With

24:37

only three days to go before the UK's

24:39

general election, one of the big issues is

24:41

the price of homes. But are

24:43

any of the political parties able to

24:45

convince people they can solve Britain's housing

24:48

crunch? Leanna Byrne from Marketplace has

24:50

been taking a look. If

24:54

you want to understand the UK's housing market

24:56

right now, the best thing to do is go

24:58

looking to buy a home. Minri Kaur is

25:00

43 and lives in a small two-bed house in

25:06

London. She's a full-time carer for her

25:08

parents. Since her mom was diagnosed with

25:10

blood cancer, she says her family needs

25:12

more space. But she's struggling to find

25:15

a bigger house within her $770,000

25:17

budget that's close

25:20

to her mom's hospital. So how did you feel

25:22

about that one? I didn't like

25:24

it at all. There's no light. It was really

25:26

dull. Cracks in the walls. On

25:29

the way to our next viewing, Minri tells

25:31

me that she's sick of people telling her

25:33

to move further away from London. You can

25:36

do that if it's just yourself. But when

25:38

you're a carer, you've got your elderly parents.

25:41

It's just not feasible. The Conservative Party,

25:43

which is currently in government, is promising to

25:45

waive a homebuyer tax for first-time buyers like

25:47

Minri for properties costing up to $540,000. But

25:49

she's looking in Slough, a town to the

25:52

west of London, where

25:57

average property prices are $570,000. So

26:00

she'll miss out. Where

26:03

are you going to get a house in the area of London?

26:05

You're not going to have to move really far. At

26:07

house number two, Minrit isn't impressed. This one

26:09

is £5.98. Wow,

26:12

that's amazing. So it's going to need a lot

26:14

for her. The average

26:16

property price paid by a first-time buyer in the UK last

26:18

year was just over a

26:20

quarter of a million dollars. Private

26:23

rental costs have gone up by more than 9%,

26:25

according to the UK's Office for National Statistics. Peter

26:30

Felix and his partner Rebecca Wilson are in their early

26:32

40s and have been renting together in the city of Birmingham

26:35

in mid-England for nearly three years. It's

26:38

quite depressing that you

26:40

can go out and earn a decent

26:42

wage but not be

26:45

able to afford to buy a property because your money is

26:47

going towards the rent. The

26:50

opposition Labour Party says it wants to extend

26:52

an existing scheme which helps people get a

26:54

mortgage with a smaller deposit. But

26:57

Peter says saving for a small deposit is challenging.

26:59

The rent will keep going up and we

27:01

know that every time the rent goes up it means there's less and less

27:03

in our pocket to decide. Availability

27:07

of public housing is another issue. Labour is

27:09

promising more. But

27:12

Osman Ahmadi, an Uber driver who's been waiting

27:14

for three years, is sceptical

27:16

any change will happen. I

27:18

have seen a lot of people have got all the letters, I have got

27:20

all the proofs, and nothing's been done. Meanwhile,

27:24

Minrit has finished her viewings for the day.

27:26

I just feel so deflated, I didn't like

27:28

that at all. This is my biggest issue

27:30

with the elections, I just feel this is all I'm thinking

27:32

about, day in, day out, going round

27:34

and round in circles, and I'm getting really

27:36

depressed about it. According to UK price comparison

27:39

website Money Facts, people in the

27:41

UK spend on average more than a

27:43

quarter of their disposable income on housing. That

27:46

will be sure to play into many voting decisions

27:48

on the day of the UK's election, July the

27:50

4th. People

27:53

hoping to climb Japan's famous volcano Mount

27:55

Fuji using its most

27:57

popular route must now pay a third.

28:00

$13 charge. The authorities are trying to

28:02

limit the numbers scaling Japan's highest peak.

28:05

More from our Asia Pacific regional editor Celia

28:07

Hatton. Last year,

28:10

more than 220,000 people scaled Mount

28:12

Fuji between July and September. Officials

28:15

are hoping to drastically reduce

28:17

that number. They're frustrated by

28:19

congested paths littered with piles

28:21

of rubbish. A rising

28:23

number of hikers have also needed

28:25

emergency medical treatment either because

28:27

of altitude sickness, hypothermia, or

28:30

simply because they're poorly equipped

28:32

to scale Mount Fuji's 12,000-foot

28:35

summit. Some have attempted

28:37

to withstand the summit's sub-zero temperatures

28:39

in shorts and flimsy

28:41

sandals. Starting today, only

28:44

4,000 people a

28:46

day will be permitted onto the

28:48

Yoshida Trail, Mount Fuji's most popular

28:50

path. And a gate halfway

28:52

up will close after 4pm. It's

28:55

aimed at turning away those who try

28:57

to hike overnight to reach the peak

28:59

at sunrise, the same group

29:02

that often require the most emergency

29:04

medical attention. Our Asia

29:06

Pacific regional editor Celia Hatton. A

29:09

corner of southwest London is the focus

29:11

of tennis fans today as the Wimbledon

29:13

Championships gets underway. There's been plenty of

29:16

talk of a changing of the guard

29:18

in men's tennis recently and this year

29:20

could mark the final appearances of the

29:22

likes of former champions Novak Djokovic and

29:25

Andy Murray. Djokovic has just had knee

29:27

surgery but is well known for battling

29:29

through physical setbacks. What doesn't

29:31

change from year to year is

29:33

the famous queue. Many people camped

29:35

out overnight to secure tickets. Our

29:37

reporter Olly Samuels spoke to some of them. We

29:40

got here Friday afternoon. And

29:43

what number, dare I ask, are you in the

29:45

queue? We are four and five. It's

29:48

incredible and where have you come from? We come from

29:50

Houston, Texas. And what is

29:52

it about Wimbledon that is so special? It's

29:56

the Mecca of Tennis. It's the most beautiful

29:58

tournament. It's the origin of it. at

30:00

all. It's the beauty, the great

30:02

tennis, the great people, the camaraderie

30:05

that's out here in the queue,

30:07

everything is just the atmosphere is

30:09

phenomenal. Well, our reporter in Wimbledon itself

30:11

is Shabnam Eunice Jewell. So given that

30:14

talk of a change in the guard,

30:16

do things feel different this year? I'm

30:19

at Centre Court right now and

30:21

yeah, it does, particularly in the

30:23

men's game, as you mentioned, because

30:26

those big names aren't really there anymore

30:28

and there are doubts over the two

30:30

that are remaining, Novak Djokovic and Andy

30:33

Murray, whether they're even going to play

30:35

in, whether it's the last one. We've

30:37

got all eyes today on Carlos Alcaraf.

30:39

He is the big new thing, isn't

30:42

he? The Spaniard only 21 years old

30:44

and has won three majors already. He's

30:46

come in as defending champion, a really

30:49

special year for him this and just

30:51

off the back of winning the French

30:53

Open as well. So looking for back

30:55

to back wins here. I think his

30:57

name is on many people's lips and

30:59

as well as Janik Sineb, the new

31:02

world number one. He's on

31:04

court number one today and another

31:06

name that I think many people

31:08

are looking forward to watching and

31:10

those two, I think, are developing

31:13

into rivals, into two very exciting players

31:15

and they're the ones that are taking

31:17

over now, I think, which happens in

31:20

every generation of every sport, new players

31:22

come in and they take over and

31:24

they become those icons

31:26

of the sport. So yeah, definitely in

31:28

the men's game that's happening. So

31:31

the big stories today with Murray

31:33

and Djokovic, which Djokovic has said, even though he

31:35

had that knee surgery that he is going to

31:38

be playing and he wants to be considered one

31:40

of the favorites, still you can never knock that

31:42

determination and fighting spirit that he has. It's almost

31:44

a stubbornness, isn't it? And if he won a

31:46

record equalling eighth title this year, that would be

31:48

his biggest achievement yet. On Andy Murray, well, we've

31:50

got to wait to find out whether he's going

31:52

to play in the singles. He's fighting to be

31:54

fit. He had back surgery recently, which has spoiled

31:57

his plans for Wimbledon a little bit. And he

31:59

said he's going to be a big player. to

32:01

decide later today whether he'll play his singles match

32:03

tomorrow. He might just play in the

32:05

doubles, it'll give him a bit more time to recover.

32:08

He might play with his brother. Yeah,

32:10

this could be his farewell, well it most likely

32:13

is his farewell Wimbledon and he wants that opportunity

32:15

to play it one more time out there. So

32:17

yeah, this could possibly be your last chance to

32:19

see those two big names this year. In

32:21

the women's game, we got used to

32:24

the dominance of the Williams sisters

32:26

for many years in Wimbledon. Who

32:28

should we look out for this year? Yeah, it's

32:30

definitely a lot more open in the

32:32

women's game. We've had brand new winners

32:34

for the last six years since the

32:37

dominance of the Williams sisters. So you've

32:39

got a few players you can look

32:41

at. We had the first unseeded player

32:43

to win last year, Marquette of Androževo,

32:45

of the Czech Republic coming in again.

32:48

We've got Coco Gólf. She

32:50

is of course a prodigy here since she beat

32:52

Venus Williams at the age of 15 five

32:55

years ago. She'll be one of the favourites

32:57

this year. On Žebaž, we call her the

33:00

Minister of Happiness. We've had tears from her. She

33:02

could be another favourite here this year as well.

33:04

And then of course we've got the world number

33:06

one, Iga Šwantek. Not done to good

33:08

owner and gras before, but let's see how she does.

33:10

Now let's end on a story that

33:13

brought a smile to some people this

33:15

weekend with the European Football Championships

33:17

in full swing. Some music fans at

33:19

the UK's largest festival, Glastonbury, didn't

33:22

want to miss out on watching the

33:24

game between England and Slovakia. And a

33:26

surprise helper came to their rescue, none

33:28

other than Louis Tomlinson, one of the stars

33:31

of the pop band One Direction. He managed

33:33

to get a flat screen that he bought

33:35

the same day, took it to the festival

33:37

area and made sure that at least

33:39

one group of people could enjoy, if that's

33:41

the right word, watching England. Our culture

33:44

and media editor Katie Raszell caught up

33:46

with a pop star by the makeshift

33:48

setup. You are the god of

33:50

this festival because football wasn't officially on anywhere

33:52

but you sorted it out. How did you

33:54

do that? It was a little bit, well

33:56

we brought a TV in, very glassed out

33:58

in some like, stock. and a little stand.

34:01

It was a little bit touch and go at

34:03

times because the signal kept going in and out

34:05

but luckily we got the wind, we pulled it

34:07

off. Well done. Yeah,

34:09

a little bit touch and go

34:11

rather like England's performance but fortunately the

34:14

country was rescued by that acrobatic goal

34:16

from Jude Bellingham. And

34:20

that is all from us for now but

34:22

the Global News Podcast will be back very

34:25

soon. This edition was mixed by Tom Bartlett

34:27

and produced by Stephanie Zachressen. Our editors, Karen

34:29

Martin, I'm Oliver Conway. Until next time, goodbye.

34:59

That should be cut off. I'm John

35:01

Legend. Listen to Afghan Star

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