内容摘要：Sanam, who lost her mother, said: "I appeal to both governments - if you're heading into war, at least secure your civilians. Prepare... Those who sit in comfort and demand war - they should be sent to the borders. Let them witness what it really means. Let them lose someone before their eyes."

Sanam, who lost her mother, said: "I appeal to both governments - if you're heading into war, at least secure your civilians. Prepare... Those who sit in comfort and demand war - they should be sent to the borders. Let them witness what it really means. Let them lose someone before their eyes."

Iga Swiatek is the three-time defending champion in the women's singles, beating Jasmine Paolini in last year's final.Swiatek has won four of the past five Roland Garros women's singles titles.

The total prize money for the French Open is is 56.352m euros (£47.5m) - an increase on last year of 5.21%.The men's and women's singles champions will win 2.55m euros, with the runner-up taking home a cheque for 1.275m euros.World number one Jannik Sinner and second-ranked Alcaraz are the favourites on the men's side.

The two, who cannot meet until the final because of their seedings, recently contested the Italian Open final,Novak Djokovic, a three-time champion in Paris, will continue his bid for a record 25th Grand Slam singles title, but the Serb has struggled for form this year.

Last year's runner-up Zverev and two-time finalist Casper Ruud should also be in contention.

In the women's draw, Swiatek has been the heavy favourite, but arrives this year on the back of a mixed clay-court swing.Could the solution be for BBC iPlayer, which has been built with public money, to become the portal for the other British public service media content, too? It would be a single place where viewers could find ITV's The Chase, Channel 4's The Great British Bake Off and Channel 5 News, alongside BBC's The Traitors. This was one idea suggested to me by multiple TV insiders. "One big streamer under iPlayer", as one TV executive described it to me, "a modern public service streaming service".

Part of their argument is that it's the fastest growing streaming service in the UK – and the only existing platform of plausible scale to compete.With political support and the right deal, ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 could potentially get behind sharing tech (after all, the streaming service Freely, which launched last year, already hosts their content with the BBC's and others).

But the idea of branding this all under the BBC iPlayer is – unsurprisingly – not something that commercial broadcasters would likely entertain, according to conversations I've had.Lord Hall believes, "It could be branded differently... It would be a very good step."