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BBC OS: 2024/04/16 16:06 GMT: Caitlin Clark picked in WNBA draft

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Caitlin Clark picked in WNBA draft

2024/04/16 16:06 GMT

2024/04/16 16:06 GMT: Caitlin Clark picked in WNBA draft

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Women's college basketball superstar Caitlin Clark has been drafted into the pro league

Women's college basketball superstar Caitlin Clark has been drafted into the pro league.

We get more insights into where women's basketball is heading, as college basketballer Caitlin Clark has been drafted for the WBNA. We hear from Emma Hruby, a journalist working for CBS sports and Mia Thrash, who used to play basketball in college for the University of Alabama.

A bill brought forward by the UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak aims to create the UK's first smoke-free generation in a major public health intervention. We hear from young people in the UK for their thoughts on the ban. Guy De Launey, the BBC's Balkans Correspondent, and Kerry Allen, the BBC's China media analyst, explains what smoking is like in the regions they cover.

We get the latest updates from our reporter as mass evacuations have been taking place in parts of northern Kazakhstan currently flooded and under water. More than a-hundred- and-ten- thousand people have left their homes.  

(Photo Caitlin Clark poses with WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert after she is selected with the number one overall pick to the Indiana Fever in the 2024 WNBA Draft at Brooklyn Academy of Music. Credit: Brad Penner-USA Today Sports )

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