hello. welcome along to sportsday. i'm sarah mulkerrins. coming up on the program: liverpool fire four past lask to book their place in the knockout stages of the europa league. a crunch game to come at wembley and there could be a 50th cap for lauren hemp as england look to keep their olympic hopes alive on behalf of team gb. and "it's a crazy game" for ronnie o'sullivan, who says he "can't be bothered any more" with snooker, despite making the last eight at the uk championship.

you're very welcome along to sportsday, wherever you are watching around the world. let's start, then, with football as liverpool cruised into the europa league knockout stages with a match to spare as a 4—0 victory over lask confirmed their place as group winners. they fired out of the blocks and were 2—0 up inside 15 minutes, thanks for luis diaz and cody gakpo. —— minutes, thanks to luis diaz and cody gakpo. mo salah added a third from the penalty spot, before gapko made it four in stoppage time. and as toulouse didn't beat union saint—gilloise, it means liverpool cannot be caught at the top of group e. well, elsewhere, roberto de zerbi says it's a "historic day" for brighton as they beat aek athens to book their spot in the knockout phase of the europa league. the club are playing in europe for the first time in their history and joao pedro scored the only goal of the game from the penalty

spot to give them the victory. if brighton beat marseille in theirfinal group game, they would avoid the knockout play—offs stage. elsewhere, tomas soucek scored a late winner as west ham secured their place in the knockout stage at serbian side backa topola. they only need another point to avoid the playoff phase. group c leaders real betis lost at sparta prague. that had opened up the door for rangers to secure their spot in the next round if they could beat aris limassol but, as you can see there, that ended ina draw. now, aston villa have condemned the violence that left three police officers injured after legia warsaw fans were involved in clashes before their europa conference league game in birmingham. flares and missiles were thrown at police as the legia fans were held in a coach park near villa's stadium and not let in to the game. well, on the pitch, alex moreno returned from a six—month out through injury to score the winnerfor already qualified villa, who have now moved ahead of legia warsaw at the top of group e.

and you can find all the full results and details of all the action on the bbc sport website. looking to international football, where there are two rounds of games remaining in the women's nations league group stage. scotland are away to belgium and wales are at home to iceland, both of those teams looking to avoid relegation into league b. northern ireland, they're in albania. they could still secure promotion to league a via the play—offs. but for england, there is a crucial game against the netherlands at wembley. jo currie has all the details from st georges park. the lionesses find themselves in a sticky situation. they're third in their women's nations league group with two games still to play. qualification for next summer's olympic games is currently out of their own hands. they need to beat the dutch at wembley tomorrow, win away at scotland on tuesday and hope other results go their way if they're to top the group and give team gb any hope of qualifying for next summer's olympic games in

paris. however, england boss sarina wiegman says england know exactly what they need to do over this next couple of games. the game is growing, teams are getting better and while i think before teams wanted to beat england, i think that's even more, now we have done so well. and if you look at the games, i don't think we really played really, really poor and just in moments, yeah, we didn't get it over the line and then, we got some losses, which is not good. we want to do better. in football, just as in life, you have ups and downs. what we want to do is to get straight forward, go to the high again, and that's what we're going to try and do tomorrow. well, england will be without usual skipper millie bright, who's withdrawn from the squad with a knee injury. it means goalkeeper mary earps will wear the captain's armband, whereas lauren help is in line for make her 50th england cap. now, this is the first time england have played at wembley

since winning the finalissima there in april. now, obviously, no trophy on the line this time around but, arguably, olympic qualification is more important. "fifa must deliver the legacy on human rights they promised, "following the world cup in qatar" — that's according to one of the tournament's critics, lise klaveness, president of the norwegian football federation. klaveness was vocal about the issues a year ago when the world cup was taking place and has been speaking to the bbc from doha after returning to qatar to see if progress has been made. we think fifa has a bigger responsibility now to deliver on the legacy that they said they would and we expect that they will really lean into these issues. when they are supposed to deliver a report which they said they would deliver and fifa has said it would come within the end of the year and fifa, in that report, really addresses and leans into these issues going ahead. uganda have qualified for the men's t20 world cup for the first time after

a nine—wicket victory over rwanda. the win in african qualifying meant they came second in the six—team tournament. so, they willjoin namibia at the finals in the united states and the west indies. congratulations to them! ronnie o'sullivan says he "just can't be bothered any more" with snooker, despite reaching the quarterfinals of the uk championship. he beat robert milkins 6—5 to stay on course for a record—extending eighth title but afterwards, he said, "it's a crazy game. "it still torments me after 30 years. "i was just all over the show. "i haven't got a clue any more. "i don't understand how this game works. "i stunk it out today and i'll probably stink "it out tomorrow." no holding back from ronnie o'sullivan and his next match will be against shogo long.

—— match will be against zhou yuelong. higgins failed to get going in the match and zhou won it with a break of 63. zhang anda continues his remarkable season as he defeats world champion luca brecel 6—4 for him to make it into the last eight. and there, he will meet hossein vafaei, who has made it to his first uk championship quarterfinal after a 6—1 victory over matthew selt. now, in football, you often see the transition from player to manager but not really from player to referee. vance warner played in the top flight of english football and roomed with david beckham as a youth team player. but for the last 13 years, he has dedicated his time to refereeing youth games and has just won an award for it. angela rafferty has been to meet him. sunday morning, nine am. a frosty, foggy, non—league pitch — not the place you'd expect to find a former premier league player. i was asked if i wanted to become a referee to help my

son's team when he was about eight years old and, of course, isaid no. i mean, who wants to be a referee? nobody wants to — no—one grows up wanting to be a referee, as far as i'm aware. and then, i thought, "you know what? "this is a perfect opportunity where i can give back "to my son's club. "and because i've played football, maybe i've got "a little more credit or credibility when they ask "me, �*well, you know, what do you know about football, i can go, "oh, i could tell you a few "stories". vance is our referee today. so, when he makes a decision, if you don't agree with it, what don't we do? all: don't argue. vance warner has quite a few stories to tell. he played top flight football with nottingham forest in the �*90s, shared a room with david beckham as an england international but these days, he's happiest here refereeing grassroots games. presentation is immensely important. i've seen it with a predominantly diverse team and they've seen that there's a black referee and it's like, "wow, somebody who looks

like me, somebody who may "understand." brought up in the meadows as a child, vance could see the city ground from his modest home when he made his debut. it was a boyhood dream come true. every single footballer has a club story. some will tell them, some won't. but you know, it's a privileged existence to be around that man at that time where you could hear his golden retriever come down through the corridor. and then, we all used to scatter like cockroaches just in case we got asked to his garden or something. humble beginnings have helped shape him. an england youth player, little did he know that he roomed with a player who would become a global superstar. the england team, when we went to france, would have been robbie fowler, david beckham, gary neville, sol campbell, kev gordon, robbie fowler — you know, these are household names that happen to be in the set up. so, it'sjust extraordinary to see what he became and a lot of players that we played with became and made of their careers.

before you do it, remember why you are — before you do it, remember why you are doing that. try to stay upright. — you are doing that. try to stay upright, ok? a knee injury put paid to his footballing career but he was always destined to give something back to the game that he loves. he's one of a handful of former professionals refereeing at this level. he's hoping to help change perceptions. when the kids come down, you don't know what's happening at home. this could be the first part of encouragement that they've had, mejust saying, "well done. "that's a great shot". once the parents tell them that i had played in a premiership or that i had roomed of beckham, because that's somebody that they will recognise, they sort of look at me a little bit different and go, "all right, ref, ok, you have them something. "maybe i will listen to you". he's been named match official of the year this season but it's not about awards for vance, the premier league seems a lifetime away. giving back at grassroots is what he loves best. love that story. vance warner there. remember, you can get stay right up to date with all the latest sports news on the bbc sport website and the sport app. from me and the rest

of the team, have a lovely day. hello. this cold snap has brought some of the coldest november nights for 13 years and some unusual snow for devon and cornwall. now, that's all clearing out the way but there are wintry showers elsewhere and where the surface has been left damp with that rain, sleet and snow, very icy. poor visibility is going to add to the hazard as well. so, a few snow showers will continue as we go through the rest of the night. icy conditions where we've got those showers — northern ireland as well — and, ifanything, it's going to be colder than it was last night and more widely misty, murky with some freezing fog potentially through the central belt, which could linger all day, and some fog elsewhere. it'll be slow to clear. so, quite a gloomy start, a bitterly cold start and temperatures really

struggling, even with the sunshine, to rise much above three or four degrees. perhaps a few more showers for northern ireland. more sunshine for the south and west compared with what we had on thursday — but that's not going to help the temperatures, either — and there'll still be a few showers, even running down into kent and essex, as well as other eastern parts of england and scotland as well. now, it looks as if as we go through friday night and saturday, we could see a few more showers gathering on this weather system just out towards the west, so more around our irish sea coasts. further east, drier and clear but a colder night again — temperatures down to minus four, minus five in rural parts quite widely and some more mist and fog because, again, we've got a ridge of high pressure close by and the winds are very light friday night into saturday, so it is going to be slow to clear away — a gloomy start again on saturday morning. but it does look as if we'll see fewer showers for eastern parts on saturday — more so across the western side of england, wales, south—west scotland, perhaps northern ireland as well — but a colder day,

if anything, because that low cloud, that fog will really take its time to clear. a colder start to the day as well, so we've only got so much strength in the sunshine. and then, the fly in the ointment, we think, saturday night — it could be that that weather front in the west gets its act together, pushes eastwards, comes across that colder air and turns readily to snow. some potentially disruptive snow through the night saturday into sunday but there's a lot of uncertainty about the forecast for the weekend. one thing we know is it's set to stay cold and we could have some more wintry conditions overnight sunday into monday. but the outlook, really, just to show you that that cold air is with us for a while — just taking nottingham here as an example — by night, that widespread frost perhaps lifting into the middle part of next week. the warnings are online.

live from washington, this is bbc news. relief for the family of 21—year—old mia schem, after 7 weeks held by hamas. as another deadline looms to extend the truce. the us warns israel it must protect civilians in gaza, before it restarts military operations there. it is imperative that israel acts in accordance with the laws of war. day one of the cop28 climate summit in dubai brings a surprise breakthrough, as delegates from around the world discuss measures to limit the global temperature rise. and, embattled republican congressman george santos refuses to resign, as he faces another vote on removing him from office. hello, i'm sumi somaskanda.

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