nuno espirito santo is back in the premier league, can he stop forest's slide down the table? and we meet the brothers hoping to face each other at the olympics — competing for different countries. the liverpool manager jurgen klopp hailed a top performance from start to finish after reaching the league cup semi—finals. they only led 1—0 at halftime but thrashed west ham 5—1 at anfield. curtis jones scored twice after the break, there were also goals from szoboszlai, gakpo and salah. the draw for the semi—finals was made after the game and liverpool will face fulham and championship

side middlesbrough will play chelsea. the semi—finals take place across two legs next month. we'll have more football results for you in a moment but let's stay in england because a day after the club sacked steve cooper, nuno espirito santo has his feet under the desk at nottingham forest, the portuguese takes charge of his third premier league club after spells at wolves and spurs asjoe lynskey reports. they are five points above the drop zone. the man in charge hauled them up from the depths of the second—tier. this week at forest, things have changed quickly. steve cooper has been sacked and within 2a hours nuno�*s comes in. forest wants him to take them up a level. big chance. very honoured, it is a pleasure to be here at forest and be able to manage such a great club with such great history. what i expect is to help. try to transmit my knowledge

and work ethic to the players so they can become a better team. this is what we want. he arrives with reputation but with points to prove. nuno�*s rise came in four years at wolves where he brought them up and steadied them. they finished seventh twice and reached an fa cup semi—final. but that bond with the club neverformed in his nextjob. he spentjust four months at spurs where fans blamed his style of play. his lastjob was at al ittihad. and although he won the saudi league, he got the sack the next season. what a job steve cooper has done. magically, he found the survival blend. now nuno joins a club who found it hard to say goodbye. steve cooper brought an end to 23 years outside the top flight and kept them up in a season where they signed almost 30 players. for a club that has tried to spend its way to survival, to lose it all is not

an option. i don't think he is any better than cooper but time will tell. wait and see. i worry it will be another merry—go—round of managers. seemed quite settled with steve. i am pleased. i think it is going to. be good for the club. it's what the club - needs, to be honest. what steve did here was huge. getting forest back in the premier league, fantastic work. here we are trying to improve this legacy. it is amazing. cooper's time ended with one win in 13 games but may have had the biggest impact since this club's greatest coach. since the days of brian clerth, they have been to the third tier and back up again. where forest go next could come down to this change. joe lynskey bbc news. let's bring you up to date now with some of the day's football results across europe. there was an important win for barcelona as they try

and keep pace with leaders girona and second placed real madrid. their captain sergi roberto scored twice including the winner inside the last 10 minutes as they beat la liga's bottom side almeria 3—2. that moves them up to third, six points off the top. athletic bilbao are still fifth following a 1—0 win over las palmas. celta vigo remain in the relegation zone after losing 3—2 at villareal. we've had the last round of fixtures in the bundesliga before the winter break. leaders bayer leverkusen made sure they are still four points clear, patrick schick scored a first half hat—trick in their 4—0 win over bochum. harry kane scored his 21st of the season for bayern and what proved to be the winner at wolfsburg. they are second in the table. stuttgart are up to third after beating augsburg. there was an upset in the coppa italia, the winners for the past two

seasons inter milan are out. they were beaten 2—1 by bologna at the san siro. all the goals were scored in extra time but it was bologna substitute dan ndoye who got the winner in the 116th minute to send them through to the quaterfinals. chelsea women have got their champions league campaign back on track, they won 3—1 in gothenburg against hacken to move above the swedes at the top of the group. erin cuthbert scored twice in the second half. it's not looking good for real madrid, they are bottom of that group, losing to paris fc with the french up to third. it's really tight in group c. ajax women have moved to the top after beating bayern munich 1—0. psg are up to second after winning 3—1 away to roma. we've heard from the turkish referee who was punched by a club president. halil umut meler says he doesn't remember what happened after he was

knocked to the ground. football in turkey has only just resumed after it was suspended for a week following that incident. but there was another controversial intervention, as the istanbulspor president ordered his players to leave the pitch in protest at a refereeing decision. the bbc�*s burak abatay has more. the referee did not change his decision after var control and istanbulspor�*s president withdrew his team from the pitch in protest at the refereeing decision. after that some sports players tried to persuade the president to reconsider his decision. and the trabzonspor president entered the pitch to talk with him but he did not change his decision

and the team withdrew from the game. i think many people associate this with the tense social environment in turkey. according to critics, this tension on the football pitch is a reflection of that. reflection of the tense social environment. two brothers could come up against each other at next year's paris olympics, competing for different countries. great britain'sjoe choong is the modern pentathlon olympic champion after taking gold in tokyo. his younger brother henry is hoping to represent slovakia after changing his nationality to his wife's home nation. james dunn reports. and there is the new olympic champion. crossing the line in first place after not one but five sports from riding to shooting. a year later than planned due to covid, it was an overwhelming experience.

the gratitude of everyone who helped me when i was a six—year—old starting swimming and running and all the clubs and everyone who helped me all the way through. it was an out of body experience. the experience this time, going into the games olympic champion is quite different. gone from being one of the chasers to being chased. that motivation needs to be slightly different because you have not got targets in your sight, you're trying to find new targets within yourself. his brother henry competed in the 2014 youth olympics. and this cycle, they have been training together. henry recently announced he will be leading the team in slovakia, his wife's home nation. it's a bit of project. i am hoping to inspire people to do that. i will have a better chance to qualify for the olympics with slovakia because the competition is so fierce in great britain. and i guess it will be nice to be the main man. with paris now

months away, the two brothers are considering the prospect of going head—to—head. i think we would both be really happy at the olympics facing each other. i'm sure if we were facing each other in paris we would have a bit of a smile beforehand, then get our game faces on and have a bit of laugh once i beat him. one of my next goals is to defend the title in paris. it would also mean just as much for me to compete at the olympics with henry. admittedly at the time i was not expecting to be competing for different nations. this would be henry's first olympics but it will bejoe�*s last due to issues with the sports governance. the equestrian element will be replaced with an obstacle course for the 2028 games. something organisers say will help future proof the sport. butjoe campaigned against the change and felt the athlete's concerns were ignored. disappointing experience to see how sports politics are run at the top levels. after that year i took a bit of a step back from it, i needed to get back to enjoying the sport i fell in love with in the beginning. it was quite disappointing to see and also eye—opening but for me,

i needed to go back to being an athlete as opposed to an olympics spokesperson. it is a sport that are still in transition. athletes now fix their focus on next year. it is full speed ahead on the road to paris. and that is just about it. lots more on the bbc sport app, orfrom our website, from me and the rest of the team, that's all for now. hello. the weather in the run up to christmas now is looking fairly unsettled, especially so over the next 2a hours because we've got a spell of really windy weather right across the uk. the danish met service have named storm pia. now, that's moving to the north of us, but it's going to bring really windy conditions wherever you are, especially the further north. some heavy showers in the mix, too.

and there's the potential for some significant travel disruption on thursday. so there's that area of low pressure, storm pia, heading towards denmark. lots of isobars on the map here and we've got really windy conditions for scotland, northern ireland, northern england, north wales too. even further south, it's going to be a blustery sort of day. so some heavy showers, especially towards the north and the west. a bit more sunshine returning across scotland through thursday morning. but look at the gusts of wind — 65 to 75 miles an hour, even 80 miles an hour up towards the northern isles. really windy, too, for northern ireland, the isle of man, into northern england — 50 to 60 mile per hour gusts. more around the exposed coasts and hills. windy too, but not quite as windy as further north for the likes of south wales and southern england. so cloud and patchy light rain in the south, sunshine and blustery, squally showers moving into the north. even a little bit of snow over the highest ground of scotland. temperatures just five degrees in aberdeen, but still up to around 12 down towards the london region. so we've got the mild, cloudy and fairly damp weather in the far southwest overnight. clearer skies

elsewhere as we head through into thursday morning, but then more rain returns from the west through the early hours. i think it's going to be frost—free again heading into friday morning, but the lowest temperatures will be across the northeast of the uk. so we're in the colder air there, but further towards the southwest, we've got milder air, this weather front that is the dividing line between those two air masses. heading through friday, and this area of milder air will spread its way across the uk, the winds coming in from a westerly direction. so that weather front will bring some rain initially across northern ireland, parts of england and wales, tracking its way eastwards — perhaps a little bit of snow fora time, again, over the highest ground across the north of scotland. but for most of us, it'll be rain showers and, again, temperatures between around about 5 to 12 degrees. colder than that, though, towards the northern isles. and then looking ahead towards the festive period, it's a little bit up and down, it's fairly unsettled. mild for the next few days, perhaps things a little bit colder into boxing day. bye— bye.

live from washington, this is bbc news. gaza marks a deadly milestone with 20,000 people killed according to hamas

as the un security council delays a vote on aid. in the last hour, american prisoners released by venezuela have landed back in the us — they were freed in a major prisoner swap. and the un says at least 250,000 people in sudan are now fleeing an area once considered safe as the country's civil war intensifies. i'm helena humphrey. good to have you with us. hamas says more than 20,000 people in gaza have now been killed since israel began its military campaign in response to the attacks on october 7 that killed 1,200 people. that death toll of 20,000 represents almost 1% of gaza's 2.2 million total population. and it's an average of nearly 300 people per day. hamas, which is designated a terrorist organisation by some western governments, says more than 14,000 of those

killed are women and children,