hello! after nearly a year away from tennis, rafa nadal has marked his singles return in style with a very convincing win in the opening round of the brisbane international. nadal hadn't competed since suffering a hip injury at the 2023 australian open last january and had to undergo surgery to address the issue injune, but there were no signs of rustiness as he eased past dominic thiem — winning 7—5, 6—1, at 37 years old as well. today is honestly an emotional and important day for me. after probably one of the toughest years of my tennis career without a doubt. to have the chance to come back after a year and play in front of an amazing crowd...

cheering and play i think at a very positive level, on the first day, i think it's something that will probably make us feel proud. an impressive comeback performance too from emma raducanu. after 259 days out with injury, she won her first round match in auckland against the romanian elena—gabriela ruse by three sets in a match that lasted two and a half hours. our tennis correspondent russell fuller was watching. she won a very tight match after twice serving for it at 5—2 in the third set, only to have her serve broken twice, she managed to win that deciding set 7—5 and she was on court 2.5 hours and she served pretty well for much of the match and it was a very encouraging return for a woman who used to be the british number one but returns at 301 in the world rankings after nearly nine months out.

to football — and wayne rooney's time as birmingham city manager is over — afterjust 83 days. he's been sacked afterjust 15 games in charge, following a dismal run of form. birmingham were in the top six when rooney took over but after just two wins since then, the club are down to 20th and just six points off the relegation zone. now, the build up to david warner's final test for australia before retiring has been overshadowed after his cap was stolen from his luggage while he was travelling to sydney ahead of the third and final test against pakistan on wednesday. warner released the following video on social media — in attempt to get his baggy green cap returned. unfortunately, someone has taken my backpack out of my actual luggage which had my backpack and my girls does not present in there. inside this backpack was my baggy green. it is sentimental to me and it is something i would love

to have back in my hands this week. if it is the backpack you really wanted, i have spare one here. you won't get into trouble. please reach out to cricket australia or to me. i'm happy to give this to you in return for my baggy green. and he may only be 16, but luke littler is a man in a confident mood ahead of a crucial night in london. the teenager is back on the oche for the semi finals of the world darts championship — where he'll take on fellow englishman rob cross in the final four. littler has already won £100,000 in prize money and is now the favourite to win the title. i know that i am in good form and i think i can go all the way now. and that's all the sport for now.

the skull of a huge and ferocious sea monster is going on display to the public today in a museum on the south coast of england. it's a pliosaur — this is an artistic recreation of what it might have looked like. it lived more than 100 million years ago — and its fossil was found in what's known as thejurassic coast of dorset. our science editor, rebecca morelle, is at the etches collection museum for us. are you ready to get up close and personal with one of the most fearsome predators the planet has ever seen? this is a colossal fossil. it's the skull of a sea creature called a pliosar. so it is two metres long, absolutely enormous. and you can see its hugejaws. i mean, it's a bit like a crocodile on steroids and they are packed with dozens of these razor sharp teeth. this would have been a killing machine. it would have eaten anything it got its jaws into and probably killed it off with a single bite. now, it lived 150 million years ago,

about the same time that dinosaurs were roaming the land. this thing would have been terrorising the ocean. and it is a beautifully preserved fossil. so the snout of it, the tip of its nose, was found by a fossil enthusiast who was walking along a bay in dorset. and he discovered that. and then he told steve, whose museum this is now in, about it, who then realised that the rest of its skull, the rest of this enormous skull was in a cliff. so the team excavated it, dangling from ropes halfway down a crumbling cliff face to get this thing out. then it took about ten months to actually prepare it to get rid of all the clay and dirt around it until finally this beautiful fossil emerged. now it's such a fantastically preserved specimen, and scientists think it's also perhaps a species that's new to science, too. but there might be a bit more of this beast to come because the team thinks the rest of its body, which is

about another ten metres. so this thing would have been the size of a double decker bus. they think it may still be buried in the cliffs here and they do want to get it out. the only thing is, if they do excavate it, they're going to have to probably build an extension to the museum to put it in because this thing will be so enormous. but it's going on public display here today in dorset. so get a chance to get up close and personal with this absolute monster of the ancient seas. prisoners in scotland's barlinnie prison in glasgow have been given the opportunity to make their own rap records while still behind bars. they were paired up with a hip hop tutor and a record producer as part of a rehabilitation programme. our entertainment correspondent, colin paterson, visited barlinnie to hear their tracks. # hate these streets # but at the same time i love these streets...# the sound of hip—hop made in barlinnie, scotland's largest prison, which

once held the lockerbie bomber. for the last two months, for the first time, there have been workshops to encourage the prisoners to rap. this is b hall, where 279 prisoners are held, a mixture of those who've been convicted and those who are on remand. we're going to go up to the second level and meet bernie in his cell. this is bernie's track, which is playing. he's 32 and from govan in glasgow and ended up in barlinnie on boxing day just over a year ago. hello. hiya. what's your name? i'm colin. colin, i'm bernie. is this your cell? aye, aye. how many hours a day spend in here? well, normally it would be 23 years a day. i've done everything. i've been a bad boy, and i've also been a good person. but i've done a lot. i was running about breaking into businesses to fund my habit. shoplifting and all that kind of stuff. things i would never normally do. that isn't me as a person.

but obviously actually that's where taking hard drugs took me. # i remember the day you were born, the moment you came...# in his early 20s, bernie was part of the local music scene. his tracks were played on community radio. now these hip hop classes are providing him with an outlet. people like to see people getting punished. we are getting punished. we are in our cells. what do these workshops do for you? it has helped me get back to my normal self and better. i'm trying to be a better person than i have ever been. it's definitely been a positive experience. musician becky wallace has been running the sessions which have been funded by creative scotland. my hope is that it achieves, for some of the guys at least, that it might be the first chance they've had to be vulnerable in a safe space. there are some people at home thinking, why on earth are people being given the chance to make music when they're in prison? if they are continuing to make the same mistakes

overand overagain and coming back in here, then why not try something new? # i'm living my life and it's time to move on...# and one of the prisoners willing to try something new is robert, who is 29 and from kilmarnock. he's determined to try and break his cycle of repeat offending. usually when i go a prison i have no real hit, nothing to focus on. this is what i like doing. it gives me something to look forward to, writing music. it is something i'm going to follow up on when i get out. it's given me a chance. stop you reoffending? aye, 100%, aye. and continuing to work with prisoners once they are released is all part of the plan. conviction records is scotland's first record label for ex—offenders. it is about confidence, self—esteem and dignity and people believing in you. the workshops are part of a larger picture. they give people in prison something to look forward to. and i always say that poverty

of hope is the worst form of destitution. the finale of the course was a small showcase where their tracks were played in front of other prisoners and guards. and it was clearjust how much this chance to share their music meant to them. i have high hopes, you know what i mean? it has gave me hope, man, so it has. this time in prison has turned into a positive — this just says they have completed the course. i applause and the workshops will be back in 2024, with a difference. after hip—hop, next time it will be the turn of folk music. colin paterson, bbc news, barlinnie, glasgow. we are expecting a news conference from tokyo injapan, this is after those two planes collided in which 379 people did evacuate that japan

airlines plane safely. five crew on airlines plane safely. five crew on a smaller plane did die, though. stay with us. hello. storm henk continues its weight, bringing heavy rain exacerbating the risk of flooding and also very strong winds. a met office amber warning in place through parts of south wales and southern england to the south midlands. gusts of 60 mph or maybe more, gusts of 80 mph around exposed coast on the southern flank of this area of low pressure which is also bringing and persistent rain to many parts of england and wales, fringing in scotland and also outbreaks of rain across the northern isles turning to snow across shetlands and also gales here. through the night it will stay

quite possibly both in the north—east and in the south of the uk, much of the persistent rain clearing but plenty of showers following on behind, not a particularly cold night. and then for wednesday, low pressure still very much in charge of the scene, so plenty of isobars on the chart here across the south so it will stay windy up to the north—east of scotland with the winds only slowly easing through the north. a of rain and snow, some showers elsewhere with rain and equally some sunshine in between and temperatures if anything dropping back by a degree or two, north to south we are looking at between 6—11 c but just 2 degrees across shetlands. then as we go to wednesday night into thursday we see this next system running into the south—west bringing outbreaks of heavy rain, particularly across the channel islands and southern counties of england and it may be that the rain just edges a little bit further north than this. elsewhere, sunny spells, scattered showers, not as windy by this stage and again those temperatures dropping back

just a little, 6—ioc for most of us. then a change in the weather for the end of the week, low pressure will slowly but surely loosen its grip with high pressure building from the west and also building from the east which will tend to settle things down and bring more in the way of dry weather but this will also introduce some somewhat colder air. we are not looking at anything unusual or extreme for this time of year butjust colder than it has been with those temperatures dropping back to or may be below the average for the time of year. and it could be wintry in places.

live from london. this is bbc news... japan's prime minister confirms that five coastguard crew have been killed in a collision between two planes at tokyo's haneda airport. all 379 passengers and crew managed to escape the burning japan airlines aircraft before it was engulfed by flames. ijust came here to pick up a friend and luckily they got off the flight, but they aren't able to get their bags. and it was pretty scary. like the whole airport kind of just froze. this is the scene live at haneda airport where emergency services appear to finally have the blaze under control. searching for survivors — japanese officials say at least 48 people have died and many others

are trapped beneath rubble after monday's powerful earthquake.