we start with novak djokovic — who is into his 48th grand slam singles semifinal — after knocking out america's taylor fritz in four sets at the australian open. djokovic, a ten—time winner in melbourne, saved set points in the first set — ultimately edging it on a tiebreaker. fritz, the 12th seed did level the match by taking the second set but djokovic, like he so often does, moved up the gears thereafter winning the third and fourth as he chases a record 25th grand slam singles title. this his 33rd win in a row at the australian open, he hasn't been beaten there for six years. he'll play eitherjannick sinner or andrey rublev next. i suffered a lot the first couple of sets. also due to his high quality tenants, he was serving well, staying close to the line, he was really kind of suffocating me from the back of the court. most of the

rallies i was on my back foot, it was really difficult to find the right timing, it was extremely hot while the sun was still out there. yes, physically very draining, emotionally as well. coco gauff is into the semi finals of the australian open for the first time, after battling her way past ukraine's marta kostyuk in three sets. the 19—year—old us open champion was far from her best and 5—1 down in the first set, before she fought back to win it on a tie—break. the second set was close too, with kostyuk winning the breaker to level the match. but gauff, aiming to become the first player since naomi osaka three years ago to win back—to—back majors, found her composure to see out the deciding set by 6—2.

i'm from south florida, i'm used to the heat. it is even hotter at home to be honest. i was trying to get one more game in the first set and make it competitive and one game turn to another and i was able to win without the set. in the second i gave myself the opportunity, became passive. in the third i wanted to be aggressive, hit from the court, a new five was standing she would take advantage. —— i knew ifi new five was standing she would take advantage. —— i knew if i was standing. gauff will play defending champion aryna sabalenka for a place in the final, in the last half an hour the belarussian player has beaten the former french open winner barbora krejcikova in straight sets. late drama in stoppage time at the africa cup of nations — has seen egypt squeeze through to the knockout stages and ghana almost certainly go out. there were incredible finishes to both games in group b — ghana were 2—0 up against mozambique with 90 minutes played

but conceded two goals in injury time to draw 2—2. and that meant egypt, who conceded a 99th minute equaliser against the already qualified cape verde, still made it through with a 2—2 draw. mohammed salah watched on from the sidelines. he's returning to liverpool for treatment on his hamstring injury, with egypt coach rui vitoria unhappy with the premier league club for speaking about salah's injury beforehand. translation: we learned it was a longer term injury than we first thought for salah so we had to prolong the amount of time before he could play again. before the game we didn't want to say anything, everything was in control of our excellent medical team. kevin we were going to have to travel, given the temperatures, given we were going to a different city, maybe it makes sense that salah should have a place he can go to recover as quickly as possible. we didn't want to alarm anyone, i didn't think it was right for liverpool via any

intermediary to speak about this because we had a tremendously important game to play. there are two games taking place in the asian cup right now. australia 0—0 uzbekistan and syria 0—0 india. two more matches to come later. to basketball now and an extroadinary performance from joel embiid has seen him become only the ninth player in nba history to score 70 points or more in a game. his tally of 70 for philadelphia against the san antonio spurs was a franchise record. the 133—123 win means the 76ers have now won three successive games and are third in the eastern conference. embid, the nba's most valuable player, broke the 76ers record with one minute 41 seconds

remaining and his team called a timeout to allow him to leave the game to a standing ovation at the wells fargo center in philadelphia. to be in the same conversation, that is pretty cool. i was surprised that has never been done. it was just a win. i mentioned a few times a lot of team—mates are extremely unselfish and kept giving me the ball. ijust finished it. more on the bbc sport website on that and the australian open tennis. and that's all the sport for now.

the man charged with killing three people in nottinghamshire. injune in june last year the city went to lochcarron as police tried to do with an incident, lots of roads cordoned off, public transport system at a standstill, we weren't there were three stabbings and three attempted murders that day and he

was charged a few days later. barnaby was fatally stabbed, and two more. van was stolen, attempted to run over three pedestrians in the city centre, valdo calocane. pleas were entered to not guilty for three counts of murder. but guilty to three counts of bird —— attempted murder and

manslaughter. assessments from doctors and experts lots of talking with parties involved in this case, families and the like as you would imagine. the police have been accepted. what is happening now is the prosecutor is opening the case, giving details of what happened on that terrible morning. talks about the brutality of the attacks on grace, barnaby and ian coates. some of the pedestrians, people waiting at the bus stop, waiting at the city centre, some of the attacks by the van had been caught on cctv. grayson barnaby, they had been out to student party, end of term party, on their way back home to their student accommodation in the early hours of the morning, only 200 metres from

their intended destination. we had barnaby was attacked first, grace 0 malley—kumar tried to save her o malley—kumar tried to save her friend, also got attacked. several virtues at the time in around nottingham city centre, the family immediately came out and thanked people for the good wishes. they are in there at the moment in court room one, extremely packed, the prosecution is opening the case, all the details coming out, some of them very traumatic to hear. the families, some of them have been told if they want to they can leave the courtroom because of those details being so dramatic. as the sentencing we are not sure when that will happen, whether it will start this afternoon or tomorrow but we

are expecting the case here to last two to three days.— two to three days. thank you, 10 came black- _ two to three days. thank you, 10 came black- -- _ two to three days. thank you, 10 came black. -- black. _ the storm following so hot on the heels of storm isha. 60 millimetres possible across the highlands, the southern uplands, lake district, yorkshire dales, north wales, area sensitive to the rain. once it clears the south of england, south wales, low cloud left behind, dank, murky conditions with showers in the west, look at the temperatures, 11-14, mild west, look at the temperatures, 11—14, mild for this time of year,

the wind continuing to pick up through the day. amber weather warning in force from six bentonite tel 8am tomorrow morning, within this area looking at the potential for gusts up to 80 mph, bear that in mind. overnight tonight, the rain whittles down towards the south east, the low pressure of storm jocelyn moves across scotland, the peak wind, severe gales, overnight lows, 6—8. tomorrow the wind will only slowly moderate, gales in scotland, northern england, the wind moderating over the course of the day, not easing. we will see some drizzle coming in across the south—west. temperatures down on

today, still seven to 12 or 13. this is what is bringing in the cloud and drizzle during the last part of wednesday, thursday drifting steadily northwards. thursday cloudy, low cloud around with this rain, particularly so in the west, becoming breezy if not windy, temperature wise, six in lerwick to 13 as we push further south. as we head into the latter part of the week, on friday fairly decent, gales on the north—west, beyond that changeable.

live from london, this is bbc news. the israeli military suffers its heaviest losses since it launched its ground offensive

in gaza with 2a soldiers killed. the uk and the us carry out more strikes on houthi targets in yemen. britain's foreign secretary says the latest attacks are justified. votes are cast in the new hampshire primary, where nikki haley challenges donald trump for the republican nomination. and nominations for this year's oscars will be announced shortly, with blockbusters oppenheimer and barbie expected to top the list. hello. i'm lucy hockings. welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast—moving news, interviews and reaction. it's been the deadliest day for israeli forces since the start of their ground operation in gaza. funerals are now taking place for some of the 2a soldiers killed on monday. and there's increasing pressure, internationally and from within israel, for the fighting to stop to secure the release

of the remaining 130 hostages held by hamas and to allow in more humanitarian aid.