who's through, who's out, and who's lost theirjob? we'll have the latest from the africa cup of nations. and we hear from both captains as india and england prepare for their five test series. welcome to the programme. we now know our finalists for the english league cup. liverpool will play chelsea at wembley next month after beating fulham across two legs in the semifinal. it finished 1—1 on the night at craven cottage after goals from luiz diaz and fulham's issa diop, but liverpool

were leading after the first leg and won 3—2 on aggregate. they will now fight for their first piece of silverware this season. it feels great, we are really happy. everyone was really happy, the boys won, they got it. so now we have ten games to play until the final in four weeks, so a few games coming up before that, but we're looking forward it, definitely. it wasjust a good cup game, so we expected tonight to show quality and to get through, and the other side does not understand the game or the importance of location because both teams want to go to wembley, and we qualified and that's all we could wish for. in spain, barcelona are out of the copa del rey, after a 4—2 defeat to athletic bilbao in the quarter finals. it started badly for barca, who went behind after just 35 seconds. the spanish champions then threw away a 2—1 lead to draw 2—2, taking the match

to extra time. athletic�*s iniaki williams scored and then his brother nico got a fourth to take them to the semi final. we're at the business end of the africa cup of nations after the final round of group games. mali, south africa and namibia all sealed their qualification for the last 16. morocco will qualify as winners of group f and democratic republic of congo have also gone through after drawing with tanzania. the hosts ivory coast have qualified by the skin of their teeth, but they've sacked their coach, and that's been a bit of a trend at the tournament. ian williams is in korhogo in ivory coast and has been following developments. to have a manager sacked in the tournament, the ivory coast manager,

we heard that news earlier today. his side had a chance of going through to the last 16 as one of the best third—place sides, and eventually they did and scraped through of the fourth of those third—place sides. but he will not be in charge now as the hosts try and make their way through. they have a tough second round game up against the holders, senegal. chris hughton, the former manager, has gone away and he wasted no time in dispensing with his services last night once they knew they could not make it through as one of the best third—place sides. hughton has been in charge for less than one year, and i'm sure he will be absolutely devastated. i spoke to him about it a year ago about his pride of taking on thatjob. and we've also had the cambia manager stand down. we had the tunisia boss here at the stadium, basically immediately after tunisia was knocked out, he went. the 2019 algeria winner, his side finishing bottom of the group here, and also the last cup of nations

in cameroon two years ago, so he went less than 2a hours after that. it's notjust with people leaving theirjobs, because we've also had suspensions. tanzania played here in the last game that i watched and they do not have their coach with them. he's been suspended for eight games by organisers to the confederation of african football for essentially claiming that morocco get preferential treatment. we've also heard tonight that the morocco coach has been banned for four games, two suspended, after his role in the moroccan game, after the game against the democratic republic of congo. so you've never seen anything like it, it's totally bizarre. ian williams there in ivory coast. let's go back to england, where chelsea women are through to the quarter finals of the champions league after beating real madrid at stamford bridge. guro reiten put the home side ahead with a penalty, before real equalised, but chelsea regained the lead through an erin cuthbert goal on 70 minutes. it ended 2—1 and chelsea finish top of the group.

at the asian cup, japan eased to a 3—1 win over indonesia on wednesday, as the four—times champions confirmed their place in the last 16 as runners—up in group d. iraq finished with a 100% record and topped that group after a dramatic stoppage time penalty from striker aymen hussein gave them a 3—2 win over vietnam. iraq finished three points ahead ofjapan, after their convincing win over indonesia. england and india are preparing to start their five match test series in hyderabad, with england chosing three spinners in their team. india haven't lost a test series at home since 2012, when england beat them, so ben stokes is aware that winning this series won't be straightforward. i just think any team who comes to india, it is always a tough challenge.

india are a beast in home conditions, there is no doubt about that, we understand that as a team and we respect that as a team as well. but that presents us with an opportunity and this team loves opportunities. by no means, whatever record we have in the past decade or so, it also gives us the guarantee that we will come out on top. we still have to play our best cricket, good cricket, that we know that we play in these conditions. england obviously is a very good team. they play their test cricket really well. obviously, the last team to beat us here in our conditions was england. let's travel to the united states of america now. kansas city chiefs quarterback patrick mahomes says

lamarjackson should be named the nfl�*s most valuable player ahead of the chiefs meeting jackson's baltimore ravens in the afc championship game on sunday. mahomes will be hoping jackson has a bad day in order to reach the super bowl, but was full of praise for his opponent ahead of the game. he is the mvp for a reason. he goes out and leads his team and he scores, he runs and throws, does whatever it takes to win and that is what the greats do. great challange for our defence and also offence going against their defence so that will take a full team effort to get a win. i don't like competing against him at all. but he is a great quarterback. definitely a hall of famer, it's a no—brainer. definitely a hall of famer. i think it is two upcoming greats going toe—to—toe, like a heavyweight fight. a heavyweight matchup. that is what i see. nice bit of honesty there.

former england and real madrid striker michael owen says he would "swap eyes" with his son if it was possible to help the teenager see again. james owen, who's now 17, was diagnosed with stargardt disease, a degenerative eye condition, when he was eight. the father and son are about to release their first documentary — football is for everyone — exploring james�*s sight loss and an adapted version of football called futsal. they've both been speaking to the bbc access all podcast. i'm obviously desperate, desperate, i mean, iwould pay every cent that i've got to make james see again. i would walk the other end of the world. it's very difficult, you want to take all the pain away, you want to swap with him. if i could give him my eyes, i would tomorrow, of course. but again, you can mope all your life, i get tired of thinking about it and, you know, thinking what if and all the rest of that. he isjust mentally

very, very strong. he's positive about things. he's got a great mindset. and, you know, his condition won't stop him. that's an excuse. it'sjust kind of something i live with, i've got normal mates, i do normal things with my mates. sometimes i have different ways of getting around it. in his mind and in my mind, we have worked on the theory over time that, yes, you have been dealt a bad hand, yes, there are things that you can't do that you would love to do, however, what are we going to do? are we going to sit here and cry all our lives? or are we going to make the best of that? and he has been taking the bull by the horns. he will make a positive note of his life. you can listen to that in full on bbc sounds.

i have no doubt that the former liverpool player will have been keeping across our top story. a reminder of our top story — liverpool are through to the english league cup final after beating fulham 3—2 on aggregate. it was 1—1 on the night. liverpool went into the match with the lead. they will play chelsea at wembley in next month's final. don't forget — you can get all the latest from the australian open over on our website — that's bbc.com/sport. but from me and the rest of the sportsday team, bye for now. hello. after two bouts of stormy weather so far this week, things are looking quite a lot calmer over the next few days. not completely plain sailing, there will still be some rain at times. it'll be breezy, but less windy and mostly fairly mild. now for thursday, we've got this frontal system pushing its way northwards and eastwards.

this warm front, introducing cloud, introducing some outbreaks of mostly quite patchy rain, but this wedge of milder air flooding northeastwards across the uk. so, for most, a mild start to thursday. still a little bit chilly in the north of scotland. here, though, we will see some early sunshine, but generally speaking, lots of cloud, some mist and murk, farquharson hills, some splashes of rain, a few brighter glimpses. and i think particularly in northern ireland, maybe the northwest of scotland, we will see a little bit of sunshine as we head through the afternoon. but those temperatures 9 to 13 degrees above what we'd expect at this time of year. now, during thursday night, we will see this band of rain sweeping its way eastwards. there's a short, sharp burst of heavy rain and some quite squally winds. clear skies following on behind. and while it will stay mild across the southeast corner, it will start to feel a little bit chillier further north and west because this weather front here pushing its way eastwards is a cold front. it will introduce for a time at least some colder air, but with a little ridge of high pressure toppling through, some spells of sunshine

on friday. now there will be some showers, particularly in scotland, some of these wintry down to, say, 100—200 metres for a time, although those snow levels coming up through the day as the air turns a little bit less chilly. temperatures in single digits for just about all of us on friday afternoon. but that slightly chillier weather will not last long because as we head into the weekend, mild air is going to surge northwards once again. we're expecting some pretty high temperatures, a lot of dry weather for the weekend as well. this is saturday's forecast — tome spells of sunshine. the further north and west you are, more cloud and some outbreaks of rain, some quite heavy rain actually in parts of northwest scotland. 7 degrees for lerwick. 10 for london and for plymouth. but as we get into sunday, those temperatures will be a little bit higher. we will see some spells of sunshine, i think most places dry again, some rain in the northwest of scotland, maybe western parts of northern ireland, but highs of 12 or 13 degrees.

live from washington, this is bbc news. claims and counter—claims as russia and ukraine trade blame for the downing of a militaryjet carrying ukrainian prisoners. the un says shells hit a crowded facility in gaza that housed displaced palestinians. at least nine people

were killed. plus, the tempest in a tea cup. how one professor's suggestion of adding salt to your daily brew has purists up in arms. hello, i'm azadeh moshiri. the united nations security council will meet on thursday to discuss moscow's charges that ukrainian forces shot down a russian transport military plane, killing everyone on board. russia has said ukrainian prisoners of war were being flown for a prisoner exchange. the bbc verified this video showing the moment of the crash. you can see the aircraft in the distance falling through the sky. the crash took place in russia's southern belgorod region, which lies along its border with eastern ukraine. the ukrainian authorities said the prisoner exchange was due to take place on wednesday, and that it's now been cancelled.

none of the details surrounding those on board