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super bowl 58 is just around the corner — we're in las vegas for all the build—up as the chiefs take on the 49ers. and we hear from harry kane on his great start at bayern munich and the work his foundation is doing for children's mental health. hello there and welcome along to the programme. plenty to come, but we start with football, and the draw for the european nations league has been taking place in paris. for the first time, scotland are in the top tier and they have matches against croatia, portugal and poland to look forward to in group a1. england were relegated from group a last year. they're in bz and they'll play the republic of ireland, greece and finland. wales are also
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in the second tier and have iceland, montenegro and turkey in b4. northern ireland are a division below and will face luxembourg, bulgaria and belarus. the group matches will be played across september, october and november. let's get some more reaction now from all the home nations�* managers, starting with scotland's steve clarke. it's a tough one, but we knew that anyway. listen, it was the first time in the top group. well, obviously still a bit of a hangover for us from being in this league. so that's the first thing, we have to try to get ourselves back up into that league a. i think it's a positive group. i really do. we're quite pleased with it. i think we know. all about turkey, we're off the back of . playing them recently. i thought the whole _ performance was was very good. we've got a very, very young squad at the minute and this will give them an opportunity, i think, to win games, give them more experience and, you know, help us develop the team further. we expected difficult opponents. that's what we've got. but that's what we wanted. i'm always a great believer, if you want to improve, you have to play
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against the best teams. in terms of the games, there are some good quality games, and of course a couple of teams that we haven't played for quite a while and there have been some memorable games against some of those teams as well in the past. well, in terms of the other groups in league a — italy, belgium, france and israel line up in group a2, then it's the netherlands, hungary, germany and bosnia—herzegovina in a3. and finally, spain, denmark, switzerland and serbia are in all. well, staying with uefa, their president, alexander ceferin, has made the surprise decision to step down in three years' time. at the annual congress on thursday, a motion was passed that allowed him to stand for a fourth term. the english fa voted against that, but he says he made the decision to stand down six months ago. football's lawmakers, the international football association board, are set to trial sin—binning players and issuing blue cards. sin bins have been used at
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grassroots level for dissent. the premier league has already ruled out being part of the initial roll—outs, with fifa saying reports of blue cards at elite level are incorrect and premature. some managers feel the idea could really help officials. we need to help the referees. the referees are part of the game and i think there are aspects that we can use in ways to make sure that the games are longer, make sure that we play a lot longer than we're doing now and then, that we give clarity to the fans of how to use the var, because more than anything is how we can use now the tools for the referees. and that's part of those decisions that you are mentioning. i think it's a positive move. now, for the first time in more than four years, england have named an unchanged side for their six nations clash with wales this weekend. the only change to the squad sees prop ellis genge return from a foot injury to replace beno obano on the bench. earlier we spoke to captain jamie george, who said he is going to be very emotional leading the team out
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at twickenham on saturday. i think it's special that it's wales. my uncle is going to be sat in the crowd and probably my earliest memory is he loved watching that england—wales game, he's a very passionate england fan and you know, i think for me, being at twickenham, singing the anthem, walking out, as you know, that walk—out is going to be a very emotional situation for me. i'm quite an emotional bloke as it is. so, very, very specialtimes, mate. and scotland have made three changes for the visit of france to murrayfield, all in the forwards. co—captain rory darge has recovered from a knee injury to start in the back row. injuries also see grant gilchrist and jack dempsey recalled. all the players are very aware of what they're capable of, the game plan they like to go to and the opportunities that we have — we've had some cracking games with them in the last 12 months and we'll have to be at our best level physically — defence, contact area,
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because they've got a lot ofjacklers in their team. to fi next, and silverstone has extended its deal to stage the british grand prix until 203a. its previous deal expired this year, but the ten—year extension puts it on par with circuits in austria, canada and australia in committing long term to formula one well into the next decade. to tennis now and hubert hurkacz is through to the quarterfinals of the open 13 tournament in marseille. he beat alexander shevchenko in straight sets to set up a last eight meeting with thomas macac on friday. wins also on thursday for grigor dimitrov, alejandro davidovich fokina, and zhang zhizhen. meanwhile, spain's cristina bucsa beat britain's heather watson in straight sets to reach the quarterfinals of the abu dhabi open. she'll play top seed elena rybakina for a place in the semifinals. well, let's continue now on the countdown to super bowl 58. sunday's climax to the nfl season between the kansas city chiefs and the san francisco 49ers. here's nesta mcgregor
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with all you need to know. the super bowl is here again, and for the first time ever, it's in las vegas. so what can we expect? well, here's super bowl 58 in 58 seconds. superstar quarterback patrick mahomes and the kansas city chiefs are trying to win back—to—back titles. shaping up to be a pretty good sunday. as for the san francisco 49ers, they are being led by a quarterback nicknamed mr irrelevant. you see, brock purdy was picked last in the 2022 nfl draft. the chances he'd even make the team were slim. now he's on the brink of super bowl immortality. it's all happening at the second most expensive stadium in the world, the allegiant stadium. obviously, tickets aren't cheap. most are selling for around £5,000. these aren't bad seats. check out the view. this year, the half—time show
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will be performed by usher with an expected global audience of well over 50 million people watching. so that's it in under a minute. right, i wonder what else there is to do in vegas. plenty of things to do there, nesta. finally, back to football and bayern munich have a huge match at the weekend. they can go top of the bundesliga with victory at unbeaten leverkusen, who are the league leaders. england captain harry kane is bayern�*s top scorer with an incredible 28 goals so far. kane's been speaking to students in the uk for children's mental health week about physical and mental resilience. our reporter alex howell went to meet him in munich. welcome to munich, the home of beer, bayern and england's all time leading goal—scorer. cheers, harry, good to see you again. good to see you, too. now settled in his new city, harry kane tells the bbc how happy he is with his start in germany. when i made the move, i was excited by it
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but of course a little bit nervous as well on how it was going to go. so i've been really proud with the way i've started. now i've got my wife and kids here since the new year. you know, they're settled in school, they're doing really well. got 2a goals to level with lewandowski and gerd muller, a couple of bayern munich legends. things couldn't be any better, could they? extremely proud to have those sort of records. it's not something i set out to do at the start, but once you hear about them and once people are talking about them, it of course means you're doing something really well. i'm hoping i can even improve from the first half of the season. for all his success on the pitch, harry kane cares as much about matters off it. how are you doing? you ok? the england captain's foundation has partnered up with mental health charity bounce forward. what would harry definitely do before he started? awarm—up. providing 17 schools across england with lesson plans and resources to nurture physical and mental resilience. being a father, i look at their future and the world they're coming into.
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and of course, with social media and a lot of online stuff nowadays, mental health is a really big thing and it's important to be able to talk about your feelings and what you're going through. so when i was younger, being released from one club and having to have setbacks like that, i had to show a lot of strength, a lot of self—belief, a lot of resilience in those moments. kane has had to show those qualities over the last few years, with disappointment for england at the last two major tournaments, something he believes can change. we come so close in the last euros, you know, we've definitely got that bit between our teeth to try and go that one step further. but as always, as we've seen, it's hard to win major tournaments on the international stage. but we're in a good place. probably more of an expectation this year to go far. and i know the fans will be excited come the summer. with domestic, personal and international accolades up for grabs,
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kane is hoping lifting a trophy here will be the start of a year to remember. alex howell, bbc news, munich. and there we go, that is just about it from us for now. you can, of course, get all the latest sports news from the usual places, which are the bbc sports app orfrom our website, and that is bbc.com/sport. but from me and the rest of the team here on sportsday, thanks very much indeed for watching and we'll see you again next time. hello there. a wide range of temperatures on thursday with mild air towards the south, much colder feeling air further north. there was some snow, particularly over the peak district and over the pennines too — here's hebden bridge in west yorkshire. most of the snow came over the high ground. but misty, mild
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conditions further south. plenty of heavy rain, too. you can see that on the radar picturejust piling into the south of england and south wales earlier on through the night. lots of flood alerts in place here. there's the snowfall further north, most of it over the higher ground, but some of the snow towards the south just turning back to sleet and then to rain with that milder feeling air. but still the risk of some travel disruption as we head into friday with an ice risk from northern england northwards and still some falling snow over the very highest peaks as well. the snow riskjust transferring into central southern areas of scotland, too, and some brisk easterly winds. so perhaps some more problems over the higher routes in particular with drifting snow. this is how we're starting off the day on friday. a range of temperatures — below freezing in scotland, but very mild in the south. now as we head through friday, that warm front continues to push its way further northwards, just dragging in the milderfeeling air. still very brisk easterly winds blowing across eastern scotland, northeast england. this should be falling as rain. but across the grampians
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and the highlands, we're likely to see some accumulations of snow, even to low levels from the central belt northwards, but it will turn back to rain. some early wintriness too perhaps across northern ireland. once more, quite a wide range of temperatures — between 4 and 13 degrees celsius as we go through the afternoon, and still maybe a bit of wintriness, particularly across caithness and sutherland and across shetland as we head through saturday. now, there will be a lot of dry weather on saturday, but low pressure is close by and there will be some showers, maybe some heavier rainfall across the far south—east of england a little later on through the day. but coming back up into that milderfeeling air, so most of our temperatures will be between 6 and 11 degrees celsius. still double figures in the south. watch out for some heavy rain again across northeastern areas of scotland as we head through sunday. but it will be falling as rain. the air now a lot milder, some scattered showers elsewhere, along with some spells of brightness. and by the time we get to the end of the weekend, those winds, brisk in the north, will have eased down somewhat, maybe turning more settled
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into the start of next week with high pressure building in.
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live from washington. this is bbc news.
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