the best session that we have had this year, the best car has felt this year so far so it felt really positive and i was really excited cos this is a circuit that every driver loves to drive. the last couple of years we have had a really difficult balance, a difficult car and a difficult balance to drive here, and given the difficult last few races we have had, great work has been done this past week and we seem to have hit the ground in a sweeter spot. qualifying for the women's european championship is under way and later the defending champions england start their campaign at home to sweden. sarina wiegman�*s side have a very tough group with two other of the world's top six teams in there in france and sweden. only two will go through automatically and weigman knows history will count for nothing. that was then. that was a great moment,

but we all move on. there have been lots of things happen in between that period — that time and now — and we're in a new situation now. of course, we know sweden very well — they know us very well, too. so we're preparing what we have seen lately from them, and what we want to do and how we want to play. ronda rousey says she hid "concussions and neurological injuries" from ufc�*s governing body for years during her time as bantamweight champion. the american became the first woman tojoin ufc in 2012, defending her title six times before tasting defeat in 2015 to holly holm. rousey says she finds it hard to watch that fight back and that the loss caused her to "self—assess" her career for the sake of her long—term health. it's hard looking back at footage in that match because i can see in my eyes that i am literally suffering from a neurological injury decades in the making and there is one point

that i saw, mind i don't remember any of these things, i saw that i took a wild swing and i couldn't see where she was and i completely missed and kept going into the cage and fell into the cage and all this stuff. people see that and they say this is rondo being outclassed. no, that's me with my brain not properly working. i was literally going into that match concussed, i fell down the stairs, knocked myself out, tore my acl two weeks before that fight. i was trying so hard just to block everything out and just be like you can just get through this, just get in there and do what you do and you are going to be fine. it's been revealed that the reigning tour de france winner, jonas vingegaard suffered a collapsed lung in a crash yesterday. the 27—year—old dane also broke his collarbone and several ribs on a descent on stage four of the itzulia basque country race.

his team say he's stable and had a good night and he remains in hospital. and finally — something most of us can only dream of doing. take a look at this from the first round of the texas open — jordan speith hit a hole in one on the par—three 16th. the tee shot landed some 30 yards short of the hole but bounced and rolled in much to the delight of the crowd and the man himself. a p pa re ntly apparently it was a brand—new club. that's the secret to success! that could prove _ that's the secret to success! that could prove very _ that's the secret to success! that could prove very expensive if you want a hole every time! tanya, thank you. scientists believe they've learned why asthma causes so much damage to people's bodies. their research shows cells lining the airways are squeezed to destruction during an attack. they are hoping to develop new drugs which might help break the cycle of harm caused by the condition. professorjody rosenblatt is the lead researcher of this study from king's college london. she told me why a specific aspect of the research — looking at the link between damage

to the lining of the lungs and asthma — hadn't been studied in depth before. fields getting stuck into different tracks and people are training from those same people who are training. and so i think initially people were always aware and people who suffer from asthma are very aware that the life—threatening situation is the asthma attack itself. and that's what, you know, cramps down your airways so you can't breathe and causes wheezing and also mucus secretion. but it also causes this inflammation. and so i think a lot of people turn to studying the inflammatory aspect of it. and so really the past 50 or 60 years has been focused more on anti—inflammatories, which do help quite a bit and also ways to open up the airways. but what we found is that opening up the airways alone wasn't enough. it still reached a lot of damage in these airways. and because the epithelial cells are the lining there, like the skin orfor our whole bodies,

but the skin that's around your airways, that makes a barrier between you and the outside world, having this all wounded is just no good for you over the long run. and it keeps getting wounded and wounded. and the problem is you have this, like, wound where you should have a barrier and now it's easier to get infections, colds that can spur on more asthma attacks. and then you keep getting into this vicious cycle. so you're trying to stop that from happening in the first place, to cut off that process from happening. so what's next in terms of the steps that you would take to explore whether this could be expanded out and be safe and effective for general use for asthma sufferers? right. so in the mice, we've found that we can block this by knowing this pathway that we had identified some years ago, we can block the destruction in the mice. and so now we're really poised to look at can this work in humans?

and one of the first things i'm always thinking about first — do no harm. so we really want to make sure that this compound, which doesn't seem to be causing any harm in the mice, but they only live for two years. so we want to make sure that it's not going to cause harm in humans. but there is hope that we would just be able to use it early on and then it would prevent you from having asthma attacks in the future, and then maybe you would just use it briefly and that would be ideal that we could just stop the whole cycle. tomorrow, it will be 50 years since that famous night at the brighton dome, when an unknown swedish band stormed to eurovision success. abba became a pop sensation — and hundreds of fans have been making a pilgrimage to the venue which launched their extraordinary career. james rowe, is the host of the euro trip, a podcast on all things eurovision. i spoke to him earlier. imagine 50 years ago telling the members of abba and everybody watching there that we'd still be

talking about them now, we'd still be listening to their music now. i mean, it'sjust a fairytale story, isn't it? i just don't think anybody back then would have believed what they would have gone on to achieve. and no—one's really done the same thing on such a scale since, have they? as a result of eurovision. clearly some people have done well from it, but i think i'm right in saying no—one has done as well as abba have. yeah. i mean, i think when you think about eurovision, obviously there's obviously artists who go on to big success, but nothing compared to abba. i mean, what is it nine uk number—one singles have had i think there's only three groups here in the uk who have had more. but you do have artists like celine dion who won for switzerland back in the �*80s and then i guess more recently as 2021, maneskin for italy, they won the contest

and theyjust exploded onto the scene there. you know, they're huge in america now. they're huge to a youth audience. so there are some artists who go onto big success, butjust nothing compared to what abba did back back in 197a. yeah, that longevity. and what did that do in turn for eurovision, do you think? yeah, i think it worked hand in hand really. you know, eurovision back in the day, back in the �*70s was still a huge event. it was being hosted in britain, as we just heard there. it was hosted in the uk. so i think what it did in that year, eurovision managed to help abba. obviously there was a lot of people in the uk who were watching on tv and because the british music scene, it was so big and is so big even now, it probably really helped catapult their careers. but what it did for eurovision in return just gave the contest this group who they can sort of signpost to, can't they? you know, year after year we often talk about who the legacy artists are and who the artists are who went on to big success. and every year we always talk about abba, and that's not necessarily a bad thing. of course, we want to talk about some of the newer artists and we do every year. but to have abba 50 years on, we can still signpost to them

and showjust how big of a group they went on to become because of eurovision. yeah. and just finally, briefly, what do you think it has been about them, about the four of them that has given them this longevity, this massive success? it's so hard to put your finger on, isn't it? i mean, i guessjust the chemistry between the four of them, you know, it was two couples, i guess that gave it a bit of a different dynamic to what we've seen in the music industry since. and i guess, you know, my parents, your parents, everybody�*s parents who are watching now, they would have listened to their music. itjust gets passed on through generations. and most of their music is really upbeat. it's really fun. you hear it at weddings, you hear it at parties. i guess it's all timeless. so i just think they've got so much going for them really. james roe chatting to me earlier. now, a break—in surrounded by mystery. in los angeles, thieves stole $30 million in cash from a money storage facility — — by breaking into the building on

easter sunday and cracking the safe. according to local media, a crew of sophisticated burglars came in through the roof to gain access to the vault. they managed in the process not to trip any alarms. it took until monday to realise that the cash was missing and the safe did not show any outward sign of break—in. the la police department and the fbi arejointly investigating the case. rajini will be here with you next so stay with us on bbc news. hello there. we saw some very big temperature contrasts from north to south across the country this morning. it was cold with some disruptive snow across scotland through the morning period. it stays rather grey here with further outbreaks of rain. it stays on the chilly side, as well. but for northern ireland, the rest of england and wales, a lovely bright afternoon to come. plenty of sunshine around. a few passing showers being blown on a very brisk south—westerly wind and very mild for the time of year at 18 or 19 degrees. it's still quite chilly across the north.

that rain pushes its way northwards across scotland. through the night we see the next batch of wet, windy weather spreading up from the south. some of this rain could be quite heavy in the north and the west as it pushes its way northwards. by the end of the night, though, temperatures will be lifting, even across scotland, so turning milder here, but very mild further south. that takes us into saturday. this deepening area of low pressure hurtling towards the west of ireland has been named by the irish met service storm kathleen, as it's across ireland where we'll see the biggest impacts with the winds. but it's the feel of the weather as we head through saturday. it's dragging in some very warm air from southern climes. it could be up to 21 or 22 degrees across eastern england on saturday, despite the strong wind. so storm kathleen is likely to cause some impacts on saturday. northern and western parts of the uk could see some travel disruption, especially to the ferries around irish sea coasts. that rain pushes its way northwards early in the morning across scotland and we'll see further showers across western areas. a few of them trying to get in towards the east, but a lot of dry weather around and plenty of sunshine too. despite the widespread gales it's going to feel very warm indeed,

but gusts could be up to 60, maybe 70mph across the north and the west, so this could be disruptive. despite that, with the sunshine around and those warm southerly winds it could be up to 21 or 22 degrees in the east of england. mid to high teens across scotland, so much warmer there, as well. saturday night stays very windy. storm kathleen passes to the north—west of scotland. a real squeeze in the isobars here as we move into sunday, so we could see severe gales across the hebrides for a time on sunday. elsewhere, it stays very windy. we'll see more showers in the mix, some of them heavy with some hail and thunder mixed in. there will be some sunshine around too, but it won't be quite as warm on sunday as what we have on saturday. but still, those temperatures are above the seasonal average. it stays unsettled into next week. we could see another spell of windy, wet weather for southern britain and then just signs of it perhaps settling down by the end of the week.

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live from london, this is bbc news israel's investigation into the killing of seven aid workers — the idf admits it was a grave mistake and sacks two officers. we mistake and sacks two officers. need to ensure tha organisations we need to ensure that humanitarian organisations like the world central kitchen can conduct their activity, their essential humanitarian activity, and we have clearly failed in this instance. new aid routes into gaza will be opened — after the us threatens a change

in policy towards israel. the parent firm of the uk's largest water company defaults on a loan worth hundreds of millions of pounds. emergency workers in taiwan are still trying to reach about 600 people trapped by wednesday's earthquake. hello, i'm rajini vaidyanathan, welcome to verified live, bringing you three hours of breaking stories, and checking out the truth behind them. the israeli military has said that air strikes on a convoy in gaza, which left seven aid workers dead, happened after a series of "grave mistakes". israel has sacked two senior officers, and it's now given its first detailed account about how and why it carried out the attack. here are the key points. the idf says the strike should not have happened, and expressed its deep sorrow for the incident.

it says those who approved the strike were convinced