'is ' is always g fowler is always threatened in majors, perhaps this will be his turn. those are the best rounds of the day so far. when we talk about sergio garcia, it's one of only two rounds of 69 to have broken 70s so far. with ryan moore as well. it is sergio‘s 74th major. he is in fighting mood here. i've sergio's 74th major. he is in fighting mood here. i've always said i enjoy when courses played tough. i enjoy when the masters is difficult, it means that the high—quality shots are going to be rewarded. you have two hit the ball the right way. usually, if i am in good form, i can do that. so i have always enjoyed those kinds of challenges. a challenging day for danny willett, he ran up and ate as you mentioned. the yorkshireman is fighting a rearguard action really to avoid. it

looks like danny will be here on sunday but he will have two present the green jacket to the new champion, we reckon. live coverage of the whole weekend begins at 7:30pm, bbc two tomorrow night. we had a runaway leader after day one. he's been well and truly building today. thank you. onto football and after leading celtic to the scottish premiership title — manager brendan rodgers has agreed a new four year contract at parkhead. he's been on a rolling i2—month deal since joining celtic last summer but after leading them to a sixth consecutive league title and still on for the treble, rodgers has commited his future to the club calling them the "greatest in the world." liverpool's top scorer sadio mane will miss the rest of the season. he suffered a knee injury in last week's victory over everton and managerjurgen klopp said he's "pretty sure" mane needs surgery. liverpool haven't won all season without mane. meanwhile arsenal manager

arsene wenger believes his striker england's women have been in action this evening, they've been playing a friendly against italy at vale park. both sides have qualified for this summer's european finals. it finished one all, jodi taylor with the goal for england. mark sampson's side had their chances but couldn't convert them. brighton are back on top of the championship after a 2—1 win at queens park rangers. glenn murray put them ahead after the break and sebastien pocognoli's inch perfect free kick made it 2—0. matt smith pulled one back for qpr. brighton are two points clear of newcastle, but they've played one game more. one other football line for you — and it's emerged that the amount of money paid by english clubs to agents or intermediaries has gone up by more than a third across the premier league and efl. and as david ornstein reports, there are now calls for the huge pay—outs to be capped. football has never been so wealthy.

as income has risen, it's not only the clubs and players who have profited. new figures for england show that payments to agents have hitan show that payments to agents have hit an all—time high. one of them is jonathan barnett, responsible for some of the game ‘s biggest deals. including gareth bale ‘s move to row madrid. we won hundred percent deserve what we get. we paid for what we are worth. if we do a good job, we get paid. there are plenty of agents that don't earn a living. the fact is, i am not employed to be in the game of football. i am employed to look after a player. that's what it is. it's not highway robbery. over the past 12 months, £220 million was spent on agents in the premier league nfl. a 38% increase. £174 million came from top division teams and manchester city led the way, paying out 26 million.

it is unacceptable for me, that's kind of money going out of the game and that could easily be used for grassroots football. non—league football. just children in general. wanting to play the game. fever deregulated the industry two years ago —— fifa. allowing anyone to become an agent stating that the 3% cap on commission was only a guideline. it's one of those facts of life. we wish it were different but we seem incapable of controlling it. all clubs do their best obviously, we do not want to pay any more than we have too, that goes without saying that it is a tough market. the numbers can be either watering but if clubs want players, they have to pay. the influence of agents is only likely to grow. great britain face an uphill struggle to make it to the last four of the davis cup. in the absence of world number one andy murray they trail france 2—0 after a disappointing first day of their quarterfinal in roo—an. of their quarterfinal in ruan.

kyle edmund lost in straight sets to lucas pouille. dan evans then followed suit, beaten three sets to love byjeremy chardie. ifjamie murray and dominic inglot lose their doubles rubber to nicolas mahut and julien benneteau tomorrow, the tie will be over. i think the one thing is i have a lot of respect for dan. he loves playing for his country, he did it again today. he needs more time on the clay, today was always going to be difficult. realistically would probably needed a win from kyle to get us into the weekend. that would allow at least a free run at getting allow at least a free run at getting a match on clay which has not happened for a couple of years. it has not transpired that way so we will have to do it the extremely difficult way now. there's plenty of rugby union to tell you about tonight, starting with two games in the premiership. worcester couldn't hold on against sale — who won at the aj bell stadium but the bonus point try for worcester might be enough to keep them in the premiership. they're now clear of bottom club bristol.

there were also two games in the pro 12... ulster came from behind to draw 24—24 with cardiff . luke marshall's converted late try bringing them level. elsewhere connaught beat edinburgh 22—19. it was also a busy night in rugby league with five games... bottom of the table warrington still looking for their first win — leeds rhinos can go top with a win. warrington have beaten miners. kurt gidley with the final try. elsewhere there were wins for — salford, wakefield and catalan dragons while st helens drew with huddersfield. the chinese formula one grand prix should go ahead on sunday as planned after organisers decided against bringing the race forward due to the poor weather forcecast. second pracrise was cancelled after low cloud and rain in shanghai made it unsafe for the medical

helicopter to operate. safety requirements dictate cars cannot run if the helicopter cannot fly. but lewis hamilton said there must be a rethink in procedure so that racing can still go ahead in bad weather. the grand national at aintree is getting ever closer but on ladies day, fox norton won the big race, thejlt melling chase. the seven—year—old, trained by colin tizzard, finished well ahead of the pre—race favourite sub lieutenant. fox norton's win marked another success for jockey robbie power too, who followed up his cheltenham gold cup victory last month. that's all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers. ben andi ben and i are feeling a bit too

tall, shall wejust get ben and i are feeling a bit too tall, shall we just get on with it? this is bbc news. we will be taking a look at tomorrow morning ‘s papers injusta a look at tomorrow morning ‘s papers injust a moment. we've even a look at tomorrow morning ‘s papers in just a moment. we've even lost the music, we've been going on so long! first, our headlines. america's air strike on a syrian government airbase has drawn strong condemnation from syria's ally, russia. 59 missiles were fired by the us at the target is said to be the us at the target is said to be the launch pad for a deadly chemical attack on civilians. america's un ambassador says she cannot rule out more. the us to go very measured step last night. we are prepared to do more. but we hope that will not be necessary. four people have been killed and many others injured after a lorry drove into pedestrians outside a department store in the swedish capital stockholm. the swedish capital stockholm. the swedish prime minister told

journalists that everything pointed to an act of terror and he cold for unity. we are determined never to let our core values, democracy, human rights and freedom be undermined by hatred. police released images of a suspect they think is connected to the attack. they confirm they've arrested one man over the truck attack. a romanian tourist has become the fifth victim to die, as a result of the terrorist attack in westminster two weeks ago. it's been announced that the actor tim pigott—smith, has died at the age of 70. he was best known for his role in the tv drama, thejewel in the crown. his film appearances included the remains of the day and quantum of solace. welcome to our look ahead to what

the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with us are ben hsu, economics editor of the independent and deputy editor of the website reaction. it's rachel ‘s first time with us. this is as shambolic as it often is! know? must be me. let's look at the front pages. some very serious stories on the pages tonight. we will be looking at two of them in debt. —— in depth. the times leads with the warning from moscow that the united states is one step away from military clashes with russia. the ft has a picture of the stockholm attack. its main story is syria and what it calls the stark shift in us strategy. the mirror also leads with russia's warning to trump. the male leads on washington

‘s message at the un, that it is ready to launch further attacks against assad. they express also leads on syria, besides an image of the burning truck in sweden. the guardian says the white house appears to back away from wider military involvement in syria, leaving the world perplexed at its strategy. the telegraph leads with the horror in sweden. it says the attack appeared to target young children deliberately. these are the two stories that have dominated our news today. we will begin following the fallout of those cruise missile strikes from the us. against that target in idlib in syria. i will start with the eye, which gives over its front page to a photograph of those missiles taking off from the destroyer. trump ‘s message to the world, it says. down the side we have a breakdown of the various different aspects of the

story: the tensions between russia and the us, a threat to the regimes, not just syria but and the us, a threat to the regimes, notjust syria but also iran and north korea. how much of a message is this? we will have to wait and see. we are hearing about a change in strategy. i didn't think it is that clear. trump hasn't a lot of m essa 9 es that clear. trump hasn't a lot of m essa g es to that clear. trump hasn't a lot of messages to the world since he became president but this is obviously his first missile —based one. it's the bus one where he has really clashed with russia directly asa really clashed with russia directly as a result of the fallout from what is going to happen as a result. it is going to happen as a result. it is not clear what his strategy is towards assad himself. busy after a regime change, is itjust saying we will not stand by in the way obama did? when assad previously used chemical weapons against his own people. the message is to some extent very clear, he is prepared to

use military force. in a bigger and perhaps more important sense, it is very unclear still. it is peculiar that for some observers, rachel, when barack obama withdrew his red lines, donald trump said whatever you do, do not attack syria and yet here we are. —— drew his red lines. it isa here we are. —— drew his red lines. it is a complete role reversal. this isa it is a complete role reversal. this is a candidate who laughed at obama and all sorts of mainstream politicians at the time for taking america into a costly and teague said —— and as he said at the time, costly efforts overseas. now he goes straight in with missiles. manyjohn supporters who voted for him in part because they wanted a change from the —— many trump supporters, who wanted a change from the overseas

politics. yes, they wanted something a bit more isolationist. we had some strong torque from many ambassadors at the un today. is this just a redrawing of those red lines that the use of chemical warfare will not be tolerated by parts of the international community? to give trump limited credit, he said there we re trump limited credit, he said there were red lines and when those red lines were crossed, he acted. some would say he was backed into a corner there. there was not much he could do, having presented this show of strength earlier. he did have to ta ke of strength earlier. he did have to take action. i think what is interesting about the way the guardian presents this is that they say the white house appeared to back away from wider military involvement. i know other papers are saying that this is just the beginning of further military tensions between the us and syria

and potentially with russia. that mixed messaging of where this is going to lead, i think is presented in the papers. with regard to the reaction at the un today, britain's ambassador matthew rycroft spoke out in support. russia said the us has broken international law by mounting the strikes. it has done so unilaterally and there will be grave consequences. you wonder, unilaterally and there will be grave consequences. you wonder, how many other people will feel that donald trump is actually —— has actually done everyone a favour given the un could not get a resolution. it does feel like d j vu could not get a resolution. it does feel like dj vu because we had a similar thing feel like dj vu because we had a similarthing in feel like dj vu because we had a similar thing in 2013 when assad used chemical weapons and there was, remember the house of commons had a vote