hello, this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme. manchester city move 16 points clear at the top of the premier league after a footballing masterclass to beat arsenal 3—0. england thump france 4—1 at that she believes gupta and phil neville the perfect start to his reign as head coach. and the great ethiopian can save a db by wins a third successive 3000 metres title at the world indoor athletics championship. hello, and welcome to the programme, where we start with a sparsley filled emirates stadium in north london where arsenal were given a first half footballing lesson by manchester city in the premier league just days after being beaten by the same team in the league cup final. three first half goals, led by german international leroy sane who scored one himself wasn't added to after the interval though, while arsenal faled to score, and saw pierre emerick aubameyang have a penalty saved heaping more presure on gunners boss arsene

wenger. physically, it was our highest game of the season. we played with low confidence, and you could see that at the start of the game. and we paid with it —— for it, because the quality team took advantage of that. after that, we maintain to go, and we needed a penalty to go have a chance to come back. and that was negative in the second half, we lost against a negative in the second half, we lost againsta team, negative in the second half, we lost against a team, the best of the country in the moment. we came here, they operate in front of their fans. we we re they operate in front of their fans. we were clinical in front, we scored three standing goals, and after

that, it was not easy, because the la st that, it was not easy, because the last 15 minutes were really poor. the conditions were not good, they pressed hard, and you know, if you are tired... it was an amazing result for us. paris saint germain forward neymar will have surgery on saturday afterfracturing a bone in his foot and spraining an ankle during sunday's ligue un victory over marseille. brazil team doctor rodrigo lasmar confirmed the news to reporters, and said the 26—year—old will be out for up to three months but he expects neymar to be fit in time for the world cup injune. but the world record signing of more than 260 million dollars will miss the rest of psg's season. spanish primera division leaders barcelona extended their club—record unbeaten league run to 33 games, but they could only manage a 1—1 draw at las palmas. lionel messi gave barcelona the lead just after the 20 minute mark. butjonathan calleri's second half penalty rescued a point for the canary island hosts, although the catalans move five points clear of atletico madrid

who they play on sunday at camp nou. england women dismantled france 4—1 in the shebelieves cup in the united states to hand phil neville the perfect start to his reign as head coach. goals from toni duggan, jill scott and this, the third of the first half coming from jodie taylor proved enough for the lionesses with fran kirby scoring a fourth after the break as they overran the french in windy conditions in columbus, ohio. i thought we are outstanding for 38 minutes. i was not happy with the last 7—8 minutes of the first half, i thought we took our finger off the gas after the first goal and lost concentration. we had to address that i have time, but what pleased me most was the application of the players, they tried to do the right things. and i said to them before the game, win, lose, or draw, as long as they do the wrong thing ——

right things, they will never get criticised from the. at the dubai tennis championships, it's all about one player who keeps beating the odds, tunisian wild card malekjaziri is through to the semi finals and he continues to impress as paul frostick reports. it's been a week of firsts for malik is eerie into by the stop having been a top ten player for the first time this week, he is now third in his first tour semifinal in almost three years. but it easy and too good for 19—year—old stephan ott to see the of greece. and despite the teenager rallying to take a second set, at 3a, malekjaziri's experience shown. the world number 117 taking in three. next, he will face spain's roberto agut i do. he did not have things his way on

thursday. croatia's opponent dominated much of the first set before i do to get on a tie—break. but the second was more straightforward, the spaniard winning at 6—4 as his hunt for a second title of 2018 continues. lucas pooley moved to within a reached... went he overcame the japanese opponent. he went on to live —— when. the frenchman will play fellow credit of serbia in the semis. after winning the toss and electing to bat, australia hold the slight advantage heading into day two of the first test against south africa in durban, after half centuries from captain steven smith and david warner. bad light ended the opening day early as the visitors finished on 225 for five, with vernon philander the pick of the bowlers for the proteas taking figures of two for 36. mitchell marsh and tim paine rescued australia from 177 for five and have put on 48 for the sixth

wicket to date. on saturday, wbc heavyweight champion deontay wilder will take on cuba's luis ortiz in new york. the goal for the american is to win that and then take on britain's anthonyjoshua in a unification bout, joshua holds the remaining three belts in the heavyweight divsion. that of course is assuming wilder wins on saturday and joshua defeats new zealanderjoseph parker later this month. our boxing reporter ade adedoyin is in new york for us. there's an awful lot riding on this battle for dante wilder, notjust the defence of his wbc title against ortiz, as you mentioned, but also the possibility of facing anthony johnson was in a huge unification fight later this year. he has to get past ortiz, joshua needs to get past just parker, whom he faces later this month. but boxing fans want to see that matchup between wilder and joshua. joshua is a huge star, getting off the campus to be a flood

of your klitschko in front of 90,000 fa ns of your klitschko in front of 90,000 fans at wembley stadium. the two fighters said they wanted. —— want it. but wilder says he has doubts about the joshua camp. it. but wilder says he has doubts about the joshua camplj it. but wilder says he has doubts about the joshua (amp. i don't think they want it, and when i say they, i mean any. he is promoting it, i don't think he wants it. because like i said, joshua is like annabel the cow, and he isjust milking him for every dollar. with the russian athletics federation still banned from competing authorised neutral athletes danil lysenko and mariya lasitskene won highjump gold in their respective men's and women's events at the world indoor championships in birmingham on thursday. qatar's mutaz essa barshim who won gold outdoors at last year's london world athletics championships failed to clear 2m 36 on his final attempt, but it was a different story for lysenko who on his final attempt at the same height managed to clear it, much to his delight, and reverse that result from last year outdoors, claiming a first major title at senior level. his russian compatriot also

competing as a neutral mariya lasitskene one of the world's most dominant female athletes in her event reeled off her 38th straight victory to add to her world championship outdoor gold last year, jumping eight centimetres higher than defending champion vashti cunningham of the united states and bronze medallist, alessia trost of italy. while the great ethiopian genzebe dibaba was the first winner on the track at these games producing a dazzling solo effort to win the 3,000 metres title for the third successive time. chasing her to the finish line were netherlands‘ sifan hassan and scotland's laura muir but they couldn't catch the 27—year—old. the usa women's pursuit team won their third successive world title beating great britain at the world track championships in the netherlands. the us were never behind in apeldoorn, holding an advantage ofjust over half a second after the first 1,000m against a great britain team that contained the four—time olympic gold medallist laura kenny, who gave

birth to her first child in august and only began training with the team in early january. i'm very pleased, i never expected to be back in the world championships so soon. i certainly would not have chosen the world to be my first race back, but i really enjoyed being back with the girls. we would have loved to come for a gold medal. any place we enter, we wa nt to gold medal. any place we enter, we want to win. we can't help but feel a little disappointed. the usa women's pursuit team won their third successive world title beating great britain at the world track championships in the netherlands. earlier on thursday, great britain went one better in the men's team pursuit claiming gold as their quartet including three—time olympic champion ed clancy and 21—year—old amateur charlie tanfield, who has deferred his university degree to race, beat denmark to secure britain's first title in apeldoorn. therefore games taking place in the nba, too currently on court. lebron

james's team in cleveland trails by two points, 38—36 in eight minutes remaining in the second quarter, and the lakers remaining in the second quarter, and the la kers leave remaining in the second quarter, and the lakers leave miami by 68—69, and the lakers leave miami by 68—69, and the third quarter of that one. but from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello there. we've seen some really treacherous conditions quite widely across the uk. scenes like this as a result of the heavy snow earlier on. we had this red warning from the met office in the southwest and parts of wales. we still have some warnings of more snow to come as we head into the morning. across northern ireland, across scotland and even to the central belt in the northeast of england, frequent snow showers. around here, those points expire at ten o'clock. expiring a little earlier, perhaps this amber warning further south for the focus of some weather noticeably across hampshire. that snow due to storm, which is pushed his way to the north.

the cold air, the beast from the east, that east wind. snow pushing away from the southwest and perhaps things will be not quite so bad as we get to the end of the night. it will be cold, not as cold, because there is a good deal of cloud around. we still have strong easterly winds. there is the fact of more snow on friday. we had the snow showers across scotland, across the northeast of england running through the central belt. some snow threatens northern ireland we could see some more snow arriving upper across southern parts of england and into wales, especially in the afternoon. how quickly? still some uncertainty. it'll feel like another cool day to come. but things will slowly change over the weekend. instead of that

bitter easterly wind, we will serve to put us —— push up something from the south. this is certainly less cold air and eventually percolate its way north but slowly but surely over the next few days. still some cold winds for northern uk. still some snow showers around here, get off the north sea. we may have a lot of cloud further south, as well. the most part, it will be dry, but still a threat every perhaps coming into southernmost counties. a threat of some snow, very mixed —— messy picture for saturday. wins are easing down, and temperature will not be quite so low. we may see some rain and sleet and snow mix in with there, but it is not as cold, it will not be purely snow as it has been, with a mixture of wintry weather is this weather, temperatures will rise across scotland. we will lose that really cold easterly wind, it will still be cold easterly wind, it will still be cold for most of us is weekend, but

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