for visiting chelsea. ask anyone in the world who's football royalty, they'll answer — lionel messi. sure, he's good, but nobody has a devine right to score. you can'tjust expect to finish your first opportunity, from an impossible angle. commentator: and he scores, messi. 0h! two minutes — messi 1, chelsea 0. even at the highest level, messi just seems superior. steal the ball, then then his legs whirl and his brain beats everyone. no shot, a pass — let dembele finish this one. commentator: he smashes it in. so chelsea were 3—1 down on aggregate, but getting a goal back seemed feasible. this free—kick brushed the post. chelsea had a lot of the ball, but messi just needed one sight of goal, aiming again for the gap between the goalkeeper‘s legs. there is a release clause in his contract. he could be yours for 700 million euros. joe wilson, bbc news. well, that's just about from us.

in a moment the news where you are, but we will leave you now with the words and images of one of the greatest scientists of modern times, professor stephen hawking, who died this morning. good night. theoretical physics is one of the few fields in which being disabled is no handicap. it's all in the mind. i hope my example will give encouragement and hope to others in similar situations. i hope my example will show disability can be no barrier.

one can achieve anything, if one is determined enough. never give up. i'm jessica creighton. coming up on the programme... barcelona beat the blues. chelsea are knocked out of the champions league by the spanish giants. the best of the best — nico de boinville praises his mount, altior, after powering to a stylish win in the big race of the day at the cheltenham festival. and another day, another medal for british paralympic skiers fitzpatrick and kehoe in south korea. good evening. we'll start with football, and more british disappointment in the champions league.

last night, it was manchester united. tonight, it's chelsea who have been knocked out by a spanish side. antonio conte's men were beaten 3—0 by barcelona at the nou camp. with me is our football reporter, john bennett. it was always going to be a formidable challenge against a team like barcelona, but chelsea under pressure from the beginning because they terrible. . the worst possible start and antonio conte would have said before the game, don't give barcelona space in the first 20 minutes, don't give lionel messi space, he scored after two minutes and eight seconds, the fastest goal in his career, through the likes of tivo court work. it was the likes of tivo court work. it was the messi show. courtois should have saved it. this is the second goal, messi involved again. he is the

provider. dembele on the edge of your screen. his first goal for barcelona since his big—money move from borussia dortmund. a lot of injury problems, big moment for him. messi made it 3—0, his 100th goal in the premier league. before that, a chance for chelsea, alonso going down in the box, no penalty given. this is the third goal. lionel messi on the left—hand side, 100 champions league goals, what a moment for lionel messi! incredible career. it just gets better for him. chelsea lionel messi! incredible career. it just gets betterfor him. chelsea go out, only two english teams now in the last eight of the champions league, remember, there were five in the last 16. where does this leave chelsea's season? they are well off the pace in terms of qualifying for the champions league next season. the next challenge is on sunday, playing leicester city in the quarterfinals of the fa cup is the big challenge is to qualify for next season's

champions league. they are in fifth place, four point off the top four and questions will be asked about antonio conte's future, a lot of people will think it a surprise if he is their next season. no capitulation to night, the players created chances and they played well, but lionel messi made the difference. and the main aim for chelsea is to get back into the top four. so barcelona have gone through and bayern munich had a comfortable night. so we now know all eight. yes, a nonevent. the first leg was 5-0 yes, a nonevent. the first leg was 5—0 so it would always be difficult for besiktas to motivate themselves. a 3-1 for besiktas to motivate themselves. a 3—1victory for besiktas to motivate themselves. a 3—1 victory for bayern munich, thiago with the opening goal, finishing 8—1 on aggregate, sandro wagner scored the third goal for bayern munich. in great form, they are on fora bayern munich. in great form, they are on for a treble. they are looking very, very good this season.

this is the line—up. saville and drummer looking at the wea kest tea ms. saville and drummer looking at the weakest teams. —— saville. saville and drummer looking at the weakest teams. -- saville. thank you for keeping is up—to—date. tottenham confirmed today that harry kane has damaged ankle ligaments after limping off in sunday's win at bournemouth, and isn't expected to be back in training until next month. the news is a blow to spurs, but also england manager gareth southgate, who names his squad tomorrow for the friendlies against netherlands and italy. if kane doesn't return until the end of april, he has seven weeks to get fit before england's first match in the world cup against tunisia. mark hughes is expected to become southampton‘s new manager.

the club sacked mauricio pellegrino yesterday. afterjust one win from 17 league matches. the saints are currently 17th, one place and one point above the relegation zone. hughes has been out of work since being sacked as stoke boss in early january. let's move on to racing and the cheltenham festival where the big race of the day — the queen mother champion chase — was won by the favourite, altior. the nicky henderson—trained horse, ridden by nico de boinville, stormed home in impressive style to win the race by around 12 lengths. he's brave enough, he kept his jumping together. yeah, he was off the bridle for a moment, but as soon as they pulled him out from behind the other horses, you could just see him pick it up and the good old gears changed and off he went.

it was game over, actually, in a matter of strides. the day's racing, though, was marred by a serious—looking injury to ruby walsh. cheltenham's most successful jockey was taken to hospital after a heavy fall in the rsa chase, and it's now been confirmed he will miss the rest of the festival. england have delayed naming their side to face ireland at twickenham on saturday after more injury doubts emerged over the fitness of their captain, dylan hartley, and winger elliot daly. it's bad news too for courtney lawes and nathan hughes. both will be out for the rest of the season with knee ligament injuries they suffered in england's defeat in paris, and both are now doubts for england's summer tour of south africa. great britain are still waiting for theirfirst gold of the winter paralympics, but for skiiers menna fitzpatrick and guidejen kehoe, it's been a hugely successful games,

with a third medal today — it came in the visually impaired giant slalom, where they won silver. it's now two silvers and a bronze for the pair. i never get used to it, it's a completely different feeling every time we walk out. we skied really well, we worked togetherjust like any other day, and the teamwork was perfect, everything was perfect. it was just a really great day. it feels like all the emotions suddenly settling it and realising what you've achieved? for me in particular, this is five years of hard work, which we missed out on so she do to injury. —— on sochi. and also having not had the best season last season when we entered ourselves. we picked ourselves up from that and had an amazing season. questions there from our reporter, kate grey. well, a short while after the race, our reporter in pyeongchang, kate grey, caught up with the proud parents of the pair.

i'm now at the medal plaza here in pyeongchang, and i have found team fitzpatrick and keio. i imagine you have had a brilliant few days, what a collection of medals they have! we have menna's dad here, what an amazing few days! and i hear that you are partly to thank for this? partly to blame, really. she used to folow me, until she found a younger, faster guide, but i'm not moaning, three medals is brilliant. and for you, mother to guidejen. responsibility to pick up and refocus? i don't think some realise what the guides have to do and all this. they have such a good relationship, they're just the most amazing team. they use laughter an awful lot to get them through things, which is fantastic. so i think menna was shaken, she said so

publicly, she was quite tearful, but they just worked together with their amazing support team, and they went off, and now they have medals galore, as is amazing! if you could sum up what these last few days have been like, what is it like? it has been an emotional roller coaster. it's amazing. i cannot put words to it. we have all had an amazing time, and we think the girls are fantastic. they definitely are. we have sisters, aunts, uncles, stepdads here just loving their time here in pyeongchang, and hopefully more to come on sunday. breaking news before we go. southampton have appointed the former stoke boss mark hughes as their new manager until the end of their new manager until the end of the season. he replaces riskier pellegrino, who was sacked by the saints on monday. tessa mauricio

pellegrino. that's all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are hugh muir, associate editor at the guardian and steve hawkes, deputy political editor at the sun. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in. tomorrow's front pages, starting with. .. the financial times, which has a picture of a smiling stephen hawking, who has died at the age of 76 today. the i has a special edition tomorrow celebrating the life of the mathematician, who was hailed as ‘the greatest british thinker since newton'. the metro turns its attentions to

events in parliament with a rather blunt interpretation of theresa may's expulsion of 23 russian diplomats. ‘push offski'. the guardian says they treated the british deadline with sarcasm, co nte m pt british deadline with sarcasm, contempt and defiance. the sun sasteremy corbyn is eating's puppet after he refused to accept proof moscow was behind the attack. the male says the labour leader was disowned by his colleagues for failing to back theresa may's tough sta nce failing to back theresa may's tough stance against russia. meanwhile, the daily express claims that a russian businessman found dead at his london home earlier this week was on putin's ‘hit—list‘. the telegraph has a warning from the defence secretary gavin williamson that britain cannot sit back as he unveils measures to tackle can call and biological warfare. so, stephen hawking and the prime

minister's sanctions sharing the front pages. let's start with the metro and that stop headline push 0ffski. 23 spies to be rejected, talking about a boycott of the world cup. the headline is theresa may, what she said, will make a difference? it sounds robust and they are trying to the impact in not any one single measure but a com plete any one single measure but a complete package of measures. the ejection of what they call undeclared agents. spies, i think! if they knew they were here, why not fling them out before? the royal family will be down about not going to the world cup. so the general package is supposed to provide the force here. but it is very difficult because what she needs to do is to

looked off and make it look as if she is responding in a robust way. —— to look tough. but there is not much you can do. the russians have given her no scope for any