hello there, i'm tulsen tollett at an this is sport today, live from the bbc sports centre. coming up to one mohammed sanoussi bars again, scoring two as liverpool thrash roma five—2 in the first leg of their champions league semi—final. ding junhui is true to the second round of the world snooker championship after a convincing win over his chinese compatriot. south africa's record try scorer bryan habana africa's record try scorer bryan haba na will retire africa's record try scorer bryan habana will retire from rugby at the of the season. hello and welcome to the programme, let's start with the footballing news that liverpool survived a late comeback from roma to win the opening leg of their champions league semi—final five—2, salah made it 43 goals for the season salah made it 43 goals for the season after scoring twice in a first half that saw midfielder alex oxlade—chamberlain carried off on a stretcher after injuring himself making a tackle. despite that

setback further second—half goals to mane and a double two firmino looked to put the tie out of roma's rich but a late goal from dzeko and a perotti penalty gives them hope after they came back from a 3—goal deficit to beat barcelona in the quarter—final, and they haven't conceded a goal at home in this yea r‘s conceded a goal at home in this year's competition. it's much better than i could have expected before the game, but now in the moment i feel the coles we conceded, but to be honest 100% i'm already in the stoke game —— goals. i'm more interested about the stoke game at the moment than the second leg against rome. said it before, and i'll say it again, the atmosphere tonight was absolutely outstanding i'v tonight was absolutely outstanding —— i've said it before. people really enjoyed it. translation: we started losing too many battles in midfield and

football isn't a matter of systems of play, it's a matt matter of individual battles, and if you start losing them you start losing goals. four at the nou camp, five here but it could have been more at some stage but hope is there, we don't need miracles but we need to believe in what we against a quality team, a different team from barcelona, but oui’ different team from barcelona, but ourfans will different team from barcelona, but our fans will support us throughout. police have arrested two men from rome on suspicion of attempted murder after a 53—year—old man was seriously injured before the match. trouble broke out before the kop end with reports of roma fans attacking home fans, they are thought to have used a side road to get to an area populated by liverpool supporters. two of the most decorated teams in european football made in germany later in the second champions league semi—final. between them bayern munich and real madrid have 17

european cups and the spaniards are the holders but this season has been frustrating for madrid, well behind barcelona in the league and zidane will be desperate to win a third champions league crown to appease the fans, but bayern will be confident of their chances under jupp confident of their chances under jupp heynckes. translation: confident of their chances under jupp heynckes. translation: winning the last two seasons, of course you could say real madrid have the advantage, but we are in very good form and this team won the bundesliga and reached the final of the german cup. we have played a great season so far and we want to crown this with a place in the champions league final. the former front national football coach michel has died at the age of 70. he managed the team for four years after leaving the olympic squad in the 1984 games. the senior team were european champions when he took over and they went on to reach the semifinals at the 1986 world cup but

didn't qualify for the euros two yea rs later didn't qualify for the euros two years later and he went to three world cups with cameron, morocco and the ivory coast and as a player won three league titles with nantes and the french football union has called him a colossus of french football. leeds united in the second tier of english football have announced three friendlies against the myanmar national side and three local... hundreds of thousands of rohingya refugees have fled the country to bangladesh a. the british foreign office has advised against all but is ensured travel to some parts of myanmar but the match is scheduled to be played outside those areas. police say they are avoiding areas of conflict but have told the fans to wait for further advice before arranging travel. ding junhui is through to the second round of the world snooker championship after beating his compatriot 10—3. the world number three wasted little time when they resumed their match on tuesday and it took him less than an hourto

on tuesday and it took him less than an hour to secure the four frames required to reach the last 16. he's one of the favourites to win this year, the closest he came in 2016 was when he was runner—up to mark selby. it's good to come back to win, he closed out the important third frame to take a 3—0 lead and after that he wasn't that confident. this morning, i played good safety, and he got some chances to play but he didn't make it that well and he kept giving me the chances to pot. i just keep scoring and i feel good. former champion stuart bingham is another big name to go out, the englishman, who won the title in 2015, was beaten 10—7 by compatriot, making it four former world champions who have now lost in the opening round. in cricket, england test opener alastair cook says he's

not an droppable. his double century in melbourne in the last ashes series was his only highlight of a poor winter and they lost the series to new zealand with english cricket proposing another format recently of 100 balls, he doesn't want the test cricket format to be overlooked but he admitted to joe cricket format to be overlooked but he admitted tojoe wilson his ball needs to improve if he is to keep his place. there's no entitlement if i don't score runs because thejob of the top order is to score runs, this winter forward have a reason of the top order is to score runs, this winterforward have a reason i haven't managed to score the runs i would have liked. if you play long enough, you have periods when you don't score runs, that's the game of cricket. i'm not that good where you're like don bradman and you score runs all the time and you cruise through life, i've always had to work hard through my cricket for my runs and i continue to do that and doi my runs and i continue to do that and do i want to continue? of course, will miss it when i'm not there so i want to carry on playing.

is the future of cricket making it shorter and cricket all the time? what your career has stood for to a large degree is the perseverance and patience and long building of an innings. there's always a bit of caution with it. i still think you've got to protect the tradition of cricket. there has to be a place surely for the five—day game or the four—day game in cricket i genuinely believe, and how it works is really hard. obviously at the moment, all the money is in the shorter formats of the game, it's obvious to see how every tournament is thriving, test cricket isn't driving as it was say, ten yea rs cricket isn't driving as it was say, ten years ago, because there was another alternative but there must bea another alternative but there must be a way of trying to combine the two. rugby union's south african record try scorer bryan habana will retire at the end of the season. he made his international debut in 2004 and was a world cup winner in 2007

and was a world cup winner in 2007 and he's been at french club toulon for five years where he has won two european cups but hasn't played for most of the last year after knee surgery. most of the last year after knee surgery. 12 time grand slam champion novak djokovic will hope to improve his fortunes when he plays in the barcelona open for the first time in 12 two years. he went out in the third round of the monte carlo masters last week and has suffered four defeats this year. he will play martin klizan on wednesday.” four defeats this year. he will play martin klizan on wednesday. i think my game has improved on this surface. winning the french open 2016 was obviously the highlight of my clay—court career, but i also won rome, madrid, big tournaments, monte carlo, and obviously... and plenty of other good results. obviously there's a guy named rafa nadal who's

a lwa ys there's a guy named rafa nadal who's always on the way to win more big titles. he still keeps on dominating on this surface. if djokovic gets past klizan he will play lopez, the 12th seeded spaniard needed three sets to beat live itch, eventually winning 6—4, 2—6, 6—4. australian michael matthews won the prologue in switzerland on tuesday, he clocked a winning time of five minutes and 33 seconds. it was 4.02 kilometre route. ritchie porte, his compatriot, finished in 18th with the race continuing on wednesday with stage one, kilometre ride to del amor. and time to let you know happening in the nba first—round play—off action, boston at home to milwaukee, 2—2 in the series, the celtics are up in the third quarter

and philadelphia, if they beat miami, they will win the series, they are 3—1 up, almost at half—time, 34—31. goodbye for now. hello there. temperatures continue to creep down day—by—day now, closer to the april norm, but by the end of the week it looks like it could be a little bit cooler than the seasonal average. the last 24 hours have been pretty cloudy but again quite mild, we saw a top temperature of 18 across the south—east. the cloud thickened up, though, in the west we saw outbreaks of rain associated with this area of low pressure, which continued its journey eastwards, tending to fragment as the night wears on but eventually it will clear the south—east. maybe one or two showers packing into western scotland, the west of northern ireland, but elsewhere it's going to be a clearer and drier start to wednesday. quite a chilly start as well, certainly chillier than the last few nights we've had.

across the north—east of scotland, not that far off from freezing. so, a chilly start to wednesday, but it is going to be a day of sunshine and heavy april showers, some of them could be quite intense with some hail and thunder mixed in. we start off, though, on a fine note, lots of sunshine around and the showers across western areas from the word go will continue to spread eastwards, becoming more widespread, and into the afternoon this is when they will become quite beefy with hail and thunder, like i mentioned. not all areas could get them, where you have the sunshine you could get temperatures around 14 or 15. when the showers arrive, which will be quite blustery, then it will feel quite cool. those showers continue on into wednesday evening and to some extent during wednesday night but the early hours of thursday it looks like most of the showers will be confined to western areas, some drier interludes further east. and again, another cool night to come, temperatures in low single figures for most of us. for thursday, i think it's a better looking day. a tough cooler, though, winds coming in from a west to north—west direction. most of the showers again will be in northern and western areas, again heavy with hail and thunder mixed in,

best of the brightness across the south—east although we could see 14 or 15 in one or two places. now, into friday, we look to the south—west for this area of low pressure, some uncertainty as to the intensity of this area of low pressure and how far north it's going to get, but the current thinking is it looks like england and wales will of the rain and the strongest of the winds. scotland and northern ireland, a day again of sunshine and heavy showers. a cooler day still, temperatures of nine to maybe 12 or 13 celsius. that's the trend as we head on into the weekend. a cooler day still, temperatures of nine to maybe 12 or 13 celsius. that's the trend as we head on into the weekend. low pressure will always be nearby, so remaining quite unsettled, with outbreaks of rain, showers, some sunny spells too and notice the blue colours associated with the area of low pressure, meaning it's going to be a little bit cooler than average. a very warm welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to our viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley.

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