juventus win the coppa italia for the fourth successive year scoring four second—half goals to beat milan. huddersfield ensure their premier league survival with a 1—1 draw against chelsea at stamford bridge. and caroline wozniacki's bid to become world number one is derailed after being beaten in the third round of the madrid open. hello, and welcome to the programme. we start with the footballing news thatjuventus have made it a fourth successive coppa italia title with a 4—0 win over milan at the stadio olimpico in rome. three goals in eight minutes after half—time, including a double to medhi benatia sealed the win for massimiliano allegri's side. and it was added to with an own goalfrom milan with m minutes remaining. the club known as "the old lady" can still achieve the league and cup double for the fourth year in a row with a draw this weekend at the same venue against roma.

in england, there were four premier league games on wednesday with most interest centering on chelsea's match at home to huddersfield. the blues were chasing champions league qualification while huddersfield needed a draw or better to maintain their place in the top flight, and that's exactly what the terriers managed as conor mcnamara reports. that is it. it is all over. huddersfield are staying in the premiers league for another season and they have done it with a game to spare. —— premier league. they took the lead at stamford bridge. chelsea came back for the draw which means based deal can catch them for a champions league spot but there is nothing to worry about four huddersfield. —— they can still. 12 months on from promotion to the premier league, they have been a breath of fresh air in the top—flight. huddersfield, a way to

manchester, away to chelsea. they host arsenal and can enjoy the sand off to arsene wenger. it does not matter what happens. they are staying up. it is an unbelievable achievement. everybody knows the circumstances we competed in with these top—class clubs. for sure we had a bit of lady luck and we definitely suffered, but we have this point, a stolen one, no doubt, but who cares? who cares indeed. that result at stamford bridge means that chelsea must win their final game at newcastle on sunday to have any chance of playing

in the champions league next season. elsewhere, leicester city beat arsenal 3—1, manchester city beat brighton by the same score, and now have 97 points and 105 goals for the season. both are new premier league records. and harry kane scored the only goal of the game as tottenham beat newcastle to move up to 3rd, confirming their place in the champions league next season. in spain, barcelona remain on course to go through the entire league season unbeaten. ousmane dembele scored twice as the champions beat villarreal 5—1 to go 15 points clear at the top of the table. real madrid missed the chance move level on points with 2nd—placed atletico losing 3—2 at sevilla. it was an eventful night for the real captain sergio ramos who missed one penalty, but scored another, and in between got booked and scored an own goal. and now for some tennis news. novak djokovic is out of the madrid masters after suffering defeat against great britain's kyle edmund. djokovic is still working his way back to full fitness after a year plagued by injury, yet he was still expected to make it four wins out of four against edmund. but the british number one, who's on the verge of breaking into the world's top 20, came through in three sets

against the former world number one for the biggest win of his career, so far. edmund won 6—3, 2—6, 6—3, and now plays belgium's david goffin. the top seed and defending champion, rafael nadal, is safely through to the 3rd round after a comfortable straight sets victory over gael monfils. nadal won 6—3, 6—1, and he's now won 48 consecutive sets on clay, which is one short of john mcenroe's record. the world number one looks good for a 6th madrid masters title. my my backhand is working great. the forehand, working well too, as always, more or less. but the backhand is a shop that is working well. —— shot. i am backhand is a shop that is working well. —— shot. iam pleased backhand is a shop that is working well. —— shot. i am pleased to have

recovered from my injury. it makes me tell strong and i can go with confidence in tough matches. —— feel. that is important for me on this surface. in the women's tournament, there's been a surprise early exit for the world number two, caroline wozniacki. clay—court specialist, kiki bertens, of the netherlands, ranked 18 places below wozniacki, pulled off an excellent second round victory in madrid. wozniacki could have regained the world number one spot if she'd outperformed simona halep this week, but a 6—2, 6—2 victory puts bertens into the quarter—finals. and she'll face 2014 winner maria sharapova in the last eight after the russian recorded a straight sets 6—3, 6—4 win over kristina mladenovic. the frenchwoman knocked sharapova out in her comeback event from a 15 month doping ban in stuttgart last year but couldn't repeat the feat in madrid. halep, the defending champion, will keep the world number one spot, after she beat kristyna plishkova in straight sets and is now 15 matches unbeaten at this tournament.

next up is either us open champion sloane stephens or kristyna's sister, karolina plishkova. former world number one, serena williams, has pulled out of next week's italian open, that's after she withdrew from this week's madrid open with a fever. williams returned to the tour earlier this year, after having her first child but missing another clay court tournament puts her french open grand slam return in doubt, and she hasn't played on the surface since 2016. ireland's cricketer‘s will play their first ever test match on friday, when they host pakistan in dublin. their journey to gaining test status began almost 50 years ago. in 1969 they hit the headlines with an amazing performance against a then dominant west indies side. ireland's wicket—keeper that day recalls their famous win. i was proud to be the irish cricket keeper. and he is out. bowled. the west

windies are all out for 25. i repeat, all out, having won the toss and elected to bat. they said they we re and elected to bat. they said they were on the booze the night before. it was wrong. i took them to the hotel and the bar was closed. clive, a long way away from that. tremendous swing. nowhere near it. everyone was expecting them to score a lot of runs. but again, the circumstances and the conditions of the ground, i think, made it difficult. we had fine bowlers that could exploit the ground conditions. and he is out. he is caught at

mid—on, clive lloyd out for one. and he is out. he is caught at mid-on, clive lloyd out for one. we had a couple of doctors playing for us, a solicitor, we were all professional men. he is out. out for zero. that made headlines. everyone made their way down to the cricket field. the biggest shock that has ever happened in sport, i think. and it certainly hurt irish cricket. enrico battaglin launched a late attack to beat italian compatriot giovanni visconti and win stage five of the giro d'talia. battaglin timed his sprint perfectly on the final 200m to santa ninfa in sicily. australian rohan dennis retains the overall lead by one second from defending champion tom dumoulin.

tour de france champion, chris froome, meanwhile, is 57 seconds back. thursday's stage up mount etna is his first real chance to claw back some time lost in the first week. that is about all we have time for. the boston celtics are 3—1 up in the series. the winners go through to play the cleveland cavaliers. six minutes remaining until the half—time interval. currently they are beating philadelphia. that is all for now. thank you for watching. hello. once any early rain clears easternmost parts of england as thursday begins, what follows will be a lot of fine, dry weather.

here's the weather front, it's going to drag its heels for a little while on thursday morning across eastern england and elsewhere you can see some fine weather, but a hint of showers following towards the north—west. so whilst many will have a fine day with some sunshine, there is the chance of catching a shower. more especially into parts of scotland, maybe one or two for northern ireland, northern england and north wales. now, for early risers, these are the temperatures. so double figures for the cloud and rain into eastern england. elsewhere into mid—single figures for some spots to begin the day but again, away from eastern england, a fair amount of sunshine and dry weather to begin with. but those showers will be pushing into scotland on through the morning and if you catch one it could be heavy, maybe a rumble of thunder, one or two for northern ireland, northern england, north wales. by the end of the morning, the last of the rain has cleared away from eastern parts of england, so looking dry for the rest of england. some cloud around, some holes in the cloud allowing sunshine to come through and these temperatures across—the—board now are pretty close to the average for the time of year, so there's a particular

warmth out there. heading out and about on thursday evening or coming back from wherever you've been, still a few showers in north—eastern area of scotland and into the northern isles, but they will continue to fade. elsewhere, what showers have built up are continuing to fade away, and the cloud that's developed is going as well, so a lot of dry and sunny weather to end the day. it does mean under clear skies thursday night into friday morning with a ridge of high pressure temperatures drop away even further, low single figures for some on friday morning. the ridge of high pressure not staying around too long as this weather front starts to push it out of the way on friday, and it means strengthening wind across the uk, particularly close to this rain band coming into northern ireland and feeding outbreaks of rain into west of scotland, parts of wales and south—west england. very slow—moving weather system, though. ahead of that, although some cloud's going to increase, there will be sunny spells but there will be that strengthening south south—easterly wind. the weather front does push on through friday night into saturday, by saturday maybe lingering into north—east scotland with rain at times and maybe showers in eastern england. dry weather elsewhere but further showers pushing into the south

and south—west and south—west england, wales and maybe into northern england. catch one of these and it could be heavy and possibly thundery. temperatures haven't changed much but if anything by the time we get into sunday they could go down a little bit further. bye bye. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: three americans released by north korea arrive in alaska on the first leg of theirjourney home. the white house hails "a positive gesture of goodwill". president trump threatens iran with severe consequences if it restarts its nuclear programme. the us may reimpose sanctions as soon as next week. a shock win for malaysia's opposition — and its 92—year—old leader. former prime minister mahathir mohamad makes an extraordinary comeback. and model members of the royal family. waxworks of meghan and harry are unveiled

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