as marseille take on atletico madrid. manuel neuer has been injured for most of the season but he's still in germany's provisional squad for the world cup. and tomas berdych is out of the rome masters, beaten in the first round by canada's denis shapovalov. hello and welcome to the programme, where the anticipation is building in lyon ahead of wednesday's europa league final. marseille are looking to become the first french team to win the competition when they take on favourites atletico madrid, who have lost two of the last four champions league finals, and are looking for some form of redemption, as austin halewood looks ahead to the action. the europa league may not be europe's premier football competition but for marseille victory in lyon would be a route back into the big—time the champions

league. quarter of a century ago they were the best team in europe. a 1-0 they were the best team in europe. a 1—0 win over ac milan cramming them the first winners of the champions league. but since 1993, marseille have been starved of continental success have been starved of continental success stopping now they're just one win away from becoming the first french team team to win the europa league. translation: they have more experience than us but maybe our salvation will come from the fact that it's a 1—shot match, it is just one game. after we've said we feel like anything is possible when it's just one game. and with the final on french soil in lyon, marseille are starting to believe this could be their year. but ahead of them lies their year. but ahead of them lies their greatest challenge so far because atletico madrid are rolling into town, and diego simeone's side area team into town, and diego simeone's side are a team that have been there and done it before. translation: are a team that have been there and done it before. translationzl are a team that have been there and done it before. translation: a lot of emotions will be involved. we have dreamed of this opportunity but

we also face it with a great deal of humility. we need to realise that facing us we have an extraordinary rival. they are great going forward, they will also come dreamy eyed. they've had an excellent season in the french league. i think it will bea the french league. i think it will be a beautiful football match, a beautiful final. with titles in 2010 and 2012, fans of atletico madrid are used to success in the europa league. but since lifting the spanish league title four years ago, silverware has been hard to come by. and after defeats in the champions league final in 2014 and 2016, this time they'll be desperate to get it right. austin halewood, bbc news. iranian side esteghlal moved through to the asian champions league quarter—finals on the day former player jlloyd samuel was killed in a car crash in england at the age of 37. the former trinidad and tobago international spent three years at the club, scoring four goals in 60 appearances. his former club overturned a 1—0

deficit from the first leg against compatriots zob ahan to win 3—1 on the day at home for a 3—2 aggregate victory. senegal‘s mame baba thiam scoring all three for the hosts. in an all—chinese affair, one of the favourites to win it, guangzhou evergrande, are out after drawing 2—2 against tianjin quanjian, and they missed out on away goals after a goalless first leg. jie wang's equaliser proving the difference in the 52nd minute. winners two years ago, jeonbuk hyundai motors of south korea overturned a 3—2 first leg deficit against thailand's buriram united. a late jae—sung lee goal confirming a 2—0 win on the night and 4—3 aggregate victory as they search for a third title altogether in this competition. while youssef el arabi scored twice for al duhail to secure a 4—1victory on the night over al ain of the uae. it made little difference after the one—sided tie in both legs

finished 8—3 in the qataris' favour. world champions germany have named a provisional 27—man squad for next month's world cup. two main talking points are goalkeeper and captain. manuel neuer has made the cut even though he hasn't played since since september with a recurrence of a fractured foot. he's only played four matches in the last 13 months and mario goetze has been left out. he scored the winning goal in the last world cup final but has had a poor season with borussia dortmund after being diagnosed with a muscular disorder. there'll be no italy at the world cup of course, but they've started making plans for future tournaments and their new manager roberto mancini has offered an olive branch to striker mario ballotelli. speaking for the first time since his appointment, mancini said he'll talk to the nice striker, who hasn't played for his country in four years. it's no surprise because mancini managed him at inter and manchester city. all the italian players can be in

the national team. mario is one of these players. we are ready to take here all the italian players, ambos playing away at the moment. —— and those. despite a scare, pakistan's cricketers have beaten ireland in the one—off test match in dublin claiming a five—wicket victory on the final day. the hosts playing their first ever game in the longer format came up short as opener imam ul—haq nephew of former pakistan favourite inzamam made an unbeaten 74 and the bbc‘s charles dagnall was watching. ireland dared to dream. at 14—12 tim murtagh made a couple of breakthroughs, boyd rankin made one as well, and at that moment there was a sense of panic that started to set in and there was a little bit of, can we do it, can ireland do it? then there was a dropped slip catch. imam ul—haq is on debut, the nephew

of in zaman all hack, quite a bit of danger on young shoulders to bring pakistan home, he was calm and resolute and played nice shots. the other aspect is pakistan made heavy weather of it. they took their time and only 45 minutes after the close of play the rain started to come down. if, but, maybe, if they had batted on longer could they have caused more problems and set a slightly stiffer target for pakistan and could they have waited until the rain? that always up to the fact pakistan showed their experience. island in their first test match have not disgraced themselves by any stretch, they have truly shown they belong in the test arena. be no more, everyone here can be truly proud of what they have done this week. they will want to build on that, they will want more test matches, they will want to continue proving why they are the newest member of the test arena. tomas berdych is already on his way out of the rome masters. the world number 17

was beaten in the first round by denis shapovalov in three sets. the 19—year—old canadian recovered from losing the first set 6—1 to win the next 6—3 and the decider on a tie—break. david goffin recovered from a nightmare period in the first set to beat italian wildcard marco cecchinato 5-7, 6-2, 6-2. next up for goffin will be argentina'sjuan martin del potro, or greek number one, stefanos tsitsipas. meanwhile, 16th seed luca pouille survived a comeback from home favourite andreas seppi to make it through. pouille came through a third set tiebreak to set up a second round meeting with either italian wildcard matteo berrettini or second seed alexander zverev. matej mohoric took victory on tuesday's tenth stage of the giro d'talia with simon yates extending his overall lead. this was the longest ride of the grand tour, 244 kilometres, and britain's yates took a time

bonus in the intermediate sprint to extend his overall lead to 41 seconds over last year's winner tom dumoulin, who's now moved up to second place. slovenian mohoric was part of a breakaway that held off the peleton, sprinting clear of nico denz for the win. golf's new world number one, justin thomas, will be able to carry out a reconaissance mission ahead of the ryder cup. he'll play in the french open next month, which is at the same course as the ryder cup on the outskirts of paris, and will be only his second appearance on the european tour, and a first in five years. it's not like a ryder cup all the presidents cup in the states when we can pop over whenever we want, it's a bit ofa can pop over whenever we want, it's a bit of a trek that has something to go into this decision. being as big as a tournament as it's going to be, i'm looking forward to having the chance to check the course out over there and hopefully have a good week. major league baseball star robinson cano has been banned for 80 games after testing positive

for the banned diuretic furosemide. diuretics can be used as a masking agent to hide the presence of performance—enhancing drugs or to assist rapid weight loss. the seattle mariners second baseman, one of baseball's highest paid players, has accepted the punishment. the 35—year—old, who's halfway through a 10—year $240 million contract, said he took the drug on a visit to his native dominican republic. he won the 2009 world series with the new york yankees and is an eight—time mlb all—star, with 305 career home runs and more than 2,400 hits. the cleveland cavaliers are currently 20—13 up in the first quarter against the boston celtics in the eastern conference final. the celtics won the opening game, they are1—0 up in celtics won the opening game, they are 1—0 up in the best—of—7 series. and temper babe are beating washington in game three of their eastern conference finals towards

the stanley cup final —— tampa bay. that's also best of seven. you can get all the latest sports news at our website, that's bbc.com/sport. but from me, tulsen tollett, and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello again, good morning. nearly all of us still look like being dry through the rest of this week and into the weekend as well. the temperatures are going to change a bit and we've got some chilly nights on the way, but here in hampshire, we had the highest temperature on tuesday, 23.7 celsius, but the next few days will be cooler by day as well as by night, but a lot of dry weather and some sunshine around as well. now, the cooler air comes around this area of high pressure following that weather front there. ahead of that weather front, we've got some stronger winds, making it feel chillier across many parts of england and wales, together with all this cloud, so cloudier skies. on the weather front itself, there's not much rain around, as you can see, at all. as you head further north, increasing amounts of sunshine,

perhaps in north wales, certainly across northern england and some good sunny spells for scotland and northern ireland, where temperatures will be lower across the board than they were on tuesday, and quite a significant drop for eastern scotland. quite a chilly wind blowing into the evening and overnight across eastern and south—eastern parts of england. the cloud tends to break up and remember, we've pushed in some cooler air, so with the clearer skies, temperatures will fall away. it'll be a chillier night in the south. and in scotland and northern ireland, we could be starting at 12 degrees on thursday morning but plenty of sunshine around. probably infilling a bit of cloud for scotland and northern ireland on thursday but a dry day, the winds not as strong across the south. it will feel just a little bit warmer. maybe those temperatures not showing too much sign of creeping up just yet, but i think it'll be a bit warmer on friday. high pressure still in charge of our weather, these weather fronts not really making much progress into the uk, it's the western isles that'll see more cloud, maybe a spot of rain on friday, otherwise a dry day with some sunshine, maybe seeing a little bit more cloud developing across east anglia and the south—east on friday but tending

to become a bit warmer, as i say, so18, 19 degrees through the central belt of scotland, similar temperatures across parts of southern england as well. now, into the weekend, i've put the jet stream on here because the position of the jet stream means we're steering areas of low pressure to the north—west of the uk, keeping that high pressure firmly in charge. now, there are some showers nearby over the near continent. we're not expecting them to arrive in windsor or in the south—east of england. should be fine for the royal wedding. there'll be fair bit of cloud, mind you, but it'll be a bit warmer, temperatures 20, maybe even 21 degrees. a decent day pretty much across the board on saturday. even into sunday and monday, very little rain heading our way. it's mostly high pressure, quite warm in the sunshine. the winds, if anything, coming in from the near continent. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is lewis vaughanjones.

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