live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: atletico madrid win the europe league for the third time beating marseille 3—0 in the final. kashima antlers and suwon bluewings claim the last two places in the quarter—finals of the asian champions league. and karolina pliskova takes out her frustrations on the umpires chair after being controversially beaten in rome. hello, and welcome to the programme. all that and more to come. we start with the news that atletico madrid have won the europa league for the third time in nine years beating marseille 3—0 in lyon. the result also keeps alive the possibility of a madrid european double with their neighbours real in the champions league final next week. french international in antoine griezmann scored the first two making it 6 goals in 8 matches in this year's competition with a late goal from the skipper gabi rounding it out as diego simeone‘s side added to their 2010 and 2012 wins in european football's second tier event.

more than 1,200km away in madrid thousands of atletico fans packed into the wanda metropolitano stadium to watch their team win. this is the first year atletico have played at the new stadium which will also host the champions league final next year and it was an emotional night as the club also said goodbye to long time favourite fernando torres after his second spell with his boyhood club eventually brought him a first major trophy with them. in asia, the last two quarter—final places in the champions league were decided on wednesday. suwon bluewings overturned a first leg deficit to go through, while kashima antlers are also into the last eight despite losing in shanghai. colm harrison reports. the bluewings went on to the second leg trailing 1—0 from last week's first meeting, but by half—time, the deficit was overturned. kim opened

the scoring in his return fixture to wipe out the advantage. then it was 2-1. and wipe out the advantage. then it was 2—1. and then a neat finish in the penalty area. the bluewings were in front for the first time in the tie. a lifeline in the second half. this resulted in a penalty. the croatian midfielder also had a kick saved, with this denied. as the game went into stoppage time, the brazilian striker put the result beyond doubt. 3-0, 3-1 striker put the result beyond doubt. 3—0, 3—1 on aggregate. they regained the title they lost back in 2002. shanghai had to overturn a 3—1 deficit to beat antlers. they made the perfect start with hulk making the perfect start with hulk making the first strike. a comeback was snuffed out in the second half. ten

minutes from time, hulk from the penalty spot got his and shanghai's second of the night. too little, too late. antlers won 4—3 on aggregate to seal their place in the last eight. bbc news. and here are the eight quarter—finalists, two each from iran and qatar in the west, and two from south korea in the east, with one each from china and japan. four of the last eight are previous winners of the tournament and the ties start at the end of august. there were two managerial departures in the english premier league on wednesday. sam alla rdyce has sam allardyce has been sacked by everton after just over six sam allardyce has been sacked by everton afterjust over six months in charge. allardyce took over from ronald koeman in october, with the clu b ronald koeman in october, with the club in 13th position and helped them finish the season in a co mforta ble them finish the season in a comfortable eighth but he was heavily criticised by fans who didn't like his style of play. the

former hull city and watford boss marco silva is the favourite to replace allardyce. and david moyes has left west ham united following the end of his short—term contract. the former manchester united and everton boss guided them to 13th place and safety but the club say it's "right to move in a different direction." they say they hope to appoint a "high calibre" successor within 10 days. and now for some tennis news. the defending men's champion alexander zverev is through to the 3rd round of the rome masters. the german, who's the number two seed, enjoyed a relatively stress free straight sets victory over italy's matteo berrettini, who's ranked 103 in the world. zverev won 7—5, 6—3, and he now plays great britain's kyle edmund, who beat the number 16 seed lucas pouille. elsewhere, two former winners in rafael nadal and last year's beaten finalist novak djokovic eased into the third round with straight sets victories, but there were some surprises. the third seed grigor dimitrov is out and the man who ended nadal‘s long unbeaten run on clay last week, dominic thiem, was also beaten, as rob heath reports. confronted with fabio‘s headband,

thiem should have seen the warning signs. fabio is a wildcard. but expect the unexpected. the next set, thiem got it three to one. the first clay court defeat in over a year. what next? fabio just had too much. he sent thiem packing. he is on course for a final meeting with top seed rafael nadal. the match of the world number two was far more predictable. it took just an world number two was far more predictable. it tookjust an hour to overwhelm the bosnian losing just one game. novak djokovic's return to form continues. three months after elbow surgery, the four—time italian

open winner eased past his opponent 6-4, 6-2. but third open winner eased past his opponent 6—4, 6—2. but third seed grigor dimitrov is out. he was beaten in three sets by japan's kai dimitrov is out. he was beaten in three sets byjapan‘s kai nishikori. in the women's draw, world number one simona halep beat japan's naomi osaka to reach the third round. the romanian, who was a finalist in rome last year, won 6—1, 6—love injust under an hour. halep will guarantee her place at the top of the rankings if she wins her next match and that will be against 13th seeded american madison keys on thursday as they battle for a place in the quarter—finals. elsewhere, the eighth seed venus williams came back from the brink of defeat to overcome russia's elena vesnina in three sets to reach the third round and she'll take on estonia's anett kontaveit. meanwhile, the number six seed and former world number one karolina pliskova could face a fine after her three set defeat to greece's maria sakkari. having already argued with officials during the final set of the match, pliskova then took her frustrations out on the umpire‘s chair.

britain's simon yates had another fantastic day at the giro d'italia winning his second stage at this year's race and extended his overall lead to 47 seconds. yates put in a sublime late burst to win stage 11, holding off the pursuit of his nearest rival in the standings and the defending champion tom dumoulin. yates though might need every second of advantage he can get over dumoulin. the dutchman is expected to complete the individual time trial on stage 16 in the coming days between one and two minutes quicker than the briton. undefeated colt, justify, will continue his bid to win horse racing's triple crown when he's sent out in the preakness stakes in maryland this weekend. trainer bob baffert‘s runner will leave from the same number seven stall that he did when winning the kentucky derby earlier this month. baffert is 4 and zero with derby winners at the preakness and has the opportunity to win his second triple crown in four years after american pharoah did it

in 2015 with the final race, the belmont stakes, in new york next month. he isa he is a big horse. he's run every three weeks. he's been on a three—week cycle. he basically ran himself into shape. i know the derby, i could tell he was pretty tired. that is the first time he was asked to do something. actually, he came out of the kentucky derby much brighter. he cooled down quickly. it just shows you his fitness level is pretty good. now to surfing, and australia's stephanie gilmore won the rio women's pro in brazil on wednesday, extending her lead at the top as she chases a 7th world title. gilmore defeated american lakey peterson who's second in the rankings behind her using the higher tide conditions to her advantage as the competitors now move to bali on the next stop of the world surf league tour.

ijust i just love competing. it ijust love competing. it is such a good challenge to be out there and to have this stage to perform on. it is really special. i have been doing this for a while. it never gets old. it is so cool to get out there and feel nervous and freaked out and challenged and all of these things. we leave you with this video of a star of the future. yes, that is the real madrid dressing room, and if the hair of that person in the middle looks a little familair, then, yes, that is the son of left back marcelo doing the header challenge. he's only eight but with this video going viral, who knows how much he'll soon be worth. have a look at that. a decent enough finish. the warriors are up in the

finals. currently 1—0 against the golden state. uncle next time, goodbye. —— until. the weather for the rest of the week and the weekend really is looking very promising. as far as the short term is concerned, really chilly this morning. we've had clear skies, so the temperatures have dipped away and in fact in some areas to barely above freezing. there's been quite a big gap in the cloud across the uk. you can see scotland, northern ireland and northern england so here, the lowest temperatures. you can see those cool colours here from scotland through the lake districtjust about into wales and northern ireland. in the south, slightly less cold. around 8—10 degrees. newcastle, first thing in the morning, possibly around two degrees above freezing but lots of sunshine on offer and it will not change through the morning of the afternoon apart from a bit of fair weather cloud building up. that's pretty much it.

the temperatures not spectacularly high because it would have been at chilly morning. around 18 in london, 13 in newcastle, maybe 15 degrees in belfast and thursday evening is looking absolutely fine across the uk. a beautiful end to the day is forecast. let's look at friday's weather forecast. lots of fine weather around but the weather will go downhill a little bit, at least for a time across western scotland, possibly some spots of rain as well but for the bulk of the country on friday, it's looking fine. maybe 19 in london, 16 in newcastle. then the important weather forecast for the weekend, high pressure anchors itself across the uk. the weather fronts are not too far away, just to the west of our neighbourhood but they will stay, can't move in any closer, because of that area of high pressure keeping the fronts at bay, the winds will be coming in from the south, dragging in warmerair, and the weather looks absolutely perfect in windsor on saturday, starting at a fresh 9 or 10 degrees and warming up to the low 20s by the time we get to the afternoon. and it promises to be a fine day across the whole of the country on saturday, light winds as well, lots of sunshine around, maybe just a bit of fair weather cloud again,

and 20 degrees in cardiff, 20 there in liverpool. eastern scotland also getting temperatures in the high teens as well. now, the weather does change a little bit in the north—west on sunday. a weather front moves in so there is some rain in the forecast for belfast, for glasgow, maybe getting into edinburgh as well. but for england and wales, the weather should hold and, again, another fine day on the way on sunday. so many parts of england and wales having a dry weekend all the way through. how about early next week? looks like the warm weather is going to win. we'll start to draw in warmth once again from europe and the temperatures will keep on climbing. bye— bye. welcome to bbc news. broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is lewis vaughanjones. our top stories:

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