coming up on this programme: 10—time winner rafael nadal must come from a set down to reach the french open semifinals after rain curtailed the action on wednesday but one big name is definitely heading home — maria sharapova's thrashed by former champion garbine muguruza. and west indies bounce back to finish strongly on the opening day of their first test against sri lanka in port of spain. hello, and welcome to the programme, where we start with tennis news from the french open. the world's elite players are gradually being wittled down to the final few and we now know the semi—finalists in the women's draw, after victories on wednesday for simona halep and garbine mugaruza. but we'll have to wait for the men's line—up, as heavy rain brought about an early end to the day as austin halewood reports. it was the clash that everyone at

roland garros wanted to see that match the looks so good on paper failed to deliver, garbine muguruza taking the first set from moray —— maria sharapova. the russian enjoyed a few days off after serena williams but the rest seemed to her more harm than good, shara perare but the rest seemed to her more harm than good, shara per are garlanded outplayed in little more than an hour after garbine muguruza cruised into the last four. election is a lot of things better than i did. she was aggressive, she had a lot more depth on the ball. my shots were a lot more forced. usurp more open than i did. and garbine muguruza will face simona halep in thursday's semifinals after she came from a set down to beat angelique kerber. the world number one is often the most consistent player on the women's tour the loo she is still yet to win a grand slam but with a physical and mental toughness she showed in more than two hours on court, there are signs that this could be her year. than two hours on court, there are

signs that this could be her yearlj have also no expectations, no pressure, i just want to play as i did today and as i did every day. if ido did today and as i did every day. if i do that, i will be ok, no matter the result. the big shock of the day came in the first of the men's quarter—finals as rafael nadal lost a set at roland garros for the first time since 2015. the ten time champion was outplayed by diego schwartzmann. just as the presumed crowd brace themselves for a possible classic, the heavens opened, the rain postponing play. marion chua chin won martindale potter will have to come back, their match poised 5—5 in the first set tiebreak. there were four international friendlies on wednesday with belgium and egypt the most high profile of the games. romelu lukaku and eden hazard first half goals were added to late on by marouane fellaini as egypt played without the injured mohamad salah. while elsewhere there were losses for two teams who are going to russia with both nigeria

and panama beaten by teams who haven't qualified while belarus and hungary played out a 1—1 draw. but for roberto martinez and his belgium team it was a solid workout before the tournament. we need to carry on working, carry on developing but what i do appreciate is the group, there is one aspect of our performances, eve ryo ne one aspect of our performances, everyone is prepared to copy each other and work hard for each other and it's no coincidence today we we re and it's no coincidence today we were not perfect defensively but we can improve because of that and that is the main ingredient, if we can go to the world cup feeling that we are a team, we have achieved what we wa nted a team, we have achieved what we wanted in preparation. england take on costa rica in one of five friendlies being played on thursday. it's both teams final match before they head to the world cup in russia where racism has again been a talking point. the russian football union was recently fined $30,000 for racist chanting by fans during a friendly against france in march, but have we seen the last of such incidents? 0ur sports correspondent david 0rnstein has more.

russia is almost ready, and in little over a week, a world cup which has proved controversial from the moment it was rewarded will kick off. todayit today it emerged that england's danny rose has told his family to stay away. but will the team leave the field if they experience abuse during the tournament? people in an idealistic world would do that in the realities are you would be thrown out of the tournament and some people say we should do that. i don't think the players want that, in actual fact. they've worked all their lives to get to a world cup. the ideal is that we are able to raise the issues. but they want to play in the tournament. and it's a difficult and delicate balance for us to get

right. england's 23- man's sport squad, yet —— england's 23—man squad, a group low on age and experience yet high on belief and camaraderie, continued preparations at their st george's park base before travelling north to yorkshire. it's here at the local fa headquarters that england will train in the morning and have their final warm—up game tomorrow night at elland road. then on tuesday, they are off to russia. england's most recent tournament experience ended in embarrassment, knocked out of euro 2016 by iceland, manager roy hodgson losing his job. it is an outcome gareth southgate and players will be desperate to avoid. staying with an english theme but in the premier league, where manchester united have confirmed the signing of teenager. diogo dar—low from porto for around 25 and a half million —— diogo dalot for around $25.5.

million on a five year deal with managerjose mourinho calling the 19 year old portuguese the "best young full—back in europe". australia's new cricket captain says the team will try to restore the nation's reputation during their forthcoming matches in england. in the wake of the sandpaper ball tampering scandal — which saw australian players banned for cheating — the team is promising a change of culture, but a change that only goes so far, asjoe wilson reports. australia's cricketers practised at lord's while australian cricket still exist in a state of flux with the news that long—standing chief executive james sutherland will step down. it is is nothing to do with the south african sandpaper scandal. but the consequences of that affair are there for everyone to see. captain steve smith in tears and then banned. best batsmen david warner in tears and banned. cameron bancroft banned. the coach, darren lehmann, resigns in tears, leaving australia with a new captain in tim paine and a new coach injustin langer, a very experienced opening batsman of course.

what we heard at lord's today was a sense that of course australia are still going to try to win but there is, however you define it, going to be a change of culture. there is no room for abuse anywhere. there is plenty of room for banter or what we call sledging, it is a fun part of the game and actually part of the game. we will behave well on and off the field and you guys or everyone else, we will still be called sledging australians, it has happened for 30 years. we will work with that. the word people used in south africa was cheating and in the esteemed position of australian captain, are you here to restore australia's reputation? i think we all are, yes. no doubt our reputation as a cricketing nation took a bit of a battering from south africa and that was really difficult for the players to come to terms with, what had happened and what we had done. certainly coming to england now,

having a few new faces, a new coach, and just being here getting back into cricket is a great opportunity for us to move on and show the cricketing world where we have made some changes. west indies have fought back in the first test against sri lanka in port of spain to finish on 246 for 6 at the end of day one. after winning the toss and electing to bat the hosts were reduced to 147 for 5 lahiru damara the pick of the bowlers for the sri lankans with figures of 3/57 before shane dowrich and skipper jason holder put on a stand of 90 which was the highest for the 6th wicket against sri lanka, dowrich finishing unbeaten on 46. as they'll resume on day 2 looking to move well past the 300 mark in the three test series. wba and wbc world middleweight champion gennady golovkin has been stripped of his ibf title for failing to agree to face a mandatory challenger. the 36 year old kazakh fighter was asked to fight

ukraine's sergiy derevyanchenko by the 3rd of august but a deal hasn't been done. golovkin won the title by beating canadian david lemieux in 2015 but it's now vacant. britain's billyjoe saunders holds the wbo title. the ibf will identify "two leading contenders" to fight for its belt. team sky won wednesday's third stage of the criterium du dauphine — a team time trial — to put michal kwiatkowski back into the overall lead. sky won the 35 kilometer stage in a time of 36 minutes and 33 seconds. daryl impey — who had led before the stage — dropped to eighth in the overall standings, after his mitchelton—scott team finished fourth. the third match in the final searing gets under way. the warriors lead to games to nil in the best—of—7

series. game three, and for both in clevela nd. series. game three, and for both in cleveland. until next time, goodbye for now. hello there. good morning. the weather looks very sluggish over the next few days into the weekend as well. so it is going to be difficult to get the detail right. wednesday, most places had a warm, summer's day. not much cloud around at all. over the next couple of days, in the south, there will be more cloud around. maybe one or two heavy and thundery showers. 0n the whole, most places will be dry. a fair bit of cloud across eastern areas on wednesday but this is the cloud coming in from the near continent that threatens a few heavy and thundery showers, notjust overnight — perhaps into thursday as well into the southern parts of england as well — not many of them, most

places will be dry. more cloud will fill humid southern areas and around the coast there could be patches of cloud on the cooler side but generally temperatures into the low 20s as they were on wednesday. we could scrape an isolated sharp shower across western scotland and western northern ireland, if those fall they will fade overnight, still one or two showers into the south—west of england and south wales. again for eastern areas, turning misty and more areas of low clouds and patchy fog too. it will improve through the day on friday and again we have the risk of a few showers here and there. same sort of areas around southern england and wales and clipping the far north—west of the uk, but large parts will be fine and dry and it will feel warm in the sunshine again. always cooler around those north sea coasts because we have onshore breezes, once again high pressure to the north of the uk and lower pressure to the south and it's

around that that we're seeing storms, heavy rain, maybe over the continent through the english channel and the threat of one or two heading into england and wales on saturday. the risk is still there, the most western side of ireland, cooler along the north sea coast. during the second half of the weekend this area of low pressure is close and the weather front too, it threatens to bring with it heavy rain. still could be a few sharp showers across scotland and the chance of one or two for northern ireland but again some spells of sunshine and temperatures into the low 20s. looking ahead into monday and tuesday, again, most places will be dry. briefly we may see some high—pressure arriving on tuesday, but on the site wind after that. maybe a change. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories — calls for the sacking of guatemala's head of emergency services

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