hello, this is sport today live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: barcelona make it three wins from three in the champions league as messi watches from the stands. there will be a new winner of the asian champions league as kashima antlersjoin persepolis in the final for the first time. and angelique kerber wins her first match of the season—ending wta tour finals. hello and thanks for joining us on sport today. all that to come, but first, game two of baseball's world series is under way, as the boston red sox look to extend their advantage over the los angeles dodgers after winning game one on tuesday. chris mitchell is live at fenway park. chris, how's it looking? that it thatitis that it is dan's hair and very topic. it -- the starting pitchers are doing theirjob well. david

prize for the boston red sox and ryu for the dodgers. it looks like boston have just got the first core of the night. the first run on the board for them and that is what you can hear the cheers inside fenway park. we are at the bottom of the second and that boston leads by one run and the fans again are cheering and dancing. let's go and get a quick word. you havejoined us and a great time. the timing is perfect. you are winning again! yes, sir, we are. we are very excited about it. you seem very confident about it. it is that tight start so far. good pitching so far, bit of getting up here and there and we had to get a win tonight. go ahead back to los angeles with the billy winn. and then a possible sweep? very rare, sweets in the world series? we can

do it, the red sox can do anything. sorry to interrupt you. we have not got long i'm afraid, we are squeezed for time. it is exciting, it is tight, there is a long way to get up but it isn't interesting not because ryu who is the starting pitcher for the dodgers here has done a good job up the dodgers here has done a good job up to now. then he is important to know because he is the first korean born player to start in a world series. a guy who started watching the world series at home on the tv. and here go boston again. not bases—loaded but they have got men on base. and that is the end of the inning. 1—hopper zero, see you later. thank you, you can feel the excitement, can you ? later. thank you, you can feel the excitement, can you? and that is just chris. barcelona were without lionel messi as they maintained their 100% start to the champions league this season. the catalans‘ star player and captain was out injured as his side beat inter milan 2—0 at camp nou. messi watched from the stands, alongside his son, with his fractured right arm in a sling.

he's expected to be out for three weeks. his replacement rafinha scored the opener after half an hour. that's his his first goal for barca since february 2017, after he spent the second half of last season on loan at inter. jordi alba then added a late second to kill off inter‘s resistance and end the italian side's winning streak of seven games. victory all but secures barcelona's place in the last 16. elsewhere in group b, psv and tottenham drew 2—2 to pick up their first point each. borussia dortmund also have one foot in the door of the knockout stages. they made it three wins from three in group a, beating atletico madrid 4—0. raphael guerreiro scoring twice for the germans. an injury time goal from angel di maria saw paris saint—germain rescue a point at home to napoli. that draw means liverpool are the new leaders in group c after thrashing red star belgrade 4—0. mohammed salah scored twice in that match to become the fastest player to reach 50 goals for the reds.

it was a good game, a good football game ina it was a good game, a good football game in a good finish to situations because we have the right movements, the right moment and we have the right passes and the right formations. the first two goals after a depressing situation, which was brilliant. very important. so when you see what the impact was of the boys coming on, that is really important as well. you cannot win a game if not most of the things are really good, and to not most of the things were really good. there will be a new name on the asian champions league trophy this season. 2a hours ater the iranian side persepolis reached the final for the first time, kashima antlers are through to theirfirst final after an astonishing match in south korea. they drew 3—3 with suwon bluewings to go through 6—5 on aggregate. joe lynskey reports. the first leg was a roller coaster,

this was no different. it began well for antlers with this header given them a 4—2 lead. the chain—link site in control or so they thought. three goals in quick succession were about to change everything. they first brought the world cup stadium to live. fans finished celebrating it when another was added just a minute later. and then came a moment of history. the 36 champions league goal—scorer, a cooling the competition record. as suwon soto, antlers competition record. as suwon soto, a ntle rs ke pt competition record. as suwon soto, antlers kept their concentration. after coming from two goals down to win theirfirst after coming from two goals down to win their first away, another stunning comeback beckoned. this

strike made it 5— all. but there was more drama to come. with the clock ticking down to extra time, the winner came from a brazilian midfielder who does not score many. this will surely go down as one of the most important goals of his career. with time running it, the hosts tried to mount a comeback of their own but can only find the side netting. antlers have tasted domestic sessa many times. now they have a chance to win asian football's biggest prize. tennis, and the top seed angelique kerber has claimed her first victory at the season—ending wta tour finals in singapore. the wimbledon champion was up against the us open champion naomi osaka, with both players hoping to bounce back from losing their opening matches of the round—robin phase. this one went the distance. kerber took the opening set 6—4. but she was then broken in the second set while serving for the match, losing it 7—5. after two and a half hours on court, it was the world number two kerber who won the deciding set and the match to boost her hopes

of reaching the semi—finals. but a second defeat for osaka leaves her on the brink of elimination. it was really a tough battle, especially in the third set when we both played at a really high level andi both played at a really high level and i started really well but naomi came back in the second set and in the third set, i was just trying to fight and not give up. sojust dating in the match of focusing on every single point. yet, here you say it makes it a little bit sorry but i learned a lot from these past two matches. you learn more when you lose, so definitely i want to take that and apply it to my next match. in the day's other game, number five—seed sloane stephens beat kiki bertens to make it two wins out of two. bertens, who was drafted in to replace the injured simona halep, beat angelique kerber in her opening match,

but she couldn't cause another upset this time. stephens won in three sets to move to the top of the red group and looks well—placed now to reach the semi—finals. i knew it was going to be a battle. she has another great season and had a great hard—core susan as well so i knew it would be blue topped up looking forward to it, being able to be here and play against the best players in the world is something not a lot people get to experience so not a lot people get to experience so it is fun to be out here and despite the lamp and be committed with so many great players. round robins are tricky and how everything works and so i am trying to do my best and just do that whatever i can do. india's cricket captain virat kohli set a new record on tuesday when he became the fastest player to reach 10,000 runs in one—day internationals. he did it in the first odi against the west indies, a match which ended in a tie. kohli hit an unbeaten 157 as india made 321—6 from their 50 overs.

that took kohli past 10,000 runs in 205 innings, which is 5a fewer than sachin tendulkar. in reply, shai hope hit an unbeaten century for the tourists as they reached the same score for the loss of seven wickets. the second match is in pune on saturday. elsewhere, pakistan beat australia by 66 runs in the first match of their t20 series in abu dhabi. opener babar azam smashed an unbeaten 68 offjust 55 balls. pakistan made 155—8 from their 20 overs. in reply, australians were skittled out for just 89, as pakistan won with more than three overs to spare. world series update for you, boston the lead the los angeles dodgers 1—0

in the third inning. we will have more on that in the next hour. do join us then. for now, thank you for joining us here on this board today. hello there. sunshine on wednesday took temperatures very close to 20 degrees, but you can expect those temperatures to drop away over the next few days. and also through thursday, you will see a bit more cloud around in many areas. for most, it will stay dry, but not for all. on the earlier satellite picture, you can see the way this cloud has been streaming its way in from the north and the west. there will still be some breaks in the cloud. where we have breaks in the cloud to start off the day, there could be the odd mist patch around as well. then we go on through the day, it will bring areas of cloud in from the northwest. the best of the sunshine to the east of the high ground, maybe east of the pennines, parts of east anglia and the southeast. all the while, we will see outbreaks of rain setting in across northwestern scotland.

some of this turning heavy late in the day. those temperatures a little bit lower than they were on wednesday night, about 15 degrees. this rain across scotland will start to push its way southeastwards as we go through thursday night into the early hours of friday. not much rain around actually as we see this weather system sliding into england and wales. but behind it, quite a big change in the feel of the weather. the winds switch round to more of a northerly direction. and as you can see, we're going to start to tap into some pretty cold air before the end of the week. that air coming from a long way north. so things are going to feel decidedly chilly. the remnants of our band of cloud and rain and cold front will slide across southeastern areas early on friday. then we will see some spells of sunshine but in areas exposed to this keen northerly wind, there will also be showers. and yes, those showers will start to turn wintry across high ground in the north. temperatures of 6—10 degrees at best. we stick with that chilly feel as we head on into the weekend. a biting northerly wind.

a mixture of sunshine and showers, some of those showers wintry over high ground in the north and some frost and ice risk. take a look at saturday. we will see some sunshine, yes, but some showers pushing in across eastern england. one or two for west wales, the southwest of england and a few in the northwest as well. one or two showers inland, many inland areas should stay dry with some sunshine but temperatures ofjust 7—9 degrees. then we add on the strength of that keen northerly wind. this is what it will feel like. it will feel like one, two, three degrees in some places. not much change on sunday. but again we'll see some spells of sunshine. the winds switch around to more of a northeasterly direction. that means most of the showers will be in eastern areas, not as many further west. but those temperatures are still struggling, with highs of 7—10 degrees. welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is martin stanford. our top stories: explosive devices are sent

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