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tv   Sport Today  BBC News  December 18, 2018 1:45am-2:01am GMT

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al ain look to become the first ever side from the uae to reach the club world cup final, but they'll have to get past river plate. and the clash of the captains, kohli and payne face off as australia close in on victory against india in the second test. —— paine. thanks forjoining us. welcome to the programme. real madrid will have to beat ajax if they're to keep alive their hopes of winning a record fourth champions league title in a row. the draw for the last 16 was made on monday, with plenty of intriguing ties alongside that one. cristiano ronaldo will head back to spain whenjuventus take on atletico madrid. he'll no doubt be looking forward to it, having scored 22 goals against atletico during his time with real. the spanish champions barcelona need to get past lyon, whilst there are three anglo—german ties, including last season's runners—up liverpool against bayern munich. joe lynskey reports. more and more this season,
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liverpool's pieces are coming together. leading the premier league may become their priority as winter turns to spring, but this is a club who don't neglect their european tradition. commentator: johnson. .. kennedy is up, suddenly in space and scores! the last 16 draw has brought a repeat of the 1981 semifinal, liverpool and bayern have ten european cups between them. the two sides haven't met since then and for present—day bayern, there's a sense the glory years are behind them. they trail by nine points in the race for a domestic title they've held for six years. setting the pace and unbeaten at the top are borussia dortmund. in the champions league now they're tottenham's problem. a knockout match somewhere in london will have jayden sancho throwing shapes. the dortmund teenager was born in camberwell. manchester city...
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the premier league champions are now the favourites for this tournament, even more will expect them to beat schalke, the third bundesliga side left are in the league's bottom half. manchester city are going to be extremely confident, schalke are struggling in the bundesliga this season, they've been talking about escaping relegation which would have been unheard of in previous seasons. borussia dortmund have impressed with their results and performances and the borussia dortmund fans are loving the way the team is playing, it is like the old kop days at the moment, the atmosphere, which is why it will be a very even tie. it is set for an expensive night in paris when psg's superstars take on manchester united. the two side have never met competitively and both went out at the last 16 last year. for united, this could be their last chance to stop their season fading away. joe lynskey, bbc news.
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in monday night's match in la liga, alaves have moved up to sixth in the table but missed out on all three points after being held to a goaless draw by atheltic bilbao in the basque derby. the result leaves the visitors third from bottom. in italy, lazio missed the chance to move into the top four in serie a after losing to atalanta. colombian striker duvan zapata scored the only goal of the game in the first minute. atalana are up to sixth, a point behond lazio. the fifa club world cup resumes on tuesday when al ain face the south american champions river plate in the first of the semi—finals. river, like european champions real madrid, received a bye to the last four. while al—ain, who qualified as the winners of the uae‘s pro—league, have had to play two matches to reach this stage. they caused a major upset with saturday's 3—0 victory over the african champions esperance, but will need to pull off a bigger shock against river plate if they're to become only the second side from asia to reach the final. safe to say, there's plenty to do.
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al—ain‘s a great club, great history in this part of the world, but on the world map, al ain's not so well—known like river plate or real madrid or whoever. that's why, like isaid many madrid or whoever. that's why, like i said many times, we have to take this tournament as a bonus, a privilege to be part of this tournament, to learn, but you can learn when you enjoy, when you are happy, when you are satisfied, and this is the only way how we can make maybe history or some unexpected things. tuesday's match will be river plate's first game since beating arch—rivals boca juniors to win the copa libertadores earlier this month. river are competing in the club world cup for only the second time. they lost to barcelona in the final three years ago but they did win
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the old intercontinetal cup back in 1986. on to cricket, and australia'sjosh hazlewood denied there was any personal abuse aimed at india's virat kohli after a spat involving the australian captain tim paine on the fourth day of the second test in perth. the umpire had to step in after the two exchanged words while paine was batting. during india's second innings, paine, speaking to murali vijay, said, "i know he's your captain but you can't seriously like him as a bloke." but hazlewood said it was just banter and nothing more than that. i think it's more in the heat of the moment. it's definitely not a ploy to attack any batsman at any stage. it's more a heat of the battle but i think it's been really good so far, there's some good banter out in the middle between both sides. there's been no personal abuse? nah.
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the australians are on course to win the second test and level the four—match series. when the final day's play gets underway in a few hours from now, india will resume on 112—5 in their second innings and need another 175 to win. as you said, still a bit of work to be done. five wickets tomorrow, we've just got to stay disciplined and patient. there's obviously nothing in the wicket, we've got to hit the right areas and five wickets is what we need. there's a lot of work to do tomorrow. every time i'm playing in australia with the australian cricket team, we feel confident, the bowlers are confident to get 20 wickets and get a result. as weasel last year we got home four times out of five, so we're feeling confident of five, so we're feeling confident of doing that more often than not this summer. elsewhere, sri lanka are battling to avoid an innings defeat in the first test against new zealand in wellington. they began the fourth day on 20—3 in their second innings,
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chasing 297 to make the home side bat again, but kusal mendis and angelo matthews have put together an impressive century partnership for the fourth wicket to frustrate the home side. they've just resumed after lunch, and sri lanka are now 126—3 and still in with a shout. "156-3 at the "156—3 at the moment and still in with more than a shout. staying with cricket, west indies thrashed bangladesh by eight wickets in the first t20 international in sylhet. the home side batted first after winning the toss, and were bowled out for 129, despite a fine half—century from shakib al hasan. in reply, shai hope top—scored with 55 as the west indies reached their target with more than nine overs to spare. the second match is on thursday in mirpur. australia's under pressure rugby union coach michael cheika has survived calls to be replaced, but he'll have to report to newly appointed director of rugby, scottjohnson, from now on. the wallabies won only four of their 13 test matches this year, and finished third in the four—team rugby championship. so rugby australia has announced thatjohnson, who's been recruited from scotland, where he was head coach and director
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of rugby during his time, will now work with cheika and an independent as part of a three man selection panel to try and stop the team's alarming slide in form ahead of the world cup in japan next year. we are confident that michael is the right man to lead the wallabies into the rugby world cup, and the appointment of scottjohnson will support michael and his coaching tea m support michael and his coaching team as they prepare for the tournament in japan next team as they prepare for the tournament injapan next september. in his recent review, michael cheika identify potential changes to the current walla by structure identify potential changes to the current wallaby structure and he and scott will work their way through these recommendations. scott and michael will also be joined next year by a third independent selector to make up a new national selection panel that will oversee the qantas wallabies squad. and before we go lets show you this, incredible stuff from the austrian skier marcel hirscher, who claimed the 62nd world cup victory of his career on monday by winning the men's parallel giant
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slalom competition in italy. hirscher, the defending world cup champion, was up against the frenchman thibaut favrot in the final, and beat him by 1a hundredths of a second to add the parallel title to his victory in the giant slalom on sunday. hirscher‘s win means hejoins annemarie moser—proll in third place on the all—time list with 62 world cup victories. 0nly ingemar stenmark with 86 and lindsey vonn with 82 have won more world cup races. hirscher now leads both the giant slalom and overall world cup standings by over 100 points. brilliant stuff! you can get all the latest sports news at our website, that's bbc.com/sport. but from me, chetan pathak, and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye for now. i'll be back with you in an hour. hello there.
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we're looking at a spell of wet and windy weather today across the western side of the country. the heaviest rain and strongest winds are always across the western parts, that's close to this area of low pressure. weather fronts here, it's not one of those fronts that's going to come along in a dead straight line. there are pulses of energy running along the front and that brings uncertainty with the timings of our band of rain. nevertheless, if you're heading outside over the next few hours, the winds will be picking up and we'll see the rain getting into many western areas. in east, though, probably a dry start to the day but it is that bit cooler. the big pressure chart shows this area of low pressure quite nicely just to the north—west of the uk, with tightly—packed isobars telling you it is going to be windy. we've already seen there will be gales around across western parts. the winds could gust to 65mph across parts of wales and south—west
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england, particularly around the coasts and the hills. similarfigures to northern ireland. these areas also having some heavy rain, which could bring the risk of some localised surface water flooding issues. now, as i say, there's some uncertainty with this band of rain that will slowly and erratically push its way eastwards. it could clear eastern scotland a bit more quickly, but with showers following, and although most of the day will be dry across east anglia and south—east england, i couldn't rule out an odd passing shower here. wherever you are, though, with the southerly winds blowing, it will be a mild day. temperatures between 10 and 12 celsius. through tuesday evening, the rain will finally arrive and slowly push its way eastwards across east anglia, south—east england, north—east england too, before clearing overnight. our low pressure's still there for the middle part of the week. weatherfronts wrapped around the centre of low pressure. what that means is we'll have a blustery day on wednesday with a mixture of sunshine and showers, but the showers will tend to merge to give some lengthier spells of rain at times across western and southern areas, leaving the best of any dry weather and sunshine to the north and east. it'll start to get a bit cooler across the north of the uk, but those temperatures getting close to normal for this time of year.
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still relatively mild in the south. for thursday, the low pressure still on the charts, but it's filling, so we won't see such strong winds on thursday. the showers will be with us, mainly affecting the north—west of the country although a few will run through the english channel and clip into south—east england. sunny spells between the showers. temperatures close to normal in the north. still relatively mild further south. that's your latest weather. bye for now. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: it's official, russia used every major social media platform to spread propaganda and influence the 2016 election. the starving children of yemen. a special report from inside the country, as pro government forces suggest the ceasefire in hodeidah has been broken. back on the streets of budapest, protestors vent their anger against the fidesz government. the truly staggering scale
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