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tv   Sport Today  BBC News  March 4, 2019 1:45am-2:01am GMT

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welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america you think we did not take enough risks? and around the globe. i'm reged ahmad. we do not play playstation. do you think we did not take enough risks? our top stories: is that what you want to ask? isjurgen klopp feeling the pressure turning up the pressure on trump. as liverpool play out a goalless draw in the merseyside a congressional committee derby at everton? demands documents from dozens of people to examine allegations and home favourite laura that the president muir makes it a double at the european indoor athletics championships in glasgow, adding the 1500m title obstructed justice. to her 3000m gold. the husband of british teenager shamima begum who joined hello and welcome to the programme where we start the so—called islamic state, with the footballing news that tells the bbc he wants them to live in the netherlands. juventus have moved 16 points clear at the top of serie a with 12 matches remaining, five years after the disappearance of flight mh370, after a controversial malaysia's government says it would consider restarting 2—1win over napoli. the search for the missing plane. cristiano ronaldo had initially been a doubt for the match with an ankle injury and the generation but he started as two red across the divide. cards and a late penalty miss made how children born after for an interesting contest in naples northern ireland's peace agreement are trying to unite their and paul frostick was watching. divided communities. cristiano ronaldo returning to help juventus at this time he did not get himself on the scoresheet. it was
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napoli who started the brightest, coming close to score early on. the match was paused a minute applause in honour of the former fiorentina captain who died year to the day. ronaldo may not have scored but he was involved, with controversial circumstances. we play so minimal if any contact. the keeper was sent off. former liverpool midfielder can doubled the lead before half—time. a second yellow card for goal score a pjanic and another red card. napoli
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could have snatched a goal. they stepped up but it was not to be. juventus survived the remaining seven minutes plus five minutes of injury time to claim victory. they are 16 points clear at the top of serie. liverpool have failed to regain top place in the premier league after a goalless draw at everton in sunday's merseyside derby. after manchester city's win on saturday, jurgen klopp‘s side needed a win to move back to the summit but they were held to a stalemate at goodison park as mohammad salah missed chances with his side played out a second 0—0 draw in their last three matches with only nine league games remaining in the season. and the liverpool manager had a heated discussion withjournalists after the match. we do not play playstation. do you think we did not take enough risks
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today? that is a really disappointing question. because it is so easy, i tell the police to ta ke is so easy, i tell the police to take risks. what is that? we did not try to win? gonzalo higuain and jorginho struck either side of calum chambers‘ equaliser as maurizio sarri's chelsea secured back—to—wins with victory over fulham. with nine matches remaining, fulham are 10 points from safety and have lost eight of their past nine league games. it was a much—improved performance in their first game since the sacking of claudio ranieri, but the club remain deep in relegation trouble. the most important thing from me todayis the most important thing from me today is that we show the character, character with the ball, we need to show character in a running hard, working hard and a real passion but we showed character with the ball. to me this is the way personally wa nt to me this is the way personally want my team to play it and the way
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for them plays and that fahmy was the most pleasing thing. confirmation of the days‘ results in the later games while earlier watford saw an andre gray injury time goal deny leicester manager brendan rodgers a point in what was his first match in charge of the foxes since taking over earlier in the week. in spain atletico madrid have piled more misery on their near rivals real after los blancos lost to barcelona on saturday. diego simeone's side were 2—0 winners at real sociedad, less than 2a hours later meaning they move five points clear in second place, but are seven points behind barcelona still. in germany there was a big win for stuttgart in the bundesliga as they thrashed fellow relegation strugglers hannover 5—1. steven zuber scored a hat—trick and the win leaves them just two points away from safety. wonderful celebrations. celebrations
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in the netherlands as well. the dutch eredivisie a robin van persie hat trick helped feyenoord to a 4—0 win over fc emmen keeping them in third place. the former manchester united and netherlands international struck his first leading up to the half time interval. the 35 year—old who's now past 200 career league goals adding a second just after half time before his third came after the hour mark giving him 1a for the season. and steven berghuis knocked in the fourth with 1a minutes remaining to secure a comfortable win for giovanni van bronckhorst‘s side. poland have finished top of the medal table at the european indoor athletics championships in scotland claiming five gold medals in an overall haul of seven just holding off hosts great britain. in the men's1500m poland's martcheen lewandowski went to the front on the final lap defending his title, defeating norway's jakob ingebrigtsen. the race had billed as one of the highlights of the final day and the pole saw off ingebrigsten who'd been chasing a second gold after winning the 3000m on saturday. in the women's race home favourite laura muir dominated, leading from start to finish to add
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that title to the 3000m she won on friday making it successive european indoor championships where she's done the double. poland's sofia ennaoui finished second while ireland's ciara mageean took the bronze. so much that goes on behind the scenes, day after day and on the track as well. a huge support team behind me, my coach, my therapist, all my friends and family. my family is here today. support team behind me. and serbia's ivana spanovic became the first person since heike dreschler in 1988 to make it three successive european indoor titles. the 28 year old who's also world champion indoors, equalled this years world lead with a jump of 6.99m netherlands topped the medal standings after the final day of competition at the cycling track world championships in poland.
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harrie lavreysen won gold and compatriotjeffrey hoogland took silver in the men's sprint final taking their country's medal tally to 11, six of them gold. the 21 year old lavreysen was part of the dutch team that won team sprint gold as well. australia's alexandra manly won the women's points race racking up enough despite not being first across the line on the final lap. she came home ahead of ireland's lydia boylan and kirsten wild of the netherlands. australia finished second in the medal standings — 10 in total with six golds. the first pga victory for the american. mitchell was tied second. fowler and birdied the last.
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england's women will be looking to bounce back from defeat in their one day international series against india when attention turns to the t20 series in the coming hours. and with the world cup in the shortest form of the game just a year away, the skipper says it's important for her team to start to build some form. but do not think it changes too much. we have had a lot of success in both formats but it gives us a chance to really have the freedom. we have some exciting talent and it isa we have some exciting talent and it is a chance to let them off the leash a little bit without the pressure. it is also a great opportunity with one year out from the world cup in australia, it will come around very quickly and it is an opportunity for the girls to establish themselves in the side if they have not done so already to keep the good form into the world cup. james harden had 42 points and the houston rockets held
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on the beat the boston celtics 115—101; on sunday for their fifth straight victory. in the second quarter chris paul drained this three pointer as the rockets always had the measure of the celtics but boston who are fifth in the eastern conference did their best to keep touch playing at home, german daniel theis with a simple dunk to keep the win within reach but whenjames harden who's been a standout all season doe this then you know you're in trouble the toronto raptors, second in the eastern conference have missed out. the bucks a little bit later. for anything else go to the website. that's bbc.com/sport. but from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye.
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hello again. we had a stormy end to the weekend. in fact, storm freya is still across our shores, there's still the potential for the next few hours of hazardous conditions of travelling, because we've got the heavy rain, some snow, especially over the hills, but even to lower levels. and those gales, really packing a punch. severe gales in places. this is that tell—tale area of cloud. storm freya, which is going to move out quite quickly through the early hours of monday into the north sea. it does clear out the way, we've got the remnants of the rain in the south, strong and gusty winds, very lively winds, even inland, and we have seen that fell trees. then we've got that heavy rain and gale force winds driving down the north sea coast again. pretty chilly behind it, with frost in northern and western areas. i suppose the potential is there for a bit of ice first thing. otherwise, a much brighter start than we had on sunday.
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that sunshine continues, but with it comes the increased risk of showers developing in the afternoon. that will obviously temper the way that things feel. plenty of showers for the northern and western isles, coming into mainland scotland eventually, into northern ireland and across england and wales. the potential for wintry weather over the hills, certainly hail and thunder. if you shelter from the breeze in the sunshine you will start to feel the effect of that strengthening march sunshine. lots of showers continuing through the coming night. we could see lengthy spells of rain and hill snow as well. quite chilly, we will see a touch of frost. fairly localised. low pressure dominates the weather as we go into tuesday. storm freya well and truly off into scandinavia, but with low pressure still keeping things unsettled, there will be showers or longer spells of rain, centred across northern parts of the uk. hill snow as well. that will tend to ease in the south ahead of this next area of rain which is our next
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area of low pressure. midweek looks set to turn very much more unsettled once again with more widespread rain or heavy showers. strong winds for a time, and yes, a more lengthy spell of snow, potentially, as that weather system comes into that cold air across the northern half of the country. that is something we will keep our eyes on. heavy showers, hail and thunder and gusty winds as well. a tale of two halves on wednesday. so it does look much more unsettled than last week. they will be chilly weather towards the end of the week when that quietens down. in the meantime, the warnings are on the website.
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