hello this is bbc news. the headlines: the government says it is not planning to calling the police over the leak from the national security council which led to the defence secretary gavin williamson being sacked. the uk should lead the globalfight against sacked. the uk should lead the global fight against climate change by cutting greenhouse gases to almost zero by 2050 according to a report commissioned by the government. a new inquest is ordered into the death of nine—year—old london girl, electricity kiss deborah. her mother has welcomed the decision. —— ella kissi—debrah. the aerospace company bombardier is putting up his belfast operation for sale as part of a reorganisation of the business. in a moment it will be time for sportsday but first a look

at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. with growing demands for a police investigation into the national security council leak which led to the sacking of gavin williamson we will be speaking to the former head of the civil service, bob kerslake. we'll get the city of london's take ona we'll get the city of london's take on a new report into cutting greenhouse gases. and we will have an election special as results come in throughout the night in local elections in england and northern ireland. that's all ahead on bbc news. now on bbc news it's time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. the two managers, one goal. emery‘s arsenal and sarri's chelsea start their bids to reach the europa league final. is caster semenya thinking of quitting athletics over the new testosterone limit ruling? 16c 16 c david gilbert leads four time

champion john higgins at 16 c david gilbert leads four time championjohn higgins at the snicko championship. and lionel messi marks a sixth century of goals with a beauty against liverpool in the champions league. —— the snooker world championship. and england's one—day captain eoin morgan doesn't hold back when explaining why alex hales has been cut from the cricket world cup squad. there has been a com plete world cup squad. there has been a complete breakdown in trust between alex and the team. thanks forjoining us. it's a big night for arsenal tonight as they look to try and reach the europa league final. winning the competition could be their best way into champions league football next season.

they're currently two points off fourth in the premier league with two matches to go. standing in their way are valencia, pitting gunners manager unai emergy against his old club. our sports correspondentjoe wilson is at the emirates stadium for the first leg of that tie. the europa league is overlooked in august and becomes a must win, in may. arsenal will probably come fifth in the premier league, that seems a bit like arsene wenger. and if you look at where the outstanding performances and results have come this season, they have been in the europa league for arsenal. defeating matt one. but in the league, they've had some big

defeats, conceding nine goals in the last few matches. if anyone in european football understands the sip significance of the europa league it is unai emery, who made his name in this competition with three wins at sevilla. he is an expert on spanish football. he was also manager of valencia and had a decent record with them as well. what can we expect from valencia tonight, jerry? looking at the leaguer, valencia and sixth place, a bit off the pace. they do not concede many goals. they have a lot of draws. they've lost their last couple of games. some interesting and familiar names, not least francis coquelin, who for many years provided the bite on the arsenal midfield. he's back with valencia tonight. he says that arsenal is in his dna. some arsenalfans might wish they had a player like him in the team this evening. it might be another of those evenings when we

wonder whether mezut ozil pulls the strings for arsenal or ends up being tied in knots. thank you, joe. chelsea play first leg against eintracht frankfurt in germany tonight. chelsea are unbeaten in this season's competition but this could a tricky one for them. eintracht frankfurt are having a great season, they're currently fourth in the bundesliga and are unbeaten in 11 home games in the europa league, winning nine of them, knocking out big teams like inter and benfica on their way to this semi—final. german football journalist raphael honigsteinjoins me now. what are chelsea going to come up against tonight? they will come up against a team that will be very determined and full of belief, confidence, a bit of momentum as well, especially with their frenetic momentum as well, especially with theirfrenetic home momentum as well, especially with their frenetic home crowd in full flight, their frenetic home crowd in full flight, in full song. their frenetic home crowd in full flight, infull song. believing their frenetic home crowd in full

flight, in full song. believing that they can cause another upset. josie seen as they can cause another upset. josie seen as favourites but there is not much between the team that is collectively once again over performing, i'm in frankfurt, and a tea m performing, i'm in frankfurt, and a team that has a lot of individual superstars but has not been convincing as a team, and that is chelsea. perhaps a slight favourite as far as the londoners are concerned, but frankfurt will believe they have a realistic opportunity of making the final. how impressive have eintracht been in the last few seasons? if you consider that they were fighting against relegation in 2016 and they were two games away from dropping to the second division, they have turned their fortunes around finishing eighth last year and winning the cup against bayern munich, the heavyweights, then doing seemingly one better with fourth on the table as you said and the chance to reach their first european final

since 1980 when they won the uefa cup, the precursor to the europa league. having a historically good season playing a lot of good football, and a sense that this is a tea m football, and a sense that this is a team that is enchanting a lot of germany. we have not been blessed with many german teams doing well in europe in recent years. frankfurt are flying the flag, and i suspect most of germany will feel hopeful that they can do it tonight and next week. thank you forjoining us. wonderful, spectacular, sublime, we're running out of ways to describe lionel messi but all three of those words are apt for the barcelona forward's 600th goal, which came against liverpool last night — a free kick from around 25 yards out. it came after a devastating seven minute spell where the argentinian scored two, to make it 3—0 in the first leg of their champions league semi—final. it's a result that brought up some interesting records. austin halewood is here to tell us more.

once again it was another messi masterclass in the champions league wasn't it, azi? for the majortiy of the game last night liverpool were the better team, despite being a goal behind, but as barcelona so often do, they looked to this man and, as ever, messi delivered for them. we will talk about those records in a moment. let's see those goals again. he turned the game around in just seven minutes. it was scrappy, the first one but the second was sublime, a pinpoint free kick. his 600th goalfor the sublime, a pinpoint free kick. his 600th goal for the club sublime, a pinpoint free kick. his 600th goalfor the club in sublime, a pinpoint free kick. his 600th goal for the club in 683 matches. no surprises that he is regarded by many as the greatest player of all time. the reaction around the world has been massive. gary lineker tweeted. ..

barcelona club president called him a genius... and like they have been through much of his career, newspapers around the world were in all of lionel messi once again, in spain, france, italy and the uk, his face was on the back of all the papers this morning. even liverpool managerjurgen klopp could only shrug his shoulders and appreciate the great man. a big admirer of him, probably everybody. but my boys did not show too much respect. they tried with completely legal things. we didn't treat him harshly or whatever, to try to get him out of the game. we played just football. and i like that. i knew before that lionel is a world—class player and now i saw it again. i'm not too surprised. well unbelievably his 600th goal was 1a years to the day since it all began.

back when he had a lot more hair in 2005 with his first goal for barcelona against albacete. so where does he rank with the greatest goal scorers for a single club? well this is this is a video from ba rcelona's official youtube channel showing just that. it begins back in 2005 with that first goal for the club and slowly you can see him climb up the rankings, keep watching him there. gerd muller was at the top for a long time with 565 for bayern munich. ian rush in there with 346 for liverpool and thierry henry with 228 for arsenal. but as the seasons continue to go by he keeps rising up the list. cristiano ronaldo is up there. he's poast 600 goals for all of his clubs, but only the a50 for real madrid!

and he's even breaking records against premier league clubs without ever actually playing in england's top flight. these players have the most goals against the premier league top six since the start of the 2011 season. 0nly sergio aguero, jamie vardy and eden hazard have more. he's scored 25 goals against them. right back at the start of the season messi said he wanted to deliver another champions league title to barcelona and even with the iconic atmosphere of anfield, liverpool are going to have to produce something really special to stop him, azi. thank you, austin. still to come on sportsday, jason hennessy wins both sprints and the only climb of the day at the tour of yorkshire. and the london marathon runners who said that they were called fact and slowed by contractors clearing up around them. —— fat and slow.

there's speculation over caster semenya's future after she posted some cryptic messages this morning suggesting that she's ready to quit athletics. it's after the court of arbitration for sport dismissed her challenge against the iaaf‘s new rules, which restrict testosterone levels in female runners. semenya is due to run in the first diamond league meet of the season in doha. 0ur reporter ade adedoyin is there. what has sememya said? welcome to doha. you join me at the khalifa international stadium where tomorrow night at the diamond league will take place and you wonder if it could be the last time that we will see at caster semenya compete at the 800 metres elite level. those iaaf rules don't come into place until next week. however, there are doubts over what she's going to do after those messages that she posted on social media today. one of them was

in her native tongue and it said that i'm finished, and the other said knowing when to walk away as wisdom, and walking away with your head held high is dignity. so, you have to wonder whether it might be oui’ have to wonder whether it might be our final have to wonder whether it might be ourfinal race for caster have to wonder whether it might be our final race for caster semenya. she has dominated the 800 metres for the last decade but with this new ruling, if you want to defend her world title in doha, she will have to ta ke world title in doha, she will have to take medication to lower her testosterone levels. so she has a big decision to make as far as the future is concerned. we've also heard from the man in charge of world athletics this morning? lord sebastien co, the iaaf president, this has dominated the agenda this week and has dominated this diamond league meeting. it was the first chance for sebastien kerry to a nswer the first chance for sebastien kerry to answer the question the vote has been asking about this issue. we we re been asking about this issue. we were told that he would not do

one—to—one interviews but he would a nswer one—to—one interviews but he would answer some questions in a press conference. and it became very apparent very quickly that he did not want to be drawn on the matter. here is a snippet. this is pretty straightforward, and it is very straightforward, and it is very straightforward for any international federation in sport. athletics has two classifications. it has age, it has gender. we are fiercely protective about both. and i'm really grateful that the court of arbitration has upheld that principle. the world medical association have posted a message today saying that they have reiterated their concerns about the new proceedings and they have asked all their practitioners not to get involved in the implementation of it. tonight attention will focus on the track behind me, the world's best athletes will be in action, caster semenya will be here competing for what potentially could be the last time at elite level in

the 800 metres, the event she has dominated over the last decade. thank you forjoining us. a breakdown in trust left to alex hales being left out of the england world cup squad. his admission came after he was given a 21 day ban after he was given a 21 day ban after an off field incident reported to bea after an off field incident reported to be a positive test for recreational drugs. patrick gearey reports. this is the start of one of english cricket's biggest summers. beyond ireland and then pakistan lies a world cup. 0pening batsmen alex hales ought to have been in ireland and the key part of england was plans. he has been dropped for an off field incident, reportedly a positive test for recreational drugs, something eoin morgan believes undermines the culture he has been trying to build. there's been a complete disregard for these values. and there has been a complete breakdown in trust between alex and the team.

and everybody in the senior players' meeting agreed that the best decision for the team and the culture, moving forward, was for alex to be deselected. it is not the first time on wanted attention has followed him. he was involved but not charged over a now infamous incident outside a bristol nightclub in 2017. he was fined by the england and wales cricket board and the situation prompted morgan to try and change the behaviour of his squad. we started to work incredibly ha rd after squad. we started to work incredibly hard after the incident at bristol. that was what triggered it. we felt that we had more to do as a team, more to do as role models, and there's a bigger picture other than just performance. and i think that comes into play when you are talking about people within a team. the issueis about people within a team. the issue is cloudy. until the guardian broke the story last friday the incident was being kept private and alex hales thought he would still be

involved. earlier this week his management company said even before the story was published alex had spoken to key members of the england organisation to express his regret and contrition. at that time he took away the message that his world cup place would bejudged on playing merit, something his boss seems to agree with. we have to face that if agree with. we have to face that if a story had not broken publicly on friday he would still be here. whether anyone thinks that's right 01’ whether anyone thinks that's right or wrong, that's the way it had to be. you have to face that, when this story broke publicly, the effect of that breaking was what has led us to the point where we are now. that point is not where england want to be. this was supposed to be the time to be whipping up excitement around the tournament they are favourites to win back the choreography has slipped. tomorrow at least against ireland, they can get back to the cricket. plenty more to come, but first let's take a quick look at some of the day's

other sports stories. jofra archer will make his england debut in their one—day international against ireland tomorrow. the fast bowler has just qualified to play international cricket for england after residency rules were changed. and he's attempting to win a place in the world cup squad. shaun edwards is going to leave the wales rugby union coaching staff after this year's world cup. he's been defence coach since 2008, helping wales win four six nations titles and three grand slams. edwards been linked with club jobs in england and france but has already turned down the chance to return to super league and become wigan's head coach. an urologist has ruled that totte n ha m an urologist has ruled that tottenham defenderjan vertongin did not suffer a concussion during the champions league semifinal first leg against ajax. he collided with a team—mate and despite being cleared to continue have to be substituted in the1—0 to continue have to be substituted in the 1—0 defeat. tottenham say that he suffered an injury to his nose which resulted in heavy bleeding. leeds striker patrick

ba mford has been bleeding. leeds striker patrick bamford has been banned for two matches by the fa after being found guilty of successful deception of a match official in the draw with aston villa. he went down after appearing to be had in the face but replays showed no contact. elmohamady has had his red card rescinded. the world number seven judd the world number sevenjudd trump's match against qualifier gary boson will start shortly. hazel irvine is at the crucible theatre. the first of the crucible semifinals and we had john higgins bidding for an eight final against dave gilbert, the 16th seed who is appearing for the 16th seed who is appearing for the very first time in the last four. it was gilbert who came out 5-3 four. it was gilbert who came out 5—3 ahead. how did he manage to manufacture that? he did very well

from 2—0 down. he missed two greens issued a potted but then he settled down, settled into the venue. and he looked comfortable in the venue. i had to be honest played the better snooker in that session. john higginsa snooker in that session. john higgins a little loose, at times. 0ne higgins a little loose, at times. one or two we didn't expect from the master tactician. exactly. they've got a bit help from that. they —— john higgins was not at his best like it was against neil robertson. some misses. and some of the safety shot he played opened up the reds more, made it more free—flowing game which helped dave gilbert to settle down and dave looks more comfortable amongst the balls as we than john higgins did. it has been an entirely different game from the one against neil robertson, which was really tight. john kept it nice and tight and seem comfortable playing like that. doesn't look so comfortable at the moment, but every session is