sees them knocked out of the women's world cup by argentina. captain fantastic, as kane williamson steers new zealand to victory over south africa at the cricket world cup. and french open champion ashleigh barty returns to the court as she gets her grass court season under way with a win in birmingham. hello and welcome to the programme, where we start with the footballing news that scotland have been knocked out of the women's world cup after a stoppage time penalty for argentina saw the match end 3—3. twice within 48 hours a spot kick was saved and twice it was ordered to be retaken — and when converted — it shattered the dreams of shelley kerr and her side. watching was jim lumsden. this was argentina's third world cup in scotland's first, but the

competition looked to be growing on the scots. less than 20 minutes gone they were ahead. 1—0 at diabre, jan beatty their lead. they seized on any error, 3—0 scotland. but argentina wouldn't die. scotland had been coasting, but they began to fall apart as it was made at 3—2. then the va are drama. the penalty awarded to argentina. —— var. it was saved by lee alexander, but she was judged to have left alive. it was reta ken. judged to have left alive. it was retaken. this time no mistake, 3—3 result, scotland had blown it. they are on the plane home, argentina may follow. it is absolutely gutting. 0n it is absolutely gutting. on a positive note, the girls have been unbelievable. it has been such an incredible journey being here for

the first time. i felt like we have well and truly and a place on the stage and will hopefully be back in four years‘ time. stage and will hopefully be back in four years' time. georgis stanwyck played through. england's toni welcome to bbc news. duggan was injured before the first —most, she returned desperate to i'm mike embley. make the match. —— match. japan our top stories: saudi arabia rejects a un report improved after the break, constantly that says there's evidence to suggest that crown prince mohammed bin salman is among those threatening an equaliser. against the run of play england one the liable for the murder of the journalist, jamal khashoggi. game.jim the leader of a cult in the united states who treated the run of play england one the game. jim lumsdon, bbc news. women as sex slaves is found guilty of all charges against him. 0bviously eye can see that we did russia condemns a decision by dutch prosecutors to put three russians not really have much of the ball, we played well in the first half, but and a ukrainian on trial the second half was more defensive for shooting down malaysia airlines flight mh17. and trying to get them on the counter. you have to look at the satellite pictures show that result in those games and 2—0 shows himalayan glaciers are melting we have won the game, whether it was at a rapidly accelerating rate, a good game or whether it wasn't, we have got the result we wanted and threatening long—term water supplies can progress from there. there are two games in group b to a vast number of people. of the copa america on wednesday. in sao paolo, colombia have made it successive wins beating asian champions qatar 1—0,

with duvan zapata scoring the winner in the 86th minute. while in belo horizonte, lionel messi and co are looking for their first points in just over half—an—hour when they play paraguay. is currently goalless in that one after 18 minutes. while in the concacaf gold cup, mexico and canada play later in denver as both search for consecutive wins while in the early game cuba are playing martinique at the same venue. that one is goalless. now to the asian champions league, where two—time champions jeonbuk motors have the upper hand going into the second leg of their last 16 meeting with shanghai sipg after a 1—1 draw in china on wednesday. jeonbuk‘s seon—min moon gave the visitors the lead less than a minute into the match before shenchao wang levelled the contest just before half—time. the two sides meet for the return leg in south korea next wednesday. while injapan, 2017 winners uruwa red diamonds were stunned 2—1 at home. after going one up, ulsan hyundai equalised before il—soo hwang scored the winner with ten minutes remaining to hand them the advantage

ahead of next week's return leg in south korea. luis enrique has left his role as head coach of the spanish national team — just 11 months after taking charge. after spain were knocked out of the world cup in the last 16 the former barcelona boss took over but failed to guide the country to the nations league semifinals. enrique has been absent since march for personal reasons with his assistant robert moreno confirmed as his replacement. ferland mendy was officially presented as a real madrid player on wednesday afterjoining on a six year dealfrom lyon. the 24—year—old full—back has been capped three times by france and the fee could rise to over 61 million dollars and he joins the likes of eden hazard and luka jovic at the bernabeu. cameroon get their defence of the africa cup of nations under way next tuesday in egypt when they take on guinea bissau. the hosts who were runners up two years ago play their opening game on friday in cairo against zimbabwe. they're seeking a record—extending eighth title but their hopes rest on the form of liverpool's champions

league winner mohamed salah. new zealand captain kane williamson led his side to a four wicket win over south africa at the cricket world cup. the victory takes the black caps up to the top of the table while all but condemning south africa to an early exit and patrick gearey was watching. for nearly three weeks, birmingham has weighted its own. they world cup has weighted its own. they world cup has gone on around it. but after the now obligatory rain delay, how was this for a start? when did o'clock bowled trent. they gain ground slowly, but lost a stumps rapidly. faf du plessis next. and after 50 hashim amla two. no escape for the men in black. it took until the 42nd over and to break free. that monthly start of a south african scramble four runs, he finished on a high, making 67 of his team's 241. but thatis

making 67 of his team's 241. but that is not evasive trail. south africa's world cup chances more based on defending a small total. the balance was about to ship. that plan pirouette was followed by several other dizzy kiwis. ross taylor, then ken latham, 80—4, south africa were in this. still out there was kane williamson, new zealand's captain and star. is regarded as one of the best batsman in the world because of shots like this in situations like this. in games like this there are always was. imran tahir close. in fact, this there are always was. imran tahir close. infact, it this there are always was. imran tahir close. in fact, it would have been our. williamson had hit it. a mistake that summed up south africa's tournament. there only final over was williamson. aziz completed his entry. inexpertly finish the match and effectively ended south africa's welcome. patrick vieira, bbc news. —— patrick geary. world rugby has abandoned its plans

for a nations league that would have combined northern and southern hemisphere international competitions into a single league. that could've seen the end of europe's six nations, and the southern hemisphere's rugby championship. the governing body said that the required unanimous agreement by unions to enter into exclusive negotiations was not achieved by wednesday's deadline. feliciano lopez has spoken for the first time since a spanish newspaper alleged he and his former doubles partner, marc lopez, were implicated in a match fixing investigation. talking after he won his first round match against martin fucsovics at queen's, lopez said the tennis integrity unit felt he had no case to answer over any involvement in plans to fix a match at wimbledon two years ago. u nfortu nately, unfortunately, all tennis players are public figures and our good names so use beyond our control. for that reason, it will do everything in my power to defend myself against any such false accusations. mark and i had immediately contacted the authorities to fully co—operate and they confirmed there had been no

investigation about that much and wimbledon in 2017. meanwhile, on the court, between rain delays, third seed juan martin del potro booked his place in the second round with a 7—5, 6—4 victory over denis shapovalov. the 30—year—old argentinian, who's never gone beyond the quarters, only needed a single break of serve in each set to win. at halle in germany, defending champion borna coric is through to the quarter—finals after he beat portugal'sjoao sousa in three tough sets. the croatian needed tie—breaks to win both his sets after the portuguese had forced a decider by winning the second but the defence of coric continues for now as he moves through to a last eight match up against france's pierre hugues herbert. at birmingham, french open champion ashleigh barty moved through to the round of 16 continuing her bid to become world number one after she beat donna vekic in straight sets. the australian can move top of the pile if she wins this title and raced past her croatian challenger with a 6—3, 6—4 win and will now go up against american jennifer brady on thursday as she fine tunes her

preparations for wimbledon. not such good news for british number one johanna konta after the 28—year—old was ousted by jelena 0stapenko. the latvian was a 6—3, 6—4 winner to set up a quarter—final against croatia's petra martic on friday. now to cycling, and italy's elia viviani sprinted to victory for the second day in a row at the tour de suisse on wednesday, as he crossed the finish line ahead of race leader peter sagan to claim the fifth stage. it was another disappointing finish for the slovakian, who'd already been beaten by viviani on tuesday, but the three—time world champion had the consolation of retaining the race leader's yellowjersey with a 14—second advantage over australia's michael matthews. just enough time to let you know that argentina and paraguay, in their cobra marek up much are currently goalless. argentina looking for a first when after losing their first

looking for a first when after losing theirfirst win looking for a first when after losing their first win goalless. —— copella americana. you can get all the latest sports news at our website hello there. the recent warm, humid, thundery, weather across the south—east was just a little taster of what perhaps might be a bit more widespread across the uk as we head on into next week. more on that in the moment. this is the thundery front which brought those downpours to the far south—east recently, low pressure will be more the dominant feature as we had through thursday. and that will feed in some showers maybe to northern and western areas early on this morning. and also a cooler west or north—westerly wind. so it will be a fresher start to the day this morning, most noticeably across the south—east. at least largely dry with some sunshine. and today, in fact, will be a day of sunny spells and scattered showers. these heaviest and most frequent across northern and western areas. it will be quite blustery as well across scotland, wind gusts in exposure, 30 or 35 miles an hour. the showers here could be heavy

and thundery, same into northern ireland. further south we will see a few showers spreading across england and wales but there's also a good deal of sunshine around, but it will feel noticeably cooler and fresher. 19, maybe 20 degrees in the south—east, closer to 12—16 celsius across scotland and northern ireland. as we head on into friday, high pressure is building in from the south, that will settle things down, but we have low pressure still anchored to the north of the uk. so that will bring another fairly blustery day for scotland on friday, with scattered showers, again a few heavier ones. further south, a better chance of staying dry although there could be a few showers around, close to that high—pressure, the winds will be lighter, so in the strong sunshine it will feel a bit warmer, 20 or 21 degrees, but still on the fresh side for the time of year in the north. high pressure though, builds in, moves across in towards the north sea, during saturday and that will bring us a run of fairly warm south, south—easterly winds. but we will have this area of low pressure nearby slowly encroaching in as the weekend wears on. for much of the country, it is going to be a fine saturday, a little bit of fairweather cloud bubbling up in the afternoon. we could see an isolated shower but most places will be dry

and temperatures away from the east coast reaching below 20 celsius. high—pressure still dominating the scene, i think, on into sunday, this is the area of low pressure which will start to bring more cloud and perhaps a little bit of rain to western areas later in the day on sunday, but we will be importing some warm and humid air during sunday and into next week. so we could see 24, 25 degrees in the south—east on sunday, and for parts of the country, a bit of uncertainty. it could turn briefly very warm into next week, 00:12:23,593 --> 2147483051:42:56,511 but that could spark off widespread 2147483051:42:56,511 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 heavy, thundery showers.