fede—red hot! the fed on fire in switzerland as he cruises into the quarter—finals. all of the night's champions league news to come, but let's start with baseball. game two of the world series is under way with houston at home to washington and the astros keen to level the series after losing 5—4 to the nationals in game one. let's go live to minute maid park — and our reporter seth bennett. hi seth. tell us what has been going on. midway through the second inning and we are tied at two apiece here. washington is starting remember we talked so much about this being a great matchup of two fantastic pictures but it has been the bats that have been swinging and making the noise so far. washington taken a

2-0 the noise so far. washington taken a 2—0 weed in that first inning. trea turner walked, adam eaton then got on base before anthony rendon smashed a ball to centre field wall scoring two runs. justin verlander struck out a couple to end any for something on the other side of things for sub gorges figures struck out, jose altuve got on base and then was thrown out trying to steal and michael brantley got himself on base with a base it and then alex bregman who has had all kinds of problems with the bat in the postseason said last night that he was sending us back home and sleeping with it to try changing his office on his luck changed remotely as he had a two run home run. and that brings out to this point with this game tied at two. remember washington weed the best—of—7 series 1-0 washington weed the best—of—7 series 1—0 following their victory 2a hours ago. thank you very much for sub seth bennett talking to us live there from houston and he will keep us there from houston and he will keep us posted throughout wednesday into

thursday. —— think very much. there was a big night of champions league action on wednesday as inter milan kept alive their hopes in the competition with a confidence boosting 2—0 win over borussia dortmund in milan. it was billed as a must—win match with inter having lost to barcelona and drawn at home to slavia prague in the previous two match days. here's our football reporter, john bennett, taking us through the champions league group of death. ——john —— john bennett. great performance from inter—milan. controlled the game against them. i could not see them scoring. antonio co nte got could not see them scoring. antonio conte got it tactically spot on. there is a problem with dortmund at the moment. they seem to lack that killer instinct to win the big games. before this game they drew in fourth or last six games. there are some issues for their head coach but for inter—really good night. martinez gave them the lead on a brain pass over the top. should have scored a second towards the end as

well. had a penalty well but antonio got a second goal for inter milan at the end at the break. they deserved it. brilliant performance and they saved the day when it comes to the champions league future because it was a must win game for them. also in that group arejohn barcelona did not have it all their own way in their match against sofiya prague. barcelona were poor. they were lucky in this game to get the game. lionel messi gave them to lead earlier on. he thought then that barcelona would run away with it. but had some great chances before half—time. their goalkeeper who is proving himself to be in top three keepers in the world that the moment made some great saves. but in the second half slavia prague kept pushing and they got an equaliser looked as though they weren't put barcelona under pressure but then soon after that equaliser, luis suarez force send the ball from

a tight angle. it will go down as an own goal and you have to feel for slavia prague. before the game, their manager said this was the biggest game in our history. our players can become immortal if we win the game. they push barcelona all the way. they were lucky. elsewhere, the holders liverpool enjoyed a comfortable 4—1 victory against the belgian champions genk. alex oxlade—chamberlain scored the first two goals early in each half, and they were his first goals for the club in 18 months, after a long period out through injury. sadio mane then made it 3—0 with firmino and salah both involved in the build—up. and the egyptian striker then scored the fourth himself before the belgians claimed a late consolation goal. the first goal was brilliant. the second goal was even nicer. although schools were unbelievably beautiful. he scored the second and then it was like a proper knock for genk, we

scored a third, a fourth, we conceded one but that was cool but that wasn't the biggest problem in the world. we won the game, job done, that is it. elsewhere, lorenzo insigne got the winner for napoli as they won a five goal thriller in salzburg — to remain a point clear of liverpool at the top of group e. rb leipzig are the new leaders of group g after beating zenit saint petersburg 2—1 while benfica beat lyon to claim theirfirst win of the group stage. and in group h, michy batshuayi scored the only goal of the game, four minutes from time, as chelsea won at ajax to move level on points with them at the top of the table. two points clear of valencia, who drew at lille. in asia, urawa red diamonds are through to the champions league final for the second time in three years after beating guangzhou evergrande. the only goal of wednesday's second leg in china was scored just after half—time by shinzo koroki as urawa completed a 3—0 aggregate victory. the champions of 2017 will now face the saudi side al hilal in next month's two—legged final when both teams will be aiming to win the title for

a record—equalling third tme. staying with football, they've reached conference semi—finals in the mls cup playoffs. in the first of the eastern conference semis, new york city are playing toronto at citi field. it's 1—1 with 15 minutes to go. and coming up later, the first of the western conference semi—finals between seattle and real salt lake. tributes have been paid to the former paralympic champion marieke vervoort who ended her life through euthanasia. she was a0. the belgian wheelchair racer had an incurable degenerative muscle disease. she lived in constant pain, with paralysis in her legs and she suffered seizures, which all limited her ability to sleep. despite that she won two medals at the london paralympics in 2012, including a gold in the 100 metres, and two more medals at the rio games. that was in 2016 when she spoke to the bbc about her life and the decision to end it when she thought the time was right.

this morning when the nurse came for helping to wash and dress me everything was so painful, when i talk about real pain then i say that you have a lot of pain that you lose consciousness. can you hear me? sometimes it's really difficult because my good days are getting smaller and smaller, more and more bad days and then

that makes it really difficult and when the time comes and i have on the bad days then i think i have really good reason. when you are sure that you will have a soft beautiful death then you can do it with the people that you want that stay with you and it's getting a lot of rest and gives a good feeling and that's why i think i'm still here, it gives a feeling of ease and feeling of rest on my body that i can choose by myself how far i will go. tennis, and the top seed and home favourite roger federer is through to the quarterfinals

of the swiss indoors in basel. the 20—time grand slam champion is bidding to win the event for the third year in a row, which would be his tenth overall. he tookjust 62 minutes to thrash radu albot from moldova. federer, who used to be a ball boy at the tournament, won 6—love, 6—3 to seal his place in the last eight, where he could face fellow swiss stan wawrinka. earlier, wawrinka who's the number—seven seed, made it through to round two with a straight sets victory over uruguay‘s pablo cuevas. wawrinka won 6—3, 6—4 and now plays frances tiafoe of the usa. the winner of that will play federer in the quarterfinals. wednesday's winners also included david goffin. the number—six seed from belgium beat the 2016 champion marin cilic in straight sets. goffin who reached the final back in 2014 now plays the 6'11" american reilly 0pelka. you can get all the latest sports news at our website, that's bbc.com/sport. but from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye.

hello there. i think it's fair to say many of us will be glad to see the back of october and we've still got another week to come and there is more rain in the forecast for the next few days. some of it quite heavy as well. however, as we do close out the month, it does look as though we are likely to see a change. a different trend — drier, but it will feel noticeably colder by day and by night. for the here and now though we've got a couple of weather fronts sandwiched across england and wales producing some cloud and light patchy rain. as they sink south and east behind it, the winds will strengthen and this weather front up into the north—west is going to enhance some showers for the remainder of the day. we will start a little milder than the mornings just past. so, double digits quite widely across the country. some early morning mist and fog patches perhaps in the south—east and those weak weather fronts, a band of cloud, and drizzle driving its way south and east. but behind it there will be quite a clearance.

some sunny spells coming through before that frontal system enhances the showers up into the north—west with some pretty gale force gusts of winds at times. top temperatures, 11—14 degrees. now, as that low pressure starts to tuck in from the north—west, it's going to introduce a colder flow. so, a bit of a north—south divide in the feel of the weather and the type of the weather that we're going to see. so, as we move into friday, we've got that low pressure just enhancing plenty of showers into the north—west and with the colder air kicking in, some of the more wintry will be in the higher ground. but at the same time into the south west, we've got a pulse of wet weather that's going to move in and once it arrives, it's here to stay for quite some time. it will bring some rain, some of it heavy as it pushes into wales, northern england, and northern ireland. now, that's the dividing line between that colder air into the far north. eight or 9 degrees as a maximum, and slightly milder conditions down into the south—east corner. but unfortunately, it's like a relentless conveyor belt of rain through friday into saturday across much of wales and northern

england before it slowly starts to show that it will clear away during the latter stages of saturday afternoon. but be prepared for some disruption for wales and north west england. we could have another 100 mm of rain on top of the already wet month that we've seen. so, please tune in to your local bbc radio stations for updates of any traffic and travel issues. but once that front‘s cleared away, we're going to see a change. some chillier mornings, some frost around but some dry, sunny weather conditions and that's because high pressure is set to build in from the atlantic and quieten things down over the next few days. that's it. whatever you're doing, take care.

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