debut. will he, won't he? could woods join golf‘s new disru ptor competition with a prize fund of $240 million? hello and thanks for joining us on sport today. the shanghai grand prix is the latest sporting event to be postponed in china due to the ongoing outbreak of the coronavirus. the formula 1 racejoins among others, the chinese super league, the world athletics indoor championships, and a world cup alpine skiing event to be cancelled or postponed. organisers of the race, scheduled for the 19th april in shanghai, requested the postponement as chinese officials continue their efforts bring the virus under control. adam wild has more. it isn't a decision taken lightly, but given the scale of the outbreak it won't surprise many. april's

chinese grand prix postponed as the coronavirus continues to spread. shanghai track is less than 500 miles from wuhan, where the virus first took hold. and because of that and because of fears across the globe about the speed and severity of the outbreak, organisers were left with little choice. a statement today from the faa points to efforts today from the faa points to efforts to ensure the health and safety of the travelling staff, championship participants and fans, which remains a primary concern. it goes on to say that they will take the appropriate amount of time to study the viability of potential alternative dates for the grand prix later in the year, should the situation improve. but that may prove problematic, with 22 races on this yea r‘s problematic, with 22 races on this year's calendar, finding space for a rescheduled race won't be easy. the only way it could happen is if it was much later in the, september, october time, then you would be running four, maybe five grand prix on back to back weekends. for that

to happen all the teams would have to happen all the teams would have to agree. and they simply don't think they would all be up for that. so for me they've called it this moment, they are looking at other viable dates, but i don't think it's realistic. so with shanghai off for now, what about the others? concerns have been raised about the inaugural vietnamese race due to take place at the beginning of april. so far, that remains unaffected. but motorsport, like the rest of the world, will continue to pay close attention. adam wild, bbc news. the asian champions league has also been affected by the coronavirus outbreak, with this week's matches involving chinese clubs re—scheduled for april. but two games were played on wednesday and they included a big win for vissel kobe who thrashed malaysia'sjohor darul ta'zim. colm harrison reports. led by andres iniesta, a man who won four league titles among his major medals with parcel —— barcelona, vissel kobe were making the

champions league debut. it was iniesta who set up the opening goal of the game after only 13 minutes. anotherformer of the game after only 13 minutes. another former barcelona player then had a hand in the goal that brought the malaysian champions level. quite literally a hand. his untimely intervention gave the chance to level it up forjohor darul ta'zim from the penalty spot. there after though it was 1—way traffic. and by half—time the home side back in front. a terrific strike making it 2-1 to front. a terrific strike making it 2—1 to the front. a terrific strike making it 2-1 to the ‘g front. a terrific strike making it 2—1 to the ‘g leg side at the break, before they ran riot after it. a second media 3—1, before douglas got in on the act, rolling home a fall. and yet they won't finish. there was still time to complete a hat—trick and to seal a 5—1victory. tougher tests lay ahead, but this was the perfect start for the champions league debutantes. yokohama are back in the champions league for the first time in six years and they began with a win away to the

two—time champions, jeonbruk fm. a goal and two—time champions, jeonbruk fm. a goaland an two—time champions, jeonbruk fm. a goal and an own goal gave them a 2—0 lead at half—time in south korea. things hardly improve for the k leg side after the break, despite putting a goal back, they had a player sent off either side of that and finishing the game with nine men was hardly the way they hoped to start their campaign. from asia to europe. paris saint—germain extended their unbeaten run to 22 matches in all competitions as they hammered dijon to reach the french cup semi—finals. the hosts held out for all of 47 seconds, before wesley lautoa scored an own goal, they did equalise though before the floodgates opened — kylian mbappe among the scorers, as that one finished 6—1. meanwhile, lyon beat marseille 1—0 houssam ouar with the winner there. over in italy, it's advantage napoli after the first leg of their italian cup semi final,

spanish international fabian ruiz with the only goal of the game. the return leg in naples will be on the fifth of march. and finally, in spain, iker muniain has given athletic bilbao a slender lead as they beat granada 1—0 in their copa del rey semi final first leg on to golf, and tiger woods says he's not ruling out taking part in a proposed worldwide premier league — a new competition to rival the pga tour. woods, who's won 15 major titles, was approached by organisers of the grand prix—style tour. it would feature the worlds top players players, taking apart in 18 events, with a prize fund of some $2110 million. you are trying to get the top players to play more collectively and that is one of the reasons why, you know, we instituted the world golf championships, because we were only getting together five times a year, the four majors and the players. we wanted to showcase the top players on more

than just those occasions. we came up with the world golf championships and we are meeting more often. so this is a natural evolution, whether things like this are going to happen, but the ideas like this are going to happen going forward. let's hear now from our golf correspondent iain carter, who explains how the planned premier league would differ from the established pga tour and european tour. well, it differs massively in the sense it's going to be an elite structure for just 48 players stop they will be playing, as you say, for massive prize money, potentially 18 tournaments in a year. almost on a model that is used by the formula one grand prix circuit, where they would be travelling around several tournaments in the united states, but all of the world. the other key dynamic to it, 54 hole tournaments, a team element to it as well, which

then opens the door for potential tea m then opens the door for potential team franchise owners. and i think thatis team franchise owners. and i think that is something that has really caught the interest of many of the big names at the moment. so it would be radically different from the pga tour model and that also from the european tour. they do think that this could precipitate change any professional golf model. they do think there is a very serious feeling amongst the biggest names that they're the players who are attracting the television money, attracting the television money, attracting the television money, attracting the sponsors, yet it is the lesser players who often profit and they would like to see, i think, and they would like to see, i think, a model that brings the bigger names together in big—money events more frequently, whether it's in the current structure or this newly that's been proposed. the premier golf league is saying that they'd like to start in 2022 or 2023, which isa like to start in 2022 or 2023, which is a pretty short timeframe, really, to rip up the model of professional golf. maybe it take a fraction longer than that. we'll have to wait

and see. there are so many u na nswered and see. there are so many unanswered questions about this at the moment. if you talk to people at the moment. if you talk to people at the very top of the professional game they'll tell you that their hunchis game they'll tell you that their hunch is that it can't work. but if they were to get someone like tiger woods on side than that would change everything. on to tennis, and the top seed daniil medvedev is out of the rotterdam open. he was beaten in straight sets by vasek pospisil. the canadian, who's ranked 104 in the world, won 6—4, 6—3 to seal his place in the second round. he'll now face the serbian filip krajinovic. the defending champion gael monfils is safely through to the second round. the frenchman, who's the number three seed, beat portugal's joao sousa in straight sets. monfils is bidding for back—to back tour titles, following his victory in montpellier last week, — and he tookjust an hour and ten minutes to win 6—3, 6—2. monfils will now play compatriot gilles simon for a place in the quarter—finals.

on to cricket, and england threw away the opportunity to beat hosts south africa in the first t20 international, losing a dramatic contest byjust one run temba bavuma top—scored with 43 as south africa made 177 for eight from their 20 overs. and england looked to be cantering to their target. jason roy smashing 70 from 38 balls including a 22—ball half century, to reach 132 for two, before his dismissal sparked an england collapse. adil rashid was run out off the last ball, while chasing the run that would have forced a super over. the second match is in durban on friday. that is all the time we have for 110w. 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. wednesday saw a break in all this wild weather as more parts of the country enjoyed some sunshine and the showers became fewer. mind you, it's still a wintry scene in the hills across the northern half of the uk and here in southern scotland in particular. it's still cold in scotland as well. we are seeing the weather changing, the wind is strengthening from the south—west, pushing in all the cloud. for many parts of the country we will find rain continuing overnight, pushing in from the south—west of england where it will be particularly mild. further north we still have cold air so it is notjust rain but also snow and even in the rush hour some snow falling in the central belt of scotland. most snow over the hills and central, southern england and for northern ireland so it could be wintry

for a while but it is mostly rain, even that petering out during the morning. further south, heavy showers and those will be driven on by some gale force winds across southern england through the english channel and channel islands with gusts of 60 mph. the winds will ease down a bit through the afternoon as they push into eastern england. further north, an improving story with many places drying off and brightening off, still damp and grey and cold for south—east scotland and north—east of england. the area of low pressure bringing all that weather is going to push away during thursday evening and by the time we get to friday we have the next weather system approaching from the north—west. in between overnight, a ridge of high pressure and clearer skies and it will get cold enough for a touch of frost, maybe some icy patches and a few fog patches first thing. the wind will pick up as it is already in northern ireland in the morning where we see wind and rain here and that will come down from the north—west. snow over the mountains of scotland this time and elsewhere the snow will melt because we get a south south—westerly wind, much milder and temperatures will rise, 8—12 degrees. not much rain for eastern parts of england. it is getting milder on friday

and that mild weather continues into the weekend but we also see the arrival of this deepening area of low pressure that is running between scotland and iceland and that is storm dennis and dennis will be a menace through the weekend into monday. two main elements to the weather. first, the wind strength reaching 60 mph, and there will be some very big waves as well. secondly, the rain. that will be heavy at times, particularly across england and wales, over four inches possible over the hills of wales and the south—west, threatening more flooding.

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