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this is bbc news. i'm martine croxall and these are the latest headlines. israeli police say a 13—year—old boy has shot and injured two people in eastjerusalem, a day after seven people were shot dead near a synagogue. prime minister benjamin netanyahu promises a "strong, swift and accurate" response. graphic footage is released showing the moment 29—year—old black man —— tyre nichols —— was beaten by five police officers in the us city of memphis. a 15—year—old girl has died after being stabbed in northumberland. police have arrested a 16—year—old boy on suspicion of murder. british regional airline flybe ceases trading for a second time. hundreds of staff have been made redundant.
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now it's time for sportsday. hello there, and welcome along to another busy saturday sportsday. sunderland give fulham a scare in the fa cup. but this progress to the fifth round. it sabalenka's arena and her time to shine, she comes back to win the australian open and her first ever grand slam. herfirst ever grand slam. it's third time lucky for alfie hewett who wins the men's wheelchair singles title in melbourne for the first time. also coming up in the programme, knockout king anthony benna video is in anthony yarde�*s back yard tonight. is a benna video is in anthony yarde's back yard tonight.— back yard tonight. is a difference between thinking _ back yard tonight. is a difference between thinking something - back yard tonight. is a difference between thinking something and| between thinking something and knowing. i'm going to be the unified heavyweight champion of the world.
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hello and welcome along to sportsday on another busy weekend of fa cup action. there was potential for a few upsets in the fa cup fourth round — leicester and southampton all managed to see off lower tier opposition. but fulham were taken all the way by sunderland — who were close to knocking out their premier league opponents. league two grimsby clawed themselves back to remain in the competition. adam wild reports. 45 years ago to the day, leicester came to walsall at the same point in the same competition. they were beaten. a memorable upset, what chance an anniversary repeat? when leicester were awarded a penaltyjust before half—time the was fading a little. things are rarely so simple. this effort came back off the post and within moments walsall almost scored themselves, andy williams, almost.
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three divisions between these sides but here it would take only good fortune to separate them. iheanacho's shot deflected up, overand in. leicester squeezing through an old—fashioned cup tie but no repeat of history. such is the lure of those special days, 6000 sunderland fans travelled from wearside to west london in search of one. premier league fulham's welcome was generous, gifting a goal to jack clark. the championship side could, probably should, have had more which made this brilliant equaliser all the tougher to take. a replay awaits. perhaps the biggest surprise of the day came at luton. no, not the sprinklers are suddenly switching on, but a grimsby town equaliser. two divisions above luton. —— two divisions below luton. adam wild, bbc news. well, in the day's other games, there was a comprehensive win for bristol city against fellow championship side west brom,
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while premier league leeds made light work of league one accrington sta nley. joe lynskey has the rest of the day's action. round four of the cup at accrington stanley, a noise and a stage the league one side aren't used to. they've been here four times in their history and never progressed, but leeds united showed no sympathy. harrison, a long way out but a moment of premier league quality. they too haven't reached the fifth round since 2016, but with a flick from patrick bamford and a strike from junior firpo, they were on their way there. leeds would end up 3—1winners, a feeling they've not had in six league games. the fa cup winners of 1972 are one step closer. we didn't take accrington lightly, credit to them. they fought hard. we knew that they were going to play direct and a lot of free kicks and throw ins, so we had to dig in, early, but getting the goal was important and then i thought we came out of the dressing room second half
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with the right mentality and found a way to get the win. cup wins at southampton have brought sound back to the south coast. they are bottom of the premier league but still in the hunt for two trophies. that is a thumping free kick to put southampton in front. their latest march was past championship side blackpool, who were coached for the first time by mick mccarthy, but the former ireland manager would have to learn from defeat. 2—1 to southampton and their fifth win under nathanjones, four of them have been in cups. we've have had five wins in the league which would put us in a far better position but with time that should come and then we will find something in the cup, there's a lot to be positive about, we need to transfer the cup form into the lead. in an all championship tie, bristol city beat west brom with the help of a new star. sam bell isjust 20, his dad,
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mickey, was also an icon on this ground. bell scored twice, his team won 3—0. in an inconsistent league season cup run is over refreshing change. few teams will relish a fifth round trip to ashton gate. sheffield wednesday had got this far by beating newcastle, now they were 1—0 down to a team from their own league but fleetwood town had to make do with a replay. 1—1 and both league one sides will go again. both will be in monday's draw. joe lynskey, bbc news. tottenham's tie—up preston is into the latter stages of the second half, spurs are leading to— zero. harry kane darted on the bench, son heung—min has done the business with two second—half strikes. these were his first goals since spurs beat crystal palace in the premier league on the 4th of january. he last
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managed two goals in a match back in october. and these are the live pictures from that match. it's over on bbc one right now — and on the iplayer too. around ten minutes to go in that match, spurs looking good for the win. the premier league side edging it with the quality, ten minutes to go in that one, bbc one for the closing stages there. here's a check on all of today's fourth round scores. two games we haven't mentioned. blackburn and birmingham drew 2—2, while league one ipswich drew 0—0 with championship leaders burnley. the late kick—off sees manchester united play reading at old trafford at eight o'clock. former united legend paul ince returns, in charge of the championship side this evening. united boss erik ten hag says they're not taking any chances. we have to be ready for every game, every opponent will be tough and especially in the cup.
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that is for them a perfect chance. we have to be aware of that, so we have to be front foot, full focused and full of energy. for people like us, for the fans, you've always got to dream and the fa cup is about giant—killing, that's what it's about nowadays. we know eventually you will get a wigan or something like that, it doesn't happen nowadays, it's normally the _ big sides but for us it's about giant—killing so we got an opportunity to do that. giant—killing, let's see if it happens later this evening! aberdeen have sacked their managerjim goodwin. today's thrashing by hibs followed on from monday's shock scottish cup defeat to sixth tier darvel. which in turn followed a 5—0 hammering by hearts at tynecastle. the club made a brief statement on social media, referring to an "unacceptable run of results since the world cup break".
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rangers have narrowed the gap at the top of the table to six points after a 2—0 home win against ten man st johnstone. rangers have played a game more than celtic who are away at dundee united tomorrow. now let's turn to our attention to tennis — and what a women's final we were treated to earlier. aryna sabalenka won herfirst grand slam singles title — afterfighting back to beat elena rybakina in three sets in the australian open final. fifth seed sabalenka won under a neutralflag because her country belarus has supported russia's war in ukraine. ben croucher reports. the singles champion for 2023, aryna sabalenka. a maiden major winner, herfirst grand title was done the hard way and this was a match played between two warriors. powerful, punchy ground strokes, big serves, the points were not long but they were explosive. the biggest bang coming from rybakina in the first set.
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for the kazakh the tension crept in, everyone was feeling it except sabalenka who was on hand to capitalise on that change in momentum and they were going the distance. the biggest shots... oh, gargantuan. ..on the biggest points, were coming from the racket now off the belarusian. three match points came and went but a fourth time lucky! game, set and match. a fitting famous final, a new name on that trophy, sealed with a kiss. ben croucher, bbc news. so quite a win for sabalenka — and afterwards she almost seemed lost for words. i don't know, it's hard to explain what i'm feeling right now, but... just... i'm super happy, super happy, proud and, i don't know how to explain. it's the best, it's the best day of my life right now! i had some chances for sure to turn
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it around but she played really well today, she was stronger mentally, physically, so yeah, overall, as i said it was a good two weeks for me here. alfie hewett says there was "a lot of baggage" behind his tears as he won his first australian open men's wheelchair singles title. hewett lost the melbourne final in 2021 and last year, but beat japan's tokita oda in straight sets to claim his seventh grand slam singles title. it goes alongside his fourth aussie open doubles title, won yesterday alongside gordon reid. it's been a long time coming, a lot of hard work, to lose this tournament in the final for the last couple of years was heartbreaking and mentally challenging so to get the opportunity to be back here and playing another singles final is something i was extremely motivated for, really delighted to be able to get over the line this time. it's a massive weight off my shoulders.
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so a great day at the tennis, and to round it all up, earlier i spoke to former british player and radio 5live analyst annabel croft. and we started by talking about sabalenka's win, and whether she and rybakina could go on to boss the women's game in the future. i don't know if they are going to dominate it because you have iga swiatek who went out relatively early and won two grand slam titles last year but you certainly feel they are young, in their mid—20s, and maybe we might see them going after grand slam titles in finals again in the future. but it was a terrific final, almost two and a half hours, nip and tuck all the way, a lot of tension, a lot of nerves, a few twists and turns but eventually sabalenka got herself over the line. alfie hewett, a win for him, an emotional win, you could see how much it meant when he won the title, the first men's singles wheelchair title he has won. it was amazing because it's his seventh overall but his first at the
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australian open and he'd been in the finals the last two years and he also won the doubles yesterday with gordon reid, which was a fantastic achievement, which tallied up the 16th grand slam title together. so it's been an amazing australian open for him and he said he is going to get on the plane and make that long journey back, it's worth all the hard work he's been putting in on the practice court because he said at one point he was doing something like six sessions a day, can you believe it, so a lot of emotion, a lot of baggage that had built up and erupted out of him but you couldn't wish it on a nicer person. absolutely, great to see. finally, looking ahead to the big men's final between stephan tsitsipas and novak djokovic, is there any stopping djokovic and how will the controversy around his father play out? he talked openly and honestly about that yesterday and he is bitterly disappointed and quite mortified that situation occurred. i do believe him when i think he said his dad had gone
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out into the crowds and was just thanking all the fans and there was a lot of noise out there late at night, quite dark, he thought it was a serbian flag, he said it's a lot to cope with and as we know with a motion going on off the court and things you have to deal with on top ofjust trying to play your tennis it's not easy, but can tsitsipas win? i think he has a great chance. he's playing the best tennis of his career. he's been in a grand slam final before in the french open and led djokovic by 2—0 sets, so he's in a more optimistic mind, he is less negative, playing the right kind of tennis and djokovic has had that hamstring injury, he's been a little bit emotional and a lot of nerves in his tennis, so if anyone was going to do it i think this would be the time for tsitsipas. it's10—2 head to head favourite for djokovic and he has won the last nine but it feels it is 50—50, and the world number one is on the line as well so a lot at stake for both. a lot at stake for both indeed. that match between djokovic
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and tsitsipas from around 8:30am tomorrow, coverage on radio five live sports extra. annabel will be commentating on that one. let's have a quick look at some of the other stories making headlines today. 14—year—old vladislav gradinari's run at the snooker shoot out is over after he lost 91—28 to england's tom ford. the moldovan teenager became the youngest player to win a televised ranking event in the first round. despite having lost, he took his turn at the table to huge cheers from the crowd at morningside arena in leicester. american skier mikaela shiffrin is one away from equalling the record for world cup wins after her 85th victory in the czech republic, finishing sixth tenths ahead of the opposition in the slalom. she can equal swede ingemar stenmark�*s 86 if she wins in the same disclipine tomorrow. megan oldham has become the first woman to land a triple cork in a ski or snowboard competition. the canadian pulled off the move on her third run in the women's
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ski big air in aspen, colorado. the perfect score helped her win gold. britain's kirsty muir came third to win her first x games medal. and british rookiejake hughes has claimed his first pole postion forjust his third race in formula e. the mclaren driver beat jaguar�*s mitch evans by a tenth of a second in qualifying for the second race at the diriyah e—prix in saudi arabia. it was a tight game between premiership leaders saracens and bottom side bristol bears. sarries edging it byjust a point — and a point was the difference at welford road. northampton won the east midlands derby, pipping leicester by 19 points to 18. try of the match came in the second half. and was made possible byjames ramm's superb pass for ollie sleightholme to finish off for northampton. this weekend sees the debut of the shot clock being trialled to reduce wasted time on penalties and conversions, a freddie burns kick not enough to achieve
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a leicester win on his last game for the club. exeter are into the top four after beating gloucester 24—17. ollie woodburn scored the last of their three tries. sarries beat bristol 20—19. gloucester picked up a losing bonus point. in the united rugby championship, dragons fell to another defeat, this time at the hands of glasgow. they lost 42—28. sebastian cancilliere running almost the whole length of the pitch for glasgow. both sides picked up a bonus point. nojoin for cardiff at no join for cardiff at inform leicester, swept aside. max o'reilly going over here. it was a bonus point victory for the championship leaders. the south african side ran in three tries as they won 22—19. there were wins for munster and
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connacht. reigning champions saracens thrashed bristol bears by 36—5 points in the women's premier 15s. the two sides began the game level on points, and sharifa kosolo was the last to cross the line for sarries as they ran in five tries in the mid—table battle. well, elsewhere in the premier 15s, leaders gloucester—hartpury won 41—11 points against sale sharks. darlington were beaten by harlequins. and there was a win for worcester warriors against loughborough lightning. richard bland has a share of the lead of the dubai desert classic. he hit his second consecutive 67 to lie ten under par alongside two others. rory mcilroy and dan bradbury, matt wallace and ian poulter remain in contention, in a group of eight players all on eight under par. highlight of rory mcilroy�*s round was that eagle at the 13th.
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ahoy senor�*s trainer lucinda russell says the horse will run in the cheltenham gold cup after winning today's cotswold chase. ridden by derek fox, the eight—year—old held off challenges from the favourite protektorat and grand national winner noble yeats, who finished fourth and third respectively. it was a poignant day for russell after her father peter, who part—owned ahoy senor, passed away last monday on his 64th wedding anniversary. anthony yarde says he's focused on upsetting the odds, and dethroning the light heavyweight champion artur beterbiev this evening. the 31—year—old from east london is a big underdog against the wbo, wbc and ibf belt holder — who has 18 knockouts in 18 fights. it's a huge test at wembley arena. ade adedoyin has more. just to warn you, there's some flash photography coming up. 100%, fireworks, explosions and pure entertainment. to win a world title at this stage would mean the world, it would mean everything. it's notjust the world title, it's three world titles.
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it's the unification of the whole light heavyweight division. three of the major belts in one go. at the same venue that i started my professional boxing career, amazing. there's the difference between thinking something and knowing. i'm going to be the unified heavyweight champion of the world. as a boxer he is a good challenge for me, because he had a good professional career. he had good fights and i'm prepared for him, like everyone. every fight is important for me. to have a couple of strategies, like, but i can't tell you. any boxer is dangerous. he tries to punch me, i tried to punch him, like, we will see. anthony yarde has certainly got the tools for the job to win this fight. from where he has come from, anthony yarde, to where he is now,
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has been a fantastic progression in the timescale he's had because he hasn't had the amateur experience. i still think it's going to be a really hard fight but it's going to be a hard fight for both of them. to the normal person, members of the public, he is not a household name, beterbiev, but to us boxing people he is one of the biggest names in the sport. this would go down as one of the best and biggest world title victories for a light heavyweight in this country ever. it's going to be a cracking fight, that. let's get back to the football, not so much in the way of a fourth—round giant—killing so far in the fa cup but that might change tomorrow in the last round. in the last round, stevenage, from league two, showed how to do it, winning at premier league aston villa. ahead of their trip to stoke city this weekend, our breakfast presenter mike bushell went to stevenage, the town where he grew up, to see the impact the cup magic is having. come on!
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stevenage, the town that's given us out of this world spacecraft like x0 mars rover, global formula one star lewis hamilton and the first pedestrianised town centre after became one of britten�*s new towns in the 1950s, now has a football team that's walking on cloud nine again, making headlines and bringing club and community together. a cup upset for the ages. for nearly a decade they've languished in league two, but stevenage caused one of the big cup upsets in the last round when they won aston villa with two late goals rekindling memories of when they knocked out newcastle in 2011 and now giving one of the lower league's most famous characters and iconic cup moment. get everyone in the studio doing it, come on! everyone is going crazy. that's what it means
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to the true people that own football clubs, the supporters. it makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, seeing how happy they are, i didn't expect that, i expected to be happy with walking up the tunnel and going home but it's the magic of the cup. like his beloved dogs, archie and hugo, evans is a bit of a terrier when it comes to getting lower league clubs to bite the bigger clubs in cup upsets. now they are taking an interest. stoke city! i get a feeling the dogs are important in your coaching inspiration. sometimes when i'm sitting picking the team archie comes across and there is a nudge when i say, is it him, or him? whoever is wagging the tail, it's working. stevenage are on course for promotion from league two but it's the cup stirring the town into life, evans earning legendary status. i'm a legend in this kitchen! i think the fa cup is one of those
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competitions that allows you to dream, makes your town, makes your city, makes your sleeping supporters wake up. we've gone from 15 or 1600 people to 7000 now, so it's fantastic. like thousands of other families, back in the �*60s my mum and dad moved to stevenage new town to start their family. when the footballing landscape was very different. this was my first ever primary school in stevenage when i was growing up here. i came here when i was four years old and i remember kicking around a ball in this field with the teachers and friends, my new friends, and none of us would talk about stevenage football club, we didn't really know what it was. they were down in non—league obscurity, so we were glory hunters and fans of the more successful teams like leeds in the early �*70s. now, it couldn't be more different for the new generation. proud to support the town's club,
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wear the shirts, and i tell you what, the fa cup run has really put the town on the map. we are really lucky here, stevenage football club come into the school frequently, send players in as role models for our children. that promotion of girls' football as well so they have coaches who come in from both genders to support players of the game. up the road the club's announcerjay works at a school well younger stevenage professionals study and help coach, and cup run has strengthened the bond further. aston villa to us, it could be something we talk about for a generation. the whole town feels connected and everyone is buzzing, - everyone is together. the magic we see here is not like anything else in the world. i remember living in stevenage i couldn't buy a stevenage shirt. we are a funny town, lots of people have two teams, their second team has been stevenage but a lot of people say my first team is stevenage and my second team is arsenal or tottenham. # watching stevenage borough #.
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this season has already been a game changer for the town as evans prepares to lead his team and thousands of fans to stoke and another chance for the underdog to potentially say... steve na g e! let's see if they can do that tomorrow. those pictures of mike, you can't beat them. to confirm, tottenham hotspur are through to the fifth round of the fa cup, they've beaten preston north end 3—0, son heung—min scored the first two goals at deepdale and on his tottenham debutjuma, on loan from villarreal, completed the victory in the 87th minute so 3—0 to antonio conte's men, through to the fifth round, preston are out. manchester united kick off against reading in the next few minutes but that's all we've got from us here on sportsday, we'll have more a bit later this evening. thanks very much, we will see you
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soon. good evening, so far it hasn't been dramatic weather—wise. we've had a lot of cloud around but also a bit of sunshine, some blue sky for a weather watch and county antrim. things do turn a little livelier for some on sunday, stronger winds and some on sunday, stronger winds and some outbreaks of rain particularly across the northern half of the country. overnight england and wales seeing large amounts of cloud and the odd spot of drizzle but some clearer spells creeping in from the north—west. for northern ireland and scotland which will start off with some clear spells we'll see more cloud rolling in from the north—west. a strengthening breeze. temperatures for most places staying above freezing, there may be pockets of frost. tomorrow, this area of low pressure and this frontal system will turn things more unsettled in the north. some outbreaks of rain eventually but also a strengthening wind. furthersouth eventually but also a strengthening wind. further south it will be fairly breezy, a cloudy start in the south of england, but things across england and wales will brighten up with some sunny spells. through the
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afternoon gusty winds particularly to the eastern side of the pennines, around the north coast of northern ireland and generally quite windy across scotland, some exposed spots in the north of scotland seeing gusts of 65 miles an hour. with this band of rain moving south eastwards perhaps a short, sharp burst of rain moving through, ahead of that very mild, temperatures of 9—12. a little bit colder behind this weather front as it sweeps southwards during sunday night and into monday, then we see this ridge of high pressure building and so showed they should be a decent amount of dry weather on monday and more in the way of sunshine at least for a time more cloud will roll in from the west later in the day with some splashes of rain. temperatures up to eight, nine or 10 degrees. as we look ahead to tuesday, we are going to see the winds strengthening through the day. there will be some sunny spells but for northern england northwards some showers too which will be wintering over high ground and perhaps to lower levels at times in scotland, the winds really picking up particularly across scotland,
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northern ireland and northern england, and temperatures between 7-12. but england, and temperatures between 7—12. but as an area of low pressure squashes in to the north of scotland during tuesday night, quite a deep low, lots of white lines, lots of isobars on this chart, we could see a spell of very windy, even stormy weather, so it does turn quite lively for a time into the new week.
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welcome to bbc news. i'm martine croxall. police in the american city of memphis have released graphic footage of the violent arrest that led to the death of 29—year—old black man. the officers' body camera video shows tyre nichols being kicked and punched by five policemen. the officers, who are also black, have been sacked and face multiple charges, including murder. a warning, nada tawfik�*s report contains some distressing images. nojustice! no peace! the familiar rallying cry heard too often after incidents of police brutality. memphis's worst fears never materialised as protesters remained peaceful. a considered effort by city officials to deliver swiftjustice for tyre nichols seems to have worked. small—scale demonstrations took place across the country,
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from new york to detroit and los angeles.

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