good evening — this is your update from the bbc sport centre. there's always drama and plenty to talk about when liverpool and real madrid meet in europe. and this evening's match at anfield didn't disappoint but for liverpool, they were on the end of a heavy loss. on a goal packed evening, andy swiss was there to see it all unfold. can you tell us more, andy? it was an extraordinary match. liverpool 2—0 up after 15 minutes and losing 5—2. that was the headline. the match was complicated than that. liverpool got onto a brilliant start after that goalfrom darwin nunez. that was followed up by a second from mohamed salah after that horrific goalkeeping howler from the real madrid goalkeeper.

at that stage, anfield was rocking with the home side 2—0 up but real madrid came back with two goals before the half. from vinicius junior. the from viniciusjunior. the second of those from a goalkeeping howler from the liverpool goalkeeper. two goalkeeping blunders tonight. after half—time, real madrid took control. three goals in the second half. two of them from karim benzema, which meant that real madrid, having been 2—0 down, won 5—2 on the night. quite extraordinary, and it means liverpool has a mountain to climb in the second leg in real madrid in three weeks�* time. napoli took charge of their tie against eintracht frankfurt , beating them 2—0 in germany. the runaway italian league leaders had a penalty saved before victor osimihen scored his 20th goal of the season. frankfurt had a man sent off as napoli controlled the game and giovanni di lorenzo made it 2—0 after an hour. they'll be favourites to progress in the second leg in italy in three weeks�* time.

leeds united's search for a new manager is over. it's javi gracia who's taking over at elland road, following the sacking ofjesse marsch, on what the club have called a �*flexible contract. with leeds fighting against relegation from the premier league. imran sidat reports. after several setbacks, leedss finally have a new man in charge. javi gracia has been announced as the new head coach with the task of keeping them in the premier league. the top of his remit. league. after saturday�*s defeat at everton made a relegation fight even tougher, they have moved fast to make an appointment. i understand it�*s a very narrow style that he brings and we have seen that before from jesse marsch before him. what we have to see is an effective style. it has to be effective, because everything rests on leeds united in the future staying in the premier league. i think they will be relieved that someone has come in and to, be quite frank, doing nothing was going backwards and sending them one way into the championship.

in his previous spell in england, gracia did well at watford. they fell short against manchester city at wembley but he did lead them to an 11th place finish in the league. he�*s managed in spain before a spell in qatar but is he the right man for the job? it became a bit of a struggle to get the right man and looking at his record, yes, he�*s had quite a few clubs, but he�*s done a pretty good job in the clubs and a lot of fans speak highly of him so, i�*m happy with the appointment. they�*ve picked up this one point from the following three games and we can premier league safety escalating and with the six point against southampton and to come this weekend, the club will be hoping that they can bring the feel—good factor back to elland road. wales coach warren gatland says he�*s confident strike action from the players can be avoided — and that their match

against england in the six nations will go ahead on saturday. the game remains in doubt, with players threatening to strike in a dispute with welsh rugby bosses over contracts. gatland has delayed the team announcement until thursday, and the wru have insisted it is working on a deal with the four welsh regions ahead of wednesday�*s deadline to resolve the player demands. england will play south africa, in the women�*s t20 world cup semifinal after the hosts beat bangladesh by ten wickets. earlier, england thrashed pakistan with a record breaking margin of 114 runs to top their group. england put up 213—5 in their innings with opener danni wyatt hitting a half century, and nat sciver—brunt top scoring with 81. it was the highest total in a t20 world cup match ever. they were just as impressive with the ball, leaving pakistan on 99—9. to be the best in the world you have

to beat the current best in the world. aaustralia have been consistently at the top of their game for a long time. at the moment, we are trying to focus on ourselves and not look to outwardly at other teams. in the past we have probably done that quite a lot and it�*s not really worked out for us. that�*s all the sport for now. her name was ella, and some say she was the canary in the coal mine.

this is the church which held her baptism, herfirst communion and, aged nine, herfuneral. she literally drowned in her own mucus and i know that�*s really hard for people to hear, and i think there were a few times i wanted to die, too. i think i was in such despair. so, the decision i had to make is do you carry on and fight for others or do you just walk away? this was ella�*s best friend, anais. hello! mwah, mwah! you�*ve gotten taller! no, i haven't. i'm still the same height! laughs. these have got... oh, my god, i haven�*t

seen you for so long. i know! growing up, they had been inseparable. the very last phone call rosamond and ella had made was to anais, the night before ella died. i have very, very fond memories, even though we were so young, i get little snippets and memories of us bouncing around and balancing on beams and she loved it so much — she was such an active person — and what, for me, was so shocking is how one day she'd go from being so bubbly and happy and the next day, she'd be really, really ill in hospital. i think she was fanatically calling your house and i think it went through — and it went through to an answering machine... voicemail, yeah. ..voicemail, and she was wishing you happy birthday. yeah. i think that voicemail, i still — i can't listen to it. i think i listened to it the day after... ooh — i wondered that. ..before we came to your house. god — i always wondered that. yeah, but since then, i haven't been able to listen to it. but my birthday is a difficult day because i want to be happy because i know she should be want me

to be happy on my birthday... you should be! yeah, you should be, because that�*s what she would have wanted. when i last saw her before my birthday, she was fine. so for me, it was really difficult to find out what had happened. in fact, it took rosamond seven years to fight for answers, crowdfunding money to pay for a high court battle to win a new inquest. overwhelmed. absolutely a fantastic day. giggles. and in 2020, that inquest proved what was really behind what had begun as a small cough. coughs. ella�*s new death certificate was groundbreaking, eventually listing air pollution amongst the causes of death — a moment so significant, it made headlines right around the world. in her final two years, ella had been rushed into a&e here in lewisham 30 times...

hello! ..often into the care of doctor tina sajjhana. is there anyone who is left here? yes! there�*sjonah... yep. ..and laurence. rosamond had been trained by staff here how to resuscitate her daughter — something that had happened many times when she stopped breathing and collapsed at home. you don't forget a child like that who's in hospital a lot, but i think there was something else. when ella smiled, she lit up the room. i will always remember us coming into a&e. she could be really sick when she came in. yeah, well, she will have collapsed at some point. watching her on that resuscitation bed, it wasjust incredibly frightening. losing a child is a very tragic thing but to turn that tragedy into something really positive, i think, i can only be admired — admired to the top degree.

ella�*s death certificate was a world first. it made this little girl from london global news. and since then, her face and her mother�*s fight has been adopted by clean air campaign is right around the world. 7 million people die every year because of pollution. 7 million. and this is notjust a number, may i remind you. my friend rosamond is in the audience today. rosamond, do you want to stand up briefly, please? give hera big hand. applause. she lost her beautiful nine—year—old daughter ella to pollution. the family lived less than 100 feet from south circular road, one of the busiest roads in london that had thousands and thousands of cars and buses and trucks driving by.

normally, her death certificate would say asthma. but rosamond fought for the truth to save other children. so, i want to say thank you to rosamond for standing up and showing all of us that we can't keep lying. we have to tell the truth! the government estimates as many as 38,000 people a year die as a result of air pollution. the charity asthma and lung uk say a quarter of uk schools are in dangerously polluted areas and city hall data suggests that�*s 98% for london. how noisy is it here in your playground? really noisy. sometimes it can get really noisy. cars. ambulances. police cars. like, trucks. i have a child that has asthma so obviously,

it�*s quite a little bit of a worry because he gets, like, three or four times a year, he will get quite a lot of cough. do you think the government is doing enough? do you think individuals are doing enough? i don�*t think the government is not doing enough. and as well, there is no awareness. they don�*t want to make people aware of it. in this school not far from ella�*s home, they took matters into their own hands. it�*s a busy road, isn�*t it? yeah, it's kinda fortunate that... siren wails. ..it�*s busy. it's busy. i think it's got about 100,000 cars a day. we even sort of raised some money. in three months, we raised about £100,000 to build a green wall and to buy air purifiers for the classrooms, and we actually improved the air quality within a year by 37%. really?! yep. we couldn't quite believe it when we got the data. it was like, "whoa! "that kind of works!" if each of us does something — you know, we can all do something, can't we? for a decade, rosamond has asked the government to do more. she wants ella�*s law to make

clean air a human right, but she and many in the science community are frustrated that uk ambitions fall far behind guidelines recommended by the world health organization. "we can and should go much further to reduce air pollution "and it is technically possible to do so." i think i said that. you did say that! and i think still think it. but is that an ambition shared by government? well, i think the thing which i've itried to lay out in a report i didi at the end of last year, _ there are many things we could do with vehicles, things - we could do with construction, things we could do with agriculture which will lead to faster _ improvements in air. quality for everybody. exhaust emissions from road transport have decreased dramatically in the last decade, largely down to tighter standards and greener cars. but emissions from wood—burning stoves and fires in homes have more than doubled in that time and new data shows in 2021,

this was one of the factors causing the uk to breach legal limits of one of the worst air pollutants, particulate matter 2.5. the coroner in ella�*s inquest wrote to the government, saying the world health organization guidelines should be a minimum requirement and this would save lives. do you agree with that? well, i certainly think- we should accelerate as fast as we can within the limits . of what's technically possible. my point is there's a lot we can do technically i we are currently not doing. in a statement, the government said: those who love ella say they can�*t understand the lack of urgency. i do have something for you. oh, lord, don�*t shock me or make me emotional because i�*ll kill you off—camera. this year, anais will graduate. oh, wow! her final year project is a study of the pollution which took a friend�*s life.

you know how obsessed with research i am. she�*s done a research project. i�*m just so proud of you. abstract, of course. chuckles. it's got all of the scientific sections there. i know — i�*m so proud of you! this is amazing! this project, i think with every line i wrote, i kind of felt ella with me and i went in thinking, "i just want to understand more about what happened "and what was actually going on inside of her body "to cause this". going on inside of her but as i carried on writing, i realised that i found it difficult to remain — to remain kind of subjective about it and for me, ijust see a kind of a lack an ambition, especially in this country. one. but make no mistake, significant change is already happening in ella�*s name. how are you? today, we�*ve brought rosamond on a tour of london hospitals to hear for herself. what we used to do with conditions like asthma is we simply used to treat the child in front of us with the family and treat that disease.

now, what we are started to do is to really link postcodes, look at air pollution. we collect that data, we can put it onto our electronic patient record and we can actually link that to then the child's condition and explain to the parents and the child where they live, what the effects of their local environment's having on them. postcode by postcode, they will monitor pollution and link to medical records. here at royal london hospital, they are opening what is thought to be a first — a dedicated air pollution unit for children. it isn't just an academic endeavour, it's notjust to do research, - it's to make a real difference to children's lives. _ it's the first time that a clinic has been funded to do that. i they will give their young patients air pollution monitors which will track their environment at home and school, just as doctors track the impact. the hope is reports they draw up can be used to advocate for people whose health is been damaged by the air they breathe. when it comes to housing, we'll give them a report. .

that will feed them backl to who owns their house. we can advocate for them. this is one of the best things i�*ve actually heard. you can now have the power to actually advocate for them. so, do you know what? that is amazing. two. to come hear all the hospitals, i suddenly felt overwhelming emotion and i thought, "oh, my god. "she has inspired all this." it�*s pretty amazing. three. rosamond believes giving more information to families is good but when families have limited resources to act on that information, less pollution is better. if i knew then what i knew now, i would be left with a huge dilemma. one of the first things i would�*ve wanted to do straight away, which would have been really difficult, would have been to move. i don�*t think i�*ve ever said this publicly — there was a house further away, but it cost £10,000 more.

of course, you know, it has gone round and round in my head — if only i had the money. i think most people like me, average people, we have very little choice. let�*s be really honest here about it. it is the poorest that live closer to roads. it is up to the government, it is the government�*s duty to look after its citizens. they have to clean up the air. after ella died, rosamond and ella�*s brother and sister sophia and robert chose a different way to walk to school every day. robert still developed asthma. we met them rehearsing for their sister�*s memorial concert — a memorial which would celebrate a short life but huge legacy. she was my role model because i always would try to copy her or look up to her and yeah, she was our favourite person. i think kind of proud but also it's quite bittersweet that, like,

it had to be a life lost to have change but i'm proud that, like, her name will be remembered as, like, she helped a positive change in the world. what can you say to ella�*s siblings now who, at times, have really struggled? what message could you give to them? i think sometimes, when bad things happen and clearly unexpected and horrible, good can come out of it. she will change and has changed and is changing the way we conduct medicine, people's attitudes towards air pollution and health, and i think that will have a very, very long—term effect which hopefully will save many other children's lives that are in a similar position, and that's an amazing gift she's given everybody. we have come a long way but, as the government admits, there is still a way to go. 70 years ago, thick smog descended on london — the great smog. a smog so thick at times,

it stopped ambulances and public transport. that event led to the uk�*s very first clean air act and many in the science community believe we need another clear air revolution today. change is happening because of this death certificate. and the research that convinced the coroner to write the death certificate came from professor stephen holgate. so, you are the man whose research pieced this all together? yes, and that involved also excluding other causes of severe asthma worsening. and by doing that, we were only left with one alternative — that was the air pollution. and i think what we had with ella is an extraordinary brave little child. being able to translate this all the way back to an individual makes it much more alive and much more understandable and, for the politician�*s point of view, much more relevant for them to get on and start cleaning

up the air we breathe. because we know that by cleaning up the air, we don�*t only improve asthma, we reduce dementia, diabetes, chronic obstructive lung disease, heart disease, strokes, etc, etc, etc, so it all can be done and it�*s just a matter of will and, you know, we�*ve done this before. we had the clean air act in 1952. we changed the way we heated our homes and got rid of coal. we�*ve got to do the same. we�*ve got to step up to the challenge and improve the life of everybody as a result of that. the need to rise to the challenge is very much accepted. but how we do that and when we do that is up for debate. rosamond says she will not apologise to those who don�*t like measures brought in to try to make the air

we breathe safer. they believe in freedom — the freedom to choose. it�*s an ideological choice. i sometimes think when it comes to a matter of life and death, you need to rise above that. if, on the 10th anniversary of ella�*s death, you were to send off a letter to heaven, what would you say to her? thank you, ella, and thank you of the privilege of being your mum. and still love you — that has never changed. that�*s quite easy for me to answer that. even in my moments when i go to the cemetery, i do say, "oh, bubba, i know you suffered so much and it will never make up for it, but so much is being done in your name and so many lives are being saved". i think that�*s important.

hello. it�*s been a very mild first few days of the working week. we had 17 degrees on monday. we�*ve seen 15 in the sunshine on tuesday. by the time we get to thursday and friday, temperatures will be back down into single figures, back down to close to average. and that�*s because we change our wind direction and it turns colder. and with the change in wind direction, we will see some much needed rain. some eastern parts of england have seen barely a few millimetres so far this month, and after that clears through, there�*s very little appreciable rain on the cards.

this is the weather system moving through. we�*ve got a brief incursion with low pressure towards the north and east, but the high pressure dominates through the latter part of the week and into the weekend for much of the rest of february, if you like. but there will be some rain. as i say, some quite heavy rain moves through northern ireland and scotland through the night, tuesday into wednesday, turning to snow on its northern edge. some of the showers following could be falling asleep and snow over the hills and mountains, even into northern england and later wales in the southwest. but much brighter skies, more sunshine for wednesday in scotland and northern ireland. notably, it drags its heels to clear the rain in the south and the east. the temperatures are considerably lower and that�*s because we�*ve changed our wind direction from the south westerly of tuesday to the north westerly on wednesday and into thursday. so it does mean also that by thursday morning we could have a return to frost, particularly in the north, but close by in the south. the difference in the south is we could have this line of showers turning to sleet and snow over the hills of wales, the moors in the south and the west. we need to keep an eye on that one for detail once it does clear

on thursday more sunshine for england and wales. but the approaching low pressure system i showed you earlier will increase the cloud for northern ireland, most certainly scotland, and also here bringing some rain with it. so temperatures just lift a little with the onset of the atlantic air, this weather system, but in the south, closer to average. and so the high just relinquishes its grip temporarily as we move into friday. so here�*s the system. it moves its way southwards, then through thursday night into friday. by friday, no more really than a band of clouds and patchy rain on it, just introducing cloudier skies again and temperatures perhaps a little higher, as i say, because it won�*t be quite so cold to start friday morning. but once that clears out the way the high pressure re—establishes it�*s settling re—establish its grip rather across the uk and we�*re back to few isa bars and few weather fronts in sight actually which means for the weekend and at the centre of that high pressure, there�*ll be some chilly nights and indeed probably some mist and fog may welljust have a bit of a breeze coming down from the north onto the east coast. just exacerbating the chill elsewhere. mulling around after that cold

start, there could be a little bit of patchy mist and fog to clear, but some good spells of sunshine. as i say, some chilly nights this coming weekend, again with the return of some frosts. and on sunday, very similar picture. really perhaps we�*ll see some clearer skies migrating northwards under that ridge of high pressure and perhaps less of a breeze blowing in eastern areas. temperatures around about average, perhaps just a little bit above after that chilly start with patchy fog. but again, for many it�*s looking dry and settled. and that high pressure then is staying with us into the beginning of next week, the start of march as well. perhaps a few more ice bars across southern areas if that high just does drift a little bit further northwards. but again, very little rain on the cards right the way through into the middle part of next week. temperatures around about the average for this time of year, but tumbling low enough for some frosty nights and some patchy fog to form for travel in the morning rush.

welcome to newsday — reporting live from singapore — i�*m karishma vaswani. the headlines... two presidents — two versions of history. the leaders of america and russia clash over the conflict in ukraine. translation: to defend our historical lands and liquidate | the threat of the neo—nazi regime, we launched a special operation. we are seeing again today what the people of poland and the people across europe saw for decades — appetites of the autocrat cannot be appeased. vladimir putin has also suspended moscow�*s involvement in a key nuclear arms treaty — we�*ll examine the implications. also in newsday this hour... mexico�*s former security chief is found guilty

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