good evening, i'm chetan pathak with your sports news. we start tonight at old trafford where manchester united have come from behind to beat barcelona and reach the last 16 of the europa league. it means they're still in the hunt to win four trophies this season. jane dougall reports: hope is reborn at manchester united. third in the league and a focus on other silverware too. we're one of the only teams in the league that are in all competitions. it's great so far. the trophy hunt is on. we can dream. for a club that hasn't won any silverware since 2017, this season is looking promising for manchester united. they are still in contention forfour trophies.

the league cup, the premier league, the fa cup and the europa league. the manager has been credited with this revival but the spanish giants had their own plans. they were given an early penalty, and one of the best players in the world stepped up robert lewandowski fooled david de gea, but onlyjust. but manchester united are experienced at coming from behind. one touch and fred had levelled it. the roar heard around old trafford. they weren't finished. attem pt after attem pt. until, finally, the third time lucky. approval from on high. with their hopes still alive and a league cup final against newcastle for another trophy in a few daus time. this could be a reincarnation

of manchester united glory days. jane dougall, bbc news. next tonight — he's been decribed as the voice of football — plenty of tributes today for one of the sport's most famous commentators —jon motson — who's died at the age of 77. in a 50 year career, jon covered ten world cups, ten european championships and 29 fa cup finals for bbc sport before retiring in 2018. his family say he died peacefully in his sleep. these are some moments of his you might remember. here's gascoigne! 0h, brilliant! yes! oh, yes! and there it is, the crazy gang have beaten the culture club. it is dramatic, it is delightful, it is denmark who are the european champions. radford again! what a goal! radford the scorer. and still ricky villa,

what a fantastic run! he has scored! an amazing goal. next to rugby union, wales coach warren gatland says he can finally focus on preparing his squad for their six nations match against england on saturday, after a strike was averted. wales players were threatening not to play because of a contract dispute. but the matter was resolved yesterday which has now allowed gatland to name his squad. there'll be nine changes from the loss against scotland — including owen williams at fly half and debutant mason grady playing at centre. meanwhile anthony watson will make his first england start in almost two years in the match in cardiff on saturday. the 28—year—old comes in to replace the injured ollie hassell—collins on the wing. vice—captain courtney lawes makes his return from injury and is fit for the bench. andy farrell's ireland continue their pursuit

of the grand slam when they play italy in rome on saturday. craig casey will partner ross byrne in a new half—back pairing, with captainjohnny sexton left out after picking up a groin injury against france last time out... andy murray is through to the last four of the qatar open — his first semi final in eight months. of course this one went the distance too murray lost the first set to the french qualifier alexandre muller who is ranked 170th in the world — murray 70th — the slow start perhaps understandable after a three hour win over alexander zverev yesterday.. but murray soon warmed up and and took the next two sets 6—1, 6—2. he'll now face the czech playerjiri lehecka for a place in the final. in rugby league's superleague, hull kr won 24—10 at salford red devils they ran in four tries with sam wood crossing the line twice as his side maintained their winning start to the season. and australia are into the final of the women's t20 cricket world cup final after beating india

by five runs. chasing 173 to win india needed 16 off seven balls until the wicket of sneh rana swung the pendulum back in australian's favour. scenes ofjoy from the reigning champions. a big swing at the end here wasn't enough for india. australia go through to another final and await england or south africa on sunday, they play each other tomorrow. and a reminder you can keep up to date with how england's men are getting on in wellington — on the bbc sport website — with their second and final test against new zealand under way. that's all for now, goodnight.

this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines and all the main news stories for you at the top of the hour, straight after this programme. 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... 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, 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 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 tried to lay out in a report i did 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 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". 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 there. let's take a look at the weather for the week ahead. february draws to a close next week, and it's the start of meteorological spring on wednesday. now, you'll have noticed just how dry this february has been so far. in fact, some spots across southern england in particular had only seen around 5% of the normal february rainfall at the start of the week. you can see that indicated by the darker colours here on the met office anomaly map. these totals don't include the rainfall that we saw on wednesday, when some stations in the south of england doubled the rainfall total. and there's no appreciable rain in the forecast as we head through the weekend and into the start of next week either.

so it is looking largely dry and settled for most of us. now, on friday, there will be a few spits and spots of rain, i think, for many. there will be some cloud sinking southwards. this is a cold front. sunny spells developing for much of the midlands, northern england, northern ireland. we could see 1—2 showers here, and maybe a wintry shower or two across the hills of scotland, too. temperatures a little higher than thursday's but, in reality, it's going to feel colder than this because there'll be a brisk northerly wind blowing, particularly, towards eastern coastal areas. so plenty of wind—chill to factor into the temperatures, notjust on friday but over the next few days, as well. so we've still got the strength of the wind towards the east coast on friday night. the best chance of any frost out towards western spots, sheltered areas away from the wind and the cloud, where temperatures could drop perhaps below freezing into saturday morning. and then over the weekend, high pressure is out towards the west and it will be slowly building in. it'll be dominating the weather not just for the weekend but also into much of next week as well. so looking largely dry and very settled, but on the edge of the high

we've got plenty of cloud, and that'll be working its way in from eastern areas, out further west i think on saturday afternoon, so turning cloudy probably wherever you are. the best of the brighter spells always the further west you are. there will be plenty of added wind—chill again, mostly towards north sea facing coasts, maybe 1—2 showers. temperatures just slightly below where they'd normally be at this time of year for many but, of course, you have to factor in the wind—chill again. temperatures could be slightly higher, the winds a little lighter perhaps on sunday, but still coming in from the east so again, for eastern—facing coasts, it's going to be quite a bitter—feeling day. some sunny spells again, always best the further west you are. temperatures peaking between 7—9 celsius for the vast majority of us, which is round about the seasonal average. the wind turns a bit more northeasterly, and it will strengthen, especially towards southern counties of england as we head through monday. so really quite blustery here. further north, the winds are a lot lighter. there will be some sunshine around at times again, mostly out towards the west.

top temperatures once again 7—9 celsius. this is about the seasonal average, or slightly below for a few areas. so we are staying in that rather chilly air as we head through next week. it won't be feeling particularly warm but of course the sunshine has got a little bit more strength now. so the high pressure just set to dominate and for most of us it's looking completely dry. there could, however, be 1—2 showers blowing in at times, most likely for eastern areas. parts of scotland could see 1—2 showers. the best of the sunshine always further west. these are the temperatures for scotland and northern ireland over the next few days and into the start of next week. further south, across much of england, the winds will eventually ease down. there will be some sunshine, always best the further west you are and brightening up again for the start of the meteorological spring, which is also looking dry.

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