four days on from their thrashing at the hands of liverpool in the premier league — manchester united returned to action — and returned to winning ways in the europa league. they enjoyed a big win of their own — beating real betis 4—1 in the first leg of their last 16 tie. marcus rashford with the opener. betis did get an equaliser before half time — before anthony put united back in front.

bruno fernandes added a third — before wout weghorst sealed a comfortable victory. the second leg is next week. meanwhile arsenal's hopes of reaching the quarter finals hang in the balance. they drew 2—2 with sporting lisbon — william saliba giving arsenal the lead in portugal. but two goals for sporting turned the tie around — until this own goal from morita meant the tie finished 2—2 — delicately poised heading back to north london next week. in to north london next week. europe, very difficult1 very in europe, very difficult to get very positive result that date and we come i think the game at different phases, especially since we gave too many balls away and in this competition, you have to go through difficult moments. we knew that and we had to play for the emirates and hopefully will play better and win in the end. michail antonio scored twice for west ham as they took a big step towards the quarterfinals of the europa conference league. their 2—0 win over aek larnaca in cyprus maintained their hundred per cent record in europe this season. the second leg is in

london next week. questions are mounting around the future of tottenham manager antonio conte. in the space of a week they have been knocked out of the fa cup, loosened their grip on 4th place in the league with defeat at wolves and on wednesday night they limped out of the champions league. conte�*s contract is up at the end of the season and there are rumours of player unrest. he's said fans need to be patient and that the club know what his vision is for the future but earlier bbc football reporter simon stone told us it's a matter of when and not if he leaves tottenham hotspur i don't think anyone realistically thought that they're going to challenge of the league title this season but they thought they could do well in the champions league and compete in one of the cops and i think that's what antonio thought when he brought players and during the summer but he's just managed to get any kind of consistency and too

many players off the pace and fenced discontent, a lot of booze last night and irritation behind the scenes as well. it's just not worked out. owen farrell has been dropped by england for the first time since being benched at the 2015 world cup. marcus smith has won the battle for the no ten jersey in saturday's crunch fixture against france. it is arguably steve borthwick�*s biggest call of his tenure to date. farrell has struggled for form of late though, he has turned tojonny wilkinson for assistance with his goal—kicking, and with borthwick seeking a more expansive approach, smith is set to be given licence to run the show against france, with ellis genge selected as captain for the first time. farrell will be on the bench. i take every selection series tend to make decisions seriously, everyone deserves that and i will make the process and for us, we have

got many good players and it's at this rate from the start that we want players always, always fighting to be in this 23 and myjob is to select with the right person to start in the right person to come off the bench is. rhys webb will make his first six nations start for wales since 2017 when they take on italy in rome on saturday. the 34—year—old ospreys scrum—half, who is believed to be considering a move to play injapan, replaces tomos williams in coach warren gatland's side. he's also decided that rio dyer will take over on the wing from loo—ee rees—zammit. former captain alun wynjones and leigh halfpenny are among those to miss out. both wales and italy are seeking their first wins of this year's competition. definitely probably the most athletic team that we have seen and i think it's a big loss for them. they tend to play, they're trying to

plead the white game and in the tournament —— play a wide game and put them under pressure. catalan dragons maintained their perfect start to the superleague season by beating wigan warriors by 18 points to ten. steve mcnamara's side led from the fifth minute in an attritional game at the dw stadium. manu ma'u's second try took the game away from wigan and secured a fourth dragons win. the french side now top the table while wigan remain third. the unofficial fifth golf major, the players championship is underway in florida. it's the pga tour's flag—ship tournament, with rory mcilroy, scottie schefler and jon rahm all involved. it was a bad day for mcilroy stumbled to a four—over par 76 to finish 12 shots behind early clubhouse leader chad ramey in round one. however all eyes were on hayden buckley though after he hit a hole—in—one

on the iconic par—three 17th, celebrating by throwing his cap into the air less than a week after claiming the greatest achievement of his career by winning the prestigious strada bianchi one day race, tom pidcock came crashing back down to earth. the briton, who won mountain bike gold at the tokyo olympics, crashed just over two miles from the end of the fourth stage of the tireno—adriatico race in italy. he managed to get back on his bike, but finished in 78th place, more than seven minutes behind stage winner pree—moz rog—litch. england have lost to bangladesh in their first t20 match since winning the t20 world cup in november. they lost by six wickets in chattogram. bangladesh won the toss and put england in to bat, for the first of three t20 matches. it initially looked like it would be a good move for the tourists

with captainjos butler making a strong start. he'd pass the half century mark before eventually falling to hasan mahmud for 67. only two other england players made it to double figures though with bangladesh setting a target of 157 to win. in response najmul hossain shanto hit a half—century to put the hosts in a strong position and an edged effort from shakib al hasan saw bangladesh secure victory with two overs to spare. the second match begins on sunday. and that's all the sport for now.

guide dogs. for thousands of blind and visually impaired people, they're the difference between independence and isolation. she's my best friend, my constant companion, my means of independence. i couldn't imagine my life without rio. since 1931, around 36,000 guide dogs have been matched with visually impaired people. but during the pandemic, the breeding programme shut down overnight. the charity lost a third of its puppy—raising volunteers, and the guide dog service was paused... people like us are needed, so much, to help people like you. ..leaving more than 1,000 people waiting to be matched. it is really, really difficult not having the dog. practically every step you're thinking, "this is impossible.

i don't know how i'm doing with this." but with around 1,100 puppies now in early training, is recovery around the corner? we are hopeful for the future, but we do need a little bit of patience for a little bit longer, as these dogs make their way through the system. we visit puppies at the national breeding centre and ask what needs to be done to fix britain's guide dog shortage. archie! good boy. let's go! meet new arrival archie... good boy! are you my little star? ..and his puppy raiser, lisa. hers is one of more than 2,000 households giving their time for free to help raise guide dog puppies for around a year. it's opened up a whole new world. i've met lots of new friends, i'm part of... i feel part of a community that i wasn't before. not only that, obviously you're

doing something very good, at the end of the day. it sounds exciting, but it's a big commitment. puppies like archie live at home and often need attention around the clock. as much as it's your instant reaction, "puppy, puppy, puppy," you know, "let's go for it. a cute little puppy," you've got to remember that it's a lot of work. it's... being a puppy raiser is hard work, especially at the beginning. volunteers take their puppies with them to everyday places, from restaurants to supermarkets and on buses and trains, to help get them ready for their future working lives. at the end of the day, ijust remember i'm doing this to enable somebody who's not as fortunate as me, that can't see, to actually get some independence. archie, touch! volunteers like lisa are supported by the charity guide dogs, which works across the uk. lovely. just keep doing exactly what you're

doing, rewarding on the left there so he always knows where to come. that's absolutely fantastic. good boy. today, puppy development adviser beth has come to see how lisa and archie are getting on. so the reason that we use hand touch is so when archie is placed with a visually impaired person, obviously they can't see when he's running back, when he's coming, so they can pop out this hand as a target. these routine visits are as much about supporting lisa as they are for training archie, but these are the building blocks he'll need if he's to earn a working harness. good boy! perfect. good boy! learning through play is encouraged... ..but there are some things archie will need to quit before he finishes his training. you're going to have to learn what this is for. but he's just got such a wonderful nature. he's a heart of gold, and hejust loves people. really loves people. happy times, but every puppy raising volunteer knows that

if all goes to plan, the day will come when they have to give them back to guide dogs. later, we'll follow lisa and herfirst pup, fergall, as she hands him in for the next phase of his training. what are the emotions that are going through your head today? if i'm honest, i'd say proud. i think that's my biggest one. so proud of what i've done. really proud of him. voice breaks lisa hopes that both of her dogs will go on to give someone their independence. just proud. forward, rio. forward! go on, then. i couldn't imagine my life without rio. she's so important. she's my best friend, my constant companion, my means of independence, of getting about wherever i want to go, whenever i want to go, and living the life i want to lead. go forward. good girl. ella caulfield is a

first—time guide dog user. she was matched with rio in 2018. good girl. well done. she's very open aboutjust how much she benefits from having a guide dog in her life. she gives me that independence that i do kind of need, and i crave, that i need to live the life i want...| want to lead. she's good for a cuddle at the end of an evening if i've had a bad day, and she's an excellent guide. she's very rarely led me astray. it's not a one—way street, though. ella looks after rio's needs and wants. today, she's grooming and cleaning her coat. it's one of the responsibilities ella has as a guide dog user to make sure that rio is loved, happy and well cared for. if they didn't have each other, ella says she'd never have been able to study maths at oxford university. ella started to lose her sight at four years old. when she was 15, she received some devastating news. i think because it happened gradually, it wasn't, like, an immediate shock of "you're not

going to see again". i was told i had a retinal detachment, and i definitely broke down then. i was with my dad. i can remember him hugging me and the nurses kind of bringing me a cup of water, just kind of comforting me. and then i got booked in for surgery the next day. doctors operated to see if they could save any sight they could, but those attempts failed. nothing came of it. so i've been left withjust minimal light perception in my right eye. but it's...it's not useful. i can only see light if i, like, look directly into the sun or into a light bulb. for ella, a new reality. she learnt new life skills and how to read braille. she applied for a guide dog in may 2017, and then around a year later an exciting call came. it was actually my mum picked up the call, so... i hadn't got home from school yet. my mum picked up the call. it was someone from guide dogs saying, "we've got a match for ella." i think ijust got very giggly and very kind of... yeah, very excited. like, "yes, this is happening."

ella and rio spent around five weeks training with guide dog mobility specialists. can you tell me what it felt like the first time you were guided by rio? i felt lighter. i felt like i was definitely kind of more smiley, more confident. icould... i could move freely and independently without relying on somebody else being there. like many guide dog users, ella would never want to be without a four—legged friend again. just feeling so much more confident and independent and happy that, like, i had this friend with me who was going to be there permanently with me. rio provides such a kind of welfare support to me. ella and rio are one of 3,695 partnerships currently working in the uk. that's down from around 5,000 before the pandemic. more than one in five people who had a guide dog before then now do not. i honestly think they are doing their absolute best. like me, kelly nasir is waiting

to be matched with a new guide dog. we are among more than 1,100 people on the ready—to—train list. kelly's last dog, river, retired eight months ago. her mobility has been seriously impacted. walking with a cane is like walking with one hand tied behind your back. it makes everything harder. not having the dog, that's what makes you feel disabled. because when you have the dog, you just... you get on with things. kelly keeps a busy social and work diary. she's a barrister, but also a mum. not having a dog doesn't only affect her, but her very young daughter. i'm the one who can't take her out when i want to, i have to say, "well, let's wait for daddy," or, "let's wait till we go see nanna and grandad." and i can do everything else she needs and i'm her mummy, and i love her and i'm the one that's there when she has her nightmares, and i play

with her and it doesn't impact on our relationship, but i think it impacts on how i feel about thejob i'm doing as... ..as a mum. watch the tree. so why do guide dog users like me and kelly find ourselves between dogs? puppy: puppy! the answer lies here at the charity's national breeding centre in warwickshire. bill's been explaining to me that the waiting lists are currently a bit longer than guide dogs would like them to be for life—changing guide dogs. purely for research purposes, you understand, i might have to stroke puppies like bill and many, many other puppies. is this the bestjob in the world or what? this is where a guide dog puppy'sjourney begins_ before the pandemic, as many as 1,500 dogs were bred here in a year. in 2020, the breeding programme shut down overnight when social distancing was introduced. it was the first time in the charity's 92—year

history that the guide dog service was suspended. archive: guide dogs show their paces along one - of the centre's obstacle courses. although training techniques have changed over the years, the aim to match visually impaired people with guide dogs has not. archive: and thousands of blind | people who have benefited from it will agree with her. nowadays, the charity trains more assistance dogs than anyone else around the globe. puppy! little ones like paige spend the first weeks of their life here. for them, they're just having fun... she's currently nibbling the camera at the moment. ..but staff are watching closely to see how suited they are to guide work. she's got the brains, for sure. she air kisses puppy. paige! hi, pup! are you a good puppy? yes, you are! look how cute you are! look at those big eyes and floppy ears. you're such a good puppy!

sniff it. 0k! becky and anna are paying close attention to see how paige reacts to human interaction. right... they laugh they're looking to see how she deals with problem solving. yes, she's... she's... she knows. that's a good sign because a guide dog's ability to find their way around a problem is, well, just part of the job. good girl. that's also interesting that she's... she's been to that one, smelled that one. she's like, "mm, it's not there." and she's actually worked out to go to the other one. so, in itself, that's interesting. during the pandemic, all training and breeding here stopped. guide dogs say they needed to protect their staff and volunteers. so that is our puppy reception. it is really unfortunate. our breeding programme is fantastic, it's world—class and it's always been able to produce the number of puppies that we've required

to meet our service users' needs. and unfortunately, that pause in our breeding programme has really affected us. and there's been other combinations as well. bearing in mind that obviously our puppies, when they were out with our amazing puppy—raising volunteers, weren't able to experience the environments that they would experience with a guide dog owner as yourself. so unfortunately, it's been a combination of things that have meant that we haven't produced the number of guide dog partnerships that we really want to. breeding numbers are getting back to normal. in the past year, around 1,000 puppies have passed through here. we are in recovery mode and we are hopeful for the future, but we do need a little bit of patience for a little bit longer as these dogs make their way through the system. as you said, these little puppies here that we saw today, it will take about two years for them to make partnership. around 1,100 puppies are currently in early training. guide dogs says what it needs now is volunteer fosterers who can look after dogs in advanced training, dropping them off and picking them up from the charity's offices on weekdays. our volunteers are our lifeblood. guide dogs could not do what we do without our volunteers, across the board, across all

of our services. and unfortunately, after the pandemic, we did lose a lot of volunteers as people wanted to have a break, being the situation, we also kind of reduced the numbers that were reapplying. so we are at the moment looking very heavily to recruit lots of volunteers, and we've been very lucky that a lot of people have been so generous with their time. come on then, sam. let's go. head. good boy! reporter: after more than eight years of working with sean, - guide dog sammy is set to retire, and sean may have to wait two years for his next dog. that was six months ago. when sammy leaves me, it will leave a huge hole in my heart. a few hours later, sammy left me to retire with family. much of my confidence and mobility left me too that day. sammy is more important to me, and you always will be, sammy. i know you'll always be my boy. a month later and it's clear i was still in trauma. you are actually quite moved today, aren't you?

you know, we... sharing my story is by far the hardest thing i've ever done in my career. the impact, though, has been huge. i would like to say to bbc breakfast viewers, thank you so much to everyone who's already applied to volunteer at guide dogs. since coverage, we've seen a peak in applications. so injanuary alone, we received almost 3,000 volunteer applications. 2,500 of those were to raise puppies, compared with 2,000 for the whole of 2019, the last pre—pandemic year. for lisa's first pup, fergall, it's the end of one journey, but the start of another. all this, i'm packing the three trays up from home. his biscuits that i always give him, half a biscuit at bedtimes. they've been together forjust over a year. this, i've had it made and had his name put

on it, and his id number. she's packing up things that she hopes will remind him of their time together. and his christmas present. i can't tell you what it is — he'll hear! sean laughs the day has come for fergall to start his advanced training. that means lisa must say a painful goodbye. hello! hi! i want him upset as little as possible. they're his toys, he's got his biscuits that he has half a one at night. i mean, if she's generous, she might like to give him one at first, because he deserves it. any time he's not with shelly, working and learning, learning what he's got to do, he'll be in there having a good rest. and then we've got some fab free—running sandpits out the back as well, so we'll show you them, where he can have his downtime and have some good sniffs. yeah. nice doggy hotel and playground, fergall. this may be a sad time

for lisa, but for fergall, a new adventure awaits. here you go, you get big boy lead now. bye—bye, sweetheart. many guide dog users stay in touch with their puppy raisers, but many do not. tearfully: thanks for that. you're welcome. i'll ring you tomorrow. lisa knows this could be the last time she sees fergall. crying: i am fine. woman: you've set me off, anyway. the one question that i get asked all the time or people say to me, all my friends, family, people i meet in the street, "i'd love to do what you're doing, but i couldn't do it, "because i couldn't give the dog back." he's ultra cute. he's a good boy. if i can do it, anybody can do it. as a guide dog user of more than 23 years, i know the theory of what volunteers like lisa go through, but being there for the moment of handover was as beautiful as it was poignant. it's hard, but you've got to remember why you're doing it. you know, people

have to help people. there's not enough of it in this world. we're needed, people like us are needed so much to help people like you. the tears are worth it. hello, good evening. still some more snowfall to come, particularly for the northern half of the uk over the next couple of days or so. mild air in the south, a lot colder further north and the snowfall totals starting to rack up here in conwy. in wales, this one snapped by one of our weather watchers earlier on today.

some of the worst weather still to come overnight tonight. there are three amber weather warnings issued by the met office for heavy snow and ice. possibly, too, some freezing rain falling across northern areas of wales into western shropshire. some tricky travelling conditions. treacherous, too, over the pennines because there'll be blizzard—like conditions with strong gusty winds and some drifting snow. of course, too, a deep area of low pressure just pushing its way eastwards throughout the night. it will eventually clear by the end of the day tomorrow, but still tonight, snow continues to fall, particularly within the warning areas. strong gusty winds, coastal gales on the back edge of this system towards exposed coasts of the south—west down through the channel islands. and there's a frost from the midlands northwards, too. temperatures, again, maybe as low as “14, —15 degrees celsius for the highlands of scotland. now, into tomorrow morning, that early snow clears away from northern ireland and from the hills of wales, too. from the pennines, i think, by the time we get to the late morning, but the snow risk transfers itself further south with that colder air digging down further south as the system swells away. could be one or two showers just tracking down on that northerly wind. lots of dry, bright weather

tomorrow, but it will be feeling cold wherever you are with plenty of added wind—chill. and the winds will ease down on friday night, so with clearing skies away from the far south—west and those lighter winds, then it's quite likely that we'll see a sharp and a widespread frost develop into the start of the weekend. temperatures in parts of northern england may be as low as —9 or —10 degrees celsius, so a very frosty start to saturday morning. now, on saturday, our weather system out towards the south—west is just pushing its way northwards and eastwards, bringing possibly a bit of snow to the moors of the south—west, mostly falling as rain. some hill snow for wales and some hill snow, too, for northern ireland. just approaching the north—west of england by the end of the afternoon, but drier further east with the snow risk transferring further eastwards as we head throughout the night, particularly for northern england and much of scotland. but by the time we get to sunday, it's unsettled, it's wet and it's windy, but it will be feeling milder.

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