certainly in how they conceded two own goals in eight minutes late in the match. and so crazily frittered away a strong position in the tie. that had been given them by marcel saponara the first quarter. so bills may have been red carded but var decided not. eries had her went off an unfortunate maguire for an equaliser for the equaliser, in between united laws martinez to a nasty looking injury and had to finish with ten men and bruno fernandez will be suspended for the second leg where after this united will do well to get through. so what started out as a memorable night — soon turned into a disappointing one. united's manager erik ten hag admits it was a game of missed chances. we had opportunities

to score the third goal. i think yeah, in the last ten minutes everything looked like it was against us. as i said, sometimes you have those nights. away from old trafford, were three other quarter finals taking place on thursday evening. juventus have the advantage in their tie against sporting lisbon — federico gatty with the only goal in their match. elsewhere feyenoord beat roma by the same scoreline, whilst bayer leverkusen drew 1—1 with union saint gilloise of belgium. and in the europa conference league, fiorentina are all but through to the semi finals, after they thrashed lech poznan 4—1. anderlecht beat az alkmaar whilst there were draws at basel and gent. in germany — bayern munich have dropped sadio mane after reports he'd punched his teammate leroy sane at the end of their champions league defeat to manchester city. mane won't play against hoffenheim on saturday after the incident, which reports in germany say led to the two players needing to be separated by teammates.

bayern who lost 3—0 at the etihad, said the former liverpool forward has been dropped and fined because of "misconduct". the gujerat titans have made it three wins from four in the indian premier league after beating the punjab kings but only just. the kings batted first — making 153 from their 20 overs — matthew short top scoring with 36. shubman gill led the titans response, top scoring with 67 — as the defending champions chased their target down with a ball to spare and with six wickets in hand. there's been a big shock at the monte carlo masters — on a day to forget for world number one novak djokovic. djokovic won the first set but the match changed in the second when the serbian had a heated debate with the umpire over a line call, which went against him and djokovic would go on to lose the set. and then go on to lose the match — as italy's lorenzo

musetti secured one of the biggest wins of his career. well feeling is terrible after game like this, honestly. congrats to him. he stayed tough in important moments and that's it, that's all i can say. good luck to him. i cannot say nothing, i am fine, congrats to him. the feeling bad because i lost the match. congrats to my opponent. not the great day for me. i'm not really in the mood to speak. a shock too earlier in the day — as world number 100 jan lennard struff beat the fourth seed casper ruud in straight sets to reach the quarter finals. the german will play andrey rublev next, while second seed stefanos tsitsipas will play taylor fritz. meanwhile, the women's tennis tour will return to china after refusing to hold their events there for 16 months following claims made by peng shuai about being forced into a sexual relationship with former chinese vice—premier zhang gaoli.

peng briefly disappeared from the public eye — she then denied making the accusation and having accepted an investigation into the allegations will not be carried out by the chinese government, the wta have reversed their decision. our tennis correspondent russell fuller spoke to my colleague hugh ferris earlier. it's certainly the wta admitting that the strategy they have been employing since november of 2021 is not working. steve simon, the wta chief executive in a conversation with him yesterday, he said that it's clearly not working. we need to change tack, we need a fresh approach. he's not giving up on his desire for the chinese government to launch a full and independent investigation into the sexual assault allegation that peng made 16 or 17 months ago. i think it's also a reality of the financial world and the fact that china hosts

a string of tournaments at the end of the year, there were eight in eight weeks in september and october 2019, the last full season before the pandemic. lots of playing opportunities for the members of the wta tour. the financial opportunities are vast as well, the season ending wta championships for the elite eight singles of the year, the top doubles has $14 million in prize money alone. you mentioned the fact that the wta tour chief executive steve simon was talking about wanting an investigation. he also wanted to hear from peng shuai herself was up he hasn't yet. so concerns was still abound. yes, i did ask him whether that he felt he had achieved anything by taking the stance given the chance they are now dropping their immediate demand for this independent investigation by the chinese authorities before they even agree to play in china again. he admits he has not spoken

to peng shuai personally. he said there are repeated assurances that she is safe and living with her family in beijing. they also said they've been assured that players and staff will be well treated when they return to china later in the year. he also said he hopes that they have gained respect from people for the csa is taken. even though he said he's not pointing fingers at anybody, he made the point quite clearly that other organisations and businesses such as the atp men's tour have not followed their lead. now to a big row brewing in the world of amateur boxing — after a number of nations, including great britain and the usa, broke away from the international boxing association to form their own, new world governing body. the sports future in the olympics from 2028 onwards has been in doubt after the international olympic committee previously criticised a lack of transparency and governance in boxing at the amateur level. the new federation will be called world boxing and the body now hopes to work

with the ioc to try and rebuild relationships and bring it back into olympic plans. world boxing has been established by a group of like—minded leaders of world boxing. we have established it because we are facing a nightmare. the nightmare of losing olympic recognition. there must be real willingness to keep boxing distinction because such that for the next generations. i think the sport will be dead if we lose our olympic recognition. we are fighting to keep the olympic dream alive for our grandchildren. well following the news of the breakaway organisation, the iba have responded saying they will sanction and ban any nation from competing — if they decide to join any other boxing association. in a statement, the iba secretary general and ceo, george yerolimpos said, "for those involved in the creation of the rogue international boxing organization and the nations who claim to be members of it, there is no doubt that the iba

will reserve its rights to claim damages from any person who is harming the iba's activities and reputation, and/or trying to achieve exclusion of the iba from the olympic family." the washington commanders owner dan snyder is close to a deal to sell the nfl franchise to an investment group led byjosh harris and including former nba star magicjohnson — according to the nfl network. the report said that while the deal is not final and no agreement has been sent to the nfl's offices, the parties are close to a deal valued atjust below $6 billion. snyder who bought the franchise for $800 million has owned the commanders, formerly the washington redskins, since 1999 but his ownership has been heavily criticised and faced several investigations. and finally — "don't look down" is not only the name of this project, but also quite a handy

bit of advice when it comes to bmx tricks in a hot air balloon 2 thousand feet in the sky. professional bmx rider kriss kyle from scotland is who you see doing tricks on this flying skate park above the cotswolds in england — don't worry, he wears a parachute while on the bike. his aim is to show off the endless potential of the bmx to up—and—coming riders. i rode a bmx bike when i was younger, certainly not up in the air in a parachute. you can get all the latest sports news at our website that's bbc.com/sport. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye. hello again. thursday brought us a day of sunshine and showers, many of the showers came from these big

cumulonimbus clouds looming over the skyline of hastings. not too far away in kent we had a heavy downpour that brought some hail, two centimetres of hail was reported and temperatures came down to about one celsius as well so a sudden drop in temperatures as that storm went through. at the moment we have still got a few showers left over across scotland but otherwise some clear spells around, bit of rain starting to edge back into south—west england, southern parts of wales. a chilly old start to the day with temperatures 1—3 degrees. this area of low pressure moves rain across southern wales, southern areas of england and dives into northern france. i think away from that for scotland and northern ireland there is another day of sunshine and showers, some of them slow—moving as well. as that low pressure works into france it changes the wind flow and we get this zone of convergence where the winds bash together, a big line of thunderstorms form. maybe we will get an odd funnel cloud even from that kind of area.

eyes to the skies. where the sunshine comes out even though temperatures will be below average everywhere, probably won't feel too bad but where cloudy, ten, 11 degrees, that is not going to feel too great but on into the weekend we go and the prospect is the weather is going to turn drier, sunnier and a good deal warmer as pressure rises and we start to get these milder southerly winds blowing their way across the country both saturday and into sunday as well. weatherwise not a bad start to the weekend, most of us will see some spells of sunshine, still a few showers left over for eastern areas of england and there is the threat of it turning a bit cloudier for northern ireland into the afternoon, maybe with an odd patch of light rain in the extreme west. it's starting to get warmer though and 15 degrees given the light winds for glasgow and london, it should feel pleasant in the sunshine you will have. a lot of dry and reasonably sunny weather i think for most of us on sunday. that said, probably a bit more in the way of cloud across north—western areas with an odd spot of light rain, temperatures continuing to climb. 15 in liverpool and manchester,

17 in london and that should feel pleasantly warm. high pressure hangs around next week so a lot of dry weather to come with some warm april spells of sunshine but fairly brisk winds developing in the south—east towards the middle part of the week.

live from washington, this is bbc news. a 21—year—old man arrested on suspicion of being behind the worst leak of secret us intelligence documents in years. today the justice department arrested jack to sharer in relation to the alleged unauthorised removal, retention and transmission of classified national defence information. brazil's president lula is in china, looking to smooth relations with his country's biggest trading partner. and ghana becomes the first country in the world to approve a new vaccine against malaria. hello. i'm sumi somaskanda.