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you're live with bbc news. sport now and a full round—up from the bbc sport centre. here's jane dougal. let's start with snooker at the crucible in england where the match between robert milkins and joe perry will resume later on tuesday after it was stopped by a protestor who covered the table in orange powder. the incident occured in the first frame of the match when a man wearing a just stop oil t—shirt jumped over the barrier and climbed onto the table before breaking open the packet of powder. the match was subsequently postponed. a second protestor tried to glue herself to the crucible�*s other table, but was apprehended. yorkshire police have arrested a 30—year—old man and a 52—year—old woman on suspicion of criminal damage.
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2005 world champion shaun murphy said he was relieved no—one was hurt. i'm an expert on, they all say that we are hurtling towards problems and some commentators would even suggest that we have gone past the point of no return. i am we have gone past the point of no return. iam not we have gone past the point of no return. i am not an expert on that at all. but you only have to watch one of david attenborough�*s shows when he comes in at the ends and tells us how much trouble we are in, these people do know what they are talking about and they tell us that we need to be doing more. i'm thankful that no one was hurt and it is, after all, just a game of snooker. well, on day four of the world championship,
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we have seen some snooker played. we're still in the first round. let's take you to the crucible now. this is jack lisowski taking on a player from thailand. jack lisowski is leading 3—2. he reached the quarterfinals last year. he is taking another commanding lead. he is taking another commanding lead. there is uninterrupted coverage on bbc iplayer, bbc sport website and bbc sport app every day, so you can keep up to date. liverpool's slim hopes of a top—four finish were given a boost after a convincing 6—1win at leeds, a result which has raised serious questions about the yorkshire club's ability to avoid relegation this season. there were two goals each for mo salah and diogojota, plus cody gakpo and substitute darwin nunez also scored to help liverpool get their first win in five matches in all competitions.
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luis sinisterra got a consolation goal for the hosts. it's the first time liverpool have scored away from home against a team in the bottom ten this season, but there were other aspects of the game which impressed jurgen klopp more. it was the best game of the season so we defended and i saw so many hard, hard, hard sprints after we lost the ball. trent was not once alone in a one—on—one situation. both wingers close them down. then you have the right feeling for the game. then you can play football. then you can play football. chelsea have held talks with former bayern munich manager julian nagelsmann as they look for a permanent replacement for graham potter. interim manager frank lampard will lead chelsea against real madrid in the champions league later as they look to overturn a 2—0 deficit from the first leg in the bernabeu last week. it's chelsea's last chance of any
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silverware this season and lampard is expecting a good atmopshere at stamford bridge. i've been here too many times in this level of game at chelsea at stamford bridge in an evening midweek champions league knockout game to understand that the atmosphere is going to be great. and again, now it's time for us to tap into that early in the game and make sure that we engage the crowd throughout because they can help us, for sure. that's why we're at home. that's why this two—legged competition is the best out there. two significant nights of champions league quarterfinal action will take place over the next 36 hours to determine the four semi—finalists. chelsea host real madrid, napoli entertain fellow italians ac milan, hoping to overturn a 1—0 deficit from the first leg. then, on wednesday, in the second set of quarterfinals, manchester city travel to bavaria with a strong 3—0 lead over bayern munich, and inter host benfica at the san siro — the home side are 2—0 up from the first leg.
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golden state star draymond green was ejected from their playoff game against the sacramento kings for a deliberate stamp on domantas sabonis as the warriers went down two zero in the best of the seven—game series. the flash point was in the fourth quarter when the warriors were trailing by four. after sabonis tripped and fell, he grabbed green's leg, who in turn deliberately stamped on the kings star, causing him to writhe in pain. green was then ejected. the warriors stayed within touching distance from the kings despite green's absence, but de�*aaron fox got this key three—pointer with just over two minutes remaining, as part of his 24—point, nine—assist performance. sabonis, who underwent x—rays following the incident with green, also added 2a points as the kings left golden state staring down the barrel of a first round exit. kenya won both the mens and women's
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boston marathon with evans chebet successfully defending his title, while the world record holder, eliud kipchoge, could only finish in sixth. the trio of chebet, compatriot benson kipruto, who won it in 2021, and tanzania's gabriel ge—y lost kipchoge around the 20 mile mark. chebet then surged clear towards the end of the race to take the title, pushing geay into second, with kipruto third. that's all the sport for now. the energy regulator has announced a new code of practice that prevents suppliers in england, scotland and wales from forcibly installing prepayment meters in the homes of customers over the age of 85. 0fgem temporarily stopped the installation of any prepayment meters without householders�* permission in february, after debt agencies working for british gas were revealed to be breaking into some properties to fit them. here's our cost—of—living
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correspondent, colletta smith. for the last two months, energy suppliers have been banned from forcibly installing one of these. hello? british gas, your gas supplier. we're here with a court warrant. it was after an investigation for the times showed this aggressive behaviour by contractors fitting physical meters for british gas. i love this bit. and after we revealed the thousands of households seeing their smart meters flipped into prepayment mode when customers didn't even know it was possible. yeah, theyjust cut me off. yeah, and i didn't know. i didn't know. i actually thought it was a power cut, and i was wondering what was going on. and they did tell me then, you've been changed over to pre—payment meter and it's like, oh, right, that's it. nothing. but now installations can begin again, because all energy suppliers in britain have signed up to a new code of practice which is supposed to better protect the vulnerable.
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the changes mean customers over 85, people with terminal illnesses and some lung conditions can't be moved onto prepayment meters. suppliers will have to make ten attempts to contact a customer and conduct a site welfare visit before a pre—payment meter is installed by teams wearing body cameras. £30 credit will be added automatically when someone�*s switched so they don't get cut off in the process. energy companies say if they didn't have a way to install prepayment meters, customers would get deeper into debt, which eventually everyone would have to pick up the bill for. sometimes it's not possible to identify a vulnerability because customers will simply refuse to engage. if we identify a vulnerability, we don't install prepayment meters. but many charities and campaign groups say forcibly installing meters can never be done safely, and have criticised the regulator for not acting fast enough. today 0fgem is hoping
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the new rules will keep suppliers happy and customers safe, but it's still relying on companies to admit when they've made mistakes. colletta smith, bbc news. wages in the uk have risen by 6.6% in the three months to february compared with the previous year, according to the latest figures from the office for national statistics. the figure, which excludes bonuses, is higher than most economists were expecting, but rising prices mean earnings are still falling in real terms. 0ur economics correspondent andy verity has been looking at the construction industry, which is being hit by the rising cost of materials and labour. all good? business has been challenging, up and down. it's been consistently inconsistent. one day we're super busy, we can't keep up. the next day we don't have any work on. a year ago, construction companies like this builder
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of grand designs—style renovations based near heathrow airport was struggling to cope with a surge in demand for new projects as the economy bounced back from the pandemic. there was no lack of work, but profits were squeezed by the rocketing cost of raw materials and a shortage of skilled staff that sent wages soaring. it's difficult to meet the demand, but there's also less money in the jobs because the cost of labour has risen so much. so we have labourers earning the money which plumbers and carpenters were earning like two and a half, three years ago. but everybody wants the job to be cheaper, because they have no certainty and the market conditions. so we don't have the money in the job to bring new people on board at the higher wage bracket. it was brexit that first caused the skills shortage that forced labourers' wages up. but now that's gradually settling down. with official interest rates eight times as high as they were for most of the past 15 years, customers are being put off borrowing more for home improvements.
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so in the past, people may take a remortgage and when they take a remortgage, they'll take money out of the property and then they'll do an extension, they'll do a basement, they'll do a loft. but at the moment, people are looking at the rates and thinking, lending is going to cost me so much more money, i'm going to put the project on hold. economists are predicting a recession in construction, forecasting the business will shrink by 5% this year — deeper than the modest drop in activity forecast for the wider economy. with wage pressure across the economy expected to subside, there's one less reason for the bank of england to force up interest rates any further. andy verity, bbc news. buckingham palace has revealed the official dish that the king and queen consort are inviting us to cook at our coronation parties next month, and it's a quiche. it features spinach, broad beans and tarragon, although a palace official said charles and camilla chose the recipe because it can be easily adapted to suit different tastes.
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it was created by royal head chef mark flanagan. now it's time for a look at the weather with carol. hello again. yesterday we reached temperatures of 21.2 celsius in kinlochewe in the north of scotland. today the north of scotland, or the north—west, certainly favoured for some higher temperatures. over the next few days the temperatures will slip. it's going to be mostly dry. there'll be some showers across parts of england and wales at times, but this keen easterly breeze coming in across a cold north sea really accentuating the cold feel along the north sea coastline. we've also got various fronts coming in across england and wales introducing thicker cloud at times and also some showers. this afternoon we've got cloud coming in from a weather front across southern counties. the odd light shower is possible, but move north of that there's a lot of dry weather and a fair bit of sunshine. it's not particularly windy, these white circles represent the average wind speeds, but we will have a brisk wind along the north sea coastline and that
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will accentuate the cool feel. temperatures here between ten and 13 degrees. push further west we're looking at higher temperatures. we could potentially see 19 in the north—west highlands today. now, as we head on through the evening and overnight, more cloud romps in from the north sea. we'll see some showers skirting across southern counties of england. further north, under clear skies, it will be cold and locally we will see a touch of frost, but that's, of course, where we'll see some blue skies to start the day tomorrow, under the clear skies. tomorrow a high pressure drifts a little bit further west. we still have this squeeze on the isobars, still brisk winds along the north sea coastline. this weather front continuing to pull away from the south—west taking its showers with it. a few of those showers may get into south wales, but they'll also move away and the low cloud tending to break up with the cloud generally pushing in the direction of the west, so brightening up in eastern areas. the north hanging onto the sunshine for most of the day. temperatures sliding a little bit.
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we're looking at ten to about 15 degrees as our maximum temperatures in the afternoon. as we move through wednesday into thursday, high pressure still very much with us, more or less anchored across our shores, but you can see we've got various weather fronts coming in on thursday and also friday. so what's going to happen, first of all, on thursday is a frosty start, a fine start, but then we'll see some cloud and some showers coming our way. showers more widespread during the course of friday.
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live from london, this is bbc news. rival forces continue to engage in fierce fighting in sudan. a 24—hour armstice is agreed by one side only so civilians can leave. inside a glass and metal box in a moscow court — us journalist evan gershkovich appeals against his detention after spying charges. and in the us, police charge an 85—year—old white man for shooting a black teenager who mistakenly rang the wrong doorbell. hello. in sudan, four days of fighting between rival forces have killed almost 200 people and wounded another 1,800. in the capital khartoum there has been air strikes, shelling and other heavy gun fire reported.

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