coming up on the programme... manchester city striker erling haaland breaks the record for goals in a premier league season. where next for lionel messi — as the world cup winner announces he'll leave paris st—germain at the end of the season ryder cup stars sergio garcia, ian poulter and lee westwood won't play in this year's event — find out why. manchester city striker erling haaland broke the record for goals in a premier league season as his side went back to the summit of the table by beating west ham. the norwegian scored his 35th league goal of the campaign in a 3—0 win to move past alan shearer and andrew cole's previous best of 34. haaland, in his debut season in english football, was given a guard of honour at full time by his team—mates

as he set the new record in just his 31st game of the year. city are top again by a point over arsenal and with a game in hand. incredible. 22 years old, so still five gears left. how many times i make a substitution after hatrick at 60 minutes. otherwise maybe he would score more but at the same time maybe he will get injured because he is special. his body has to be all the time, like a watch, but incredible. congratulations to him. for all of the team to help him of course to achieve it. and it's really good to have him. i thought the team played really well tonight. really disappointed when we were first go to a set piece because, you know, we're pretty good at defending them. and so i'm really disappointed with that. against man city, they may have scored some other goals and we cut it a little bit

a lot at times when the ball hit the post and didn't go in. but i thought we deserved that. i thought we'd done a good enough job to to warrant going in at half—time. and we wanted to come out in the second half and do a little bit better. liverpool kept alive their outside hopes of qualifying for next season's champions league after mohamed salah scored the only goal in a 1—0 win over fulham. salah scored for the eighth home game in a row as liverpool won for the fifth successive premier league game to maintain their late—season form. jurgen klopp�*s side stay fifth in the table, four points behind fourth—placed manchester united, who have two games in hand. if newcastle and manchester united win all their games and we have no chance. so we have to keep, and that in our hands as well, i think with brighton, if brighton wins all the games than they are ahead of us. so, thatwe have to win football games and in the end we can

have a look at the table. where did it lead us to? i am, in this moment, really happy with the development and direction we are going to. i think we deserved more from the game and i'm proud of our players and we played, this evening, the fourth game in 12 days and we showed that our quality. in some moments of the game, of course, as always we deserve much more from the game. sam allardyce says he was shocked to be asked to take over as manager of leeds united — and that some people have called him mad to take the job. he took his first training session with the squad on wednesday— after spaniard javi gracia was dismissed afterjust ten weeks and 12 games in charge at elland road. allardyce is tasked with guiding leeds to safety with four games remaining. they are currently out of the bottom three but only on goal difference. a tough first game for him though — against leaders manchester city on saturday. that's probably the biggest challenge because of the shortness of

games that are left. i mean, i think that, you know, there needs to be points picked up in. and the difficulty is, you know, you look at the fixtures, you know, i mean, we start with an easy one on saturday and, you know, i mean, can't get any easier than manchester city away, can it? but i enjoy the game so much and to try and be able to save this club and put it back and keep it in the premier league is, is a big responsibility and a big challenge, but one i'm prepared to take because of who leeds united are. in italyjust six points separate six teams from second to seventh after a surprising midweek round of serie a matches. juventus beat lecce 2—1 and lazio won against sassuolo to ensure they stay second and third. inter milan thumped verona 6—0 to move up to fourth place

though after disappointing i—i draws for roma and milan against monza and cremonese. atalanta's 3—2 win against spezia keeps them still in contention as well for next seasons champions league as well.. three matches in la liga. valencia and villareal finished i—i. atletico madrid leapfrog their city rivals real madrid to go second after a 5—1 victory against cadiz getafe beat celta vigo i—o and in germany eintracht frankfurt will face rb leipzig in the dfb cup final after a dramatic 3—2 win in their semi final against stuttgart. frankfurt went a goal down early to tiago tomas but came back through goals from evan ndicka, daichi kamada and french forward kolo muani to set up the showdown with the reigning champions onjune third. could lionel messi's time at paris saint—germain be up? he's been suspended him for two weeks unpaid for an �*unathorised' trip to saudi arabia. he's an ambassador for the saudi tourist authority who say the trip included feeding gazelles and visiting a luxury shopping centre.

he'll be free again for the final three games of the season, as psg look to retain their ligue one title, but speculation's growing that we won't see him in a psg shirt again. so where could he go next? there's two other options, of course. saudi arabia. an offer has arrived of around £400 million. yes, you heard well, for one year, 400 million. the idea is to put together cristiano ronaldo and leo messi in the same league. and the mls�*s have always been there. they cannot afford that kind of money. but they said whenever you want to come to the mls inter miami will open the doors for you. and he knows that. the england and wales cricket board has revealed the sanctions it recommends against the six former yorkshire players found to have used racist slurs at the club. it follows the allegations made by azeem rafiq. here's our sports editor dan roan. now, ecb charges that have been issued all

stemmed from allegations made by the former yorkshire spinner azeem rafiq, now a seventh former yorkshire player. the ex—england captain, michael vaughan, he was cleared by the cdc panel. as for the other six, well, they've had to wait until today to discover what kind of punishments they may face. the former england and yorkshire batsman gary ballance, who had admitted a charge of using racist language towards rafiq and who'd apologised to him. the ecb today revealed that they were recommending that the panel issue him with an eight week suspension that would only apply if he came out of retirement. he announced his retirement last month and that he received an £8,000 fine. now as for the other former yorkshire players who were found to have used racist or discriminatory language, the ecb

recommended £7500 fines for both the former england star matthew hoggard and the former yorkshire player and coach andrew gayle. £5,000 fines for england's former player tim bresnan and yorkshire's former all rounder john blain and a £4,000 fine for anotherformer yorkshire player, richard pira. the ecb also said today that they wanted all six individuals to go on an educational course and to be reprimanded. staying with cricket — pakistan successfully defended a 287—run total as they beat new zealand by 26 runs in a one—day international to take an unassailable 3—0 lead in the series. imamulhaq and babar azam hit half—centuries as pakistan scored 287—6 in karachi. tom blundell top scored for new zealand with 65 and cole mcconchie was 64 not out but they fell short with two matches still to play in the series. meanwhile at the ipl — mumbai indians chased down a mammoth 215 to beat the punjab kings.

it meant liam livingstone�*s 82 not out including seven fours and four sixes was in vain. in what seemed like an improbable chase, mumbai were up against it mohali when skipper rohit sharma fell for a duck. but suryakumar yadav and ishan kishan hit fifties before tilak varma and tim david's late runs took mumbai over the finishing line. they won the game by six wickets. and lucknow super giants and chennai super kings were forced to split points as their indian premier league match was called off due to rain. with incessant rain lashing the ekana stadium, even the minimum five overs of the csk innings weren't possible after the home team had made 125—7 in 19 point two overs. four golfers including lee westwood and ian poulter will no longer be eligible to play in this year's ryder cup after announcing their resignation from the dp world tour. westwood and poulter have starred in a number of famous ryder cup victories

for team europe but will now be out of the reckoning to take on team usa along with richard bland and sergio garcia — after the quartet missed wednesday's deadline of paying a fine for breaking dp w0rld tour rules and playing in the opening liv golf tournament lastjuly. reigning champion carlos alcaraz is through to the semi finals of the madrid masters after beating the russian karen khachanov in straight sets 6—4 7—5. the spaniard has been in brilliant form throughout the tournament and will now play croatian borna coric in the final four at the clay court event. the 19—year—old needs to defend his title in order to replace novak djokovic as the world numberi from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye.

hello there. many of us had some beautiful late spring sunshine on wednesday. in fact, in bournemouth, there was just over 13 hours of sunshine, a glorious day. but top temperature, well, that was in south wales, in gwynedd, just shy of 20 celsius, and it felt very pleasant indeed. now it's not out of the question that we could see 20 celsius on thursday, but the weather story is certainly on the change with low pressure starting to move in from the southwest. so as we go through the day on thursday, it's a tale of three halves, really — we've got cloud driving in off the north sea, affecting eastern england and northeast scotland. we've got rain pushing into the southwest — and sandwiched in between the two, that's where the best of the sunshine is likely to be, and that's where we'll see the best of the warmth. the breeze still coming from an east direction, so with exposure, that's just going to add a slight edge to things.

a little more shelter, it'll feel pleasant enough with highs of 19—20 celsius perhaps in the southeast. now, as we move out of thursday into friday, that weatherfront will continue to push its way steadily north. it'll bring outbreaks of rain as it does so, and then, following on behind, plenty of showers to come. so on friday, we'll see a spell of more persistent rain moving out of northeast england, into scotland. sunny spells and scattered showers tucking in behind. some of those showers could be heavy, slow—moving, with the odd rumble of thunder. now, not everybody will see the showers, but because the winds are slightly lighter coming from a southwesterly direction, maybe those showers might hang around for a little bit longer. still a cool easterly, making it feel fresher in scotland, but highs likely of 18 celsius by friday afternoon. now, as we move into the start of the weekend, that southwesterly wind will drive that milder air further north for all of us. but unfortunately, it'll also bring some wetter weather. so this is saturday,

coronation day — you can see that wet weather moving its way across the capital and steadily north as we go through the day. so not a wash—out by any means, but at the moment, it does look likely that during the morning, there will be outbreaks of rain across the capital, certainly worth bearing in mind. and the wider picture throughout the bank. holiday weekend — saturday will be the wettest of the days, sunday and monday, sunny spells and scattered showers. some of them on monday could be quite heavy. take care.

welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. i'm monica miller. the headlines — a war of words between russia and ukraine, after moscow claims this unverified footage shows a drone targeting and exploding over the kremlin. a 13—year—old boy in serbia is accused of shooting dead eight children and a security guard at a school. as rehearsals continue for the coronation of king charles iii, police warn of swift action against any protesters on the big day. and could this be a breakthrough in the battle against alzheimer's? a new drug appears to significantly slow down the progress of the disease.