hello. i'm mark edwards from the bbc sports centre. coming up on our programme... late drama from the old lady juventus equalise at the death in their europa league semifinal. first leg clash with syria. record breaking for the rajasthan royals. 21—year—old yashasvi jaiswal hits the fastest half century in ipl history. shocking the eternal city

as sofia kenin stunned second seeded sabalenka in straight sets at the rome open. hello and welcome to the programme. lots to get through, but we'll start with football on another big night of european action with the semi—finals of both the europa league and the europa conference league under way in turin. juventus left it very, very late to snatch a draw at home to four—time europa league champions severe. the spanish side had led through youssef and nasri in the first half, but they couldn't hang on for victory. federico gatti with uva's equaliser in the seventh minute of stoppage time. and then the semifinal roma have the advantage after beating bayer leverkusen 1—0 eduardo bove with the only goal midway through the second half withjose mourinho's side. the second leg for both ties are next thursday. in the europa conference league, it was a night of fight back.

fc basel scored a stoppage time winner to come from behind to beat fiorentina 2—1 in italy, while west ham scored 2/2 half goals to see off a—z alkmaar meaning they can head to the netherlands next week in confidence style. our reporterjoe wilson was watching the action for us at the london stadium. there was no mistaking a sense of occasion at the london stadium. west ham can almost stop worrying about relegation and so concentrate on a european final. potentially. there were fireworks before kick off. the first half was patient, even slow. a good save from matt ryan in the a—z alkmaar goal. and then west ham's keeper alphonse areola allowed a hopeful long distance shot to evade him and the dutch side were ahead. over an hour played in west ham were still looking for a response when matt ryan tried to punch the ball and made contact with gerrard bowen's face. had to be a penalty and benrahma

put it away perfectly. finally then the tempo of west ham's play seemed to live up to the occasion as they kept the ball alive. a—z cleared off the line and michail antonio reacted quickest to score west ham's second. now a—z alkmaar operate on a budget about 10% the size of west ham's. 2—1 is a slender lead for the second leg, but enough for west ham to feel that the best of the season is still ahead of them. joe wilson, bbc news. after losing the first leg of their champions league semifinal 2—0 to inter milan on wednesday, it looks like reigning serie a champions ac milan will be ending the season empty handed. however, one of the bright sparks of their campaign has been the form of their defender, fikayo tomori, who moved to italy from chelsea in 2021. and while he's not the only englishman benefitting from his time abroad, a number of other players enjoying a great campaign. tomori believes more english players should follow his example and head to foreign shores. i think english players are notorious for kind of staying in england and not really going abroad. but i think you can see there's

so many players that have gone abroad and they've thrived. you see sancho bellingham, myself, tammy, chris smalling and so many players that have gone away really learn. we've seen a different side to football, seeing a different way to play, a different culture, and you can see that's added to their game. so yeah, i definitely recommend it, you know, kind of go in and, you know, open your view on football because there's so many different, i guess you can say so many different kinds of ways to play football, ways of interpreting the way the game is played. and one of the football lines to bring you in. former argentina manager marcelo bielsa appears to be back on the international scene. local media reporting bielsa has agreed to become the new uruguay manager, replacing interim boss marcelo brolly. bielsa has been out of work since leaving leeds united in february 2022. away from football to cricket. and it was a record breaking day for the rajasthan royals in the indian premier league as they cruised to a thumping win over the kolkata knight riders.

having lost the toss, the knight riders madejust 149 from the 20 overs, with only venkatesh leer scoring more than 25. but enter yashasvi jaiswal, who hit the fastest half century in ipl history, the 21—year—old smashing 50 from just 13 balls as the royals reached their target with 41 balls to spare through a nine wicket thrashing. in tennis... 0rganisers of last week's madrid 0pen have apologised to players and fans for what they say was the unacceptable decision to not allow the women's doubles finalists to make presentation speeches. victoria azarenka and beatrice beat americans jessica pegula and coco gauff in the final on sunday, but were denied the opportunity to speak on court after the match. despite the men's doubles winners having been afforded that privilege. the professional tennis players association said the players had been denied the right to freedom of expression. 0rganisers say they have apologised directly to the players.

while azarenka was back on court on thursday, booking her place in the last 16 of the rome masters, she beat sloane stephens in straight sets, ending the american six—match winning streak and will now face madison keys in the next round. elsewhere in the women's draw, there was a big shock as aryna sabalenka was knocked out. the world number two beaten in straight sets by sofia kenin, a player ranked 132 places below her. over in the men's draw... spare a thought for alexander bublik sir paul rackets taking the brunt of his anger in his match against pedro martinez on wednesday. the world number 49 did manage to recompose himself, though to win a second set, tie break and book his spot in the next round. he'll play american ben shelton on friday. seven time world snooker champion ronnie 0'sullivan says he lost himself for a number of years because of alcohol and drugs. the world number one was stripped of the irish

masters title in 1998 after testing positive for cannabis, and in 2000 entered rehab to treat his addictions. in the two decades since, 0'sullivan says, it's been hard working on himself and says he believes that happiness is an inside job. 0bviously putting a lot of weight, i was dependent on drinking and wacky becky, just to kind of get through the day. you know, i lost my personality. i lost my confidence, felt like i needed to sort of take substances just to feel like i could socialise, you know, and then you get clean and then you kind of like... you become a little bit awkward in social situations and think, well, how do i deal with these situations? so i became a little bit anxiety started to affect me in certain ways. and so it was like, how do i live clean and , you know, it was weird. it was like i had to learn how to do that stuff again.

and it took time. it took time. but once i got there, i've kind of like realised that, you know, you have to carve out a different life for yourself. maybe i'm not suited for x, y and z. you know, my happy place is going running in the morning and i got my running friends and i'm cool with that. you know, it put me in an environment where there's a lot of people this and that and i'm like, you know, i run for the corner. it's an amazing bit in the book where you talk about how, i mean, you've won. you're just seven times world champion. you scored a few won four sevens along the way, and yet you're not entirely convinced you've fulfilled your potential, are you? well, because obviously there's massive gaps where i lost six or seven years to drinking and taking cannabis. and then there was maybe another four years where, like i said to you, i was dealing with stuff away from the table, which i didn't deal with very well, but itjust basically i wasn't focusing on snooker, but i suppose everybody has their own problems. but there are ten years there where i didn't really do much, you know, i didn't practice much. i didn't have the headspace to win, you know. and so i like to think that if that wouldn't happen... and also, you know,

i, technical problems with my game, which is the worst thing for any sportsman that plays golf, tennis or snooker. you know, it's very technical sport. once you start questioning, how am i hitting the ball? am i hitting it right? you start to overthink. the giro d'italia continues to serve up its fair share of drama, this time at the finish line of stage six as denmark's mads pedersen snatched victory. australia's simon clark and italian alessandra de marchi were leading the way but were reeled in by the peloton with the end in sight and pedersen emerging victorious in a sprint finish. norway's andreas lechner retains the race leader's jersey. staying on two wheels, but moving from the road to rockier climes with mountain biking about to embark embarked rather on its first ever world series, brings together all the disciplines in the sport under one banner over the next few months. yves richards is the british rider who's been a world and commonwealth champion and is preparing for the opening round in the czech republic. for me, world champs is the biggest thing to win the rainbow stripes, is always like the top goal that all us athletes have. so yeah, that's definitely the big goalfor me. but also the overall

is another big one. but i hope this year i can build up and i'll be going well for the world championships. so i have a short track which we raced on a friday and then i raced the full long race, which is an hour and a half on the sunday. and for me, like the short track, i love racing, but because i missed so many races last year, my grading is really poor. so for me that willjust be like a real big stepping stone to get a good start in position for the sunday races, and then hopefully by the world championships will be going well in both of them. we've definitely got a really strong squad coming up and a really good platform at the moment for those young riders. so i think it's really exciting for the country, and hopefully that will do us well leading into the olympics. and finally, eric cray is a name synonymous with the southeast asian games, and the filipino has been making more headlines in the 400 metre hurdles. once again, he's won his sixth straight southeast asian games gold medal in the event in cambodia.

it's his eight gold medal and 11th medal overall since his first victory in 2013, making him the most decorated track athlete in southeast asian games history. and sadly, that's all the time we've got left for me, mark edwards and the rest of the team. bye bye. hello there. over the past few days, we've seen lots of rainbows. there's been some very heavy rain and lots of thunder and lightning. and on thursday, we had some funnel clouds coming down from the base of the cloud. that rotating cylinder of air, if it hit the ground, it would have been a tornado. funnel cloud is not unusual at this time of the year. don't think we're going to see any, though, over the next few days because low pressure is going to take the heavy showers into central southern parts of europe. high pressure building across the u:k., but we're seeing an east or northeasterly breeze coming in that's dragging in all the cloud from off the north sea. so great start for many central and eastern parts of the uk

that finger of rain moves down briefly to affect east anglia, the southeast, maybe the east midlands, before arriving in dorset. ahead of that one or two showers for wales in the southwest. for many western parts of the uk, it's going to be dry with some lengthy spells of sunshine and warm as well. temperatures 18, 19 degrees. where we keep the cloud, though, for eastern parts of england, much cooler, 13 or 1a nearer the mark and a cool breeze blowing in as well. that breeze will blow in more cloud overnight, particularly across central and eastern england on saturday morning. but it should burn back towards some of those north sea coasts with sunshine developing more widely. and it's going to be warm in that sunshine and light winds as well. temperatures are going to be higher on saturday, probably peaking at 20 or 21 celsius in quite a few places. second half of the weekend sees some changes because the high pressure releases its grip and this weather front will move down from the northwest. that will bring some rain into scotland and northern ireland and eventually a bit of that

rain will move over the irish sea into far western parts of england and wales. ahead of that, we'll see some sunny spells and barring one or two light showers, it may well be dry and it's going to be quite warm across the eastern side of england and through the midlands, temperatures again, 20 or 21 celsius. but over towards the northwest, things are turning much cooler nearer 15 or 16 degrees in that rain. that rain then pushes its way down across the country overnight. and then following on from that early next week, we have more of a northwesterly breeze, and that's going to bring in some cooler air as well. so the peak of the temperatures looks like being over the weekend. after that, things are cooling down. there'll be some sunshine around into next week. we can see just how low those temperatures are going to be. there will be some showers, but not the heavy ones that we've seen of late.

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