hello, i'm marc edwards, from the bbc sport 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 sevilla. record breaking for the rajastan royals — 21—year—old yashasvi jaiswal hits the fastest half century in ipl history. a shock in the eternal city as sofia kenin stuns second seeded sabalenka in straight sets at the rome open. hello, welcome to the program. lots to get through but we'll

start with fooball on another big night of european action, with the semi finals of both the europa league and the europa conference league underway. in turin, juventus left it very, very late to snatch a draw at home to four—time europa league champions sevilla. the spanish side had led through youssef en nesyri in the first half, but they couldn't hang on for victory — federico gatti withjuve�*s equaliser in the 7th minute of stoppage time. in the night's other semifinal, roma have the advantage, after beating bayer leverkusen 1—0. edoardo bove with the only goal midway through the second half forjose mourinho�*s side. the second leg for both ties, are next thursday. in the europa conference league, it was a night of fightbacks. fc basel scored a stoppage time winner to come from behind to beat fiorentina 2—1 in italy. whilst west ham scored two second half goals to see off az alkmaar — meaning they can head to the netherlands next week

in confident 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 az 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 and west ham were still looking for a response when ryan tried to punch the ball and made contact with jarrod bowen's face. it had to be a penalty. said 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. az alkmaar cleared of the line and michail antonio reacted quickest to school west ham's second.

now, az 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 semi—final 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, with a number of other players enjoying a great campaign, tomori believes more english players should follow his example and head to foreign shores. english players are notorious for kind of staying in england, not really going abroad to own, but i think you can see there's so many players that have gone abroad and they have thrived, you know, sancho, bellingham,

myself, chris, there's so many players that have gone away and really learned or seen and really learned or seen a different a different side to football, seen a different way to play, a different culture you can see that it has added to the game. so, yeah, i definitely recommend it. kind of going and opening your view on football because there are so many different kinds of ways of to play and interpreting the way the game is played. one other football line to bring you and former argentina manager marcelo biesla appears to be back on the international scene. local media are reporting bielsa has agreed to become the new uruguay manager, replacing interim boss marcelo broli. bielsa has been out of work since leaving leeds united in february 2022. away from football, 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 their 20 overs, with only venkatesh iyer scoring more than 25. 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 for a 9 wicket thrashing. in tennis, organisers of last weeks madrid open 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 beatriz haddad maia beat americansjessica 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". organisers say they have apologised directly to the players. well, 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�*s 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 was beaten in straight sets by sofia kenin — a player ranked 132 places below her. and in the men's draw, spare a thought for alexander bublik�*s poor racket, taking the brunt of his anger in his match against pedro martinez on wednesday, the world number 49 did re—compose himself though to win a second set tie break and book his spot in the next round where he'll play american ben shelton on friday. seven—time world snooker champion ronnie o'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, o'sullivan says it's been hard working on himself and says he believes that happiness is an insidejob.

obviously, putting on a lot of weight, it was dependent on drinking and wacky backy, i lost my personality, lost my confidence and felt i needed to take substances to socialise and then you get clean and you are kind of like, you become a little bit awkward in social situations so i became a little bit... anxiety started to affect me. how do i live clean? i had to learn how to do that stuff again. it took time but once i got there, i kind of realised you have to carve out a different life for yourself. maybe i'm not suited for x, y, z. my happy place is running in the morning, i have my running friends and i am cool.

put me in an environment with lots of peo—ple, i run for the corner. you talk about that you seven time world champion and you want not convinced if your potential? there are massive gaps where i lost 6— seven years to drinking and taking cannabis and maybe another four years like i said to you, i was dealing with stuff away from the table which i did not deal with very well. basically, i was not focusing on snooker but i suppose everybody has their problems but there are ten years where i really didn't do much, did not practice much, did not have the headspace to win and so i would like to think that if that would not have happened, and technical problems with my game, which is the worst thing for any sportsman who plays golf, tennis or snooker,

it is a very technical sport and 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 6 — as denmark's mads pedersen snatched victory. australia's simon clarke and italian alessandro de marchi were leading the way but were reeled in by the peloton with the end in sight and pederson emerging victorious in a sprint finish. norway's andreas leknessund retains the race leaders jersey staying on two wheels but moving from the road to rockier climbs with mountain biking about to embark on its first ever world series which brings together all the disciplines in the sport under one banner over the next few months. evie richards is the british rider who's both a world and commonwealth champion and is preparing for the opening round in the czech republic. to be world champion is the biggest thing. to win the rainbow stripe is a top goal that athletes have so that is the big goalfor me but the overall is also a big one. i hope this year we can build up.

i race short track at the world championship and then i race the full long race which is 1.5 hours on sunday and for me the short track i love racing but because i missed so many races last year, it would be a big stepping stone to get a good start and hopefully by the world championship, we will be going well in both of them. we have a strong squad and a really good platform for the young riders so i think it is really exciting for the country and hopefully that will do us well leading into the olympics. and finally, eric cray is a name synonmous with the southeast asian games and the filipino been making more headlines in the a00m hurdles once again. cray has won his sixth straight southeast asian games gold medal in the event in cambodia. it's his eighth gold medal, and 11th medal overall since his first victory in 2013 making him the most—decorated track athlete in sea games history. 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 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 clouds 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 uk. but we're seeing an east or northeasterly breeze coming in that's dragging in all the cloud from off the north sea. so a grey 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 and 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.

live from washington, this is bbc news. concerns over us—mexico border crossings, as the end of a controversial immigration policy is just hours away. pakistan's supreme court orders the release of former prime ukraine does not president zelenskyy gives more details about the expected counter offensive in the country was war with russia. pakistan's supreme court orders the release of former prime minister imran khan, saying his arrest was illegal. hello. thanks forjoining us. it's nowjust hours before a controversial immigration policy in the us is due to expire, and officials have been warning about a potential

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