defending champion and world number one iga swiatek beat australian daria saville in straight sets. she'll play slovenia's kaja juvan on friday for a place in the last 16. swiatek looking to become the first woman to defend her us open title since serena williams won a hat—trick of titles from 2012. second seed novak djokovic cruised through in straight sets against spain's bernabe zapata miralles. djokovic, who's aiming to match margaret court with a record—equalling 24th major title, plays compatriot laslo dsjere next. there was shock for last year's finalist casper ruud, he's lost in five sets to chinese world number 67 zhang zhizhen. the other second round surprise saw another grand slam finalist stefanos tsitsipas knocked out, he lost in five to swiss qualifier dominic stricker. plenty of exciting second round matches today in new york. defedning champion carlos alcaraz is up against south africa's lloyd harris. andy murray a winner at flushing meadows in 2012

takes on grigor dimitrov. last year's quarter finalist jannik sinner plays lorenzo sonego. in the women's draw ons jabeur who lost in the final last year to iga swiatek faces linda noskova. former manchester united goalkeeper sergio romero was the hero for boca juniors in the copa libertadores as they squeezed past fellow argentine club racing to reach the semi—finals. after a 0—0 draw in the first leg neither side discovered their scoring touch in the return. racing had 11 shots but not a single one on target. boca fared little better, edinson cavani hit the target but failed to test keeper gabriel arias. racing's poorfinishing continued into the penalty shoot—out which saw romero save two of their spot kicks. it was left to another former manchester united player, marcos rojo, who sealed boca's passage to the last four. boca will face palmeiras in the semi—finals after a comfortable

aggregate victory over deportivo pereira. having lost the first leg 4—0, deportivo needed everything to go their way, but it didn't. angelo rodriguez going close but not close enough. palmeiras created plenty, but were unable to repeat their goal—scoring feats from the previous encounter — artur going close. deportivo finished with ten men afterjuan quintero was dismissed for a foul on real madrid bound endrick. brazil have parted ways with swedish coach pia sundhage after their disappointing campaign at the recent fifa women's world cup. sundhage was dismissed after brazil failed to reach the knockout stage for the first time since 1995. she was appointed to the role injuly 2019. the brazilian football confederation thanked her for her contribution in a statement. a new technical committee is expected to be announced in the coming days. not long to go in the transfer window, spain forward ansu fati is set to complete a surprise season—long loan move to brighton

from barcelona and matheus nenus is getting closer to becoming a manchester city player. the wolves and portugal midfielder has now been cleared to have a medical with city after a formal agreement was reached. the fee, £53 million — a club record sale for wolves. one man on his way out of the etihad is the home—grown cole palmer. chelsea are close to signing the 21—year—old on a long term contract. palmer scored in both community shield and super cup this season. in serie a, roma have confirmed the loan signing of chelsea forward romelu lukaku. the belgian striker will be reunited with former manager, jose mourinho. inter have announced the signing of french world cup winner, benjamin pavard, from german champions bayern munich. pavard is the second bayern player to move to inter this summer following goalkeeper yann sommer. lionel messi may be human after all. inter miami's perfect record under the world cup winner came to an end

as nashville became the first team to stop the seven—time ballon d'or winner from scoring or assiting in miami colours and pick up a point in mls. messi's scored 11 goals in nine games since joining the club. usa coach gregg berhalter says messi has taken the mls to a new level. you have this idea of what it could be, you know, what mls is and you totally break the mould by getting someone like messi and taking it to a different level, as been amazing exposure. i've been watching all the games and i went to the leeds cup final which was an amazing event, two teams with competing hard against each other for the title, and overall it's just blown me away, the impact that lionel messi can have and not only him but when you bring biscuits and alba, how it can translate onto the field. —— biscuits. bryce harper struck the 300th home run of his career, becoming 158th player to reach that milestone

in major league baseball history. harper's moment came in the eighth inning where he hit matt moore deep for his 15th home run of the season with ten of those coming in the month of august alone. his two—run blast put philadelphia 8—7 up before the la angels rallied to take the win10—8. harper is the 12th active player to reach the 300 milestone. detroit tigers star miguel cabrera heads the list of active players with 510. don't forget to check out the website for all the letters from the us open. more sport later. this is bbc news. let's turn now to the overhaul of disciplinary processes in england and wales. police officers found guilty of gross misconduct will be sacked — under new powers being given to police chiefs. the move has been prompted by the convictions of former metropolitan police officers wayne couzens, who murdered sarah everard, and the serial rapist david carrick.

our home editor, mark easton explained how the changes will look in practice. instead of having three lawyers, you will have on the chair a senior police officer, chief constable or one of his or her deputies, then you will still have two independent people, a legal professional and a lay person. so it sort of gets us a little bit further down the road. don't think in a way this is going to please anybody because i've already heard chief constables say it's not enough, we need to have real control of this, they can be outvoted by these independent voices and there is some frustration about that. then on the other side of the argument, people like the police federation, which represents rank—and—file officers, say these will become a kangaroo court, that basically this is as they say a retrograde step that takes us back to the days when senior police officers were acting essentially as judge and jury in these disciplinary cases, there were marking their own

homework and came to these hearings having already decided that these were officers they wanted rid of. let's hear now from the police federation — that's the staff association for police officers — and their national chair, steve hartshorn. good to speak to you, steve. the government is saying that these changes will make sure that there is no place to hyper officers who do not deserve to wear the uniform. do you agree?— you agree? good afternoon. i don't, to be honest. _ you agree? good afternoon. i don't, to be honest. i _ you agree? good afternoon. i don't, to be honest, i think— you agree? good afternoon. i don't, to be honest, i think the _ you agree? good afternoon. i don't, to be honest, i think the current - to be honest, i think the current police regulations are fit for purpose, i think this is simply a move to cover up for the inadequacies and poor performance of previous chief constables, commissioners, senior leaders who have failed to get to grips with the very basics of leadership, culture and dealing with vetting at a high level. this is theirfault, they have messed this up over the past ten to 15 years and now they want to change the law to suit themselves, that's not fair on police officers. none of the changes they are seeking for today were had prevented anything to do with wayne couzens,

thatis anything to do with wayne couzens, that is down to poor investigation. what you make of the idea that chief constables will present of a misconduct hearing is? i constables will present of a misconduct hearing is? i think it will be returned _ misconduct hearing is? i think it will be returned to _ misconduct hearing is? i think it will be returned to the - misconduct hearing is? i think it will be returned to the bad - misconduct hearing is? i think it will be returned to the bad old | misconduct hearing is? i think it. will be returned to the bad old days and as your previous commentators had we believe it will return to a kangaroo court where people, such as the chief constables with a ride with a preconceived set of ideas and will have already found colleagues guilty irrespective of evidence to stop it is simply wrong, it is biased, not independent, these are comments that came to the government when we had changes to the current 2020 regulations about the old regulations so we are taking a retrograde step, to some extent. but ou have retrograde step, to some extent. but you have people who brought these changes in including the met commissioner sir mark rowley who publicly campaigned for these changes, so he wanted independent lawyers to be replaced by chief constables overseeing these processes because he believed that lawyers, and quote, are more forgiving of bad behaviour. so surely that's a good thing if you have people who are more critical

understanding of the processes and therefore are going to make sure that bad behaviour is rooted out? if you look at the data, it's fairly conclusive as to what standards mean in terms of legally qualified independent panels now, i would say they are about the same but of course things need to have all, some of the new regulations have only been updated as late as august 2022 so haven't had a lot of time to bed the new legislation before chief constables and commissioners are asking for the law to be changed so i think there's more to be done. we do not think that putting chief officers back in charge will be anything to restore public confidence or even offers a confidence or even offers a confidence and how they will be treated by their own force. thank ou ve treated by their own force. thank you very much — treated by their own force. thank you very much for _ treated by their own force. thank you very much for sharing - treated by their own force. thank you very much for sharing your i you very much for sharing your insights on a story. now it's time for a look at the weather with carol. hello again. we have a bit of a split in the weather today. we've been watching rain coming in from the southwest, pushing northeastward courtesy of this clutch of weather fronts.

a ridge of high pressurejust keeping things more settled across the north and the east and this is where we'll have the driest weather through the rest of the day and also some sunshine. but the rain's continuing to advance slowly, northwards and eastwards. it is weakening as it does so, there'll be a bit of a gap behind it across south wales and south west england. but by the end of the afternoon, we'll be seeing some heavy thundery downpours coming in across the south west, with top temperatures in plymouth, 20 degrees. 15 in birmingham, and then we go into the sunshine on the other side of the weather front in newcastle, with 18 degrees. patchy rain continuing across northern ireland, getting into south west scotland, but a lot of sunshine in scotland. here's where we'll have some clear skies overnight, as we will across some southern areas. our frontal system continuing to move northwards. it's going to be a mild night for most of us, but a chilly one in sheltered glens, with temperatures slipping down to about 3 or 4. so potentially a touch of frost tomorrow morning. so here's our weather front tomorrow across northern england, southern scotland and northern ireland. ahead of it, we hang onto the sunshine.

behind it, there'll be some sunshine with the early morning heavy thundery downpours clearing away. temperatures, 1a to 22 degrees north to south. then as we head into the weekend, high pressure really does establish itself across the uk. but we are watching the progress of this weather front. it's going to bring in a bit more cloud on saturday into the far north of scotland through the day. here, too, it's going to be pretty windy. we'll have low cloud, mist and fog in southern england and northern ireland to slowly lift. but in between, a lot of dry weather and also a fair bit of sunshine, with temperatures 15 in lerwick to 23 in london. then as we push on into sunday, high pressure still very much with us, but that weather front encroaching a bit closer, bringing in some rain. and again, gusty winds out towards the north and the west. any early morning mist and fog lifting to leave most of us with a dry day, again with a fair bit of sunshine and highs, 16 to about 23 celsius north to south. then as we move on into next week, well, that high pressure

is still very much with us now. we could see one or two showers getting into the south of england on tuesday, still open to question, but it's going to be pleasantly warm for the first half of the week.

live from london. this is bbc news more than 70 people including several children are killed in a fire at a block of flats injohannesburg. these are live pictures from the city as the emergency services continue searching the building. former transport secretary grant shapps is named as the new uk defence secretary. tropical storm idalia leaves a trail of destruction

after moving up the us east coast. hello, i'm maryam moshiri, welcome to bbc news now, we start in south africa where more than 70 people including several children have died in a fire at a five—storey block of flats in johannesburg. the emergency services said the building, in the city's former business district, had been abandoned and was used by homeless people. officials said many bodies were found pressed against a closed security gate. dozens of people were injured, and rushed to hospital. it's been described as one of the worst fire incidents in the city's recent history. the head of the emergency services injohannesburg says the cause of the blaze is currently unclear. it's a high tech building an abandoned building.