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out of the china open — the top seed carlos alcaraz is beaten byjannik sinner. we will tell you who awaits him in the final. and you'll hear from the bbc greens sport athlete of the year as australia captain pat cummins tells us how he's trying to tackle cricket's carbon footprint. it's one of those things that, you know, no one�*s ever going to be perfect, but i think everyone could do something a little bit different in their life that might make a big difference. welcome along. thank you forjoining us. it has been a night of drama in the european champions league. manchester united's return
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to the competition continues to be a miserable one. it's two defeats in two for them, after a sensational wind for galatasaray. twice united led the turkish champions at old trafford with two goals from their young striker, rasmus hoyland. it looked as though it might be united's night, but with 13 minutes to go united had casimiro sent off after a challenge in the box. the subsequent penalty was missed by mario icardi. but he made amends minutes later, scoring what proved to be the winner for his side. and so united and erik ten hag have now lost six of ten in all competitions since the start of the season. and there were five goals in napoli, too, where real madrid also came from behind to win. jude bellingham further enhancing his status as real star player scoring and assisting as they beat
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the italian champions. 3-2. and there was a shock in france where locals came from behind to beat last season's premier league runners up arsenal. wahi with the goal that proved to be the winner 20 minutes from time, 2—1 the final score. and these then are all of the results from tuesday's game. and bayern munich, you can see with a late winner themselves, the german champions winning that one, 2—1. psv eindhoven sevilla finished 2—2. a win for braga in berlin at union they won 3—2. inter milan 1—0 winners over benfica. plenty more reaction over on the bbc sport website. so that the european champions league. the asian champions league has also resumed this week. al—ittihad were supposed to face sepahan in iran last night, but the match was called off moments before kick off because of a statue close to the players tunnel of a revolutionary guards commander who was killed in a us drone
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strike three years ago. officials from the saudi pro league side took offence to the bust and refused to play. the match was cancelled. here is the bbc�*s pooria jefereh. the match commissioner has told sepahan officials that they need to remove the statue, otherwise the saudi team will not play. also sepahan and have told them that it's basically above their pay grade to move that statue. and this is not the first time you get a football match called off because of these controversial issues. but one would ask why they didn't make clear that this was going to happen for those 60,000 fans who made it to the stadium and were expecting the first home match against their biggest rivals in theirgroup, which were al—ittihad from saudi arabia. yeah, this is where the crux is. we have suleimani, revered
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in iran and saudi arabia, ——we have suleimani, revered in iran, and saudi arabia have labelled him as a terrorist. and itjust shows how raw the feelings still are between these two nations. is there a fear that this could become an issue for other saudi teams going into iran? looking at some of those pictures from last night, the fans, it seems that the fans were not happy with the statue being there. they just wanted to get on with the game. and there were also anti—government slogans by the fans so in terms of the rivalry and we've already seen how al—nasr and ronaldo were received in iran like two weeks ago. so there isn't that much enmity between the fans of iranian clubs and saudi arabian clubs. and it seems that those decisions are coming from
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non—sporting authorities. there is that political tension between the two countries and sometimes that is causing a problem. it'll be really interesting to see what decision will be made at the end of this. finally, it's those fans that you just feel sorry for. i mean, they were probably looking forward to seeing n'golo kante, amongst others. he was there with al—ittihad. it's the fans who are missing out here. so you just feel that the administrators, they have to get a grip on this pretty soon. that is true. but then again, after tonight, there won't be any home games for the iranian sides facing facing saudi opposition. and it seems that somehow they have simplified the matter. so maybe the saudis are winning this football war with iran without even like kicking a ball like what happened
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last night in esfahan. talking to 0lly foster earlier. let's turn our attention to tennis arena. sabalenka, coco gauff all continuing their progress at the china open whilst in the men's draw. we now know who will be playing in the final, and it won't be this man, carlos alcaraz. the top seeds been knocked out byjannik sinner in their semifinal. the first set was close with sinner, the 22—year—old italian, edging it on a tie break. but he ran away with a second against a two—time grand slam champion, winning it 6—1. he now leads the head to head. four, three and four rise to a career high of fourth in the world after the tournament. and awaiting sinner in the final on wednesday will be the former us open champion, daniil medvedev. he beat alexander zverev 6—4, 6—3 in the other semifinal and will look forward to playing sinner next because he's won all six of their previous matches. we've seen the final cricket world cup warm ups in india, but the host nations match against the netherlands was abandoned because of rain in kerala.
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elsewhere, australia beat pakistan by 14 runs in hyderabad. australia chose to bat, finishing on 351 for seven, with glenn maxwell and cameron green both hitting quickfire fifties. babar azam put 90 runs on the ball, but it wasn't enough for pakistan who were all gone for 337. afghanistan, meanwhile, produced an impressive six—wicket win against sri lanka in a rain—affected game in guwahati. kusal mendis scored a brilliant 158 off 87. the lankans bowled out for 294 before amanullah, abbas and rahmat shah's heroics got the afghans over smashing 119 with nine sixes and rahmat, adding 93 runs. if you're with us on monday, we revealed the winners of the bbc green sport awards. pat cummins was named
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athlete of the year. the australia cricket captain is looking at ways to reduce the sport's huge carbon footprint and raise awareness through his cricket. the climate foundation. cummins runs in determinedly down the hill bowls edge is agitated his court. bowled him. but when did your interest in the environment begin? growing up in australia spent a lot of time outside beaches like this. so i guess i've always had a bit of an interest. it's probably not until the last three or four years that i've really thought a bit more deeply about my personal impact on the planet. i think firstly cricket, we play sometimes in really extreme weather. we've had games where it's been called off due to bushfire in the middle of summer and a drop a rain or drop in temperature, the conditions change or you can't play at all. and then the nature of international cricket, you travel around a lot around the world, you see lots of different places. you have quite a high carbon footprint yourself. so it's just it's always front of mind. but we that's huge opportunity as well. there's so many stakeholders, so many people that look to a sport like
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cricket for leadership in this space. it's something that brings a lot of people together. tell us why you set up cricket for climate. i think number one wasjust trying to think of something where i could lighten to my footprint solar house, electric car, all those kind of things in my own life. but i was trying to see where i could make a bit of a difference in the community, particularly in the cricket community. so yeah, thought of the idea initially of putting solar panels on my home cricket club. it's kind of gone from there in a few days' time. you fly to south africa, then fly on to the world cup in india. there's a lot of flying there. how do you square that with your environmental concerns? yeah, you know, flying or a lot of things we do is unfortunately a side effect of ourjob. no one's ever going to be perfect, but i think everyone can do something a little bit different in their life that might make a big difference. solar panels in your house, switching away from gas, getting electric car that's powered by renewable sources. these are significant differences you can do in your life. you get the sense that australia and other developing countries are moving fast enough?
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i think we can always move faster and i think it's up to us to show that this is important to us. there's a lot of these solutions that we can do today and there's no point waiting. get started. pat cummins, there. head over to the bbc sport website. plenty of reaction to tuesday's european champions league results, including wins for real madrid and galatasa ray. but from me and the team, that is all for now. goodbye. hello there. we're now all into some fresher—feeling air. but temperatures are still a little above the average for this time of year. tuesday was rather blustery with sunshine and showers for most of the uk. there will be some more rain in the forecast as we head through the week, but it's mostly out towards the north and the west. the further south and east you are, the drier your week is likely to be, and then things will be turning
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warmer and more autumn warmth for most as we head into the weekend. now, on wednesday, as you can see, we've got rain out towards parts of western scotland, across northern ireland, too, driven in by this area of low pressure. so it's a wet start to the day here, further south across england and wales, lots of clear skies throughout the night. so a chillier start to the morning than we've been used to of late and still rather breezy with a brisk westerly wind. that's across western areas of scotland, the west highlands, argyll and bute. there are some localised weather warnings in force, some of this rain likely to pep up at times. it curls around across to northeastern scotland, up towards the northern isles, and then our front sinks southwards across northern ireland, the borders into northern england, perhaps, as we head through the afternoon. bright skies to the north of the weather front with a few showers around, the sunniest skies across england and wales, a few isolated showers out towards the west. temperatures again in the mid to the high teens with a brisk westerly wind blowing. now, we don't have to wait for too long before
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the next low pressure system pushes some more fronts our way. and they're going to arrive as we head through thursday morning, say, some further outbreaks of rain, quite saturated ground by now out towards southwestern areas of scotland. the warnings extending further north as we head towards the end of the week. some spells of rain, too, for northern ireland. a lot of cloud being thrown towards eastern areas, the best of any brightness towards the southeast of england. temperatures once again in the mid to the high teens in celsius. now, as we head through friday, you'll notice that these weather fronts are starting to come more round towards the north and the west, being driven away by the high pressure building in from europe. and that is going to keep us largely dry throughout the weekend. and there will be a lot of sunshine around. as you can see with that now southerly wind, we start to see the warmer air feed through and the temperatures rise, particularly for england and wales. so it will be feeling warmer over the weekend. temperatures up to 26 celsius in southeast england on sunday, low to the mid 20s across much of wales, low 20s for northern ireland, perhaps a little cooler and wetter for scotland. bye bye.
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live from washington, this is bbc news. kevin mccarthy says he won't run again for us house speaker, after being ousted in a dramatic vote in congress. former president donald trump tells the bbc he does plan to testify in the fraud case against him. we'll have the latest from the court. plus, at least 21 people have been killed in a bus crash in venice. the city's mayor called it
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an "apocalyptic scene". the office of speaker of the house of the united states house of representatives is hereby declared vacant. history in the united states congress — kevin mccarthy officially the first speaker of the house of representatives to be forced out of his post, after a vote by lawmakers. i'm sumi somaskanda, on a busy day here in the us capital. that vote has thrown the us house of representatives into chaos. republicans will not meet again until next week to sort out who will become the next speaker. kevin mccarthy said he will not run again, blaming those in his conference who voted against him for creating turmoil here in washington. my my fear is the institution felt
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