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hello from the bbc sport centre. hello there, welcome along. let's start at the cricket world cup where virat kohli has scored his 50th odi hundred, breaking the record of fellow indian legend sachin tendulkar. kohli's milestone occured in the first semi—final against new zealand in mumbai where the hosts were brilliant with the bat. india captain rohit sharma won the toss and hit a rapid 47 runs in 29 balls before he was dismissed. in came kohli, who was imperious from the start. he set about looking to break his hero tendulkar�*s record and did it in front of him with a century that included 11 boundaries. shreyas iyas smacked a 67—ball century leaving new zealand needing a mammoth 398 to reach a third final in a row. in reply, new zealand are already up against it, they've lost two wickets early but captain kane williamson and daryl mitchell are building a partnership, new zealand are currently 151—2
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some fallout from the cricket world cup, as pakistan's babar azam has resigned as captain in all three formats. despite optimism ahead of the tournament, pakistan were disappointing winning just four times from their nine matches and failing to qualify for the semi—finals. babar scored 320 runs in nine matches during the world cup and said that he would continue playing for the team and would support whoever is chosen as the new captain. at the atp finals, world number two carlos alcaraz is on court against fifth seed andrey rublev. alcaraz will be looking to bounce back from monday's loss to alexander zverev. this match has not long got under way and alcaraz has made a strong start, as its currently 3—1 in the second set. later in the day, alexander zverev will take on danil medvedev in the late match. rory mcilroy has resigned from the pga tour's policy board with the american circuit embroiled
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in high level negotiations over how to fund its future. mcilroy�*s shock decision was revealed in a memo to the tour's players issued by commissionerjay monahan. mcilroy had been a steadfast critic of the saudi arabia funded breakaway liv tour and was regarded as an arch pga tour loyalist. the northern irishman had spoken to the press on tuesday but gave no indication that he was about to resign. some news out of germany, union berlin have announced that a split between them and manager urs fischer. last season they finished fourth and qualified for the champions league. this season they've lost 13 matches and find themselves bottom of the bundesliga. in a statement the club said there "are few words to express just how grateful we are to him for the last five and a half years. the minnesota timberwolves won their second in—season tournament game as they beat the golden state warriors 104—101
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but the match was marred early with three ejections inside the first two minutes of the match. warriors guard klay thompson and jaden mcdaniels got tied up with each other in transition before they began pushing each other. that started a melee and draymond green put t—wolves centre rudy gobert into a headlock. thompson and green were ejected along with mcdaniels. the warriors were already without injured star man steph curry as they lost their 4th straight game. there is no way thompson should have been thrown out of the game. he is running up the floor and the guy grabs hisjersey and is pulling on him and he pulls back. no way he should have been rejected. that was ridiculous and then the drame and greenpeace, rudy had his hands on his neck, and that is why he went after rudy. it was a bizarre way to start the game, one minute and a half in. . �* ,
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start the game, one minute and a half in. . v . start the game, one minute and a halfin. . �*, ., start the game, one minute and a half in. . �*, ., , ., ., half in. that's all sport for now. more later- _ half in. that's all sport for now. more later. i'm _ half in. that's all sport for now. more later. i'm keeping - half in. that's all sport for now. more later. i'm keeping an - half in. that's all sport for now. more later. i'm keeping an eye| more later. i'm keeping an eye across the cricket. 161—2. they will fight to the last ball. i’m across the cricket. 161-2. they will fight to the last ball.— fight to the last ball. i'm sure they will- _ for the first time since the start of the war in ukraine, russia has admitted that some ukrainian forces have crossed onto the russian—occupied eastern bank of the dnipro river. ukrainian officials have also said they have a foothold in the kherson region, which could potentially open a new line of attack towards crimea. russian troops abandoned the western bank of the river a year ago and took up positions on the eastern side. our correspondent james waterhouse has the latest from kyiv. it certainly will be a welcome new dimension for ukraine in this continued invasion. we have the chief of staff to president zelensky, andriy yermak, speaking at a meeting of advisers in the us where he confirmed in his words that against all odds, ukrainian forces have established a foothold across the dnipro river into occupied territory in the southern kherson region.
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now this is somewhere which was once seen as being the least likely area for there to be a ukrainian counter offensive because of how wide the river is. it's incredibly low lying marshland, really. and we've seen months of ukrainian forces probe the area. and it seems for the past month, if you look at reports, if you look at some of the latest analysis, it seems that they've been able to take at least a couple of villages. we're only talking a number of kilometres here and we're talking about 500 ukrainian marines. they are surrounded by russian forces. they are heavily, heavily outnumbered. but colleagues at the bbc russian service have spoken to russian personnel across the river who confirm those reports and they say they've been forced back because of ukrainian artillery, which is in a higher position on the western bank of the river. the question is whether this can
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turn into something more. at the moment, it's being called they've cleared an area for troops to arrive by boat. if that turns into what's called a bridgehead, where a permanent crossing is established, then more ukrainian troops and machinery can make their way across and it becomes something more. but for now, i think it gives it forces russian troops to redeploy from their relentless assaults in the east, and it also threatens supply lines further south to occupied crimea, which ukraine sees as a real opportunity in terms of trying to isolate it, to put it into jeopardy for vladimir putin and to try and force his hand in this continued conflict. the spanish parliament has started a debate to decide whether acting prime minister pedro sanchez can form a new government. there are protests outside parliament by opponents of mr sanchez�*s proposed amnesty for catalan separatists. the demonstrators say this would be a violation of the constitution. 0ur correspondent guy
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hedgecoe is in madrid. i'm outside spain's congress building where there is a very heavy police presence and the building has been cordoned off and that is to stop the many protesters who have gathered here outside the building from getting any closer. the reason they are here is they are angry at the investiture debate that is going on which has begun inside parliament. it is an investiture debate which is expected to culminate tomorrow in the socialist, pedro sanchez, forming a new coalition government. now, in order to form a majority, pedro sanchez has needed the support of catalan nationalists and therefore he has negotiated with them an amnesty law which will benefit more than 300 catalan nationalists who have been facing legal action for separatist activities that they have carried out in the past. these protesters are angry at that amnesty, they say
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it is illegal, it violates the constitution and they say that this investiture process should not even go ahead. every year, new zealand conducts an annual poll to vote for the country's bird of the century. and we have a winner — the australasian crested grebe. the poll is run by a conservation group — and this year, there was a record number of votes from nearly two hundred countries. so many in fact, that it crashed the poll's online verification system and delayed the results for two days. and it's all because of a global campaignforthe bird, by this man. i don'tjust want the puteketeke to win, i want it to win in a huge landslide. i wanted to do what other candidates does to the fish in new zealand
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lakes, which is eat them alive and throw them back up in a ball of feathers. (pres)/ phil mercer has been gauging and john 0liver�*s influence the outcome. critics say this is like the equivalent of russia meddling in the us presidential election and certainly his campaign did go around the world and he had adverts in london, paris, tokyo and mumbai and flew a banner over if beach in brazil and the result was a landslide. the puteketeke received 219,000 votes, so the second place was 13,000, so here's a legion of followers from john oliver around the world have secured a win for a
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very unusual bird. john oliver described the puteketeke as a weird puking bird with a colourful mullet, and what more can you say? there were people who believed that the bird has great parenting skills. but this online poll is organised every year by a conservation organisation in new zealand that brings attention to the plight of native birds in new zealand and we understand there are about a thousand of them left in the wild, so certainly a serious side to this. but this is an event that has had controversy and it's been alleged that one person voted 40,000 times this year for the eastern rock hopping penguin, and back in 2021 this bird competition in new zealand was won by a bat. 5m? this bird competition in new zealand was won by a bat.— was won by a bat. stay with us on bbc news- _
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hello. for some of us, today has brought yet more rain, but for others, a bit of a break in the action. some clear skies. we've seen a bit of sunshine in the north of scotland. also some sunny skies further south across the uk. this lump of cloud will change that with some outbreaks of rain pushing into southern areas for tomorrow, including in west sussex, where today brought largely sunny skies overhead, some rain to take us into the first part of the evening across central and southern parts of scotland and into northern england and cloud gathering across the south west of england and the channel islands ahead of our next rain bearing weather system. it will start to turn wet here as we head through the evening. and tonight, further north, a mix of patchy cloud and clear spells. it is going to get quite cold for some, particularly in sheltered spots in northern scotland, maybe down to around minus four celsius. could be some fog patches here as well to start tomorrow morning. but through tomorrow, this quite deep area of low pressure is going to pass just to the south of the uk. the potential for some strong and gusty winds,
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particularly around coasts of south west england and the channel islands, gusts of 50 miles per hour or more. but for most of us, i think the rain will be of more concern if you do have travel plans across southern england, parts of wales, the midlands through the morning does look very soggy indeed and actually that rain will linger for a good part of the day. few showers across parts of north east england and eastern scotland. 0therwise, though, here, some dry weather and some sunshine. this frontal system will bring some rain into northern ireland as we head through the afternoon. and it is going to be a decidedly chilly feeling day. temperatures for most of us between six and ten degrees. now, that area of low pressure and this frontal system will tend to clear as we move into friday, high pressure building for a time. there could be some fog patches around on friday morning, particularly across northern england, northern ireland and scotland. some of that fog could be quite slow to clear. but then we're looking at a window of drier weather, some spells of sunshine, chilly, where any fog lingers, but starting to turn a little bit milder down towards the south west. but then we head into the weekend.
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and low pressure takes charge of our weather. once again, we'll see outbreaks of rain pushing eastwards into the first part of saturday. and behind that, frequent showers or longer spells of rain to take us through into the second half of the weekend. it will often be windy, but it is going to feel a bit milder.
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live from london, this is bbc news.
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