nuno espirito santo is back in the premier league — can he stop forest's slide down the table? and we meet the brothers hoping to face each other at the olympics, competing for different countries. the liverpool manager jurgen klopp said it was "a top performance from start to finish" after reaching the league cup semifinals. they only led 1—0 at half—time but thrashed west ham 5—1 at anfield. curtis jones scored twice after the break. there were also goals from szoboszlai, gakpo and salah.

the draw for the semi—finals was made after the game and liverpool will face fulham. championship side middlesbrough get chelsea. the semi—finals take place across two legs next month. we'll have more football results for you in a moment, but let's stay in england, because a day after the club sacked steve cooper, nuno espirito santo has his feet under the desk at nottingham forest. the portuguese takes charge of his third premier leaue club after spells at wolves and spurs, asjoe lynskey reports. they're five points above the drop zone. the man in charge hauled them up from the depths of the second tier. but this week at forest, things have changed quickly. steve cooper's been sacked and, within 2a hours, nuno�*s come in. and forest want him to take them up a level. big, big chance. very honoured. it's a pleasure to be at forest and be able to manage such a great club with such great history. what i expect is to help, to help, try to transmit my

knowledge and my ethic work to the players so they can become better, a better team. this is what we want. he arrives with a reputation but with points to prove. nuno�*s rise came in four years at wolves, where he brought them up and steadied them. they finished seventh twice. and they reached an fa cup semifinal. jota! but that bond with the club neverformed in his nextjob. he spentjust four months at spurs, where fans blamed his style of play. his lastjob was at al ittihad, and though he won the saudi league, he got the sack the next season. what a job steve cooper has done. magically, he's found the survival blend. now nuno joins a club who found it hard to say goodbye. steve cooper brought an end to 23 years outside the top flight and kept them up in a season where they signed almost 30 players. for a club that's tried to spend its way to survival, to lose it all is not

an option. i don't think he's any better than cooper, but time will tell. so...wait and see. i worry that it'll be another merry—go—round of managers. we did seem quite settled with steve. i'm pleased. i think it'll be - good for the club. it's what the club - needs, to be honest. what steve did here is huge, getting forest back in the premier league. fantastic work. and we are trying to improve this legacy. it's amazing. cooper's time ended with one win in 13 games, but he may have had the biggest impact since this club's greatest coach. since the days of brian clerth, they've been to the third tier and back up again. where forest go next could come down to this change. joe lynskey, bbc news. let's bring you up—to—date now with some of the day's football results from across europe. there was an important win for barcelona as they try and keep pace with leaders girona and second

placed real madrid. their captain sergi roberto scored twice, including the winner, inside the last ten minutes as they beat la liga's bottom side almeria 3—2. that moves them up to third, six points off the top. athletic bilbao are still fifth following a 1—0 win over las palmas. celta vigo remain in the relegation zone after losing 3—2 at villarreal. we've had the last round of fixtures in the bundesliga before the winter break. leaders bayer leverkusen made sure they are still four points clear — patrick schick scored a first half hat—trick in their 4—0 win over bochum. harry kane scored his 21st of the season for bayern and what proved to be the winner at wolfsburg. they are second in the table. stuttgart are up to third after beating augsburg. there was an upset in the coppa italia — the winners for the past two

seasons, inter milan, are out. they were beaten 2—1 by bologna at the san siro. all the goals were scored in extra time. the bologna substitute dan ndoye got the winner in the 116th minute to send them through to the quaterfinals. —— quarterfinals. chelsea women have got their champions league campaign back on track — they won 3—1 in gothenburg against hacken to move above the swedes at the top of the group. erin cuthbert scored twice in the second half. it's not looking good for real madrid — they are bottom of that group, losing to paris fc, with the french up to third. keeping themselves in contention to get out of that group. really tight in group c. ajax women have moved to the top after beating bayern munich 1—0. really tough group, this one, though. psg are up to second after winning 3—1 away to roma. we've heard from the turkish referee who was punched by a club president. halil umut meler says he doesn't remember what happened after he was knocked

to the ground. football in turkey has only just resumed after it was suspended for a week following that incident. but there was another controversial intervention, as the istanbulspor president ordered his players to leave the pitch in protest at a refereeing decision. the bbc�*s burak abatay has more. the referee did not change his decision after var control, and istanbulspor�*s president withdrew his team from the pitch in protest at the refereeing decision. and after that, some istanbulspor players tried to pressure the president to reconsider his decision, and also the trabzonspor president entered the pitch to talk with him, but he did not change his decision and the team withdrew

from the game. i think many people associate this with the tense social environment in turkey. according to critics, this tension on the football pitches is a reflection of that, a reflection of the tense social environment. finally, two brothers could come up against each other at next year's paris olympics, competing for different countries. great britain'sjoe choong — on the right there — is the modern pentathlon olympic champion after taking gold in tokyo. his younger brother henry is hoping to represent slovakia after changing his nationality to his wife's home nation. james dunn reports. and there is the new olympic champion. crossing the line in first place after not one but five sports, from riding to shooting. a year later than planned due to covid, it was an overwhelming experience.

everyone who helped me from when i was six years old, starting swimming and running, and than all the clubs and everyone who's helped me all the way through, it was bit of an out of body experience. the experience this time, going into the games as an olympic champion, is quite different. one of my coaches put it quite well. i have gone from being one of the chasers of the pack to being chased, and that's different because you've not got targets in your sight, you're trying to find new targets within yourself. his brother henry competed in the 2014 youth olympics. and this cycle, they've been training together in bath on the team gb programme. but henry's recently announced he'll be leading the team in slovakia, his wife's home nation. i think it's a bit of a project, so i'm hoping to inspire some people to do pentathalon there. i'll have a better chance to compete for the olympics in slovakia, just because competition in great britain is so fierce. and, yeah, i guess that will be nice. _ and, yeah, i guess that will be nice. to — and, yeah, i guess that will be nice. to be _ and, yeah, i guess that will be nice, to be the main man. with paris now months away, the two brothers are considering the prospect

of going head—to—head. i'm sure we'd both be really happy going head—to—head against each other. i'm sure in paris, if we're fencing ourselves, we'll have a smile beforehand and then get on. i'll smile once i beat him. i said one of my next goals is to defend the title in paris, but also it would mean just as much to go and compete at the olympics with henry. admittedly, at the time, i wasn't expecting to be competing for different nations. this would be henry's first olympics butjoe�*s last, due to issues with the sport's governance. the equestrian element will be replaced with an obstacle course for the 2028 games, something organisers say will help future—proof the sport. butjoe�*s campaigned against the change and felt the athletes�*s concerns were ignored. for me, it was disappointing seeing how sports politics is run at the top level. so after that year, i took a step back from it because i needed tojust get back to enjoying the sport i fell in love with at the beginning. so it was quite disappointing to see, and also eye—opening, but for me, i needed to go back

to just being an athlete, as opposed to an olympic spokesperson. it's a sport that is still in transition — athletes will now fix their focus on next year. it's full speed ahead on the road to paris. and that is just about it. lots more, of course, on your bbc sport app or the bbc sport website. but from me and the rest of the team, that's all for now. hello. the weather in the run up to christmas now is looking fairly unsettled, especially so over the next 2a hours because we've got a spell of really windy weather right across the uk the danish met service have named storm pia. now, that's moving to the north of us, but it's going to bring really windy conditions wherever you are, especially

the further north. some heavy showers in the mix, too. and there's the potential for some significant travel disruption on thursday. so there's that area of low pressure, storm pia, heading towards denmark. lots of isobars on the map here and we've got really windy conditions for scotland, northern ireland, northern england, north wales too. even further south, it's going to be a blustery sort of day. so some heavy showers, especially towards the north and the west. a bit more sunshine returning across scotland through thursday morning. but look at the gusts of wind — 65 to 75 miles an hour, even 80 miles an hour up towards the northern isles. really windy, too, for northern ireland, the isle of man, into northern england — 50 to 60 mile per hour gusts. more around the exposed coasts and hills. windy too, but not quite as windy as further north for the likes of south wales and southern england. so cloud and patchy light rain in the south, sunshine and blustery, squally showers moving into the north. even a little bit of snow over the highest ground of scotland.

temperaturesjust 5 degrees in aberdeen, but still up to around 12 down towards the london region. so we've got the mild, cloudy and fairly damp weather in the far south—west overnight. clearer skies elsewhere as we head through into thursday morning, but then more rain returns from the west through the early hours. i think it's going to be frost—free again heading into friday morning, but the lowest temperatures will be across the north—east of the uk. so we're in the colder air there, but further towards the south—west, we've got milder air, this weather front that is the dividing line between those two air masses. heading through friday, and this area of milder air will spread its way across the uk, the winds coming in from a westerly direction. so that weather front will bring some rain initially across northern ireland, parts of england and wales, tracking its way eastwards — perhaps a little bit of snow fora time, again, over the highest ground across the north of scotland. but for most of us, it'll be rain showers and, again, temperatures between around about 5 to 12 degrees. colder than that, though, towards the northern isles. and then looking ahead towards the festive period, it's a little bit up and down, it's fairly unsettled. mild for the next few days, perhaps things a little bit colder into boxing day. bye— bye.

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a un vote on gaza is delayed once again as members wrangle over the resolution�*s wording. it comes as hamas says more than 20,000 people have now been killed in gaza. and atjust 8 years old, a british school girl makes history in a major chess championship. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news — it's newsday. you're with bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in the uk and around the world. the united nations security council has delayed for a third day a vote on a suspension of the fighting in gaza.

intense negotiations are continuing in the hope