later. but alcaraz is down one later. but alcaraz is down a break in this second set, as well. meanwhile, alcaraz�*s spanish davis cup teammates are already in malaga to prepare for their quarterfinal next week. and among them is rafa nadal who's getting ready to retire from the sport. the davis cup will be the 22—time grand slam champion�*s last tournament before he calls time on his illustrious career. now 38, he'll be part of the team for tuesday's match against the netherlands. nick kyrgios will return to tennis at the end of december after a series of injuries limited him to just one tour singles match in two years. the australian former wimbledon finalist says he's now feeling fit and healthy as he prepares to play in the brisbane international. it's a tournament in won back in 2018. kyrgios has been battling knee, foot and wrist injuries. iga swiatek is hoping to take poland into the quarter finals of the billiejean king cup. the world number two is playing

paula badosa in malaga and she took that match. poland are already 1—0 up in the tie after magda linette's win over sara sorribes tormo earlier. the hype turned into a bit of chaos, perhaps predictably. at the weigh in for the fight betweenjake paul and mike tyson in texas with the you tuber—turned boxer launching an expletive laden rant after he'd been slapped by tyson. this is the moment things got a little out of hand, with the former world heavyweight champion hitting out at his opponent before they meet for a contest that will count on both fighter�*s professional records. paul said he didn't even feel the slap and that tyson was an angry little elf. iron mike, who's 58 now, said talking's over before leaving the stage. they meet at the at&t stadium in arlington on friday night in an event shown globally on netflix. i don't care about proving anybody wrong. i only care about proving myself right. i don't care what anybody thinks. myjob is not to prove anybody wrong. change anybody�*s opinion. myjob is to prove to me that

i am the person i believe i am. on that same bill, a rematch between undisputed light—welterweight champion katie taylor and amanda serrano from puerto rico, with both fighters tipping the scales at the exact same weight. the irishwoman won the first fight in 2022 by a split decision when it was the first female bout to headline a bill at madison square garden. is going to be an amazing fight and we play very well together. it is going to be a fight where both fighters are going to have to show hard work and their are going to be great skills from both sides and it is going to be a huge event for women's boxing and it is great to be a part of history and we did it once before and we are going to do it again. after italy and france both made the quarter finals of the nations league on thursday,

portugal are hoping tojoin them later, with a point against poland enough for them to do so. portugal won the first edition of the nations league... and are top of their group. translation: now the important thin is to translation: now the important thing is to get _ translation: now the important thing is to get to _ translation: now the important thing is to get to the _ thing is to get to the quarterfinals. i don't think there are any favourites until there are any favourites until the final four. then you can analyse the teams that reach that stage but for now what we want to do is keep growing. that is it from here. you can see all the friday night players on the bbc sports app. let's take you back to the main news today.

let's return to our top story — president—elect donald trump has continued to shock by naming his picks for the topjobs. as he makes these appointments, russian media continues to react to his election victory. for more on how the russian media is reacting to trump's victory — i spoke to our russia editor steve rosenberg. the reaction to donald trump's victory has been very different in 2024 to the reaction in 2016. and i was reading the russian papers eight years ago, and they were very upbeat, very excited, very optimistic about a trump presidency. i remember reading articles about, you know, will trump recognise crimea as part of russia? will he scrap sanctions against russia? none of that happened. and fast forward to today, and the russian press is sort of dialling down on the optimism about a trump presidency. that is a conscious decision, i think, by the authorities here. there was an interesting article in this paper today, kommersant, which quoted sources inside the presidential administration saying that there was a meeting there in the presidential administration to decide on the kinds of reaction that should be expressed publicly about donald trump's victory, to try to lower expectations

so that if things didn't go well, if, for example, the trump presidency didn't bring peace to ukraine, there wouldn't be so much disappointment in russia. i mean, this is the one of the country's most popular papers, komsomolskaya pravda. and today it quotes a political scientist talking about trump's nominees for his cabinet, saying that they seem to be united by a dislike of china, not russia, talking about their scepticism for ukraine and suggesting that, um, what's going to happen is that america is going to scale back on its role in the ukraine conflict. and here we see trump's pick for defence secretary, uh, the russian paper seemed to be quite gleeful at the amount of shock and panic. those are two words used by the government paper today in washington.

some of these nominees and the paper talking about pete hegseth says, this nomination is unlikely to benefit american power. this war dog will not benefit american power. and that is a good thing. so moscow sees that as a good appointment, and maybe, steve, i could ask you about one specific nomination, tulsi gabbard is director of national and maybe, steve, i could ask you about one specific nomination, tulsi gabbard is director of national intelligence. this is somebody who has sort of echoed some of the kremlin�*s language about why russia went into ukraine. yeah. it's true. i mean, she has been known for making sort of pro—putin, pro—kremlin statements. in fact, she's mentioned in the government paper russia today talking about tulsi gabbard, again, mentioning the panic in washington and suggesting that...let�*s see down here...that the nomination of tulsi gabbard,

the russian government paper says, is a slap in the face of the foreign policy beaumonde in washington. so i think certainly the russian papers and remember, the media landscape here is pretty much controlled by the authorities enjoying this level of shock and chaos going on in washington right now. and more broadly, of course, donald trump has talked a lot during the campaign about ending the war between russia and ukraine. he's talked about being able to end it in a day. somehow we don't know quite how that might happen. but i mean, what is the feeling there in general about what he has said over the last few months about bringing the conflict in ukraine to an end? i think if you look back over the last few months and what donald trump said on the campaign trail, that went down pretty well with the russian authorities, the fact that he never criticised vladimir putin for vladimir putin's full—scale invasion of ukraine, when commenting about ukraine, he seemed to blame joe biden more for putin's

invasion of ukraine than vladimir putin. and his regular criticism of the scale of american military and economic assistance for ukraine, that went down well with the kremlin, too. having said that publicly, russian officials are saying, well, if trump thinks he can end the war in a day, that's an exaggeration. but there is, i think, an optimism here that with a new administration and someone coming in who has criticised ukraine and criticised the war and says he wants to bring peace, that if america was to scale back or stop its military assistance for ukraine, that that would completely change the situation on the ground in ukraine. that was steve rosenberg. when

nine old riley was told when nine—year—old riley from hartlepool was told he had an incurable form of cancer, a local children's charity wanted to make one of his dreams come true.riley�*s a huge fan of the superhero film deadpool so mileslimen got in touch with the actor ryan reynolds to arrange a surprise call. take a look. well, hello there, riley. hi! i'm so excited to meet you, i've heard so much about you. i like your shirt. mickey did, he got in touch. we'd told mickey how riley was going to use his wish to meet ryan reynolds. and then he went on to bbc tees and done a shout out from there. a couple of days later, we heard that ryan had been in touch. you've been going through a lot and i cannot wait to meet you. we've been personally invited to go watch his team, wrexham. i'm going to make sure that this is one of the best days of your life. oh, yeah, you could say hello, of course. this is riley. this is my wife, blake. sweetheart, you're wearing deadpool and wolverine. . which one's your favourite? deadpool. oh, that's a nice thing to say!

oh, don't! take time out of their day just to make one little boy feel special, yeah, it means everything. well, it's nice - to meet you both. thank you, nice to meet you. yeah, it was nice to meet you as well. wolverine was his . favourite, i can tell. i have no idea who that was. thank you for playing along. i was frightened as well. you could see what it meant to him. he was starstruck, obviously. thank you for taking the time to chat. i really, really liked hanging out with you. thank you. all right, lots of love, ok. thank you ryan, thank you blake, thank you mickey, thank you to bbc tees. thank you to everybody who made this happen. dreams do come true. a starstruck riley! do stay tuned you watching bbc news. good afternoon. the weather is set to turn colder as we head through the weekend and into the start of next week, but it will not be an immediate process for all of us. this cold air will be pushing down from the north over

the weekend, but mild air tries to stage a comeback into southern parts through the early part of next week. it does look like, though, the arctic air will eventually win out for all parts of the uk. and as that transition takes place, it is possible that some of us will see some quite significant snow and some ice as well. still a lot of uncertainty about the detail. but in the shorter term, the rest of today brings a fair amount of cloud. this frontal system pushing into the northwest, bringing some outbreaks of rain, strengthening winds, as well, across the north of scotland. eastern scotland seeing temperatures up to around 15 degrees. further south, where cloud has been lingering, it is a little bit chilly out there and through this evening and tonight we continue to see this band of cloud and rain pushing its way southwards. this is the cold front. there's colder air pushing in behind with some showers and some brisk winds in the north of scotland. sheltered spots in northern scotland could dip just below freezing. conversely, where we keep cloud across this central slice of the uk it will be a bit

milder to start saturday morning. a few fog patches down towards the south. those should lift and clear, but it is likely to stay quite grey and murky. a bit damp and drizzly in southern parts as well, but further north we will see some sunny spells. a scattering of showers, which could be wintry over high ground in scotland, with those colder conditions developing in the north. and by sunday i think we will see colder air pushing further southwards. again some of those will be wintry, the wintriness mostly over higher ground at this stage. and temperatures across many northern areas in single digits. down towards the south a few places still in double figures. but into the early part of next week this is where it gets a little bit complicated, because this area of low pressure is going to push its way in from the west, and where that meets the cold air, some places could see some quite significant snow, but there's uncertainty about exactly where that area of low pressure will be, when and hence where the snow might be. so it is worth staying in touch with the forecast. but as next week goes on,

it turns colder for all of us are with some wintry showers.

live from london. this is bbc news. a backlash — after donald trump nominates — the vaccine sceptic and conspiracy theorist robert f kennedyjunior, to be his health secretary. he's not the only controversial pick, with most of trump's choices now in, we'll ask how likely they are to be confirmed by congress. here — in bristol, a group of teenagers, and a man have been found guilty — of murdering two best friends in a case of mistaken identity. israel steps up its bombardment in lebanon — we'll get the latest

from our correspondent in beirut. and — dozens of volunteers enter an abandoned gold mine in south africa — to help thousands of illegal miners — trapped there for a month. let's start in the us — and the latest reaction to donald trump's decision — to nominate some of the most controversial figures in american politics — to topjobs in his administration. among the latest names, is robert f kennedyjunior, for health secretary — a prominent vaccine sceptic and conspiracy theorist. donald trump said — rfkjr has a "great mind" and will make america healthy again. the backlash has been significant — the executive director of the american public health association says, he and his organisation will "absolutely oppose" the president—elect�*s

appointment, of rfkjr, as health secretary. rowan bridge reports.