the german took the first two sets on tie breaks and, though paul pulled one back, zverez sped through the fourth set 6—1 to reach the last four for the second sraight year. the women's champion aryna sabalenka is into the semis after a 19th win in a row at melbourne park the world number one is looking to secure a hatrick of australian open titles, had to work really hard to battle past the 27th seed anastasia pavlyuchenkova. she won the first set 6—2 but lost the second by the same margin and then went a break down in the third, but turned it round to take the decider 6—3. she will play paula badosa, who stunned the world number three, coco gauff. the spaniard, who almost quit tennis last year with a chronic back condition, won in straight sets to reach herfirst grand slam semifinal, today of course maybe i had a little bit less expectations, but i still have pressure because i wanted to win so

badly. i will step on the court in the semifinals against i don't care who and i will want to win so badly. that is part of me. we may amend the final round at my level raises and theyjust round at my level raises and they just want to give 100% round at my level raises and theyjust want to give 100% and leave it all on the court. in the nba, donovan mitchell once again led the way for the cleveland cavaliers as they eased past the phoenix suns to continue their strong start to season. initially, it was mitchell's team—mate darius garland who got the cavaliers heading towards yet another win — he finished with 16 points and seven assists. but it was mitchell who came to the fore. he scored 23 of his 33 points after half—time as cleveland improved their overall record to 36 and six. that represents the eighth best start to an nba season. the new orleans pelicans set a franchise record as they came from 25—points behind to beat utahjazz 123—119 in over time. cj mccollum scored 45 points for the pelicans but it fell to trey murphy to seal the unlikely victory with this

three—pointer with just over 30 seconds remaining. the champions league returns this week, it's the penultimate round of matches, with qualification for the last 16 still in the balance for so many clubs — the likes of ps6 and manchester city are battling for a play—off spot. liverpool are the only side with a 100% record with six wins out of six and need just one point to guarantee direct progress to the knockout stage. if they win at home to lille on tuesday and barcelona fail to beat benfica, arne slot�*s side would be sure of finishing top of the 36 team league that should get them a kinder draw for the round of 16. i love looking at a league table in the way of, if we are number one, we probably have the most easy team to face because that is impossible to say because of this weird format, weird i don't mean in a negative way, but a strange format we are having now.

we wa nt we want to win but not from an idea it will probably give us the best meet up for the rest of the campaign. a further eight fixtures in the champions league tonight, with early starts for monaco v aston villa and atalanta v sturm graz. plenty to play for in those. atletico madrid in 11th who host fourth—placed bayer leverkusen. barcelona in second will look to take advantage of any slip by liverpool, while dortmund could take a step towards a top eight finish with a win at bologna chelsea gave their hopes of playing in next season's champions league a boost with a 3—1win at home to wolves — their first victory in six premier league matches. after having gone more than a month without a league

win, chelsea had too much for wolves who have lost their last three. tosin adarabioyo opened the scoring for the hosts, before further goals from marc cucurella and noni madueke made sure that matt doherty�*s first—half equaliser didn't prove costly. chelsea are up to fourth, while wolves remain in 17th. finally, lewis hamilton says he has "realised his dream" after his first day at work at ferrari. hamilton, who is now 40, began his preparations for his debut season with his new team at ferrari hq in maranello. the seven—time world champion was shown around by team boss fred vasseur, meeting key people and getting to know the factory and team. his teamate will be charles le clerc you can read all about that and

all the build—up to the formula 1 season and all the champions league football coming up in the next few hours on the bbc website with the bbc sport app. that's all the sport for now. more on our top story now — the prime minister's announcement of a public inquiry into what he called the "senseless, barbaric" murders of three schoolgirls at a taylor swift—themed dance class in southport last summer. on monday, 18—year—old axel rudakubana pleaded guilty to stabbing the girls. in the wake of his plea it emerged he'd had "contact with a range of different state agencies throughout his teenage years including the police, social services and mental health services. in an address from downing street, sir keir said the public inquiry into the killings would seek to answer "difficult questions". sir keirsaid sir keir said the public

inquiry would seek to answer difficult questions. brendan cox works with survivors against terror, which supports families affected by terror offences, and the together coalition which works to build community cohesion. he described how the violent crimes have i think it's definitely clear that the terrorist landscape has changed. i'd say it's it's changed in two really significant ways. so one is that it has the methodology of the attacks has changed. so you used to have the uh, what terrorists would call spectaculars, the sort of the 9/11, the 7/7, the coordinated bombings, centrally directed and planned, um, and designed to create huge amounts of casualties and also huge amounts

of disruption. that has changed to being a much more devolved methodology where you're more likely to see people using a car or a knife orsomething much, much easier to get hold of. that's a real risk because it it makes it much easier for people to take part. and it creates far fewer points of disruption for law enforcement. and then the second change, which is the one that the prime minister was talking about today, is the change around what is driving it. so the ideology behind it. again, over time that has changed. this is not something massively new in that, you know, in the 19705 and 1980s, the biggest threat was ira and irish republican terrorism. then it changed to islamist extremism. more recently, there's been the rise of far right extremism with islamist extremism. but what obviously the southport attack showed and there's been others a little similar to it, is that there is this new category, which are people who are using terrorist methodology but without the traditional ideology. that is difficult because we don't have the infrastructure and we don't

have the plans to be able to deal with that. and sir keir starmer said as well, that axel rudakubana had been referred to the prevent programme on three separate occasions. now, prevent is meant to root out early signs of radicalisation, particularly amongst younger people. do you think prevent is still fit for purpose? i think it's definitely clear that something awful went wrong in this case. and i think there is a design problem here, though, rather than just a competence problem, which is design. the design of the prevent programme is to look for ideology and driving that extremism. it's not looking just for people who are randomly going to be violent. the way that we have tended to characterise this, and it's a question about whether this is the right way of doing it, but is that terrorism we have defined as being acts of violence predominately against civilians for a political purpose

driven by an ideology. and what we are seeing with this more sort of nihilistic violence, such as the southport attacks, is there isn't a clear ideology. so when prevent, i imagine, looked at this case they were trying to identify is there an ideology? is he an islamist? is he a far right extremist? is he a, you know, whatever else? is there an ideology that's driving this? and because it wasn't clear that there was an ideology because it was driven, if you like, just by the desire for violence, it doesn't fit under the prevent programme. it is continuing to through into gas as the ceasefire has held into the third day. the

next israeli hostages will be released on saturday, in exchange for palestinian to have been held in israeli jails. hello again. the weather for the next couple of days is very similar to what we had yesterday, but it is going to change towards the end of the week. today we've got a weather front across the north—west of the country enhancing the showers here. we've got another weather front draped across the central swathe of the country, which is producing all this cloud and outbreaks of rain. to the south of that we could see one or two brighter breaks, but there will be a fair bit of cloud around. the sunniest skies today in northern ireland and scotland and later in northern england, but even so, there will be a peppering of showers across the north and the west, with top temperatures eight or nine. through this evening and overnight our weather front moves a little bit further south. we import more cloud and some showery outbreaks of rain from the south, but as we push further north, with light winds and clear skies here, we could see some

mist and fog patches forming and it's going to be a cold night with a touch of frost here and there. tomorrow, we do have a weather front very close to the south—east. that will be moving away as we go through the course of the day. this cloud and the showery outbreaks of rain will continue to drift south—eastwards, but we will still be left with a fair bit of cloud in the south—eastern quadrant of the country, whereas move north and west of that we are into brighter skies, some sunshine and just a peppering of showers in the north and the west. temperatures five to about eight degrees. then on thursday, after a dry start, a weather front coming in from the west will introduce some rain pushing west to east. there will be some transient snow on the hills of northern ireland, also northern england and scotland. the wind is going to pick up in the west and the south through the course of the day. then things change. we've got this potent area of low pressure coming our way drifting north—eastwards. look at the isobars. we are looking at widespread gales. the position of this low pressure could still change — it could be a bit further

north, it could be a bit further south — but what we think at the moment is it's going to take all this rain, preceded by some heavy hill snow in the north of the country. we will have widespread gales and as it moves away things will dry up. temperature—wise we're looking at tens and elevens, but as it moves through the temperature will actually drop through the course of the day. beyond that, it remains unsettled with the potential for another low pressure at the end of the weekend.

this is bbc news. donald trump uses his first hours back in the white house to tear up joe biden's policies, issuing pardons for those who stormed the us capitol four years ago. just hours after that pardon, a far—right militia leader involved in the riots is released from prison. the president also announced new restrictions on immigration and asylum, signing executive orders declaring illegal immigration at the us—mexico border a national emergency and targeting birth—right citizenship.

i'm lucy hockings in london. in other news... the ceasefire between israel and hamas holds into a third day, with a further exchange of hostages and prisoners expected at the weekend. british prime minister keir starmer announces an inquiry into failings that led to the murders of three young girls in southport last summer. a deeply personal legal battle for prince harry against the publishers of the the sun newspaper begins today. donald trump has issued a flurry of executive orders shortly after being sworn in as the 47th president of the united states. here are the most important ones.