he beat serbia's miomir kec—manovich in straight sets and will next play australian alex de minaur, afteraur is the defending champion. ireland's men have won their first ever test match. they beat afghanistan by in abu dhabi. captain andy balbirnie made an unbeaten half—century as they chased down 111 to win with six wickets in hand. the team had lost their previous seven matches since being granted test status in 2018. we have already been talking about the paris olympics with athletics earlier in the programme. among those hoping to represent team gb is gloucestershire event rider laura collett. she's hoping for a second olympic appearance, having been part of the gold medal winning team in tokyo, with her horse london 52. rebecca wood has been to meet her. a cold and wet morning at laura's arejust outside a cold and wet morning at laura's are just outside cheltenham. already she has exercised eight courses but she has exercised eight courses but she had saved the best till last, london 52 or dan, as he is known here. ~ , ., , london 52 or dan, as he is known here. g ., , ., . here. my

and ninth seed alex de minaur eased past korea's soon—woo kwon, winning 6—3, 6—2.

and ninth seed alex de minaur eased past korea's soon—woo kwon, winning 6—3, 6—2. pegula is through to the last 16. she beat canada's leylah fernandez, the 2021 us open runner—up. the 30—year—old number fifth seed fought back from 5—3 down in the opening set with a run of five—straight games

alex de minaur continued his strong start to the year with his 19th match win of 2024 — the australiany against german jan—lennard struff to advance to the fourth round for the first time at this event, matching his run at indian wells. di minaur�*s partner katie boulter is out though. the briton losing in straight sets to victoria azarenka, 7-5, 6-1. this was the furthest boulter had ever gone in miami. england and harlequins scrum—half danny care has announced his retirement from international rugby. the 37—year—old played in all five of england's six nations matches this year and earned his 100th cap in the win over ireland this month. care has a record 369 harlequins appearances and says: "to play for england once was a dream come true" finally, you might have seen the amazing story of the british ultrarunner jasmin paris, who's become the first woman to finish the notorious barkley marathons race in tennessee. well, the ao—year—old arrived back home in edinburgh earlier today after taking part in the gruelling event, which is made up of five 20—mile loops around frozen head state

and ninth seed alex de minaur eased past korea's soon—woo kwon, winning 6—3, 6—2.truff next for him. in the women's draw, the americanjessica pegula is through to the last 16. she beat canada's leylah fernandez, the 2021 us open runner—up. the 30—year—old number fifth seed fought back from 5—3 down in the opening set with a run of five—straight games and was the stronger player after that, closing out the win in an hour and 41 minutes. she remains on course for a third consecutive semifinal appearance at a 1000 masters event. she's got emma navarro, her compatriot, next. it was a predictably one—sided match between italy and england in the women's six nations championship. the red roses, who are the defending grand slam champions, made things more difficult for themselves because they were down to m players after 10 minutes when sarah beckett was shown a red card for a dangerous tackle. they still ran in 8 tries in parma, winning 48—0. they topped the table on points difference from france, who also won this weekend with a bonus point. the captain marlie packer bro

having defeated hog aruna and alex de minaur en route to the last eight.e his way past the world, number five is into his third semifinal of the season and zverev taking the match 6—3,7—5. marizanne, though, will move into the top a0 in monday's atp rankings. i mean, i love miami. i always said that. obviously, i'm happy to be back at these kind of late stages of these tournaments, you know, playing the best players in the world. i think there's only only those left. and i'm looking forward to the challenge. now, finally, for any footballer playing for your country can be life changing. and that's especially true for those involved in the homeless world cup. the tournament in south korea this september involves 70 countries with players who've all at one time or another had to sleep on the streets. a film inspired by the tournament starring the actor bill nighy has just been released as he has been. that is the one i told you about. the beautiful game, a film about the homeless world cup, a global tournament for players who've all experienced living rough.

defending champion alex de minaur is through to the final of the mexico 0pen, following the retirementheir semifinal. draper had levelled the game at one set all to take it all the way to a decider in acapulco. the 22—year—old had already recieved treatment from the physio and tournament doctor before retiring at four games to love, in the final set. and he'll face casper ruud — who rallied from a set down to beat the second seed holger rune. ruud lost the first 6—3 but battled back to win the next two. he was a break down in the third set, taking advantage when rune appeared to be slowed by cramping. newcastle have gone one up in their game. formula i is under way, the first race of the season. live updates from the bbc sport website. max verstappen in the lead at the moment. in the coming month india is going to the polls, in what's expected to be the largest democratic elections in the world. the rise in popularity of india's prime minister narendra modi and the bjp in the last ten years, has in part been due to a weak opposition that has failed to raise the voice of the people or e

defending champion alex de minaur is through to the final of the mexico 0pen, following the retirementhe game at one—set all to take it all the way to a decider in acapulco. the 22—year—old had already recieved treatment from the physio and tournament doctor before retiring at 4—0 games in the final set. and the season opening formula one grand prix will be finishing soon. and it's the reigning champion max verstappen in the lead. he's led from the start. catch all the updates from the bbc sport website. that's bbc.com/sport and that's all the sport for now. argentina's president javier milei has vowed to "speed up" his plans to overhaul the country and solve its economic woes in a fiery speech to congress. mr milei, speaking to lawmakers in a state—of—the—union style address, took an aggressive tone, inviting congress to join him but warning that he would make changes with or without the legislature. a major blizzard blowing into the us states of california and nevada has forced the closure of yosemite national park. ski resorts in the lake tahoe region have also shut down. a killer w

having defeated holger rune and alex de minaur en route to the last eight, marozan unable to force hismber five, who is into his third semifinal of the season. zverev taking the match 6—3, 7—5. next up, either carlos alcaraz or grigor dimitrov. it's been described as the uk's most widespread miscarriage ofjustice — the post office scandal, where hundreds of sub—postmasters and postmistresses were prosecuted for stealing money because of incorrect information provided by a computer system called horizon. the scandal has made headlines across the world, and now a draft report uncovered by the bbc shows the post office spent £100 million of public money fighting sub—postmasters in court despite knowing its defence was untrue. the document reveals the post office was shown evidence by 2017 that losses could be due to errors in the horizon it system or remote tampering. but it kept arguing until 2019 in the bates v post office ltd trial that theft or mistakes by sub—postmasters must be to blame. the case was portrayed in the recent itv drama mr bates vs the post office. the lead barrister f

defending champion alex de minaur is through to the final of the mexico open, following the retiremental. draper had levelled the game at 1—1 to take it all the way to a decider in acapulco. the 22—year—old had already received treatment from the physio and tournament doctor before retiring at 4—0 in the final set. the australian will face casper ruud in the final. for more on these and other sports stories, you can go to our website. you can get the latest from the fi which is starting in the next hour. the race starts at three o'clock in bahrain, first race of the season. on the bbc sport website, the bbc sport app, and you can listen to it on 5 live, too. we will see you later on. gavin, thank you very much. the world changed on october 7th. etched into all our memories are scenes from the nova music festival — where hamas launched some of its most brutal attacks. hundreds of people killed, many others were taken hostage. now, a documentary featuring eyewitness accounts and testimony from survivors, is getting its uk premiere. with me is noa kalash — who survived that day, but two o

alex de minaur has won the mexican open again. that's two years in a row for the australian.uud in straight sets in acapulco. the defending champion won 6—4, 6—4 to clinch his eighth atp tour crown. to golf, and there was a thrilling finish to the women's world championship in singapore. australia's hannah green had three birdies at the last three holes including this one at the eighteenth. it meant she came from a shot down to win by one over france's celine boutier. i was fortunate enough to win last year in la but i actually had a very inconsistent season. actually missed the most could say that the mist since i was a rookie in 2018 so i did have some success but i also had some there were moments on the golf course so having an eight win so early in the season gives me a lot of confidence to play the events that i want to and just have a bit more confidence that i have played really well here in march and continue that out for the season. and that's all the sport for now. in the us, a huge blizzard is hitting parts of california and nevada. the snowstorm has closed major

alex de minaur has won the mexican 0pen again. that's two years in a row for the australian.ts in acapulco. the defending champion won 6—4, 6—4 to clinch his eighth atp tour crown. meanwhile, his girlfriend, katie boulter is into her first wta 500 final. after winning her semi at the san diego 0pen. the british number one has never been beyond the last 16 of such a high ranking event. until now. she made it look quite straightforward against the number three seed emma navarro, beating the american 6—3, 6—1. boulter will play ukraine's marta kostyuk in the final later on sunday. lebronjames has become the first player in the nba to score 40,000 career points but described it as "bittersweet" after his la lakers side lost 124—114 to the defending champions the denver nuggets. james also took time after the game to thank the fans for their support as he reached the milestone. i'm never thinking about a milestone when i'm out there battling, but when it happens, obviously, we acknowledge it. and, obviously, you know, much respect and much loyalty to the lakerfan base for showing

alex de minaur won the mexican 0pen again... that's two years in a row for the australian.pionship match at the atp 500 to clinch his eighth atp tour crown. meanwhile, his girlfriend, katie boulter is into her first wta 500 final. after winning her semi at the san diego 0pen. the british number one has never been beyond the last 16 of such a high ranking event. until now. she made it look quite straightforward against the number three seed emma navarro, beating the american 6—3, 6—1. boulter will play ukraine's marta kostyuk in the final later on sunday. nathan lyon took six for 65 as he spun new zealand out for 196, helping australia to victory in the first test in wellington. lyon ended with match figures of ten for 107. new zealand's fifth wicket pair of rachin ravindra and tom blundell provided early resistance before lyon went to work, helping australia win by 172 runs. the second and final test starts on thursday in christchurch. to golf — and there was a thrilling finish to the women's world championship in singapore. australia's hannah green had three birdies at the

he beat miomir kecmanovic to reach the semifinal, where he will face defending champion alex de minaur opinion there since a series of protests against the hard—line islamic regime. but turnout is expected to be low — several blocs of reformist politicians have boycotted the election altogether. iran has been badly hit by international sanctions, widespread hardship and violent unrest prompted by the death in custody of a young woman, detained by the morality police for allegedly violating rules of the wearing of a headscarf. well, the bbc hasn't been allowed to report from iran for five years, but now our correspondent caroline davies has been given rare permission to report from there. lets go to caroline live now. caroline, this is a big test for the iranian authorities after the protests two years ago? ben, historically turnout has been connected to legitimacy for the authorities here in iran. in the capital tehran we are expecting turn out to be lower than in the rest of the country, which is likely to be higher. some of the early polling has suggested it could be historically low

german alexander zverev reached the quarter finals, winning a strong-willed victory over alex de minaurom australia, 5-7, 6:2, 6:3. thanks to this success, he will rise to the top 5 of the world ranking table, displacing russian andrei rublev from fifth place. new york beat philadelphia at home, which clearly lost its offensive power without the injured joel embiid. the meeting at the famous madison square garden arena ended with a score of 106:79 in favor of the hosts. jalen brunson and josh hart each scored 20 points for the knicks. victor gusev, sports news, channel one. i'm larisa guzeeva, let's get married. good afternoon. today's brides are anastasia, olesya, and anna, and our groom is sergei. sergei, 36 years old, never thought that he would turn out to be the same husband from the joke who returned from a business trip at the most inopportune moment. sergey trucker lives. in moscow he loves hiking, attends biker rallies, dances the polonaise waltz, admits that he is vulnerable, warns that he will not tolerate people trying food from his plate and puts a block on his phone. serge

watching on, her boyfriend, alex de minaur, fresh from winning his own tennis title at the mexican 0penwith a surfboard. another sign boulter is riding the crest of a wave. now, take a look at this — last night produced a surprisingly strong display of the northern lights across the uk. while there was an ongoing weak solar storm, the aurora ended up being visible from scotland�*s highlands all the way down to cornwall. activity on the sun has been increasing over the last few years and there�*s a greater chance of seeing the aurora now as the sun is reaching the peak of its 11—year cycle. that means an increase in the number of sunspots — massive fields of magnetic pressure on the surface of the sun. 200 years ago today, the royal national lifeboat institution was founded in a tavern in london. since then, the charity has saved more than 140,000 people who got into trouble at sea. this morning, a service of thanksgiving has been held at westminster abbey to mark the organisation�*s bicentenary. the rnli�*s chief executive says it�*s a remarkable milestone. fiona lamdin�*s been to meet

boulter is one half of tennis�* golden couple, and australian alex de minaur was in the stands 2a hoursinning on the men's tour in mexico. a small special thank you to my boyfriend. he finished last night at midnight, and i really want to embarrass him, so he got on a 4:15am taxi this morning and a six o'clock flight to be here today. so i do appreciate it. the president of motorsport�*s governing body is under investigation for allegedly interfering in a formula i race result. it was a whistle—blower said he allegedly intervened to overturn a penalty to that was given last year. the complaint came from a compliance officer to the ethics committee which is been seen by bbc sport and neither the president nor the fia have responded to a request for comment. the ethics committee is set to take 4—6 weeks to issue its report. we're just a week away from the highlight of the jump racing season, the cheltenham festival, but it will be missing one of its stars. constitution hill will not defend the champion hurdle on the opening day. his trainer nicky henderson says he's failed to recover suff

marozsan haing beaten holger rune and alex de minaur to reach the last eight, but zverev was able tonner of today's other quarter—final between carlos alcaraz and grigor dimitrov which is due to start shortly. and in thde women's draw, elena rybakina is into the final for the second year running. she persevered to beat victoria azarenka in three sets, having lost the second 6—love as azarenka fought back. rybakina will now play in her fourth final of the wta season. luke littler is through to the final of night nine of the premier league darts in belfast. the 17—year—old gained revenge on the man who beat him injanuary�*s world championship final — luke humphries — in his first match of the night before beating michael van gerwen 6—3 in the semis. he'll face peter wright or nathan aspinall in the final later this evening. and that's all the sport for now. we will see you soon. goodbye. goodbye. hello there. good evening. plenty of wet and very windy weather around today with some squally showers pushing northwards, longer spells of rain, some of the rain falling as snow to low levels

boulter makes up one half of a tennis power couple — her boyfriend is alex de minaur who caught a 6amfrom acapulco to watch her, after he won the atp title there on saturday. katie gornall has the story. this could take a while to sink in. at times last year, she was ranked outside the top 150 and struggling. how times have changed. standing in her way was marta kostyuk of ukraine, a quarter finalised at the australian open. katie boulter was going to have to do this the hard way. from i sat down, the british number one fought back and then dominated. oh my word! fabulous winter. after taking out a succession of seeded players in san diego this week, the biggest win of her career was now within reach. a win that lifts her to 27th in the world, the highest—ranking app. watching on, her boyfriend, alex, fresh, sort of, of winning his own tennis title at the mexican open. i want to say a small special thank you to my boyfriend who... he finished last night at midnight, and i really wanted to embarrass him, so he got on a six o'clock flight to be here today. so i do appreciate it. a doubl

he'll play australia's alex de minaur in the early hours of tomorrow morning, after he put out stefanosthere. today is the first day of meteorological spring, and yet it was a christmas card. seeing that we had first thing this morning here in northern ireland, we've got cold air sitting over the uk at the moment and through the weekend that's going to generate some more showers, which could be heavy and potentially thundery as well. and as well as those shower clouds, we've got this band of thicker cloud here that's pushing its way northwards and it's all spiralling around this area of low pressure, which will stick with us for the next couple of days or so. now, these are the temperatures as we've got at the end of the day. so pretty chilly out there. once again, fourto seven degrees or so. and we've got this band of rain and snow for higher parts of the pennines, the cumbrian fells that will push its way northwards into scotland. some snow over the hills here. more showers will return to northern ireland and we'll see some wet weather pushing up from the southeast into other eastern

through illness in the deciding set of the mexican 0pen semifinal against against australian alex de minaurtake the match 6—4, 6—3 — the first time she's reached the last four of a wta event. in rugby league, st helens made it three wins from three to stay top of the super league. they beat leigh leopards 12—4 with tries from jack welsby and this brilliant solo effort from tommy makinson. elsewhere, there were wins for warrington wolves and wigan warriors. edinburgh are up to the fourth in the united rugby championship after beating 0spreys19—15. hamish watson got the home side off the mark early with the first try. ben healy�*s points with the boot putting them 16—3 up at half—time. 0spreys fought back in the second half but the edinburgh defence held firm. the victory for them ending 0spreys' four—game winning run. elsewhere, munster beat zebre to go fifth. rory mcilroy remains in contention at the cognizant classic in palm beach heading into day three. mcilroy is proving to be really consistent as he shot six birdies — including one on the final hole — and, indeed, had just two bogeys in

watching on, her boyfriend, alex de minaur, fresh, sort of, of winning his own tennis title at the mexican defend the champion hurdle on the opening day. his trainer nicky henderson says he's failed to recover sufficiently from a respiratory infection, so won't be ready to run. lizzie greenwood—hughes has more. this is the best hurdler in the world, possibly the best racehorse ever in the world. if we could just see him a bit more often, just see how good he could be. he won last year's race by nine lengths. one of the very few bankers for british horses for the cheltenham festival. the horse is much brighter this morning, so there is good news. and it is nothing serious, but welfare is the greatest concern amongst racehorse owners and trainers. and they said he is not going to be ready for what nicky henderson called the olympic games, and that is what the cheltenham festival is. the president of motorsport�*s world governing body the fia, mohammed ben sulayem, is under investigation for allegedly interfering in a formula 1 race result. a whistle—blower has told the fia that ben sulayem a

she was watched by boyfriend alex de minaur, who had earlier retained his title in acapulco.tain'sjemma reekie took silver in the women's 800 metres — herfirst senior medal. a slow race meant it came down to a one lap sprint, and reekie didn't quite have enough to get the better of ethiopia's tsige duguma, who took gold ahead of the briton, with noelie yarigo of benin a surprise third. i knew those girls were going to throw something at me that they were confident with, and they were just better than me today. but, yeah, i stood on that track and i didn't want anything other than the win. but first senior medal, i made some mistakes and i learned something from it. i've got one now and i definitely want one of those ones. yeah, it'll be a good stepping stone forward. ther was one other medal success for team gb in the women's it x 400 metre relay. jessie knight anchored home the british quartet in a new national record to take bronze behind the netherlands and the united states of america. as we know, those gold medals came forjosh kerr and molly koji on saturday. we are spea

he beat miomir kecmanovic, and will next play australian alex de minaur after he put out stefanos tsitsipash to remember the scary flying monkeys or if you're old enough to remember from the wizard of oz — but these jet suit racing pilots, who are whizzing through the air and dodging various obstacles, in what's hailed as the world's first jet suit race in dubai harbour. first launched in 2017, the jet suit is fitted with five gas turbine jet engines, and can operate at speeds in excess of 80 miles per hour! they can run on jet fuel, diesel or biofuel. understandably close to the water. fabulous to watch. the winner spoke of his nerves and fear — "everything's hot, it's running, the engines are screaming at you." you can't tell the noise and the heat from what you get what they look so graceful. do heat from what you get what they look so graceful.— heat from what you get what they look so graceful. do you know how the start look so graceful. do you know how they start the _ look so graceful. do you know how they start the race, _ look so graceful. do you know how they start the race, on _