olympic champion zheng qinwen will face the usa's leylah fernandez in the last eight — the top—seeded, new york liberty paraded their wnba trophy around the streets of the city on thursday. thousands of fans lined the streets of manhattan to celebrate with the team. the liberty won the franchise's first championship, defeating the minnesota lynx in overtime in a decisive game five of the finals on sunday in brooklyn. they will enjoy that for days to come. that's it from me. we'll see you again soon. bye bye. hello there. we saw some pretty decent temperatures for the time of year on thursday, with highs of 19 degrees in northolt in greater london — that was thanks to sunshine, warm southerly winds and high pressure. for friday, though, a few changes to the weather. it will be cloudier for many. still a bit of sunshine around, but we've got this area of low pressure which will tend to throw up a weather front into southern and western areas to bring outbreaks of rain. strong winds out towards the southwest, but lighter further north and east. and it's here where we'll start cloudy with

and olympic champion zheng qinwen will face the usa's leylah fernandez in the last eight.e player beat local favourite moyuka uchijima 7—5, 6—0. fernando alonso has pulled out of his media commitments on the eve of friday practice for the mexico city grand prix after feeling unwell. are he met his fans on arrival in the country's capital, you are a you but later his aston martin team said he wouldn't attend the circuit on thursday in order to recover enough are to take part in second practice on friday. he's set to become the first driver to take part a in 400 f1 race weekends. and that's all the sport for now. you are watching the context. it's time for a weekly segment ai decoded. welcome to ai decoded, that time of the week when we look in depth at some of the most eye catching stories in the world of artificial intellligence. .. with the us presidential election less than two weeks away there are concerns ai technology is being used to make the voting process confusing. white house national security adviserjake sullivan speaking at an event on al earlier, said the us w

meanwhile in tokyo, china's zheng qinwen is through to the semi finals — after beating canada's leylah fernandeze sofia kenin in the other semi final. the world series gets under way later as the la dodgers take on the new york yankees. it's the best of seven with game one in los angeles at the dodger stadium. it'll be the 12th time these two teams have faced each other in a world series — although it's more than a0 years since the last one. it is worldwide and i think that is what is going to make this world series of special, so unique. you could easily argue that on a global scale, the yankees and the dodgers are the most followed, the most supported, the most visible, so obviously with our two great organisations and the branding, it is going to be very visible. and that's all the sport for now. with just a couple of weeks to go till the us presidential election, both donald trump and kamala harris will be in texas later on friday. a rare step away for both candidates to step away for a non—swing state squarely republican for a while now. she'll be with pop superstar beyonce, while mr trump