hello, i'm marc edwards with your tuesday sport briefing.ed as barcelona's manager on monday — despite winning two league titles in his two full seasons with the club. valverde might be feeling a little hard done by with barca top of the table in spain, and through to the last 16 of the champions league. he's also the first manager to be sacked by the club, mid—season, since louis van gaal in 2003. his replacement is the former real betis coach quique setien, who's signed a 2.5 year contract. not a great day to be a manager in any sport really. we'll call it sacking monday, if you will, this time in major league baseball, the sacking of both the manager and general manager of the houston astros, aj hinch and jeff luhnow. it follows an investigation which found they cheated by stealing signs when they won the world series in 2017. both men were suspended by the league until the end of the 2020 season, while houston have been fined $5 million and lost their first two draft picks for the next two seasons. the team's ownerjim crane says the pair

most controversially, in this deal the taxman has agreed hello, i'm marc edwards, and this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: baseball's sign—stealing scandal continues, as the boston red sox fire manager alex cora. the argentinianjob. lo celso and lamela combine to give tottenham a hard—fought victory over middlesbrough in the fa cup. and setien settling in nicely. we hear from the new barca boss as he takes training for the first time. hello and thanks forjoining us here on sport today on bbc world news. the last 2a hours or so have rocked major league baseball, and now there has been a further twist. the boston red sox have fired manager alex cora, a day after baseball commissioner rob manfred implicated him in the sport's sign—stealing scandal. this comes after the houston astros were heavily sanctioned after being found guilty of cheating on their way to the 2017 world series. the team's manager and coach were banned and then sacked. adam wild explains the run up to this latest sacking. it isa it is a moment the houston astros will never forg

most controversially, in this deal the taxman has agreed hello, i'm marc edwards, and this is sport todayal continues, as the boston red sox fire manager alex cora. the argentinianjob. lo celso and lamela combine to give tottenham a hard—fought victory over middlesbrough in the fa cup. and setien settling in nicely. we hear from the new barca boss as he takes training for the first time. hello and thanks forjoining us here on sport today on bbc world news.

hello i'm marc edwards and this is your wednesday sport briefing.e through to the fourth round after seeing off middlesborough 2—i in their replay in london. the argentinian job if you will, giovani lo celso opened the scoring for the home side after a dreadful pass from boro keeper, tomas mejias. the argentina international finishing well afterjust 2 minutes for his first goal at tottenham hotspur stadium. and it was his fellow countryman erik lamela, who doubled tottenhams lead after a quarter of an hour. boro did pull one back with 7 minutes to go but it's tottenham who go marching on into the next round where they will face southampton. they worked so hard against such a dominant team, in the end, so we did lots of things well. conceding a goal is a bit frustrating, but i am more frustrated that we didn't score three, four, five. the crowd deserved it, a full stadium in these cup matches, with this emotion. the magic of the cup is still alive and well, the chance for a david and goliath encounter. let's paint the picture: you're a team in the th

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marc champion, thank you so much. still to come on "surveillance," more on stories about onaliatory strikes by iran u.s. missile bases in iraq. ♪ anna: i am anna edwardson, with tom keene in new york. iraq says they got verbal notice from iran prior to its attack, the latest missile attacks that we saw by iran on u.s. bases in iraq. has said said -- iran that they would limit the attack on u.s. positions. they also say that the prime minister of iraq is saying there are no casualties reported on the iraqi side or on the coalition side. let's get the initial source of the overnight develop its. -- developments. joining us on the set in london. these headlines still coming through. we just digest them now, who knew what when, and what kind of casualty toll are we going to see from this? suggestions are that there are limited casualties from this. if there are no casualties on the u.s. side, does the market participants -- do the market participants hope for a muted response for the united states? -- from the >> united states? we need -- >> we need to hear from the president. the other caveat is this is not going to be the end of heightened tensions betw