the austrian marcel hirscher said this year's world championships might be his last. in which case, he's gone out with a bang. he won the final event of this year's games in sweden by taking gold in the men's slalom — and that was a record—equalling seventh world title. nick parrot reports... if you want to see a master class and slalom racing, marcel hirscher is the man to watch. the defending champion the balances risk and control, getting closer to the gate than others there. and accelerating out of every turn. the austrian pass first run was so good, only one viable code to get close. alexi won the next event a claim bronze. a side from the frenchman, nobody else could get within a second of the top spot. but his final run would prove decisive. perhaps knowing he needed something special to win, piled on depression, despite the course having been set by the french coach, he didn't do a any favours. his split time had him leading until that mistake. remarkably, he recovered to go third in the standings, but there was still one man to go, and he was up for the fight

the austrian marcel hirscher said this year's world championships might be his last.ent of this year's games in sweden by taking gold in the men's slalom — and that was a record—equalling seventh world title. nick parrot reports... if you want to see a master

slalom world champion henrik kristoffersen once again got the better of austria's slalom king, marcel hirschern bulgaria, claiming victory by four—hundredths of a second. germany's eric frenzel and fabian reesla claimed gold in the nordic combined team sprint at the world ski championships. followed by norway in second and hosts austria in third. dustinjohnson has cruised to a five shot victory at the wgc mexico championship to claim his sixth world golf championship title and 20th win on the pga tour. johnson carded a five under round of 66 to finish on 21 under par as he pulled away from rory mcilroy. the back nine was nothing more than a victory parade to the clubhouse. as this is the 20th win of his pga tour career, it gives him a lifetime member status. in rugby union, ireland's defence of their six nations crown is still alive but they had to come from behind to secure a bonus point victory over italy. it was laboured at times at rome and the home side were leading at half time before ireland scored two tries to win 26—16. italy were left disappointed after coming close to securing a los

gold went to austria's marcel hirscher for a record—equalling seventh title. britian‘s team for next month's euopean indoor championships and the latest from snooker‘s welsh open. that's it from me. i'll be back with the late news at ten o'clock. now on bbc one it's time for the news where you are. goodbye. hello. this is bbc news. videos and photographs promoting animal cruelty and illegal blood sports are being shared on social media, according to a bbc countryfile investigation. in response, facebook and youtube have taken down some of the content, but material celebrating illegal hunting and cockfighting is still accessible, as tom heap reports. from hare coursing to cockfighting, these are the cruelest of so—called sports with gambling at their heart. you may have thought these blood sports lived only in the past, but today, the power of the web has given them a new audience. we found evidence that some of the world's most popular internet sites, like facebook and youtube, are being used by illicit gambling rings to organise animal fights and also share d

. —— marcel hirscher, who teased us with talk of potential retirement might have gone out with one heckeven world titles. the austrian recovered from illness earlier in the week to clock the quickest times on both runs in ora, sweden. it's his third slalom title following victories in 2013 and 2017. a great day for him and his country as austria claimed the first clean sweep on a men's podium since 1987. finally good to have another gold medal. real madrid missed the chance to regain second place in la liga. they lost at home to 2—1 girona on sunday and to top things off their captain sergio ramos only went and picked up his 25th career red card. naughty, naughty. that was in spain, while over in italy 3rd—placed inter milan beat sampdoria 2—1 ivan perisic setting up danilo d'ambrosio for inter‘s opening goal. two minutes later manolo gabbiadini equalised for the visitors, before radja nainggolan drilled home from the edge of the penalty area to win it for inter. they're now four points clear of their city rivals milan. to the daytona 500 which threw up a huge crash with just nine laps

gold went to austria's marcel hirscher for a record—equalling seventh title. trying to win snooker‘s welsh open title. robertson had taken a 7—3 lead, but bingham has come back to win the last four frames. it's now 7—7. the first to nine frames wins. there's more on the bbc sport website. that's all from us. now on bbc one it's time for the news where you are. goodbye. hello. this is bbc news. more now on our main story. a teenager who ran away from home tojoin islamic state in syria four years ago and now wants to return to britain has given birth to a boy. shamima begum was one of three 15—year—old schoolgirls from bethnal green academy who went to marryjihadi fighters. the lawyer representing her family has been telling the bbc what action they want the british government to take. primarily, they'd like the government to recognise its responsibility to a now one—day—old child and to extend every help that can be given to have that child repatriated to the uk. in terms of practical things, it in terms of practical things, it would be the issue of travel docu

time of the second run, moving him up 11 places and ending up just over a second behind austrian marcel hirscherfinish 17—under par, two shots clear of korea'sjin young ko, to claim her second lpga title. she's the latest in her family to win an aussie open of some kind. korda's sisterjessica won the same tournament seven years ago, while their father petr won the australian open tennis title in 1998 and her brother sebastian won the boys' singles title in melbourne last year. jessica korda tweeted this picture earlier of the four of them celebrating their respective wins doing the same celebratoryjump! amazing success in that family. that's all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport. foran for an that is all for me. back with more in the next hour. thanks, john. the headlines on bbc news: the family of shamima begum, the british teenager who ran away to syria to join the islamic state group, say she has given birth to a boy. hundreds of passengers are left with plane tickets they can't use and hundreds ofjobs are at risk as fly

austria's marcel hirscher took gold.ned her successful family by winning the women's australian open golf. dad petr won the aussie open tennis in 1998, brother sebastian won the boys' tennis title last year, and sisterjessica won the australia open golf seven years ago. i'm veryjealous. and in what has now become tradition, the children have all copied dad's celebration too. that is such a great picture. now, let's show you some incredible pictures from overnight. they're from the famous daytona race in florida. one of the cars slammed into the wall and started a chain reaction that involved more than two dozen vehicles. it looks almost like a cartoon crashed, i can say this because nobody was hurt. not surprisingly a red flag stopped the race for a lengthy cleanup. but everybody was fine. not the cars but the humans. once you are in that, there is nothing you can do. let's take a look at today's papers. on most of the front pages this morning is shamima begum. the telegraph quotes her as saying, "show me some sympathy,"