and, on a day of shocks at indian wells, men's top seed novak djokovic goes out along with women's second seed simona halep. hello and welcome to the programme, where we start with the uefa champions league, and cristiano ronaldo has again dragged his team back from the depths. this time a hat—trick forjuventus, as the old lady saw off atletico madrid to progress to the quarter—finals, while manchester city thrashed schalke to also progress. ronaldo‘s hat—trick in turin capped off a remarkakable turnaround for massimiliano allegri's side, and our football reporter john bennett gave me his verdict on what we can expect next from the italians. i think this was a defining note for juventus, because yes, cristiano ronaldo was the hero. everyone will talk about him, he will grab all the headlines, but i thought it was a fantastic team performance. the two centre—backs faultless. atletico madrid didn't want to put across in because they knew it would be headed away. and a really good team performance. max allegri answered a few critics, people have talked about his future, perhaps leaving in th

all is not entirely well in the world of novak djokovic. the game's top ranked player has suffered another early tournament exit last week he went house in round three to indian wells miami six time champion is heading home after round four. beaten in three sets by world number twenty five reports about ceased a good span i was kind of match should have lost them in so many opportunities and just way too many ways through the opportunities and this is what happens when you win you don't capitalise. australia's nick curiosus had an eventful few days underarm serve one tactic in his last much and he kept croatia's borna church guessing in this encounter. curiosus later admitted to getting bored during the second set and was deducted a point from old a blip senate seat he won so on so lose in three sets i mean i don't play for two hours and twenty minutes and regardless he owes me a lot like play some tennis like i'm not going to take. you to him probably not. maybe that's why when you competing in this heat in a moment of paranoia. canadian t

number one kyle ament walked onto court numbing official quarterfinal with the world number one novak djokovic. to reach the last victim he needed to beat the dipping champion in miami, jeanis beat the dipping champion in miami, jean is there. i requirement this seems unlikely early on, is there easing into a five into leaflets of the first set shortly over. admin had other ideas though. looking back too low before leading five of into in the tie—break. cute weather issues. the sun which had shown so brightly initially was now placed programmatically and causing admin problems. five successive points for is their saw him when the set. serving rules supreme in the second says where with neither player broken and another tie—break beckoning. without without controversy. admin trailing five and three camera shot from the cross of the point stopped. the empire believing the british pair and stop playing. and miss it he was distracted and was so disappointed. deja vu for is there as a 17th a secured victory and he is a step closer to defending his title. michael redford, bbc news. england women bea

a day after world number one novak djokovic was eliminated the spaniard prevailed didn't suffer the same. nadal will now face 12th seed karen kachanov for a place in the last four as he looks for a fourth title at this event and first since 2013. in the women's singles, the canadian wildcard bianca andreescu continued her fairytale debut at indian wells with a 6—0, 6—1 thrashing of two—time grand slam champion garbine muguruza to move into the last four. it's the third — and biggest — semi—final the 18—year—old has reached this season, after runs to the last four in auckland and acapulco. andreescu will face either sixth—seeded elina svitolina or fellow teenager marketa vondrousova in the last four. the expected bad weather failed to materialise at cheltenham on wednesday as the racing took precedence — and it was the queen mother champion chase which saw a familiar name winning as andy swiss reports. no doubting the star of the show here on day two. altior confirming his status as one of the greats of his status as one of the greats of his sport. although it wasn't easy. he was under re

roger federer shares the record for the most number of wins in the men's singles with novak djokovic,l looking to make history with a 6th victory. it would be another landmark for federer who claimed the 100th title of his career in dubai last week, and he's pleased it's out of the way. winning in dubai and getting to number 100 and not having to carry the 99 title for me for the rest of the 99 title for me for the rest of the season, it is out of the way and i think it was a perfect week. i struggled at the beginning but ended up struggled at the beginning but ended up playing great tennis so i think there will be a lot of good vibes moving forward. the only problem could be my opponents if they catch fire that day or play well. but i will give it my all and that is good enough. in the women's draw, naomi osaka will be there to try and retain the title she won last year. it was the first title of her career but she's since won two grand slams on her way to becoming world number one. she begins the defence of her title against kristina mladenovic of france. for me this whole tournamen

and this border wall number one novak djokovic has the surprise defeat. in the fourth round of the mind open by spain with no. time and main opposition groups and formed a coalition to take on the military backs ruling party the head of the party says the coalition will have two hundred fifty five thousand five hundred seats in the house of representatives the final results of sunday's elections still haven't been announced though it was thailand's first vote since the move three took over five years ago scott joins us now from bangkok so the key question is can they get enough seats together even if they've got enough parties together. well certainly they're certainly hoping to and it is definitely the number of seats in the lower house the house of representatives that they're after they say they have the the majority now they have two hundred fifty five and it's a five hundred seat lower house the question is though how are they going to be able to form a government you know there are a lot of steps before you get there as you mentioned semi even the u

on to tennis — and six time champion novak djokovic has been knocked out of the miami masters, beatenbautista agut. the top seed was leading 6—1, 11—5 when rain delayed play for 30 minutes. returning to the court, djokovic surrendered his serve on a second break point in the 12th game to lose the second set but 22nd seed bautista—agut has now beaten the world number one the past two times they've played. the number seven seed and defending championjohn isner remains on course to retain the title that he won last year though after beating great britain's kyle edmund in straight sets. isner served 17 aces as he won 7—6, 7—6 — to seal his place in the last eight. in the women's singles, anett kontaveit became the first player to make it through to the semi—finals. the number 21 seed from estonia came from a set down to beat hsieh su—wei of taiwan. kontaveit won a tough deciding set 7—5 to seal her place in the semi—finals of a "premier five" tournament for only the third time. mixed martial arts fighter conor mcgregor has announced he'll retire from the sport with immediate effect. the 3

and, on a day of shocks at indian wells, men's top seed novak djokovic goes out along with women's secondme, where we start with the uefa champions league, and cristiano ronaldo has again dragged his team back from the depths. this time a hat—trick forjuventus, as the old lady saw off atletico madrid to progress to the quarter—finals, while manchester city thrashed schalke to also progress. ronaldo's hat—trick in turin capped off a remarkakable turnaround for massimiliano allegri's side, and our football reporter john bennett gave me his verdict on what we can expect next from the italians. i think this was a defining note for juventus, because yes, cristiano ronaldo was the hero. everyone will talk about him, he will grab all the headlines, but i thought it was a fantastic team performance. the two centre—backs faultless. atletico madrid didn't want to put

top seed novak djokovic is knocked out of the miami masters — beaten in three sets by roberto bautista—agut stage of the volta a catalunya while thomas de gendt maintains the overall lead. hello and welcome to the programme, where we start with football, and there were seven european championship qualifiers on tuesday. italy hosted liechtenstein in groupj as they continue their rebuilding process after failing to qualify for last year's world cup. but it was a seasoned veteran who scored twice in the 6—0 win with sampdoria's fabio quagliarella becoming the oldest player to score for the azurri at the age of 36 years and 5a days. it was also the first competitive start for his country since october 2009. elsewhere, conor hourihane scored the only goal of the game as the republic of ireland beat georgia to make it two wins out of two in group d.

all is not entirely well in the world of novak djokovic. the game's top ranked player has suffered another early tournament exit last week he went house in round three to indian wells miami six time champion is heading home after round four. beaten in three sets by world number twenty five reports about easter a good spank i was kind of match should have lost them in so many opportunities and just way too many ways through the opportunities and this is what happens when you when you don't capitalize. australia's nick curiosus had an eventful few days underarm serves well one tactic in his last much and he kept croatia's borna church guessing in this encounter was curious later admitted to getting bored during the second set and was deducted a point from old a blip senate seat he went on so lose in three sets was me don't play for two hours and twenty minutes and regardless he owes me a lot like play some tennis like i'm not going to take. you to him probably not. maybe that's why when you competing in this heat in the moment of paranoia whe

the top seed novak djokovic is through to the fourth round of the miami masters after beating argentina'ssner was also among the winners on sunday. the number seven seed beat spain's albert ramos vinolas in straight sets. isner won 7—6, 7—5 to reach the last 16, where he'll face the number 19 seed from great britain, kyle edmund. england's paul casey won the valspar championship in florida to retain the title he claimed last year. it's the first time that he's sucessfully defended a title in his professional career — and he's the first back—to—back winner in the tournament's history. casey shot a 1—over—par 72 in sunday's final round to finish on 8—under—par for the championship. he won by one shot from jason kokrak and louis 0osthuizen. you have to feel for the phoenix suns. the second—worst team in the nba face a monday night fixture with utahjazz, just two days after "yet another bruising defeat". with utahjazz, just two days after yet another bruising defeat. to say things haven't gone their way this season is an understatement. their 112—103 loss to sacramento on saturday was their 5

on to tennis — and six time champion novak djokovic has been knocked out of the miami masters, beatending champion john isner remains on course to retain the title that he won last year though after beating great britain's kyle edmund in straight sets. isner served 17 aces as he won 7—6, 7—6 — to seal his place in the last eight. in the coming hours the first two quarterfinals at the miami 0pen hit the court with 5th seed karolina pliskova taking on fellow czech republic player marketa vondrousova. before that though second seed simona halep will face china's wang qiang. halep accounted for former winner venus williams in the last 16 as she looks to win this tournament for the first time and put the disappointment of a last 16 finish at indian wells behind her. chelsea are in france as they look to secure a place in the semi—finals of the women's champions league later. the blues won the first leg of their quarter final 2—0 against paris saint germain in london last week. they're looking to become just the second english club to reach the final after arsenal, who claimed the competiti

well they were a great string of matches in the second round of the miami open novak djokovic is off and running and his attempt to won a record seventh title there the world number one beat bernard tomic in straight sets on friday it's the sixth time he's beaten the australian in his many meetings . and v.a. younus on the back for the milwaukee bucks after missing two games for an ankle injury the team took on the miami heat and were up in the first quarter largely because of on the combos eleven points in the second quarter on the call but was down for his ankle again but he returned shortly afterwards he didn't score twenty seven points and twenty eight minutes taking his team to a win one sixteen eighty seven. the brooklyn nets eliminated the los angeles lakers from playoff contention with a one eleven one zero six victory l.a. will miss the playoffs for a franchise record six straight season despite the arrival of star le bron james he fell just short of his eighty first career triple double. williamson is tipped to be the number one n.b.a. draft pick this summer and he's the bi

all is not entirely well in the world of novak djokovic. the game's top ranked player has suffered another early tournament exit last week he went house in round three to indian wells miami six time champion is heading home after round four. beaten in three sets by world number twenty five reports about easter a good spray i was going to match those should have lost them in so many opportunities and just way too many ways through the opportunities and this is what happens when you when you don't capitalise. australia's nick curiosus had an eventful few days underarm serves well one tactic in his last much and he kept croatia's borna church guessing in this encounter was curious later committed to getting bored during the second set and was deducted a point for an old senate seat he went on to lose in three sets was made on play for two hours and twenty minutes and regardless he owes me a lot of play like play some tennis like i'm not going to take. you to him probably not. when you competing in this heat of the moment for an all you're cana

there were a string of great matches in the second round at the miami open novak djokovic is off and running and his attempt to win a record seventh title there the world number one beat bernard tomic in straight sets on friday it's the sixth time he's beaten the australian in his many meetings . but it wasn't a good day for indian wells champion dominic team at the third seed was knocked out by hubert or catch six four six four this was a first top five win for the four. but it was a better day out for japan's naomi osaka the world number one was up against belgium's you know what mary she won the opening set six love but osaka lost the second in the tiebreaker twenty one year old bounced back to clinch the deciding set six one and progressed to around three. defending champion sloane stephens dominated tunisia's on jobbers six two six three although stevens did not have a single case of a match she was able to break jabber in five games. and sweden's rebecca peterson eight time miami open champion serina williams to work the fourteen time grand slam champion lost the second set six

tennis world number one to have clinched victory at the indian wells at tournaments in california novak djokovicbeat beyond in straight sets for his record fiftieth win at the tournament the serbian player beat the american the seven six six two djokovic just going for raechel six title in california. and now in the sack began her title defense with the win over my i don't know bitch i also who's done tired of the dubai international by the french player two weeks ago came out on top in this encounter the australian open champion winning in straight sets. everyone talks about being a defending champion and then playing her again i think actually it was really good for me because i learned the most when i lose matches and. i lost her last in dubai and honestly it was great that i got to play here again because i was able to learn from the mistakes i do and i was able to apply it so it worked out pretty well for me. while wells has stayed on course to win the northern hemisphere the biggest international rugby title they be scotland eighteen to eleven in the six nations championship and it's wells

run number one novak djokovic has stayed on course for record breaking seventh title the miami open jack riches three to the fourth round but was pushed hard by frederico doubleness the argentinian one the second sat and looked capable of causing an up side jock of a check back to win the decider six one and set up a notch with roberto batista a. i want to baseball's most sought after player says hit a financial home run mike trout is that of a twelve year contract extension with the angels worth more than four hundred million dollars reports. the low thirty's angels have officially landed the big one center fielder mike trout have found the repl breaking twelve year contract extension would hold hundred thirty million dollars to welcome the bill twenty seven your my drug has been the american league's most valuable player on two creations the twenty seven year old will now be expected to bring his team some overdue world series success and i still think the saints you guys are. thank you know that i believe all and just want to chance it back again i was going to. try out four hundred t

world number one novak djokovic is through to the third round at indian wells after a straight sets winvic's first match since winning the australian open injanuary, and the win was his 50th at the tournament — his highest total at any atp masters 1000 event. and there was a nice moment at the end when ran over to shake hands with tennis legend pete sampras. djokovic said seeing the american was "a thrill". that's all the sport for now. hen harriers, which are rare birds of prey, are being deliberately ta rgetted and killed, according to the rspb. in the most recent case in wiltshire one of the birds, which was being tracked by a satellite tag, has vanished and is presumed dead. police are investigating, and there are concerns over a government plan to introduce more hen harriers into the wild, as andrew plant reports. out on the hunt for a bird of prey. teams have been searching this wiltshire countryside. it is where vulcan, a rare hen harrier, satellite tag suddenly stopped responding. but both the bird and its tag have disappeared. sadly, suspicious occasion. so that tag just one da

now to tennis and five time winner novak djokovic has been knocked out of the indian wells masters in4 by the german world number 39. in the women's draw, simona halep has also been knocked out, losing in three sets to 19—year—old marketa vondousova, who'll play elina svitolina in the quarterfinals. later on wednesday, bayern munich host last year's beaten finalists, liverpool. now, there's everything to play for after their goalless draw in the first leg. liverpool are in good form and the german champions are top of the bundesliga for the first time since september, while for liverpool managerjurgen klopp, it's just another game. if we deserved to go through, if we play good full all, it could change the world for us. if not, it is over, now lets concentrate on full. of course, that is how it is. there is only one thing to do, it is a very important game, and very, very important game, and more important games will come. wednesday's other tie is also finely poised. lyon head to barcelona hoping to pull off a shock result following their goalless draw last month. it's a tall orderfor

gun lobby and in sport world number one novak djokovic she suffered another surprise defeat. the weather still look rather disturbed across many parts of the middle east and in northern sections of the middle east somewhat dry weather now making its way into iran the wettest weather is pushing through a swiss towards of kind of down towards pakistan but you can see this is what we had make its way across terra recently we are going to see it telling a little drier and brought over the next couple of days but still the chance of want to see showers has to be said here we go you can see how that wet weather makes its way across that eastern side of iraq pushes up towards southern parts of turkey we'll see a few showers just around the east side of the mediterranean as well as we go through thursday cyprus could see some rain we'll see showers never really too far away from all lebanon in that wetter weather slot a lot of turkey northern parts of syria peping up notice some snow there across the high gravity some snow to bushing over towards afghanistan some heavy spells of rain

and novak djokovic begins his run for a record seventh title in miami yes we'll be back to let us know how he's getting on. for the full extent of the ferry disaster in the iraqi city of mosul is becoming clearer civil defense says the number of dead is now at one hundred and twenty one hundred more are still missing iraq's prime minister. mattie is calling for the sacking of a local governor. good name is joins us now from the scene of the design natasha we can see people gathered so on the banks there we've. moved the movement . we've been speaking to people here on the banks of the tigris river in mosul all morning and their anger and pain are how bubble we spoke to a very large family just now lots of sobbing women and angry men and they lost a father and his two daughters and they're saying that this accident was preventable that the amusement park a ferry operator packed so many people onto this ferry in order to make money they accuse the government of one time neglect and they want answers what's particularly heartbreaking for this family they came to the banks to pray but they

novak djokovic is up and running in his attempt to win a record seventh title at the miami open world number one beat bernard tomic in straight sets on friday it's the sixth time he's beaten the australian in as many. but it wasn't a good day for indian wells champion domany team the third seed was knocked out by birds or catch six or six moves this was a first top five win for the place. so we didn't rebecca peterson put eight time miami open jan he's really williams to work at twenty three time grand slam champion lost the second set six one but overcame the dip in form to closure. in the n.b.a. john assented to come back for the mobile he backs up to missing two games for an injury the team took on the miami heat in the first quarter largely because of density composed eleven points in the second quarter entity composed down hurting his ankle again but he returned shortly after the eventual twenty seven points in trading eight minutes taking he seemed to one hundred sixteen eighty seven when. the brooklyn nets eliminated the los angeles lakers strong playoff contention with a one h

all is not entirely well in the world of novak djokovic . the game's top ranked player has suffered another early tournament exit last week he went house in round three to indian wells miami six time champion is heading home after round four. beaten in three sets by world number twenty five reports about easter a good spray i was going to match those should have lost them in so many opportunities and just way too many ways through the opportunities and this is what happens when you when you don't capitalise. australia's nick curiosus had an eventful few days underarm serves well one tactic in his last much and he kept croatia's borna church guessing in this encounter i. was curious later committed to getting bored during the second set and was deducted a point from old a blip senate seat he once on so lose in three sets was me don't play for two hours and twenty minutes and regardless he owes me a lot like play sometimes it's like i'm not going to take. you to him probably not . at the toilet when you competing in the heat of the moment when

novak djokovic though is out.supposed to be played on monday, but had to be put back a day because of heavy rain. the weather is also affecting the cheltenham festival. very strong winds expected so there'll be a course inspection this morning. if racing doesn't go ahead, the whole card will be moved to saturday. yesterday, there was a shock fall for the favourite in the day's headline race — this was buveur d'air falling in the champion hurdle — a race that the horse had won twice in a row. it meant a clear run for the line for espoir d'allen to give trainer gavin cromwell his first win at cheltenham. there was a fall for the favourite too in the mares hurdle, where the odds—on favourite benie des dieux went at the last fence. that left the 20 to one shot roksana to come through for a shock win. benie des dieux was unharmed, but there was a first fatality of the festival in the final race of the day when the willie mullins trained ballyward fell at the 17th. and how about this for a prank? david beckham was left

novak djokovic only managed one game in his third—round match against philipp kohlschreiber before playhe sport for now. i'll have more for you in the next hour. thank you for that. we have been speaking to people in bradford about what brexit means to them. it isjust dribbling to nothing, we are going nowhere. it will be a fudge deal and we will leave europe in name only. is that more than a 1—word answer? that's how i feel it is being done, badly mismanaged. we will leave eventually. in a form. we believe in one form or another. brexit is not good for this country, not good for the future. our businesses. i don't think it is good for the country.” voted to leave because frankly i am an independence man, ithink voted to leave because frankly i am an independence man, i think it is right that we have our own laws. but we controlled the level of immigration. the level that we want, the type of people we once in the country. i'm not saying we close the doors. there are certain categories of employee but of course we need. and our own laws, some of the directives that can out of the eu are

and there was another surprise defeat for novak djokovic.itain's chris froome at the tour of catalunya. chris froome suffered cuts and bruises in a crash on the second stage. he got tangled up with a couple of other riders with more than 20 miles to go, and ended up with some painful cuts and bruises. the team sky rider did finish the stage, but lost almost 14 minutes to the leaders. and international retirement seems to be going pretty well for alastair cook. he scored 150 not—out in his first innings since retiring from test cricket last september. it happened in a pre—season match for essex against cambridge university, and it is his 64th first—class hundred. and he looks fresh as a daisy. still got it. thousands of children who haven't been vaccinated against measles have been banned from schools and shopping centres in parts of new york state, to try to stop the virus from spreading. an outbreak in the suburb of rockland county is so bad, a state of emergency has been declared. dylan skriloff is the editor of the local newspaper the roc