sheffield united stay in fifth for now.as holders england are hosting wales in gloucester. there's a record crowd in attendance at kingholm — over 1a,000 there. and they have been treated to another english masterclass. on her return from injury, wingerjess breach has scored to of her sides eight tries so far. the score is currently a6—5 to england. tomorrow scotland host france while ireland host italy. to champions cup rugby union now, where it's a weekend of round of 16 ties. and for the first time they will be played over two legs. bristol have a very slight advantage against sale, after they won by 10 points to 9 in their all—english encounter in manchester. austin halewood watched that one. and so the business end of the rugby season begins, and all english affairfirmly in the season begins, and all english affair firmly in the european spotlight as well as the manchester sun. now both sides have struggled domestically this season, so the champions cup will take on huge significance, and you could tell in a particular

american businessman henry mauriss has had a £115 million bid accepted by championship club sheffield unitedpying the final play—off spot with three games remaining. any deal to buy the blades would be subject to the efl�*s owners' and directors' test. mauriss previously bid £350 million to buy newcastle united in 2020 but the deal fell through. russian world number eight andrey rublev says wimbledon's ban on russian and belarusian players is "complete discrimination" and "illogical". rublev — who earlier made it through to the quarter final of the serbia open is one of three top—io players, along with fellow russian daniil medvedev and aryna sabalenka of belarus who can't play the grass court swing in britain. wimbledon made the decision to ban the players because of the invasion of ukraine. men's world number one and wimbledon champion novak djokovic says he thinks the decision to ban the players is "crazy." translation: iwilll always condemn war. i will never support war, being myself a child of war. i know how much emotional trauma it leaves. in serbia, we all know what happened in 1999.

sheffield united stay in fifth for now.place. and it's a very slight advantage to bristol, they beat sale sharks by 10 points to 9 in their all—english encounter in manchester. in a game that never really burst into life, it was a moment of magic from substitue semi radradra that sealed the win. that the only try of the game to give the bears a one point lead ahead of the second leg in bristol on friday. —— to the champions cup now, the first legs of the round of 16 ties are taking place. defending champions toulouse are leading ulster by 13 points to 7 in france at half time. st helens have beaten catalans dragons in the challenge cup quarter—finals. the final whistle has just gone in france, st helens with a dominant victory. they scored six tries altogether— joe batchelor rounding things off for his side. it was a rematch of the super league's grand final — st helens wining again, this time by 36 points to 20. the early starters are out on the course at augusta national for the third round of the masters — scottie scheff

sheffield united stay sixth.ng champions england showed their class yet again running in ten tries against wales in gloucester. wales had come into this fixture on the back of two wins, but england were too good and secured the bonus point win in front of a record crowd of more than 14,000 fans. lydia campbell reports. this is a new era of welsh rugby. i2 this is a new era of welsh rugby. 12 of these players were given professional contracts in january and they players were given professional contracts injanuary and they have made their best start at six nations campaign since 2015 with two bonus point wins. but england has micro—professional setup is already in full bloom, the red now the top—ranked side in the world after going pro in 2019, and they got the first point of the day. they added another soon after before chess breach marked her return from injury with england's third. wales continued to struggle today with the sheer force of the english pack in the second half, davies getting her second of the matc

victory moves tony mowbray�*s side up to seventh with two games left as they chase sixth—placed sheffield unitedeague semi—finals. pep guardiola's been speaking ahead of his manchester city side's first leg against real madrid, and he says they'll need two perfect performances. let's now try to be ourselves, compete good and will have to do to exceptional games to reach the final. and hopefully, we can do it, we can do the games, be ourselves and is it necessary to say how much we respect real madrid, how good they are. and that's all. and that's all the sport for now. hello. a few pockets of frost perhaps southern scotland northern and eastern parts of england to starts tuesday for the fair amount of sun out there but an area cloud both north and east of scotland running down at the north and england during the day will squeeze out a little light and patchy right here and there. northern ireland, wales, midlands southern england after early sunshine seeing kyle building put up the chance of an isolated shower, most dry, up to around 17 in the warm spot. it's cool feel with the onshore breeze in

american businessman henry mauriss has had a £115 million bid accepted by championship club sheffield uniteddeal fell through. russian world number eight andrey rublev says wimbledon's ban on russian and belarusian players is "complete discrimination" and "illogical". rublev — who earlier made it through to the quarter final of the serbia 0pen is one of three top—10 players, along with fellow russian daniil medvedev and aryna sabalenka of belarus who can't play the grass court swing in britain. wimbledon made the decision to ban the players because of the invasion of ukraine. men's world number one and wimbledon champion novak djokovic says he thinks the decision to ban the players is "crazy." translation: iwill| always condemn war. i will never support war, being myself a child of war. i know how much emotional trauma it leaves. in serbia, we all know what happened in 1999. in the balkans, we have had many wars in recent history and ordinary people suffer the most. however, i cannot support the decision of wimbledon, i think it is crazy. players, tennis players, sports people have got nothi

sheffield united playing right now. currently sixth in one of the late games. the championship, to be honest. one of those rare days where there is no primary league football, and particularly the championship, 28 goals so far today. a brilliant day for the second tier, and the biggest winners as well, blackpool beat birmingham 6—1.it’5 winners as well, blackpool beat birmingham 6-1.— birmingham 6-1. it's been a phenomenal— birmingham 6-1. it's been a phenomenal day. _ birmingham 6-1. it's been a phenomenal day. it - birmingham 6-1. it's been a phenomenal day. it doesn't| birmingham 6-1. it's been a - phenomenal day. it doesn't end there. forthe phenomenal day. it doesn't end there. for the moment, thank you so much. you mention primary glare. liverpool will be looking to move back to the top of the premier league when they host manchester united tomorrow night. forjurgen klopp and united boss ralf rangnick, this is the first time the two managers will face off against each other in the premier league. we asked them what this would mean for their friendship off

play—off chasing sheffield united beat cardiff 1—0, while stoke also won 1—0 against qpr.unlucky enough to watch them at huddersfield and they lost there, so their play—off hopes are fading. the games at swansea and west brom ended in draws. oldham athletic have dropped out of the football league. a 2—1 defeat to salford city at home confirming their releagtion from league 2, but that doesn't tell half the story because the last 13 minutes of that game were played behind closed doors. let's speak to our reporterjoe lynskey. joe, an extraordinary hour or so at boundary park. ultimate relegated from league 2, losing their place in the football league in the most remarkable circumstances because with just over ten minutes to go, 2—1 tout at home to salford city tome, they was a pitch invasion, autumn supporters releasing the anchor of their photo in the league they have had in the last 12 months and also protesting against their owner. of even unfurled a banner in the centre circle telling him to get out of the club. the owner is a moroccan who bought the club in 2018 when th

moved one step closer to promotion to the premier league, but had to settle for a point away to sheffield unitedssing a glorious chance in injury time. sheffield unted stay in fifth for now. we're only a few hours away from the 174th grand national at aintree, where trailblazer rachel blackmore is riding 2021 victor minella times. crowds are back for the first time in three years, and more than 70,000 are expected. commodore, school boy hours and romain de senam took the final spots in the race after three late withdrawals on friday. while blackmore is the only woman riding, emma lavelle has two chances of being the fourth woman to train the winner since 2009 with eclair surf and de rasher counter. to champions cup rugby union now, the first legs of the round of 16 ties are taking place. and it's a very slight advantage to bristol, they beat sale sharks by 10 points to 9 in their all—english encounter in a game that never really burst into life, it was a moment of magic from substitue semi radradra that sealed the win. that the only try of the game to give the bears a one point lead ahead of the

play—off chasing sheffield united beat cardiff 1—0, while stoke also won 1—0 against qpr.0ldham was abandoned after a pitch invasion at boundary park stopped play inside the final 15 minutes. they were losing 2—1 to salford city, a result that would see them relegated. let's speak to our reporter joe lynskey, who has actually been in 0ldham this week, looking at the club's demise. this looking at the club's demise. would appear to be a end this would appear to be a very sorry end to their league status but we don't know that for sure because we don't know that for sure because we don't know that for sure because we don't know if that result stands? it don't know if that result stands? it is an extraordinary situation in 0ldham, a lot of anger around the town is to watch their team to send down league 2 in the last 12 months. that anger spilled onto the pitch itself which is to few minutes to go and a sidejust minutes itself which is to few minutes to go and a side just minutes away from being relegated to non—league. the fans came onto the playing surface and that pitch in

victory moves tony mowbray�*s side up to seventh with two games left as they chase sixth—placed sheffield unitederformances. let's now try to be ourselves, compete good and will have to do two exceptional games to reach the final. and hopefully, we can do it, we can do the games, be ourselves and isn't necessary to say how much we respect real madrid, how good they are. and that's all. and that's all the sport for now. hello. if it's rain you're after, you won't find any substantial amount in this forecast. we were on monday teased by a few showers out there that only produced a few millimetres of rain here and there and they are not a sign of things to come. this week at a friends in scotland in northern england will screeds two squeeze out a little light and patchy rain on tuesday. but this is the main weather feature building and for the rest of the week and looks like the rest of the month to. high pressure right across us keeping things largely dry and settled. with the chance though on the cool side out there of the touch of frost over the next few mornings. tuesday mornings across parts o

sheffield united commander new ownership. £150 million ownerfrom an american business man. ire in the county championship match against gloucestershire. carlos sainz has signed a contract extension at ferrari until 202a. the spaniard joined the team last year and currently lies third in the formula one standings. 10 years after he retired, rickey hatton is going to return to the ring at the age of a3. the former world champion will take on the mexican marco antonio barrera in an 8 round exhibition bout in manchester onjuly 2nd. we told you yesterday about wimbledon and the lta's decision to ban russian and belarussian players from grass court events this summer because of the conflict in ukraine. there was strong criticism from the men's and women's tennis tours and a number of high profile players have today called on the all england club to overturn that decision. translation: iwilll always condemn war. i will never support war, being myself a child of war. i know how much emotional trauma it leaves. in serbia, we all know what happened in 1999. in the balkans, we have had

championship too, as american businessman henry mauriss has had a £115 million bid accepted by sheffield uniteder finals of the stuttgart open after beating germany's tamara korpatsch in three sets. raducanu will now face the world number one iga swiatek. it's the first time the two players have met on the wta tour. men's tennis world number eight, andrey rublev, says wimbledon's ban on russian and belarusian players is "complete discrimination" and "illogical." rublev, who's through to the quarter—finals of the serbia open, is one of three top—10 players, along with fellow russian daniil medvedev and aryna sabalenka of belarus, who cannot play in south west london this summer. wimbledon made the decision to ban the players because of the invasion of ukraine. england's jack lisowski says he "wasn't allowed" to pay tribute to ukraine at the world snooker championship, as he is not from the eastern european country. the world number 14 has ukrainian heritage through his grandfather — and has wore a ukraine badge on his waistcoat in previous tournaments. the world championship organisers said the

in the championship, sheffield united made sure their hopes of reaching the play—offs remains in theiro the last four minutes, but a penalty from the ice cool james grayson from nearly as far out as the halfway line ensured that saints came away with a 32—31win. it means that they go six points clear of fifth—placed exeter. it was a big night in rugby league, as leeds rhinos managed a second win in a row for the first time this season, as they ended hull kr's six—match winning streak at headingley. meanwhile, wigan are now level on points with super league leaders st helens after victory at warrington. ethan havard crashed over with their final try to win 40 points to 22. it leaves warrington seventh in the table. elsewhere, st helens beat salford to stay top of the league, thanks to a greater points difference. we're seeing two of the best semifinals in recent history at the world championships in sheffield and both are still hard to call. judd trump had dominated the opening session of his semi until three—time champion mark williams pulled off an extraordinary comeback in the evenin

sheffield in 12 days�* time. the netherlands coach louis van gaal has revealed he has prostate cancer. the former manchester unitedfrom his players during the recent international break, and he had to leave in the night to go to hospital for treatment to stop them finding out. van gaal is due to lead the netherlands at the world cup in qatar this winter. poland's iga swiatek has been confirmed as the new world number—one in the women's tennis rankings, replacing ash barty, who retired last month. she celebrated her new status in style at the weekend, winning the miami open with victory over naomi 0saka. that was her third title in a row and extended her winning streak to 17 matches. after the event, she was able to reflect on the past couple of weeks, and her reaction when she heard that barty had decided to quit. i was crying for a0 minutes, basically, both because of her retirement and i didn't really know it was going to happen and it really surprised me because i always had this vision that we were all going to play until we were 35 or something. after two hours of being really emotional i happen yet, you have

sheffield, the oil and natural gas we produce prove a geopolitical asset for the united states. can you list just a few of the federal and state regulatory obstacles that are restricting your production and transportation of oil and gas, american oil and gas? >> yes, we need more pipelines both oil and gas, for instance, use keystone, for instance. if keystone would have been built six, seven years, canadian production would be another million barrels a day. there's not enough oil and gas pipelines. there's not enough l and fwrks plants. we need lng plants in the northeast. we have the largest gas field in the world in the northeast. it's too expensive to get the gas down to the gulf coast. we need to build lng facilities in the northeast. those are examples -- >> i thank you for your clarity on that mr. sheffield, i really do. back to general mcmaster. general, while the biden administration continues to push the industry towards developing and adopting renewable energy technologies, the united states is highly reliant on imports of the minerals, the production of the materials

you mention your testimony, mr., sheffield oil and natural gas be produced proves a geopolitical acid for the unitedstates. can you list just a few of the federal and state regulatory obstacles that are restricting your production and transportation of oil and gas, american oil and gas? >> yes, we need more pipelines, both oil and gas. for instance, use keystone for instance. keystone would've been billed six, seven years ago, we probably could've had production another million to a day going to the gulf coast refineries. that's an example, you have to make long term decisions. to help the industry. but there's not enough oil and gas pipelines. there's not enough lng plants. we need lng plants in the northeast. we had the longest gasket in the world, in the northeast. it's too expensive to get to gas down to the gulf coast. we need to build lng facilities in the northeast. those are examples -- >> i thank you for your clarity on that, mr. sheffield, i really do. and i appreciate, we'll take that home. back to general mcmaster. general, while the biden administration continues to push the industry to

sheffield. we will keep it under wraps until then. liverpool's captain there. retiring is never easy forfootballers — but when injury makes that decision for you — it can be even harder. manchester unitedlong, hard road to come to this decision. it's something that i never, you know, ever thought about being a footballer, hanging my boots and gloves up, but it's something that is out of my control, out of my hands. it's something that was forced upon us to call it quits. looking, you know, trying to come back from an injury, it was always going to be tough. listening to the advice of the specialists going if you do continue, two years coming your way of life will be totally different. you will struggle to walk, so taking everything in and looking at it going, right, actually, this is it. this is not what i've dreamed of, but i need to take the advice and look to the future of the long life of hopefully being quite healthy. figs future of the long life of hopefully being quite healthy.— being quite healthy. as serious as that, that being quite healthy. as serious as that. that you _ being quite healthy. as serious as that, that you might _ being quite healthy. as serious as that, that yo

coverage from sheffield continues on the iplayer and red button, as well as the bbc sport website and app. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in the next hour. the unitedherine byaru—hanga is in the town of zaporizhzhia where she s been speaking to families who crossed enemy lines to leave mariupol. smoke billows from the giant azovstal steelworks. ukraine says russia continues to bombard the plant, despite saying it wouldn't. the controversial nationalist azov regiment, which defends the facility, posted this video of an injured woman online. it says up to 1000 civilians are trapped in the azov style bunkers. but president putin insists there are no ongoing attacks and accuses ukrainian soldiers of using civilians as human shields. the united nations is calling for humanitarian access to mariupol. katerina escapes the city with her husband and two children. the youngest, anna, is two years old. they braved russian checkpoints to get to ukrainian—held territory. translation: at the firstj checkpoint, the man there pointed his gun at us and wasn't letting us through until he saw that there was a child with us. it was frightening. i thought that that was