Thats newsnight with evan. Here on bbc one its time for the news where you are. Hello and welcome to sportsday im hugh woozencroft. Its a fab five for liverpool in the Champions League as sadio mane inspires them to victory over porto in the last 16. Theres another happy red as the flying tomato shaun white takes his third halfpipe gold at the Winter Olympics. Chris froome says he should be allowed to compete as he returns to cycling for the First Time Since an adverse drugs test. Well, plenty to come but if youre a Liverpool Fan and you cancelled that valentines day dinner in order to watch the football tonight, congratulations, you clearly made the right decision. And it was a case of p. S i love you asjurgen klopps side wrote home with a huge 5 0 win away at porto. Side wrote home with a huge 5 0 win away at porto. My date for the evening is our football reporterjohn bennett well discuss things in just a moment but first, the action. It was watched byjohn watson. Its its been nine years since liverpool last appeared in the knockout stage alongside yours elite, a run that belies their rich history in the european cup. Where great players once trod, others followed. Sadio mane given a helping hand as they announced their return. Alongside him in attack, Mohamed Salah. His touch and trickery doubling liverpools lead. Their free flowing football saw them top the group. Its football saw them top the group. Its hard to contain. Roberto fumio surging forward, sadio mane making sure. They looks for a final flourish. Firmino found it. Liverpool making their way towards the quarterfinals. Still time for a stunning fifth to complete a hat trick. They say absence makes the heart grow fonder. Well, john bennett, ourfootball reporterjoins me now arguably the performance of the knockout phase so far. Its its because to put it in context porto are having a wonderful season and havent won the Portuguese League since 2013 but their fans think this is the year they win it again. They are top of the table two clear of benfica with a game in hand. Their last defeat was in 0ctober. Theyve only lost once at home in all competitions this season. Home in all competitions this season. For liverpool to go to the home stadium where they have a fantastic record and score five goals, incredible. Theyve scored more than any team in the Champions League this season. The 17th time liverpool have scored three or more goals this season. Mohamed salah scoring yet again. 30 for the season. Scoring yet again. 30 for the season. Who would have expected that from him . Its important for sadio mane that hat trick, he was on a five game goal drought, confidence had been lacking because he wasnt getting the focus and attention Roberto Firmino and Mohamed Salah have been getting. Huge night for liverpool, they are into the quarterfinals, its all over. Important victory for them. And for Cristiano Ronaldo and his team mates can be huge fixture against paris st germain. Yet again Cristiano Ronaldo delivers and the pressure is the Zinedine Zidane. So many questions about his future, are 17 points or behind barcelona in la liga. The st took the lead, lots of character shown by real madrid. 33 minutes gone shown by real madrid. 33 minutes gone. 1 0 to ps6. They had chances to make it 2 0 but this was the key moment before half time. Toni kroos brought down. Ronaldo steps up, his 100th Champions League goalfor real madrid. No other player has scored more Champions League goals for single club. He makes it 2 1. Looked as though that would be how it would end. All the talk was about psts resilient neymar but it was a brazilian Marcelo Varela madrid who scored the crucial third. Pressure off Zinedine Zidane bomb he ran over to celebrate. It shows you the players are behind the manager and it is advantage real madrid. The pressure very much on the pst boss unai emery who made poor substitutions. Psg boss. Unai emery who made poor substitutions. Psg boss. John bennett thank you to dorking is through those games. Now, team gb has continued its search for that elusive first medal of the Winter Olympics. As both mens and womens curling teams began their campaign looking to build on the medals won in sochi four years ago. But the most spectacular action in the mens halfpipe snowboarding. As adam wild reports. He needs 95. 25 and one of his life. In sport they say reaching the top is tough, staying there even tougher. In snowboarding industry in more ways than one. 0h tougher. In snowboarding industry in more ways than one. Oh my goodness this is shaun wright, arguably the greatest the sport has ever seen, saving his brilliant best to last to win his third olympic title. Im really proud to come out on top today and ankle for those guys honestly, they push me to get to this point, to be able to do these kinds of runs. Elsewhere history of a very different sort made in doors. If the mere presence of north korean skaters on south korean ice was significant, the display of this couple was quite magnificent. Supported by more than 200 cheerleaders, they qualified for the pairs final in some style. With britains wait for a ongoing attention turned to curling. The men took silverfour years attention turned to curling. The men took silver four years ago and though this is a new team, they bring with them similar dreams. A sudden death victory over switzerland in the opening match, but they will be in no doubt as to how tough this competition will be. Beta later by canada as their team was in the final four years ago. Eve muirhead would like to finish it here. The bronze medallist in saatchi, the women came for gold and starters as they medical, dominating a team of olympic athletes from russia. As a team what we do well is manager and we know we can switch off and enjoy ourselves and get our nails done like we gb flags and things. And know when we can put competition heads on and be in business mode. Starting with a winner, back in business mode on day six. Against the united states. Adam wild, bbc news. Not everyone in south korea is as happy as eve muirhead. The jamaican womens bobsleigh coach Sandra Kiriasis has dramatically quit her role and has threatened to take the teams sled with her. Im being serious the Jamaica Bobsleigh Federation is disputing she owns the sled. Kiriasis resigned after refusing to change roles from driving coach to track performance analyst, which would have given her no access to the athletes. Thejbf has denied it will have to withdraw its team which were due to be making their first appearance at a Winter Olympics. Chris froome has defended his decision to return to cycling for the First Time Since his adverse drugs test. The four time Tour De France champion began his 2018 season at the ruta del sol in spain today, despite an ongoing doping tribunal prompted by the test at last years vuelta a espana. And froome insists he has a right to continue competing. I know ive done nothing wrong. Thats my starting point. I know ive done nothing wrong. There is a process in place for me to be able to demonstrate that and thats what i intend to do. This is a process that a lot of athletes have gone through, a lot of other riders have gone through as well and i dont see why i should have different treatment to them. They were all racing in the meantime until they got to the end of their processes. How far along the process are you . There is a process there that allows me to demonstrate that there has been no wrongdoing and that is obviously what i intend to do, and we are in the middle of that process now and i am not able to speak about that publicly. Im still allowed to race. I cant see why not. The 14 time Paralympic Champion dame sarah storey is back in the Great Britain team for the world para cycling championships in rio next month. Dame sarah missed the whole of last season after giving birth to her second child last october but has been named in a 22 strong squad. The venues for the revamped domestic twenty20 compeition have been announced with durhams home the riverside the only test match venue not to be chosen. The tournament will include eight venues including the sse sway leck in cardiff and the aegeas bowl in southampton but Chester Le Street is the biggest name to be left out it will only host one one Day International in 2020. In tennis, british number onejohanna konta has made it through to the last 16 at the qatar open. Konta is looking to kick start her season after a disappointing australian open, and had a good win, coming past world number 29 Carla Suarez Navarro 6 2, 6 2. She faces Angelique Kerber for a place in the quarterfinals. Before we go, just time to recap our top story a 5 0 win for liverpool in the last 16 first leg meeting with porto. Sadio mane with a hat trick. And remember more curling on the way at the Winter Olympics you can watch the action on bbc one, the red button and online from ten past midnight. Thats all from sportsday. Coming up in a moment, the papers. Hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. With me are the political commentator and former tory adviserjo anne nadler, and the journalist james rampton. Thank you for being with us. Several front pages are already in. And theres little consensus on the lead. The times has a picture on its front page of south africas president jacob zuma, announcing his resignation. The express headlines the news that medical research has found that processed food poses a cancer danger. The lead in the Daily Telegraph is the demand from the dup for the resumption of direct rule from westminster, after power sharing talks in Northern Ireland broke down. And the metro leads on the homeless man who died just yards from parliament, after a night of sub zero temperatures. So, jacob zuma, and warnings about links between processed food and cancer on a couple of papers there, lets take a closer look. The guardian, a picture ofjacob zuma. Steps down ahead of favourite of no confidence he jumped before zuma. Steps down ahead of favourite of no confidence hejumped before he was pushed. Absolutely. Having worked in a Newspaper Office for many years im always impressed when they kick into action and turn out a front page very quickly because this speech did not happen so long ago. It was 30 minutes. It was quite rambling. To get it on the front page with a picture of him looking downcast is a very good bit of journalism. Sometimes you can do it with a big picture, you dont need too many words. Jason burke, an excellent correspondent, summed it up excellent correspondent, summed it up well. There is more online that weve read. Its interesting is very defiant, he gave a really angry interview again quite rambling, over allow this afternoon saying he was the victim in all of this. This evening he said, ifear no motion of no confidence or impeachment. Hes not going to go out without a fight. My not going to go out without a fight. My senses he spent last week wrangling about getting immunity from prosecution because over 700 charges of corruption await him at the moment is not president. Hes been wrangling saying, can i cut some sort of deal . Like happened in zimbabwe when it was forced to step down. At the moment the constitution doesnt allow for that and he may be worried about those charges hanging over him. Definitely echoes of robert mugabe. I think so, i was last on the programme the day he eventually stood down. Its two lots of pressure on jacob eventually stood down. Its two lots of pressure onjacob zuma. One is the criminal charges potentially, and the very widespread understanding of a lot of corruption here. Police are going to the family of the guptills, i think, today, to close some of that down. And investigate that in a way that hasnt been out in the open yet. On the other side is the political pressure about the real problems with the economy and complete mismanagement of the economy. Itll be interesting to see how his likely successor can actually improve the situation. Its a country in complete chaos. A long way from the rule of mandela. That glorious optimism. We remember the rule of mandela. That glorious optimism. We rememberthe sense rule of mandela. That glorious optimism. We remember the sense of the rainbow nation, when he was released, proving a beacon of hope to the world. Zoom in his nine years has managed decline and seemed to favour his cronies. The
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