but it wasn't a straight forward semifinal. they were up against south africa who initially struggled, losing four early wickets, before recovering to push australia right to the end. however the five time champions used all their experience to battle through and take a nervy three wicket win, asjoe wilson reports. what's in those south african expressions? pride, of course, but nerves. well... first over of the match, their captain temba bavuma out south africa, chose to bat first they like to bat first. quinton de kock. that's only going for pat cummins. australia caught everything. the kolkata conditions suited their bowlers. south africa for a while could barely score. when rassie van der dussen fell, it was 2a for four. heinrich klaasen resisted until this dismissed by the part time spin of travis head. through it all, david miller kept strong, kept swinging. his 101 gave his team something. a total of 212 to defend. south africa's opportunity, well, they dropped travis head a couple of times and he continued to thrive past 50 to 62. and then out. what about glenn maxwell? gone, for one. you've not seen celebrations until you've seen tabraiz shamsi's. steve smith was steady until this australia 38 behind and now six wickets down. 20 to win. josh inglis bowled neutral crowd leaving every moment still time for a twist and edge to drop. pat cummins with the winning runs. cold hard numbers. south africa's fifth semifinal, they've won none. joe wilson, bbc news. novak djokovic boosted his chances of making the last four of the season—ending atp finals in turin after he recovered from a second—set slump to beat hubert hurkacz all three of djokovic�*s group—stage matches have gone to three sets — he took the first against his polish opponent on a tie—break. despite losing the second set 6 games to 4, the defending champion came back in the third to take it comfortably 6—1. djokovic needed jannik sinner to beat holger rune in the evening match in order to progress. and sinner did just that. it went the distance however, sinner needing the third set to wrap up the victory to remain unbeaten in turin and become the first italian to make the semi—finals of the event on home soil. hungary qualified for the euro 2024 finals with a game to spare after a last—minute alex petkov own goal earned them a draw against bulgaria in sofia. elsewhere, scotland who have already qualified for the tournament in germany, twice came from behind to draw 2—1 in georgia. spain's 16—year—old wonderkid lamine yamal scored his second international goal as his already qualified side beat cyprus 3—1. and already elimanated sweden were beaten for the first time by azerbijan. all the results are on the bbc sport wesbite and app for the first time in the 21st century, there will be a unification heavyweight fight — and it will include a british boxer. a warning of some flash photography here. it's been confirmed that tyson fury will put his wbc world title on the line against the ukrainian boxer oleksandr usyk — who holds the other three recognised world titles — on february 17th in riyadh, saudi arabia. the winner will become the first undisputed heavyweight champion since lennox lewis in 1999. i've been in many, many heavyweight title fights before. it is what it is and now is the most important one. you know, me and him both undefeated. he's a champion. i'm a champion. and he's going to be one of the fights for the ages, you know. so we've been chosen, and i believe we're both destined to be here, to be in this big fight in saudi arabia, the ring of fire. and there's only one winner, and i'm destined to become the undisputed champion. and more than that, i'm destined to cement my legacy as the number one fighter of this era. the las vegas grand prix returns to formula one for the first time since 1982, but this weekend could see the lowest temperatures ever recorded at a f1 race. the mercury is expected to drop below five degrees celsius on the new street track, which would beat one of formula 1's longest standing records, stretching back to the 1978 canadian grand prix — the coldest race ever held. the bbcs simon king has more on the plunging temperature. when you think of las vegas, you may associated with it being hot all year round. that is perhaps many of the formula 1 teams would have thought they arrived in las vegas this this week. however, this grand prix is taking place at night and at nights, in the desert, you can get cold, especially in mid—november. you may have also assumed that it would be dried being in the desert, but through friday and friday night for qualifying there are quite a few showers moving their way through nevada, so some of these could possibly affect the qualifying session in las vegas and with temperatures of 13 or 1a celsius, that could be quite challenging. for the race, it will be dry but at night temperatures falling away pretty quickly, 11 or 12 celsius. it is not going to be the coldest grand prix on record, with temperatures they slow with a freshly laid track getting heat into the tyres will be challenging for the drivers and the teams. snapped ribs, muscle strains and under—fuelling are just some of the issues faced by great britain's female rowers in their pursuit of olympic glory. and they're often as a result of the menstrual cycle, but a new research programme is trying to change that. project minerva — named after the roman goddess for war and wisdom — brings sports scientists and elite athletes under the same roof for the first time — notjust in the uk, but globally. the goal is to make the rowers healthier, stronger, and ultimately, medal winners. sarah dawkins travelled to the gb base in caversham to see them in action. from early starts on the water to giving everything on it, to giving everything off it, and the rowers are giving everything. everything hurt, the legs and arms and lungs. the latest focus the health of female athletes. project minerva testing to find saliva and the menstrual cycle and heart rate monitors. you are gaining more knowledge about how your body works and what happens every single month and day and how those fluctuations change, this is about the one per centres and that is what we are looking for that can make the difference. for some like hannah scott the project has been life—changing. i have thought about the time had with injuries and i accepted that and thought it was normal but it turns out it is something i can fix and through this project they realised this is how to do with how women are feeling and not notjust they are more susceptible to injuries as men but we are producing hormones and we perhaps do not produce as much oestrogen as we should. scott is now injury—free and marking her comeback with a gold medal at the world championships in september. ifelt so confident of the world championships because i knew so much about my body. the hope is what's happening here can be rolled out across other elite sports and months to come. we are proud to be pushing boundaries and to take health interests to the next level female athletes and being able to support the next group of athletes even better than we help with this one. the negativity around the menstrual cycle has been washed away, no longer something to fear but something to embrace. the capabilities of women's bodies to be stronger in certain ways, it is not we are weak but we don't have the support in the first place to help us be strong. a reminder of our top story — after 6 weeks of action, we now know who'll be in the final of the cricket world cup — australia will meet the hosts india. you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.com/sport. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye. hello there. it's a very mixed picture of weather across the uk on thursday and the rain and the winds will return along with the milder feeling air over the weekend. but on friday it's looking largely dry. a few showers out towards the west, plenty of sunshine around. temperatures now close to the seasonal average. so we're between weather systems on friday. these fronts clear into the north sea. this is the weekend's weather, a deep area of low pressure approach. and from the southwest, we'll be seeing that by the time we get to the end of the day. but most of the day, it's certainly looking dry. the early cloud will clear away into the north sea a few showers across north west england, the isle of man down through wales and possibly the south west of england. and here it will cloud over also northern ireland as we head towards the end of the afternoon. but plenty of sunshine around temperatures close to the seasonal average, generally eight to 13 degrees. but still that cold air lingers across northeastern areas of scotland. as we head through friday night and into saturday morning, that wet, windy weather spreads in from the southwest, brisk southeasterly winds, spells of heavy rain, the temperatures rising unusually through the night. so this is how we're set to start off saturday morning, between 12 and 1a degrees celsius out towards the south of england. the rain gradually clears its way eastwards, so it will turn a lot drier across much of england and wales or eastern scotland as we head through the afternoon. some showers further west. temperatures certainly very mild rising to 15 or 16 degrees celsius in the south, ten to 13 degrees celsius further north. now, that deep area of low pressure is still spinning its way eastwards as we head through sunday. the focus of the rain on sunday will tend to be towards the north. so across northern england and much of north—west scotland, also northern ireland seeing some hefty showers at times, a few showers out towards western wells, perhaps further south across much of england and wales is dry. but here we'll see some very blustery winds, gusts of a0 to 50 miles an hour. temperatures perhaps just that little bit lower. now, as we head through sunday night, the area of low pressure starts to clear away, but it does leave a legacy of showers. still, the milder air hangs on for part of monday, but you can see we draw down more of a northerly wind. so the temperatures are set to turn cooler as we head through it into the start of next week. a drop in temperature turning more settled, too, as we head into the middle of the week for most of us. bye for now. welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. the headlines. israel says it's found a tunnel shaft inside al—shifa hospital, where it believes hamas has a command centre. the military has taken the bbc inside the hospital. they say among the things they've uncovered are more than a dozen kalashnikovs, grenades, personal protection equipment, some with the hamas military brigade insignia on it. israel also says it's recovered the body of one of the hostages kidnapped on october 7th. targeting a 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