He had regrets about potential reputational damage of the saga, he said. At lunch time, it emerged that the woman who Accused Horner of inappropriate and controlling behaviour had been suspended on full pay by Red Bull Racing. Red bull racing declined to comment, saying it was an internal matter. Whilst horner maintains his team are unified, the father of tripper World ChampionMax Verstappen suggested otherwise, saying these off track matters were driving people apart. His son said he was not a liar. As well as rival teams, Red Bull Racing pots on sponsors have been calling for more transparency. One of their key partners, honda, told the bbc. Much like the sport its engulfing, this story is fast moving and has Power Dynamics at its heart. For as long as Key Stakeholders still have questions about how the matter is being handled, or horner� s problems persist. Laura scott, bbc news. Liverpool have taken a giant step towards the quarterfinals of the Europa League after thrashing Sparta Prague 5 1 in the first leg of their last 16 tie in the czech capital. The reds raced in to a 3 0 lead at half time, helped by a brace from darwin nunez. An own goal from Conor Bradley pulled one back for the home side, before luis diaz and Dominik Szobszlai completed the scoring forjurgen klopp� s side. The boss was full of praise for nunez. Wonderful guy, wonderful boy, loves playing for his team. And he has quality coming out of his ears, to be honest, the quality he has. But sometimes you score, sometimes you dont score, is he already at his absolute peak in general . Can he develop two yes. Is he a threat all the time chris meant yes. Can he develop . Yes. Is he a threat all the time . Yes. Roma also look set to secure their place in the last eight after a comfortable win over brighton in the italian capital. Romelu lukaku was one of four different scorers on the night as the home side cruised to a 4 0 win. Brighton say bottles, lighters and coins were thrown at away fans. Elsewhere, rangers will take benfica back to ibrox all square, after a 2 2 draw in portugal. West ham lost 1 0 at freiburg in theirfirst leg. There were also wins for ac milan and marseille. In the europa conference league, both ajax and aston villa had a player sent off in their goaless draw in amsterdam. Wins for fenerbahce and fiorentina. You can get all the results on the bbc sport website. Two time tennis grand slam champion simona halep will return to the sport later this month, after being given a wild card to enter the miami open. The 32 year old romanian had herfour year Doping Ban Cut to nine months this week, making her eligible to return to competition immediately. Halep, who won the french open in 2018 and wimbledon the following year, hasnt played competitively since the us open in 2022. Britains Emma Raducanu is into the second round at indian wells, in california. The 2021 us open winner beat qualifier Rebeka Masarova in straight sets. The 21 year old had won just three matches in four tournaments since returning from an eight month injury lay off, but was in superb form as she won in straight sets 6 2, 6 3. Shell play ukrainian Dayana Yastremska next. India ended day one of the fifth test in dharamsala firmly on top, after england won the toss and elected to bat. England started brightly enough, with Opener Zak Crawley making 79 taking his total runs in the series to over 400. He then became one of five wickets for kuldeep yadav, who also took the scalp Ofjonny Bairstow on his 100th test. Ravichandran ashwin also playing in his 100th test took the remaining four wickets as england slumped to 218 all out. In reply, india reached 135 for one at the close of play trailing byjust 83. Captain rohit sharma with an unbeaten half century. England did take the wicket of danger man yashasvi jaiswal, but not before he made his 50, to become the fastest indian batter to score 1000 test runs. India have an unassailable 3 1 series lead. Disappointing day, i think we were hoping to see for a lot more in winning the toss, and we are obviously a bit behind the game, not quite the score we wanted. But this afternoon is where all changes, really, i think colby spun the ball hard and were seeing from anyone else so far. But of course, we are disappointed its not quite match up to what we expected. Former World Champion anthonyjoshua weighed in 20 pounds lighter than Francis Ngannou ahead of their heavyweight fight in riyadh in less than 2a hours. Ade adedoyin is in saudi arabia. The way and passed without incidences, none of the push pushing shenanigans you see in the lead up to a major fight. There was a long stare down, another man wanted to blink first. On account of the way Francis Ngannou performed against tyson fury last summer. Alongside me as david hey. Its a fascinating fight, this, because if id said to you a year ago that anthonyjohnson would face Francis Ngannou, you wouldve left. I would face Francis Ngannou, you wouldve left. Wouldve left. I wouldnt of thou~ht wouldve left. I wouldnt of thought there wouldve left. I wouldnt of thought there was wouldve left. I wouldnt of thought there was a wouldve left. I wouldnt of| thought there was a chance wouldve left. I wouldnt of i thought there was a chance in hell he thought there was a chance in hell he could last 2 3 larry owns hell he could last 2 3 larry owns the hell he could last 2 3 larry owns the micro rounds. When you have owns the micro rounds. When you have a owns the micro rounds. When you have a champion against someone you have a champion against someone whos never had a professional fight, someone whos never had a professionalfight, i someone whos never had a professional fight, i would say there professional fight, i would say there was no chance. But ngannouis there was no chance. But ngannou is that guy whos just a Freak Ngannou is that guy whos just a Freak Of Ngannou is that guy whos just a freak of nature, we saw him put down a freak of nature, we saw him put Down Tyson Fury in his first put Down Tyson Fury in his first ever put Down Tyson Fury in his first ever boxing match, so anthony first ever boxing match, so anthonyjoshua now knows hes not just anthonyjoshua now knows hes notjust fighting some mma fighter whose dry boxing, hes fighting fighter whose dry boxing, hes fighting a full fledged heavyweight, and i think itll bring heavyweight, and i think itll bring out heavyweight, and i think itll bring out the best and Anthony Joshua bring out the best and Anthony Joshua. ,. ,. , bring out the best and Anthony Joshua. �. ,. Bring out the best and Anthony Joshua. ,. ,. ,. , joshua. Joshua is a twotime World Champion, joshua. Joshua is a twotime World Champion, ngannou i joshua. Joshua is a twotime i World Champion, ngannou cant match them for experience, but in terms of power, i saw this at a public work out, when he was hitting that bag, this man has power. Was hitting that bag, this man has power has power. Theres a cut time where youre has power. Theres a cut time where youre that has power. Theres a cut time where youre that powerful, l where youre that powerful, that where youre that powerful, that one where youre that powerful, that one punch in boxing can end that one punch in boxing can end on that one punch in boxing can end up. Hes got that power, hes end up. Hes got that power, hes proved it, so Anthony Joshua hes proved it, so Anthony Joshua has to raise his game, he cant joshua has to raise his game, he cant have an average night, he cant have an average night, he has he cant have an average night, he has to he cant have an average night, he has to box better against ngannou then hes had in any other ngannou then hes had in any other fight. Ngannou then hes had in any otherfight. He cant ngannou then hes had in any other fight. He cant afford to et other fight. He cant afford to get caught with big left hooks, its hot get caught with big left hooks, its not an option because if he gets its not an option because if he gets hit, he could stay hit. Have he gets hit, he could stay hit. Have bigger risk is this for joshua . It feels like he has everything to lose. I5 joshua . It feels like he has everything to lose. Everything to lose. Is not about winning everything to lose. Is not about winning or everything to lose. Is not about winning or losing, | everything to lose. Is not i about winning or losing, its just about winning or losing, its just getting through the fight in one just getting through the fight in one piece without getting knocked down, thatll be very difficult knocked down, thatll be very difficult. Anthonyjoshua has the skills, hes got experience and pedigree. He has every thing and pedigree. He has every thing he and pedigree. He has every thing he needs, hejust needs to put thing he needs, hejust needs to put it thing he needs, hejust needs to put it together on the night to put it together on the night. But its edge of your seat night. But its edge of your seat stuff. Night. But its edge of your seat stuff seat stuff. Starting with Francis Ngannou . Seat stuff. Starting with Francis Ngannou . Ngannou seat stuff. Starting with Francis Ngannou . Ngannou needs to net Francis Ngannou . Ngannou needs to get close Francis Ngannou . Ngannou needs to get close and Francis Ngannou . Ngannou needs to get close and bring Francis Ngannou . Ngannou needs to get close and bring joshua to get close and bring joshua in to a to get close and bring joshua in to a close quarters exchange, drain Anthony Joshuas energy. Joshua loses that joshuas energy. Joshua loses that speed and functioning, hes that speed and functioning, hes in that speed and functioning, hes in a that speed and functioning, hes in a punch for punch situation. So ngannou has to slow situation. So ngannou has to slow him down, use that jab, counterpunch, use the range in the rim} counterpunch, use the range in the ring. He got to be very cute the ring. He got to be very cute with the ring. He got to be very cute with his boxing skills, so its very cute with his boxing skills, so its very exciting. Its very exciting. Very fascinating its very exciting. Very fascinating matchup, l its very exciting. Very fascinating matchup, thanks very much, david hey. A big test forjoshua on friday night, he has aspirations of challenging for the world title in future, and to keep that a life, he cant afford any slip ups. The six nations resumes on saturday with ireland travelling to twickenham to face england hoping to stay on course for back to back grand slams. Head coach andy farrell has made one change, as Hugo Keenan Returns in place of ciaran frawley. England have made three changes, handing a first start to immanuel feyi waboso, who replaces elliott daly. Feyi waboso scored his first try for england in the defeat to scotland. Marcus smith is in line to make his first appearance of the championship, having been named on the bench with george ford starting at 10pm. You can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website thats bbc. Com sport. From me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye. Hello there. Generally speaking, therell be little change to the weather as we head into friday. However, what you will notice will be the strength of the wind itll be a cold, strong easterly wind blowing across all areas, but we should see more sunshine around than what weve had over the last few days. Now, theres some cold air wrapped around that area of High Pressure moving out of scandinavia, and that will be blown in. And that strong easterly wind across all areas, pushing some cloud again into eastern, particularly northeastern england and eastern scotland. The best of the sunshine, western scotland, parts of northern ireland, and a good deal of sunshine, i think, for england and wales, so that will compensate. However, the winds really will take the edge off the temperatures strong and gusty at times, 30 a0mph in exposure, particularly strong along north sea and channel coasts. Temperatures 6 7 celsius you factor in the wind, it wont feel like that, itll feel colder than these temperatures suggest, despite the sunshine. As we head through friday night, it stays windy. Well see plenty of cloud again, eastern scotland, northeast england, and we could see this Weather Front bring some rain to parts of england and wales as we head through the night. Thatll also lift temperatures up a little bit in the south, but another chilly night to come further north. Now, for the weekend for saturday, it looks like this area of low pressure will start to push its way eastwards into the near continent, but i think saturdays not looking too bad at this stage. We should see a little bit of cloud here and there, 1 2 showers, but actually quite a bit of sunshine for parts of england and wales, and also western scotland. Elsewhere, quite a bit of cloud, especially eastern scotland, northeast england. Here, it will be quite chilly, but well tap in some milder air across the south, from france could be up to 13 celsius there, given some sunshine. But its change, i think, as we head into sunday, this Weather Front pushes northwards it could bring a rather damp, dull, wet day for england and wales in particular, with some persistent and, at times, heavy rainfall. A lot of cloud around generally, probably the best of the sunshine again for western scotland, but grey and drizzly across eastern scotland, northeast england. And itll feel cooler for all, including the south thats because well have more cloud and rain there. Eventually, well see the back of that area of low pressure as we move into the new week, itll push off into the near continent. The winds will become lighter but i think it will leave quite a legacy of cloud. So, even as we head into next week, i think therell be further cloud and some spots of drizzle, particularly northern and eastern areas. The best of any brightness towards the south and the west. Take care. Hello, im caitriona perry. Welcome to Bbc News Special Coverage of President Joe Biden� s state of the union address. 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