Pakistan stun the former champions the west indies, while england beat thailand to secure their first win of womens t20 world cup hello and welcome along to sport today. Right, its been a big night in european football, with two matches taking place in the last 16 Champions League. Lyon stunned the italian champions juventus, but well start with the two favourites for the trophy as Manchester City fought back from a goal down to beat ten man real madrid 2 1. Heres our football reporter Rob Schofield to run through all the details. A huge night for Manchester City. On the day that their appeal for this two year european ban from uefa was lodged. They have arguably the most famous night in europe. And it all
started terribly for them. Junior was in and scored his third of the season. Was in and scored his third of the season. Jesus peeled off the head in the back post and then the key part of the game, kevin scoring a crucial penalty and then it went from bad to worse for real madrid. Sergio ramos with the neck sending off of his career he will miss that second leg at etihad. That is a huge loss for real madrid. We were happy but the second leg will be close. We will start to worry, not worried but, ok, it is still not over. There is still a team to overcome. This club can ove ico m e a team to overcome. This club can overcome but for our people hopefully we can go through. And the other madge in the Champions League was the italian championsjuventus. Juventus were awful in this game, it must be said and they did not have a shot on target for 95 minutes. They really did not turn up tonight. Lyon, they are seventh in their league and having an average season but they scored a great goal tonight to give them a goal to defend back in during in the second leg. A great night for them, the for lyon over juventus and they are only the second team to stop rinaldo and co from scoring. A great night for them and they will defend that goal ha rd into hard into reno. Turin. Staying with football rangers are the first team through to the last 16 of the Europa League after beating braga. Ryan kent scored the only goal of wednesdays second leg
in portugal which saw the scottish side win 4 2 on aggregate. It also completed a stunning turnaround for rangers who came from 2 0 down to win last weeks first leg in glasgow 3 2. Now the former world number one, Maria Sharapova has announced her retirement from tennis. Shes 32 and looks back on a sparkling career where she won 36 singles titles, and five majors, including wimbledon at 17 years old. Something shell always remember is completing a career grand slam after winning the french open in 2012. But the low point of her career was when she faced a 15 month ban after testing positive for the drug meldonium in 2016. Our tennis correspondent, Russell Fuller says her retirement isnt a complete surprise, but neither is the fact that she didnt announce her plans in advance. There has been speculation for a while because it was clear that in her early 30s with a history of shoulder problems she was not able to cut it at the top level and her ranking was heading towards the 400 mark. But no great surprise that she has not said in advance that i am
bowing out and going on a farewell tour is certain players may find appealing. That is not her style. She is not popular with peers on tour at all, that is an understatement, and also she has been honest about telling us that tennis is not really her social scene. She would much rather spend as little time around the court as possible. For her to go out with one final lap of honour when she is not competitive i think that is against her dna. It has been a remarkable story. Remember she left with her father in russia and moved to florida and the academy there to train and she did not see her mother for nearly two years and won wimbledon as a 17 year old as well as grand slams on all four different surfaces and only ten players in the history of the game have one each of the four rate prizes. Inevitably, what she has achieved will be tarnished to some extent by what she happened when she tested positive in
2015. She had been taking it since 2004, she says because she needed it for health issues. It was never illegal and she blames it on a administrative error. The initial ban was for two years and the match the group who reviewed it said her use of melondium was for performance dancing. That was then cut to 15 months in the feeling was she was not an intentional diaper but there was no question she was not the same player when she returned after the ban. I will be surprised to see her around tennis in the years to come, in the past she has made it clear that that is not what she wants to do. Though she may discover she misses it in years to come. But i think a Business Career will see what he makes of it. With her ability and intelligence i think that she has a very Bright Future ahead of her it is just quite hard to say specifically in which area she will try to invest her time and talents. Back to tennis and the top seed Novak Djokovic is through to the quarter finals of the dubai championships. The world number one, whos bidding to win the title for the fifth time, beat philippe kol shiber from germany in straight sets to seal his place in the last eight. Djokovic won 6 3, 6 1 and that sets up a quarter final against russias karen khachanov. The number two seed Stefanos Tsitsipas is also through. He beat Alexander Bublik from kazakhstan in two hard fought sets 7 6, 6 4 and plays Germanys Jan Lennard Struff next. On the wta tour, there was shock defeat for Karolina Pliskova at the qatar open. The number three seed was beaten in straight sets by the world number 44, ons jabeur from tunisia. Jabeur took the deciding set 6 3 to seal her place in the last eight. Shell now face the number eight seed Petra Kvitova who needed three sets to see offjelena ostapenko. Kvitova who won the title two years ago raced through the deciding set 6 1. To rugby union, as the six nations championship is the latest sporting event to be affected by the coronavirus. It was confirmed on wednesday that the match between ireland and italy, which was due to take place in dublin on seventh march, has been postponed, and may even be cancelled completely. The corresponding fixtures in the womens and under 20 championships have also been called off. The National PublicHealth Emergency team has determined that the series of matches should not proceed in the interest of public health. They are happy to comply with this instruction. We will immediately begin to work with our six nations partners to look at the possibility of rescheduling those three matches and we hope to have an update on that in the coming days. Cricket and there were comprehensive wins for england and pakistan at the womens t20 world cup on wednesday. England beat thailand thanks to an unbeaten century
from their captain heather knight. She made 108 not out, as england posted 176 for two from their 20 overs. It was her Maiden International t20 century. In reply, thailand were always behind the run rate. They laboured to 78 for seven when their innings closed as england won by 98 runs, to claim their first win of the competition. Meanwhile, west indies suffered a shock defeat against pakistan. West indies batted first and Shemaine Campbelle smashed 43 off 36 balls, as they made 124 for seven from their 20 overs. But Bismah Maroof steered pakistan to victory with an unbeaten 38. She hit the winning the runs and shared a half Century Partnership with, nida dar, as pakistan reached their target with ten balls to spare, and eight wickets in hand. Staying with cricket wednesday wasnt a good day all round for the west indies, because their mens team lost the Second One Day International in sri lanka, and with it the series with a match to spare. Sri lanka batted first and turned things round after an awful start thanks to kusal mendis and avishka fernando. They both made centuries as the home side recovered from being nine for two at one stage to make 345 for eight from their 50 overs. But west indies were bowled out forjust 184 in reply as sri lanka won by 161 runs with more than ten overs to spare to take an unbeatable 2 0 lead in the three match series. Elsewhere, australia beat south africa in the third and deciding t20 international in cape town. David warner and aaron finch both hit half centuries, as the tourists made 193 for five from their 20 overs. The home side were skittled out forjust 96 in reply as the australians
clinched the series 2 1. Hello there. The next area of low pressure moving in will push into the south of the uk bringing a mixture of rain sleet and snow to parts of england and wales, some of this snow will be settling over the Higher Ground but may be down to sleet and wet snow down to low levels. Likely to produce tricky driving levels that make conditions for the morning commute, crossing england and wales as i mentioned, the high ground which will see the settling snow so stay tuned to the Weather Forecast in your local radio if you head out. This is the culprit in this area of low pressure moving to the south of the uk on its northern way will encounter cold air. The m4 southwards generally should be rain but we will see snow on Higher Grounds of wales and
towards the Malvern Hills and, for example, into the cotswolds. Further north, clear and cold, a couple of wintry showers and an early risk of ice. Through the morning then that area of rain sleet and snow will push eastwards through the morning seeing some slushy deposits or some sleepiness across parts of the midlands, the northern helm counties, over the child rens midlands, the northern helm counties, over the childrens and into east anglia but the whole thing clear away by about lunchtime in the skies will brighten up with plenty of sunshine around so any light snow will be short lived. Wintry showers across the north and it will be breezy and another chilly day temperatures ranging 6 9d in the south. Through thursday night, a few wintry showers continuing across scotla nd wintry showers continuing across scotland but a ridge of High Pressure builds in and for many of us pressure builds in and for many of us it should be dry with clear skies and turning cold with frost and some ice in places. You will see the temperature is beginning to rise across the south west. That is because we have the next weather system moving in for friday and that
will produce mild air to southern areas, quite a bit of rain and strengthening wind. Starting cold and bright across the north and the east and then that rain will spell up east and then that rain will spell up from the south west and some snow on its leading edge across Northern England to scotland and some settling snow on the hills but further south mainly rain and the temperature 10 11 degrees. Any more rain here is very unwelcome. Moving out of friday and into the weekend it looks like it remains unsettled. Next front will spread a band of rain across the country and we could see a swathe of gales or severe gales, northern ireland, Northern England and scotland late on saturday into sunday this next feature moves up from the south west bringing more rain. It looks u nsettled bringing more rain. It looks unsettled this weekend, quite windy at times particularly on saturday and we will see further rain in areas where we really dont need it so stay tuned to the forecast and head online to see all the latest weather warnings. A very warm welcome to bbc news. My name is mike embley, our top stories. President trump tries to come fears of the coronavirus, telling people the coronavirus, telling people the risk remains very low. Calm the fears. We are very, very ready for anything, whether it is going to be a breakout of larger proportions or anything. International effo rts or anything. International efforts to contain the coronavirus outbreak intensify. More new cases are reported outside of china than inside. Indias Prime Minister calls for calm as at least 87 people we re for calm as at least 87 people were killed in clashes over the citizenship law in delhi 27. And the pope urges roman catholics around the world