liverpool cruised into the europa league knock out stages with a match to spare as a 4 0 victory over lask confirmed their place as group winners. they fired out of the blocks and were 2 0 up inside 15 minutes, thanks to luis diaz and cody gakpo. mo salah added a third from the penalty spot, before gapko made it four in stoppage time. and as toulouse didn t to beat union st gilloise, it means liverpool cannot be caught at the top of group e. elsewhere, roberto de zerbi says it s a historic day for brighton, as they beat aek athens to book their spot in the knockout phase of the europa league. the club are playing in europe for the first time in their history, and joao pedro scored the only goal of the game, from the penalty spot to give them the victory. if brighton beat marseille in theirfinal group game, they would avoid the knockout play offs stage. elsewhere, tomas soucek scored a late winner as west ham secured their place in the knockout stage at serbian side batka to
dies at the age of 70. sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, hello from the bbc sport centre mark mccall, saracens director of rugby criticised the shameful treatment of his captain owen farrell in what he believes should be a wake up call for the game. farrell who also skippers england, will miss the men s six nations after deciding to take a break from international rugby in order to prioritise his and his family s mental well being . he will though continue to play club rugby. mccall says just like england head coach steve borthwick, he s fully behind farrell s decision to step away. social to step away. media we have zero control over. social media we have zero control over. but for me this began in the mainstream media, and the narrative that was created around on from everybody, and soaking up from everybody. that is what happened, i think everybody will, somewhere in their heads, agree with him, and then there was a pylon on social media, but i
hello, i m christian fraser. you re watching the context on bbc news. global leaders pay tribute to the veteran us diplomat, henry kissinger, who s died at the age of 100. the united states has long been a welcoming country we have life pictures tonight of the rafer crossing, where people are being released rafah. you can see the ambulances. we just lost those pictures, but standing by. i can t give you the names until we ensure they are back in israeli hands. six women, two of them from the same family, sisters, whose father and older brother are still held in hamas. this is them crossing the border a few minutes ago into egyptian territory. then they are transferred to israel, and you can see they re in the hands of the international committee of the red cross. the important thing is one or two of these women in fact, three of them, still have relatives inside gaza still. they will be released. bittersweet for many of them tonight. will not be told who is alive we
apologies for the technical issues. i m sarah mulkerrins. it s another night of european action in football, with qualification to the knockout stages of the europa league up for grabs for some. in the early games, premier league side brighton have made it through, joao pedro scored from the spot to give them the win at aek athens. west ham are also through to the next stage, they won in serbia against batchka topola. real betis lost at sparta prague, so that means rangers could jump to top of that group, if they beat aris limasol, but they are currently losing 1 0. liverpool liverpool hosting lask they will secure top two if avoid defeat. two if they avoid defeat. in the europa conference league, aston villa are at legia warsaw. villa can leapfrog their opponents and go top of their group with a win, currently 1 1. and helsinki v aberdeen 2 2, who can t progress. that one was disrupted because of snow at the time. that one was disrupted because of snow at the time. to inte