you re very welcome along to sportsday, wherever you are watching around the world. let s start, then, with football as liverpool cruised into the europa league knockout 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 beat union saint gilloise, it means liverpool cannot be caught at the top of group e. well, 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 win and if brighton beat marseille in theirfinal group game, they would avoid the knockout play offs stage. el
air, i wouldn t say mild, but as they bump into that cold air they turn a bit wintry with sleet or snow. at the moment, it s cold and stays cold. we have got wintry worries, with ice and snow and freezing fog as we head through the night and tomorrow morning. thanks, helen. and that s the bbc news at six. you can keep up with all the latest developments on the bbc news website. from the six team, it s goodbye. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our hello and welcome to sportsday i m jane dougall. two of the british teams in the europa league tonight have already kicked off. brighton need to avoid defeat increase while west ham are looking for a win in serbia. lioness lauren hemp could get her 50th cap at wimbley tomorrow, she speaks to us ahead of a crucial game for england against the netherlands. ronnie o sullivan makes it through the quarterfinals in york after a nail biting decider also coming up on sportsday. britain s three time world champio
Of the house of commons of commons defence select committee. We will be speaking to a blog about by young women are failing to get smear tests. Now on bbc news its time for sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday. Im hugh woozencroft. Theres sad news this evening as football mourns former england captain and radio summariser Jimmy Armfield who has died aged 82. I have always tried to be loyal. Ive never left blackpool. I think thats what it is. It was just the generation i was brought up in. Its bad timing for Michael Oneill, as he decides not to take the scotland job hell be staying as on Northern Irelands manager. And its a no go for novak. Djojkovic is beaten by 21 year old south korean heyong chung at the australian open. Also coming up on the programme. Well hear Richie Andersons story, as the sunday League Footballer prepares to come out as gay to his team mates. This is really hard for me to do. But i kind of felt like. Applause good evening. a national hero, a great england c
London. Stocks falling across the globe on speculation of early interest rises by the bank of england and the federal reserve. The weakness in the equity market is continuing to move across the globe in its a feature of whats happening in asia. 1. 4 trillion white off the value of Global Shares in the msci all world index looks to be on set for a 3. 1 percent decline, the biggest drop since january. There is a smorgasbord of reasons behind this, speculation on when Interest Rates might go up in the u. K. In the u. S. Clearly one of the fact hers. Other things in the mix, peers of the stress of the chinese economy and fears of russia drawing up plans to seize assets after sanctions continued to be imposed by western countries on russia. Plenty going on in markets. Jumping 18 ,dex 16 above the average of the year. Volatility seems to be once again a feature of these markets. Will have more information on where the markets are, where we expect to open in europe as because to the program.
And a dark comedy about life in gaza. A raid by special forces has killed an isil leader in syria. He is said to have been killed in the oil field. His wife has been captured and is in u. S. Custody in iraq. We go to Kimberly Halkett what is the white house saying about this kimberly . The white house did issue a statement as well we got one from the secretary of Defense Department of defense both saying pretty much the same thing. That this was something that was really planned in consultation to the the team. That it was necessary to act. We know that this was an least Operations Force and did engage, as they put it, and it was then he was killed in the operation. However, we do know there were two women rescued or retrieved from that operation. One is his wife, who is prominent in isil activities but the other is a young yazidi woman, were told, she was perhaps being held as a slave. We know shes in a detention facility, and we know that she will be reunited with his family. Why was