Plenty of rain, but some Great Success for a very familiar sporting face today. Success for a very familiar sporting face toda. ,. , success for a very familiar sporting face today face today. Exactly, sarah. The heavens have face today. Exactly, sarah. The heavens have opened face today. Exactly, sarah. The heavens have opened here face today. Exactly, sarah. The heavens have opened here at l heavens have opened here at cheltenham, but little down dampen the spirit of sir alex ferguson. He hasnt had a Festival Winner before today, and that he had one with him on morale at the start of the day, and that he had second in the ryanair chase. You could see the look on sir Alex Fergusons face when he celebrated those two winners. It looked like the joy that we were used to seeing when he was a football manager. I asked dan skelton if he had ever spoken to sir alex about the impact of being a winning owner and what it means to him. Of being a winning owner and what it means to him means to him. Hes a competitor at the end of the means to him. Hes a competitor at the end of the day means to him. Hes a competitor at the end of the day and means to him. Hes a competitor at the end of the day and once means to him. Hes a competitor at the end of the day and once he the end of the day and once he retires, the end of the day and once he retires, hes still competitive. His horses retires, hes still competitive. His horses gave him a chance to be that competitive horses gave him a chance to be that competitive still. He enjoys no pressure competitive still. He enjoys no pressure preparation, what a guy to have in pressure preparation, what a guy to have in your pressure preparation, what a guy to have in your corner. He gives me life lessons have in your corner. He gives me life lessons all the time. Listen to what life lessons all the time. Listen to what hes life lessons all the time. Listen to what hes got to say, you can pick up what hes got to say, you can pick up an what hes got to say, you can pick up an awful what hes got to say, you can pick up an awful lot. Up an awful lot. Sir dan skelton has had a remarkable up an awful lot. Sir dan skelton has had a remarkable festival. Up an awful lot. Sir dan skelton has had a remarkable festival. Its up an awful lot. Sir dan skelton has had a remarkable festival. Its beenj had a remarkable festival. Its been a brilliant day for the british trainers fighting back from two days of dominance for the irish. The other feature ace of the day did go to ireland. That was the hurdle won like ordered elliott. Gordon elliott. Harry redknapp also won today with shake them up harry and went i today with shake them up harry and went 1 neil up today with shake them up harry and wenti neil up in today with shake them up harry and went 1 neil up in a final i o. Went 1 neil up in a final 1 0. This has been rather like the premier league ofjump racing today. Tomorrow is of course all about the gold cup. Thats a highlight of the week, celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, and the favourite is last years winner Wendy Mullins who trains his hundredth Festival Winner. Willie mullins. Thank you, laura. Get out of the rain there has been plenty this week. Gareth southgate says he has no issue with ben white after the arsenal defender made himself unavailable for england selection for the upcoming friendlies. Southgate said Arsenal Sporting director edu told him that white did not want to be considered, and he has not been selected for england since the 2022 world cup when he left for personal reasons. Brentford striker ivan toney is back for the First Time Since his eight month ban for breaching fa betting rules. There are also first time call ups For Newcastle forward Anthony Gordon the 23 year old has scored ten goals in all competitions this season for his club and for 21 year old defender jarrad branthwaite, whos impressed for everton this season. And the england manager is looking forward to working with him. With england, we have to experiments, play young players, as do well, win and do all those things, but were happy with that, if he did say he play as well as he had, then i would have a question that. So, hes in our merit and were really keen to work with him and find out a bit more about him. Thursday sees the final round of last 16 matches to reach the quarterfinals of the Europa League and conference league. Nobody scored more first leg goals than liverpool, who take a 5 1 lead into their match against Sparta Prague at anfield. Mohammed salah hasnt started a game for them since the 1st of january, but according to manager jurgen klopp, is ready to start now. Three other british sides play in the Europa League this evening. Benfica twice came from a goal down to draw 2 2 with rangers in lisbon in last weeks first leg, so its all to play for at ibrox. Brighton have a mountain to climb after losing their first leg 4 0 to roma in italy last week, while west ham also have work to do. Theyre1 0 down to freiburg heading into the second leg at the london stadium. There are a further eight games in the conference league. The only tie still in need of goals is at villa park, where ajax are the visitors. Theres more build up on the bbc sport website. Golf now, and day one is under way at the players championship at sawgrass in florida, and rory mcilroy got off to a flying start. He was 8 under par after 15 holes. The Northern Irishman made nine birdies and one bogey to lead by one, but has since dropped a couple of shots with a double bogey on his 16th hole, so he trails by one on 6 under. Xander schauffele has a round of 65, the leader at the moment on seven underfar. And thats all the sport for now. Lovely, thanks, sarah. You are watching bbc news. Welcome back. Lets get more now on the government setting out a new definition of extremism. Its part of its promise to tackle what is says is an increased threat since the hamas attacks in israel last october. Several groups were named in parliament as possibly facing restrictions under the new definition. But concerns have been raised that it could be seen as unfair and undemocratic. Lets the very latest from our Political Correspondent peter saull. Hello to you. Take us through the political reaction to that statement. Political reaction to that statement. , political reaction to that statement. , ,. ,. , statement. There have been some real concerns in the statement. There have been some real concerns in the runup statement. There have been some real concerns in the runup to statement. There have been some real concerns in the runup to this concerns in the run up to this statement, including from three former conservatives priti patel, sajid javid and politicising this issue saying there needed to be a really broad consensus. There is a risk of overreaching. I suppose the last thing the conservative wants is to cancel people, certainly not to stifle free speech. I think michael gove largely won over those tory � s to. Tory sceptics. There are some worried that certain groups have genuine concerns that might be covered by this legislation. Robert jenrick himself, a former Community Secretary, said this lands in his view in no mans land because it doesnt do anything to combat the real extremists that have genuine arguments to make. The labour party are saying they will take a look at this. Theres still some way to run on the snp said they are worried that this unfairly tarnishes some muslim groups. Michael gove dude name five organisations, two which he said promoted neo nazi ideologies being the british nationalist, Socialist Movement and the patriotic alternative. Three muslims groups of as well. The latter two were spoken to were really unhappy about this. Members threatening legal action. Now its going to happen is this centre of excellence thats been set P Centre Of Excellence thats been set up in whitehall to consider which organisations might fall foul of this definition of extremism. They will work that up and come out with the list in the coming weeks. This is a government that is not afraid to complete noses out as it responds in its view to what happened on October The 7th and a rise in Anti Semitism is another hate crimes. Antisemitism is another hate crimes. ,. , lets speak to yasmine adam for the from the Muslim Association of britain. Yasmine, thank you very much for talking to us. Your reaction to being named by mr mack to buy one of the organisations mr gove . Its the organisations mr gove . It� s disappointing but not surprising at all. We expect some things from mr gove given the track record. Both would fall foul of the definition. Should michael gove remove his privilege and stop hiding behind it and provide evidence for his accusations, otherwise we will, like our colleagues, threaten legal action as well. Action as well. How damaging potentially action as well. How damaging potentially do action as well. How damaging potentially do think action as well. How damaging potentially do think this action as well. How damaging potentially do think this could j action as well. How damaging i potentially do think this could be in terms of the Partner Organisations that you work with. Give us a sense of how being named like that puts a label on your organisation. Again, mr gove and the Conservative Party have a track record of this and this is another step. However, what we have to see this as is a threat to the fabric of our society and democracy. This should concern every person concerned with civil liberty and freedom. The moment you label anyone that descends and disagree with the Government Policies as we have been doing, that should concern everyone. Where do you draw the line . How can michael gove speak about the rule of law it when he himself and his government have been responsible for some of the most anti demographic legislation in decades Anti Democratics . Legislation in decades antidemocratics . Legislation in decades antidemocratics . ,. ,. , antidemocratics . This would be a look at whether antidemocratics . This would be a look at whether organisations antidemocratics . This would be a look at whether organisations are l look at whether organisations are promoting extremist ideology and that there would be a do and fair process, which presumably from your perspective, your organisation would be exonerated. Would you be willing to engage in the process at all . I to engage in the process at all . I mean, again, we dont see it starting for the premises of a neutral basis. Michael gove has already named us. So, what would this look like . We wouldnt be able to engage with him if we cant see what kind of premises we would be starting it. The fact that he is named us without any evidence means there is a bias. Named us without any evidence means there is a bias there is a bias. Were you aware that this was coming . There is a bias. Were you aware that this was coming . Yeah. There is a bias. Were you aware that this was coming . Yeah. So there is a bias. Were you aware that this was coming . Yeah. So you this was coming . Yeah. So you werent given this was coming . Yeah. So you werent given any this was coming . Yeah. So you werent given any headsup this was coming . Yeah. So you | werent given any headsup that this was coming . Iez ji. So you werent given any heads up that you are likely to be on this list . Trio. Werent given any heads up that you are likely to be on this list . Ha. I are likely to be on this list . No, i cant say the are likely to be on this list . No, i cant say the government are likely to be on this list . No, i cant say the government gives i are likely to be on this list . No, i | cant say the government gives us notice. ~. ,. , cant say the government gives us notice. ~. , i. , cant say the government gives us notice. ~. , notice. What would your message be . There will be notice. What would your message be . There will be people notice. What would your message be . There will be people potentially there will be people potentially will be watching and thinking, why would a Community Secretary name and organisation such as yourselves if there was no basis for it . Organisation such as yourselves if there was no basis for it . Again, we have said if there was no basis for it . Again, we have said if there there was no basis for it . Again, we have said if there was any there was no basis for it . Again, we have said if there was any basis there was no basis for it . Again, we have said if there was any basis for. Have said if there was any basis for this or any evidence, that we would ask michael gove stop hiding. So that we can challenge it legally. He has not given us that opportunity, unfortunately. 0nly has not given us that opportunity, unfortunately. Only one of us has continued to pedal and islamophobic track record, only one continues to rope maintain relations with someone who is call for the first black mp, woman mp to be shot, and only one of us has continued to endorse a regime that continues to the genocide. Were one of the members of the coalition, its no coincidence, against his governments ongoing support for the genocide. Its not a coincidence. If you look at his track record, its clear. Yasmine, thank yon this image released by the Ministry Of Defence shows grant shapps on the plane during the journey in question. The electronic interference is understood to have happened on wednesday evening. Mobile phones could no longer connect to the internet and the aircraft was forced to use alternative methods to determine its location. The uk government says it isnt unusual for aircraft to experience this when flying near the russian territory. Doctor Thomas Willington is an expert in electronic warfare. And was in the Baltic Region for research on the recently. Hello to you. Thank you forjoining us. Just explain the significance of this location, first of all. Explain the significance of this location, first of all. Thank you very much location, first of all. Thank you very much for location, first of all. Thank you very much for having location, first of all. Thank you very much for having me location, first of all. Thank you very much for having me to location, first of all. Thank you i very much for having me to speak location, first of all. Thank you very much for having me to speak to you this evening. Kaliningrad is a russian escalade. It is the most westerly point i think of russian territory. It is not attached by any land bridge to the russian motherland, if you like. It six is this exploited in the Baltic Region. Because of that, its strategically very important ask clave. The presence it gives in the baltic sea, its important because it is roughly northwest of the country of belarus, which is a russian ally, and there is a 50 km stretch of land between poland and lithuania. Russian forces in kaliningrad and belarusian forces in kaliningrad and belarusian forces in the latter country would in times of crisis or war be able to move and actually close that gap if they were unopposed by nato forces. Potentially, cut off those states, estonia, latvia and lithuania, from the rest of nato. Its an area of the rest of nato. Its an area of the russians do take extremely seriously. The russians do take extremely seriousl. �. , seriously. Bearing in mind there was a very senior seriously. Bearing in mind there was a very senior british seriously. Bearing in mind there was a very senior british politician seriously. Bearing in mind there was a very senior british politician on a very senior british politician on board the plane, what wouldve been the reason forjamming the communications . How seriously should we take it . I communications . How seriously should we take it . , communications . How seriously should we take it . ~. , we take it . I think we need to rewind back we take it . I think we need to rewind back a we take it . I think we need to rewind back a little we take it . I think we need to rewind back a little bit and we take it . I think we need to l rewind back a little bit and look at whats happened in that region and the Electromagnetic Spectrum over the Electromagnetic Spectrum over the past few months. Russia regularlyjams the past few months. Russia regularly jams the the past few months. Russia regularlyjams the Gms S Systems that will signals. And they do that will signals. And they do that to protect largely the Military Assets in kaliningrad, so its not necessarily possible to say they were deliberately targeting mr schaap � ss aircraft. From the Russian Point of view, anything that would create inconvenience is something im sure mr putin and his supporters would welcome. But why this is being done is, as i mentioned, to protect the russian assets in kaliningrad against any nato satellite guided weaponry. Nato weapons, us weapons use the gps system in order to be able to get precisely onto their target. Thats a big russian concern. In terms of the communications, people not being able to use their phones, the gps signal that we use live in a similar neighbourhood on the Electromagnetic Spectrum to wear cell phone signals reside. Its possible if the jamming was being done that there may be some residual damage to those signals. But i dont necessarily think that was the target. Dr thomas. Think that was the target. Dr thomas, thank you for giving us the background. A hotline inviting people to call in with complaints of corruption in britains Largest Police force has led to more than 700 investigations. More than 3,000 calls were made to londons met Police ForcesAnti Corruption hotline in the 18 months since