been for the keeper, the match could have been out of sight very early on. but the strikers were kept out by fingertips. united were stretched with a second red card. that would test tactics and temperamental. the first half was heated at goalless. last season, canto was the sung here monks blessed's champions. his goal found the bottom corner and was worth a semifinal. and equaliser was almost scored. that was the only choice that united had. chelsea have so choice that united had. chelsea have so many all. cost with the best. they miss was not so costly as united ran out of steam. b—double is still on for the blues. that is what victory meant for them. what defeat meant forjose mourinho is difficult to tell. so meant forjose mourinho is difficult to tell. 50 sure it was a good to tell. so sure it was a good performance against a team. a very strong team. they had good players and the best scoring team in the league. for us it was pleasing to go in the next round and beat a greater opponent. we will watch the match until the red card and after the red ca rd until the red card and after the red card so, and then we can compare the decisions of the two yellow cards, it indicates, the second one with the other ones that were not given but i do not want to go in that direction. another one of those nights forjose mourinho in his return to his old stamping ground. of course, manchester united are still on forever. they won the league final last month, the dream double still on franconia contura and his debut season. the semifinal draw has thrown up a real mouthwatering couple of times. chelsea are up against tottenham. they have won against tottenham, they have lost against tottenham in they have lost against tottenham in the league. go back five years, chelsea stuffed spurs 5—1 in an fa cup semifinal on the way to winning the cup and their in the other semifinal arsenal versus manchester city. you can count on one hand the amount of time those two have faced each other in this competition. the last time, 1971. arsenal defeating city on the way to facing level will in that you's final as well. —— on the way to facing liverpool. the cream has risen to the top in the competition this year. when you look at the beast is left in the next month's semifinals at wembley. in italy's serie a, two goals in the last three minutes for lazio have seen them beat torino 3—1 and move back to fourth place ahead of inter. keita and anderson added to an earlier ciro immobile strike which was his 17th of the season. the match was finely poised at 1—1 until the late efforts secured all three points for the rome—based club. in spain's primera division eibar who are eighth played out a 1—1 draw away to bottom of the table osasuna leaving the visitors eight points adrift of a potential europa league spot for next season. second seed angelique kerber made hard work of securing her place in the last 16 of the indian wells tournament with a three set win over france's pauline parmentier. the german, who's assured of returning to number one in the world when the elite wta event ends, thanks to the injury withdrawal of serena williams needed two hours and 33 minutes to get past the 62nd—ranked parmentier. the temperature hit 36 degrees, an average of 20 degrees above the conditions normally expected at this time of the year. kerber next faces russian elena vesnina as she aims for a place in the quarterfinals. seven—time grand slam champion venus williams was a convincing 6—4, 6—2 victory over lucie safarova. the 12th seed is playing herfirst tournament since the australian open when she finished runner up to sister serena. she'll next play the winner of the match between sixth—seeded agnieszka radwanska of poland or china's peng shuai. 2015 champion simona halep lost in straight sets to france's kristina mladenovic. the romanian went down 6—3, 6—3 and the world number four still appears troubled by a knee injury that affected her form early in the season. there is confirmation of the results. stand the brink moves through as well. —— stan wawrinka. the winner of monfils against isner will play dominic thiem. the number eight seed is through to the fourth round after beating germany's mischa zverev in straight sets. it's the second straight year he's got this far. on the day the queen's baton relay marks the beginning of the countdown to next year's commonwealth games the 2022 event suddenly doesn't have a host city anymore. the games will now not be taking place in durban. the south african city was going to be the first african host city and had been the only one to bid for the games. but it had indicated recently it faced financial difficulties. uk cities liverpool and birmingham have already expressed an interest in stepping in to stage the games. the commonwealth games federation probably are unwilling to accede to some of the demands of the south african demand department of sport who are providing the funding. i believe the government wanted a return on investment and i believe there was also a discrepancy in the budget that was presented. it was believed to be $120 million less than what had seemed to be provided by the ministry of support. this came to issues of funding and economic growth was said to be nor .3% last year. there are far more pressing needs in the country and the treasury certainly has not been able to provide the kind of funding to host the games. world anti—doping agency president sir craig reedie says that russia is behind schedule in restructuring its anti—doping system. last year's wada—commissioned report claimed more than 1,000 russians benefited from a state—sponsored doping programme between 2011 and 2015. the wada boss says russia still has significant work to do. sitting here i question whether we will be ready for me. there is much to be done. but the world of sport will be very well served by a compliant tour because, and i have been on the record of this for a long time, we need to get the biggest country in the world compliant with the world anti— doping code. two of rugby union's biggest clubs are set to merge. french teams stade francais and racing 92 — both based in paris — are due to join forces after statements were released on monday. here's our rugby reporter chrisjones. absolutely incredible story, this. it is unprecedented and bazaar and these are not two small rugby clubs struggling to make ends meet. this is paris, the heavyweights, stade francais who won the french title in 2015 and racing 92, dan carter potentially the world ‘s greatest pear, one of the greats of all time, he plays for racing 92. they won the french title in 2016. two powerhouses of the french game have announced today that they are going to merge under one and in order to get the best out of both clubs. their owners say they need to pool their resources and become one club. it is the equivalent, perhaps of saracens and harlequins merging all, for example, putnam and arsenal merging. —— tottenham and arsenal merging. —— tottenham and arsenal merging. it is the sort of story that only french rugby seems to be able to throw up. colombia's fernando gaviria sprinted to victory on the sixth stage of the tirreno—adriatico on monday. the quick—step rider beat slovakia's peter sagan to the line on the 168km stage after a breakaway group of eight riders were caught with two kilometres left. nairo quintana retained the overall lead while there were blue skies in italy, cape town, south africa was battered by gale force winds. the weather wreaked havoc on the course, even blowing cyclists off their bikes. 0h, oh, dear. until next time, farewell. hello there. the relatively settled theme to the weather continues for at least a couple of days. relatively mild during the day on tuesday but breezy for many of us, particularly windy across northern parts of scotland where the met office have issued a yellow warning for the strength of the winds, causing some disruption for the northern isles of scotland with heavy showers on the cards. further south, most places looking dry first thing tuesday morning. pretty mild too. around the country at eight o'clock, heavy showers for the northern and western isles with the odd rumble of thunder in line with those strong winds and some big waves. much of scotland and northern ireland, a bright start for most. some isolated showers. cloudy for northern england. down to wales and the south—west. a bit of hill fog. for much of england and central eastern parts, relatively bright. some sunny spells breaking through. a cloudier day than we saw during monday. most places, dry. strong winds, gusts up to 70 miles per hour developing across the northern isles of scotland. heavy showers too. less breezy elsewhere, still mild for this time of year. in the sunnier spells, 15 or 16 degrees. a degree or so higher in one or two spots. the first day of the cheltenham festival, decent day. cloud but quite bright. mild, 13 or 1a degrees with a gentle south—westerly breeze. through the latter part of tuesday evening and overnight, a few spots of light patchy rain moving south across england and wales. cloudy with some mist and hill fog. further north, clearer skies. particularly northern england and scotland and northern ireland. temperatures fresher first thing. wednesday is looking like a decent day for many of us. high pressure in charge. variable cloud. cloudy towards the south and south—west for a time. the best of the sunshine towards north—eastern parts of the country. some rain in the far north—west but elsewhere dry and temperatures still in the mid—teens. pleasant enough day on wednesday. thursday, a bit of a change. the atlantic low pressure system bringing this fairly weak weather front. breezy day on thursday. expecially in the north—west. it is here we will see a few outbreaks of light patchy rain. further south and east across much of england and wales, still mild and dry. 1a degrees or so. slightly fresher towards the north—west. that fresher theme continues into friday and saturday and things will feel a bit more unsettled into the weekend. bye for now. a very warm welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to our viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: brexit comes a step closer for the uk, but scotland's leader drops a political bombshell and demands a second independence referendum. i believe that it would be wrong for scotland to be taken down a path that it has no control over, regardless of the consequences for our economy, for our society, for our place in the world, for our very sense of who we are as a country. turkey announces a series of sanctions against the netherlands, as the diplomatic row between the two nations appears to reach breaking point. the largest humanitarian crisis in over half a century. we report from somalia, as 20 million people face a deadly famine. and can photographs alter the way we 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