House ahmed. The fielding for pakistan, fine. Not even ben stokes could get going. 64 balls without a boundary. Maybe these conditions we re boundary. Maybe these conditions were perfect for bowlers. But all england needed was 212 england had not hit a six in their entire 50 overs. Pakistans first over, there it was. The batsmen accepted to take them on, 118 as an opening partnership. They were controlled, composed, and led by their captain. Pakistan were the team that seemed most at home. Bbc news, cardiff. Its been confirmed former five weight boxing world champion, Floyd Mayweather, and ufc lightweight champion, conor mcgregor, will meet in a Bout In Las Vegas on the 26th of august. The 40 year Old Mayweather Retired Undefeated after winning his 49th Straight Bout in september 2015, while 29 year old Irishman Mcgregor is the first fighter in the ufc to have held two belts but has never boxed professionally, with the fight to take place under normal boxing rules, and a short time ago, i spoke to irish boxing journalist, kevin byrne. Colin mcgregor was a decent novice boxer. He hung up his gloves at 16 and moved to mixed martial arts. We have seen many talented fighters try and go against Floyd Mayweather and try to knock him out. He can deal with some of the best attackers in boxing. A lot of sparring and preparation needs to be done to get ready for such a fight. I am not sure i fancy his chances in this one. You mention Floyd Mayweather. He has been out of the game for so long. It is a big grudge match. How would he prefer to pair . He would go back to a training camp. Prepare. He does not go above his weight much. In the time he retired, he still probably kept up. He was a lwa ys still probably kept up. He was always obsessive with the ring and did not go into smoking and drinking and drugs. He is a clean living and healthy diet. He wont have gone too farfrom healthy diet. He wont have gone too far from the healthy diet. He wont have gone too farfrom the ring. Healthy diet. He wont have gone too far from the ring. How much money will this generate . For Floyd Mayweather, up until the Manny Pacquiao fight, he made 32 million perfight. Pacquiao fight, he made 32 million per fight. Manny pacquiao, pacquiao fight, he made 32 million perfight. Manny pacquiao, he may have made five times that. Colin mcgregor, under 20 million per fight. He may have gotten 50 million in his career so far. It remains to be broken down how much ofa remains to be broken down how much of a split is going to each fighter, what sort of deal they came up with. Floyd mayweather is getting the lions share, 70 80 of the purse. He may have gone down to 60 , just being so confident. I cannot see that happening. He will not want to step into a fight like this without being firmly inside of it. He could make the same money as he did against Manny Pacquiao. But i personally think this will have massive worldwide interest. Indeed it will. Looking forward to that one. English premier Club Southampton have sacked their manager, claude puel. The frenchman spentjust one season at st marys but during that time guided the saints to the League Cup Final where they were narrowly beaten by manchester united, and helped them finish a respectable eighth in the premier league. Manchester united have completed the signing of swedish defender Victor Lindelof from benfica. The 22 year old was an unused substitute in swedens friendly draw in norway on tuesday. Lindelofjoined benfica in 2011 and has been part of three title winning squads and its understood he cost united just short of 40 million. After sitting out the Clay Court Season Roger Federer made a disappointing return to action, going out in the second round of the stuttgart tournament. The world numberfive has been resting as he aims for an Eighth Wimbledon title and took the first set against tommy haas 6 2. But the Australian Open champion was soon on the ropes and the 39 year old german wrapped up the match taking the next two sets, 7 6, 6 4, for what was only federers second defeat of the year. To golf now. The 117th Us Open gets under way on thursday with defending champion dustinjohnson looking to become the first player since american compatriot Curtis Strange in 1988 and 1989 to win back to back titles. Erin hills in wisconsin is the venue and its got everyone talking due to its yardage and length of the rough and the world number one is paired with two previous winners in Martin Kaymer and jordan spieth. Masters champion, sergio garcia, goes with bubba watson and adam scott while 2011winner rory mcilroy will partner 2013 Championjustin Rose with jason day, who was runner up to both players making up the trio but what does the reigning champion think of the course . It isa it is a typical us open venue where you have to hit the fairway. You cannot really play in this rough. It gives us more cannot really play in this rough. It gives us more room cannot really play in this rough. It gives us more room here, which is nice. But, umm, with the Weather Conditions we have had over the past few days, the courses, you know, are going to be soft. Were going to play long. I like the golf course. I think it sets up really well for me. The British And Irish Lions play the fifth match of their tour of new zealand on saturday when they take on the Maori All Blacks in rotorua. Warren gatlands squad has had a mixed start to the tour winning two and losing two and our Sports Correspondent Katie Gornall can bring us the latest. The lions arrived on wednesday evening ahead of their game against the all blacks on saturday. Before that, they have to look over their defeat to the islanders in dunedin. Highlanders. It has been two wins and two defeats. In both of those losses, they had problems with discipline. The captain described the defeat as unacceptable. Warren gatland said it was a step backwards. Neiljenkins, the coach, denied defeat would have a psychological blow for the players this close to the test. No matter what happens, in winning or defeat, obviously winning is better to follow on with, but sometimes you have to get up from defeat as well. This is easily the toughest it has ever been. It is not three test matches, it is ten. That is how tough this is. You have seen rugby union and how tough they are. For us, it is about keeping ongoing and opportunity. We dont want to get injuries and loss of form. They will keep working on the training field. The good news for the lions is Jonathan Davies and Ross Moriarty will resume and hope they can play on saturday. Warren gatland is expected to show his hand close to what could be the test 15. This is traditionally seen as the fourth test. The lions know they need a win if they are to build to the ultimate test against the all blacks. To the nhl and the Pittsburgh Penguins celebrated their 2017 stanley cup championship with a Hometown Parade on wednesday it drew an estimated 650,000 People Downtown in a city that, officially, has only 305,000 residents. The Cheering Crowd was 20 deep in some spots along the route celebrating after the penguins beat the Nashville Predators 2 0 in game six on sunday to seal the championship for the second successive year. That is a big trophy. I can tell you the americas cup is just a bit bigger. That is it for now. Goodbye for now. Hello. The next 24 hours will bring us some cooler and fresher weather but will not last long the warmth will return for the weekend. We certainly pulled some warmth up from the south during wednesday. 27 degrees was our Top Temperature at heathrow. Thursday, however, will be a different feeling day. The cold front pushing in from the west and behind that some fresh air will be introduced. Ahead of the front a warm and muggy start to thursday morning, particularly in our big town and city centres. 16,17,18 degrees. With sunshine, temperatures in Eastern England will rise quickly through the morning. Here is our weather front, our cold front. At this Stage Showery Rain and as that pushes through it will introduce that Fresh Airfrom the west. By 4pm, South West England will still enjoy sunshine but the temperature will have dropped off. Still some Warmth Clinging on across the south east and east anglia. 22, 23 degrees here and mainly fine afternoon across the midlands. We start to encounter showers as we push across england, quite a lot fresher there. Across scotland there will be cloudy periods, i suspect, with showery rain. Equally bright spells in between and breezy towards the north west. Similar stories in Northern Ireland with bright spells but large areas of cloud and showery rain. We return to wales where it is fine through the afternoon but the temperature only reaching as high as 17 or 18 degrees. With fresher feel in place, thursday night should be a little more comfortable for sleeping, i suspect. 11 there in aberdeen. Out in the countryside will be even a little cooler than that. Fresh start to friday but a bright start with sunshine. However there will be changes through the day. More cloud into Northern Ireland, scotland, parts of Northern England and north wales, patchy rain moving through as well. Also you will start to notice those temperatures creeping upwards again and that is what will take this into the weekend. This warm front bringing some patchy rain across Northern Areas but also introducing some warm air from the south. You will notice an area of High Pressure building in from the south as well. Across england and wales, saturday will not only be warm and sunny. 28 in london. Showery rain for Northern Ireland and western scotland. Breezy here as well. On sunday the rain is confined to the far north west. Further south and east, a lot of sunshine, humid air in place and the temperature could reach as high as 30 or 31 degrees. Welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in North America and around the globe. My names mike embley. Our top stories at least 12 people have died after a huge fire swept through a west london tower block. Many people are still missing and police warn the number of victims is likely to rise. Eyewitnesses say the flames engulfed the 24 Story Building within 30 minutes, with people desperately trying to escape. People were screaming, people were jumping out on fire, throwing down roads made out of bedsheets to try to climb out just a complete nightmare, absolute nightmare. Firefighters desperately struggled to reach the upper floors, but were repelled by the heat and falling debris. It was so dark and so much smoke was there. There was people running down the stairs, some people had luggage,
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