Katie gornall is there for us. This has been called the Group Of Death from the start, with the champions, south africa, in there too. It wont come as a surprise that all three are fighting for a knockout place on the final weekend. Yes, you are right, it is a huge Pool B Decider and there is a web of permutations around this one. If ireland when they go through and scotland go home. If ireland lose, things become complicated. Scotland need to win by at least eight points to go through and deny ireland a four try bonus point. That would put them through alongside south africa. There is also a Permutation Work by south africa go out. If scotland scored four tries, beat ireland by 21 points and ireland score four tries of their own, that would put south africa out and see scotland and ireland advance. South africa have already played their final group game. They have played their hand, now it is going to scotland and ireland to play theirs. The permutations and ireland to play theirs. T
Machines have been linked with human beings. Some tennis news because world number one Aryna Sabalenka is out of the china open in beijing. Shes been beaten in the last hour so by Elena Rybakina in starught sets 7 5, 6 2. Rybakina is now through to the semi final and will face liudmila samsonova. World number two iga swiatek is also through to the semifinal. She battled back from the brink of defeat against caroline garcia. Garcia had been two points from victory but swiatek pulled it back, eventually winning 67; 76, 61. Shell now face coco gauff, after the american extended her winning streak to 16 matches. The 19 year old, who won herfirst major title at the us open last month, Beat Greek Sixth seed Maria Sakkari 6 2, 6 4. At the rugby world cup, theres a lot riding on the final match of pool a later. Hosts france looking to make it four wins from four, but theyre up against an italy side keen to bounce back after a heavy defeat last time out against new zealand. Italy need to win to
Rhythm after 25 minutes, i dont know exactly, i didnt look at my watch. It is very difficult to keep your rhythm in a game like this but it is very important. It is clear we should have scored before, we should have been 2 0 up. We scored eight, thatis have been 2 0 up. We scored eight, that is fine. A mature, professional performance. We got the result. We got the result. Elsewhere in group b, brighton got their first point of the competition after drawing 2 2 with marseille. They stay bottom of the group though after aek athens drew with ajax. There was defeat for rangers, who sacked their manager at the weekend, they were beaten by aris limasol. The italian side atalanta won at sporting lisbon. Wins too for villareal and roma. All the results from thursday round of game on the bbc sport website. The former Manchester United goalkeeper Sergio Romero was the hero for his side boca juniors as they beat hosts palmeiras of brazil 4 2 in a penalty shoot out in the second leg of the semifi
Control of the ryder cup after an Astonishing First Day in italy set p Astonishing First Day in italy set up by Astonishing First Day in italy set up by a perfect morning session. And their dominance was set up by a perfect morning session. Europe were already 1 0 up when debutant ludvig aberg, alongside viktor hovland, earned his first ryder cup point. That shot from hovland on the Opening Hole Setting the pair up for victory against max homa and brian harman. European pair shane lowry and sepp straka added a third before this tee shot from rory mcilroy helped him and partner Tommy Fleetwood make it 4 0 in the morning session something thats never been done before. Putting them on course for an incredible spark. And mcilroy was then part of an incredible pair in the afternoon. He and Matt Fitzpatrick beat Collin Morikowa and Xander Schauffele five and three thanks to an incredible performance from fitzpatrick, whos putting helped europe win six out of the first seven holes. But, team
Brighter day for many. Let your sunshine, showers across Western Areas. Most of them across the west of scotland. We will also see some gales close to the coast, the showers could be quite heavy as they rattle through. We got there mid to high teens in the north, up to 20 degrees in the south east and a little bit cooler than it has been of late. High pressure building in for the start of the weekend. We could see some good spells of sunshine across england and wales. The next Weather System pushes into Western Areas and brings heavy rain to wales, Northern Ireland and then pushing up into parts of scotland. Northern scotland on the northern isles, the south and South East Of England should tend to stay dry with some sunshine. Temperatures reaching highs of 20 degrees, a bit cooler than that further north and west. Sunday, a similar story. A lot of dry weather in the north and west. More cloud across southern england. And thats bbc news at six. Thank you, sophie. Hello there. Im olly f