hello from the bbc sport centre, i m delyth lloyd. let s start at the australian open, where there s been plenty of drama on day nine in melbourne. not so much though for the number two seed carlos alcaraz, who eased through to the quarter finals with a commanding display on the rod laver arena. the wimbledon champion lostjust eight games on his way to beating miomir kecmanovic of serbia in straight sets. it is great to find this level, to play this level in the matches, on the court, i am feeling better and better every day, i m feeling better every match that i am playing, coming into the quarterfinal with a lot of confidence. and in that quarter final, alcaraz will face the sixth seed alexander zverev, who was taken to a fifth set tie break by the 19th seed cameron norrie. the british number one twice came from behind to force a decider but it was zverev who booked his place in the last eight, sealing the tie break10 3. despite the loss, though, norrie remains optimistic.
thunderstorms expected at edgbaston. talking thunderstorms, some of you had a talking thunderstorms, some of you had a pretty disturbing night last night, had a pretty disturbing night last night, lightning and thunder across parts night, lightning and thunder across parts of night, lightning and thunder across parts of the uk and more severe storms parts of the uk and more severe storms to parts of the uk and more severe storms to come today. i will have your storms to come today. i will have your full forecast here on breakfast. it s sunday the 18th ofjune. our main story: a video has emerged showing some conservative party workers drinking and dancing at a christmas party during covid lockdown. the footage, published by the sunday mirror, was taken at the conservatives headquarters in westminster in december 2020, when london was in tier 2 restrictions. our political correspondent iain watson has more. some conservatives will not want to look in the mirror toda
in london, chelsea are taking on real madrid, trying to overturn a 2 0 deficit against the defending champions. it is currently 0 0. missed a really good opportunity to put chelsea ahead. still advantage real madrid. meanwhile, napoli, the runaway leaders of serie a, are trying to recover from a 1 0 first leg defeat against ac milan. that game is also goalless, but ac milans olivier giroud had a penalty saved 20 minutes in. at the moment, it s ac malan and real madrid. meanwhile, manchester city are in germany ahead of their quarter final second leg against bayern munich on wednesday. they have a healthy 3 0 advantage from the first leg at the etihad last week, and they ll have phil foden available after he returned to training after recovering from having his appendix removed. city boss pep guardiola says they won t be sitting back in bavaria. i understand the situation, to come herejust to defend i understand the situation, to come here just to defend something. we came to
Coast and further west of northern ireland, wales, the south west of angled, centraland ireland, wales, the south west of angled, central and southern event, the west midlands, some sunny spells developing but also the chance of a few showers. Temperatures above the seasonal average, few showers. Temperatures above the seasonalaverage, may few showers. Temperatures above the seasonal average, may be 21 or 22 in all of that sunshine. As we had three tonight here is our weather front. More for the north sea coast, the Rain Petering out but a second pulse could meet in three parts of east anglia and up to the midlands into tomorrow morning. It is a mild start to the day tomorrow. Temperatures still in double figures put up a few clear spells outwards with and there could be a bit of early mist and fog around morning. It wont last because the days are now so long. A bit drier tomorrow but still that cloud and rain towards these eastern coast. A few showers out for the west here also some s
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