you were all years to come. you were all caught up now. have a good night. hello and welcome to sportsday. i'm hugh ferris. our top stories. big—hitting bryson makes an impact on day one of the masters as dechambeau cards a seven—under 65 at augusta. a first anfield defeat in more than a year — and a damaging one: liverpool lose 3—0 to atalanta in the europa league. and lightning doesn't strike twice against lorenzo: novak djokovic avenges last year's defeat to musetti in monte carlo.

hello again. welcome along to sports day. for the first time in nine months, liv and pga tour golfers are competing in the same tournament, and it's one from the breakaway series that's made a lot of the headlines on day one of the masters at augusta. after a 2.5—hour weather delay, bryson dechambeau was one of the first to get going and three straight birdies to open his round set the foundation for a seven—under par 65. scottie scheffler got close to that mark — a bogey—free 66 took him to six under two years on from his first green jacket. it's a lot longer since danny willett was the champion at augusta but the 2016 winner is four under after a 68 in his first tournament since shoulder surgery in september. rory mcilroy had an up and down round — four birdies, three bogies — but in contention at one under par. elsewhere, defending championjon rahm began with a one over 73. for more on that and, indeed,

for a full leaderboard from the opening day's play at augusta, head over to our website. that's bbc.com/sport. now, a night of europa league football was marked by an extraordinary result at anfield — liverpool were beaten 3—0 by atalanta in the first leg of their quarterfinal. it's liverpool's first home defeat of any kind in more than a year and came at the hands of gianluca scamacca, who got two of the italian team's goals. mario pasalic added a late third to give them a result that could well ensure that this was jurgen klopp�*s last european match at anfield before he leaves liverpool at the end of the season. we played a bad game. we deserved to lose and we must feel that now. but, um... the boys have expected this night to feel bad about it and then we have to — to build up again for

the crystal palace. so that's how it is and nobody thinks at the moment — i mean, you asked me probably about the game next thursday, but there's crystal palace in between. translation: as far as i'm concerned, i'm happy - - really happy — especially for others, for the team, the players and the fans, those who followed us tonight. it will be history for them and for you, the reporters who are here. obviously, for those in bergamo as well, they are celebrating. in these cases, you feel really happy for other people's happiness. bayer leverkusen scored two late goals to give them a first leg win over west ham and take their season—long unbeaten run to 42 games. it took until the 83rd minute for leverkusen to take the lead. jonas hofmann hadn't been on the pitch long before putting his side 1—0 up. then, another substitute, victor boniface, made it two in injury time, denting west ham's chances of making a third straight european semifinal. elsewhere, roma will take a 1—0 lead into the second leg of their all—italian tie with milan after gianluca mancini's winner at the san siro. and benfica have the advantage in their tie with marseille

after a 2—1 first leg win in lisbon. the second matches are next thursday. aston villa were one of the three sides to claim an advantage after the first leg of the europa conference league quarterfinals. their 2—1 win over lille watched by two of their more famous fans. ollie watkins gave the premier league side an early lead against lille. it was 2—0 just after half—time throuthohn mcginn while bafode diakite's late header has given the tie a different look as villa attempt to reach their first european semifinal in 42 years. there are two greek sides left in the conference league. olympiacos held on to win 3—2 against fenerbahce after being 3—0 up, while paok lost to club bruges. and in poland, plzen and fiorentina provided the only goalless draw of the night. everton�*s prospective new owners have asked for more time to pay off a loan which is holding up their takeover of the club. 777 partners are due to repay a £158 million loan to msp

sports capital and two local businessmen by next monday. everton manager sean dyche is keeping his focus on the football. running a football clubs not an easy business. you know, there must be so many different things to go through and so many checks that have to be done so i don't imagine for one second that it's a simple process. it's taking more time — that's the way it goes. i certainly am not involved at that level of what we do here so, yeah, the rest isjust a wait and see situation. rangers manager philippe clement says the club offered to play their twice—postponed scottish premiership game against dundee on thursday and even joked they will play "on mars" if needed. wednesday's rearranged fixture was rained off after a second pitch inspection at dens park, of "negligence and unprofessionalism" and dundee well could face disciplinary action from the league after a fifth postponement from them at this season.

this is really bad for the image of scottish football that these things can happen, and it could have been avoided — by playing on another venue somewhere else. because everybody knew what the situation is and what's — so, no, it's pointed at the club. they didn't do the right things to have a decent football field, and it happened already several times this season. so, that needs to be solved. otherwise, you cannot play the game. novak djokovic is into the quarterfinals at the monte carlo masters, avenging his defeat to lorenzo musetti at the same stage of last year's tournament. he beat the italian comfortably in straight sets, becoming only the second player to reach 10 monte carlo quarterfinals in the open era. the world number one will play australia's alex de minaur next but says the crowd reaction spurred him on. i'm not looking for trouble with crowd, you know, i'm not. i'm not, ok?

they're coming out, they start whistling at me, and then i'll play better. you know, it's not the kind of mentality i have. but, you know, if people start to react in a certain way that i don't think i deserve, you know, and it's just... i don't think it's fair. i don't think it's — it's... any — any how explainable. then, you know, i'll react back. i don't i've been i grown up with that kind of mentality that, you know, if somebody is doing something wrong to you, you know, stand your ground. the world number 2jannik sinner�*s victory over germanjan—lennard struff was even less problematic. his 6—4, 6—2 win a 24th already for him in 202a. the italian will face holger rune next. the dane was runner up in monte carlo last year and he made the last eight with a win over grigor dimitrov that did not follow the pattern of the previous two matches. this one took more than 3.5 hours. the seventh seed won both his sets on a tie break.

and stefanos tsitsipas is also through, beating fifth seed alexander zverev. the number 12 seed had match points when 7—5, 5—0 up and lost five games in a row before finally completing thejob in the tie—break. he'll next play karen khachanov, who beat daniil medvedev. fernando alonso has signed to stay with aston martin in formula i for at least the next two seasons. the spaniard, who was linked with a move to another team on the grid and was out of contract at the end of this season, has agreed a new deal that will extend until the end of 2026. it means alonso will be driving in f1 at least until at least the age of 45 and possibly beyond. two—time paralympic silver medallist and para world champion stef reid has taken on sportswear giant nike after they refused to sell her a single running shoe. she challenged the company, who say they are hoping to expand an existing programme beyond the us after seeing that they had used an amputee mannequin in one of their stores. reid, who had her right leg amputated at the age of 15 after a boating accident, is now retired.

it just felt a bit silly that i'm having to pay all this money for — when i can't even use half the product. and ijust remembered a few months ago, my sister actually sent a photo of a model in a nike store and it was an amputee, just like me, and they had a blade, and i thought, "this is amazing! "why don't ijust call nike if they're using the image, "surely they're aware that the one thing every "every amputee runner needs is just one shoe," because that's all we run in. we run in a high—performance running shoe on one foot and a blade on the other foot. and so i asked the question and the answer was, "no, "we don't sell shoes as single and we don't sell "shoes in split sizes." so then i explained, "well, the reason i'm asking "is because i'm an amputee runner." and i was offered a 10% discount, a one time 10% discount. and i said that was "very kind, but i'm still going to "have this issue when i try and buy "shoes again next time, i'm still only going "to have one foot."

so they opted to 15%, which i declined again, and they said they would take it up to the higher—ups. i didn't approach nike because i wanted a change just for me, an exception for me. this is bigger than that. it's bigger than amputees, it's bigger than disability. 50—60% of adults have differently sized feet. and i just thought this is just such a great opportunity to actually sell shoes in a different way. and my point with this is just to say that it's not niche. i'm not looking to change the way someone does a business for a very small percentage of people. actually, it's a huge number of people that will be affected. and it's just another example of how diverse and inclusive thinking actually makes businesses better. that's stef reid. there's more on that fascinating story at the bbc sport website — and that is, of course, also where you can get all the latest sports news, including reaction to that fascinating night at anfield, too — a 3—0 defeat for liverpool at the hands of ata la nta. but that's it for now. thanks for watching. bye— bye.

hello there. we still had the same southwesterly breeze on thursday but more sunshine led to a warmer day. the highest temperature in the sunshine was measured in norfolk with temperatures reaching 20 degrees in northern ireland whilst it did cloud over later on and we got some rain as well, temperatures here reached 18 celsius — the warmest it's been in northern ireland so far this year. now, this is the temperature anomaly map. the red colour�*s showing that it's warmer than average across the whole of the uk. we'll get similar temperatures again on friday but then, over the weekend, it gets cooler from the northwest. that cooler weather arrives in the southeast by sunday. now, heading into early friday, we've got some sunshine to begin with in scotland. we've got these showery bursts of rain coming back into northern ireland, into cumbria and showers pushing into scotland. for england and wales, though, the cloud should be breaking up. we'll get more sunshine more widely, although some western coasts could stay a bit grey and cloudy. but in the sunshine, it's going to feel warm — temperatures in the southeast

and east anglia reaching 20 or 21 degrees and again, in the north—east of scotland, 18 degrees, where we're missing those showers. but the weather starts to change into the weekend because we've got a few weather fronts coming down from the northwest, bringing more cloud, some rain and some cooler air, too. first weather front here is bringing this cloud and patchy rain across northern england and wales, pushing into the midlands and south west england later. and then, following on behind, a lot of showers for scotland and northern ireland, some of them heavy and thundery with some hail. the last of the warmth and some sunshine still across east anglia in the southeast — temperatures 20 degrees here — but elsewhere, those temperatures are going to be several degrees lower on saturday. now, we're replacing that warmer southwesterly wind with something much cooler — a westerly wind which will bring in more showers on sunday — and we'll see showers, particularly in scotland and northern ireland and just for a while, there could be a bit of winteriness over the mountaintops. there'll be a few showers coming in over the irish sea to north west england and north wales but further

south and east, it may well be dry but it's certainly going to be cooler — we've got temperatures back down to 15 degrees, which is near normal for this time of the year, but struggling to 10 or 11 across much of scotland and northern ireland. and here, we're going to find a lot of showers overnight and into monday. low pressure moving down across the uk. that's going to bring a stronger northwesterly wind and make it feel chilly on monday. but after that, the weather should improvejust a little with fewer showers and it won't be quite as windy.

live from washington, this is bbc news.

ukraine asks the west for more air defences after a wave of russian missile and drone attacks hits civilian infrastructure, leaving many without power. former football star oj simpson, who was acquitted of his ex—wife's murder in one of america's most high—profile trials, dies, at the age of 76. and we examine what voters in the battleground state of pennslyvania care about in the run—up to the 2024 us election. hello. i'm carl nasman. russia's bombardment of ukraine continues after more than 80 missiles and drones targeted critical infrastructure. five regions were hit thursday, leaving more than 200,000 people without power. almost a third of the strikes made it through ukraine's air defences. president volodmyr zelensky again called for more air defence supplies, urging the west not to turn a blind eye to russia's continuing attacks. russian president vladimir putin has hosted talks with the

belarusian leader, alexander lukashenko.