into the box. i think that is pretty clear. i don t think we can go much further than what we do with that. the last bit is sometimes confidence. the world snooker championship gets underway this weekend and ronnie o sullivan will begin the defence of his title against chinese debutant pang junxu. the world number one is aiming to lift that trophy for a record eight time at the crucible in sheffield and faces one of the rising stars of snooker in pang, who reached his maiden ranking final last month. elsewhere last year s beaten finallistjudd trump takes on former semifinallist anthony mcgill, mark williams will play jimmy robertson, and 2005 champion shaun murphy opens up againat sijiahui. four time championjohn higgins takes on david grace, who last week was battling just to save his tour card. and another four time winner, mark selby, faces another englishman in matthew selt. history made for great britain s gymnasts their first ever women s team gold at the european cha
by british forces to retake the islands in the south atlantic from invading argentine troops. it s a wonderful aircraft a hugely flexible aircraft, great capability. you can do almost anything with it. the man who flew this helicopter in the falklands said it played an historic role, taking the british general to port stanley to accept the argentine surrender. quite an interesting operation, quite apart from the weather. well, the ceasefire hadn t been signed up to this stage, and so the aircraft was flying into stanley, competing not with just the weather, but also some still rather unfriendly argentines around. his old sea king here was even flown in the falklands by prince andrew, then serving as a young naval pilot. they re doing the flight servicing. in a hangar in southern england, a third sea king is being prepared forwar, and ukrainian naval engineers have been trained to keep it flying. is this aircraft too old for combat? translation: they are old, but they ve gon
sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s kasa. bayern munich have suspended sadio mane from the club s match this saturday against hoffenheim for his misconduct after the 3 0 defeat to manchester city in the quarterfinals of the champions league on tuesday night. the 31 year old former liverpool winger has also been given a fine by the bavarian side after reports of a changing room bust up with team mate leroy sane. the two players were seen arguing towards the end of the match and german papers allege mane punched his teammate in the face. manchester united goalkeeper david de gea says the club is aiming for more trophies, as the reds get ready to take on six time champions sevilla in the pick of the europa league quarterfinal first legs tonight. united won the europa league, and other favourites. other favourites. they still have a semifinal to other favourites. they still have a semifinal to come. de gea says manager erik ten hag has brought in
let s turn to ireland where us presidentjoe biden has been meeting with leading politicians and is now on his way to address a joint sitting of the irish parliament it s been an extremely busy day for the president. he set off to parliament from farmleigh house in dublin after meeting with the irish prime minister leo varadkar. while in the grounds of farmleigh, he watched a gaelic sport demonstration by local children. inside, the taoiseach praised american leadership since the russian invasion of ukraine last year. mr biden praised irish values and set out plans for a closer relationship between the us and ireland. there really is an opportunity to make serious progress. notjust because of the accords we have signed, 25 years ago, but in terms of the way you lead ireland and ireland is moving in a way that is taking its place in the world and i think it feels so good to be able to have this merging and stronger relation between the united states and ireland. this mornin