live from the bbc sport centre, i'm chris mitchell. coming up on sport today: the man who swapped the top in germany for the relegation zone in england. the bbc‘s african player of year wins again. and the world number one makes the semi—finals in doha. that was after some hard work. he had a job at one of the best clubs in europe. he left to coach one of the worst teams in the english premier league — swansea city, one off the bottom of the table. on thursday, paul clement — the former real madrid and bayern munich assistant — held his first news conference since taking overfrom bob bradley, and the bbc‘s claire summers was there. is this the man to ten swansea

city's fortunes around 7 is this the man to ten swansea city's fortunes around? 44—year—old paul clement facing the media for the first time today, clear to spell out why he has come to the liberty stadium. i'm excited by the challenge. i could have stayed at bayern munich and had a great chance to win the league there, and advance into the further stages of the champions league, and it would've been great. but i have done that the last six or seven years now and i wa nt last six or seven years now and i want another challenge. this will be really exciting. i can fill it already. i feel good about it. having enjoyed modest success as a big player, is coaching cv boasts plenty of experience, and is writing to —— by tcb as a bonus. he was sacked after eight months despite being fifth in the challenger table. his connection with an italian coaches seen him work at some of the biggest clubs. they met at chelsea and have worked together at paris saint—germain and real madrid, where they won the champions league managing stars like asbo and

cristiano ronaldo. they moved on buying munich, but swansea city have come calling and he says he feels the time is right —— gareth bale. the task it faces is clearly difficult. he says he has had assurances from bosses there will be money in the january transfer window. his challenge is to keep swa nsea window. his challenge is to keep swansea city a shining light in the premier league. if you think that is a challenge, what about whole city? —— hull city. they last won a game in the english premier league at the beginning of november. the struggling club are bottom of the table with just three wins so far. to get them out of the hole they're in, the club have taken what they say is a bold and exciting move. hull city have turned to portuguese coach marco silva to help them avoid relegation — a manager with little experience. so who is he, and what has he done? anneka radley has the answer. known by many as the newjose mourinho and kolbe kids by the

manchester united manager himself, marco silva began his career as a fallback in portugal, and after retiring and 44, started pitching a second suicide. he excelled, guiding them to promotion to the top flight and a place in the europa league —— second tier side. he moved to sporting lisbon in 2014. in one season, he developed the young players left behind, finished third and even won the portuguese cup. it was their first trophy in six years. despite that, the club president decided he could do better. he sacked marco silva on the obscure grounds of failing to wear a club sued on match day. —— said. undeterred, he moved and 0lympia arcus and did not look back. they w011 arcus and did not look back. they won 28 of their 30 league matches and won the title by a staggering 30 points. like his namesake, the

so—called newjose points. like his namesake, the so—called new jose mourinho points. like his namesake, the so—called newjose mourinho had england in his sights. his arrival in the english premier league will not be a surprise to many. saving hull city from relegation perhaps will be. the manchester city manager pep guardiola insists he's not about to retire from football — despite saying he's "arriving at the end" of his career. the former barcelona and bayern munich coach made the comments in an interview with nbc last week, but speaking on thursday, guardiola tried to clarify the situation. he says that he won't still be coaching when he's 60 — but he's not about to retire just yet. i'm 45, so i'm not going to retire in two years. i love myjob. i am in a perfect place to do myjob, especially here in england. so i'm 45. i will not train at 60 years because i want to do something else in my life. i started playing

football young, when i was younger. my football young, when i was younger. my career was on the pitch and i wa nt to my career was on the pitch and i want to do something else in my life. but in the next three, five, six or seven years, 60 or 65, i will not be doing training. of course, i was not prepared to say i am starting to say goodbye to my career. but i am not thinking about retiring, no. barcelona have been beaten by 9—man athletic bilbao in the first leg of their last 16 tie in the copa del rey. bilbao went 2—0 up, aritz aduriz scoring the first. they then doubled their lead within three minutes, scoring twice in three minutes. lionel messi pulled back one for the visitors in the second half, but then bilbao had two men sent off, including ander iturraspe. but they managed to see out the final ten minutes withjust nine men. the algeria and leicester city winger riyad mahrez has been named player of the year

by the confederation of african football. nigeria's asisat oshoala grabbed her second african women's player of the year award. mahrez scored 17 goals as leicester won the english premier league title for the first time last season. caf say he polled 361 votes to beat last year's winner pierre—emerick aubameyang into second place, with sadio mane third. mahrez adds the title to the bbc african footballer of the year award he picked up last month. i want to thank everyone who came today for this award. it is usual 110w today for this award. it is usual now to receive this award. i am very happy and very pleased. i want to thank all of my teammates from leicester and from algeria. my managers and the president, and what

i want to educate my family and all of the african, aljoyner as well, all the people who support me here every day, i want africa and the world, thank you —— algeria. the australia opener matthew renshaw has been withdrawn from the third test against pakistan in sydney after suffering concussion. he was struck on the helmet while fielding close in to the bat on thursday. friday's play has been delayed by rain. this is the state of the match. younis khan's 34th test century had kept alive pakistan's hopes of saving the third and final test. younus is the first batsman to score centuries in 11 different countries. pakistan will resume on 271—8 in reply to australia's first innings total of 538—8 declared — with younus 136 not out. the tourists need another 68 runs to avoid the follow—on. andy murray and novak djokovic remain on course to meet in the final of the qatar open in doha. they both won on thursday

to reach the semi—finals. the world number one beat spain's nicolas almagro in two tough set sets. murray, who won the title in doha in 2008 and 2009, came through 7—6, 7—5, and he'll now play tomas berdych, who beat jo—wilfried tsonga. earlier, djokovic — the world number two — came through in straight sets against radek stepanek of the czech republic. djokovic, who's the defending champion in doha, won 6—3, 6—3. he won the title last year without dropping a set, and he is yet to do so this year. djokovic now plays spain's fernando verdasco. elsewhere, there was an upset at the brisbane international, where the women's world number one angelique kerber suffered a shock defeat in the quarter—finals. she was beaten in three sets by the ukrainian elina svitolina. the number four seed

garbine muguruza is also through to the semi—finals in brisbane. the french open champion beat svetlana kuznetsova in straight sets. muguruza won 7—5, 6—4 and will now meet the unseeded frenchwoman alize cornet, who knocked out the number two seed, dominika cibulkova. the manjudged the man judged by the manjudged by many to be the greatest tennis player ever unveiled a statue of himself outside rod laver arena in melbourne. the sculpture shows the rocket playing a backend, his signature shot, which are timber, the only man in history to win two calendar grand slam titles in the 1960s. he can still do it! you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport.

but from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello there, good morning. yesterday morning we saw the lowest temperature so far in england this winter. we got to —8.1 in rural 0xfordshire. this morning, the frost is nowhere near as widespread. there'll be some across the south—eastern quarter of the uk, but the further west you go, a lot more cloud, and that cloud is bringing at least some rain with it. but it's also helping to keep the temperatures up, seven or eight degrees to start the day in glasgow and belfast. but it'll be quite widespread in the western side of scotland. the eastern side faring a little bit better. still cloudy, and it's quite wet in northern ireland first thing this morning. some rain fringing into the western side of england and wales. not quite into cornwall and devon at this stage, so it's largely dry here. head further east and it's not just cold and frosty, there'll be some patches of fog, and some of the fog will be slow to clear.

it could be quite dense in places, so do bear that in mind if you're heading out on the roads. some fog in east anglia. it'll be a chilly old day here. chilly here across northern england, but a fair bit of cloud and just a little bit of rain first thing. now, our main area of rain will topple its way further southwards and eastwards through the day, so it'll eventually get down to the midlands. some light and patchy rain here into the afternoon, but it never really gets to east anglia and the south—east, here it'll stay fairly cloudy into the afternoon, but there'll some breaks, but it's also where we see the lowest temperatures. further west, mild air coming from the atlantic, could get into double figures. and that milder air, the less—cold air, comes in from the atlantic on the westerly breeze, pushing a little bit of patchy rain across some parts first thing on saturday but, actually, into the weekend a lot less cold than what we've seen recently, but a lot of cloud across most places through the weekend and a little bit of patchy rain and drizzle, but certainly not a wash out, just pretty grey skies. so, we do see a lot of cloud on saturday, a little bit of rain here and there, maybe a few

breaks in the cloud, top temperatures around about ten or 11 degrees. so something a lot less cold coming into the united kingdom, but we've got this cold northerly wind down across central and eastern parts of europe, and it really will be a very cold weekend through the balkans. it could go as low as —10, and that'll be daytime temperatures, so a big contrast across europe this weekend. second part of the weekend, back on our shores, looks like the first part of the weekend, a lot of cloud, not much rain, but there will be some, and temperatures peaking at around about nine or 10 degrees. and then on into the early part of the coming week we start to see something a bit more unsettled developing, a weather front making its way south and east across the uk, and note on our isobars on the chart, it'll be quite windy, the rain starts in scotland and northern ireland and then a steady progress starts in england and northern ireland and then a steady progress south and eastwards across the rest of the uk. a very warm welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to our viewers in north america and around the globe. my name's mike embley. our top stories:

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