bring you around up of the latest action. and we'll have more on boxing's day of reckoning — with dubois—miller among the big—time heavyweight bouts in saudi arabia this weekend. hello there, and welcome along to the programme. fresh proposals for a new european super league of 64 clubs have been dismissed by uefa. europe's highest court ruled on thursday that football authorities were wrong to block controversial plans for a new european superleague. the project back in april 2021, would have included six top english clubs and six others from spain and italy, but it was withdrawn after a backlash from fans and politicians. andy swiss reports. they thought it was all over.

it isn't now. two years ago, a proposed european super league prompted fury from the fans. it soon collapsed. uefa and fifa's threats was today ruled to be illegal, and within hours, a new european super league was being touted. this proposed format... involving 64 men's teams and 3a women's teams. it's one competition for all clubs, all players and all fans. those behind the revamp said the ruling was a landmark moment. it paves the way for the creation of a new more exciting competition at european level in which clubs can determine their own future. the strongest message today goes out to the fans. football is free. uefa which runs the champions league one by manchester city last season said they'd withstand any rival tournament.

we can show that many times, altogether, of the football and all of european society. nothing can change that. how tempting would revamp super league be? manchester nader one of the six english clubs that signed up to the super league him in a statement today they insisted they remain fully committed to your uefa competitions. while the government say the new football regulator will stop clubs from joining breakaway tournaments. if the clubs were silly enough to try to do that again, then it would have the same reaction from fans and the same result. it should be one on the football field, not by stitch up deals in the boardroom. an idea which seemed finished is now back. a fans thought they'd seen off the super league, they may have to think again.

ajax have been knocked out of the dutch cup by an amateur side, in the fourth tier of the netherlands league system. the record twenty—time winners of the competition had come back from two down, with two late goals, but conceded another in stoppage time to lose 3—2. it adds to a bad season where they've changed manager, and are 23 points off the dutch league leaders psv who. real madrid moved back to the top of la liga, and will finish the year at the summit — after scoring a stoppage time winner to beat alaves. lucas vazquez with the 92nd minute winner for real, who were reduced to 10 men in the second half, after nacho was sent off. the result moves them above girona on goal difference — who could only draw with real betis earlier, after conceding a late equaliser. real sociedad lost ground on the top four, they were held to a goalless draw with cadiz. and mallorca beat osasuna. in the premier league, brighton came from behind to draw with rivals crystal palace. they were pushing for a winner too — but danny welbeck�*s header earned a share of the points for them, afterjordan ayew had palace in front at half time. the draw means palace are nine points clear of the relegation zone. but brighton miss the chance

to move 7th — with just one win in the last 5 league games. as the game went on, we were tying and may be dropping a bit deeper, it looked more and more as if an equalising goal was on the cards. of course, they got it with a wonder goal, because it was a fantastic cross and headerfrom danny, one of those goals which are unstoppable when he gets his head to the ball. we have to accept that i was proud of the teams performance. luton town captain tom lockyer, who suffered a cardiac arrest during last saturday's game at bournemouth, has been discharged from hospital. the club says lockyer has now had a defibrillator device fitted — and that his cardiac arrest at the weekend was different to when he collapsed in the championship play—off final in may — due to an irregular heart beat. luton say lockyer has now begun a period of rehabilitation and that his leadership will continue from the sidelines. in the women's champions league, slavia prague's group match with saint polten

of austria was called off, due to the tragic events in the czech capital, with at least 15 people killed in shooting incident. brann and lyon in that group drew their match 2—2, barcelona continue their 100% winning streak — hammering swedish side rosengard 7—0. eintracht frankfurt drew i—all with benfica. we're guaranteed to have a new winner of the club world cup on friday. manchester city have never won it, and they face brazil's fluminese who are also first time finalists. city will have to do it without several key players, erling haaland is still not fit enough to return to training, kevin de bruyne and jeremy doku are also not available to play in the final in saudi arabia. if city beat fluminese, it'll be their fifth trophy of 2023. i said before, we won the first final, we deserved to play the second final. and we try this hours after the game to see him as much as possible, to understand what they want to do, the quality they have. i always come onto the pitch

with a clear intention to win, so what we want is to do our best and to win. we have said several times that we know we are playing against the best team in the world, and they also know how good they are, but this doesn't stop us from dreaming and from doing our best, which is what we will be doing tomorrow. well while the club world cup isn't well established in europe, south america football expert tim vickery explains, it's very prestigious there. it's taken them a long, long time to be champions of south america to win, they finally done it. that is step one of the dream. step two, which is even more important is beating the rich cousins from the other side

of the atlantic, beating the champions of europe and being proclaimed world champions. i cannot tell you how big this is over here. it is the biggest thing in the club calendar. the dream of any south american club, and once he'd beaten their opposition on monday, it would be easier for them, certainly to win the title had the japanese team sprung a surprise and beaten man city. in tuesday's semifinal. but he wouldn't want that because part of the glory of the whole thing is, yes, it's winning, but it's also beating you lot. you rich arrogant champions of europe, we want you, we are coming for you, this is a huge event. the fifth and final match right down to the wire. 130 tale, the top score with 38 for then when it was the home

side's turned to back it was down to shai hope instruct the winning run. 43 knocked out giving them the win, finishing with a six. india have beaten south africa by 78 runs in their one day series decider in paarl. after reaching 296 for 8 in the first innings, they limited the hosts to 218 all out. india win the series 2—1. and india's women are in a good position as they attempt to win a second test match in a row. they beat england last week and bowled australia out for 219 on day one of their one—off test. they are 98 for the loss of just one wicket going into day two. we've heard from the fighters ahead of a big night of heavyweight boxing in saudi arabia on saturday. there are no world titles on the line in the division, and while fomer champions anthonyjoshua and deontay wilder are higher up the bill,

still avoiding each other, one of the best match ups could be britain's daniel dubois against the american jarrell miller who goes by the nickname big baby. i only have a few things to say, big baby, every baby has a daddy, and i'm going to beat you like i'm your daddy. i'm tired of rusting these guys all week. i'm just ready to punch him in the face already. tune in saturday night, i'm going to cook this shrimp. the two—time quitter. it's so funny, you know... and i applied you, i'm going to make your face mushy mushy come saturday night. there could be a great story brewing at the world darts championship, as teenager luke littler stole the headlines once again. the 16 year old is into the third round of the tournament in london — after beating andrew gilding — a former uk open champion ranked 144 places above him, 3-1. littler, who's on debut — will face the canadian matt campbell in the last 32.

i said don't make it go to a last set, nervous, the doubles, i could have wrapped it up earlier on, but ijust had to get it over the line. littler, who's on debut — will face the canadian matt campbell in the last 32. you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.com/sport. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye. hello. at long last, we've reached that turning point to the year in which days gradually start to stretch out. once again, it is the winter solstice today, barely five hours and 50 minutes of daylight at lerwick. but come the 20th ofjune next year, there'll be nearly 19 hours.

now, the weather today, though, not quite as windy as it was yesterday, this is the remnants of storm pia and it's going to cause huge problems around parts of north east germany and poland. we're though still in the wake of it with plenty of cloud pushing its way in and weather fronts, which will stop the temperature from dropping too much tonight across much of the uk, the exception being northern scotland. so cold and winter here, icy conditions around, more snow flurries in shetland and a bit of snow mixed in with the rain in northern scotland but turning bright at later in the day. brightening up too across wales, southern parts of england, the channel islands after a cloudy start with some patchy drizzle. but this zone from south west scotland, northern ireland through northern england towards east anglia, staying rather cloudy throughout the day. outbreaks of rain. now, whilst it's not as windy as yesterday, that northwest wind is still going to be quite gusty in places and it will limit the way things feel. maybe not quite as mild as it was during thursday, but barely above freezing in shetland. now with that cold air

in place, weatherfront pushing its way in through friday night into saturday, we could see some significant snow in the mountains of scotland, icy conditions around as well. but you can see just how limited that cold air is. place to the blue colors on the chart elsewhere, another very mild night to take us into the weekend. but for the weekend, high pressure is established way towards the southwest, toppling around it, the cloud, more weatherfronts, but also much, much milder air. if anything, temperatures will creep up even further this weekend. the exception being on the northern side of that weather front, significant snow, as is said in parts of scotland, even to lower levels for a time, never reaching the mild air towards shetland through the day and rain will continue to fall across western scotland throughout. so there could be some flooding issues here. six degrees in aberdeen, three in lerwick, most though around 12 or 13 degrees as we go into sunday. well, we've got a weather front which willjust straddle the country bringing more cloud outbreaks of rain. so christmas eve, there will be some scattered rain, a little bit of brightness, but it could potentially be one of the warmest christmas eves on record. temperatures up to around 15 degrees. that's warmth continues into christmas day, a gray one

rather than a white one. but if you wanted to get out for a good walk on boxing day, it's looking good.

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the headlines: a vote on gaza at the un security council is delayed again. the us has serious concerns remain over the current draft. mass shooting in prague. more than 15 people are killed as a gunman opens fire on his fellow students. and a top eu court rules that ban on a european super league is unlawful. it's newsday. welcome to the programme. some breaking news coming injust now. a vote programme. some breaking news coming in just now. a vote at the un security council on gaza has been delayed for a fourth day. the key boat was being discussed — negotiations were

ongoing and it really focused