uncapped 20—year—old spinner, shoaib bashir help england stay in charge of their class, we will look ahead at the second test. welcome along, thank you forjoining us. we start with what we call the biggest driver transfer in the history of formula 1. the plot twist that few saw coming — lewis hamilton will leave mercedes at the end of next season and join rivals ferrari from 2025. he started out in f1 with mclaren back in 2007, winning the first of his titles a year later, in what was a gamble at the time, he made a big move

to mercedes in 2013, replacing the retiree michael schumacher in winning six of titles there. it could now win title come for ferrari? if so, it would be become the first driver in history to win with three different teams but that is still a huge ask with max verstappen in red bull currently dominating. what is for certain is fascinating times are ahead as natalie pirks reports. mercedes is the team where hamilton enjoyed his greatest success. but now, he's ready for another chapter in a story, only this time in red. he's called leaving mercedes one of the hardest decisions he's ever had to make and added: it's like a dream come true for him because going to ferrari is everything.

it's a romantic driving for the atmosphere, the fans, and italy where theyjust embraced lewis, it will be a fantastic for him with an eighth world title which will be incredible. welcome to my first day at mercedes. hejoined mercedes in 2013 and always said it felt like home, so much so he signed a new £100 million contract to stay until 2025. now who will only raise for one more season before joining ferrari on a multi—year contract. the italians have been long—term admirers, it's no surprise why. lewis hamilton has won a joint record seven world drivers�* championship titles — an achievement he shares with michael schumacher. six of them have been with mercedes, and all came inside an astonishing seven—year spell of dominance. hamilton also holds the record for the most wins, the most pole positions, and the most podium finishes in the sport. things didn't go

brilliantly last season. in fact, hamilton hasn't won a race since 2021. leaving the loving arms of the family at a0 years old for one more shot at history is a script straight out of hollywood. one might call this his very own italianjob. natalie pirks, bbc news. the confirmation of hamilton surprise move does leave the door open for more driver movement in need of a seed, the man lewis hamilton will replace ferrari and that is carlos sainz, he too is releasing a statement out of what will be his last season with the italian team. saying: they will, of course, be of mercedes which now to feel too.

here is our f1 corresponded. massive news for the party, i'm sure he's had a very busy phone today with everyone trying to sell themselves to him but the empty seat at mercedes, if lewis doesn't want to, it is still a very attractive position someone else. alex albon is one of the favourites to go into that seed but there are plenty of really strong candidates around. at the end of this year, there were a lot of drivers and their contracts up for renewal, this is made it a little bit uncomfortable for some who are already signed like lando norris because that's seat, is it better than mclarens? i don't know. much more reaction on bbc sport website, let's change gears away from formula 1 there with two games in english premier league on thursday night including

an incredible seven—goal thriller where manchester united scored a winner seven minutes into stoppage time to get a 11—3 three victory over wolverhampton wanderers who remained the winner after wolves but they would snatch a point with the 95th minute equaliser, marcus rashford was also the score sheet for united in his return to the team, erik ten hag's side are up to seventh. when you are so dominated the game, you are 3—1 up at the opening get back 3—2, 3—3, it shouldn't happen but of course, it pleased me a lot when you get the winner. it creates momentum, to score the first premier league goal, and a very important one because it is a big win. one of the night of the games, they finished all square at the london stadium. an unfortunate start to life as a hammers player, he only made the loan which are manchester city this week but gifted

a goal which put the visitors in front but news from the penalty spot as it finished 1—1. right, exciting times ahead for this man here, shoaib bashir who said to make his england test debut on friday and the second match against india, an incredible rise for the 20—year—old who comes in to replace a jack leach, he played six first—class matches and first came to the attention of captain ben stokes on social media when bowling for summerset, stokes says he fully backs bashir in looking forward to him putting on a show as england look to go 2—0 up in the five—match series. very modern way of national teams, international teams, choosing cricketers. england have a vast department of talent spotting, they even have little cameras on the umpires jackets in first—class tickets so they can see what everyone is doing around the country.

it's not always possible to get your scout out to see every ball of every game, but you can find different ways of collecting the information, this different still with the stokes, he might not be aware of bashir at all if that didn't go out on twitter. but he alerted mccullum of his potential, he was in the lions programme, eitherside of christmas and a find himselves making his test debut. the mind facing a bashir in that social media video was sir alastair cook, the former england captain, he was playing against his essex side, cooks told the bbc it will be special to see bashir, having a spinner, getting the ball turning. if you can spin the ball, the control and the discipline and learning how to teach all that, the ability to spin the ball, he is tall so he's got some very natural attributes which will help. what i was impressed

when i faced him was he didn't ball that many bad balls, he had control, it's a big ask for an 18—year—old to come and play but they got a lot of decisions right with picking players. didn't think it was ready for it, they wouldn't be selecting. rugby union's six nations tournaments gets under way on friday with a mouthwatering opening—day match between the two favourites — france and ireland as scotland play wales on saturday with both sides ringing the changes after last year's world cup. england have named to debutantes with their match against italy in rome. they named their teams on saturday, they have two players making their debuts, ethan roots starts in the back row. roots was born in new zealand but he has an english father and he's been really impressive for them this season. fraser dingwall also makes its debut at centre alongside returning henry slade while tommy freeman starts on the wing.

wales and scotland have named their team for their match in cardiff on saturday. a first for cameron at fullback while sam costello starts at fly—half, scotland have also got something of a newcomer at fullback as well with kyle rowe making his first start for his country. the six nations after a world cup year is always a chance for teams to ring the changes a little bit to bring in few fresh faces and that will certainly be the case. before we go, a reminder of our top story — lewis hamilton will leave mercedes at the end of next season and join ferrari in 2025, he says he so proud of the success he's achieved in 11 years but he's excited to be taking on a new challenge. that is all from me in sport in bbc news for now. thank you for watching. goodbye.

hello. full uk forecast in a moment. first of all, i thought i'd reflect on storm ingunn that came across the north atlantic wednesday and hit sweden and norway wednesday night, bringing what looks like being record—breaking winds, sustained winds of 122 miles an hour, parts of norway, and 116 miles an hour in sweden. unimaginable strength of the winds. there were even stronger gusts. the gusts that we recorded were even much stronger than those that hit southern england in the great storm of 1987 — one of the most powerful storms i've ever seen, storm ingunn. now it's the lovely end to the day on thursday, fine sunsets many of you spotted caused by the clear skies illuminating the cloud out west. but it is the cloud that's going to be winning the battle, i suppose, over the next few hours, progressively turning quite cloudy, a few patches of drizzle around, some rain into western scotland, but very mild air, again flowing in off the atlantic. we see high pressure to the south, weather fronts to the northwest where

it will be windy. gusts of wind reaching 50 odd miles an hour across northern scotland, where it'll be damp and drizzly across western areas. elsewhere, a lot of cloud to start the day. but given it's quite windy, i suspect we will see some sunny breaks breaking through across parts of east scotland, to the east of the pennines, probably eastern parts of wales, and maybe eastern side of both antrim and downs. so you might see some glimmers of sunshine. either way, it will be a very mild day. the air gets a little bit cooler across northern areas on saturday, say cooler, temperatures coming a bit closer to average, sunshine and showers working in here. again, it's quite blustery. england and wales having the thickest of the cloud with some patches of light rain coming and going. temperatures 1a degrees, again, well above average for this time of the year. the average in london is nine degrees. for sunday's forecast, again, we've got the mild air with us, but thicker cloud this time, so probably a higher chance of seeing some damp weather at times. the far north of scotland, again, quite blustery with some showers working in here. for most of us, temperatures again on the mild side, ten to 1a degrees pretty widely. but then after this mild run

of weather, might be something of a shock to the system to see the weather turns a lot colder next week. and for some of you, that means a return of seeing some snowfall. now it's a little bit less certain just how cold it gets further southwards across england and wales. but it could be that we see some snow. for the time being, the models are picking up thick cloud with outbreaks of cold rain at times.

live from washington, this is bbc news. the us imposes sanctions on jewish settlers who've carried out violence in the occuped west bank. ukraine's president has welcomed the approval of 5a—billion dollars in aid from the european union. hungary had been standing in the way. and — after a handful of the almost 20,000 children allegedly stolen by russia since the start of the war returned home, we hearfrom the ukraine commissioner for human rights. hello i'm caitriona perry.

we begin the program with two new developments from the biden administration in dealing with events in the middle east. first, presidentjoe biden has approved sanctions on four israeli settlers accused of attacking palestinians in the occupied west bank. biden signed the executive order saying violence in the region had reached intolerable levels. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says the vast majority of settlers are law abiding — but israel takes action against law—breakers and there was no need for the measures by washington. violence against palestinians in the west bank has spiked since hamas launched an unprecedented attack on israel on october 7th. the united nations estimates about 370 palestinians have been killed in the west bank since then. here in washington, the us state department urged israel's government to do more to stop the violence against civilians. there is no justification for extremist violence against a billions whenever the national origin,