hello from the bbc sport centre. india have levelled the series after winning the second test against england by 106 runs. despite a commendable batting performance from england, they were bowled out for 292, zak crawley top scoring with 73. india were impressive in their bowling, particularly jasprit bumrah who took nine wickets, finshing with 9—91. ravi ashwin also took 3 for 72 and is now on 499 test wickets. the series is poised at 1—1. ben stokes said he was encouraged by the performance from england. i'm happy with the way we went after that chase. that is how we play cricket. when an opportunity presents itself and it is a pressure

situation, i think that generally brings the best out of people. it doesn't always work, but there were a lot of times when we were on top of india and then india were able to produce something that then put them back on top. it is very difficult to get a victory in india. india head coach rahul dravid has been paying tribute to england. it is not wild at slogging and a lot of their_ it is not wild at slogging and a lot of their shots require skill and ability— of their shots require skill and ability and you cannot just go there and execute those things and say you want to _ and execute those things and say you want to attack but do not have the skills _ want to attack but do not have the skills to _ want to attack but do not have the skills to execute it so there is more — skills to execute it so there is more to— skills to execute it so there is more to it _ skills to execute it so there is more to it thanjust skills to execute it so there is more to it than just exciting cricket _ more to it than just exciting cricket and you can see that they know _ cricket and you can see that they know when — cricket and you can see that they know when to pull back and they know when to _ know when to pull back and they know when to attack and they are playing slightly _ when to attack and they are playing slightly differently, no doubt about it, slightly differently, no doubt about it. but _ slightly differently, no doubt about it, but they have been successful.

manchester city could overtake arsenal and go up to second place in the premier league if they beat brentford later. brentford are just three points above the bottom three, but striker ivan toney is back after serving an 8—month ban for breaking gambling rules. he's scored in both of their last games, as well as having scored twice when brentford won at manchester city last season, so pep guardiola's well aware of the threat he poses. an exceptional player, notjust with long balls, but with free kicks and in the penalty area, and he is an extraordinary player. i am happy he is back and hopefully that period is forgotten. for him and his family, an exceptional player, they are always more than welcome in the premier league. chelsea manager emma hayes says the lack of female coaches in english football is a massive

issue and she's urging the game to come up with more creative ways to tackle it. this is hayes�* final season before she takes up the role as head coach of the usa women's national team. she's one of only four female managers in the wsl and has been speaking about the issue to the bbc�*s sports editor dan roan. we have got to think differently about this. we need clubs to be in position to have minimum standards in place to hire women into the game, albeit assistant coach or coaching level, but doing that is a challenge. the week—long build—up to super bowl liii has started, with the kansas city chiefs and san francisco 49ers arriving in las vegas. american football's showpiece match takes place this sunday at the allegiant stadium.

the chiefs are aiming to win back—to—back super bowl titles for the first time since the new england patriots 20 years ago, while the 49ers will be making an eighth super bowl appearance. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye. returning to northern ireland now where prime minister rishi sunak and taoiseach or irish pm leo varadkar have visited stormont to mark the return of power sharing in northern ireland. i spoke to bertie ahern, former taoiseach between 1997 and 2008 and lord peter hain, former northern ireland secretary from 2005 to 2007. and asked them about their reaction to the political developments and the return of power sharing at stormont over the weekend and today. the institutions have been suspended too often and out of the last seven years we have lost five, but we are thankful for the progress that has been made over the last number of

months. i was hopeful that the institutions would back up before christmas, but better late than never. so i think the fact that saturday went well, we have now the first minister, deputy first minister, we have an executive, and it's a very experienced executive, i must say, and impressed with the appointments. i know most of them and the people who've served before, and i think they would bring a lot of experience and action to the job. and i wish them well and hope that we can have a sustained period now of really good executive functioning with the assembly in the north and north—south bodies as well. lord peter hain, just take us back. how was powersharing achieved way back when, when both of you would have been working together? how do you bring about an approach when politicians are coming from such a different perspective? how do you get people around the table and just talk?

well, first of all, it's a delight to be sharing this interview with bertie again, who played an absolutely crucial role with tony blair in the good friday agreement of 1998. and then in the agreement that i helped to secure under tony blair that brought ian paisley senior and martin mcguinness, ex ira commander, to share power amicably together. and that lasted for ten years before we hit these kind of bumps along the way. the important thing, and this is especially a message directed at the british government and the british prime minister, whoever that may be, is you've got to be seen to be an honest broker. and that was the crucial difference that tony blair made and bertie ahern made, and that helped create where we are now, which is to have a power sharing government out of the tangled, horrible history of northern ireland. and it's imperative that number ten downing street always plays that role.

and unfortunately, that's not been the case as it should have been since 2010. and that is in part responsible for the difficulties and the repeated suspensions that we've had since. being an honest broker, you don't take sides in london. you try to bring people together. perhaps we could just put that point to mr ahern, and we're talking a lot about the divisions in northern ireland between the politicians. but how important is that relationship between westminster and dublin? well, i think peter is is correct. i mean, i think what we managed to do and he was incredibly important to the whole process when we were there. but i think, you know, northern ireland is a divided society. i wish it wasn't, but it is and will probably remain so. so everything has its own context in northern ireland. all the time you have to be careful.

if the two governments work together, if the two governments are seen to work together. for example, i would have liked to see a joint press conference today, but anyway, i'm sure there were reasons why that wasn't the case. but i think peter will remember that tony blair and i always did that. whether it was a good day or a bad day, and we had plenty of bad days, we we worked together. but i think it is really important, particularly for the early years of this new executive, that the government, this government, whatever future government is there, work really closely together and try and help them. there are a whole lot of things in northern ireland that peoplejump on and the crucial thing today is that they work on implementing the good friday agreement, making sure the executive, the assembly, north—south bodies work and function, not to get drawn either where there should be an ireland economy or whether there

should be a referendum at some future date. i cannot tell you what would happen tomorrow, to be honest, so we need tomorrow, to be honest, so we need to focus on what is important and what is important is that northern ireland has a lot of problems with public sector workers and a difficult economy and it needs more investment and it needs to work with the eu and with the uk internal economy and with the republic of ireland, so these are the important things, and it's a toughjob and i wish the new executive members well. we had, you were coming up on the line, but before you started, we spoke to some young people in belfast and there was a mix of opinion, since they were embarrassed by the politicians, and these were people born well after the good friday agreement, they were sceptical, sceptical that power—sharing woodwork and a feeling that politicians were not doing the job they were being paid to do —— would work. how does that for your to you after you did so much to bring power—sharing to northern ireland? it

bring power-sharing to northern ireland? , ., , ., ireland? it is not easy being a politician _ ireland? it is not easy being a politician anywhere, - ireland? it is not easy being a politician anywhere, and - ireland? it is not easy being a politician anywhere, and it. ireland? it is not easy being a politician anywhere, and it is| ireland? it is not easy being a i politician anywhere, and it is not easyin politician anywhere, and it is not easy in northern ireland, but i think young people would find it hard to understand that people who are elected, say, over the last five years, and spent only two years at their desk, and in my day in politics you would not have got away with that, so you can't blame people, but people will want to see a young people will want to see educational services and they will want to see how the better and the economy being better —— the health being better. the politicians in the republic of ireland and london will want to help the politicians in the north, and what we tried to do was to be helpful and try to stop the violence and build a new society and get people to work together and that is all we ever wanted to do. that

was fascinating _ is all we ever wanted to do. that was fascinating to _ is all we ever wanted to do. that was fascinating to reflect - is all we ever wanted to do. that was fascinating to reflect on the events of today with bertie ahern and lord peter hain. do stay with us. we are awaiting, and we heard from peter hain and bertie ahern about the momentous events today at stormont, with the beginning once again of power—sharing after the two year hiatus. what you are looking at is stormont castle and we are expecting to hear from the first minister michelle 0'neill expecting to hear from the first minister michelle o'neill and also the deputy first minister emma little—pengelly. they are expected to come out and give it some sort of comment on what we have seen and heard today. we have been talking

about the fact there has been lots of meetings and they have met with the british prime minister rishi sunak and also had talks with his irish equivalent leo varadkar. we are waiting to hear the results of those discussions which we are hoping will happen. these discussions have been happening behind closed doors and we have heard from rishi sunak and leo varadkar but not so much from the first minister and the deputy first minister themselves. the first minister themselves. the first minister michelle 0'neill did say on twitter that she was looking forward to a busy day ahead. she said that she will represent everyone as first minister for all workers and families and public services and as

you will be aware, the first time back at work essentially after such a long hiatus. there is the first minister michelle 0'neill along with the deputy first minister emma little—pengelly. we can now hear what they have to say. this little-pengelly. we can now hear what they have to say.— what they have to say. this is our first day and _ what they have to say. this is our first day and we _ what they have to say. this is our first day and we have _ what they have to say. this is our first day and we have had - what they have to say. this is our first day and we have had a - what they have to say. this is our first day and we have had a busy| first day and we have had a busy morning and a good morning it is fair to say, as we commit to working together, we have had the prime minister visit and leo varadkar visit and we have talked about the issues of finances and public services needing to be properly resourced and we had a good discussion with the prime minister in relation to that and with leo varadkar in terms of north—south cooperation and how we can effectively work together. we will now go in and have ourfirst executive meeting and executive colleagues have been engaged all morning and i think we have a large entry of issues to get to, some of

which i might want to talk about. —— emma little—pengelly might want to talk about. we emma little-pengelly might want to talk about. ~ , . ., . ~ talk about. we will try and tackle the big issues — talk about. we will try and tackle the big issues and _ talk about. we will try and tackle the big issues and i _ talk about. we will try and tackle the big issues and i because - talk about. we will try and tackle the big issues and i because the | the big issues and i because the first big — the big issues and i because the first big issue is trying to secure the sufficient resources and the right— the sufficient resources and the right fiscal arrangements to make sure that — right fiscal arrangements to make sure that we can deliver and we know there _ sure that we can deliver and we know there is— sure that we can deliver and we know there is a _ sure that we can deliver and we know there is a clear expectation of delivering and we want to deliver and we _ delivering and we want to deliver and we need to fix our public services _ and we need to fix our public services and help those people who are struggling at the moment in terms _ are struggling at the moment in terms of— are struggling at the moment in terms of getting access to the necessary public services so we took the opportunity to raise the issue this morning directly with the prime minister— this morning directly with the prime minister and this morning directly with the prime ministerand i this morning directly with the prime minister and i welcome the fact the prime _ minister and i welcome the fact the prime minister indicated he will continue — prime minister indicated he will continue with those conversations and those — continue with those conversations and those will be detailed around issues _ and those will be detailed around issues like the fiscal floor and public— issues like the fiscal floor and public sector pay and we want to make _ public sector pay and we want to make sure — public sector pay and we want to make sure that this executive has the right— make sure that this executive has the right tools and the sufficient resources — the right tools and the sufficient resources to do what it needs to do and that— resources to do what it needs to do and that is— resources to do what it needs to do and that is to deliver for the people _ and that is to deliver for the people of northern ireland. we are up people of northern ireland. we are up for— people of northern ireland. we are up for the — people of northern ireland. we are up for the challenge and a very constructive working relationship to try to _ constructive working relationship to try to tackle those issues together

and with— try to tackle those issues together and with our executive tables around the executive table. rishi sunak has said this is a generous— rishi sunak has said this is a generous and _ rishi sunak has said this is a generous and fair— rishi sunak has said this is a generous and fair offer, - rishi sunak has said this is a | generous and fair offer, {3.3 billion, — generous and fair offer, {3.3 billion, and _ generous and fair offer, {3.3 billion, and it _ generous and fair offer, {3.3 billion, and it doesn't - generous and fair offer, {3.3 billion, and it doesn't seem i generous and fair offer, {3.3 i billion, and it doesn't seem like generous and fair offer, {3.3 - billion, and it doesn't seem like he is offering — billion, and it doesn't seem like he is offering you _ billion, and it doesn't seem like he is offering you more _ billion, and it doesn't seem like he is offering you more money. - billion, and it doesn't seem like he is offering you more money. whatl is offering you more money. what happens _ is offering you more money. what happens if— is offering you more money. what happens if the _ is offering you more money. what happens if the uk _ is offering you more money. what happens if the uk government- is offering you more money. what - happens if the uk government doesn't make more _ happens if the uk government doesn't make more money— happens if the uk government doesn't make more money available? - happens if the uk government doesn't make more money available? the- make more money available? the reali is make more money available? the reality is that _ make more money available? reality is that we need make more money available? tip; reality is that we need more make more money available? reality is that we need more to deliver good public services. the offer that has been put on the table sounds good in the face of it but when you break down into the detail there is more to be done. if we are going to be successful politically we need the resources to deliver good public services and i think the prime minister heard that loudly and clearly from all executive colleagues. you will be aware we have signed up to a joint letter which be handed to the prime

minister today and we are not working on failure, we are