hello, i'm tulson tollett, and this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme: the iaaf says russia will remain suspended for august's world athletics championships in london. south african rugby union is in mourning afterjoost van der westhuizen dies age a5. and cry for me, argentina. the defending champions are knocked out of the davis cup. hello, and welcome to the programme, where we start with the news athletic‘s world governing body the iaaf have confirmed at a council meeting in monaco that the russian athletics federation will not be eligible to compete at the world championships in london later this year. some russian athletes may though be able to compete under a neutral banner, subject to satisfying testing criteria. russia was suspended by the iaaf in november 2015 after an undercover investigation into a state sponsored systematic doping programme meaning athletes missed the rio olympics last year. the country is now not expected to be fully reinstated

until november of this year. we're not going to change the culture of something that has been prominent for a0 or 50 years and, actually, not just simply prominent for a0 or 50 years and, actually, notjust simply in russia. we do want to see some sign that there is a cultural shift. we are not going to resubmit rusaf, the newly reconstructed russian federation yet, then the clear indication is that they would appear, if they do, as neutral athletes. now to the news that one of south africa's most successful rugby union stars, joost van der westhuizen, has died at the age of a5. he had been diagnosed with motor neurone disease in 2011 and was part of the 1995 world cup winning springbok side before going on to captain the test team for four years including the 1999 world cup. capped 89 times for his country he's widely regarded as one of the best scrum—halves to have played the game. players and coaches past and present have been paying their respects. he has been a great servant of the

game of rugby, you know, and my first encounter with him was in 1990 when i played with him against the bulls, where he showed great potential as captain of the bulls. he wanted to win every single game he played, and he took that right through his career. that is how i knowjoost, he through his career. that is how i know joost, he is through his career. that is how i knowjoost, he is a respectful person, he cares about people, and that's why he created the foundation, to look after people with motor neuron disease. defending champions argentina have been knocked out of the davis cup. they were beaten 3—2 by italy in a deciding rubber held over by rain on sunday. at 2—2 the tie boiled down to a match between italy's fabio fognini and guido pella. and the buenos aires crowd were in good spirits as their man won the first two sets 6—2, 6—a. but it was downhill from there for the argentines,

as fognini recovered his composure and won the next three sets 6—3 6—a 6—2 to give italy victory and they'll now play belgium in the quarter—finals in april. staying with tennis news, canada's denis shapovalov has been fined $7,000 by the match referee after being defaulted from his match against great britain's kyle edmund at the davis cup. shapovalov hit the umpire in the eye with a ball seemingly struck in anger. edmund had just broken serve to lead 6—3 6—a 2—1 when frustration got the better of shapovalov. a default followed, giving the british a 3—2 victory in the world group first—round tie in ottawa. england director of cricket andrew strauss said alastair cook had become "drained" as test captain. cook has stepped down after a record 59 matches in charge. he's england's highest run—scorer in test cricket, while his 1a0 test appearances and 30 centuries are also national records. my

my conversations with him injanuary became pretty clear that, you know, he felt that the huge amount of energy and drive and determination was needed to take the england test tea m forward was needed to take the england test team forward over the next 12 months 01’ so team forward over the next 12 months or so heading to the ashes, and deep down he was getting drained piety, i suppose, relentlessness of being captain. you are the only one who knows how much gas is left in the tank, you only know the demands as captain, how much that's taking out of you, and alistair was honest about that and he feels it's time for some new blood, some new impetus, some fresh thinking. he's had some difficult to overcome, both personally and collectively, over five years. he stuck with that unbelievably. certainly, at times, you know, a letterman wouldn't be able to deal with those. —— lesser man. the cameroon players were given a heroes‘ welcome on monday after returning home as africa cup of nations champions. thousands of delirious fans lined

the streets outside the airport in the capital younde to snatch a glimpse of the team and the trophy. the indomitable lions came from behind to beat egypt 2—1 in the final in gabon. it all began just over three weeks ago. 0ur reporter piers edwards looks back over the tournament's highs and lows. africa's most colourful characters and finest footballers came to gabon. any dessau did well in their debut, as did uganda. hopefully we can come back. early on, shock exits for the favourite algeria and defending champions ivory coast, beaten by morocco, and the man who led them to their 2015 title. meanwhile, gabon became only the fourth host to fail to reach the

knockout stage. if we had all of the patients, hospitals and whatever, i feel even if we lost the game people would have been happy. some protested again the cost of hosting the cup for the second time in just five years. one example this new stadium 15 kilometres out of town, seemingly a white elephant amid a ra i nfo rest. seemingly a white elephant amid a rainforest. we don't really know what we are going to do with the stadium after the game because no one can get there. and this pitch was also an issue. to the delight of fans, burkina faso reached the final four alongside ghana, egypt and cameroon. mane, the fall guy for senegal. and the tournament's oldest ever player, the aa—year—old al hadare helped egypt reach the final. and in the other semi, cameroon stu nt and in the other semi, cameroon stunt gun. we are the best. --

stunned ghana. it was the best nations cup final in years. where is the next final in two years' time? well, it is cameroon. barcelona coach luis enrique is warning his players against complacency ahead of tuesday's copa del rey semi—final second leg against atletico madrid. barca edged last week's first leg at the vicente calderon in madrid 2—1 meaning atletico need to score at least twice, due to the away goals rule, to stand any chance of progressing to the final. translation: there was the logical concern for these kind of matches as the first leg result was good for us, but i think there is no one player in the team who thinks the job is done. on the country, we will suffer, for sure, because of the

rival‘s need. we have to deliver a good version of ourselves. it would be ridiculous to think this is going to be easy. tom brady collected his fourth super bowl mvp award on monday morning, but the new england patriots quarterback was still looking for the jersey he wore against the atlanta falcons when guiding them to their improbable victory hours earlier. the 39—year—old was in downtown houston to be presented with the accolade from super bowl 51 by nfl commissioner roger goodell. goodell was responsible for upholding brady's four—game suspension at the start of the season for his role in deflategate, making for what must have been a particularly awkward mvp—award exchange, even if both men were smiling on the outside. and brady admits his shirt could be worth some money if it ever appears on a well—known auction site. i put it in my bag and then i came out and it wasn't there any more, so... out and it wasn't there any more, so... it's unfortunate, because a nice piece of memorabilia, so if it shows up on ebay somewhere, someone

let me know, try to track that down, so let me know, try to track that down, so it's just such an exciting game and, you know, it's an honour to be here and have the commissioner, you know, present us with this trophy, you know, it certainly means a lot and... you know, my kids will be happy to see that trophy. they a lwa ys happy to see that trophy. they always ask, "daddy, what about the trophy? " so i get to bring that one home, so it's pretty cool. then the champions landed in boston and little later. and then a 30 mile drive to the home stadium. but look out, someone forgot to change the "good luck" to" champion". i am sure it will be changed. you can get all the latest sports news at our website, that's bbc.com/sport. you can find out about the patriots

and the iaaf and everything else as well. but from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello. monday turned out to be quite a day of weather across some parts of the british isles with a combination of wind and rain and hill snow through the northern parts. tuesday, a chilly start wherever you may be but there still will be some of that monday rain lingering, especially across the eastern side of both scotland and england, because that weather front will make very, very slow progress through the day into the north sea and that keeps that chance of a little bit of rain still there across those eastern parts. where the skies clear further west, it'll be a really cold start, northern ireland, maybe some sheltered spots across the western

side of both england and wales. here, the skies will have cleared for some overnight, and that will give rise to some sunshine first up across the south—west into wales but you'll notice there are showers not very far away. move a little bit further east from that, this is where we get into that murky zone all the way from central southern england through the midlands to northern england and southern parts of scotland. further east again, there the rain from that old weather front. across western parts of scotland and western parts of northern ireland initially, this is where we are going to see some pretty hefty showers, at times, just merging together to give some longer spells of rain with the chance, i would have thought, of a little bit of hill snow yet again. on through the course of the day, those showers really getting going across parts of wales and the south—west, you might even hear the odd rumble of thunder in the mix there. i think improving conditions gradually getting into central southern england and maybe the north—west of england and south—western scotland. and relatively speaking, compared to what's to come, those temperatures not too bad. nine or 10 degrees across western parts but, in the east,

around six degrees. as far ahead as wednesday, that weather front is still lurking. it is heading back towards the west, wouldn't you just know it, not the same intensity i suspect than we've seen of late and that and that is going to open the door eventually to some cold air which, as we get on through thursday and into friday, absolutely wins out such that cold air comes to sit across the british isles in the latter part of the week with the mild air lurking out in the atlantic. and this is the difference it makes to the temperatures. no longer eight, nine and ten. it's three, four, five and six for many of us with only the western fringes pushing towards seven or eight degrees. a lot of cloud around. i'm afriad it is going to be fairly leaden skies and that cooling process continues apace on into thursday, two, three, four, five or six degrees so that by the end of the week there will be cold easterly wind with a lot of cloud and the odd snow flurry too. the latest headlines from bbc news. i'm lebo diseko.

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