tv Sport Today BBC News March 6, 2017 1:45am-2:01am GMT
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world number one, dustinjohnson, wins the wgc event in mexico city. and fans of peshawar zalmi celebrate after winning cricket's pakistan super league title. hello, and welcome to the programme, where we start with english premier league football. tottenham have trimmed the gap to seven points between themselves and english premier league league leaders chelsea, who play west ham on monday, after spurs scored a 3—2 win over everton. the england forward harry kane scored twice moving him to 19 league goals for the season and also taking him top of the goalscoring charts. dele alli got tottenham's third late on. impressive handshakes all—round. but two late everton goals did set up a nervous finish. we scored in the third and we
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thought the game was over. but a lack of concentration at the end came together to let a goal conceded like this. it was tough in the end. iam like this. it was tough in the end. i am disappointed. but very pleased because we played very well and it was fantastic. sergio aguero scored in the first half, and leroy sane after the interval, guiding them to victory over bottom of the table sunderland, who are now six points from safety. pep guardiola's side move to within a point of second placed tottenham and eight off the league leaders, chelsea, with 12 games of the season remaining. we made a good performance. the first few minutes were tough because we expected how aggressive they would be in terms of intensity. we
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we re would be in terms of intensity. we were lucky we made a very good first goal. but we got the half—time1—0. it was completely different. drawing and losing. in the second half we played very, very good. well, you cannot fault the players for any of that. they gave everything they can. we did get the ball back and we won it back quite often. the energy, everything went towards the gameplan, and we try to do what we could do win the game. in spain's primera division, atletico madrid were 3—0 winners over valencia in their first match since fernando torres was taken to hospital with a head injury in a match on thursday. the spanish international was in the stands at the vicente calderon stadium to see his side claim victory, with kevin gameiro putting diego simeone's side 2—0 up just after half time. before french striker, antoine griezmann, picked up his second of the match, and 12th of the season
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in the league, as his side also won for the first time in three matches. also on sunday, there were wins for deportivo la coruna and las palmas, along with athletic bilbao, who move up a place to seventh after victory at home over malaga. in spain's serie a, leaders, juventus, were held to a 1—1 draw away to udinese. but they extended their lead over second—placed roma to eight points, while sixth—placed inter continue to play catch—up, after ivan perisic scored twice in their 5—1 demolition of cagliari. and lazio move fourth after ciro immobile scored both goals in their victory over bologna. in germany's bundesliga, fifth—placed hertha berlin had a day to forget, beaten i—o away by relegation threatened, hamburg. albin ekda with the goal, although the defence was questionable. eintracht frankfurt, two points below hertha, failed to take advantage though as they lost 2—1 at home to freiburg. there was an upset in the netherlands, as the rotterdam derby saw sparta beat the league leaders, feyenoord, 1—0, ending their ten—game winning streak. the winner came
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after just 48 seconds. how about this for a cross from jerson cabral and mathias pogba? the younger brother of manchester united's paul did the rest as he placed himself neatly between the two defenders. argentina striker, carlos tevez, marked his chinese super league debut by scoring, as shanghai shenhua beat jiangsu suning 4—0. tevez had a hand in all four goals and won a penalty for his side's second, which he swiftly dispatched. the new season kicked off on friday. now to golf. world number one, dustinjohnson, has cemented his position at the top with a one—stroke victory at the wgc event in mexico. the american, who finished 14 under, has held the ranking for the past fortnight, and became just the fifth player to have won his first event since moving to the top of the rankings. he held a four—shot lead mid—way through the round, but some poor
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shots, coupled with putts like this from england's tommy fleetwood, who finished second, sanohnson hanging on for the title, which he did by parring the final hole for a 14th win on the pga tour, including four victories in world golf championships. england have won the second one—day international against west indies by four wickets in antigua. joe root was 90 not out, with chris woakes also unbeaten on 68, as the tourists took an unassailable 2—0 lead in the three—match series. earlier, liam plunkett claimed figures of three for 32 as the hosts were bowled out for 225 more than two overs short of their allotted 50. india are still struggling to find form in their test series with australia. the visitors lead the four match series 1—0, and at stumps on day two of the second test in bangalore, hold a first innings lead of 48. matt renshaw and shaun marsh half centuries helped australia reach 237 for six at stumps. this morning, the aim of the game
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was to bat as long as possible. the indian players have come off of a long summer and have played a lot of tests. we knew that if we could get them into a high amount of those, we would be in a good position. peshawar zalmi have won the pakistan super league title after a 58 run win over quetta gladiators in the final on sunday. it's the second successive year that quetta have finished runners up with the match played amid heightened security as patrick gearey reports. this is what it takes to stage a cricket match in lahore. 10,000 security personnel and three checks on the way into the stadium, which last hosted cricket internationally in 2009 when the team was attacked by terrorists on the way to the again. the fans got to watch the final on their own soil rather than in the united arab emirates. not
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eve ryo ne in the united arab emirates. not everyone shared the enthusiasm, as some thought it was too risky. brendon mccullum, for example, did not travel. some dead, including the west indian captain, who won the game. —— some did. as a cricketing spectacle, it this was something of a one—sided anti—climax. 0f spectacle, it this was something of a one—sided anti—climax. of but for some who have seen the sport they love kept at a distance from them, it was worthwhile. what can i tell you? it was like playing anywhere else in the world, like india or pakistan. today, ithink else in the world, like india or pakistan. today, i think cricket is the winner. it showed we could come here and the players could have a good time and enjoy playing cricket here. good stuff indeed. it was a good sunday
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for great britain at the european indoor athletics in serbia. laura muir became only the second briton to win two individual events after adding gold in the 3,000 metres to the 1500 metres title she took 2a hours earlier. she stormed to victory in belgrade in a championship record time ahead of turkey's yasemin can and compatriot eilish mccolgan. muir's achievements matched those of colinjackson set in paris 23 years ago, before she was even born. asha philip pulled off a surprise, breaking the british record on her way to winning the 60 metres. it's her first individual medal at a major senior championships and she's also the first british winner of the women's 60m title since beverly kinch at gothenburg “119811. the day's action was also lit up by serbia's ivana spanovic, who delighted the home crowd by retaining the women's long jump title with a jump of 7.24 metres, shattering her personal best by 17 centimetres. only two women have jumped farther indoors, both in the 1980s, east german, heike drechsler, and soviet, galina chistyakova. you may have heard of heike.
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last year's tour de france runner—up romain bardet has been kicked out of the paris—nice race after being caught in sunday's first stage hanging on to a team car. bardet later said he was deeply sorry. the stage was won by his compatriot, arnaud demare. he outsprinted julian alaphilippe to win the 148.5 kilomere stage of the week—long race, with norway's alexander kristoff third at the finish in the west parisian suburbs. what a picturesque race indeed that would be. that's all the sport. for all of the stories, you can go to the website and of course you can also follow us on twitter. from me and the rest of the magnificent sport today team, goodbye. hello, there.
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good morning. well, we saw all sorts across the uk for the second part of the weekend. we saw a bit of rain and some brighter weather. so some rainbows in places but some of the showers were really quite heavy and they contained hail. have a look here at 0xfordshire. and we also saw some snow. yes, snow there over the higher ground in wales. so a variety of weather. all down to an area of low pressure swirling around the heart of the uk. that is drifting its way ever eastwards and will continue to do so over the night. gradually things are calming down, although it is still fairly gray over the eastern side and into the small hours of the morning with small outbreaks of rain. another area of rain moving into the south—west of the uk. it will be chilly, generally speaking. temperatures up to five degrees and a touch of frost possible in the north of scotland. it is notjust rain across the south—west of england,
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there is potential for snow on the tops of the moors. apart from that, an ugly commute with the surface water and spray. the bulk of wales and the midlands and the south—east of england gets off to a reasonable start although some eastern counties are still fairly cloudy. the north—west of england on a bright start to the day. maybe a few patches of mist, however a little bit of misty fog in some parts of scotland. scattered showers towards the north and west, where it will be quite breezy as well. quite breezy too down towards the south—west of england but that breeze should help push that rain away. things will be improving all the while here. elsewhere it looks like it could turn into a day of sunny spells and showers, with most across central and eastern areas. sunny out the further west you are. although we will see fair bit of cloud and rain moving in here. top temperatures up to 11 degrees. as we go through monday evening, things will quiet down. pressure builds across the uk,
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rain comes for the far north of the uk where it will still be quite windy but we are looking west for the next spell of wind and rain to head our way. before it arrives it will be a cold start to the day, 3—5 degrees again. bright start to central and eastern areas but out west it is going downhill through the morning and into the early afternoon. that wet and windy weather spreading from the west. and then in the evening, rain makes steady progress across the eastern side of uk leaving behind a brisk breeze for wednesday, coming in from the northwest will be a lot of cloud and outbreaks of rain with that. it looks like it will be cloudy again on thursday with some rain and the temperatures are on the rise. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. i'm ben bland. our top stories: north korea test—fires four ballistic missiles. as three land in the sea nearjapan, tokyo calls them a grave threat. tap or no tap — a former us intelligence chief denies president trump's claim that his phones were tapped during the election campaign.
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