indeed. the winner has been announced for the mercury prize 2017. he goes by sampha, this was the announcement made a few minutes ago. the winner of the 2017 hyundai mercury prize is... sampha. in case you don't know anything about their music, he is actually quite a soulful artist who has worked with a number of big—name artists such as beyonce and kanye west. this is a flavour of what his music is like. #no music is like. # no one knows me like the piano #. yes! and this is sampha.

congratulations on your award. how does it feel to be the mercury prizewinner 2017? it feels amazing! it's like a dream, to be honest. how did it feel to be even nominated?m was amazing just to be nominated. that was great. it's something i've watched for years. about, i have watched for years, it felt great. your album, the process is about personal stuff. can you talk us through what it took to write? writing helped me through my day—to—day life. i was going through some hard times of looking after, you know my mother. she was ill. and music really was like a cathartic thing for me, something for me to express myself and not let the world get on top of me. so, yeah, it was an important thing. now, this is obviously an open time for collaborations. there is a lot of

artists we saw skepta come in and hug you, who are you going to work with, you have worked with drake, beyonce, anyone you have your eye on? i would love to work with people like stormzy and owen. lots of people i love to work with. congratulations on your award, i hope you have a good rest of the night. that's the mercury awards 2017. . cheeky, thank you. on newsnight we ask if bitcoin is on the collapse and we report from the militarised zone between north and south korea. here on bbc une it's time for the news where you are. hello, and welcome to sportsday.

i'm hugh ferris. the headlines tonight: chaos as cologne fans take over london, and the emirates stadium, as arsenal's match against the german team is delayed by an hour. everton are embarrassed in italy, losing their opening europa league match 3—0 against atalanta. was this the kick that kept hull fc in the super league play—off picture? details coming up. and essex win again to move ever closer to a first county championship title in 25 years. hello again.

chaotic scenes throughout the day led to arsenal's first europa league match against cologne being delayed for an hour tonight. we'll show you the action in a moment. but first, what led up to it. as many as 20,000 german fans had descended on london for what was their first european match for 25 years. they were led by police through the city centre, with reports of bottles being thrown. only 3000 had tickets. and so the situation outside the stadium became ever more difficult, with those extra cologne supporters either trying to get in or stopping others doing so. inside, it was clear many had managed to buy tickets from touts, with arsenal fans getting in touch with the bbc to say they were surrounded by german supporters, with others climbing over barriers to join those in the away end. our reporter dan johnson was outside in the minutes leading up to kick—off.

well, this game between arsenal and cologne was due to kick off at 8:05pm. but it has been delayed by the police, they say, because of safety concerns. we have had a statement from the metropolitan police saying that they have offices here dealing with disorder at the stadium. we haven't seen anybody causing problems, but there are certainly thousands of fans outside the ground, and it looks like the sheer numbers of people have just been too much. that's why kick—off has been delayed for an hour. there are lines of police here, they have been holding back for a certain amount of time. we have seen groups of cologne fans through the streets around the stadium in north london. very noisy, very boisterous, they made their way up oxford street earlier causing traffic problems. we understand there are thousands of people already in the stadium. we can't see what is going on in there, but certainly there is a lot of

noise. a bit of a stand—off, while eve ryo ne noise. a bit of a stand—off, while everyone tries to work out what is happening. well, the match did kick off, an hour later than scheduled at 9:05pm. cologne fans scattered all over the stadium. and their whereabouts all too obvious when they took the lead. jean—claude by firing in from 45 yards out. cue the wild celebrations from the travelling fans. everywhere that they were, arsenals doing their tea m that they were, arsenals doing their team off at half—time. in the last few moments, they have gone ahead. it brilliant solo effort from alexis sanchez has given the gunners the lead. they are too one ahead with just over 15 minutes to go. —— 2—1 ahead. within the last hour, we've had an update from the metropolitan police, who say they've made four arrests on suspicion of public order offences. everton also began their campaign in the europa league, with manager ronald koeman promising to date the

competition seriously. despite picking a strong team, they lost 3— 02 italian side atalanta. this is the first time an english club has faced atalanta. it was some welcome. the italian side forced to play 120 miles away from home whilst their ground is renovated. but clearly there's is a passion that travel. making iraq a shorterjourney from the back, was the defender going close —— a rather shorterjourney. so close he decided to up there. for the resulting corner. and he was glad he did. it has been more than a quarter of a century since ata la nta's quarter of a century since atala nta's last game quarter of a century since atalanta's last game in europe. now they were creating chance after chance, their second was quite magnificent. alejandro gomez, like his side, ruthless. just three minutes later, everton‘s frailties we re minutes later, everton‘s frailties were once again late there. the striker allowed to challenge unopposed, and challenged. for everton, tough to watch. it could have been more after the break, but by then, the damage was done. both

sides forced to travel, but only one looking right at home. essex are on the verge of their first county championship since 1992 after beating warwickshire at edgbaston. it would be their first county championship title in 25 years. they managed to beat warwickshire at edgbaston today. it means if lancashire fail to win their match at somerset tomorrow, which is looking likely, essex will be champions. it was a very impressive bowling performance from essex today — backed up by some brilliant fielding — dan lawrence taking this catch to leave warwickshire nine wickets down. a fantastic innings and 56 run victory. lancashire failed to win, they are in trouble against somerset. eight wickets down with only a very slender lead. somerset. eight wickets down with only a very slender leadlj somerset. eight wickets down with only a very slender lead. i couldn't have scripted it any better myself. what do you put it down to?” have scripted it any better myself. what do you put it down to? i think determination. i say determination, ididn't determination. i say determination, i didn't very much give the game up. tha nkfully i didn't very much give the game up. thankfully i took my chance, a lot

of people have helped me along the way. pretty much everyone in that dressing room have played their part. huge drama in superleague this evening, hull gave their play—off places a massive boost with a victory over wakefield. wakefield raced into an early ten point lead thanks to this trite from jacob miller. hull battled back and went ahead with a gareth ellis try in his final home game before he retires. wakefield had this, only for the finn to put it wide. wakefield are down in fifth, hull are in third. only the top four qualify for the end of season play—offs. she's a very familiarface end of season play—offs. she's a very familiar face in this country but she has enjoyed a spot of anonymity ahead of her professional debut at the home of boxing. nicola adams hasn't had a night in las vegas before as a pro, but she will fight on the undercard of the

meeting of two of the world best pound pound fighters. —— pound to town. and our ade adedoyin has been meeting a familiar face fighting professionally in vegas for the first time... ade... you join me youjoin me in you join me in a packed media centre. there is it discussion going on between the trainers of the fighters on the main event, gennady golovkin and alvarez. the fighters are having a rest day. the undercard fighters are taking centre stage. nicola adams was first up, addressing a packed auditorium full of journalists, she gave addressing a packed auditorium full ofjournalists, she gave a very confident speech, talking about how excited she was to be competing in the united states for the first time asa the united states for the first time as a professional and the impact a victory could have on her career. she now trains in the united states, in san francisco, under the watchful eye of virgil hunter, who also trained amir khan. —— amir khan. she said she enjoys her anonymity here

because the the prepare for saturday's about. she says a good performance on saturday would not only be good for her career but women's boxing in general. only be good for her career but women's boxing in general] only be good for her career but women's boxing in general. , a huge impact. with seen already, i don't even know if we have ever had women oi'i even know if we have ever had women on an even know if we have ever had women on an undercard of such a big event before in vegas. so we're definitely changing the game for the better. and i does tope women's boxing starts to really grow and expand, and we get to see a lot more, a lot more girls on the card. i'd love to be able to see women's boxing get to the point where it is of the standards of for example by ufc, it would be really good to see. nicola adams, sounding very confident ahead of saturday's about. she said she has set herself a target of winning a world title in the next year or so. a world title in the next year or so. that's not impossible, because another double olympic champion won another double olympic champion won a title with less than a dozen fights. nicola adams certainly seems

on course to do that. a big performance on saturday will certainly help in terms of giving her more exposure here in the united states. plenty more on that over the next 48 hours or so as we build up to that big fight on saturday night. there were birdies... but the wrong sort on what was supposed to be day one of the final women's golf major of the year. play has been abandoned for the day at the evian championship in france because of the heavy rain. the first group had completed just eight holes at the time. so the event is now a 54—hole tournament starting tomorrow. they will start from scratch tomorrow. just before i go, time to remind you that arsenal lead in cologne by 2—1. there are about ten minutes to go at the emirates, delayed by the hour because of all of the problems in london city centre and outside the emirates earlier on this evening. the goals from site kolasinac loetscher sanchez for arsenal. ten minutes to

90, sanchez for arsenal. ten minutes to go, they lead by 2—1 in the europa league. that's all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers good night. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are the broadcaster and campaigner henry bonsu, and kate andrews, director of news at the institute of economic affairs. welcome to you both. let's with you through the front pages and give you a flavour of what is to come. the ft reports that the bank of england has issued their strongest guidance in a decade that they are poised to raise interest rates. the express leads with new research that staying a

healthy weight slashes the risk of high blood pressure by almost half. the daily telegraph say the royal navy can only send a quarter of its warships to see due to spending cuts. the mirror claims1 million nhs workers demand a 3.9% wage rise to end the effects of the pay cap. the ayew covers the first day of hearings into the groenefeld disaster, with survivors accusing the enquiries —— inquiry chairman, sirmartin the enquiries —— inquiry chairman, sir martin moore—bick, of turning his back on them. the times reports on new guidelines that gps must refer almost 2 million people for nhs cooking and exercise classes. the daily mail says that well—off parts of the country are facing the construction of tens of thousands of new homes under a government plan to tackle the housing crisis. so, let's delve into some of those stories in a bit more detail. kate, kick us off

with the ft. this is about a little hint that has come today that the flat—lining interest rates that we have seen for so long may gently start to creep. it looks like a big tent. chris giles in the ft said the bank of england has issued its strongest guidance in a decade that it may raise interest rates. this is considered to be both a hawkish move, but also a surprise move. a lot of people will be quickly scrambling to reassess what they think is going to happen after this occui’s. think is going to happen after this occurs. you have debate on both sides. obviously, raising these interest rates to some would be a good depth forward to get rid of the artificial deflation of interest rates that has been very much in crisis mode, you know, how you might react to a recession or financial crash, but maybe not now. but of course people will be talking about house prices and how this will affect consumers at home. really there will be two sites do this, i'm sure. yes, i'm just wondering whether or not this was in the bank of england flying a kite. they've done this before, i've