time now for all the sports news in sport today. hello, this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. coming up on this programme. former england captain wayne rooney is banned after admitting to drink—driving giro d'italia organisers announce details of next year's historic start injerusalem and as afghanistan's cricket side rise up the world rankings we take a look at how a home grown t20 tournament is getting attention from all over the world. hello and welcome to the programme where we start with the news that the former england and manchester united captain, wayne rooney, has pleaded guilty to drink driving. the 31—year—old who now plays for everton has been banned from driving for two years and ordered to do community service. it's after he was arrested near his home in the north—west of england earlier this month and our sports editor dan roan was at the court hearing.

less than 2a hours after playing for his club, everton, wayne rooney arriving at the magistrates this morning over a drink—driving charge. flanked by police and security guards and the former england captain was escorted through a media scrum and accompanied by his agent. he was arrested in the early hours of september1 after being stopped by police, driving a car belonging to a woman he had met on a night out and who he was driving home from above. —— this bar. the court heard the 31—year—old had been three times the legal alcohol limit. wayne rooney spoke only to confirm his name, address and date of birth, issuing a guilty plea through his solicitor who said his client had genuine remorse for a genuine mistake. the districtjudge handed him a two—year driving ban and ordered him to carry out 100 hours of unpaid community work. he was told to pay £170 in costs. wayne rooney had written a letter to the court exposing his remorse and his solicitor asked he be spared

a community sentence because of his charity work. however, the judge said he wasn't convinced a fine would have the same punitive effect following what he called a very serious offence. ina in a statement, he said... yesterday, rooney made his first return to manchester united since leaving old trafford to rejoin everton this summer. the court heard his boyhood club was expected to fine him two weeks wages. the court heard that country's record goalscorer accepted the sentence and punishment. belgian champions anderlecht have sacked their manager rene weiler

after a poor start to the season. in his first campaign in charge he guided them to their 34th league title and the quarter finals of the europa league. the club have won just two of their opening seven matches this season though, and lost 3—0 away to bayern munich in the champions league last week. weiler‘s argentinian assistant nicolas frutos will take temporary charge. zenit st petersburg beat fc ufa 3—0 to move three points clear at the top of the russian premier league. the goals by forwards sebastian driussi and alexander kokorin, with a penalty from skipper domenico criscito set roberto mancini's zenit on their way to a an easy win. they're now three points ahead of second—placed krasnodar. last week we found out that the giro d'italia will start in israel next year — and on monday we got our first details about the route it will take. alberto contador and ivan basso helped show off plans for what promises to be a difficult start injerusalem. it will begin with a 10.1 km time trial in the hilly city, followed by road races on the next two days — between haifa and tel aviv and beersheba and eilat. it's the first time one of cycling's grand tours will begin outside europe.

this is a great honourfor us this is a great honour for us to host this. i think this is a state of confidence about the abilities of the state of israel to organise a very big sports event. they think that everyone who will come here will enjoy an unbelievable experience and of course this will be an excellent exposure for all the things that tourists can enjoy. an endurance cyclist has completed a challenge first set in the famous novel byjules verne. travelling around the world in 80 days. mark beaumont reached paris on monday, the same city from where the briton set off in earlyjuly. so he completed his journey more than a day ahead of schedule, cutting the previous world record by almost a third. a small crowd of well—wishers greeted him on the way to the arc de triomphe. where he completed his 29 thousand kilometre odyssey. some real eccentrics in montgomery

—— mongolia. i had a preacher reciting to me in canada and i never felt alone on the road at all. a real sense from when i set out here 78 days ago, is this possible? keep in mind, the old record was 123 days. this is not a marginal gain. people were thinking it was crazy and too ambitious. as the weeks and months have gone on, people have really started to believe in it and there has been a groundswell —— groundswell of support. people got excited. now to cricket where england have decided to stick withjonny bairstow as an opener for their first one day international against the west indies on tuesday at old trafford. bairstow replaced jason roy at the top of the order for the last one dayer the team played, which was in the semi finals of the icc champions trophy injune and he'll open with alex hales in manchester. lawn believes that the test side is

not up to scratch. we are so close to being a fantastic team but also too close to being too pooh team but also too close to being too poor. maybe in australian conditions oi'i poor. maybe in australian conditions on those pictures, it may be their downfall. australia's attack has got that little bit more pace and that is the area that really concerns me that the english test match team going to australia. afghanistan is starting to scale the heights in world cricket. the country was recently granted test status and has risen up the world rankings. now, its own home grown t20 tournament, taking place in kabul, is attracting attention from far afield, as keith york reports. ina

in a country with its recent chaotic history as afghanistan, cricket has remained and wafers of calm. despite the disruption to a match in kabul last week because of the bomb blast close to the stadium, this cricket league has proven a crowd favourite and now into its fifth year, afg hanistan‘s very own and now into its fifth year, afghanistan's very own t20 mac competition is starting to attract international talent. it has been excellent, the crowd support and security has been tremendous. we hope that it can only get better. and not just hope that it can only get better. and notjust on the field of play, former zimbabwe captain is amongst those behind the microphone as the afg ha n those behind the microphone as the afghan cricket board seeks to improve its media profile. all in all, afghan cricket is on the rise. this is something immense and we can

say that the cricket board has the capacity to be at the top and perform at the top. afghanistan can 110w perform at the top. afghanistan can now boast the ninth world ranked tea m now boast the ninth world ranked team in t20 cricket and were recently granted test that is. the future of afg ha n recently granted test that is. the future of afghan tennis may know no boundaries. to tennis, where the new women's world number one, garbine murguruza will play injapan this week in what will be her first match since moving to the top of the rankings following the us 0pen. the wimbledon champion and her spanish compatriot rafael nadal are the first players from the same country to hold the top spots simultaneously since 2003. it isa it is a great achievement and a dream come true since i was a little girl. i can't wait to play in this new moment and hopefully keep it long. the nhl‘s newest franchise the las vegas knights make their debut when the new season gets under way in early october.

the knights will be the only professional sporting franchise in the city with both players and fans excited about the expansion team and what it will mean we have been dying for a professional tea m we have been dying for a professional team and you see the excitement around town. everywhere you go, you see someone excitement around town. everywhere you go, you see someone with something on. going to the gym and working on my trainer —— working out with my trainer and seeing everyone there and the excitement they have, it is pretty special. i am looking forward to see it at the games and excitement in the ring. the william webb ellis trophy arrived in tokyo on monday as japan begins its two—year countdown to the country's hosting of the 2019 rugby world cup. wednesday will officially mark two years to go until the country becomes the first asian nation to host international rugby's biggest event. japan shocked south africa at the last world cup and they'll version.

i was at that game against south africa. what a game it was. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. but from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello there. with a ridge of high pressure building in for tuesday, it looks like today could be the better day of the week for most of us. a chilly start where skies cleared overnight. the temperature in the low single figures in some rural spots. this is the ridge of high pressure. this system will make inroads for wednesday. meanwhile, this is the weather front which brought the rain last night. there could be a few showers across the south—east as that weather front continues to clear.

essentially, a dry fine start, a chilly start and there will be some mist and fog around. some dense in places, central southern areas across the midlands into cheshire. eventually that will lift during the morning and potentially into some low cloud before breaking up. you can see plenty of sunshine on the map there for northern england into scotland. for northern ireland, however, clouds will thicken up, particularly across the west but there could be early brightness across belfast. the cloud is thickening here because of the weather front making inroads off the atlantic. elsewhere you will see a little cloud bubbling up through the day. there could be an isolated shower but most places will be dry. light wind as well, despite the chilly start it should get pleasantly warm into the afternoon. high teens across southern and eastern areas. still some strength in the sunshine. towards wednesday, the weather front makes inroads off the atlantic. we lose our ridge of high pressure.

but it will be bringing air from the south, south—west. that is always a mild directions, so temperatures will be on the rise. in fact, the eastern half of the country does not look too bad. through the day we will hold onto sunny spells and will feel quite warm. further west it goes downhill, windy with outbreaks of rain, quite heavy in parts of western scotland and northern ireland. 18 or 19 degrees again across the east and the south—east. on thursday it looks even wetter. this weather front has some heavy rain on it, particularly for the south—west of england towards wales, southwest scotland. could be concerned about rainfall amounts building up there by the time thursday is out. the south—east expecting similar sunshine and it will stay warm. let's zoom out and head across the atlantic in towards the caribbean because, of course, the next major hurricane in making inroads in towards the leeward islands. hurricane maria is a category four force storm, ploughing through some of the islands as it works its way west north—west. could be some heavy rain and flooding and coastal surge. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley,

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