these claims as unfounded and full. the so—called attacks are unjust. whatever the type of attack, whatever the incident, it is com pletely whatever the incident, it is completely false. late last year, american staff started suffering from headaches, dizziness and hearing loss. while the us has not formally accused cuba of carrying out any attacks, president of trump said last week that have anna was responsible. they did some bad things. as well as withdrawing their staff in havana, americans expelled 17 cuban diplomat in washington. cuba since that was the wrong decision and has made it harder to serve their citizens in the us. the us government made a baseless, shallow, hasty and unacceptable decision to expel 17 of our officials. this has a negative impact on our consular services, and makes it difficult for our

authorities and efforts to organise trips for president in the us. president trump has said that he would cancel the terrible and misguided steel with havana, but many businessmen... finding a solution for these cold war foes is proving as elusive as the mysterious source as the diplomat‘ illnesses. italian firefighters rushed to the rescue of a dog that was stuck at the bottom of a 25 metre deep forest pit in the north of the country. this is the dog out for a walk with his owner when he slipped. two firefighters will were down to rescue him. after a two—hour

operation, he was pulled up, unharmed and is said to be recovering well from his fall. after the sunshine of today, temperatures are falling away. clear skies and light wind for most of the uk. the wind blowing one or two showers on to coastal areas. but nothing to stop the temperatures falling. those are the numbers in towns and cities but in the countryside, widespread frost and an air frost countryside, widespread frost and an airfrost in some countryside, widespread frost and an air frost in some places as well. sunny start the many, showers coming in around the wash into norfolk should fade away. these weather fronts should introduce more cloud to scotland and ireland, more rain to scotland and ireland, more rain to the far north—west. cloud spelling in two northern england, wales and the midlands, limiting the

temperature. there is milder weather on the way as the south—westerly wind picks up blowing in more cloud across the uk. most of the rain will be in western scotland. hello, this is bbc news. the headlines: hundreds of thousands of people have marched through barcelona in support of spanish unity and against catalonia's unilateral declaration of independence. the international trade minister, mark garnier, faces an investigation, after he admitted asking his secretary to buy sex toys. the prime minister calls for changes

to disciplinary procedures to better protect house of commons staff from sexual harassment. heathrow airport says it's investigating how details of its security procedures were found on a memory stick lying in the street. and parents will no longer be able to use a legal loophole to avoid paying child maintenance, under new laws to be brought in within months. now on bbc news, sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday, with me jessica creighton. coming up for you this evening... a dramatic start at the mexican grand prix. a coming together of ca i’s grand prix. a coming together of cars means lewis hamilton's hopes of clinching his fourth world title seems unlikely.

in the battle of the new premier league managers, it's advantage puel, as leiecster beat everton they needed five additional minutes to do it, but gloucester have their first away win, in a thriller at bath. has been an astonishing start to the mexican grand prix. this could have been a raise lewis hamilton wins fourth world title. but the opening lap was dominated by so many different collisions. sebastian vettel‘s red ferrari hitting lewis hamilton's silver mercedes. both needed a pit stop in the opening lap. hamilton for a tyre change. he was asking his team if sebastian

vettel hit him on purpose. max verstappen currently leads ann hamilton is in 19th at the back of the grid with sebastian vettel in 11. it is very complicated, he the grid with sebastian vettel in 11. finish ery complicated, he the grid with sebastian vettel in 11.finish second plicated, he the grid with sebastian vettel in 11. finish second to cated, he the grid with sebastian vettel in 11. finish second to keep, he the grid with sebastian vettel in 11. finish second to keep his: the grid with sebastian vettel in 11. finish second to keep his title to finish second to keep his title hopes alive. lower than that and it will be lewis hamilton clinches his fourth world title. we will give you an update on that later in the programme. but first to football, where both the leicester and everton managers were taking charge of their teams for the first time in the premier league. it was claude puel‘s leicester who was victorious, leaving david unsworth's everton languishing in the relegation zone. tim hague reports. the side with a new manager against a side with no permanent manager. on top of that, leicester and everton are fighting for points down at the bottom. but only one side looked like they wanted to win this. gray was the outstanding performer. having already gone close himself,

he began the move for the first goal, which jamie vardy finished. a familiar sort of leicester move for an unfamiliar face familiar sort of leicester move for an unfamiliarface in the dugout. but it got even better. everton‘s season summed up but it got even better. everton‘s season summed up shortly after. great given the goal butjonjoe kenny helped him significantly. chance everton should have had the chance to get one back. the referee felt this wasn't a penalty. most others felt it was. in truth, everton didn't do enough to reduce the deficit. this effort, as good as any effort they could muster. these are worrying times for everton, fourth successive defeat is seeing daily—macro seemed inevitable. it is always frustrating you don't create the opportunities that will trouble the goalkeeper. as much as our possession and dominance was there, did we really create the

clear—cut chances that would get us back into the game? probably not. lots to work on, but the reaction from the players in the second half was great. it shows there is a willingness and desire to do the job. you know, i can't be pleased with the second half, but there is a lot to work on. in the lunchtime kick off, brighton came from behind to draw with their south—coast neighbours southampton. the result leaves both sides comfortably mid—table. adam wild reports. brighton in the lunchtime sunshine for the south coast derby. still not everybody felt the warmth of this neighbourly rival. looking to stop the brighter southampton the first to turn up the heat and apply pressure. james ward—prowse's free kick coming back of the post, steven davis the quickest two. in a first half of few clear—cut chances, brighton's shane duffy wasted the best of them. manager chris hughton where they can ill afford to do that. that was his half—time message. his players clearly listening. the first opportunity after the break fell to glenn murray, his third

in two games. the visitors had a chance to win. manolo gabbiadini perhaps unfortunate when this effort deflected over. 1—1 it remained, the points shared in the south coast sunshine. i thought the response was very good. we got stronger. as the game opened up. but these are a very good technical side and when you have gone 1—0 down so early, you are grateful to get back into the game and with possibilities of winning it. overall, it was probably a fair result. in the championship, birmingham & aston villa drew 0—0 in a tense west midlands derby, at st andrew's. struggling birmingham started well, with record signing ‘hotta' shooting over early in the second half. villa's keenan davis rattled the crossbar mid—way through the second,

but it wasn't to be. the point means villa keep their place in the league play—off places late, late drama in the women's super league, where title contenders manchester city scored not one but two stoppage—time goals to beat birmingham. and they had to come from behind to do it. the game looked to be heading for a 1—1 draw, before a long throw & this header from jen beattie in the 91st minute... izzy christansen then scored her second of the day with a penalty in the eighth minute of injury time, to maintain city's 100% league start to the season. 3—1 the final score. in the day's other games, league leaders chelsea ladies were as clinical as ever, thrashing bottom of the table yeovil 6—0. striker eni aluko scored a brace in herfirst match following that highly publicised pa rliarmenta ry inquiry. and arsenal women are up to fourth after beating struggling everton 2—0. gloucester have snatched a dramatic

22—21victory against bath in rugby union's premiership. it was thrilling end to the west country derby, as gloucester recorded their first league away win since march. patrick geary reports. ina roman in a roman city, victorian rivalry perfectly preserved for the next generation to enjoy. this was predicted to be a west country arm wrestle but it was more relay racing for the first half. willi heinz with the button and the dip borderline. bath's reply was over a longer distance. this was a game of unexpected surprises, take big turn—off turn of pace, then gloucester were four points ahead. it seemed to everyone, this was the

telling try. bath was still in front when the clock past lady. gloucester had to get the ball to the line, whether ed slater had it was down to the video referee. try. and owen williams kicked divided victory and defeat. rivalry of 135 years decided in the last second. rivalry of 135 years decided in the last second. so victory for gloucester. and in the day's other game leicester saw off newcastle 30—13. that moves them up to third in the table. in the rugby league world cup scotland have lost their opening match against tonga. the scots trailed 38—0 at half time but did manage to at least get on the score board with this try from danny addy. but the match ended 50—4 to tonga at full time. they did what we thought, come straight down the middle and powered through the middle. at first we were wide and made it easy for them to bust through the middle. second half we tightened up. conditions played a part. they played quality.

i think we only had two good balls since the first half. fair play to them. they tackled better and got the result. boxing now, and after defending his heavyweight world titles in cardiff last night, anthonyjoshua has his eyes on the other two belts missing from his collection. cementing a record breaking year, he beat carlos takam in front of 78,000 fans at the principality stadium, but it was less than straightforward, with the resiliant frenchman absobring joshua's heavy punches, referee phil edwards controversially intervened in the 10th round — a decisionjoshua defended afterwards. the referee's job is to let the fighter live on another day. do you know where i'm coming from? interesting, because ta kam was showing the referee signs that his eyes were nearly hanging off, because of the cuts, they were deep. but when the referee stopped it, he wanted to keep on fighting. but that is a fighter‘s instinct. 12 rounds for me is fine, a stoppage is fine.

england's women are right back in the ashes series after winning the third one day international against australia. it was a match england couldn't afford to lose. and their performance was much improved, 284 for 8 was their highest—ever odi total against australia, as the hosts lost crucial wickets late on. despite hitting a boundary to finish, australia fell 20 runs short of their target. and with australia only needing eight points in the series to retain the ashes, this win keeps england's hopes alive heading into the test match, & t20 matches to come. meanwhile, the mens team have arrived in australia ready for their ashes series which begins next month. captainjoe root has been talking up their chances, pointing to the strength they have in the squad, with the likes of alastair cook, james anderson and stuart broad. we have got three of england's best all—time players in terms of runs with alastair cook, jimmy and stuart broad. we have guys who have stood up over the last couple of years. we are a different side to the last time we came here. we are a side that has

shown a lot of character over the last 12, 18 months and i think that will hold us in good stead here. justin rose has won the world championships in shanghai — his first title since claiming a gold medal at the rio olympics last year. world number one dustinjohnson had been leading by six shots and was eight clear of rose after three rounds. but rose shot a five—under—par 67, which included eight birdies and three bogeys, to finish on 1a under. caroline wozniacki has won the the biggest title of her career at end of season world tour finals in singapore. she beat venus williams in straight sets. after wozniacki took the first set, she broke williams in the opening game of the second set on her way to a 5—0 lead. williams did fight back to win four games on the bounce, but wozniacki finally got over the line.