wayne rooney's first premier league hat—trick in six years. rooney himself admitted that his effort from nearly 60 yards away was probably one of the best he has scored. olly foster has the story. all my word! wayne rooney was just 16 when he scored at goodison park for the first time. now he has over 300 goals to his name. as he beat the stranded joe hart, wayne rooney thinks this was his best yet. fell to me. he was of call. i caught it sweet. i saw you celebrating as soon as you hit that. i hit it hard enough to go in. it has been done before. beckham from the halfway line in 1996. that is phenomenal.

that remains a yardstick for the long—range wonder goal debate. shabby ones i did it twice. but it wasn't quite in the same league. wayne rooney's was it is not every game you will be shooting from there. it was the right time, perfect moment. it felt perfect to me. what makes it all the sweeter is doing it in front of the new boss. sam alla rdyce begins doing it in front of the new boss. sam allardyce begins work today, on a rescue mission to keep everton up. if wayne rooney stays fit and firing, they might just if wayne rooney stays fit and firing, they mightjust be all right. sam allen dice hoping that everton don't sink without trace. —— sam allen dice.

and finally... to the freestyle canoe world championships in argentina this week. where great britain's canoeists have been flipping their way onto the podium. the sport is described as gymnastics in a boat with paddlers performing as many tricks, spins and somersaults as they can within their timed run and bonus points are awarded if they can get their boat out of the water and into the air. great britain have picked up three medals so far, with claire o'hara picking up her ninth freestyle world title. the event continues over the weekend. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. sam allen don't forget you can follow the world cup draw in russia on the bbc

website. let's go back now to the brexit talks — and today on bbc news we're focusing on one of the major sticking points — the irish border. chris morris, from the bbc‘s reality check team, explained why the border has become an issue of such pressing concern in the brexit negotiations. the irish border is one of three issues on which sufficient progress needs to be made before the brexit negotiations can move on. and if no—one thinks it's a good idea to re—impose a hard border with checks and inspections, why can't we all agree that — come what may — it simply won't happen? well, it's because the uk has announced that it is leaving the eu single market and the customs union. at the moment, all rules and regulations, north and south, are exactly the same — on food safety, animal welfare. you name it. it's a relationship based in large part on agreements covered byjoint membership of the eu.

as soon as that changes, border checks may have to begin again. it's a relationship based in large part on agreements covered byjoint membership of the eu. as soon as that changes, border checks may have to begin again. that's why the irish government wants a written guarantee from the uk that northern ireland will continue to follow eu rules — so goods can continue to move freely across the border. to put it another way, northern ireland would have to stay in the single market and the customs union. but if that were to happen, it would — in effect — push the customs border out into the irish sea. an internal customs border, if you like, between northern ireland and great britain. would that be acceptable to the uk government, or to its unionist political allies in northern ireland, the dup? emphatically not. so what happens next — is there any compromise? the uk side has spoken of technological fixes — pre—screening of goods, trusted trader schemes. the eu side says it's fine up

to a point, but is nowhere near enough to avoid the return of some border checks. irish officials argue that there are already cases of rules and regulations being different in northern ireland than in the rest of the uk, and they point to other examples such as hong kong where there are different regulatory arrangements within sovereign states. so it's time for some creative thinking — the aim being no divergence of regulations in key areas. and the creation of some form of customs partnership on the island of ireland which doesn't threaten the constitutional order of the uk. but if a fix emerges that seems to turn northern ireland into a back—door route into the single market, then other eu countries will cry foul. and that means that even if sufficient progress on ireland is agreed next month, there will be a long long way to go. time for a look at the weather.

tonight, temperatures could well do paul tweed 2—8d or so in the rural highlands of scotland. —— tonight temperatures could well go down to minus eight degrees. this evening and overnight, we keep the showers coming over mainly eastern parts of the british isles. 0ut towards the west, in the countryside, it will be a very chilly night. widespread frost. but the cloud and breeze will generate those showers out towards the east. that could well be a bit ofan ice the east. that could well be a bit of an ice problem. more likely here i suspect them out towards the west where it will be a decidedly frosty start. nothing to frosty over the

northern and western isles. something milder coming in from the atlantic. back to that in a second. away from the eastern side, northern ireland, western scotland and much of central and western england and wales, just seen the first signs of something that had milder. so many of the showers on friday more likely at low levels to be watery rather than wintry and all the while the very best of the sunshine will be in the west. near the irish sea coast, there is the chance of some showers drifting down. you see temperatures a little higher than was the case through thursday. 0n towards the weekend, we have cut off the supply of north and north—east chilly breezes and are beginning to see a waft of slightly milder air coming from the atlantic. we won't see a

lot of sunshine. it will break at times. at least underneath the blanket of cloud the temperatures will be a bit higher, especially as we get towards sunday. you're watching beyond 100 days. washington and london — not such a special relationship after all. first donald trump retweets discredited far right videos, then he attacks the theresa may on twitter, then she calls him out on camera. this alliance is suffering. in an extraordinary transatlantic spat, he tells her to focus on her own problems. she tells him retweeting those videos was a bad idea. i'm very clear that retweeting from britain first was the wrong thing to do. reports here suggest rex tillerson may be out within weeks as us secretary of state — just more instability in an already precarious world.

especially true in north korea — after the latest missile test. the us warns pyongyang's leadership will be "utterly