15 minutes away from the start of the final day of the ashes test, but are we? could rain be about to deny australia. manchester united close the gap to leaders city in the premier league with a 2—1win over west brom. redemption for raneem el welily, the egyptian wins her first world squash championship after two previous final defeats. hello and thanks for joining us on sport today. we start our show down under, where england are on the brink of surrendering the ashes urn. day five of the third ashes test gets under way shortly in perth. at 2—0 down in the series, the tourists will resume on 13241, still 127 runs short of making australia bat again. it's a question of survivalfor england, but it seems as though lady luck could be on their side. we were going to be crossing to our reporter andy swiss at the waca, but due to adverse weather conditions, that's not happening. so rather than speaking to andy, let's hear from the players ahead of a potentially decisive fifth day. we will try to put the rain to the

back of our mind. we thought it would be more of a washout than it was. haven't seen a huge amount of rain in the time i've been at perth. the two guys at the crease spent a lot of time there in the first innings, slightly different conditions, we have do believe we can stay in the series and get over the line. tomorrow it will be tough, i'm sure there will be good balls flying out there but these two showed in the first innings they can to buy the crease for a long time so hopefully get off to a good start in the morning. it's obviously a pretty special wicket and to get root back in the sheds is important for us. four wickets, we would love to get out there for an extra half an hour and get the fifth wicket today but come back tomorrow for the next six. everything pointing for an australian victory to get the urn. this is the outlook in perth for

monday. it looks like it might clear up monday. it looks like it might clear up slightly later, but through the middle of the day it looks like lady luck is shining potentially on england and they might not even need any defiant final day hauritz there. fingers crossed for england fans right now —— heroics. jose mourinho has vowed that his manchester united side would fight until the last match after they moved back to within 11 points of premier league leaders manchester city courtesy of a 2—1 victory at west brom. romelu lukaku opened the scoring for his second goal in as many games before jesse lingard doubled united's lead before the break. the visitors appeared to be heading for a comfortable win until albion substitute gareth barry poked home from close range with 13 minutes left. and despite some late pressure, united holding on for the win to go three points clear of third placed chelsea. they are really strong, they are really aggressive. they can put

teams under pressure. we didn't have more problems because we had so much of the ball and had so much control by having the ball. but we knew that any timea by having the ball. but we knew that any time a situation could arise and it was that situation which woke up the stadium, gave them the belief that they didn't have until that moment and put us a little bit under pressure. but i think the performance was really good. liverpool moved back into the top four after hammering bournemouth 4—0 on the south coast of england. there were goals for philippe coutinho, dejan lovran before mo salah got his 11th goal in 11 games, his 20th of the season to end the tie as a meaningful contest after only 44 minutes. roberto firmino then adding a fourth. liverpool extending their unbeaten run in all competitions to 12 matches. we need really to be really

consistent, we need to be steady on track. we need to show all the time who we are and why we are together. so for today i'm really happy, especially because we have the christmas party tonight. first time i think that we have won before the christmas party. barcelona have restored their six point advantage at the top of spain's la liga. they beat deportivo 4—0 at the nou camp. luis suarez and paulinho each scored twice and despite lionel messi missing a penalty, they had more than enough to triumph and look to be in decent form ahead of el clasico next weekend. translation: this was a match where we struggled a little bit until we managed to open the play. despite that we had a couple of good chances after five minutes and once we scored and they attract more, every time we got the ball back we were creating dangerous situations. thanks to that we scored our goals

and could have scored more. gennaro gatusso labelled milan's shock 3—0 defeat to verona as embarassing. the big spending side are now 18 points behind leaders napoli after losing to the side second from bottom in serie a, that's despite a summer outlay of over $270 million. no problems forjuventus, who climb back into second while in the late kick off lazio drew 3—3 at atalanta. there was an egyptian double to celebrate at the world squash championships in manchester with mohamed el shorbagy and raneem el welily lifting the titles for the first time. with two previous final defeats, it was atonement for el welily, whose husband had been knocked out of the mens for el welily, whose husband had been knocked out of the men's competition in an earlier round. she beat her compatriot nour el sherbini, coming from a game down this time to win the second on a tie—break before easing through the next two. world number two el shorbagy, twice a runner—up, also prevailed over younger brother marwan. it was the first time two brothers had contested the showpiece

in its 41—year—history. yeah, i must say thank you so much to my husband for staying throughout the entire tournament. i know he's pretty disappointed to not win this time, iam pretty disappointed to not win this time, i am too, i wish he could have been holding the trophy today with me but i'm sure he will next time. british distance runner mo farah has been voted bbc sports personality of the year for 2017. in a surprise result, he beat boxer anthony joshua to the prestigious prize at a glitzy ceremony in liverpool. from there correspondent joe wilson sent this report. the world's superbike champion arriving in liverpool. jonathan wright had the best entrants. the toughest question was for the champion cyclist. chris froome, how did he explain testing above the allowed threshold for an asthma drug? i am an asthmatic, i have been since i was a child and i use a puffer to help me manage my asthma but i've never ta ken puffer to help me manage my asthma but i've never taken more puffs than i'm allowed. so this really is quite

a horrible situation. this man was the overwhelming bookies' favourite to win sports personality. well, anthony joshua stood on the red carpet among so many other famous sports men and women as a reigning world heavyweight champion but remember, this award is to acknowledge the sports person that most captures the public imagination. mo farah was with his children in london trying to do an interview before the vote began. young hussain thought sunday evening was family time. daddy! win you jonnie peacock was third, jonathan ray second, now kenny dalglish revealed the winner. stand by. mo farah! cheering me? really? now with just his eldest daughter alongside him, mo farah's reaction was wonderfully sweet but sadly short. the line to london was lost. in 2017, mo farah was

britain's outstanding individual athlete again. world champion again. but when technology allowed he said he expected to miss out at sports personality against yellow you compare yourself with other athletes and you say, yeah, could finish top three, i didn't think i would ever win this. came so close in 2012 and then, you know, i guess anything can happen. anything can happen was the story of the night. joe wilson, bbc news, liverpool. it was a bittersweet day for green bay packers star quarterback aaron rodgers. he returned to action for the first time since breaking his right collarbone on october 15th but couldnt stop his side losing 31—24 to the carolina panthers. rodgers threw three touchdown passes but was also intercepted three times as the panthers defence forced four turnovers. that win keeps them neck and neck with new orleans in the race for the nfc south title. the jacksonville jaguars meanwhile are returning to the playoffs for the first time in a decade thanks to a 45—7 drubbing of houston, while the vikings clinched the nfc north after crushing a depleted and rather disinterested bengals side. v6 rise and fall race in austria

took place the weekend. —— the sixth. what is it? it involves a key teams of intrepid winter sports enthusiasts tackling a mountain in a rather unique way. someone has to ski their way up it, that one clearly the least popular leg, then somebody gets the relatively less taxing job of paragliding down to the bottom. they then hand over to someone who proceeds to mountain bike back up to the top and then it's the turn of the final member to skiand it's the turn of the final member to ski and slalom townhill to the finish line. the win won injust under a0 minutes. that's all the time that we've got left for now. you can get all the latest sports news on our website at: but from me, marc edwards, and the

rest of the sport today team, we'll see you soon. bye—bye. it was a weekend of two halves, with saturday's sunshine replaced by sunday's cloud and drizzle. here was a scene by one of our weather watchers taken on sunday afternoon in stevenage in hertfordshire. grey skies there. monday will be a brighter start to the week ahead, which is looking mainly dry, rather cloudy, turning milder, particularly towards the west but we've got some dense fog patches to watch out for, particularly during tuesday. now, monday dominated by this big ridge of high pressure, so that's going to keep things generally dry and settled. quite a chilly start to the day with some frost around and also the odd mist and fog patch to content with first thing too. if we look at monday morning, 8am, if you're heading to work or on the school run for instance,

temperatures around four or five degrees across wales and the south—west of england. it's a dry start. colder, though, further east across england, towns and cities a degree or two above freezing. could be subzero in the countryside. watch out for the odd icy stretch, perhaps some fog patches up towards manchester. much of northern england, northern ireland and scotland looking dry to start off the day. but could be a little bit of mistiness around, which should slowly clear during the day. so plenty of dry, bright weather on the cards through monday with light winds too. and it will be turning that bit milder, particularly from the west. here we'll see temperatures between around seven to nine degrees. further east across the country, slightly cooler, typically around 4—6 for newcastle towards norwich for instance. then through monday night, that's when we start to see visibility really going downhill. notjust mist but really dense fog forming through into the early hours of tuesday. in fact, freezing fog across parts of the south—east, which will be really slow to clear. could be quite problematic during tuesday morning. in fact, you may well see disruption to travel, air travel, road travel

across central, southern and eastern parts of england with all that fog around. it will be really quite slow to clear i think during tuesday. further north—west across the country, its low cloud, hill fog and drizzle likely here. gradually pushing eastwards as we had through the day. gradually pushing eastwards as we head through the day. either way a foggy, grey sort of day. five or six celsius towards the south—east, 10 to 12 in the north—west. then as we move through into the middle of the week, this frontal system starts to slip south and east across the uk for wednesday. so wednesday, a north—south split. drizzly and grey in the south, brighter skies further north. temperatures around nine to 12 degrees. still a little showery rain across southern parts of england and wales on thursday. brighter with sunshine and a few showers per the north, seven to 11 degrees. bye— bye. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. i'm duncan golestani. our top stories: the un warns myanmar‘s leaders they could face genocide charges over the persecution of rohingya muslims. hoping to lead the anc and chart

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