so lots coming up tonight but we're starting with football and one of the games of the season. this fixture was an absolute cracker. fifth plays against fourth place as arsenal played liverpool on a friday night for the first time since the title decider of 1989. drew savage reports. much had been made of the fixture and its pride and history, the only thing up for grabs tonight in the premier league but these days that fourth champions league spot is all—important. liverpool with philippe coutinho determined to grab it, arsenal booed off at half—time, liverpool should have had more, mo salah put them two up have had more, mo salah put them two up but they could've had three or four. the atmosphere changed, first alexis sanchez rose to the occasion. no celebrations at this stage, arsenal or business. now arsenal began to celebrate, and

we re now arsenal began to celebrate, and were leading a less than five minutes thanks to mesut ozil. great entertainment for the neutrals but both teams will be embarrassed by the mistakes, petr cech could not keep out feminism regrets on both sides, the draw 3—3 not much help to other‘s european hopes but for many european treatment different reasons but for different reasons, and night to remember. one point is an ok result for most teams, we deserved more and got only one but that is how it is. it feels not too good at the moment. in the first half we were frozen with fear, not at our level. we

could see the impact of the man united start here was there, in second half we played at our level. i must say both teams were going for it, and even if i am in the end frustrated that we did not win the game, on the other hand that's the kind of game you want in the premier league. the kind of game commentators doswell, conor mcnamara was watching alongsidejermaine jenas. what a game to kick—start the festive period, a lot of games will be played in the coming weeks, i'm not sure if anything will much that herdrama, not sure if anything will much that her drama, excitement or defensive mistakes! and really delivered. two teams coming into it, we felt there would be goals, it did not start of great, the quality wasn't there, as you said, there was mistake after mistake, one team leading in the first half and arsenal coming back

in the second and it ended up a fair draw. neither team deserved to win and neither deserved to lose!” would agree. it was disappointing to see two quality sides give away the leads they had, even for arsenal to fight back and get to that 3—2 position and still lose the chance to win and liverpool lead by two goals and not be clinical enough, it tells you a lot about both teams and their aspirations of doing bigger things, but from an entertainment point of view i thoroughly enjoyed it. and both coaches did have the lead and threw it away to an extent, which one will be the happier. i think arsene wenger has to be happier, the game should have been dead and buried in the first half. the chances liverpool squandered. a couple from mo salah that we've seen him stick away, putting them 3—0 up in the first half, that is game down. and because they were not clinical enough they gave arsene wenger the chance to rally the

troops at half—time and change one 01’ troops at half—time and change one or two things. and when you are a player and you get those moments, you feel like actually you've got a chance, something might go your way, and two mistakes later and arsenal we re and two mistakes later and arsenal were back in the game. an absolute pleasure to commentate on amat, especially that come back down from arsenal, they scored goals in three minutes, we will be talking about that for years to come. thank you, to be busy‘s commentators, at that match. two of the world's most powerful former football officials have been found guilty of corruption in a us court today. the convictions are the first from the american led probe into the sport's world governing body fifa. our sports news correspondent richard conway reports from new york. arriving for the trial that has seen alleged death threats, jury intimidation, alleged suicide and accusations of corruption, this case

has been likened to one involving the mafia but the men are not mobsters, they were some of the most powerful figures mobsters, they were some of the most powerfulfigures in mobsters, they were some of the most powerful figures in football. juan angel napout of paraguay was vice president of fifa, the world governing body of football, and was accused of taking bribes worth £7.8 million from tv companies. he's been found guilty of three of five charges against. jose maria marin the one—time head of latin american football was found guilty of six of the seven counts of taking bribes against otherformer the seven counts of taking bribes against other former head of the peruvian football association is accused of conspiring to take bribes totalling £35 million. thejury has yet to make a decision on that charge. the roots of the case traced back to june 2015 when the charge. the roots of the case traced back tojune 2015 when the american authorities first swooped starting with a hotel alarm call in zurich that no one was expecting. 42 football chiefs and tv executives have been indicted. these defendants

began to seek to institutionalise the corruption so that it lived on not for the good of the game and that for their own personal gain.- securing convictions was not easy, manuel berger was accused in god of making a cut throat gesture towards the prosecution's star witness while an argentine official accused of taking cash took his own life. allegations of bribery at the top of world football began in new york two and a half years ago and many of the officials involved our core operating in the hope of getting a reduced sentence. the fall out for fifa does not stop with this trial and there are many references in court to future world cup. key witnesses described how payments allegedly stemming from qatar which will host the 2022 world cup were made to senior officials. yet they did not state what the money was for. tournament organisers insist there is no evidence of wrongdoing. the past few years have been very twenty20 century. and with it — helping his side wrap—up their series

against sri lanka. sharma made his hundred off 35 balls, matching david miller's century for south africa in october eventually out for 118 a record high score for india. premiership rugby union is back this weekend after the european break, and in tonight's game worcester won the battle of the bottom sides. beating london irish 23—8 at sixways. welsh wing josh adams scored both tries for worcester in front of a season's best crowd. it's worcester‘s 3rd win in four and eases their relegation fears while condeming irish to another dfeat. they're now 10 points adrift at the foot of the table afterjust one win all season. now real madrid versus barcelona is always a huge game but while barca are currently 6 points clear at the top of the table — their old rivals real madrid are a long way behind them in 11th place. so as ronaldo and messi prepare to lock horns once again, this weekend's el classico is as much about the political situation in spain as it is about the football. joe lysnkey reports. commentator: a chance for ronaldo!

they are the superstars who define their era, the players on each side of footballs game. with lionel messi and ronaldo fans tend to bigger side but in spain there are no greater divisions. this is the first el clasico since october's band independence referendum and it comes just days since catalonia went to the polls again. among the voters was gerard pique a barcelona, a prized asset for both his region and for spain. translation: to be able to vote historically has not always been possible in this country. and 110w been possible in this country. and now it is, we have to defend that, always. this is not a rivalry used to bringing sides together but football can sometimes heal some of the wounds. this comes after the election yesterday, the situation was very hard on both sides, i would say more in catalonia but after this week everyone feels more released andi week everyone feels more released and i think everybody wants to focus

on sport. this will be common ground, a piece for everybody and of course barcelona will want to win this game because this is a big step for la liga. it is barcelona enjoying football dominance at present, leading real by 11 league points. although sports will not fix everything here there joys points. although sports will not fix everything here therejoys both teams can share. and suddenly the eyes of the world turn to madrid to seek the footballing superstars. gillingham ski bbc news. that's it from me and the sportsday team. good night. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow.

with me are martin bentham, home affairs editor of the evening standard, and the political strategist jo tanner. good evening to you both. tomorrow's front pages. the i says "boris slugs it out with the bear" — as it reports on the foreign secretary's frosty visit to moscow. the times pictures borisjohnson on his russian trip —— it's main story is about claims the government is considering a new road toll charge to cut congestion. the ft reports on the drop in the value of bitcoin which tumbled by almost 30 per cent. (ani) the mail looks at the new blue passports set for britain following brexit — with calls that they should be produced here too. but for the guardian the new blue passports mean further red tape and delays at eu passport controls. the telegraph reports on what it calls a tax revenge on tycoons who bankrolled brexit, as some leave donors accused hmrc of a "political attack". it's going to be a balmy christmas,

according to the express, as the mild weather fools nature into thinking it's spring. and it's bar humbug from the sun —— it reports on u.s—owned cadbury replacing the traditional fudge bar from it's festive selection box, with a dairy milk oreo — one frustrated fan fumed "christmas is ruined". that was too many fs for me! let's go to the front page of the i newspaper. boris slugging it out with the bear. boris looks a bit bear— like in that photo. any surprises in the fact that it was a difficult meeting. i guess it was not set up to be a particularly friendly event. i think the comments from the prime minister about, we know what you have been doing, —— the comments from the foreign minister, what he said in the autumn, we have kind of been expecting that, i don't know if

anyone expected the meeting to go quite the way that it did with talk about kettle chips being exported, boris made quite a few interesting comments and there was a most bizarre exchange over trust and boris talking about how he trusted his russian counterpart so much that he gave him the contents of his pockets. and the russian replied that there was nothing in the pockets! he had had a look! martin, what was so remarkable about this is that one imagines that these exchanges take place behind closed doors but this lease to confront gushy take place in front of the world's media. mum we've had tense relationships of services poisoning of alexander litvinenko and then you had crimea and ukraine and russia's involvement in syria, which led to

the cancellation of a previous trip by borisjohnson. the cancellation of a previous trip by boris johnson. in the cancellation of a previous trip by borisjohnson. in a way it is progress that he has gone there, and despite the fact that there is this open exchange of disagreement and boris is raising issues like lgbt rights, deliberately making this points to the russians, i think he had to do these things, you can't pretend that there are not differences but i think the russians would understand probably that there are those differences and we are going to say that. but maybe there will be a bit of progress towards getting some sort of co—operation. if you look elsewhere in the world, sanctions against north korea, not down to us but the russians have come on—board there soap engagement, sometimes if it does not very friendly, underlying and there can be progress towards getting better relationships and better working together which is maybe what we ultimately want. as look at the front page of the times. it's got a

picture of the foreign secretary thatis picture of the foreign secretary that is on one of the other front pages as well. it is a great picture opportunityjo, for boris, isn't it. i used to work with him and you know there's a fantastic image which has been used in a few places. boris will often uses facial expressions and behaviour, this really iconic backdrop, he was probably saying something very important about time! it's meant to look as if he's wagging his finger at the russians. a striking image. better than the

one in the i newspaper which has with his eyes closed. the photographer has done in some