france hold france held world place next season. france hold world champions usa to a 1—1 draw at the shebelieves cup. phil mickelson beats justin thomas shebelieves cup. phil mickelson beatsjustin thomas in a play—off to win the wgc mexico championship, his first victory since 2013. hello and welcome to the programme, where we start with football news and the pressure has been turned up even more on arsene wenger after arsenal lost for the fourth time in a row for the first time since 2002. brighton and hove albion were 2—1winners over the gunners with lewis dunk and glenn murray scoring for the hosts while record signing pierre emerick aubameyang scored for arsenal. arsene wenger‘s side are 13 points behind tottenham in fourth place and the frenchman concedes that the race for a top four spot is over. it took us a while to get into the game, they were sharper than asked

to get to the ball and on top of that we made defensive mistakes. mainly the second half was all us but unfortunately we couldn't find a goal and we're going through a tough time. of course it's difficult at the moment. as tough as you can remember this week, three defeats back—to—back like that? remember this week, three defeats back-to-back like that? it's never happened to me in my life but we are hit deeply maybe on the confidence side. you could see that the team at the moment struggles a bit. a bernardo silva goal proved the difference as manchester city extended their lead at the top of the table to 18 points with a 1—0 win over chelsea. the blues managed just three shots on goal throughout the game and are now languishing five points off the champions league qualification places while pep guardiola is on target to make it a top flight title in three different countries having won with barcelona in spain and bayern munich in germany. beating a strong team like chelsea,

who is still the champion, and the them in the way we beat them, in the way with the possession and created chances, didn't concede one shot on target and players like willian, hazard, everyone was involved in the passing process. that's why it was so passing process. that's why it was so good, i'm so happy. lionel messi scored his 600th career goal from a wonderfully struck free kick as barcelona beat atletico madrid 1—0 at camp nou, moving eight points clear at the top of the spanish primera division. the argentine's goal came after 25 minutes against a stubborn atletico defence that had only conceded 12 goals in 27 league games. the catalans remain unbeaten in the league this year and ernesto valverde is on his way to winning the title at the first attempt although kevin gameiro almost scored a late equaliser only to have it ruled out for offside. elsewhere in spain, fourth placed valencia were 2—0 winners over real betis, real sociedad won 2—1

at home to alaves while struggling leva nte a nd es pa nyol played out a 1—1 draw. in the german bundesliga, bayern munich thrashed freiburg 4—0 to extend their lead at the top of the table to 20 points. two goals in the first half were added to after the break, the first from sandro wagner after some fragile defending by the hosts, while with just over 20 minutes remaining fellow international thomas mueller made it four after this neat tap in at the near post from a corner. fiorentina captain and italy international davide astori has died at the age of 31 with the club confirming it was after a sudden illness. the serie a outfit were scheduled to play at udinese on sunday afternoon, but that game and all other fixtures were called off. a short time i ago i spoke to italian football journalist paolo bandini, who explained how popular a player astori was. extremely well liked. i think you

can see from the range of tributes that poured in since he passed this morning, everyone from david beckham to sergio ramos to dies in italy like andrea pirlo and buffon, it's been an extraordinary outpouring of support and emotion when you think this is a guy who, despite the fact he had 14 caps for italy, wasn't a household name perhaps internationally i would say. so it really gives a testament to the man and how well appreciated he was by his colleagues. the decision very quickly taken to suspend all games on sunday. i don't know if i can say that's unprecedented but certainly extremely rare for a whole swathe of games to be cancelled like that, especially considering there was a milan derby on sunday night, receiving huge billing, full house at the san siro, 80,000 odd tickets are sold, it goes to show how much ofan impact are sold, it goes to show how much of an impact his passing has across different teams because that's exactly what everyone quickly realised, you're asking again his

friends to go out there and try to do hisjob as if nothing has happened when something has happened and something that affects them on a very personal level. the number of clu bs very personal level. the number of clubs he's played for is one part of it, another part of it is he is been in the national team setup, even only playing a modest number of games, 14 games, he's been part of the setup for seven years, he's a lwa ys the setup for seven years, he's always been part of the squad and he is someone who's always, touchstone a lot of lives there. ellen white scored both goals for england as they twice came from behind to draw 2—2 with germany in the shebelieves cup in newjersey after two goals in the space of a minute had left the teams level at the break this comedy of errors ended with an own goalfrom millie bright seeing england go behind, but white came to the rescue late on to secure phil neville's team the point and they now face usa in their final game in orlando on thursday. i don't think anyone team has created as many chances, clear—cut

chances, against a side like germany ina long chances, against a side like germany in a longtime. i'm pleased with the team, please with their attitude and i think people back home will probably say we're heading in the right direction. now ijust can't wait for the last game, it's the game probably we've all been waiting for, the usa game. it would be nice to go and get a little bit of sunshine on our back because it's been freezing the last two games. world champions usa took the lead in the early game against france after a scramble inside the area. mallory pugh finally finding the back of the net as thousands of home fans cheered them on. just a few minutes later, still inside the first half, eugenie le sommer got the french level and rescued a draw for the defending tournament champions as it finished i—i, and france will take on germany in their last game on wednesday also in orlando. australia need one wicket on the final day to wrap up the opening test against south africa in durban.

the hosts are 293—9, chasing an unlikely 473 for victory. mitchell starc as figures of 4—7 defour at present. phil mickelson has won the mexico championship beating world number two justin thomas championship beating world number twojustin thomas in a play—off. both finished one shot clear of the field level on 16 under, partly due to this rather incredible approach shot at the par 4/18 by thomas. he managed to eagle the whole, giving him at the time a 2—stroke lead. beautiful. mickelson fought back to force a play—off and after getting a paron 17, his force a play—off and after getting a par on 17, his american compatriot thomas couldn't match it, and the five—time major winner got his first title since winning the open championship five years ago, in what was also the first world golf

championships event of the year. roger bannister, the first man to break the four—minute mile, has died at 88. he's been described as one of the greatest inspirations in the history of british sport. achieving the feat in oxford on the sixth of may 19 54, he won gold at the same distance in the 1954 commonwealth games and later became a leading neurologist. he was diagnosed with parkinson's disease in 2011. great britain's andrew pozzi secured the men's 60 metre hurdles gold by 100th of a second at the world indoor athletics championships in birmingham. the 25 year's time of 7.46 edged out americanjarrod eden and the news was a relief to the british co—captain, who made some m ista kes british co—captain, who made some mistakes in the final but held his nerve to add to his world indoor victory in belgrade last year. oregon—based athlete here is in a

class of her own after winning the 800 metre title, that's in the fastest time of the year. and a cyclist was in a state of collapse after going all out to win the men's one kilometre time trial at the uci track championships on sunday, just holding off australia's rider. another dutch rider got her third gold with a points race victory after earlier winning the scratch race and the on the. and the opening stage of the parry nice race was won ina stage of the parry nice race was won in a photo finish after a sprint to the line. —— be on the. it ends in nice on sunday. john higgins has won the welsh open snooker title. for everything is, go to the website. goodbye. —— by editing

else. —— for everything else. hello. thanks forjoining me. ijust want to bring you right up—to—date with how we see the next week of weather for the british isles. given the extent and the severity of the conditions that we endured last week, no great surprise if i tell you that the snow is not going to just magically appear. things will gradually improve, and for that we have to thank an area of low pressure, which will supply relatively mild airs from the atlantic, rather than dragging in cold air yet again from the near continent. but that mild air comes at something of a price. it'll be a murky start across the central and southern parts of the british isles. further north, as we drag moisture into a colder regime across scotland, so we will see further snowfall, mostly on the hills but some of it getting down to lower levels. and in the south, some of those showers really quite heavy and prolonged. from monday into tuesday, that low pressure still very close

by to the british isles. notice we're dragging a weather front ever further towards the north, and again, as things dry out under fairly leaden skies across england and wales, so we push that moisture on the front up into a pretty cold regime. and again, for the most part across the high ground, that's where we're going to see further significant snowfall. further south, it's a fairly quiet sort of day. and as we get from tuesday on into wednesday, you'll see there are very few isobars across the south. so again, it could be pretty murky. sunshine rather in short supply, there will be some brightness, there'll be the odd sharp shower in the south. looking further north, i think the snowfall becoming confined to the north—western quarter, so some relief at last for southern and eastern parts. northern ireland, a smattering of showers, a little bit of sleet perhaps across the highest ground. still pretty quiet as we move from wednesday to thursday. this middle section of the week marked by some night—time frosts, and because the days are just that little bit cooler, there could be a little bit of wintriness about the showers, particularly across the higher ground of northern britain. further south, the weather front may

just introduce some rain to the channel islands and to some of the channel coastal counties. showers not quite as widespread as they may well have been at the first half of the week. we may develop a low pressure close to scotland, so unsettled fare there. we may eventually drag some weather fronts with milder air up into the south—western quarter of the british isles as well, but in between, a pretty quiet sort of day and those temperatures just beginning to ratchet up by a degree or two in the beginning of the week. so this is the lineup for the week ahead, becoming slightly milder. it will be a bit unsettled and there could well be some snow, particularly for scotland.