at some polling stations. the right—wing nationalist viktor orban is expected to win a third consecutive term. hello and welcome to sportsday. i'm tanya arnold. northern ireland get theirfirst gold of the commonwealth games as teenager gymnast rhys mcclenaghan stuns olympic champion max whitlock on the pommell horse. sebastian vettel holds of the challenge from mercedes to wind the bahrain grand prix. can rory mcillroy close the gap on the masters leader patrick reed? they will be out for their final round injust over an hour. there has been a clean sweep

of golds for the home nations on day four of the commonwealth games. 18—year—old gymnast rhys mcclenaghan of northern ireland produced a massive shock beating the olympic champion max whitlock to gold on the pommell horse. mike bushell is on the gold coast for us. thank you. there were police some very sweet dreams tonight for athletes from northern ireland, wales scotland and england. it was the best paid for those teams so far. some life changing performances from athletes in the past who have maybe been in the shadow of others. no way! i can't believe it. it takes a special touch to raise a teenage champion. this is northern ireland's first gold of these games.

rhys mcclenaghan called it his proudest day, and at 18 he'll hope it's just the start. his poise on the pommel was enough to beat his idol, max whitlock settling for silver. i know that is very cliched to say that i have got no words, but now, the sensational of feeling i have at the minute is unbelievable. though whitlock missed out, his england team—mates made up for it. there was gold on the rings for courtney tulloch, while georgia—mae fenton won the uneven bars. they will hope it lifts them to olympic glory. while in the pool, the scots are up and running. the scot could win this! this is going to be very close indeed! duncan scott on the last stroke, i think he's got it. yes, he has got it! duncan scott sealed their first swimming gold this week. he had to beat chad le clos to do it. the south african‘s father feels the painjust as hard, while england's siobhan—marie o'connor dominated the medley. a new champion on the 200 metres individual medley, it's siobhan—marie o'connor of england.

a very good swim indeed. on the first day of athletics, wales won their third mark stewart has turned his skills to the points race night. it was worth all the pain. it was worth all the pain. on the first day of athletics, wales won their third gold in the long jump, olivia breen leaping to glory. while in the hammer, england's nick miller heaved his way to gold. a new british record took every emotion. it is more sedate on the bowling green, but it means just as much to scotland. a win over australia gave the triples team gold. no basketball medals are decided yet, but england have been giving out gold. at full—time, jamell anderson proposed on court. the way to make a winning match even sweeter. joe lynskey, bbc news. in the premier league, a much—changed arsenal side got the better of southampton, 3—2 at the emirates

this afternoon. along with the five goals, there were also two sending's off. rounding it allup, here's azi farni. with an important europa league match coming up midweek, are sent wenger made seven changes to his side, sipping 13 points off the top four, winning back competition looks like the best driver arsenal to get back to champions league football next season. southampton by taking advantage of the weakened side after controlling the game early on. across the find shane long in the box and the arsenal defence was sleeping. but arsenal followed box and the arsenal defence was sleeping. but arsenalfollowed up with the goal. danny welbeck was mike shot from outside the box was on target, but helped on its way by a deflection. southampton desperately need points from premier league survival and it looked like they might have rescued one when

charlie austin made it 2—2 within a couple of minutes of coming on. danny welbeck insured the win for the gunners getting his second goal of the match with a header. both sides finished with ten men. jack stephens sean a straight red for his reaction to jack wilshere ripping his shirt. muhammad ali many was sent off for a shove on suarez. the result keeps arsenal six and southampton in the bottom three. even when we were questioned we find resources by mapping credit to the team. some players had heavy legs today that they still find the resources to win the game. when we we re resources to win the game. when we were questioned 1—0 down, 2—2, we find the resources because of the spirit in the team. that is why we w011 spirit in the team. that is why we won the game today. we have been hurt by bad goals. i think that has

been the story of the season. at times defensively we did not get the details right and stop things developing, albeit the second goal was fortunate for arsenal because of the deflection. in terms of our performance i am more than happy. in terms of our performance i am more than happy. chelsea's bid to close the gap on the top four took another set back as they were held by struggling west ham. before the game, the blues played tribute to former captain and assistant manager ray wilkins, who passed away earlier this week. they we re passed away earlier this week. they were the better side during the first half and deservedly lead at the interval. they thought they had doubled their lead in the second half, that's alvaro morata was ruled offside. javier hernandez earned west ham at priceless point in their bid for survival. chelsea remain ten points of fourth placed tottenham. chelsea remain ten points of fourth placed tottenham. celtic are just one win away

from the scottish premiership title. they beat hamilton 2—1 at new douglas park and are 13 points clear of rangers in the table. it was 1—1 at half—time, but hamilton also had a mild sent off. brendan rodgers brought on leigh griffiths at the start of the second half and he scored the winner within a minute of coming on. celtic will clinch their seventh title in a row with one more win from their remaining five matches. sebastien battled made it back to back grand prix wins with victory at the rain grand prix. lewis hamilton, who started down a night, made to the podium in third. to be the world champion you need to keep your cool. stranded down in ninth on the great

things the penalty for changing his gearbox, it was going to be a day for damage limitation per lewis hamilton. an action packed starts some lose their way. hamilton took a more careful approach and even when he was challenged at the start of the second lap it was max verstappen who off worst. the race was briefly neutralised and agree started lewis hamilton jumped three places neutralised and agree started lewis hamiltonjumped three places in one go. he briefly lead before sebastien bethell got back in front. a problem with his pit stop sought kimi raikkonen retire, handing hamilton third place. the briton could not catch file to read but as for the ferrari of sebastien that's. hamilton will be relieved he did not drop more points. the final round of the masters is well under way, but the leaders don't go out for another hour or so at augusta. patrick reed leads the way by three shots from northern ireland's rory mcillroy, who shot a fantastic 65 yesterday.

coverage is just getting underway on bbc two. rugby union now and, in the aviva premiership, defending champions exeter chiefs comprehensively beat gloucester 46—10 to clinch a spot in the play—offs. gloucester took an early lead at sandy park, but exeter responded through alec hepburn, who scored the first of six dries for the leaders. tries for the leaders. wingerjack nowell then came off the bench and scored a brace on his return from injury, sealing a comfortable win. exeter need one point from their three remaining games to secure a home tie in the semifinal. there were two games in super league this afternoon. the champions, leeds, came from behind at wakefield, and then had to hang on in the final minutes to wind 28—26. minutes to win 28—26. a young huddersfield giants side gave castleford a run for their money in the second half, but lost out to the tigers 28—40. triple world champion peter sagan has won the prestigious one—day paris roubaix cycling race

for the first time. the slovak held off swiss rider silvan dillier in a sprint finish in the north of france. it was a bad race for team sky's british riders with geraint thomas retiring after getting caught up in this crash on the first cobbled section. luke rowe's hopes were ended after he was catapulted off his bike. both escaped serious injury. mark selby has defended his china open title, comfortably beating fellow englishman barry hawkins in the final in beijing. the tournament is the last event before the season ending world championships in sheffield later this month, and the world number one looked in great form, finishing with a break of 132 to claim the title. that is all from us. we will have more throughout the evening. this tuesday marks the 20th

anniversary of the good friday agreement in northern ireland. the deal brought an end to the troubles in northern ireland and began power sharing at stormont. on the eve of the anniversary commemorations bbc northern ireland's political editor mark devenport spoke to tony blair — prime minister at the time of the agreement — and asked him if he was concerned the achievements of the deal were in peril because of the current political deadlock. we are celebrating the anniversary of the good friday agreement, the belfast agreement, and ijust think it's important that people remember what things were like before we had the peace process, before we had the agreement. i'm of a generation, you are pretty much of a generation that remembers those times, remembers waking up every day to the tales of violence and extremism and murder and terrible things happening, deep divisions and sectarian hatred.

now, the truth is the agreement was never going to simply the day after usher in a brave new world and everything was going to be fine. but where we are today should be compared not with the ideal world but with where we were, and when you compare that, you realise that it was a huge achievement of everyone concerned to bring about the agreement, and secondly, it's worth keeping. and it would be dangerous and foolish to put it at risk. obviously it did deliver peace, and that was the main aim. but in terms of the political system it setup, that seems to have been prone to deadlock, we have no assembly, no executive. do you think it is time to reform it, do nuts and bolts review? when i look at the issues that are currently interrupting progress at stormont, they seem to be the very types of issues we were dealing with all through my ten years

as prime minister, and after the good friday agreement, i was constantly involved in every single stage of the negotiation and process and probably in the ten years i was prime minister i must visited northern ireland probably more times than all my predecessors put together since partition, so it was never going to be a situation in which there weren't constantly going to be issues that divided, that still had a deep cultural significance for example, and would require working on, but nowadays i see a lot of what is happening in different parts of the world and you realise that wherever there is a peace process, the work doesn't end at the moment you have an agreement, it carries on probably for a generation, maybe two generations, but it is better to do that then go back to the time of conflict. how much responsibility, then, do you put on the current government? have theresa may and david cameron taken their eye

off the ball too much? i don't allocate responsibility for what has happened, but i urge attention in the future. this requires the full focus of government at certain points in time, and for example with this impasse that there is the moment, i can't believe it's not possible to find a way around it. it is very similar to the types of issues we used to deal with, and you have to keep working at them until you find a way through. now, it's not easy, on the whole issues around brexit complicate things for a variety of reasons, but nonetheless, it is still worth doing. do you think that the fact that the theresa may is relying on the dup makes it harder for her to be the kind of independent broker that you were? does she need to bring in some sort of outside mediator? i think she can do it, because to be fair to her, i'm sure she wants to keep the good friday agreement and she wants to make sure it works satisfactorily, but i do think it is important to realise there were points of time

certainly in that ten years, because remember we went through the setting up of the new northern ireland police service, decommissioning drumcree, there will always things happening. and at a certain point, the authority of the prime minister is necessary in order to get people to move and to come into some form of alignment. so i don't... i think it's just constant work, that's all i'm saying, and i sometimes say to people that now i study a lot of what has happened in the balkans, i work in the balkan state with my institute, and you can see for example there it was 20 years ago, roughly the same anniversary, that the dictatorship in serbia was removed, that kosovo was liberated. but even today, there are still huge problems. today, you've got fortunately young leaders in serbia and albania who are determined to make it work,

and i hope they will make it work. and both of them want a future in the european union. but my point is very simple. in exactly the same way, the end of the conflict didn't signal nirvana. the whole world didn't suddenly change. what it did do was give you an opportunity over time to put in place changes that are part institutional and then deeply cultural, and that requires time. you are concerned, you made it clear on a number of occasions, that brexit could really threatened matters. is that maybe too much of an exaggeration? this was tested, this argument, in the supreme court, and they said that brexit was not necessarily incompatible with the good friday agreement. of course, but the thing is this. i am deeply opposed to brexit for all sorts of reasons to do with the uk, its place in the world and the economy and so on and so forth. but, and if we do brexit, we are going to have to make it work, and we are going to have

to make the good friday agreement work whatever is happening with brexit. however, the people on the other side of the argument have got to face up to a very simple point, which is that because at the heart of this agreement was this notion of recognition of nationalist aspirations, an open border between north and south was a very important part of that, and the truth is the republic of ireland and the uk ever since partition have always been in the same relationship with europe together. so for half a century we will both outside of the institutions of europe. we joined on the same day in 1973, that wasn't a coincidence. we didn'tjust happen to choose we joined on the same day, we joined on the same day because of the convenience and the symmetry of doing it together. we've then been part of europe for 45 years together. all of those ties have taken on a european dimension to them. 45 years of trading,

of crossing the border, freedom of movement of people, of goods, etc. once the uk is in a different relationship to europe from the republic, it is frankly obvious, it is a statement of the obvious that you are going to have a challenge. i'm not saying the challenge can't be overcome, but these brexiteers to simply say, i do know what you're talking about, it is ridiculous. of course you've got a problem, and northern ireland then becomes for the first time ever the border between the uk and europe. that is what's changed. so it's not a mystery as to why there is a problem and a challenge to be overcome, and it's not going to be easy, because the government, this government here in the uk having decided that it's going to take us out of the single market and customs union, have intensified that challenge. if you stayed in the single market and just got out of the political structures and stayed in its economic structures, there wouldn't be such a problem.

does this have the potential to reignite violence and conflict, do you think, or not? not of itself it weren't, but if what it does is provide significant disruption to that idea that at the heart of the good friday agreement is the recognition of nationalist aspirations, if it disrupts that because the border becomes a hard border, you have to have some form of border checks and so on, freedom of movement becomes more difficult, then it's got the potential to cause tension. now that shouldn't ever justify or end up in violence, but it will give a different complexion to the nationalist aspirations. that is why if i was a unionist in northern ireland, i find those unionists who are opposed to membership of the european union, i find that a really strange consideration when you think of the interests of northern ireland must be with remaining,

with britain remaining part of the eu, because it makes life so much easier with the border. you had a very close partnership with bertie ahern at the time of the agreement. are you dismayed about the situation now in which there does seem to be tension in that relationship between dublin and london that there hasn't been for many years? yes, i'm worried about it, because that relationship, and it wasn'tjust a personal relationship between myself and bertie ahern, it was also that the two countries were natural allies. and if you think back in time, we most certainly had not been natural allies. and i think the fact that the republic of ireland also when itjoined the european union, it really did upgrade itself as a country, and frankly even after the financial crisis and the eurozone crisis, when you think what the republic did, it is immensely impressive, having come through all that tour mile and now it is back on its feet again and moving forward, and you see how culturally it has

changed, who could have imagined the current taoiseach becoming the taoiseach, if you go back a0 or 50 years? so there is a whole set of changes that have happened which i think are basically very positive changes, and they happened partly because we were both part of that family of european countries, and it gave as an equality and a partnership element to our relationship that was very different. now, as i say, we're going to have to work. my only point about this is not to start going over the top and saying, if we do brexit, we are going to scrap the good friday agreement and return to conflict. i'm not saying that. i'm simply saying something that is, when you think about it, quite obvious. it is going to pose a big challenge and it's going to mean that this government here is going to have to work very hard to overcome that challenge, notjust the immediate challenge of brexit,

but the consequences of that as they reverberate through the years ahead. and i asked you about the conservatives' relationship with the dup. i should ask you about your own party, because of his not so long ago sincejeremy corbyn sacked his northern ireland minister over brexit. what has been the role of labour in this? i hope that the labour party even under this leadership will support the good friday agreement. the only thing they've got to remember is that we would never have got the good friday agreement if it hadn't been clear that we understood and accepted the legitimate aspirations also of the unionist community, and people forget this now, but the very first speech i went to make when i became prime minister back in may 1997, i think it may have been the first really big speech i gave was in northern ireland to the unionist community. and i did that very deliberately

in order to say to them, we are here to find a just solution, but we are not here to take one side rather than the other. isjeremy corbyn capable of that? he is perceived by the unionists to be on one side. let's see. quite the range of weather across the uk again today. on the beach in cornwall believe that blue sky! not eve ryo ne cornwall believe that blue sky! not everyone was so cornwall believe that blue sky! not everyone was so lucky. central and eastern parts of england cloudy, some of us wet as well, misty and murky. that soon of cloudy and damp weather will stay with us overnight. mild underneath this. elsewhere, clear spells. watch out for patchy fog developing in parts of northern

ireland, south—west scotland and north—west england, some of the qb be dense and places. away from the south—east, there could be a touch of frost in north—east scotland. monday, some of this rain in the south—east will move westwards towards the midlands and west wales. western front is of wales, england, much of northern england away from yorkshire, scotland and northern ireland seeing some sunny spells. northern ireland and scotland could catch a heavy shower. this weather pattern will set it up for the week ahead. the pressure to decide the bus, around that weather systems. the result of that will be an easterly flow coming in. it will not be cold, though. some rather mild colours coming our way. the origin of this there is eastern europe and east mediterranean. editors will be slightly above—average. it will be

cold on the north sea coasts. there will be some rain at times but some sunshine. let's take a look at chew state. we will see this spell working out of england and wales and the parts of scotland and northern ireland. south—eastern areas should start to brighten up. that could be heavy and possibly thundery showers moving into sutherland, particularly south—west england. sunshine in the south—east. the north sea coast, temperatures and simple figures for many of us as we temperatures and simple figures for many of us as we go temperatures and simple figures for many of us as we go through the week ahead without wind coming off quite ahead without wind coming off quite a cold sea at this time of year. plenty of low cloud, missed. ed west for the best of any dry and occasionally bright weather this week. this is bbc news. the headlines at 7pm. the un security council is expected to hold an emergency meeting tomorrow to discuss reports of a chemical attack in syria. medical sources say dozens of people died in the rebel—held town of douma.

donald trump describes president assad as an "animal", and condemns syria's allies. the syrian government denies responsibility. ministers deny any link between falling police numbers and the rise in violence in london. labour accuse them of having their heads in the sand. voting in the hungarian election continues, as queues still remain at some polling stations. also in the next hour. setting sail in protest. brexit campaigners hold a demonstration against fishing quotas during the brexit transition period. 60 fishing boats put to sea in plymouth, one of several protests organised by fishing for leave. and.