nuclear weapons treaty, calling it unacceptable and dangerous. now on bbc news, it's time for sportsday. hello, and welcome to sportsday. i'm holly hamilton. coming up on the programme: he's on the verge ofjoining a pretty elite club, as lewis hamilton targets a fifth championship title at the us grand prix. a late quickfire double gives everton their third league win in a row. tears of joy. kyle edmund battles back in antwerp to claim his first atp singles title. and a grandstand finish seals a thrilling win for newcastle over montpellier. hello, and welcome to the programme,

where we have all the build—up to the us grand prix, which gets under way in the next half—an—hour! could lewis hamilton be about to claim his fifth championship title? our reporter nick parrotjoins me now. hamilton just has to secure at least eight more points than his nearest rival, sebastian vettel. so how could it pan out, nick? well, hamilton started from pole, so, it is in his control. an sebastian vettel is fifth on the grid. if it finishes like that, hamilton will be world champion, but it is not quite that simple. the team—mates will be key to this result, and ferrari have a plan. kimi raikkonen is second on the grid, and he is on faster tire than

hamilton. ferrari are hoping he will zoom past him and take control of the race. if raikkonen wins, that'll only has finish fourth. kimi raikkonen hasn't made up a place on the first lap of a race since the abu dhabi grand prix two years ago. he has also been dropped by ferrari next season, so is —— is he going to have the incentive to do well for him. valtteri bottas needs his wing man to overtake raikkonen. but he will have that all coming behind him as well in a fast ferrari. he has got to keep up with the two in front of him while defending at the back. if hamilton does it, how will he compare to other greats? this is what former formula one driverjohn watson thinks. he is continuing to break records, clearly the most successful british grand prix driver in history, with four well championships and a faith

almost in his hands this afternoon. he can look forward to trying to challenge the seven wild championships that michael schumacher achieved in his career. he will equal the five world championships of my all—time favourite, that is going all the way back to the 505 when formula 1 was in its infancy compared to it is today. schumacher, that is the name that resonates with all of us. is it possible that lewis hamilton could surpass michael schumacher. there is every chance that he could do it. let's ta ke every chance that he could do it. let's take a look at this that. lewis hamilton is already the most successful at pole positions, he has got that record, but schumacher has the most race wins, with 91. if schumacher wins today, he will only be 19 points behind schumacher. he has only got two more years in his contract with mercedes, but he wins an average ten races a year, if he continues like that, he could get a seventh world title at the same age

as schumacher, 35. he has every desire to keep going beyond 2020, he says he wants to drive the new cars that are coming in. if he's still got the desire, he could go on to be the greatest. come back and keep us up the greatest. come back and keep us up to date on the latest in the next hourfor up to date on the latest in the next hour for us, up to date on the latest in the next hourfor us, nick up to date on the latest in the next hour for us, nick parrott, up to date on the latest in the next hourfor us, nick parrott, thank you. just one game in the premier league this afternoon. everton scored two late goals to beat crystal palace at goodison park. alex gulranjani was watching. the talk on the terraces that goodison park may have revolved around evidence's seemingly good form —— everton‘s seemingly good form. looking for a third straight win in the premier league. gullies sigurdsson showed the intent early on. crystal palace were looking for those points, too, after three defeats in a row. marco silva had every right to be worried, as after the break wilfried zaha got the breakthrough palace needed. the trip from seamus coleman was a penalty. luke and of the aid which spurned

the chance. with time running out, -- luka the chance. with time running out, —— luka milivojevic. they turned the 221—year—olds. dominic culverton lewin finished. everton were not finished there. chang tosun, another substitute, completed the win. three substitutes, three points, and a third win in a road for everton. in the scottish premiership, rangers are up to fifth after an emphatic 4—1win over hamilton, who came very close to edging a draw. rangers took a first—half lead thanks to a great run and finish from ryan kent, and heading into the final ten minutes, that looked like being the winner. but steven boyd let fly with a glorious drive to equalise for hamilton in the 80th minute. 1-1. but the hosts then concded two penalties within four minutes, which james tavernier scored, before alfredo morelos rounded off the afternoon. that was rangers' first away league win under steven gerrard, and puts them five points off leaders hearts. arsenal have maintained their 100%

record in the woemn‘s super league with a 6—0 thrashing of reading. jordan nobbs netted this goal. that was the second in the first ten minutes of the game. then a neat finish for beth mead just before half—time, bringing the score up to 3—0. and then finally, the third of vivianne miedema's hat—trick was the final goal of the match. that's now six out of six wins for arsenal, with a goal difference of 24. manchester city also won 6—0 at brighton. they are four points behind arsenal in the table. third—placed birmingham drew 0—0 against the champions chelsea. couple of games under way. liverpool beat west ham. yeovil lost at home to bristol city. tennis now, and a memorable day for kyle emund, as he claimed his first title on the atp tour. britain's number one had to battle from a set down in the final

of the european open to beat frenchman gael monfils in three sets. he'd lost his only previous final appearance in april in marrakesh, but there was no repeat in antwerp, and lifted the trophy. they may be bottom of the english premiership, but newcastle are now two from two in european rugby's elite tournament, after downing another french giant. elsewhere in the champions cup, holders leinster were beaten by a point by toulson, and glasgow crusied passed the cardiff blues. craig templeton rounds up the action. it is four years since cardiff hosted a champions cup game, and anticipation was even higher following the opening day win in lyon. at glasgow warriors both that bubble within two minutes. first adam hastings dived the line. and

when glasgow's record try scorer found in space, the second school was inevitable. cardiff have their chancesin was inevitable. cardiff have their chances in the first half, and the play was rife with errors. a forward pass on this occasion. hastings would not be so complacent. 15—0 at the break. warriors repeated the tricky start with a well worked try. this time ali price with a finish. this time ali price with a finish. this finally sparked the blues into life, jonny gray made sure the recovery was a false dawn, though, sealing glasgow's fourth try and bonus point. summerhill that find another way through, but the damage was done, and and glasgow are off the mark in pool 3. newcastle falcons knocked over another french powerhouse but left it until the eighth minute of overtime. finally crossing over after aao phase

assault to beat montpellier. but lei nster assault to beat montpellier. but leinster were on the receiving end of the late chance, as toulouse pin shut the points in france. the french side got victory. england'sjonny bairstow will miss the last one—day international and a one—off t20 against sri lanka after damaging ankle ligaments playing football in training on friday. england have already won the one—day series, but his involvement in the test series which starts next month, either as a specialist batsman or wicketkeeper, will now be in question. he was replaced in yesterday's victory over sri lanka by alex hales. katie taylor successfully defended her two world lightweight titles with a unanimous points win over cindy serrano. ufc star conor macgregor was ringside in boston to witness taylor, a five—time amateur world champion, cruise through the ten—round bout, even goading her puerto rican opponent in the seventh round to try and force some action. a comfortable night for taylor, then, who extends her unbeaten record to 12.

but there was no luck for belfast‘s james tennyson. he lost on his first outing at world title level, beaten by ibf super—featherweight champion tevin farmer inside five rounds. elsewhere, belfast‘s mick conlan‘s las vegas debut went according to plan. the two—time olympian knocking out nicola cipolletta in the seventh round to record his ninth win from nine professional fights. in women's golf, wales's becky morgan has won the indian open — her first professional title. she shot a three—under 69 in herfinal round to finish on seven—under, two strokes clear. it was the 44—year—old's 119th tournament on the ladies european tour. two—time olympic gold medalist jadejones will be looking for her seventh world grand prix title later. she'll be in action later, meanwhile, her compatriot damon sansum will have the chance to win his first gp gold medal.

he beat egypt's seif eissa for a place in the final. you can see how he and jones get on live on the red button or the bbc sport website. kare adenegan has won the bbc‘s young personality of the year award at this evening's radio 1 teen awards. adenegan became t3a100m world pa ra—atheltics european champion this summer, and set a new world record in the event at the london anniversary games. she also became the first female in history to break 17 seconds for the event. wow! this is so amazing! you know, i can't believe i've won the award. it's soap aristides, i mean, to be alongside so many amazing names like yourself double it is so prestigious. to be here to celebrate the amazing thing is that young people are doing, it proves that we shouldn't be underestimated. i'm so

thankful to be here. thank you so much for this award. congratulations to her! that's all from sportsday. next on bbc news, the story of us gymnast simone biles and her return to the sport. goodbye for now. spring, texas. a town that sprung up in the 18705 around the international and great north railroad. but, from humble beginnings, it has grown. its population has more than doubled in the last 30 years. now a suburb of houston, more than 511,000 people call it home, but one of them is a sporting superstar. a diminutive figure who is massive in the world of gymnastics. after 18 months out of the sport, simone biles is back. her timeout wasn't always easy.

former us gymnastics doctor larry nassar was found guilty of serial sexual abuse. biles publicly admitted she was one of his victims. but she is aiming to take off where she left the sport, at the rio olympics in 2016 she won five medals, four were gold. in the brazilian heat, she set the sporting world ablaze. everyone thinks we are overnight sensations, but we have been working our whole life for this. where do those medals live now? in a safe. laughter. ina safe? yes. i think i would have them on my bed. i know, but they are just so precious. you have to kind of hide them. after rio, the simone that we saw walk into rio and the one that left was very different. you had gone in, with this huge pressure on your shoulders, and you totally delivered. and then you came out and people knew your name suddenly. people that didn't before. what was that like to deal with that kind of pressure? it is very different and kind of scary. because every where i went somebody knew me.

it is so strange because i don't know them but everybody knows me, it is like why is everybody staring at me. it was kind of scary. but then you get adjusted and get used to it, it becomes ok. get any good perks? so many perks. it's bad to say that, but being an olympian you do get a lot of perks. we got to go see hamilton right away. the wait list was two or three years long. i can't get see that! we went straight into that, and you get to do so much. anything you say on social media, throw it out there because you'll get to do if you say it! that was kind of the craziest part. and she made sure she took time to capitalise on the success of rio, not just to have fun, but some well—earned rest. to relax, recuperate and regroup with some me—time. it was more mental than physical.

i could've kept pushing and pushing if i wanted to, but mentally i needed a break. you tweeted recently that you're the happiest and healthiest you have ever been. what part of taking a break do you attribute to that feeling? mainly my body and my mind because before, i would eat sleep and breathe gymnastics, and now i realise i don't have to do that to be as strong and confident as i am in the gym. so i really found myself doing a lot of things outside of the gym to not just better my gymnastics but to better myself and i think that has worked out very well. that amount of time off of a sport that is a sport for younger people, that must‘ve been a risk? you must have considered that. yes, i definitely expected after the olympics to take some time off and we were not sure how long but i said i wanted to take at least a year off to see, and my year off was absolutely amazing and i honestly think that it helped my body. after her break, she came back with a bang at the us

nationals in august. she announced a return by sweeping the board, winning every event over the 2—day competition. i honestly expected me to be a disaster because it was my first 2—day competition in a really long time. so i didn't expect it to go as well as it did. so i'm very happy with the outcome and that i held it together and performed the routines. i read after the nationals that you said you only give yourself a b+. what on earth do you think you need to improve on? why are you so hard on yourself? i don't know, i guess it'sjust the nature of who i am, but i feel like going in i could see the mistakes that i made that i didn't want to make. even though they were very slight, i wanted to be better. it was like she had never been away, yet some things have changed. the teal leotards she wore at nationals was in solidarity with victims of sexual abuse. a part of her history she felt she had to speak out about it. i felt it was very important

to support the fellow gymnasts that it had happened to, and to just speak up for what to believe in. and i hope i gave them courage to come out and share their stories one day if they want to. injanuary of this year, us gymnastics team doctor larry nassar was sentenced to 175 years in prison for abusing more than 150 women and girls under the guise of medical treatment. your decision to assault wa5 preci5e, calculated, manipulative, devious and despicable. you do not deserve to walk out5ide of a prison ever again. i have just signed your death warrant. the judge was absolutely amazing on her part. so we were very proud of her. it's kind of a relief because he kind of got what he deserved. for biles, it was personal.

prior to the sentencing, she confirmed in a statement via social media that she too had been one of nasser‘s victims. what prompted you to make that decision to write that statement and how did it feel when it was out there? it's very hard, just because i think a lot of people struggle with coming out and telling their stories, but i figured if i can tell my story then it might encourage other people to tell theirs, because a lot of people do look up to me so they are like if simone can be strong enough, hopefully i can too and that is the message that i wanted to give. but i was kind of relieved when it came out. it was a lot of pressure off my shoulders, because to keep something in for so long when we usually share everything with our friends and family and our fans was a lot. the young girls here, have you had young girls come up to you and say to you you're such an inspiration for having spoken out and done that? yeah, it's more the parents because i think the parents

are linked to the social media accounts or whatever they see. i remember even some of our girls didn't quite understand it and they're12 and 13 years old, so you have to be a little bit older to fully understand what had happened. much of the abuse happened around an hours' drive from spring at a ranch deep in the texan forest. us gymnastics camps were held at a property belonging to the karolyis, the team's head coaches. in this compound, only accessible via a long, winding dirt track, nassar used his power to exploit the young girls under the noses of the unwitting karolyis, and sometimes even the gymnasts' parents, who were in the same room as nassar secretly abused their daughters. you'd written it would be heartbreaking to have to return to the ranch. four days after you wrote that, us gymnastics came out and said we're not going there anymore.

how did that feel? i don't know. it felt kind of empowering. even though that is like an overused word right now. but, really, yeah. do you think that what you all went to will mean that things are changing in the future and that us gymnastics will change? i think it has to. they have no other choice, basically. but speaking out is the first thing that change will happen. you've often been talked about as being the gymnastics saviour. that is a lot to put on one person. how have you felt about that tag? it's kind of crazy because i can't be the one to save everything. but as long as i do myjob and everybody‘s pleased, maybe i will save something. i think because people think of you as kind of a superwoman, you can do things that normal human beings cannot. so, they almost put this superhuman thing on you. the older you've got, are you a bit more comfortable with that role now? i think so because coming up, being who i am, i push a lot

of things away, because expectations are scary and i don't want to be the one to hold all of them. but as i get older, i'm just more used to it. and i expect for that to be put on me, so i try not to think of it too much. music. it's here at the world champion center where simone trains, her regime is pretty brutal. around 32 hours a week. but she has a new coaching team and has discovered a new love. i didn't really like bars before. they didn't like me. so it was kind of...in both. ifeel like i'm more confident in the skills that i'm doing. and just overall, i think i was just young and not mature enough and i would work against the bar and not with it. so i think that's why

we had that problem. so, do you think it's a coming—of—age thing then? maturity has to do with some of that? a little bit. and i know that i have to do bars. and i can't get out of it, especially at the olympics when they told me i was going to be put up on bars for the team. i said, what? i've never been in a bar team line—up. they were like, well, you have to go. and i'm like, oh, my gosh, i'm going to pass out. so i think that also gave me confidence that i went out there and hit that routine. the world championships get under way in a few days' time in the qatari capital of doha, and will mark biles's return to this world stage. with a combined total of 19 olympic and world championship medals to her name, she will be expected by many to put in a performance worthy of america's most decorated gymnast. how do you feel your routines are, heading into doha? right now, i'd say a little bit

more confident going into doha with my routines. i feel a little bit more confident. and then we've worked on the little details, so hopefully i will be able to clean those up and keep that. do you feel more or less pressure now going in to the worlds, knowing you've been there and done it and performed on the big stages? it's almost more pressure, because you know exactly what to expect and the pressure that will be put on you rather than your first time, you kind of are so excited to be there and take everything in and whatever happens, happens. now you have those expectations. you're 21 now. iam! so, to normal people, you're still very young with a whole life to live. in gymnastics, you're like the elder. does that bring an extra responsibility with the other girls? again, yes. because i'm not a rookie anymore. i've had my training. now i get to mentor these girls, which is exciting because i've been through it all. so i really feel like i can help these girls on those world stages or the big stages out there. what's the absolute hope, dream, the realistic aim

for going into the worlds after being out for so long? again, to provide the team with the best of my abilities in the gymnastics, hopefully we get a team medal and i would really like to make barfinals, but then again, that's putting a lot of pressure on myself. so we will see. while the immediate focus is on very much the world championships, long term, it remains the olympics. four years on from rio, she will be aiming to be america's golden girl once again when the 2020 games come around injapan. tokyo — that's the big focus, isn't it? do you think you ever be able to top what happened in rio orjust a different experience and you want to experience different things? definitely experience different things because four years apart is a really long time. for my first olympic games, to walk away with five medals, i think is kind of unbeatable, even for myself. so we'll go in there with an open mind and see what happens.

to put pressure on myself, that's a lot. the first time around for the olympics, i said, i just want to help the team to the best of my ability, and that's what i did. so that is my next goal and however many medals i get, is how many i end up with. once this is all over, and you retire, what is the plan, what would you love to do? i haven't quite decided that yet, because i'm still in it for a while. i don't really have time to think about all of that stuff. but i was taking a couple of college classes earlier this year and now i can't because i'm still travelling and i'm doing so much. but maybe work with foster kids, or do something what professional sports. i haven't decided yet. you're a role model now. people listen to you. so you do have to be a bit more careful about what to say on twitter. being a professional athlete, we always have to watch for that.

so that part was nothing new. but it's still a lot more eyes on you so you have to watch out. but before, i feel like just being on the us team, we always had to be a little careful. and despite what's been a difficult and traumatic few years for her and her sport, simone biles still has a hopeful message to the younger generation of american gymnasts. the young girls she inspires, trains with and eventually the ones who will take her crown. i hope they see the fun in the sport and they can reallyjust enjoy and embrace those moments. and really whatever happens, happens. you don't have to win to have to have fun and enjoy it. music. favourite things to do to relax would be hanging out

with friends and family, going to the movies, going to the beach or shopping. who's my best friend? i have a couple of best friends. it would be caitlin, rachel, my boyfriend and my sister, my mum. i have a lot! ooh. it's one by khalid and halsey. i can't remember the name right now, though. yikes. eastside. yes. i'm not going to sing it. i'm such a bad singer!

i guess it would be from my mum, to be the best amount. —— the best simone. hello. we have had a weakening cold front moving its way south and eastwards across the uk today. overnight, all that is left on it is reallyjust a band of cloud. this too clears away into the channel after midnight. behind it, clearer skies, a peppering of showers for northern and western scotland, which sees quite windy gusts of 50—60mph, and a cold night. and a colder night for scotland, northern ireland and northern england compared to recently. temperatures getting close to freezing in shelter from the wind. for much of the uk tomorrow, it's a fine and dry day, again with a good deal of sunshine. but still quite windy for the north and west of scotland. outbreaks of rain for orkney and shetland, it mayjust fringe the northern highlands,

but for much of scotland it is looking mainly dry. these are the average wind strengths through the afternoon. those gusts touching 50 or 60mph for the western and northern isles. here, temperatures ten or 11 celsius. 12—14 across the uk. so, a cooler feel. temperatures perk up a little bit as we go through tuesday and wednesday. the rain finally clears away from northern scotland. for most, it's dry. but it will turn colder by the end of the week. this is bbc news. i'm carole walker. the headlines at 7pm. the uk, france and germany issue a joint statement condemning the killing ofjournalist, jamal khashoggi inside the saudi consulate in istanbul — and call for urgent clarification of what happened. the brexit secretary dominic raab says the uk could agree to extend the brexit transition period by about three months, but only if the eu drops its demand for a northern ireland ‘backstop'. think about it, as important as it is, these are the only outstanding issues that ought to be stumbling blocks. the good news is, on a range of other issues we are close to getting there.

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