the biggest title of her career — elina svotilina beats sloane stephens at the wta finals in singapore. and an el classico to forget for real madrid as barcelona score five. hello and welcome to the programme. a week ago in the us the celebrations were put on hold. now, in mexico, the party can begin for lewis hamilton who is a five—time formula 1 world champion after getting the result he needed at the mexican grand prix. hamilton finished fourth, his title rival sebastian vettel second whilst the race was won by red bull's max verstappen. hamilton's equalled juan manuel fangio‘s record of 5 titles and is nowjust two behind michael schumacher on seven. john watson reports. lewis hamilton, five—time world champion and this, an all—too—familiar feeling. his intent to get there was clear from the start. commentator: hamilton makes an incredible start!

a seventh place finish or above was all he needed. he was up from third to second at the first corner. for title rival sebastian vettel nothing more than a win would do. passing hamilton, he kept his own slim hopes alive. a ninth—place finish here last year was enough to win hamilton a fourth title. this year, too, would be far from straightforward. tyre problems saw him drop back. but the hard work had been done before this race, his nine wins this season giving him an significant points advantage and breathing space. max verstappen might have crossed the line first but all eyes were on hamilton, coming home in fourth. that intense lewis hamilton focus on being quicker, whatever the vehicle, has always been there. through his boyhood, through karting, he has been unstoppable, doing it his way. after eight gruelling months of racing, time to stop and reflect on his place among the greats. it wasn't one here, it was through a

lot of hard work through a lot of races. i'm so gratefulfor the hard work back home. for all the partners, for petronas, for everybody who has been a part of it. ultimately for mercedes, you know, i've been with mercedes since i was 13. so to complete this, you know, when fangio did it with mercedes, it's an incredible feeling and very, very surreal at the moment. in tennis, the wta finals has a new champion after elina svotilina beat sloane stephens in a gruelling three set match in singapore. claire thornton has the details. elina svitolina walked onto court playing for her fourth title of the season. but winning the wta finals in singapore would be the biggest of her career. the ukrainian went into sunday's final against sloane stephens undefeated in the eight player season finale but it was her american opponent who started the stronger, taking the first set 5—3. now under pressure, svitolina began to regain the form she has displayed

throughout this tournament, which had helped her to dismiss among others defending champion caroline wozniacki. having taken it to a third set, svitolina broke stephens in her first service game. and despite a brief comeback from the world number six, she powered to victory, becoming the first player since serena williams in 2013 to go through the wta finals undefeated. it feels incredible. i'm very pleased with the performance this week. it wasn't perfect but i played lots of 3—set matches and in the end i'm just pleased with the way i could handle all the pressure and just very happy. 32—year—old kevin anderson became the first south african to qualify for the atp finals for 23 years with victory this

in the erste bank open. he beat fifth seed kei nishikori ofjapan, and will play in the season ending tournament in london next month. one of the players he'll face there is 37—year—old roger federer, who claimed his 99th career title at the swiss indoors with victory over marius copil in basel. to come through and win again here in my hometown, never knowing if this might be your last time that you have the opportunity to play finals, to maybe win for the last time here in my city, it obviously means a lot to me and it becomes very emotional. barcelona are top of la liga after thrashing rivals real madrid 5—1 in el clasico. the result piles the pressure on under—fire real bossjulen lopetegui. barcelona, playing without lionel messi, managed just fine. phillipe countinho opening

the scoring for the home side early on. real managed to pull it back to 2—1 just after the break but barca weathered the storm and took control. suarez scored a hatrick to help send barca to the top of la liga. meanwhile, alaves are second and just a point behind barcelona after a 2—1 win over villarreal. sevilla beat the bottom side huesca by the same score and are third. in the english premier league, there was a minute's silence at old trafford and elsewhere — partly in rememberance to the victims of saturday's helicopter crash outside leicester city's stadium. leicester have confirmed that their owner vichai srivaddhanaprabha was killed along with all four other people on board. manchester united edged past everton 2—1 to move to within five points of the top four. frenchman anthony martial got the all important second goal

to ensure united bounced back from their midweek champions league defeat to juventus. paul pogba scored the opener. his penalty was initially saved byjordan pickford but he scored the rebound. midfielder gylfi sigurdsson converted a penalty with 12 minutes remaining, but united held on to their advantage. when we get six minutes extra time, it was testing my heart because i'm used to when i'm losing to have two oi’ used to when i'm losing to have two or three minutes and then goodbye and when i'm winning, it's always difficult but emotion for the game, for the last corner, good football match, good football match. obviously very happy with the points. i think we deserve a little more than the result we achieved. balanced match. some moments, old

trafford is also —— always really difficult against a strong side. until the moment they scored the first goal penalty. the teams at old trafford were watched by some very special guests, the 12 children who were rescued from flooded caves in thailand this year were in the stadium having met united manager jose mourinho on saturday. the result means united move up to eighth in the table — a long way off from where they'd like to be. chelsea beat burnley 4—0 to move into second. and arsenal are in fourth after a 2—2 draw with crystal palace. in italy, a late equaliser from dreesh mertens got napoli a 1—1 draw at home to roma in serie a. napoli went in search of a win that would keep a little bit of pressure on runaway leaders juventus. elsewhere on sunday gonzalo higuain scored as ac milan beat sampdoria 3—2. in germany, bayer leverkusen

eased the pressure on their coach hi—ko herr—lish with a 6—2 win at werder bremen on sunday, denying the hosts the chance to go second in the bundesliga. la galaxy have missed the opportunity to reach the playoffs after they were beaten 3—2 by houston dynamo at home on sunday. the galaxy fans must have thought a play—off place was inevitable after the home side went 2—0 up in the first half thanks to two goals from ola kamara, but houston came back fighting in the second half, romell quioto levelled things up, before a second goal in the 79th minute from mauro manotas ended la galaxy's playoff hopes. in cricket, pakistan have their first ever whitewash

against australia in a limited over series — after winning the final t20 in dubai by 33 runs to seal a 3—0 series win. opener babar azam hit a half century as pakistan made 150 for 5. australia got nowhere near their target, shadab khan taking 3 for 19 as the aussies were bowled out for 117 with 5 balls to spare. the los angeles dodgers will be looking to pull out all the stops in an effort to send the world series back to boston. few teams in baseball history have bounced back from a 3—1 deficit at this stage but that's what they have to do after the red sox cameback in game 4 to win 9—6. they can now clinch the series at dodger stadium. it 2—1 to the red six atthe bottom of thr second. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. but from me chetan pathak and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. hello.

after a week that brought some dramatic changes in our weather, from being very mild in the middle of last week, to very cold this weekend, looks like the pattern for the week ahead will also see things swinging from one extreme to the next. pretty quiet and chilly start, milder midweek, and then potentially pretty stormy by friday. here we are first thing on monday. a widespread frost, minus five in the west. eastern coastal counties always a little bit milder, thanks to the breeze off the north sea. a few showers in here again on monday. this front tries to get into the west, but it's not going to have much luck. it will, though, feed some high cloud into northern ireland and western scotland, so the sunshine a little bit hazier here through the second part of the day. a lot of fine weather around. temperatures still, though, somewhat below average. perhaps not feeling quite as cold, though, without the keen northerly wind. overnight monday into tuesday, low pressure rolling up from the continent heads into the north sea.

this is causing us some uncertainty in our forecasts for tuesday, just how closely it will graze the eastern side of the uk. at the moment, it looks like eastern counties will get some rain and experience some quite strong winds. just how far that pushes onto our shores, though, does remain in question. for many, though, again the prospect of a reasonable day, if somewhat on the cool side. that low, however, will be away to the north tuesday into wednesday, and through wednesday daytime, we're going to start to feed this front in from the atlantic, with a southerly airflow. that is going to make things feel considerably milder to the south of the uk come wednesday afternoon. temperatures back closer to average — not the warmth we had last week, but perhaps up to 13 in london with some sunshine. some heavy rain possible further west. some sunshine for the north—east of scotland, but i think still feeling quite chilly here. but it all turns into a bit of a mixed up mess wednesday into thursday. clearest thinking for us at the moment is that we'll see a weather front to the east of the uk on thursday, bringing some rain through the day

that will eventually clear out into the north sea. some showers in the west, but generally, again, not a bad day. we're talking about temperatures getting into the average range of figures by the time we get to thursday. friday promises something mild. it also promises something pretty unpleasant. mild air coming in from the atlantic as this low rolls across us. this is the remnants of tropical storm oscar. it looks like a bullseye. tightly packed isobars mean strong to gale—force winds widely across the uk on friday, the potential for some very heavy rain as well. so in the week ahead, we go from a chilly, quiet, calm start again into a stormy picture. all change in the days ahead. welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is lewis vaughanjones. our top stories: with a promise to protect freedom and democracy, jair bolsonaro, the far—right candidate, wins brazil's presidential election. this is the scene live in rio, as supporters of the far—right candidate, jair bolsonaro,

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