i have reiterated that it is in the interests of the eu as well as the uk to get this over the line. a disorderly brexit would be good for no one. president trump's former lawyer, michael cohen, has said the president knew it was wrong to order the illegal payments of hush money to two women who alleged affairs with him. mr trump denies asking cohen to make the payments. just days after four chelsea fans were suspended for racist taunts, the club has said those who sang an anti—semitic chant during a match last night have "shamed the club". susie goodall — the british yachtswoman whose boat capsized in a solo round the world race — has arrived back on land in chile. in a moment it will be time for sportsday but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news... from seven o'clock onwards, following the heightened tensions at the eu summit, we'll be visiting a number of eu capitals to get the mood music on brexit amongst people there (f12) on brexit amongst people there.

at eight o'clock, we expect the rescued british yachtswoman, susie goodall, to hold a press conference. we'll bring you that live from chile. and later after 10:30 and again at 11:30, we'll be taking a look at tomorrow's front pages in the papers with our guestsjoe twyman, the director of the polling organisation, deltapoll, and political correspondent from the london evening standard, kate proctor. that's all ahead on bbc news. now on bbc news it's time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. coming up on the programme. we look at the issue of anti—semitism at chelsea as football fans are accused of using the "political atmosphere as a coverfor their own racism." after raheem sterling's comments on how young black footballers are portrayed by newspapers. we'll be discussing race, football and the media kadeena cox gets the better of fellow rio paralympic gold medallist sarah storey on the opening day of the track world cup in london.

liverpool striker mo salah is the bbc‘s african footballer of the year for the second year running. it's a great feeling to win another award. two yea rs it's a great feeling to win another award. two years in a row. happy to win it. hello and welcome to sportsday. just days after chelsea banned four of their fans for alleged racist abuse, the club has now been forced to condemn the actions of supporters who were heard chanting anti—semitic songs during last night's europa league match in hungary. chelsea have promised to take the strongest possible action, describing the incident as abhorrent. our reporterjo curriejoins me now.

jo, chelsea have taken major steps to try and eradicate discriminatory behaviour among their fanbase — but it doesn't seem to be working does it? it feels like the fans aren't listening. it's not the first time chelsea have had to condemn their fans, but that is what they have done today after a small pocket of supporters sang anti—semitic chants during a europa league game in hungary against vidi mac in budapest. the 2—2 result was com pletely budapest. the 2—2 result was completely overshadowed by what's been described as a vocal minority chanting offensive song about totte n ha m chanting offensive song about tottenha m fa ns chanting offensive song about tottenham fans will stop the fa says it will await the report from the referee before deciding if any action should be taken. but chelsea once again in the spotlight for the wrong reasons. chelsea launched a campaign earlier this year and the idea was to tackle this very issue of anti—semitism. what has the club said in response this week? club are

working very hard behind the scenes to try to stop their firm is behaving in this way. in a statement today they say... it has no place at chelsea or any of oui’ it has no place at chelsea or any of our communities. they have released a video withjeremy vine, eni aluko, talking about behaviour in football and racism and anti—semitic chanting. in october the chairman bruce buck said in a newspaper that fa ns bruce buck said in a newspaper that fans found guilty of anti—semitic abuse should be forced to visit the nazi concentration camp at auschwitz rather than banning them. the club's owner, roman abramovich, who is jewish himself, has put a lot of money into this issue, and chelsea fa ns money into this issue, and chelsea fans don't seem to be listening to what their own club is saying. we are seeing images from the video that was launched earlier this week to try to hit back at anti—semitism. and we can hearfrom frank lampard,

who was asked about the issue of discrimination and racism.” who was asked about the issue of discrimination and racism. i think ina bigger discrimination and racism. i think in a bigger picture, and there is one here, and is not to exclude racism, which is part of it, but i get disappointed with the amount of hate that goes on in modern society and in the game. some of it is social media based. it's very plausible now to say, i don't like you because of how you look, because of your sex, your preferences, because of your family, your decisions that you have made in your career. that's something we need to look at, and that's just about decency. that was frank lampard and we can also hear from former chelsea winger pat nevin, whojoins us we can also hear from former chelsea winger pat nevin, who joins us from berwickshire. thanks for joining winger pat nevin, who joins us from berwickshire. thanks forjoining us, u nfortu nately berwickshire. thanks forjoining us, unfortunately on such a dark topic. we heard from frank lampard, and he says that he condemns the actions, but he says it's an issue that he thinks has improved since his era,

since his father's here as well stop what do you think? it has improved massively since those areas but that doesn't matter. we have to make sure we stop any sort of antagonism towards anyone, as frank correctly says, be it religion, race, sex, we don't accept it in football. we certainly don't accept it at any clubs. chelsea are getting pointed out at the moment but i'm sure they will be furious, angry and exasperated because they are doing everything they possibly can. you mentioned in your report, the suggestion of sending some of these fans to auschwitz to give them an idea of the offence they are causing, but it's hard to know what to do. i have been a chief executive ata to do. i have been a chief executive at a club myself and you try everything, you work with the community, as chelsea are doing with their foundation. you put up posters, things on the website and in the programme. you get the players talking about it and have the opportunity to say to the fans, if you hear something beside you,

come to us and we will do something about it. cctv, everything. education is at the base of it so you try that as well. and in the middle of doing all this, and you mention yourself the campaign against anti—semitism was set up by chelsea earlier this year, doing everything they possibly can, and then these few idiots. doesn't matter if its few or lots, one is bad enough, they besmirch the name of not only the club, but football and society. it's infuriating, exasperating and embarrassing. we just need to keep on flagging it up. well done to the bbc and all areas of the media for flagging it up. it has to be done so. we can't duck it and happily chelsea are not ducking it either. chelsea are condemning the fans once again but what more can they do to prevent it? its a great question and that's the point.

i have been chief executive of a clu b i have been chief executive of a club before and when things pop up like that, you will rack your brains to do everything you possibly can. everything that is legal, short of denying people their civil rights, but if it means cctv cameras, educating everyone in the stand. it's easier for chelsea to do that in the environment of stamford bridge. they can close in on people. if they are flagged up by the media then you can do that and it's great. it's harder to do it when fans travel. talking to some fans this morning, who had just come home from the game, they hadn't heard it, but they went with the chelsea group, getting their tickets in a certain place. they said it was people without tickets. so it's so hard for the club to get inside these peoples heads. they are travelling on their own, getting the tickets off touts. it's incredibly hard to do it but you have to keep on trying. happily that's what football is continuing to try to do and chelsea are

continuing to try to do, but as you say, it's a massive embarrassment and the club will be very angry. pat nevin and jo currie, thank you for joining us. the behaviour of fans will be another blow to the blues over the past week with fans also accused of racism just a few days ago. four fans were suspended following the alleged racial abuse of raheem sterling who has since accused newspapers of helping to "fuel racism" by the way they portrayed young black footballers. my colleague hugh woozencroft has beenjoined byjournalists jordan jarrett—bryan, natasha henry and leon mann to discuss the issues around race, football and the media. raheem sterling's words have got to me and many others in the sports journalism industry thinking about the current state of play. i have called on some of my fellow black sports journalist to examine the state of the injury. it's not too much hyperbole to suggest what raheem sterling has done is a game changer. what he's done has made

editors, people with power, look at themselves. he has been very brave but we can't leave him on his own. it's a moment for us, but it's what happens from here. this is really about betterjournalism. happens from here. this is really about better journalism. it's happens from here. this is really about betterjournalism. it's about making sure there are more thorough processes. if discussions were made about raheem sterling's gone on his leg and if there were proper debates before that was published, then maybe it wouldn't have been published. —— gun on his leg.|j maybe it wouldn't have been published. -- gun on his leg. i had an experience when antoine griezmann blacked up for a party. the editors ihad, blacked up for a party. the editors i had, because one of them was black, who would have a personal opinion on the black face, they asked me, was it racist. how should we this headline. should we accuse him of being racist. if you don't have anyone there who has the personal experience, how can you create the correct story or headline and tell it with the correct

perspective? a lot of sports journalists say, it's not them that write these stories, it's from the front page and news journalists and may be that something members of the public don't understand. there is still no excuse for some of the language, writing and reporting on some of these players. it's easy for spurts journalist to say, it's not us, it's the front pages writing negatively about raheem sterling was that i have seen some negative back page headlines about sterling. the words you write about people are very power. we will watch and read with extreme scrutiny about how, going forward, football writers write about black players in particular. i think even if it is different parts of the newspaper, if you are not calling it out then you enable it. i think the narrative around footballers is that they work hard. ithink around footballers is that they work hard. i think the narrative around black footballers is they are naturally gifted. one suggest you work to where you get to and the other suggests you are just given it because you are born with it, so why

don't you do more with it. it's a narrative thatjohn don't you do more with it. it's a narrative that john barnes, don't you do more with it. it's a narrative thatjohn barnes, ian wright, they have lived through it, so wright, they have lived through it, so let's hope it gets better. there isa so let's hope it gets better. there is a lot of talk, but nobody is backing their chat. everybody understands that the newsroom is not diverse, they don't have enough women or non—white people or enough people of a certain age or socio economic demographic, and three years later they say the same things and nothing has changed. it's an uncomfortable moment for the media, for our industry, but the discomfort that white journalists are feeling right now about this conversation is the discomfort that many of us black sports journalists and journalists have felt just sports journalists and journalists have feltjust going sports journalists and journalists have felt just going into white environments to do ourjobs everyday. they need to consider that. they need to consider the sensitivities around the situations that we have been put in over the years and the way they have been responded to. there is a lack of diversity in our industry and it needs to be addressed and we need to

see some action. and if you love football and love sport, and you wa nt football and love sport, and you want the sport of football to be better, make the industry more diverse. because the more diverse football is, the more diverse the football is, the more diverse the football media is, the better it will be. a lot to get through but let's have a quick look at some of the day's other stories now. former england spinner ashley giles is england's new managing director of men's cricket. he will be responsible for the strategy, coaching and management. giles replaces andrew strauss, who stepped down in october. justin rose is 8—under par after the second round of the indonesian masters. that sees him currently tied for fifth. he needs to finish in the top 12 to end the year as world number one. mark allen is through to the semi—finals of the scottish open. he whitewashed alfie burden 5—0 in glasgow. shaun murphy is also through to the last four. the track cycling world cup has been getting underway in london with the world's best riders competing on the boards

at the iconic lee valley velopark this weekend — with tokyo 2020 qualifying points on the line. para—cycling events are making their debut at this event with british paracyclists already claiming two golds this afternoon with two more up for grabs this evening. kate grey is there for us. the world's best cyclists have descended on the lee valley velopark and for the first time ever para— cycling events have been included in the world cup schedule. just para— cyclists have not disappointed in front of their home crowd with kadeena cox winning gold in the 500 metre try and trial beating her team—mate dame sarah storey. —— time trial. i have only been back eight weeks so it's a bit of a surprise. quicker than i have been going in training. performing on the world stage is all about how you do it. and beating a certain dame as well. ido like and beating a certain dame as well. i do like to beat sarah every now

and again. but it's not her main event, so i will take this one. to the success continued withjody cundy winning gold in the one kilometre time trial and he joins us now. congratulations, and great to be here in london. you have another event this evening. we qualified fastest in the team sprint this morning to stop the fastest we have done since the paralympic games so we are in good spirits, in a good place, a couple of seconds over the american lads, so hopefully we can pull it together to find a few more tenths of a second. being here at the world cup alongside able—bodied counterparts, how important is that and what can we look forward to from then this evening? it's fabulous to bea then this evening? it's fabulous to be a part of this world cup. we've never had anything like it in para— cycling. to race alongside these quys cycling. to race alongside these guys and demonstrate how good para— cycling is. there's been a lot of good performances this morning. to be able to showcase our events in front of all these guys, fingers

crossed it's the start of something good and maybe we will get more integrated events as we go along. whether we integrate it or expand it and turn it into something special, it's always good to be part of something at the beginning. fingers crossed we will have a good crowd tonight for the team sprint. what names should we look out for? tonight to have the team pursuit, men's and women's, the gb squad, seven seconds faster than anybody in qualifying yesterday. laura kenny is in there. a household name in cycling. and all her team—mates. and the team from derby in the men's tea m the team from derby in the men's team pursuit, fastest in there. they are doing everything outside, all their aero testing and training and equipment. they have redefined what can be done from outside the team. they are pretty fabulous as well. they are pretty fabulous as well. they are pretty fabulous as well. they are good to watch. and then the tea m they are good to watch. and then the team sprint girls are doing all right. the dutch, hot on their heels. it should be a good evening

of racing and hopefully we can get to see some before we do the warm up. thank you for the summary. so much to look forward to include in your performance. the action continues from 7pm and it's on the bbc sport website. also coming up in the programme... we're with liverpool striker mo salah as he's crowned the bbc‘s african footballer of the year for the second year running. and it's football team once won the european cup, now red star belgrade has a rugby league side. we'll tell you all about the newest team in this year's challenge cup. this weekend sees england's hockey players take on belgium in their semifinal of the men's world cup in india. that's after beating reigning olympic champions argentina in the quarters, now eyeing their first final since 1986. earlier i spoke to one of the team's captains, phil roper, who told me despite having to take the crossover route to the semis, they are feeling confident. we got off to a slow start, not what

you really want, but we are trying to build momentum in the tournament, which we spoke about beforehand. the last three games, having beaten three incredibly tough teams in new zealand, ireland and olympic reigning champions argentina, we are full of confidence and ready to go tomorrow. australia, the netherlands and yourselves were in the previous world cup last four. this will be belgian‘s first semifinal. it's a very experienced side, so who will you expect to dominate the ball? does it give you more of an advantage with your experience? does it give you more of an advantage with your experience ?|j advantage with your experience?” guess may be a little bit, but it's probably just guess may be a little bit, but it's probablyjust a guess may be a little bit, but it's probably just a bit guess may be a little bit, but it's probablyjust a bit of heritage to be honest. as you say, belgium have such an experienced team at the tournament. they have started to become a real powerhouse of world hockey. at the same time, we have been here before, gaining confidence and are playing some pretty exciting

hockey so we will try to take that into tomorrow and turn them over. any news on barry middleton, your most experienced player? what impact would his absence have? i'm sure it would his absence have? i'm sure it would have an impact but hopefully thatis would have an impact but hopefully that is not the case. an incredibly experienced player, playing more than 400 times for england and great britain, an incredible role model, so britain, an incredible role model, so hopefully his fitness test goes well tomorrow. but we will put everything out there. that was phil roper speaking to me earlier. rugby now with the champions cup continuing this weekend. by sunday evening we should have a clearer idea of who's in and who's out. tonight exeter chiefs go into their clash with gloucester needing a bonus point win to avoid putting themselves out of the reckoning — while ulster take on scarlets hoping to make it a double following their victory in wales last week. our rugby union correspondent chris jones has more. a brilliant win they had in west wales, the ulstermen. a couple of players really showing form, will

addison who left sale to join ulster has been outstanding. also marcell coetzee, the springbok in the back row, back fit, giving ulstera huge boost. scallops are down and out after a deflating european tournament after performing well last year. if ulster win at home tonight they are in a very good position to stop you can also apply that to gloucester who beat exeter away from home at sandy park last weekend. very few teams do that. gloucester managed it so if they back that up at the kingsholm stadium tonight then the cherry and whites, who got close to winning the challenge cup last year, they would be in challenge cup last year, they would beina challenge cup last year, they would be in a dominant position going head—to—head with munster to qualify out of that pool. exeter, they cannot replicate their domestic form on the european stage. looking ahead to tomorrow with wasps travelling across the challenge to face toulouse. some new faces in the squad. wasps are a bit like bath.

down and out, a draw and a couple of defeats which isn't enough to qualify from a competitive european cup. wasps experimenting in toulouse. toulouse look a really good outside bet at least for this tournament. bath might be on a hiding to nothing when they go to mighty leinster, the defending champions. the games to watch out for on saturday involves the pool of saracens, lyon, cardiff and glasgow. cardiff will be looking for revenge against saracens, who put 50 against them recently. and glasgow will be putting pressure on saracens if they beat lyon in scotstoun. liverpool and egypt striker mohamed salah has won the bbc african footballer of the year award for the second year running. after scoring 41 goals so far in 2018 for club and country, salah saw off competition from four other players to win the award. our reporter mimi fawaz is at anfield. mohammed saleh, winning the double

for the bbc african footballer of the year. the only other african to do that was jj kutcher in 2004. more than 650,000 people voted to crown mohammed sauer as the king of african football, beating off sadio mane, koulibaly, medhi benatia. i went to the melwood training ground to present him with his award. —— since jay—jay okocja. last year when i presented you with the award, you said you would like to win again this year. you have done it, so what does it feel like to be the first player since jay—jay okocha in 2004 to win this back to back?” player since jay—jay okocha in 2004 to win this back to back? i think

it's a great feeling. i would like to win it again next year. it's a great feeling to win another award. two years great feeling to win another award. two yea rs in great feeling to win another award. two years in a row. happy to win it. when you look back at 2018, what have been some of the individual moments where you thought you were at the top of your game? many moments in 2018. the game against totte n ha m moments in 2018. the game against tottenham was top, as was the game against romer, unbelievable. each moment i feel like i'm scoring goals and helping people, bringing liverpool to the top of the league. it's always a great feeling. anything you will be looking forward to in the coming year overall?” think ijust to in the coming year overall?” think i just want to win something with the club. everyone is excited. everybody is happy about that. i try

to push myself every day. i'm happy for the team to win something. this season for the team to win something. this season everyone has, i don't want to say motivation, but everyone wants to win something. i think we will carry on until we see. congratulations, the winner for the 2018 bbc african footballer of the year, mohammed sala. thank you very much. a delighted mohamed salah. liverpool are top of the table and salah is hoping to have a good year ahead, hopefully winning some titles of course. and as well for club and country for egypt, who have the africa cup of nations coming. the last time egypt won it was in 2010. mohammed sala hoping for an even better year ahead. this evening saw the draw for the first round of rugby league's challenge cup. last season we saw

the first club from outside england lift the trophy with catalan dragons beating warrington in the final. this year more history is being made as the first team from serbia enter, looking to emulate the success of the football team they share their name with. if he scores, they win. he scores. red star belgrade take home the european cup. in the last hour, red star belgrade rugby leaf have been drawn against the cumbrian side milham. we can go live to belgrade. the club was brought in to being in 2006. thank you forjoining us on being in 2006. thank you forjoining us on sports day. you have been watching the draw. we will talk about that draw in a moment. talk us

through your journey as about that draw in a moment. talk us through yourjourney as a club to become part of this competition. it's been a crazyjourney in the last 12 years, since we started the club. going from an idea to becoming the most established club with big success in this part of europe. with big aspirations. the challenge cup isa dream big aspirations. the challenge cup is a dream come true. we did some tremendous work in the past years. we are in the balkan region. we won the balkan league this year. it's played by seven different nations this year, next year it will be eight. the game isjust beginning here but we don't have any opposition to play against nowadays in this area. the closest team is

1000 kilometres away. we want to have the biggest ambition all the time. so this is a dream come true. thanks to all the team from red star belgrade's rugby league team. there is more on the website. that's all from sportsday. enjoy the rest of your evening. after a lull in the weather we have to be prepared for some very active but potentially hazardous weather affecting parts of the uk during saturday and into early sunday with a met office amber warning for ice caused by freezing rain, widespread ice, could be a dangerous weather set up for some on saturday. heavy

snow especially in scotland north of the central belt. rain pushing into northern ireland, wales and south—west england on saturday morning accompanied by strengthening wind, gusts of 50—60 mph. very wet on saturday here. this pushing east into the cold air after a frosty start, a set up for freezing rain, rain and freezing instantly on contact with frozen surfaces are particularly across the midlands, england and scotland through saturday afternoon at into the evening so a very dangerous travel setup. heavy snow developing in scotla nd setup. heavy snow developing in scotland and north of the central belt. a messy travel situation with saturday coming to a close. this is bbc news, i'm martine croxall. the headlines at seven. there'll be no renegotiation — but theresa may leaves the eu summit in brussels insisting she can win further assurances to get her brexit deal through parliament, if we are going to leave with a deal, this is it. but my discussions with colleagues today have shown that further clarification and discussion following the councils

conclusions is in fact possible. but a tense exchange between mrs may and jean—claude juncker as she accuses him of describing her latest efforts as nebulous. he denies it. i did not refer to her, but to the overall state of the debate in britain. and that's why i was saying that this was nebulous, foggy, in english. a baby has died after being attacked by two dogs