hello this is bbc news. the headlines: cabinet brexiteer liam fox says mps have already decided on the uk's brexit options as he backs theresa may's condemnation of calls for a second referendum. let me tell you that if there is another referendum, which i don't think there will be, people like me will be immediately demanding it is a best of three. a five—year—old boy becomes the third victim of a house fire in nottinghamshire. a mother and her eight—year—old daughter died yesterday. environmental groups criticise the deal struck at a un climate conference in poland saying it doesn't go far enough to curb greenhouse gas emissions. mps say the roll—out of smart motorways — on which the hard shoulder has been permanently turned into a fourth lane — should be stopped due to safety fears. now on bbc news it's time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm damian johnson.

ahead on the programme... two goals from substitute xerdan shaqiri help liverpool beat manchester united and return to the top of the premier league. struggling southampton end arsenal's 22—match unbeaten run to snatch a precious victory on new manager ralph hassenhuttl‘s home debut. and hibernian stun celtic to stop the champions regaining top spot in the scottish premiership table. also coming up from us tonight.... leicester tigers‘ hopes of reaching the knockout stages of the champions cup are all but over after defeat at home to racing 92. hello and welcome to sportsday.

two late goals from substitute xerdan shaqiri gave liverpool victory over manchester united to take them back to the top of the premier league. it means they remain unbeaten in the league and leaves united 19 points adrift of their big rivals. james burford reports. these two sides are used to running the goddard. it is a rivalry united have edged over the passage of time, but this new wave of liverpool players is focused on the march towards history. a midfielder was offered his first taste of the fixture, and while his early shot flew inches wide, it floated past —— the floated pass the sadio mane was inch perfect. never before had liverpool's front three found the net against manchester united. no longer. this, though, was farfrom sealed. the beauty of the premier league is that a crown can slip at any moment. jesse lingard couldn't believe his luck, applying the

finishing touch after something of a double fault from the goalkeeper. xerdan shaqiri has been used to coming off the bench this season, but this cameo would become more of a starring role, a change that changed the game not once but twice. a gem in the liverpool team, and a thorn in united's site. this was a performance of the premier league's top team. united's was a performance that poses real questions. fantastic game, the whole 93 or 95 minutes. we were in charge and dominated the game and played football against an unbelievably strong side. we came a bit up the stay in the game, which we do, and in the second half, we did it and did it, we were annoying. and then

xerdan shaqiri got these two goals, it was brilliant. every player is fast and aggressive. the transitions are phenomenal. we had some difficulties to cope with. we balance the game 2—1. the whole game in the second half was when the game in the second half was when the game was progressively dying, was i think probably a huge percentage of the ones in the stadium would feel it was going to end with 1—1. arsenal's long unbeaten run came to an end against struggling southampton. they lost 3—2 at st marys in what was saints manager ralph hasenhuttl‘s first home match in charge. joe lynskey reports. southampton‘s descent down the table has led them to the alps. they have the league's first austrian manager. he has promised to change the mood with football of high—energy, and it seems the target practice is

working. this southampton star caught everyone off guard, but arsenal this season have new—found resolve. henrikh mkhitaryan‘s header was the response you would expect from a side 22 games unbeaten. in danny ings, saints have a player who could resurrect their season. for nearly two years, he has been sidelined with injuries, now his career is taking plate again. 2—i, but back came arsenal. this time, mkhitaryan's if i could finish had a more cruel field. it would poised the game for southampton's liftoff moment. the header was enough for southampton's. .. very proud how they showed today how focused they were, and how uncompromising, and when we had the chance, also how merciless they were

to get these three points. and i think it was a fantastic moment, 3-2, think it was a fantastic moment, 3—2, and we showed it was unbelievable and fantastic atmosphere, and it is a special feeling here to win a match. meanwhile along the south coast, chelsea beat brighton 2—i. they were two up at half time thanks to goals from pedro and eden hazard. solly march pulled one back for brighton but it wasn't enough. chelsea stay fourth — they're now three points ahead of arsenal in the scottish premiership — celtic missed out on going back to the top of the table — they were beaten 2—0 at hibernian. they took the lead within 46 seconds — vykintas slivka alert to slip past the celtic defence and make it 1—0. then in the second half, celtic were caught on the counter attack and florian kamberi sealed the win for eighth placed hibs. celtic‘s busy schedule perhaps taking its toll. rangers are back on top of the table on goal difference ahead of kilmarnock after a 1—0 win at home to hearts. daniel candeias scored the goal afterjust three minutes.

now we'll catch up with more of today's results in a moment but the great and the good of british sport are gathered in birmingham to watch this year's bbc sports personality of the year. past winners include sir mo farah and david beckham — but who will it be in 2018? our reporter holly hamilton is live on the red carpet — and holly unusually — we don't know who the nominees are, do we? that's right. it is an unusual year. the first time, nominees are top—secret was even right now, since we have spoken to all the guests gathered here this evening, the great and good of british sport, we we re great and good of british sport, we were excited for the first time to see who would come through the door, because we don't know who is nominated. another change this year, a new award for greatest sporting moment of the year. we know the nominees for that. there are five of them, and at home, you have been

voting for your favourite online. we have the england netballers. and who could forget, england's world cup success , could forget, england's world cup success, tyson fury, tiger woods, who came back in september. it is interesting in here at the minute. everyone has walked down the red carpet, ready for the live show, which starts at 7pm. they are ripping up the red carpet as we speak in preparation, but i managed to catch some of the nominees for greatest sporting moment, and they tell be how excited they were to be nominated for such a prestigious award. it has been an incredible journey, one that most thought was impossible, andl journey, one that most thought was impossible, and i just journey, one that most thought was impossible, and ijust proved that anything is possible with the right mindset and the right help. if you wa nt mindset and the right help. if you want something enough, you'll achieve it, and i wanted more than anything to be back on top of the world, and i finished the year doing that. to finish like i did at the oval was special. it has been an

interesting three months, being at home. i have been watching the guys in sri lanka, but i have no regrets. the world cup, an amazing summer, then coming home, having our second child, another little girl, which was amazing, and obviously it has been busy. we've had the nations lead, tottenham have had a lot of games. it has been an amazing year, and one i'll neverforget. hopefully 2090 will bring some more special moments. some of the contenders there. coverage starts at 7pm across there. coverage starts at 7pm across the bbc. leicester's hopes of reaching the champions cup knockout stages are all but over after defeat by racing 92 at welford road. the french side remain unbeaten at the top of pool four after a bonus—point win. craig templeton reports when you have an won a game since october, the last thing you need is to make games against the mighty racing. leicester were beaten by the

parisi and is' fast up last weekend. it felt like deja vu. the feeling became a reality that's bernard larue found himself with the freedom of the stadium. they found the line. this woke up the tigers, and they had an attack of their own. george worth was the man to restore some pride. but any thoughts of a fightback were ta ken pride. but any thoughts of a fightback were taken too literally. an elbow was raised, the yellow card prompted his eyebrows to do the same. there were no tries in the second half and amos couldn't allow that. his last—minute leap secure but only the bonus point but le i ceste r‘s but only the bonus point but leicester's eighth defeat in a row, and surely any hopes of european progress. craig templeton, bbc news. difficult days for leicester. in pool five, edinburgh remain top after victory over newcastle falcons at kingston park. two second—half tries from james johnstone and this from duhan van der merve sealed the win, 21 points to

eight the final score. that leaves newcastle third in the table but they can still qualify for the quarterfinals. montpelier beat toulon in the day's other game. there were two gold—medal winning performances for great britain on the final day of the track cycling world cup in london. katie archibald and laura kenny dominated the women's maddison, with kenny coming through to seal the win with this final sprint and take the team medal. matt walls then went on to claim gold in the men's omnium. walls won the final points race to claim top spot on the podium. england's hockey players have had to settle for fourth again at the world cup in india. they were totally outclassed by australia in the bronze medal match. it finished 8—1. tom craig scored a hattrick for the aussies. belgium won gold after beating the netherlands 3—2 on penalties after the final finished goaless. olympic bronze medallist

bianca walkden successfully defended her title at the taekwondo world grand slam. the two—time world champion says she'll spend her prize money on buying another pizzeria — while lauren williams, who also won gold in her weight division earlier — plans to pay off her parents' mortgage. justin rose has failed in his bid to end the year as the world's number one golfer. he needed to finish in the top 12 at the indonesian masters after starting the day tied in fourth place. but rose had a nightmare final round. he needed an eagle at the last to earn top spot in the rankings but had to settle for tied 17th. brooks koepka finishes 2018 as number one in the world. katie taylor produced a dominant display in new york to beat eva wahlstrom and successfully defend her ibf and wba world lightweight titles. taylor won each of the ten rounds at madison square garden to beat her finnish opponent — who is already a world champion in a different weight division.

meanwhile, canelo alvarez is now world champion at three weights. that's after he beat liverpool's rocky fielding at madison square garden. fielding was knocked down four times before the fight was stopped in the third round. translation: the plan we had was to hurt the body. i think he committed an error by beginning to exchange with me. that is what i worked on, to hit the body hard, and thank god, everything went well. i never shied away from the challenge. gladys quare garden, it has been a great week. i have met some great people. you know, i dared to be great, lived the dream. i will come back again. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening on bbc news.

hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. an interesting week.

we have spider—man multiplied in into the spider—verse, an animated feature. we have mortal engines, a battle of the cities. and lizzie, an infamous murder revisited. spider—man into the spider—verse, an animation that given its origins makes perfect sense. absolutely. it brings together a series of different spider—man, spider men, spider people, from all the different universes. focusing on the central character of miles morales, bitten by a spider while doing spray paint graffiti and he develops spider powers he doesn't know what to do with. initially he thinks its puberty. the next thing he finds himself in a world with lots of other spider people showing him the ropes, pun intended. here's a clip. oh. act supernormal. selecting a bagel. spider—man? you know, that's funny. i get that a lot. hey! he's got the bagel! all right, time to swing, just like talk to you. when did you teach me that? i didn't. it's a little joke, team building. all right, you ready? of course i'm not ready! whoa! i can't do this yet!

everybody knows that the best way to learn is under intense life—threatening pressure. uh—oh. target‘s been spotted. what are you doing down there? i run better than i swing. you've got to swing, or they'll get you. this is what you wanted. i thought it was really good fun. what i like about it is, if you are a comic book fan then you will be used to the idea of several incarnations of the same character. as a movie fan, we have seen at least three different versions of spider—man in the last 10—15 years. this takes all those different versions and throws them together the same universe and has fun with them in the same world. i liked it because it looks great. it's really well done, the animation and owes an awful lot to the original comic book sources.

the film—makers said they wanted every frame to look like it was torn from a comic book, which it does. it's really funny, the jokes really hit home. and it's really moving. there is a lovely thing, the whole thing about spider—man is that it's about an outsider and this is a group of outsiders all outside their own world, trying to find their place. i think young audiences can enjoy it as well as older audiences. i'm 56 and is not a huge comic books fan nor a spider—man aficionado but i laughed all the way through and found it really moving. really enjoyable. some superhero films can get too dark and self—importa nt. this looks like it avoids that. there is underlying substance to it. it is about something, someone finding their own place in the world, but it hasn't got that brooding, everything is black and grey and criminal. it's really good fun. i saw it with a paying audience and it went down terrifically well, the jokes all hitting home. but the bits that were meant to be moving were doing so as well.

no one was more surprised by me by how much fun this was and i really liked it. second, mortal engines, based on a book by philip reeve. which i haven't read. it's in a post—apocalyptic world in which cities have basically got up and are walking around fighting each other. so we meet london, the whole of london with st paul's cathedral and bits that you recognise chasing after other cities. the principle that drives it is municipal darwinism. it's produced and co—written by peterjackson of the lord of the rings movies, so you're expected to look spectacular and have really arresting stuff. i think at its very best it has hints of studio ghibli cartoons like how's moving castle, and a bit of terry gilliam and jeumet. at its worst, it's big cities hitting each other. although it's visually spectacular, the script feels lumpen. the characters don't get much chance to

develop it. one character strikes a nerve with an arc and development. the minute he's off screen, it's much less interesting. it's almost like the spectre of the cities themselves. it's a lot of ideas, many of which you recognise from other films, bolted together and lumping around the screen for a couple of hours. there are interesting things in it, but it is a shambolic movie. i did find a lot of it, a lot of the time watching it thinking, i wish the story was as good as what i'm looking at. spectacular visuals are neverjust enough. you need substance underneath. the synopsis i read seems slightly implausible. i don't mind implausibility. ijust wanted to have emotional sense. i thought it lacked that. lizzie is our third film. if i say the name lizzie borden, what do you think? i don't think anything. lizzie borden took an axe and gave her mother a0 wax. simon mayo said

the same thing as you. i'm in great company. the central suspect any murder case in 1872 that inspired a ghoulish nursery rhyme. this is chloe sevigny and kristen stewart are starring in a film about lizzie borden. chloe sevigny is lizzie, living in a house under the tyrannical rule of her father, who is really horrible, and a hated stepmother. kristen stewart is the maid, bridget, who was told her name is maggie now she works in the house. they form a shared bond that is sparked initially by their loathing of the father figure. here is a clip. sorry this is happening to you. i'm ashamed to be his daughter. i've been lying to myself for so long now. telling myself that things will get better.

it won't, will it? not ever. pigeons c00. why are you kind to me? what's the relationship like between those two? i've read certain reviews that say the dynamic between the two is fantastic. it is. what's interesting about the film is that i imagine everybody knows a version of this story and i'm finding out more and more that that isn't true. the film seems to imagine you already do, that this is a story where nobody is sure what happened in the case.

the film imagines a version of events, it looks like it's inspired by a version of events from an ed mcbain novel. it develops a relationship between the two central characters and then works out a dynamic that seems to work out within the context will stop whether it's true, nobody knows but it makes sense within the movie. we were talking before about the very different film, mortal engines. i don't mind the invention of fantasy but it has to make sense in and of itself. i thought this really did. you can see from the clip it's really low—key. you can feel the electricity in the air. really good performances will stop it reminds me of the movie lady macbeth, a character trapped within a house. the house felt very claustrophobic, like a prison, and you get a sense of that in this. that inside the house everything is stifling and outside the house it's a very different atmosphere. i thought it was a very interesting and low—key film. clearly not for everybody. the thing that surprises me most, i thought it was a film that was

saying, you know this story, and this is a different version. but it turns out that's not out. the best outcome of the old man and the gun. i love this. you have heard the stories that robert redford has said it might be his last film. who knows if it will. but if it is, what a fabulous note to go out on. it's based on a true story, you place an old bank robber, part of a group called the over the hill gang. it's him and his relationship with sissy spacek, looking back on his life, that becomes an ontology of robert redford's screen career. he is wonderful. supporting performances are great, including a brilliant performance from tom waits, the musician turned actor. if you are robert redford, this would be the point where you go, i'm top of the tree, thank you, i will step away. i will look forward to a custom i don't go to the cinema often enough.

you will love this. the best dvd this week? they shall not grow old is out this week. there was a lot of attention around armistice day. they have taken footage from the first world war. peterjackson, this is what he has done brilliantly here, taking this old footage, using computer graphics and the special effects, to make it look like it was shot yesterday. it's like you are in the trenches with the faces of these very young soldiers from 100 years ago literally looking like they are right in front of you. he has added soundtrack and they got lip readers into read what is said. but the effect is extraordinary. it's like the film leaps into life. it's quite startling when it first happens, remarkable. it's very moving and i think that of the two peterjackson products around at the moment, this is the want to pay attention to. i have put it down to go and see that as well. lovely to see you.

and you. a quick reminder before we go that you'll find more film news and reviews from across the bbc online at bbc.co.uk/markkermode. and you can find all our previous programmes on the bbc iplayer. that's it for this week, though. thanks for watching. goodbye. hello. i thought we'd start with a recount from storm deirdre, which brought severe weather yesterday. arguably the most dangerous conditions were caused by freezing rain, leaving dangerous icy roads, treacherous conditions. we had multiple accidents on the m71; and the a19, for example. a top gust of 79 mph in west and wales. that system has cleared out of the way and today has been much milder. there has been snow and ice on the

hills near stirling. for the week ahead, high—pressure stays across europe, stopping this area of low pressure from moving through, so it will set to the north—west of the uk. we will drag in south—westerly winds, so temperatures will be a crook —— above—average. cloud is moving in across south—west england and wales, bringing rain. showers will affect western scotland on and off throughout the night. clearing skies elsewhere, allowing a touch of frost in the countryside, and we may see some fog to take out into the pa rt see some fog to take out into the part of the pack first part of monday. it looks like being mostly a quiet day. most areas will see sunshine, thanks to this ridge of high pressure. low pressure to the north—west will move closer, bringing strong winds to western areas as the day goes by. it will turn more cloudy and windy, and

wetter for northern ireland as the day goes by. damp weather will push into western fringes of scotland, england and wales towards the end of the day. the highest temperatures will be up to 12 celsius, relatively mild for the time of year. into tuesday, a cold front pushes east slowly, bringing heavy rain to northern ireland. 0n slowly, bringing heavy rain to northern ireland. on tuesday, wet weather pushes into scotland, england and wales. given how wet the weather has been in recent weeks, perhaps across parts of wales, south—west england and scotland, there could be localised flooding issues. it will be a windy and mild day, temperatures again up to around 12 celsius. 0n day, temperatures again up to around 12 celsius. on wednesday, the low pressure comes closer, shell was merging together to give lengthy spells of rain in the west. the best dry and bright weather with sunshine is likely across eastern parts of the uk. that sure whether. —— that's your weather. this is bbc news. theresa may's brexit deal —

a senior minister suggests mps could have a free vote — and rejects a further referendum. let me tell you that if there is another referendum, which i don't think there will be, people like me will immediately be demanding the best of three. a five—year—old boy becomes the third victim of a house fire in nottinghamshire. his mother and eight—year—old sister died yesterday. bad weather is blamed for a fall in the number of high street shoppers on one of the busiest days before christmas. environmental groups criticise the deal struck at a un climate conference in poland saying it doesn't go far enough to curb greenhouse gas emissions. and liverpool return to the top of the premier league with a 3—1victory over man united — reaction to that and the rest of the day's sport in half an hour.