commercial confirms it'll restart commercial whale hunting in july, confirms it'll restart commercial whale hunting injuly, defying an international band. this bike use the boxing day sales the number of people visiting the high street today fell for the third year in a fow. today fell for the third year in a row. resident who has witnessed the final test of a hypersonic missile which he says can penetrate any missile defence system. —— president putin. investigation under way in leeds tonight after a 30—year—old man was killed yesterday. the nun who became famous around the world as an bbc broadcaster has died at the age of 88. now it's boxing day so the age of 88. now it's boxing day so there's plenty of sporting action. here is the team with sports today. hello and welcome to sports day. i am today. hello and welcome to sports day. iam holly today. hello and welcome to sports day. i am holly hamilton with your boxing day headlines. liverpool go six points clear at the top of the premier league with a rampant display over newcastle. while manchester city's unhappy christmas continues as another defeat sees them slip to third. a scott sinclair hat—trick takes

celtic past aberdeen in a seven—goal thriller at pittodrie. and in a dramatic race at kempton, clan des obeaux wins a 10th king george the sixth chase for paul nicholls. hello and welcome to the programme on this boxing day evening — where it's been a busy day in the premier league as we reach the halfway stage this season. liverpool remain unbeaten with another victory this afternoon to stretch their lead at the top — and as for manchester city? well, the reigning champions have slipped to third. ben croucher is here to take us through all today's action. many thanks indeed.

they say you don't win the title at christmas, but the last few days could go a long way to decide where the trophy is headed come may. liverpool are now 6 points clear at the top after they won and manchester city lost. jurgen klopp‘s side dismantled another team. a—nil winners over newcastle at anfield. dejan lovren, mo salah, xzerdan shaquiri and fabinho with the goals. i2 clean sheets in 19 games too. the first time in 16 years the reds will end a day 6 points clear at the top of the premier league. klopp‘s not getting too carried away though we played manchester city still in eight days or in a week, so if i hate would be man city i would think there is only four, because we have to play them and we played before that game against arsenal, so that means absolutely nothing. the only thing that is important to us is their performance, the level of performance which we obviously can't keepin performance which we obviously can't keep in the moment. we have to keep

it, that is how it is, and for the moment it is obviously good, but thatis moment it is obviously good, but that is all. liverpool's next two games? arsenal and manchester city! good luck. still unbeaten — just as manchester city were this time last year. but look now. heads bowed after back to back defeats for the first time in two years. pep guardiola has traditionally struggled in the premier league in december. it was this man — ricardo pereira with a stunning winner for leicester city. 2—1 it finished. remember a week ago when their boss claude puel was supposedly fearing the axe. they've now beaten chelsea and the reigning champions. welljust as manchester city did against crystal palace on saturday, they took the lead through bernardo silva but couldn't hold onto it. they also had fabian delph sent off late on to compound a miserable few days for guardiola. they pull us every time, mentally we lack a little confident in front in the situations, except 5—10 minutes, of the first half they had chances

that were better in the second half was the same. we have many but we are there and we need to score a goal. so we have to accept it, we have to realise that we have to work harderand have to realise that we have to work harder and try to change immediately one good result enough —— and after we are confident we will be back and we are confident we will be back and we are confident we will be back and we are going to make a good result. well city's demise has paved the way for tottenham to move up to second. and they've been freescoring again. 6 at goodison park on sunday. they thrashed bournemouth 5—0 this afternoon. harry kane scored the fifth. lucas moira, christian eriksen and two from son hueng min earning spurs their fifth league win in a row. maybe expected to beat bournemouth but certainly their exploits in front of goal will have not gone unnoticed by their rivals. their best start to a premier league season shows no signs of decelerating. well city's demise has paved the way for tottenham to move up to second. not bad eitherfor a manager who's been linked with the manchester united job in the last week too. the effort was fantastic. the team that runs a lot and makes it

difficult to play. but to have one day less to recover after the everton gay at —— game i think the performance was fantastic and i think we are better than bournemouth and i'm so happy because of the performance. both claudio ranieri and nuno espirito santo might well be reasonably happy with their sides' performances in the day's lunchtime kick off. wolves snatched a late point in a i—all draw at craven cottage but the result is enough to see fulham climb off the bottom for the first time since october. jo currie has more if anyone could do with a christmas miracle it is full on, but that's bottom of the table and without a premier league win since november the home match against the spirited wolves side, the perfect opportunity to resurrect their season. and when you are struggling, you can always be with a little bit of luck and thatis be with a little bit of luck and that is what fulham got as the referee failed to spot this handball. at the other end though

things were not going quite their weight, alexandra going close, does not close enough —— alexander. as half—time approached festive spirit seemed in short supply at craven cottage when this tackle by callum chambers only received a yellow card, but got tempers flared. after the break: refocus theirfighting spirit, and it paid off. the substitute finally finishing off this scrappy goal which replaced —— which replace show clearly crossed the line. the home from'sjoy which replace show clearly crossed the line. the home from's joy was short—lived however as the ball is bundled into the net to bring the world level with just five minutes remaining. there still time for him to almost win it for fulham, had it not been for this last—ditch lunch meeting they have to settle for a point on a day that would have felt they deserved all three. so here's what else happened on a busy boxing day in the premier league. burnley stay in the bottom 3, losing 5—1 at home to everton.

palace and cardiff was goalless. paul pogba scored twice as caretaker boss ole gunnar solskjaer won his first game in charge at old trafford. the 3—1 defeat sees huddersfield slip to the bottom. the latest from the amex. brighton 1, arsenal 1. abaumeyang gave arsenal the lead. jurgen locadia equalised ten minutes before the break. 9 away games without a clean sheet now for the gunners. and this is how all of that shakes out at the top of the table. liverpool clear of tottenham in second. city down to third — a point further back. as things stand, arsenal would move above chelsea for an hour or so at least. everton have climbed into the top half of the table with that win at turf moor. you're up to date with everything that's happened and happening so far. better than battling the sales today i reckon. but still not done yet. that's right. a lot more to come today and we're not talking about the sales. we are talking about the football. it goes on tonight. watford take on chelsea. there for us, will be the slive commentary team of pat nevin and conor mcnamara. an exciting day of football on

boxing day. we are —— we hope you're keeping the best for last here at big cass vicarage road. tilting to bounce back after the weekend. they do. a pressure game for them. the type of team watford are having watched them recently been about goodison park, they're really physical, they're really strong, they can play as well, but their team have not close down chelsea and thatis team have not close down chelsea and that is knowledge of the want. their team are disruptors in many ways, so looking at the chelsea team that has come down here today if they play the role site i think they will have a really tough game and remember, you will remember well the last time chelsea played here for one defeat. —— 4—1 defeat. you take what happened today before hand —— 4—1 defeat. you take what happened today beforehand and all bets are off for this one. two people have come out questioning the mentality of the squad. have you been surprised to hear them both singing from the same hymn sheet at

the same time? generally the play as a kind of usually after a game in his out of anger, but when the manager comes out saying something different we knowjose mourinho was doing that a bit, i'm not quite sure we can say maurizio does the same but the expectation of high standards and they have dropped below it. three defeat in six games and they have not been easy games, but i think there is a slight concern that the concerns are the ones everybody has spotted and talked about for quite some time, whether it is chemically the back four? do they have the right guy in the central midfield area? and we don't really know yet. certainly it is early days but it is not matter about anything. you all need to play well for a kick—off and it's been a couple of times where they have dropped below the usual level over the years. let's quit before -- let's quit while you had before he

get that lovely hair wet. watford against chelsea coming up. get that man an umbrella. thanks to the two of you. there's also a full programme of matches in the scottish premiership — it was quite a game at pittodrie with leaders celtic beating aberdeen 4—3. scott sinclair scoring a hat—trick — this was his second to give brendan rodgers side a 2—1 lead with 15 minutes to go. the home side levelled to make it 2—2 from the spot thanks to sam cosgrove — that was to be first of four goals in seven minutes. celtic retook the lead before sinclair got his third to make the points safe. aberdeen had time to get another but not enough to see the reigning champions go back to glasgow with all three points. well that result extends celtic‘s lead at the top of the table to three points. that's because second placed rangers dropped points at home with a one—all draw against hibernian at ibrox. there were also wins today for saintjohnstone, hearts and kilmarnock. sheffield united are up to fourth in the championship with a 3—1 victory over promotion rivals derby county.

david mcgoldrick scored the pick of the golas for the hosts at bramall lane to give chris wilder's side a 2—1 lead, before substitute leon clarke sealed the win six minutes from time. well a full programme of games in the division today. there were also wins for birmingham and bolton. leeds stay stop thanks to two injury goals to beat blackburn 3—2 — that's after blackburn had taken a two—one lead in the last minute. sheffield wednesday and millwall were both one—nil winners. second placed norwich were three goals down at home to nottingham forest before levelling with three goals in the last 13 minutes. also wins today for hull city, qpr, aston villa and west brom. clan des obeaux has won the king george the sixth chase. the horse, part owned by sir alex ferguson and trained by paul nicholls, was a 16 to one shot at the start of the race. the harry cobden ridden horse beat 2016 winner thistlecrack in a close finish.

here's our racing correspondent cornelius lysaght. paul nicholson won his tenth staging of the king george vi chase, the midseason championship in 20 years with his horse ridden by harry cobden, the horse parlay owned by sir alex ferguson. this followed six as five times with porto star and to each see more business. the horse was moving west throughout the closing stages of the race but harry was only 20 was as cool as you can imagine, holding on and not really committing the horse until the last fence when going away from thistle crack with native river in third place. paul nicholson was champion trainer for place. paul nicholson was champion trainerfor most of place. paul nicholson was champion trainer for most of the early years of this century, but have lost the title in recent years. he is talked often about rebuilding his team and with words like this will probably

be at the cheltenham gold cup you can see that happening. 0f be at the cheltenham gold cup you can see that happening. of the others it turned out to be a dramatic race. the favour was last of the seven finishers and waiting patiently who had been well back before the race was brought down at the ninth. australia opening batsman cameron bancroft has told fox sports it was david warner who told him to tamper with the ball during the test between australia and south africa in march. bancroft was later banned for nine months for attempting to manipulate the ball with sandpaper. warner and then captain steve smith were both banned for a year. bancroft was speaking to former australia wicketkeeper adam gilchrist. definitely i was asked to do it. i guess i didn't know how to be true myself in a moment so i can actually know any better. at the time dave suggested to me to carry the action out on the ball given the situation that we were in in the game, and i did not know any better. i didn't

know any better because ijust wa nted know any better because ijust wanted to fit in and feel valued, really. and just before we leave you, let's see what happened when a footballing legend surprised a group of school children by dressing up as who else but santa claus. this is paris st germain goalkeeper gianluigi buffon in the big red suit and white beard — with christmas presents for the youngsters. he was joined by psg players angel di maria and thiago silva spreading some christmas cheer. you get the impression some of them might have been hoping for the real sa nta might have been hoping for the real santa claus. some i don't think are too disappointed. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening but coming up next it's the travel show. goodbye for now! ! !! first this week we're off to finish lapland where the scenery might be classic christmas card, but the

winters are brutal, and you have be tough to survive. we sent adding north of the arctic circle. to meet the local people and find out what it takes to survive there. finish lapland is as close as it gets to a winter wonderland. more thani million gets to a winter wonderland. more than i million tourists come gets to a winter wonderland. more thani million tourists come here each year in search of the northern lights, santa and his reindeer. the indigenous people who live in as pa rt indigenous people who live in as part of the world from northern norway, sweden, finland and the far north eastern part of russia. there is around 6000 of them left in this pa rt is around 6000 of them left in this part ofan is around 6000 of them left in this part of an land, and here they are known as the inari sani