i think period dramas always do incredibly well, especially at the baftas. i think its biggest rival will be roma, beautiful memoir of childhood from alfonso cuaron of his time in mexico. all right, larushka — best actor? i think it is less of a competition that it is in the best actress category, for once, this year. well, rami malek won the golden globe for best actor for his transformation into freddie mercury. but i think this is christian bale‘s nomination to lose. i think he was just astonishing in vice. it was a total transformation as dick cheney. the vice—presidency as mostly a symbolicjob. is mostly a symbolicjob. right, right. ok, best actress? embarrassment of riches this year. there are so many, i'm pleased to say, female—driven dramas. but i think it's got to be a competition between the wonderful olivia colman for the favourite — surely she's got to win on home turf — but huge competition from glenn close in the wife where she plays the apparently downtrodden wife of a nobel prize winner.

so, while i was out being a drunken lush you were seducing the luscious lynia? nothing happened. ow! let's move on to best supporting actor. i think richard e grant for can you ever forgive me is likely because he's never been nominated for a bafta. i've just come from having my teeth bleached. how do they look? he's almost a sort of minor national treasure and his role in can you forgive me is a bit like withnail and i, revisited. but mahershala ali — he won for green book at the golden globes. he could win. will win. dear dolores. d-e-a-r... and finally — best supporting actress? i think the two favourite ladies are the two favourites — rachel weisz and emma stone. and i think emma stone is going to swing it. fantastic to see a film which had three female leads this year. progress? maybe. but it's also worth noting that, once again, there was no female representation in bafta's best director category. will gompertz, bbc news.

newsnight is coming up on bbc two. here's mark urban. they voted to take back control today. mps that is. aided and abetted by their speaker, john bercow. downing street's brexit room for manoeuvre has been narrowed once again. where does this leave the government, and indeed the country? join me now on bbc two. that's it. here on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. have a very goodnight. hello, and welcome to sportsday, i'm sarah mulkerrins. your headlines tonight. burton's dream night turns into a nightmare at the etihad. how can rugby union tackle the injury toll on its players? cautious confidence from england's new director of cricket. i believe we can win the world cup.

and the ashes, but it's a different thing from well. good evening, or maybe should i say a bad evening for burton albion. the league one side, in their first appearance in the final four of a competition at the top level, they were hammered 9—0 by title holders manchester city in the first leg of their league cup semifinal. a great evening though for pep guardiola and his side, they were sensational, in their biggest win in 21 years. our correspondent david ornstein watched the goals rain in. the kind of away trip lowly clubs

tend to dream and get test dream about, but for burton albion, that dream became reality. the biggest game in their history, and i did regardless of the result. he won this competition for times, though beating pat guardiola to get a shot at emulating him what always be unlikely, and he soon set city on their way. separated by 51 places in their way. separated by 51 places in the football league, but quality was clear and underlined as gabriel jesus scored twice in four minutes. club's expressions at all, however worse was to follow for his side, even when city didn't mean to shoot, they found the net. he turned this into a basketball score. jesus completed his hat trick before calling on his team—mates to get in on the act, and they obliged, a second—half onslaught resulting in four more goals. the home fans

chanted for ten, but happily settled for nine. although burton's dream had turned into something of a nightmare, even he saw the bright side, good luck in the second leg. david ornstein, bbc news. this is a night full of stats. this is third biggest win in league cup history. just behind both those 10—0 scorelines. west ham beating bury back in 1983 and liverpool hammering fulham in 1986, those both in the second round. and in terms of the record books for city wins, this is theirjoint second biggest win in history, 1898 against burton swifts another 9—0. their biggest win from just a year later 1899, 10—0 against darwen the record. wembley is going to be tottenham's temporary home for at least another six weeks. they have confirmed that their new 62,000 seater stadium, which is on the site of the old white hart lane, is still some way off being ready. they say that building tests need

to be carried out and test events need to be organised. their next four home matches, including their champions league game against borussia dortmund next month will take place at the national stadium. and this is the series of delays the club has faced. played the last game back in may 2017. then injune last summer, they admitted the season wouldn't start at the new stadium, but it wouldn't be long after. another announcement in august, delays over issues with the critical safety issues. another detail in 0ctber, all games now to be at welmbley until the end of the year. —— delay. —— 0ctober. and then today, it won't be ready until at least march. there was a big night in women's football, with three continental cup quarterfinals taking place.

arsenal are through to the semi—finals, after a 2—1win at home against birmingham. so too are chelsea, two goals for england's fran kirby helped them onto a 4—0 win against reading. manchester united are also through, in their first season in existence, 2—0 the scoreline against west ham. manchester city women take on brighton tomorrow for the final spot. for the second year in a row, there's been an increase in the average time premiership rugby players are out injured. the number of concussions has fallen slightly but tackling remains the biggest risk in an annual study released today. patrick gearey has this report on it. >> he's getting back there, and he will win the race! they are, faster, stronger, the exhilaration of modern by stronger, the exhilaration of modern rugby union is speed times power, but some of that might make us wince for a second. it is taking those involved ever longer to recover from. statistics out today revealed the severity of injuries is growing,

and a car crash forces of the tackle are likely to blame. does not necessarily the person carrying the ball, but the person making the tackle, so i comes down to technique and height of tackle. there really need to look at that, but also the speed of the collision, that is an important thing, how the ball carrying one approaches things. is there a way to mitigate against that and make it safe? the latest player injury report reveals the average injury report reveals the average injury keeps eight premiership player out for 37 days. the overall burden of injuries on the league is the highest since 2002. injuries in training are now more severe than ever, and they make up more than a third of the total. it seems as well as crushingly physical matches, players are going to more demanding preparation. and that might need to be limited. there is a sense of how we can control, and training is one of those areas. there probably are a

few, that might be the next step and talk to some of players, ask if they feel if there was reduced contact in training, cfl play through. rugby union has acted in this area before with some success, using technology and techniques to monitor and deal with concussion. an injury that was fast rising but is now slightly decreased. it remains the biggest injury rugby player suffer, and while the forces at play grow ever more extreme, the pressure on laws and those who apply them will only increase. patrick geary, bbc news. the first tennis grand slam of the year starts next monday. and the draw for the australian open takes place tomorrow in melbourne. andy murray is unseeded so could face a really tough first round opponent. perhaps, in anticipation of that he's playing a practise match tomorrow against the world number one novak djokovic. murray has lost four of his five australian open finals to the serb. the match will take place on the margaret court arena, and will be open to the public. it's a big year for england's cricketers, they begin their tour

of the west indies in the next week or so, but they'll host the world cup this summer before the ashes series starts in august. 0ur sports correspondentjoe wilson was at lord's today, where ashley giles was speaking publicly for the first time since taking over as the ecb's director of cricket. well, as england was mad men for the caribbean, lords awaits the summer. potentially of course, this could be english cricket's biggest ever year with the world cup and the ashes being staged in england and wales. ashley giles told me that essentially, his job is to steer england's ship as managing director. he paid tribute to the work that andrew strauss had done in that role, in particular the way that strauss had overseen a step change in the way that england use white ball cricket, of course the pinnacle of white ball cricket is the 50 over world cup, staged this year in england and wales, so the question for ashley giles, as we sit here now, do you believe that england will win the world cup this year? i believe we can win the world cup.

i believe we can win that and the ashes, but it's a very different thing from will. should? this year creates probably the best opportunity for how we're playing our cricket. i think we found ourselves in the past running in two world cups with suddenly a bit of a meltdown, going on and change. that's not the case this time around and if you talk about my role again, as much as anything, that train is moving quickly along the tracks for the world cup. i need to make sure that down the line, it is clear, there is no interference that is going to derail us. now, one of the keyjobs that are giles has is to get a new england coach come september, 0ctober time. he told me today, he was open to the idea of the role being split between test matches and white ball cricket, even though when england had tried that before, ashley giles had been the white ball coach, it had ended in giles losing hisjob. let's take a quick look at some other sport news today.

former hull kr centre thomas minns has been banned from rugby league for 16 months after testing positive for cocaine. he's currently without a club. he'd admitted taking the drug shortly after his mother died. west ham have received a bid of 35 million pounds from an unnamed chinese club for striker marko arnautovic. it is understood west ham have no desire to sell arnautovic, who is under contract with the club until 2022. if you're having a bad day, spare a thought for this guy. this comes from a match between trindade and flamengo in the brazilian under—20 copa sao paulo. trindade's bernardo is on the floor with an injury. a medical cart is called on to help him, but manages to run over his foot by mistake. double the pain, or treble, if you include the embarrassment of going viral on the internet. that is not good, that's not what

you need when he is down injured. that's all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers. hello, and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are kate andrews, who's the associate director at the institute of economic affairs, and the political journalist, jane merrick. many of tomorrow's front pages are already in, with the drama in parliament today featuring heavily in the papers. the face of the commons' speaker is all over the front

of the daily telegraph, with the paper focusing onjohn bercow‘s unprecedented move of allowing a vote on an amendment which now gives theresa mayjust three days to present a plan b for brexit if she loses the meaningful vote debate. "may losing control of brexit", the ‘i' reports on the second commons defeat for theresa may within two days. the daily mail brandsjohn bercow‘s actions "out of order", he's facing claims of anti—brexit bias. the dramatic moment mr bercow faced angry protests in parliament today is on the front of the guardian. "speaker of the devil". the sun also chooses to focus on the fury levelled at the speaker with many accusing him of trying to "scupper brexit". theresa may's second commons defeat is also on the front of ft, the paper details her offer to mps of a backstop veto. the times describes her brexit strategy as "in tatters" as tory rebels join forces with labour over

an alternative to her deal. and the metro leads with the chief executive of amazon's divorce from his wife, jeff bezos is separating from his spouse of 25 years. kate, brexit. that is where we start, and theresa may is losing control? there are some suggesting that she perhaps never had control of brexit, but clearly there is an attempt by parliament to rest the future direction of how we get out of the european union away from the government? indeed, one could argue that since the snap general election of 2017, it has been spiralling out of 2017, it has been spiralling out of their hands. but i will paris —— paraphrase eric is a list presley by saying it is all