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a december general election. ministers will put a vote before parliament, tomorrow. vigils are held in vietnam by families who fear their loved ones are among the 39 people found dead in a lorry in essex. now on bbc news it's time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. i'm jane dougall. the dream is over for wales at the rugby world cup as south africa win in their semifinal by a narrow margin. liverpool come from behind to take all three points in a thrilling game at anfield. and four goals for the bhoys. celtic‘s rout at pittodrie is the biggest in more than a decade.
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but we start with the rugby world cup and wales‘ devastation after losing in their semi—final to south africa. the two sides were evenly matched for most of the game, but the springboks just edged it 19—16. it means there now won't be an all—british final as our sports correspondent andy swiss explains from yokohama. the anticipation was deafening, wales fans, hoping for history, could they join england in the world cup final? well, their passion was obvious. but they would need poise as well. a scrappy first half won't have revealed much
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to watching england coach, eddiejones, but the springboks edged it. andre pollard booting them 9—6 ahead at the break. after it, wales‘ task got even tougher, as de allende bulldozed through to put south africa in command. but wales are a side of remarkable resilience, and back they came. commentator: world cup semifinal try! josh adams giving their fans fresh hope. suddenly it was 16—16. what drama. with less than five minutes to go, a penalty to south africa, and pollard held his nerve. it had not been pretty from the springboks, but it was enough, and while they celebrated, for wales, the dream was once again dashed, a third world cup semifinal defeat and desperate disappointment. proud of us when we went to 16—16 but obviously we piggyback to the penalties down the park and south africa took advantage so congratulations to them.
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really proud of these guys, they've given 100%, they continue to do so and we got ourselves back in that game, really close contest. absolutely gutted, it could have gone either way. was it a bit of a sickener? a third one? fourth for me, to be honest, i went to the football well! agonisingly close for wales, but for their fans, it won't be much consolation. it is south africa who will face england here next weekend in the world cup final. a controvertial penalty gave liverpool the win at anfield against tottenham. the league leaders came from behind to beat spurs 2—1 after captain harry kane had given his side the lead in the first minute. liverpool now equal the premier league record of 28 points after the first ten fixtures. nick parrott reports. liverpool and tottenham have had contrasting fortunes since they last met in the champions league
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final in june. victory boosted jurgen klopp‘s men who came into this match unbeaten in the premier league while pochettino's side appear to have struggled to get over the disappointment, but there were no hard feelings at anfield, just a determination from spurs to rebut their season. and with just 47 seconds gone, they were on their way. harry kane nowjoint third all—time leading goal—scorer for his club. it took liverpool a while to recover their composure, but once they had, they attacked relentlessly. paulo more than adequate replacement for the injured hugo lloris. having scored early in the first half, tottenham almost did it again in the second. when you get chances against liverpool, you need to take them, because sooner or later, they will score. though few would have expected captainjordan henderson to be the saviour, this was his first goal at anfield for almost four years. liverpool kept applying the pressure and eventually forced spurs to put a foot wrong and,
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as happened in madrid, mo salah made it count. relief for liverpool. disappointment for tottenham at the hands of klopp‘s men. totte n ha m tottenham have not had a good run in the premier league that stop you from their manager in just a the premier league that stop you from their manager injust a moment, but first, juergen klopp on his side. usually, the result is a result of the performance. sometimes it can happen that it is not the case, but this time we played so good. i really liked it. sometimes i do not really like it. against a really good, tough opponent in a difficult situation, not to forget, it gives them another motivation boost or whatever and so it was com pletely boost or whatever and so it was completely fine. who cares at the end, but they did the performance, i'm happy, so i do not care about the result. first time after the
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score, they created a lot of chances. our side were wondering if it was possible to win the game, but, of course, we conceded and mo salah has increased the level of the team of liverpool and then with a penalty, we tried in the last ten or 15 minutes. we had some chances, but it was impossible. in the early game in the premier league, ten man newcastle drew i—i with wolves at st james's park, keeping them just above the relegation zone. jamaal lascelles gave newcastle the lead just before half time with this header. jonny then equalised for wolves after an errorfrom martin dubravka. but newcastle went down to ten men after sean longstaff was shown a straight red in the 82nd minute for this high tackle on ruben nevez, and despite a late barrage from wolves,
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steve bruce's side held on for a point. in the other games, an away win for manchester united at carrow road. it finished 3—1. goals from scott mctominay, marcus rashford and antony martial. onel hernandez got one back for norwich. at the emirates arsenal were denied a late winner against crystal palace, sokratis's goal ruled out by var. he had scored earlier in the match along with daivd luiz to put arsenal ahead. lucas milivojevic scored a penalty for palace and jordan ayew equalised to make it 2—2. ididn't i didn't understand the referees' reaction. for example, last week, we had a penalty, very clear. we then checked on the ar and today, they checked on the ar and today, they checked all of it. i don't understand why and they then decided. for me, it was no confusion, it was not a good decision. defending champions arsenal beat title rivals manchester city
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in the women's super league. top scorer vivianne miedema got the goal of the game to end citys' unbeaten run this season. arsenal have now won 15 of their past 16 home games. in the other results, manchester united beat reading 2—0 and everton also beat brighton 2—0. in the london derby it finished 3—1 to chelsea away at west ham. in scotland, rangers stay level on points at the top of the table after coming from behind to beat motherwell 2—1. meanwhile the scottish champions celtic scored four unanswered goals at pittodrie to beat aberdeen by the biggest margin at their ground for 11 years. joe lynskey reports. for celtic, the league title needs a special focus this time. they face revitalised rivals and play in europe most thursdays. come sundays, that means they want the work done early. at aberdeen, this was the start of a first half rout. odsonne edouard, the first of four different goal—scorers and the one it meant the most who was their teenage full—back, jeremie frimpong,
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forcing this over the line. 18 and signed from manchester city this summer, this was his first senior goal. aberdeen's european dream ended in august. they are now a long way from where they want to be. as james forrest strolled through for 3—0, the fans walked home and celtic‘s biggest win here this decade was sealed in 44 minutes. perhaps more importantly, it is their first away win for six weeks and in the title race emerging as the closest in years, celtic, once again, have momentum. let's take a look at some of the other stories making the sports headlines today. u efa uefa disciplinary panel will meet tomorrow to decide bulgaria's punishment for the racist abuse directed at england. the game was
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stopped twice due to chanting from horn players. they could have been abandoned, but aikman decided to continue and 16—0. it could be a monetary fine, stadium closure or even being thrown out of the competition. josh taylor is now the unified ibf and wba super—lightweight champion after beating the undefeated american regis prograis at london's 02. it was an incredible display from both boxers over 12 rounds, but the scottish southpaw fought through to beat prograis on points. that's despite his right eye being swollen shut. taylor is now undefeated in 16 fights. saracens have their first league win of the season england's steven brown shot a blemish—free final—round 66 to finish on 17 under par and win his first title on the european tour by a single stroke at the portugal masters. in the nfl, the cincinati begals are playing the la rams at wembley. the rams are winning 17—10 after a 65—yard touchdown 24—10 after a 65—yard touchdown from cooper kupp. you can watch live
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coverage on bbc 2. today is the anniversary of the death of leicester city's former chairman vichai srivaddhanaprabha. he was killed last year along with four others in a helicopter crash outside leicester's king power stadium. the club has paid tribute to the thai businessman who was central to their incredible premier league title win in 2016. the wounds are still there, definitely. you know, obviously, it's been a year, but the boss is constantly on our minds still and every time we go onto the field, we think about him and we want to, you know, do him proud. you know, what he wanted from the club and from the players and that's success, so, you know, we want to do him proud and every town we call out there, we try and win. and every time we call out there, we try and win. the mexican grand prix is under way.
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lewis hamilton started in third and then fell to fifth after a virtual safety car but is now back up to second. ferrari's leclerc has dropped to fourth from being in front. now live on the sports website. that's all from sportsday. now on bbc news it's time for click. every single day, we upload 4 million hours of video to youtube.
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we send 682 million tweets. we post over 67 million instagram pictures. 4.4 billion of us use the internet. and collectively, we create 2.5 exa bytes — that is 2.5 million terabytes 2.5 quintillion bytes — of data every single day. and a significant proportion of all of that data — searches, news, messaging, social media, video streaming — goes through here. this is telehouse north, one of the most important parts of the internet backbone. it is one of four buildings here in london full of computers, cables, cooling equipment, and sheer geekery. the internet was built on many earlier ideas, but the big one happened exactly
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50 years ago this week. the work had origins in 1969 when the american defense department — specifically the defense advanced research projects agency — decided that it needed a network to connect about a dozen university computer systems together in order to promote sharing of information and acceleration of research and artificial intelligence. and so, they promoted the design and development of a packet switch network which they called arpanet. 0n 0ctober29,1969, at 10:30 in the evening, the first message was sent over arpanet. a computer at the university of california in los angeles sent a word to stanford research institute in san francisco. the word was "login" — although the system crashed before they got to the g. nevertheless, those two nodes became
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hundreds, and then thousands, and then millions of connections. a global network of networks now consists of over 1.2 million kilometres of submarine cables, sometimes laid as deep as mount everest is high. these connect massive server buildings and immeasurably more smaller cables connect those to individual computers. an interconnected network that vint cerf and robert kahn named the internet. it's important to understand that the internet is not the world wide web. the web is a great invention — it's the way that data, webpages, services and documents are arranged, accessed and addressed, but all of that sits on top of the hardware that is the internet. which allows many, many networks to talk to each other in a really clever way. so, say you want to watch a cute video of a cat.

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