the salvation army in clapton was given just a few days' notice that melania trump was coming. the children of baden powell primary school nearby were only told this morning who they were about to meet. a church hall in east london is perhaps an unusual setting for a visit from an american first lady. but this is safe territory for melania trump. a christian organisation and a global charity, the salvation army was seen as a good fit for today's event. melania made christmas decorations and chatted to the kids and their teachers. the talk was of christmas in america, the journey to london and the trump family — along with the odd revelation. she's never had a mince pie, an english mince pie. she's never had a mince pie? i was like, "you need to try it, then!" did she try one? she hasn't tried it yet but she's going to try it tonight. if you think about it, you're not really going to get

a chance to see her again, so you have to kind of keep remembering. the visit of the first lady may have been a little unexpected for the salvation army, but will be a boost for their christmas present appeal. the salvation army has a lot of work in america, and i think mrs trump has seen our work there. but also the salvation army's home is the uk, and she really wanted to come and meet children. the visit ended, of course, with a year five class photo — today with a special extra guest squeezed in — as this american first lady got a taste of christmas in the uk. daniela relph, bbc news, clapton, in east london. that's it. newsnight is getting under way on bbc two, on bbc one it is time for the news where you are.

hello. thanks forjoining us on sportsday. i'm ben croucher. our top stories. no salah. no oxlaide chamberlain. no problem for liverpool. it's divock at the double in the merseyside derby. farewell to a legend of english cricket. tributes pour in for bob willis — who has died at the age of 70. and no fear. no show. just here to win. anthonyjoshua plots his path to world heavyweight champion in saudi arabia.

first to anfield then, where liverpool remain unbeaten in the premier league, after a 5—2 thrashing of everton. jurgen klopp‘s side remain eight points clear at the top whilst for marco silva — life just got that little bit tougher as toffees are now stuck in the relegation zone. lydia campbell didn't miss a thing. commentator: ba rely barely a mile separates the homes of liverpool and everton but the clubs couldn't be further apart when it comes to fortunes on the pitch. liverpool are fighting for the title. everton are fighting for their manager'sjob. title. everton are fighting for their manager's job. form title. everton are fighting for their manager'sjob. form sometimes goes out the window in derby games, but sometimes it doesn't. divock origi taking just six minutes to open the scoring. and shakir remade it 2-0 open the scoring. and shakir remade it 2—0 soon after, suggesting a co mforta ble it 2—0 soon after, suggesting a comfortable night ahead for the title chasers. but if there was ever a game for everton to wake up from their slumber, this was the one, and michael keane was the man to bring

his side back into the game. liverpool this season have been a i°y liverpool this season have been a joy to watch, but sometimes there is no harm in going route one. 3—1 liverpool. and then it was four. sadio mane this time with the finish. just when it was looking co mforta ble finish. just when it was looking comfortable again, richarlison got everton‘s second, but perhaps the lack of celebrations has it all. the game had may be blown itself out after a frantic first half, but one final attack made it five for liverpool for wijnaldum, and that is how it finished. one of the simplest merseyside derbies liverpool will face. they remain eight points clear at the top of the league and have perhaps dealt marco silva a fatal blow. jose mourinho returned to old trafford tonight for the first time since taking charge at tottenham. and for the first time since taking charge at tottenham — he tasted defeat. it was a man he knows all too well who earned manchester united a 2—1win,

asjess softley reports. it is almost a year sincejose mourinho made his last appearance at old trafford and all eyes were focused on the dug out, but this was the marcus rashford show. the 22—year—old striker reminding his former manager of his talent. and he could have doubled that lead twice over, this time with a thunderous effort. it looked like tottenham had wasted their chance, but up stepped deller ali with some impressive foot work. —— dele alli full stop in a foul on rashford gave united the perfect chance to punish spurs and marini are once again, and rashford didn't waste it. nine goals in his last ten appearances. no fergie time necessary tonight. a vital three points for manchester united and ole gunnar solskjaer. a first defeat as spurs managerfor the gunnar solskjaer. a first defeat as spurs manager for the special one. marcus rashford, how would you

describe that performance? the best he has had under me. mature, experienced, strong, against a good team, against good players, and his penalty was calm and composed. the goal. we know he has strikes in him like this and he had three or four other chances, so a great performance. it is a setback against a team that plays with the same objective as we do. i think the first objective is to come up in the table, the second one is to try to get in the top six, which we are not far. as i was saying to the players, we made mistakes, it is not to be crying on them, it isjust to learn from them, and we have a difficult match on saturday. elsewhere, tammy abra ham and mason mount helped chelsea beat aston villa 2—1. leicester are back up to second with a 2—0 win over managerless and bottom of the table watford. it's now seven straight wins in the league for leicester.

southampton held on to beat norwich and move out of the relegation zone, whilst wolves 2—0 win at home to west ham takes them 5th. there was drama at celtic park as scottish premiership celtic leaders conceded an last minute equaliser against hamilton — only for scott brown to grab the winner two minutes into stoppage time. it puts them two points clear now at the top after rangers could only draw 2—2 with aberdeen. despite trailing 2—0 aberdeen hit back either side of half time, with andrew considine scoring their second. hearts are down to 11th, despite a late equaliser against livingston. kilmarnock and st johnstone was goalless. ross county beat hibs 2—1 and st mirren are now bottom after a 3—0 reversal at home to motherwell. birmingham city picked up only their fourth point of the women's super league season but had to settle for a 1—1 draw at home to tottenham. kit graham scored the equaliser for the wsl‘s newcomers 17 minutes from time. spurs remain in 7th ahead of brighton's visit on sunday. a dearfriend. an icon of british sport. a man with a sense of humour as sharp as his bowling. just some of the many

tributes to bob willis — the former england captain and fast bowler — who has died. he was 70. his greatest moment probably came in the third test of the 1981 ashes at headingley. botham's ashes — but it was willis' eight wickets that helped england win that game. he played 90 tests for his country — captaining them on 18 occasions, taking 325 wickets at on average ofjust over 25 — and that puts him fourth on the all time leading test wickets takers for england behind james anderson, stuart broad and sir ian botham. david gower replaced willis as captain, and told us how his stamina and skill made him one of the best fast bowlers in the business. anyone who has ever bowled fast will tell you that it comes with a lot of pain. it might be a simple turnover problem, it can be knees, hips, backs. all the great fast bowlers at some stage or other have taken time

off because of injury, and it's all a question of character and determination as to how you come back from it. yes, and bob's frame, if you looked at bob in the flesh, he was not a man who necessarily sort of screamed out at you i am going to be one of the quickest bowlers in the world. on his day, he certainly was, and he had passion to go with it, so you had everything, all the right ingredients, apart from really the natural body. i can look at one or two other more natural athletes, without being kind to dear old bob, and they would be more suited to the job, but he came m, more suited to the job, but he came in, he steamed in, whether it was headingley in 81. he made his debut backin headingley in 81. he made his debut back in 1970 so he had a good decade before that, or even earlier may be. when he made his debut in australia, this tall gangly lad strode out there, and people looked at him, thinking, are you serious? but the credit that is due to the man is that over the next decade and more he made sure people realised he could bowl a quick and do it very well indeed. he had standards that

we re well indeed. he had standards that were set 30 or a0 years ago. now some of the things in the game don't change, some of the basic techniques don't change, there is a lot of new stuff we have all watched evolve over the last ten or 20 years, ipl, t20, all these things have come in. he would accept all that, but he would expect high standards. he didn't like people who didn't put the effort in. for someone like him, who had to work really seriously ha rd to who had to work really seriously hard to get something out of the game, if ever he saw anyone who was slacking, taking life easy, not putting 100% income he would be down on him like a tonne of bricks. so he set high standards. again, little bits of clips we will no doubt see over the next 2a hours will show him in vibrant form. he pulled no punches. that was very much his shtick on tv for sky and they loved him for it, because he gave them full on strong, vibrant opinions and thatis full on strong, vibrant opinions and that is what that part of the game was about.

david gower paying tribute to bob willis, who has died at the age of 70. more tributes can be found on the bbc sport website too. macclesfield town's squad say they don't intend to play on saturday against crewe in league two. staff and players still haven't been paid their wages, which they say is having a detrimental effect on everyone. tom dean and luke greenbank won great britain's first medals of the european short course swimming championship in glasgow. dean won silver in the men's a00m freestyle while greenbank took 200m backstroke bronze. former scotland rugby captain john barclay has played his last match for his country. he's announced his international retirement. the back row earned 76 caps and played in three world cups. he'll continue to turn out for club side edinburgh. israel folau and rugby australia have reached an out of court settlement over the full back‘s claim for unfair dismissal. his contract was terminated in may after homophobic posts on his social media. folau — who is a christian — argued it amounted to religious discrimination.

yan bingtao has stunned neil robertson at the uk snooker championship in york. the world number four lost the first five frames on the way to a 6—1 defeat. anthonyjoshua says he's not travelled to saudi arabia for entertainment — just to win back the three world titles he lost to andy ruinunior earlier this year. the two faced off at the pre fight press conference ahead of their eagerly awaited heavyweight rematch. joshua has been talking about the ‘challenger mindset‘ that he's needed to prepare for the fight. andy as a respected heavyweight knows you always have to have a challenge mindset. all of these quotes, reality, challenging mindset andi quotes, reality, challenging mindset and i have always said that. this is the challenge of mindset. i caught it back to 16, back to my 16th write, hungry, determined and focused on the goal. it has been a

long three months income, training really ha rd long three months income, training really hard for this moment, just like during the first. i made my dreams come true, i made history and the important thing is i think to remain to make history december seven. saudi arabia. lots more at bbc.co.uk / sport. following us on bbc news, is the papers. we'll see you soon. hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are michael booker, deputy editor of the daily express and kate proctor, political correspondent for the guardian. many of tomorrow's front pages

are already in. the financial times reports that the fund manager m&g has halted trading over fears of brexit uncertainty. ‘trump gets the hump' is how the metro describes president trump's departure from the nato summit. the papers says he ‘flew home in a huff' after other world leaders were seen to laugh at him. the telegraph says that families will be £200 better off under borisjohnson‘s new pledge to cut tax within days of brexit. the paperback release on a dr‘s claimed that the nhs cuts have told his mother —— the iyer. front of the times is focusing on how germany is six telling two russian spies for supposedly ordering the murder of a dissident ina berlin ordering the murder of a dissident in a berlin park. and speechless is

how the daily express describe jeremy corbyn, after it was announced he does not watch the queen‘s christmas day speech. let‘s ta ke queen‘s christmas day speech. let‘s take this to our guest reviewers tonight. who wants to start? let‘s start with the times. michael, you go first. it will be a well wind if the tories get in, we‘re told. boris johnson, the tories are a bit worried. we have had the nato meeting, it has got in the way of campaigning and the messages aren‘t getting out there, we haven‘t heard getting out there, we haven‘t heard get brexit done 100 times a day for the last couple of days will stop he thinks we want to hear that again. it sounds like in tory party hq they are worrying the poles are narrowing are worrying the poles are narrowing a bit. the remaining boat is moving from the lib dems towards labour because labour are the ones who are against the brexiteers, which are now borisjohnson against the brexiteers, which are now boris johnson and against the brexiteers, which are now borisjohnson and the tory party. now they want to get the message out again, which is 100 days, the first hundred days, if they get in, it will be a whirlwind, or the good things they have promised from their manifesto and

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