rain for plymouth, cardiff and eventually areas further east as well. let's summarise christmas itself, because it will be a little changeable and on christmas eve we are expecting sunshine and showers, quite a changeable day and any last—minute shoppers may need their brollies, but christmas day itself is going to be dry and bright.

hello this is bbc news with lu kwesa burak. the headlines: australia's firefighters in the state of new south wales are still battling to bring more than a hundred blazes under control. chelsea's match at tottenham is marred after the crowd were warned three times over the tannoy about racist behaviour. tesco has suspended christmas card production at a chinese factory after a six—year—old girl in london finds a message claiming that prisoners are being forced to pack them.

the home secretary has met the family of harry dunn, the teenager killed in a road accident in northamptonshire in august. a man has been arrested in sussex on suspicion of murder after the deaths of two women outside a house in crawley down. the queen attends a church service in sandringham, while the duke of edinburgh remains in hospital receiving treatment for a pre—exisiting condition. now on bbc news, it's time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm gavin ramjaun. chelsea's premier league win over tottenham is marred by an allegation of racist abuse from spurs fans. a howlerfrom de gea costs man united —

who are beaten by the bottom side watford. and liverpool fly home to focus on winning the premier league, after victory in the club world cup final. also coming up in the programme... fallon sherrock marches on at ally pally — so what next for the new superstar of darts? hello and welcome to sportsday. we should be starting tonight by talking about a brilliant away win for chelsea over spurs in the premier league, but instead all the headlines will be about racism after an allegation of abuse by some spurs fans. our sports correspondent andy swiss is here. what do we know about what happened?

this all happened around an hour into the match after tottenham had a player sent off for a challenge on chelsea's rudiger. he then said he had been the victim of abuse from the crowd. he told the referee, anthony taylor. an object was also thrown onto the pitch. the referee spoke to both of the managers after that and there was then an announcement over the public address system saying that racist behaviour from spectators was interfering with the game. you can see the referee talking to the players. that announcement over the public address system was repeated with about five minutes left of the match, and then again during injury time. under the u efa again during injury time. under the uefa protocol, games can be abandoned if fans have already been warned twice before. what has emerged is that although there were three warnings, there were not three incidents, just one. clearly, this

is another very worrying piece of news for english football. we have seen a news for english football. we have seen a string of incidents in recent months in the english game, allegations of racist abuse from fans. we saw it at the manchester derby earlier this month. it will be a huge worry to everyone involved in the game. andy, thank you very much indeed. let's get some more reaction, we'll hear from the tottenham boss jose mourinho in a moment, but first here's the chelsea captain cesar azpulicueta. what is clear is that we are first of all a club that is very active and we raise a lot of campaigns towards racism. we are very active in that, and every time we meet the premier league referees before the game, we premier league referees before the game, we are premier league referees before the game, we are told to report if any incident happens. after the red card, it happened. antonio came to

me and told me that he was listening to monkey noises in the crowd, and pa rt to monkey noises in the crowd, and part of myjob as captain is to report it to the ref. there is an investigation now, and we have to work towards the eradication of the problem. it is an issue in life and in football, unfortunately, and we need to keep working on it. he followed the protocol. somebody told him about something. i don't know if it was a player, him that listens to something. we followed the protocol, stop the game, spoke to the captains and the coaches. tottenham hotspur football club is a very proud club in relation to the situation, and we will leave it at that, but i think the protocol was followed. well the allegation of racism will overshadow what was a dominant performance from chelsea. they took the lead thanks to this brilliant srike from willian. chelsea then got a penatly

when the spurs ‘keeper paulo gazzaniga clattered into marcos alonso — the penalty awared by var and scored by willian. then son heung—min was sent off by var for this kick—out at antonio rudiger. elsehwere in the premier league today — there was a big win for watford but a big defeat for manchester united. a howler from david de gea gifted watford their opening goal, scored by ismaila sarr. things went from bad to worse for united when aaron wan—bissaka's fouled sarr to give watford a penalty — a chance for redemption from de gea. but troy deeney made no mistake for their second. not even the introduction of paul pogba — returning after a near three—month absence — could raise united. it finished 2—0, watford's first home win of the season but they're still bottom. united remain 8th in the table. well, we didn't deserve to win the

game by the way we performed. too many... we were too slow in possession, too slow, no intensity without the ball, and when they scored two in quick succession, we didn't have enough to get back. liverpool have arrived home after winning the club world cup in doha, their attention now turns back to winning the premier league. here are the players enjoying their win over flamengo in doha. they've got a quick turn—around though with a tricky—looking trip to second—placed leicester on boxing day. fifa meanwhile have ambitious plans of their own for the club world cup. olly foster's been following the tournament in doha for us. that is the club world cup done for another year. it will be back here in qatar in 12 months. european clubs' domination of this tournament in recent years continues, liverpool were the winners, upgrading their european champions league title to a world title now. juergen klopp, speaking about how he didn't know how to feel about this tournament, but he now knows it is sensational, he said.

it is outstanding. and they head back to the premier league winter now to see if they can stay in front of the chasing pack, ten points clear at the moment ahead of leicester city, and wouldn't they just love to add a premier league title, their first in the top division in england for almost three decades, to all those other titles that they have won this year? as for this tournament, it will stay with the six continents, the best from them, next year, before it expands hugely in china in 2021. 2a teams will be involved, many clubs and associations from around the world have their reservations about that as fifa try to expand their own interests into the club game around the world. that will become a tournament every four years. we will see exactly how that beds down. as for liverpool, they are world

champions, and very worthy winners. to the premiership next, and bath ended their recent run of five successive defeats in all competitions by thrashing london irish. they did all the hard work in the first half at the madejski stadium, as michael redford reports. two teams with two wins each this season, but two teams deemed to be having different campaigns. london irish are enjoying their return to the top flight after promotion. for bath, it has been a struggle mainly because they have struggled to score tries. bath scored two in the first seven minutes, anthony watson with the second of them, back from injury and back on the scoresheet. the away side would score five in total in the first a0 minutes. 31—3 at half—time, a lead that was extended shortly after the restart. a poor kick giving tom homer an early

present. nobody came close to catching him. london irish did have the final word. adam coleman marking his first premiership start with a try. it was much too late. at bath won 38—10 to move above their opponents. they can head into christmas with a bit of festive cheer. let's get a check on some other sports stories this evening. gareth anscombe will miss wales' tour of new zealand next year, the fly half suffered a setback in his recovery from a knee injury. anscombe missed the recent rugby world cup, after getting injured in a warm up game and now needs another operation. england cricket captainjoe root says he'll let stuart broad and jack leach decide if they're fit to play in the first test against south africa on boxing day. they all missed the warm—up games with flu—like symptoms. jimmy anderson did play in the final warm—up.

he hasn't played a test match since getting injured in the first ashes test in august, but took two wickets against a south africa a—side. the third round of the pdc world darts championship is underway at alexandra palace. the former bdo world champion stephen bunting is the first man through to round four after whitewashing jonny clayton, but 24th seed max hopp is out after he lost to darius labanauskas by four sets to two. 12th seed nathan aspinall had a bit of scare, but came through to beat krzysztof ratajski in a final set decider. defending champion michael van gerwen plays ricky evans later. fallon sherrock is the name everyone is talking about at this year's competition. since becoming the first woman to win at the pdc, she's become a huge hit with fans — who've been calling her ‘the queen of the palace'. sherrock‘s now into the last 32, after beating another top name, mensur suljovic —

and said she couldn't sleep after the victory. it was amazing last night. i haven't had that much sleep. my adrenaline wasjust running wild last night. i've only had a few hours because i couldn't switch off last night. when i went up there last night, i forgot all about what i had done on tuesday i'm just focused on the game, like, i totally forgot about everything else, so i didn't put pressure on myself. again, it is alljust trying to sink in at the moment. it's all just trying to sink in at the moment. it's still not sunk in. so, i'm still in disbelief about what's going on. i never thought i would be in this situation and it's incredible and i'm enjoying everything. i've definitely like helped put women's darts on the map. i've definitely heard a lot of stories about how i've inspired more younger people to play, like younger girls, more women to take up the sport. it's a great sport to get into and i feel really proud of myself that i'm helping everyone else discover it

and enjoy it for themselves. i'm dealing with it well. with all the interviews, the life changing, the money, everything like that, like i said, it's still sinking in, but i'm dealing with it ok. i'm not overthinking anything. i'm taking each step as it comes at keeping my feet on the ground. i'm not running away with it, i'm just staying calm at the moment. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. hello, and welcome to this, the last travel show of 2019, on the programme?

here's a taste of what's coming up. it's incredible. that was completely insane. but let's kick off with a trip that mike made over to california back in may. we told him that all he would need was a taste for adventure and a head for heights. here is what happened. here in western california, there are complex beings that have lived for over a millennium. redwood trees have become an icon of this state. some fear that our changing climate might threaten their survival. i have come to the most southern tip of their range, where change could hit the hardest, to join a scientist who has been working here to try to find some answers.