season at arsenal kick of the new season at promoted fulham on sunday, but amid an unprecedented financial crisis, the uncertainty of the season extends well beyond what happens on the pitch. dan roan, bbc news. kim kardashian—west has announced her family's long—running reality tv show is coming to an end, after 1a years. the final season of ‘keeping up with the kardashians‘ will air early next year. she said it had been a difficult decision, made with a heavy heart. time for a look at the weather. here's helen willetts. hello, little more cloud in southern areas today. drizzle as well. that is clearing out of the way in the showers are easing in the north. and with high pressure during the night, it isa with high pressure during the night, it is a clear set of skies, light winds and quite chilly, significantly cooler than last night with frost in the glens of scotland by morning. in the countryside further south, four or 5 degrees. a little bit of morning mist, but despite that chill to begin with, it

looks like a lovely start to the day. if you like sunshine, plenty of it. cloud builds up a little bit during the day, bringing the odd shower to northern ireland, but nor the north and west of scotland. other areas stay dry. away from the north—west, winds will be relatively light, temperature is not as high as they have been, but i still think with light winds and september sunshine, it feels pleasant enough. a chilly night in the south tomorrow and the atlantic lowest taking centre stage for scotland and northern ireland by friday, so some significant rain on the risk when moving across scotland, northern ireland into the north—west of finland and wales. further south, largely dry. it brightens to the north later. it will be the north into the weekend where we see most of the rain. as they come further south, those weather fronts, of the rain. as they come further south, those weatherfronts, they come into the high pressure and fizzle out. showers continue for saturday across scotland, northern ireland. with more persistent rain, stronger winds again. further south, we hang onto the dry and unsettled weather and by the time we get to

sunday, we are pushing that rain eastwards and northwards to allow more areas drier weather and warmer weather. we could be back into the mid 20s by that stage. how nice! thank you. that's all from the bbc news at six, so it's goodbye from me. and on bbc one, we nowjoin the bbc‘s news teams where you are.

hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm katherine downes. here's what's coming up on a busy programme this evening. under review — plans to get fans back to sports events are put on hold as the government tackles the latest spike in coronavirus cases. chasing the record — serena williams quest for her 24th grand slam title continues tonight — we'll have the latest from the us open. and with the start of the new football season just days away — we'll examine if the measures in place to protect clubs from dodgy owners and bad management are enough. also coming up in the programme, there are five games in rugby

union's premiership tonight — we'll keep you updated as top four challengers wasps take on leicester. and a tight sprint finish on stage ii of the tour de france — but calab ewan edges it, primoz roglic holds onto the yellow jersey. hello and welcome to sportsday, live from the bbc sport centre. i'm katherine downes. we start with the news the return of crowds to sports events has been thrown into doubt, with the government announcing that all planned pilot events are now under review. some events will be allowed to go ahead. some events will be permitted. there were plans for fans to return to racing,

football and rugby amongst other sports in coming weeks to test how that would work — but with rising coronavirus infection rates across the country, borisjohnson has put those plans on hold. at the present time we must also i am afraid revise plans to pilot larger audiences in venues later this month and review our intention to return audiences to stadiums and conference to return audiences to stadiums and c0 nfe re nce ce ntres to return audiences to stadiums and conference centres from the ist of october. that doesn't mean we are going to scrap the programme entirely, we just have to review it and abridge it. well the secretary of state oliver dowden then tweeted this... so, what does that mean for sport?

well, the first racegoers for six months returned to doncaster earlier — as more than 2,500 specators watched the opening day of the st leger meeting. however the crowds won't return over the next three days. it's a decision that'll cost course owners a quarter of £1 million, after they had put social distancing protocols in place for up to 20,000 specators over four days. iam i am comfortable and confident that all the protocols we had in place and still do this afternoon have been ever criteria for firth system for most people pots on how this one significant to everything we done. but public health has done enough to hopefully return people to the sport. i am disappointed for the customers of the team who have purchased annual members, from a sporting point of view we need to get the parts on and we have to return all sport back to that point. i'm not saying tomorrow or next

week, but until we can test and properly test with crowds, we are not going to have the protocols tested to kick—start. and it's not just sport, it is leisure, hotels, all the pieces late to sporting across the hall and all this sports that are in this country. real concern from racing. football fans were hoping that when the new season starts in a few days' time, they'd perhaps be allowed in to support their team, with top flight matches welcoming spectators from october. those plans are now under review — but premier league chief executive richard masters has told our sports editor dan roan that it is vital for clubs that "behind closed doors" football comes to an end. it has been a much shorter break than normal but the season is ready to kick off and go. i lot of planning has come into it, but we have three objectives. get to the challenge of getting 380 games finished on time, to get fans back into full stadia, and to return to premier league economy to full

health. how critical is it that you do get fans back and side grounds as soon as possible? it's absolutely critical and that is because like every other industry football has been impacted by covid already for some it is common knowledge we have lost £700 million from the economy last year. there will be matches the season without fans inside those of satan, for the buses are going to be incurred. it can't go on forever. —— without fans inside those stadiums. the biggest thing missing economic or otherwise we need fans back inside stadiums for all sorts of reasons, and it is a number one priority. the £700 million figure you just gave me, is that the total loss of messy revenue, broadcasting, rebates and everything? that his art was or estimate of everything, for the last quarter of last season. —— thatis the last quarter of last season. —— that is our estimate. we're to play

normal football but not behind closed doors and we do not think that will be impacted by the return of fans. we have the confidence that we can do that behind us. what is now needed is we need numbers back in stadium and get that feeling of normality back. coronavirus has had another effect on sport today. it's all change at the top of super league — catalans dragons are now the championship leaders because the title will now be decided by percentage win. so many matches had been postponed due to positive coronavirus tests — this has been deemed the fairest way to continue with the season. our reporter austin halewood has been following this story. not a popular decision i imagine for st helens fans. i think there would've been some initial disappointment to see their team drop from the top of the table but from the reaction i've seen since the majority of fans think it's a necessary move to make sure the season can be completed — now it's a change super league won't have taken lightly.

it's the first they've done anything like this since the league began in 1996. and it's all because the rfl are worried that not every team will be able to complete all of their matches. since super league returned on the 2nd of august, six games have already been postponed — and with 6 of the ii clubs having players who have tested positive for covid—i9, the rfl is clearly bracing itself for more disruption. so, as kat said, they've decided to use points percentage to determine places in the table and french side catalan dragons are the big winners from that. they've moved up three places to the top of the table and here's why. this is how the traditional table looked with st helens top on points difference after winning seven of their 10 matches. warrington and wigan in second and third, with catlan fourth with five wins from their seven matches. but that win percentage of 71% —

means they've now moved up to ist in the table — with st helens, warrington and wigan all dropping down a place, with a win percentage of 70. now the top four will still qualify for the playoffs at the end of the season and even though the reigning champions, st helens, have dropped down from the top, their chairman, eamon mcmanus told me earlier that the change was the right thing to do. everybody ultimately has bought into it. it has cut advantages and disadvantages for cults dependent on how many games one played to date. but it is the same rules for all. the same will apply, and i think you have got to really praise the rfl for coming up with some smart footwork in difficult circumstances. ultimately there is going to be some

winners and losers but everybody is playing by the same rules. so on the whole, the clubs are on—board — even though the goalposts have been shifted mid—way through the season. and the rfl have also relaxed salary cap rules to help teams through the pandemic — you can see the full details of that on the bbc sport website. but these changes just show that super league will do whatever they can to make sure they finish the season with a result. at least there is some support for rugby creek fans to watch the. that is one positive. thank you austin for that update for now for a look at some of the other sports headlines tonight. england's dawid malan has moved top of the world's twenty20 batting rankings after his performances in the series win over australia. he's also been named as a reserve for the one day series between the teams — replacing joe denly. jason roy's been added to the squad. 2015 world champion lizzie deignan will ride for the great britain team at the uci road world championships in italy this month. lizzy banks and alice barnes will be part of the team too — in both the road race and time trial. olympians adam peaty,

siobhan—marie o'connor, and duncan scot are among the 22 brits signed up for season two mainly in budapest. it starts with ten qualifying races from next month. athletes will form training bubbles and be tested regularly for coronavirus. serena williams is back in action at the us open — chasing that elusive grand slam title number 24. she takes on tsvetana pironkova aiming fora place in the semi—finals. for more on that and the rest of the day's action in new york, here's our tennis correspondent russell who is dashed down from the commentary suite of services of what is it about serena this mike is a just nerves? she is just about serena this mike is a just nerves? she isjust so many facets during this us open and she has done it again. she is often a slow starter. it is surprising that she does not start her service at the start of a match. she dropped the

first set 6—4. all but the way that the bulgarian plate. drop point —— five points and serve in the first set pheasant the second set has been a slightly different story and as i speak, williams has just levelled the match by taking the second set 6-3. the match by taking the second set 6—3. she is in a real battle here against a woman who is not played a german of any sort since wimbledon in 2017. she has no right to be in the quarterfinals yet somehow i having had a break to come, she has the stamina come this far and push serena went so far today. what's has been made that they are both mothers out there fighting this quarterfinal. serena has olympia, pironkova has her son alexander and she said that serena was one of the inspirations that made her realise she could come back and play tennis again. they have spoken as well about the kind of things being put in place by tournament organisers and the world of tennis to make it a more friendly and easy place for

mothers to return to. what has made a difference there do you think?m certainly has. victoria azarenka is another one, who plays the belgian it later. it is three things. players are planed to greater age male orfemale, so players are planed to greater age male or female, so they're players are planed to greater age male orfemale, so they're more likely to start a family and then come back and resumed their careers. secondly it has been made easier for them to resume their careers by a new rule saying they can take the ranking at the point at which they left the tour for maternity leave for the next three years so you can slot back in using your previous ranking and the other thing is facilities in terms of looking after children has improved at the grand slams over the past years. serena taking it into a battle and again you mentioned victor as her inca plays in these martins as well. the men pass a drug, it is been a while since it is been wide open and two of the sport's rising stars our first stop for the men this evening.

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