a quick look at the day's other stories. injury‘s forced the manchester united forward alessia russo out of england's squad for next week's friendly against germany. she's been replaced by team mate katie zelem. you can see that game — on the 27th — live on the bbc. england have been chosen as top seeds for the women's 2021 rugby world cup, along with canada and hosts new zealand. wales have been seeded third alongside south africa and the top—ranked european qualifier. british number one dan evans ended a five match losing run with victory in the opening round of the european open. he beat italian qualifier salvatore caruso in three sets in antwerp. cameron norrie is also into round two. and sport england have made sixteen and half million pounds available to help people struggling to stay active during the pandemic as part of their ‘return to play‘ fund for grassroots

sport. lots still to come. formula one now though and saudi arabia is expected to be added to next season's calendar, with a planned race on a street circuit injeddah. the finalised schedule is still to be announced, but the staging of the race in a country with a chequred human rights record wont come without its controversy as the nation continues to embark on using sport to improve its reputation around the globe. as the bbc‘s formula one reporter jennie gow told me earlier. it isa it is a split opinion, but it is definitely penciled in. kevin got the official calendar that is due to be released for another few weeks, but word on the street is that there will be a race in saudi arabia which street race at first injeddah and then there is a purposeful track being built by alex, former race driver and his company is looking to

build that for 2023, there's questions as to whether or not they'll be delayed due to the situation we find ourselves in with coronavirus, but that is penciled in to be the location and so certainly, definitely looking to be spoken about now. we know that saudi arabia is trying to add to the sports portfolio come up with the spring with it a bit of controversy, do you think? i am sure it will in my first oi’ think? i am sure it will in my first or that saudi arabia was going to be on the calendar, you can imagine my social media was very interested with people very much split as to whether or not it was a good or bad thing. but saudi arabia looking to increase the number of sports there andi increase the number of sports there and i were there couple years ago with racing champions and they've been there twice as well, and i think there is a move by the organisations within saudi arabia to try and get more sports from across the world into their country. as far as the rest of the

calendar is concerned, who is going to host the opening race? we know that melbourne has traditionally done so, is it in line to do so again? it is. it's a big surprise this calendar, which is still yet to be officially announced it will say australia will be the opening round on the 14th of march, if you want to write it down in your diaries for next year. and that also is quite controversial because people living in melbourne have been under very strict guidelines and locked down for a long time. so, maybe the opener would be in bahrain, but that does not look likely, it looks like the plans are for 23 races next season, starting as usual in melbourne. after ten years with the british cycling team ineos grenadiers, and befrore that team sky, chris froome began his final grand tour before he leaves the team, stage one of the vuelta a espana. nick parrott was watching.

before the last grand tour of the year got under way, chris firm said he did not have any big expectations. it was just great to be on the starting line. given he had come back from crash injuries that could've ended his career, it is not surprising that he is grateful. having twice when this race and twice been runner—up, he had every reason to say that he was quietly optimistic. but that hope began to evacuate ii quietly optimistic. but that hope began to evacuate 11 miles from the finish. but he was slipping back, his team—mates kept on the attack. he said that it will be great for me to find out exactly where i am at and fortunately, this is surely not where he wants to be —— u nfortu nately. where he wants to be —— unfortunately. he trailed in more than 11 minutes behind. many had hoped that he could leave on a high note, but after the first day, it looks like the tour of spain might end up being a lap of honour. british hopes are fairing much

better at the giro d'italia where tay—oh gaygan hart remains fourth overall. the sixteenth stage was won by slovenia's yan tratnik after a hard fought battle with australia's ben o'conner over the last eight miles. portugal's joao almeida managed to increase his overall lead by a couple of seconds. now. baseball's world series gets under way later. you have the big money of the la dodgers, a name known to many, taking on the tampa bay rays, in what has been a shortened season. seth beenet has been looking ahead to the sport's showpiece. this was the moment that the doctors put themselves into the third world series in the last four attempts. beaten by houston and then boston, they now believe that this will finally be there year. it's been a crazy year. guys with their

families, social injustices, our fa ns families, social injustices, our fans are stuck together, these guys are stuck together, we have a lot of work to do. this year is our year. this is our year. the payroll is 200 million dollars a season which means they boast some of the most exciting talent around. cody is one of the best batters in baseball and since his arrival in the off—season, it is given the team some superstar qualities. and i believe will play by an unbelievable player that's what you need to win baseball games this time of the year. for the first time in modern baseball history, world series games will be played at a mutual venue. the ark in arlington will host the best—of—7 series and there'll be 11,000 fans allowed inside the stadium to watch. temple heavily the stage once before. those backin heavily the stage once before. those back in 2008 and since then, things have not gone so well. just four

yea rs have not gone so well. just four years ago, they were one of the worst tea ms years ago, they were one of the worst teams in baseball. but now, they are back to summer close to their best in the season especially, they have become a focal point the community. this is been very difficult for everyone throughout the world, this pandemic and there is nothing that brings people together, make sure you forget about the difficulties of life, then sports. the players are showing that despite only costing the third of the press of the la squad, they are very much the real deal. everyone has done an amazing job. the players have been flexible with what they've been asked to do and you don't see that pretty much the big leagues. guys get accustomed to a certain style, but this team is resilient to do whatever it takes to win. this is beena very do whatever it takes to win. this is been a very unusual year for major league baseball, but rob will be happy that the best two teams are

playing in the world series. which should mean a dramatic into the 2020 season. and before we go, an egyptian grandfather has been recognised by guinness world records as the oldest professional footballer on the planet. ezzeldin bahader completed a second full match of the season just short of his 75th birthday. his team, who are called sixth october, lost 3—2 to el ayat sports club in the egyptian third division. mr bahader said he'd like to go on and extend his record; unfortunately he's now out of contract. before we go, just a reminder of our top story of sports day, talks under way for potential breakaway european competition that is going to be the european premier league if he gets off the ground, could feature 18 of

the biggest clubs from £4.6 billion of the report one of the teams that have been approached by five english teams that could feature in will be tucking the proposals shortly ahead of the fixture to come, and bbc the code that sport and that is all for myself and the rest of the sports day team. goodbye. good evening. you're watching bbc news. the health secretary is about to speak in the house of commons next few minutes. that's after the prime minister confirmed the greater manchester would be moving into the tier 3 level of coronavirus restrictions and let's take a quick look at what was announced and that greater manchester would be moving into the tier 3 level of coronavirus restrictions and let's take a quick look at what was announced in the downing street news briefing with

the prime minister earlier on this evening and greater manchester said will move to the high alert level and pubs and restaurants will close on the status of insubstantial meals and they cannot mix indoors or outdoors settings, it will come into force on midnight on thursday. boris johnson also said that there be an additional £22 million in government support and he referred to the breakdown in central government and local leaders and the mayor greater manchester sanka despite conversations over the last ten days, fortunately, our let's get to the latest of our political correspondent. boris johnson, he was asked repeatedly about how much money greater manchester was going to be getting because we know talks and breakdowns

as little as a gap between the two sides of £5 million, but what is your latest information on the downing street is thinking to give greater manchester. the talks broke down of the amount of money that's separate to the 22 million the boris johnson, the 22 million and test and trace and supporting the vulnerable enforcement but, what local leaders have been negotiating with the government is extra money to support businesses in particular those affected by the closure of places like pubs they cannot operate restau ra nts a nd like pubs they cannot operate restaurants and areas and greater manchester and the idea of £90 million, of the £75 million and eventually even taking around £65 million in talking about the bare minimum of 60 million was their offer and talks broke down with

agreement and over £5 million mark. the latest security tonight is the borisjohnson was not entirely clear whether that 60 million was still on offer and we are learning from downing street, the table in look, i think there's a new deadline in the new deadline today for an agreement, i think there a deadline of friday read the restrictions come to force across greater manchester and i suspect leaders on both sides might wa nt to suspect leaders on both sides might want to agree that some kind of package by that point. some fiery rhetoric on both sides as these talks broke down and andy burnham said that this tier 3 was brutal and the talked about craning people down. and i think one of the best questions is given all the bad blood, with a be a problem with compliance once this tier level starts. they must obey the law, they must obey the public health guidance, but will people do that?”

do not think there's any sign that local leaders in manchester were not just concerned about the money on offer, there are questioning whether 01’ offer, there are questioning whether or not to through restrictions would really work, whether they're at that point was necessary, particularly for certain areas greater manchester by the rates the virus is said were less concerning than in other areas but i think certainly there's no suggestion that they're going to need some kind of rebellion it's a do not obey the rules. quite the opposite. but over the last ten days, this argument has played in an increasingly public way and one of the ideas behind the tiered system of restrictions was to simplify things and as well, to reach these kinds of agreements with local leaders in order to create this buy—in and that in turn, will start to maybe help encourage public compliance. i cannot tell exactly how people react and greater manchester over the coming days and of course the public is

praised by politicians for largely following the rules, but clearly, this is all played out over the last week or so andi played out over the last week or so and i will probably was and government had in mind when talked about trying to engage local leaders and really trying to be seen as imposing restrictions from above. and really trying to be seen as imposing restrictions from abovem just a few seconds, when will be be expected to hear from the health secretary? i do not expect to hear anything from him, he is almost obliged by procedure to update the house of commons but it is interesting to see what mps and some conservative mps have disabled the decisions that have been made. this is the scene of the house of commons where we are expecting the health secretary to just tell mps about the news that tier 3, the highest alert level is being imposed on the greater manchester area from midnight onto thursday. that's the latest from us and outside source

coming up next with ross atkins. hello, iam ross hello, i am ross atkinson book and outside source. i want to stress that this is as important as the funding we gave to lancashire. the mayor didn't accept this, unfortunately. they should not be doing this, grinding people down, trying to acce pt grinding people down, trying to accept the least that they can get away with. £22 million to fight the situation that we are in is frankly disgraceful. so greater manchester will move to england's highest virus