apartment building in the turkish city of izmir, following friday's earthquake which has killed at least 91 people. after nearly three days under the rubble, rescuers thought elif perincek was dead but the little girl reached out and grabbed the thumb of one of her rescuers. she has had an extraordinary escape — and is now being treated in hospital. her mother and twin sister also survived. time for a look at the weather, here's helen willetts. still just over a stilljust over a dozen flood warnings in england and wales following the stormy weather at the weekend and those reckless showers today which are still going. and it is windy especially because england and wales. the drying up as a slow

process and will remain windy and wet through this evening. the rain moves north of potentially turning to snow across the highlands and potentially some sleet in the southern half of england and wales. and it is a colder start to tomorrow morning, still quite wet across parts of central and eastern england. it could be at lunch time before this finally clears from east anglia. further north the area of rain and hills now breaking up into showers. a day of sunny spells and showers. a day of sunny spells and showers but particularly in the north, those showers could turn wintry. and the wind slowly easing down on today, but still cold, the average roughly for the time of year, nine, 10 degrees. then we

welcomed the arrival of high pressure for a few days, exchanging autumnal gales for frost and fog and some dry weatherfor autumnal gales for frost and fog and some dry weather for the second half of the week. would at last into the weekend? thejury of the week. would at last into the weekend? the jury is still out but as ever we will keep you posted. the warnings and flood warnings are on the website. the prime minister has defended his plans to lockdown england saying it is necessary to prevent a medical and moral disaster. that is all for now. goodbye. hello and welcome to sportsday. i'm sarah mulkerrins. coming up on the programme... as england heads into a second lockdown, we'll bring you the details about how that will impact grassroots sports

across the country. will lewis hamilton really quit formula 1's most successful team when he has a chance to break more records. a blow for toronto wolfpack as super league club's vote against allowing them back into the competition for 2021. good evening, welcome along to sportsday. lots to come, including the latest from the first of tonight's two premier league matches. but we're going to start with what lockdown will mean for sport in england. we do know there are different rules

and wales, scotland and northern ireland. we do know that elite level sport will carry on, but from thursday tennis courts will shut, golf courses will be closed, swimming pools will be locked up and grassroots sport will be put on hold. all this despite huge pressure coming on the prime minister from several mp‘s and many sports governing bodies calling from several mps and many sports governing bodies calling for an exemptions. here's how borisjohnson reacted to those calls today in parliament. i must apologise to my audible friend for not being able to offer the house and a huge list of exemptions to the rules that we set out —— honourable friend. alas, the effectiveness of the whole package is compromised. but that's why i wa nt to is compromised. but that's why i want to —— everybody to work together for the next four weeks as i say to get the letter are under control so we can open things up again —— the r under control.

control so we can open things up again -- the r under control. indeed figuring out what this lockdown means. let's start with golf. golf too has been spoken about a lot over the last 48 hours. over the summer, england golf reported an extra 20,000 members to golf clubs since the coronavirus pandemic. well, over the last 48 hours, one petition campaigning to keep golf courses open in england gathered over a quarter of a million signatures. we can speak to jaron e tomlinson, ceo of england call. ——jeremy tomlinson. your understanding of where authors and golf courses will be on thursday? good evening, sarah. yes, it's been a disappointing afternoon so far listening to the prime minister. 0bviously, afternoon so far listening to the prime minister. obviously, we hold him in the deepest respect, but very concerning. we tried our best to lobby in the most constructive way and to put forward our case. golf

remaining open in some way on thursday, but it's been a tough one with everyone else when we felt we put across a very good case. it's disappointing and at the moment, it looks like golf courses are going to be shut, which is a relation —— real shame for so many people. do you think that there will be any likelihood of a reversal? well, we're going to keep trying, thank you for the end of —— invitation. golf is... i get very humbled when i talk about sport in general, but golf is very different. it is a sport. we have some 1800 clubs in england, 640,000 members, overa million independent golfers. many

more that have joined the ranks because they can't play their own sports at the moment. but most of all, with all those people and those clu bs, all, with all those people and those clubs, we came back from may the 13th in a way, in a very structured way, and very guidance that hearing way, and very guidance that hearing way, and very guidance that hearing way, a very safe way to play golf. you don't touch each other‘s equipment and there is no touching of ha rd equipment and there is no touching of hard services. so, in a way, you're out there for a walk up playing golf. but we do just wish that we could be just classed as that we could be just classed as that socialising exercise to enable us that socialising exercise to enable us to come back and play the game that we love. jeremy, thank you very much for your time. jeremy tomlinson, ceo of england golf

joining us live on sportsday this evening. tennis is another of those sports to face shutdown. courts will be locked up from thursday and our reporterjames burridge is at a club in northamptonshire with more. just like golf, tennis and the lta have been lobbying the government extremely hard to try and allow the sport to be exempted from lockdown on thursday. let speak to the head coach of the tennis club in northamptonshire. how much of a blow would it be if you don't get a reprieve? devastating for clubs just coming back and memberships gone through the roof. there are so many adults coming down as you can see tonight. all ability, all ages, they just want to be outside. it would be a great chain if that had to stop. just want to be outside. it would be a great chain if that had to stoplj think the lta hoped that singles could at least be allowed to continue. what does it say if tennis isn't allowed to be played in the 0pen airlike this? isn't allowed to be played in the open air like this? well, we've got

to really sad state regarding... singles, as you can see the size of the court, they're so far away from each other. playing someone with you recognise, a club like this, we're all full. what impact do you think you will have on participation? there is a possibility that might go on for longer. for tennis, it would be huge. the main reason for getting out and about is your health, and if you can't play tennis, then you're looking at other things. being indoors, reading a book, although it's not good to read —— it's good to read, it's not great for tennis. i'd hate to see that, we've just managed to get new courts and floodlights, so not being able to put anything in the bank, the club is going to go one way, really and i

hate to think of what would happen. alex, thank you for your time this evening. i can seejust how alex, thank you for your time this evening. i can see just how busy a cub will not club like this can be. —— a club can be. it's notjust tennis and golf either that have been trying to make their voices heard. the chief executive of swim england has urged swimmers up and down the country to sign an open letter to the prime minister asking him to reconsider. underage sport too is being impacted, with calls for outdoor training to continue for those under the age of 18, with concerns over the physical and mental health of children during this second lockdown. the problem for the grassroot side is what happens to community sport in the long run and to lose some of these grassroots clubs supported by volunteers that are really struggling now will leave us with a legacy of a generation who are inactive and unable to find their

way to sport as a lc habit for life. we do know particularly in secondary schools, they're just under a of schools, they're just under a of schools not offering had two physical education —— healthy habit. many were doing last time because of often the logistics of management changing, cleaning of equipment and social distancing. 0ur big ask is that it talked about and it's amplified in messaging to school leaders in both empowering them and enabling them and making feel it's the right thing to do to keep children active rather than because of safety concerns and issues of transmission that they should not be engaging their children in school and physical activity. so, we've heard a range of voices there advocating for some recreational sport to continue. let's speak to doctor chris smit, a virologist of cambridge ‘s bureau diversity —— chris smith. we know lots of people wa nt chris smith. we know lots of people want sport to continue but we know

we are in abnormal times —— cambridgeshire university. give us a little bit of the reasoning around the decision that might be obvious for someone who might want to play sport, but we may have to just stop this up for a while. well, this new coronavirus is a really slippery customer and it exploits the humanness of the way we behave. we like spending time together, we like doing things together, we like socialising, we like running around. it's a respiratory infection and it therefore gets from one person to therefore gets from one person to the next, because when we do things that are active, we are more likely to spread the virus. we need to think about how we can possibly do sports without spraying virus. it makes it really challenging, so it's basically undermining everything we enjoy about life. the only way to stop it is to make life less enjoyable. when you look at the likes of what people are talking about today, tennis and golf, you

can go out to the golf course on your own, people may look at the interaction and the social contacts around that or the nonessential travel. is that where people should be looking at as to why restrictions are coming in? yeah, if you can bottle the health benefits of exercise, you would have no pill more powerful than that. exercise is fantastic on so many levels, and we all love it. but the problem is that along with that goes all of the overhead of contact with your friends, contact on the bus to get to the match, contact in the sporting venue, contact among the fa ns sporting venue, contact among the fans who come to see people play or to watch a motor racing event or horse racing. all of these things are change of transmission, they are opportunities for the virus to spread it isjust opportunities for the virus to spread it is just unfortunate that you have to, in order to gain control of it, interrupt the change -- chain control of it, interrupt the change —— chain of transmission. that often means not getting together to see

how good we are against the opposition. that's brilliant, doctor chris. really appreciate your time. no worries. well, coronavirus is continuing to impact elite level sport too. here's some of the other headlines. rangers have suspended two players, jordanjones and george edmundson, for breaching covid—19 protocols. the pair attended a "private gathering with others outside their household" and will now have to self—isolate for 14 days. british tennis playerjoe salisbury has been withdrawn from the doubles at the paris masters because of "sustained close contact" with someone who tested positive for covid—19. sailsbury, who won this yea r‘s australian open with american rajeev ram, has not tested positive himself. castleford tigers‘ next two super league matches against leeds on friday and salford red devils next monday are off after four more players tested positive for covid—19. the tigers‘ game last friday against huddersfield was cancelled after 13 positive tests.

well, staying with rugby league and the impact of coronavirus, because today super league clubs voted against allowing toronto wolfpack back into the competition for 2021. the canadian club withdrew from the season injuly, with owner david argyle citing financial problems caused by the pandemic, but the club hoped they would return next year under new ownership. let's bring in our rugby league correspondent dave woods. days, was this vote expected to go this way? we weren't quite sure which way it was going to go vote, but the fact that it was as decisive as it was, a eight votes against one extension. the four in favour were leeds, st. helens. ..

extension. the four in favour were leeds, st. helens... the one extension was