community precision with your approach play as much as anything else. that extra length is going to bea else. that extra length is going to be a massive asset. in training he has posted a drive that has flown come up flown more than 403 yards before pitching into there's no run in that statistic. we are hearing stories from augusta at the moment which is saying that he is hitting ridiculously short clubs into many of the longest holes at the augustine national. he's going to be the player that most people will be watching over the next four days. as we all will be as well. tell us about those who could potentially ravel him this year. i don't think it's by any stretch of the imagination bryson de chambeau's to lose. any number of players could win this masters but i do think that the top ten can be given that they are all pretty much long hitters are going to be up there and potentially challenging for green jackets.

dustinjohnson challenging for green jackets. dustin johnson has challenging for green jackets. dustinjohnson has been a fantastic form. he is shrugged off a bout of coronavirus and looking fresh and goodin coronavirus and looking fresh and good in houston last week. you have the likes of rory mcelroy going for the likes of rory mcelroy going for the career grand slam and becoming only the sixth player to do that most you go down the list of the top ten players in the likes of zander, justin thomas, john rama, all the players that have the conditions to succeed. 0ne players that have the conditions to succeed. one player we're not talking about very much is defending champion tiger woods who has shown very little for this year. a notable absentee in the shape of sergio garcia. the four—year—old spanish player withdrawing after a positive coronavirus test. what you researching. and placed on from denmark means the manchester united defender lindelof is one of several players that won't make up the sweet and scrub the play there on wednesday. he also impact the

england nations league match with iceland who first played to denmark. that match on sunday. and england's jonny bairstow has signed for big bash side melbourne stars. bairstow‘s been playing in the indian premier league and will miss teh start of the tournament, after being selected to play for england in their white ball series in south africa. india captain virat kohli will miss three of the four tests on his sides tour of australia to be at the birth of his first child. kohli will return home after the first test starting on the 17th of december. a year to ayearto go a year to go to the day until england host the women's rugby league world cup. will be staged in leeds, dream isjody cunningham who plays for england and francesca bunting will be turning out for brazil and make their debuts in the competition, hello to you both. sta rt competition, hello to you both. start with you jody because with this term it being staged on home

soil hopes i imagine it will be the biggest and best rugby leaks women's world cup to date. absolutely. home world cup to date. absolutely. home world cup to date. absolutely. home world cup is always exciting but i think the added incentive of being alongside the men and the wheelchairs will be a fantastic event all around an amazing opportunity for all the women that would be part of this tournament. and francesca you are obviously one of those. and arrive right into you live in st albans, but a lot of would be league in australia but qualified to play for brazil, talk us qualified to play for brazil, talk us through how that's the case. qualified to play for brazil, talk us through how that's the casem was a very weird series of events to be honest, but i moved to australia answer playing sevens out there and bumped into maddie gardner who is the head coach of the brazil will evans rugby league team and he did a bit of coaching with myself and friends in australia and talking through realising to the uk and only by his leaker and the fact that he

played for brazil himself came up to the fact that i have brazilian heritage and asked me to send forges through to their and now i'm here. backin through to their and now i'm here. back in st albans on the home ground since moving back from australia bit earlier than anticipated due to the current situation, but still going oi'i current situation, but still going on with training and the programmes and making the most of it, really. and obviously francesca talking there australia are in the team to beat committee for the last two tournaments. yet they have, surely a fantastic side and it's so great to see how much women prospect rugby league is growing in australia and i think we have that realisation in 2017 as to how much progress they have made since the 2013 world cup but all sites in england have been set on this world cup ever since landing back in england after 2017 and knowing what work we had to do in these four years. even went the current situation england are

working really hard across the board with all of the england units to make sure we are in the best position to win three world cups obviously includes the women, and try and work really hard individually now to make sure we are in the best position to do that. that's the aim and there's a lot of time to go before the world cup ta kes pla ce time to go before the world cup takes place next year. francesca, for you, obviously brazil making their debut going to be a very exciting time. just give us a sense of how much rugby league has played in brazil. it's a new sport for them in general. blisters are competitively playing in 2013 and then since then it's grown from strength to strength. to not be the first south american team debuting in the world cup for women's. it's an amazing achievement by the girls and shows how strong the sport is growing. it's growing up more quickly and a lot bigger than most people realise and i think this world cup debut of any success that

hopefully we are going to achieve in this willjust see it go from strength to strength even more in the opportunity of being part of thatis the opportunity of being part of that is amazing. the very best to you and your team, and we hope to see you, francesca, turning out for brazil and of coursejody see you, francesca, turning out for brazil and of course jody for england a year from today. thank you very much indeed. american chris nikic has become the first person with down‘s syndrome to finish an ironman triathlon event. the 21 year old who's from florida, crossed the line in 16 hours 46 minutes nine seconds — less than 14 minutes under the official cut—off time. guinness world records called nikic‘s achievement "awe inspiring". nikic now has his eyes set on being part of the 2022 special olympics. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening.

john watson at the bbc sport centre. let's get more now on the news about a coronavirus vaccine — said to be 90 % effective — after testing on 43 and a half thousand people. the prime minister this afternoon gave a briefing at downing street, during which he weclomed the news, but said right now it was no substitute for social distancing and hygiene measures. well listening to that news conference with the prime minister was the shadow health secretary jonathan ashworth. and hejoins us now from his westminster office. you need to you, thanks for speaking to us. first place to have to begin and of course is with the news about the vaccine. good news but from your perspective where the practical questions we

need to keep in mind? very good news, and i'm sure people watching the news tonight will feel a sense of relief because we have it had to make some sacrifice this last year and not our families make some sacrifice this last year and not ourfamilies or make some sacrifice this last year and not our families or loved make some sacrifice this last year and not ourfamilies or loved ones, not seeing our friends and socialising with them. so this is good news and we are right to be cautious because we have a little bit further to go. still going to go through the more test and then be distributed. 0ne through the more test and then be distributed. one of the think about this vaccine is people have about two doses. it had to be kept at extremely low temperatures, something like —80 degrees and that's going to throw up huge challenges for local areas and how they're going to store the vaccine and how it's good to be distributed across the country. there are other vaccines in development as well, some of them don't need to be kept at temperatures as low as that. it's going to be a big logistical questions about how we are going to

access this and go to the gp, or specialists public centres in towns and cities but overall this is a bit of light at the end of can we can see a bit of light as well as a pretty long and dark tunnel. we now know it it's a tunnel in a pit at least. setting that aside, for now we are relying on all the things we spoke about many times, social distancing hygiene measures and bring facemasks. the government has introduced in the last few days at the end of last week this mass testing programme in liverpool which we heard a bit about again from the news conference. what's your take on that with the other think it's interesting thing and we are studying it carefully. some of our universities have developed this rapid testing like saliva based testing that can be turned around very quickly and if you can use that

in schools or through nhs staff you can protect key workers who, every day or every week to make it a test of the can know whether they have got the virus are not when they don't have symptoms. very interesting what they are doing in the report, the think the government are about to roll out more of these rapid tests to other cities and towns across the country and we expect the government to say something on that tomorrow. it's a welcome development and that the specific things that need to be done, test and staff weekly, at least weekly because they need that protection because they are on the boards looking after people, let's make sure that everybody in all care home staff getting tested regularly in the test turn around quickly and crucially let's give the relatives of care home residents access to these rapid tests. because of the moment many people cannot go and see their mother or grandmother, or father, or grandfather in a care home because of the restrictions. if

you could get a test you could find out pretty quickly that you were negative and could go into that care home and see your mum who if you are not seen for months and months. on friday is talking to the taiwan former vice president in the limited sars and went on to be in charge until may of fighting the coronavirus. then very successful in taiwan of containing the number of infections and deaths. asked about mass testing he said that's fine but not a substitute for an effective system of contact tracing. and also he was worried that he might give people a false sense of confidence. like i've had the tested because i've got it or i'm negative i go back to normal. whereas actually it applies at the moment but may be overta ken applies at the moment but may be ove rta ke n by applies at the moment but may be overtaken by you getting infected within hours because another contact you have. that's absolutely right. sadly and i know it's frustrating for people there's no single one

magical instance of intervention at the moment they can protect you. you need to be tested to find out if you've got the virus and even if you don't have it you got to carry on distancing yourself can washing your hands and bring facemasks, and if you have got the virus in your contacts need to be traced. this is the day for optimism where i am very critical of the government is in the context tracing element of this because to be frank it's been pretty shambolic and we are in a locked down again because that contact tracing system has not been effective. because they've not been able to get the people and say you've been in touch with someone that's got the virus and please isolate yourself or were they have got to the people because they are not prepared to pay decent sick pay and cover wages people are not able to isolate. one brief question, what if you made of the response of the criticism of him describing harris as the indian. it was disgusting

racism, likes to be from another age, wasn't it? he should apologise in probably get off twitter. thank you very much for being with us on bbc news. hopefully be able to answer your questions on the news. thomas cox will bejoined by the biologistjennifer rhodes jennifer rohn and infectious disease specialist, dr peter drobac to go through the detail. you can send in your questions by emailing them to yourquestions@bbc.co.uk or tweeting them using the hashtag bbc your questions. do join tim, jennifer and peter if you can from eight—thirty, right here on bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather with sarah. good evening. 0n good evening. on monday we saw temperatures as high as 17 celsius in the southeast and was certainly above average for this time of year. as we head forjeanette we keep that mild frost free theme, it will be quite cloudy and still a few showers around, and the odd spurt of mist and fog around but not as extensive

as it was on monday morning. could he mist and fog over the hills and the north and the east, perhaps the odd pitch of messiness. what are a few showers for england and wales, scotla nd few showers for england and wales, scotland and northern ireland largely drive through the night. 0nce largely drive through the night. once it was mild and frost free and the double figures holding it to tuesday morning bill a bit colder than that across scotland. could be a touch of frost for the most glands. high pressures as the east but eight week weather front moving through in the art that shower across england and a few showers through western scotland later in the day as well. most places will avoid the showers on tuesday so a drier day than monday but more in the way of sunshine coming through. mild for the time of year in temperatures around 12 to 15 degrees. bye—bye.

hello, i'm ros atkins. this is 0utside source. there is now a vaccine, for coronavirus. us firm pfizer says its vaccine is 90% effective against covid—19. the results of the company's trial are a huge step forward in the fight against the virus. i've never felt professionally such a moment ofjoy, and we werejustjumping up and down in the chairs ofjoy for humanity, joy for medical advances to put an end to this dreadful pandemic. stock markets have surged on hopes of a return to normal, or something like it. but there are huge challenges in getting the vaccine to all those who need it. the us has passed 10 million cases

of covid—19.