thank you, a bit of a cold interlude today but it will be quite a brief window of colder weather with milder airon the window of colder weather with milder air on the way. is with sunset in inverness earlier, a bit of snow over the high ground in scotland earlier but tonight, and east west split to the forecast. in the west things will turn more cloudy and mild but further east, clearer skies and some frost developing. a ridge of high pressure with us today is squeezed to the east and that allows weather fronts to move in from the atlantic, bringing milder air and quite a lot of cloud this evening at the night in northern ireland, pushing into western fringes of britain and then rain from the west later on. for eastern scotland and central and eastern england, we keep clearer skies for longer so here temperatures will fall lowest and likely to be perhaps the odd icy stretch in the east first thing

tomorrow. tomorrow will be different, a change in wind direction, back to the mild south—westerly winds, a lot of cloud and this rain pushing west to east through the day. the wind is also barely strong over the next 2a hours, temperatures milder in the west, 12 or 13 in belfast but only about seven in norwich on friday. at the weekend, no pressure to the north, trailing cold front initially brings some patchy rain in northern ireland and southern scotland on saturday morning, moving further south. more sunshine coming in from the north—west, a few blustery showers still. further south, fairly cloudy but mild again, 9—11; on saturday. on sunday, still that cloud lingering in the far south with a few showers but for most, a return to sunnier skies, one or two blustery showers particularly in the north—west but a colder day on sunday. 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 i'm olly foster, here's what's coming up on sporstday this evening. a winter rescue package for sport, but is it enough and who has missed out on the government hand—out seven games into the women's super league

season, two clubs have sacked their managment teams. it's all change at spurs and west ham. crunch time for rafa nadal, he has to win this evening to stay in the atp tour finals. also coming up in the programme. lewis hamilton one a champion once worked but more more to achieve in formula 1. when the seven title but we have another big thing, fight and that's for racial equality. good evening, 11 sports are going to benefit from the government's winter survival package. £300 million of help in the shape of low interest loans or grants for those sports hit hardest by the pandemic

with fans still locked out. rugby union is going to get 135 million pounds of that, horse racing a0 million, non—league and womens football 28 million. the culture secretary oliver dowden has been speaking to our sports editor dan roan, who asked him why most of the package was made up of loans rather than grants. . it's worth remembering that we have provided well over £1 billion with the support for sports already through everything like the job retention scheme, various loan facilities, and what we said is this is a very specific thing. it's about, mainly winter sports, we are expecting to have fans and stadiums and did not have a come up with that we would help them out through this. as for the smaller window first to the end of the year and it's evidence—based. this is our assessment working with the sports to see what they need

to compensate for that. did they get as much the asked for or a proportion of what or proportion of what they asked for? always a debate with these things, as with the entire economy we never said we will make good all the losses what we have said is we will give them what they need to survive, and so if you take something like rugby union they are not going to have the matches like at twickenham and they could sell those out several times over. this work will be in disarray without that support it if you look at racing and so on. that is the basic principle there. described as a per allocation, does that mean you will expect to have to be more in the future for elective cricket to for example if the spanning on spectators continues to do the spring? we always said this was see us through to the end of march that primarily covers the winter sports. i very much hope and indeed expect that as we go spring into summer will have a lot more

fans back in stadiums. let's get more on this bailout news from a couple of the sports, first one that will benefit, horse racing. david armstrong is the chief executive of the racecourse association. they were, so i had my back turned on you. £40 million, how much did you need to and where is it going to go? i think firstly the announcement today of the support package is extremely welcome for racing. as the minister described it helps us bridge the period from now over the winter months through to when we most expect or hope that crowds will return. the return of crowds is the ultimate goalfor eskimo return. the return of crowds is the ultimate goal for eskimo crowds make up ultimate goal for eskimo crowds make up 50% of racecourse income. until they can return we are always facing a very difficult winter in this package will help us reach that journey from here to when crowds return. horse racing obviously

advances were in this country, and integral to that project. you got going again with the first port back, that was in newcastle in the 1st ofjune. this full start with fa ns 1st ofjune. this full start with fans coming back for the gates if don castor. really encouraging not just the money but also that sort of tease from oliver dowden saying he could be as close as next month with a few fans go into low risk areas. certainly came to see how that might play out and as you say we were the first professional sports back in the behind closed doors phase in the 1st ofjune and since they withheld over 500 fixtures during that time successfully maintaining our protocol throughout. we did have a couple a couple of false starts don castor being one of those in hopes to get a pilot that did not happen. we put a lot of effort into that pilot programme. it was to remain very committed to supporting government and bring about crowd $0011 government and bring about crowd 50011 as government and bring about crowd soon as possible. whether that's before christmas were not time will

tell. but certainly we stand ready to ta ke tell. but certainly we stand ready to take part as soon as they are. how long is that going to keep you going? how damaging financially has this been to all connections of horse racing over the last seven or eight months? i think the overall impact on the industry is, for example, if you take racecourses they've lost some are between 300 and £325 million of revenue during this period. so the impact has been very significant. the £40 million announced today will be critical in helping us get through that winter period at the start of spring. but that's only the start of the journey and it will help us, it's adequate to get us through that period and it's very much appreciated. but it is only the start of the journey. david armstrong, chief executive of the racecourse association. let's bring in another sport now that hasn't been included in this bailout swim england chief

executive jane nickerson joins me now. evening jane, do you feel ha rd—done by. good evening. i'm glad for the sports that have been included, we are all going through a really bad time. i'm pleased some sports have i'iow time. i'm pleased some sports have now got the help that's needed. we are in a different position from oui’ we are in a different position from our problem is the income is not the same volume for us and therefore this criteria didn't really apply to it. but we have lost £48 million in training income over a year once pools closed. that's massive to us asa pools closed. that's massive to us as a little and gp. releasing staff i have to find some way through this. i say the government this is great that you are helping spectator sports we need something else, those of us that were 80% self—sufficient in ourown of us that were 80% self—sufficient in our own financing and then had that ripped out from under us the minute pools closed. also saying

this problem from the secretary as well with the leisure centres and how they've survived. they paid £100 million put into that which is a great start and great support but a drop in the ocean to what they need to keep going through this period. you have over a thousand aquatic clu bs you have over a thousand aquatic clubs around england to have found it really tough but have all businesses found it tough. he just loved a little bit of recognition for yourselves and the importance of swing england and exactly what you do for communities as well. as well as looking after our members and aquatic disciplines and the people that hope to be the great stars of tomorrow, we are also, in activity that 4 million people swim regularly every month. it's an activity that people who cannot exercise on land can exercise on water. we to the swimming provides £357 million of savings to the nhs assisted cut syste m savings to the nhs assisted cut

system every single year. —— social system. it pays back in spades the nhs and social care system. you feel that you are just as deserving as those other sports. yes. it's a different reason that we needed, it's not lots of tickets but a loss of trading income. i think it needs recognising. our clubs are members, they've lost ticket income the use little open meets to keep them going throughout a 12 month period and it's nothing like the big figures we have been talking about in other sports but then it's life and death. we have to find a way of supporting that and keeping them going. many thanks indeed for your time. the scottish government this evening have been seeking urgent clarification over this funding package of sports in england because they will also be due a funding some

to distribute to sports in scotland. as it evolved government. that's the deal they've got and they seeking urgent clarification from the government in westminster. now moving onto football. we've had a few sackings in the women's super league today. west ham and tottenham hotspur both parting company with their coaching teams, the hammers matt beard had been at the club 2 years, karen hills and juan amoros had been together a lot longer at spurs, overseeing their rapid rise to the top division. i spoke to our reporter jo currie about the changes. i think it'sjust i think it's just a sign of how far with the women's game has come. not so with the women's game has come. not so much more accountability for results and in the pastor has not a lwa ys results and in the pastor has not always been the case. tottenham of course is a premier league club that last few seasons is really pumped an awful lot of money is there women's tea m awful lot of money is there women's team not just to awful lot of money is there women's team notjust to get awful lot of money is there women's team not just to get them awful lot of money is there women's team notjust to get them into the super league which they've managed to do but to there and be competitive committee look at the results from the start of the season

they just have not results from the start of the season theyjust have not been good enough. currently 11th place in the table, just one place above the relegation zone and three points from their opening seven games. it's quite of international players to get the us world cup winner alex morgan there unloaded the moment and that's when the clop of clearly made the decision now and replacing the duo with rhiannon skinner. she went to that position a couple of months ago but from a point of view of view offered eight full—time managers position which should be a competitive club in the women's of super league is the right move for her and the club it they will be hoping she will return the results around very quickly. and westhampton doing a little bit better than spurs, not much though they decided they need a change. numbers there. westha m pto n they need a change. numbers there. westha m pton currently they need a change. numbers there. westhampton currently night it is super league table, just four points from their opening seven games. and between matt beard and the club they

decided that change needs to happen. i will say this, they've invested heavily in that squad to come you have to look at the international players that they have their and there will be a lot of people in not just women's football but football andi just women's football but football and i suspect it will be looking at thisjob with some and i suspect it will be looking at this job with some interest. it's not the most glamourous ofjobs co m pa res not the most glamourous ofjobs compares the teams the table but this is because this really should be doing better than it has been the clu b be doing better than it has been the club will be looking at the race person to turn things around. —— right person. football's world governing body fifa could impose fines and transfer bans on clubs who don't meet new maternity cover regulations for players and coaches. players will be entitled to at least 14 weeks of cover — on at least two thirds of their salary. pep guardiola has committed his future to manchester city for another two years. his current contract was due to end next summer, but he's signed a new deal until 2023.

city have won 6 major domestic trophies including two league titles since hejoined the club in 2016 england's number one tabletennis player liam pitchford — in the black at the top of the screen — has been beaten at the end of season finals in china. he lost in straight sets in the first round to the brazilian hugo calderano. the grandson of former england cricketer sir ian botham will make his rugby union debut for wales this weekend. cardiff blues flanker james botham will start in saturday's autumn nations cup game against georgia. he was only called up to the squad on monday as head coach wayne pivac makes thirteen changes to the side that lost to irealand last friday. fly—half george ford will start on the bench for england's match with ireland at twickenham on saturday. he's been out with an achilles problem. that means owen farrell stays at 10 while maro itoje, tom curry, sam underhill, mako vuinpola and kyle sinckler