for him, that's a long wait. so, having just scored the opener, he then set off by himself. one man to beat... from deep in his own half, he kicked and weaved his way to the ireland line. his 31st england try means only rory underwood has more. and extraordinary score and an exhausted player. two tries were all england needed. they topped up their lead through the bit of owen farrell. he was scoring points against his dad, the ireland coach. their winning forms since lockdown has been built on a tough defence. ireland broke through eventually, but by then it was too late. this will go down as one of twickenham's great tries. for england rugby in november, it was all about may. wales ended their six match losing streak, one of their worst runs in history, by beating georgia 18—0 in llanelli.

coach wayne pivac made 13 changes to his side including a debut for lord ian botham's grandson james botham amongst the forwards. it was another youngster, 19—year—old winger louis rees—zammit, though who put wales in charge with the only try of the first half. replacement rhys webb added a second try towards the end to complete the scoring and ease the pressure on pivac. argentina followed up their shock win against new zealand last week, their first over the all blacks with an impressive draw against australia. all 15 of the visitors points came from the boot of nicolas sanchez, just as they did last week. and it means argentina are in with a chance of winning the tri nations championship with games against the all blacks and australia again to come. england's women came out on top against france to win their series, but they left it late in an absorbing encounter. emily scarret scoring a penalty with the last kick of the game as they won by 25 points

to 23 at twickenham. lucky for us, we keep coming out on top and people are starting to talk about world cup draws, but that was about world cup draws, but that was a poor performance from then and i'm very proud of the girls. they really finished thejob very proud of the girls. they really finished the job and having very proud of the girls. they really finished thejob and having emily, her baton the field. england will face france again in next year's six nations and have been drawn against them in their group at next year's rugby world cup. captain sarah hunter, who missed today's match through injury, joined me earlier to reflect on that win. it certainly put us to it, watching it, but i had every confidence if they could just cut out the errors

that have happened in the first half and get back into the game, which we did, early in the second half that, you know, we pushed to the end and when you have somebody like emily scarret on your team who has nerves of steel to slot over that penalty kick and take it, last play of the game, it's a pretty good thingm it was a match which really had everything, and uncharacteristic display from england in the first half when france were on top. yes, i think france had a lot to prove since last week. i think they would have been disappointed with how they played and they certainly came out firing in the first half and put us under a bit of pressure. uncharacteristic errors from people and we just did not play very well, but if we could cut out those errors then we would be more competitive and that is certainly what happened in the second half. just four weeks after the premiership campaign concluded — it's back, newly promoted newcastle began their campaign with a 19—12 win at bath this lunchtime. newcastle's ben stevenson ran in for the crucial score at the rec, in what was one of three tries for the falcons who were well clear in the championship when the season was cancelled earlier in the year. bath reached the play offs.

the new leicester era under head coach steve borthwick began with a win against gloucester. richard wigglesworth with the pick of the tries in a 38 points to 15 victory. the former england forwards coach looks to improve on what was a disappointing season last time out. and in the day's other game worcester warriors won a tight contest against london irish by 11 points to ten. tom howe with the decisive try for worcester. and it's tottenham who top the table tonight after a 2—0 win over manchester city. for all of manchester city's first half possesion it was tottenham who opened the scoring with what was their only shot on target in the first half. son heung min with the goal. city thought they'd pulled themselves level but the goal was ruled out by var for handball by gabrieljesus. tottenham made sure of the result in the second half,

giovvani lo celso on as a second half substitute scored with virtually his first touch of the game, as he was fed through by harry kane. tottenham managerjose mouirnho took over with the club when they were 14th last season, he's taken them to the top in 12 months. spurs replace chelsea who had moved top after a 2—0 win over newcastle in the early kick off. tammy abraham with one of their two goals as jo currie reports. chelsea travelled to newcastle knowing a win could take them top. and they meant business right from the off. the united goalkeeper had to be alert early on. minutes later, the goalkeeper in action again, this time keeping out abraham. there was little he could do, however, about the resulting corner. a well—worked delivery and a defender getting his feet in a muddle. fernandes failed to get himself out of the way as he bundled the ball

into the back of his own net. chelsea's dominance continued. timo werner carved up the defence before finding abraham who coolly slotted it into double the lead. the home side needed some inspiration and it almost came from sean longstaff, his rocket denied by the crossbar. chelsea had a chance to make it 3—0, but the miss didn't matter. with a win in the bag, their title push remains on track. for newcastle, there is work to be done. a fifth successive win in all competiions for chelsea, while newcastle have just one win in five. it's a soft goal we gave away and the second one is a bit soft, too. we have to be a bit more cunning and create a foul they are, basically. they ran far too far, far too far.

but make no mistake, it was a difficult afternoon but, you're right, it's believing that you can ta ke right, it's believing that you can take something from the big teams in the big games and the big occasions. a tough match to come here after the international break, players have been away and i felt we dominated the game and we could have scored more goals which will be a frustration of ours but i felt the lads dealt with it very well. yeah, i have to be happy. the win today was hugely important. it was a dangerous game for us, losing your la st dangerous game for us, losing your last year, so it was a nice progression to come here and get the right result. brighton won at villa park for the first time in their history, beating aston villa 2—1. danny welbeck‘s lung bursting run was rewarded with his first goal since joining brighton as a free agent last month. villa levelled early in the second half through defender ezri konsa. but solly march's strike less than ten minutes later was enough to earn brighton their first win in two months. it was villa's third home league defeat in a row.

we had opportunities to brownish brighton today, a number of them —— to punish brighton, from set pieces and we have made big mistakes in there. i was agreed that the ball went out by the corner flag and need to go cornerfrom went out by the corner flag and need to go corner from the 18 yard line for the we have to defend much better and that is something we have to do but the reverie allowed them to do but the reverie allowed them to ta ke to do but the reverie allowed them to take a throw in from the 18 yard box. we did enough in the game to justify being ahead and as you can imagine, against aston villa, in the form they are in and the players they have, you have to suffer anything we did that and defended as anything we did that and defended as a group. sol anything we did that and defended as a group. so i am just really delighted for the players. we played well recently but we did not get the points so today it is good we could get the points. the late game sees manchester united at home to west brom. two late goals salvaged a point for celtic at hibernian. that means they are eight piunts

behind leaders rangers with a game in hand. there were wins for dundee united, kilmarnock and st mirren. and stjohnstone drew with motherwell. let's take a quick look at some other stories. a special day for portuguese rider miguel oliveira who set a new all time lap record to claim pole at his home grand prix on what is the final race of the motogp season. britain's cal crutchlow will start from fourth in what could be his final race. joan mir secured the title in spain last weekend. ronnie o'sullivan is through to the final of the northern ireland open after beating ali carter by six frames to three. he'll face eitherjudd trump or david grace who meet in the other semi final tonight. and bristol de may, ridden by darleacob, won the betfair chase at haydock park for the third time in four years. defending champion and favourite lostintranslation struggled into third. austria's dominic thiem ended novak djokovic's hopes of winning a record equalling sixth season ending atp tour title.

it took him three sets to see off the world number one who will face the winner of rafa nadal and danil medvedev in tomorrow's final. sue barker is with andrew castle. a three hour marathon, it was, andrew and thiem, how did he come back with like 4—0 down in that final tie—break and he'd just hit winner after winner. very impressive. also impressive was the way after having match point in the second set, he managed to establish and just carry on, deal with the disappointment going into the third, but you're right, to be 4—0 down, i do not think novak djokovic would have lost a tie—break from 50 down ever. there were times when he was a little flat today, but thiem was there to take advantage. i think he

is changing the game. despite having on the one hand on the racket. he hit so hard. if you can hit some 60 winners or whatever it was past novak djokovic, you are doing something right. a new star in the game. the server and beforehand are exceptional. the backhand is a thing of beauty. yet just exceptional. the backhand is a thing of beauty. yetjust played a 3—set match against probably the greatest return of all time and did not lose his serve, so why would a genie confident? usa open champion, he has just won his first grand slam, so i am delighted he is through, he has been so inform along with danil medvedev. a joy to watch and been so inform along with danil medvedev. ajoy to watch and now there will be a new champion in the finals because tonight it is danil medvedev against rafa nadal which will be a fascinating encounter. tough to pick a winner in that one. you pick one. because like i would never bet against rafa very wise, he has won his third french open

joining roger federal 20 grand slam he is loving life, nothing to lose 110w. he is loving life, nothing to lose now. he has done everything before but he has never won this. he is probably a bit cross it has never been on clay, he would have won if it had been, but he would like to finish the year with strength, so this new generation knocking down the walls of the old guard, it's a fascinating storyline and i think the tennis will match that. it has been a lovely way to end the year with the top four in the semifinals of the shame no one is here with us but hopefully they will enjoyed on the tv and radio. we will enjoy watching it. sue will be back with the final on bbc two at six o'clock tomorrow evening. coverage of tonight's semi—final, which starts a few minutes from now, is on five live sports extra and the bbc sport website. and finally, olympic champion caeleb dressel has broken not one but two world records on the opening day of the international swimming league grand final. the american became the first man to swim 100 metre butterfly in under 48 seconds. and then a0 minutes later knocked

just under a tenth of a second off his 50m freestyle world record. you can see the best of the action from the swimming on the bbc sport website. that's all from sportsday. we will be back with plenty more tomorrow. it's been mild and cloudy across the southern half of the uk today. that band of clouds bringing with it some rain and drizzle, heading down into southern england, staying mild overnight, but elsewhere, we will find clearer skies, temperatures continuing towards northwest, windy overnight in northern scotland but a coordinate for most places, certainly more so than it was last

night, not far from freezing in north—east scotland and england and into northern ireland as well, but some chain to greet the day on sunday. turning drier perhaps but rain increasing in wales and the south as illegals on the tops showers in the north and west of scotland, still windy in northern scotla nd scotland, still windy in northern scotland still not as windy as it has been today, but cooler air so temperatures around eight or 10 degrees for much of the uk. looking ahead to the early part of next week, chilly start on monday morning and then we get atlantic weather fronts bringing in rain into scotla nd fronts bringing in rain into scotland and northern ireland.

this is bbc news. the headlines at 8... a call for coronavirus vaccines to be available for all as leaders from the world's biggest economies meet for an online summit hosted by saudi arabia. boris johnson faces questions about whether he tried to tone down an independent report which said home secretary priti patel broke the ministerial code by bullying staff. none of us want to see bullying or poor practices within the workplace, and the home secretary has been clear that she would never want to do that intentionally. the government is to change how it invests in big spending projects to ensure the north of england gets a fair share of the cash. five, four, three, two, one, liftoff!