along, both sides have come up with the main principle that they disagree so fundamentally on. britain wants to be outside the european union's rules but still keep some of the benefits of being in that club, but the eu doesn't see why with the uk out, why it should give the uk any particular privileges. that has been a problem all along and it still seems the problem tonight. laura kuenssberg with the latest there, thank you. time for a look at the weather. here's darren bett. a cold day to day and freezing in some parts of england. in areas where the bug has persisted. and thatis where the bug has persisted. and that is thickening up now through tonight and developing more widely across lincolnshire, east anglia and the midlands and southern england, it will be still there into tomorrow morning. showers around threatening icy patches and the weather is changing further north, an area of low pressure in the north sea is bringing this wet weather into scotland, strengthening the winds and eventually that pushes down into northern ireland. generally keeping

the temperature is a little higher. further south across the uk, we are more likely to have a thrust and there may be icy patches as well as that dense fog which is still around in the same areas tomorrow morning. further north, showers, longer spells of rain threatening scotland and may be bringing flooding into northern areas. wet weather moving down towards northern england and into wales. south of that, it may brighten up with some chain coming through, the folk tending to lift in most areas, we just get more breeze stirring things up a bit. —— the fog. wendy in western scotland and northern ireland. temperatures here reaching eight or 9 degrees. one area that could stay great, cold and murky around parts of lincolnshire and east anglia, so cold here once again. into wednesday, we have more clout down the eastern side of the uk and may be a few showers although it will be a drier date in scotland compared with tomorrow. a slice of sunshine for a while and the crowd increases to the west threatening to bring rain by the evening. in the

cold air, five to 7 degrees. into thursday, most places will be dry once again and it looks like it will be quite cloudy. by friday, a strong wind, rainfor be quite cloudy. by friday, a strong wind, rain for more of the country and temperature should be a little higher. 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, and welcome to sportsday. i'm sarah mulkerrins. coming up... all the details on which teams the home nations have drawn in qualifying for the world cup in qatar 2022. back on the bus and back on the way home. england's tour of south africa is abandoned after a number of a positive coronavirus tests. and after an extraordinary final frame to seal the uk's snooker

championship, we will speak to neil robertson who might have just about recovered. also coming up in the programme... hello, and welcome along to sportsday. so in two years and 11 days‘ time, football will be crowning the next world cup winner, as qatar 2022 will be wrapping up. last time out in russia, six of the eight quarterfinalists and all four semi—finalists were from europe. and in the last hour, the world cup qualifying draw for uefa teams has been made. we'll have the details shortly — but here's a reminder of how europe took control in 2018. france, champions of the football world!

this is the stuff of dreams! absolutely extraordinary! he has only gone and done! another special! great goal! it's smasher! he does at! world cup 18 has exploded with surprises. amazing to think that that was only two years ago when that had all ended. so much has happened in the footballing world. so it's really intriguing to see what this draw has given across europe. our reporterjoe lynskey has been watching the draw and has all the details. france obviously dominated last time, but in terms of the home

nations, it was a real roller coaster for them, and there will have been an awful lot of attention on who they got, because they were the one a the top seeds and you also look at wales, who were in at the pot too, so talk us through england and wales for a. we will get to wales in a second to have a taste for major tournaments now having been to the euros in 2016 and who will be of the euros next summer as well, but as for england, they've got one stand top opponent in their group, group i, that's poland. the side led by striker robert lewandowski who's currently the bundesliga's top scorer. he's scored 12 goals in nine games for last season's champions league winners bayern munich — those are some of the best figures across europe. hungary also in this group — they're a side england haven't met competitively since the 805, but they're an improved football nation recently, and they'll be at next summer's euros playing in their brand new stadium in budapest — the puskas arena. england haven't played albania since 2001, and this group's completed with two trips to andorra

and san marino. those are the kind of matches where premier league bosses might be wishing england were drawn in a five—team group. wales are one of those sides with a more condensed group — they'll be looking to get the better of the czech republic, belarus and estonia and be vying with belgium for the automatic qualification spot. that fixture will bring back memories for wales of their famous run at the euros four years ago, where hal robson—kanu helped them beat belgium on the way to the semi—finals of that competition. wales have the taste now for more major tournaments, and will hope to reach a first world cup since the ‘50s in this group. so intriguing, isn't it? when we look then further down the pots and the seedings, we came to northern ireland and scotland. talk us

through that than. yes, so some familiar opponents for england in plain poland. yeah, scotland have some familiar opponents too. they've drawn israel again — a side they've already faced twice since the pandemic and they've played in qualifying plenty of times this century. the faroe islands are another side who might give scotland fans the chills — they took points off them in qualifying 18 years ago. but having just reached their first tournament in 22 years, scotlaand are a side looking upwards now and they will be hopeful with this draw — denmark are perhaps one of the most beatable sides in that top pot of teams, and austria will be the other side with hopes of qualifying that scotland will think they can beat. really tough draw for northern ireland who know they'll have to overcome italy and switzerland to get into the top two of their group. bulgaria and lithuania also won't be straight forward matches, and all this as they perhaps use this qualification campaign to rebuild as their star players approach retirement. they've had a disappointing 2020.

and all the home nations know they can't make a slow start in this campaign. you can see just like the international breaks at the start of this season, there'll be three qualifying games in a week for each side in march and september. that means in a fortnight‘s worth of international football, we'll be halfway through the campaign. and for those teams in pot three, they may well be looking at a route to the finals via the play—offs — if they finish as runners—up in their qualifying group they'll get that chance in march 2022, when 12 teams will be split into three play—off paths — that knockout style format will give three nations a world cup place in the same way scotland got their spot at the euros. that's still more than a year off, if we look even further ahead to november 2022, the world cup in qatar kicks off.

we've had the first virtual draw today but by then, football like humanity sarah will hope the game looks very different. we all hope so. thank you so much for that. really appreciate you talking us through all of that. just remember as well, if you want, just had to our website and you can get all the details there. we're going to stay with football now on sportsday — but move to the scenes at millwall and colchester over the weekend, where some home fans booed players taking a knee to highlight racial inequality. the fa have this afternoon announced they are investigating the incidents. both clubs released statements condeming the actions and we can speak to the chairman of one of those clubs now — robbie cowling of colchester united thanks forjoining us. robbie, ijust robbie, i just want to know, robbie, ijust want to know, from

your point of view, when you heard the jeering at the game, how did you react? welcome and never actually heard them. i was tied up just at the start of the game as i often am, so the start of the game as i often am, soi the start of the game as i often am, so i didn't get out untiljust after the game had, sorry, my phone is ringing. ididn‘t the game had, sorry, my phone is ringing. i didn't get out untiljust after the game had started, and so the first i've heard of it was after the first i've heard of it was after the game, because for us, the game had gone extremely well, you know? we had a lot of preparation for the first time fans coming back, and the fa ns first time fans coming back, and the fans had been fantastic the way they came into the ground, the way they socially distance themselves and followed all the guidelines we gave them, and! followed all the guidelines we gave them, and i never actually heard it on the night, so, i was devastated to hear afterwards, because a couple at colchester, we don't really suffer from these issues, at colchester, we don't really sufferfrom these issues, it's not something that we have at the club. you know, and all the time i've owned it, 15 years, there has never been any racial issues to do with the fans or anything. he released a statement this morning, what was your message within that to your

fans? well, what we were trying to do, because i spoke to callum, he was really offended by the bullying that happened, so i spoke to him, and what he wanted to do, he accepted that he wanted to get a really clear message across as to why the players we re message across as to why the players were taking a knee. what they wanted to do, show their solidarity and show that, you know, they want eve ryo ne show that, you know, they want everyone to be treated fairly, regardless of their race. so we agreed we would do a statement that would say exactly why the players are taking a knee. they are not linking themselves to any political movement. you know, there is a really good reason, and we want to educate ourfans. really good reason, and we want to educate our fans. it was only a few who did this, and we are really hopeful that if we can, you know, explained to them why they are doing it, that they will actually get behind the players, because why would you not want to? who wouldn't wa nt would you not want to? who wouldn't want what they are trying to do by taking the knee? so what will you do if there is a reoccurrence of this at the next home game? well, what we are encouraging our fans

at the next home game? well, what we are encouraging ourfans to do at the next home game? well, what we are encouraging our fans to do at this time is to actually applaud the players taking it. if there were just a few, we would drown them down, we are not trying to mask the problem or brush it under the table we said it was an issue and we have to deal with that, but at the same time, we would like those players who are taking this action to know that they are really supported by the majority of people. night 9.9% of people of colchester united absolutely support what the players are doing —— 99.9%, and we wa nt to players are doing —— 99.9%, and we want to make sure they feel it. so that's our plan. i've explained it to the fans and we've offered if they cannot at least remain silent, then, you know, just let me know, andi then, you know, just let me know, and i will refund them their seats and i will refund them their seats and ticket money of the games. it would be better for and ticket money of the games. it would be betterfor both and ticket money of the games. it would be better for both of us and them if they stay away. robbie, we really appreciate your time on sports day. this afternoon we had the confirmation that england's one—day series against south africa was called off because of continuing concerns over a number of coronavirus cases within both

camps in cape town. the first one—dayer was abandoned and they should have been playing the second of three matches today. the bbc‘s cricket correspondent jonathan agnew says questions are being asked as to how the teams bio—secure bubble had been breached. there is something of a blame game being apportioned, talk of the hotel staff coming and going in the hotel the teams are staying in. to be fair, that also happened in the bubbles we stayed in last summer as well, in southampton and manchester, so i think maybe you need a bit of luck for that to go right. but there has now been a development and the bigger picture is that south africa needs, above all, australia to come on tour in the year, but also sri lanka and pakistan, they need to persuade those boards that coming to south africa is safe. they don't want thoughts that their bubble can easily be penetrated. what has happened is that the local association have basically pointed the finger of blame at england

for going into an area on the practice ground that was cordoned off and not part of the biosecure bubble at all, it was a practice area, and they used that without permission. england are saying, we did try and clear that, but the practice pitches we were given weren't fit for purpose and we had no choice. so there is a bit of a blame game going on here. south africa are desperate to try and prove they are not to blame for this series collapsing, they need these other countries to go there on tour. they will already lose about $4 million as a result of this tour going down the pan at the simply cannot afford for other countries not to come. so what impact has all of this had on cricket in south africa, and particularly the games' finances? earlier on, i wasjoined by espn cricinfo south africa correspondent firdose moonda. it will be a huge financial hit for cricket south africa. we're talking

a £1.5 million,