alex and "— e‘fir flluluf "— e‘fir tuthzg film the reason, alex and cutting this man took four years to two? well, during the case, as i understand it, the four—day hearing, which took place in september in lausanne, russia didn't really defend the fact that they were guilty of covering up this data or providing fake evidence in these documents which they handed to wada earlier this year, but they argued that the sanction was unfair on clean athletes who were innocent victims in all of this, athletes who wanted to represent their country at an olympic games. and the panel felt it was not proportionate, the four—year ban was too harsh. although, they said in the statement that it should no way validate the conduct of the russian authorities. so they reduced it to two years, which for a lot of people, won't be enough. a lot of people wanted it to be four years. wada said they were disappointed by this, and in the nitty—gritty of the detail of the judgment, if you look at it, russian

athletes can compete, they are allowed to compete, they will be allowed to have the name russia on their uniforms, but the flag and the anthem will be banned, so it is a bit like the winter games in 2018, when there was a team called the olympic athletes of russian, around 170 of them, who were neutral. we can expect a good number of russian athletes in tokyo next year. 21,000 people turned up for the opening day of the first test between australia and india in adelaide? something we can only dream of at the moment, and that was a restricted crowd. it was all going well for virat kohli until an unfortunate mix up with ajinkya rahane led to him being run out short of a century. it was one of three late wickets the aussies took to leave india 233 for six at stumps, and rahane‘s probably still trying to avoid the unimpressed glare of his captain. rob heath reports.

india's superstar has been missing the last three tests of the series come he's going back to india for the birth of his first child. so maybe a few sleepless nights and store, and possibly one after this first day in adelaide. initially, he watched his top order rattled by australian pace, out second ball, forjust i7. typically, he resisted. first shorting things up and then opening up. after that sticky start, he and his middle order were getting stuck in. with the day turning tonight and a new pink ball soon available to australians bowlers, india needed him. then calamity. he sold the father to be a dummy, yes, no, oops, sorry. gone for74

entitled to throw the toys out of the pram. under the lights and against the new ball, india lost two more quick wickets, ultimately australia's night and day, for him, ha rd australia's night and day, for him, hard day ‘s night. rob heath, bbc news. so australia probably edging it but their spinner nathan lyon, speaking at the close of play, reckons his side can still improve. definitely satisfying, but i think we can get a lot better as well, to be honest with you. we are very happy with where we are apt, but i think we —— i don't think we can settle there, i think we need to keep pushing the boundaries and keep getting better as a bowling group, so, yeah, very happy, but still a lot of work to do. i still feel that we we re lot of work to do. i still feel that we were six down and we tried to keep it to as many runs as possible, so we keep it to as many runs as possible, so we still have a very good chance of getting close to that number,

and, you never know, we could get 350 also. time now for more of the day's other sport stories and... the start of the australian open tennis has been delayed by 3 weeks because of the pandemic. the first grand slam event of the year will now begin on the 8th of february, and that'll allow the players to complete a two week quarantine period which is currently required in australia. next year's formula one season will be the longest in history. there'll be 23 races in total, starting in australia on the 21st of march — and running right though to abu dhabi on the 6th of december. and world number four mark selby is into the quarter—finals of the world grand prix snooker in milton keynes. he beat anthony mcgill 4—2 as he looks to take two titles in a row after winning the scottish 0pen last weekend. the british wheelchair rugby team got three million pounds of uk sport funding in the run—up to the rio paralympics but after failing to win a medal — they had all their support withdrawn for tokyo 2020.

despite that, the team's won the last two european titles and risen to numberfour in the world. tomorrow they're hoping uk sport will restore funding leading to paris 202a. kylie grimes is the only woman in the british wheelchair rugby side, which is a mixed sport, and has been telling us what a difference funding would make. training, hotel costs, equipping costs, all of that stuff, and it does rack up, it costs a lot of money, so does rack up, it costs a lot of money, so yeah, itjust takes some of the worries away from interpersonal level, but, you know, the team is working so hard within the team is working so hard within the top four teams of the world, we are so the top four teams of the world, we are so close on the top four teams of the world, we are so close on every game the top four teams of the world, we are so close on every game that we play at the minutes, and you know, we are training, we are doing video analysis, everything we're doing together the minute all for metal, and you know, for our country, and we all enjoy it so much, but to have that extra funding and support for the next cycle would be incredible.

where we've had to really step and is that a number of our athletes actually are probably only in receipt of something like disability allowances, and so for them, it's really, really tough. so, obviously, with that sort of income, we really have got to reach out to pay for absolutely all of the basics. you know, we work really hard with reaching out to philanthropists who help some of them and donate two different foundations who help some of them into a number of individuals who have really come up to look after some of the individual let athletes. next — you may well have heard of marcus rashford's ongoing campaign to tackle food poverty. the england and manchester united striker‘s been open about how his childhood experiences pushed him to help others. now his mum mel has been speaking for the first time about her son's work during the pandemic. sally nugent‘s been to meet her. do you want some, marcus? as a young

single parents, mel worked round—the—clock in a bid to keep food on the table for the future star. 0dd star. odd jobs, and if star. 0ddjobs, and ifi star. odd jobs, and if i didn't do that, we wouldn't have been able to cook a pot of food. it's just a bit difficult, so marcus is only telling the story from how he sees it, and the story from how he sees it, and the words that he's been said, they obviously come from the bottom of his heart. sometimes it was really bad. i'd rather give the food to the kids think of it to myself, sometimes i didn't get anything to eat them and they would ask me if i had yours, and i said yeah, but i didn't. sometimes we didn't even have bread in the house, it's embarrassing to say, but we didn't stop to all of them little struggles and sacrifices, and you made it help appreciates everything like ten times more so i don't see it as a weakness, because they think in sports, you have to have something behind you that's pushing you. when you come from a place of struggle and a place of pain, a lot of the time commit switches and it becomes your drive and motivation. 0ver becomes your drive and motivation.

over the last few months, marcus has been campaigning to help vulnerable families growing up in similar situations. do you have food going out author of the day? grey every day, monday to friday mainly, last year, we gave out 95 tonnes of food this september, 339 tonnes. but it's not just about marcus, this september, 339 tonnes. but it's notjust about marcus, this new building is being named after mel for everything that they've done together to help families in need. marcus has his mom is the inspiration behind his campaign. sta rt inspiration behind his campaign. start your own trophy cabinets. yeah... what's it like than to be in this building that's named after you, after all that you and marcus have achieved over the last several months? i'm overwhelmed. i don't know what to say. but all i can say is thank you. i think i'm going to cry. for us and my mom especially, we

we re for us and my mom especially, we were concentrated so much on the people that we were trying to help so people that we were trying to help so the reaction and response to things, a lot of itjust simply goes over our heads because we are still focused on helping people. and ijust do them with marcus? yeah, definitely. you need to grow a little bit. i'm tall enough! talking of marcus rushford, concede tonight he's been acknowledged for the "the inspirational work he's been doing at the best beef up apollo words with." are under way at the moment — over on the bbc red button. so far, the coverage continues til seven oclock across the bbc‘s digital platforms and you can watch it all back on the bbc iplayer at your convenience. juergen klopp nominated for best men's coach of the ever bringing liverpool that firstly title of course in 30 years, juergen klopp is happy with that, meanwhile, serena who will become the england's women's manager and 21, she got women's manager and 21, she got women's coach of the year for her work with the netherlands, and this

man, winning the award for best goal of the season for that incredible solo effort for spurs against burnley. the coverage continues until 7pm. he can catch the last few minutes on the bbc website, on iplayer, the red button, check it out at your convenience. just remind you, it's now half time as well as ella park. i see aston villa and burnley are both nelle. manchester united kicks off at 8pm. we will keep you all up—to—date on date on that on bbc news. that's all from sportsday. we'll have more throughout the evening. good night. hello there. earlier on today, we had a refreshed pay from this wet and windy theme, but we have seen the cloud increasing, thickening up, moving and very rapidly from the atlantic, it brought rain in some places. these weather fronts will take the rain across northern ireland, scotland and push it further

into england and wales. for a while, that rain will be heavy as well. it will eventually push down towards the southeast of england, other areas away from here becoming drier later on in the night. but there is a lot of cloud around, and it's quite blowy out there as well. so it's going to be very mild to start friday, with temperatures in double figures. but more rain to come on friday, and the focus of the heavier rain is now across south wales with this amber rain warning from the met office. flooding and travel disruption is likely — as much as 100 mm of rain, four inches of rain, in the hills. not only wet here, but we will find the threat of flooding rains in the southwest of england — that heavier rain moves across wales, northern ireland, and it gets much wetter through the day in scotland. probably ot too much rain for east anglia and the southeast, but all areas will have a windier day. gales are likely in the southwest, but because it's southerly wind, it is unusually mild for this time of year. temperatures hitting 13—14 celsius.

the rain and potential flooding is the story, and that rain continues in the same sort of areas during friday evening before pushing into eastern england during friday night, to be followed by this area of low pressure. now, the very mild air and the more persistent rain will move away by the weekend, but we draw in slightly cooler air coming in from the atlantic around that area of low pressure. so, temperatures are going to drop away through this weekend, and essentially, we're left with a mixture of sunshine and scattered showers. now, on saturday, the bulk of the showers will be across western parts of scotland, wales, and western england. there will be a few showers around elsewhere, perhaps, but probably more in the way of sunshine. temperatures still in double figures on saturday — not quite as mild as friday, and the winds will still be strong, as well. it stays quite windy, actually, right the way through the weekend. there's more showers in the same sort of areas, perhaps some longer spells of rain in the northwest of scotland. again, more sheltered eastern areas missing the bulk of those showers with more in the way of sunshine.

but on sunday, it will be a little bit cooler than on saturday.

hello, i'm ros atkins, this is 0utside source. more areas of england have gone into tighter covid—19 restrictions. i know tier 3 measures are tough. but the best way to get out of them for everyone is to notjust follow the rules, but do everything they can to stop the spread of the virus. two thirds of the population will see pubs and restaurants closed in the areas they live in from saturday. the king of sweden has said the country has failed to protect its citizens from the