good evening, welcome. here's your latest sports news from the bbc sports centre. we'll start with that astonishing game at anfield where liverpool blew manchester united away. it finished 7—0 with six of the goals coming in the second half as united simply disintegrated. it's liverpool biggest win over their great rivals and for united, that equals their record defeat. joe lynskey reports. with these two great clubs, superiority is often shifting. 11 months ago, liverpool won this game 4—0, now united came here ten points clear of them in the league. at anfield, they know this match can

change the mood, it is the home side who need that most. injanuary, cody gakpo signed for liverpool when he might havejoined united. now that choice was the difference between the two sides. half—time, 1—0, and it would get better quickly. 90 seconds from the restart, darwin nunez made it two. what had been a tight match was now all liverpool's. gakpo lofted in his second, his team kept on rising. when it falls to mo salah in this match, it feels inevitable. he has now scored against united in five games in a row, this time as part of a collection. another header, another goal. salah was then back to make it six, and there was still time. in all the games between them, there has not been one quite like this. an extraordinary day, summed up by a scoreline.

so, a record—breaking day for liverpool who are now three points off the top four, and a dark day for manchester united. contrasting emotions from the managers as you'd imagine. it sounds like a day from another season, it doesn't really fit in the season so far. it is even better, because it is incredibly important for us, we need results and performances, and tonight we got both. a super performance from the start. but we know the result is a freak, but the performance was outstanding, and that is what i'll take. it was not us, it was not our standards. we didn't play as a team. the players on the pitch were not talking, and when you look at this, it's unprofessional. we have to take this. it's a strong message that we have gotten, and what happened exactly, we take lessons from.

everton remain inside the premier league's bottom three after a 2—2 draw at nottingham forest. brennanjohnson scored both goals for the home side, as forest twice came from behind to get a point, they remain four points clear of everton. celtic have restored their nine point lead at the top of the scottish premiership beating ten—man st mirren 5—1. the hoops actually trailed 1—0 at the break, but made their extra man count in the second half. liel abada put them 3—1 up. matt o'riley then added a fourth, before a late penalty made it a very comfortable afternoon in paisley. a record crowd saw arsenal beat chelsea to win the women's league cup. it finished 3—1 at selhurst park, and the second successive season that chelsea have lost the final. it's the first time arsenal have lifted a trophy in four years. with chelsea playing in the league cup final, manchester united took the opportunity to stretch their lead at the top of the women's super league,

beating leicester city 5—1. alessia russo was the star of the show at leigh sports village as she scored a hat—trick and her side are now four points clear of the blues who they face next weekend. manchester city are actually up to second in the table. khadija shaw scored a hat—trick in their 3—1 win over tottenham. there were also wins for aston villa and reading. there was more british success on the final day of the european indoor athletics championships in istanbul. keely hodgkinson successfully defended her 800m title. the olympic and world silver medallist has been in great form this season and finished almost two seconds clear of slovenia's anita horvat. she dedictaed the win to one of her former coaches, joseph galvin, who died earlier this week. my my coach pastor wei a few days ago.

this is really unexpected. —— my coach past a few days ago. i know he will be there watching, up there watching, and his wife margaret will be so proud of me as well. and great britain finished third in the medal table after the team captain jazmin sawyers took gold in the long jump. her mark of seven metres is a world leading distance this year, and she could hardly believe what she'd done herself. that is her first major title. formula one is back, and the first race of the season finished just like the last, with the world champion max verstappen on top of the podium. it was a red bull 1—2 in bahrain but in the fight for third, there was joy for fernando alonso and aston martin. here's our sports correspondent nesta macgregor. after spending the winter tuning up their cars, it was the heat of bahrain that provided the first real test of the season. it is bahrain that provided the first real test of the season.— test of the season. it is lights out and away we _ test of the season. it is lights out

and away we 90- _ test of the season. it is lights out and away we go. a _ test of the season. it is lights out and away we go. a new— test of the season. it is lights out and away we go. a new campaignj test of the season. it is lights out - and away we go. a new campaign but a familiar look- — and away we go. a new campaign but a familiar look. max _ and away we go. a new campaign but a familiar look. max verstappen - and away we go. a new campaign but a familiar look. max verstappen on - familiar look. max verstappen on pole and in control. lewis hamilton started seventh, a place behind george russell. meanwhile, in his first race for aston martin, 41—year—old fernando alonso as aggressive as ever with his way up the grid. with max verstappen up front, the real race was who would be up with him on the podium. charles ok's race was over, his move as flat as the car's battery. alonso benefited, finishing third, his first podium in two years. sergio perez and max verstappen may get a red bull 12. a first victory for the dutchman who appears to be firing on all cylinders. sale sharks have cut saracens lead at the top of the rugby union premiership to six points. they came back from 19—0 down to beat sarries 35—24 at the a] bell stadium.

fullbackjoe carpenter scored two of their five tries to secure a bonus point. saracens finished the game with 14 men after robin hislop was sent off for a high chalenge. that's all the sport for now. this is bbc news. we'll have all the main stories at the top of the hour straight after this programme. guide dogs — for thousands of blind and visually impaired people, they're the difference between independence and isolation. she's my best friend, my constant companion, my means of independence. i couldn't imagine my life without rio.

since 1931, around 36,000 guide dogs have been matched with visually impaired people. but during the pandemic, the breeding programme shut down overnight. the charity lost a third of its puppy—raising volunteers, and the guide dog service was paused... people like us are needed, so much, to help people like you. ..leaving more than 1,000 people waiting to be matched. it is really, really difficult not having the dog. practically every step you're thinking, "this is impossible. i don't know how i'm doing with this." but with around 1,100 puppies now in early training, is recovery around the corner? we are hopeful for the future, but we do need a little bit of patience for a little bit longer, as these dogs make their way through the system. we visit puppies at the national breeding centre and ask what needs to be done to fix britain's guide dog shortage.

archie! good boy. let's go! meet new arrival archie... good boy! are you my little star? ..and his puppy raiser, lisa. hers is one of more than 2,000 households giving their time for free to help raise guide dog puppies for around a year. it's opened up a whole new world. i've met lots of new friends, i'm part of... i feel part of a community that i wasn't before. not only that, obviously you're doing something very good, at the end of the day. it sounds exciting, but it's a big commitment. puppies like archie live at home and often need attention around the clock. as much as it's your instant reaction, "puppy, puppy, puppy," you know, "let's go for it. a cute little puppy," you've got to remember that it's a lot of work. it's... being a puppy raiser is hard work,

especially at the beginning. volunteers take their puppies with them to everyday places, from restaurants to supermarkets and on buses and trains, to help get them ready for their future working lives. at the end of the day, ijust remember i'm doing this to enable somebody who's not as fortunate as me, that can't see, to actually get some independence. archie, touch! volunteers like lisa are supported by the charity guide dogs, which works across the uk. lovely. just keep doing exactly what you're doing, rewarding on the left there so he always knows where to come. that's absolutely fantastic. good boy. today, puppy development adviser beth has come to see how lisa and archie are getting on. so the reason that we use hand touch is so when archie is placed with a visually impaired person, obviously they can't see when he's running back, when he's coming, so they can pop out this hand as a target. these routine visits are as much about supporting lisa as they are for training archie, but these are the building

blocks he'll need if he's to earn a working harness. good boy! perfect. good boy! learning through play is encouraged... ..but there are some things archie will need to quit before he finishes his training. you're going to have to learn what this is for. but he's just got such a wonderful nature. he's a heart of gold, and hejust loves people. really loves people. happy times, but every puppy raising volunteer knows that if all goes to plan, the day will come when they have to give them back to guide dogs. later, we'll follow lisa and herfirst pup, fergall, as she hands him in for the next phase of his training. what are the emotions that are going through your head today? if i'm honest, i'd say proud. i think that's my biggest one. so proud of what i've done. really proud of him. voice breaks.

lisa hopes that both of her dogs will go on to give someone their independence. just proud. forward, rio. forward! go on, then. i couldn't imagine my life without rio. she's so important. she's my best friend, my constant companion, my means of independence, of getting about wherever i want to go, whenever i want to go, and living the life i want to lead. go forward. good girl. ella caulfield is a first—time guide dog user. she was matched with rio in 2018. good girl. well done. she's very open aboutjust how much she benefits from having a guide dog in her life. she gives me that independence that i do kind of need, and i crave, that i need to live the life i want...| want to lead. she's good for a cuddle at the end of an evening if i've had a bad day, and she's an excellent guide. she's very rarely led me astray. it's not a one—way street, though.

ella looks after rio's needs and wants. today, she's grooming and cleaning her coat. it's one of the responsibilities ella has as a guide dog user to make sure that rio is loved, happy and well cared for. if they didn't have each other, ella says she'd never have been able to study maths at oxford university. ella started to lose her sight at four years old. when she was 15, she received some devastating news. i think because it happened gradually, it wasn't, like, an immediate shock of "you're not going to see again". i was told i had a retinal detachment, and i definitely broke down then. i was with my dad. i can remember him hugging me and the nurses kind of bringing me a cup of water, just kind of comforting me. and then i got booked in for surgery the next day. doctors operated to see if they could save any sight they could, but those attempts failed. nothing came of it. so i've been left withjust minimal

light perception in my right eye. but it's...it's not useful. i can only see light if i, like, look directly into the sun or into a light bulb. for ella, a new reality. she learnt new life skills and how to read braille. she applied for a guide dog in may 2017, and then around a year later an exciting call came. it was actually my mum picked up the call, so... i hadn't got home from school yet. my mum picked up the call. it was someone from guide dogs saying, "we've got a match for ella." i think ijust got very giggly and very kind of... yeah, very excited. like, "yes, this is happening." ella and rio spent around five weeks training with guide dog mobility specialists. can you tell me what it felt like the first time you were guided by rio? i felt lighter. i felt like i was definitely kind of more smiley, more confident. icould... i could move freely and independently without relying on somebody else being there. like many guide dog users, ella would never want to be

without a four—legged friend again. just feeling so much more confident and independent and happy that, like, i had this friend with me who was going to be there permanently with me. rio provides such a kind of welfare support to me. ella and rio are one of 3,695 partnerships currently working in the uk. that's down from around 5,000 before the pandemic. more than one in five people who had a guide dog before then now do not. i honestly think they are doing their absolute best. like me, kelly nasir is waiting to be matched with a new guide dog. we are among more than 1,100 people on the ready—to—train list. kelly's last dog, river, retired eight months ago. her mobility has been seriously impacted. walking with a cane is like walking with one hand tied behind your back. it makes everything harder. not having the dog, that's

what makes you feel disabled. because when you have the dog, you just... you get on with things. kelly keeps a busy social and work diary. she's a barrister, but also a mum. not having a dog doesn't only affect her, but her very young daughter. i'm the one who can't take her out when i want to, i have to say, "well, let's wait for daddy," or, "let's wait till we go see nanna and grandad." and i can do everything else she needs and i'm her mummy, and i love her and i'm the one that's there when she has her nightmares, and i play with her and it doesn't impact on our relationship, but i think it impacts on how i feel about thejob i'm doing as... ..as a mum. watch the tree. so why do guide dog users like me and kelly find ourselves between dogs? puppy: puppy! the answer lies here at the charity's national breeding centre in warwickshire. bill's been explaining to me that the waiting lists are currently a bit longer than guide dogs

would like them to be for life—changing guide dogs. purely for research purposes, you understand, i might have to stroke puppies like bill and many, many other puppies. is this the bestjob in the world or what? this is where a guide dog puppy'sjourney begins_ before the pandemic, as many as 1,500 dogs were bred here in a year. in 2020, the breeding programme shut down overnight when social distancing was introduced. it was the first time in the charity's 92—year history that the guide dog service was suspended. archive: guide dogs show their paces along one - of the centre's obstacle courses. although training techniques have changed over the years, the aim to match visually impaired people with guide dogs has not. archive: and thousands of blind | people who have benefited from it will agree with her. nowadays, the charity trains more

assistance dogs than anyone else around the globe. puppy! little ones like paige spend the first weeks of their life here. for them, they're just having fun... she's currently nibbling the camera at the moment. ..but staff are watching closely to see how suited they are to guide work. she's got the brains, for sure. she air kisses. puppy. paige! hi, pup! are you a good puppy? yes, you are! look how cute you are! look at those big eyes and floppy ears. you're such a good puppy! sniff it. 0k! becky and anna are paying close attention to see how paige reacts to human interaction. right... they laugh. they're looking to see how she deals with problem solving. yes, she's... she's... she knows. that's a good sign because a guide dog's ability to find their way

around a problem is, well, just part of the job. good girl. that's also interesting that she's... she's been to that one, smelled that one. she's like, "mm, it's not there." and she's actually worked out to go to the other one. so, in itself, that's interesting. during the pandemic, all training and breeding here stopped. guide dogs say they needed to protect their staff and volunteers. so that is our puppy reception. it is really unfortunate. our breeding programme is fantastic, it's world—class and it's always been able to produce the number of puppies that we've required to meet our service users' needs. and unfortunately, that pause in our breeding programme has really affected us. and there's been other combinations as well. bearing in mind that obviously our puppies, when they were out with our amazing puppy—raising volunteers, weren't able to experience the environments that they would experience with a guide dog owner as yourself. so unfortunately, it's been a combination of things that have meant that we haven't produced the number of guide dog partnerships that we really want to. breeding numbers are getting back to normal. in the past year, around 1,000 puppies have passed through here. we are in recovery mode

and we are hopeful for the future, but we do need a little bit of patience for a little bit longer as these dogs make their way through the system. as you said, these little puppies here that we saw today, it will take about two years for them to make partnership. around 1,100 puppies are currently in early training. guide dogs says what it needs now is volunteer fosterers who can look after dogs in advanced training, dropping them off and picking them up from the charity's offices on weekdays. our volunteers are our lifeblood. guide dogs could not do what we do without our volunteers, across the board, across all of our services. and unfortunately, after the pandemic, we did lose a lot of volunteers as people wanted to have a break, being the situation, we also kind of reduced the numbers that were reapplying. so we are at the moment looking very heavily to recruit lots of volunteers, and we've been very lucky that a lot of people have been so generous with their time. come on then, sam. let's go. head.

good boy! reporter: after more than eight years of working with sean, - guide dog sammy is set to retire, and sean may have to wait two years for his next dog. that was six months ago. when sammy leaves me, it will leave a huge hole in my heart. a few hours later, sammy left me to retire with family. much of my confidence and mobility left me too that day. sammy is more important to me, and you always will be, sammy. i know you'll always be my boy. a month later and it's clear i was still in trauma. you are actually quite moved today, aren't you? you know, we... sharing my story is by far the hardest thing i've ever done in my career. the impact, though, has been huge. i would like to say to bbc breakfast viewers, thank you so much to everyone who's already applied to volunteer at guide dogs. since coverage, we've seen a peak in applications. so injanuary alone, we received almost 3,000 volunteer applications.

2,500 of those were to raise puppies, compared with 2,000 for the whole of 2019, the last pre—pandemic year. for lisa's first pup, fergall, it's the end of one journey, but the start of another. all this, i'm packing the three trays up from home. his biscuits that i always give him, half a biscuit at bedtimes. they've been together forjust over a year. this, i've had it made and had his name put on it, and his id number. she's packing up things that she hopes will remind him of their time together. and his christmas present. i can't tell you what it is — he'll hear! sean laughs. the day has come for fergall to start his advanced training. that means lisa must say a painful goodbye. hello! hi!

i want him upset as little as possible. they're his toys, he's got his biscuits that he has half a one at night. i mean, if she's generous, she might like to give him one at first, because he deserves it. any time he's not with shelly, working and learning, learning what he's got to do, he'll be in there having a good rest. and then we've got some fab free—running sandpits out the back as well, so we'll show you them, where he can have his downtime and have some good sniffs. yeah. nice doggy hotel and playground, fergall. this may be a sad time for lisa, but for fergall, a new adventure awaits. here you go, you get big boy lead now. bye—bye, sweetheart. many guide dog users stay in touch with their puppy raisers, but many do not. tearfully: thanks for that. you're welcome. i'll ring you tomorrow. lisa knows this could be the last time she sees fergall. crying: i am fine. woman: you've set me off, anyway.

the one question that i get asked all the time or people say to me, all my friends, family, people i meet in the street, "i'd love to do what you're doing, but i couldn't do it, "because i couldn't give the dog back." he's ultra cute. he's a good boy. if i can do it, anybody can do it. as a guide dog user of more than 23 years, i know the theory of what volunteers like lisa go through, but being there for the moment of handover was as beautiful as it was poignant. it's hard, but you've got to remember why you're doing it. you know, people have to help people. there's not enough of it in this world. we're needed, people like us are needed so much to help people like you. the tears are worth it.

hello. we may well have turned the page on the calendar into meteorological spring, but the weather feeling quite wintry over the next few days. we've got a cold blast of northerly air on the way this week. some snow and ice through the early part of the week for parts of northern and eastern scotland and northeast england. through the second half of this week, a bit of a change, a chance for a time of more widespread rain, sleet and snow. lower confidence on the details later in the week as milder air tries to work in. but here's our weather front which is pushing its way gradually south during the course of monday, introducing that colder air, so some snow showers from the word go across parts of northern and eastern scotland, little bit of rain early on for parts of northern england and northern ireland, some wintriness over the highest ground. to the south of that, it's a mix of some breaks in the cloud but also some drizzly showers. still reasonably mild, around about 7—10 in the south

but further north, temperatures at their highest around 2—6, but certainly feeling colder when you add on that brisk northerly breeze across parts of scotland and northeast england. moving through monday evening and overnight, again snow and ice developing for northern and eastern scotland, northeast england as well. further south, a band of cloud and outbreaks of rain pushing south across england and wales, so i think stilljust about frost—free in the far south under that cloud to start tuesday, but further north, cold start to the day, clear skies, bit more sunshine developing for most of us on tuesday but again this feed of cold northerly air bringing in more of those snow showers. so there could be about 5—10cm of snow by the time it gets to tuesday across parts of northern and eastern scotland, northeast england seeing some of those wintry flurries. cloud gradually clearing from the south and then we're all in the clearer, colder air, so typically around about 11—5 celsius at best for most of us tuesday afternoon but again we have got that blast of northerly wind so when you add on the wind chill it'll feel sub—zero for many of us. aberdeen feeling around about “i!

with those snow showers. by the end of tuesday we could see up to 20cm of snow over the highest ground in scotland but, typically, across this region, about 5—10cm of snow possible, certainly enough to cause some travel disruptions, some icy conditions as well. wednesday dawn it's going to be really cold, even in some of our towns and cities, —4—5, but across the central parts of scotland, the sheltered glens could get down to about —10. a very cold start to your wednesday, then. fewer wintry showers, i think, compared to monday and tuesday but then we've got more rain, potentially some sleet and snow starting to push in from the southwest, but ahead of that, most places largely dry, typically about 4— celsius. but let's move through the middle of the week, wednesday into thursday. as that frontal system tries to nudge in from the southwest it will try to introduce this milder air — you can see the yellow colours here — but it's bumping into the very cold air that's in place across much of the uk so the potential for a spell of fairly heavy sleet and snow during the course of thursday,

i think, for some central areas, probably turning back to rain in the south as that milder air pushes its way in but i should tell you at this stage there is significant uncertainty so take it with a pinch of salt as we head through into friday. looks like we've still got that mild air that's trying to move in from the south but it could well fall as snow for a time as it bumps into the colder air, particularly for parts of northern england, i think, for scotland, too. further south could well see some fairly heavy spells of rain and some brisk winds as well but it really will be that wintry mix of some rain, sleet and snow through the middle to the end of the week. you'll notice the temperatures on the rise in the south but staying cold and wintry further north. we'll keep you up—to—date over the next few days. bye— bye.

welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines. a fire at a rohingya refugee camp in bangladesh destroys shelters, leaving thousands of people homeless. at the national people's congress, china outlines its plans to see economic growth bounce back — along with a hefty increase in military spending. plans to stop anyone arriving in the uk on a small boat from claiming asylum are expected to be unveiled by the british government this week. and as we close in on the oscars, with a record number of nominees of asian heritage, i've been speaking to one of them about this special recognition. i was just hoping that the movie gets finished and that people watch it. so the fact that we have come

all the way this far has been so exciting.