has urged delegations to step up their engagement to try to achieve a deal. this comes after negotiators from small island states and developing countries walked out of overtime talks saying their interests were being ignored. 30 flood warnings have been issued and more than one hundred flood alerts are in place across the uk, as storm bert brings high winds, rain and snow. 60,000 homes in the republic of ireland were without power after the storm struck overnight. lebanese media say israeli warplanes have struck an eight—storey residential building in central beirut with several missiles. the country's health ministry says at least 15 people have been killed and more than 60 injured. now on bbc news, it's sportsday.

hello and welcome to sportsday, i'm gavin ramjaun. maresca's happy return. his chelsea side win at leicester to stay in the top three. long—time rivals teaming up. andy murray is back in tennis as coach to novak djokovic. we'll have more on how it came together. wales are well behind the visiting springboks, after conceding four first—half tries to one in cardiff. also coming up on sportsday: george russell pulls off a surprise to claim pole for the las vegas grand prix, where the formula 1 title can be won this weekend. and a big shock in york where the defending champion is out of snooker�*s uk championship.

hello and welcome to the programme. plenty to get through, including that interesting development with andy murray and novak djokovic, but straight to the late kick off in the premier league, wherejust two days on from signing his new contact as head coach, manchester city manager pep guardiola has work to do. his side are playing tottenham. but it is not going to plan at the etihad. despite early dominance, it was tottenham who took the lead through james maddison. and the midfielder, celebrating his birthday today, got his, and tottenham's second shortly after, 2—0 at half time, and city on course to lose a fifth match in a row. chelsea kicked things off in the early kick off, and they beat manager enzo maresca's former side leicester city. the blues very much contenders in the top three and continuing their impressive form, with nicolas jackson again on the scoresheet. michael redford reports. two tea ms two teams in transition and seemingly on different

trajectories. maresca has transformed chelsea since leaving leicester after getting them promoted. the task for the man who replaced him, simply keep them there. to do that, steve cooper's side will need to pick up points at home and not give away easy goals. they had four chances to clear the ball, nicholas jackson only needed one to punish it. his team—mates though less clinical. a number of chances missed, and leicester nearly made them pay. this effort so close. despite their dominance, chelsea needed a second. palmer thought he got it and his team helped —— team—mate made sure helped —— team—mate made sure he didn't. they eventually found a way through, did brilliantly to deny jackson and could do nothing about fernando is following up. and that should have been that, but leicester refused to lie down. instead, taken down, or maybe not. this challenge deemed illegal, no penalty. leicester would get their chance to score

from the spot deep into injury time, keeping their cool, leicester lost the match, though. time ran out, their struggles go on, chelsea continue to rise. so chelsea, then, flying high in third. that win putting them just a point behind manchester city earlier, but there is a strong chasing pack behind them. the boss feels they did enough to get the job done. yeah, good performance. 0verall yeah, good performance. overall i yeah, good performance. 0verall ithink yeah, good performance. overall i think we deserved to win the game. it is a good game to learn many things that i think for the first half an hour we were in complete control of the game. then we start to make some mistake and we lost a little bit of control and then a second half, again, we were there, because we created chances, we scored, and as i said we deserved to win the game. i said we deserved to win the name. . ., , , game. i want more, the players want more. _ game. i want more, the players want more, and _ game. i want more, the players want more, and i _ game. i want more, the players want more, and i believe - game. i want more, the players want more, and i believe we . game. i want more, the players| want more, and i believe we can do better, — want more, and i believe we can do better, so that is going to come — do better, so that is going to come the _ do better, so that is going to come the performance to get the results. — come the performance to get the results, and it is about committing to the way we're playing. _ committing to the way we're playing, which some bits at

times— playing, which some bits at times were really good and at other— times were really good and at other times were inconsistent and some _ other times were inconsistent and some areas where we just have _ and some areas where we just have to — and some areas where we just have to get better at. but that is the — have to get better at. but that is the reality of the challenge of the — is the reality of the challenge of the season. arsenal are back with a win, they beat nottingham forest 3—0 at the emirates, theirfirst victory in the league since early october. a superb strike from bukayo saka early on set the tone. arsenal in control after that, substitute thomas partey�*s long range second half goal putting the game beyond forest, who came into the match level on points with mikel arteta's side. 17—year—old ethan nwaneri completed the day to give arsenal their first win in five league games. i think the first 25 to 30 minutes it was unbelievable fluidity within the team, i sense the last 48 hours after coming from international break, they were at it and really pleased as well. the impact is a topic that is so important in this league. everyone has to feel important, everyone has to play the team and the ones that came on, they did it.

brighton survived a late fightback at bournemouth to also keep pace at the top. they won 2—1. goals coming from joao pedro and karou mitoma, before david brooks pulled one back in stoppage time for the home side. the win moves brighton up to fifth, joining chelsea and arsenal on 22 points after 12 games. a real roller—coaster of a match at villa park — as aston villa fought back to rescue a point against crystal palace. palace went ahead through ismaila sarr. 0llie watkins levelled for villa who then missed a penalty, before the visitors went ahead in first half stoppage time. but ross barkley earned villa a share of the points to end their four match losing run in all competitions. so, confirmation of those results, including a superb 4—1 win for wolves away at fulham, a victory which takes them out of the relegation zone. mattheus cunha with two of their goals. and not much to report between everton and brentford who drew 0—0. sean dyche's everton have lostjust once in eight top—flight games.

sunderland have missed the chance to go two points clear at the top of the championship after a 1—1 draw at millwall. the game was suspended twice as medical staff attended two separate emergencies in the crowd. sheffield united stay second after they too dropped two points. it finished 2—2 draw at coventry city. despite taking the lead twice in the first half through tyrese campbell and jesurun rak—sakyi, a red card for anel ahmedhodzic for violent conductjust before half—time meant the blades played the second half with ten men. an equaliser from coventry�*s bobby thomas in the 80th minute held united to a draw. burnley got their promotion hopes back on track by beating bristol city 1—0 thanks to jaidon anthony. the defeat at ashton gate is a blow to city's own hopes of breaking into the play—off positions and its two months since they last won at home. elsewhere, luton�*s 1—0 win over hull takes them up to 16th, while middlesbrough climb to 5th after hammering oxford united 6—2. blackburn's game at home

to portsmouth was postponded due to a waterlogged pitch. storm bert has caused problems in scotland with all the matches scheduled to start at 3pm delayed in one way or another. kick off was delayed by dundee and hibernian due to misty conditions, but when the game did get under way, hibernian got off to the perfect start. they lead after two minutes but had a man sent off and dundee do not make the extra man count. , ., ., ., ., count. they are now leading to- one, if count. they are now leading to- one. if you _ count. they are now leading to- one. if you can _ count. they are now leading to- one, if you can see _ count. they are now leading to- one, if you can see it _ count. they are now leading to- one, if you can see it there, - one, if you can see it there, that is! let's get a check on the rest of the results in the scottish premiership. second placed aberdeen�*s unbeaten league run comes to an end. they were beaten 2—1 by st mirren. rangers, in third, missed the chance to close the gap to them. they had to come from behind to draw with dundee united. elsewhere, ross county beat motherwell 2—i. stjohnstonejump above kilmarnock in the league, after beating them i—0. just one women's super league match this weekend,

that's chelsea against man united, the last of the unbeaten side. in the women's league cup today, tottenham beat aston villa 1—0 to move top of the group. it was midfielder eveliina summanen�*s thunder strike on the hour mark that sealed the win for spurs, netting the ball into the top corner from over 40 yards out. robert vilahamn�*s side have made it two wins from two, and take on crystal palace in the competition next. for so long, andy murray and novak djokovic were rivals on the court. djokovic more often than not getting the better. but today, the two have announced their teaming up, with murray becoming djokovic's coach through to the australian open next year. murray only announced his retirement from the sport in august, after a 19—year career. 0ur tennis correspondent russell fuller gave us his reaction. very surprising. he was always very likely to be a coach, and i think it was always likely to

work with top players, but what we did not foresee i think most of us was that andy murray and novak djokovic will be working together at next year's is open, just a few months into 0pen, just a few months into murray's retirement. they have both welcomed the news, djokovic posting on instagram, he never liked retirement anyway. showed a few of their famous moments together and a hug between the two of them when they were very, very young indeed. and they said, djokovic, i'm excited to have one of my greatest rivals on the same side of the net as my coach. looking forward to competing in australia alongside andy with whom i have shared many exceptional moments on the australian soil. exceptional for on the australian soil. exceptionalfor him, because they met in for a stroll in open finals and djokovic won 0pen finals and djokovic won them all. and murray says, i am going tojoin him in the off—season helping him to prepare for the australian open. i am excited for it and 0pen. i am excited for it and looking forward to spending time on the same side as

djokovic for a change. they go back a long — djokovic for a change. they go back a long way, _ djokovic for a change. they go back a long way, they - djokovic for a change. they go back a long way, they are - back a long way, they are friends of the court, how much will that be a factor in that relationship coming together as it is now? , ., relationship coming together as it is now? , . ., , it is now? they have a very stron: it is now? they have a very strong bond _ it is now? they have a very strong bond from - it is now? they have a very strong bond from junior- it is now? they have a very . strong bond from junior years. they are less than two weeks apart in age and they were friends, they then became rivals, i think it is hard to have a properfriendship rivals, i think it is hard to have a proper friendship when you are such rivals. it is rare in professional sport. but there has always been enormous respect for each other. they met 36 times, djokovic i25 respect for each other. they met 36 times, djokovic 125 of those meetings, but murray won very to important ones at the us open in 2012 when he won his first grand slam, and then even more famously in wimbledon in 2013. and i think this suits murray down to the ground. i thought maybe he would want a little bit more time to relax, having only retired at the olympics at the beginning of 0lympics at the beginning of august, but opportunities like this do not come along very often. because this could be very well know that djokovic's final a stroll in open, he has

not said that, but he turns 38 in may. not said that, but he turns 38 in ma . . , , , not said that, but he turns 38 inma. ,, ., in may. the closeness in age and the fact _ in may. the closeness in age and the fact that _ in may. the closeness in age and the fact that they - in may. the closeness in age and the fact that they are - and the fact that they are peers and know each other so well, it is rare that you see a coaching dynamic and a player dynamic so near to each other in age range and experience, isn't it? , ., ~ isn't it? yes, and i think probably _ isn't it? yes, and i think probably it _ isn't it? yes, and i think probably it is _ isn't it? yes, and i think probably it is underlying j isn't it? yes, and i think- probably it is underlying the fact that djokovic does not much coaching on the spot, he had a successful partnership with boris becker and recently... but since they split in march, djokovic has worked with people from his academy, by and large. and he felt there would be another appointment heading into 2025, and what andy murray can offer novak djokovic, not that he really needs to know anything about competing in grand slams, but he understands exactly what he is going through. and i am sure djokovic is very aware that murray is an astute judge, he has an incredible eye and

very analytic about players. not all tennis players are like that and i think djokovic has thought, do you know what? i would love to have some of that expertise in my camp, melbourne. it expertise in my camp, melbourne.— expertise in my camp, melbourne. , ., ., melbourne. it is great to see a hue melbourne. it is great to see a huge name — melbourne. it is great to see a huge name in _ melbourne. it is great to see a huge name in the _ melbourne. it is great to see a huge name in the sport - melbourne. it is great to see a huge name in the sport packetj huge name in the sport packet involved in a way like this. could it is great to see a huge name in the sport packet involved in a way like this. predictive djokovic the edge giving the talent that is coming through? i giving the talent that is coming through? giving the talent that is cominu throu~h? ~ coming through? i think it will rive him coming through? i think it will give him a _ coming through? i think it will give him a boost, _ coming through? i think it will give him a boost, no - coming through? i think it will| give him a boost, no question. i think it is hard for him to win more grand slams because he is 37 and a half and lasting over five sets and trying to win seven matches, particularly in that heat is tough. but if he is going to do it anyway, it will be at the australian open where he is a ten time champion or wimbledon where he does have an advantage over anybody else over the grass. absolutely it will give him a lift, and as you say, from a spectators, fans, point of view, everyone looks forward to the start of the new season. it is only about six weeks away, even though the davis cup final is still taking place in malaga, and this will mean we are

looking forward to it with even more relish and excitement. to rugby union's autumn internationals now — and ireland turned on the style to comprehensively get the better of fiji in dublin. after a defeat to the all blacks, and tense win over argentina — the side who world number ones not so long ago gained some much needed momentum ahead of their final match next weekend against australia. patrick gearey reports. this is what it means to play for your country. this is what it means to play foryour country. for gus for your country. for gus mccarthy and foryour country. for gus mccarthy and sam prendergast, these were emotional moments on theirfirst island these were emotional moments on their first island starts. mccarthy had to steady his hands. just four and a half minutes in, he was the thread that runs through the opening try. that runs through the opening t . ., , , , try. that is the irish side we have come _ try. that is the irish side we have come to _ try. that is the irish side we have come to know! - try. that is the irish side we - have come to know! prendergast could not channel— have come to know! prendergast could not channel the _ could not channel the adrenaline as easily. this challenge and him a yellow card, it might have been read. the half was all green. fiji

powerless to stop ireland scoring three times more, craig casey went flying, a more settled prendergast sent one gliding. to where matt hanson was waiting. ireland open their lead out to 30 points, but fiji played their part as well, they added two tries of their own while never threatening irish control. here at the middle of the mall with mccarthy, some start. and some performance from ireland. eight tries and a glimpse perhaps of the future. —— maul. meanwhile, wales' torrid run of results looks like it may continue against south africa. franco mostert opened the scoring for the springboks after only five mnutes, with further scores from eben have a 26—5 point lead, with the second half about to begin, the visitors having scored three tries in the first, opening their account after only five minutes through franco mostert. lando norris said he'll

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