leaders liverpoool could go 12 points clear by the end of the night, but they are losing 1—0 at newcastle at halftime. alexander isak with a screamer chelsea are at bottom side. southampton 3—1 disasi, nkunku, madueke. saints down to ten. arsenal versus manchester united is goalless. manchester city have not one in seven. they look tight, they are heading for a win 2—0 up at half time. kevin de bruyne has set up to silva and then scored himself in the just another couple of games, everton against wolves, significant 17th against 18. everton 2—0 up. everton versus branford that is goalless. after the after yesterday's defeat to leicester, julen lopetegui's immediate future as west ham

manager will be decided by the weekend. he's under huge pressure following that 3—1 defeat and it's reported his position will be high on the agenda at a board meeting to be held later this week. lopetegui signed a two—year deal succeeding david moyes in the summer and west ham have spent over 120 million pounds on nine new players, hoping to challenge for a european place after missing out last season, but they currently lie 14th. there are three matches in the scottish premiership, the top two are facing each other at pittodrie, leaders celtic currently lead aberdeen by four points. they kicked off half an hour ago. you can see it is goalless at ranges in third leading at kilmarnock1—0. dundee v motherwell are drawing one all. south africa's women have beaten england by six wickets in the first of three one—dayers in kimberley england made a poor start to their innings after deciding to bat first, falling to 29 for three and then 106 for seven when captain heather

knight was out. charlie dean was unbeaten on a7, but england were bolwed out for 186 in the 39th over. south africa were always in control of their run chase, with opener and captain laura wolvardt unbeaten on 59 as they reached their target with 11 overs to spare. the next match is on sunday. the double olympic mountain bike champion tom pidcock is leaving his road racing team ineos grenadiers. he's had four years with the british outift and his contract was due to run until 2027, but he's left by mutual consent. his highlight at the team was winning a stage in the 2022 tour de france. the team say he's leaving to pursue multi—disciplinary goals. only once before in the sport's 1,500—year history has sumo taken its grand tournament outside ofjapan. that was in 1991 at london's royal albert hall. next year it'll happen again. with over 1000 years of

history, sumo showcases its strength, skill and concentration and discipline of the wrestlers, making get the national sport ofjapan. so i hope that many people will feel the unique charm of sumo. its blend of mental and physical power. blend of mental and physical ower. ,, ., blend of mental and physical lower. ,, ., ., blend of mental and physical ower. ,, ., . ., blend of mental and physical ower. ,, ., ., ., ., power. sumo at the royal royal albert hall, _ power. sumo at the royal royal albert hall, what _ power. sumo at the royal royal albert hall, what else _ power. sumo at the royal royal albert hall, what else next? - power. sumo at the royal royal albert hall, what else next? i l albert hall, what else next? i must get tickets for that, thank you for that. the head of us insurance company united healthcare has been gunned down in new york city. chief executive brian thompson was fatally shot in the chestjust before 07:00 est on wednesday outside the hilton hotel in midtown manhattan, where he had been scheduled to speak at an investor conference later in the day. the 50—year—old was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead, officials said. a suspect fled the scene and remains at large,

the new york police department said... in midtown manhattan earlier this morning 50—year—old brian thompson the ceo of united healthcare was shot and killed in what appears at this early stage of our investigation to be a brazen, targeted attack. this does not appear to be a random act of violence. the victim was in new york city to speak at an investor conference and it appears the suspect was lying in wait for several minutes and as the victim was walking to the conference hotel, the suspect approached from behind and fired several rounds, striking the victim at least once in the back and at least once in the right calf. many people past the suspect but he appeared to wait for his intended target. the suspect fled first on foot and then on an e—bike and was last seen in central park on center drive early this morning.

0n on an 0nane on an e bike let's look at what that manhunt looks like it let's me to the former us secret service agent barry, thank you forjoining us. in one sense, this government had quite a bit of intelligence about the c0's movements, brian thompson's movements but on the other hand it does not seem to have planned is getaway very well. ., ~ have planned is getaway very well. . ~ , ., ., have planned is getaway very well. . ~ ., ., well. thank you for having me on the and — well. thank you for having me on the and my _ well. thank you for having me on the and my condolences i well. thank you for having me on the and my condolences to j on the and my condolences to the victim's family. to me, this does look like an assassination. and he did have assassination. and he did have a planned way out, he waited for the victim to appear where he thought he would appear and he thought he would appear and he used a spot to go through an alley that goes to a building and then went on an e bike to go to central park. i think this was planned because central park simply has less video cameras and that back that he is wearing on his back probably contains another

weapon along with clothing that he can change out of in central park may be in the woods where no one can see him on video and then come out at another place where he may have already preconditioned, pre—look where to find where he can leave without being on video so i believe he did plan the escape, very well planned out and we may see them on surveillance video may be earlier in the day planning this assassination or even a day before and i'm sure nypd is looking at all of that right now. nypd is looking at all of that right "ow-— right now. they say they are doinu right now. they say they are doing something _ right now. they say they are doing something called - right now. they say they are doing something called a . right now. they say they are i doing something called a video canvas, what is that? fix, doing something called a video canvas, what is that?— canvas, what is that? a video camera -- — canvas, what is that? a video camera -- canvas, _ canvas, what is that? a video camera -- canvas, they- canvas, what is that? a video camera -- canvas, they will. camera —— canvas, they will look at every single video that has this man escaping and that some some of it will be new york city even traffic light cameras, anything the city government will have, telephone polls, light polls along with commercial cameras, there are

banks they will see him are and it will take some time to figure him out since he fled into central park which is many city blocks to the north and south that he could've come out on and he could sleep and be hunkered down in the park. i'm sure there's a massive manhunt in the park itself the city park rangers doing a canvas inside of there, looking for him, a massive search. but they are looking at every video possible that they can pick up yet another trace of where he may have gone from central park. ., ., ~ may have gone from central park. . ., ~ ., park. can we talk about the wea on park. can we talk about the weapon and _ park. can we talk about the weapon and what _ park. can we talk about the weapon and what that - park. can we talk about the weapon and what that tells | park. can we talk about the - weapon and what that tells you as an expert? it appears to have malfunctioned, but that he got it to work and shot the victim more than once in the back. is there something from the shell casings, the silencer that was on the weapon that tells you something about him? yes. it tells me probably he may have even made that silencer himself. he knew that

government —— gun would only shoot one set a time but that is a semi automatic garden it should shoot every time you pull the trigger so it looks like he practised doing this and i don't think he is a trained assassin or a former police officer orformer trained assassin or a former police officer or former member of the military were any kind of the military were any kind of a trained assassin, i think he did his homework and knows how to use a gun, but he basically picked a gun that misfires every time he pulled the trigger and he knew that and cycles the weapon after every shot i even watch the video a couple of times i noticed that the gun did not fire even after cycling it, so he seemed to practice it and have a bad set up on a gun that really does not work with the silencer attached to it. but he seems to be very determined in his message and getting that done. i don't think anyone else knew what happened other than the one witness that you see in the one witness that you see in the video on the right because he effectively silenced the

weapon so even the people that are sitting in the cars next to where he was shooting may have not even heard or known what was going on. to not even heard or known what was going om— not even heard or known what was going on-_ was going on. to go to those lenuths was going on. to go to those lengths clearly _ was going on. to go to those lengths clearly it _ was going on. to go to those lengths clearly it is _ was going on. to go to those lengths clearly it is someone j lengths clearly it is someone with a grievance presumably as an investigator you would be looking back at any e—mails that had been sent or anybody that had been sent or anybody that had been sent or anybody that had previously issued threats towards brian thompson. absolutely. there will be warrants issued for everything, cell phone, i've even heard reports that they found a cell phone from the assailant himself. 0bviously phone from the assailant himself. obviously there will be a search warrant to rip all of the data off of that in all of the data off of that in all of the data off of the victim. i know the nypd is looking to serve a search warrant for entering mr thompson's room at his hotel so there will be more to come. i'm pretty confident at this pointjust based on what i'm hearing and when i have seen already the nypd probably already knows who this person is and it is a matter of

tracing it all together to have enough to make an arrest. this person could still be on the run and they don't know where he is, but i think they probably have a good idea of who this person is by now. extraordinary events in manhattan today. thank you very much for being with us. the security brief is coming up. we will do that shortly after the break. around the world and across the uk, you are watching bbc news.

welcome back. it is time for the security brief. welcome to the programme. since we last met, the rebels in north—west syria have launched a surprisingly successful attack, exploiting in part the strain that israel has put on hezbollah and the alliance that has helped bashar al—assad stay in power, though a decade of civil war. in a matter of days, the rebels have seized most of aleppo in the north west, and are now challenging

president assad's grip on hama, further to the south. news the last few minutes tells of an imposition on three sides of an imposition on three sides of that city. it is a major problem for both moscow and tehran. russia operates two major military bases in the country which give it access to the mediterranean. for iran, syria is part of the land bridge that connects baghdad, damascus, beirut. vital to supplying hezbollah. hezbollah vital to president assad. with us as always to give us the insight, mikey kay, for 20 years a pilot on attack helicopters. he is a military analyst. and he runs this brief as he would for the military. welcome. good evening. before we touch on _ welcome. good evening. before we touch on aleppo _ welcome. good evening. before we touch on aleppo i _ welcome. good evening. before we touch on aleppo i want - welcome. good evening. before we touch on aleppo i want to - we touch on aleppo i want to start with ukraine which is not mutually exclusive to what we will talk about in syria because there are connections here. the whole focus right now is on giving ukraine the best

possible chance to negotiate a way out and earlier this week we got news from the united states that they are sending another security package. what you see in a? 325 another security package. what you see in a?— you see in a? 725 million approved _ you see in a? 725 million approved pretty - you see in a? 725 million approved pretty swiftly l you see in a? 725 million | approved pretty swiftly by biden and it contains some interesting capability. things we have already heard about some the approval of landmines a part of the package with high —— hi mar rockets not the launcher but the rockets that go inside that gives the lengths keep the ability of an 80 km deep strike but the one i've had a lot of experience is the f i am 92 stinger which is a man pad slide. you can see this came out emerging from ukraine this makes a relatively new that is the stinger the soldier is holding it is a man pad shoulder launched so they are hard to target and it's got an ir secure on it and the

thing about this particular surface to air missile is it has a incredibly sophisticated flare ability meaning a helicopter orjet when flare ability meaning a helicopter or jet when flying in a war zone you have flares that pop out giving a heat source and that is supposed to decoy the seeker had. this stinger has a flair rejection capability so it will ignore it which in creases it's probable kill factor. which in creases it's probable kill factor-— which in creases it's probable killfactor. ~ ., , kill factor. was a problem with ou kill factor. was a problem with you flying _ kill factor. was a problem with you flying- _ kill factor. was a problem with you flying- i— kill factor. was a problem with you flying. i never— kill factor. was a problem with you flying. i never flew - kill factor. was a problem with you flying. i never flew with i you flying. i never flew with these weapons _ you flying. i never flew with these weapons and - you flying. i never flew with these weapons and place i you flying. i never flew with l these weapons and place but this particular system should bring back bad memories for putin. we talk about game changing capability and this was a game changer when the soviets invaded afghanistan. this is that, a still but that is a mujahedin soldier holding the stinger missile and disses

them learning how to fire the missile. this was provided to them by the cia and became absolutely pivotal in targeting high—end helicopters, all of our students or soviet