a chip could solve a problem in five minutes rather than in millions and millions of years? google has unveiled it and we'll take a look at it. sport and for a full round—up, here's the bbc sport centre. hello from the bbc sport centre. west sport centre. ham are hosting wolves as we west ham are hosting wolves as we speak with both managers under real pressure. the west ham players have shown their support for antonio following his road traffic accident on saturday warming up in the number nine shorts and walked out in tops with the name of the striker on it. after 13 minutes it is goalless at the london stadium. in the last few minutes a shot on target but parried away by the west ham

keeper. there has also been a shot from west ham posting ac from sam johnstone. shot from west ham posting ac from samjohnstone. west ham are 14th in the table six points above the drop while gary o'neill's three points from safety. premier league official david coote has been sacked by referees�* body pgmol, following an investigation into his conduct. coote was suspended on the 11th of november pending a full investigation after a video allegedly showing him making derogatory comments about liverpool and the club's former managerjurgen klopp. a further investigation was opened two days later after the sun newspaper published photographs it says were taken during this summer's european championship, alleging that they appear to show coote sniffing a white powder through a rolled up us bank note. the pgmol said coote�*s actions made his position "untenable". two former premier league players have told the bbc of their health fears after years of heading footballs.

research has found professional footballers have an increased risk of suffering brain injuries. former england defender steve howey has undergone scans which show his brain is in cognitive decline, while his former england team—mate gary pallister says he experienced sickening migraines during his career. i would probably get three or four migraines a year and they were quite disability to visiting, speech, violent headaches and it would be like that for hours until individually i would throw up —— vision. throughout my career that bladed for me. it is enough to know what i go through with the migraines in being knocked down that the potential is there for me to have brain damage.

south africa top the test cricket world rankings after a comprehensive 109 run win over sri lanka. sri lanka's lower order collapsed on the final day of the second test — keshav maharaj ending with 5—76. so south africa take a 2—0 whitewash in the series and move ahead of australia in the world standings. mohammed saroj has received the backing of his former ipl team meetjosh hazlewood following his on—field spat with head, clashing in the comprehensive second test went against india and found guilty of breaching the code of conduct. baseball or hazelwood hoping to be fit for the third test believes the incident was not bad for the game. incident was not bad for the name. �* , . incident was not bad for the iame_ �* , ., ., , , game. he's great, i really my time and _ game. he's great, i really my time and he _ game. he's great, i really my time and he is _ game. he's great, i really my time and he is probably - game. he's great, i really my time and he is probably the i time and he is probably the leader of the attack there to a degree and a very passionate

one, goes with the flow of the game and gets the crowd up serious bells and ipl for sure so a good character and good to see sometimes. baseball starjuan soto is expected to sign — what is reportedly the biggest contract in the history of sport — a deal worth up to 800 million dollars with the new york mets. the contract is expected to last more than 15 years, and will surpass the previous record held by shohay ohtani. multiple sources in the united states have disclosed details of the deal, although the mets have yet to confirm it as he has to undergo a medical. more details on the sport website, that's it for now. the uk chancellor rachel reeves has urged european finance ministers to help her build what she called a "mature, business—like relationship" between the uk and the eu. speaking after a meeting in brussels, ms reeves said there was a "clear desire" to reset the relationship,

between the bloc and the uk. in many ways it was a milestone moment because it is the first time that a uk chancellor has addressed the euro group since we left the european union. and i was really pleased and overwhelmed, really, by the response that i had from finance ministers across the european union, who want to reset, rebuild the relationships between our countries and to have a more businesslike relationship between the european union and the uk, no longer based on division and antagonism, but acting in our own national interests to build better trade and cooperation between our countries, but also to cooperate in crucial areas like defence and security, as we have over the last few years on ukraine. our economics editor faisal islam is in brussels — and was at that press conference. he gave us his analysis.

there's lots of warm words about a closer relationship. the baseline for this is the fact that the newish government, the labour government in the uk, feels that the deal it inherited from the conservative government was too hard a brexit, too clean a break, and that the uk economy, which has suffered from sluggish growth over the past few years, could do with the boost of not having to deal with many of the trade barriers. the non—tariff barriers, as they're called. the extra red tape that leaving the single market and the customs union inevitably entailed. now they're not going to reverse those headline strategic moves by the conservative government. they don't want to rejoin the single market or the customs union, or do anything that would lead to freedom of movement coming again. that was clear in the labour manifesto last summer, but it strikes me that a lot is up for grabs within that if you accept those red lines.

indeed, i put very precisely to the chancellor that, "was everything else on the table?" because if everything else conceivably is on the table, then there could be some degree of ambition in the amount of these trade barriers that you could take down, particularly in the food and farm sector, where a veterinary agreement could span anywhere from being kind of relatively light, not making a great deal of difference, to taking most of the trade barriers that were created by the brexit deal away. if they're willing to keep up with eu rules and regulations. something totally unthinkable to the previous government. but is it thinkable to the current government? she didn't rule that out. other things that are emerging and were mentioned to me actually also talking ahead of this meeting from other finance ministers, the spanish finance minister, carlos quipo, for example, telling me that they would put on the table things like youth mobility. this was ruled out by labour in opposition, but some sort of exchange youth experience exchange or something like that may

be on the table again in order to help these sorts of conversations. let's speak to yale selfin, vice chair and chief economist at kpmg. thank you forjoining us. we will pick up on some of those details that was hinted at in there, but firstly, your broad response to the speech? that ou is response to the speech? that you is the _ response to the speech? that you is the most _ response to the speech? that you is the most important - you is the most important trading partner when you look at the volume of trade, it is also the closest —— the eu is the most intriguing partner. therefore it is important we have a good trading relationship with our block. 50 relationship with our block. so it is relationship with our block. 50 it is important, relationship with our block. so it is important, how do you go about doing it and how would you like to see deepening relationships, economically, without joining customs relationships, economically, withoutjoining customs unions without joining customs unions and withoutjoining customs unions and single markets? tiara

without joining customs unions and single markets? two things are important. _ and single markets? two things are important, one _ and single markets? two things are important, one is _ and single markets? two things are important, one is trying - and single markets? two things are important, one is trying to l are important, one is trying to get the red tape, so the barriers that we just heard about eased as much as possible, that does not really help businesses here in the uk. try to make it easier for them to trade with eu when you look at regulation and standards, all of that will help when they don't have to duplicate and trade much more freely in that sense. that's one thing. the other thing that helps a lot as just being a little bit closer when it comes to foreign direct investment, when it comes to exchanging ideas, when it comes to research and development, all of these things will help boost a longer—term productivity and growth sipping closest to that either to exchange or people or ideas or more broadly through more investment, will be helpful. [30

investment, will be helpful. do ou investment, will be helpful. do you think there will be enough room for manoeuvre here? will there be enough mechanisms to pull to get closer in rules in regulations and alignment and be able to reduce red tape withoutjoining the customs union and the single market because clearly, eu block will not once the uk to have its cake and eat it, not be able to leave but stuck at all of the benefits so is there enough room here?— benefits so is there enough room here? the thing we are startin: room here? the thing we are starting from _ room here? the thing we are starting from common - room here? the thing we are i starting from common ground. room here? the thing we are - starting from common ground. we had similar rules and i don't think those rules have changed massively so far and i think for most businesses who need to export or want to export to eu would not want to follow two sets of rules so i don't see that as a major stamping block for the uk. d0 that as a ma'or stamping block for the uk.— that as a ma'or stamping block for the the— for the uk. do you think 'ust rejoining fl for the uk. do you think 'ust rejoining the i for the uk. do you think 'ust

rejoining the single �* for the uk. do you thinkjust rejoining the single market i for the uk. do you thinkjust i rejoining the single market and the customs union should be back up on the table from an economic point of view? politically, it is not going to be on the table so it does not really matter what it is in terms of the economics, but what we can do is just facilitate the trade and exchange of ideas is much as possible as well as investment. how much do you think donald trump coming back in the white house, what calculations does that change for the eu and the uk? i that change for the eu and the uk? ,, . ., , ., uk? i think when it comes to defence. _ uk? i think when it comes to defence. it — uk? i think when it comes to defence, it is _ uk? i think when it comes to defence, it is quite _ uk? i think when it comes to defence, it is quite likely - defence, it is quite likely that the uk and eu will want to cooperate even further because the uk is very important in that sense we have power and strength there and i think that could help cement the relationship a little bit more. when it comes to trade, it feels that the us has its own agenda, i don't think they necessarily differentiate

between different countries. what we had so far apart from potentially china, and a few other countries when it comes to europe, there is no separation between the way the us may cs, but everything can change. us may cs, but everything can chante. ., ., us may cs, but everything can chante. ., ,, i. us may cs, but everything can chante. ., ~' ,, , us may cs, but everything can chante. ., ., , . ., change. thank you very much for comint onto the programme. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news.

google has unveiled a new chip which it claims takes five minutes to solve a problem that would currently take the world's fastest super computers ten septillion years years to complete. that's ten with 25 zeros after it. that's ten with 2a zeros after it. tech experts say the new quantum chip, dubbed "willow", is a largely experimental device, meaning its ability to solve a wide range of real—world problems is still years, and

billions of pounds, away. let's speak to lo dodds, senior reporter at the independent�*s san francisco bureau. thank you for coming onto the programme. we can't hear you, unfortunately, i don't know if there is a supercomputer around to fix this problem for us. there we go, we can hear you. some ai has fixed the problem for us. you have the unenviable job of trying to explain quantum computing to us. i don't envy you here, but in simplest terms, what is this chip that google has come up with? a, , chip that google has come up with? , with? basically, you probably know that — with? basically, you probably know that when _ with? basically, you probably know that when you - with? basically, you probably know that when you have - with? basically, you probably know that when you have an l know that when you have an ordinary computer everything depends on two potential states, one and zero. our computers use binary logic so thatis computers use binary logic so that is everything they single do is made out of different

combinations of these two states. think about quantum computing is that it utilises quantum mechanics and i am not a physicist so i cannot explain this very advanced, but essentially when things get very, very small or very very cold, physics get weird and you get strange effects like things can be in two places at once and can be and two states at once and it is not clear until you observe it whether it is one or the other. quantum computers are able to exploit this effect and therefore their components can be zero, can be one or can be zero and one at the same time. and this as it turns out can lead to a very much faster computer. extraordinarily it has leaps in times five minutes to do a problem and then ten, million, million, million, million years

by an existing supercomputer i assume there are some health warnings on that comparison and just give us a sense of where we are in the real world now? definitely worth adding just a little bit of salt to that comparison because effectively what they succeeded in was a sort of computer benchmark, problem—solving benchmark that is perfectly attuned to be really good for the current generation of quantum computers so this is the first playing field that you can imagine for this comparison. on how good the quantum computer could be. how well they could be and how much they could add to more also incredibly sensitive and thing! they go also incredibly sensitive and thing! they could add to general computing programmes, we don't yet know, but really much they could add to more general computing programmes, we don't yet know, but really the big significance of this the big significance of this breakthrough is actually the breakthrough is actually the degree to which google is able degree to which google is able to reduce the error rate. to reduce the error rate. because of the weird very low because of the weird very low level physics that these level physics that these computers exploit, they are computers exploit, they are

also incredibly sensitive and also incredibly sensitive and things can go things can go wrong really easily. one of the problems that can been previously attributed to our cosmic rays and that sounds troubling until you realise cosmic rays hit us at all times and the skin be throwing off from the normal background of the universe and google was able to get the error rate down significantly and crucially they were