over 13,000 migrants have been removed from the uk since labour took power — but the government admits the rate of illegal channel crossings is still too high. now on bbc news, it's sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday — i'm olly foster. derby despairfor pep guardiola, the city slump continues as they lose late on to manchester united. it went the distance at hampden park, celtic winning

the scottish league cup final on penalties against their old firm rivals. and beaten again in the european champions cup, the premiership leaders bath go down by a single point in italy. also coming up on sportsday... contrasting fortunes for england's cricketers. the men have won their series, but new zealand are on top in hamilton in the final test, but england's women have made a strong start to the one off test against south africa, with two centurions on the first day in bloemfontein. evening, we'll get to that thrilling old firm scottish league cup final at hampden in a moment, but we'll start with the big derby in the premier league. manchester city's slump continues, they were a few

minutes away from beating manchester united, but conceded twice, and lost 2—1, at the etihad as well. ruben amorim's first taste of a manchester derby couldn't be sweeter, but for guardiola, he's now overseen a wretched city run with just one win in their last 11. jane dougall reports. the last time these two met, it was ruben amorim who went out with his former club. for his first manchester derby he made some big calls, two players conspicuous by their absence. soon he had another player problem not by choice, the injury plagued mason mount visibly upset as he went off. going into this with one win in tenn, manchester city have their own problems. but when kevin to brenna starts, things tend to go well. his corner leading to. they could not get

shots on target.— shots on target. bruno fernandes! _ bruno fernandes! sometimes you have to be savvy to win derby �*s, just waited and won a battle to you. cool in front of— and won a battle to you. cool in front of goal— and won a battle to you. cool in front of goal and _ and won a battle to you. cool in front of goal and it was - and won a battle to you. cool in front of goal and it was one all. united weren't finished and in a final moment, a final touch and the game was turned on its head. validation for ruben amorim's choices, but pep guardiola is left to re—evaluate. jane dougall, bbc news. let's get some reaction now from the two managers, starting with united's ruben amorim, who made that decision to drop marcus rashford and alejandro garnacho from the squad — a really big call, but getting the win is the most important thing for him. we were in the game for 90

minutes and that is very good, and ifeel that minutes and that is very good, and i feel that they believe it. we talked about the arsenal game, we were playing well in the first half but i felt that was, they were not believing that we could win, today was so much different and you feel it in the game. we believe it, we managed to score and i think we deserve the win. important to us for ourfans, the deserve the win. important to us for our fans, the context that we live in, the loss that we have against nottingham with the storm, with all the fans, so it was a good day for us. many things that were happening, we didn't play with composure and poise, the results _ composure and poise, the results were good, the reality the game was not exceptional for our— the game was not exceptional for our side. i know the situation _ for our side. i know the situation and understand for many— situation and understand for many reasons, but the reality is we — many reasons, but the reality is we don't have winning games, i'm is we don't have winning games, i'm not— is we don't have winning games, i'm not good enough, i'm the boss, — i'm not good enough, i'm the boss, the— i'm not good enough, i'm the boss, the manager, i had to find — boss, the manager, i had to find a — boss, the manager, i had to find a solution and i didn't

find — find a solution and i didn't find it _ find a solution and i didn't find it. so yeah, that is our reality _ one other result so far in the premier league — crystal palace have pulled themselves further away from the relegation zone after a morale—boosting 3—1 win at rivals brighton. it's a curious rivalry that was sparked by a cup tie between the two in the mid �*70s. trevor chalobah put them ahead, stabbing home from close range in the first half, and ismaila sarr made it two by the break with a header at the far post, and sarr did well to steal possession and beat the keeper, brighton scored late on but palace deserved the win to move up to 15th, four points clear of relegation now. brighton have dropped to tenth on goal difference. 0ur fans are always supporting us, especially with a very difficult start and many losses, not many points and they are always supporting us, they are always behind us.

and i said to the players before the game, today is an opportunity to give them a little bit back and maybe a christmas gift. and so we are, everything worked like we planned but you can't plan everything. if the players wouldn't have performed like they did today, it wouldn't have been possible so congrats and thanks to the players. there are two matches under way in the premier league — bottom side southampton are really struggling at home to tottenham, conceding three inside the first 15 minutes. spurs are on a poor run of form themselves but they looked confident enough, james maddison latching onto a pass from djed spence inside the first minute. captain son heung—min made it two in the 12 minute with saints stretched again at the back, and dejan kulusevski had.

saar has also scored approaching half—time, spurs are 4—0 up one other game kicked off at seven chelsea can narrow the gap on leaders liverpool to two points with a win at home to brentford. the score is goal listed there. —— the score is 0—0. before any of today's matches, we had a premier league sacking, gary 0'neil paying the price for wolves 2—1 defeat to fellow strugglers ipswich yesterday. they conceded in injury time, with 0'neil accusing his players of bad decision—making. frustrations came to the fore at full—time at molyneux, with rayan ait—nouri sent off for an altercation, and matheus cunha also had to be restrained after a set—to with one of the ipswich staff. wolves seemed to have turned things around last month with back to back wins, their first in the league but they have now lost four in a row and are down in 19th, 0'neil was given a four—year deal this summer after guiding them to safety last season, but now he and his backroom

staff have been dismissed. celtic have won the first domestic silverware of the scottish season after a thrilling old firm league cup final at hampden against holders rangers. 3—3 at fulltime, and with no more goals in extra time, it went to penalties and celtic didn't miss a beat. ben croucher reports. inside the glaswegian cauldron bubbles a rivalry, fierce, fiery and fitting of a final. there was a spark at hampden park. madrome lit the touch paper, taylorfired back. and soon a head through maeda. we had a cup final now and thanks to diamnde we had a grandstand finish and thanks to nicholas kuntz, they thought they had a match winner. danilo had other ideas. a final that would be settled

from the spot — how is your nerve? it was left to maeda to win it. ii9th major trophy, one more than their archrivals, glasgow's old firm, and the scottish league cup belonged to celtic. ben croucher, bbc news. so much drama in today's games — let's get some reaction now after that pulsating game at hampden. i think it was a great final. finishes 3—3 after extra time. people get their money �*s worth watching it, but ultimately you want to be on the right side of and thankfully we were. there were a lot of big names in football that are big stars in football that are big stars in world _ in football that are big stars in world football who missed penalties or even didn't put the bail_ penalties or even didn't put the ball on target. he took his

responsibility, we've been practising the penalties all season _ practising the penalties all season. he did really well in that— season. he did really well in that way, _ season. he did really well in that way, in the trainings, so it's part _ that way, in the trainings, so it's part of— that way, in the trainings, so it's part of football and i'm proud _ it's part of football and i'm proud of— it's part of football and i'm proud of guys who take responsibility in those moments, so that's part of being — moments, so that's part of being a _ moments, so that's part of being a football player. 0ne match in the scottish premiership and kilmarnock battled to an impressive 1—0 victory at home to hearts despite playing most of the match with ten men. robbie deas was sent off for a dangerous tackle after only six minutes, but a penalty shortly afterwards from bruce anderson was enough to give killie the win. they're up to eighth, while hearts stay rooted to the bottom. there were four games in the women's super league, and it's been a bad day for manchester city all round — second—placed city were looking to close the gap to leaders chelsea but lost to everton for the first time. defender lucy hope opened the scoring at waltomn hall park, scoring at walton hall park, left unmarked to head sara holmgaard's cross past khiara keating, honoka hayashi

doubled the lead eight minutes later, her deflected shot beating the diving keeper. the visitors responded through a late mary fowler penalty but everton hung on for their first victory over city at the 17th time of asking and it moves them up to ninth. we stuck to the plan that we set out and delivered it perfectly. actually, amazing, maybe a bit more goals to our side because i think we created some really big chances throughout the game. of course, we know going into the last 20, 30 minutes here, they will throw everything and it's going to be hard, but yeah, we fought all the way to end so yeah, just really happy for the girls, they really deserved that. england striker alessia russo scored the only goal of the game from a low corner as arsenal beat liverpool away this afternoon. shortly after, russo drew a foul in the penalty area by gemma bonner, but while mariona caldentey�*s spot kick sent the keeper the wrong way, she was just off—target as the ball

hit the post. the win keeps arsenal third in the table, ahead of manchester united on goal difference. two other results, adriana leon scored twice as aston villa beat west ham 3—1, only their second league win this season. and manchester united edged past bottom side crystal palace i—nil. grace clinton with the winner premiership leaders bath fell to a surprise defeat in italy we'll keep an eye on the spurs and chelsea games as we go on. premiership leaders bath fell to a surprise defeat in italy to bennetton treviso — bautista bernasconi's last—minute try handing treviso the 22—21 win. bath have now lost both of champions cup matches so far. about a minute away from securing opponents. it gave trivia so the 22 points— 21 win.

saracens made it two wins from two in the european champions cup with a 28—17 win at stade francais — stade's sekou macalou shown a red card for that dangerous tackle midway through the first half and the hosts' lack of discpline was punished — sarries forcing their way over the try line twice in the second half to seal victory. glasgow warriors were narrowly beaten 30—29 by toulon in a thrilling match in france, but their late fourth try from johhny matthews meant glasgow took home two bonus points from their trip. exeter chiefs have been hammered 6a—2i by toulouse at sandy park. the english premiership�*s bottom side leaked ten tries with paul graou scoring the last for the reigning champions. just two days into the final test, england's cricketer�*s have a huge task on their hands to complete a clean sweep in their series against new zealand. they were bowled out forjust 143 in hamilton and by the close, the kiwis had built a lead of 340 with seven second innings wickets in hand. joe lynskey reports.

england's cricketers can be the great entertainers, but there are days the show goes wrong. gone! there's another one. when they came out to bat, new zealand's score was in their range, but their time at the crease lasted less than four hours. commentator: oh, yes! zak crawley was out for the fifth time to the same bowler. as early wickets fell, england looked for protection. harry brook has just been named the best batter in the world. commentator: 0h, he's got him first ball. - but this test would mark the rise of new zealand's will 0'rourke. he's 23 and was born in surrey. he took three wickets in 12 balls. england can reflect on a series won already, but in this last test of the year they were all out and well short. in hamilton now, it's hard to see a way to victory. we are always pretty honest in that dressing room. of course, the guys are disappointed. it does happen in test cricket.

it will take something special but we still have the belief that we can break a record if we need to. new zealand stretched their lead beyond 300 by the close. seven wickets still in england need something extraordinary. something extraordinary. their 2024 looks set to end with a bump. joe lynskey, bbc news. england's women are in a really strong position on the first day of their one—off test against south africa thanks to two centurions in bloemfontain tammy beaumont and captain heather knight were both out relatively cheaply but opener maia bouchier stood firm on her test debut, eventually making 126. she shared a partnership of 174 for the third wicket with nat sciver—brunt — her century came off 96 deliveries, the quickest in women's tests, she'd go on to make 128. she was eventually run out by nonkululeko mlaba, south africa's stand—out player who also took four wickets. england declared on 395—9, with south africa finishing the day on 17 without loss.

let's have a quick look at some of the day's other sports stories. australia's batsmen made up for lost time on day two of the third test against india in brisbane. the first day was badly affected by the weather but both travis head and steve smith made centuries as they closed on 405 for 7. the five—match series is level at 1—1. south africa's shaun norris has won the alfred dunhill golf championship after starting the final day six shots off the lead. a final round of 67 from the home favourite was enough to secure a one shot victory ahead a group of three players including england'sjohn parry. in snooker�*s scottish 0pen final, the evening session has resumed and china's wu yizzer is putting up a great fight against compatriot lee payfan. having trailed 4—0 at one point, wu took the opening frame of the session to trail 5—4 in the first to nine final. great britain's women's hopes of reaching the final stage of qualifying for the 2026

winter olympics ice hockey tournament have been dashed again after they were beaten by the netherlands in sheffield in over—time. after three scoreless periods, it was the netherlands who struck the decisive blow in the final minute. savina vialenga scored the all important goal after ella howard was unable to properly deal with the initial shot, sending the netherlands through and heartbroken gb out. that's just about it from me. a reminder of our top story — manchester united beating manchester city 2—1 with two late goals, city's slump continues, lots more reaction to that online. let's leave you with one of the latest editions of the football news show that you can find on the iplayer. with the next transfer window coming up in the new year, they've been looking at the role of the football agent.

hello, thanks forjoining us on the football news show with a bit of a difference. we're putting high lines, manager whines to the back burner and talking about a factor that the game couldn't do without — or could it? we are talking agents. what kind of money we're talked about, the pitfalls and women in the industry, too, and we'll do it all in the company of a man fresh from passing the fifa agents exam — nick is with us. talk us through the process, then, how on earth did this come about? it's an idea i've had for a while. the new agent exam, the exam in its current form came in last year, so the november sitting was the fourth sitting that fifa have held. anybody can do it, it's a simple process. you can apply to do the exam, you pay your fee of £300

to fifa, 20 multiple—choice questions, one of the biggest things coming across was the exam didn't necessarily look after the well—being of players. there weren't any questions about how to look after the players, how to do necessarily the day job. fifa, that's not necessarily the problem. it's not what the exam is about. people regulate the international transfer so that's why there's so much legalese in the exam. the biggest thing i think came across, the desire for people to look after players and not necessarily chase the money which we see in the headline figures throughout the year. being a football agent at the top end of the game in england seems to be a lucrative business. in the 12 month period up to february 2024, the premier league paid over for £400 million to agents.

that's about three times the amount they spent on players over the full history of the third tier of english football. chelsea spent the most with 75 million, manchester city spent double their rivals manchester united. liverpool, arsenal and aston villa. there are millions being spent. championship clubs spent more than 60 million combined. and his son nathan is a top scorer this season, he just passed his exam, too. tell us why you wanted to become an agent? my motivation isn't because i want to be necessarily an agent and i'm not financially motivated. it was more that i wanted to make sure i fully understood the environment and making sure that the agency that my son is with is doing everything

they can to support him. i don't think the industry is anywhere near the level of quality that it should be. the perception of agents is all about their contracts and these huge sums that they earn, but the contract negotiation is actually only one small part of their role that a good agent should be performing. there are so many more elements to it than that, and i think they get neglected. to summarise, the key thing is you have to feel that you trust that individual, that agency completely. i think looking for a full suite of services, agents that understand there's more to it thanjust the technical football element orjust the contract negotiation, it's the educational needs of the charge. are they being met? the wealth management side of, the psychology side is super important, so what do they know about that? what support network do they have? those are the kinds of things i'd be asking. we've heard it from the standpoint of a player and his family, but let's get another side of the story no. another side of the story now.

former sporting director joe savagejoins us. talk us through your experience in dealing with agents, then. generally i've had decent experiences with them, i main part of dealing - with an agent is you want the player and generally. we were targeting players, so generally with agents i find that they can _ be tough to negotiate i with but they are looking after their client's interest - so they want to make the player as much money as he possibly can, get the best deal- for them, for the club that's probably selling the player, | so yeah, i think from my point of view, whenever i dealt - with the agents i always like to be up front - and honest with them. i like to tell them where l we were at, what we could afford, what our budget l was and if it was for them to try to get a negotiated deal done and was it not, - let's not waste each others time a we can move on. i

we hear all sorts of facts and figures banded around an agent's fees, the premier league seems to draw up whatever eelse in the world. both nightclubs are paying agents and the when agents are taking off their clients as well. i think it can really vary. you hear of clubs that i can pay back agent fees and clubs that won't go above, and my time at hearts, - i heard of clubs that would pay 5—10%. . as you've mentioned, it's a different world, | it's a different ball game completely. _ the money that they are paying 80 million, 100 million, - if an agent is getting even 5% that's a brilliant fee for them | to get and you can get 7.5%, eight, 10%, i'm not privy- to these conversations but i it happened. -

but i daresay it happened. let's look at the women's game now, according to fifa, in 2023, around £694 million was paid to agents for transfers. the figure paid by women's clubs in that period is barely over £1 million. but with the women's game growing, is that figure going to skyrocket? we are joined now by emilio and autumn from the outreach talent group. you're venturing into women's football, tell us why. i think as an agency, we really want to support women's sports and i know from my experience growing up as an athlete that i always had different experiences working with male or female coaches and how i received feedback was different between male and female coaches and now as talent managers outreach, i think we are reallyjust

wanting to champion women's sports, especially with the growth and the euros next year which i'm really excited about it. just 7% of football agents are women. why do you think that is? it's honestly really difficult to know. i think when i went into the exam room, i knew obviously that football was a male—dominated industry, but i didn't expect to see so few women taking the exam. i don't know if you felt that, emilio, but to actually see it in the exam room, there must�*ve been probably ten out of a couple hundred that were actually sitting there. i think you need to see people like you doing thatjob, being in those roles to think that you can do it, and i don't think there has been enough

investment from the fa in general to push women into these positions and i don't understand how you think there's going to be affixed to the pay gap with agents over the players, if you don't have more women and agent roles, which is why we are so proud of the agency to do this and really championing it. emilio, autumn, thank you very much. that's about all we've got time for, my thanks to nick and all of our guests and for you for watching, you can catch up previous episodes on the iplayer right now, until next time, bye—bye. hello there. much of the country today had a fine and largely dry one, and it was milder than it was yesterday, despite the lack of sunshine. now this mild theme is here to stay, certainly for the first half of this upcoming week, but it will be dominated by low pressure, so it will be wet and windy at times, and then all areas will be turning colder from thursday onwards, with an increasing chance of wintry showers on hills in the north. at the moment though, we're in this wedge of milder air, rather cloudy skies

because of a lot of moisture there. and on this boundary between the mild and colder air across northern scotland, we've got a weather front which is going to bring persistent rain, which will drive into the western highlands, rainfall totals really mounting up even as we head into monday as well. elsewhere, apart from some drizzle across western hills, it will be mostly dry. variable cloud and a mild night to come, so it starts mild on monday for all areas. we've got that rain still piling into the north and west of scotland, particularly the north—west highlands. elsewhere, variable cloud, some sunshine, a bit of drizzle i think, across western hills, but mild again with temperatures into 10 to 13 celsius. but we've got some concerns of the amount of rain just falling across the north—west highlands by the end of monday into early tuesday. some of the worst affected areas could be up to 150mm, so that could cause some localised flooding and some travel disruption. but as we move into tuesday, that weather front eventually starts to shift northwards as we start to pick up a southerly wind thanks to a renewed area of low pressure. and again it will be a mild start to tuesday.

here it is, a new area of low pressure, more isobars on the charts. this one's a bit more powerful than we've had over the weekend, so it looks like it'll be windier with gales around irish sea coasts. outbreaks of rain for northern ireland and into western scotland again, areas that really don't need any more rain. but i think the midlands eastwards are large parts of eastern england should stay dry all day on tuesday, but rather cloudy with limited sunshine. mild double figure values for most, wet, windy weather with gales spreads across the country during tuesday night. another area of low pressure will arrive later on wednesday, but we're in between the weather systems for wednesday, so we should see quite a bit of dry weather across the northern half of the country with some sunshine. a few showers across western scotland and then we'll start to see wet and windy weather pushing up from the south across england, wales into northern ireland. given some sunshine we could be up to 15 degrees across eastern england. it does turn colder for the end of the week. wintry showers across northern hills. a bit of sunshine in the south.

live from london. this is bbc news. hundreds of people are feared dead after a cyclone hit the french indian ocean territory of mayotte. £50 million for syria — britain's foreign secretary pledges money to help vulnerable people and refugees, and confirms the uk is in contact with the country's rebel leaders... hts remains a prescribed organisation but we can have diplomatic contact and so we do have diplomatic contact,

as you would expect. over 13,000 migrants have been removed from the uk since labour took power — but the government admits the rate of illegal channel crossings is still too high. and thousands gather for mass in corsica, as pope francis visits the island for the first time. hello, i'm samantha simmonds. it's feared that thousands of people may have been killed by cyclone chido in the french archipelago of mayotte in the indian ocean. a local official has been quoted as saying that the death toll may be in the thousands. residents have spoken of apocalyptic scenes in mayotte. the mayor of the capital, mam—oud—zou, said nothing had been spared. houses have been destroyed, along with schools and the hospital. french emergency personnel are now on mayotte to