when the next test would be because mudryk is reportedly according to the reports in ukraine, failed the initial a test but there will be a beta test but there will be a beta test to come and we don't know what the outcome will be but we suspect they will be further clarification on this in the coming weeks. it is a huge story around chelsea who have been going very well this season and now have this off field drama to contend with. vitor pereira has agreed a deal to become the new manager of premier league side wolves replacing the sacked gary o'neil. the former porto boss will sign an 18—month deal and joins from al shabab in the saudi pro league. pereira's first game will be at leicester on sunday with the team second from bottom of the table after 11 defeats in their 16 league games so far this season. the series might have already been lost but new zealand ended it with a thumping victory over england in the third test in hamilton. england started day four needing an improbable 658 to win and already two wickets down. but there was some early resistance from jacob bethell who made 76.

joe root�*s half century also delayed the inevitable but once mitchell santner dismissed him to provide the first of his four wickets, it wasn't long before the tourists were all out for 234. england's 423 run defeat is their largest defeat by the black caps in terms of runs and fourth—biggest by anyone, giving retiring bowler tim southee a winning send off. every opportunity to play for new zealand has been a special moment and i've been very fortunate to do this almost 400 times which not many people get to do, so very honoured and privileged to have done it and fulfilled a childhood dream and i have loved every moment. the ups and downs are part of the journey and i guess that is what makes you with the cricketer and the person that you become. australia and india's third test in brisbane was affected by the weather again and the shortened fourth day may have taken the possibility of victory away from the hosts. india had to battle hard

just to avoid the follow on at the gabba. but the final pair, plus the rain, helped india finish on 252 for 9, 193 behind, while australia bowler josh hazelwood has a calf injury that'll likely mean he misses the rest of the series. england's women have won a test match for the first time in a decade and their victory over south africa by 286 runs is the team's biggest winning margin in a women's test. after setting the home side 351 to win the one off test in bloemfontein, south africa's chase never got going. lauren bell took four more wickets to end the match with eight, while two run outs helped england along the way to bowling south africa out forjust 64 in their second innings — their lowest ever test total. there were three games settled by a single point on a dramatic night of nba action. one of them went to overtime with the detroit pistons holding off the miami heat to win 125 to 124. that ended miami's four game winning streak, while the chicago bulls have now won four of their last six after beating the toronto raptors 122—121 in canada.

toronto were 16 points behind in the fourth quarter but couldn't finish it off the comeback. nikola vucevic scored 24 points for the bulls, who had seven players reach double figures including josh giddey who had to be helped off the court midway through the third quarter after rolling his right ankle. the denver nuggets also narrowly beat the sacramento kings 130—129. nikola jokic had an nba—leading 10th triple—double of the season with 20 points, 14 rebounds and 13 assists as the nuggets ended sacramento 5 three—game winning streak. much more on the website of course. and that's all the sport for now. now to the breaking news coming out of the middle east. israel and gaza appeared to be moving closer to a ceasefire deal. we have heard from the white house, the spokespersonjohn kirby, and he says he believes they are closer to a gaza

ceasefire deal. a senior palestinian official told the bbc that indirect talks are in a decisive and final phase, they said, and the defence minister of israel says an agreement is closer than ever before, and as well as hearing from the white house we are getting alerts from israel that say the prime minister netanyahu is on his way to cairo to take part in those talks. the word we have from hamas, a statementjust hamas, a statement just published hamas, a statementjust published from them, that says in the light of serious discussions taking place today under the auspices of qatar and egypt, reaching an agreement to ceasefire and exchange prisoners is possible if the occupation stops setting new conditions. so that is a caveat from hamas. meanwhile, the white house say an agreement is

close and netanyahu is on his way tojoin discussions close and netanyahu is on his way to join discussions as well and a statement from hamas saying that reaching an agreement for a ceasefire and exchange of prisoners is possible. before these developments came to us i had a conversation with our correspondent who outlined some of what we heard about what the deal could look like. 1milli deal could look like. with these mediation - deal could look like. with these mediation efforts l deal could look like. ii�*u these mediation efforts back on in recent weeks we have been getting reports that israel and hamas are showing greater flexibility and israel which is now sending negotiators back to qatar, one of the regional mediators, they say that hamas is a fighting force and has been destroyed by its operations in gaza, and at the same time weakened by events taking place in the region, so the ceasefire deal that could

mean which is run has reach with hezbollah in lebanon, and also iran has been weakened by the fall of president assad in syria and those events in lebanon as well. many see the conditions have ripened for some kind of deal, there is also the element of pressure from the incoming us administration and president elect donald trump says he wants to see the gaza war ended before he takes office next month, and in his latest news conference he said if the deal was not reached and hostages were not released from gaza, it was not going to be pleasant. any further details of the actual plan, the potential brand we have heard about? it is a senior palestinian official who has spoken to the bbc, giving details of this plan, we understand from that official that the first stage would last for 45 days of ceasefire and in that time we

would have remaining civilians and women soldier hostages being released, and you would have a partial israeli troop withdrawal from gaza and have a partial israeli troop withdrawalfrom gaza and it's have a partial israeli troop withdrawal from gaza and it's a mechanism so that people displaced on the north of the strip in gaza would be able to return to their homes, and the second phase would have the remaining israeli hostages being released and a further israeli troop withdrawal before the third stage which is supposed to see the full end of fighting and reconstruction, but a lot of devil is in the detail and mediators have stressed they still do have a gap between the sides that they have to bridge.— have to bridge. yes, the devil in the detail. _ have to bridge. yes, the devil in the detail. we _ have to bridge. yes, the devil in the detail. we will - have to bridge. yes, the devil in the detail. we will have - in the detail. we will have more coming up on that. retailers say that shoplifting has got so out of control they are having to tackle thieves themselves. shoplifting is at a record high in one shopkeeper said he has had to carry out more than 50 citizens arrests in the last three years.

a couple of christmas presents, is it? when martin gaunt�*s not on the shop floor serving customers who pay... so this lady here had actually stolen from us before. ..he's catching out those who don't. we recognised her when she came in — she was even wearing the same clothes. she's looking at some tarot cards there. and what she's done, quite blatantly, she's looking to see if anybody�*s watching, straight in her bag. and now she's going to turn round, she's going to head to the door and get out as quickly as she can. he's invested thousands in security cameras to help tackle shoplifting, but he also relies on other methods. ooh, don't hit him. no, don't! get that on... yeah. this is martin after carrying out a citizen's arrest — and it gets heated. we know that using civil arrest works, because we have seen a drop in the number of repeat offenders that we see. they will prefer to go somewhere else where they won't be troubled.

he's carried out around 50. you can't touch us. no, no, no, you are detained, mate, all right? i've walked away before with bruised ribs and felt it for a few weeks. can you call town security and the police, tell them that he is resisting arrest, 0k? the police will very rarely — if ever — attend. so if you make a civil arrest, you should get police attendance. a tactic other shop—owners rely on. louis phelps says, in a year, he's lost around £20,000 to burglaries and shoplifting. he's gone out looking for his stolen stock before — finding it in second—hand shops. 0ne owner helped him catch the alleged thief. we lay in wait at the store for him to return with his id. we more or less performed a citizen's arrest. we called the police, and within about 20 minutes they turned up. and, yeah, we kind ofjust held him there and waited for the police to come and collect him. shoplifting costs almost £2 billion a year, according to the british retail consortium. home office figures show fewer than 20% of recorded shoplifting offences resulted in a charge or summons in the year to march 2024. but some argue citizen's arrests are too risky. ultimately, thejob of catching criminals, of arresting criminals, is one for the police. i think what's important is that people never put themselves into harm's way, ultimately. the national police chiefs' council recommends that only trained security

guards detain offenders. devon and cornwall police says it prioritises attendance where violence is involved, or a shoplifter is detained. meanwhile, martin hopes that government actions — such as making it a criminal offence to assault a shop worker — will mean he's no longer seen as a soft target. yeah, ifeel desperate and ifeel like giving up, but if i give up the fight, eventually i'd probably have to give up the business, as well. good to have you with us. i will see you again tomorrow. hello. it has turned into a mild day across the uk, but we've also got some outbreaks of rain and some increasingly strong winds. 0n the satellite picture we can see this hook of cloud, an area of low pressure, and as this swirls to the northwest of the uk, you can see the isobars, the white lines squeezing together, indicative of some pretty strong winds, those winds increasing through the afternoon, gusting to 50mph or more around the coast of southwest england.

wales up through the irish sea, northern ireland, southwest scotland. bands of rain moving northwards and eastwards as well, although the further east you are a decent amount of dry weather to take us. weather to take us towards the end of the day — temperatures 11, 12, 13 degrees. as we head through this evening and tonight we will see a lot of cloud. we'll see further pulses of rain, gales around some exposed coasts in the west, but it is going to be exceptionally mild. actually, by the time we wake up on wednesday morning, many of us will have temperatures around 12, 13 or 14 degrees. so a really mild start to the day. outbreaks of rain pushing across scotland and northern england, clearing to a mix of sunny spells and showers across northern areas. conversely, further south we will have some dry weather for a time, but rain swings its way into the southwest of england and wales through the afternoon, staying very mild in southern parts but further north, actually, something a little bit colder starting to develop. and as we go through

wednesday night, we see this weather system pushing across the south of the uk. and behind that, all of us get into these cold northwesterly winds. so, a very different feel to the weather on thursday. there'll be a fair amount of sunshine around. it should be quite a bright day, actually, but some showers, which could be wintry over high ground in the north and the west, but particularly when you factor in the strength of the wind, it's going to feel much colder. temperatures in single digits for just about all of us. as we head into friday, we're going to see another weather system pushing in from the west. more outbreaks of rain, something slightly milder tucking in behind that, and then a deep area of low pressure moves in for the weekend. that could bring some very strong winds indeed, particularly up towards the north. and as that moves through, it'll turn a bit colder again. so some wet and some blustery weather at times and some ups and downs in our temperatures.

live from london. live from london. this is bbc news... this is bbc news... after months of deadlock — after months of deadlock — reports that israel and hamas reports that israel and hamas could be moving closer could be moving closer to a gaza ceasefire to a gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal. and hostage release deal. we'll bring you the latest. we'll bring you the latest. ukrainian security sources say ukrainian security sources say they were behind a remotely they were behind a remotely controlled bomb attack that's controlled bomb attack that's killed a top russian general. killed a top russian general. killing of a general killing of a general here in moscow, that is a wake up call and a here in moscow, that is a wake up call and a

sign that this war is very real sign that this war is very real and very close to home. and very close to home. a crime of "almost inconceivable" cruelty — a judge sentences the father and stepmother of murdered 10—year—old sara sharif to decades behind bars.