while they'd already clinched the series against new zealand, england's men will perhaps feel glad the year is almost over after capping off their busiest year of test cricket with a humiliating and humbling defeat in hamilton. needing a very unlikely 658 runs to win, the tourists resumed day 4 on 18/2 but lost wickets at regular intervals, eventually bowled out for 234, giving the home side a huge 423—run win. a disappointing test, but a 2—1 victory for england in the three—match series. we know we just didn't play anywhere near our capability. it's a disappointing way to end the tour and end our year with a loss. but, look, what we came here to achieve, we've managed to achieve and it's no mean feat coming to new zealand and defeating them, because they're a very, very strong home team in their conditions. the victory for new zealand also meant that tim southee finished his career with a win before retiring. he'll finish as new zealand's

second—highest test wicket—taker, and he was good with the bat too. only three men have gone better than his 98 sixes. every opportunity to play for new zealand's been a special moment. i've been very fortunate to do it almost 400 times, which not a lot of people get to do. so, yeah, very honoured, very privileged to have done it and fulfilled a childhood dream. the ups and the downs are part of the journey and i guess that's what makes you the cricketer and the person that you become. elsewhere, pakistan have got off to a winning start in the first of three one—day internationals against south africa. batting first, south africa made 239/9 from their 50 overs. heinrich klaasen topscoring with 86 for the home side in paarl. but it wasn't enough, pakistan calculating their chase to perfection, winning with three balls to spare with three wickets in hand. the second odi is on thursday. meanwhile, england's women have won their first test match in a decade. starting the day with a lead

of 145, england were bowled out for 281 on day 4 of their match against south africa, setting their opponents 351 to win. and the home side didn't even reach triple figures, bowled out for 64 — their lowest test total — as england secured a 286—run victory in bloemfontein. england's attention will now turn to january and their ashes series against australia down under. it's slightly different with a pink ball, and obviously slightly different conditions at the mcg. but, yeah, we'll have to adapt to it as we see fit. but i think the fact that we were able to play like we did with only two days�* preparation after the white—ball series should be a really thing of confidence for us, because it will be the same in australia. obviously that mentality to flip between is a really hard thing to do. so, yeah, just getting more experience with doing that as players hopefully will stand us in really good stead. now, afterjust missing out on the ballon d'or to manchester city's rodri, vinicius junior has now got his hands on an individual trophy.

the real madrid and brazil forward has been named the men's player of the year at the fifa best awards. vinicius played a key role in real�*s champions league and la liga—winning campaign last season, scoring 24 goals. and for a second year in a row, barcelona midfielder aitana bonmati has been named the women's player of the year. she was a key part of the spain team that won the 2023 women's world cup, and also won the ballon d'or earlier this year. the promoters behind the european super league project have asked football's governing bodies to give official recognition to their new proposal called the unify league. the a22 group's new competition would involve four leagues and 96 teams. unlike the original super league proposal, the organisers say that unify league qualification would be based on domestic league performance. 12 teams signed up to the super league plan back in 2021, but it soon collapsed after protests from fans. uefa and fifa are yet to comment on the new idea. to the premier league now,

and has marcus rashford reached the end of the road at manchester united? he says he's "ready for a new challenge" after being asked about his future at the club by sports journalist henry winter. rashford has been at the club since 2015 and has made 24 appearances this season, but played no part in united's win against rivals manchester city at the weekend. chelsea's mykhailo mudryk says that he is in "complete shock" after testing positive for a banned substance. he's been provisionally suspended after the premier league club were contacted by the football association to say there'd been an "adverse finding in a routine urine test." mudryk denies knowingly using any banned substance. a much better day for chelsea women as their remarkable season goes on after yet another victory, but it wasn't completely straightforward. they fell behind to real madrid in theirfinal group game of the women's champions league, but two goals from catarina macario saw chelsea win 2—1 and made sure they topped the group with six wins

from six, and extend their unbeaten run in all competitions to 16 matches. celtic�*s miserable campaign is over. they failed to win a single point in the group — six—straight defeats, including their final loss — a 3—0 defeat at twente — meaning they finish bottom of the group. group a has also been concluded with lyon, just like chelsea, also progressing with a perfect record after beating wolfsburg1—0. roma beat galatasaray 3—0, but miss out on the knockout stages on goal difference. it's fight week in saudi arabia, and we're building up to the rematch between tyson fury and world champion oleksandr usyk on saturday night. the ukrainian became the first four—belt undisputed heavyweight champion when he beat fury on points six months ago. ade adedoyin reports. we, welcome to riyadh for what is the first media event for what is a huge week in both fighters�* careers. as is usual, this media event is taking place in what is set up as an airport runway. alongside me is writer and broadcaster steve bunce. i can't underestimate just how big a week this

is for both men. they have these weeks in saudi, its five days of events. in the �*90s, it was one day, 1.5 days of events. here, its five full days— six— and seven—hour days. meetings, greetings, open sessions, press conferences, private press sessions. it's a ridiculously long week, and the boxers need to work out how to function. luckily, usyk and fury have been here, they've done it and know how to get the best out of themselves. that said, steve, with the amount of media obligations this week, sometimes the week itself can defeat you. they've been here before. emotions will be running high after what happened in the first fight in may. so, managing your emotions is going to be key. you've seen them this week. what have you made of them? this week so far, usyk has been fun. he's used all of his ukrainian jokes, all of his catchphrases, where he puts on a british—ukrainian accent. you know the stuff, he's the joker. but he's not really. because the moment the interview�*s over,

he glazes over and he's gone. fury has come in flying. he's five or six hours�* late for the first series of interviews. he was swearing. he was aggressive. he was standing up in his chair. he was getting in the face of people. other interviews, he was one word, sometimesjust a nod. he's fixed. if it's an act, it's quite alarming. if it's serious, it's even more alarming. what's been interesting in the build—up to this is — normally, you see fury posting messages on social media, telling you how training's going, calling usyk names. he has been dead quiet. did he humble him in may? i think fury looked back and said, "you know what would be a good idea? "what if i don't communicate, don't let everybody know how "many miles i'm running, how much food i'm eating?" he's had no contact, so he claimed to me, except with his children,

his family and, more importantly, his beloved wife paris. he's had no contact. as he said to me, "i've put down my phone." if he's done that, that is good. that is really good. this will be fascinating to see how they manage themselves this week. a massive week for both men, as we build up to what is potentially the biggest fight of the year. meanwhile, a huge british domestic fight has been confirmed, with lauren price taking on natasha jonas next march in a welterweight unification fight. both came through title fights at the weekend, but price insists that she's the clear favourite to win. she clearly doesn't want to fight, you know? she's the one who signed the contract. she had to, she signed into it. if it was up to me, i would have been boxing her on saturday, but she clearly didn't want it. she wanted a warm—up fight. so we'll see. i'm in my prime. i'm too good, i'm too quick, and too young. it's a massive fight for next year. the fight is going to be, you know, a british fight,

wales v england, march 7, historic night, international women's day — doesn't get much bigger than that. to be headlining at the albert hall this time around with five belts on the line — it's a dream come true. and i believe i'll come through with flying colours. promises to be an explosive encounter indeed. and keely hodgkinson has won the bbc�*s sports personality of the year. she came first in the public vote after winning gold in the 800m at the olympics in paris injuly. it was her first major title and she becomes the fourth successive woman to win the award. darts player luke littler finished second with england cricketer joe root in third. there we go. congratulations to her. what a night. you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app or from our website, bbc.com/sport. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye.

hello there. we again saw temperatures reaching 13 degrees on tuesday, but the cloud this time brought with it more rain. and into the southwest, we're going to find this rain arriving later in the day on wednesday. but at the moment, this area of low pressure is bringing the rain into the night. it's also bringing some strong and gusty winds, and that's all keeping the temperatures up. it's very mild — these are the temperatures of 12 or 13 degrees by the end of the night. but it will still be windy into the morning, and the strongest of the winds are likely to be over and to the east of the pennines. gusts 50—60mph in the morning — could be quite tricky if you're travelling on the m62 or the a1, for example. may well be some early rain across northern england to move through, and then, following that, sunshine and scattered, blustery showers will develop in scotland and northern ireland. and across england and wales,

it may well brighten up as well, before we see this cloud and rain coming in to the southwest of england and wales later on. temperatures still in double figures for england and wales, but with that northwesterly wind developing in scotland and northern ireland, things are going to get colder as we head through the day and temperatures will be falling. overnight, we've got that rain coming in from the southwest to push across england and wales, it should've cleared away from the southeast by thursday morning. and then, we're all going to be feeling the effects of these brisk northwesterly winds, and it will feel colder on thursday. showers, too, and those could be wintry over the hills across northern scotland. quite a few showers for northern ireland, over the irish sea into wales, perhaps the west midlands, and the southwest of england, and again, a bit of wintriness over the hills. more sunshine, though, further east, where it should be dry. we'll all going to feel colder in those brisk winds, temperatures 6 to 8 degrees, but at least there'll be more sunshine around. pretty chilly overnight for a while before we see this rain coming in from the northwest on friday. that rain pushes away from scotland

and northern ireland, into england and wales. it'll be followed by some sunshine and a few showers, and we're going to end the week with temperatures of around about 9 or 10 degrees, so pretty good. heading quickly into the weekend, though, and it looks a very unsettled weekend ahead. this weather system bringing some rain on saturday, and around the area of low pressure, we're going to introduce a polar maritime air mass. and throughout the weekend, it looks like it's going to be really quite windy. but through the weekend, it willjust get colder, and as we see that colder air arriving, particularly on sunday, those showers will be turning wintry.

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—— in gaza. welcome to newsday. ukraine says it is responsible for a bomb attack that killed a senior russian general in moscow. the lieutenant general was leaving his home in southeastern moscow on tuesday when he and his aides were killed by explosives planted in an electric scooter. bbc has been looking at the images from the scene. an ied or improvised explosive device was used in the attack. the incident comes a day after ukraine reportedly charged mr kerry of of co—ordinating the use of banned chemical weapons on ukrainian forces on the front lines. the kremlin deny those allegations. russia's investigative committee says it has opened a criminal investigation into the murder. the kremlin called the bombings and attack of her and is a vowing revenge. our russia editor has the latest report from moscow. being filmed from

a car opposite, russian general and his