everton and nottingham forest were both sanctioned last season for breaches, and were docked eight and four points respectively. leicester city avoided a points deduction after they won an appeal against a charge in september. an independent panel found the premier league did not have the jurisdiction to punish leicester as the club had been relegated to the championship when their accounting period ended. in a joint statement, leicester and the premier league say the matter remains "the subject of confidential arbitration proceedings". well, despite 15 double faults, emma raducanu started her 2025 season with a scrappy win in the australian open first round. the british number two had her preparations disrupted by a back injury. she lost her serve six times before digging deep to beat russian seed ekaterina alexandrova, 7—6, 7—6. and her reward a match

against another higher—ranked player in amanda anisimova. yeah, i'm very pleased to have come through that match. it was difficult, it was quite hot out there, getting quite sunny and obviously playing against a really experienced, seeded opponent who is playing great tennis, and i think i'm very proud of how i fought and overcame certain situations in that match. jasmine paolini and elena rybakina wasted little time in racing through to the second round of the australian open. it was an extremely encouraging start for the italian fourth seed, paolini, beating 21 year—old wei sijia, 6—0, 6—4. former finalist rybakina was ruthless against 16—year—old australian wild card emersonjones, wrapping up a 6—1, 6—1 victory injust 53 minutes.

daniil medvedev is also through avoiding a monumental upset but that didnt stop him from getting extremely frustrated in the process. medvedev used his racquet to smash a net camera during his first round match with 418th—ranked kasidit samrej of thailand. the camera destruction took place in what would be the last game of the third set, which samrej won to take a two—sets—to—one—lead in the five—set match. taylor fritz had a much easier time of it, breezing past fellow american jenson brooksby. the fourth seed made a strong start in his bid to end the 22—year grand slam drought for american men with a resounding 6—2, 6—0, 6—3 victory over his compatriot. last year i was happy with all of my slam results and i'm going to treated the same. the worst thing i can do is be looking like superfar worst thing i can do is be looking like super far ahead worst thing i can do is be looking like superfar ahead in the draw and looking at the top

four seeds, and then put all this pressure on myself. it's the same mentality i always have, take it one match at a time. england wasted a golden opportunity to level the women's ashes as they failed to chase 181 for victory in a nail—biting finish in melbourne. with one wicket remaining, england needed 22 runs to win from the final two overs when lauren bell was bowled by megan schutt for one, completing a collapse from 68—2 and 120—5 to 159 all out. australia won by 21 runs and lead the series 4—0. daniel dubois and joseph parker became a sideshow at their own news conference after fellow heavyweight tyson fury announced his second retirement from boxing. dubois will defend his ibf world title against new zealand's parker on 22 february in saudi arabia, with the main event a rematch between light—heavyweight rivals artur beterbiev and dmitry bivol. briton dubois is feeling extremely confident

i'm going to do the demolition job on him and then i want uysk next, so bring them on. i am on a roll, iwill next, so bring them on. i am on a roll, i will be too much for him, too strong, too fast, anything he does i'm going to do better. i'm very excited to be fighting for the world championship for the second time, and two—time world champion sounds beautiful. i like that he is full of confidence and kind of high at the moment but it will all stop on the 22nd of february. basketball now, and the lakers and the clippers both returned to action in los angeles first nba games since the catastrophic wildfires, in which lakers head coach jj redick and his family lost their home. the nba postponed two home games for the lakers and one for the clippers last week while the fires were raging. the san antonio spurs though proved too strong for the lakers, beating them 126-102. it means the lakers have now lost three straight matches in a row.

meanwhile, james harden scored 13 of his 26 points in a third—quarter revival that rallied the los angeles clippers past the miami heat 109—98, while norman powell led the way for the clippers, top—scoring with 29 points. matthew stafford threw two first—half touchdown passes and the los angeles rams�* defense had nine sacks to tie the nfl playoff record in a 27—9 wild—card—round victory over the minnesota vikings in a game relocated to arizona. the game was scheduled to be played in california, but the venue was changed for public safety purposes because of deadly wildfires in los angeles. and that's all the sport for now. a bbc investigation has found parents of children with severe epilepsy are breaking the law to give them cannabis—based medicine, because they struggle to have the drug prescribed on the nhs.

file on 4 has spoken to families buying oils on the black market, as well as those who illegally smuggle the drugs into the uk. alastair fee reports. is that funny? is everything funny? lunchtime, and this is ten—year—old annie's favourite meal. she loves food. she's quite highly motivated by food. annie has a rare form of epilepsy. we've changed their names to protect their identity. it's harrowing, it's tiring. it's exhausting, it's scary. it's the scariest thing ever — seeing your child seize. the only drug that her parents say helps is an oil made from the cannabis plant. but there's a catch. the medicine mumjane gives her daughter is illegal. i don't want to be breaking the law, but currently i probably would say i don't actually care that i'm breaking the law. because of the change you see in your daughter? she's happier. but, most importantly, she's having a dramatically reduced amount of seizures.

in london, 14—year—old jasper also takes cannabis oil to control his epilepsy. he's gone from having hundreds of seizures to almost none. but his supply is legal and privately prescribed. it costs the family £30,000 a year. i work literally seven days a week to pay for it. we are just aware that we are incredibly lucky, firstly, to have been able to secure a prescription because it's very difficult to do, and secondly, to be able to afford it. mum alice is the author of a new report by a charity that campaigns on this issue. for the first time, it has tried to quantify how many parents resort to illegal cannabis oils on the black market. we used a kind of established methodology for identifying the number of families who are kind of based in the uk. and we identified well over 300, actually nearly 400 families. so to know that there are that

many parents willing to do that is obviously very shocking. if you're, as a parent, faced with a choice between your child dying or trying something illegal, at the end of the day, there's no law that's going to stop you from trying that if you think it might work for your child. access to these particular types of oils is very difficult. we've tracked down one of those suppliers, who has agreed to talk to us anonymously. he runs a legal cbd company and offers illegal oils on the side. he says he does it for free orfor a small donation. thanks for agreeing to talk to us. no worries. thank you for giving me the time to talk. we call it a compassion programme. we have a very core belief that people shouldn't — especially children — shouldn't pay to have a decent quality of existence, quality of life. i think it comes down to a moral obligation. we see our moral obligation towards people who come to us as something that supersedes any legislation, monetary value or anything like that. what gives you the confidence that you're not harming

people with the oils that you're producing? because we have access and we have complete control of everything from seed to bottle. so we know what we're doing, we know what we're putting in, and we have the ability to test, manufacture and produce to specific specifications. medical cannabis was legalised in 2018. since then, the plant's full extract oils haven't been licensed and fewer than five patients have been given it on the nhs. it can be prescribed privately but it's costly. the bbc�*s file on 4 investigates has spoken to several families, who say they have been left with no choice but to turn to illegal suppliers. in a statement, the department of health and social care said... is that funny? with no clear direction on when or if these medicines

will become available, parents like jane say they're in an impossible situation. it makes me really, really angry that for my daughter to be this happy, healthy and well, i've got to break the law. what's your worst fear? that somebody finds out, i get arrested, my husband loses his job and annie doesn't receive the oil, and she goes back to square one. alastair fee, bbc news. now it's time for a look at the weather. hello again. it's been a quite cloudy start to the day for many of us, but through the day it will brighten up in places. high pressure is still in charge of our weather. you can see from the squeeze on the isobars that it is quite breezy across the northwest.

but as we go through the next few days we hang on to the milder conditions, as represented by the yellows and the ambers on the chart. now, today, we still have the remnants of the overnight front sinking south with its cloud. it's a weak feature, might have a little bit of drizzle on it but not much more than that. some drizzle coming out of the thicker cloud across the northwest, where it's breezy. but some sunny skies developing, especially eastern scotland and also northeast england. these are the temperatures, ranging from about 9 to 13 degrees. now, into this evening and overnight, quite quickly we'll see some fog develop across the south—eastern quarter of the country. some of that will be dense. there will be some pockets of fog elsewhere. still breezy across the northwest and not a particularly cold night, our lowest temperature around about 3 or 4 degrees. starting tomorrow, then, we've got the fog across the southeast. now, this will be slow to clear. it may lingerfor much of the day orjust lift into low cloud, but brighter skies across parts of scotland, northern england, also northern ireland and later into parts of wales. with the weather front not too far away from the northwest where it will remain windy.

temperatures, 9 to about 11 degrees. then as we head on overnight wednesday into thursday, our high pressure starts to drift away. 0ur weather front starts to sink south, but then it drifts northwards again during the course of thursday. so we start off on thursday with some mist and fog, again, slow to clear. 0ur weather front takes its way northwards into the northern isles. in between there will be something drier and brighter, some sunny spells developing as we go through the day, and these are our temperatures, so a little bit down on what we are looking at on wednesday. around about 7 to 10 degrees at best. now, beyond that, as we head on into the weekend, the high pressure continues to drift away. still quite breezy at times across the northwest. around sunday it looks like our weather front is going to make inroads coming in from the west. now, the rain on it won't be particularly heavy, but note as we head through the ensuing few days the temperature starts to slide a bit once again.

live from london. this is bbc news. confirmation an israel—hamas ceasefire is very close. the mediator qatar says the major obstacles have been overcome. we can say that we are as close

as possible, comparing to any point before, to reaching a ceasefire. point before, to reaching a ceasefire. us congress receives a report stating donald trump's re—election prevented him from being convicted of trying to overthrow the 2020 result. and as strong winds are forecast to return in los angeles, nine people are charged in connection with looting. hello, i'm lucy hockings, welcome to bbc news now, three hours of fast—moving news, interviews and reaction. it has taken months, but all the signs are that we are now closer than ever to seeing a ceasefire in the gaza war, which would see an exchange of israeli hostages and palestinian prisoners. the deal is highly complex, and is not yet fully agreed. it's being brokered by the government of qatar, and just a short while ago, a spokesman for the foreign ministry gave this update.

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