and france run riot in rome, scoring 11 tries as they put in a record—breaking performance against italy in the six nations. hello, there. liverpool took a step closer to a second premier league mohamed salah opened the scoring for the visitors in the 14th minute. that's his 25th goal in the premier league this season. his 16th assist in the league, setting up dominik szoboszlai. liverpool did think they had added a third after the break,

but curtisjones was denied by var. a very good win. a very difficult one because we had to defend a lot, we had to suffer a lot. they had a lot of ball possession. half i constantly felt that they could score in the second half, we controlled it much i don't know how many times, but many, many, many times the brilliance for the final pass, the individual anything to to regret.

newcastle united, who held on to beat nottingham forest 4—3 in a seven—goal thriller. on but four goals in 11 minutes, including in the premier league, put newcastle 4—1 up at the break. for forest in the second half, but newcastle hung on to take all three points. we know that we're into the business end of the season. there's not many games left. we have to maximise every opportunity. there's still so much to play for. we're in there and our objective is to improve every week.

and the goals proved that. but the reaction was was very positive. so heading into the upcoming round of midweek matches, liverpool hold an 11—point lead over arsenal, who have on wednesday, while the gunners travel to forest. following the club's defeat to st mirren on saturday. loss to st mirren.

contract extension. rangers only hope of silverware now is the europa league, in the scottish cup. in a post on social media, rangers said... van persie has been appointed as feyenoord's new head coach. the iii—year—old, who retired from playing in 2019, has left fellow dutch side has left fellow dutch side heerenveen to take charge heerenveen to take charge of the club that he had two of the club that he had two spells at as a player, making i22 appearances spells at as a player, and scoring 46 goals. van persie has signed a tough task ahead of him van persie has signed a contract until 2027 a contract until 2027 and will be assisted by rene hack, who was previously part of erik ten previously part of erik ten hag's coaching staff hag's coaching staff at manchester united. at manchester united.

well, van persie has well, van persie has a tough task ahead of him to overhaul ajax this season. their 2—0 win against go ahead eagles extended their lead at the top of the eredivisie to five points over psv. feyenoord are a further nine points back. in germany, bayern munich moved eight points clear of bayer leverkusen thanks to a 4—0 thrashing of eintracht frankfurt. a 2—0 win in la liga over girona was enough to see real madrid draw level on points with barcelona

our correspondent joe wilson reports. these are pakistan's cricketers, this is a tournament pakistan is hosting — except this yep, that's dubai. india's influence is considerable, so india play here. both teams had fervent support in the stadium. imam—ul—haq ran out like that. anyone could understand this reaction. pakistan's captain mohammad rizwan tried 241 all out when india finished bowling. pakistan's turn. wherever he bowls, you'll know shaheen shah afridi. india home again.

with overs to spare, this shot won it and took kohli to a hundred. joe wilson, bbc news. so a fantastic day for india and kohli. let's get some reaction now from the man who shared it's just the mindset that he possesses over and i remember yesterday he had come almost an hour before us for the practice session, he played a few balls and he was... all the time, so i neverfeel that he's struggling for runs, to be honest. to rugby now, and france thrashed italy 73 points to 2a against ireland in dublin

in a fortnight�*s time. the total of 14 was a record in a six nations match, while it was also france's record score in the championship. the intensity during the 80 minutes. so we can be proud. there was a lot of good things during the game against clear of their next opponents, france.

that's ahead of the visit of italy, to whom they have never lost. won his first ever dp world tour title in winning the south african went into the final round with a one—shot lead, but slipped behind playing however, four birdies in his final 12 holes were enough to see him win by two shots. raucous celebrations for the south african, i'm going to be drinking a lot. i'm going to be... he laughs south african brandy, so i'm super excited for that, yeah. i dreamt about this

my whole career. i don't tee it up to just be in the field. i want to win every single week and that's my mindset. it took me a while to get it done, so i'm proud of myself. congratulations to him. well, you can get all the latest sports news from the bbc sport app or, of course, from our of the team, thanks forwatching, bye—bye. hello. they drove some pretty big waves onto the shore of port ellen here in argyll and bute. through the irish sea.

we had gusts of wind quite widely of around 50 to 60mph, that was the strongest gust, that's in snowdonia national and a met office amber weather warning that remains in force until the early part of monday, with the rain heavy enough with across england and wales. it will continue to blow a gale out west. those winds will very gradually ease down as we get temperatures, to start off monday, 7 to 10 degrees, so it's a frost—free start to the day. we start off, though, with rain still across east anglia and south—east england. slow to pull away here.

temperatures stay mild, 10 to 13 degrees your highs through the afternoon. that's about four above average, for example, eastern wales probably seeing relatively few showers and mostly dry weather with some sunshine. temperatures stilljust running a degree or two above average for the time of year. of low pressure is set to move across the country, bringing to 10 degrees celsius. but there'll probably be some frost as we head through thursday night and into friday morning. bye for now.

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