and anthony crolla's final fight before retirement will be against the spaniard frank orkeaga next month says all the pressure is off his side, ahead of their semi—final against new zealand on saturday in the rugby world cup. the all—blacks start as firm favourites. from tokyo, here's our sports editor, dan roan. preparing for the game of their lives, they trained in the range is one when away from a first world cup final ini2 one when away from a first world cup final in 12 years and all it stands is to make in their way, but the man believes his team is nothing to lose. do you think that they're under more pressure than new england? we don't have any pressure. no one thinks we can win. new zealand talk about them walking towards the pressure, blood this week, the pressure is going be chasing them down the street. that is the reality of it. the convincing court of final victory at the weekend was a defining moment in his tenure, but he now seems intent on trying to unsettle a team he describes as the greatest in the history of sport. they have to deal with all this pressure of winning t

anthony crolla's final fight before retirement will be before the spaniard next month.ght champion will fight for the vacant wba continental title in his home city at the manchester arena on the 2nd of november, that is where he made his professional debut 13 years ago. the 32—year—old challenge for the world title earlier this year but lost. that is all your support for now, good night. hello there. tuesday was a dry day up and down the country. more sunshine around so it felt warmer particularly in the south and that was down to a ridge of high pressure which was to be with us for wednesday morning. low—pressure to the north—west. this weather front across the south—east perhaps bring one or two showers here. certainly weather when you look out to the north—west. the cloud will increase in the staff is because of that weather front and the rain will pep up across northern and western scotland and northern ireland but with the best of the sunshine. those temperatures ranging 12-15d sunshine. those temperatures ranging 12—15d once again. as we had through wednesday even

anthony crolla's final fight before retirement will be against the spaniard frank urquiaga next monthhampion will be fighting for the vacant wba continental title in his home city at the manchester arena on 2nd november. that's where he made his professional debut 13 years ago. the 32—year—old challenged for the world title earlier this year but lost to vasyl lomachenko. scotland's cricketers have had another blow to their chances of making the t20 world cup, with a surprise 24 run defeat to namibia in the qualifying tournament. namibia hadn't previously won a match in the competition, but that's two defeats in a row for scotland after they lost to singapore on friday. they're now fourth in their group. only six teams from two groups go through to next year's world cup in australia. we'll have more for you in sportsday at 6.30. thank you. the time is 5. 34. more now on our top story and the prime minister has threatened to abandon the draft legislation to turn his brexit deal into law, unless mps agree to get it through the commons by thursday night. a vote on the government's three—d

anthony crolla's final fight before retirement will be against the spaniard frank urquiaga next month to you simon. it was good to get some support in there it's a busy day investment step. let's go back into the chamber. sam is on his feet for the dup, let us hearfrom him. that move towards taking back something, let's look at the facts about northern ireland. we will be left in the arrangement whereby eu law on all trade, goods, etc will be applied to northern ireland. we will be in applied to northern ireland. we will beina applied to northern ireland. we will be in a situation where we would be subject despite what the prime minister says to the full implementation of the eu customs regulations. and that means that goods moving from gbm to northern ireland will be subject to declarations, checks, tariffs being imposed and now we find out yesterday that despite the promise of unfettered access to the uk market, the checks will occur in the opposite direction for those thousands of firms in northern ireland who currently exploit to gb don't face any impediments and their face them.