and a good day of leicester rugby too. tigers coming back to edge a thriller against bath, in the premiership. hello and welcome to sportsday, i'm gavin ramjaun. manchester city proved why they're still very much title contenders today after a 3—0 demolition of chelsea at stamford bridge. pep guardiola was missing five first team regulars due to coronavirus with others isolating. and they were up against a strong chelsea side, also chasing the chance to move into the top four. city did the damage in the first half. ilkay gundogan got their first, with a cool finish to get them on their way. that was closely followed by phil foden, the england man with a neat strike a couple of minutes later, to put city two up. and kevin de bruyne made it three before half—time, a breakaway led by raheem sterling, who's shot cannoned off the post, and falling nicely for the belgian. chelsea, who've lost 4 of their last 6 in the league couldn't trouble guardiola's side. man city go 5th and have a game in hand on leaders liverpool and manche

leicester are very much up there, too. and nowjust a point off the league leaders after holding off a late newcastle fightback. 0ur sports correspondent natalie pirks reports. fit and fresh and ready to go. brendan rodgers was convinced that the seven changes he made to his leicester side would get 2021 off to a flying start. the smart money was onjamie vardy to start the party. the magpies saved by the offside flag. leicester needed to find a way to unlock the stalemate and finally, the second half, came a moment of real quality. sterling work byjamie vardy, laid it on a plate. steve bruce has a poor home record against leicester and his problems were compounded by a pitch perfect pass to tee up tielemans. newcastle needed a threat. step forward andy carroll. but it had been a decade since he last scored for newcastle. he couldn't, could he? his immediate impact led to a nervy final few minutes, but it was too little too late for newcastle. a 2—1 win saw leicester back to third. so, newcastle missing the chance to pull cl

leicester ahead in a flash of brilliance. and just before the break, it was 2—0.helsea dithered, james maddison didn't, and the foxes could sense that premier league summit. and the second half soon brought them more chances. jamesjustin really should have put leicester out of sight, as chelsea struggled for any real spark, with the exception of their keeper's reflexes. edouard mendy sparing them a heavier defeat. 2—0, though, was enough for leicester to go top of the table and five years after they famously won the title, in this strange season, well, you just never know... andy swiss, bbc news. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. she sings. # the minorfall in the major # the minor fall in the major lift. not through the baffled king composing hallelujah # hallelujah. # hallelujah # hallelujah # i know that there's a god above # and all i've ever from love # is how to shoot at someone who outgrew you # it's not a cry you here at night # it's not someone who has seen the light # it's a cold and it's a broken halleluj

lurking just behind the leaders is leicester city. game against leeds united billed as two of the premier league's top entertainers. it took a little over 12 minutes to see just why. the surging run and then the finish from lester's harvey barnes. it was a lead that lasted mere moments. leeds with a excellent team goal of their own. stuart dallas levelling the scores. narrow offside decisions ruled out goes for both sides the break. but leeds did eventually find a way through again, and when it came it was quite brilliant. patrick bamford with an unstoppable finish. having scored that, he then found space and opportunity for another, choosing instead to offer jack harris an empty net. leicester could have gone second. today, though, just second best. that left liverpool with an opportunity to overtake them, but against west ham taking that opportunity took some time. until the second half, mo salah with the individual effort. if that was good, his second was outstanding. liverpool taking the ball from one end of the pitch to the other

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leicester city have gone top of the premier league.a much better start. wilfried ndidi certainly enjoyed it. leicester ahead in a flash of brilliance. and just before the break, it was 2—0. chelsea dithered, james maddison didn't, and the foxes could sense that premier league summit. and the second half soon brought them more chances. jamesjustin really should have put leicester out of sight, as chelsea struggled for any real spark, with the exception of their keeper's reflexes. edouard mendy sparing them a heavier defeat. 2—0, though, was enough for leicester to go top of the table and five years after they famously won the title, in this strange season, well, you just never know... andy swiss, bbc news. west ham's great start to 2021 continued with a win over west bromwich albion. their third win in a row took them up to seventh in the premier league. jarrod bowen put them ahead on the stroke of half—time. west brom came back though and equalised through this great strike from matheus pereira. but they weren't level for long — and th

so with that in the back of our mind julian tang from from the university of leicester there is talk about combining different vaccines to make up for shortages or even booster vaccines efficacy is that safe has the been done before. and so we've got some experience with the new macbook about it seems we have perth now are 7 since rex $10.13 mixing and matching is in the doses certainly in singapore though in that without a trial if the back is taught the same antigen the protein where the delivered by m.r. nay or primary and no virus or even supply protein vaccines like the flu based vaccine design i think the minister even if it is the will be fine do you feel that people will trust this kind because this this is all going extremely fast and on the fact that we have a vaccine already within a year do you think that people will trust all those different combinations. so they will have to explain to the people and make them understand more about the vaccines to give him the confidence that in fact what we do is just to live in the same antigen and use the same immune response we just

so with that in the back of our mind julian tang from from the university of leicester there is talk about combining different vaccines to make up for shortages or even booster vaccines efficacy is that safe has this to been done before. and so we've got some experience with a new book about since we have perth nar 7 since rex $10.13 mixing and matching is on the doses certainly in singapore though in that without much harm if the box is taught the same antigen the protein with the delivery by m.r. nay or primary and no virus or even supply protein vaccines like the flu. vaccine design i think the minister even if it is the will be fine do you feel that people will trust this kind because this this is all going extremely fast and on the fact that we have a vaccine already within a year do you think that people will trust all those different combinations. so then you have to explain to the people and make them understand more about the vaccines to give him the confidence that in fact what we do is just delivering the same antigen and use the same immune response we just slightly diffe

lampard and his side — who've lost 5 of their last 8 premier league games.... including defeat to leicesterday. craig templeton reports. the fa cup is a competition that provide many things. frank lampard might have been wishing it would provide distraction. but in truth, prior to the game, the main distraction was the difficult conditions. but the sky cleared up and with the pitch cleaned up, it wasn't long before chelsea were clean through. werner unselfishly to abraham, simple, right? well, not exactly, as replay showed there were 2 balls on the pitch the build—up. luton far from happy. and their mood was not improved when it james scoop to the ice for abraham's second goal. two goals in the opening 16. luton managed to find a way back tojordan clark, although not for the first time. he could've done better. you would've thought luton would've been itching to restart after that goal, but they were nearly five minutes late for the second half. when play did finally continue, it was capa who got his timing is right. a massive opportunity missed. it would be proved to be costly as chelsea p

so with that in the back of our mind julian tang from from the university of leicester there is talk about combining different vaccines to make up for shortages or even boosting vaccines if it is a is that safe has the been done before. so we've got some experience with the new macbook about since we have perth nar 7 since rex $10.13 mixing and matching is on the doses certainly in singapore though in that without a trial if the box is thought the same antigen the s. protein with a little m.r. nay or primary and the virus or even supply protein vaccines like the flu. vaccine design i think the minister even if it is the will be fine do you feel that people will trust this kind because this this is all going extremely fast and on the fact that we have a vaccine already within a year do you think that people will trust all those different combinations. so they will not explain to the people and make them understand more about the vaccines to give him the confidence that in fact what we do is just delivering the same antigen and use the same immune response with just slightly different

so with that in the back of our mind julian tang from from the university of leicester there is talk about combining different vaccines to make up for shortages or even boost in vaccines efficacy is that safe has this been done before. and so we've got some experience with the new macbook about the scenes we have perth nar 7 since rex $10.13 mixing and matching is on the doses certainly in singapore though in that without a trial if the box is taught the same antigen the protein with the delivered by m.r. nay or primary and no virus or even supply protein vaccines like the flu. vaccine design i think the minister even if it is the will be fine do you feel that people will trust this kind because this this is all going extremely fast and on the fact that we have a vaccine already within a year do you think that people will trust all those different combinations. so they would have to explain to the people and make them understand more about the vaccines to give him the confidence that in fact what we do is just delivering the same antigen and use the same immune response with just sli

lampard and his side who've lost five of their last eight premier league games including defeat to leicestere fa cup is a competition that provide many things. frank lampard might have been wishing it would provide distraction. but in truth, prior to the game there may distraction it was the difficult conditions. but the sky cleared up and with the pits cleaned up, it wasn't long before chelsea were clean through. werner unselfishly to abraham, simple, right? well, not exactly, is replaced so they were effects to balls on the pitch the build—up. putin farfrom happy. effects to balls on the pitch the build—up. putinfarfrom happy. in their mood was not improved when it reached james scoop to the ice for tammy abraham second goal. two goals in the opening — tammy abraham second goal. two goals in the opening 16 — tammy abraham second goal. two goals in the opening 16 xmas _ tammy abraham second goal. two goals in the opening 16 xmas lieutenant - in the opening 16 xmas lieutenant managed to find a way back tojordan clark, although not for the first time. ., . ., �* ., time. -- luton. he could've

leicester city against newcastle united has not long finished. into third in the english premier league table. all the goals coming in the second half — youri tielemans and james maddison putting leicester 2 up, before andy carroll gave newcastle some hope. so, confirmation of that results. and kicking off in the next 15 minutes or so it's chelsea against manchester city — a big game for both sides as they look to break into the top four. city will be investigating a breach of coronavirus rules by benjamin mendy, who hosted a new year's eve dinner party. we are less in touch, the players are not in the locker room any more right now and... just... we see us in the training, on the pitch, and it is what it is. so we will have another squad to go there and try to compete against a tough opening, you know, with chelsea, how it is. and we are going there to play our game. football's world governing body fifa has announced that kieran trippier‘s io—week ban for breaching betting rules has been suspended pending an appeal. the atletico madrid defender

leicester tigers came from behind to beat bath 36—31 at welford road.putting them into a lead they never relinquished. they're now seventh in the table. bath are ninth. there are four englishmen in big bash action right now as alex hales, lewis gregory, sam billings and joe denly are playing in the game involving brisbane heat and sydney thunder. you can listen to that on 5 live sports extra. already today, the world's best t20 batsman, dawid malan, was powerless to prevent hobart hurricanes losing to melbourne stars. he made 26 as the hurricanes fell 11 short of their target of 18a. and finally — bad fog forced oldham's match against forest green to be cancelled at the weekend. they didn't have to contend with the storms of portugal luckily. quite how the match between santa clara and benfica started — we're not quite sure. after five minutes of splashing around in the puddles, and the rain showing no sign of stopping — the referee eventually saw sense and called the game off. familiar scenes in northern england! that's all the sport for now. thank you

it is into the second half, leicester have a 1—0 lead and if discourse stays like that leicester willssed a penalty as borussia dortmund were held to a 1—1 draw at home by mainz. elsewhere rb leipzig�*s 2—2 draw with wolfsburg means champions bayern munich can stretch their lead at the top of the table to four points if they beat freiberg on sunday. mesut ozil is close to ending his eight year stint at arsenal. the german midfielder is reportedly set to agree a termination of his deal with the london club, a contract which still has six months to run. ozil is expected to join the turkish side fenerbahce. the 32—year—old hasn�*t played for arsenal in the league since march last year. australia are in control heading into day 3 of the decisive fourth test against india at the gabba in brisbane. australia have a first innings lead of 307 runs. the series is tied at 1—1. australia were bowled out for 369 — captain tim paine making 50. india, without several key players, were reliant on the likes of washington sundar to take wickets. he got three for 89. in reply, rohit sharma started fast

so with that in the back of our mind julian tang from from the university of leicester there is talk about combining different vaccines to make up for shortages or even boost in vaccines efficacy is that safe has this been done before. and so we've got some experience with the new macbook about the scenes we have proven our 7 sins are x. $10.13 mixing and matching is on the doses certainly in singapore though in that without much harm if the box is taught the same antigen the protein but the delivered by m.r. nay or primary and no virus or even supply protein vaccines like the flu based vaccine design i think the minister even if it is the will be fine do you feel that people will trust this kind is this this is all going extremely fast and on the fact that we have a vaccine already within a year do you think that people will trust all those different combinations. so they will have to explain to the people and make them understand more about the vaccines to give him the confidence that in fact what we do is just delivering the same antigen and use the same immune response we just sl

at 8.15pm, it's leicester against chelsea. be an intriguing one at the king power — especially when it comes to the differing fortunes the strikers. injamie vardy, leicester have a man who has 11 goals this season and has been so consistent over the last few years. boss brendan rodgers hopes he'll be fit tonight, and has admitted they've had to start thinking about life after vardy. my myjob is to maximize the best we can get out ofjamie vardy while he's here. and hopefully in my time here, we've shown that he's been continuing with that development. i still feel, even at that age, he can still feel, even at that age, he can still improve and develop the game on and off the field. he's consistently showed that to me, he's absolutely brilliant. but of course, the backdrop to it is that the club will always have to be looking forward in planning forward — not just forjamie's position, but every position. so it's always a process with every player. as for chelsea, manager frank lampard is still trying to get the best out of timo

leicester university graduate and poet rory waterman believes students need access to the full range of literature and history of their country a.c.t writes is he still relevant and yes he's the father of english next year in my with the fact that he wrote a long time ago to make him irrelevant may still an inspiration to write his now there are blockbuster adaptations a barrel to another med able to next 3 to one stuff and if you think many rich tunes just sort of the gods they are in god obsessed with those talking jibberish and you just study my what you missing me don't want you talking about is this you know it's not elites a state it's history it's our history and how can they way you are how can you know way of caring if you don't really being a main concern is less the university has a good reputation rightly say it isn't one of the very early inverse d's and it mainly attracts state school students and it's rats were being averse to like that teaching a full range of english literature don't know students decide to learn about wonderful history in the church from the past i

all the goals coming in the second half — youri tielemans and james maddison putting leicester two ups real at the top of la liga on sunday, beating alaves 2—i. barcelona will be looking to return to winning ways in spain's top flight when they continue their campaign away to struggling huesca. a short time ago they were leading i—0, thanks to frenkie dejong. the catalan giants will climb to fifth with a win. bayern munich kicked off the new year with a win and move back to the top of the german bundesliga with a 5—2 defeat of mainz. a robert lewandowski double after the break ensured it was a happy return that stretches their unbeaten run in germany's top flight to 12 games. england wingerjadon sancho set up the opener and scored his first goal of the season as borussia dortmund beat wolfsburg. that's all the sport for now. thank you, john. the gerry and the pacemakers singer, gerry marsden, has died at the age of 78. he's perhaps best known for his hit "you'll never walk alone," — which has been sung by liverpool football fans for decades. daniela relph looks back at his life. # wal

out leicester due to pandemic, a quarter of a million jobs and wiped out leicester due to pandemic,ny of those jobs will come back. you of those “obs will come back. you can look of those jobs will come back. you can look at _ of those jobs will come back. you can look at certain _ of those jobs will come back. gm. can look at certain industries and see that, hopefully, airlines, travel, hospitality, they will come back, but how long we're going to be the formal lockdown, as katy was just saying, as all these new those jobs are waiting to come back. then there somejobs those jobs are waiting to come back. then there some jobs that are never going to come back, because as most economists will tell you, what covid has done is accelerated what was going to happen anyway — in other words, more to do —— or digitalisation. we are the perfect illustration of that. katy and i have not come to the studios, we have not used taxis to get to the studio, so you can see every single thing we do know might have an impact onjobs, and wejust thing we do know might have an impact on jobs, and we just

marcelo bielsa's side stay mid table after the victory, while leicester slip to fourth.ndon stone after a 2—under parfinal round. the four—time ryder cup player has now put himself in contention for a call—up when europe face the united states later this year. it's casey's 15th tour title. 15 winds is pretty good, i wanted 15. 2019 was the last, ijust wanted that to 15. it's one of the coolest trophies in golf, is it? there are smaller and more important, but it's one of the iconic trophies without a doubt. i'm very thankful to be able to do what i do and still be out here playing golf. we had some fans this week, so to have something like this week, so to have something like this happen, hopefully that can bring happiness to other people as well. australia could step—in to host the british and irish lions series in south africa later this year. the lions are due to take—on the world champions injuly and august but concerns over the emergence of a new variant of the covid virus in south africa, has put the tour in doubt. the chairman of rugby australia says profits would

hello, i'm gavin ramjaun — and this is your wednesday sport briefing. )leicester city went top of theit's a result that puts more pressure on chelsea boss frank lampard whose side underperformed again. leicester took the lead early on through wilfried ndidi and james maddison put them two up before half time. that's how it finished — leicesterjumping above manchester united and now lead the way. chelsea drop to 8th. we are not in good form, that is clear tonight. but we could do better. we know that. i'm not going to go set up any other way. not going to go set up any other way-— not going to go set up any other way. not going to go set up any otherwa . ., ., , .,, ., other way. how do you snap out of not digging — other way. how do you snap out of not digging in _ other way. how do you snap out of not digging in good _ other way. how do you snap out of not digging in good form? - of not digging in good form? running _ of not digging in good form? running. it's important the players bounce back. this is what the younger players will really feel. this is the cutthroat nature of what is

leicester will go second if they beat leeds.to third with a win at west ham or if they lose the hammers willjump above them. sixth placed spurs are at brighton later. it's so tight at the top, manchester city will be top by at least two points with a game in hand whatever happens. city could run they are in a good position with one game in hand. playing good football again, these kind of things, so i don't know. i don't know how many points there are still there to get. we will see that as well. what we see is it's a difficult season for all teams, may apart from west ham and leicester looked pretty good as well. a lot of teams are good but we all have our ups and downs. teams are good but we all have our ups and downs-— ups and downs. that should be an interesting _ ups and downs. that should be an interesting afternoon. _ there are three matches in the women's super league today. champions chelsea are at home to tottenham. and are leading 2—0 thanks to this cracking strike from germany midfielder melanie leupolz and the second

they'll play either leicester or bretford next.er rovers — they were ahead by the second minute thanks to pablo fornals. andriy yarmolenko�*s calm finish after he raced on to benrahma's through ball later in the first half ended any hopes of an upset. man united or liverpool await them next. bottom of the league sheffield united beat plymouth 2—0. billy sharp made one and scored one, first setting up a chris basham header, then going around michael cooper to score. they play at home to championship side bristol city, their result coming up. swansea city made light work of nottingham forest in one of the all—championship affairs. they won 5—1 at the liberty stadium, with liam cullen and matt grimes scoring two goals apiece. barnsley are through to the fifth round after callum styles scored the only goal of their tie with norwich. it's chelsea or luton next for them. bristol city are through after beating millwall 3—0 at the den, antoine semenyo rounding off the scoring. city through to the fa cup fifth round for only the second time

later leicester take on southampton celtic dropped more points today and are still 20 points behind their nil nil at home to livingston. rangers are at motherwell tomorrow. hamilton drew with dundee united, elsewhere there were wins for hibernian ross county and stjohnstone arsenal midfielder mesut ozil is close to completing a move to turkish club fenerbahce. ozil still has half a season left on his arsenal contract but both parties are in advanced talks to terminate it. ozil has not played for arsenal since last march. ben ainslie�*s, in—eos team uk, continue to make solid progress in their bid to qualify for the americas cup... they've now won their opening three races of the challenger series in auckland. and 20—year—old yan bingtao from china has knocked out the defending champion stuart bingham 6—5 to reach the final of snooker�*s masters. yan will face the winner of tonight's semi between john higgins and david gilbert. that's live on the bbc at seven o'clock. the leading women's basketball team in the country, the sevenoaks suns, have announced they will pull out of all their matc

leicester take on southampton in the late kick—off, that gets under way shortly.oints behind their old firm rivals rangers at the top of the scottish premiership. neil lennon's side drew nil nil at home to livingston. rangers are at motherwell tomorrow. hamilton drew with dundee united, elsewhere there were wins for hibernian and stjohnstone ross county beat an out of sorts aberdeen 4—1. the victory takes county off the bottom of the premiership table and was their first home league win since the opening day of the season. 0li shaw scored twice for county — the first of them in less than a minute. aberdeen drop down to fourth. arsenal midfielder mesut 0zil is close to completing a move to turkish club fenerbahce. 0zil still has half a season left on his arsenal contract but both parties are in advanced talks to terminate it. 0zil has not played for arsenal since last march.. manchester city women have added a third world cup winner to their squad — they've signed abby dahlkemper until 2023. she joins her her usa team—mates sam mewis and rose lavelle, who both sign

newcastle did pull one back, but leicester held on.they never relinquished. they're now seventh in the table, bath are ninth. snooker‘s masters event — starting onjanuary the 10th — has been moved from the alexandra palace to milton keynes so that strict covid—19 regulations can be followed. the tournament features the world's top 16 players, with stuart bingham defending the title against the likes ofjudd trump, ronnie 0'sullivan, neil robertson, john higgins and mark selby. all players will be tested the day before their first match, and will remain within the bubble as long as they are participating in the tournament. cricket now, and australia bowler nathan lyon says players just need to "suck it up and get on with it" ahead of potentially stricter quarantine measures for their fourth test against india in brisbane. the teams play the third match in sydney this week, but the fourth and last match in queensland would see the players forced to abide by stricter biosecurity protocols. in my eyes, it is very small sacrifice for us to g

to watch our great football tea m leicester to watch our great football team when we are allowed andwell—being of our children, some are planned to get children back safely asa planned to get children back safely as a priority. to get children back you cannot access learning public from home. there will be children at risk of abuse and violence. members might know, i have spoken of my own experiences growing up in a home with a parent who had a problem with alcohol. many children will be facing the prospect of being locked in their homes who abuses a drink or drugs, so can i urge ministers to work with and fund those children's advocacy and support groups such as the national association for children of alcoholics, which i have worked with closely, who have been doing so much throughout this lockdown, but today, i agree with the secretary of state. we do u nfortu nately have the secretary of state. we do unfortunately have to restrict freedoms further in order to safeguard freedoms for the future and save lives. as the secretary of state said, the tragic reality is the virus is out o

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she and her mother maria were struggling to breathe and were admitted to leicester royal infirmary. brought together in intensive care, but less than 2a hours later, maria died. it's literallyjust tore my family into tiny pieces. i understand everyone‘s situation is different, and we are at different points in our lives. butjust to take a moment, to put yourself in my shoes, and if that would make you perhaps rethink what you're going to do that day. london hospitals are under extreme pressure, and it's the same in other areas of southern england. in the south east, total covid patient numbers in hospitals are now well above where they were at the peak last april. and it's a similar story in the east of england, with patient numbers rising rapidly in recent weeks. the chief executive of the countess of chester hospital said 40% of beds were occupied by covid patients and stressed there was a problem affecting more areas than just london. community leaders in cumbria, meanwhile, warned that the situation was getting worse. it's extremely serious. the risk to the hospitals in the nort

joins us live from leicester by skype to time welcome to the program 2000000 people dead from corona virus did you imagine one year ago that this is how it would be. well know that this is a new virus to which no one really has any meaning to see and deficit would go into the winter season where these were specially processed traditionally peak personally we get fully vaccinated for we go into the peak of the flu season and it can be current a virus vaccine have come out rather late so if you put all of that together the winter season that belowdecks anation indoor crowding that comes with the winter season this type of peak in mortality more but if he's probably not that surprising and also most of the operators them are immune about 80 percent of populations are closer to bill and the vaccine is not wrote up very widely yet so this delay in the face of rollout in europe. is also worried right to what degree is who is it to worry what bothers you about it. well if you might in the virus incubation period like $5.00 to $7.00 days with a generation time of street to 7 days so in that

well, sale are second after a 25—15 victory over leicester.ar, produced some of his best form to reach the last four, where he'll now meet barry hawkins for a place in the final. and that's all for sport for now. hello. it's going to be a cold weekend across the whole of the uk. some of us are in for rain, but there is also sleet and snow in the forecast. at this time, the snow should fall mostly across the hills. now, this is what the morning looks like. in the north of the country, it's actually going to start off clear and very cold. temperatures in the scottish glens could be even as low as —10 celsius. now, across the southern parts of the uk, it starts wet. there will be sleet and snow across the welsh hills, but i think for most of us, we are talking about rain, maybe occasional sleet. now, northern england, northern ireland and scotland should have a much brighter day. temperatures here will be around 4 degrees, and there will be a very chilly, not cold, east to north easterly wind. and the rain eventually should fizzle away as well as

leicester strikerjamie vardy faces a spell out after undergoing surgery on a hernia, whilst manchesterinst aston villa. mick mccarthy has been named as cardiff's new manager. the former republic of ireland, sunderland and wolves boss takes over following the sacking of neil harris, who left the club on thursday following six successive defeats. david beckham says phil neville's been appointed as inter miami's new head coach as he's "the right man for the job" and not because of their friendship. neville was unveiled today as the new boss of the major league soccer club, co—owned by his former england and manchester united team—mate, after stepping down as the manager of england women: his experience comes from playing with some of the best players in the world and being managed and coached by the best coaches and managers within the game and i have no doubt thatis within the game and i have no doubt that is where his experience lies and we have full confidence because he would not have made this decision to bring phil and at this level if we didn't know his capabilities. it's been toug

they're actually doing their job to protect the city as opposed to you know they are prepared like leicester. and the fans it's all hands on deck. with soldiers from 11 states have arrived in washington d.c. they are organizing their equipment checking their weapons and getting ready in case violence returns to the city. they still don't know for how long they will stay deployed here. but the ones who spoke to us say they are proud to be here and to defend their democracy. but it's also a logistical challenge. for now they're waiting this might look like a military base but we're actually in the heart of the capitol building the soldiers are resting here they're having lunch and they're getting prepared for generally trying to inauguration day. nobody knows what awaits them. the folds still bears signs of last week's riots. or. progress through. her. and now they are here to fix. here in germany chancery mackesy vu party is about to elect a new leader it's a key vote that will shape the party's future direction and could potentially represent a 1st step towards determining the next chancello

his test results after his side's win over liverpool 10 days ago and will miss their game against leicesterclosed their training ground last week after a number of positive tests. last night's game against tottenham was called off while sunday's match at home to everton is also now off. the olympic hurdles champion brianna mcneal has been eggs of all opted to give themselves more time to prepare, the grand final at the end of the season will still be held on the 9th of october. the olympic hurdles champion brianna mcneal has been provisionally suspended for a violation of anti—doping rules. the charge relates to the tampering or attempted tampering with the testing process. it carries a ban of up to four years, but because mcneal has been banned in the past that could be doubled to 8 years. world number 13 dave gilbert is through to the semi—finals at snooker�*s masters — for the second time in two years at the tournament. he came from behind to force a decider against kyren wilson, to win the match 6—5. tonight defending champion stuart bingham takes on shaun murphy, live on bbc two and th

it would be a good idea but clearly a very poorly misinformed and is this really the best way of leicester police bending their time and efforts in making videos. meanwhile in parts of the u.k. police are applying even tougher measures to those breaching pandemic restrictions officers are using not only the power of words and fines but also arrests to deal with demonstrators. well. dozens of people gathered to protest toughened lockdown measures in birmingham and initially peaceful small demonstration resulted in at least 4 people forcefully taken into custody demonstrators reacted to the authorities response by moving the rally to a different location thousands of people showed up for an anti protest. protest in the austrian capital this weekend this follows a government discussion on whether to extend restrictions with the decision expected to be announced on sunday austria has been under strict lockdown measures since the end of december. mass protests have renewed in the french capital over a controversial global security bill opponents claim the bill that criminalizes the publication

leicester strikerjamie vardy faces a spell out after undergoing surgery on a hernia.e sustained during wednesday's 2—0 win against aston villa. he could miss up to ten matches, including the champions league last—16first—leg tie with borussia monchengladbach. under pressure real madrid manager zinedine zidane has tested positive for coronavirus. real issued a short statement announcing that zidane had the virus, but have given no further information about his condition or impact on the playing squad. manchester united women have signed norwegian international defender maria thorisdottir from title rivals chelsea on a two—and—a—half year contract. she joins casey stoney�*s side having made 22 appearances and scoring once for the reigning wsl champions. next to the us — it's the championship weekend of the nfl play—offs. four teams are competing to reach super bowl 55 which is in tampa bay, florida in just over a couple of weeks. the buffalo bills, who've had a great season, are at patrick mahomes' kansas city chiefs, the defending champions. whilst tom brady's tampa ba

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authorities feel they need to go much further in hammering home how serious the situation is where the leicester square center of london on a saturday tens of thousands of people pass through here ok nothing like those scenes now but still people are here they're milling about they're going to restaurants and cafes that are still offering takeaways so there are reasons for people to be here but exactly that is the cause for concern for many scientists because of this new strain of the virus that's 30 percent more transmissible them the 1st variety the feeling is that we need to go much much further to be able to hammer down the increase in cases according to a study the mayor of london as many as one in 20 in london now have the virus there are also some new figures out to suggest that in certain parts of the city in the east and south of the barking and dagenham middle east the number could be much worse than one in 16 according to one source and the real concern of the reason why the national lockdown was introduced in the 1st place is concerns about this new strain spreading beyond london to

also into the fifth round are leicester, chelsea and everton and burnley came out on top in another allhnstone in the scottish league cup final after they beat st mirren 1—0 at hampden. scott robinson with the goal. and manchester united returned to the top of the women's super league. leah galton with their first in a 2—0 win over birmingham city. manchester city won 7—1 at brighton. captainjoe root produced another batting masterclass, as england finished day three of the second test 42 runs behind sri lanka. after his matchwinning score in the series opener, his innings of 186 today leaves the second test finely balanced, asjoe wilson reports. joe root, england's inspiration, from sunrise to sunset — almost. without his batting, the cause would already be lost. once more, the captain displayed his mastery of the situation and the conditions. you have to adapt in sri lanka. there are things here you would never see at lord's. look, not wearing a tie. jos buttler was root�*s chief supporter. he made 55 before he was out like this. the replays proved the ball went from bat to boot to fi

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