yes. lam iamat i am at leicester tigers now. work out the distance between leicester and leeds.ombine the two. should have 6—9 months of training. but the reality is, people were diagnosed don't always get 6—9 months. we had just got to go for it. here is a very special message from you. from rob. well, mate, crazy challenge — from rob. well, mate, crazy challenge is _ from rob. well, mate, crazy challenge is i _ from rob. well, mate, crazy challenge is i would - from rob. well, mate, crazy challenge is i would say - from rob. well, mate, crazyj challenge is i would say good from rob. well, mate, crazy- challenge is i would say good luck, but i know — challenge is i would say good luck, but i know you _ challenge is i would say good luck, but i know you will _ challenge is i would say good luck, but i know you will absolutely - challenge is i would say good luck, i but i know you will absolutely smash it. i often say i would do the same for you, but these challenges . are beyond my means. i know my family will be behind you, and i think the whole _ country is as well. on the beh

holders leicester city are away to nottingham forest.nited—aston villa match on monday will host middlesbrough. championship side cardiff will visit liverpool. manchester city will host fulham while brighton travel to tottenham and wolves welcome norwich city. so the fixtures coming in thick and fast. no respite at this time of year, and in the last hour, it's been announced that everton�*s premier league match against leicester on tuesday has been postponed. leicester do not have the required number of players available, due to covid—19 cases, injuries and players on international duty at the africa cup of nations. birmingham city pulled off the shock of the season in the women's super league. they beat the league leaders arsenal. libby smith put them ahead afterjust three minutes with this effort before viatriki sarri doubled that lead just before half—time. it's birmingham's first victory of the season while arsenal suffer their first defeat. birmingham are now out of the relegation zone. manchester city thrashed brighton 6—0 to secur

and what a season, on the field, it's been for leicester tigers.o be the best team in england. leicester can be no covers the season, but wasps stop them in their tracks. they had got off to the ideal start stop in the fourth minute, the referee spotted enough people tackle. penalty try to wasps. leicester roping to —— were hoping to equal a club record in consecutive wins. the egalite officials spotted a foul in the build up to this try — no try. the tigers had dominated the first half and deserve the score that finally put them ahead, converted by george ford, 13—11 to leicester, but two second—half penalties put wasps back into the lead, 16—13 add those to him and try as they might, leicester could not rake them down, conceding a penalty with a final meaningful attack, wasps celebrated a harder to victory. —— hard earned victory. drew savage, bbc news. what a win for them. elsewhere, bottom side bath recorded their first premiership win of the season despite a gallant effort from worcester, who played almost the whole match with 1a men. 22—19, i

yeah, i'm at leicester tigers now. you work out the distance between leicester and leeds, and you get to around that 100—mile mark and you go, "well, we'll combine the two." should have six to nine months of training. but the reality is, people who are diagnosed with mnd don't always get six to nine months and we've just got to go for it. here is a very special message for you from rob. well, mate, another crazy challenge is approaching. i i would say good luck, - but i know you will absolutely smash it. i often say, "i would do - the same for you," but these challenges are beyond my means. i know my family will behind you, and i think the whole . country is as well. on the behalf of me and all the sufferers out there, - thanks from the bottoms of our hearts. _ you are so highly thought of. i know you will smash some sort of record for 100 miles. - good luck, kev. ps, i deleted this by accident. and have to make this up again, so you better kill it! one of the first things kev spoke to us about when he arrived was when

building up leicester.ave, with the leeds_ team—mates, the bond we have, with the leeds community and doing that with leicester. i think that shows what he does. that inspires them to run. sort of bloke you want go into the trenches with. he will do anything for us. everyone here is proud of him. running through the night, sleep deprived, fatigued — we have to make sure he doesn't injure or hurt himself.

how would leicester response to the end of their unbeaten run?minutes. but they lead and led by 14 points at half—time. but leicester struck three more times. as they won a thrilling contest, 29 points to 28. guaranteed their place in the last 16. osprey�*s hopes of reaching the next stage were served a blow. the french side took control with three of their own to finish 25—10. exeter ran in eight tries. it was a hat—trick. and pretty awful visibility in the bay of biscay, where bath were beaten. no bonus point for bath. and one other champions cup game left tonight. that one kicks off in a short while at eight o'clock. on to snooker, and neil robertson fought back from 4—1 down. williams missed a key chance to claim victory late on and robertson capitalised on the shift in momentum which provided an extraordinary conclusion. robertson capitalised in the shift in momentum. roberston will now face either judd trump or barry hawkins in tomorrow's final. you can follow that semifinal at the moment on bbc two. 150th cap in the game. the other match,

leicester's geno crandall took home the mvp award agfter a 26—point performance.l, it's time for the film review. hello and welcome to the film review on bbc news. to take us through this week's cinema releases is mark kermode, as usual. so, mark, what do we have this week? packed week. we have parallel mothers, which is the new film by pedro almodovar. we have a new british horror movie, amulet. and sing 2 — more singing animals. that's quite the mixture. so, parallel mothers, lots of sort of excitement about almodovar�*s latest film. yes, and a nine—minute ovation when it premiered, i think, at venice. so, penelope cruz and milena smit are single mothers to be. they are sharing a room together in a hospital, they give birth together, their babies go into observation together, and when they leave hospital, they swap phone numbers. and perhaps a bit more. here is a clip. so, that's one strand of the story. in another strand, penelope cruz�*s character is trying to excavate a mass grave in her hometown from the civil war, so there are two stories. parallel mothers,

how would leicester response to the end of their unbeaten run? points at half—time. but leicester struck three more times. as they won a thrilling contest, 29 points to 28. guarantee their place in the last 16. 0sprey�*s hopes of leading the next stage were served a blow. the french side took control with three of their own to finish 25, ten. three more champions cup games today. time now for some of the day's other sport stories. england got their quad series up and running with a commanding 71—47 win over south africa at london's copper box. in the other match, world champions new zealand lost to australia, the silver ferns will play england tomorrow. cobblers dream won the big race of the day at kempton, the la nza rote hurdle. the 10—1 shot ridden byjack quinlan and trained by ben case came in ahead of highway 0ne 0h two and call me lord. and no—one could catch eclair surf over the 22 fences of the classic handicap steeple chase at warwick. tom bellamy guided the eight—year—old home by 13 lengths ahead of favourite jerrico roc. on to snooker,

leicester's geno crandall took home the mvp award agfter a 26—point performance.s been a very quiet month so far, this weekend has been stormy. saturday we sought storm malik, and now we have got to content with storm corrie, which is going to batter northern parts of the country this evening and overnight and even into the start of monday. so there it is, storm corrie coming in off the atlantic, squeezing the isobars as it moves across the north of the country through the overnight period. office yellow warning for the weather over much of the north of the country, up to 80 mph or more across the northern half of scotland where we have an amber warning in force. with that strong wind, a band of rain will spread south and east followed by blustery showers across the north and west, wintry over northern and western scotland, and also a risk of ice by the end of the night as it will be pretty cold. further south, less cold than what we have had the previous night. into monday, storm corrie clears away slowly, the strong winds eventually ease down but it will be a wi

yeah, i'm at leicester tigers now.ds, and you get to around that 100—mile mark and you go, "well, we'll combine the two." should have six to nine months of training. but the reality is, people who are diagnosed with mnd don't always get six to nine months and we've just got to go for it. here is a very special message for you from rob. well, mate, another crazy challenge is approaching. i i would say good luck, - but i know you will absolutely smash it. i often say, "i would do - the same for you," but these

building up leicester. when the have a bond with successful team—mates, the bond we have, with the leeds_ team—mates, the bond we have, with the leeds community and doing that with leicester. i think that shows what he does. that inspires them to run. sort of bloke you want go into the trenches with. he will do anything for us. everyone here is proud of him. running through the night, sleep deprived, fatigued — we have to make sure he doesn't injure or hurt himself. it's going to be tough and there are serious risks. kev will do it. he'll need the support of everybody. both his support team and everyone in the _ both his support team and everyone in the country to get behind him, but he _ in the country to get behind him, but he will— in the country to get behind him, but he will absolutely do it. we're not quite sure what everybody is going to do and how it will react, but some people don't have a choice. we won't have a choice when we start on monday. morning. applause. how are you feeling? good, thank yo

aston villa got a late winner at leicester.m were 2—0 up but lost 3—2 at reading. west ham beat everton 3—0. the last 16 knockout stage at the africa cup of nations is underway. burkina faso are the first team through to the quarterfinals. 1—1 after extra time in limbe they came through a penalty shootout against gabon. lydia campbell reports. to the end of the group stage comes the knockout, burkina faso and gabon with the order of getting things rolling in cameroon and with 15 minutes gone, it was burkina faso with the first big chance, a penalty given for this challenge, but striking the crossbar was traore. but they responded well to that squandered opportunity, traore this time with an inch perfect finish to open the scoring. in the second half, the bonnet made things much more difficult for themselves. sidney given a second yellow for this pull—back. only 1— 08 down, always a chance, and further gabon came... and with no goal in the extra 30 minutes, it came down to who could hold their nerve and with nine penalties each,

aston villa got a late winner at leicester. 3—2 at reading. west ham beat everton 3—0. arsenal face manchester city, hoping to move four points clear again — that one isjust about to get under way. the knockout stage at the africa cup of nations is under way. burkina faso against gabon the first of the last 16 ties. it finished 1—1 after extra time — burkina faso taking the lead before gabon�*s injury—time equaliser. gabon were down to ten men, but it's now a penalty shoot—out, where the next match in the last 16 kicks off in the next 15 minutes. nigeria, the only team with a 100% record in the group stage, are facing tunisia. let's have a quick look at some of the other headlines. in golf, belgian thomas pieters won the abu dhabi hsbc championship. he went round in level par in his final round to finish on ten under to win by a single shot. that's his sixth tour title. there was another wash—out in the women's ashes with the third t20 abandoned in adelaide. australia lead england 4—2 in the multi—format series and they will re

and they still somehow got time to steal the ball straight from the leicester kick—off, and in the 97th was finally a more routine winning scoreline for manchester united — they beat brentford 3—1. 19—year—old anthony elanga scored the opener when united had been under pressure for much of the game, and it wasn't all a happy evening for them off the pitch either — cristiano ronaldo visibly unhappy with being substituted late on. away from that issue, but staying with arsenal, the premier league is looking into a yellow card received by an arsenal player following reports of irregular betting patterns. the player in question hasn't been named and neither the club or the premier league are commenting. it's been reported that bookmakers flagged the unusual patterns away from that issue, but staying with arsenal, their manager mikel arteta has said he will defend his club tooth and nail, following criticism of their request to postpone the north london derby at the weekend. it comes as the premier league say they may change the criteria around postponement of matches, after allegations that

and leicester and brighton meet in a mid—table battle.third time in a month. cheslea won home and away in the league cup semifinal but spurs are unbeaten in the league under antonio conte. we are talking about a really good team and i don't know if this is the right moment. we have our problems, many injuries. in the last two games. we have to try to learn something about the past and to try to improve and try to give our best. chelsea women could have moved to a point behind wsl leaders arsenal, but were held to a goalless draw at brighton. striker fran kirby had the best chance of the match late in the second half, but couldn't get past brighton keeper megan walsh, who had a really good game. brighton had lost the previous four league games, chance missed by chelsea. there's a full programme in the wsl with all 12 teams in action. manchester united have moved above chelsea into second after a 3—0 win over tottenham. aston villa winning at the moment. birmingham and reading are level, as are west ham and everton. arsenal face manchester

in the women's super league, bottom of the table leicester beat brighton i—o — shannon o'brien the scorerarsenal if they can beat west ham in the late game. it's scoreless at half—time there. four games in the africa cup of nations today. defending champions algeria drawing with equitorial guinea in their second group game right now — ivory coast are still on course for the knockouts. arsenal's nicolas pepe thought he'd won it with that stike, but a bizarre equaliser gifted sierra leone a point. badra ali sangare got his knee caught on the pitch and allowed alhaji kamara to score, as sierra leone twice came from behind to draw 2—2. elsewhere, tunisia beat mauritania whilst gambia and mali played out a 1—1 draw. joe root says he wants to continue as england captain, despite their 4—0 hammering in the ashes. england were put out of their misery earlier, after an all—too—familiar batting collapse brought an end to the fifth and final test in hobart, as australia won by 146 runs. our sports correspondent joe wilson was watching. australia's cricketers summoned the spirit to celebrate in hobar

and a sting in the tail, as leicester lose their unbeaten record to a jubilant wasps in the premiershipe on this evening's show — and what better place to start than with another fantastic day in the fa cup third round? spurs and liverpool with given early scares by league one opposition, but ultimately came through to progress. ben croucher has this report. the magic of the fa cup. what does it look like? a team in the relegation zone of the third tier travelling the length of england to face a premier league team packed with international pedigree. morecambe were doing so without their manager, isolating after contracting covid—i9. what does it sound like? the league one side lead! incredible scenes at the away end! around 5,000 fans sent into raptures by antony o'connor. this wasn't spurs' strongest team, but it still had

no problems for leicester in all premier league clash with watford. and brighton also through. and a good win for league one wigan at home to blackburn. england will need to bat out the final day in the fourth ashes test in sydney if they're to avoid slipping to a fourth straight defeat in the series. jonny bairstow could only add ten more runs to his impressive total before australian batsmen usman khawaja hit another century, helping to set england an unlikely target of 388 for victory. patrick gearey reports. once ashes series are lost, the remaining tests are those of character. yesterday, jonny bairstow fought back. 0h, he's edged it. this morning he was caught behind. 113 runs scored, he had earned this exit. england were all out, trailing by 122, so now their troubled huddle had to slow australia down. mark wood could. he removed david warner and manus labuschagne, while jack leach finally found himself and some wickets, too. including steve smith, who almost counts double. but there was a bigger picture, and at the centre of the frame was usma

aston villa got a late winner at leicester.g everton. arsenal face manchester city later, hoping to move four points clear again. the quarterfinal line up at the australian open is beginning to take shape. ash barty, the world number one, is carrying a lot of expectation in the women's draw as she looks to become the first home champion in melbourne in 44 years. she's looking very strong in the tournament so far — earlier she beat the woman who knocked out naomi 0saka, the american amanda anisimova, 6—4, 6—3 to reach the last eight. barty still hasn't dropped a set in melbourne and will play jessica pegula next, who's also from the us, in the quarter—finals. rafael nadal is also through to the quarter—finals. he won in straight sets against adrian mannarino but had to endure an epic 28—minute first—set tie break, the longest in his career. next up for him is the canadian denis shapovalov, who stunned the third seed alexander zverev. if he is able to keep improving, he will be a multi—grand slam winner. he has a lot of amazing t

elsewhere, holders chelsea will welcome leicester to london.senal, will travel to championship table—toppers liverpool. the games will be played at the end of the month. formula 1 is to make covid—19 vaccines mandatory for all personnel this year. no—one will be able to work within the paddock without being fullyjabbed. the policy will apply to all personnel — which includes drivers — although that shouldn't affect their ability to compete as all are understood to be vaccinated already. and that's all the sport for now. from me, marc edwards and the rest of the team, bye—bye. hello. the week got off to a stormy start thanks to corrie. the winds have become a little lighter out there now, but for the rest of the week, it will still stay relatively windy, not perhaps as windy, though, as it was due monday. here is corrie come tuesday, menacing down in the middle of the mediterranean. another area of the pressure to the north of the uk will keep it windy here, particularly across scotland, but this weather front sinking south won't bring much in t

burnley�*s premier league match against leicester tomorrow has been postponed.rs and a goalkeeper, but they have a number of covid issues and injuries. everton versus chelsea in the women's super league on sunday is also off due to covid and injuries in the everton camp. covid continues to cause problems for the premier league. arsenal have requested the postponement of sunday's north london derby against tottenham due to a lack of available players. well burnley against leicester is already off but it is still a busy weekend in the premier league starting tonight with ninth place brighton hosting crystal palace.// the top two sides face each other brighton hosting crystal palace. the top two sides face each other in an intriguing encounter in saturday's early game. and our reporter maz farookhi watched pep guardiola's press conference for the football news show... conference for the football news show. he seems very concerned about increasing the location is within his squad. he missed the fa cup third round win but he says there are fresh cases in terms of whe

the italian, who famously guided leicester city to the premier league title in 2016, managed just twormanent head coach of the season. they take on bottom club burnley on sunday. in the past, we've had unknown names from abroad and some better—known names, people like nigel pearson. but yes, it's the 15th managerial appointment since the family took overin appointment since the family took over in 2012 — and of the last 11 watford managers, only one has been in charge for 50 games. one manager not going anywhere is brentford's thomas frank, who has extended his contract at the club until 2025. the dane, who took over as brentford manager in 2018, led the club to promotion to the premier league last season — ending a 74—year wait for top flight football. blackburn are up to second place in the championship, after beating middlesbrough at ewood park. sam gallagher pounced on a mistake in the boro defence to score the only goal of the game. blackburn have now won eight out of their last ten games. hosts cameroon are through to the quarterfinals of the africa cup of nations, after narrowl

and they still somehow got time to steal the ball straight from the leicester kick—off, and in the 97thbly unhappy with being substituted late on. the premier league is looking into a yellow card received by an arsenal player following reports of irregular betting patterns. the player in question hasn�*t been named and neither the club or the premier league are commenting. it�*s been reported that bookmakers flagged the unusual patterns to the football authorities. away from that issue, but staying with arsenal, their manager mikel arteta has said he will defend his club tooth and nail, following criticism of their request to postpone the north london derby at the weekend. it comes as the premier league say they may change the criteria around postponement of matches, after allegations that some clubs may have been manipulating the rules. arsenal said they didn�*t have enough players to compete against tottenham last weekend and were granted a postponement by the premier league. it allows games to be re—scheduled when clubs report a number of covid cases that stops them being able to fie

most of the weekend's third round fixtures take place tomorrow — including defending champions leicesterge — who are top of the national league but 91 places below last season's beaten finalists in the football pyramid. you can't lose any game in football that's why the game is so popular. —— can. you'll never hear me say we can't lose this would be hugely arrogant. we will be ready and we need to have a strong squad and the squad that is ready to enjoy these minutes. because if you want to reach the next round you need to win. the manchester city defender benjamin mendy has been released on bail ahead of his trialfor rape and sexual assault. the french international has been held in prison since august last year. he'll have to live at his home address, surrender his passport and not have contact with any of the people he is accused of attacking. he's been charged with seven counts of rape and one of sexual assault relating to five women. phillippe coutinho is back in the premier legaue. the brazilian midfielder�*s joined aston villa from barcelona, on loan until the end of the season, a

nigeria were the better side and scored the only goal of the game — a superb strike from leicester'sle in the same group guinea bissau missed a chance to beat sudan when pele saw his 82nd minute penalty saved by ali abou achrine, the crossbar was then hit in chaotic scenes but the ball failed to find the net as the keeper salvaged a point for his side having given the penalty away initially. novak djokovic has been back out on the court in his prepartions for next week's australian open. with no decision from the country's immigration officer on his visa. border control are also investigating whether the world number one made a false declaration on his immigration form over his travel history immediately before arriving in melbourne. the draw for the tournament takes place on thursday. mark cavendish says he has no choice but to get on with life, after a burglary and assault at his home in november. he was attacked by armed men while he was recovering from injury, while his wife and children were threatened. he says he wants to spend more time with his family, but he's pleased to be

no problems for leicester in all, premier league clash with watford. and a good win for league one wigan at home to blackburn. and the third round action keeps on coming. premier league everton are currently away up at championship side hull city. and everton got off to a bad start when tyler smith put hull in front — callum hudson 0doi equalaised, and andre goes put everton in front that match is live now on bbc one. it's also live on the bbc sport website and app, as are the games the games at chelsea, swansea and yeovil. chelsea 4—0 up against non—league chesterfield. england will need to bat out the final day in the fourth ashes test in sydney, if they're to avoid slipping to a fourth straight defeat in the series. jonny bairstow could only add ten more runs to his impressive total before australian batsmen usman khawaja hit another century, helping to set england an unlikely target of 388 for victory. patrick gearey reports. 0nce ashes series are lost, the remaining tests are those of character. yesterday, jonny bairstow fought back. 0h, he's edge

covid is still impacting on the league though — everton's premier league home match with leicester cityns it was a big day for the comoros, playing in the competition for the first time. the archipelago is one of football's youngest nations — they onlyjoined fifa in 2005. they were up against gabon, and aaron boupendza's first—half finish was the difference, giving gabon a 1—0 victory. two former winners went head to head in the other group c game, where morocco left it late to beat the four time winners ghana. former southampton winger sofiane boufal�*s strike in the 83rd minute sealing the win. elsewhere, guinea opened their campaign with a 1—0 win over malawi. the only goal coming in the first half from full back issiaga sylla — only his third goal for his country. in the day's early game sadio mane converted a 94th minute penalty to give one of the favourites senegal a 1—0 win over zimbabwe five supporters have been arrested for incidents during crystal palace's 2—1 win at millwall in the fa cup on saturday. the fa are investigating after both sets of fans threw flares onto the pitc

covid is continuing to disrupt the fixture list though — with leicester's game at burnley tomorrow postponedme though — which is tomorrow lunchtime between leaders manchester city and second placed chelsea who are ten points behind. chelsea's head coach thomas tuchel has suggested city have been lucky not to have been as heavily impacted by covid as other teams — but it's not a view pep guardiola agrees with. are you saying that you're in manchester, we are the smartest that omicron does not like to come here to visit us? we had a lot of cases. and a lot of injuries. so, we play in aston villa with 11 plays. so, the last a56 to seven games, they're in the back and there in the same situation as all other clubs. well on sunday — all eyes will be on the north london derby — or will they? because arsenal have asked if they can postpone the game against tottenham citing a lack of available players. they say it's due to covid, injuries and players away on international duty at the africa cup of nations. the premier league is expected to make a decision tomorrow. here's ourfootball reporter simon

the man from leicester scoring the only goal, a beautiful goal, half volley. absolutely stunning goal, worthy of the three points. nigeria take a big step towards qualification. they put down a marker to all the other would be favorites in the competition that they are very much one of the teams to contend with. for egypt, yes, they boast the best player in the world at the moment, but they really struggled to get any sort of attacking impetus in the game. egypt are going to have to do much better if they want to qualify, because, as it stands, they are last in the group. >> ok. another game you might want to tell us about, sudan and gui nea-bissau, that finished quite recently. >> 0-0 finish, very late finish. a match which guinea-bissau dominated. sud's goaleper was in inspired form and kept out guinea-bissau for a goalless draw. it's a good result, considering they are above egypt. the game between egypt and guinea-bissau will be vitally important. there was a third game and a very important one, because algeria, the reigning champions, were held to a goall

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members which is directly tied to my colleagues have been talking about. 9000 of the latest count from leicesterloan. double or triple what they have been before. the threats against election officials which includes by the way, late former election official republican in philadelphia who had his house, his kids names comments address put on the internet, threats against an arizona hunting her down. both the kinds of things happening now. so yes security is important. but it is tied directly to the work were doing now to protect her democracy. >> yes? [inaudible] do you offer any more specifics? >> no were discussing them in private with senators manchin comments under sinema on before we vote on them or whichever one we have arrived at you will hear and see about it. yes? quick senator manchin say. [inaudible] cannot see taking the nuclear option is that a possibility? >> look, manchin has said all along he wants to deal with republicans. we have all been very patient. in august we came up with all of us here along with senators chester, kain, king and manchin came up with the freedom to vote a

holders leicester are safely through, they beat watord. burnley were beaten by championship side huddersfield. big result for kidderminster harriers, the lowest—ranked team left in the competition beat reading. and boreham wood of the national league reached the fourth round for the first time in their history, beating wimbledon. there was a thriller in rugby union's premiership, as harlequins beat 1a man exeter by 14—12. quins were behind with just two minutes to go, before andre esterhuizen scored this superb try. england star marcus smith then kicked the conversion to seal the win. snowboarder charlotte bankes continues to mark herself out as a big medal contenderfor next month's winter olympics. the briton won the world cup snowboard cross race in russia. this was her second world cup win of the season following success last month in austria. she's also the world champion in the event. and you can follow the final day of the fourth ashes test in sydney on the bbc sport website. play gets underway shortly with england needing to bat wel

the game between everton and leicester city was postponed — with brendan rodgers side unable to fieldd players being at the africa cup of nations. and one game in the championship, reading hosting fulham. victory for fulham would take them back into the automatic promotion spots while the royals sitjust above the relegation zone having been deducted six points. fulham are currently leading 1—0, harry wilson with the opener. it's ben another busy day at the africa cup of nations, the 3 time champions nigeria were up against the most successful nation in the history of the tournament, 7 time winners egypt. liverpool's mo salah was kept quiet by nigeria who were the better side throughout and scored the only goal of the game— a superb strike from leicester's kelechi iheanacho. algeria began the defence of the title with a disappointing goalless draw against sierra leone, missing a host of chances — particularly in the second half including this from riyad mahrez. it does mean algeria's unbeaten run stretches to 35 matches but this was a great result for the leone stars, a clean sheet on

in the women's super league, bottom of the table leicester have beaten brighton 1—0 — shannon o'brienwest ham in the late game. and the referee was the centre of attention once again in the africa cup of nations with two late var penalties in a 1—1 draw between gambia and mali. mali took the lead when brighton's yves bissouma went to ground inside the penalty area. play continued for a couple of minutes before the penalty was eventually awarded and scored. gambia equalised when bissouma was penalised for this handball. musa barrow converted the spot kick to leave both sides with one win and a draw from their opening two group games. three more games today, ivory coast v sierra leone knowing a win would take them into the knockout stages. coalesce there. tunisia 2—0 up in that one. both of those are four o'clock kick—offs. algerian action tonight against equatorial guinea. england's miserable ashes tour has come to an end with one last catastrophic batting collapse as the hosts won by 146 runs in the final test in hobart to claim a 4—0 series win. the day had started well, bowler mark

and english premiership leaders leicester have made it 11 successive victories beating newcastle at welfordlequins came out on top in a tight encounter, beating gloucester 20 points to 17, danny care with one of their two tries. while second—placed saracens were comfortbale winners over northampton saints. and news on two silver medals for great britain today at the bobsleigh world cup in latvia. all the details on the bbc sport website tonight. that, though, is all from me for now. ben. there's more throughout the evening on the bbc news channel. now on bbc one, it's time for the news where you are. goodbye, and have a good evening. back now to the death of the world—renowned paleo—anthropologist and conservationist richard leakey. dr leakey unearthed evidence that helped to prove humankind evolved in africa. in 1984, he led the team that found the most complete hominin skeleton ever discovered — the so—called turkana boy who lived between 1.5 and 1.6 million years ago. let's take a look at a clip of an interview he did with stephen sackur on the bbc hardtalk programme back in 2015. here h

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burnley�*s match against leicester in the prmier league tomorrow has been postponed.umber of players available — 13 outfield players and one goalkeeper — due to covid—19 cases and injuries. you can watch the masters snooker and the latest on the novak djokovic case. i'll have more for you in the next hour. i'm jane hill. a phased plan to remove covid restrictions in wales has been set out by the welsh government. restrictions on large events and businesses, brought in to tackle the 0micron variant will be scrapped over the next two weeks. the first minister, mark drakeford, says there are signs wales faced with what we knew and we were seeing about the 0micron variant we introduced level two measures on boxing day to keep as many people safe and as many businesses as possible open and prevent the nhs in wales from being overwhelmed. those measures combined with the christmas and new year holidays have acted as and new year holidays have acted as a many firebreak and flattened the curve of infections and given us more time to get people vaccinated. because of the crisi

already lost one match from this weekend's fixtures, with burnley postponing their match tomorrow with leicester playing crystal palace, with the home side looking to make it three league wins from four. that game kicks off at 8pm. at the africa cup of nations, malawi have kept alive their hopes of qualifying for the knockout stages after coming from a goal down to beat zimbabwe 2—1. morocco have booked their place in the last 16 with a game to spare. they made it two wins from two after beating comoros 2—0. elsewhere, senegal drew 0—0 with guinea, while ghana are currently drawing 0—0 against gabon. now, as you may have been hearing from a few minutes ago, novak djokovic's participation at next week's australian open tennis is looking very unlikely after seeing his visa was cancelled for a second time. the 20—time grand slam champion is appealing the decision. meanwhile, two players who are definitely in the draw for the tournament are britons — harriet dart and liam broady. they both made it through qualifying. dart will face the seventh seed iga swiatek in the opening round while liam broady

two other games in the premier legaue today after leicester verses norwich was postponed.al palace in the late game. liverpool go to chelsea tomorrow but manager jurgen klopp won't be with them. he's returned a suspected positive test for covid—19 and will miss the game. yesterday klopp said three players had tested positive for covid—19. a liverpool statement said there has been no further cases among the playing squad but three backroom staff have also returned suspected positive tests. assistant pep lijnders will take charge for the visit to stamford bridge. james wade is through to the semi—finals of the pdc world darts championship. the numberfour seed enjoyed a whitewash victory over mervyn king at london's alexandra palace. he'll face the winner of tonight's quarter final between defending champion gerwyn price and michael smith. twice former champion gary anderson is also through after beating luke humphries 5—2. he'll face second seed peter wright or callan rydz in the semi finals. emma raducanu was among the sports starts who received a new year's honour, but she

liverpool beat crystal palace and leicester drew with brighton.top of the women's super league. they were losing 1—0 in injury time when tobin heath scored the equalizer. arsenal are now two points ahead of manchester united in second. champions chelsea drop to third. world number one ashleigh barty is on course to become the australian open�*s first home champion for 44 years. she's through to the quarter—finals, along with another favourite in melbourne, rafa nadal, who's still searching for that record—breaking 21st grand slam tennis title. joe wilson reports. hear that? it's all australia's expectation. it's all for ash barty. herjob of course was to serve to play to ignore everything but the ball. ., ., play to ignore everything but the ball. . , play to ignore everything but the ball, .,, i- play to ignore everything but the ball, ~ play to ignore everything but the ball. ,, first play to ignore everything but the ball._ first set . ball. cool as you like. first set 6-4. 0k, _ ball. cool as you like. first set 6-4. 0k, australia, _ ball. coo

and leicester v brighton was 1—1.use after winning all of their group games, the three—time winners nigeria are out — losing in the last 16 to tunisia who beat them i—0 — the goal coming from youssef msakni in the second half. burkina faso were the first team to reach the quarter finals. they beat gabon on penalties after it finished 1—1 after extra time. gabon scored an injury time equaliser but burkina faso managed to edge through with a 7—6 shoot—out win. in women's football, barcelona are celebrating as they won the spanish super cup — beating atletico madrid 7—0 in the final. but the match will be remembered for the return of atletico's midfielder virginia torrecilla — who made herfirst appearance since having surgery following a brain tumour. this was the reception the barcelona players gave her post match — with the midfielder playing for the catalan side between 2012 and 2015. the quarterfinal line up at the australian open is beginning to take shape. ash barty, the world number one, is through as she looks to

in rugby union, wasps ended leicester�*s perfect start to the premiership season.. he came from behind to knock out the defending champion yan bingtao in the first round and he used a sensational one—handed shot to escape from a snooker and clinch the crucial fifth frame. williams, a three—time world champion, is still suffering with the after effects of covid, but he went on to win 6—4. that�*s all the sport for now. let�*s stay with our main story and the decision by an australian court to allow the world number one novak djokovic to stay in the country and defend his australian open title. ican bring i can bring you some of the reaction to that. jennifer says i disagree but he applied for a legitimate exemption. criticism should be for whoever granted it. someone says if you are famous or rich many rules do not apply. this one says djokovic followed the rules and should be able to play in australia. one more from nigel who says rules are rules and people like djokovic should not be above the law. thank you for sending those in. you can continue to do that. theju

leicester bounced back from that wasps defeat with a 29—28 win at connacht.ht tries as they thrashed glasgow warriors by 52 points to 17. there was a hat—trick for tom o'flaherty. pretty awful visibility down in the bay of biscay where bath were beaten 39—21 by la rochelle. rayond rhule scored the last of their five tries. no bonus point for bath. england's netballers take on the world champions new zealand today at london's copper box arena. it's the roses second game in 24 hours after a commanding 71—47 victory over south africa yesterday. new zealand lost their opening match of the quad series to australia. there was some late night drama at the masters snooker where barry hawkins beat the 2019 championjudd trump 6—5, to reach today's final at alexandra palace. hawkins had taken a 4—2 lead in the match only for trump to win the next three frames and force a deciding frame. it was a tense one but hawkins showed great resolve to reach his second masters final. so he'll meet neil robertson later after the 2012 champion fought back from 4—1 down to win a drama

from this weekends premier league fixture list with burnley postponing their match tomorrow against leicestergh brighton are taking on crystal palace. it is goalless at the moment, about two thirds of the way through the match. at the africa cup of nations donna hopes of reaching hang by a thread after drawing one all in their second group game. no problems from morocco who are into the last 16 with the match to spare after they beat almost 2—0. no i zimbabwe 2—i while senegal druid neil neil with guinea. it was a day of mixed emotions for both england and australia's cricketers on the opening day of the final ashes test in tasmania. after winning the toss england chose the perfect bowling conditions on the green, hobart strip and it paid off with three early wickets including docs from david warner and steve smith. after having australia 12—3 things went downhill for england. they dropped shane, robertson went off in day two injured and back from covid isolation got a second century of the series with up after a shaky start it will be australia feeling that happier at storms. they will resum

there are six games in rugby union�*s european champions cup wasps, fresh from ending leicester�*s unbeatenand brad shields. wasps had a four point lead at the break and despite a toulouse fightback alfie barbeary�*s score completed another famous win for his side. they won by 30 points to 22. andy murray�*s hopes for a first atp title in over two years are over after he was beaten in the final of the sydney classic by the russian top seed aslan karatsev. murray was broken in the opening game and struggled on first serve, outpowered by his opponent. but, now 311, he battled harder towards the end of the second set, creating five break opportunities. but murray ultimately couldn�*t take them, as karatsev kept his grip on the title, winning 6—3 6—3. murray will now head to melbourne for the australian open and says he�*s pleased to be playing at a high level again. to all of you who came out to support tonight, what an amazing atmosphere to play in — thank you. it was so good. cheering and applause. i have really missed playing in front of these sorts of crowds and in these sorts of matches a

are four matches in the premier league today: arsenal — burnley, crystal palace — liverpool and leicester match at 4:30pm, chelsea playing spurs for the third time this month. chelsea winning home and away in the league cup semi—final, but spurs are still unbeaten in the league under antonio conte and a win would move them into the top four. we have played three matches in such a short time, which is pretty unusual, and that is why they know what we do and they know more or less what we do. they came from elite victory. we come from two wins which should give us some confidence.— which should give us some confidence. ~ . ., ~ ., ., confidence. we are talking about a really good — confidence. we are talking about a really good team _ confidence. we are talking about a really good team and _ confidence. we are talking about a really good team and i _ confidence. we are talking about a really good team and i do - confidence. we are talking about a really good team and i do not - confidence. we are talking about a | really good team and i do not know this is_ really good team and i do not kno

leicester comfortably beat watford, pay league sides crystal palace, brentford and southampton are alleurope, dortmund pulled off a remarkable comeback to close the gap in the bundesliga. 2—0 down against frankfurt, but 13—2 with mahood scoring the winner in the 89th minutes. meanwhile, in spain, barcelona conceded a late equaliser against granada to draw 1—1. real madrid are currently up against valencia, into the second half there where the home side are leading 2—0 thanks to goals from ben's amount and junior. the africa cup of nations kicks off on sunday with the hosts, cameroon, taking on burkina faso. the build—up to the match has not been straightforward for perkiness —— burkina faso as a handful of players and coach tested positive for covid on saturday and are now not available to be involved for the opening match. translation: we waited all day. at the beginning, it was in the morning we had to pass these tests, then it was postponed to the afternoon, finally it was during the night that we did the tests, and they were not pcr tests, they were antigenic lateral flow tests. th

leicester tigers' brilliant season continues. with the bonus point winning fourth try. the tigers have won all 11 of their premiership games so far. third placed harlequins won 20—17 at gloucester. danny care marked his 35th birthday by scoring one of quins' two tries. elsewhere saracens, who are second, won at northampton. england all—rounder ben stokes has backed test skipperjoe root and told reporters in sydney that he has no ambition to take on the captaincy in the future. the fourth test starts tuesday evening uk time and there's been plenty of speculation over whether root will continue in the role after the current series. england are 3—0 down and have already lost the ashes. i will look at the future at the end of this tour. i don't think i can afford to throw any more energy into anything afford to throw any more energy into anythin- else than afford to throw any more energy into anything afford to throw any more energy into anythin- else than the afford to throw any more energy into anything else than the games themselv

and the idea of creating a league where it is not fair, not equal, where teams like leicester or evertoner get into is just wrong. it is elitist, selfish, greedy. it is of the time. not just that, they were scheming, while every other club in the country was basically struggling like mad and some going bankrupt and bust or nearly going bust, they were scheming. which is why you back the idea of a regulator, you pushed it very hard. there is a government review, by a conservative mp, interestingly, tracey crouch. she's done an excellent piece of work. do you think you're going to get it? i think so because i think that ultimately the fan—led review that was part of the conservative party's manifesto in the last election has now happened, it is emphatic, it has been backed by everybody apart from obviously the premier league, and there is overwhelming support for it and i hope it will then go through parliament. what i find interesting is in football it brings together the different values of your different grandparents. 0n the one hand it is all about capitalism, isn't it? the free market