craig levein has been sacked as manager of hearts, with only goal difference keeping the club off the bottom of the scottish premiership table. and, as she attempts to become a two—weight world champion, boxer katie taylor tells us what pushes her to become the best. i love breaking down barriers and being a trailblazer in the sport and to bea being a trailblazer in the sport and to be a pioneer in the sport is absolutely huge for me. welcome to sportsday. we are inching, hour by hour, minute by minute, ever closer to that rugby world cup final on saturday in japan between england and south africa. today, head coach eddiejones named an unchanged side to the one that beat new zealand so comprehensively in the semifinal last weekend. he also declared that his side are ready to produce their finest performance. from tokyo, here's our correpsondent andy swiss. hardly surprising that eddiejones is sticking to the exact position that performed so brilliantly against the all blacks in the semifinals and the george ford continues and owen farrell outside at centre. there is one interesting ne

levein has been sacked from hearts. stephen has more.hearts and he stepped up two years ago for his second spell as manager. initially things went well and this time last year, hearts were top of the league. since then, there has been a dramatic loss of form and with that has come increasing anger and frustration from the hearts supporters. the final straw came last night following a 1— nil defeat for hearts, leaving them joint bottom. at the end of the game, supporters were calling for levein to be sacked and just after 4pm this afternoon it was confirmed that is what has happened. the club said they thanked him for his efforts, saying levein had worked tirelessly and selflessly around the clock to try and achieve success. the statement confirmed that as well as being sacked as manager, he steps down as director of football and will see out his contract until the end of the season in a behind—the—scenes role. the task for the club now is to find a new manager and as they do that, the assistant manager austin mcphee will step up to take

craig levein has been sacked as manager of hearts and will also leave his role as director of footballoff the bottom of the table. the former scotland boss levein had said that turning around the club's poor run of form may be the biggest challenge of his career. they have won only once this season. two british teams were playing in the women's champions league tonight. arsenal are comfortably through to the quarter finals after beating czech side slavia praha 8—0 on the night, 13—2 on aggregate. but glasgow city had to work a lot harder. the danish champions brondby won 2—0 in glasgow, meaning the sides were 2—2 on aggregate. it was the same score after extra time, which meant it went to penalties. and after two great saves from lee alexander, it was down to veternjo love to put the ball in the net — she did so and glasgow city are through to the quarter finals. kyle edmund was brushed aside by world number one novak djokovic in the third round of the paris masters. the brit ended an eight—match losing run when he won his opening round match against ricardas berankis, before defeating

craig levein has been sacked as manager of hearts and will also leave his role as director of footballr run of form may be the biggest challenge of his career. they have won only once this season. liverpool managerjurgen klopp has threatened to pull out of the league cup unless a suitable date can be found for their quarterfinal against aston villa. it's scheduled for the same week that liverpool are in qatar taking part in the club world cup — jurgen klopp says that unless that tie can be moved then they might have to pull out of the competition, give aston villa a bye or let arsenal play it instead, that's who they beat last night on penalties. the efl say that they are in discussions with the club to find a suitable date. it might have to be january. the draw for the quarterfinals was held this morning, this was the reaction of the colchester united squad, when they found out they'd drawn manchester united at old trafford. league one oxford united host the holders manchester city, kyle edmund was brushed aside by world number one novak djokovic in the third round of the paris master

and coming up on sportsday on bbc news — craig levein has been sacked as manager of hearts, with only keeping the club off the bottom of the scottish premiership table. good evening. president trump has waded into the general election — just hours after labour launched its campaign — with an extraordinary attack onjeremy corbyn, breaking all conventions. the us president said mr corbyn would be bad for the country — and would take the country into "such bad places". meanwhile he heaped praise on borisjohnson and called him a "fa ntastic man. " he was speaking to the brexit party leader nigel farage during an interview for lbc. tonightjeremy corbyn has hit back, accusing the president of trying to interfere in the election. here's our north america editorjon sopel. the us president and nigel farage are close. we madejune the 23rd our independence day when we smashed the establishment! the brexit party leader has spoken at rallies... mr nigel farage! ..and today, the us president returned the favour and appeared on mr farage‘s radio show. and he waded into the british general election w

following just one win this season, craig levein has been sacked as manager of hearts and will also leave his role as director of football. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. today was supposed to be the day we left the european union. instead, the general election campaign got under way in earnest, asjeremy corbyn launched the labour pa rty‘s election campagin. he vowed to transform britain and take on what he called the establishment elite. he also said he would get brexit sorted in six months. meanwhile, the prime minister expressed his frustration that britain wasn't leaving the eu today. but said he would deliver brexit by the end of january at the absolute latest — if the tories win. our political editor, laura kuenssberg, is at westminster for us. laura. well, the election date only became law this afternoon, when it was given a rubberstamp by parliament, but it feels really now that this is well underway. jeremy corbyn and borisjohnson, the well underway. jeremy corbyn and boris johnson, the contenders well underway. jeremy corbyn and borisjohnson, the contenders to

i'm jon scott now back to life liberty, and levein. >> welcome back,let get back to the transcript. phone call with the president of the ukrainelet get to the ore section they're siting, president good because i heard you have with a prosecutor who was very good and he was shut down and that's really unfair. a lot of people are talking about that. the way they shut your very good proximate result down by the way one of the people talking about it was joe biden on a video. and you have some very bad people involved. mr. giuliani is a highly respected man he was the mayor of new york city a great mayor. and i would like him to call you. i will ask him toll call you along with the attorney general. rudy very much knows what's happening and he's a very capable guy. as he could speak to him that would be great. the former ambassador from the united states the woman who was bad news and people sheafs dealing with in ukraine were bad news so i just want to let you know that. the other thing, oh -- st there a lot of talk about biden's son. that bide opinion stopped the prosecution and a lot

and pressure increases on hearts boss craig levein as they lost 1—0 at home to kilmarnock.. more than 29,000 fans turned up, and england women‘s record crowd outside of wembley. however, the lioness is fa ns of wembley. however, the lioness is fans watching their team play on home soilfor the first fans watching their team play on home soil for the first time since the world cup, it was a result to forget. england had bundled the ball into the back of the net early on, only for it to be ruled out for offside. england looked comfortable and dominated in the first half. they managed to keep one of the game at‘s greatest ever games, marta, at bay. but phil neville‘s site filled in front of goal when it mattered. taylor had the pick of the chances. neville called for his side to be more ruthless in the second half, but it was brazil who got the first breakthrough. the goalkeeper could have done better. and it was also simple for person‘s second, with england scrambling at the back. —— brazil‘s secon. the spark england needed came from macbeth england, off the bench and onto the

the former scotland boss levein said that turning round the club's poor run of form was the biggest challenge. never chocolate has one the third round of the masters. he won his opening round match. he then me met the 14th seed. he took the first set to a tie—break, but chocolates want that. the second set was far more comfortable. the england one—day captain is going to captain the side until at least the twe nty20 captain the side until at least the twenty20 world cup in australia next year. he led the team to the 15 over world cup victory this summer, but he had been considering his role.|j am very comfortable with the decision that i made. i am delighted that i have made it. because i feel that i have made it. because i feel thatis that i have made it. because i feel that is one for myself and the team. i feel i have a lot to offer. there we re i feel i have a lot to offer. there were questions over my fitness, and how i would come back and play, i suppose. but i think that was just lingering in my head because i was backin lingering in my head because i was back in playing county cricket

one quick bit of breaking news, the hearts manager, craig levein has been sacked.our local radio station tonight, wherever you are, with an interactive programme on brexit and what comes next. what are you hoping to do tonight? yes it is the night we thought that brexit would be seen, but that is not going to be the case on october 3ist. not going to be the case on october 31st. so what happens next? there will be people who are unhappy that we haven't quit the eu and people who are delighted and think it may give us a prospecting of remaining in the eu. there are all sorts of dimensions to the story, in scotland, northern ireland, in wales, tonight we want to hear from england and england alone across local radio. we are going to be speaking to political correspondents north, south and east and west and people involved in tourism, manufacturing and most of all we wa nt to manufacturing and most of all we want to hear from listeners about what they make of the fact that today isn't going to be the day we leave the eu. hasn't brexit been overshadowed by the general