it's three wins from three for liverpool — who go top of the premier league, thanks to a mo salah strikegainst brighton. it didn't take too long for last season's top scorer to find the back of the net — but he did it in style. it's salah's second goal of the campaign, and that's the way it finished. jurgen klopp's side have taken maximum points from their opening three matches — and they sit on top of the table. arsenal manager unai emery has his first premier league win

mo salah remains the source of much of that optimism.g more space than even they would have hoped for, sadio mane scoring a second before half—time. such a lead was no more than they deserve, west ham's chances few and fleeting. for a club that has invested heavily, this was a disappointing return, little resistance. sadio mane was possibly offside here, but his finish was as emphatic as the scoreline was becoming. such was their competence, salah was substituted, his replacement, daniel sturridge, adding a fourth with his very first touch. far more difficult tests lie ahead, but liverpool high hopes have grown higher. we played as good as possible today. we extended a really good preseason into the premier league season. that is the plan. not finished. a lot of players, rest of the season. it was good. not surprisingly good, but, of course, better than i could have expected. we knew before the game, that it was very difficult, not only for the first game, against liverpool, because we played four of the other big teams in the first five

such was their competence, mo salah was substituted, his replacement, daniel sturridge, adding a fourthirst touch. far more difficult tests lie ahead, but liverpool high hopes have grown higher. we played as good as possible today. a really good preseason in the premier league season. preseason in the premier league season. that is the plan. not finished. a lot of players, rest of the season. it was good. not surprisingly good, but, of course, better than i could have expected. we knew before the game, that it was very difficult, not only for the first game, against liverpool, because we played four of the other big teams in the first five or six games. but recognising that liverpool played better than us is difficult. when you concede four. little to get excited about at st mary's, southampton and bernie played out a goalless draw. but the saints boss was happy with what he saw, especially in the first time. —— southampton and burnley. i like ilike ourshape i like our shape in the first half, we got pressure up the pitch, better for it in the second half, we controlled, move it about a

mo salah, who scored 32 premier league goals, last season opened his account at west ham.fulham in their opener, might provide a tougher test forjurgen klopp‘s side. and the liverpool manager — after his team's great pre—season and that opening win — appears keen to keep a lid on expectations. we feel in a good moment already since a few weeks, months... i wouldn't say years but it's getting better and better so that is an important thing because we are still in the process. we have to develop, that is what i said. we are not the best team in the world so there's a lot of space for us to improving all the different departments. that is what we try to do and obviously that is very important because we are not alone. 0ur supporters like the way we do it so thatis supporters like the way we do it so that is very important because i have said a few times, if you cannot deliver or the supporters ask for something impossible when it is not a very healthy situation. we feel it isa a very healthy situation. we feel it is a healthy situation. you look at the attacking threat they p

mo salah remains the source of much of that optimism. might have hoped for. sadio mane scoring a second before half—time. such a lead, though, more than they deserve. west ham's chances of and fleeting. for a club that has invested heavily this summer, this was a disappointing return. liverpool meeting little resistance, and while mane here was quite possibly of side, his finish was as emphatic as the scoreline. such was their confidence, salah was substituted. his replacement daniel sturridge adding a fourth, with his very first touch. far tougher tests lie ahead of course, but those liverpool high hopes have grown a little more. gavin wilde, bbc news. —— adam wild. england's cricketer‘s are heading for victory in the second test against india at lords. for victory in the second test joe root declared with a first innings lead of almost 300 and india have collapsed — they are currently 114—6 in their second innings stuart broad has taken four wickets on the fourth day. england look set to go two—up in the five match series. it's the fin

after his 44 goals last season, mo salah took less than 20 minutes to get his first of this campaign.her familiar face that scored the next two goals, and daniel sturridge got the fourth immediately after coming on as a substitute, to leave jurgen klopp‘s side top of the league on goal difference. we played as good as possible today. we played as good as possible today. we extended a really good preseason into the premier league season, so thatis into the premier league season, so that is what is actually the plan, because it is not finished. for a lot of the players, we still have to prepare for the rest of the season. so it was good. not surprisingly good, but of course, it was better than i could have expected. there was one other game in the premier league on sunday, with southampton and burnley playing out a goalless draw on the south coast. a hat—trick from robert lewandowski helped bayern munich retain the german super cup in a 5—0 rout of eintracht frankfurt on sunday. the polish striker scored two first—half headers to put bayern in firm control of the game. his third goal, s

mo salah,1—0.never thought that somebody gives you some before being first on third match day. of course it is not important. the important thing is is that we have nine points after three games, so that is really cool. that is the basis and now, let's carry on. liverpool's gain was city's loss. the reigning premier league champions up against the winners of the championship, wolves, could only muster a draw. but it wasn't without controversy. var anyone? aymeric laporte striking his first for the club to rescue a point. arsenal's unai emery era has its first win, west ham his first mark. danny welbeck‘s strike sealed the 3—1victory over a team yet to game a single point. bournemouth, meanwhile, are developing something of a south coast steeliness. everton went 2—0 up thanks to theo walcott and michael keane, but quickly saw their lead evaporate. joshua king pulled one back before nathan ake ensured the home side hung onto a spot in the top four. we already know that england star harry maguire can

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it's three wins from three for liverpool — who go top of the premier league, thanks to a mo salah strikeighton. it didn't take too long for last season's top scorer to find the back of the net — but he did it in style. it's salah's second goal of the campaign, and that's the way it finished. jurgen klopp's side have taken maximum points from their opening three matches — and they sit on top of the table. arsenal manager unai emery has his first premier league win after the gunners beat west ham 3—1 at the emirates. the away side actually took the lead through marko arnautovic but it was quickly cancelled out by nacho monreal. then new west ham signing issa diop scored an unfortunate own goal before danny welbeck wrapped up the points late on. so arsenal are off the mark for the season but west ham are still winless from the opening three games. cut the sport shirt there and affect you. pope francis is due to give a speech shortly at the feast of the families event in dublin. he's doing a tour of the stadium for the festival of families concert there is going to be taking place there. he

and they'll go top with a win this evening — they're 1—0 up, thanks to mo salah, this is another bigter united last week, so don't count them out yet. and here's a quick look at the other results from today huddersfield — down to ten men — hung on to draw 0—0 with cardiff while harry maguire scored a stoppage time winner — as leicester beat southampton. that's all of today's games taken care of. three more tomorrow — and the big one on monday is manchester united against tottenham at old trafford. looking for to that one. well we're going to stay with football and turn attentions to the championship. aston villa and reading drew i—i. there were also wins for blackburn, sheffield united, derby and leeds. queens park rangers halted a terrible run of form with a 1—0 win over wigan. sheffield wednesday, stoke city and bristol city also all won. birmingham lead nottingham forest 1—0 in the late kick—off. four games to tell you about in the scottish premiership — second placed hibernian drew i—i with third placed aberdeen. hearts were 1—0 winners at kilmarnock. livingston beat saint mirren

after his 44 goals last season, mo salah took less than 20 minutes to get his first of this campaign.iliar face that scored the next two goals, sadio mane. daniel sturridge got the fourth immediately after coming on as a substitute, to leavejurgen klopp's side top of the league on goal difference. we played as good as possible today. we played as good as possible today. we had a really good pre—season in the premier league season so that was the plan. we were not finished, for a lot of players we still had to have breast for the season. it was good. not surprisingly good, but of course, it was better than i could have expected. there was one other game in the premier league on sunday, with southampton and burnley playing out a goaless draw on the south coast. it's also the first weekend of the french league season, with defending champions paris saint—germain kicking off their campaign at home to caen, with neymar first on the scoresheet. it's one of three fixtures on sunday. that one currently 2—0 in the second half. earlier lyon who were third last season beat amiens 2—0 and strasbo

mo salah with the goal. champions manchester city were held to a 1—1 draw by newly—promoted wolves.ham. bournemouth and everton and huddersfield and cardiff drew while leicester beat southampton. hearts are still top of the scottish premiership — they beat kilmarnock1—0. hibs and aberdeen drew 1—1. elsewhere, there were wins for st johnstone and livingstone. lewis hamilton is on pole position for tomorrow's belgian grand prix in spa. the championship leader mastered the wet conditions to go seven tenths of a second faster than sebastian vettel, who's second. force india took third and fourth place just days after the team was saved from collapse. tomorrow's british motogp will start 90 minutes earlier than planned because of heavy rain in the forecast. qualifying today was delayed by more than an hour due to downpours. jorge lorenzo will start on pole at silverstone, with britian‘s cal crutchlow in fourth. great britain won three gold medals on the penultimate day of competition at the european para—athletics championships in berlin. hannah cockcroft beat teammate and rival carrie a

mo salah opened the scoring before sadio mane struck twice. daniel sturridge got the 4th.gerrard's unbeaten run at rangers continues. the former liverpool captain saw his side get their first premiership win of the season easing to a win over st mirren. 2—0 it finished. rangers has ross mccrorie sent off in the first half, too, so a win with 10 men. in the day's other game stjohnstone and hibs drew 1—1. cricket. england have won the 2nd test again india at lords by an innings and 159 runs. it means they have a 2—0 lead in the 5 match series. james anderson took 4—23 to finish with nine wickets in the match and stuart broad bagged 4 for 44. india were bowled out for 130. the third test of the five—match series begins at trent bridge on saturday. the final round of the pga championship is nearing a dramamtic conclusion with many of the world's best in contention, including tiger woods. held by the american brooks koepka at 12—under par, shane lowry yet to win a major but has come close. he is two shots off the lead with three holes to play. and with adam scott also there. le

coming up on sportsday on bbc news, liverpool's mo salah's already opened his account — will last season'sce later? some thought the day would never come. separated since the korean war of 1950—53, today a group of elderly south koreans met their relatives in north korea. it was inevitably an emotional reunion, and probably the last and only time many will see each other. 0ur seoul correspondent laura bicker has the story. it contains some flash photography. after more than 60 years apart, it can be hard to find words. some just throw themselves in their brothers' in arms. in their brothers' arms. others offer a deep bow. "i remember how beautiful you are," says one sister to another, as they try to recognise features not seen in decades. earlier, as she prepared to head north, this 92—year—old couldn't stop thinking about what she would do when she saw her son. he was only four years old when they were separated. translation: i'm hoping to throw my arms around my grown—up son. i think i would like to ask where and how were you, who did you live with? newsreel: more than 80,000 civilians h

three at the start of the new campaign in a pretty lacklustre display, last season's top—scorer mo salahtill yet to concede a goal this season so can they finally mount a title challenge, 28 years after they last won it? i have never thought that somebody gives you some before being first on third match day. of course it is not important. the important thing is is that we have nine points after three games, so that is really cool. that is the basis and now, let's carry on. defending champions manchester city were held to a 1—1 draw by newly—promoted wolves, who had a slice of luck with the opener, which came off the arm of willy boly. the reply from city was more clear—cut as aymeric laporte headed his first goal for the club. but city's 100% start has ended. in the scottish premiership, hearts are top after winning their third match out of three. they beat kilmarnock1—0. they're now four points clear of both hibernian and aberdeen who drew 1—1 at easter road. on—loan watford defender tommie hoban put aberdeen ahead on the stroke of half—time. jamie maclaren scored a late equaliser for h

mo salah should be in action tonight at crystal palace in the premier league.very important thing, because we are still in a process. we have to develop, that is what i said. we are not the best team in the world, so there is a lot of space for us to improve in all the different departments. you look at the attacking threat they pose, and you think and you work on the training field at trying to make certain the players know that where that threat is coming from and what they might be what do tactically and position lead to nullify it to some extent. i say nullify coming you are not going to stop it completely, because we are talking about players of the highest possible class. totte n ha m of the highest possible class. tottenham have come to an agreement with uefa to play their first champions league tie of the season at wembley. delays to their new stadium of white hart lane means the opening fixture of october depending on the draw has to be switched. spurs have also asked to apply to the football league to play their third league cup round tie away from ho

and liverpool's mo salah has been named on the three man shortlist for the uefa player of the year awardce crstal palace in the premier league. i will be back with a full update at 5:30pm. the collapse of the high street chain house of fraser hit another major retailer today. shares in mulberry, which makes luxury handbags, plunged after it said it was owed up to £3 million by the department store chain. our business correspondent emma simpson is here. is the collapse of house of fraser causing ripples throughout retail? absolutely. mulberry has concessions in 21 house of fraser stores. this chain is important to mulberry. it generates a lot of revenues of handbag sales. 0ne generates a lot of revenues of handbag sales. one of steel suppliers that money by house of fraser when it went into administration. extraordinary sums. all the unsecured creditors, landlords and suppliers, house of fraser had debts together of nearly half a billion pounds. when a business goes into administration and is bought by someone else, mike ashley's sports direct, they are not liable to any of the debts. tha

in sport, mo salah sparkles once again to fire liverpool to three wins from three in the premier league. the weather is not looking particularly cheerful out there, lot of grey skies out there. but tomorrow there is some on the way. —— some sunshine on the way. it's sunday the 26th of august. our top story — john mccain, the vietnam war hero turned us senator and presidential candidate, has died. he was 81 and had been suffering from a brain tumour. he'd decided to stop treatment two days ago. tributes were paid as soon as the news of his death was announced. our correspondent in washington, chris buckler, looks back at his life. john mccain was a politician of principle. a patriot who believed in his country, and fought for it at tremendous cost to himself. as a young navy pilot, he was shot down over hanoi, interrogated and tortured. his captors saw a potential propaganda coup, when his father became the commander of us forces in vietnam and offered him release. butjohn mccain refused, despite the many beatings he had suffered. on his return, he was hailed as a war hero and entered po

the most read article on the bbc news website this morning is that the liverpool striker mo salah hasmobile phone while driving. that's a quick look at the front pages. just on the daily mirror, they mention £46 million, we mention £23 million, the differences since pension freedoms came in, but £23 million is how much people were scammed last year. inside the business pages, big story a round the last day, ticketmaster closing retail websites, so they have get me in and seatwave and lots of people will have felt like they paid way more than they wanted to pay on the secondary websites. ticketmaster have closed them down and campaigners say it is great news that they will replace it with a ticket exchange, which will limit the price rises at 15%. there are still secondary ticketing websites out there. campaigners are concerned people might pay over. it is an issue we've talked about a lot. that issue we've talked about a lot. that is breaking through into the industry. and the heathrow queues. yes. some of us have had queues elsewhere. yes. this is how heathrow are dealing with it. on

the star of last season, mo salah, got this campaign under way.rpool old boy steven gerrard, as well, as rangers gave him his first league win as manager. despite playing more than an hour with ten men, they beat st mirren 2—0. it was a busy few days of sport. england's cricketers have a well—earned day off, after they wrapped up the second test against india inside four days. england declared in the morning and set about the indian batsmen at lord's, stuart broad and jimmy anderson taking four wickets each, and chris woakes finished off a real demolitionjob, england winning by an innings and 159 runs, to take a 2—0 lead in the series. they are going for the 5—0. and brooks koepka has won his second major title of the season, with victory in the uspga championship. he had to hold of a really determined challenge from tiger woods, who finished two shots behind, but koepka closed with a round of 66. and finally, the contender for strangest goal of the weekend is relatively straightforward. it came in england women's under—20s world cup win over mexi

last season's player of the year mo salah opened his account.up the win. rangers picked up their first win of the scottish premiership season. conor goldson scored the second in a 2—0 win over st mirren. their next focus is defending their 3—1 lead against maribor in europa league qualifying on thursday. indian captain virat kohli said he wasn't proud of his team after they crumbled to an innings defeat to england at lord's. in a rain affected match, england skittled india out for the second time in the game with stuart broad taking four wickets. india haven't got long to regroup — the next test starts on saturday at trent bridge. tiger woods came close to a first major title in a decade — but it was this man — brooks koepka who held on to win the us pga championship woods final round included eight birdies — the crowd absolutely roaring him on all the way round the bellerive course. he finished two shots behind koepka, who took his third major title in the space of 14 months. for woods — another impressive major showing afterfinishing sixth at

their star man mo salah was brought down for a penalty for liverpool's first. did he dive?nd first to last second. if you want to see brilliance. a few goalkeeper saves, a few tackles were brilliant. we can play better football. jose's job is safe. that's the message from manchester united this morning. mourinho's under pressure after united's performance in their 3—2 defeat at brighton on sunday. there have been suggestions he could be replaced by the former real madrid boss zinedine zidane, but here's quote from a senior source at the club: "why would we discuss zidane when there is no job available?". there are problems though for united, have a listen to the former premier league striker ian wright who's been speaking to 5 live. interesting words from him there. for the second time this summer, england's footballers have lost in the semi—finals of a world cup. this time it's the women's under 20s who were beaten 2—0 by japan in france. it's the furthest england have been in the competiton and they'll play the hosts in the third place play off on friday. england have it