especially if you are from leicester or newcastle. those two tea ms from leicester or newcastle.er. leicester are chasing a seventh place finish in the premier league and a possible route into europe next season, while newcastle will hope to gain one more win to dismiss any lingering fears of relegation. let's have a look at how the rest of the premier league shapes. two massive games on sunday with the top two in the premier league both playing. second placed manchester city are at crystal palace. hoping for a slip up from them will be leaders liverpool, of course, massive game at anfield on sunday, one of the banana peels to avoid slipping on against chelsea. well, ahead of that game, a video has emerged of chelsea fans singing an islamophobic song about mohamed salah. that has led to liverpool boss jurgen klopp calling for life bans for fans found guilty of racist abuse. the former chelsea forward is muslim. and a video appeared to show six supporters chanting repeatedly on their way to the club's europa league quarterfinal first leg at slavia prague last night. three of the s

newcastle a re ten two—time world champion. newcastle are ten points clear of the relegation zone.irst half and that wind pushes newcastle first half and that wind pushes n ewcastle u p first half and that wind pushes newcastle up to 13th in the table. one of liverpool's greatest players, tommy smith, has died at the age of 74. the tommy smith, has died at the age of 7a. the most famous of his goals came in the 1977 european cup final when they beat morrissey statements and glad back. he was known as the anfield irony because of his top playing style. leicester tigers have boosted their hopes of staving off relegation with a thrilling win at newcastle. the defeat leaves the falcons bottom of the premiership with three games remaining. jonny may's early try helped the tigers move to lead with the half—time deficit cut to just a point but the winning try came from guy thompson, a win that lifts them up guy thompson, a win that lifts them up to ninth, eight points above newcastle. in the pro14 ulster secured top spot, a huge blow over edinburgh at murrayfield, a 29—7 win while ospreys

that win pushes newcastle up to 13th in the table. it was a good game.team and we did really well, credited to our players there working so hard and i feel like the fence, you could see from the first minute to the last minute, that players were trying to do their best and the fans were doing the same. now, some sad football news to bring you. the former liverpool defender tommy smith has died at the age of 7a. smith played a67 games for liverpool and scored 36 times. the most famous of those came in the 1977 european cup final when liverpool beat borussia moenchengladbach 3—1. smith — who was one of football's toughest players — also captained the side to the the double of uefa cup and league title in 1973 the liverpool managerjurgen klopp has called for life bans for fans found guilty of racist abuse. it follows the emergence of a video where six chelsea supporters appeared to chant an islamophobic song on their way to the club's europa league match at slavia prague last night. three of the six people involved were identified by chelsea and barred from

the boss for newcastle, one of the coaches and the fly—half for the newcastle falcons spent six veryful yea rs falcons spent six very successful years there as well. confidence play such a big factor in rugby union. having won everything, now they are losing everything. suddenly there is a couple of results and a turnaround. the players haven't changed. it's a bit like us. we had a tough start, our confidence suffered and the games we should have won we didn't. confidence plays a massive factor. trusting your own performance. one of our biggest stories has been the anti—lg bt social one of our biggest stories has been the anti—lgbt social media posts. this is a huge sporting story. one of the worlds best players on the verge of the sack for those instagram comments. and the england and saracens number eight has today put upa and saracens number eight has today put up a post of his own broadly in support of his position. he has been asked by other people too unlike the post that falao put out. he has not done that and gone a step further and put out some sentiments that are broadly in

that wind brings newcastle to 13th in the table. -- perez. players, they were working so hard, and ifeel like this relationship between players and fans, you could see from the first minute until the last minute the players trying to do their best and the doing the same. some sad football news. former liverpool defender tommy smith has died at the age of 7a. he played a67 games for liverpool and scored 36 times. the most famous of those came in the 1977 european cup final, when liverpool beat brucey which in clatterbuck —— borussia munchengladbach. leicester tigers have boosted their possibility of staving off relegation with a wind at newcastle. defeat leaves the falcons bottom of the table. quickfire scores from chris harris and ta kalua assisted quickfire scores from chris harris and takalua assisted in their victory. edinburgh have been beaten by murrayfield. benetton will have to lose in orderfor edinburgh murrayfield. benetton will have to lose in order for edinburgh tattoo clinch the finals spot. southern kings were beaten in port eliz

newcastle encrusted palace. surely the winners safe. crystal palace have got the three points.ce. this was a real six pointer at st. james park. it looked like it might bea james park. it looked like it might be a one pointer. it was nervy and goalless for most of the game. both sides had a goal disallowed. in the 81st minute, wilfried zaha did what he does best — win penalties and palace's skipper scored. 1—0 the result and palace almost certainly safe much to the relief of their manager. 40 points the big number to get. it's important to get beyond this. it's a lot of points to get with just... it is so nice to have those five games to play. no need to sit back on those laurels and let those chances pass us by. we are going to try and get those points, too. but it is certainly a very nice feeling when you have virtually got over the line — if not absolutely over the line. those nice feelings are not going to be shared by huddersfield town by the end of the season. they know they're going to be down four more goals shipped by leicester. leicester, we know they are safe after t

declan harvey, bbc news, in newcastle, county down.nd will cast their vote in the local elections. they matter because the councillors we elect make spending decisions on the things that effect our daily lives, like roads, health and council tax. however, since 2010 councils in england have had their central budgets cut by almost half. turnout for these elections are also notoriously low. last yearjust over a third of people registered to vote, did so. nina warhurst has been to hartlepool, where last year's turnout was the lowest in the country. hartlepool council has a job on its hands. how can it get the proud population of this diverse community more interested in what it does? 160 million is being spent on regeneration, but generating interest in these elections is proving tricky. have you ever voted in a local election? no. do you know what they do, local councillors? no, i have no clue whatsoever. this is dyke hill, in the 2% of most deprived areas in the uk. the council can count on callum, the cleaner and part—time youth worker

to remind you about the last two matches for each of those teams, liverpool face newcastle and wolverhamptonr last two matches, city face leicester and brighton. matches you would expect them both city and liverpool to win. stoke city still very much the favourites for this premier league title. —— manchester city, and pressure make strange things happening and liverpool hope there area happening and liverpool hope there are a few more twists and turns in this enthralling title race. of course they will. thank you for joining us from enfield park. plenty more coming up, including a bizzare incident at the formula 1, but first, a quick look at some of the day's other sports stories. england's danny rose says uefa's decision to force montenegro to play their next home match behind closed doors is not a harsh enough punishment. it's after their home fans racially abused several england players last month in a euro 2020 qualifying game. bolton players have said they won't play their final two championship games of the season unless they receive their unpaid wages. players still haven't been paid

that win lifting them up to ninth, eight points above newcastle.ere three games this evening in the pro 1a. ulster secured a play—off spot and dealt edinburgh's end—of—season aspirations a huge blow with a bonus—point win at murrayfield. robert balacoon amongst the try scorers there. the defeat means edinburgh must beat rivals glasgow at scotstoun in a fortnights time — and hope benetton lose — to clinch the final play—off spot. elsewhere ospreys ran in seven tries as they beat southern kings by 43 points to seven in port elizabeth. dan evans‘ hat—trick keeping the welsh side's title play—off bid alive by climbing above cardiff blues in the conference a table. now... the rfu say they will meet england international billy vunipola, after he appeared to show support for australia's israel folau today... earlier this week folau suggested "hell awaits gay people" on social media, which has led to him facing the sack. our rugby union correspondent chrisjones reports now on vunipola's own social media post earlier today, in which the saracens forward cal

they're currently playing newcastle at the amex — and the score at half—time is 0—1 newcastle.aight win. southampton got the point they needed to secure their premier league survival after a 3—3 draw with bournemouth at st mary's. shane long gave them the lead, before bournemouth hit back through dan gosling and callum wilson. james ward—prowse and matt targett put saints back in control before wilson grabbed his second to level the match with four minutes to go. west ham have become the first away side to win at tottenham's new ground. they beat their london rivals by 1—0. spurs missing out on a chance to cement their place in the top four. craig templeton was watching. tottenham's record at their new stadium has been flawless. west ham started brightly as declan rice fired an early warning, but they we re fired an early warning, but they were quite blowing bubblesjust fired an early warning, but they were quite blowing bubbles just yet. if spurs did have one eye on tuesday's champions league semifinal, they became refocused. but lucas wore us saw his efforts go wild. christia

staying dry for most of us newcastle. staying dry for most of us tonight, clear spells, newcastle.f us tonight, clear spells, down to the south—west of england some heavy showers moving in which will herald a change in the weather as we go through wednesday. heavier showers and thunderstorms moved north across england and wales, scotland and northern ireland staying largely dry the temperature is declining. goodbye. hello this is bbc news. the headlines: a national day of mourning in sri lanka, as the first funerals take place for some of the 310 victims of easter sunday's bombings. sri lanka's leadership is under further scrutiny about how much was known about the immediate threat from a local islamist group — blamed for the attacks. police arrest a 57—year—old woman in connection with the murder of thejournalist, lyra mckee. as mps return to westminster — talks are due to resume between the government and labour as they try to break the brexit deadlock. and the former celtic captain and manager, billy mcneill, the first briton to lift the european cup, has died at the age of 79.

the final against saracens is at newcastle's st james park next month. that's all the sport for now. more from the bbc sport centre at 11.15am. don't forget about the website. actually, i will be back after 10am. i have no idea what day and what time it is! a week of climate change protests on waterloo bridge in london has been brought to an end by police, who removed the final activists from the site late last night. more than 960 people have been arrested in connection with the demonstrations. simon jones has more. as night fell, officers moved in to remove the last of the protesters who'd glued themselves to waterloo bridge. with police patience and resources stretched, the only approved place for protest

be at the emirates, where arsenal can leapfrog spurs into the premier league top 4 if they beat newcastleight. and it's been a strange weekend for boxer david price, who was bitten on the way to a heavyweight win. he done what he done to get out of the fight and get disqualified. he was spent by the time this happened. also coming up in the programme: we talk concussion in rugby union. wales and scarlets full—back leigh halfpenny admits he feared that concussion might end his career after suffering a head injury last year. and we'll show you what happened when movie starjackie chan channelled his inner big break, and had a go at a trick shot. hello and welcome to sportsday. welcome to the programme. we start tonight in scotland and the inevitable fallout from what was another fiesty, tempestuous old firm derby. rangers were beaten 2—1 by celtic. they also lost two men as andy halliday and alfredo morelos were both sent off, the latter getting a four match ban for his fifth red card of the scottish premiership season. the columbian‘s goals have been vital to rangers‘ resurgence, but he'll

the wildfire happened in the mourne mountains, above the seaside town of newcastle, as chris page reports. 0n the mountainside, a firefront a mile long threatened some houses as it burned through the gorse. eyewitnesses described it as a running wildfire. 50 firefighters worked to bring the blaze under control. the flames came close to a caravan park. police went from one mobile home to another, telling people to get out quickly. buses took around 200 holiday—makers to a leisure centre. it wasn't how they expected to be spending their easter. very frightening. people were told to get

single figures around aberdeen and newcastle but milder towards the south—west. goodbye.the headlines at 8pm. the government insists that theresa may had to reach out to labour in order to move forward with brexit. but it has angered some conservatives. working withjeremy corbyn is not something i want to do at all. it is not something the prime minister wants to do. but far worse than that, would be to fail to deliver on brexit. no confidence in corbyn. labour defends its handling of complaints about anti—semitism after reports that the party failed to take disciplinary action. fighting between army rebels and pro—government rebels threatens the capital in aaa. a british woman has been arrested in dubai for calling and ex—husband —— her head —— ex—husband an idiot on

coming up on this programme: all smiles at the emirates as arsenal beat newcastle to go third in thegoing nowhere: amid rumours linking paul pogba with real madrid, 0le gunnar solskjaer has his say. and we speak to the boxer who was bitten on the way to a heavyweight win. hello and thanks for joining us on sport today. arsenal have moved above manchester united and tottenham hotspur into third in the english premier league following their 2—0 win over newcastle at the emirates. it was a 10th home league victory in a row for unai emery‘s side, their best run in over 20 years. aaron ramsay opened the scoring after half—an—hour before alexandre lacazette put the game to bed for the gunners in the 83rd minute. so, arsenal two points clear of fourth—placed tottenham, butjust three points separating the home—side spurs,

newcastle united can guarantee survival if they win this weekend and cardiff lose.nd of the bargain — beating fellow strugglers southampton 3—1 at st james park. the made the best possible start — two goals in four first half minutes from ayoze perez giving them a cushion. southampton were reinvigorated after the break with mario lemina converting one of a host of saints chances, but they were left ruing missed opportunities as perez nodded in for his first newcastle hat—trick, leaving rafa benitez‘s side on the verge of another top—flight season. west ham had lost four of their last five league games before today, and welcomed a team in the shape of leicester, who'd won four of their last five. the formbook didn't count for much though harvey barnes rescued a 2—2 draw for leicester with a controversial stoppage time equaliser. lucas perez thought he'd made it 3—1 to the hammers, but his goal was wrongly ruled offside and barnes ended up scoring from the resulting counter attack. despite rescuing a point leicester fall a place to eighth in the table, while west ham

newcastle are now down to 15th place, seven places above cardiff, points above cardiff.anteed safety. southampton, who lost to liverpool last but they don't place her next week. liverpool back ahead of manchester city, who have played one game less. they are playing at the moment in the fa cup. they play tottenham in europe on tuesday. lots going on for city. if city continue to be involved in all four trophies, they have a huge number of games to play before the end of the season. arsenal and chelsea play tomorrow and monday. let's talk about scotland. can we talk about the championship? norwich are almost guaranteed automatic promotion. not quite, though. they thrashed a manner lewis —— manager list queens park rangers 4—0 today. norwich went two goals up within 12 minutes before top scorer teemu pukki added a third before half—time. then after the break, one of their scorers — emiliano buendia — was sent—off for a wreckless challenge. despite that, pukki scored again — his 26th league goal of the season and norwich's eighth straight win. they're now nine points clear

coming up on this programme: all smiles at the emirates as arsenal beat newcastle to go third in the english premier league. he's going nowhere: amid rumours linking paul pogba with real madrid, ole gunnar solskjaer has his say. and we speak to the boxer who was bitten on the way to a heavyweight win. hello and thanks for joining us on sport today. arsenal have moved above manchester united and tottenham hotspur into third in the english premier league following their 2—0 win over newcastle at the emirates. it was a 10th home league victory in a row for unai emery‘s side, their best run in over 20 years. aaron ramsay opened the scoring after half—an—hour before alexandre lacazette put the game to bed for the gunners in the 83rd minute. so, arsenal two points clear of fourth—placed tottenham, butjust three points separating the home—side spurs, united and chelsea. the teams are going to win a lot of matches at the end of the season and we need to be very consistent and very, very demanding of ourselves to ta ke very, very demanding of ourselves to take the points to keep this position

the tigers head to bottom side newcastle on friday with just a five—point cushion and only four gamesa 26—19 derby win against bristol. wasps beat worcester 28—16. that‘s all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories on the bbc sport website. that‘s bbc.co.uk/sport i will see you a bit later on. thank you, james. you always leave us wanting more! hundreds of people have been protesting in central london against brunei‘s strict new laws on homosexuality. protestors gathered outside the dorchester hotel, which is owned by the brunei investment agency. brunei has increased the punishment for sex between gay men to stoning to death, while lesbian sex will be punished by a0 lashes or ten years in jail. jon ironmonger reports. many protests start at the dorchester, but this time it‘s the target. this time, there‘s a barrier. around 200 demonstrators surrounded the 5—star hotel this afternoon, calling for a global boycott of the business. one of a number of uk interests owned by the sultan of brunei. the laws that he‘s introduced are comparable to the extreme sharia laws that

declan harvey, bbc news, in newcastle, county down. you look at the bank holiday weather now.w a top temperature in the afternoon of 25 celsius. it is going to be another pretty warm one for easter monday as well, but we start to see that sunshine turn a little bit hazy in places and we will have more of a breeze in the south and south—east, so it will be a little bit fresher along the southern and eastern coasts. but it is a fine morning to come. we have lost that weather front from the west of scotland so a lot more sunshine here for you too. notice the cloud beginning to build, generally high cloud which will turn the sunshine hazy into the afternoon. just a slim chance of a shower developing across the southwest. top temperatures again in the low to mid 20s celsius. we could continue to hold on to a risk of a shower or thunderstorm for the channel islands and into the south—west of england, perhaps into south wales through the course of the night, but elsewhere a largely dry one. a bit of cloud around and a few mist and fog patches and the temperature is quite mild in the

declan harvey, bbc news, in newcastle, county down.g a motivational speaker. jay shetty is considered one of the most influential people on social media and has recently been awarded for his achievements. bbc asian network's haroon rashid has met jay to find out more about his journey. so there's good news and there's bad news. jay shetty describes himself as a storyteller who makes wisdom go viral, and has notched up hundreds of millions of views on inspirational videos about lifestyle, relationships and well—being. when i started making videosjust under three years ago, i never thought any of this was possible. he has been honoured for his achievement online of the asian awards in london. but jay‘s spiritual journey initially took a nearly 5000 miles away from the uk to india. i was always fascinated by rags to riches stories. but when i met a monk when i was 18, i felt it was the first time i'd met someone who was really having an impact in the world, doing something incredibly positive. so i spent a lot of time with him over the ne

so if brighton beat newcastle — cardiff are all but down. it has just kicked off at the amex.or the fa cup semi final. bolton have now been told that they must complete their two outstanding championship fixtures by the english football league. by the english football league. today's match with brentford was called off last night after bolton's players said they would not play again until they received outstanding wages. bolton, who have been relegated to league one have been told to rearrange that game "at the earliest opportunity". on the pitch — norwichjust need to draw in order to get promoted back to the premier league. they play blackburn later this evening. sheffield united are also chasing automatic promotion — they are in the early stages against already relegated ipswich. it is currently 0—0 in that match there. derby beat bristol city in the chase for a play off race. at the bottom of the table rotherham are relegated after conceding two in the last 15 minutes to lose 2—1 against west brom. yeovil town will be playing non—league next season after drawing two all wit

, 14 in london close to normalfor and newcastle, 14 in london close to normal for the and newcastle,on close to normal for the time of year, but if we fast forward to the weekend we can see how much warmer it is expected to be, the temperature into the high teens, warmer spots getting up the high teens, warmer spots getting up to 21125. saturday has been disappointingly cloudy but as the weather front with the way we saw late sunshine, here is the weather front and you can still see some rain across england and wales turning light and patchy, damp weather still affecting western scotland, but even here, the rain petering out. left was a lot of cloud around than some mist and fog patches forming over the tops of the hills, but not a cold night with the temperature for seven. into wednesday, high pressure still in scandinavia feeding cold winds towards shetland, but otherwise the wind coming in from western europe and that is what will help boost the temperature. wednesday starts off with a lot of cloud around, so a great start to the day with mist and fog patches. the fog and low clou

that win pushes newcastle up to 13th in the table.ool over an 18—year career at anfield. the most famous of his goals came in the 1977 european cup final when liverpool beat borussia monchengladbach. smith also captained the side when they won the uefa cup and league in 1973. leicester tigers have boosted their hopes of staving off relegation in rugby union's premiership with a thrilling 27—22 win at newcastle. defeat leaves the falcons bottom of the premiership with three games remaining. jonny may's early try helped put the tigers 13—0 up, but quickfire scores from chris harris and tane takulua cut falcons' half—time deficit tojust one point. the winning try though coming from the tigers‘ guy thompson. that win lifting them up to ninth, eight points above newcastle. in the pro 14 ulster secured a play—off spot and dealt edinburgh's end—of—season aspirations a huge blow with a bonus—point win at murrayfield. robert balacoon amongst the try scorers there in a 29 points to seven win. 0spreys ran in seven tries as they beat southern kin

declan harvey, bbc news, in newcastle, county down.cut by almost half and turn up for these elections are also notoriously low. last year when different areas held the same elections, just over one third of the people who were registered to vote did so. nina warhurst has been to hartlepool, where last year's turnout was the lowest in the country. hartlepool council has a job on its hands. how can it get this population of this diverse community more interested in what it does? 160 million is being spent on regeneration but generating interest in these elections is proving tricky. have you ever voted in a local election? no. no. do you know what local counsellors that may counsellors do? no, i have no clue whatsoever. this is in the top 2% of most deprived areas in the country. the cleaner and pa rt—time most deprived areas in the country. the cleaner and part—time youth worker wants to make sure that he is heard. that vote could be vital. so local elections matter? since 2010 this council has lost almost two—thirds of its budget, and t

newcastle's 1—0 defeat to crystal palace at the weekend, means they're still not safe, they remain justng over the club. practice is already underway — for the chinese grand prix. as formula 1 reaches the 1000—race milestone this weekend. it's a world away from when the first world championship got underway at silverstone, england back in 1950. fast forward 69 years — and lewis hamilton is the man to beat. the five—time world champion‘s record in china, is better than any other driver's with five victories to his name. and finally, losing yourjob is one thing, but finding out via twitter is quite another. that's exactly what appears to have happened to florent malouda. the former chelsea and france winger, now a coach, appeared to be totally unaware of his release by fc zurich. they say his exit was by mutual agreement, which was news to malouda. you can get all the latest sports news at our website — that's bbc.com/sport. but from me — gavin ramjaun — and the rest of the sport team, that is your friday sport briefing. sir mickjagger has shared an image of himself out and about after un

as though it is going to be dry, warm and sunny, temperatures up to around 20 in london, 17 for newcastle as well. wednesday, high—pressure very close by but there is this little weak weather front stuck in this high—pressure, that sometimes happens and within high—pressure, winds are very light, so high—pressure, winds are very light, so with clouds stuck in this area of light winds, not really moving anywhere, so it may be quite overcast a cross anywhere, so it may be quite overcast across some parts of the uk and there might even be some showers around, but still warm in the south—east with the southerly winds, 19 degrees, a bit fresher in the north—west. then a change is expected towards the end of the week, we will see more frequent showers, more cloud and it is going to turn quite a bit cooler. the winds will start to blow out of the north—west, you can see the arrow is pointing from the north—west towards the south—east and quite a few blobs of blue, so anybody could catch a shower on thursday and temperatures for example in london will be some four or for example in london will be

that win pushes newcastle up to 13th in the table.iverpool defender tommy smith has died at the age of 7a. smith played 638 games for liverpool over an 18 year career at anfield. the most famous of his goals came in the 1977 european cup final when liverpool beat borussia moenchengladbach. smith also captained the side when they won the uefa cup and league in 1973. leicester tigers have boosted their hopes of staving off relegation in rugby union‘s premiership with a thrilling 27—22 win at newcastle. defeat leaves the falcons bottom of the premiership with three games remaining. jonny may‘s early try helped put the tigers 13—0 up but quickfire scores from chris harris and tane takulua cut falcons‘ half—time deficit to just one point. the winning try though coming from the tigers‘ guy thompson. that win lifting them up to ninth, eight points above newcastle. in the pro 1a, ulster secured a play—off spot and dealt edinburgh‘s end—of—season aspirations a huge blow with a bonus—point win at murrayfield. robert balacoon amongst the try sco

this story because dr a one hundred key ruling from the spanish history department of britain's newcastle university is live with this why do you think i one hundred president trump wants to punish european firms primarily when it's cuba that he's got a problem with. really. trade . union. it's very very long. the other hand you're getting in the mass three. by the president find. in the united states something that you already know. it's is a very long and sometimes difficult to. return you know. it's been delayed or it's been it's been way for two decades by the u.s. but no doubt it's back in play is threatening legal action isn't even legal as far as you know. no it's not not legal according to thinks national law and that one why in the in the first instance in one thousand think. that the queen government decided to introduce is the way. we. are. not going to be the apply when european union actually threatened with into the new. organization the idea of the. law. and that it wasn't woodward. or why now. gratian think it fine could be part of the problem while. i think. it will lose

they've managed to claim a crucial point after coming from behind against newcastle.ned the scoring with this header causing some worried faces among the home fans. but brighton equalised 15 minutes from time. pascal gross with a huge goal, ending the seagulls seven—game goal drought. a win would have all but guaranteed survivalfor brighton after cardiff's 1—0 defeat to already relegated fulham, a game they needed to win today — neil warnocik‘s face says it all. ryan babel with the only goal in that gane. cardif only have two games left and with a far inferior goal difference there will be some nervous faces in the welsh capital tonight. we aren't out of it yet. i think that we had ten shots in the last ten minutes. i thought we could have been a bit more intense in the first half, but probably a bit nervous. i don't know. i can't fault any of their efforts, it's just one of those things that the one guy on the pitch who scores a goal like that, he's the one probably worth the most money. we've had a 5—6 great chances, really, and we can't finish one of them, so we pr

the tigers head to bottom side newcastle on friday with just a five—point cushion and four games to playg thejordan mixed open. it was the first to see women compete against men for the first money and prize money. maclaren started the final round in the lead, but a bogey and double bogey on the back nine saw dutchman daan huizing win by two shots. that's all the sport for now. james, thank you. let us bring you some other news. gkn aerospace has announced it will close it's kings norton factory in 2021, which means around 170 people will lose theirjobs. gkn was bought by the melrose group in a hostile takeover last year. a statement from gkn says it has "regrettably" concluded its site in kings norton did not have a sustainable future, but the unite union said, the closure decision "flew in the face" of assurances given at the time of the takeover. our business correspondent, rob young, has been following the story. so the history of this is that about a year ago melrose industry, which specialises in buying poor performing companies and turning them around, bought 23 four £8 billion ag

european spot currently one melted newcastle the spanish playing.for israel, whose social media comments, that held rates for gay people, follows his sack. he refused to him like the post and said that man was made for women to procreate, that was the goal. he however added that he does not hate anyone. the rf youth says they don‘t support his views and the cloud says they‘ll deal with the matter internally as his conduct is inconsistent with what they expect. like him he's a christian and interprets his christianity in a certain way, and for that he has been asked by other people to unlike the post that the other played out and he has not done it and then went a step further and put out sentiments that broadly are in line with where he‘s coming from, it‘s a real can of worms being up here. with him using his social media platform to put across a point of view that many people find offensive. that's our rugby union reporter chris jones and offensive. that's our rugby union reporter chrisjones and that‘s all this but for now. thank you very much. pre

that win pushes newcastle up to 13th in the table.hree points. good points in the table but all you have to do is enjoy today and be ready for the next one. and we will try to get three points in the next game. the australian horse winx is said to have achieved racing immortality after winning herfinal race to extend a victory run to 33. the mare was described as "an australian icon" and the greatest of all time as she crossed the line to win the queen elizabeth stakes at randwick racecourse this morning in sydney. the eight—year—old mare, ridden byjockey hugh bowman, is unbeaten since april 2015 and is now retiring. that's all the sport for now. hello there. we've got more of the same really through the rest of this weekend. it's going to remain on the cold side and we have got stronger winds as well, east to south—easterly winds are picking up which make it feel colder. most places will be dry, there will be some sunshine around but there will be some more frosty nights and early mornings as well as we had early this morning. a look

hello mr michel's can you hear me in new castle mr moscow's can you hear me in newcastle. that we seem to have lost our communication with mr moss we'll try and obviously come back to him shortly as and when we can let's move over to the debate now whether to allow abortions in argentina that's been very controversial over the years the legislation in the maybe roman catholic country was narrowly defeated by senators last year stories of reports from province activist remain determined to decriminalize abortion especially since discovering the plight of an eleven year old girl who was raped some of you may find elements of this report disturbing. cecilio said and her husband. irene balled in a fight to decriminalise have been in argentina they live in money northwest argentina one of the most conservative provinces in the country the fight is a personal one as the doctors are under investigation for carrying out an abortion on an eleven year old girl who had been raped at the time was when i know i wanted to evaluate what we could do in a case and what i saw horrified me i

newcastle are 15 straightaway games on a monday night.ir fans straightaway games on a monday night. think how far theirfans have had to travel. a lot of travelling. they have lost now 12 of those games. they hate monday nights. long journey home for them last night, wasn't it? another one, arsenal have won their last ten home games which they haven't done in 20 yea rs. games which they haven't done in 20 years. nifty little run. nifty little run. arsenal beat newcastle united 2—0 to move up to third in the premier league. aaron ramsey and alexander lacazette were on target at the emirates, to take their side above their arch—rivals tottenham, and manchester united, too. everton are investigating an alleged incident involving england goalkeeperjordan pickford. video published on social media appears to show him involved in a fracas on a sunderland street. england's sam curran took a hat—trick in a remarkable match in the indian premier league, helping his kings eleven punjab side from the brink of defeat to victory over the delhi capitals.

newcastle are 15th, seven points above cardiff in thew drop zone.owed by the behaviour of some fans. it is the issue that is clouding scottish football. for the second time in a week, a flare is thrown onto the pitch in a scottish premiership match, delaying kick—off in the edinburgh derby. the scottish police federation says supporter behaviour is driving the game to a crisis. and when peter haring headed hearts in front, the red mist descended once more. a similar incident happened after celtic scored against st mirren on wednesday. more followed three minutes later. hibernian equalised. during daryl horgan's celebrations, another aberration. this time, a coconut was thrown onto the pitch, accompanied by yet more smoke. in the second half, those problems were extinguished. the most notable flare came in the build—up to hibs' second, scored again by horgan. this match may yet decide which of these sides can qualify for european football next season, but despite some late scrambling, hearts could not regain a foothold. this game was memorable enough

worcester scored three tries to win by 27—20, giving them an unassailable ii—point lead over bottom side newcastle the warriors a second—half lead, which they never relinquished. great britain‘s men have gone top of hockey‘s pro league. they beat germany 1—0. it was matty roper with the only goal to secure a fourth win in five matches. great britain will make their home debut in the tournament against spain next saturday. daniel team won. just after beating rough and adult. it is a second title in four events defeating roger fetter at indian wells last month. —— roger fetter were. mercedes set an all—time record of four consecutive one—twos at the start of a season as valtteri bottas beat lewis hamilton to win the azerbaijan grand prix. jennie gow is part of our fi team in baku. at as the sunsets here is been a perfect weekend for mercedes. it makes them a successful and dominant force. in the most successful that we have seen in formula i history. meanwhile it wasn‘t a perfect weekend for ferreri by any stretch of the imagination. right now at fi, no team could put mercedes in the shade. their tw

at around 7pm yesterday evening smoke was spotted rising from the forest above picture is newcastle.re took hold. at its height, the flames were one mile wide. 0n at its height, the flames were one mile wide. on one of the busiest weekends of the year, this woman's ca rava n weekends of the year, this woman's caravan park was evacuated. many, including a pregnant woman and young children were busted to a community centre where they spent the night. children were busted to a community centre where they spent the nightlj was very frightened. there were people who were told to go into their cars, move the cars, getting your cars and then told to get out of the cars and run to the front gates?! i was thinking well, this is really serious. we have to evacuate. sol really serious. we have to evacuate. so ijust got really scared. yeah. by so ijust got really scared. yeah. by the early hours, the fire appeared to be under control. the fire service it was expected to give details on what caused the fire in the extent of the damage lay today -- is the extent of the damage lay today —— is expec

the irish provincial side will face saracens of the premiership at newcastle united's st james's parkrts. after a year and ireland, the champions cup is starting to feel at home with leinster and only spent as long and need toulouse trophy cabinet as the new one in dublin and its history. they want to return to france, toulouse has to deliver better the next. compounding with the irish side reluctant to wave goodbye to their trophy. of those like might well have - waved like might well have late to waved the white flag by half—time but only talked on for a penalty in the build up talked on for a penalty in the build up but still leinster had to wait 12 minutes after the break to go further ahead. toulouse chipping away with the boot and offering some french resistance only for garry ringrose to touch the ball down at the same time as him, no try. at the french knew they were down, leinster proceeded to take them some more. no intentions of letting the trophy go anywhere just yet. britain's amir khan has vowed to continue boxing despite a controversial defeat in his world title challen

well, on the field, there is a huge relegation clash between newcastle and leicester in the premiership. they also meet in football's premier league. that's all on sportsday at 6.30pm. but now on bbc news, it's time for the film review. hello there and welcome to the film review on bbc news. taking us through this week's cinema releases is james king. so james, what do we have this week? we have got jesse we have gotjesse buckley proving to us we have gotjesse buckley proving to us she is now shrieking violet in wild rose. regina hall goes from big to small in little. and jonah hill directs mates with skates in mid90s. wildrose, let's start with that. a young single mother in glasgow dreams of going to nashville to be a big country star. she does but it's going to be a difficultjourney. she has quite a couple get a personal life. she is just has quite a couple get a personal life. she isjust out has quite a couple get a personal life. she is just out of prison. has quite a couple get a personal life. she isjust out of prison. she isa life. she isjust out of prison. she is a single mum.

leicester taking on newcastle. currently goalless.opp has called for life bans for fans found guilty of racist abuse. it follows the emergence of a video where six chelsea supporters appeared to chant an islamophobic song on their way to the club's europa league match at slavia prague last night. three of the six people involved were identified by chelsea and barred from the game. chelsea say they are working to identify the other three, who did not turn up... and released a statement saying it finds all forms of discriminatory behaviour abhorrent and that they will take the strongest possible action against them. such individuals are an embarrassment to the vast majority of chelsea supporters. liverpool have called the chanting discriminataory and dangerous. these guys now, it happens in other parts of life as well but these guys are now football fans so if you do something like that, it should not be allowed to enter a stadium again they should not. from my point of view, in your life. arsenal, meanwhile, have started an investigati

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and overnight some of the skies will clear and it will be quite nippy. 4 degrees for belfast and newcastle got the london marathon, and we start off fairly fresh with temperatures around 80 degrees or so. warming up to possibly 13 by the afternoon. not a particularly warm one. cool for the runners, maybe that's a bit better. if you are a runner, you will know. tomorrow looking decent enough by 4pm, possibly around 13 or 14 degrees with some sunshine as well. how about the week ahead, it looks like it's going to be a dry start, a couple of the day is on the way, monday and tuesday good days, not necessarily sunny, some cloud around, particularly across central and southern areas. may be overcast in london or reading, it looks like edinburgh as there were no with highs of around 18 degrees. that's 00:29:44,173 --> 4294966103:13:29,430 it for me, goodbye. this is bbc news, i'm lukwesa burak. the headlines at 3pm: 15 bodies, including those of six children, are found by sri lankan security forces after a gun battle with islamist militants. nearly 100 labour mps and meps, including shadow minis

the wildfire happened in the mourne mountains above the seaside town of newcastle.orts. 0n the mountainside, a fire a mile long threatened some houses as it burned through the gorse. eyewitnesses described it as a running wildfire. 50 fire fighters worked to bring the blaze under control. the flames came close to a caravan park. police went from one mobile home to another, telling people to get out quickly. buses took around to hundreds of holiday—makers to a leisure centre. it wasn't how expected to be spending their easter. very frightening. people were told to get in to their cars, move their cars. then you got in and you were told to get out of your cars and run to the front gates. the wind was blowing it towards the caravan site. once it hit one caravan, then they were worried about the gas bottles. once the gas bottles are hit, it would have made a chain reaction. they have now been allowed to go back to their caravans. the mourne mountains provide some of the most striking scenery in northern ireland. the hilltop scrubland adds to the rocky beauty. but when f

have livable having a crucial advantage but liverpool still have to beat the likes of huddersfield, newcastlee last three games. you may say it is a slightly easier run-in you may say it is a slightly easier run—in then city, and would give them a huge advantage but it wouldn't be the end of the story. there is no doubt that if city do go on to lose the premier league title race, just a few weeks ago of course, there was talk of an unprecedented quadruple, there is no doubt this season will be seen as a big disappointment regardless of the carabao cup big disappointment regardless of the ca ra bao cup success big disappointment regardless of the carabao cup success and whether or not they win the fa cup final. as you said, pep guardiola's poetry and the owners was the champions league, given how much they dominated the premier league last year —— priority. to be able to do neither, i think that will be a huge anticlimax given where they were up until recently, spurs and knocking them out of the champions league last week, and that remarkable result. if liverpool can get one over them in the t

de liverpool running begins tomorrow night at home to huddersfield with newcastle and wolves to come,olves to come, whilst for city it is a trip to burnley on sunday with leicester and brighton after that, and although neither of the size look like slipping up, the premier league has been known to provide late drama. a draw at west ham cost manchester united in 1995. blackburn lifting the title on the final day of the season. in 2003 arsenal do at bolton and lost to leeds united in two of the final four matches. and liverpool have been here before. the peak to chelsea and a draw at crystal palace in 2014 enough to hand manchester city the trevi —— defeat to chelsea. brendan rodgers was the man at the helm for ring —— for liverpool that year. leicester host liverpool a week on monday and how the reds would love a favour from an old friend. so liverpool face the prospect of not winning the title despite only one defeat — to city — all season. a cruel blow for a side looking for their first league title since 1990. so we sent our reporter juliette ferrington to find out how the red half

we look too far in front, we‘ve got newcastle on friday night, that‘s going to be a tough game, you knowrt website. mick schumacher, son of the great michael, has appeared in a ferrari, having a test drive, his formula one test debut today, more details on that, i will see you at 6:30pm. olly foster, many thanks. let‘s return now to our main story this evening and an extended cabinet meeting — which began at 9:30 this morning — is continuing at downing street — as theresa may and her ministers try to find a way to break the brexit deadlock. the eu‘s chief negotiator, michel barnier, has warned that a no—deal brexit is becoming more likely, after mps again failed to agree an alternative to theresa may‘s withdrawal agreement last night. that was the result of the series of votes last night. with me is bronwen maddox of the institute for government, once again we meet to try to make sense of what is going on. they met for how long today, the cabinet? we understand they met at nine, the cars were being called at 4:45pm, so nearly eight hours of talks, almost three times the normal length of

we look too far in front, we've got newcastle on friday night, that's going to be a tough game, you knowtry to unleash the talent in a simple game plan. time to tell you that full him of pulled back, watford one overfull mfa look towards relegation tonight, and manchester united has also one. that's all the sport for now. i'll have more for you in sportsday at 10:30pm. a neo—nazi will be sentenced in may for his plan to kill a labour mp. a series of trials linked to his plans came to an end today which means we can now report fully on the background behind the plan byjack renshaw, a former member of national action, to kill rosie cooper with a sword. our home affairs correspondent daniel sandford has been talking exclusively to his friend robbie mullen who blew the whistle on the plans. the committed neo—nazi who faces a long prison sentence for planning to kill his mp. we can now reveal is a convicted sex offender after trying to groom to young teenage boys. the group he belonged to was banned in 2016 as an extreme right—wing terrorist organisation. but then it's leader decided to take

move above manchester united and tottenham to go third in the premier league after a victory over newcastleemirates stadium. good morning, and welcome to the bbc news at nine. the prime minister is hosting a marathon cabinet meeting today, after parliament once again failed to reach a majority on any alternative option for brexit. one by one last night, each of the four proposals were rejected. and this morning there has been reaction from brussels in the form of the eu's chief brexit negotiator — michel barnier saying a no—deal brexit is now more likely but can still be avoided. he's due to address the european parliament shortly. so, with just ten days left before the uk is due to leave the eu, let's take a look at the brexit timeline. so that cabinet meeting is scheduled to sit for five hours today. there could be another round of indicative votes tomorrow on those options which have already been rejected twice. on thursday theresa may could bring back her withdrawal agreement for a fourth vote in the commons. remember, that's already been rejected three times. on the 10th of april eu le