reporter: nico rosberg spent the week taking a victory tour.ow he has delivered a shock to his fans. >> i have decided to end my formula one career. reporter: he had been mulling it over for some time. the last three seasons have been grueling, marked by tensions between him and a teammate. he lost a title twice before finally coming out on top. >> the last two years, losing to lewis were extremely difficult moments for me, which fueled my motivation in a way i did not know was possible. this year was extremely tough because i put everything into it. i suffered a lot after that loss. so i pushed my crazy in all directions. reporter: he started the season with four victories. his teammate came on strong midway through the campaign, but he managed to hold him off with a string of fine performances. this year's championship ended a career that began in 20 -- in 2006 when nico rosberg made his debut for williams, the same company has father one with in 1982. but this year, it has come full circle. >> one of the most special things for me is to have

victory for hamilton, but it was not enough to stop nico rosberg winning his first world title. days before his shock retirement. the year in rugby union began as always with a bang, in the six nations tournament, and whilst all teams had their moments, the story of success was built here at the home of english rugby. they had been a side in crisis, but a new coach, a new captain, and suddenly they were looking like a new team, and in this tournament, nobody could compete. a glorious grand slam one on foreign but built in england. fowler, just the beginning, they had to go to the other side that was just the beginning, they had to go to the other side of the world to see just how far they had come. a 3—0 whitewash of australia and again the rugby world was taking note. fittingly, it was back at twickenham, against austria, that england completed their flawless year. in the women's six nations, france were crowned champions. whilst in the club game saracens were all conquering, premiership and champions cup winners, core triumphing in the pro 12. in rugby league 2016 was a year h

postpone his retirement for at least another year after mercedes made a pitch for bottas to replace nico rosbergs also lined up and is set to be completed in the new year. team sky say they are confident uk anti—doping will find no wrongdoing when it publishes its report into the contents of a package delivered to the team in 2011. the package was handed over during the criterium du dauphine, an event won by sir bradley wiggins. sir dave brailsford told mps yesterday it contained an over—the—counter decongestant, fluimucil. team sky say they're cooperating fully and look forward to the report. 2007 champion raymond van barneveld is into the second round of the pdc world darts championship. the dutch 12th seed lostjust two legs to englishman robbie green — averaging nearly 100 in the process. he'll play alan norris in round 2.

valtteri bottas' moved to mercedes as lewis hamilton's new team—mate, after the retirement of nico rosbergh for him to replace rosberg. the deal will see felipe massa come out of retirement and replacing nick williams. —— replace him at williams. jamie vardy will serve a three match ban after his claim for wrongful dismissal was rejected by the fa. vardy was shown a straight red for a two—footed tackle during leicester city's match against stoke on saturday. he won the ball, but made contact with mame diouf‘s shins. he'll now miss the premier league champions' games with everton, west ham and middlesbrough. j°ey joey barton will re—sign at burnley ona joey barton will re—sign at burnley on a short—term deal. he was named championship player of the season last year, and left to join championship player of the season last year, and left tojoin rangers. his contract there was terminated. newcastle united midfielder jonjo shelvey has been banned for five games and fined £100,000 after being found guilty of using racially abusive language towrds an opponent. shelvey was charged following an inc

postpone his retirement for at least another year after mercedes made a pitch for bottas to replace nico rosbergrcedes is also lined up and is set to be completed in the new year. team sky say they are confident uk anti—doping will find no wrongdoing when it publishes its report into the contents of a package delivered to the team in 2011. the package was handed over during the criterium du dauphine, an event won by sir bradley wiggins. sir dave brailsford told mps yesterday it contained an over—the—counter decongestant, fluimucil. team sky say they're co—operating fully and look forward to the report. 2007 champion, raymond van barneveld, is into the second round of the pdc world darts championship. the dutch 12th seed lostjust two legs to englishman robbie green, averaging nearly 100 in the process. he'll play alan norris in round two. that is it for now us. from all of us, good night. hello. a fairly quiet spell of weather for many parts of the british isles in the first part of december. wouldn't you know it, when you are thinking of travelling up and down the country, it looks as though esp

a dealfor the formula 1 world champion nico rosberg.o be completed in the new year. —— the czech republic. a multi—millionaire property developer has been found guilty of murdering his escort girlfriend. newport crown court heard that peter morgan — who's married with two children — admitted killing georgina simmonds after she threatened to blackmail him — but he denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility. our wales correspondent sian lloyd reports. georgina symonds, a 25—year—old mother of one, murdered by the man who called himself her sugar daddy. she'd met peter morgan four years ago while working as an escort. the court heard that the 54—year—old became infatuated with her. during the trial, the property millionaire admitted strangling georgina symonds with baling twine, but denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility. this was peter morgan before he met georgina symonds. the footage of him restoring an old windmill was shown in court. it was one of the places where the pair would later meet. the marrie

and williams are paving the way for bottas to replace nico rosberg.tories after half past. the queen and prince philip have cancelled plans to travel by train today to their estate in sandringham in norfolk, after coming down with heavy colds. 0ur royal correspondent nicholas witchell gave me the latest details. buckingham palace has now said officially on the record the queen and the duke of edinburgh have heavy colds. heavy colds. and so have decided not to travel to sandringham today. the queen was as you mentioned due to catch a train from london up to king's lynn this morning to travel to sandringham to begin the christmas break. she normally catches the 11.01am. she didn't catch it and that started questions being asked what was the cause of this departure from the plan and it transpires that she as the duke of edinburgh have heavy colds. they will wish to travel as soon as they feel able to. they won't want to miss the family christmas at sandringham. i'm sure they will return to their plan for christmas in the next day or so. they will return

postpone his retirement for at least another year after mercedes made a pitch for bottas to replace nico rosberg up and is set to be completed in the new year. team sky say they are confident uk anti—doping will find no wrongdoing when it publishes its report into the contents of a package delivered to the team in 2011. the package was handed over during the criterium du dauphine — an event won by sir bradley wiggins. sir dave brailsford told mps yesterday it contained an over—the—counter decongestant, fluimucil. team sky say they're co—operating fully and look forward to the report. that's all sport for now. i'll have more in the next hour. damien, many thanks for that. a planned strike over pay by around 1,500 baggage handlers and check—in staff at 18 uk airports has been suspended. employees of swissport had been due to walk out on december 23rd and 2ath. but the union unite said agreement had now been reached on an improved pay offer. a court has ruled that doctors should stop providing life support treatment to a policeman who was left in a coma after a road accident. paul briggs suffered a

felipe massa to stay on for another season if bottas leaves to replace the retired world champion nico rosbergurned down, but a deal is expected to be done in the new year. that‘s all sport for now. thank you, see you later. the government has been told it shouldn‘t keep computer data under laws which critics have called the "snoopers‘ charter". the european court ofjustice has ruled that communications information can only be retained if it‘s used to fight serious crime. the home office says it‘ll try to get the decision overturned. our legal correspondent clive coleman is with me. we all perhaps, not you, but a lot of us use the phrase snoopers charter and it is easy to forget what it is. remind us firstly what we are talking about. we are really looking at the investigatory powers act which is known by many people as the snoopers charter. this concerns the snoopers charter. this concerns the retention of data. it is not the content the retention of data. it is not the co nte nt of the retention of data. it is not the content of a phone call, text or an e—mail or even your internet browsing,

yearfor him expected to conclude a deal in the new year for him to replace retiring world champion nico rosbergose stories. a multi—millionaire property developer has been found guilty of murdering his escort girlfriend. newport crown court heard that peter morgan — who's married with 2 children — admitted killing georgina simmonds after she threatened to blackmail him — but he denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility. our wales correspondent sian lloyd reports. georgina simmonds, a 25—year—old mother of one. murdered by the man who called himself her sugar daddy. she had met peter morgan four years ago while working as an escort. the court heard the 54—year—old became infatuated with her. during the trial the property millionaire admitted strangling georgina simmonds with twine but denied murder on the grounds of diminished responsibility. this was peter morgan before he met georgina simmonds, the footage of him restoring an old windmill was shown in court. it was one of the places the pair would later meet. the married father of two paid her £10,000 a month, took her on helic

felipe massa to stay on for another season if bottas leaves to replace the retired world champion nico rosberg bottas turned down but a deal is expected to be done in the new year. that's all sport for now. you can keep up—to—date with all those stories on the bbc sport website. more than 25,000 people are said to have left aleppo. james longman is following developments. there has been a big delay this morning in getting the last evacuees out of east aleppo or the last few convoys out. we understand that at least 60 buses are waiting in east aleppo to ta ke buses are waiting in east aleppo to take evacuees out of east aleppo across into the medical evacuation point. they have enough room more about 3,000 people, but there has been a 2k hour delay in that happening. we're not sure why. it might be because this whole process hinges on evacuations coming out of other parts of syria to government villages which have been under rebel siege. they also need to have evacuation. this parallel evacuation which has been running smoothly so far seems to have stalled and there are 21 buses waiting in the

on for another seasonif felipe massa to stay on for another season if bottas leads to replace a nico rosberger for bottas turndown, but a deal is expected to be done in the new year. five matches in the german bundesliga tonight and the minute's silence will be held before all of them in memory of those who died in them in memory of those who died in the bowling christmas market attack. among the games, the top two play each other as bayern munich taken oui’ each other as bayern munich taken our beloved sick. they are locked on 36 points each, but it is rb lab sick who have had for promotions in their seven seasons. john bennett told us more about them. not well liked by a lot of german football fa ns liked by a lot of german football fans because they are bankrolled by a lot of money from a sponsor. they have a different approach to the mandatory 51 plus role. it is ensured clubs are owned by their members in germany. but if you compare them to love the clubs, borussia dortmund have iao , 000 members. rb have 70 members. but on the pitch, the secret of their success the pitch, the secret of

that leaves bottas clear to join hamilton at mercedes, following the retirement of world champion nico rosbergthe second round of the pdc world darts championship. at alexandra palace, he beat england's robbi green, averaging nearly 100 in the process. and we finish with some gnarly pictures. that is right, gnarly pictures. that is right, gnarly pictures. big wave challenge in nazare in portugal. have a look at those bad boys. laughing. . that is an incredible height. normally they do just to look at the waves but now they are competing. normally they do just to look at the waves but now they are competinglj can give you my best surfing lingo. he used a trademark railgrab off the bottome and ejected at the end of the ride ahead of a doubleup and avoided a two—wave hold down. at the end of it he said today was the next level. it was survival... it was... "heavy." "heavy." probably that means good. we will look at the weather this morning from a rather amazing and unique vantage point. good morning. good morning from stonehenge. look at this view. isn't it amazing? we are lucky to be here this m

felipe massa to stay on for another season if bottas leaves to replace the retired world champion nico rosbergyear. the five—time champion raymond van barneveld is into the second round of the pdc world darts championship at alexandra palace. he beat england's robbie green, averaging nearly 100 in the process. that's all sport for now. you can keep up—to—date with all those stories on the bbc sport website. that's bbc.co.uk/sport and i'll have more in the next hour syrian government forces are hoping to take full control of aleppo, following evacuations from the last rebel enclave in the east of the city over the past few days. more than 25,000 people are already said to have left. our correspondentjames longman is in beirut. so what are they saying james about when they expect to take full control? well, joanna that's what they certainly hope to do, but there has been quite a big delay this morning in getting the last evacuees out of east aleppo or at least the last few convoys out. we understand that at least 60 buses are waiting in east aleppo to take evacuees out of east aleppo across into

. >>> formula one champion nico rosberg announcing his retirement at age 31, five days after earning first world championship at the abu dhabi grand prix. rosberg saying he's achieved his dream of becoming a formula 1 champion and it takes a lot of time and he wants to have more kids and -- but everybody was really surprised by that. back to you guys. >> i admit i -- sue, you know i -- i did not know -- i'm so busy digging into the financial markets, i didn't -- it is also my daughter's 13th birthday today, we have been busy as a family. i did not know this at all. 31, huge. the demands, they're rich -- >> they're traveling all the time. >> all over the world. >> lewis hamilton, a number of world championships, he says he will miss the rivalry, but he said he has a clarity of mind and it is not a surprise that he decided to stop because he's achieved what he wanted to achieve since he was a kid. there you go. >> may have butted heads a bit. not all bad. >> i'm not sure it is good for formula 1, you don't basically have a world champion going through the winter season, right? >> i sme

y en cuanto al automovilismo, el alemÁn nico rosberg conquistÓ su primer campeonato de fÓrmula 1.s los atletas. y este aÑo, puerto rico... johnny: oye, mÓnica puig nos puso en la mira! nosotros somos una islita de 100 35, y que tengamos una medalla de oro me hace sentir mÁs orgulloso que volverlo a decir! ana patricia: y hablando de deportes, una querida de la casa, lindsay casinelli, estÁ esperando su bebÉ. pero quiero que vean estas imÁgenes, donde lo proponen matrimonio! johnny: muy bien! creo que es uno de los momentos mÁs importantes en la vida de una mujer. cuando ese hombre se arrodilla enfrente de ella y le dice: "¿quieres ser mi mujer?". ana patricia: al son del mariachi. suponemos que es noche de navidad, uno de esos dÍas donde estamos enfiestados,y de verdad que se ve la felicidad plena de ambos. creo que le faltÓ poco para que dÉ a luz. johnny: mÁs hermosa que nunca, y quÉ bueno que su novio le propuso matrimonio. ¿nos invitarÁn? ana patricia: por lo menos seremos parte, si lo comparte en las redes sociales. johnny: a mÍ me gusto cuando lo hacen de la manera tradiciona