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it finished 28—8 to st helens, who are going for a fourth consecutive super league title.th won their opening games of the tournament, and sexton had originally declared himself fit despite a bruising encounter with wales. but the fly half will be replaced in the ireland team byjoey carbery in paris on saturday. meanwhile, a hamstring injury has ruled scotland flanker jamie ritchie out of the rest of the six nations. he came off during the second half of the calcutta cup win over england, and will be replaced by sam skinner for the game in wales on saturday. that's one of five changes, including bringing in an entirely new front row. and wayne pivac has made four changes to his wales team for the game in cardiff, including handing a debut to flankerjac morgan. the defending champions were comfortably beaten by ireland in their opening match. four—time world champion sebastian vettel says he was "surprised" by formula one's decision to remove the part of the pre—race ceremonies that have given the drivers the opportunity to show their support for diversity, anti—racism and

in rugby league, defending champions st helens won 38—6 at hull fc in the lunchtime super league matchsent off. saints ran in six tries, two of them scored byjosh simm. elsewhere huddersfield beat hull kr 26-12. last season's runners—up, catalans dragons also made it two wins out of two, they withstood a late fightback from wakefield trinity to win 24—22. rugby union's premiership leaders leicester beat bath in an entertaining game at the recreation ground. it was a game that kept swinging with both teams leading at various points, but leicester had the final say, with freddie burns scoring his sides third try of the match and bryce hegarty�*s penalty sealing it. that's leicester's first win away at bath in 11 years. just four points between the teams in that game and the rest were also incredibly tight. england and wasps flanker jack willis made his return after a 13—month injury layoff, but was on the losing side against harlequins. second placed saracens were beaten by london irish and sale won a tense game at northampton. there's not long to wait now until one of britain's longest

it finished 28—8 to st helens, who are going for a fourth consecutive super league title. fly half will be replaced in the ireland team byjoey carbery in paris on saturday. meanwhile, a hamstring injury has ruled scotland flanker jamie ritchie out of the rest of the six nations. he came off during the second half of the calcutta cup win over england, and will be replaced by sam skinner for the game in wales on saturday. that's one of five changes, including bringing in an entirely new front row. and wayne pivac has made four changes to his wales team for the game in cardiff, including handing a debut to flankerjac morgan. the defending champions were comfortably beaten by ireland in their opening match. four—time world champion sebastian vettel says he was "surprised" by formula one's decision to remove the part of the pre—race ceremonies that have given the drivers the opportunity to show their support for diversity, anti—racism and other causes close to their heart. the sport's chief executive announced the move earlier this week after it was introduced in 2020. it's not

what is the security situation right now in the st. helen also put this in perspective for us. has it improved or deteriorating? deteriorated rather, during the time that the french troops were on the ground, the situation has been progressively deteriorating since the french mission was launched. this doesn't mean that the french than back can was entirely non successful. it only means that the situation has never been worse. and what we could expect for the future is certainly once but can, will leave. there will be a vacuum of security in the short term, but also we will be able to see potentially a push for negotiations with some of these are groups. for example, al qaeda affiliated ashima in the region and also a potential smaller recruitment base for rooms once france leaves. because one of their rhetoric points was that but can was invading a sovereign territory. i think we will also see much more reliance on our power now, which of course, we know presents a number of risks for civilians. given what the u. s. experience withdrawn, strikes has been, for example, what doe

in rugby league, defending champions st helens won 38—6 at hull fc in the lunchtime super league matchme a man short after luke gale was sent off. saints ran in six tries, two of them scored byjosh simm zac shaw picked up two thousand five hundred dollars, that's around eighteen hundred pounds, for breaking his own british record at the indoor grand prix in birmingham. the 26—year—old visually impaired sprinter, ran the para mixed ambulant sixty metres in seven point zero one seconds to claim the bonus prize. that's all the sport for now. now it's time for a look at the weather with louise leah. the significant storms may well have passed, but it stays unsettled, and in fact we have got another spell of wet and windy weather heading in our direction through the night tonight, with plenty of isobars on the chart and some rain really quite heavy as well. so there are weather warning still in force, and you can go to our website for more information. we are going to start off on sunday morning with outbreaks of rain across england and wales, the rain heavier moving into northern england a

in rugby league, defending champions st helens won 38—6 at hull fc in the lunchtime super league match saints ran in six tries, two of them scored byjosh simm. keely hodgkinson picked up 2,500 dollars, that's around £1,800, for breaking the 800 metres british record at the indoor grand prix in birmingham. the 19—year—old from manchester finished in one minute 57.21 seconds to take half a second off jemma's reekie's record. and after 21 years, paula radcliffe's british half marathon record has been broken. eilish mccolgan is the woman who's done it, she came sixth in the ras al khaimah half marathon the uae in a time of 66 minutes and 21 seconds, beating radcliffe's record by 26 seconds. that's all the sport for now. all the liverpool one, it looks like a good match. they havejust as all the liverpool one, it looks like a good match. they have just as good as i am talking to you. 2—1 to liverpool. mohamed salah and sadio mane. prime minister borisjohnson has returned his questionnaire about allegations of downing street lockdown breaches to the metropolitan police. around 50 people rece

at this inquiry looking closer at six particular areas including st helens, durham, bristol, swansea,uote from the report, not of the police forces or local authorities in the case study areas had an accurate understanding of networks sexually exploited children in their areas. the report says this is an area the government wants to be a national priority akin to dealing with terrorism, so i think the reporters finding serious findings, one in particular is a failure to record racial backgrounds of perpetrators and victims, the report says that is a must. tom, thank you. the time is 13:18. our top story this lunchtime... as borisjohnson leaves for talks in ukraine, the deputy prime minister dismisses anger from several tories, saying he has mps' full support. anger from several tories, and team gb's charlotte bankes on her medal hopes for the beijing winter olympics which gets under way later this week. coming up on the bbc news channel, golf�*s asian tour is coming to england with the first ever event outside the continent due to be staged this summer in hertfordshire as the competit

st helens is sitting halina as well. big ridge of high pressure. you know all about it.been sitting there now. for 30. plus days. we've been driver over 34 days, and we're going to continue that way. as we go into the rest of this five day period . you see that in the five day forecast, it's warm everywhere to hot southern california had a brush with fire down there by laguna beach. temperatures down there were the eighties. temperatures up here right now are in the seventies. this is this is like october 5th or something. this type of weather pattern this warmth this late the forecast highs tomorrow. oranges or 80, so you're going to see more? record highs and more eighties in february. so you see, those are some of those oranges pop it in there, so i think we will see some more eighties so 34 days without any rain in san francisco that's going to continue. we will see records three days in a row fire danger, unfortunately, got to talk about it. we're going to see some winds next week. it's it's going to be higher. we won't see a red flag warning, but we will see perhap

st helens are up and running after a dramatic opening night to the new rugby league season. most places stay dry. breeze, more cloud later in the day. but it should be a lovely winter's day. temperatures back to levels we should be at at this stage in february and the february sunshine gains strength every day. this evening, frost could return to east anglia and the south—east but the breeze will pick up and elsewhere frost free with too much cloud. 0utbreaks elsewhere frost free with too much cloud. outbreaks of rain. the wind could touch gale force in the west, which leads to a milder weekend. rain in the west will linger all day on saturday. pushing south on saturday night and into sunday, more wet and windy weather to come. the full weekend forecast coming up on the bbc news channel. 0n monday's breakfast we featured a story about four lions who were all bred in captivity and then lived pretty miserable lives as part of a french circus. they'd been taken in by a charity which wanted to re—home them on an african reserve — but then the pandemic brought those plans to a gr

it was a bit of a shaky start, by the reiging champions st helens on a dramatic opening night to thes in this 28—8 victory, as they chase a record fourth consecutive super league title this season. andy murray is still struggling to put a run of wins together — he's been knocked out of the rotterdam open in the second round. he lost in straight sets to the world number nine, felix auger aliassime. murray was playing his first tournament since an early exit from the australian open. the canadian takes on british number one cameron norrie in the quarter—finals. that's all the sport for now. now, some breaking news that will be of interest to anyone who is thinking of going to spain for the holidays because we were just talking about the problem in terms of families with children over the age of 12, they had to be double vaccinated to go to spain. so a lot of people have been cancelling the holiday to spain. well, there has been a change of that. let me bring you the details. spain is going to allow in unvaccinated british teenagers from monday, as long as they have had a pcr test. the

but this inquiry looking closely at six particular areas including st helens, durham, bristol, swanseae police forces or local "authorities in the case study areas had an accurate understanding "of networks sexually exploiting children in their areas." the report says this is an area the government wants to be a national priority akin to dealing with terrorism, so i think the report has found serious findings, one in particular is a failure to record racial backgrounds of perpetrators and victims — the report says that is a must. the headlines on bbc news... the prime minister tries to rally support from the cabinet — after the damning report into downing street parties. he's arrived in ukraine this afternoon in the last few minutes, to hold talks with the country's president as tension grows over whether russian forces on the border will invade. a plea to get young children vaccinated against measles, as the take up rate drops to its lowest level in a decade. thousands of people are still without power, after last weekend's storms battered parts of scotland and north east england. gal

in rugby league, defending super league champions st helens kept up their 100% start to the season withace leader. fellow briton ethan hayter starts the final day at the tour of the algarve in portugal in second place. the ineos grenadiers rider was third in yesterday's 20 mile individual time trial. belgium's remco evenepoel winning the stage and is more than a minute clear of hayter in the overall lead. and the back pages dominated by headlines like" harry kane." its]!!! headlines like" harry kane." fiii unfolding on bbc one where people have got much of the day. from extreme weather conditions, to supply chain issues and the pandemic, the past two years have been tough for the uk's farming industry. the farm safety foundation has launched a campaign to help agriculture workers deal with the pressures they're facing — and to encourage farmers to open up about their mental health, as david gregory—kumar reports. farming can be hugely rewarding but it can also be crushingly hard. it's notjust physically demanding — it can be mentally demanding, too. especially on days like today. it can

st. petersberg florida is stepping up. and thet protecting older structures the helen franken thaler foundation investing fl energy efficiency and climate resilience. >> we got 110 applications with just six weeks ever notice that 110 applications came in with people knowing exactly what to do, and how they wanted to approach it. >> so the foundation recently doubled it to $10 million. now the largest private investment in climate resilience for museums and twice the funding ever the national endowment for the human itys. >> it's not enough. >> but it helped the california indian museum implement wildfire protection for its structure energy systems and air filtration after the getty museum came dangerously close to destruction in the 2019 fire around malibu and l.a. >> these collections do not depreciate over time guarding and protecting them for a long horizon into the future adds to their value to the museum and to the investors. >> and that's why it's impossible to put a dollar figure on this risk. because it rises by the minute noting that while art investors seem happy to outbid each other for works they are not investi

helene $33.00 on the o se special monitor and mission chief monitor father. our comprehensive briefing center, the manor glove also took note of the ukrainians of society activist, mrs. tatiana, montana, st. her president. since our meeting on january 31st, we have seen intensive diplomatic efforts at various levels. we must be her either including at the highest levels to reduce the current tensions in eastern europe. and we also while come the further engagement within the normandy format and hope that these discussions will continue from us and how such structured formats, particularly those bringing together russia and ukraine along with other stakeholders are important for further in dialogue. and we need sink tensions. this would also help us to find a peaceful and sustainable solution that would tackle all security concerns of all parties. why late in this regard, my country stresses the need to maintain no. the current momentum and diplomatic efforts that you need to be built up in particular through a steps taken by all concerned parties to engage in constructive dialogue in the interest of the escalation and the maintenance of regional security and stability. we stress the impo