Dank start across northern and western parts of the British Isles are nowhere near the level of sunshine you have enjoyed today across eastern parts, as this cloud and rain tumbles in. Any good news . Things brighten up across scotland and Northern Ireland to finish off your day on sunday. Here is monday. A frosty start across eastern parts but at least you hold onto your sunshine. In the west, the best of the temperatures but not very much sunshine. Hello this is bbc news. The headlines at 6 32 the South African president , jacob zuma, has spoken of the enormous challenges facing the country and the governing anc, as it chooses his successor. A leading supporter of Brexit Jacob Rees Mogg has said that the uk cannot become a colony of the eu during the expected two year transition period after britains withdrawal in march 2019. Police in canada say theyre treating the deaths of the billionaire businessman Barry Sherman, and his wife, as suspicious. Thousand of homes in tewkesbury, in gloucesetershire, have been left without water for a second day, following a burst water main. Severn trent water says work to repair the broken pipe is proving extremely difficult. Time to cross to the bbc sport centre now for sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday with me Hugh Woozencroft and Lizzie Greenwood hughes. The headlines this evening australia bats england out the ashes. Steve smith scores a double hundred as the host make the englands bowlers toil. Can Manchester City make it 16 wins on the trott in the premier league . . Well you in on another busy day of football action. All of the stories coming up. And premiership title holders exeter are dealt a blow to their hopes of a quarterfinal spot in the european rugby champions cup. Good evening. Shortly we will take you through all the days football. But we start the show in australia, where englands cricketers were forced to watch australian captain steve smith bat through the entire day to score a double century as englands hopes of retaining the ashes slipped further away. Smith was supported by Mitchell Marsh, who scored his maiden test hundred and narrows in on a double hundred. Australia will go into the 4th day on 549 4, with both men still at the crease, a lead of 146. The bbcs Sports Correspondent andy swiss is in perth. You get the sense this is a day when englands fading ashes hopes might finally have been extinguished. It really was a torrid day for their bowlers but an extraordinary one for steve smith and Mitchell Marsh. Their unbeaten partnership of 301 has put them in control of this mac, and within touching distance of the ashes. For two australians, a day to remember. For 11 englishmen, one to forget. But if this was when their ashes dream finally died, it was at the hands of batting brilliance. First, steve smith, resuming on 92, he soon reached his half century. As it turned out, hed barely started. At the other end, a flicker of english hope. Moeen ali removing shaun marsh. Little did they know it would be their only wicket of the day. Enter shauns little brother, Mitchell Marsh, who set about showing his sibling precisely how its done. Perfection from marsh. Australia were ruthless, englands bowling more toothless. Flailed to all corners of the waca, for captain joe root it was hard to watch. And marshs aggression soon reaped its reward. A first test 100 to the delight of his fans, and his family. And as the runs kept coming, so did the milestones. Smith completing his double century. The worlds number one batsman with yet another masterclass, as australia piled on the misery. Smith still there on 229, marsh on 181 on a day when englands bowling limitations were painfully exposed. A tough day for englands bowlers. Credit to craig 0verton, who was bowling with a cracked rib. What a show of courage from him. But the limitations of the bowling attack was very plain to see. Afterwards paul farbrace, englands assistant coach, admitted it had been very difficult day for them. The majority of our ways of taking wickets with the attack we have is to be monotonous with lying on length and we tried that exceptionally hard. We thought the cracks might open up a bit more and come into play for us. There was a bit of variable bounce yesterday but it hasnt been case today. It bounced off the nice nicely off the middle of the bat most of the day. As for australia, what performances from steve smith and Mitchell Marsh, who was recalled to the team for this match. He replaced Peter Handscomb and he certainly justified the face replaced Peter Handscomb and he certainlyjustified the face of replaced Peter Handscomb and he certainly justified the face of the selectors. Afterwards he reflected on his brilliant century. Selectors. Afterwards he reflected on his brilliant centurylj selectors. Afterwards he reflected on his brilliant century. I think everyone says it but it was genuinely pure elation. I didnt feel too nervous in the 905, almost a feel too nervou5 in the 905, almost a weird feeling when i got in there. Any time youre in a 905 as a bat5man, you cant help but not think about making 100. Iju5t mage ori think about making 100. Iju5t mage or i try to focus on watching the ball as hard as i could. I dont remembertoo ball as hard as i could. I dont remember too much about my celebration. Im certainly not a jumper, i dont have too many 5pring5 jumper, i dont have too many springs of my step iju5t went for the fist pump i think. What a day for Mitchell Marsh and also for the captain steve smith, with his unbeaten double 100. As for england, when they resume tomorrow they will need something very special indeed if they are to save this mac and save their ashes hopes. Yes, a huge day for england coming up yes, a huge day for england coming up in the ashes tomorrow. So a huge day for england in the ashes coming up tomorrow. But now, with all the news of todays premier league, lizzie is with our football reporter john bennett. The game at the weekend, top of the table Manchester City playing totte n ha m. Table Manchester City playing tottenham. Manchester city going for what would be their 16th Straight League win. They are winning1 0 at half time. If it stays like this, 16 wins ina half time. If it stays like this, 16 wins in a row. Closing in on a european record which is 19 in a row. Bayern munich, also managed by pep guardiola. Lets look at the only goal of the game, gundogan, terrible defending by tottenham. 0ne of the smallest players on the pitch managed to head the ball into the back of the net. Manchester city have been all over tottenham. Totte n ha m have been all over tottenham. Tottenham had a decent start to the game, first five minutes, but since then they have had enough of the ball to create anything. Harry kane had a shot wide but they have hardly had a shot wide but they have hardly had any shots on target. Manchester city a joy to watch at the moment. It looks as though they are going to get a 16th winner rob rob but still only 1 0 but completely dominated. When can we say it looks like another league title . Pasta close to that point, 1a points clear as it stands. If it stays as it is, the 1a points clear of Manchester United and chelsea, we will talk about in a moment. They are very close. The pundits on match of the day think man city won the tip le already. When can you say a i a lwa ys tip le already. When can you say a i always say when can you say team haswon and leicester. Crystal palace beat leicester 3 0. Their first away win since april. For me, it underlines this slow progression and the roy hodgson. They were impressive today, wont they . Yes, when that he took over that it was five games of the season, they hadnt won a game or scored a goal and now eight unbeaten under roy hodgson. Lets take a look at the polls. They were very impressive. Taking the lead through christian benteke, ending his goal drought. It was a long goal drought of 13 games. Then Wilfried Zaha, who was the star, making it 2 0. Right at the end sako making it 3 0. Leicester went into this game on a run of four straight wins, so very impressive Crystal Palace. You mentioned it, away from home they have been so poor all season. It is a huge win. They move out of the bottom three and if they keep playing like this and keep Wilfried Zaha fit you have to say i think they will stay up in the premier league this season. Before we hear from roy hodgson, brave refereeing from roy hodgson, brave refereeing from the referee. He sent off ndidid for diving. Yes, on his 21st birthday second booking, a dive in the penalty area. He is not really that sort of character normally but it was a clear dive and you have to say the referee got it right. Everything went against leicester today but Crystal Palace deserved the win. A late sendingoff so not much impact on the result. There was a time when we were looking up at everybody on the gap was quite massive. Now the gap is no longer massive, so really i concern myself a little bit less whether we are in the bottom three or out of the bottom three, i concern myself more with the number of points we are divorced from the pack of teams that to scrap it out between now and the end of the season. I still believe it is going to be made which will decide everyones fate but if we can produce performances like this all the way through to may, at least weve given ourselves a chance. It will be very tight. It is tight at the bottom. It could be quite an exciting month of may for the neutrals. Chelsea, and narrow home victory, 10 chelsea, and narrow home victory, 1 0 against southampton. Were they unlucky . I heard they were dominant. It should have been more. The goal came before half time, Marcos Alonso with a free kick. Possibly the wall at fault. He bent it around the wall, second half they were all over southampton. Southampton offered very little. 0n shot on target. Fraser forster very busy in the southampton goal. Antonio conte, who by the way crew his beard back. They are in great form an eight wins in the last ten games. As it stands, 1a adrift of Manchester City. He was really pleased with their performance despite the fact it was a narrow win in the end. Quite hard becau5e5 of the result, it was only 1 0. I think that we dominated the game, we created many chances to score. In one game you shoot 24 times, eight on the target, it means that you dominated the game. Also 1 0 at the emirates, arsenal beating newcastle. Arsenal are back in the top four but not necessarily setting the world on fire . Theyre not clinical enough, they should have been out of sight at half time. Brilliant goal by mesut 0zil, goal of the month contender, great volley, superb technique. You thought they would go on and score more but they didnt. New cars came back into it near the end and maybe could have got a point. Arsenaljust about deserved it. Arsene wenger, after three games without a win, delighted they are back to winning ways. I think overall we deserved to win, we had plenty of chances, but the last five or ten minutes, it became edgy because we had absolutely to win today and we hadnt made enough of a difference to become fourth. But overall, i feel that we dominated quite well the game. It was physically difficult, because it was our third game in six days and physically very intense. A very intense period for football. I feel sorry for them at christmas, a lwa ys i feel sorry for them at christmas, always so busy. I dont know why am feeling so for them newcastle loss to arsenal. This is not looking good. They are getting dragged down into real trouble, struggling. Good. They are getting dragged down into real trouble, strugglingm this destruction is off the pitch . I think it has to be having an effect. There of the takeover, the takeover, the offer is there, but no blue initiations are ongoing. 0n the pitch they are in real trouble. The negotiations are ongoing cost without a win in their last nine games, their last win was in 0ctober. We shouldntjudge them on their performance today, i think they did 0k today but in the last few games, for example Leicester City last week and they were really, really poor. Next week is a crucial game for newcastle, against west ham, who are also struggling. We will talk about them in a moment. That is a massive, massive game. Rafa benitez is an stackable. You said icahn is he really . Rafa benitez is an stackable. You 5aid icahn is he really . rafa benitez is an stackable. You said icahn is he really . I think so. No one would do that when the ta keover no one would do that when the takeover is about to happen. Newcastle fans hope. The pressure is certainly an newcastle as a team because they are in the bottom three now. Lets hear from because they are in the bottom three now. Lets hearfrom rafa benitez. We did well. We had chances to draw. Its a pity, because in the end we are learning, we have this situation in some games that we are just one goal behind and then we have to improve quickly to make sure we get these draws or wins because we are making a great effort, the players are working so hard and its a pity. Next, watford and huddersfield. The first time these two have met in the top flight. Huddersfield won 4 1. Who wouldve thought the first meeting between these two teams would result in that score. On the best wins of the season. The best one will be their Manchester United win. Away from home, struggling, five successive away defeats this was a brilliant performance. You can see their celebrations here. Aaron mooy on the scoresheet. The only negative was kachunga was stretchered off. Troy deeney was sent off for watford will stop there was also Jonathan Hogg sent off for watford will stop there was alsoJonathan Hogg sent off for huddersfield, both sides ending the game with ten men. The david wagner it was important they started winning away from home. A big relief they got this win and it was a resounding win. That makes me 5ati5fy, that the players were able to transform the theory into the practice on the gra55. They have shown an unbelievable performance today. I am so unbelievable performance today. I am so delighted for them and for our 5upporter5. It was a very exciting and very satisfying afternoon for us. This match was delayed by an hour at the home at stoke because of a power cut. But in the end, it went a way of west ham, which is not good news for stoke. Stoke would have been hoping it would have been postponed. It really was. The power cut lasted a long time. Marcuse under serious pressure now. He has lost five of his last six games and everything that could have gone wrong went wrong. Marcos alonso, who they sold to west ham, hes scored. A three nil win to west ham. At the end you could see, all the seeds because the stoke could see, all the seeds because the sto ke fa ns could see, all the seeds because the stoke fans left, basically. They we re stoke fans left, basically. They were blowing marcuse as he left the stadium. 606 is on their on five live, people calling in saying he should lose hisjob, under real pressure. As for west ham, excellent performance by them. Now three and beaten for david moyes and west ham. They beat chelsea, drew against arsenal, almost won that game and our really good away defeat. First away win of the season. David moyes doing a greatjob. Away win of the season. David moyes doing a great job. What is he doing . What has david moyes done . It wasnt necessarily the most popular decision when he want went there. What has he done . Why are they suddenly doing so well . He talks about increasing the fitness of the players. Thats basic. Certainly more organised than they were under slaven bilic. Getting the best out of the players. As you say, it was an unpopular appointment but you cant argue with the result, three unbeaten now and they are on the right track to stay up. Unbeaten now and they are on the right track to stay uplj unbeaten now and they are on the right track to stay up. I know that its clearly not funny when you talk about managers losing theirjobs but on the phrases i heard in the office today was who would go there . Tony pulis, that would be ironic. Surely they wouldnt have tony pulis back at stoke. They want to keep them up. This is a story to watch in the next few days. The owner peter coates is very loyal but the fans have turned against him marcuse. Brighton in burnley, they missed a penalty, brighton . The only flying high in the premier league. Glenn murray s guide a penalty. Brighton will be thinking they should have won that game. An opportunity missed the brighton. Burnley had these best of the second half. The brighton. Burnley had these best of the secondhalf. Looking at the top of the table to see where todays results are leaving things. Manchester city still ongoing and still winning at the moment. Who is the big winner today . I suppose it must be. Well i guess arsenal and chelsea staying third and arsenal moving into the top four. Arsenal moving into the top four, chelsea on level points with Manchester United. Leicester city, disappointing for them, they would have been wanting to gain ground on liverpool and tottenham. Crystal palace, a wonderful win and we will see what it has done for them. At 1. I see what it has done for them. At u think they were 14th forced up they were bottom a few weeks ago, then they just they were bottom a few weeks ago, then theyjust moved out of the relegation zone today. No, still 14th, relegation zone today. No, still 1ath, extraordinary. They were bottom and looking like they were the odds on favourite to go down not long ago. Very tight between 11 and down to 19th. This is what roy hodgson the same can any one of these teams could go down. Newcastle in the bottom three, in real trouble. Stoke city just in the bottom three, in real trouble. Stoke cityjust above the relegation zone, the pressure on marcuse. Interesting weekend and two war games tomorrow. That is the football, back to you. Manchester city still winning 1 0 but harry kane has tested ederson in the man city goal. And the championship. Wolves went 7 points clear at the top of the championship last night, second placed cardiff have the chance to close the gap, as they take on hull in the tea time kick off. Cardiff just took the lead with cardiffjust took the lead with this headerfrom sol cardiffjust took the lead with this header from sol bamba. Cardiffjust took the lead with this headerfrom sol bamba. Four of his five goals coming at the cardiff city stadium. The dayss other games saw qpr win away for the first time this season, 2 1 at birmingham. Burton are off the bottom of the table. A 1 0 defeat for bolton sees them drop into the relegation zone. Brentfords game with barnsley ended goalless. Its now four wins in four for bristol city, who beat forest 2 1. Derby county boosted their promotion hopes with a 2 0 win over play off rivals aston villa. Ipswich ended readings 5 game unbeaten run, also 2 0 at portman road. Leeds beat norwich 1 0. Good run for millwall they beat boro. Three defeats on the spin for promotion chasing sheffield united, beaten 1 0 at deepdale, and sunderland got their first win at home in almost a year to the day, 1 0 over fulham at the stadium of light. Gary Mackay Steven scored a hat trick as aberdeen swept aside hibernian in the scottish premiership. Theyre nowjust two points behind leaders celtic who play at hearts tomorrow, while hibs stay fourth. Hibs had been unbeaten in the league away from home since march, but a goalfrom Graeme Shinnie within the first 11 minutes put aberdeen on the front foot. Defensive blunders gifted gary Mackay Steven a hat trick and helped aberdeen to a twelfth league win of the season. Elsewhere in the scottish premiership dundee beat relegation rivals partick 3 0 at home. Hamilton got an last minute winner to beat ross county 3 2, both sides had a man sent off in that one. Motherwell continued their poor run of form they have lost four in a row, losing 1 0 away at kilmarnock. And the shock of the day was at ibrox where rangers lost to stjohnstone its the first time they have won in the league there since 1971. The final of the World Club Cup is underway with european cup holders real madrid looking for their second straight title. They face the south american champions gremio, of brazil. So far 1 0 up, thanks to a free kick from world player of the year Cristiano Ronaldo in abu dhabi. Victory for madrid would mean they match the record of three titles held by domestic rivals barcelona. Coming up in the programme. Adam peaty wins a gold medal, but gives it away. Moving on to rugby union. Exeter chiefs gave away a half time lead as their chances of reaching the knockout stages in the rugby champions cup were dealt a blow with defeat to leinster. The irish side scored 13 unanswered points in the second half, as it finished 22 17 at the aviva stadium. It was watched byjoe lynskey. December is when exeters champions cup dreams could be defined. Six days ago, leinster were sandy park winners but from defeat in devon, now to dublin. The premiership leaders got the start they needed. Stamp sam skinners try had them in front in two minutes. The build up dealt another irish blow, Johnny Sexton hurt and done for the day. The chiefs now sensed a real opportunity. Before half time, they forced through a second try. But sextons absence would bring another twist. The captain was put on lei nster twist. The captain was put on leinster kicked duty. His four perfect penalties edged them back in it. It meant when the try chance did come, leinster would take it when it mattered. Luke mcg raw come, leinster would take it when it mattered. Luke mcgraw the man to find the chink in chiefs armoury. A score to seal a famous turn around and leave the english champions on the break. Exeter, if these must be six days when the dream slipped away. Scarlets re invigorated their campaign with a dominant 31 12 win against benetton in treviso. A week after struggling to beat a 1a man benetton side, they scored four tries in the wintry italian sun. A try each forjohnny mcnicholl and paul asquith, as well as two touchdowns by Gareth Davies secured the bonus point inside 44 minutes. Bath could go above defending champions and Group Leaders toulon in pool 5. Their match at the rec was a 5. 30 kick off. The premiership side lead by 31 18. Three first half tries including that from Anthony Watson have put bath in front at the rec. Elsewhere, already eliminated glasgow warriors were beaten away in montpellier, who go above exeter in pool 3. While racing beat castres. World number 3 judd trump was shocked at the scottish 0pen, beaten in the semi finals by a man ranked 64 places lower than him, chinas yupeng chow. Trump had been trailing for the most of the match and despite levelling it up at three frames apiece, he couldnt create an advantage. Chow will go on to face either Neil Robertson orjohn higgins, who get their semi underway later on. Justin rose has retained his clubhouse lead at the indonesian masters, despite torrential rain and lightning causing play to be suspended for a second consecutive day. Rose started the third round with two birdies in his opening three holes, before extending his lead with another birdie on the fifth. He was 16 under par and on his eighth hole when play was suspended three shots ahead of the chasing pack. Play will resume at 6. 15am tomorrow. Britains olympic and World Champion adam peaty has now added the first short course title of his career with 100 metre breaststroke victory at the european short course championships. The 22 year old won gold, setting a new european record time of 55. 94 seconds. Its his second medal of the championships in copenhagen after securing bronze in the 50 metre breastroke final earlier in the week. Look at this for a gesture, after the race peaty made a young fans day by giving her his medal. Lovely scenes and judging by the reaction, a moment this fan will never forget. Do you think you will regret that . Maybe. He has a lot of gold medals he does. The Winter Olympics are just a couple of months away and britains snowsport athletes are doing their best to get into medal winning form. Earlier today, skier Andrew Musgrave took bronze in the 15 kilometre freestyle at the Cross Country world cup in italy. And the beleagured bobsleighers battle on despite their chronic lack of funding, the womens 2 bob, finishing 10th in the latest race in austria. Misha mcneill and brake woman mica moore were third fastest on the track in innsbruck at one point, before being pushed down the order. Britain had two teams in the mens two man bob, bradley hall and nick gleeson finishing down in 20th after making it through to the 2nd heatjust ahead of bruce tasker and joel fearon, who failed to make it past the first round. Germany took gold in both the mens and womens events. I cant wait for the winter 0lympics thats all from sportsday. Therell be more sport here on bbc news throughout the evening. Time now for the weather. Good evening. The nuisance showers today. Most of them where they should be but a few wont. These through the midlands and into the south east affecting the london area through the afternoon. Further west, quite a lot of cloud. To the east you had the sunshine, and that has been the contrast through the day to day. In north wales, showers fairly persistent and it felt cold and miserable. It was cold and beautiful further east with those blue skies and sunshine, as you can see from south shields. It looks like that is where we will keep the clear skies overnight. Temperatures likely to fall away to form frost and maybe even some fog. Further west, a different story. It will be cloudy and milder. 0 minus one. In the east 4 7 first thing in the morning. That rain will push in and continue to introduce milder air with it. It will take its time in doing so. The train every in Northern Ireland, scotland, into west wales by the end of the day. Further east, the frost will lift but it stays largely dry and cloudy through most of the day across in east anglia. The rain pushes steadily eastwards through the day, into south west england, wales and the midlands by the middle of the afternoon. Double digits into south west england, 5 7 where the rain is gradually pushing in. Temperatures in the middle of the afternoon are likely to struggle in east anglia. In the north it looks like we will continue to see a scattering of showers across the far north of scotland. Temperatures around 6 9 and we are likely to see double digits into Northern Ireland. The rain pushes steadily south east through the night. Then behind it, quite a clearance. We will see skies clear, a scattering of showers in the far north of scotland. Further south, the rain clears away, a brief ridge of High Pressure builds on quietens things down nicely and quietens things down nicely and quietens the story down into next week. A little more in the way of sunshine and maybe on monday but generally speaking, the milder air will start to nudge in as we go through next week and that is going to have an influence on the story. I suspect monday we might see a little sunshine, but the cloudy and milder conditions set to return on tuesday and likely to stay with us for the bulk of next week. Back with more details throughout the evening. This is bbc news. The headlines at 7pm South African president jacob zuma warns that the future of the governing anc is under threat and his successor faces huge challenges. Police in canada say theyre treating the deaths of the billionaire businessman Barry Sherman and his wife honey, as suspicious. Thousands of homes in gloucestershire are without water for a second day following a burst water main Severn Trent Water says some supplies are starting to return. The renowned scientist and Television Presenter heinz wolff has died at the age of 89. His son says describes him as having a natural sense of fun. The person people saw when they met him was the person that we knew at home. His sense