hello, and welcome to sportsday. liverpool slip up they re beaten by bournemouth, who lift themselves out of the relegation zone. a vital win for wales with a first victory at this year s six nations, as they hope to avoid the wooden spoon. and mikhaela shiffrin makes history in sweden, breaking a record that had stood for more than a0 years. from the bbc sports centre, this is sportsday. the bbc has apologised after severe disruption to its sports programmes today, following the corporation s announcement that gary lineker was to to step back from presenting match of the day. football programming across the bbc has been impacted because a number of presenters and pundits have refused to take part. it comes after lineker s criticism on social media of the government s language surrounding migrants. the bbc says it s working hard to resolve the situation, and recognises that sports fans are disappointed. in an an interview today, the bbc s director general tim davie says h
to test a new alert system. ireland secured an historic grand slam title in dublin. a convincing 13 point victory over england saw them win the six nations in front of a huge home crowd on st patrick s weekend. you on st patrick s weekend. may have dodged the sho yesterday you may have dodged the showers yesterday but today it will be drier and brighterfor many yesterday but today it will be drier and brighter for many with sunny spells. the full forecast throughout the morning. it s sunday 19th march. our main story: lawyers for donald trump say the former president was merely speculating, when he said he expected to be arrested on criminal charges next week. prosecutors have been investigating alleged hush money payments made on mr trump s behalf, prior to the 2016 presidential election. if he is indicted, it would be the first criminal case to be brought against a former us president, as david willis reports. in order to make america great and glorious again, i am tonight
the scottish national party s chief executive has resigned with immediate effect after they were forced to reveal a dramatic drop in membership this week. now on bbc news, it s time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. it s crunch time in dublin as ireland go for the grand slam against england we ll have the latest. earlier france kept alive their hopes of snatching the title, with a win over wales in paris. and reunion at the etihad but will burnley s vincent kompany come away all smiles against his former boss in the fa cup quarterfinals? a blow for f1 champion max verstappen he won t be on pole, for this weekend s saudi grand prix. we ll tell you why. and a big fight at the 02 can we expect fireworks in the ufc, in the rematch between leon edwards and kamara usman? hello there, and welcome along to sportsday. plenty to come, but we start with the six nations and ireland are within touching distance of a first six nations title since 2018. they re on course to
hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the heatwave in southern europe is intensifying, with wildfires forcing thousands of people to flee towns and villages. a number of people have already died and temperatures are predicted to go well above a0 celsius in parts of spain and portugal. more than 11,000 people have been forced to leave france s southwestern gironde region, from where our europe correspondent jessica parker sent us this report. planes swoop in as they try to contain the fires raging in southwestern france. more people had to be evacuated from the landiras area today as flames ripped through the forest. a second blaze closer to the coast has seen 10,000 people evacuated. everything went so fast, and the fire, too, was big, big, big. and my friends woke me up and i was like, 0k, this is very serious, what do i take in my room? manon was working and living at a local campsite. for now, this conference centre is her home. 0thers waited
Weather prospects. Before we do that, we havejust had weather prospects. Before we do that, we have just had an update on the last few minutes. We were talking earlier about storm babet. We are just hearing from Angus Council that it is telling 350 households that they must evacuate in the brechin. That news is through in the brechin. That news is through in the brechin. That news is through in the last few minutes and that gives you a sense of the scale of that situation. Lets get a Weather Forecast wherever you live in the country. Chris fawkes is here with the weather. A lot of difficult at times coming. Ifeel this isjust the a lot of difficult at times coming. I feel this is just the start of it. The met office have issued a rare red warning covering angus where we have seen evacuations and also aberdeenshire, dundee, perth and kinross. It is the chelation of rain building up over the next few days that will cause problems with flooding from various parts of the country as we will