change the mood, it is the home side who need that most. injanuary, cody gakpo signed for liverpool when he might havejoined united. now that choice was the difference between the two sides. half time, 1 0, and it would get better quickly. 90 seconds from the restart, darwin nunez made it two. what had been a tight match was now all liverpool s. gakpo lofted in his second, his team kept on rising. when it falls to mo salah in this match, it feels inevitable. he has now scored against united in five games in a row, this time as part of a collection. another header, another goal. salah was then back to make it six, and there was still time. in all the games between them, there has not been one quite like this. an extraordinary day, summed up by a scoreline. so, a record breaking day for liverpool who are now three points off the top four, and a dark day for manchester united. contrasting emotions from the managers as you d imagine. it sounds like a day from another season, it d
colder. temperatures down by one or 2 degrees and in shetland no higher than three degrees. we turn our eyes to the far north on sunday night because this is where the big change starts to take place. this band initially rain in association with this cold front, the front moves southwards, we will see some winteriness on the back edge and behind it, the air will be plenty cold enough for snow to fall. snow showers particular pushing into northern and eastern scotland, down the east coast of england on tuesday to put through monday and tuesday, these are the areas already covered by a met up with yellow warning for snow and ice. some disruption is looking likely but if you live away from these areas, elsewhere in the uk, you might not be out of the woods. there is uncertainty about the detail but snow could falljust about anywhere across the country during next week and we will keep you posted. thank you and that is the bbc news at ten. there s more analysis of the main storie
shape good evening, this is your sports news. we start with rugby union and ireland proved just why they re the world s number one ranked side in the six nations today. they held off a strong scotland side at murrayfield themselves chasing an outside shot at the championship to win 22 7 this afternoon. it keeps their perfect record this year intact as olly foster reports. the confidence comes with being number one in the world, sitting on top of the six nations table, and beating scotland seven times in a row, but both sides had plenty to play for. there is so much riding on this match. for the irish, it s all about chasing the grand slam. for scotland, they need a win to keep themselves in the title fight. and that would also see them claim their first triple crown in 33 years. stuart hogg s children will be too young to remember, they weren t even born the last time scotland won this fixture. this was the full back s 100th cap and it meant a lot. the first half was p
in the same boat. a day of sunshine and heavy showers with thunderstorms. at least one benefit of the strong wind is that the showers don t last in any one place for any length of time, really. we got more of the showers to come as we head into thursday. again, some will turn heavy with hail and thunder. still fairly windy as well. temperatures still on the mild side with south westerly winds dragging mild air from the south. a0 with south westerly winds dragging mild airfrom the south. a0 or 50 celsius also. into thursday night, we might see some more general rain pushing into eastern england. it stays very unsettled in the west with further showers. there is not a great deal changing with the weather pattern through friday on the weekend. loads more showers on the way with colder air in northern scotland. some of the showers will start to turn wintry. thanks, chris. there s more analysis of the day s main stories on newsnight with kirsty wark which isjust getting underway o
asi as i said earlier this week people know i take classified documents seriously. russians fighting in ukraine claimed they have found the body of one of two british aid workers who ve been reported missing. bumper christmas sales for some of britain s biggest retailers despite the cost of living crisis. and tributes for the legendary rock guitaristjeff beck who died at the age of 78. there s more evidence today of the crisis in the nhs in england: ambulance response times in december were the worse on record. for category two emergency calls, including strokes, they were more than an hour and a half on average. the target is 18 minutes. (ani the highest priority calls with an immediate threat to life took almost 11 minutes on average; the target is seven. and patients are waiting even longer in accident and emergency 35 % waited more than four hours that s another record. our health correspondent jim reed reports. long queues for ambulances, the most 999 calls eve