A blustery day and starting to feel fresher. Hello and welcome to sportsday, with me, ben croucher, and holly hamilton. Good evening. The headlines this evening aubameyang sees red as arsenal draw with Crystal Palace in a feisty london derby. Remember southamptons 9 0 defeat to leicester last year . They got revenge by winning at the king power stadium. 200 Manchester United games for Marcus Rashford and he celebrated with two goals as they eased past norwich. Also coming up in the programme itll be rafa against novak, but not as we know it in the final of the atp cup in australia. And its a massive weekend in the nfl. Eight teams still in with a chance of making it to super bowl liv, well look ahead to the play offs. Hello. A very good evening to you. All the days rugby to come too and the very latest from the Tottenham Hotspur stadium asjose mourinho becomes the latest boss to try and stop the juggernaut that is the premier league leaders, liverpool, but we start tonight with a londo
Weather on thursday. Back to today and we had a lingering band of rain down towards the south east, heavy and persistent. That is clearing away gradually. Through the afternoon we have some showers around for parts of South West England and wales but the focus gcioss england and wales but the focus across scotland, some of these wintry of a higher ground. In between something brighter, breezy in the southern half of uk but still blustery in the northern half and feeling fresher down towards the south. Tonight we had that developing area of low pressure in the atlantic which will start to make inroads but for many areas it will be a fine end to the date with lengthy clear spells but it east. Still some showers spreading into scotla nd still some showers spreading into scotland and they gradually ease as the system starts to edge into Northern Ireland and eventually western scotland as the night progresses accompanied by a strengthening wind. It is going to get quite chilly in some pocke
Collapsed three years ago. In the next hour, keir starmer the shadow brexit secretary officially launches his Leadership Campaign in the race to lead the labour party. Today he defended anti austerity policies. There is sometimes a tendency when you lose an election to say everything in their manifesto, everything in their manifesto, everything we believed in, has got to go, but that is wrong in my view. More hardship for the high street Ailing Department store chain debenhams closes 19 stores as part of its restructuring plans. And coming up, its back to brexit. Get all the inside information in westminster and brussels from our top correspondents with brexitcast. Borisjohnson has said that irans admission that it shot down by mistake a ukrainian passenger plane over tehran is an important first step. Four britons were among the 176 People Killed in wednesdays crash. A Senior Iranian military official said the airliner was misidentified as a cruise missile. Irans president rouhani has
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Borisjohnson has said that irans admission that it shot down by mistake a ukrainian passenger plane over tehran is an important first step. Four britons were among the 176 People Killed in wednesdays crash. A Senior Iranian military official said the airliner was misidentified as a cruise missile. Irans president rouhani has called the downing of the jet an unforgiveable mista ke. Our Diplomatic Correspondent Caroline Hawley has more. This is the moment iran made a catastrophic error, firing a missile into a passenger plane, killing everyone on board. For three days, in the face of mounting evidence, iran adamantly denied it was responsible. But this morning brought an extraordinary about face. On state run television, a Senior Commander of the powerful revolutionary guards came out, on the orders of the supreme leader, to come clean. He explained that irans air defences had been on alert. They thought american cruise missiles had been fired. A quick deci
Been fired. Some have given press statements a quick decision was behind us. We saw Arlene Foster go taken and it was wrong. Translation in these in with the dup mlas and sinn fein difficult circumstances, i am here before you to explain what happened. Went ten as well. They are all now in the chamber, the processes were but before that, i have to say supposed to get started at one that we accept all the oclock, i think things were ever so responsibility for the accident and we lay ourfate into our higher slightly delayed. But it is northern officials hands. There is anger that the plane ireland, things never go to time was allowed to take here. We are going to get the offjust after iran had fired speaker and deputy speakers missiles at american bases in iraq, nominated and sworn in, and once and when the country was braced for a response. That happens, then we get into the the disaster has piled pressure nitty gritty, the processes of on the regime both from within iran and from getti