Big one today. Manchester city 11 points of the top, and Manchester United behind city. Confidence is a strange thing in football sometimes. You can get performances and results likely had on wednesday night, and i know our boys will be up for it. 5. 30pm is the start of the game and the players decide who is going to win. The rest, of course, history is huge and the team, the quality of the players they have is always there, always has been there, and you have to try to beat them and we try today to speak a little bit with the players about what they are as a team and what they should do to win. Its semi finals day at he uk snooker championship in york, nigel bond had been rolling back the years this week, the 54 year old knocked out the World Champion judd trump, but his quarterfinal against last years runner up, mark allen, was a match too far. It went to a deciding frame. Allen will play stephen maguire. The three time winner john higgins, beaten 6 3 by the chinese teenager yan bin
A catastrophic fire warning is issued for parts of eastern australia including sydney amid record breaking temperatures following months of severe drought. These are very difficult and trying times, were now up to day 105 of this bushfire emergency across New South Wales and the community really is going to have to stay alert and understand what theyre going to do if threatened by fires. The government approves the takeover of uk defence and aerospace specialist, cobham, by an american company. A man who confronted the fishmongers hall attacker, with a narwal tusk, describes his deep hurt that he couldnt save the two people who died. Prince philip has spent day in hospital in london, to be treated for whats being described as a pre existing condition. Nearly 90 flood warnings in place across england and the situation could get worse, with heavy rain forecast overnight. Now on bbc news its time for sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday, with me Lizzie Greenwood and gavin ramjaun. Th
Up in the desert anthonyjoshua is looking to win back his world titles, Labour Government. Were going to and he wont underestimate Step Investments up. Andy ruinunior this time. A jury in california has acquitted the tech entrepreneur and tesla founder, elon musk, of defaming a british caver good morning. A window we can store who he called pedo guy on twitter. Vernon unsworth, who especially tomorrow. Widespread helped rescue 12 boys and their football coach from a flooded cave in thailand chaos but not particularly cold at last year, had been seeking almost £150 million in damages. Wet weather to come at times. More his legal team have told the bbc theyre now considering filing for a re trial. Coming up. Its feared a giant bushfire thats burning out of control its saturday near sydney may take the seventh of december. Weeks to put out. Our top story in recent days, several fires have combined to form what Emergency Services are calling there are calls for an . Independent a mega bla
Of control could take weeks to put out. The billionaire businessman elon musk is cleared of defaming a british cave explorer after calling him pedo guy on social media. Also in the programme. Small business saturday. We find out about the campaign to support small uk businesses. And coming up in sport. Its fight night. Can anthonyjoshua win back his world titles from andy ruinunior in saudi arabia later . He borisjohnson and Jeremy Corbyn have gone head to head in a tv debate for the final time before the general election next week. They put forward competing visions on brexit, the nhs, and the economy, and attacked each others plans but neither scored a knockout blow. More than four Million Viewers watched the debate. Our political correspondent, nick eardley, was there. With just a few days until the country goes to the polls, one of the last big chances to persuade voters. How would we be better off from the brexit deal or a future labout deal, compared to what we already have as a
Warnings that a mega bushfire near sydney thats burning out of control could take weeks to put out. The billionaire businessman elon musk is cleared of defaming a british cave explorer after calling him pedo guy on social media. And coming up in sport. Its fight night. Can anthonyjoshua win back his world titles from andy ruinunior in saudi arabia later . And coming up at 12 30pm, its click, which has been meeting the young programmers of the future. Borisjohnson and Jeremy Corbyn have gone head to head in a tv debate for the final time before the general election next week. They put forward competing visions on brexit, the nhs, and the economy, and attacked each others plans but neither scored a knockout blow. More than four Million Viewers watched the debate on tv last night. Our political correspondent, nick eardley, was there. With just a few days until the country goes to the polls, one of the last big chances to persuade voters. How would we be better off from the brexit deal or