Turned on the flair to run out 46 15 winners in rome. Patrick gearey reports. The faces, the voice change the results dont. When at home or in rome, england have always beaten italy. Their philosophy demands that the team forget that and the fact that they have only lost once in three years. Watson scored the first try. With the cup 18 months away, england have been trying to establish a cruel streak and watson was over again in five minutes. But italy found an escape. England stayed down the road. Farrell scored and then simmons scoring. Wales, who play england next will watch this italian move a few times. Proof there is space to be exploited. England will have learned much themselves, like not to challenge simmons to a race. His second try, his team finished with seven, the last finished by the replacement. History has repeated emphatically. So here is how the six nations table looks after the first weekend, with england on top with a better points differential over wales. Ireland a
The north is to send its highest ranking official for years to the south to the games. Here he is kim yong nam, the ceremonial head of state, will lead a 22 member delegation to the south beginning on friday. It comes as the two nations put on an unprecedented show of sporting collaboration today, fielding a joint womens ice hockey team. It played an International Friendly against sweden. The bbcs laura bicker reports. Fierce and determined, the korean players head onto the rink to prove they are notjust pawns in a Political Drama or an experiment in sports diplomacy. They fight hard against high ranking sweden. Willed on by a crowd eager to witness a piece of history and waving the flag of a unified korea. Translation i was so touched, i feel so good because i felt the passion of the players and it felt like we were one together. But this teams formation has been controversial. The south korean hockey coach has had to tell players she has worked with for years that they have lost thei
It would be six for them, 22 12 to the eagle is now so going against the eagle is now so going against the patriots at the moment. More on that later in the programme to the eagles. There was a sensational finish, in the English Premier League on sunday in the match between liverpool and tottenham hotspur. Three late goals leading to a thrilling 2 2 draw. Mohamed salah opened the scoring early on but Victor Wanyama gave spurs a deserved equaliser late in the second half. Harry kane missed a penalty with just three minutes left, and salah struck again in stoppage time minutes later with victory for liverpool seemingly seconds away. But there was late drama as kane redeemed himself from the penalty spot in the dying seconds. The liverpool manager wasnt happy about some of the referees decisions. I dont understand both of them. The first one is clear offside, you can say he made a save, thats true. I dont know how, he was clearly offside, we saw from our position he was offside but we did
Backbencherjacob rees mogg was wrong to accuse the treasury of fiddling the figures, with forecasts showing the uk would be worse off outside the eu. She also said she was not intimidated by brexiteers warnings over the Customs Union and that the uk government would not surrender too quickly in its battle for a bespoke trade deal with the eu. Two employees of the us Train Company amtrak have been killed and over 100 people injured in a rail crash in the us state of South Carolina. A passenger train travelling between new york and miami collided with a Freight Train and derailed. Earlier i spoke to our correspondent david willis, who said the South Carolina governor, henry mcmaster, has been updating the media. He said that this incident occurred involving a passenger train belonging to the national trail carrier, amtrak, which had 139 passengers on board and eight crew. And a stationery Freight Train. The passenger train was headed from new york to miami when the collision occurred. It
Briefing you on all you need to know in global news, business and sport. And you can be part of the conversation. Tell us what you think. Just use the hashtag bbcthebriefing. The stalemate continues in south africa, where president jacob zuma is still desperately clinging to power this morning, despite intense pressure from within his party to step down. Talks on sunday failed to persuade the former anc leader to quit. Senior Party Members will meet again later to decide their next move. It has now been almost two months since mr zuma was replaced as head of the ruling party. Andrew harding reports from johannesburg. He is swamped by scandal. South africas president , jacob zuma, has already been found guilty of breaking his oath of office when he upgraded his private home, lavishly, at the taxpayers expense. More recently, his friendship with the controversial business family the guptas has fuelled allegations of massive corruption. State capture, they call it here. During the zuma pr