going to look on the front page, the financial time always with the heaviest of heavyweight stories with delays deal to lift truck era steel tariffs over northern ireland fears with up is not quite let it flow, let it flow, let it flow. never headlines like that but nevertheless take us through the story. {flare headlines like that but nevertheless take us through the story. give them time, the take us through the story. give them time. they will _ take us through the story. give them time, they will catch _ take us through the story. give them time, they will catch up _ take us through the story. give them time, they will catch up eventually. l time, they will catch up eventually. this is_ time, they will catch up eventually. this is a _ time, they will catch up eventually. this is a fascinating story. a return— this is a fascinating story. a return to _ this is a fascinating story. a return to brexit although it looks like something about the us. this is the us, the biden administration and having already agreed to lift tariffs — having already agreed to lift tariffs on 25% imposed on uk steel and other— tariffs on 25% imposed on uk steel and other metals. the same time there _ and other metals. the same time there imposed on the eu as well for there imposed on the eu as well for the way— there imposed on the eu as well for the way back when, these tariffs when trump was having a trade war with the _ when trump was having a trade war with the eu — when trump was having a trade war with the eu which we remember at the time _ with the eu which we remember at the time the _ with the eu which we remember at the time. the biden administration agreed — time. the biden administration agreed to— time. the biden administration agreed to lift them. but they paused because _ agreed to lift them. but they paused because they were at nerves throughout washington, dc what's going _ throughout washington, dc what's going to _ throughout washington, dc what's going to happen. and there are nerves— going to happen. and there are nerves the president has expressed they dont— nerves the president has expressed they don't want boris johnson to trigger— they don't want boris johnson to trigger article 15. and actually withdraw from the northern allen protocol — withdraw from the northern allen protocol. it would appear being brought — protocol. it would appear being brought to bear on congress here with very— brought to bear on congress here with very strong irish caucus in irish. _ with very strong irish caucus in irish. of— with very strong irish caucus in irish, of course. irish control a lot about — irish, of course. irish control a lot about mass domestic spending he wants— lot about mass domestic spending he wants to _ lot about mass domestic spending he wants to keep congress on side. congress — wants to keep congress on side. congress i — wants to keep congress on side. congress i do not get a lift tariffs into the — congress i do not get a lift tariffs into the british government do right by the _ into the british government do right by the people of ireland, both north and south _ by the people of ireland, both north and south. are they going to a? and that is— and south. are they going to a? and that is it _ and south. are they going to a? and that is it for— and south. are they going to a? and that is it for the brexit talk still ongoing — that is it for the brexit talk still ongoing but that northern ireland protocol— ongoing but that northern ireland protocol and have it collapsed yet. a few _ protocol and have it collapsed yet. a few weeks ago they were looking a bit more _ a few weeks ago they were looking a bit more iffy but this certainly is incentive — bit more iffy but this certainly is incentive to the prime minister to keep— incentive to the prime minister to keep on— incentive to the prime minister to keep on going. in incentive to the prime minister to keep on going-— keep on going. in scented net incentive for _ keep on going. in scented net incentive for kpmg _ keep on going. in scented net incentive for kpmg to - keep on going. in scented net incentive for kpmg to get - keep on going. in scented net i incentive for kpmg to get office workers back to work according to the financial time. our workers back to work according to the financialtime. ourfinalstory, the financial time. our final story, kpmg the financialtime. ourfinalstory, kpmg expect staff in the office four days a week after worries over audit quality. does this still minutes rest on friday and they can work from on friday? it rest on friday and they can work from on friday?— rest on friday and they can work from on friday? it seems like it. the are from on friday? it seems like it. they are talking _ from on friday? it seems like it. they are talking about _ from on friday? it seems like it. they are talking about three - from on friday? it seems like it. they are talking about three to i from on friday? it seems like it. i they are talking about three to four daysin they are talking about three to four days in the week in the office. dave sent out messages saying client facing staff should be working at least two days a week at least in offices or at client sites for them and homeworking should be for specific tasks only. i think an interesting point in the story is them saying other auditors, other competitors, the whole industry will be looking at what happens here put up be looking at what happens here put up what kpmg does not ask, how far do they go to him basically what they can get away with in terms of their employees. i think you lots of industries, the employees don't like because it low unemployment have forced choices because they've got can be viewed working from home during the lot of people find it very useful, i certainly do. and a lot of young people like hybrid working and will actually move firms and go get a job elsewhere if there are is better in terms of the home working there allowed to do. it's a question of supply of labour based on this very issue. the they are seeing auditors and say oh, no, we don't like you working from home it's possible that people will say well, i'm off tojob done. it's possible that people will say well, i'm off to job done.- it's possible that people will say well, i'm off to job done. well, i'm off to “ob done. about ten seconds well, i'm off to “ob done. about ten seeensd left. — well, i'm off to job done. about ten seconds left. how— well, i'm off to job done. about ten seconds left. how many _ well, i'm off to job done. about ten seconds left. how many days - well, i'm off to job done. about ten seconds left. how many days are i seconds left. how many days are ideal at home for a work week? depends on what you do and where you do it _ depends on what you do and where you do it there _ depends on what you do and where you do it. there you go, two seconds was up there _ do it. there you go, two seconds was up there does— do it. there you go, two seconds was up there does feel like there's a drift coming back now. i think i do about— drift coming back now. i think i do about four— drift coming back now. i think i do about four days at the moment. we will nick about four days at the moment. will pick this about four days at the moment. - will pick this up a bit later. tom and sienna, thank you very much. that's it for the papers this hour. sienna and tom will be back at 11.30 for another look at the papers. goodbye for now. good evening i'm tulsen tollett and this is your sports news where we start with the women's tennis association announcing the immediate suspension of all tournaments in china amid concern for chinese tennis player peng shuai. peng disappeared from public view after accusing a top chinese official of sexual assault then retracted her claims. the wta has repeatedly called for a full investigation into peng's claims. wta chief steve simon said he had "serious doubts" that peng was "free, safe and not subject to intimidation", and that it was important for his organisation to stand up and be counted. this is something that we simply can't walk away from. if we walk away from what we've requested and see reflected as the domestic abuse issues or domestic issues, what we are telling the world then is that not addressing sexual assault but the respect on two and seriousness it requires because it's difficult is ok. and it's not. it'sjust something that we can't let happen and we can't walk away from that. two goals from mo salah helped liverpool beat everton 4—1 to pile the pressure on rafa benitez in his first merseyside derby against his former club. liverpool captainjordan henderson's first goal in 18 derbies got the match off to the perfect start for the visitors. mo salah added to that soon after, sending hoards of home fans to the exits with less than 20 minutes gone. leaving early they missed demari grey give everton a little hope. but that was extinguished in the second half thanks to a second from salah and diogojota rounding the rout off. manchester city remain a point behind chelsea after a 2—1 win over aston villa. ruben dias scored the first from distance before a slick city counter was finished off by bernardo silva to give them a two—goal lead. ollie watkins pulled one backjust after the break for villa but pep guardiola's side hung on to take the three points and condemn steven gerard to a first defeat with villa. despite a long delay for a medical emergency in the crowd at vicarage road chelsea beat watford 2—1 — mason mount opening the scoring for the blues. emmanuelle dennis gave the home fans hope though with a goaljust a couple of minutes before the half—time break but hakem ziyech got the winner to keep the londoners a point ahead of manchester city. west ham's hopes of staying in the top four suffered a setback despite tomas soucek putting them ahead against brighton after just five minutes. neal maupay�*s spectacular strike in the 89th minute earned brighton a point at london stadium, moving them up to seventh. leicester city had to come from behind twice against southampton. james maddison's goal saw the match end two all at st mary's but it was enough to move the foxes up to eighth, although they've played more games than three teams below them. there were four games in the scottish premiership too, rangers beating hibernian 1—0 in the pick of the games. they left it late though, ryan porteous giving away a penalty with five minutes remaining, leaving kemar roofe to step up and coolly roll the ball into the back of the net. rangers go seven points clear of celtic in second. elsewhere aberdeen were 2—0 winners over livingston, dundee beat stjohnstone by a goal to nil while st. mirren and ross county played out a goalless draw. johanna konta has said she's very grateful for her career in tennis after announcing her retirement from the sport. the 30 year old won four titles on the wta tour and holds the record for the longest time as women's british number one. konta reached the semi—finals at wimbledon in 2017, eventually losing to simona halep. she moved to the position of world number four that year — the highest ranking by a british woman since virginia wade in 1978. however, konta has struggled with her fitness. an abdominal injury, then contracting covid, meant she missed both wimbledon and the olympics this year. she said whatever she does next, it will involve tennis. i definitely see myself staying in this sport to a certain extent. i don't know to what capacity, but i love the sport and the sport has given so much to me, so i would definitely love to share that with other people. scottish swimmer hannah miley has also announced her retirement. miley won world, european and commonwealth titles, only olympic medals eluding her, she represented great britain at three olympic games. and glasgow has been chosen to host the world athletics indoor championships in 2024, they'll be staged at the emirates arena, where the european indoors were held two years ago. former world heavyweight champion anthonyjoshua says he's still angry about losing his belts to oleksandr usyk — and that his anger is fuelling him for the rematch. that's expected to take place in early 2022. you i'm angry at myself. and the only way i can be in a better places to get myself by going out there. it can be like this for a few months, unfortunately but there's enough tension brewing. hopefully about what happened in i'm not going to be better than what happened that night. i know forfact better than what happened that night. i know for fact so better than what happened that night. i know forfact so i feel i truly have more to give, i think people truly know them. people do recognise me as champion even though i don't have a belt around my waist they know i have capability to be champion again. ronnie o'sullivan is through to the quarter finals of the uk snooker championship in york. the seven—time champion saw off thailand's noppon saeng—kham, winning four straight frames to take the match 6—3, finishing with a century break and he'll face kyren wilson for a place in the last four. for that and everything else you can head to the bbc website. but that is all your support for now. hello. the cold air is back. thursday gets off to a chilly start with a wide spread frost and temperatures won't crawl up too far for the day despite a lot of sunshine on offer. the cold air has come chasing down through these isobars all the way from close to the arctic circle, sweeping its way right to south across the uk. overnight starting to plunge down into the continent through thursday. we are all in the arctic air and we will all feel it thanks to a cold northerly breeze. where we've seen some showers overnight there will be a risk of ice to start us off on thursday. as i said, a widespread frost. further showers across eastern scotland, eastern counties of england through the day, a few as well across the west coast of wales particularly i think through pembrookshire pushing down through devon and cornwall, eastern scotland. perhaps clearing come the afternoon. but it's cold in the sunshine. highs ofjust three or 4. sunshine a bit milkier for northern art went through the afternoon. that is because this weather system will be starting to work its way in. as it runs into the cold air there could be some snow for a time but it will tend to turn back to reign as the air coming in behind this band of rain is relatively mild. actually, temperatures at the end of friday nights higher than those we will see through thursday daytime. and on into friday daytime and we will have some rain around for southern and eastern england to start the day, we will get some brightness for scotland and northern ireland, they'll be a few showers on and off here. just some question to the south of the uk weather this rain could push in through friday afternoon. we will certainly keep a lot of cloud generally across england and wales but temperatures perhaps 11, 12 . it's certainly milder than thursday. to the north, five, six, seven. for the weekend the chill returns. perhaps not quite as cold as thursday but once again will pick up a northwesterly breeze. for saturday i think that's going to bring in some quite plentiful showers across northern island heading into north wales down into the midlands. temperatures, six or 7 but it will feel cooler in the breeze. sunday is a very similar story but i think we can erase some of the showers from our picture. still some for weston exposures of wales, and a northerly breeze. so really adding to the chillier feel. �*welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines. suspending all tournaments in china — the women's tennis association says it has "serious doubts" that a chinese tennis star is "free, safe and not subject to intimidation". the first case of the omicron variant reported in the us — fresh travel restrictions are now in the works. hollywood actor alec baldwin insists he did not pull the trigger in the fatal shooting on set of his colleague and cinematographer halyna hutchins. a defining moment for abortion rights in the united states, as the supreme court hears the most important case in a generation. and, on board the uss carl vinson — at the end of the biggest ever