of their match in dublin ireland are leading. and can anyone stop chelsea, as the premier league leaders go 11 points clear at the top? also coming up in the programme: what next for claudio ranieri as the leicester boss goes to the training ground to say his goodbyes. and a year away from competition, but lizzie yarnold slides to a bronze medal at the skeleton world championships. but let s start with today s six nations action, where scotland beat wales 29 13 at murrayfield a win that s been a long time coming for the scots. you ve got to go back to 2007 for the last time they got a six nations win over wales. and after an opening weekend win over ireland, scotland s good form continues despite that narrow defeat to france in round two. let s get some reaction from murrayfield our reporter patrick gearey is there. patrick, good evening. scotland were trading at half time and they owe that win to a great comeback in the second half, don t they? indeed they do. it has
but he warns there will be a bill to pay for leaving. can you go to your mummy and shake her for can you go to your mummy and shake herfor me. can you go to your mummy and shake her for me. she s not waking up. and the four year old twins who saved their mother s life after working out how to unlock their mum s phone and call the emergency services. in a moment it will be time for sportsday but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc news. we ll have the latest as president trump fights to get congress to pass his new healthcare bill. a vote is due in the next two hours but hardline republicans are angry his changes to obamacare don t go far enough. at 810, we ll have a live debate on the state of british sport with a panel of sportsmen and women and industry insiders. then at 101i0pm we ll take a look at some of tomorrow s front pages in our paper review. that s all ahead on bbc news. now on bbc news it s time for sportsday. hello and welcome to spor
a royal marine who was convicted of shooting dead a wounded taliban fighter in afghanistan, will be freed within weeks after his sentence was reduced. the nhs is planning to take certain treatments off prescription lists. from cod liver oil to gluten free bread, nhs managers say the move will save money. and in the next hour. a monster cyclone smashes into northeast australia. heavy rains and winds of up 160 miles per hour batter the queensland coast. tens of thousands of people are told to evacuate. and a new 12 sided pound coin is now in circulation. it s thinner and lighter, with hidden security features, making it more difficult to copy. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the scottish and uk governments look to have been set on a collision course after the scottish parliament voted to give first minister nicola sturgeon the power to request a second independence referendum. the government in westminster has already rejected any such referendum scotland secretary da
in last june s vote. second, the decision to press ahead with the single currency. at the time, sceptics warned that only five or six nations really met the strict membership criteria but, eventually, 15 were admitted. too many, too dissimilar, too fast. so when the financial crisis crashed into europe, many in the south saw stagnation and despair. youth unemployment created a generation shut out of europe s bright early promise. it s little surprise that there s a rise in desire to go back to the perceived certainties of national sovereignty. the disintegration of europe is already happening. hey, brexit has occurred. it s very hard to see europe returning to those values it was founded for. you know peace, democracy, social cohesion and prosperity, but you need to find a way for these things to work in practice. if it doesn t, we simply have to reflect what s going on. many on the continent have said it often and this evening it s never been clearer britain is different
against paraguay in sao paulo where a win would taken them nine points clear. colombia have moved second after winning 2 0 in ecuador while south american champions chile won 3 1 against bottom team venezuela, in santiago, moving them fourth and into the final qualification spot. and rounding off the action, peru host uruguay. there are three fixtures in the central american qualifiers on match day four, with leaders mexico currently playing trinidad and tobago in port of spain. mexico are leading 1 0, with only a couple of minutes remaining in that match. second placed costa rica may feel like they dropped points, drawing 1 1 with honduras, while the usa who sit in the qualification place travel to panama later as bruce arena looks to build on his first victory last saturday against honduras since taking over from the sacked jurgen klinsmann at the end of last year. china s hopes of making it to the 2018 world cup in russia have been dealt a big blow after a 1 0 defeat to ir