the scottish national party s chief executive has resigned with immediate effect after they were forced to reveal a dramatic drop in membership this week. now on bbc news, it s time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. it s crunch time in dublin as ireland go for the grand slam against england we ll have the latest. earlier france kept alive their hopes of snatching the title, with a win over wales in paris. and reunion at the etihad but will burnley s vincent kompany come away all smiles against his former boss in the fa cup quarterfinals? a blow for f1 champion max verstappen he won t be on pole, for this weekend s saudi grand prix. we ll tell you why. and a big fight at the 02 can we expect fireworks in the ufc, in the rematch between leon edwards and kamara usman? hello there, and welcome along to sportsday. plenty to come, but we start with the six nations and ireland are within touching distance of a first six nations title since 2018. they re on course to
were forced to reveal a massive drop in party membership this week. now it s over to the sports centre for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m gavin ramjaun. ireland are grand slam champions they defeated england in dublin and the celebrations are onlyjust beginning. france kept their end of the deal, but ultimately not enough they came away with a win over wales in paris. also coming up on sportsday: a blow for f1 champion max verstappen he won t be on pole for this weekend s saudi grand prix. we ll tell you why. and a big fight at the 02 can we expect fireworks in the ufc, in the rematch between leon edwards and kamara usman? from the bbc sport centre, this is sportsday. hello there, and welcome along to sportsday. plenty to come but we start with the six nations, and ireland have won a first six nations title since 2018. they ve completed the grand slam with a 29 16 win against england in dublin. jess softley reports. this is ireland s night. this is the
particularly spring outlook, quite a lot of rain on the way, often windy but generally it will stay mild with double digit temperatures for just about all of us. jane. thanks, ben. you can keep up with all the latest developments on the bbc website. from the six team, it s goodbye. the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are, goodnight. hello and welcome to sportsday i m hugh ferris. our headlines this evening. an irish winner on st patrick s day. cheltenham s gold cup goes to galopin des champs and willie mullins. again. could that be just the first reason for ireland to celebrate this weekend? with a grand slam on home soil the prize for a win over england and who won the draw? the champions league lays out its fascinating final eight with manchester city and chelsea picked out in plum ties hello again. he was the favourite and perhaps not just with the bookies. on st patrick s day,
the man is at least quadrupled boosted. some would say he is the most boosted man in america. but at his age, we shouldn t guest. we do wish him a sincere recovery. the way fauci follows the science primetime has a nose for the truth and we have done some contact tracing. the team at primetime has taken this very seriously. and we will report momentarily on what we found. but the person that came to our mind did dr. fauci expose himself on purpose to coronavirus? why would he do that? well, tomorrow he was supposed to get into the ring with senator rand paul to testify under oath about the pandemic. now, these things don t usually go very well for the fauci master. do you really think it s appropriate to use your $420,000 salary to attack scientists that disagree with you? i think in usual fashion, senator, you are distorting everything about me. there you go again. you do the same thing every hearing. that was your response. this wasn t the only time. so i would
am martha maccallum in new york this is the story. monitoring the white house briefing after reports president biden is set to announce a massive relief program for undocumented immigrants. it would be the largest such program in over a decade and would offer hundreds of thousands legal status if they had been married to an american citizen for at least 10 years. the move would come less than 5 months from the presidential election and days before the very consequential upcoming jun. at a time when the current president is bleeding support from latino voters. voting block he says he needs for victory. i need you, i need you badly. desperately need you re help because, look there are only 6 or 7 states that will turn down this election that her tossup states this is 1 of them. the president desperate for those votes by his own admission there. jason, tommy lan mike pompeo all on the story today but first let s go to first national correspondent bill hello. reporter: mar