Avoid a really low score. Our cricket correspondent, jonathan agnew, gave us his assessment from the days play. There is no doubt, that was a really disappointing day for england. 1 0 down in this series. To win the toss and get the chance to bat first on a pitch that looks to be at its best, to lose that number of wickets, particular from to lose that number of wickets, particularfrom batsmen to lose that number of wickets, particular from batsmen who got themselves well set, its pretty much excusable. At least in the first test match there is an illness going through the camp. Nothing here apart from the incident with rory burns and the football yesterday. But to at least see ollie pope batting as he did, with some freedom, i thought that was an Excellent Partnership with James Anderson first up they got 28 together to at least give something together to at least give something to england to go into the second day with but it seems to me like they are at least 100 runs short. Faf du
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Im joanna gash rosco with the sports pains top league once one of its biggest matches moved over those protests but fast lane and real madrid refused to reschedule el classico. The battle lines of syrias civil war being redrawn as turkeys military offensive enters its 2nd week Syrian Government troops have entered the town of kabbani where the u. S. And kurdish fighters defeated us all 4 years ago the head of the kurdish dominated Syrian Democratic forces now says the group is freezing operations against eisel as it battles turkish troops. Battles also raging in the key border town of russell and kurdish fighters are filling the skies with smoke to try to blind turkish warplanes are fighting Turkish Backed Syrian Rebels on the ground meanwhile russia has stepped into the void left by u. S. Troops deploying patrols and offering to mediate a resolution and the u. S. Vice president is scheduled to travel to ankara to push for a truce or turkeys president says he wont bow to pressure back
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And coming up on sportsday on bbc news, swansea boss Carlos Carvalhal attempts to dump his former club, sheffield wednesday, out of the fa cup at the second time of asking. Good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six. Snow and freezing temperatures have caused major disruption across many parts of the uk today with warnings that there is much worse to come this week. More than 560 schools have been closed across england, wales and scotland. And the snow and ice has caused treacherous driving conditions, with 20 accidents in a space ofjust three hours on lincolnshires roads, including a fatal crash which left three people dead. Thereve been big problems on the railways and airports too, with hundreds of trains and flights cancelled. In a moment, well hearfrom danny savage in north yorkshire, but first to robert hall in ashford in kent. Robert. Sophie, ashford is right alongside the m20 motorway, one of the roots worst affected this morning. There are still lying snow across the east