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
for burnley, but let s start with an international game that s underway, scotlands women are in london for a friendly against australia. they kicked off in the last 15 minutes. this match is being played at afc wimbledon s cherry reds records stadium. you can follow this on the bbc website. the matildas are missing key players. very early stages, a lovely sunny day in south london. it is goalless. we will keep an eye on that one and tell you if there has been a goal in the next few minutes. australia s next match is on tuesday night against england at brentford. the lionesses are now 30 games unbeaten under their coach sarina wiegman, but they were pushed really close by brazil at a sold out wembley stadium. ella toone gave england the lead, but the south american champions equalised in injury time and the game was decided on penalties, england coming through the shootout 4 2. everything has changed. when i m talking to you now, it s like i expect us to win these games, you k
hello, welcome to the programme. we have got another action packed programme for you tonight. coming up, the white house says they have still had no consular access to anerican journalist evan gershkovich, who is being held by the russians on spying charges. we will speak tonight from the former soviet dissident natan sharansky, who was held in the same moscow prison in the 1970s. we will also hearfrom mark urban on his continiung investigation into russia s 331 parachute regiment, and the losses that unit has sustained in ukraine. but we start tonight with the clean up within britain s biggest police force. the met commissioner, sir mark rowley, who was appointed in september, believes there are hundreds of corrupt officers serving in the force who should not be in the job. and so concerned is he at the scale of the problem, that around 90 of his officers from serious and organised crime have been tasked with investigating their own. this morning, sir mark set out the plans
intelligence officials fear tonight president bide mang his most definitive statement yet about running for re-election. what he told our al roker. she fainted after getting the covid vaccine and became the focus of a massive internet conspiracy. now tiffany dover is breaking her silence exclusively to nbc news and his performance at augusta as an amateur was nothing short of masterful, and it s inspiring america. announcer: this is nbchtly news with lester holt gowelcome, everyone. it seems we can barely catch our breaths or dry the tears before another mass shooting rocks an american city just two weeks ago i stood right here reporting the heartbreaking details of a school shooting in nashville today it happened at a bank in louisville, kentucky in what the city s mayor calls an evil act of targeted violence, after a man in his 20s armed with a rifle went on a rampage in a workplace attack, streaming the horror online as he carried out the crime. four people wer