in the semi finals tomorrow. jannik sinner won his singles match andthen teamed up with lorenzo sonego to take the deciding doubles for a 2—1victory over the netherlands the 12 teams still in with a chance of qualifying for euro 2024 — have found out what route they'll need to take to make it to germany next summer. wales missed out on the last automatic spot on tuesday — so they'll now need to beat finland in the play—off semi finals in march — and then beat either poland or estonia to book their place at the championships. what's important is the home draw in the second leg, we have to get him job done first and foremost but we are probably wanting to avoid ukraine as well a month so i think it has gone to plan for us. i don't think any team in that group would have been wanted to play us. the form we are in at the minute and with the red wall at home we would take anybody on in cardiff. elsewhere, 2004 champions greece will need to beat kazakhstan and then either georgia or luxembourg while bosnia and herzegovina will play ukraine and israel will face iceland. for all the incredible success manager emma hayes has enjoyed at chelsea — the women's champions league is the one trophy missing from the cabinet. chelsea play paris fc at stamford bridge this evening as the group stages continue, they're hoping for better... we have respect for every team in our group but when we go out we expect to win, so i don't think about must wins or anything like that, ijust think about must wins or anything like that, i just think about performing and i think if we play to the best of our ability, i know we wanted tight against madrid away, last time we played them in the group a i waypoint was an important point, so we have to play every game as it comes, you can't think about the future or pass in the champions league, just one game at a time. only four days since they met in the work a bit semifinals. scant consolation, the teams are very different after the seven week's log for the competition that just ended but india chased down a very big target, 210 to win. england test captain ben stokes will play no part in next year's indian premier league — after withdrawing from the tournament. he's made himself unavailable in order to manage his workload and fitness. stokes was a part of england's recent world cup squad — but is due to have knee surgery before england's five—match test series in india, which starts in late january. defending champion mark allen was take on china stingy me in the smokerfinal, it's a repeat take on china stingy me in the smoker final, it's a repeat of last years final, one by allen, ronnie o'sullivan starts his campaign against anthony gill on tuesday. the tournament is live across the bbc. the tennis from malaga still on, britain and serbia in the quarterfinal of the davis cup. the uk covid—19 inquiry in london, heard today from a senior scientist that the second lockdown in 2020 in england, came too late — and there were unnecessary deaths as a result. the hearing also looked at how ethnic minority groups were disroportionately affected by the virus. our health editor hugh pym was at the hearing, and he's in our newsroom. what have we learned today, hugh? we've heard a lot this week from senior scientists and health officials, particularly about the first lockdown in march 2020 and the fact that as most people who give evidence this week said it came in a week too late. today, the focus was a bit more on the second lockdown in the autumn, and how scientists and the autumn, and how scientists and the government experts advisory committee had been pushing for restrictions to kick in in the middle of september, but ministers decided not to do that. the deputy to sir patrick vallance, the chief scientific adviser but she occasionally appeared at some of the downing street press conferences and was an expert at that time, she was asked by the inquiry council today what she thought about the events in the autumn of 2020. you what she thought about the events in the autumn of 2020.— the autumn of 2020. you described this uuite the autumn of 2020. you described this quite accurately _ the autumn of 2020. you described this quite accurately as _ the autumn of 2020. you described this quite accurately as the - 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back to that breaking news from dublin where five people in creating three young children have been taken to hospital after a stabbing incident in the city centre. one of the children wejust incident in the city centre. one of the children we just heard is a five—year—old girl having emergency treatment. the justice five—year—old girl having emergency treatment. thejustice minister called it a appalling attack. witnesses spoke of their shock. i looked across the road and i saw a man in a stabbing motion with a load of children. so i flew across the road and the man was after stabbing two children, as far as i could make out. we got the children up to the left with the women that was there and the teachers, i presume. and then there was a bit of a... people were trying to attack the man so me and an american lady, we formed a ring around the man, just to say that we are not savages in this country, that we let the garda do their duty and then about three minutes later the ambulance came for the children and then another ambulance and fire officers came for the man on the ground. it was horrendous and the children screaming and the woman screaming, it was chaotic, absolutely chaotic, the poor children, and at the school couldn't be more than six. i the knife, a lovely young man was brave enough to tackle him and took the knife out of his hand. it landed on the ground and a guy on a bike got the ground and a guy on a bike got the knife and throws across the drain, and we got somebody to mark that drain until he got the guard over to it, and once the guard arrived onto the scene i flagged them and told them the knife was over there and after that i left the scene. , , , �* , over there and after that i left the scene. , ,, �*, ., ~ ., scene. one eyewitness, let's talk to paul reynolds _ scene. one eyewitness, let's talk to paul reynolds our _ scene. one eyewitness, let's talk to paul reynolds our crime _ paul reynolds our crime correspondent there in dublin, and we were hearing about only 25 minutes ago from the irish police really distressing and disturbing detail in terms of what happened there in the city centre earlier. that's correct, distressing and baffling, it happened in dublin city centre at lunchtime, a busy city centre, a group of small young children, five or six years of age, lining up beside a school, in front of a school, prepared to go into an after school centre, when a man arrived and started attacking the children and stabbed a five—year—old girl. a woman intervened and she was also stabbed and seriously injured, and a five—year—old boy and a six—year—old girl were also stabbed, the three children were taken to two children's hospitals in the city. the 5 euros goal, as you said, is undergoing surgery this itching and has been seriously injured, the woman has been sick it's a matter hospital across the road here and is going surgery under serious injuries. the two other children were taken to children's hospital on the other side of the city with minor injuries, the boy has been released from hospital since. the suspect in the case was restrained by a number of people at the scene, the knife was taken from him, the police arrived and he was arrested, and he was taken to hospital for treatments, he is a man in his 50s, still being detained in hospital tonight under guard. iltrul’eiiii still being detained in hospital tonight under guard. well paul, we clearl slid tonight under guard. well paul, we clearly slid have _ tonight under guard. well paul, we clearly slid have lost _ tonight under guard. well paul, we clearly slid have lost a _ tonight under guard. well paul, we clearly slid have lost a lie - tonight under guard. well paul, we clearly slid have lost a lie to - tonight under guard. well paul, we clearly slid have lost a lie to you, l clearly slid have lost a lie to you, but that's paul reynolds there in dublin going through some of the details. apologies we lost the line a few times, but that is the latest we are hearing from that incident right there in the city centre. net migration to the uk hit a record level last year — almost three quarters of a million more people coming to live here than leaving, according to the office for national statistics. but the indications are that net migration is now slowing down. in 2010, the then prime minister david cameron promised to bring net migration down to the �*tens of thousands'. mark easton has the details. the figure that i think most people will be looking at and the ones that will raise eyebrows is the revised net migration figure, as you say, for 2022. 745,000 more people came to the uk than left, and that's helping push the population of england and wales up at its fastest rate since the baby boom of the early 1960s. now, the latest net migration for the year tojune this year is 672,000, down a bit from what we now think happened last year. and it looks like net migration may be on a downward trajectory. so who's coming? well, among the 1.2 million people who came into britain for more than 12 months, roughly 375,000 were workers and theirfamilies, one in three of whom were coming to fill vacancies in the nhs and social care system. and 410,000 were students and their dependents. and interestingly, the home secretary james cleverly has described these as positive changes, testament to both our world—leading university sector and our ability to use our immigrationsystem to prioritise the skills we need — a very different tone from his predecessor, suella braverman. now, we also got another set of immigration figures from the home office today with numbers on small boat arrivals, asylum and so on. they show that in the year to september, a5,000 came to the uk by irregular means, most in small boats. that's actually down a little from 53,000, and it represents around 0.3% of all arrivals. so important — this 99.7% of immigration is not small boats. meanwhile, the backlog of people waiting for an initial decision on their asylum claim, it was 165,000 to september. that's also down roughly 10,000 on the figure forjune. but the number of asylum seekers in hotels, well, that has reached a record high, 56,000 people because there's not enough accommodation in the system and that's costing the taxpayer £3 billion a year. the home secretary has been criticised for using unparliamentary language towards a labour mp. james cleverly — who was until recently foreign secretary — was accused of making the remark, and, a warning, the alleged use of language is offensive. it was in response to labour mp alex cunningham challenging rishi sunak during prime minister's questions, over the level of child poverty in his north—east of england constituency. live now to our political correspondent damian yesterday we had a flat the nail, today a different one. it yesterday we had a flat the nail, today a different one. it happened durin: today a different one. it happened during prime _ today a different one. it happened during prime minister's _ today a different one. it happened during prime minister's questions| during prime minister's questions yesterday, the main set piece of the week here in westminster, that wasn't the case yesterday because it wasn't the case yesterday because it was a warm up app for the chancellors autumn statement, but temperatures, as ever, still high at prime minister's questions. just have a watch of this, the question that alex cunningham asked about child poverty. if you watch closely and listen closely, you might be able to hear it a bit of fruity language in there, just to warn you about this, but watch this ship first. thank you very much, mr speaker. why are 34% of children in my| constituency living in poverty? mr speaker... mr speaker, it's this government that has ensured that across our country, 1.7 million fewer people are living in poverty. just before rishi sunak get surveys feed their and i will apologise in advance for viewers, labour front benches were adamant they s