the former president of pakistan, pervez musharraf, has died at the age of 79. general musharraf took power in a coup in 1999, and served as president for seven years from 2001. you re watching bbc news. coming up in a few minutes is the travel show, but first here s sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday i m chetan pathak coming up on tonight s programme. harry kane makes history as tottenham stop manchester city from closing the gap to arsenal at the top of the premier league. france fight back in rome to avoid one of the great shocks in six nations history. and after a wait of more than eight decades, can great britain s four man bobsleigh team bring home a medal? hello and welcome to sportsday. totte n ha m tottenham have boosted their hopes for a finish but they have done their north london arsenal. arsenal s lead at the top remains five points, despite their defeat at everton yesterday. after a win at tottenham. spurs took the lead after 15 minutes pierre emile
coming up in a few minutes is click. but first is sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday i m chetan pathak coming up on tonight s programme. harry kane makes history as tottenham stop manchester city from closing the gap to arsenal at the top of the premier league. france fight back in rome to avoid one of the great shocks in six nations history. and after a wait of more than eight decades, can great britain s four man bobsleigh team bring home a medal? hello and welcome to sportsday. tottenham have boosted their hopes for a finish but they have done arsenal s lead at the top remains five points, despite their defeat at everton yesterday. welcome along, thank you forjoining us. tottenham have boosted their hopes for a top four finish but they have also done their north london rivals arsenal a huge favour tonight by beating manchester city by a goal to nil at the tottenham hotspur stadium. it means arsenal s lead at the top remains 5 points, despite their defeat at
personally towards the end, i was vieira out but if you d said we d be going back to roy hodgson, i think i would ve rather stuck with vieira. i m really fond of roy, but we did move away from him for a reason. so going back to roy now after having a season of playing more progressive football, it does feel like a backward step. hodgson s been a coach since 1976. there have been highs and lows. but through countries and continents, it s at place he s most at home. so good was his first spell, he got the freedom of croydon now south london hopes the man five years off his 80s can steer them to safety. joe lynskey, bbc news. tottenham midfielder pierre emile hojbjerg says his manager antonio conte needs to be more precise, following the italian s outburst on saturday. after tottenham gave up a two goal lead against bottom club southampton, conte called his players selfish and criticised the club s culture. it s now expected that conte will not be in place for tottenham
in the same boat. a day of sunshine and heavy showers with thunderstorms. at least one benefit of the strong wind is that the showers don t last in any one place for any length of time, really. we got more of the showers to come as we head into thursday. again, some will turn heavy with hail and thunder. still fairly windy as well. temperatures still on the mild side with south westerly winds dragging mild air from the south. a0 with south westerly winds dragging mild airfrom the south. a0 or 50 celsius also. into thursday night, we might see some more general rain pushing into eastern england. it stays very unsettled in the west with further showers. there is not a great deal changing with the weather pattern through friday on the weekend. loads more showers on the way with colder air in northern scotland. some of the showers will start to turn wintry. thanks, chris. there s more analysis of the day s main stories on newsnight with kirsty wark which isjust getting underway o
for humanitarian agencies, after five major non governmental organisations suspend their work in afghanistan. we ll have a look at the front page of the papers in a moment but first, some other stories to bring you. police say a tenth person has died as a result of a huge explosion at a block of flats injersey early this month. kathleen mcguinness, who was 73, lived next to the building in st helier which was destroyed in the blast. about 3 billion litres of water are lost every day through leaks in england and wales, according to the latest figures from the industry regulator. now to help tackle the problem, scientists have developed miniature robots that crawl through pipes to patrol our water supply network. our science correspondent, victoria gill, reports. the water company here in essex has detected a leak, but to find its location and fix it, they will need to dig through a complex maze of pipes. basically, we have a nine inch cast iron water main that runs down the