A blustery day and starting to feel fresher. Hello and welcome to sportsday, with me, ben croucher, and holly hamilton. Good evening. The headlines this evening aubameyang sees red as arsenal draw with Crystal Palace in a feisty london derby. Remember southamptons 9 0 defeat to leicester last year . They got revenge by winning at the king power stadium. 200 Manchester United games for Marcus Rashford and he celebrated with two goals as they eased past norwich. Also coming up in the programme itll be rafa against novak, but not as we know it in the final of the atp cup in australia. And its a massive weekend in the nfl. Eight teams still in with a chance of making it to super bowl liv, well look ahead to the play offs. Hello. A very good evening to you. All the days rugby to come too and the very latest from the Tottenham Hotspur stadium asjose mourinho becomes the latest boss to try and stop the juggernaut that is the premier league leaders, liverpool, but we start tonight with a londo
Hello and welcome to bbc news. Borisjohnson has said that irans admission that it shot down by mistake a ukrainian passenger plane over tehran is an important first step. Four britons were among the 176 People Killed in wednesdays crash. A Senior Iranian military official said the airliner was misidentified as a cruise missile. Irans president rouhani has called the downing of the jet an unforgiveable mista ke. Our Diplomatic Correspondent Caroline Hawley has more. This is the moment iran made a catastrophic error, firing a missile into a passenger plane, killing everyone on board. For three days, in the face of mounting evidence, iran adamantly denied it was responsible. But this morning brought an extraordinary about face. On state run television, a Senior Commander of the powerful revolutionary guards came out, on the orders of the supreme leader, to come clean. He explained that irans air defences had been on alert. They thought american cruise missiles had been fired. A quick deci
More than 200 ex-rugby union players have accused World Rugby of a "purely reactive attitude" to the risk of neurological injuries caused by concussion.
Scrum-half Morgan Parra will hang up his playing boots and join the coaching staff at French Top 14 side Stade Francais at the end of the season, he told French daily L Equipe on Monday.