hello and welcome to sportsday. i'm chetan pathak. coming up on the programme: trying to win back to back titles — manchester city edge closer to the quarterfinals the most expensive women's footballer in history, zambia's racheal kundananj, is heading to america. and saudi arabia continues to spend big on sport — welcome along, thank you forjoining us. and manchester city's quest to keep hold of their trophy. the first leg of their last 16

tie 3—1 at fc copenhagen. it wasn't entirely straightforward for them though. kevin de bruyne put them ahead inside ten minutes, but the danish champions took advantage of a poor clearance from goalkeeper ederson — as magnus mattsson equalised with a fantastic strike. however, it wasn't level for long — bernardo silva making it 2—1 to cityjust before half—time with but the holders ensured they left with a two—goal arguably the most serious challengers to city's crown are the record 1a time winners real madrid — and they've won the first leg of their last 16 tie 1—0 at rb leipzig. it was a former city player, brahim diaz, who got the only goal of the game in germany. he did thejude bellingham celebration, in support

of the england midfielder who missed the game through injury. the second leg is in three weeks�* time, just as it is for manchester city. as the knockout stages continue. bayern munich have a chance to put their bundelsiga defeat to bayer leverkusen at the weekend behind them, as they go to lazio for the first leg of their last 16 tie. bayern have won the trophy six times, with their most recent and psg also play on wednesday with kylian mbappe set the 25—year—old france striker was an unused substitute in their 3—1 league win against lille on saturday. football's world record transfer fee for a woman has been broken again. zambia international racheal kundananji has left madrid to join newly created us team bay fc, based in the californian city of sanjose.

the fee is believed to be around $860,000. so many girls who text me, trying to get advice from me, how they can get the best out of themselves. every time, the text me. they are looking up to me saying, i want to be like racheal. they try to get in touch. ijust feel like i need to do my level best every day. for them to see that they also need to work hard, and they can be the best players in the world. they can be better than me. most of them, this is what they have been waiting for, they have been talking about this for a long time. every time a plane,

they always, the text me and encourage me to continue working hard and playing. i'm sure this is the first one and there are more to come. let's have a quick look now at some other stories making the headlines. the english premier league has given the green light to sirjim ratcliffe�*s purchase of 25% of manchester united. the deal, worth around £1 billion, is still subject to football association approval. england captain leah williamson is back in the squad for the first time since a knee injury forced her to miss the world cup last year. she's one of 23 players selected to face austria part of the liverpool legends management team for a charity game at anfield against

ajax legends in march. said last month that he's "always wished to be the manager of liverpool". saudi arabia continues to spend big on sport. world snooker says a newly created event will be held in the country from this year. called the saudi arabia snooker masters, it will offer a $2.5 million prize fund and become the sport's "fourth major". that makes it the second—richest event on the schedule, with the inaugural tournament to be held in riyadh at the end of august. shabnam younus—jewell has more of the details. it is that prize pot of £2 million that puts itjust behind the world championship, which is about £2.11 million in prize—money, with the top prize being half a million. that shows you the investment in this tournament. of course, we have that first event, the invitational

with the golden ball that will happen next month, not to be confused with this one. that was announced recently as well, but this one is going to be a ranking event, and you get ranking points and is just another tournament on this calendar that players can go and compete in for big, big money. you are going to see the big players like ronnie 0'sullivan and judd trump and mark selby going into this tournament want to go out there and compete for the big next to a couple of big upsets at the qatar 0pen, where the number two and four seeds have been knocked out in the second round. coco gauff, making herfirst appearance since her australian open semifinal defeat, was stunned in straight sets by katerina siniakova.

despite being seeded second, the 19—year—old us 0pen champion was beaten 6—2, 6—4 by the czech player — a doubles specialist — getting one of the biggest wins of her singles career. there was disappointment for 0ns jabeur, seeded four, who won comfortably 6—3, 6—2. but better news for the unseeded naomi 0saka as she continues her comeback after giving birth to her first child injuly — she beat croatia's petra martic in straight sets to reach the last 16. in cricket, the west indies ended their three match t20 series against australia with a consolation win in perth. batting first, the tourists finished 220—6. player of the match andre russell top—scoring with 71 offjust 29 balls. in reply australia could only make 183 for the loss of five wickets from their 20 overs. david warner hit 81 off 49 balls.

australia still winning the series 2—1. ferrari say their new formula 1 car "must be a consistent frontrunner" when the new season starts next month. at the launch of their car, the team told supporters they "must start off where they left off at the end of last season". charles leclerc took pole position at three of the final five races of the 2023 campaign but failed to turn any of them into wins. he's hoping for better this time round. it is always impossible to predict whether we will be closer to our main competitors or not. formula 1 is obviously a relative sport, but at the same time we are focusing on ourselves, and from one year to the other we always try to look at what we can do better as a team without focusing too much on the others we don't know where the others are at in terms of developments, so we will have to wait the real first lapse before to judge where exactly we are. and finally, it's

an iconic moment from the winter olympics. a0 years ago, british ice dancers jayne torvill and christopher dean won gold and became the first dancing pair ever to receive a perfect six from alljudges in a skating competition. they are back in bosnia tojoin the celebrations of the 40th anniversary of the sarajevo winter olympics. the pair held a training session to try to inspire the next generation of ice skaters — just as they did a0 years ago. from winning the olympics in 811, we previously had won world championships within ice—skating, but there are so many sports involved in the olympics, everybody watches it. there is much more interest from all of the world and who is going to be the olympic champion, and it did open lots of doors

for the future, we never it launched us into the world, and who would have known 40 years later that we are still skating, still doing some form of the bolero? we feel very privileged and honoured that we can and lots of things have happened in the meantime. more reaction on the bbc sport website to man city real madrid's wins. that's all for now, goodbye. hello. it's wet, it's mild. if anything, it's going to get even milder across some parts of the country.

but this story is not true for scotland — it's been quite the opposite. at the moment we've got clear skies. it's very cold in the highlands. and early on wednesday morning, temperatures in some spots ireland, england and wales. the air current is coming in from the southwest. weather fronts are crossing us here. a lot of cloud and outbreaks of rain. the early hours and this is where we've got also light winds. we recently had some snow showers as well

the air�*s coming in all the way from portugal and spain, in fact, the canaries. and you can even trace it back all the way into the subtropical atlantic — a really mild air mass streaming our way over the next few days. but i mentioned something about a cold front. here it is, as it moves over the uk during the course of friday and then introducing something a little less mild. it's not going to get cold, it'sjust not going to be as mild. let's have a look at the outlook, then, over the next few days.

so, the peak of this mild spell will be around thursday. but after that, it looks as though those temperatures will ease a little bit. staying on the mild side, and overall, the weather very changeable with rain at times.

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