and they are perfect as they are. there are a number of international friendlies later. spain are among the teams fine—tuning ahead of the european championship and they face colombia in a game that will be played at the london stadium in england's capital. spain then take on brazil on tuesday. it two games against two south american teams. on an individual level, i am very happy, mostly because we can measure our strength. i think we haven't faced each other many times in the past, and they are completely different opponents from what we are used to. i think it will be a very interesting test to measure where we are, facing the colombian team i think hasn't lost a game for two years, then brazil. it is very important for our preparation for the european championship to compete against the highest level teams. wales are just a win away from qualifying for this summer's

european championship. their 4—1 win over finland set up a winner—takes—all final eliminator against poland, who beat estonia 5—1. former wales striker, iwan roberts, believes the match is very winnable. i don't think this is a poll and decide that they have been in the past. i don't think they are as strong as they have been in the past. this is a polling site that qualify regularly for world cups and european championships. they have an absolute legend in robert lewandowski up front. we have got the worst record ever against poland. we only beat them once, that was in the first meeting in 1973. so wales will host poland for a place in germany. ukraine's oppenents in the playoff final will be iceland. and georgia will face greece. the winners of each match go through to the tournament which starts in june. ferrari's charles leclerc was quickest in second practice for the australian grand prix.

he finished ahead of max verstappen, who missed the first 20 minutes after damaging his car coming off the track in the first session. lewis hamilton was way off the pace, saying there was something wrong with his mercedes. leclerc led the way, with the ferrari looking fast on both single laps and in longer runs, and they'll hope they can challenge the dominance of red bull this weekend. the women's six nations gets under way at the weekend. england and france have been the standout teams in the tournament in recent years, but wales now have more than 30 players on full time contracts and are looking for that investment to pay dividends. we just want to get out there, get a quick start against scotland. i think results are definitely a must, this six nations. we want to close the gap even more with england and france, and hopefully take it to scotland this weekend. the england captain, heather knight, made another half—century as her side beat new zealand by 15 runs in the second t20 to take t20 to take a 2—0 lead in the five—game series. england stumbled to

77—6 after being put but knight's 56 not out got them to a competitive score of 149—7. new zealand reached 100—3 but the wicket of amelia kerr started a collapse of five wickets for eight runs. they finished on 134—8. and that's all the sport for now. just want to bring you one breaking line on the situation with his whale in gaza. we line on the situation with his whale in gaza. ~ ~' ., line on the situation with his whale in gaza. ~ ~ ., .,, , ., in gaza. we know there has been a un security council _ in gaza. we know there has been a un security council vote _ in gaza. we know there has been a un security council vote on _ in gaza. we know there has been a un security council vote on a _ in gaza. we know there has been a un security council vote on a ceasefire - security council vote on a ceasefire which was vetoed. we have also had meetings between anthony blinken and benjamin netanyahu, who said after those meetings that they will go into rafah in the south of gaza if they have to do, even without the support of the united states. we have also had a line from the us

vice president, talking to journalists, where she said, there is nowhere for these people to go and be safe, talking about rafah, that there was no way for civilians to escape safely in southern gaza if the israelis do plan to go ahead with that movement of troops into that city. we know a lot of people have gathered there. one further update on what is going on there. the rest of our news now. to senegal now, where people will go to the polls this weekend to elect a new president. the run—up to the election has been marred by violent protests following a controversial decision by outgoing president macky sall to delay the vote, originally scheduled to take place in february. the bbc�*s thomas naadi has sent this report from the capital, dakar. the mood here in dakar is very

peaceful, yet the election is expected to be hotly contested. one group say that intense political activity has begun following the release of the two main opposition figures last week. but why do people care so much about this election? let's find out. translation: we are nowjust a step away from an election that could change the course of our history, so it means a lot to us. translation: we can also see that there are many young people who are migrating illegally. we should not elect a president on the basis of their charisma. 7.3 million people have registered to vote, which is a slight increase from the previous election. translation: today we expect this election to be undemocratic. there won't be many senegalese who will take part in this election. this is the main opposition candidate, and he has promised to provide jobs, institutional reforms, energy contracts, and change the country's currency, the cfa. this man over there is the candidate of the ruling party, and he has pledged to revamp

the economy and improve all sectors. the country's electoral body says it's well—prepared for this election. bonjour. can you assure the people of this country that you will deliver free, fair and credible elections? translation: 16,000 is the number of polling stations. after that, 5a pvs will come out from departmental commissions. you will see a single pv that will go to the constitutional council. that's why i'm telling you that we have a transparent system. we have a decentralised system, a system that allows us to move quickly because practically a few days later, you have all the results. senegal has gone through three years of political crisis, which has led some to believe that the country's democracy was backsliding. now it remains to be seen whether one of africa's most stable countries will once again pass

the ultimate democratic test. the rhs chelsea flower show has stunned visitors with its beautiful displays for years, but this year the organisers have created something which will deliberately exclude a large number of guests. for the first time, a �*no adults allowed' garden designed by children, for children will be on display. our culture correspondent, charlotte gallagher, reports. i've been invited to a top—secret summit. and, in fact, i shouldn't really be here. this is strictly no adults allowed. children from sullivan primary in south—west london are putting the finishing touches on their very own garden for chelsea flower show. so, have you been learning about gardening while you are doing this? yeah, we have been learning about gardening for a while now. what has been the favourite thing about doing this project? probably being able to design and make the garden, in general, which is going to go into the flower

show for everyone to enjoy and see. i think that's the key thing. when we are designing with plants, we are trying to find things that complement each other. but it's a steep learning curve, so some grown—ups have been allowed in. so, lots of wacky ideas, and things that we are making work is going to be things like carnivorous plants, which isn't typically what you'd find in a normal chelsea show garden. and some other wacky things that we actually said is a step too far. i mean, crocodiles. ..you know, might not work. and we had underground lakes, you know, rivers, really big, big features, which are, you know, distilled into kind of more show garden format, so. first of all, who's heard of an iris plant before? i'm impressed. more than i thought. these irises are being planted so they will flower in time for the show in may. the garden will also include boulders to scramble over, a stream to splash in, and a secret den.

and unfortunately for me, it seems like the pupils aren'tjust learning about gardening. hello, today we are at rhs wisley gardens to help design our garden at the chelsea flower show. sorry. sorry, what's going on? this is myjob. what are you doing? sorry, no! no adults allowed. the children have been sending out invitations to some vips. i would love for the king to come because i would like him to see what we have been doing at the rhs. that's royalty ticked off. how about pop stars? if you could pick anyone to go into your garden to look at it, who would you pick? justin bieber. so, big ambitions for the guest list. and you can see for yourselfjust how excited the children are for their chelsea flower show debut. they yell.

charlotte gallagher, bbc news. very sweet. i would invite ryan gosling if i had a garden. i am still struck with his oscars performance last week. much more on all the news coming up. hello. if you've been out and about today you may already have noticed a change in the feel of the weather, certainly compared with what some of us had a couple of days ago when temperatures in southern england got close to 19 degrees. tomorrow we'll see afternoon highs of more like nine degrees celsius. colder air digging down from the north behind a weather front, which you can see here on our earlier satellite image, this line of cloud, it's been bringing some outbreaks of rain. behind that, speckled shower clouds racing in. it is quite windy up towards the north—west of the uk. gales in the far north. plenty of showers, some heavy with hail and thunder, some wintry over high ground, particularly in scotland. temperatures, if anything, coming down as we head towards the end of the day.

through this evening and tonight, we'll lose the last of that weather front and we will see some clear skies, yes, but plenty more showers. still some heavy thundery ones and some wintry ones over high ground in the north of the uk. staying fairly windy overnight, but despite that, temperatures will drop quite close to freezing, so on some roads out in the countryside across northern england, northern ireland and scotland there mayjust be one or two icy patches. into tomorrow, low pressure in charge, passing to the north of the uk. lots of isobars on that chart, showing that it will be windy. we'll see plenty of showers pushing across many areas, perhaps a line of more organised heavy, thundery showers drifting southwards. some of those showers will continue to be wintry over high ground in the north. a widely windy day gusts of 40mph or 50mph in northern and western parts. temperatures on the thermometer at nine or ten degrees, not unusual for this time of year, but certainly down on where we have been. and when we factor in the wind chill, these are the �*feels

like' temperatures. we could knock a few degrees off those temperature values, five or six degrees the feels—like numbers for saturday afternoon. through saturday night the winds will ease a little bit. it will stay quite blustery, i think, for eastern coasts of scotland and england, where we could still see some showers on sunday morning. then a slice of drier, clearer, calmer weather, before a band of cloud and rain pushes in from the west later in the day. temperatures perhaps up a little bit at nine to 13 degrees. it does look very unsettled as we head into next week. there will be showers or longer spells of rain at times and nothing particularly warm in the offing for the coming days.

hello, you're watching bbc news. this half hour, we are going to focus on plaid cymru's spring conference happening in wales. plaid cymru's leader is about to address his party's conference in caernarfon, you can see some live pictures they're coming in from that conference, where they will say that people wanting a different future should vote for plaid cymru at the next general election. for more on this in the build—up to that speech, we can go live to our wales

correspondent who is following events from us from cardiff, good to have you on the programme. so, rhun ap iorwerth has only been leaderfor nine months and i imagine this will be a big speech for him and the party in the lead up to a general election. , ., , ., , party in the lead up to a general election. , .,, ., , , election. yes, he has only been leader for— election. yes, he has only been leader for nine _ election. yes, he has only been leader for nine months, - election. yes, he has only been leader for nine months, as - election. yes, he has only been leader for nine months, as you | election. yes, he has only been - leader for nine months, as you say. in his first conference in spring, in autumn he said that pie, was a party for wales, notjust in autumn he said that pie, was a party for wales, not just for those who speak welsh, that point really pushing independence. ithink who speak welsh, that point really pushing independence. i think what we will see from the leader of plaid cymru today is more may be of an attack on the two main parties in the uk, an attack on labour, they are in a cooperation agreement in cardiff, in the senedd in the welsh government. they agree on some things and are pushing senedd reform to increase the number of members in the core, but i think the message from rhun ap iorwerth in more recent times is more of an attack heading

towards the uk