hello and welcome to sportsday. i gavin and here is what coming up. wales miss out on euro qualification after a dramatic penalty shootout loss to poland. leah williamson is back to the lioness, the player who lifted the us trophy returns for the beginning of their title defence. four months out from a likely that olympics, but one month from herfirst child, about to fill up. hello and welcome to the programme.

heartbreak for wales on a busy tuesday of international football action, missing out on qualifying for the european championship this summer after a penalty shootout defeat to poland in cardiff. they have their chances in the final but couldn't find a way through by the end of extra time. poland converted all five. the site can look forward tojoining france, netherlands and austria in group d at this summer's euros in germany. ukraine came back to beat iceland and still best for other euros this summer, 2—1 of poland, a neutral venue to the ongoing war with russia invading ukraine. iceland took the but ukraine found their equaliser in the second half before chelsea got a late winner for them and they make the tournament in a group with belgium, slovakia and romania. i think it is definitely a very important win for all of us,

for our country and players, and i am personally very pleased for the players because these two games were very narrow and very difficult. of course, before the games, after the game, we tell this win is for our country, for our people and supporters, for our soldiers who are now protecting our freedom. a moment to remember for georgia who earlier secured their place in a first—ever major tournament after beating the 2004 winners greece on penalties to make it to the euros. nothing to separate teams in normal time and extra time and a score goal. georgia were clinical from the spot. converting the spot kick after greece missed to the delight of home fans in tblisi. georgia will be in group in germany with turkey, portugal and the czech republic. it was a busy one for international friendlies

as well with england salvaging a 2—2 draw with belgium. an injury time equaliser from jude bellingham at wembley. they had belgium on their way early on, ivan toney stepping up on his first item from the penalty spot. it looked as though it was going to finish that way but real madrid's star scored the crucial goal for gary southgate�*s side in the 95th minute. jude of course is the headline and that competitive spirit, that desire not to lose, desire to win in the end was decisive in getting the late goal. but i thought the whole team showed that throughout the game and recovered from setbacks with a pretty inexperienced team really against a team that have got some very, very good players. very pleased with a lot of what i saw tonight. elsewhere, in otherfriendlies, germany, the euros host beaet the netherlands despite to qualify for the tournament.

scotland looking for their first win. brazil came back from 2—0 against spain, the game ending in a draw. while the men are entering the final stages of build—up to their european championship, england's women are about to start their qualifying campaign as the defending champions and for their opening group games against sweden and the republic of ireland, the player lifted the trophy. leah williamson recalled. after an acl tear before pulling out to another injury. frank kirby is included by sarina wiegman who has been speaking to the press had including our reporter, joe curry. aside from who was in and out of the england squad, the subjects of fixture congestion and clearest was again raised today. that's after arsenal announced they will take the women's team to australia to play one game at the end of the wsl season. but with england having euro qualifiers injune and july

and other nations also having the olympics this summer, it poses the question — when are players expected to rest? for all the players with the already complicated calendar, it's not good for them to go to the other side of the world very short term, not having time to adapt and play a game and come back and go for us to have two games in france, home and away. but i would say that's not only for english players, but every european player that goes into the qualifiers, that's the thing that will be hard for them to take and to perform at the highest level. it is worth mentioning that with that tour not taking place until end of may, it's yet to be seen who through from the arsenal squad will travel to australia, but it poses the question, these tours, part and parcel of the men's

game for such a long time, as a sign of things to come for the women's game as well? at the other end of international football scale you'll find nauru, the micronesia island is not on a scale given they've never played a game. off the coast of australia, premier league player is the national team manager. dave kitson has gone from reading and portsmouth to place with only one pitch as lewis combs reports. an island about as remote as they come, known primarily for its lucrative phosphate mines, it's used as an immigration centre and now they dave kitson. i knew about its history, its incredible story. made a fortune from selling phosphate, billions of dollars. but it had an issue in terms of distributing that wealth and of course a lot of people stopped working. that led to an importation of food and has led directly to an obesity crisis. and this is part of the reason for trying to start up the island's first

ever football team. the brainchild of dave and a long—time friend, the pair know they have a challenge on their hands. for a start, the island's only recognised football pitch is in the immigration detention centre. it is the one place that has not been mined for phosphate on the island which has left the jug of scars all over it. not a lot of it is flat, but the facility does still have a grass pitch. what's the pool of talent like? where do you begin? there is football played casually, recreationally. but you're right, it is between 10,000 and 12,000 people so it is not a huge scope to go out. then we're looking at perhaps new zealand and australia but again, that will come down to funding, it's very well finding players with links to nauru, but then you have to fly them back to training and matches. most recently, dave helped coach reading school, national success in the uk.

injuly, he will go to nauru with a completely different goal to aim for. to actually try to implement a football programme that can not only get a team on the pitch, but help with the health and fitness of the island, get kids into playing a sport. i'm a big believer in trying to leave something in a better shape than you found it. i've tried to do that throughout my football career and this will be no different. dave kitson talking to lewis combs. the tennis. number seven seed casper ruud has been knocked out of the miami open in florida, beaten by number 22 chilean nicholas reaching the last 16 when he will take on the third seed, daniil medvedev. there it is. got there eventually, didn't he? good luck to him in the next round.

preparations for the olympics will invariably be finetuned with every day having its role as they attempt to peak paris, shipper dominic sheed and barrass will do things and the arrival of her first child. sports news correspondent laura scott with the story. it feels like yesterday i told my family and announced everything but now we are less than a month from meeting him, it is so exciting and with the timing everything, 2024 will be a great year. we know a lot of athletes have put their plans of having a family on hold around 0lympics. did that perspective really shift because of what happened in tokyo? 100%, it was the biggest wake—up call because i looked at the actions i took, my schedule, i definitely was not prioritising myself and my dreams and the things i wanted to do outside sport. your brain revolves

around 0lympics, but with the disappointment of tokyo, ijust was, like, i was ready to quit shooting altogether. i thought that was it for me and i resented the sport and what happened so much, that i'm going to focus on myself and how much that changed my life in terms of how happy i am now, i am content and i know that not everybody will understand it, i know people think i'm stupid for what i'm doing in the time frame i've given myself, people will not understand the idea that i'm an 0lympian and winning a gold medal is not everything to me now, but at the end of the day, it is my life and ijust want to be happy with the choices i've made. i don't want to look back and have regrets. i was so worried about what everybody else thought that i did not do something, i held off on making these life choices of the things that i wanted to do. that's all from us. we'll see you soon.

hello. the weather is going to throw just about everything at us over the next couple of days. certainly for wednesday, lots of heavy thundery downpours, albeit with some spells of sunshine in between, also quite windy out there. all driven by low pressure centred to the west of the uk. rain and hill snow pushing northwards across scotland. some really heavy rain for a time across eastern counties of northern ireland. that will take a while to clear. and then for england and wales, yes, there will be some spells of sunshine, but also, some heavy, thundery downpours with hail thrown in for good measure, some sunny spells in between. pretty windy, particularly in the south, but also up towards the north of scotland and temperatures north to south between 7—11, maybe 12 degrees in parts of eastern england. now, through wednesday night, we will see further showers or longer spells of rain. this clump of wet weather drifting across southern england into the midlands.

if that gets far enough west into wales, well over high ground, that could give a little bit of snow because it will be quite cold to take us into thursday morning. although probably too windy for most places to see a frost. and then into thursday, this area of low pressure firmly in charge. this low has been named by the spanish weather service. it's been named storm nelson because of the impacts it is going to have in spain, but pretty close to us on thursday. close enough to give some very strong winds, gales around coasts in the south and the southwest. but windy weather even further north across england and wales, very strong winds even inland. some outbreaks of rain, northern scotland perhaps seeing the best of the dry weather, but there will even here be some showers. and temperatures around 9,10 or 11 degrees. now, as we get into friday, good friday, of course, it is not going to be completely dry, but i am hopeful there will be fewer showers. more in the way of dry gaps in between. it won't be as windy and it will feel a little bit warmer.

and that certainly is the theme for the start of the easter weekend. 0ur area of low pressure loosening its grip and so not as many showers, more in the way of dry weather. however, there is a lot of uncertainty about the second half of the weekend. there's an area of low pressure that some computer weather models keep well to the south of us, it's this one here. but other computer models push that a lot further north, giving us the chance for some rain. so a lot of uncertainty about the second half of the easter weekend. there will be some rain at times, some spells of sunshine, not as chilly as it has been.

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this is bbc news: police in baltimore say six people are presumed dead after a bridge collapsed and are moving to a recovery effort. at this point we do not believe that we are going to find any of these individuals still alive. the us supreme court appears skeptical in a case to limit the use of abortion pill mifepristone. and a moscow court extends the detention of wall streetjournal reporter evan gershkovich. hello. i'm caitriona perry. you are very welcome. six people are presumed in the disaster which saw a container ship collided with a bridge in the city of baltimore. it

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