hello there, and welcome along to sportsday. i'm gavin ramjaun. here's what's coming up on the programme. wales miss out on euro qualification after a dramatic penalty shootout loss to poland. leah williamson is back for the lionesses. the player who lifted the euros trophy returns for the beginning of their title defence. and four months out from a likely third olympics, but one month from her first child, shooter amber rutter�*s diary about to fill up.

hello there, and welcome along to the programme. heartbreak for wales on a busy tuesday of international football action. they missed out on qualifying for the european championship this summer after a penalty shootout defeat to poland in cardiff. they had their chances in their play—off final, but ultimately couldn't find a way through by the end of extra—time. danieljames missed the only spot kick saved by wojciech szczesny, while poland converted all five. robert lewandowski's side can now look forward to joining france, the netherlands and austria in group d at this summer's euros in germany. well, ukraine came back to beat iceland and seal their spot at the euros this summer. they won 2—1 in poland, the match at a neutral venue due to the ongoing war with russia invading ukraine. iceland took the lead but ukraine found their equaliser in the second half before chelsea's mykhailo mudryk got a late winner for them, and they make the tournament in a group with belgium, slovakia and romania. i think it's definitely a very important win for all of us,

for our country, for our players, and i am personally very pleased for the players because these two games were very narrow, was very difficult. and of course, before the games, after the game, we are telling all this win is for our supporters, for our country, for our people, for our soldiers who are now protecting our freedom. and 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 the teams in normal time and extra—time in a tense affair with the score goalless. but georgia were clinical from the spot. nika kvekveskiri converted his spot kick after greece missed to the delight of the home fans in tblisi. georgia will be in group f in germany this summer alongside turkey, portugal and the czech republic. and it was a busy one for international friendlies too. england salvaged a 2—2 draw against belgium thanks

to an injury time equaliser from jude bellingham at wembley. youri tielemans had belgium on their way early on. ivan toney, though, then stepped up for england on his first start to level from the penalty spot. tielemans put the visitors ahead, and it looked as though it was going to finish that way, but real madrid's star, bellingham, scored the crucial goal for gareth 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. so, very pleased with a lot of what i saw tonight. well, elsewhere, in other friendlies, germany, the euros hosts, beats the netherlands despite already

qualifying for the tournament. scotland are still looking for their first win in seven as they were beaten by northern ireland. and brazil came back from 2—0 down against spain, the game ending in a draw. now, while the men are entering the final stages of build—up to their european championship, england's women arejust 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 who lifted the trophy two years ago back in the squad. leah williamson returns after initially being recalled for the matches last month after her acl tear before pulling out through another injury. fran kirby is also included by sarina wiegman, who's been speaking to the press ahead, including our reporter, jo currie. well, aside from who was in and who was out of the england squad, the subjects of fixture congestion and player rest was once again raised today. that's after arsenal announced that they're going to take their 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 does pose the question — when are players expected to rest? here are the thoughts of wiegman on that tour. i think for all the players with already the complicated calendar, it's not good for them to go to the other side of the world very short term, not having the time to adapt and play a game and come back and go, for us to have two games in france, home and away. so, but i would say that's not only for the english players, it's for 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. well, it's worth mentioning that with that tour not taking place until the end of may, it's yet to be seen who from the arsenal playing squad will travel to australia. but it does pose the question, doesn't it, that whether these kinds of tours, which have been part and parcel of the men's game for such a long time,

whether it's a sign of things to come for the women's game as well? jo currie there. well, at the other end of the international football scale, you'll find nauru. in fact, the micronesian island isn't even on a scale given they've never played a game. off the coast of australia, it has a population of 12,500, but they now have a former premier league player as their national team manager. dave kitson has gone from reading and portsmouth to a place with only one pitch, as lewis combes 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, dave kitson. i knew a little bit about the history of the island and what it's been through, and it's an incredible story. it made a fortune from selling phosphate, billions and billions of dollars. but it's had a bit of 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's the one place that hasn't actually been mined for phosphate on the island, which has left sort of these jagged scars all over the island. so not a lot of it is particularly flat, but this facility does at least still have a grass pitch in place. what's the pool of player talent like? where are you going to even begin to form a team? there is football played, you know, casually, recreationally. but you're right, it's between 10,000 and 12,000 people, so it's not a huge scope to go at. and then we're looking at perhaps new zealand and australia, but again, that's going to come down to funding. you know, it's all very well finding players who have links to nauru, but then you've got to fly them back for training, for matches. most recently, dave helped coach the reading blue coat school to national cup success here in the uk.

injuly, he'll head out 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, you know, get kids into playing a sport. i'm a big believer in trying to leave something in a better shape than when you found it. i've tried to do that throughout my footballing career and this will be no different. dave kitson talking to lewis combes there. now, onto tennis, and number seven seed casper ruud has been knocked out of the miami open in florida. he was beaten by number 22 ranked chilean nicolas jarry, 7-6, 6-3. he reaches the last 16 where 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. now, an athlete's preparations for the olympics will invariably be a finetuned affair. almost every day will have its role as they attempt to peak in paris. shooter amber rutter, though, will be doing things a little differently. she's not only got the games in mind, but the arrival of herfirst child. 0ur sports news correspondent laura scott has the story. it feels like yesterday ijust told my family and announced everything, but now that we are less than a month away from actually meeting him, it's just so exciting, and just, like, with the timing, everything, it's just... yeah, i just think 2024's going to 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 for me because when i looked at the actions that i was taking and what i was doing and what my schedule was, i definitely wasn't prioritising myself and my dreams and things i wanted to do outside my sport. your brain just revolves around the olympics,

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, so much, that i was, like, you know what? i'm just going to focus on myself and how much — how that changed my life in terms of how happy i am now, i am really content, and the thing is i know that not everybody�*s going to understand it. i know people are going to think i'm stupid for what i'm doing and the time frame that i've given myself. i know people may not understand the idea that i'm an 0lympian and winning a gold medal isn't everything to me now. but at the end of the day, it's my life and ijust want to be happy with the choices that i make. like, i don't want to look back and have the regrets of i was so worried about what everybody else thought that i...i didn't do something, like, i held off on making these life choices of the things that i wanted to do. and there we go. that's all from us for now. 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.

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 collapsed.