hello and welcome to sportsday. i'm jane dougall. scheduling problems, slippery courts, now the french open has lost its defending champion — novak djokovic withdraws through injury. the lionesses get their revenge on france — after losing last week, england win in saint etienne. and we take a look at how climate change might impact rugby union in the future around the world. well, there is a list

of problems facing this year's french open — and it has just got longer. novak djokovic has withdrawn from the touranment with a knee injury, ending his own defence of the title at roland garros. the world number one had been involved in the latest finish in french open history, before returning on monday to deal — not only with another marathon match but also a slippery court. djokovic then claimed that had contributed to the injury which has now forced him to pull out. here's our tennis correspondent russell fuller. it has been described as a torn medial meniscus, right knee problem. we don't know the severity of this injury, but it is a huge concern to novak djokovic with wimbledon starting in just underfour weeks�* time and the olympics beginning in just under eight. he is desperate to win an olympic gold medal for the first time in his career, and both of those events must have big question marks attached to them.

it is a problem that he had, and mild problem, when he severed his right knee coming into the championship. in his mind it was clearly aggravated by the courts yesterday. he was slipping and sliding more than even djokovic normally does. there was a point early in the second set when he slipped and hurt that knee. it now appears that was quite badly. he is out of the tournament. he will not play casper in the quarterfinals tomorrow. he gets a walkover into the semifinals. there will be a first—time men's french open champion crowned on sunday. there will be no farther along garros title, no 25th grand slam title for djokovic, and jannik sinner becomes world number one for the first time on monday. the slippery courts is something that novak djokovic made very clear, discussed about, it is second sink two consecutive set match he felt that the court had screwed his

knee yesterday he wanted them to sweep the courts more regularly, every four games instead of at the end of the set which is the convention. i think also good reasons to unhappy about the scheduling because the extra match was added to the programme on saturday to catch up with the rain delays for the match went five set and didn't finish till seven minutes past three in the morning. there had been scheduling mistakes, no question about it. alljabbar is very happy with the fact that the women are always scheduled first on but it's not the same atmosphere in the stadium and the men get all the match with the teatime match with the a popular time for television viewers in spectators. for the second year in a row, carlos alcaraz is into the semi—finals of the french open after beating stefanos tsitsipas in straight sets. the reigning wimbledon champion has now won all six of his career meetings against tsitsipas.

he sets up a semifinal against incoming world number one jannik sinner, who comfortably saw off grigor dimitrov earlier on tuesday. coco gauff was the first woman to book her place in the french open semi—finals. the us open champion recovered from a slow start and came from a set down to beat three—time grand slam finalist ons jabeur. it's gauff�*s second slam semifinal of the year after reaching the last four at the australian open in january. as russell mentioned earlier, ons jabeur criticised the scheduling of that match. it started on court philippe chatrier on tuesday at ”am local time. it's the first time slot each day, and those matches usually begin in front of hardly any supporters. i would have loved a quarterfinal at night, not at 11 a:m., for me it doesn't make sense. maybe this is the only grand slam and maybe the australian open they play the quarterfinals at 11 a:m..

which for me, i don't find it... i don't know the broadcast, i don't know the tv but you achieve a quarterfinal, no. gauff will take on top seed and defending champion iga swiatek in a rematch of the 2022 final. swiatek was once again in scintillating form against wimbledon champion marketa vondrusova, handing out a third consecutive bagel in the first set before comfortably taking the second set 6—2 to book her place in yet another roland garros semifinal. it's been revealed that manchester city are planning to launch legal action against the premier league over the organisations commercial rules. bbc sport understands an arbitration hearing regarding the legality of the league's transaction rules has been set for next week. those rules determine whether sponsorship deals are financially "fair".

the times newspaper is reporting that it has seen a legal document in which city claim they are victims of "discrimination", and that the amended rules were approved by rivals to "stifle" their success on the pitch. last month, city became the first club in english football history to win the league title in four consecutive seasons. neither the premier league nor manchester city have responded to requests for a comment on the case. here's our sports editor dan roan. we've known for some time that the premier league faced the threat of legal action from one of its member clubs over the rules that govern so called associated party transactions or the deals that some clubs signed with companies linked to their owners. now we know it's been elevated, a threat to reality and its manchester city no less, the dominant force in the english game who are taking this action. according to the times they are arguing that these according to the times they are arguing that these rules are unlawful and anti—competitive, the discriminatory against middle eastern owners, that they are seeking damages from the league

and they are the victim of what they described as a tyranny of majority. the clubs backing the premier league would argue that these rules are required to maintain competitive balance and to prevent rich clubs from over inflating certain sponsorship deals. what's really key is whether or not this arbitration which is due to start next week has any bearing on the much more serious and bigger legal dispute that is running on between city and the league, this relates to an unprecedented catalogue of more than a hundred charges that city were hit with last year of alleged financial group reaches for the city denied wrongdoing. a hearing is to take place. but what certain is this is the latest example of this disunity in the league that appears ever more fractured. there was another round of qualification matches for next years women's euros on tuesday, with defending champions england beating france in saint etienne. england boosted their chances of qualification in league a, winning 2—1 after goals from georgia stanway and alessia russo. the world champions spain

were also in action, beating denmark, 3—2. in league b, scotland beat israel 5—0, northern ireland lost 2—1 to portugal and wales drew 2—2 with ukraine. let's take you to the men's t20 world cup, where england and scotland's first game had to be abandoned because of heavy rain in barbados. michaeljones hit 45 for the scots, who only managed ten overs in a rain interrupted innings. they finished on 90 without loss. the heavens opened again with england not getting a chance to reply, so the match ended with no result and the points shared. a new report commissioned by world rugby has revealed climate change could put some grounds at risk of "marine submersion" in the future. more severe flooding and the effect of heatwaves on players are among the issues highlighted by a report that found the consequences of climate change on rugby are "significant".

jamie farndale is a scotland sevens player who is studying sustainability with scottish rugby and spoke to hugh ferris earlier. obviously, gloucester is one of the stadiums that's been highlighted as effective. but this report is far more wide reaching than that. it looks at athletes and fans, the health and safety for that for myself at player but it looks also at the impact of being able to run these events in the first place in the whole business of support behind it. these events are cancelled and it becomes a real issue for the sport. what is the answer? if there is to be a place like fiji, for example, you can't move like perhaps a premiership rugby club could. what is the best advice that you can give? what this report does is look at the impact of a 2 degrees world and a three degreed world of warming above preindustrial levels.

to put that in context, we're already over 1.5 for the last 11 months have all been over 1.5 degrees in warming. so 2 degrees isn't far away. what 2 degrees in this report comes out as is 60% of extra days above a temperature at which it's dangerous and potentially fatal to compete for them and three degrees, some places that goes up to 30 days extra of which is dangerous to compete. the answer isn't adaptation and were already seeing events that are changing dates or starting earlier in the day for the person he breaks an ice towels. but sports got eight much more urgent need to deal with this. but sports got a much more urgent need to deal with this. for me, it's about reducing its impact in terms of carbon but also in terms of its impact on nature. you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.com/sport. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye.

hello there. on tuesday, we had a cold front move southwards across the uk. now, after a cloudy and wet start to the day across northern areas, once that cold front had moved its way through, well, the skies brightened up and we had a mixture of sunshine and these big shower clouds. the other thing that the cold front did was what cold fronts do — it's really dumped the temperature. so, for example, in aberdeen, we started on monday at 21 degrees for the highest temperature. it was just 15 degrees, though, for tuesday. and those temperatures dropping by five or six degrees was quite typical as this colder polar air mass worked its way in. that means the air started from a long way to our north. now, at the moment, we have plenty of showers around, particularly near coastal areas in the north—west. otherwise, some lengthy, clear spells. and it's a chilly start to wednesday morning, with temperatures widely down into single figures, the coldest spots probably down to about1 in sheltered areas of scotland. that really is cold

for a start to a summer's day. despite the chilly start, though, there will be plenty of sunshine. showers from the word go around these north—western areas, particularly near to the coast. but through the day, as those temperatures rise, the showers become really widespread, particularly across the northern half of the uk and especially in scotland, where, again, we're looking at some hail and thunder. it's going to feel quite chilly, particularly in the brisk winds here. but further south, ok, temperatures below average, but in thejune sun, it should probably feel ok but on the fresh side. now, our weather pattern�*s blocked at the moment. this is a blocking pattern that's out in the jet stream, out in the atlantic to our south—west. what that's doing is it's forcing this north—westerlyjet stream across the uk, and that continues to pull in cold air, particularly to the northern half of the uk. and because we've got a blocking weather pattern, well, that means the weather doesn't change very much from one day to the next. wednesday, we have loads of showers in the forecast across the northern half of the uk. it's the same thing for thursday. again, with those showers coming in across scotland, there'll be quite a few that turn heavy with some hail and thunder, and it will continue to feel

quite chilly here. spot the difference, then, for friday. again, loads more showers, particularly affecting scotland, quite a few for northern ireland, northern england. drier weather further south with some sunny spells. and again, we've got those same kind of temperature contrasts — chilly in the north, temperatures fairly close to average in the south, but feeling ok in thejune sun. and guess what? into the weekend, we don't really see a great deal changing with the weather. you'll have to wait till next week for some changes.

welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i'm steve lai. the headlines... an alliance led by india's prime minister, narendra modi, has won the general election — but his party has failed to secure a majority on its own. applause the uk general election campagain sees the first tv debate between leaders of the two main parties.

president biden imposes sweeping new measures to curb migrant arrivals at the us—mexico border. hong kong police said several people were arrested tuesday on the 35th anniversary of beijing's tiananmen square crackdown. hello, and welcome to the programme. our top story is in india — where official results from the country's general election show an alliance led by the prime minister, narendra modi, has won enough seats to form the next government. but his bjp party has failed to secure a majority on its own — winning far fewer seats than at the previous election. opposition groups led by the congress party have performed better than forecast. with the latest from delhi, here's yogita limaye. a widely—expected moment and an historic one.

it is only the second time that an indian prime minister