from the netherlands on the same day at the tour de france femmes. hello there, it's been a busy night across europe in the third round of champions league qualifying, 10 sides have made into the play—offs, but rangers aren't one of them. it was 1—all against dynamo kyiv after the first leg but they lost 2—nil in glasgow, and they were furious with the referee, who had sent off their brazilian wingerjefte for picking up a second yellow card, for what seemed to be a fair aerial challenge early in the second half. down to 10 men, rangers conceded twice late on. dynamo will face salzburg in the play—offs, the winner of that will go into the new 32 team league phase, in the champions league.

rangers have dropped into the europa league after what the manager described as the worst refereeing decision he has seen in more than 30 years in football. we were the team getting them better moments and the most dangerous moments, even with ten. so, this decision was was a game changer. and that's really hard for my dressing room because with one decision of one person, you take away a dream of a of whole dressing room. so that's really hard. so it's salzberg up next for dynamo kiev with a place in the main draw of the champions league up for grabs. the austrian side drew 3—3 with fc twente — to win 6—5 on aggregate. and that wasn't the only high scoring match of the night. bodo glint put four past poland's jagiellonia bialystok — to win 5—1 on aggregate, whilst qarabag scored seven on the night, 4 in extra time to beat ludogorets 8—1; overall. malmo beat paok 4—3 on the night and 6—5 on aggregate — and they'll meet sparta prague

who beat steaua bucure 4—3 on aggeragte. on wednesday night, it's the uefa super cup, last season's champions league winners real madrid face the europa league winners atalanta — with the match taking place in warsaw this year. the spanish league season starts this week, and though the real manager carlo ancelotti admits his side aren't quite up to speed yet — there is a trophy at stake. translation: we face it, as we always do. - really looking forward to it. this could be the first title of the season. it will be a very demanding season and it could be a very successful one. we want to start it well. knowing the difficulties, i've had a good look at the team. we haven't had a lot of time to train, but i think the team is ok and motivated to play a good game. bueno. notjust me, but i think

the whole squad is excited about this occasion. excited because we deserve to be here through winning the europa league final. so you know our hard work and our perseverance. it has has brought us here. so tomorrow night is another night for us to to show that, uh and to show our equality in the right moment. so yeah, excited. well, the new premier league season starts on friday and the champions manchester city will be targetting a fifth title in a row. it's now 18 months since 115 charges were brought against them for allegedly breaching the leagues financial rules. the hearing that will ultimately decide whether they face any sanctions could start as early as next month. the premier league's chief executive richard masters has been speaking to our sports editor dan roan. i've confirmed in the past that a date has been set because of the confidentiality around the process, which we observed throughout.

i can't confirm that the media speculation is correct or otherwise. i think it's important that the situation does resolve itself, and obviously when the case has been heard, there will be a decision published and all the questions that you would like me to answer will be answered as part of that or part of that process. a decision will be published and not i or anyone else at the premier league, but an independent panel of people will answer those questions for you. when you say you need it to be resolved, why? because you fear it may cast a shadow over this season if it's not resolved soon? no, ithink it is time now i think to for it to resolve itself. it's been going on for a number of years, and i think it's self—evident that the case needs to be heard and answered. and obviously we have to ask because this is what fans are interested in, for obvious reasons. but why? why the secrecy around simply the time frame? i mean, it would seem... is there no, there's no more transparency that can be achieved. i mean, we've had this in the past with various

cases and fans saying, look, why can we not have more information and you understand why they get frustrated, but explain why you can't be more open aboutjust how long it could take. well, quite simply, it's not within our rules to be able to do so. what we do is we publish charges when they are made, and we publish decisions when they are made. the bit in between is managed by an independent panel, and they're very clear that they want that process to be entirely confidential. have you ever experience any pressure from politicians to anyway go easy on manchester city because of the links with abu dhabi, a key trading partner?— manchester united kick the new season off — at home to fulham on friday night. ahead of that match, united have completed a double signing. the bayern munich defenders mattias de ligt and noussair mazraoui. the dutch centre back de lijt has signed a five year contract whilst morrocan full—back mazraoui — has signed for four, the combined fee is believed to be about £60 million,

with the de lijt somwhere in the region of a0. the england test captain ben stokes will miss the rest of the summer. he tore his hamstring playing in the hundred on sunday and is out of the series against sri lanka that starts next week. stokes hopes to return for the three—test tour of pakistan which begins in october. ollie pope will captain the side in his absence. here's our sports correspondentjoe wilson. it's been confirmed that ben stokes has torn his left hamstring. when we saw him go down clutching that part of his leg. i think we initially feared it could be his left knee. and remember he did have surgery on that knee over the winter. but that surgery, ben stokes is extensive. rehab has all been about getting him ready to play test match cricket as an all rounder, as a bowler as well as a batter. we saw that earlier in the summer and if we look back to the circumstances of his injury, as you said, there he was playing for the northern superchargers in the hundred competition and it has led to a lot of england fans, i think, questioning why would your test match captain be playing in the 100

ball franchise competition? of course, the ecb are using the hundred to try and popularise cricket and they want their star players involved in that. it is interesting and pertinent that england have withdrawn chris woakes and ollie pope from playing in the hundred. woakes, of course, will have a big role to play now as the all rounder in the sri lanka test series and ollie pope, i can confirm, will captain england for the first time in these test matches against sri lanka starting next week for the first test match in old trafford. look, i guess injuries can happen at any time. it certainly changes the dynamic of this series. stokes does hope to play test match cricket for england again in october in pakistan. well despite the setback of losing stokes, former england captain michael vaughan thinks it might actually benefit england. in a funny way, it's a good time for the team to actually try and work without ben, you know, try and see how good they are without this inspirational leader. we know he'll be back and an opportunity for someone to come through the system. we're seeing gus atkinson, we've seen shoaib bashir, we've seen

jamie smith this summer. and jordan cox is in that side for the well in the squad for the first time. so no doubt we'll see a new fresh player. and i have no question with this management group in charge of the test team, whoever they bring in, he'll do a good job. well, ahead of that test series against sri lanka — there'll be a familiar face in the opposition�*s changing room. sri lanka have appointed ian bell as their batting coach for the upcomning series. he'll begin his role on friday — with the first test starting next wednesday. bell played 118 tests for england between 2004 and 2015. james anderson might have played his last game for england but he is considering a move into white—ball franchise cricket. the 42 year retired from internationals earlier this summer as the most prolific fast bowler in test history with 70k wickets, but says he hasn't ruled out playing in shorter formats. his last t20 match was 10 years ago. two days into the tour de

france femmes, dutch cyclist charlotta khul brought up her second stage win, but she hasn't claimed the yellowjersey, that's because there were two stages on tuesday, stage three a short time trial — squeezed in at the end of the day in rotterdam — and that was won by another dutch woman. the defending champion demi vollering, she leads by 5 seconds in the general calssification as the race heads into belgium. a reminder of our top story all those european matches in third round and champions the qualifying for the second year running, glasgow rangers have been knocked out. they lost 2—0 on the night did dynamo, 5—1 on aggregate. you can get all the latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website but from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre,

goodbye. hello there. there tuesday wasn't as hot or as humid, but still with some sunshine across norfolk and suffolk before we got a few light showers, temperatures reached a very warm 29 degrees. other parts of the uk have cooled down a bit already, and it's still quite mixed through the rest of the week. there'll be some sunshine at times, but we're also going to find some spells of rain, and our weather essentially is going to be coming in from the atlantic. at the moment things have slowed down a bit and this weather front still bringing some rain early in the morning, particularly across the midlands. but a sunny start and a chilly start in scotland. some sunshine for northern ireland. it will cloud over here in the afternoon and later in the day into western scotland. but more sunshine develops across northern england, wales and the southwest.

and even though we've got more cloud, the midlands towards the southeast, that should tend to thin and break up a little bit. we will trigger a few showers in the southeast in the afternoon. it's not going to be as warm here as it was on tuesday, of course, 23 or 2a degrees and elsewhere, those temperatures very similar to what we had on tuesday. so our weather is coming in from the atlantic, and this is the next weather system to bring some wind and rain in from the north west. and it could be quite wet through much of thursday across scotland and northern ireland. this band of rain is only moving slowly into northern england and wales. it's going to be late in the day before we see some sunshine, but through the midlands, towards the southeast it may well be a dry day with more broken cloud we've got a chance for things to warm up again. temperatures could reach as high as 27 degrees, but for scotland and northern ireland, it's likely to be a cooler day on thursday. that rain is slowly moving its way southwards, and that weather front will eventually take some rain into more southern parts of england. it could hang around for a bit on friday, we're likely to find the rain

tending to move away from the southwest, but the southeast it could be a bit more of a struggle. that rain could still be around into the afternoon at least more cloud. we've got sunshine elsewhere once again until you reach the far northwest, with a bit of rain coming in here again as the breeze tends to pick up. so temperatures scotland and northern ireland 19 degrees at best. otherwise our top temperature further south 23 or 2a celsius. i think it's those sort of temperatures that we'll see over the weekend. so not a hot weekend, but it looks like a fairly decent weekend. most places will be dry with some sunshine. just a few showers, perhaps towards the northwest.

hello and welcome to newsday. these are our top stories: president biden hurps ceasefire now deal in a run could stop iran from attacking israel. doctors on strike in protest over the sexual assault and murder of a trainee doctor. all three on here. ukraine are posted holds more than 70 russian settlements. we report on the buildup of elite forces putting pressure on president bellamy a. and esprit struggles

to contain wildfires we will report from one of the worst affected areas near athens. if you were here with me you would be able to smell the ash around me. the smell of child ground. —— shard ground. —— charred. we start with the conflict in the middle east. presidentjoe biden has said a ceasefire deal in gaza could dissuade iran from launching attacks on israel. talks are due to take place on thursday, although it appears the us secretary of state antony blinken has decided not to travel to the region for now. western leaders have been trying to cool tensions after the assassination of the hamas leader ismail haniyeh in tehran. iran blamed israel for the death, but israel has neither confirmed nor denied any involvement.