here's susan powell. good evening to you. a good—looking day for much of the uk and many ended with scenes like this of some late sunshine, but a bit more stubborn cloud across eastern england. but for all of us more cloud is waiting in the wind to coming through the west overnight, and low pressure takes hold from the atlantic, picking up the wins and ushering the rain into the rest of the uk by the end of the night, but a mild night because of the strengthening wind and temperatures at the high—end of single figures. brighter and drier to start tomorrow gci’oss brighter and drier to start tomorrow across eastern england but rain moves across eastern england but rain m oves a cross across eastern england but rain moves across from the west as the day pans out and there will be heavy bursts coming from the south in the afternoon. it does look like it should get brighter for wales and northern england, but look out for sharper bursts of rain across scotla nd sharper bursts of rain across scotland and northern ireland and a cooler feel as the weather system pulls east. there is a little bump

to the south of the big area of low pressure dominating the weather and thatis pressure dominating the weather and that is a little ridge of high pressure that for thursday brings us a breather. thursday should bring a lot of dry weather to a good share of the uk, some showers across eastern scotland and heavy showers in the west later on but in the sunshine, a little on the cool side, 13, 14, 15 sunshine, a little on the cool side, 13, 1a, 15 degrees but it is this big area of low pressure that dominates till the end of the week and into the weekend and there is a question over which centre will develop which is giving us a forecast headache. on friday looks like it could be the centre of the south the uk that could get very deep bringing potentially stormy conditions to southern britain, even severe gales and the south coast looking very exposed and some heavy and persistent rain. further north, we might escape with a few showers and it will still be gusty but comparatively lighter winds. for the weekend, the low looks like it might go further north and even the playing field and then the weekend looks wet and windy and feeling cool across the across looks wet and windy and feeling cool across the board. that's all from

the bbc news. time for the news where you are. hello, and welcome to sportsday. i'm holly hamilton. coming up on tonight's programme, britain's involvement in the french open singles is over as heather watson becomes the sixth brit to crash out of the tournament in the first round. time is ticking for england's lower league sides with pressure mounting on the premier league and the government to provide financial support. and educating essex. a muslim player sprayed with alcohol during celebrations with the club admitting it fell short of their values.

hello and welcome to tonight's programme. well the rain at roland garros may have felt suitably british but as far as the singles competition goes, that's the only british element left. heather watson was the last one standing today she too was beaten in her opening round by france's fiona ferro the sixth brit knocked out in three days. patrick gearey rounds up the action. paris has become a cold and lonely city for the british after repeated french exit, only heather watson remained at the party against fiona pharaoh, she was guiding drop shots. dodging raindrops. but there was under the peril in the air. —— fiona

ferro. ferro powered back preparing the early break and then the tie—break wrestling the set from watson's grass. for now ferro must imagine the appreciative crowd. watson rate several paces before her —— pull her opponent, has failed to win... she fizzled. ferro since her chance in the game, showing me the second round here once before and advance towards it after with sleep. there will be no brits there for the first time in seven years. game, set, match from a chipper chip over and for britain, the french open is already close. —— championship over. patrick gearey, bbc news. better news for world number one novak djokovic. he took the first set six love against his opponent and the next two also went his way, 6—2, 6-3, but next two also went his way, 6—2, 6—3, but his swedish opponent did

manage a rather impressive hotdog winning the point by playing the ball right through his legs. that is better than a win, isn't it? our tennis correspondent russell fuller is in paris. another disappointing day for brits, does this just show that when andy murray and johanna konta go out there isn't a great deal of depth behind them? now, we have had success from elsewhere from carol evans to reach the semi—finals of the screen open in the last two years and dan evans has made progress to the second week of the grandson but at this particular french open, they were found shirts. not only the first time since the french open of 2013 that we have had no british singles players in the second round of the grand sampler with the exception of cameron norrie at the us open a few weeks ago no one else manage to reach the third run in any of the three grand slams this year. it is been disappointing and each has an

individual story to tell of course, ido individual story to tell of course, i do not think you can look at a systematic problem when you analyse one year's grand slam results. johanna konta over performed last year but she has on before the summer year but she has on before the summer in and dan evans has had a good year on the atp tour when they have been possible but is something to make his mark on the grand slams in the way he would've liked to. speaking of mickey's miikka novak djokovic sailing without much, but he had not met he had a fantastic tween 19 wind atp finals at the end of the year. it is not been an easy year as it has not been easier for many. he is hanging in there against the spaniard winning the third set 6-1 but the spaniard winning the third set 6—1 but still trails by two sets to one. this after andre rupe with the russian who beat him in hamburg at the atp final came from two sets and five having to dan to beat the

american and the deciding set. you can american and the deciding set. you ca n follow american and the deciding set. you can follow all the action and website. but for now russell foer thank you for your time as always. —— russell fuller. the bleak financial situation facing lower league clubs in england has been laid bare this afternoon... with growing pressure on the premier league to provide major financial support. they met today to discuss the situtation with talks described as "measured." earlier i spoke to financial football expert kieran maguire and asked him is time running out? the only way the lower league sides can survive if they have financial assistance from a source. whether that should be from the premier league, from the government, or perhaps even the betting industry which makes an awful lot of money out of football and needs football itself in order to be profitable has yet to be decided. but the majority of the clubs in both the efl and the national week were losing money prior to covid—19 and what is

happened over the course of recent months has made things worse. —— the national league. we talk about the government providing help and the premier league providing help, neither of them seem to think it is theirjob so who does it come down to? if it is acceptable for fans to watch matches and pumps, then surely it should be except will for them to attend matches where they would be outside, where there would be social distancing and the pilot schemes have proven to be successful. if we ta ke have proven to be successful. if we take a look at the government's eat out scheme that took place recently, that was a welcome boost in the arm to the hospitality sector. the cost of providing financial support to football would be significantly lower than what we've seen in respect of the hospitality industry. you can see with the premier league is coming from at the same time too, a lot of pressure on them that they are having meetings to discuss what they can do but there is pressure on them as well right now. yes, the premier league made about £680

million from the sale of tickets in 2018-19, so that million from the sale of tickets in 2018—19, so that is likely to be disappearing for this season. we have also seen the loss of money from the chinese tea d deal and other rebates to mont —— demand by broadcasting partners as well. so while they have lost a lot of money, they have high overhead and not necessarily any cash to distribute more to the efl and the national league clubs. with premier league u nfortu nately, league clubs. with premier league unfortunately, i don't think it has the cash itself. even if it wanted to help whether it has the capacity to help whether it has the capacity to do that, it has to be called into question. a grim picture. just to give you an idea of how much lower league teams are struggling england's fifth tier of football the national league has yet to make a decision on whether they can even begin their season this weekend. w=ith no fans allowed in at the moment, is it financially viable? well aldershot captain jamie sendles white has been discussing this he says the clubs are both desperate to start playing but they desperately

need financial help. my my contract obviously is related to when the season starts. i think that goes for a lot of other players in this league. financially we need it to start and the clubs do as well. they need the season to start so we can get into place and get finances into place for the rest of the season. into place for the rest of the season. i feel that the into place for the rest of the season. ifeel that the premier league is in their own bubble. they are1 million miles away league is in their own bubble. they are 1 million miles away from where we are and i don't think that they realise the financial situation of a watch of clubs lower down the leagues might be in —— a lot of clu bs leagues might be in —— a lot of clubs lower down the weeks. i don't know how much more that puts words about something so small would be a health to clubs down in that league level. an agreement has been reached around fan attendance at this weekend's fa cup second round qualifying fixtures.

in a nutshell, they've said only home fans can be admitted to ties where a "non elite" club hosts an "elite" club. it's caused some confusion, as our football reporter simon stone explains. fans will be allowed but not the fans of the national league teams. so, that means those non—league clubs who have to organise that have basically got to make sure that only the home fans this has caused a bit of incredulity across sections of the non—league fraternity. one of the clubs in position, put out a tweet this afternoon saying... because their current affairs understands the difference between step two and step three fans, they are going to have to not to allow their fans into the game. it was a bit of sarcasm

there summing up what many cubs are feeling in a very complicated situation. thanks for simon to try to clear that up for us. just a few more football lines to update you with today. macclesfield town have been expelled from the national league, 13 days after they were wound up by the high court. the club had been due to begin their season against bromley on saturday. liverpool's thiago alcantara has tested positive for covid—19 and is self—isolating. thiago was signed for £20 million from bayern munich made his debut in the side's 2—0 win at chelsea last week. ryan fraser and ryan porteous have been named in a 26—man scotland squad for the euro 2020 play—off semi—final against israel at hampden next week. newcastle united winger fraser returns after missing out last month due to a lack of match fitness. spurs goalkeeping coach nuno santos has been fined £8,000 and banned from the touchline for one match for "improper conduct" during spurs' one one draw

with newcastle on sunday. an fa spokesperson said he used "abusive and/or insulting language" towards a match official. it's a busy week for tottenham sandwiched between two premier league fixtures, they've got a europa league playoff on thursday and tonight's carabao cup game against rivals chelsea. spurs boss jose mourniho isn't happy. he says the efl hasn't given them a chance to compete in the competition. as you know and forgetting the past thursday, we played on a sunday, now we play on tuesday, thursday, and then we play on sunday again. and i think sonny was just the first. more will come. meanwhile, chelsea's two latest summer signings, edouard mendy

and ben chilwell, will both be in the squad for the game tonight. but manager frank lampard maintains the arrival of goalkeeper mendy, doesn't mean the end for kepa, the man who currently wears the gloves. i won't go to the point of him playing his last game chelsea. i think it is difficult time for kepa, i know it and he knows it. we will notjump to that conclusion and also i think he felt quite strongly about it in the last week and is also understanding that kepa is a young man and that a lot of the spotlight on him has become slightly unfair. that matches at 7:45pm this evening. essex cricket club have had to respond to accusations of cultural insensitivity after one of their muslim players had alcohol poured over his head during celebrations after their bob willis trophy victory on sunday. batsman feroze khushi is on the left here will buttleman pouring beer over him. in similar situations, england's world cup victory for example.

other players have waited for muslims moeen ali and adil rashid to step away before spraying champagne. essex put out a statement earlier phone short of apologising but they have said... all week on bbc news, we are highlighting racism in football through the stories of people working in the game. today, we will be hearing from emile heskey, the former england and liverpool striker. heskey, who recently accepted a role with leicester city's women's team, experienced racial abuse at club