good evening, i'm tulsen toilet and this is your sports news where we start with football and tottenham were beaten 1—0 in the first leg of their champions league round of 16 tie against ac milan tonight. brahim diaz scored the only goal of the game at the san siro, as the spaniard reacted quickest following an excellent save from fraser forster in the tottenham goal. spurs�* best chance came when son heung min was put through one—on—one with the goalkeeper, only to have his shot saved and then see harry kane hit the bar, before the linesman raised his flag for offside. the second leg will take place

at the tottenham hotspur stadium on the 8th of march. in the night's other game, bayern munich were 1—0 winners at paris saint germain. kingsley coman�*s second half strike proving to be the difference on the night. bayern had benjamin pavard sent off in injury time. in the premier league it's first versus second tomorrow night as arsenal host champions manchester city — and the game has been billed as the biggest of the season so far. the game has been dogged by controversy in the build up with the gunners on the wrong end of a controversial decision against brentford on saturday, but mikel arteta, who was the city assistant manager previously, knows the challenge they face. what they have done in the last six years, they absolutely merited. they merited on the pitch and the way they play, the way they have competed, the way they have gone through difficulties. and for us, the challenge is to get to that level. and we need to use that challenge and that energy.

this is where we want to be. manchester city manager pep guardiola has refused to rule erling haaland out of the clash. the league's top scorer remains a doubt for the trip to the emirates after being substituted at half—time following a knock in the victory over aston villa on sunday. training, right now i don't know. yesterday was a recovery from the game. that's all. yeah, we have to try to read the game are going to play, were going to be a big battle. in any departments and you have to be ready. in the championship, promotion chasing burnley were denied a club record eleventh consecutive win after being held to a 1—1 draw at home to watford. the away side took the lead throuthoao pedro after a mix up in the burnley defence. it looked like vincent kompany�*s men were heading for their first home defeat of the season before michael obafemi struck a 95th minute equaliser. burnley stay top and are now 18

points clear of third placed middlesbrough. coventry city put a dent in millwall�*s play—off hopes and boosted their own with a 1—0 victory. victor yokarash scored the only goal of the game in the second half. stuart broad has been recalled to the england side for the first test against new zealand which starts on thursday in mount maunganui. the fast bowler missed the 3—nil test series win against pakistan in december because he was on paternity leave. it means broad and james anderson will get the chance to eclipse australian greats shane warne and glenn mcgrath as the most prolific bowling partnership in test history this week. ollie robinsonjoins the pair in the pace attack for the day—night opening match of the two—test series. defending champions australia have beaten bangladesh by eight wickets in their women's t20 world cup group game in south africa. captain nigar sultana joty top scored with 57 for bangladesh as they finished their 20 overs on 107 for seven, ash gardener hit the winning runs as the favourites

cruised to victory. australia have won their first two matches, but bangladesh have lost both theirs. it was an eventful afternoon for ronnie o'sullivan at the welsh open snooker in llandudno. the tip of his cue came off twice in his match against scotland's ross muir. he was then penalised for not hitting a red at the third time of asking, being forced to concede the frame as a result. o'sullivan came through the decider though to book his place in the third round with the 11—3 win. i said to the guy afterwords, if it comes off once more i have tojust pull out because i can't keep changing my tip every five or six shots. it's not fair on the opponent or the crowd. so, it stayed on and we have to wait and see. it never happened to me before.

meanwhile, there was a big shock earlier as the two time champion neil robertson crashed out. the australian failed to get on the board as he lost by four frames to nil to welshman dominic dale. anotherformer winner — china's ding junhui has also been knocked out. that's all the sport for now.

this is bbc news. we'll have the headlines and all the main news stories straight after this programme. hello and welcome to newswatch, with me, samira ahmed.

coming up — what can viewers expect now thatjournalists will be able to report on what happens in family courts? and do we need to be told what the phrase "cabinet reshuffle" actually means? first, the number of people killed in monday's earthquakes in turkey and syria has been rising all week with compelling and distressing images of the destruction caused shown on television. one of the first on the scene was the bbc�*s middle east correspondent anna foster, who reported on monday's news at ten using just her mobile phone from the town of osmaniye, 80 miles from the epicentre. wherever you look in this city, you can see where shopfronts have collapsed, there is broken glass and, of course, there is darkness, complete darkness everywhere — apart from the light of the mobile phone that you can see me by — and this is the scene that has been replicated across southern turkey.

lighting there came courtesy of a taxi driver named berkan, via his mobile phone, and anna foster later tweeted these pictures of the two of them at work. broadcasting in those conditions is a considerable challenge and viewers expressed their admiration, including jules 0, who posted this: but in the days following, there were criticisms of some of the bbc�*s coverage, particularly a report on wednesday's evening news bulletins which — despite a warning of harrowing images to come from the presenter beforehand — upset janet georghiou:

janet cra btree agreed: we discussed last week a review into the bbc�*s economics coverage, one of whose findings was that many viewers find the output "incomprehensible", and some of the terminology used "mystifying". simpler language and more explanation appear to be the answer, and notjust in the area of economics — but some members of the audience think that can be taken too far. take these lines seen on the bbc news website on tuesday:

clive couzens read that, and this was his reaction. i'm wondering what the bbc thinks of its audience, whether they think we have any intelligence at all. in recent days, reporters on the website — on the news website, have felt it necessary to explain that the cabinet is "rishi sunak�*s group of most senior ministers" and that inflation is "the rate at which prices are rising". given that inflation has been in the news daily for several months now, is it really necessary? where will this end? will they soon be telling us that apples are a crispy, green fruit, for example? please, give us some credit for some modicum of intelligence. one of the moves in that government reshuffle was the appointment of lee anderson to the post of deputy chairman of the conservative party. here are two political correspondents, nick eardley and ben wright, talking

about mr anderson on thursday. anyone who works around here would tell you that lee anderson is no stranger to controversy. he has said several controversial things, from criticising the users of food banks — as you heard there — to remarks about the england football team taking the knee. references like those to "controversy" and the description of mr anderson as "controversial" caught the attention of tina stowell, a conservative peer who chairs the communications committee in the house of lords and used to work at the bbc. she tweeted: but russ jones thought that was:

controversial or not, in an interview on wednesday on bbc radio nottinghamshire, lee anderson tried to turn the tables on presenter verity cowley. there is a worry by some that you might be a bit dishonest. no, not really. i mean, have you ever told a lie, verity? but we're not here to talk about me, we're here to talk about you. no, no, no, no — iasked the question, have you ever told a lie? the mp asked the presenter ten times if she'd ever told a lie and ended by asking for the whole ten—minute interview to be played in full as he said he didn't trust the bbc to cut it down fairly, or else not to be played at all. radio nottingham did run the whole interview, which also appeared on the bbc website, to the approval of andy brockman:

overnight on sunday, the bbc news channel reported on the grammys, the music industry's annual awards ceremony in los angeles. here's a headline they ran in one of their half—hour bulletins in the small hours of monday morning. and beyonce�*s big night — she gets ever closer to winning the most grammy awards of all time. that picture, of course, was not of the singer beyonce but the actress viola davis, another award winner that night. this isn't the first time the bbc has mixed up two famous people of colour, and mary anderson commented: bbc news posted this statement:

now, the uk has always been much slower than the united states in opening up its legal process tojournalists and camera crews. things are changing, though, with limited filming in crown courts permitted since 2020, as it is in the supreme court and the court of appeal. and last week saw the start of a pilot scheme, whereby some reporting will be allowed of what happens in family courts — a part of the justice system which involves at least 500,000 people a year. one of the journalists who's going to be taking advantage of the new scheme is the bbc�*s sanchia berg, who's been reporting extensively on the family courts over her career, and shejoins me now. thank you so much for coming on newswatch, sanchia. why is it so important forjournalists to report from family courts? well, judges say that we no longer

have the death penalty in england and wales, the family courts retain the most drastic powers of any court because they can take action to separate a child forever from its birth family, from its parents through adoption. they can also make a serious impact on family lives by taking children away, putting them into care, and they also make these critical decisions in what are called private law cases, where parents are separating, they cannot agree on where the children should go and the court will decide where they go. so, as you said, they involve hundreds of thousands of people every year but, until now, reporters haven't been allowed in, so there has been very little scrutiny. occasionally, very exceptionally, we've been able to report cases. but this pilot in three court centres — leeds, cardiff and carlisle — should allow us to follow cases in an entirely different way. and of course, the other big thing about these family courts and care cases, particularly, is there have been a number of really high—profile awful child deaths that have hit the headlines —

i'm thinking about star hobson, for example, and arthur labinjo—hughes, and child protection is something that we should be able, through this pilot, to see much more closely. and a couple of the authorities involved in those cases, some of the highest profile child deaths, are actually in this pilot. so, will there be stories you haven't really been able to report before that you might now have access to? yes, and what it means is that we can actually follow these cases step by step, we can report what happens in court, we have access to the evidence gathered by social workers — the reasons why they say the children should be taken into care. we can talk to families, we can describe what happens in court. all of these are new and they are just in these three pilot centres. will audio or cameras be allowed in at all to record anything? no, not at all, not at all. this is still, in some ways,

a very closed environment, so we are the only people in addition to the families, the local authorities, the children's guardian from the court advisory service cafcass who will be in the court. if participants know that reporters are there, might it somehow distort the legal process? well you would think that's a possibility, and unfortunately, we haven't done a controlled experiment with this and spent time in these courts beforehand to judge whether it's different but certainly, when it comes to disturbing the normal process of the court, it doesn't seem like our presence has had that kind of impact. we know that there won't be any audio orfilming in these family courts but generally, is the legal system opening up to broadcasters? certainly. there is now the broadcasting of sentencing in criminal cases, which is quite significant, and there are certain other steps that the courts have been taking to try to make it easier

for the press to do their work. i think certainly within the judiciary, there is a sense that openjustice is a really important principle — thatjustice has to be seen to be done as well as being done. but, as i'm sure you've discussed on this programme, the other side of the coin is that a lot of media organisations lack the staff, lack the resources to send in court reporters, no matter how much thejudiciary might like to see them in there. sanchia berg, thank you so much. thank you for all your comments this week. if you want to share your opinions about what you see or hear on bbc news on tv, radio, online and social media, e—mail us. or you can find us on twitter. you can call us. and do have a look at previous interviews on our website. that's all from us. we'll be back to hear your thoughts about bbc news coverage

again next week. goodbye. hello. well, tuesday was officially the warmest day of the year so far. temperatures reached around 16—17 celsius in mid—wales. it wasn't quite so mild everywhere else. and then the rest of the week — a change on the way. more cloud but it will remain on the mild side. now, here's the outlook for wednesday. the weather map. and you can see a weather front crossing the country and that's because high pressure is slipping away to the east and it's giving way to these weather systems off the atlantic. so through wednesday, the weather front sweeps across the uk, only very slowly, but because the high pressure is still close by, this weather front is basically going to be dried out by the high pressure here, so very little rain reaching the midlands and the south—east. you can see through the course of the evening, as that weather front reaches london, kent and sussex, there's hardly

any rainfall at all, but it won't be long before the next area of cloud and rain sweeps in. it won't be too heavy, though. now, with all of this cloud and the outbreaks of rain, it won't be cold at all. in fact, early on thursday morning, generally speaking, it's well above freezing across most of the uk, bar the north of scotland. so here's thursday's weather map and you can see another weather system moving across the country. within it, there's actually mild air, this is subtropical air to the south of us, colder north atlantic air to the north, so this is what it looks like then on thursday. here's the weather front — cloudy, occasional outbreaks of rain, sometimes a bit of drizzle here and there. the north of scotland is in the colder air so, here, temperatures will be into single figures. but further south, midlands southwards, it'll be round about 13—14 celsius. and then friday. batten down the hatches, particularly northern parts of the uk. there's a risk of gales and they could be gusting 60—70mph on exposed coasts. so here's that low pressure, then, early in the morning but swiftly, come the afternoon, it should move out into the north sea and then another low pressure comes in behind it.

so this is the early morning — really very strong winds, particularly across scotland, but a risk of gales further south too. certainly east of the pennines, it could be very gusty. i don't think it's going to be a gale force in the south, but certainly breezy enough. with that, it's still relatively mild. this is again subtropical air. temperatures around 1a in the south, but a little bit colder in the north. the next low pressure arrives on saturday, so you get the picture. it is going to be quite a changeable weekend, with low pressure systems moving off the atlantic, but in the south, we keep that mild source of air from the southern climes, so it's never going to get cold. but in the north of scotland, particularly across the hills and the mountains, it could be cold enough for a little bit of sleet and snow. you can see a change in the wind direction there, it's coming in more from the north, so those temperatures will dip little bit, particularly in the northern isles, around six celsius. in the south, still around 13—111, so above the average for the time of year, which is closer to around 8—9 across central parts of the uk.

now, sunday, it does look as though things will settle down, high pressure will build and temperatures will hover around about 10—12 celsius, so maybe a shade cooler. ok, let's have a look at the outlook further ahead, and high pressure still dominating the weather across the south of the country, briefly we'll see incursions of weather systems in the north of scotland, but on the whole, i think into next week it does look as though high pressure will start to build once again across the uk. you can actually see that in the outlook — that unsettled spell end of the week into the weekend, and then again drier by the time we get to tuesday. bye— bye.

welcome to newsday — reporting live from singapore — i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines. as the number of dead exceeds forty—thousand in turkey and syria — more aid's promised for the surviors of last week's earthquakes. and so that un aid can be delivered to syria — two more border crossings have now been approved for use. nato members meet to discuss more weapons for ukraine — with concerns kyiv is using them faster than they can be supplied. republican nikki haley enters the us 2024 presidential race in a challenge to donald trump.