can precipitation will be rain. you can see the sleet and snow further north but it will peter out, the first area of low pressure clearing into the near continent and we expect a new one to arrive, bringing troubled some areas through thursday and friday. clearer skies and if you snow showers northern scotland, it could be minus double digits across the snowfields of scotland plus cloud for the south coast. the low pressure will bring rain and as it bumps into the cold air we see significant snowfall. rain across southern england, south wales, some heavy, thundery bursts, turning regularly to snow across the northern half of wales, north wales very cold indeed. the north midlands and northern england also, very heavy over the pennines but it will be rainy closer to sea level. moving through the day the snow pushes northwards. notice how mild it is across the south, ten to 13 degrees.

much colder further north. through thursday night north wales, northern england, the pennines, southern scotland and northern ireland will get heavy snow, a widespread yellow snow warning, two to ten centimetres at lower levels, up to 15 on the hills but the amber warning across the pennines is most concerning, the peak district northwards, up to a0 centimetres expected by friday morning so plenty of disruption. heading into friday, it looks like it will clear slowly with increasing sunshine but staying cold. and that's bbc news at ten on wednesday the 8th of march. there's more analysis of the day's main stories on newsnight, which isjust getting underway on bbc two. the news continues here on bbc one as now it's time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. that is not victoria derbyshire, i hope she willjoin us soon! but from the ten team, it's goodnight.

hello, i'm mark edwards with your support. tottenham hotspur are out of this season's champions league — after a 1—0 aggregate defeat to ac milan in the last—16. it's the second competition they've been knocked out of in seven days — it finished 0—0 on a disappointing night for spurs, who didn't do much to trouble the visitor's goal and had their defender cristian romero sent off for a second yellow card on 78 minutes. harry kane, so often a hero for tottenham, had their best chance in injury time, a header which was well saved. that was as good as it got and — after an fa cup defeat to sheffield united last week and their top four status in the premier league precarious, it's been a torrid week for the north london club. it's champions league disappointment again for big spending paris saint—germain. they were beaten 2—0 by bayern munich, the german champions winning 3—0 on aggregate.

eric choupo—moting capitalised on poor psg defending for the first goal before serge gnabry added a second for bayern late on. psg were without the injured neymar but even with a front two of kylian mbappe and lionel messi, they exit the competition again, they're still waiting to win it for the first time. manchester united manager erik ten hag insists he doesn't feel let down by his players following sunday's humiliating 7—nil premier league defeat by liverpool. he backed his team to recover, starting tomorrow against real betis in the europa league last 16. ten hag says captain bruno fernandes is an "inspiration to the team" and will remain captain despite calls for him to lose the armband, but admits united must "reset and bounce back" ahead of their first leg at old trafford. i think the players reflected well.

we also know when you go in the season setbacks will always be there and it was a huge setback. when we had a run of 23 games with one loss, but of course there were a lot of lessons in it. it can help us for the future and that is what we have seen the positive out of it and the negativities were really below average especially mentally. so we have to take the lessons and we want to be a big team. we want to win trophies and so you have to act different. after sunday we got a big lessons but now we take it and move on and look forward. so that is the way we treated and now all of the energy and focus is on the next game.

it was a night of celebration for celtic manager ange postecoglou's marked his 100th game in charge with a battling comeback win over hearts to preserve their nine—point scottish premiership lead. range doing what they can to keep up with the rifles. although they did also have to come from behind. bottom of table dundee united securing a precious point away. a couple of results from the women's super league for you. women's league cup winners arsenal beat liverpool 2—0 tonight while chelsea bounced back from losing that final by beating relegation—threatened brighton 3—1. the blues remain a point behind leaders manchester united at the top of the table, with brighton second from bottom. schools in england will be required to offer girls equal access to sports, including football, and deliver a minimum of two hours of physical education per week. a substantial government package which will seek to create equal school sport opportunities for girls comes after the 23 members of england's

winning euro 2022 squad wrote an open letter to the government. 0ur reporter matt graveling has been speaking to england head coach sarina veegman and the fa's director of women's football, baroness sue campbell about the announcement and the impact they hope it will have. 0n international women's day these young footballers came together. still motivated by england's glory and the women on the pitch. and then all of a sudden some more inspiration walked right through the door. i just think when a girl starts playing football she loves the game and ijust hope she enjoys the game at all stages. whether you are going to be a top level player or going to play at any level, as long as you enjoyed the game then you are a part of the football society. lionesses�*s success on the field is now being matched off of it.

today, the government has now announced funding to ensure boy's and girl's club access to sports including football. a move after sarina weigman�*s team wrote a open letter to the government. this is a big celebration moment because this will change society especially for young girls having access to football in school. today's let girls play event saw a quarter of a million girls took part in football sessions around the country. the extra funding for schools was well received. i'm very excited because i feel like the younger generations will be able to grow up and have more equality on women and men's football. there are some the opportunities for girls to go out and we have a club. for all ages as well. currently only 67% of schools offer girls football and pe lessons with just a a0% offering girls regular extracurricular football. i think that having financial support behind women's football will create so many more opportunities.

i think it is vital as well that we put our money into creating more coaches, female coaches, because there are some of the people out there that want to do it but don't have access to it and that support behind them. schools will now be expected to provide a minimum of two hours of pe a week. i think that as a starting point. from a health perspective you want to see at least an hour day so you are talking about five hours probably. but the reality for schools is for fiting it into the curriculum and the timetable. i think what we know is that kids are physically active and do better in school so it is important that we help our teachers understand this is not sacrificing academic time this is helping to make academic time work better for them and give the better results. lewis hamilton says mercedes "didn't listen" to him over the development of their 2023 formula 1 car.

the seven—time champion finished fifth in the season—opening bahrain gp as the team made another poor start. hamilton was talking to the latest edition of bbc radio 5 live�*s chequered flag podcast. last year there were things that i told him like i have driven so many cars in my life so i know what it needs what a car does not need. and i think it is about accountability. about owning up and saying, yeah, we did not listening to you it's not where it needs to be and you will look into the balance through the corners, look at all of the weak points and just huddle up as a team. that's what we do. that's all the sport for now. you are watching bbc news.

we'll have the headlines and all the main news stories at the top of the hour — straight after this programme. guide dogs. for thousands of blind and visually impaired people, they're the difference between independence and isolation. she's my best friend, my constant companion, my means of independence. i couldn't imagine my life without rio. since 1931, around 36,000 guide dogs have been matched with visually impaired people. but during the pandemic, the breeding programme shut down overnight. the charity lost a third of its puppy—raising volunteers, and the guide dog service was paused... people like us are needed, so much, to help people like you. ..leaving more than 1,000 people waiting to be matched. it is really, really difficult not having the dog.

practically every step you're thinking, "this is impossible. i don't know how i'm doing with this." but with around 1,100 puppies now in early training, is recovery around the corner? we are hopeful for the future, but we do need a little bit of patience for a little bit longer, as these dogs make their way through the system. we visit puppies at the national breeding centre and ask what needs to be done to fix britain's guide dog shortage. archie! good boy. let's go! meet new arrival archie... good boy! are you my little star? ..and his puppy raiser, lisa. hers is one of more than 2,000 households giving their time for free to help raise guide dog puppies for around a year. it's opened up a whole new world. i've met lots of new

friends, i'm part of... i feel part of a community that i wasn't before. not only that, obviously you're doing something very good, at the end of the day. it sounds exciting, but it's a big commitment. puppies like archie live at home and often need attention around the clock. as much as it's your instant reaction, "puppy, puppy, puppy," you know, "let's go for it. a cute little puppy," you've got to remember that it's a lot of work. it's... being a puppy raiser is hard work, especially at the beginning. volunteers take their puppies with them to everyday places, from restaurants to supermarkets and on buses and trains, to help get them ready for their future working lives. at the end of the day, ijust remember i'm doing this to enable somebody who's not as fortunate as me, that can't see, to actually get some independence. archie, touch! volunteers like lisa are supported by the charity guide dogs, which works across the uk.

lovely. just keep doing exactly what you're doing, rewarding on the left there so he always knows where to come. that's absolutely fantastic. good boy. today, puppy development adviser beth has come to see how lisa and archie are getting on. so the reason that we use hand touch is so when archie is placed with a visually impaired person, obviously they can't see when he's running back, when he's coming, so they can pop out this hand as a target. these routine visits are as much about supporting lisa as they are for training archie, but these are the building blocks he'll need if he's to earn a working harness. good boy! perfect. good boy! learning through play is encouraged... ..but there are some things archie will need to quit before he finishes his training. you're going to have to learn what this is for. but he's just got such a wonderful nature. he's a heart of gold, and hejust loves people. really loves people. happy times, but every puppy raising volunteer knows that if all goes to plan,

the day will come when they have to give them back to guide dogs. later, we'll follow lisa and herfirst pup, fergall, as she hands him in for the next phase of his training. what are the emotions that are going through your head today? if i'm honest, i'd say proud. i think that's my biggest one. so proud of what i've done. really proud of him. v0|ce breaks lisa hopes that both of her dogs will go on to give someone their independence. just proud. forward, rio. forward! go on, then. i couldn't imagine my life without rio. she's so important. she's my best friend, my constant companion, my means of independence, of getting about wherever i want to go, whenever i want to go, and living the life i want to lead.

go forward. good girl. ella caulfield is a first—time guide dog user. she was matched with rio in 2018. good girl. well done. she's very open aboutjust how much she benefits from having a guide dog in her life. she gives me that independence that i do kind of need, and i crave, that i need to live the life i want...| want to lead. she's good for a cuddle at the end of an evening if i've had a bad day, and she's an excellent guide. she's very rarely led me astray. it's not a one—way street, though. ella looks after rio's needs and wants. today, she's grooming and cleaning her coat. it's one of the responsibilities ella has as a guide dog user to make sure that rio is loved, happy and well cared for. if they didn't have each other, ella says she'd never have been able to study maths at oxford university. ella started to lose her sight at four years old. when she was 15, she received some devastating news. i think because it happened

gradually, it wasn't, like, an immediate shock of "you're not going to see again". i was told i had a retinal detachment, and i definitely broke down then. i was with my dad. i can remember him hugging me and the nurses kind of bringing me a cup of water, just kind of comforting me. and then i got booked in for surgery the next day. doctors operated to see if they could save any sight they could, but those attempts failed. nothing came of it. so i've been left withjust minimal light perception in my right eye. but it's...it's not useful. i can only see light if i, like, look directly into the sun or into a light bulb. for ella, a new reality. she learnt new life skills and how to read braille. she applied for a guide dog in may 2017, and then around a year later an exciting call came. it was actually my mum picked up the call, so... i hadn't got home from school yet. my mum picked up the call. it was someone from guide dogs saying, "we've

got a match for ella." i think ijust got very giggly and very kind of... yeah, very excited. like, "yes, this is happening." ella and rio spent around five weeks training with guide dog mobility specialists. can you tell me what it felt like the first time you were guided by rio? i felt lighter. i felt like i was definitely kind of more smiley, more confident. icould... i could move freely and independently without relying on somebody else being there. like many guide dog users, ella would never want to be without a four—legged friend again. just feeling so much more confident and independent and happy that, like, i had this friend with me who was going to be there permanently with me. rio provides such a kind of welfare support to me. ella and rio are one of 3,695 partnerships currently working in the uk. that's down from around 5,000 before the pandemic. more than one in five people who had a guide dog before then now do not. i honestly think they are doing

their absolute best. like me, kelly nasir is waiting to be matched with a new guide dog. we are among more than 1,100 people on the ready—to—train list. kelly's last dog, river, retired eight months ago. her mobility has been seriously impacted. walking with a cane is like walking with one hand tied behind your back. it makes everything harder. not having the dog, that's what makes you feel disabled. because when you have the dog, you just... you get on with things. kelly keeps a busy social and work diary. she's a barrister, but also a mum. not having a dog doesn't only affect her, but her very young daughter. i'm the one who can't take her out when i want to, i have to say, "well, let's wait for daddy," or, "let's wait till we go see nanna and grandad." and i can do everything else she needs and i'm her mummy, and i love her and i'm the one

that's there when she has her nightmares, and i play with her and it doesn't impact on our relationship, but i think it impacts on how i feel about thejob i'm doing as... ..as a mum. watch the tree. so why do guide dog users like me and kelly find ourselves between dogs? puppy: puppy! the answer lies here at the charity's national breeding centre in warwickshire. bill's been explaining to me that the waiting lists are currently a bit longer than guide dogs would like them to be for life—changing guide dogs. purely for research purposes, you understand, i might have to stroke puppies like bill and many, many other puppies. is this the bestjob in the world or what? this is where a guide dog puppy'sjourney begins_ before the pandemic, as many as 1,500 dogs were bred here in a year. in 2020, the breeding programme shut down overnight when social distancing was introduced.

it was the first time in the charity's 92—year history that the guide dog service was suspended. archive: guide dogs show their paces along one - of the centre's obstacle courses. although training techniques have changed over the years, the aim to match visually impaired people with guide dogs has not. archive: and thousands of blind | people who have benefited from it will agree with her. nowadays, the charity trains more assistance dogs than anyone else around the globe. puppy! little ones like paige spend the first weeks of their life here. for them, they're just having fun... she's currently nibbling the camera at the moment. ..but staff are watching closely to see how suited they are to guide work. she's got the brains, for sure. she air kisses puppy. paige! hi, pup! are you a good puppy? yes, you are! look how cute you are! look at those big

eyes and floppy ears. you're such a good puppy! sniff it. 0k! becky and anna are paying close attention to see how paige reacts to human interaction. right... they laugh they're looking to see how she deals with problem solving. yes, she's... she's... she knows. that's a good sign because a guide dog's ability to find their way around a problem is, well, just part of the job. good girl. that's also interesting that she's... she's been to that one, smelled that one. she's like, "mm, it's not there." and she's actually worked out to go to the other one. so, in itself, that's interesting. during the pandemic, all training and breeding here stopped. guide dogs say they needed to protect their staff and volunteers. so that is our puppy reception. it is really unfortunate. 0ur breeding programme is fantastic, it's world—class and it's always been able to produce the number

of puppies that we've required to meet our service users' needs. and unfortunately, that pause in our breeding programme has really affected us. and there's been other combinations as well. bearing in mind that obviously our puppies, when they were out with our amazing puppy—raising volunteers, weren't able to experience the environments that they would experience with a guide dog owner as yourself. so unfortunately, it's been a combination of things that have meant that we haven't produced the number of guide dog partnerships that we really want to. breeding numbers are getting back to normal. in the past year, around 1,000 puppies have passed through here. we are in recovery mode and we are hopeful for the future, but we do need a little bit of patience for a little bit longer as these dogs make their way through the system. as you said, these little puppies here that we saw today, it will take about two years for them to make partnership. around 1,100 puppies are currently in early training. guide dogs says what it needs now is volunteer fosterers who can look after dogs in advanced training, dropping them off and picking them up from the charity's offices on weekdays. 0ur volunteers are our lifeblood.

guide dogs could not do what we do without our volunteers, across the board, across all of our services. and unfortunately, after the pandemic, we did lose a lot of volunteers as people wanted to have a break, being the situation, we also kind of reduced the numbers that were reapplying. so we are at the moment looking very heavily to recruit lots of volunteers, and we've been very lucky that a lot of people have been so generous with their time. come on then, sam. let's go. head. good boy! reporter: after more than eight years of working with sean, - guide dog sammy is set to retire, and sean may have to wait two years for his next dog. that was six months ago. when sammy leaves me, it will leave a huge hole in my heart. a few hours later, sammy left me to retire with family. much of my confidence and mobility left me too that day. sammy is more important to me, and you always will be, sammy. i know you'll always be my boy. a month later and it's clear

i was still in trauma. you are actually quite moved today, aren't you? you know, we... sharing my story is by far the hardest thing i've ever done in my career. the impact, though, has been huge. i would like to say to bbc breakfast viewers, thank you so much to everyone who's already applied to volunteer at guide dogs. since coverage, we've seen a peak in applications. so injanuary alone, we received almost 3,000 volunteer applications. 2,500 of those were to raise puppies, compared with 2,000 for the whole of 2019, the last pre—pandemic year. for lisa's first pup, fergall, it's the end of one journey, but the start of another. all this, i'm packing the three trays up from home. his biscuits that i always give him, half a biscuit at bedtimes. they've been together

forjust over a year. this, i've had it made and had his name put on it, and his id number. she's packing up things that she hopes will remind him of their time together. and his christmas present. i can't tell you what it is — he'll hear! sean laughs the day has come for fergall to start his advanced training. that means lisa must say a painful goodbye. hello! hi! i want him upset as little as possible. they're his toys, he's got his biscuits that he has half a one at night. i mean, if she's generous, she might like to give him one at first, because he deserves it. any time he's not with shelly, working and learning, learning what he's got to do, he'll be in there having a good rest. and then we've got some fab free—running sandpits out the back as well, so we'll show you them, where he can have his downtime and have some good sniffs. yeah. nice doggy hotel and playground, fergall.

this may be a sad time for lisa, but for fergall, a new adventure awaits. here you go, you get big boy lead now. bye—bye, sweetheart. many guide dog users stay in touch with their puppy raisers, but many do not. tearfully: thanks for that. you're welcome. i'll ring you tomorrow. lisa knows this could be the last time she sees fergall. crying: i am fine. woman: you've set me off, anyway. the one question that i get asked all the time or people say to me, all my friends, family, people i meet in the street, "i'd love to do what you're doing, but i couldn't do it, "because i couldn't give the dog back." he's ultra cute. he's a good boy. if i can do it, anybody can do it. as a guide dog user of more than 23 years, i know the theory of what volunteers like lisa go through, but being there for the moment of handover was as beautiful as it was poignant.

it's hard, but you've got to remember why you're doing it. you know, people have to help people. there's not enough of it in this world. we're needed, people like us are needed so much to help people like you. the tears are worth it. hello there. some disruptive weather on the way in the form of heavy snowfall. met office amber warning remains in force parts of northern england particularly over the pennines where we could be looking up to a0 centimetres of snow by the time we reach friday morning, all because of this area of low pressure, pretty deep system pushing

in off the atlantic, bringing a lot of rain. as that rain bumps into the cold air across central northern areas, it turns readily to snow. so we'll see that snow, heavy, persistent, the northern half of wales, the north midlands, northern england. and later in the day across parts of northern ireland, into southern scotland. it will be heavy rain though, further south, a little bit milder here, quite breezy to some. the rain quite heavy, maybe even thundery in places, double figure valleys here, but much colder. further north, however, a sunny day in store for much of scotland with a few wintry showers across the north. widespread yellow warning for snow. then for these areas, 2 to 10 centimetres, lower levels up to 15 over the hills. the amber warning covers parts of the pennines where we could see up to a0 centimetres of snow by the time we reach friday morning. take care.

welcome to newsday. reporting live from singapore, i'm karishma vaswani. the headlines... police in georgia crack down on protests, after thousands demonstrate against controversial new laws. this place outside of georgia's parliament has been the scene of so many protests over the year, but this time the government may have gone too far. an investigation into the killing of black woman breonna taylor finds a us police force indulged in routine discrimination, illegal searches and the use of excessive force.

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