hello. manchester's main man with a touch of magic in madrid. de bruyne grabs a draw for city in the champions league semi—final first leg with real. a huge moment in athletics, as the first man is charged with supplying performance enhancing drugs to athletes, including the banned nigerian sprinter blessing okagbare. and controversy at the madrid open — allegations of sexist ball girl outfits and the silencing of women's finalists.

hello and thanks forjoining us. here's your latest sports news. only one place to start, really — in spain, where the champions league semi—final between real madrid and manchester city is delicately poised after an entertaining first—leg tie. it finished 1—1 at the bernabeu, and our reporter olly foster was watching in the spanish capital. all square it is, then, as the two sides head to manchester next week for the second leg. it's manchester city who'll be by far the happier of the two sides, coming back to earn a draw. in this first leg, they started really brightly here at the bernabeu stadium, forcing thibaut courtois, the real keeper, into a couple of fine saves. early on, erling haaland had a couple of those chances, but for the most part they kept haaland quiet, some fantastic defending from real. and it was real that took the lead, viniciusjunior with an absolutely rasping

effort from just outside the area that had ederson beaten all ends up. they led 1—0 going into the break and they could have had more — chances in the second half. but it was kevin de bruyne who got the equaliser, a fantastic strike from him, a rasping effort that beat courtois, and 1—1 it finished. ederson actually kept city in the game with a fantastic save from tchouameni very, very late on. i caught up with some of the manchester city supporters as they left the stadium. they were delighted. semi—final of the champions league at the bernabeu. you're going to have a tough time and they came through it. i thought they were great coming here and getting the draw, and then go back to the etihad. nice and tidy. yeah, yeah. i think that's us in pole position. we would have took that at the start. . slightly disappointed, but it's all to play for. so a lot of smiling city faces in the end, but perhaps city should have taken more of those chances, even though they were very happy

with the draw at the end. amazingly, pep guardiola made no substitutions this evening. how will he approach the second leg next week at the etihad stadium? with so much at stake, a place in the champions league final in istanbul next month. meanwhile, ac milan and inter milan are preparing for their monumental derby in the second champions league semi—final on wednesday. the two clubs share the same ground, but ac milan are technically the home team for this leg. but they do have an injury concern ahead of the match. star forward rafael leao trained separately earlier, as he recovers from a thigh injury which he picked up in saturday's serie a win against lazio. translation: we are talking about champions league, - and unlike our performance in other tournaments, we played without ups and downs. we all want to conquer this tie before we can contest a final game in the champions league,

something i don't think any of us has done. so, the motivation and willingness and determination, and the ambition is set to maximum without a doubt. we know we are playing in the semi—finals of the champions league tomorrow. this is the derby, not a derby. we are not hiding the importance this match has for us, and for the fans and the club. we want to face it in the best way possible. now to a potentially huge row brewing in tennis as organisers of the madrid open have been accused of sexism after giving their ball girls revealing outfits to wear. the short skirts were then swapped for long shorts during the men's singles final, following widespread criticism. it hasn't been the only controversial issue, with some female players unhappy about scheduling times and claims they were stopped from giving speeches. women's doubles runner—up coco gauff tweeted:

meanwhile, ladies doubles champion viktoria azarenka said it was "hard to explain" to her young son leo why she was not able to address him in a victory speech, while the world number seven ons jabeur said it was "sad and unacceptable" the players were not allowed to speak when all finalists in the singles and the men's doubles addressed the crowd after their matches. now, in a case that's been described as a watershed moment, an american could face up to ten years in prison after pleading guilty to supplying performance—enhancing drugs to olympic athletes. eric lira is the first defendant to be charged under a new us law introduced following russia's state—backed olympic doping scandals. our sports news correspondent alex capstick explains. well, the rodchenkov act is named after grigory rodchenkov. he was the insider who uncovered the whistle—blower in the huge doping scandal in russia.

he helped uncover that, and it now allows the fbi to go after the people who help the cheats, the athletes�* entourages. and in this case, eric lira is accused of assisting or handing banned performance enhancing drugs to athletes like blessing. she's the former olympic silver medalist who was dramatically withdrawn from the tokyo olympics ahead of her 100 metres semi—final. eric lara admitted his guilt in the case. eric lira admitted his guilt in the case. he's a doctor based in texas and he is going to be sentenced to jail, and it could be as many as ten years. this case has been described as a landmark judgment, because it's never been used before. this is the first time a member of an athlete's entourage

has been found guilty using the rodchenkov act, because previously it wasn't a crime, certainly in the us, to give athletes performance enhancing drugs. to cricket, and a wash—out in the opening one—day international between ireland and bangladesh saw south africa pip ireland to the final automatic world cup spot. tuesday's match was abandoned due to rain with ireland on 65—3 after 16.3 overs, chasing 2a7 to win. ireland needed to win this odi series 3—0 to retain hope of securing world cup qualification via this route. bangladesh have already qualified. there are potential problems for england ahead of this summer's ashes series. fast bowlerjofra archer has returned home early from the indian premier league just five weeks before the series gets under way. the 28—year—old has been struggling with a long—term elbow injury, making just five appearances for mumbai indians this year. archer has had surgery on the area five times in the past two years, and the ecb say he will have a "period of rest and rehabilitation". well, archer's team—mates were in action on tuesday, and moved up to third

in the table after beating the royal challengers bangalore. the indians were set 200 to win from their 20 overs, and led by suryakumar yadav, who made 83, they chased their target down with 21 balls to spare. the plans worked for the most part. we were sloppy at times, so a few things to improve on, and we can hopefully turn those 200 scores into 180 or 185, which never seems to be enough out here. we are always striving to get better, but tonight, especially with that partnership, to restrict them to 200 i thought was a good effort. british gymnastics says it has doubled its spending on welfare and safe sport to about £1 million a year as part of its plans to reform the sport. the plan follows the damning whyte review, which detailed "systemic" issues of physical and emotional abuse in gymnastics, as well as some incidents of sexual abuse. british gymnastics has made a commitment to publish names of banned coaches,

but six months into its reforms it is still to do so, although it's understood to be close. norway's andreas leknessund has moved into the overall lead at the giro d'italia. that's despite being beaten to the line by france's aurelien paret—peintre in stage four. paret—peintre made a late attack with 150m remaining to win the i75km ride from venosa to lago laceno in four hours, 16 minutes, four seconds. leknessund, meanwhile, isjust the second norwegian to hold the leader's pinkjersey, after knut knudsen in 1981. nfl legend jj watt says he's got a long—term commitment to burnley football club — the english championship team that he's invested in. watt�*s been getting to know the locals over the past few days after announcing that he and his footballer wife kealia had bought a stake in the club. watt carried the championship trophy onto the field on monday and says he wants to work closely with the fans. the history and tradition

and the supporters, it's all about respecting and honouring that. you don't want to come in and do something that's not true to who the club is, and who the people of burnley are. i think that's the thing we are most trying to do — show people what real burnley is about. i did a pub crawl on my way to the stadium, i worked my way up to turf moor, just want to earn the trust of the supporters. and finally, how about this for perseverance — cambodian runner bou samnang managed to complete the women's 5,000 metres at the southeast asian games in dreadful conditions. she was still out on the track almost six minutes after the winner from vietnam had crossed the finish line when the heavens opened. the home crowd in phnom penh cheering her on right to the end, as she then broke down in tears, finishing in last place, but her gritty performance one of the highlights of the first day of competition. you can get all the latest sports news at our website. but from me and the rest

of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye. hello. if, like me, you're a fan of a big cloudscape, tuesday was a day of delight across the uk as we saw towering thunder clouds developing across our skies. northamptonshire, tuesday afternoon, worcester, and the clouds were delivering this bolt of lightning, caught on camera late afternoon. in the next few days, more photo ops as well. there'll be some beautiful sunshine for a time for many of us, but then we can anticipate some heavy and thundery showers also developing. a few showers close to the east coast first thing on wednesday. for many, a lot of early sunshine, low pressure swirling around to the north west, though, will mean showers even early on for scotland and northern ireland. but it's some of these

home—grown ones across eastern england as we warm up the atmosphere with the sunshine come wednesday afternoon, that will produce, i think, the most dramatic scenes. temperatures up to 18 degrees, of course, coming down as the showers develop. they are likely to be accompanied by thunder, hail, lightning and some quite gusty winds at times. and then that low pressure centre just swirls its way south across the uk through thursday. some more organised bands of showers wrapped around it. but also, again, once the sun comes out, we'lljust warm up the quite unstable atmosphere just a little bit more, and pop off some showers. well, a possibility just about anywhere. the difference for thursday, slightly lighter winds. so that will slow down how quickly the showers move across us and could mean some of us see some significantly higher rainfall totals. that low, though, does sink away south for friday. so by friday, it looks like many of us will be under this big area of high pressure and see some quieter dry weather. i can't promise you that much sunshine necessarily, though, because a northeasterly wind is likely to drag in quite

a lot of low cloud from the north sea, quite gloomy along many of the north sea coasts. and we've still got the low quite close by on the continent. so i think the chance of some showers across southern england from time to time. northwestern areas faring best in terms of any sunshine. into saturday, and the high pressure tries to hang on in there. but it looks like we'll start to see this area of low pressure, particularly as we get into the second half of the weekend, trying to advance some weather fronts in from the northwest. so i think the driest and brightest of the two days this coming weekend will be saturday. sunday starting off with sunshine for many, but look out for some rain as the day plays out.

live from washington, this is bbc news. welcome to viewers on pbs in america. a us jury finds former president donald trump sexually abused magazine writer ejean carroll. a standoff in washington with no signs of a deal as the us rapidly approaches default. and ukraine marks �*europe day�* with a showing of eu solidarity. we'll speak to ukraine's ambassador to the us on what comes next. hello, i'm sumi somaskanda. we start in new york, where a jury has found that donald trump sexually abused former magazine columnist ejean carroll, and then defamed her by branding her a liar.

carroll had accused trump of raping her