hello, i'm mark edwards from the bbc sport centre. coming up on our programme... the toon dining at europe's top table with atop four finish assured. newcastle qualify for the champions league with a draw at home to leicester. real madrid file a hate crime complaint after viniciusjunior is subjected to racial abuse. no more of the manx missile, mark cavendish confirms his cycling retirement at the end of the season. hello, and thanks forjoining us. i'm mark edwards, with you're your sport.

we're going to start with football, and newcastle united will play champions league football next season. eddie howe�*s side claimed the point they needed to secure a top four premier league finish with a goalless draw against relegation threatened leicester whose top flight fate is no longer in their own hands. katies gornall was at st james park. well, a little over a year and a half ago, newcastle united were relegation fodder. but the saudi—led takeover of this club has turbo—charged them and they are now back among europe's elite for the first time in 20 years. in truth there was a party atmosphere from the start here at st james�*s park. inside there was a sea of flags and banners. and you can understand why newcastle fans felt confident. they knew they needed just a point against second bottom leicester to be sure of champions league qualification. but in truth, they made really hard work of it. they dominated possession against the side, they had multiple chances, they hit the woodwork three times but leicester packed their defence.

they had most of their players barjamie vardy behind the ball for most of the game. and their game plan very nearly paid off. they could've cinched it in injury time. they forced a great save from nick pope but it finished 0—0. that point not enough to leave leicester out of the relegation zone. they now go to west ham needing victory to stand any chance of staying up. newcastle, meanwhile, they'll go to chelsea on a high trying to wrap up third place in the premier league. so as we heard in katie's piece a win at home to west ham on the final day of the season on sunday might not be enough for leicester. but for newcastle, champions league football is secured, which is a real measure of how far they've come. when we came in last year, it was a really bleak situation. the first few weeks for us were really difficult. so that's not lost on me, i remember like it was yesterday. but we went on a really, really good run and i think that helped us going into this season. confidence levels were high, and i thought we recruited really well in each window, i think that's helped us massively.

yeah, we've really kicked on. with our supporters behind us, they saw the fight there with the players and hopefully they'll get behind us. i'm sure they will be behind us. if we can go and get that win, it makes it really nervous for leeds, for everton. a draw for them won't be enough if we win. they always said that gold defence could be a difference. that's all we could do. not many people have the time of the recesses of newcastle. liverpool meanwhile have contacted the premier league's professional referees body, asking them for an explanation about two decisions which went against them in the 1—1 draw with aston villa last saturday. liverpool have asked why there was no red card for tyrone mings for a challenge on cody gakpo and also why a goal was disallowed for offside. that result dented liverpool's chances of champions league qualification. to spain now, and strong words from real madrid forward viniciusjunior, who says spain's top division la liga "belongs to racists", after he was again subjected

to abuse from the stands, this time during their 1—0 defeat at valencia. real have reported it as a hate crime. the game was paused as he tried to point out to match officials the supporters involved. he's been targeted multiple times this season but the league insist they are tackling abuse and say viniciusjunior has failed to engage with them. that, though, hasn't gone down well with the football against racism in europe network. to have made a statement like that tells us really the scale of the problems that we face because the administrators themselves, the leaders themselves don't understand what their responsibilities are and how they need to be moving forward to tackle these issues. he has received the gamut of racial abuse this season. and really it seems that nobody in spain knows how to deal with this or indeed how to make a statement that doesn't blame him. for more on this, my colleague chetan pathak got the thoughts of spanish football journalist guillem balague who says what's

happened to vinicius shows that things clearly need to change. it's not been identified in the way it should be, it's not being treated in the way it should be by both the authorities, especiallyjudges in court cases, politicians, and quite clearly by the media as well who are not taking the issue seriously enough. yes, it's an issue to be dealt with. la liga is dealing with it. some would say that things have not been sorted quickly, vinicius particularly wanted it all sorted now. but sadly, unfortunately, and you could see examples in so many other countries, this is not to be sorted in one season. certainly not one weekend, in a month, in a year. it's a constant battle, it's a daily battle and forever. but what is la liga doing? they set up a protocol that are backed by the law, by government law that allows games to be suspended if necessary. they are a big punishment.

la liga has for a long while denounced this behaviour to the competition committee and to another committee that's a mix of government and sports authorities. they also denounce every time this happens to that committee. they have taken it a step further. they have gone to a court, a civil court, so away from the sports law, to say, this is happening, do something about it. the problem starts right there. because judges have been throwing away cases, a lot of cases because they don't have enough evidence or because they don't think it's a serious enough matter. where do you think this ends for vinicius? do you see him leaving la liga or not? if you ask hin today, the answer is, yes, i want to be for away from here. that's the answer. i'm being abused here. and he's rightly so, thinking right now, i better get away because when i go to the champions league i get treated very well by the rivals.

this fans respect me and he doesn't need to provoke or react to anything because is happening. the reaction is very negative. as a consequence, the chairman of real madrid has met so, the reaction, his reaction, is very negative. as a consequence, the chairman of real madrid has met with vinicius to try to convince him that everybody is taking steps towards repairing this somehow and improving this, including real madrid taking the incidents to the prosecutor's office for the first time, i think, which is again, taking the case away from sports court to civil court to show how strong they are against this kind of behaviour. to serie a in italy now where juventus have been docked 10 points following a new investigation into the club's past transfer dealings. juve were initially handed a is—point penalty injanuary but italy's highest sporting court overturned that decision in april and ordered

the case to be re—examined. the penalty droszuventus to seventh place in serie a, outside the european qualification spots. mark cavendish says he hs has lived an absolute dream for over 25 years as a professional cyclist after announcing that he's going to retire at the end of the season. cavendish has won a world championship on the road and two on the track, but he's most famous for his 3a tour de france stage wins, a joint record with eddie merckx that he will try to break injuly. he is currently competing in the giro d'italia but come the end of the year he's looking forward to spending more time with his young family, although he sees himself staying in cycling, in some capacity. the bike has given me opportunities to see the world, meet incredible people, both involved and not involved with the sport, a lot of whom i'm proud to now call friends. it's taught me so much about life, about dedication, loyalty, companionship and teamwork, sacrifice,

humility, and perseverance — all important things, now as a father i can show my children. so family is top priority for cavendish who says cycling as his future as well. and the former olympic cycling champion chris boardman can't see him walking away from the sport completely. sheer tenacity is what makes mark cavendish special. and the amount of times we've written him off in his career where he has had illness, he had epstein—barr virus for several years, and he kept coming back. even now i'm not convinced he's going to walk off the stage. it's just been remarkable. 161 wins, 34 stage wins in the tour de france, only eddie merksx is the only ones to equal that. so many different ways you can cut this. he's a pretty special athlete. i worked on the tour de france for over 20 years we've seen every bit of mark cavendish. when he doesn't win, it doesn't go down well. i think that something that

people appreciate as well — his heart is always on his sleeve. you got whatever mark was feeling at any given moment. it made him unpredictable. it made him interesting. and i think more than anything else, he'sjust a character who was always true to himself. i don't think it's a great time for anybody to retire. itjust is what it is, to use a terrible cliche. i think at the giro d'italia, where he is now, he's immersed in the stage race and it's really hard, the weather's been poor as well. that might've brought things to a head for him. but i think the curiosity for me now is not necessarily when it happens but what next for mark cavendish? i can imagine he'll be somebody that willjust sit at home. that's all the time we've got left for now. you can get all the latest sports news at our website. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, bye—bye.

hello. our spell of fairly settled late spring weather is set to continue for another few days yet. so high pressure in charge and through the next couple of days then, things looking largely dry and fine. spells of sunshine around, the sunshine really quite strong at this time of year. we did have largely clear skies in norfolk as the sun set. had a bit more cloud elsewhere during monday evening. but as we head through into the early hours of tuesday, here's the high pressure in the atlantic that's pushing its way in just a couple of fronts at times, just pushing around the north of that area of high pressure. so there is a bit more cloud. we've got a warm front bringing more cloud to northern ireland through tuesday morning. some early brightness for the east of scotland, but it will cloud over through the day. a few splashes of light rain in the far north. for england and wales things are looking mostly dry with some sunshine. but as the cloud bubbles up, just produce a rogue

shower here and there, perhaps through parts of wales, the midlands, east england temperatures 19 or 20 degrees in the warmest spots, but a bit cooler around the east coast and under the cloud further north. but where you do see the sunshine come through, moderate to high levels of uv. so certainly another day for the sun cream, with that strong sunshine breaking through. tuesday evening, any rogue showers fading away, so it's looking dry and settled once again. another very weak front, or the remnants of an old front here, just bringing more cloud across the far northwest as we head into the early hours of wednesday. but again, most places looking frost—free with temperatures generally about five to ten degrees, could be a little bit lower than that where you do keep the clear skies. wednesday brings us another dry day with light winds. it'll probably be a little bit warmer compared to tuesday because we've got a bit of a different air mass, bit of a change in wind direction under the cloudier skies in the north, 17 or 18 degrees, but further south willl likely see 21, possibly 22 degrees through the middle part of the week. moving into the latter part of the week, then, another couple of very weak fronts moving to the north of that high pressure.

but as we move into friday, it sits right across the uk. so for thursday then another largely dry day, bit of cloud around here and there, fairly light winds and you'll probably notice those temperatures just starting to creep up by a degree or so. so, across scotland and northern ireland, 18, possibly 19 degrees, england and wales, we're looking at 20 to 23 inland, but a little bit cooler close to the coast. and it looks like the fine settled weather continues through the end of the week into the bank holiday weekend and temperatures are going to be on the up. bye— bye.

live from washington. this is bbc news, welcome to viewers on pbs in america. negotiations on the us debt ceiling continue into the night. president biden and the speaker of the house say there's still no deal, but they call their talks productive. i think the tone tonight was better than any other time we have had discussions. russian authorities say they're battling a group of �*saboteurs�* that's crossed the border into the belgorod region from ukraine. and inside russian defences — the new bbc verify service takes a look at moscow's preparation for an expected ukrainian counter—offensive.

we start tonight in washington, where talks to avoid a us