the defence of their title without ben stokes? it has been a night to remember for newcastle united fans. it's been 20 years since they've had a champions league match at st james park. the french champions, paris st germain were the visitors, but they were no match for the magpies who beat them. four one ben croucher was there. many of the fans here leaving stjames�*s park behind me weren't even born the last time newcastle played in the champions league. it has been 20 years in the making. it has been well worth the wait. paris saint—germain, including kylian mbappe, were simply blown away by newcastle, who led to nil by half time thanks

to goals from miguel almiron and dan burn. sean longstaff, born and raised here in the north east of england, made it three. psg did pull one back before fabian share�*s screamer rounded off a famous four one win. it was loud, it was raucous. it was everything you would expect from a european night in newcastle and with the likes of ac milan and borussia dortmund still to travel here to st james�*s park, you suspect they won't be in a rush to hurry it? and this was the scene in the newcastle dressing room after that win, the club putting the picture out on social media. well, the players of course have a game to prepare for at the weekend. i think it's fair to say there might be a few sore heads amongst the fans in the morning. well, elsewhere, there was late heartbreak for celtic, who lost two one to latvia, the winner for celtic, who lost two one

to lazio, the winner coming in the 95th minute. that makes it two defeats from two and leaves them bottom of group e. the holders, manchester city, won three one away at rb leipzig. the goals coming from phil foden, julian alvarez and jeremy doku, they topped group g and you can get all the details and reaction on the bbc sport website. the 2030 football world cup will be held across six countries in three different continents, fifa has confirmed. the decision is set to be ratified at a fifa contract congress next year with spain, portugal and morocco as the co—hosts. but the opening round of matches will be played in uruguay, argentina and paraguay to mark 100 years since the first tournament in montevideo. our sports editor dan rowan says our sports editor dan roan says fifa are bound to face questions about the impact on the environment. you're going to have the prospect of teams perhaps from europe flying thousands of miles to south america forjust one match before flying all the way back again across the atlantic back to europe for the remainder of their tournaments. and i think the optics of that are

unhelpful and certainly according to many environmental campaigners and there's been condemnation already this evening in the form of supporter groups, for example, who say that it sets the wrong example. and there's already controversy over the idea of staging a world cup in three countries. as i said in 2026, the idea of going even further with six countries and three separate continents will add to that controversy. well, that news from fifa came on the same day. the uk and republic of ireland will now bid unopposed for euro 2028 after turkey withdrew to focus on a joint bid with italy for euro �*32. in april, ten venues were selected for the uk and ireland bid, including dublin's aviva stadium, glasgow's hampden park, cardiff's principality stadium, wembley in london and belfast�*s casement park site, which is yet to be built. uefa will award the hosting of two european championships next tuesday. the liverpool manager, jurgen klopp,

wants their premier league game against tottenham to be replayed after luis diaz's goal was wrongly disallowed by the video assistant referee. the var team failed to overrule the decision when diaz was flagged offside when the game was still goalless. the referees body, the pgmol, released the audio of discussions between the match officials as they made the decision and when they realised the mistake that had been made. liverpool went on to lose 2—1. not as the manager of liverpool, so much more as a football person. i think the only that the outcome should be a replay. that's how it is. it would happen again. i think a replay would be the right thing to do. or the ref has opportunity to bring both coaches together and say, "sorry, we made a mistake, "but we consulted that liverpool scored a goal and we start from there." decisions are decisions. sometimes they go for you,

sometimes they go against you. and you know, what happened on the weekend for us as players and as a team is very disappointing and frustrating. but like i said, this past us, there's nothing we can do as players. now the game has gone. england's women's captain, leah williamson, has been presented with her 0be by prince william at windsor castle following the lionesses euro 2022 triumph. williamson has won six major trophies with arsenal and was named in the king's new year's honours list at the end of 2022, alongside her fellow teammates lucy bronze, beth mead and ellen white. both england and new zealand have suffered injury blows ahead of their cricket world cup opener on thursday with ben stokes and kane williamson set to miss the match. stokes is a doubt with a hip problem, while williamson is still working himself back from a serious knee injury. the england captain, josh butler,

says there's no need to risk stokes if he's not fully fit. just got a little niggle with his hip. so we'll obviously know more today and obviously ahead of training this evening. but it is a long tournament, so we won't take undue risk. but yeah, we'll know more a little bit later. he just got a slight niggle. any time that doesn't have kanan is obviously you know, we'd certainly be better off having him but i think from our point of view to...for him to be here, to be at the world cup is a testament to, i think, the work that he's put on over the last sort of 4—5 months to be where he is. he's obviously played a little bit of part in the last two warm up games. you know, he's been batting beautifully, which is great to see. and he was out in the field a couple of days ago. so he's progressing really nicely and fingers crossed he's on the pack sooner rather than later. now, throughout this week, we're profiling the winners of the bbc green sports awards. former major league baseball player chris dickinson has been announced as the evergreen athlete 2023.

he created the organization players for planet, through which he encourages and supports fellow high profile athletes to raise awareness of environmental impacts. chris, i want to take you back to the start. where did your interest in the environment come from? chris, i want to take you back to the start. where did your interest in the environment come from? really, it started growing up in southern california. i mean, if you want to talk about a certain place that encompasses all our failures, it's california. habitat loss, overpopulation, water pollution, air pollution. it's all here. but it wasn't until later that i really started to put the pieces together and look back and understood why my, i had team—mates on soccer teams in baseball teams that

couldn't show up to practice because of poor air quality and they had asthma. did you ever have that sort of moment of realization where you thought, actually, you know, i can see the change? i think maybe what you're talking about, the aha moment is sitting in the locker room and just kind of looking around and seeing the amount of plastic that we use in professional sports, you know, looking to the side and mean seeing a 50 gallon trash can full of single use plastic while reading an article saying that plastic stays in the environment for 1000 years. that was my aha moment. and ifelt like if i can make a change and see how we can cut down on plastic, maybe through the use of reusable water bottles, then let's do it. we're down here to clean up the beach, connect with the community, and inspire lasting change in the way that we use plastic. this is where it all starts. this beach clean up represents something bigger than baseball. let's talk a little bit about players for the planet, then. what were you trying to or hoping to achieve for that organization in the first instance? i was just hoping to just kind of be an example

and just be a beacon of support for what was happening with the environment. every day we show up to a ballpark and we have a captive audience of 40,000 fans. and that's an opportunity to for athletes to step up and be examples of best practices wearing the green shoelaces just to bring awareness to issues facing our climate. using my reusable water bottle biking to the stadium, you can make an announcement. hey, please go return your beer cup to to the front. please take your recycling. sports are so powerful. congratulations. what you're doing incredibly inspirational. really, really fortunate to talk to you. and thank you so much for your time. i appreciate it. honoured for the award. and it's great being having this chat, these meaningful chats to move progress forward. and again, i truly appreciate it. what a great example he's setting. remember, you can get all the latest sports news on the bbc sport app or from the website, but for me

and the rest of the team hello. some of you may be forgiven for thinking that summer has returned this weekend. yes, for some of you, the weather is set to get a lot warmer. but before you get there, at the moment, cloud is thickening to our west and we have rain on the way as well for quite a few. now we're starting to see rain edge into northern ireland. that's going to be turning steadier and heavier over the next few hours, but some patches of rain also for the south—west of scotland, the north—west of both england and wales. with extensive cloud around, it's a mild start to thursday morning, with temperatures into double figures widely.

but across the northern half of scotland with some clearer skies here — we're starting on a chilly note. now, through thursday, this low pressure is the system that's bringing the rain. so it's going to be quite windy. you can see some fairly tightly packed isobars there. the rain at its heaviest in the morning across northern ireland. that wetter weather then swings across scotland, northern england, wales and some damp weather too, for the midlands for a time, east anglia and southern parts of england probably staying dry until after dark with some bright spells coming through the cloud. and for many areas of the uk, temperatures are running above average. now eventually you might see a little bit of rain thursday evening trickling down across parts of southern england and east anglia, but it won't really amount to very much. 0n into friday's forecast, we've got another zone of rain pushing into western scotland. the rain now clearing further southwards as this ridge of high pressure starts to build in and that should mean that the weather becomes increasingly dry. there'll be a bit more sunshine to go around and those temperatures are creeping up — 22 in london, while the average for this time of the year

in the capital is 16 degrees. now, the process of that high pressure really starting to flex its muscles continues into the weekend. pushing the band of rain ever further northwards across scotland where it could be quite wet across northern areas of scotland on saturday. 0therwise, lots of sunshine around and those temperatures climbing, well, we could see highs of 26, maybe a 27 this weekend in the very warmest areas. certainly those temperatures are a long, long way above average. and if we look at temperatures in october — now, we often see temperatures, the highest temperatures in a month getting to the low 20s. but it's quite rare to see temperatures up to 26 or 27. that would make it one of the hotter days that we've seen in october in this country.

welcome to newsday, reporting live from singapore. i'm arunoday mukharji. let's get you the headlines: us presidentjoe biden urges political leaders to change the poisonous atmosphere in washington, after house speaker kevin mccarthy is ousted by members of his own party women to vote for the first time at a gathering of catholic bishops

from around the world in rome. at least ten people are killed after a glacial lake overflows in india. ., ., , ., in india. live from our studio in india. live from our studio in singapore. _ in india. live from our studio in singapore, this _ in india. live from our studio in singapore, this is - in india. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc - in india. live from our studio i in singapore, this is bbc news — it's newsday. welcome to the programme. we start in the us, in the us, republicans in the lower chamber of congress, the house of representatives, are already vying to become the next speaker of the house just a day after a group of hardline rebels ousted the previous incumbent, kevin mccarthy, in a historic vote. it's left the republican party in disarray and a vacuum right at the top of us government as our washington correspondent gary 0'donoghue explains. the office of speaker of the house of the united states house of representatives is hereby declared vacant.

and with that, kevin mccarthy's nine—month term as speaker