never lost more than three in a row during his whole managerial career. but on tuesday his city side have a chance to turn it around against feyenoord at the etihad and guardiola has been defending his players from suggestions they've lost their edge. of course you can drop. name me one team in the world who cannot drop a little bit after being beyond exceptionalfor many, many years. i want to defend what you have done, because i know these guys, i have maybe never blamed one player here. i had to tell them the reality, they are not stupid, but i'm not here to see the reason why is this theirs. there are a lot of factors. i will be able to make a diagnosis, the reason why it is this reason, i will take it. i will take it immediately, but it is not about that. it is not

as simple as that. the run of five defeats for manchester city includes one in the champions league. that was against sporting, who are arsenal's opponents tonight. the portuguese side sit second in the 36—team table after the now departed ruben amorim helped them win three out of their four games so far, while arsenal were able to end a run of three straight defeats at the weekend. but they have work to do in the champions league, sitting in 12th. and in their last four away matches in europe mikel arteta's side have failed to win or even score. we have to improve it. i think we haven't made the right steps and looking back, the way we played against inter, so dominant in the league and the champions league final, that they should have won. and play and dominate the game as we should have done. but the reality is actually we have to make it happen and we didn't. i am making those steps and that is what we had to do next, be ruthless, be much more efficient in the position box and when we get there can

actually do what we have to do to take the three points away from them. elsewhere on tuesday, the competition's surprise team so far brest have their toughest challenge to date. they're playing barcelona with striker robert lewandowski looking to become only the third player to reach 100 champions league goals after cristiano ronaldo and lionel messi. and not many would have thought that bayern munich against psg involves two teams that go into the game 17th and 25th in the 36 team table. og anunoby scored a career—high a0 points to help the new york knicks inflict on the denver nuggets at 145 to 118 defeat their head coach called embarrassing. the knicks led by as many as 30 in the fourth quarter as they registered their fifth win in six games. meanwhile, the defending champions boston celtics have the man nicknamed the unicorn back on the court. kristaps porzingis missed the opening 17 games of the season as he recovered from ankle surgery. but this was for three

of his 16 points in boston's 126—91; win over the la clippers. a victory built on a 51—point second quarter and their sixth in a row. honestly, i felt better—than—expected. obviously, the first wind is pretty crazy, lungs burning, legs burning, everything, but after that, legs burning, everything, but afterthat, it legs burning, everything, but after that, it was decent and just normal, even on a couple of laps, both of them i had that tally crazy, didn't get off at all. but it was good to be back out there. much more on our _ good to be back out there. much more on our website, _ good to be back out there. much more on our website, including previews of all the nine champions league matches to come injersey. that is it, back to you. let's recap the situation in beirut. we have

seen huge plumes of smoke rising from the skyline, here's a picture of the beirut skyline. the israeli army saying it had carried out ten simultaneous strikes after 20 warnings issued by it. around the suburbs of beirut, one witness describing it as a ring of fire. a quote from a hezbollah mp, saying it is really seeking revenge within ten strikes before truth. the truth that the mp is referring to is a possibility of a 62 cessation of fighting which will be under discussion by the edgerley cabinet —— 60 day cessation. the meeting starting very shortly in jerusalem. cessation. the meeting starting very shortly injerusalem. we are told benjamin netanyahu, the as willie prime minister, has agreed in principle to the pores are —— the israeli prime minister.

the uk government has announced its plans to tackle the number of people not in work ortraining. economic inactivity has soared since the pandemic in contrast to other developed countries. areas with the highest levels of joblessness will get extra health support. there will also be an expansion of mental health support and efforts to tackle obesity. here's the work and pensions secretary liz kendall a short time ago. this white paper starts to turn the corner on the last 1a years, putting forward the real reforms we need to get more people into work and on at work to give young people the very best start in life, and to ensure our employment and social security system understand this fundamental issue — that a healthy nation and a healthy economy are two sides of the same coin. this is how we get britain working again. it's how we get britain growing again. and i commend this

statement to the house. let's speak to peter cheese, ceo of the chartered institute for personal development. thank you very much forjoining us. i want to get to broad view, first of all, and what sort of impact you think these plans will have on economic inactivity. i plans will have on economic inactivity-— inactivity. i think they could have a very _ inactivity. i think they could have a very positive - inactivity. i think they could | have a very positive impact. many of the issues being discussed and the government is seeking to address have been with us for a long time. it is clear we do need to increase employment rates. we have a lot of people who are inactive and not seeking work, and there are a variety of reasons for that, but the combination of better support for health, mental health, occupational health, and support is a very key component linked together with better careers advice and guidance and support, reinvigorating job centres, some of the ideas around what coaches and so forth, and routes into work, particularly

to support young people. it is the combination of different areas that have been discussed is so important in driving our opportunity for people to have good, meaningfulwork which opportunity for people to have good, meaningful work which is also supportive of their wellbeing.— also supportive of their wellbeina. ., ., ., , wellbeing. you mentioned 'ob centres there, i wellbeing. you mentioned 'ob centres there, overhauling]- wellbeing. you mentioned job | centres there, overhauling job centres, one of the key parts of these plans. do you think thatis of these plans. do you think that is the right focus? i think it is a very important focus. we can see from the capd's focus. we can see from the capd�*s own research and we have talked to members up and down the country that there has been a significant drop—off in recent years on how employers regard job centres as a source of future employees. the idea is therefore to bring together the currentjob centre system with the national careers service and great career support hubs with were coaches is really important. i think if we can combine to local environments, because we need to set a national policy, but a lot will be executed locally,

we will have job centres with good support and connected to local education, particularly further education, which needs more investment, and employers, i think we can really start to address some of the concerns that have clearly been raised and around for a long time. in and around for a long time. in terms of the youth guarantee that has been talked about and part of a focus on young people, just explain your understanding of that and what you think of the guarantee. the youth guarantee idea is to guarantee _ youth guarantee idea is to guarantee young - youth guarantee idea is to guarantee young people l youth guarantee idea : tr: guarantee young people between the ages of 18 and 21 the opportunities to work or have apprenticeships or education. that is a good thing i think. there has been some discussion about how the government might even enforce that and in other ways saying if you do not take up ways saying if you do not take up some of the opportunities, you might lose out on your benefits. the important thing is to help young people. we know that the non—educated in

to training —— not in education or training to training —— not in education ortraining group to training —— not in education or training group has increased in young people in recent years and more young people saying they found it difficult to get into work. we also need to work with employers, an important part of what we do at the capd to encourage employers to take on young people, —— cipd. changes are there to the apprenticeship levy, which we have as to be changed, moving at a more flexible system that supports a broader growth of skills is an important part of this to encourage employers to take on young people and invest in them appropriately.— in them appropriately. peter cheese, in them appropriately. peter cheese. good _ in them appropriately. peter cheese, good to _ in them appropriately. peter cheese, good to speak- in them appropriately. peter cheese, good to speak to i in them appropriately. peter l cheese, good to speak to you, ceo of the chartered institute for personal development. around 100 flood warnings remain in place across the uk today, as the after—affects of storm bert are still being felt. flooding has caused major disruption to homes, roads and rail networks

and more rain is expected to fall on already saturated ground. our correspondent nicky schiller is in northampton in the east midlands for us. i am in an area that is still under a red severe alert, and you can see behind me if i get out of the way, you can see that there's a car that got stuck in the flood waters there, and there are other people who are trying to get into this pub and carvery, butjust past where this car is in that water, the water is actually up to your knees. it is so deep here at the moment. and billing aquadrome which you may have seen the pictures, is a caravan park which had around 1000 people staying there that has been completely evacuated, and from the air those pictures look like the caravans are floating in the water. i was talking to some of the people who were staying in the pub that you can see here, and they were saying that this area, annita, that you can see behind me

was like a river last night. and in the pub itself, they had to go up to the first floor thank you for watching us. matthew amroliwala is next here on bbc news. hello. the weather's been behaving itself today, at least for most of us. quite pleasant out there with clear weather. just a few showers here and there. but on the satellite picture, another lump of cloud is heading our way. this is a developing area of low pressure and it will be responsible for a period of heavy rain tonight across southern parts of the uk and the winds could become quite gusty in one or two areas as well. but this is what the rush hour looks like. largely clear, with just a few showers across the bulk of the uk, but that weather front rearing its head there in the southwest, initially quite heavy in southwestern england, southern parts of wales too. and then that rain will spread further towards the east through the course of the night

and the showers becoming very heavy along that southern coast. so a relatively mild night here with the rain and the increasing winds. to the north, a touch of frost around northern ireland, the lake district and also scotland. so, here's that area of low pressure over us tomorrow, with the cloud and the rain curling into the centre of the low. so it's actually coming back again into parts of lincolnshire, the midlands, the peak district, could even be a little bit of wintriness across the hills, but around coastal areas as that low pressure pulls away, winds up to near gale force for norfolk, suffolk and also around the essex and kent coast. so i think the risk of very strong winds, which was there yesterday, has actually diminished. for most of us on wednesday the weather's looking pretty decent but chilly. look at that. clear skies for belfast and 5 celsius, about that for newcastle and also liverpool. now, on thursday we've got an area of high pressure over

us early in the morning. this is what's cold a transient high, so it doesn't stick around for very long. it's between two areas of low pressure. and when we have this area of high pressure over us, this transient high, we get light winds, a frost in the morning, a bit of fog here and there. so i think a calm start to the day for many of us on thursday with some sunshine if you haven't got the fog but out towards the west, weather fronts are looming, making only very slow progress across ireland during the course of the day on thursday. and for many of us, it's actually quite a chilly day on thursday, only around four, maybe five celsius. now, the outlook suggests cloud with some rain at times the further north you are, whereas further south i think high pressure will generally be the main influence with dry weather.

live from london, this is bbc news. israel hits beirut with a wave of attacks as their security cabinet starts meeting to discuss a ceasefire deal with hezbollah. we will be getting the latest from our correspondents in

beirut and jerusalem. five people have been found alive and four bodies have been recovered after a tourist boat sank, off egypt's red sea coast. ukraine says russia has launched a record number of drone strikes, damaging critical infrastructure across the country. let's start in lebanon where there've been a series of huge israeli airstrikes that despite all the attention and build up, about whether a ceasfire will be agreed in the next few hours. we'll have more on the diplomatic moves in a moment but let me show you the pictures from beirut — the skyline peppered with multiple plumes of smoke. the israeli military gave evacuartion warnings shortly before the attacks.