hello there and welcome along to the programme. the start of an action—packed week in the premier league to come. but first, to the history—making exploits of wales, who've qualified for a major women's football tournament for the first time. they managed to come through a nervy contest against the republic of ireland, in dublin, winning the match 2—1, but it was so close towards the end. the victory sending them through to next year's women's european championship in switzerland. jo currie was there, on a night that will go down in welsh history. this night will live long in the memory of the welsh fans. when they finally come down from the ceiling, they can look forward to major tournament football in the summer for the first time. wales weathered the earlier pressure from the republic of ireland and when the referee awarded a penalty it was coolly dispatched. carriejones doubled their lead with a pinpoint finish and at that point the dream of wales was very much on.

ireland gave themselves some life in the quickest reaction close range took it back to 2—1 but any comeback was too late. the full—time whistle confirming wales is placed next summer's euro, theirfirst ever major tournament. some of the players had waited a lifetime for this moment and they won't have to wait long to find out about who they will face in switzerland with the drawer set for the euros december 16. so a huge night for rhian wilkinson's side — their biggest victory in their history. and for the players, the experience will live long in the memory. honestly, i've got no words. there's nothing that will ever compare to this feeling. you can see what it means to everyone. i was crying when i scored. i'm not going to lie, i was a bag of nerves. but this is what dreams are made of.

it was heartache for scotland, though. thy failed to reach next summer's finals as they lost 2—0 to finland. goals from natalia kuikka and nea lehtola in helsinki ended scotland's hopes of qualifying for their first major tournament in six years after the first leg had finished goalless. it was always going to be tough for northern ireland — 4—0 down from the first leg against norway, and beaten 3—0 in oslo. caroline graham hansen scored her 50th goal for norway for their comprehensive victory as they progress, and northern ireland fall short in making a second straight european championship. here's a check on the other results. the other four teams that will be making the journey to switzerland next year are portugal, poland, sweden and belgium. much more reaction on the bbc sport website and app. the defending champions england were in action on tuesday in a friendly against next year's hosts, switzerland. it was routine, a 1—0 win, with their opponents missing several key players. still, the match at bramall lane proving a good opportunity for sarina wiegman to try out new players, with 21—year—old what did serena say

to you after the game? she just said well done, enjoy the moment, that was about it. how much confidence does this give you going forward what happened tonight? yes, gives me loads of confidence ijust want to keep pushing, trying to get into the squad and get into the team, yes. well done. thank you. let's turn our attentions to the premier league now, and the best possible start for ruud van nistelrooy — his first game in charge at leicester finished with a good win against west ham, who perhaps might have their own managerial dilemmas to come. van nistelrooy said he was astonished at the interest in him, following his unbeaten spell, at the helm at manchester united. jamie vardy, bilal el khannous and a late patson daka goal helped them to a 3—1 win over the hammers. the foxes move up to 15th. but the pressure is piling on the inconsistent hammers,

with just one win in the last five. we knew it was a big one for us. the result was one that matters, i have also seen the game, and you know, west ham was dominant, had so many chances, so many shots. but i think our fighting spirit, our togetherness, got us through the game, and we were very effective in scoring ourselves. a great night, in the end. very frustrated but in the same way, i can say nothing today to the behaviour of the players, they fight until the end, they did a lot of things to score, in many ways. so 0k, is not easy to explain football sometimes, today is one of those days, if we had this kind of performance they are going

to gain a lot of wins. the crystal palace captain marc guehi could be in trouble with the fa for again wearing a captain's armband carrying a religious message. the words "jesus loves you" were added to the armband he wore during the game at ipswich, which was issued by the premier league as part of their lgbtq+ rainbow laces campaign. the fa had already given the england defender and his club a formal reminder of their rules banning religious messaging on kit after he wore a similar band at the weekend. guehi has spoken in the past about his devout christian beliefs. we spoke about it, i speak to mark quite often, he is my captain. he's no child, who's 15, is a person like everyone else, his opinion and we accept and respect every opinion. this is the quote of this campaign. this, being tolerant and mark is very tolerant.

everything is fine. in the match, a big win for palace. jean phillipe mateta with a lovely finish with what proved to be the winner, his first since late october. palace now, just one loss in the last six, as they look to finally put some good form together. chelsea are away at bottom club southampton on wednesday. their manager enzo maresca says his club can "dominate" the premier league in the next five to 10 years. maresca has repeatedly played down his team's title chances this season, despite chelsea being third in the table, and level on points and goal difference with mikel arteta's challengers arsenal. they still trail league leaders liverpool by 9 points. chelsea in the next five or ten years will dominate english football. the good thing is that i still think what i said to the owners and the sporting directors the first time i met them, because of the age, and how good the squad is, because of the age, because of the squad, you can dominate

english football. i still think exactly the same. a petition calling for an end to advertising and sponsorship in football featuring gambling has been handed into number 10 downing street. campaign group the big step claims 126,000 people have signed the petition following recent research that found the number of betting adverts during the opening weekend of the premier league season almost trebled compared to last year. premier league coverage was analysed in the uk across tv, including pitchside hoardings and shirt logos, as well as radio and social media. the premier league is banning gambling sponsorship from the front of shirts from the end of next season. the double olympic champion remco evenepoel has undergone surgery on his collarbone after sustaining rib, shoulder blade and hand fractures in a bike crash during a training ride. if the operation is successful, evenepoel is expected leave hospital on wednesday and have a period of 2 weeks rest, after which a plan to return to training can be made. it's been reported that evenepoel crashed into an open door of a postal vehicle while he was on a ride in his home country of belgium. britain's daniel dubois will defend his world heavyweight title against former championjoseph parker in saudi arabia on the 22nd

of february. 27—year—old dubois sensationally beat former two—time world champion anthonyjoshua inside five rounds in september at wembley stadium, in his first defence of his ibf belt. new zealand's parker, who's five years dubois senior, held the wbo title between 2016 and 2018 before losing it tojoshua. tiger woods has had to pull out of playing in the tournament he hosts in the bahamas this week. and admits after back surgery, he's hoping 2025 will see yet another comeback from injury. but the 48—year—old winner of 15 majors said today said he's disappointed and not physically ready to compete at this level. plus, he doesn't know when he'll return to competitive golf. i am just progressively trying to test it, keep making progress, without setting it off. i don't want to have any setbacks. just want to keep making progress.

give myself the best chance of going to next year as possible. ifeel like i'm getting stronger, i'm getting more pliable. but, i have a long way to go to compete against these guys. interesting to see how his injury comeback goes. a reminder of our top story before we go. history for wales women — who qualify for a first ever major tournament after winning their playoff with republic of ireland to make next year's women's euros. they held on to win 2—1, in dublin, in a night of high drama, and much emotion for both sides. wales were 2 up in the match, but held on to claim a famous victory that will live long in the memory. norway, sweden, finland, portugal, and poland are also through. you can get all the

latest sports news at from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website. that's bbc.com/sport. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc see you again next time. hello there. wednesday promises to be another fairly settled day, with some sunshine around, albeit on the cool side, but we'll start to see some changes later on wednesday, and as we push towards the end of the week, it'll turn milder, but that's because we'll start to see wet and windy weather spreading off the atlantic from the south west. colder weather, though, will return by the end of the weekend, and that colder theme will last into the new week. now, we've had this weather front spreading across northern areas, clearer skies behind it. that will allow temperatures to dip, so there is an ice risk across some central and northern parts of the uk to start wednesday. plenty of sunshine around, a bit of cloud and fog for the midlands, into wales, that should tend to break up. later in the day, though, it'll start to turn milder, wetter and windier out west, with gales developing

for the hebrides, so the best of the sunshine will tend to be through central and eastern areas through the afternoon. it's here where we'll see the lowest temperatures. it will be turning milder, with the wet and windy weather, out west, you can see there, into double figures. that wet and windy weather spreads across all areas, as we move through wednesday night, with gales, even severe gales, developing in northwest scotland, up to 70 mph winds here, but it will be ushering in some milder air, certainly for england and wales, into double figures by the end of the night. further north, though, something a little bit cooler. so that cluster of weather fronts, strong winds, pushes through. we see a window of fine weather to start thursday, before the next weather system moves in during the day. so we will start with some sunshine across the country, but it won't last. as we head into the afternoon, we'll start to see the next batch of wet and windy weather pushing into northern and western areas. some heavy bursts of rain, as you can see there, across scotland, northern ireland, maybe northern england, and again,

it'll be windy. but a mild day to come, with temperatures in double figures, for most, for thursday afternoon. so that moves through during thursday night, wet and windy weather. then we're in a run of north—westerly winds. it'll be quite cool, i think, feeding in some showers, mainly into northern and western parts of scotland. there will be a wintry element to them over the higher ground. it will turn cloudier, further south and east, and we look to the south west, this deepening area of low pressure, which is likely to bring a spell of very windy and wet weather to england and wales, later on friday, and into the start of saturday. so that wet, very windy weather eventually clears away on saturday from southern areas, and then it'll be colder on sunday and beyond, with strong, northerly winds. take care.

live from singapore, this is bbc news. political chaos in south korea — the president officially lifts martial law, after ordering itjust hours earlier. a sixth straight night of prists in georgia, as the court rejects an opposition appeal to overturn the results of the october election. 0ctober election. and — a special report on the israeli soldiers refusing to serve in gaza — they say they've seen evidence of ethnic cleansing by the idf.

a very warm welcome to newsday. i'm sumi somaskanda. it's 1:00pm in seoul, after a night of political chaos. calls are growing for south korea's president to step down, after he attempted to impose martial law. politicians rushed to parliament and voted to block the move, before mr yoon dramatically withdrew the order. the leader of president yoon�*s own party, the ruling people power party, says the president and the entire cabinet should resign, and that the defence minister should be sacked. the largest labour union says it's planning to go on strike until he leaves. no signs of that yet, but senior aides — including his chief of

staff — have offered