welcome to sportsday, i'm hugh ferriss. our top stories... money problems. and the women blazing a trail in formula one. ahead of the new season, we'll be at mercedes speaking to one of their engineers. hello again. with just eight teams, cricket's champions trophy has a brutal format. just ask the hosts pakistan, who have already been knocked out of the tournament just six

days into it. reach the semi—finals. bowl their opponents out forjust 236 before the end of their 50 overs, and even though the chase got off to a shaky start, as opener will young and then from bangladesh's seamers, it was rachin ravindra who hit those two will meet in their final game to decide who goes through the group winners, while bangladesh joined pakistan in heading out of the competition. sort of five or six years ago, and seeing him develop and seeing him be so consistent

as he is recently is amazing i said a lot of time that we need to improve a lot as a batting unit, but we did same mistake over and over. so we have to really, really focus on how we want to improve our batting. as a batting unit and, and think about different on women's rights in the country. universal, not unilateral. team to boycott would not help. i don't see that boycotting this game is going to make her any sort of positive impact.

to hear and read up on. people and for a number of people within afghanistan. i think it's an opportunity to celebrate cricket, give some hope, give some joy, and hopefully the two teams can do that in this next fixture. yeah. from our point of view, we're playing the game and we've got to make sure that we put our best foot forward, we play our best cricket and find ourselves on the right side of the result. points behind leaders and rivals celtic in ferguson will lead the team until the end of the season. players in neil mccann, billy dodds and allan mcgregor.

his first game in charge will be on wednesday costs, saying that hard choices are necessary. that they aim to return to profitability after five consecutive years of losses since 2019. she's been speaking after the former president of the country's football federation, luis rubiales, was he was fined by a spanish court after kissing player 2023 world cup final. and codina testified as part of the case in support of her international team—mate.

that was a difficult week. obviously personal. i think that in arsenal, all my team—mates they could yeah, a feeling of everything again. always supporting jenni and always supporting my team—mates and the women. and i don't feel that it affects right now in the team, we don't speak about that, because it's something that we cannot control. so why to speak about that? now, as you've been hearing on bbc news, it is three years plight than elina svitolina. the start of the conflict.

many of her family and friends are impacted ifeel like this is really a principle because you cannot separate things. to live a normal life. you know, i cannot go back home and practice there. of my friends in the front line is extremely difficult. so it cannot be just business as usual. and we need help on

every aspect of this. engineer in formula one. to many, especially women, but that is gradually changing. graduate engineers. people quite often don't believe me or, like, i tell them i work at mercedes f1 and they definitely don't "been in the car?" or anything like that, which i have not. talk to me a bit about what you do do then, because it's more around the internals of the car, right? yeah. so i work in vehicle thermal performance so you can kind of imagine as the car is going around too hot and it doesn't become

a reliability issue. what has been your highlight so far? so i got to go to silverstone, so i got to go down which was really fun. i sit at a desk a lot of the time doing my work, kind of what i've done and where i actually ended up. in terms of any hiccups, have you had any barriers that to be an engineer? i think before starting, it seems very scary emphasised too much, because it kind of makes it scarier than it actually is. people will self—select. they might think, for example, formula one is quite an elite sport.

"it's not for people like me." your hat in the ring. yeah. it's not for me. oh, english isn't my first language. it's not for me. i'm a woman. absolutely not. we want the best talent from wherever it is. and talent is absolutely everywhere. creative thinking, innovation and ultimately performance. so it gives us an advantage both on and off the track. could look like? now — in the years to come, i'd love to see that spread across the team. so for the young people

coming into the team, that it is possible to be in that role. and if there's "and i'd like to work in the f1. what would you say to her? go for it. there's never been a better time than now to go into engineering. there's so much support out there for you. and that's it for now. head to our website with more of these stories and indeed all the day's european football action, including a big win points clear in the race for next season's premier league. but that's it for now. thanks for watching. bye— bye. hello there.

a day of sunshine and showers. and i dare say there will be more for the next couple of days, because sunshine and showers remains very much the theme. it's also feeling colder now, with some frosty nights to be expected — particularly for the middle to the end of the week, when it will turn fine and dry. the south coast of england, bringing cloud and outbreaks of rain here, stretching further inland at times. here, it's a milder start to the morning — southeast of england — that will clear away. some of them wintry over the tops of the hills. weather, some sunshine

in between the showers. very close to freezing. so, frost developing for many of us, and then, band of rain, cloud, stronger winds starts to push in. and then, on wednesday, that band of rain will sweep could actually be across northern eastern areas of scotland, as we head through wednesday. as we head through wednesday night and into thursday. pressure starting to build in from the west — of the week, and there will be a lot of sunshine around, as well.

everywhere on thursday and friday for some, you can check all of the details for the place bye for now.

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