welcome to sportsday, i'm hugh ferriss. our top stories... another champions trophy match, another centurion. there's been one in every game as rachin ravindra takes they're making hard choices to sort out their money problems. and the women blazing a trail in formula one. to one of their engineers. hello again. welcome along. with just eight teams, cricket's champions trophy has a brutal format.

reach the semi—finals. michael bracewell�*s four wickets helped the black caps the end of their 50 overs, and even though the chase got 112 as new zealand went on to win by five wickets. they qualify for the semi—finals alongside india. joined pakistan in heading out of the competition. he bowled out of his skin. the last few years has been amazing to watch. sort of five or six years ago, and seeing him develop is amazing and he's learning his craft so well

and gives so much depth to our spin attack. one of the best in the world, and having someone like mike to supplement him in that is great. 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 as a batting unit and, and think about different way and improve try to improve our batting. the team to boycott in response to the taliban's restrictions universal, not unilateral. team to boycott would not help. clearly, there's things

over there that are hard but cricket is such a source ofjoy for so many i think it's an opportunity to celebrate cricket, do that in this next fixture. yeah. you know, that's a job for the experts, for the higher ups and probably the icc to address, i think. forward, we play our best cricket and find ourselves points behind leaders and rivals celtic in ferguson will lead the team until the end of the season.

his first game in charge will be on wednesday against kilmarnock, with the club saying that five consecutive years of losses since 2019. spain defender laia codina says that her team has become she's been speaking after the former president he was fined by a spanish court after kissing player 2023 world cup final. of her international team—mate.

i had a difficult week. it was tough for me. but that week was done, and now i feel good, 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. now, as you've been hearing on bbc news, it is three years plight than elina svitolina. the former two—time wimbledon semi—finalist has refused to shake hands with russian or belarusian opponents since the start of the conflict.

many of her family and friends are impacted we are all people that are representing our countries. and me as ukrainian, it's incredibly tough you know, i cannot go back home and practice there. i cannot, you know, live a normal life. of my friends in the front line is extremely difficult. for me, it's just another platform to show and to remind people that the war in ukraine is still ongoing. and we need help on

every aspect of this. elina svitolina. engineer in formula one. has been to mercedes hq to speak to one of their graduate engineers. like, i tell them i work at mercedes f1 and they definitely don't assume i'm an engineer. i immediately get the questions like, "have you ever "been in the car?" or anything like that, which i have not. because it's more around the internals yeah. so i work in vehicle thermal performance so you can kind of imagine as the car is going around the track, it's getting very hot — so part of myjob isjust making sure it's not getting 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 to the paddock on the thursday before the race, which was really fun. so it was nice seeing the car and seeing 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 you found in the workplace or in pursuing your goal to be an engineer? in the workplace as an engineer is not something that should be people will self—select. they might think, for. example, formula one is quite an elite sport.

and we hear students say that all the time. | "i'm too scared to apply for it. i "i'm never going to get there." but actually, you don'tj know unless you throw yeah. "it's not for me. "i'm a woman. and as you say, that's not the case. and talent is— absolutely everywhere. and we know that diversity in terms of teams brings . creative thinking, innovation and ultimately performance. so it gives us an advantage both on and off the track. i and obviously you've made so many positive changes so far. but what would you like to see the future hold here? and what do you think the future of motorsport could look like? now — in the years to come, i'd love to see that -

and if there's a young girl watching this right now, you know, - thinking, "i would like| to do what she's doing "and i'd like to work in the f1. _ "i'd like to be at mercedes," what would you say to her? "go for it." there's never been. a better time than now there's so much support out there for you. - because you absolutely can. head to our website for more of these stories and indeed all the day's european football action, including a big win england's second tier, with leeds united going five premier league. but that's it for now. thanks for watching.

hello there. well, following that very wet start to monday morning, and i dare say there will be more for the next couple much the theme. of rain here, stretching further inland at times. southeast of england — that will clear away. lots of sunshine developing, and then, more showers — most frequent, heaviest out towards the north and the west, temperatures just a little lower than they were on monday.

let's take a look at tuesday night, because the skies will clear, it'll be feeling cold. the showers fading away, and temperatures will drop very close to freezing. so, frost developing for many of us, and then, and then, on wednesday, that band of rain will sweep could actually be across northern eastern areas temperatures slipping back again once more, pressure starting to build in from the west — and that'll keep us fine and dry for much of the rest around, as well. so you can see that sunshine

developing just about everywhere on thursday and friday for some, lasting through the weekend, as well. how cold is it going to stay by night? you can check all of the details for the place where you live on our bbc weather app. bye for now.

after three years of war — donald trump says europe must security in ukraine. mr trump says the us is best placed to broker a deal. it's tremendous distrust on both sides. that's why it's good that i'm

coming in now, but i think and yet at the united nations, america joins russia and north korea, in in voting against a resolution, the war in ukraine appears to be widening. on the third anniversary of russia's full—scale it came as emmanuel macron visited the