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psg will need a better performance this time around from kylian mbappe if they're to overturn the quarterfinal defeat in the first leg in paris. mbappe failed to hit the target from three shots — but he scored a hat—trick the last time he played in barcelona. meanwhile, german side borussia dortmund will go into their second leg match against atletico madrid with a 2—1 deficit. dortmund will be without forward sebastien haller, who has has been ruled out with a recurrence of his left ankle injury. let's take a look at all the second leg fixtures for the quarterfinals. barcelona host paris saint —germain at the nou camp. while atletico madrid are in germany to play borussia dortmund. on wednesday manchester city and real madrid will meet at the etihad. it's 3—3 from the first leg. and bayern munich host arsenal — it's 2—2 from their first leg. well, england captain harry kane scored a penalty for bayern in the first leg and he's been speaking to the media today. his first season at the german club
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will finish without a bundesliga trophy after bayer leverkusen won the title at the weekend, ending an 11—year dominance by bayern munich. for me personally it is about trying to help the team in every situation, whether it is the bundesliga or the champions league, we have a great opportunity tomorrow night in front of our supporters to keep the season alive and to keep some hope amongst the supporters that we can achieve something special, even though it has not been the greatest season. with almost 100 days to go until the games in paris, the olympic flame has been lit in athens. the ceremony took place in greece's ancient olympia, where the first olympic games were held in 776 bc. the flame was handed to the first torchbearer — gold medallist at the tokyo olympics, greek rower, stefanos douskos. it starts an international torch
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relay, travelling through greece, france, and french overseas territories, before ending at the paris olympic games. after suffering many injuries, rafael nadal will make his return to clay at the barcelona open within the next hour. the 22—time grand slam champion pulled out of this year's australian open injanuary with a hip injury, and missed atp events at indian wells and monte carlo. nadal has dropped to world number 644, and will take on italian flavio cobolli in his first match on clay since winning the french open two years ago. however, he wouldn't be drawn on whether he'd make this yea r�*s roland garros. i can't give you an injury update because the list is long... laughter i 'ust want because the list is long... laughter i just want to — because the list is long... laughter i just want to think _ because the list is long... laughter i just want to think about _ because the list is long... laughter i just want to think about what - because the list is long... laughter i just want to think about what can i i just want to think about what can happen, and i can tell you today i
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feel myself, good enough to be on court tomorrow, and that is so important and it means a lot to me to be able to play one more time here in barcelona. college basketball superstar caitlin clark has been drafted into the professional league as the first overall pick by the indiana fever. clark is the all—time leading scorer across men's and women's college basketball, racking up the most three—point shots ever in a single season — a record previously held by professional player steph curry. she entered the wnba draft after finishing her final season as a senior at iowa university. this is the most competitive league in the world, less than 144 places, so you have got to bring it every single night and i think that is what i will do and that is exactly how i lived my college career, every single game, i prepped the same way, i prepared the same way and brought the same fire and energy, and that is the biggest thing going into the
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next stage of my career. and that's all the sport for now. in the last few minutes, donald trump has returned to a court room in new york — for the second day ofjury selection in his hush—money criminal trial. he's been ordered by the judge to attend each day of the jury selection process, which began on monday, and could last all week. mr trump has also been issued with a gag order relating to aspects of the case — he had this to say to reporters before he went in. thank you very much. this is a trial that should have never been brought. it's a trial that is being looked upon and looked at all over the world. they're looking at it and analysing it. every legal pundit, every legal scholar said this trial is a disgrace. we have a trump—hating judge. we have a judge who shouldn't be on this case. he's totally conflicted. but this is a trial that
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should never happen. it should have been thrown out a long time ago. if you look atjonathan turley, andy mccarthy, all great legal scholars, there's not one that we've been able to find that said this should be a trial. i was paying a lawyer and marked it down as a legal expense. some accountant i didn't know marked it down as a legal expense. that's exactly what it was. and you get indicted over that? i should be right now in pennsylvania, in florida, in many other states, north carolina, georgia, campaigning. this is all coming from the biden white house cos the guy can't put two sentences together. he can't campaign. he's using this in order to try and win an election. and it's not working that way. it's working the opposite way. so check that out. legal expense. it's called legal expense. that's what you're
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supposed to call it. nobody�*s ever seen it. nobody has ever seen anything like it. so thank you very much for coming. i am now going to sit down. the voters understand it. all you have to do is look at the polls. this is a trial and the judge should recuse themselves. thank you very much. donald trump there arriving at court. we have a live page on the bbc website, by the way, they will be keeping that up—to—date with all of the latest developments from manhattan. the number of people out of work in the uk has risen. figures from the office for national statistics show the unemployment rate was 4.2% between december and february, up slightly in the previous three months. but the number ofjob vacancies is still high. there's been a rise in the number of people who are economically inactive, that is no longer looking for, or able to, work — and that reflects a rise
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in the number of people who are long term sick. dharshini david has the details. i would give anything to not kind of wake up every day feeling absolutely rubbish. 21—year—old chloe lives with depression, borderline personality disorder and autism. she took up work at 16 but that didn't last long. currently a student, she is concerned about a lack of understanding. they don't really understand the complexity of mental illness. it's not something that... although there are days that i can't get out of bed — days and weeks and months that i don't get out of bed in a depressive episode — there is also days and weeks and months i can't keep myself safe and going to work is dangerous for me. the number of young people like chloe getting personal independence payments from the government related to mental health disorders has tripled over eight years. but why? the pandemic definitely had a big one—off effect. we saw a real big increase in
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the prevalence of people reporting a first mental health condition. and actually, the cost of living crisis has compounded that further and there is some evidence pointing towards some causal impacts of use of smartphones leading to worse mental health. but i think it's still really not clear. but the largest increase in the number of those on disability—related benefits has been among older people who are more likely to suffer physical ailments for many reasons. ruth, who is 59, survived breast cancer only to be struck by long covid, which has left her with complex problems from asthma and fatigue to arthritis and unable to return to herjob in a supermarket. ok, this is me before i had covid and long covid. i'd like to be back there again and not have that. but you can't change things, can you? it changes how you feel about yourself, the contribution you can make to society, the contribution to the family,
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the bills and everything like that. so it's been very, very hard at times but i've had to come to terms with it. the minister here responsible for the labour market acknowledges that some have complex challenges but it is concerned things may have gone too far. the government argues that households are better supported by work rather than welfare. so its £2.5 billion back to work plan focuses on just that, via, for example, benefit reform and occupational health. but that may not suit everyone. there is a record 2.8 million people not working due to illness. over 700,000 more than before the pandemic. the public purse paid out £65 billion in benefits related to poor health last year. official projections say that could top £90 billion by 2029 — that's before the cost to households and employers. employers, the government, health and education providers all have a role to play,
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enable those like chloe and ruth to work again, but many public services may face squeezed budgets. a complex prescription is needed to keep britain working. now before we go, let's leave with this amazing footage of an extraodinary cat who is cleaning up england's streets — one piece of litter at a time. yes, that's right, this is tofu — the kitten — a stray adopted by jane sweet last year. since then she's spotted — through her security camera — the little cat repeatedly bringing random bits of rubbish home. you can see old crisp bags, cardboard containers, and even a roll of unused dog poo bags through his cat flap. nextjob — get him to drop it in the bin! hello, there. it's not been as windy today. there's still a number of showers around, mind you. if we look out in the atlantic, this is where we've got high pressure at the moment. and around that, there is some cloud coming in. we'll get some of that later tonight and into tomorrow. but ahead of that, we've still got these north to north—westerly winds. they are feeding in this
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colder air and a mixture of sunshine and showers, some of which could be heavy, had some threatening clouds already. we're going to find some heavier showers pushing into the south east of england later on in the day. these are the temperatures. so we're still below average. could make double figures, though, across the central belt, and i4 perhaps in south wales. but there will be some heavier showers as we head towards the end of the afternoon. those in the south east will move away. we'll see another band of showers pushing across northern england and wales and some further wintry showers overnight in northern scotland. but there will be some clearer skies around it as well and the winds will continue to ease down a bit, too. so it is going to be quite chilly out there with a frost more likely across the northern half of the uk. heading into tomorrow, this is the cloud that's coming in from the atlantic that's going to bring a little rain to northern ireland and eventually into wales. but elsewhere, after a fairly bright and sunny start, we'll see the cloud building up. we'll see more showers breaking out, not quite as heavy, not quite as widespread as we've seen over the past couple of days.
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but if anything, after that colder start, temperatures could be a bit lower in the afternoon, typically only ten degrees on wednesday afternoon. now, that cloud comes on that weather front there, which sinks its way southwards around the high pressure. another weather front arrives overnight into thursday morning for northern parts of the uk. but with clearer skies and light winds across england and wales, there is actually a risk of a touch of frost here. sunny start maybe, but we've got more cloud for scotland and northern ireland. some outbreaks of rain, the heavier rain over the hills of western scotland. some of that rain pushes southwards into northern england with the sunshine hanging on towards the south west with cloud elsewhere and temperatures typically around 12 degrees. now, the weather system bringing that rain is going to move very quickly southwards overnight and during friday. and then following on from that, we get the high pressure that's in the atlantic, finally building back towards the uk, and that will bring us some much—needed drier weather in time for the weekend. it could, though, bring a fair bit of cloud and it's certainly not going to be as warm
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as it was last weekend.
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live from jerusalem. this is bbc news. israel launches a diplomatic offensive, calling for mass sanctions on iran after its unprecedented drone and missile attack. iran insists it was acting in a legitimate self—defence. israel shows journalists one of the missiles fired from iran on saturday.
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its military chief of staff says the attack will not go unpunished. i'm lyse doucet, with the latest on the response to iran's weekend attack. i'm geeta guru—murthy in london with our other top stories. donald trump returns to court in new york — as jury selection for his hush money trial continues. he calls the case a disgrace. we have a judge that hates trump, a judge _ we have a judge that hates trump, a judge that _ we have a judge that hates trump, a judge that shouldn't be on this case, — judge that shouldn't be on this case, he — judge that shouldn't be on this case, he is totally conflicted. a muslim student loses a high court challenge in london against a ban on prayer rituals at school. and the house of commons debates whether smoking should be banned forfuture generations in britain.

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