homecoming at the barcelona open. hello there, and welcome along to the programme. one thing the champions league serves up every year is guaranteed drama — and the first of this year's quarterfinals didn't disappoint. paris saint—germain went into their tie at barcelona, with a first leg deficit. but come away with a place in the semi—finals. barca extended their advantage early on, with raphinha's first half goal. the french side though, so often underachievers in this tournament, hit back after ba rca were reduced to ten men. ousmane dembele, vitinha, and two goals from kylian mbappe sealed a 4—1 win for p56 in spain and a stunning 6—4 victory on aggregate...

and psg will face dortmund in the semi—finals — after the german side came through a thriller of their own, to beat atletico madrid 4—2. dortmund also were behind from the first leg — but had the best start — julian brandt and ian maatsen with their two first half goals. the pendulum swung back the way of atletico though in the second half. they pulled level on the night — angel correa's equaliser at the time meant the spanish side were progressing. but dortmund weren't done, and with the home crowd behind them, scored the two goals necessary — marcel sabitzer with the crucial strike, to win 5—4 on aggregate. dortmund make the semifinals for the first time in 11 years. premier league sides manchester city and arsenal are on collision course for a semifinal meeting, but both have work to do in the second legs of their quarterfinals. the gunners are all square at 2—2 against bayern munich, we'll get the latest ahead of the match in germany in a moment. but we'll start with that other huge clash — at the etihad — between city and real madrid. joe lynskey reports

the last weeks of the season when manchester city inevitably hit their stride. on wednesday at the etihad, they host real madrid and they've not lost at home in europe since 2018. this is the next act of a tie that swung back and forth. the first leg last week brought extraordinary goals and finished 3—3. it's the fourth time in five years they've met in the knockouts. this time, city are the champions league team to beat top of the premier league still in the fa cup, this club dares to wonder if they could retain the treble. we are far away for that hypothetical dream. we have a lot of difficult games home and away with our opponents. we have. they have both of them. honestly, i start to sing in the treble when we beat united and if i got final last season and i said, ok, well, i want to give my way to do

something exceptional. being in contention to be there. it's incredible. but at the same time, we are here to extend this chance one more week. if we can win two travels in a row that no one did, that would be legacy. so that's definitely motivation, knowing that it's very, very difficult because as i said, in one week, we could be out of all the competitions, but we're fighting, we're fighting for it. and we're going to do everything in our power to each day be a step closer to that goal. real are eight points clear at the top of la liga. their aims for a double are led by england star jude bellingham has 20 goals for the season, but in the first leg he was kept restricted. city won last year's tie by 5—1, but bellingham still chose madrid over a move to the champions. his club need him now to show they've closed the gap. i spoke to some of the lads that played last year and how it felt and, you know, they all have kind of similar feelings about it that it wasn't nice. everyone spoke a lot about them, you know,

the treble winners, and rightly so. they're an amazing team. but i do know that we're real madrid and we're a pretty good team ourselves. we've got some brilliant players and it's an even score going into the second leg. and like i've said, we've got to be brave and come out to play. bellingham came here for occasions just like this. madrid now must find a way to stop a team in full flow. joe lynskey, bbc news. arsenal have a tough task away against bayern munich after their 2—2 draw last week. this is bayern�*s last chance of silverware this season. the bundesliga title they had won for the past 11 seasons, going to leverkusen over the weekend. but striker harry kane says his side are a different beast in europe. it's no secret here that the club set out to win the champions league every season. so there is an expectation, and i think if you look at our performances this year, there's been a different type of performance in the champions league. i feel like we've been maybe together more. we've been willing to do more on the pitch, defend defensively and in other

aspects. so yeah, it's a time to raise our game. it's a time for me and the players who have been in big situations, pressure situations, to step up and be counted now. in what could be his final year before retiring, rafa nadal enjoyed a winning start at the barcelona open — as he returned from another long—term injury. the spanish 22—time major champion, who turns 38 injune, beat the italian flavio cobolli in straight sets in their first—round match. nadal was playing for the first time since january because of a hip injury and abdominal issues. just trying to make the things the way that i really believe that we need to do the things to try to keep going even like this. i don't know anything, butjust trying to push when i really need to push if i can. so i think it's going to be a work of every day if that happens to keep discovering

what's the limit, where and how much i can push on everything, not only on the self. so let's see and just keep exploring. where is the limit today. the world snooker tour has announced the strengthening of it's partnership with saudi arabia as it continues to look to develop the sport in the middle east. as part of a new agreement, seven time world champion ronnie o'sullivan is opening his own academy in riyadh and he'll be involved in coaching aspiring young players over the next three years if you look at what china have done with their players and their youth, i think that's some if you can copy and paste that and saudi arabia can kind of develop academies where young players can go and play, create competitions, create events and take some really good coaches out there, which i want to be part of to make sure that they're getting the right type of coaching. the former wbc world heavyweight champion

deontay wilder says he has one last chance, to try and make his way back to the top. he's due to face the chinese fighter zhilei zhang injune, and if he wins that, he could finally get to face another former champ — anthonyjoshua. he's been speaking to our reporter — ade adedoyin — about that prospect and his next fight in six weeks' time. this fight is very important, you know, forfuture plans moving forward that if i don't have my business, then a lot of things could be in jeopardy, i would say. and... it's very important to me. i got a little pressure, but it's not a lot of pressure because i've been in this business for a long time. and if it's pressure, it's only because i want to succeed and i want to get to the big plans of things that's prepared for the fans to see. you know, and this is a business where either you do or you die. and you have to think that in that way in your mind

as you going in there, because you got to understand, the head is not meant to be hit in the first place. and every time we get in that ring, we risk our lives for others entertainment. you've done everything. you climb the mountain, you've been champion. you face the biggest names. you fought in the biggest arenas. is that desire? i mean, what is boxing like in terms of your priority in life? my priority is still to be unified heavyweight champion of the world. and it only take that one fight that one night. and thisjune first is going to be that night, that one fight. deontay wilder knocks his head off in the world, go crazy. and there you go again. deontay wilderis just what they wanted. and when i, when i, when they raised my hands in the sky and i look in that camera and say, i'm back, i'm back.

now we're both saying we're back. put the fight on. let's see what happens, you know? it'd be a shame if we... i always said that before. it'd be a shame that we never fought, especially in this era in time. you know, if a lot of us neverfought, it would be a damn shame. and i'm just so happy the way things are going, the road that boxing is on and how it's being promoted, how it's been done, you know? and it's just amazing feeling just to be a part of it, even if it's dealing with rivals, dealing with people who i never thought that, you know, i'll be riding with or having a being a part of, even being naming captain the other team. you know, it's all funny, but at the end of the day, i understand that we're all human. and as we grow, and grow together, we learn about each other and where we hated each other. we may learn to love each other. and i'm cool with that all the way around. yeah. let's see if that can happen. a reminder of our top story — paris saint—germain and borussia dortmund are the first sides to seal their places in the european champions league semifinals. both came back from first leg deficits — psg winning in barcelona emphatically, with kylian mbappe scoring twice.

and dortmund winning at home, to seal their spot in the semi's for the first time in 11 years. catch up with all the drama from those games, aswell as the rest of the day's sports news — from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc.com/sport. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye. hello there. tuesday was another fairly cool day, winds a little bit lighter. but we had further showers, some heavy with hail and thunder once again. next few days, it's pretty similar, it stays on the chilly side. there will be further showers or longer spells of rain, a bit of sunshine. nights will be cool. we're still in this chilly air mass, as you can see here, for wednesday. so it means things starting off rather chilly. further showers across eastern areas, and this tangle of weather fronts will bring thicker cloud and some

rain to western parts of the uk through the day. so we'll start with some showers across eastern scotland, some snow on the hills, showers, windy weather affecting the northeast of england. could be quite cold and windy for north sea coasts of yorkshire. this area of cloud and rain pushes across the hebrides, northern ireland down into parts of wales, south west england through the course of the day. in between, there will be some sunshine around, but it's going to be a cooler day, we think, temperatures 9—11 celsois for most of us, single digits along north sea coasts. the showers linger on for a while through wednesday night before it turns drier and clearer with lighter winds across england and wales. so, here it will turn quite chilly. temperatures recovering, though, in the north west as wetter and windier weather starts to move in thanks to this little area of low pressure, which will bring wet and windy weather to the northern half of the country through the day on thursday. this area of high pressure will tend to keep things drier in the south. so england and wales starting off chilly but bright, plenty of sunshine, wetter, cloudier windier weather will move across scotland, northern ireland and down

into parts of north wales, northern england, the north midlands. southern england, south wales will do pretty well with staying dry, i think, with some sunshine, lighter winds here. so temperatures around 14 celsius, but windier, wetter, cooler further north. that area of low pressure clears away gradually during the course of friday, high pressure starts to topple in, but we could start off with a few showers through central, southern and eastern areas on friday, a brisk northerly breeze affecting much of the country, particularly towards the east. lighter winds further south and west, variable clouds, some sunshine, temperatures could be up to 14—15 celsius degrees in the south. still quite cool in the north. now into the weekend, we're expecting this area of high pressure to move in. so i think it'll be turning a lot drier, but we could see quite a bit of cloud around. that depends on what we'll see with temperatures. if we see some sunshine, then we could see the high teens across some central and southern areas. if it's cloudier, it could be a bit cooler than this.

welcome to newsday. i'm steve lai, reporting live from singapore. the headlines: tensions are still high as israel weighs a wider response to iran's attack. the second day of donald trump's hush money criminal trial concludes with the selection of seven jurors. and nearly a billion people

in india prepare to head to the polls in the largest election in the world. live from our studio in singapore, this is bbc news — it's newsday. hello and welcome to the programme. it's 8am in singapore, 1am in the uk, and 3am in israel where tensions are high three days after iran's unprecedented direct attack on israel. the israeli war cabinet has met five times so far to discuss what it should do next. both sides have traded threats. israel insists iran would not get off "scot—free", while iran has warned israel that any action against iran's interests will definitely be met with a "severe, extensive and painful response". lucy williamson reports now from jerusalem. israel's prime minister is weighing up the risks of another war before he's

finished the existing one.