48 teams 16. Asia get eight, africa get nine. All in all that is 46 places amongst the confederations, and the last two places will be decided by a play off tournament, to be decided amongst six teams. That will take place potentially in the november pre seeding the tournament year, fifa saying it could be a test event, that could be the death knell, then, perhaps, for the confederations cup. But fifa making clear that this is exactly how it wants to see the 2026 world cup divided amongst the confederations. It will now go forward to ratification in may. That would seem to be a formality, and for fifa this is the final step that has taken towards that expanded, 48 tea m has taken towards that expanded, 48 team world cup, from 2026. On their debut in the competition, manchester citys women have made it into the last four of the uefa champions league. Lucy bronze scored the only goal in thursdays second leg, to seal a 2 0 Aggregate Win over danish side fortuna hjorring, and they go on to face holders lyon in the semi finals. We wa nted we wanted to be in this competition, and the first time that we have been ina and the first time that we have been in a semi final, so i think you can see how much it means to the whole of the squad and the staff, and we worked really ha rd of the squad and the staff, and we worked really hard to get to, and we have had a heck two weeks. Have had four games have had a heck two weeks. Have had fourgames in have had a heck two weeks. Have had four games in the space of ten, 12 days, and i think the whole squad has coped with it really well. Arsene wenger says his future as arsenal manager isnt completely sorted, despite saying recently he would inform everyone of his decision very soon. The gunners recent poor form means the frenchman has come under pressure from some fans to leave. Arsenal have lost six out of their last nine games. Iam very i am very clear in my mind, but anyway, do a state two monsoon two years . My commitment will be exactly the same two months or two years. The tottenham manager, mauricio pochettino, says it would be impossible for him to ever manage barcelona. Pochettino both played for and coached barcas city rivals espanyol, and he met barcas president last week, as speculation increased that he might take over from luis enrique. But the argentine described the meeting as a coincidence. I know that it is so difficult to keep the values and to be loyal, with your hart, with your emotion, but for me, before being manager, before being player, being loyal is more important, to be honest. I am an espa nyol more important, to be honest. I am an espanyol fan. I love espanyol. And for me it would be impossible one day to move to barcelona. Impossible. The everton defender Ramiro Funes Mori is likely to miss the rest of the season, after suffering a Knee Injury Playing for argentina. Funes mori was stretchered off with a torn meniscus in the first half of argentinas world cup qualifying loss against bolivia in la paz earlier this week. The centre back is unlikely to return from the injury before the end of evertons Premier League season. Now to tennis, and Caroline Wozniacki came from a set down to beat second seed Karolina Pliskova and make herfirst miami 0pen final. Pliskova beat wozniacki in the doha final in february, and took the first set 7 5, before the 12th seeded dane won the second 6 1. Pliskova barely got a look in from then on, as wozniacki cruised through the deciding set again, winning 6 1 to book her place in saturdays final, against either three time winner Venus Williams or great britains johanna konta. 0n the atp tour, Roger Federer has fought his way into the Miami Masters semi finals with a 2 1 defeat of tomas berdych. It looked plain sailing for the 18 time grand slam champion when he won the first set 6 2, but the tenth seed turned the tables and took the second by 6 3. The third set went all the way to a nail biting tie break, Which Federer won when Berdych Double faulted on match point. He will play the winner of the quarter final between Australias Nick Kyrgios and Alexander Zverev of germany currently on court. Kyrgios won the first set, and is at match point in the second. High winds have seen the opening round of the first womens golf major of the year, the ana inspiration in california, suspended for the day. Nearly half the field still need to complete their rounds, including the defending champion and world number one lydia ko, of new zealand, who is 2 under through five holes. Winds of between 40 and 90 km h buffeted the course, as officials eventually called the players in, with play scheduled to begin again at 7 30am local time on friday, which is 1430 gmt. Before the weather hit, frances karine icher claimed the one stroke clubhouse lead, on 5 under with this birdie putt on the par three 17th, taking her into the outright lead. But shot of the day has to go to south korean amateur eunjeong seong, who struck a lovely hole in one on the fifth hole, much to her surprise, as she currently shares second place, a shot off the lead. The two time 0pen champion greg norman says rory mcilroy was right to play golf with the us President Donald Trump last month. He was widely criticised for the decision to join trump on the course, who has also played golf with tiger woods since becoming president. Meanwhile, norman has told the bbc that trump still has an impressive swing for a man his age. His flexibility, for a 70 year old quy his flexibility, for a 70 year old guy, is pretty darn good. He had the ball out there a fairly long way. He hits the ball. You are notjust being nice . No, i am not. I have played with him a few times, and with his golf swing, i am not embellishing that were just saying it. I would tell you if i thought he had a crappy swing. He gets through the ball really well. Are you surprised that rory mcilroy got the stick he got . He did get a lot of stick, because if the president asked you to play golf, you play golf at the president of the united states. I will give you an analogy. I get states. I will give you an analogy. Igeta states. I will give you an analogy. I get a phone call from the white house, and saying the president is going to be in australia, so i called bush in australia. Im nota big fan, im not a democrat, im a republican. He said let me tell you, respect the position of the president of the united states. You go play golf with the president. I said yes, sir. And so the president. I said yes, sir. And soi the president. I said yes, sir. And so i can say with complete authority within myself that i prejudged the president. I was an idiot, because it turned out to create one of the great friendships that i have, to this day. Because when i got to know him, he wasjust this day. Because when i got to know him, he was just a wonderful guy. They would be times when he would even call me up, went the whole tiger woods thing was going on, right, he would call me up and say greg, you are his neighbour. Go and talk to him, help him, help him and you go, this is pretty cool. I am getting a call. But going back to respecting the position of the president of the united states, and thats all i ask everybody out there, globally. Now to cricket, and pakistan beat west indies by three runs in the second twenty20 international in port of spain, to take a 2 0 lead in the best of four match series pakistan made a relatively modest 132 from their 20 overs, shoab malik top scoring on 28 off 20 balls including this six over deep mid wicket. In reply Marlon Samuels put on 44, but shadab khan gave another match winning performance, claiming figures of 4 14. The hosts needed a boundary off the last delivery to win, but managed just a single, with the remaining two matches to be played at the same venue. A quick update on the Miami Masters quarterfinal, kyrgios has won the opening set by 6 4, and is currently ina opening set by 6 4, and is currently in a tie break in the second set, and zverev has just taken it, so we are going to a third set in that match. I will let you know in the next 45 minutes or so. From me and the wonderful sport today team, goodbye. Hi there. It was the warmest day of the year so far yesterday, with temperatures reaching 22 degrees celsius in the east, and 72 degrees fahrenheit. It wasnt warm and sunny everywhere. Pulses of Rain Affecting North and western parts of the uk. The rain affecting this part of the country in the next 12 hours. The front very weak, though, as it goes south east. The wettest weather will always be in the north and western parts. However, wherever you are in the morning, it is going to be a mild start to the day. Temperatures around 11 12 degrees for many of us. But there will be some rain around. I think it will be a wet start to the day across South West England and wales. Fairly heavy rain. A few spots getting across the midlands and hampshire. Not amounting to much. East of this line it will probably be largely dry. The front will be very weak as it moves on later during the morning. Northern ireland, a cloudy and wet note. The rain moves through quickly. Skies will brighten up. A different story here in scotland. Heavier as the day goes by, with some strengthening winds in the north. North west england, some wet weather around lancashire and cumbria, though the rain rather patchy. Cheshire and merseyside as well. As the Weather Front goes across south east england, it will be so weak in the south east it will bring little rain. The weather will brighten up with sunshine. And there will be some sunshine for a time in Northern Ireland. Temperatures on the mild side, 22 degrees. Then, during the night time, well, low pressure will be swinging towards the south west approaches, bringing a number of showers across wales and South West England overnight. Quite a bit of cloud elsewhere. Damp for Northern Ireland in scotland. Mixed fortune this weekend. Saturday is a day of sunny spells and showers. They clear through overnight. Quite chilly. Then a fine day will follow. Sunday, the better of the two days for getting out and about. Low pressure towards South West England and wales. That is where we will see the most frequent of showers on saturday. Slow moving showers. Not much wind to push them through. If you catch one it could be around a while and a hefty downpour too. A chilly night to follow. Mist and fog to start sunday. High pressure building in, which means the weather should become nice and quiet for sunday. Similar temperatures ranging from ten in the north to 17 towards the south east. Thats your latest weather forecast. Bye for now. A very warm welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to our viewers in North America and around the globe. My names lebo diseko. Our top stories russia tried to hijack the us election through propaganda on steroids, says a democratic senator investigating alleged kremlin political meddling. Russias president Vladimir Putin ordrered a deliberate campaign carefully constructed to undermine our election. 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