And extend their lead at the top. In the womens super league, Everton Score a cracker against Manchester City. Also coming up on sportsday. Well have all the latest at the World Athletics Indoor Championships as home Favouritejemma Reekie makes it through to the 800m final. Hello there, and welcome along to the programme. A day of drama in the football to come, but we start with formula one, and the season opening bahrain grand prix. With all the drama off the track for red bull, the team and defending champion Max Verstappen picked up where they left off last season. Verstappen leading his teammate in a dominant win. Our correspondent laura scott reports. If there is one person keen to get a grip on the narrative, it is christian horner, having spent weeks denying allegations of inappropriate behaviour, he arrived for the first race flanked by his wife and former spice girl geri horner. A display of unity in the desert amid the drama. It is light out and away we go who better to diffu
hey. good morning, ainsley, good morning, steve and brian. the president was just joking with u.k. prime minister. they have only been meeting once a month or so because they have had so many frequent meetings in the last several months. had the president really made a point of stopping here to meet with the king after missing his coronation. the two leaders are going to talk climate finance in just a little while from now. but the president will also need to justify his decision to give controversial cluster bombs to ukraine after u.k. prime minister ri rishi sunak voiced opposition to that move. while more than 120 countries banned these weapons the white house is not one of them. called russia s use of them a potential war crime they say ukraine has a right to use them on their own land and incentive to mitigate risk to its own people that committed to a post war clean-up. this is about keeping ukraine in the fight. so, we re going to send these additional artillery sh
to put to voters at the next general election. we report on ukrainian troops training on british army tanks on the eve of the first anniversary of russia s invasion radford again. what a goal! radford, the scorer. and the voice of football for five decades, john motson, has died at the age of 77. and coming up on the bbc news channel. on the future of football. good afternoon and welcome to the bbc news at one. three men have been arrested after the shooting of a police officer in northern ireland who is now said to be fighting for his life. detective chief inspectorjohn caldwell was shot multiple times in front of his son after coaching young people playing football in omagh, county tyrone. he remains in a critical condition in hospital. northern ireland s political leaders issued a joint statement condemning the callous attack. our ireland correspondent chris page has this report. john caldwell is a father who was coaching football, but gunmen shot him because he s a de