on her knee injury but will she be ok for the world cup? also coming up on sportsday. a huge scalp taken in the world snooker championship seven time winner ronnie o sullivan is out. we ll show you how belgian luca brecel beat him. plus, emma raducanu is out the madrid open and it could seriously impact her world ranking. welcome to the programme. it s been billed as the title decider and while tonights match between manchester city and arsenal won t crown them champions it will change the dynamic of the league. if city win they will be just two points behind arsenal with two games in hand. if arsenal win, then they will go eight points clear at the top of the table. patrick geary reports. commentator: another arsenal win. the champions have come here to the emirates and they have won. what a significant moment this could be for arsenal! a 10th win in a row for manchester city. a missed opportunity for arsenal. only time will tell howi pivotal tonight will be. in
should get the death penalty. and after being closed by the kremlin in the early days of war, russia s last remaining independent tv channel makes a defiant return to the airwaves. hello and welcome. yes, it is warm, isn t it? especially if you are tuning in across europe. europe is waking up to another day of brutal temperatures and the reality of a fast changing climate. in france, several towns and cities recorded their highest ever temperatures on monday. the uk is expected to follow suit today. and it s notjust the heat. wildfires and now drought are having a devastating impact across the continent. with the latest, here s the bbc s tim allman. in much of europe, the heat is just relentless. here, in western france, columns of smoke make this look more like a war zone than a tourist destination. firefighters do what they can, spraying the trees with water. at this nearby hotel, they put gas canisters in the swimming pool to try and stop them exploding. the flames are now
fantastic, thank you so much. laura scott at the commonwealth games in birmingham. now fora scott at the commonwealth games in birmingham. now for a look at the weather and hello to chris. we were hearing about the hosepipe bans and no rain in the forecast for a long, long time in parts of the south of the uk. one of our weather watchers spotted this combine harvester bringing the crops in. and although there is a lot of dry weather, across the north of the uk we are seeing some shower cloud speed in. answering the big question, when is it going to rain? well, not for the next five days across the really dry areas but i reckon actually this dry run of weather will last a long time. southern parts of england and wales, i don t think we ll see rain for the next ten days but perhaps even as long as the next two weeks. so perhaps the back end of august we could see some heavy rain moving in, but that is an awful long way off. this afternoon, dry across southern wales, the south m
rain in the forecast, the heaviest is going to stay away from those dry areas where we could really do with some rainfall. there are spots of the very best, the wettest weather will be across scotland and northern ireland, and parts of western england and wales. on the radar picture we are seeing are zone of rain that is moving across the highlands, turning right here, but further southwards it is a bit more patchy in nature. the area is quite humid at the moment, so if few missed patches over the high ground. temperatures for the most part in the mid 20s, with top temperatures hitting 28 degrees. will continue a feed of brisk south westerly wind, the recent further pulses of rain coming going, that is going to be a one night, temperatures 16 to 18 celsius. they could be a little bit of mist around some of the hills in the west. it s going to be bringing further rain across the north west of the uk, there will be little rain in the east of england, in the rain is heaviest acr