automatically qualify, while the third and fourth placed nations will go into the play? offs. the 12 best ranked teams in league b will face eachother for a place in the final play off round. scotland are in a group with serbia, slovakia and israel; northern ireland were drawn with portugal, bosnia and herzegovina and malta; while wales will play croatia, ukrane and kosovo. qualifying begins in april. former world number one simona halep has had herfour year ban for doping reduced to nine months by the court of arbitration for sport. the two time grand slam winner tested positive for an anti anaemia drug after the us open in 2022. cas have since ruled halep did not take it intentionally. having feared her career was over,s the 32 old can now return to tennis immediately. and that s all the sport for now. here s the eastern time and gmt time, east coast west coast. we ve got a night of special coverage tonight on the bbc, super tuesday will be coming from washington, dc, looke
in the primary calendar that in previous cycles has given us a clear indication of which candidates will win their parties presidential nomination. but this year, there is far less suspense. both parties have already steered us to who their nominees will be, as biden and trump cruised through the early voting states. the republican presidential candidate nikki haley is still in the race, for now, but the expectations are low. these are the states voting today. the us territory of american samoa, also staging a democratic caucus, tuesday is also the last day for democrats in iowa to mail in their primary ballots. almost a third of the delegates will be up for grabs on super tuesday. on the republican side of the ledger, the winning candidate needs 1,215 delegates to capture the nomination. a clean sweep today would put donald trump within touching distance of the nomination. and if the polling is right, then the 2024 election will be the contest 70% of the country didn t want