rain will move south. by the of the week a south westerly wind drink cloud and temperatures ups to 15 celsius. thanks, daren. and that s bbc news at six. now it s time to join our colleagues for the news where you are, goodbye. hello and welcome to sportsday i m jane dougall. controversy as both aston villa and sunderland are through to the quarter finals of the women s conti cup, but it s at the expense of manchester united. we ll have the draw for the quarter finals of the women s league cup live here on sportsday. it s a very special day and we will have the draw live. away from the county cup russian figure skater is given a four year ban for doping with a report for arbitration for sport. will get all the reaction from america as taylor swift favourite team go through to the super bowl. we will meet the san francisco 49ers. welcome to the programme, we ll be getting the draw for the quarter finals of the women s conti cup underway shortly, a very warm welcome to former
in washington last hour, crucial developers in northern ireland tonight. the leader of the dup, jeffrey donaldson, has been meeting with executive members of his party to discuss a possible deal to restore power sharing at stormont next week. the dup collapsed the executive nearly two years ago in protest at the post brexit trading arrangements. the party has been in talks with the uk government this past year seeking changes to the so called windsor framework. and it would seem there has been enough progress to put something to the wider party. there are around 130 members of the executive. the party officers are not present at this meeting tonight, and only they would have the power to sign off on any prospective deal. let s speak to our ireland correspondent, chris page. just talk to me about that bit. this is the wider group of the executive, chris, but i guess if they go in behind jeffrey donaldson, he is in business? , , ., behind jeffrey donaldson, he is in business? ,
has now upheld an appeal by the world anti doping agency. and her suspension has been backdated to december 2021 when she failed the test, so she can compete again from the end of 2025. cas also say that russia should now be stripped of that team gold. we think while they should ve done a betterjob in the global system, which we re apart above but they are certainly the head of the global system has failed athletes in a major way. system has failed athletes in a majorway. let s system has failed athletes in a major way. let s hope this gal can t restore some of that i am afraid we re the last threads of confidence and here we go again into paris with russia potentially tainting those games by sending athletes who have not been properly tested. the arsenal manager mikel arteta says reports about him leaving the club at the end of the season are totally untrue. the spanish newspaper sport had linked arteta with the barcelona job which will become vacant in the summer, but
full fledged invasion in february last year or in 2022, most experts feared last year or in 2022, most experts feared that last year or in 2022, most experts feared that russia would control the key feared that russia would control the key kyiv feared that russia would control the key kyiv within days and all of you can key kyiv within days and all of you can weeks. the reality is that the ukrainians were able to push lrack the ukrainians were able to push back the the ukrainians were able to push back the russian forces and they have back the russian forces and they have liberated 50% of the territory that russia occupied at the beginning of the war. they have enabled beginning of the war. they have enabled to inflict heavy losses on the russian armed forces, more than 300 casualties, thousands of armed vehicles 300 casualties, thousands of armed vehicles have been destroyed and hurrdreds vehicles have been destroyed and hundreds of planes. this i
the americans say the attack happened at a base known as tower 22, right on the syrian jordanian border. it s one of many american bases across the region. there have been dozens of drone and missile attacks in recent months, but no american personnel have been killed until now. joe biden, seen here attending church, was quick to point the finger. it s not necessarily a tipping point into uncontrolled escalation between the united states and iran, but it s another very dangerous step because, as i say, the us will have to respond even more strongly than it s done to previous attacks. carefully cultivated over years, iran has a wide network of allies and proxies operating in countries across the middle east. they re all opposed to israel and the united states. it s sometimes called the axis of resistance. there are pro iranian militias in lebanon, the palestinian territories, gaza and the west bank, plus iraq and syria. and far to the south, there s also the houthis in yemen.