hello, and thanks for joining us on sportsday. the champions league is back — europe's premier football competition kicking off properly. it's matchdayi of the group stages, 16 teams in action on tuesday and lots of stars in the spotlight but its business as usual for the defending champions manchester city. they kicked off their campaign with a 3—1win at home to 1991 european cup winners, red star belgrade. the serbian side were leading 1—0 at the break but argentina's julian alvarez with 2 goals before a fantastic finish from spain international rodri to secure all 3 points. pep guardiola's side picking up where they left off last season. meanwhile, over in the so—called group of death,

psg hosting borussia dortmund, the moneyed french capital club coming off the back of a humbling 3—2 defeat at home to nice in the league. well, no such issues in europe — they saw off the bundesliga side 2—0. kylian mbappe, who else, with the opening goal of the match from the penalty spot before former dortmund defender achraf hakimi made it 2—0. also in the group, newcastle united's return to europe's top table after a 20—year wait saw them draw 0—0 at the home of 7—time champions ac milan. while barcelona had the easiest night of the lot, cruising to a 5—0 win over belgium's royal antwerp. they were 3—0 up within 22 minutes. robert lewandowski among the goals at the camp nou. all the other results on the bbc sport website. you can also read about lazio goalkeeper van provedel scoring a 95th—minute equaliser against atletico madrid. but no shocks really with manchester city off to a comfortable winning start, after their match manager

pep guardiola said he felt being behind at half—time may have actually benefited his side. at the end going to half—time after we have done that is nice and we needed it. we need this type of challenge to prove ourselves. we were able to make a comeback. it happened with west ham. and this situation it is nice to prove it. in both games they performed incredibly. in the second half we make a goal and we did have a comeback. things improved but in general it is really, really good. a depleted manchester united are in germany ahead of their game against bayern munich. that's on wednesday. mason mount and rafael varane are still out despite training on tuesday and harry maguire hasn't travelled either, after being added to the injury list. new bayern striker harry kane has settled into the bundesliga really well, with four goals in their opening four games. but he's wary of his next opponents despite their struggles so far this season, with 3 league defeats in their last four matches.

united, obviously they have been going through a tough spell recently. but sometimes that can be really dangerous because they are looking for a big response. we need to be careful of that. we are at home and want to dictate the game. we want to play the way we want to but they have some threats as well that we really need to be careful of. arsenal welcome psv eindhoven to the emirates stadium on wednesday. mikel arteta's men punched their ticket to europe's elite competition via a second—placed finish in last season's premier league. they're back in the champions league for the first time since 2017. this club has to win champions league and when i have the job that i had i felt responsible to try to bring the club to the biggest stages for the biggest tournaments and then be fighting for them. and it was a process but, well, we are here and now we have to make the most of it. tomorrow we will play against a really good team

that they have not lost a game and they have won the majority of the game. they are used to winning, like every other team in the champions league, and it will be a very tough test, i'm sure. spain's women are due to play sweden on friday in the nation's league, but the majority of the squad remain on strike. the world cup winners have been threatened with heavy fines or barred from playing for their clubs if they don't make themselves available. the players say that there still needs to be more change within the spanish federation, asjoe lynskey reports. a press—pack scrum for the world cup winners but few in this team want to speak. spain are back in action against sweden on friday, four weeks on from this... since that day, the coach has been sacked, the football president has resigned. but still this team wants answers. 39 spanish players remain on strike. they want their federation to take action and responsibility for their defence of that kiss.

but some of those on strike have still been called up for this squad. if they refuse to play, they risk a fine and suspension. luis rubiales may be gone but so too now isjenni hermosa, the player he kissed has been left out of the squad, spain's new coach said this is the best way to protect her. todayjenni hermosa gave this statement: friday's matches in the nation's league. it is also a qualifier for next year's olympic. spain department

read for sweden on thursday when once he was asked if they were glad to be she replied, no. it is still not certain the game will go ahead. spain's government say they will apply sanctions to those that refuse to play. just one month ago, spain became world champions. but friday night in gothenburg will feel a long way from sydney. away from europe, the asian champions league kicked off on tuesday with the competition this season set to benefit from the involvement of the star—studded saudi pro league teams. al nassr is one of them, and look at this welcome in iran for their match against persepolis. these were the scenes in tehran, with hundreds of people running after the team bus, no doubt attempting to catch a glimpse of cristiano ronaldo, although they also boast sadio mane, aymeric laporte and marcelo brozovic in the side. bbc persia's pooriahjeffereh spoke to us about al—nassr�*s match and what the saudi teams will bring to the asian champions league.

when you look at from a saudi perspective, the fact that they invested so much and they want to create that drama. and who is going to help them create that drama 7 it is the iranian opposition. they want to come to tehran and see those fans but unfortunately with the exception of the games that are happening, they will not have any fans into a run because of the renovation of the stadium. some other people might look at this and say there are nonsporting reasons behind this because both the persepolis and is but were not aware that the stadium building codes were going to be carried out during the afc champions campaign. the rugby world cup in france resumes on wednesday with italy against uruguay and plenty of preparations going on for other teams in action later in the week, it should be a cracker between ireland and south africa on saturday. wales take on australia in a mouthwatering tie in lyon, and on sunday england will want to continue picking up the wins even though there's been some

criticism of the manner of the victories. but that's not something that bothers the squad. i think wwith world cup rugby you want results first. we have two wins. there were never be a performance or time when we say it time to kick your heals up and sit down and enjoy that. we want to keep on improving no matter how well we play or the result, we want to improve week on week. we will bring that in training and try to work on the areas that we feel are not good enough. keep working on the things that have given us dominance in games as well and keep trying to kick on to make sure we are as prepared as possible for trinity this weekend. samoa in a couple of weeks and see where we end up in the group. the draw for the knockout stage of the davis cup have been made. defending champions canada will play finland, while last year's runners—up australia take on the czech republic in malaga in november. the other half of the draw pairs the netherlands and

italy, while great britain will take on serbia spearheaded by novak djokovic. the world number one says the davis cup is his top priority for the rest of the season. 6—time major golf champion phil mickelson says a gambling addiction "caused a lot of harm" to relationships with friends and family but that he is now in recovery. in a statement on social media, mickelson said his gambling had "crossed the line of moderation and into addiction". he warned gamblers not to "confuse your enablers "as friends, like i did". mickelson denied claims that he had bet on the 2012 ryder cup, saying he would "never undermine the integrity "of the game". that is sadly all the time we have got left for now. you can get all the latest sports news

from the bbc sport app, orfrom our website — that's bbc. co. uk/sport. from me and the rest of the team at the bbc sport centre, goodbye. hello. we've got some fairly stormy, autumnal weather on the cards over the next few days. the remnants of ex—hurricane lee are moving in from the atlantic, bringing reasonably mild conditions, but also some strong winds and, for some of us, some heavy downpours, as well. we could see some localised flooding with some of this heavy rain that's on the way. so low pressure moving into the northwest — this frontal system here moves slowly from west to east over the next 2a hours or so, bringing those squally, strong winds and heavy rain. so, over the next few hours, we've got some rain across parts of scotland. it's becoming more persistent for northern england, wales, and down towards the southwest of england, too.

wherever you are, it's not a cold night — temperatures staying up in the mid—teens for many of us, just single figures across the far north of scotland. but through the day on wednesday, this band of rain pushes slowly southwards and eastwards. the strongest winds in and around that front could gust to more than 60mph around exposed coasts of wales, for instance. really breezy conditions, too, for central and eastern parts of england, although the morning will be dry and reasonably bright here. further north, then, during the morning, 40—50mph gusts — enough to cause some disruption across parts of scotland and northern ireland. a mix of sunshine and showers, but the gusts will strengthen to more than 60mph during the afternoon, and those gusty winds will reach the southeast of england, as well, with this rain becoming really quite heavy and persistent. you might hear the odd rumble of thunder around, as well. temperatures in the high teens, possibly 21 celsius towards the far southeast. reasonably mild, but that mild air, with its heavy rain and strong winds, gets cleared away as we head

through into the early hours of thursday morning. so, a colder night then wednesday night, thursday morning, many of us down into mid—single figures, i think. but we'll start the day with some heavy showers already in the northwest, and they'll push their way slowly southwards and eastwards, across northern ireland and scotland. again, gales possible across the northwest. less windy by this stage, thursday, across much of england and wales — though sunny spells, scattered showers, but it will feel colder than it has done of late. into friday, another day of sunshine and showers. the winds rotating around that low pressure to the north, so gales again possible in the far northwest of the uk. less windy, i think, further south, but a cool, blustery, breezy sort of day — 14—18 celsius or so. looks like many of us should see a bit of a quieter day, less windy with some sunshine on saturday, particularly in the south. and then, we'll return to some blustery and showery conditions from sunday onwards. bye— bye.

live from new york, this is bbc news. the united nations hears new pleas for help in ukraine's war against russia. protesters blame libyan authorities for a devastating flooding. the british prime minister rishi sunak considers weakening key green commitments in a major policy shift. hello, i'm sumi somaskanda. in new york,

at the united nations, where some of the biggest moments of its annual general assembly haven taken place. we'll start with ukraine and a renewed appeal by president volodymyr zelensky hoping to convince world leaders to stick by his country's side as it continues to fend off russia's invasion. it's a rare visit across the atlantic for mr zelensky, and his first time appearing in person at the summit since the war broke out. he gave a stark warning that russian aggression could expand beyond ukraine, saying it was an unrelenting threat that would not stop at ukraine's borders. look, for the first time in modern history we have a real chance to end the aggression on the terms of the nation which was attacked. and this is a real chance for every nation to ensure that aggression against your state, if it happens, god forbid, will end, not because your land will be divided

and you will be forced to submit to military or political pressure, but because your territory