The composition of the battles for the Dutch Nationaal Songfestival 2012 have been drawn in the RTL4 show Life4you. The six Dutch finalists have been divided over three battles. The winners of the three battles will qualify for the super final in which the Netherlands will pick a representative for Baku.

Nina Zilli (Maria Chiara Fraschetta) will represent Italy in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012. Nina Zilli took part in the Festival di Sanremo 2012 with the song Per Sempre, but didn't qualify for the super final of the event. Whether Per Sempre will also be the Italian song for Baku has not been decided yet.

Todays shows: final in Ukraine at 11:30 # LIVE STREAM, final in Latvia at 18:00 # LIVE STREAM, presentation song Nina Badrić in Croatia at 20:00 # LIVE STREAM, heta 3 in Sweden at 20:00 # LIVE STREAM, heat 3 in Lithuania at 20:00 # LIVE STREAM and semifinal 1 in Estonia at 20:35. # update

Tonight at 20:15 CET ARD airs the final of Unser Star Für Baku. Two candidates are left in the running for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012: Roman Lob and Ornella de Santis. In the final the German song for Baku will be chosen first, then whether Roman or Ornella will represent Germany. # update

Spanish broadcaster TVE has published the four songs out of which the Spanish entry for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 will be chosen. Two songs are directly qualified for the final on 3rd March. The two other songs will compete in an online voting on www.rtve.es to become the third song to be sung by Pastora Soler in the final.

At 16:00 CET this afternoon the final of Eurofest 2012 take place in Belarus. The winner of the Belarusian national final will represent Belarus in the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku. The five finalists are Gunesh, Litesound, Alena Lanskaya, Uzari and Victoria Aleshko. # LIVE STREAM

At 20:15 ProSieben airs the semifinal of Unser Star Für Baku. Four candidates are left in the running in the German national selections for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012: Shelly Phillips, Roman Lob, Yana Gercke and Ornella de Santis. Two of them will sing for the ticket to Baku in the final on Thursday. # to final

Sabina Babayeva will represent Azerbaijan in the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 in Baku. Sabina defeated her four competitors in the Azeri national final. The song she'll perform in Baku still has to be chosen. In the heats and the final, all candidates performed cover songs.

Tonight at 18:00 CET the national final of Azerbaijan takes place. Azerbaijan is the host country of the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 that will be held in Baku in May. The five finalists are Orxan Kərimli, Səbinə Babayeva, Elton İbrahimov, Fəqan Səfərov and Arzu İsmayılova. # LIVE STREAM

The following countries hold selections for the Eurovision Song Contest 2012 tonight: final in Norway at 19:55 # LIVE STREAM, heat 2 in Sweden at 20:00 # LIVE STREAM, heat 2 in Lithuania at 20:00 # LIVE STREAM, final in Hungary at 20:15 # LIVE STREAM and final in Iceland at 21:30 # LIVE STREAM. # update