Today, live in Belgrade, the draw for the Eurovision Song Contest semi finals take place. 38 countries will be divided between the two semi finals. The five qualifed countries for the final – the Big Four and the host-will then be split between the two shows. Each country will broadcast the semi final they are drawn to and will have voting rights.

The draw takes place in Belgrade today at 13.00 CET, and will be shown live on eurovision.tv. Countries are allowed to broadcast both semi finals, but will only be able to vote in the one that they are drawn to today.

You can see the pots that the 38 semi finalists have been placed in here. From each pot, half the countries will be drawn to semi final one on Tuesday 20th May, the other 19 will participate in the semi final two on Thursday 22nd May.

esctoday.com will be covering the draw live and will be bringing you full analysis throughout the day.

Live streaming here. To watch this stream, you need Windows Media Player and the Octoshape plugin. Installing this may take some time so you may want to do it before the draw starts.