the actor stephen tompkinson tells a court it would be career suicide for him to assault someone as he denies inflicting grievous bodily harm. # instead i wrote a song. and they re off heading to liverpool for the first eurovision semifinal tonight before saturday s big showdown. and coming up in bbc news. manchester city fans are building up to their champions league semifinal with real madrid in spain. it is a repeat of last year when the spanish side put them out. good evening. the head of the metropolitan police has insisted they had serious and reliable intelligence that protesters had planned to disrupt the coronation on saturday. sir mark rowley says they had intelligence that rape alarms and loud hailers were going to be used which would have frightened horses during the procession. he spoke out to defend officers who arrested and detained six anti monarchy demonstrators, the first arrests to be made under the sweeping public order act. but scotland yard now say
protesters calling a dystopian nightmare. if liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they don t want to hear. are you worried about that rate going ahead? the shape of things to come? it is not whether the protesters were right or wrong, it s about the right to protest in the way they did, and is perfectly possible to think that the coronation was the most marvellous magical thing you ve ever seen but also to be extremely worried about this, or are they walls that divide us just too tall these days? are we to polarise? the protesters, the old dell have said sorry, is the hardest word are the easiest word the old bill. in moscow, hong kong, tehran, we want to know what it looks like to you, macclesfield, tonbridge, many other places. or is this all a bit hysterical? nothing to see here, move along? the police were ultra cautious, perhaps overcautious? now they are sorry. get in touch. here is your news. scotland yard says it has regrets about th
boiling point when manchester city walk out and you sense it will be reaching. is this a match where you could justify buying a half and half a scarf? pretty much the same team that real madrid had a year ago. karim benzema with the winner in extra time a year ago stop that was after they equalised very late on in normal time. after they equalised very late on in normaltime. in after they equalised very late on in normal time. in the final they beat liverpool. what has changed for manchester city? £51 million has brought erling haaland who is on 51 goals and counting. you sense that he is chomping at the bit to go at the 14 he is chomping at the bit to go at the 1a time european champions. chatting to some of the real madrid supporters, they were fairly tongue in cheek saying that we do not fear erling haaland and we were keeping very quiet but they will have to have match of their lives, the real madrid defence who are missing militao who is suspended, so rudiger will ha
spells of heavy rain. some sunny intervals in between times, perhaps a little cooler, highs of 16 or 17. but a big purse to come in the next 48 hours, but then friday into saturday, high pressure tries to bother across the uk and it looks like we will see something drier, perhaps only briefly. potentially later next weekend we could be more showery but some such on here for you for friday and saturday at least. compensation for all the thunderstorms! and that s bbc news at six. you can keep up with all the latest developments on bbc website. from the six team, it s goodbye the news continues here on bbc one, as now it s time to join our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. hello and welcome to sportsday i m jane dougall. it isa it is a repeat of last years champions league semifinal but they don t want the same result. managers city fans are confident they would be triumphant, against religion. i m olly foster live in madrid we re around
hello and thanks forjoining us. here s your latest sports news. only one place to start, really in spain, where the champions league semi final between real madrid and manchester city is delicately poised after an entertaining first leg tie. it finished 1 1 at the bernabeu, and our reporter olly foster was watching in the spanish capital. all square it is, then, as the two sides head to manchester next week for the second leg. it s manchester city who ll be by far the happier of the two sides, coming back to earn a draw. in this first leg, they started really brightly here at the bernabeu stadium, forcing thibaut courtois, the real keeper, into a couple of fine saves. early on, erling haaland had a couple of those chances, but for the most part they kept haaland quiet, some fantastic defending from real. and it was real that took the lead, viniciusjunior with an absolutely rasping effort from just outside the area that had ederson beaten all ends up. they led 1 0 going into