Where west ham have comfortably beaten freiburg to reach the last eight of the competition. West ham put themselves 2 0 up at half time, to take a 2 1 lead on aggregate in the tie, but went on to win 5 0, Mohamed Kudus with a brace, to win the tie 5 1. It means david moyes has led the team to a european quarter final for the third year in a row. Elsewhere, rangers are out after being beaten 1 0 on the night by benfica at ibrox. While liverpool scored four in the opening 15 minutes against Sparta Prague they won the first leg 5 1 rememeber, so safe to say theyll be in the next round. Brighton dont look likely to bejoining them, 4 0 down against roma from the first leg. It is goalless there. And Bayer Leverkusen Versus Karabec is also goalless. In the europa conference league, aston villa v ajax. Ollie watkins escort for aston villa and i can tell you as well Ollie Watkins has just gone off injured but aston villa are leading i o. Rory mcilroy has had a great start to the players champio
welcome to bbc news. president putin has suffered an embarrassing setback in the war with ukraine, after a huge explosion on the only bridge linking russia with the crimean peninsula. the bridge partially collasped but has now reopened to light traffic. russia annexed crimea in 2014, and after occupying these regions of ukraine in red it s managed to establish a corridor up through southern and eastern ukraine. the kerch bridge, connecting russia to the crimean peninsula in the black sea, was an important supply route for sending russian troops and artillery into ukraine. the blast there is another humiliation for the kremlin, as our russia editor, steve rosenberg, reports. it is the bridge the kremlin built, steve rosenberg, reports. and it was under attack. steve rosenberg, reports. an explosion at dawn. steve rosenberg, reports. this was the result. steve rosenberg, reports. russian officials claim a lorry had been blown up here and that the fire then spread to a fuel
about the significance of the bridge being hit. it depends how quickly they repair the bridge. it is a huge symbolic setback because this bridge was mr putin s personal commitment to crimea. it opened in 2018, cost $3 billion, massively overpriced. one of his friends was in charge of the construction and he identified with this because this was a way of uniting the mainland of russia with what he took to be the mainland of crimea which was now going to be russian forever so the bridge is symbolically hugely important. in terms of logistics, the fact is, one carriageway seems to have survived this blast although it may only take light traffic and we don t know how bad the damage is to the railway grid above it. my guess is that although the russians will have a big motive to say that the bridge is reopen soon and all is fine, it will not reopen to military traffic which is very heavy so we will see how long it is before they can start to use the road and particularly the rail
a compromise over same sex relationships but will it please traditionalists or gay couples? hey, josh, it s gillian, how are you doing? very well, thank you. how are you? and the glasses allowing deaf people to see real time conversations, right before their eyes. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. she knew it would antagonise beijing but that hasn t stopped nancy pelosi, america s third highest ranking politician, from paying a high level visit to taiwan. she is due to attend taiwan s parliament and meet the president on wednesday morning, despite warnings from beijing not to travel there. we have heard in the last few minutes that is where she is now. a highly symbolic gesture to step forward inside the centre of the democratic taiwan system. it s self ruling territory but china insists it is part of its territory and that has created significant anger within beijing. in a measure of china s anger, the us ambassador has just been summoned. to the
very well, thank you. how are you? and the glasses allowing deaf people to see real time conversations right before their eyes. hello and welcome to the programme. she knew it would antagonise beijing, but that hasn t stopped nancy pelosi, america s third highest ranking politician, from paying a high level visit to taiwan. she s just met the taiwanese president after addressing parliament and made it clear that the us would not abandon the island. china views taiwan as its own and the foreign ministry summoned the us ambassador in beijing to protest against pelosi s high profile trip. mark lobel has the latest. side by side with the taiwanese president america s third most powerful politician and actor provocation or a necessary show of support? nancy pelosi delayed high profile visit was never without risk, the anger of chinese has led to the us ambassador being summoned, nancy pelosi was handed an award for her strong ties to taiwan. ., , . , taiwan. today i am my delegati