To their first ever Champions League final. Ina to their first ever Champions League final. In a statement, spurs chairman daniel leavy said he was extremely reluctant to make this decision, but explained. Not everyone agrees. Former spurs striker gary lineker tweeted. His surprise was widely shared. Since arriving in may 2014, pochettino had become the face of a new look spurs, energetic and confident. They broke into the exclusive church club of the Champions League places, and they are attacking there are attacking football one friends if not trophies. Last season they came closer than ever, losing to liverpool in the champion s league final. But the hangover has lasted nearly six months. Now, in a shiny new ground, spurs are 14th. Form has drained away. As early as the summer, there were signs that something was not right. May be the clu b something was not right. May be the club needs to change, you know . Because my job now club needs to change, you know . Because myjob now is to
Been starker. And coming up. The billionaire former mayor of new york Michael Bloomberg announces he wants to run for president. Hello, and welcome to world news today. The first results from hong kongs local District Council election are coming in and they show the pro democracy parties making big gains. Theyre on course to all but wipe out their pro beijing rivals. Theres been a huge voter turnout in comparison to elections in 2015. With slightly more than half of the count complete the numbers just a few minutes ago showed pro democracy parties have already taken 196 seats. While pro establishment parties have just 27 so far. These are the numbers being reported by local media and there is still a way to go yet, of course. Now, some notable names ran in the elections, including pro beijing lawmaker junius ho. Hes one of the most controversial politicians in the city and is reported to have suffered a shock defeat. Our correspondent Stephen Mcdonell is in hong kong. Stephen, this cou
Chinas secret brainwashing camps bbc panorama goes inside the network of high Security Prisons where inmates are indoctrinated and punished. And coming up at 8 30 a bbc investigation finds Vulnerable Children are increasingly being placed in unregulated homes. Thats in britains care scandal exposed. Good evening. Borisjohnson has launched the conservative partys election manifesto, promising to get his brexit deal passed by parliament, as soon as possible after the election, if he wins. In a speech in telford in shropshire, he offered what he called a route map to take the country forward. For the nhs in england theres a pledge to add 50,000 more nurses, and restore nursing grants, thats on top of an existing promise to pump tens of billions more into the health service. He said thered be no rises in income tax, National Insurance and vat for five years. And he pledged to raise the threshold at which people start paying National Insurance to £9,500, a saving of £85 a year, per person
Chinas secret brainwashing camps. Bbc panorama goes inside the network of high Security Prisons where inmates are indoctrinated and punished. And at 11 30pm, we will be taking an in depth look at the papers with our reviewers, ros altmann and mihir bose. Stay with us for that. Borisjohnson has launched the conservative partys election manifesto, promising to get his brexit deal passed by parliament as soon as possible after the election if he wins. In a speech in telford, in shropshire, he offered what he called a route map to take the country forward. For the nhs in england, there was a new pledge to add 50,000 more nurses to the workforce, partly by stemming the flow of people leaving, and also by recruiting from overseas. There was also a promise to restore nursing grants and train more staff. He said there would be no rises in income tax, National Insurance and vat for five years. An earlier plan from mrjohnson to raise the income Tax Threshold for higher earners is scrapped, but t
Proved, as they pushed for the two goals they needed, their defence was open up yet again. The tournaments top scorer getting the goal his performance deserved. His 11th of the competition. Indian, a co mforta ble the competition. Indian, a comfortable victory for the Saudi Arabian side. They avenged the final defeat of 2017 for the third Asian Champions League title. They also grabbed the last spot of the Club World Cup next month in qatar. Elsewhere, the brazilian side flamengo were given a rapturous welcome home, when they returned to rio dejaneiro as the champions of south america. They came from behind to beat river plate 2 1 in saturdays final of the Copa Libertadores in lima. Gabriel barbosa was the hero. He scored twice in the last five minutes and got sent off as flamengo won the cup for the second time in their history. In the english premier league, Manchester United came from 2 0 down to lead 3 2 at Sheffield United but still had to settle for a point, when the blades fough