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Time for the sport. Premier league chief executive Richard Masters has admitted var needs to improve for the sake of the fans. Masters was speaking at the european leagues general assembly, held today in london and said they want to improve the situation for supporters but gave his backing to the officials in englands top flight. I would say a few words in support of english referees. They do a good job, we know the va are system mystery improve, parts of getting thatis mystery improve, parts of...

Told shes off to the olympics. And coming up on bbc news, its winner takes all this weekend as england women travel to bordeaux to take on france for france for the six nations title decider. Reading. Hello, good evening. Its just been announced that the king is to return to some public facing duties his first since it was revealed that hed been diagnosed with cancer. Buckingham palace says the kings treatment isnt over, but that doctors are encouraged by his progress. This photo of the king and...

thanks for joining us this hour. really happy to have you here. we have an interesting show tonight, and im particularly glad you are here for it. we will go a ways back when allied soldiers came ashore on the coast of france on the beaches of normandy for the d- day invasion. they opened up a new western front against the nazis in europe , a shock to the germans. the operation, the d-day invasion relied on the element of surprise. and the germans really were shocked. they had been occ...

Activities. secretary of state mike pompeo said, north korea has made a promise to essentially to denuclearize and they need to live up to it. >> barbara, thank you so much. will, over to you. what are you hearing from north koreans? >> well, they have said all along that this is not going to be a quick process where theyre going to give up all of their nuclear weapons they spent decades developing in months. kim jong-un built up his legitimacy because he assembled this nuclear force. the north ...

And when i stood in the ben franklin room to take the oath of office to that same constitution that konted my ancestors once as three-fifths of a man, i stood there to be sworn in by a jewish woman supreme court justice and i looked up at that portrait and thought what would old ben think about this? probably would think its a little strange. it is an american story, step-by-step progress to make we the people more inclusive. we were granted great institutions by our founding fathers. i say to m...

Direction. and weve had a little bit -- >> setbacks with turkey over the past decade. >> thats a big setback, yeah. >> yeah. >> when people used to ask me, what would a democratic middle east look like, i would say its going to look like turkey. they had made a lot of progress. i dont think the story is yet done in turkey. when you look at that referendum that erdogan carried out it wasnt an overwhelming victory for him. >> may not have been a victory at all. >> it probably wasnt. one reason he ...

Story to be told. they do have a prime minister who is accountable. they do have a legislature thats trying to work it out. they do have a military thats fighting alongside us or were advising in the fight for isis. i would rather be iraqi than syrian. at least they dont have a government thats throwing barrel bombs and chemical weapons at its people. >> a lot of people are saying right now that the rise of autocrats across the globe seems to be the trend. >> i dont think democracy is in decline...

Who strongly supports israel. these kinds of situations require step by step progress. this is a huge step forward. >> nbcs kristen welker is at the white house for us. a got saturday to you. how likely is it secretary kerry is going to walk away from these talks with a firm deal? >> its not looking it very promising at this hour according to diplomats in geneva and a part of these talks. one of the key sticking points coming from france. this they say this deal doesnt do enough to curb irans nu...

Growth, political development, order over political reform, they dont think the country is ready for it yet, theyre going to make step by step progress, they never say it, instead they get defensive, paranoid, black out the few statements they make. in that sense you do get a feeling this is still a regime very much feeling its way to maturity. these are not the actions of a regime comfortably in control and willing to depend itself to the world. >> thanks. >> pleasure. >> when we come back, one...

They are making step by step progress. i think today is just expected just for show. its really going to be about how he continues this test program in the future. >> are you surprised that we have not seen a test happen on their biggest holiday? >> not necessarily. he would have liked to do that, im sure, but hes had to settle for this. maybe its partly due to pressure from china, or they may just not quite be ready to test. but lets remember, its all about balance. and we do have missile defen...