hello and thanks forjoining us, where it was a night for the holders real madrid as they sent chelsea to yet another defeat in the opening leg of their uefa champions league quarterfinal, in a season that seems to lurch from one problem to the next for the londoners. the 14 time winners from spain claiming a 2 0 victory over caretaker manager frank lampard s side, while in an all italian clash, ac milan held off napoli at the san siro despite the visitors having a host of chances. joining me to chat through the two matches is our football reporterjoe lynskey. and, joe, carlo ancelotti s side may be struggling domestically, but in europe, theyjust seem to manage to grind out those results, don t they? yeah, they do, tulsen. it s been a mixed season for real madrid, as you alluded to there. it s been a chaotic season for the premier league side chelsea. this competition, the champions league, really represents their last opportunity to win a trophy this season, and they were wa
across the uk. and so through the weekend, the weather gets brighter and drier, more in the way of sunshine, and into next week for the first time this year, we are likely to see temperatures reach the low 20s, so it is going to feel a lot warmer. so, the wind gradually coming down through the night, but more showers on the way tomorrow. thanks chris. that s it. i ll be back with the news at ten. the news continues here on bbc one as wejoin our colleagues across the nations and regions for the news where you are. bye for now. hello and welcome to sportsday live from the bbc sport centre. i m paul scott and here s what we ve got coming up. the uk and the republic of ireland submit theirjoint bid to host euro 2028, but 2 of the proposed stadiums aren t even built yet. football is part of our way of life so important to our country and so we our supporting the bid for both the uk and ireland. chelsea look to put their premier league problems to one side, as they travel to real m
and the hard yards that we need to undertake to get this right. hello and welcome to the programme. we will be live in ireland tonight, asjoe biden makes the journey south to his ancestral home. we will be finding what came of his brief visit to belfast today, and what unionists made of the speech he delivered. we ll bring you more of that extraordinary conversation between the bbc s james clayton and elon musk. plenty to disect in that, including musk s confession he only went through with a takeover at twitter, because the judge would have forced him to do it anyway. and who controls the distribution of the abortion pill in america? the us government is in court this next hour, to appeal a decision in texas to suspend the licence. we will get reaction. lets start first with president biden and the speech he gave today marking the 25th anniversary of the good and friday agreement. a speech in which the us president held out the promise of huge us investment if and when stabl
president putin has accused ukraine of terrorism after the only bridge between russia and occupied crimea was damaged in an explosion on saturday. he blamed kyiv s intelligence services for the blast on the crossing, a crucial supply route for moscow s forces in southern ukraine. meanwhile, ukrainian authorities say at least seventeen people have been killed by russian missile strikes on the city of zaporizhzhia. rescuers are digging for survivors in the rubble of residential buildings that were destroyed as people slept. paul adams reports from the ukrainian capital, kyiv. in zaporizhzhia, this is what escalation looks like. a gaping hole, where once there were homes. rescue workers searching for the dead and the living. moments after the blast, in the middle of the night, stunned, furious reactions. they destroyed a building at night, at 2am, he says. they simply destroyed a multi storey building. translation: we ran out into the street. - when we left the corridor, a
from china. hello, thank you forjoining us. president putin has accused ukraine of terrorism, after the only bridge between russia and occupied crimea was damaged in an explosion on saturday. he blamed kyiv s intelligence services for the blast on the crossing a crucial supply route for moscow s forces in southern ukraine. meanwhile, ukrainian authorities say at least 17 people have been killed by russian missile strikes on the city of zaporizhzhia. rescuers are digging for survivors in the rubble of residential buildings that were destroyed as people slept. paul adams reports from the ukrainian capital kyiv. in zaporizhzhia, this is what escalation looks like. a gaping hole, where once there were homes. rescue workers searching for the dead and the living. moments after the blast, in the middle of the night, stunned, furious reactions. they destroyed a building at night, at 2am, he says. they simply destroyed a multi storey building. translation: we ran out into the st