And coming up in the sport on bbc news, manchester citys manager prepares to face monaco tonight in the last 16 of the champions league. Good evening. A heterosexual couple have lost their court battle to have a Civil Partnership, rather than be married. Civil partnerships give relationships legal recognition, and are currently only available to same sex couples. Rebecca steinfeld and Charles Keiden claimed that was discriminatory. But today, the Court Of Appeal rejected their arguments, as our Legal Affairs correspondent Clive Coleman reports. Emerging from court, Charles Keidan and Rebecca Steinfeld, a heterosexual couple fighting for the right to enter a Civil Partnership. They lost, but it was close. All three of the judges agreed were being treated differently because of our Sexual Orientation and that this impacts our private and family life. All three rejected the argument that we could just get married. All three emphasised that the government cannot maintain the status quo for
it was a busy day of action in the first round of the fa cup. 33 ties in total, and the pick of the upsets came from national league south side, chippenham town, as they beat league one side lincoln city 1 0. there are 78 places between the two sides, butjoe hanks sensational finish was enough for the bluebirds to reach the second round for the first time ever. the magic of the cup continued as the lowest ranked side remaining in the competition made it through. seventh tier alverchurch shocked league one side cheltenham town 2 1. danny waldron s double sending his side into the second round. a fantastic gymnastics world championships continues for great britain in liverpool with giarnni regini moran making history with gold in the men s floor. the 24 year old from great yarmouth edged out olympic and world all around champion daiki hashimoto in the final byjust 0.033 to claim his first senior individual title. there was also history for ireland,
after a standoff lasting nearly 24 hours, reuters is reporting french police have begun an assault on the apartment where a self-described al qaeda militant accused of killing seven people is holed up. just moments ago three loud blasts were heard at the site of the stand-off. the suspect apparently confessing to the killings of three french paratroopers, a jewish rabbi and three jewish children over the past ten days. dan rivers is live. dan, i guess you could hear the shots. what s the very latest you re able to figure out is happening? reporter: yeah, i mean we heard these three loud explosions about 20 minutes ago. there were definite kind of flashes in the sky giving us the impression it was flash bangs that they were throwing in. but there s been nothing since then, so we re slightly kind of perplexed as to what is actually going on now. reuters are reporting that the deputy mayor of toulouse has said the operation to go in has begun but there s very little in activit