pep guardiola has really been building up the importance of this tournament as his european champions manchester city get ready to face the south american champions fluminense from brazil. both are playing in the final for the first time. city are looking to become the fourth english club to win the trophy after manchester united, liverpool and chelsea. it is so difficult to come here, so difficult. you have to win and champions league. both competitions are really tough. that s why it s a unique gift, all we have. when you re in this competition, you are in it forever. all six premier league sides that originally backed the breakaway european super league in 2021 have now re affirmed their committment to playing in uefa s european competitions. this follows yesterday s ruling by the european court ofjustice that the ban by uefa and fifa on clubs from joining the european superleague was unlawful and the two governing bodies had abused a dominant position . liverpool were
the last few hours. he left tottenham in 2019. he joins after a dismal season for chelsea, they finished 12th in the premier league and our reporter has more. chelsea have enjoyed a terrible season, there west on points in the premier league, they lost on the tap of their matches. their squad is bloated, it is expensively assembled. they have spent £60 million since last summer. they have very little to show for it, they have not qualified for europe and as a result their spending in his first transfer window will be hit as a result. frank lampard, they interim manager, the third manager of the season, openly said standards have dropped. he officially starts in july, that gives him a month to ascertain who is up to scratch. it is a tall order but you suspect pochettino is probably one of a handful of managers who might be able tojuggle it handful of managers who might be able to juggle it all. you mention when he goes to manage it all, the experience he would have had alread
leaving minefields in place. but there is of course the risk the russians could break through. and one of the major concerns for ukraine right now is troop levels. kyiv needs to mobilize an additional 100,000 menjust to maintain current force strength, mobilisation rates we re told are below 50% of their target and may be as low as 15% in some regions. president zelensky said last night without volunteers, he will have to draught of half a million men. but who would volunteer without the weapons to fight? translation: they suggested to mobilise additional- 450,000 to 500,000 people, which is a very significant amount of people. and i told that i would need to have more arguments to support that, cos this is primarily a question of people, it s about the justice and the fairness, it s about the defence capacity and the question of funding. as for the people, i need specifics. the us secretary of state antony blinken said there is no other magic pot of money for supporting uk
extensive tunnels in gaza. here s merlyn thomas. the israeli army has released this footage of a huge explosion which they say destroyed hamas infrastructure, including a tunnel network in gaza city. and by studying this video we have worked out it is around here, around palestine square in the heart of the city. and we know this because of these to a shaped buildings and the palestine stadium which you can see just here in the background. and i will show you that on this map, the two a shaped buildings and palestine stadium in the background. and just a day before this, the idf released several videos claiming to show hamas tunnels around this area. and this is the beginning of one of those videos, just next to the square. here is what they say is a tunnel entrance that is about to appear right here. and we know it is here because we can see building signs on the posts here. this is the one on the right and it is a sign for society for the deaf, which they also make referenc
where there is fighting. he also told reporters he did not demand a ceasefire. mr netanyahu said he reiterated that the war will continue until all the objectives are met. from jerusalem, our correspondent lucy williamson has more. explosions. in gaza, this is the new normal drone strikes in the border town of rafah, emptying the local market. 17 year old joe, filming on his phone, still clutching his bag of shopping and calling on god for protection. america has blocked un calls for a ceasefire. israel says it needs to keep fighting to keep up the pressure on hamas. if you want a ceasefire, that, from israel s perspective, can only happen with the release of hostages. as you know, hamas continues to hold over 100 hostages. there s a chance, because they want that ceasefire, they need that ceasefire, they will agree to the hostages but had we to be frank, had we agreed to the un secretary general s proposal over a month ago for this unilateral ceasefire, we would never ha