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