Of support for torres. Hes stable and conscious. Hell spend the night in hospital and undergo more tests tomorrow. On the pitch, it needed an Antoine Griezman goal in the 68th minute for Diego Simeones side to take a point back to the capital after Florin Andone had given the hosts the lead in the 13th minute. But it still leaves them 11 points adrift of leaders, barcelona. Elsewhere on an eventful thursday, sevilla have moved to within a point of second placed real madrid and two points off leaders, barca, after Vicente Iborra followed up on stevanjovetics missed penalty to ensure a 1 0 win with his seventh league goal of the season. Staying in spain, and it was back to work as normal for barcelona coach luis enrique on thursday. He took training, the day after he announced he would be leaving his role at the end of the season. The 46 year old gave the news of his imminent departure after his side beat Sporting Gijon 6 1 to go top of spains primera division. Sevilla Coachjorge Sampaol
Hello this is bbc news. The headlines. The queen says she would have preferred harry and meghan to remain full time royals. Boris johnson visits stormont, to meet members of the newly restored Northern Ireland assembly, after three years of political deadlock there. Whats so great about today is, as i say, that Northern Ireland politicians have put aside their differences, stepped up to the plate, and shown leadership. Five candidates are through to the next round of the labour leadership contest, four women and one man. Storm brendan sweeps into the uk, battering Northern Ireland and scotla nd battering Northern Ireland and scotland with wind of 90 mph. In a moment it will be time for sportsday but first a look at what else is coming up this evening on bbc. We will speak to a ship captain who has steered his ferry through some of the most of the storm. At 8pm we will be live in sandringham for the queens statement on prince harry and meghan. And later, we will be taking a look at tomo
Youre watching bbc newsroom live 7 its11am and these are the main stories this morning in his first interrview since the election the Prime Minister calls for calm in the middle east and for the us to agree to a new nuclear deal with iran. If we are going to get rid of it, lets replace it, and lets replace it with the trump deal. Iranian Authorities Say theyve arrested several people in relation to the shooting down of a ukrainian passenger jet last week. Dozens of children, abused by grooming gangs, were failed by Manchester Police and local authorities, according to a damning report. The government considers cutting air Passenger Duty on all domestic flights, as part of a plan to save Regional Airline, flybe, from collapse. Gambling firms are to be banned from accepting credit cards from customers in an attempt to tackle problem gambling. At least six people have been killed and 16 injured after a sinkhole swallows a bus and pedestrians in central china. And in sport players struggle
Ow now it is time for all for me but now it is time for all the sponsors. Hello, and this is sport today, live from the bbc sport centre. Coming up on this programme suspended then sacked, the Houston Astros coach and general manager punished for cheating on their way to winning the 2017 and sackings all around as barcelona part ways with their manager Ernesto Valverde. And we speak to south africas Rugby World Cup winning captain on his initiatives to help the communities that made him. Some people have it, some dont, some people give a bed but it means a lot to me because it has may be the person i am today. Hello and thanks for joining us on sport today. We start with a story thats sending shockwaves through Major League Baseball the sacking of both the manager and general manager of the Houston Astros. Aj hinch and jeff luhnow have been dismissed from the posts, following an investigation which found they cheated by stealing signs when they won the world series in 2017. Here are th
Frustration evident in his celebration. There really should have been more, what a moment this wouldve been for him. His first goalflash wouldve been for him. His first goal flash before his eyes, wouldve been for him. His first goalflash before his eyes, maybe next time. A centre back by trade but here he did everything to set up ryan who will never have been more thankful that he was off site. Middlesboro still in the they have not lost a game in a month and you concede that in george, 2 1 with seven minutes to go, they have given themselves too much to do. Tottenham added another to the remarkable chances spurned but for now, the evening is over and thejob is done. Newcastle were the other premier league side in action, they were held 1 all at rochdale just over a week ago but victory was never in doubt at stjames this evening, they were 3 nil up whenjoelinton broke hsi long goal drought, only his second for the club and hsi first since august. They won a a and will play another Lea