football, and newcastle united will play champions league football next season. eddie howe s side claimed the point they needed to secure a top four premier league finish with a goalless draw against relegation threatened leicester whose top flight fate is no longer in their own hands. katies gornall was at st james s park. well, a little over a year and a half ago, newcastle united were relegation fodder. but the saudi led takeover of this club has turbo charged them and they are now back among europe s elite for the first time in 20 years. in truth there was a party atmosphere from the start here at st james s park. inside there was a sea of flags and banners. and you can understand why newcastle fans felt confident. they knew they needed just a point against second bottom leicester to be sure of champions league qualification. but in truth, they made really hard work of it. they dominated possession against dean smith s side, they had multiple chances, they hit the woodwor
we re going to start with football, and newcastle united will play champions league football next season. eddie howe s side claimed the point they needed to secure a top four premier league finish with a goalless draw against relegation threatened leicester whose top flight fate is no longer in their own hands. katies gornall was at st james park. well, a little over a year and a half ago, newcastle united were relegation fodder. but the saudi led takeover of this club has turbo charged them and they are now back among europe s elite for the first time in 20 years. in truth there was a party atmosphere from the start here at st james s park. inside there was a sea of flags and banners. and you can understand why newcastle fans felt confident. they knew they needed just a point against second bottom leicester to be sure of champions league qualification. but in truth, they made really hard work of it. they dominated possession against the side, they had multiple chances, they
russia is preparing for a major ukrainian offensive, with vast defenses set up in key areas in the south of the country, including crimea. we ll have all the details from our new bbc verify team it s been investigating. also on the programme. we will bring you the latest updates on the search for madeleine mccann, who disappeared in southern portugal in 2007. police are to search around a reservoir near where the british three year old girl went missing. and we ll look at the political headaches that greeted joe biden and rishi sunak on their return from the g7 leaders summit injapan. the prime minister has met with his ethics adviser over what to do about suella braverman. the home secretary was caught speeding in 2022 and asked the civil service for advice on arranging a private speed awareness course. she says she s confident nothing untoward happened . meanwhile, president biden returns to the negotiating table in washington for talks with the republican house speaker
will play champions league football next season. eddie howe s side claimed the point they needed to secure a top four premier league finish with a goalless draw against relegation threatened leicester whose top flight fate is no longer in their own hands. katies gornall was at st james park. well, a little over a year and a half ago newcastle united were relegation fodder. but the saudi led takeover of this club has turbo charge them and they are now back among europe s elite for the first time in 20 years. in truth there was a party atmosphere from the start here at the same is park. inside there was a sea of flags and banners. and you can understand why newcastle fans felt confident. they knew they needed just a point against second bottom leicester to be sure of qualification. but in truth, they made really hard work of it they dominated possession against the side, they had multiple chances, they hit the woodwork three times but leicester packed their defence. they had mo
to abuse from the stands, this time during their 1 0 defeat at valencia. real have reported it as a hate crime. the game was paused as he tried to point out to match officials the supporters involved. he s been targeted multiple times this season but the league insist they are tackling abuse and say viniciusjunior has failed to engage with them. that, though, hasn t gone down well with the football against racism in europe network. to have made a statement like that tells us really the scale of the problems that we face because the administrators themselves, the leaders themselves don t understand what their responsibilities are and how they need to be moving forward to tackle these issues. he has received the gamut of racial abuse this season. and really it seems that nobody in spain knows how to deal with this or indeed how to make a statement that doesn t blame him. for more on this, my colleague chetan pathak got the thoughts of spanish football journalist guillem balague who says