you re very welcome along to sportsday, wherever you are watching around the world. let s start, then, with football as liverpool cruised into the europa league knockout stages with a match to spare as a 4 0 victory over lask confirmed their place as group winners. they fired out of the blocks and were 2 0 up inside 15 minutes, thanks to luis diaz and cody gakpo. mo salah added a third from the penalty spot before gapko made it four in stoppage time. and as toulouse didn t beat union saint gilloise, it means liverpool cannot be caught at the top of group e. well, elsewhere, roberto de zerbi says it s a historic day for brighton as they beat aek athens to book their spot in the knockout phase of the europa league. the club are playing in europe for the first time in their history and joao pedro scored the only goal of the game from the penalty spot to give them the win and if brighton beat marseille in theirfinal group game, they would avoid the knockout play offs stage. el
Singapore, midnight in london, and 7pm in washington, where President Trump has roped in global diplomatic norms by saying he would be open to meeting with north Korean Leader kim jong un. The president said he would be honoured to meet mr kim under the right circumstances. That may worry americas allies. Japan has just sent its biggest warship to protect a navy supply vessel, a historic first for tokyo. A short time ago mr trump spoke of the danger posed by north korea to the region and beyond. I can say this. He is very threatening, he is a big threat to the world. How safe our troops in the world. How safe our troops in the demilitarised zone, and our ally in south korea, how safe are they with some of the Defence Systems we have provided, and what is the status of those . Well, nobody is safe. The guy has nuclear weapons. I would like to say they are very safe. These are great, brave soldiers, these are great trips. And we know the situation, with 20,000 troops on the line, and the
The European Union. Our Political Correspondent ben wright reports. May day means a bite and barrows festival in this lancashire village. And people seem keen to peddle their politics. But the election was not the main concern here this morning. A different sort of contest was. Ready to shoot. The tories are targeting many marginal seats like this in lancashire. And their message that wrecks that negotiations are going to be tough and that theresa may is best placed to handle them sits at the heart of their election campaign. But this tough . A german newspaper has published an account by unnamed eu officials of a dinner held last week at number ten between theresa may and the eu negotiating team. It describes deep disagreements between the two sites. According to the paper, the Prime Minister and the Eu Commission president , Jean Claude Juncker, seen here before the dinner, clashed over the exit bill britain must pay, the structure of the talks, and the prospects of a quick trade dea
The European Union. Our Political Correspondent ben wright reports. May day means a bite and barrows festival in this lancashire village. And people seem keen to peddle their politics. But the election was not the main concern here this morning. A different sort of contest was. Ready to shoot. The tories are targeting many marginal seats like this in lancashire. And their message that wrecks that negotiations are going to be tough and that theresa may is best placed to handle them sits at the heart of their election campaign. But this tough . A german newspaper has published an account by unnamed eu officials of a dinner held last week at number ten between theresa may and the eu negotiating team. It describes deep disagreements between the two sites. According to the paper, the Prime Minister and the Eu Commission president , Jean Claude Juncker, seen here before the dinner, clashed over the exit bill britain must pay, the structure of the talks, and the prospects of a quick trade dea
The European Union. Our Political Correspondent ben wright reports. May day means a bite and barrows festival in this lancashire village. And people seem keen to peddle their politics. But the election was not the main concern here this morning. A different sort of contest was. Ready to shoot. The tories are targeting many marginal seats like this in lancashire. And their message that wrecks that negotiations are going to be tough and that theresa may is best placed to handle them sits at the heart of their election campaign. But this tough . A german newspaper has published an account by unnamed eu officials of a dinner held last week at number ten between theresa may and the eu negotiating team. It describes deep disagreements between the two sites. According to the paper, the Prime Minister and the Eu Commission president , Jean Claude Juncker, seen here before the dinner, clashed over the exit bill britain must pay, the structure of the talks, and the prospects of a quick trade dea