The governments promised all students who achieved the required a level grades will be offered a place at their First Choice University. A prominent critic of the russian government is in intensive care his supporters say hes been poisoned. A man is found guilty of lacing baby food with shards of metal in a plot to blackmail the Supermarket Chain tesco. Good afternoon and welcome to bbc news. Hashem abedi the brother of the Manchester Arena bomber has been sentenced to at least 55 years injail, for the murder of 22 people. Abedi refused to attend his two day sentencing hearing and face the families of those who died, who gave emotional statements about the impact of the attack in 2017. Number 10 have issued a statment from boris johnson, the Prime Minister, on the sentencing of hashem abedi. Mrjohnson says, the Manchester Arena attack was a horrifying and cowardly act of violence which targeted children and families. Those who were taken from us will never be forgotten, nor will the sp
District could be dead today. The water level at a derbyshire dam has been reduced by more than three metres in the battle to prevent it collapsing. Whaley bridge residents are still being told they cant return home. Heathrow airport holds last minute talks with unions in an attempt to avert strikes next week but they say airlines have started to contact passengers on affected flights. Boris johnson announces £1. 8 billion of extra funding for hospitals in england. A daredevil french inventor has succeeded in crossing the English Channel on a jet powered hoverboard injust 20 minutes. Lets get the latest now concerning events in america. We go to el paso, texas where we had that mass shooting takes place. There is a news c0 nfe re nce shooting takes place. There is a News Conference in place. Lets listen in. We will provide that information to you after everyone here speaks in turn. Thank you, good morning. Today, the fbi continues to look at a number of different potential crimes to b
as sofia kenin stunned second seeded sabalenka in straight sets at the rome open. hello and welcome to the programme. lots to get through, but we ll start with football on another big night of european action with the semi finals of both the europa league and the europa conference league under way in turin. juventus left it very, very late to snatch a draw at home to four time europa league champions severe. the spanish side had led through youssef and nasri in the first half, but they couldn t hang on for victory. federico gatti with uva s equaliser in the seventh minute of stoppage time. and then the semifinal roma have the advantage after beating bayer leverkusen 1 0 eduardo bove with the only goal midway through the second half withjose mourinho s side. the second leg for both ties are next thursday. in the europa conference league, it was a night of fight back. fc basel scored a stoppage time winner to come from behind to beat fiorentina 2 1 in italy, while west ham scor
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