first champions league final in 13 years. they beat city rivals ac milan 2 0 at the san siro to grab the advantage heading into next week s second leg. earlier, i spoke to our european football reporter john bennett for his take on an eventful night. an astonishing start, dzeko with a brilliant side foot volley on just eight minutes. then three minutes later, henrikh mkhitaryan. a parting of the ways of the ac milan defence, he runs through makes it 2 0, and it could easily have been 3 0. the referee gave a penalty. martinez going down, a challenge by simon kjaer. it was then overturned. the var told the referee to go to the screen. he changed his mind and ac milan didn t have a shot on target until the 81st minute, inter hit the post. milan did hit the woodwork as well, tonali, but they were completely outplayed advantage inter they ve got one foot in the final. inter milan will be the hosts if you will in that second leg with both into an ac playing their home games at the
a fiery field hearing taking place just a block away from progress da alvin bragg s office with absolutely harrowing testimony from new york city crime victims and their families. victims like joseph borgen a jewish man who was brazenly beaten by four men in broaddaylight. his attackers were only give an six-month plea deal. he only punched my son once. . perhaps some of the most dramatic moments came when madeline whose son was brutally stabbed to death nine times for significantly lowering the charges against two of her son s alleged attackers. i was totally disrespected. me, my family, my grand children, we were treated like garbage. like garbage. while republicans say the hearing was intended to highlight just how progressive policies are making america less safe, democrats dismissed it as political payback for bragg s indictment of former president donald trump. they insist the big apple is indeed safe. the chairman says this hearing is about violent crime in m
trump. the jury did this at the urging of a man called alvin bragg, the district attorney who have been famous by making the city much more dangerous by refusing to enforce laws against crimes like robbery or rape. we don t know what the indictment says or what the charges are, but previous news reports suggest they ll imminent from an alleged payment seven years ago, alvin bragg apparently believes it is a crime. the net results is donald trump is the first former president trump of the united states ever to be indicted. so, no matter what happens next we can be certain there is no coming back from this moment. there could be retaliations from red states. desantis issued a statement saying he ll not participate in any extradition of donald trump to new york, that s apparently scheduled by next week. we are not certain of the full outlines of this story but we know this moment is a historic one. we want to set tonight in fact, those that we have so far, we ll do that as we al
measure designed to protect the swiss economy. both banks will be given a liquidity assistance loan of up to $110 billion. ukraine condemns president putin after he visits the devastated city of mariupol captured during the russian invasion. an aide to president zelensky called him a criminal returning to the scene of his crime. environmental scientists prepare to unveil eight years work showing the global scale of the climate change. this report is expected to become the benchmark for world governments on how to respond to the growing crisis. serbia s president, aleksandar vucic, says he has declined to sign a proposal by the european union intended to normalise relations with kosovo. the eu has been trying to broker a deal, 15 years after kosovo declared independence. you re watching bbc news. coming up click but first it s time for sportsday hello and welcome to sportsday i m gavin ramjaun. 8 points clear and flying arsenal put crystal palace away at the emirates
by the european union intended to normalise relations with kosovo. you re watching bbc news.coming up it s the travel show but first it s time for sportsday hello and welcome to sportsday i m gavin ramjaun. a five star showing from brighton as the premier league side end grimsby s fa cup dreams of wembley semi final. 8 points clear and flying arsenal put crystal palace away at the emirates, with saka on the scoresheet twice. and exeter beat london irish in extra time to win the premiership rugby cup. from the bbc sports centre, this is sportsday. hello there, and welcome along to sportsday. as the fa cup quarter finals come to their conclusion. and real cracker to finish with. manchester united got the better of fulham at old trafford. in a fiery encounter. it was a relatively quiet first half but it really sparked after half time. fulham took the lead thanks to aleksander mitrovic. who would later go from hero to villain. willian was judged to have handled on the lin