there was a clash of champions at the etihad stadium as english premier league winners manchester city took on german champions bayern munich while benfica hosted inter milan in the first leg of their quarterfinal. now to bring us up to date with a busy night of action, our reporterjoe linskey has joined us and is with us now. joe, really good to see you. let s start by talking about that game in england, then manchester city. they looked very impressive, didn t they, against bayern munich? paul, this has been one of the great european nights really for manchester city in the champions league, 3 0 winners against the german champions bayern munich at the etihad stadium. city s manager pep guardiola recognising this as a real statement scoreline from his team, but also saying they ll need to be wary of defending that lead properly when they meet again in that second leg next wednesday in bavaria. the spanish midfielder, rodri, he opened the scoring for city with a brilliant cu
inflation and high interest rates, and banking instability have contributed to this year s gloomy economic forecast stock but it is a global recession is not likely stop business reporter katie silver has been looking into this story for us and joins me now on the programme with the details. great to get you on the show. talk through what you have seen today. 50 talk through what you have seen toda . ~ ., , talk through what you have seen toda . ~ .,, , today. so the imf has seen it has been today. so the imf has seen it has been a today. so the imf has seen it has been a perilous - today. so the imf has seen it i has been a perilous combination of vulnerabilities and they are calling on central banks around the world to keep monetary policy tight and that means high interest rates in order to stave off dental economic crisis or a decrease in economic growth. so the fund has revised their forecast for this year and next, lowering both from what was predicted in january by
lots to get through. we will start with football and what was a big night in the champions league. there was a clash of champions at the etihad stadium as english premier league winners manchester city took on german champions bayern munich while benfica hosted inter milan in the first leg of their quarterfinal. now to bring us up to date with a busy night of action, our reporterjoe linskey has joined us and is with us now. joe, really good to see you. let s start by talking about that game in england, then manchester city. they looked very impressive, didn t they, against bayern munich? paul, this has been one of the great european nights really for manchester city in the champions league, 3 0 winners against the german champions bayern munich at the etihad stadium. city s manager pep guardiola recognising this as a real statement scoreline from his team, but also saying they ll need to be wary of defending that lead properly when they meet again in that second leg next wedn
confirms it carried out tuesday s deadly bombing. we speak to the un s special rapporteur on human rights. welcome back to bbc news. more on all of those headline stories in a moment or two, but let s round up the sport needs and head to the bbc sport centre. well, more european football tonight? the runaway siri a leaders, napoli, going to ac milan. frank lampard will need a heroic performance from his chelsea side, who go on to take on holders, real madrid. chelsea s season has been one to forget so far, 3 wins in their last 13 games, 17 points off the top 4 in the premier league with lampard back at stamford bridge as caretaker manager. former chelsea striker chris sutton believes all the focus is on carlo ancelotti s side ahead of this one. everyone is looking at real madrid, the mentality monsters, they always find a way to get out of the hind stop we saw last season some incredible comebacks when they were down and out on the last legs, and they found a way. chelsea hav
and the hard yards that we need to undertake to get this right. hello and welcome to the programme. we will be live in ireland tonight, asjoe biden makes the journey south to his ancestral home. we will be finding what came of his brief visit to belfast today, and what unionists made of the speech he delivered. we ll bring you more of that extraordinary conversation between the bbc s james clayton and elon musk. plenty to disect in that, including musk s confession he only went through with a takeover at twitter, because the judge would have forced him to do it anyway. and who controls the distribution of the abortion pill in america? the us government is in court this next hour, to appeal a decision in texas to suspend the licence. we will get reaction. lets start first with president biden and the speech he gave today marking the 25th anniversary of the good and friday agreement. a speech in which the us president held out the promise of huge us investment if and when stabl