only one place to start the confrontation billed as a potential title decider was a one sided affair as manchester city dominated premier league leaders arsenal to strike a psychological blow at the etihad stadium. pep guardiola s side, now two points behind arsenal with two games in hand, were inspired by the partnership of this man kevin de bruyne and erling haaland. de bruyne got city s opener after seven minutes and then the belgian crossed forjohn stones to double city s lead before half time de bruyne capped off a vintage performance with his second after the break before, who else but, haaland scored his side s fourth. gunners defender rob holding scored arsenal s goal, 4 1 the final score. city can now go top with victory at fulham on sunday. a very good game from both aspect. defensive, the concentration, how aggressive we were to create enviroments and moments and our buildup was much better. a fantastic performance. you can t throw it away because you lost a ga
an investigation into a letter she wrote about racism for the british newspaper, the observer. the dutch siffan hassan and the kenyan kelvin kiptum have won the race for female and male categories in the london marathon. hello, i m rich preston a very warm welcome to bbc news. a growing number of foreign diplomats and their families have been airlifted to safety from the sudanese capital, khartom, as fighting between rivalfactions of the army enters a second week. the uk, france and the us are among those to remove embassy staff under the cover of darkness. the british evacuees are on their way back to the uk, via cyprus. the situation for other nationals in sudan remains unclear. in the last couple of hours we ve seen a french military plane arriving at one of france s airbases in dijibouti said to be carrying european diplomats and citizens. with the latest here s our africa correspondent, andrew harding. amid the bombs and the gunfire in khartoum today, a series of drama
this historic fight. we hope that this year the 2023 will become a year of victory, this unprovoked and criminal, russia s waragainst ukraine and against the whole world. in other news, the family of nicola bulley describe their agony as police find a body in the river near the place she went missing. scotland s finance secretary, kate forbes, becomes the third candidate to enter the leadership contest to replace nicola sturgeon as first minister. bbc analysis shows that some of britain s local bus networks have been slashed by more than a third. and after a tour of the uk, dippy the dinosaurfinds a new home in coventry. good afternoon. welcome to the bbc news channel. us presidentjoe biden has made a surprise visit to kyiv his first to ukraine since russia invaded almost a year ago. he met ukraine s president, volodmyr zelensky and both men visited a memorial for ukraine s war dead. at a news conference mr biden announced more military, political and financial support for
arrived in birmingham for the conservative party conference, as she admits that there has been disruption in the uk economy following the mini budget. the ukrainian military says it has regained control of the strategic eastern town of lyman in the donetsk region from russian troops just a day after moscow annexed the area. now on bbc news, it s time for sportsday. hello and welcome to sportsday. i m gavin ramjaun. who can catch arsenal at the top? mikel arteta s side are too good for tottenham in the north london derby. keeping the pressure on rangers hit four past hearts, but rivals celtic end the day top. it s pole for leclerc in singapore and a spanner in the works for verstappen as he chases a second f1 title. welcome to the programme. arsenal s superb start to the season goes on, after a dominant performance in the north london derby to beat rivals tottenham 3 1 this lunchtime. spurs weren t helped by a red card as they missed the chance to leapfrog their riva
people do we want to? what skills do we want them to have? or be happy to have doctors and nurses coming? or be happy to have fruit pickers coming because my cleaners? social care workers? what countries are we going to get them from and what limits are going to put on those visas? that s all very fair, reasonable questions. that s a separate question from how you deal with illegal migration and asylum seekers and asylum claims which is what we are seeing with people crossing the channel in the small boats and we absolutely see it as a tragic situation in various migrant processing facilities in kent. what you ve got to remember about asylum seekers and illegal crossings is that there are two main reasons that people do this, one that they are chancing their luck and they think that they might be able to make a serious asylum claim tickets excepted, but the other reason is that they are genuine refugees fleeing all kinds of situations, some of them climate related, geopolitic