at that stage, anfield was rocking with the home side 2 0 up but real madrid came back with two goals before the half. from vinicius junior. the from viniciusjunior. the second of those from a goalkeeping howler from the liverpool goalkeeper. two goalkeeping blunders tonight. after half time, real madrid took control. three goals in the second half. two of them from karim benzema, which meant that real madrid, having been 2 0 down, won 5 2 on the night. quite extraordinary, and it means liverpool has a mountain to climb in the second leg in real madrid in three weeks time. napoli took charge of their tie against eintracht frankfurt , beating them 2 0 in germany. the runaway italian league leaders had a penalty saved before victor osimihen scored his 20th goal of the season. frankfurt had a man sent off as napoli controlled the game and giovanni di lorenzo made it 2 0 after an hour. they ll be favourites to progress in the second leg in italy in three weeks time. leeds unite
for their country will prevail. we ll be hearing from steve rosenberg in moscow, sarah smith in warsaw, and jeremy bowen, who s in kyiv. also on the programme: it s just been announced that strike action by nurses in england is being paused. the royal college of nursing says it is starting talks with the government tomorrow over the long running dispute. some supermarkets begin limiting the amount of fruit and veg you can buy because of problems with supplies. and the world s biggest trial of a four day working week. it took place here, in the uk. it s popular, but does it work? and coming up on the bbc news channel liverpool and real madrid meet again in the champions league with the premier league team hoping to change their recent form against the defending champions. good evening and welcome to the bbc news at six, live from kharkiv, in north east ukraine, just 20 miles from the russian border. which is that day. we have been hearing air raid sirens sounding periodicall
you for what you re doing and god you for what you re doing and god you all. presidentjoe biden with a pretty defiant speech stressing the united states and nato allies, support for ukraine will not waiver speaking of course in the run up to the first anniversary of russia s full scale invasion of ukraine. he has been in warsaw and a cheering crowd there that as he put it, president putin lust for power and land would fail. he painted the struggle as a generational one for freedom he said that autocrats had grown weaker over the last year and all of that, of course follows what president vladimir putin was saying in moscow this morning when he delivered a fiercely anti western and nationalistic address to russian parliamentarians. putin accused the west of provoking the war in ukraine of starting the war of escalating the conflict of trying to defeat russia it s self. the white house called his allegations absurd while ukrainian officials said that his speech was laden with c
ash wednesday will be cooler with outbreaks of rain around. the weather is changing but perhaps only briefly. a colourful end today in yorkshire with the clouds thickening up yorkshire with the clouds thickening up and bringing some rain. the clouds moving up from northern france bringing the first rain for quite awhile across eastern england. also thickening cloud bringing rain across scotland, northern ireland, heading into wales and western parts of england. lots of cloud and rain developing over many areas overnight and temperatures probably staying at five or six by the end of the night. quite a change in the weather. we will see the back of the rain in eastern scotland in the morning and then for scotland and northern ireland we ll get some sunshine, a scattering of showers, cold enough for wintriness over the hills in scotland. we keep some showers and longer spells of rain across england and wales, particularly cloudy across eastern england. temperatures as a result w
analysis from moscow, warsaw, kyiv, and beijing, on china s potential role in the war. and the other main stories on tonight s programme. nurses in england suspend next week s 48 hour strike action to restart pay talks with the government. supply problems with fruit and veg now some supermarkets are limiting the amount you can buy. and liverpool are trounced by real madrid in the champions league. and coming up on the bbc news channel. leeds united have their man at last. former watford boss javi gracia takes charge, following the sacking ofjesse marsch with the club currently in the relegation zone. good evening, live from kharkiv in north east ukraine just 20 miles from the russian border, just over there. air raid sirens have been going off, and we are within the range of long range missiles from russia. behind me is the city but you cannot see it because we are in curfew and also people are trying to conserve energy in the middle of this war. this is the day that pr