in the texan city of uvalde later today, after a teenage gunman killed 19 children and two teachers. one of the greatestjockeys of all time, lester piggott, who won the derby nine times, has died at the age of 86. welcome to the programme. liverpool football club has called for an investigation into what it describes as unacceptable issues faced by fans trying to get into the stadium in paris last night to watch the champions league final. the match was delayed by more than half an hour after liverpool fans were held outside the stadium, and police used pepper spray and tear gas. some merseyside police officers at the game described it as the worst european match they d experienced. dan johnson reports. these are scenes any football fan will find uncomfortable, and not what you d expect to see at the biggest european final in 2022. thousands of supporters frustrated and angry after the french police reached quickly for the tear gas as they struggled to get everyone to their
one of the greatestjockey s of all time lester piggott, who won the derby 9 times, has died at the age of 86. hello, welcome to the programme. i want to take us live to the us. these are live pictures from texas, where president biden and the first lady are just arriving from delaware. this is the town, of course, that has witnessed the school shooting that killed 19 children and two teachers. president biden is visiting today. he will meet with the families, and of course, this is something deeply unpleasant, and unfortunate ritual biden is used to playing. of course himself his family has lost family members, he is all too familiar with the grieving process and he hopes that his visit there will show some kind of strength and solidarity to so many families affected there. the difficult balance he will have to strike, though, is this is an area of the us where guns are integral to so many people. so many people have guns there. so talk of gun control at a time like this is f
is a pan european problem. i, for instance, do not at all like going to games on the iberian peninsula with the way in which they are policed as well. you are dealing with a number of different police cultures. i mean, ours isn t fantastic at times but, you know, i feel safer going to turf moor then back to the stade de france. let me make that crystal clear. so, you know, i think that is a complex question and it will take some solving at this stage in proceedings. but first and foremost, i think there has got to be big questions into uefa s practices. uefa are the pan european body, and then within there, they are the ones who organised this event. they have put an event on an they have done it in on and they have done it in such a way that football supporters were left to feel unsafe en masse. this is not one or two instances, this is a huge number of liverpool supporters, whether they were caught up beforehand or after, almost everybody was caught up in one aspect of it,
i have adopted it. steve: i m from the country. brian: we re in a country, so much in common. one guy on stage in las vegas shooting, jason aldean. this he created. he talked about crime in music and used footage of crime happening and wrote a song, a great song. then everything hit the fan. ainsley: try that in a small town, you can t do riots, we wouldn t stand for it. watch the video. spit in a cop s face, stomp on a flag and light it up. you think it s us. try that in a small town. see how far you make it down the road. around here, we take care of our
at this stage of proceedings. it looks great but all the infrastructure around it doesn t quite work. and it is important, you know, i am really pleased that the mayor of liverpool has spoken out and demanded answers and asked for the british government s help on this. we have got to understand why it is. we re customers, you know, they want to treat us like customers, they want to charge us a fortune for the tickets, so treat us like customers, then. we are all paying good money to go to these matches, good money to spend time in paris, therefore treat us like customers. the idea that you would go to a play and even be expected to be there two hours before, which most liverpool supporters were, i hasten to add, but the idea you go to the theatre and say, you have got to get there two hours before, but by the way, if we still can t get you in, that s your fault. that is absolutely ridiculous. we wouldn t stand for it anywhere else. it is time we stopped standing for it in football a