manager steve cooper. the club are 17th in the table, five points ahead of third bottom luton and have picked upjust one point from their past six games. cooper was a popular figure among forest fans having brought the club up from the championship in 2022 and he kept them in the premier league last season. but he has gone and this is the man who is favourite to replace cooper, the former wolves and tottenham boss who has spoken to nottingham forest about the job and he was sacked by saudi pro league club al etihad last month having won the league title there the previous season and more reaction to this breaking news on the bbc sport website. the english and european champions manchester city are hoping to add the club world cup to their impressive trophy haul in 2023. they re playing japanese side urawa red diamonds injeddah on tuesday for a place in the final against the copa libertadores winners fluminese. city are boosted by the return of key player kevin de bruyne, fina
on our house in terms of what we will end up doing to our fellow human being. if you think of a scale, on one side of the scale it s like the current situation in venezuela, which is quite dire, as it is in cuba, what would we do to even the scales, to get to a point where what we were doing produced an equal amount of desperation. yes. it s unthinkable. a quarter of venezuela s gone. staggering, thank you my friend, as always. thanks to at-home for joining us this hour. on november 4th of 2008, america elected its first black president. senator john mccain had called senator barack obama to concede the race, and as he began to deliver his concession speech before a crowd in phoenix, arizona, this happened. a little while ago, i had the honor of calling senator barack obama to congratulate him. [crowd chanting] please. to congratulate him. on being elected the next president of the country that we both love. john mccain. gently, but firmly, and managing a crowd of
16 countries take the stage in liverpool later for the second semifinal. sticking with the eurovision theme, we are in liverpool at the shopping centre right in the heart of liverpool, surrounded by these beautiful eggs, i will tell you about them later on. the bank of england is expected to raise interest rates again today to 4.5%, the highest level in 15 years. it will be the 12th consecutive hike since december 2021, meaning mortgage payments could rise further for millions of customers. our business correspondent hannah miller reports. this is the first home gheev has owned, bought with his girlfriend two months ago. but since they agreed their mortgage, the monthly payments have gone up twice in line with the base rate of interest set by the bank of england. when we were coming to find a mortgage, the fixed rates were astronomically high. we figured that if the bank of england base rate goes up by another two or three percentage points, we re actually better off staying