At tomorrow mornings front pages at 10 40 and again at 11 thirty in the paper our guests joining me tonight are the opinion editor of the observer, sonia sodha and the whitehall correspondent at the financial times, sebastian payne. Thats all ahead on bbc news. Now its time for sportsday. Hello and welcome to sportsday imjohn watson. 0ur headlines. Will it be a golden night for the golden girl of british athletics . A night to forget for spurs problems for pochettino how far do their troubles go . And the barret brothers combine to produce the biggest win so far at the rugby world cup. Also coming up in the programme. How andy murray continues to move in the right direction. Yes, Dina Asher Smith could earn another slice of history tonight as she runs in the final of the 200 metres at the wolrd championships. Having already won a silver in the 100, a first place finish later will hand her her first global gold medal, and there could be more to come. Under the lights of doha. Britain ha
Liverpool began the defence of their champions legaue title in naples tonight, familiar surroundings, having lost to napoli in the group stage last season on their way to winning a sixth european title. And that may serve as some confort tonight, because they slipped to another defeat. Nick parrott was watching. Liverpools path the european glory last season was far from easy. And a repeat of their defeat to nap illegal but in the first reigning champions for a quarter century to lose their opening match. The italians were determined to make history from the start but were in the wrong place at the wrong time to make it count. Liverpools success of them built on strong defence and devastating attack but both were absent for much of the match. Their fabled front three were struggling to find the range. But on his Champions League debut, one was on fine form. A hero in their super cup chelsea once again saving the day. His opposite number was just as good at keeping napoli in contention.
From a rare mistake from Virgil Van Dyck to double the lead. Liverpool are first holders to lose the opening game since ac milan 35 years ago. When it felt like all was lost for us and liverpool were all lost, that was when the whole team stayed focused and kept offending. Then, the two goals came from peculiar the situations but we played a very, very complete match. Im very happy for that. It was a game where you where you can win at napoli, but we didnt score, it doesnt really work otherwise. We wanted to have at least a point. Yeah, because of the penalty am pretty sure that there are different views on that situation, but when the playerjumps before, there is contact, then it cannot be a penalty. But we cannot change that anymore, so thats how it is now we carry on. Our football reporter says liverpool shouldnt be too worried by the result. Yes, a bit like last season they lost all of their away games, last season in the group stage. They went on to lift the trophy, so there shoul
Be taking a look ahead. The kings return to royal life as he takes on around 300 new patronages, including some that were closed to his mothers heart. As prince harry prepares to return to the uk and, of course, its Bank Holiday Weekend. So were going to be talking to a retail expert about how you could bag a bargain. This may. Good morning. Its taken 22 years but ipswich are finally back in the big time as victory over huddersfield propelled them back to the premier league in the title race. Four goals for Erling Haaland helped Manchester City keep pace with arsenal as he hit back at family nemesis roy keane. More later , the mixed roy keane. More later, the mixed picture for the rest of the bank houday picture for the rest of the Bank Holiday Weekend, with sunny spells for some, but also some outbreaks of rain and also some showers. Ill have all the details coming up soon. Morning to you. Morning to you. Im Stephen Dixon and im Ellie Costello, and this is breakfast on. Breakfast on.
Brace themselves for more rain. Many residents have had to leave their homes along with the river wye. £20 million in insurance and counting as thousands of farmers way up counting as thousands of farmers way up the damage of storm ciara and storm dennis. A rare defeat for liverpool they were beaten 1 0 by Atletico Madrid in the first leg of their Champions League last 16 tie. It isa it is a cold start to the date with the risk of ice. Many of us will begin with sunshine but the cloud will thicken and we will see rain coming in today, overnight and over affected flooded areas already. I will have more in about ten minutes. More than 300 passengers, who have tested negative for the coronavirus, have disembarked a cruise liner moored off the coast of japan, after 14 days of quarantine. More than 500 people have been infected on the ship the biggest cluster outside mainland china. The uk government is preparing to fly home around 70 british tourists. Simon jones has more. Finally release