And on Bbc One we nowjoin the bbc s news teams where you are. Hello and welcome to sportsday. Im austin halewood. Coming up this Evening Tonight needs to be the night for arsenal. Can the gunners turn their season around in the Europa League . And i am here at Old Trafford as Manchester United hope to win their semifinaljinx against roma. Concerns grow for the amount of inactive young people as a result of lockdowns over the last year. And darkness doesnt stop play in birmingham. A new league helps cricketers keep playing while observing ramadan. This is great for a lot of us, and wejust want to this is great for a lot of us, and we just want to spread the wealth that everyone can experience at this. We are just really proud of what is going on, it is good to be part of this. Spread the word. Welcome to the programme. Weve had two brilliant games in the Champions League, but tonight its the turn of the Europa League to take centre stage. Manchester United Host roma in the first leg of
hello and welcome to our look ahead to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are eve pollard, a former fleet street editor and kezia dudale who is a former scottish labour leader and now the director of a research center called john smith centre. welcome back to you both. a few more have come in since we last spoke. the i details what it calls the four steps to freedom as borisjohnson reveals his road map for england to leave lockdown. the metro says lockdown could end on midsummer s day 21stjune a celestial ring of fire annual solar eclipse. an crowd could be filling sports stadiums. the telegraph says 118 days until freedom. the paper reports proposals for a major easing of lock down before easter were dropped after the government was warned by scientists that it could lead to an extra 55,000 deaths. the daily mail says the end is in sight but it is going to take months it asks what are we waiting for? the guardian says in a signal of how different
that s about half the state. dallas resident thomas black took this picture. tells cnn he and his girlfriend are running out of food and they are boiling snow for water. i only knew to do that because i had a pouring of outreach giving me tips on how to weather this out and without them, you know, as a texan, we re just not inherently prepared for something like this. austin s water system lost 325 million gallons of water after thousands of pipes burst there. officials say city reservoirs were drained by the water demand and they re warning this could go on for days. u.s. department of health and human services declaring a public health emergency in texas. the lack of water means hospitals can t provide dialysis. crews in san antonio working through the night to put out an apartment building fire that broke out moments after water was shut off to the building. hydrants are frozen so firefighters are trucking water to the scene. roads are so slick and dangerous the red
charge of the recovery act, and it was hard as hell to get the votes to begin with, and then it was hard as hell to get the numbers we got. one thing we learned is we can t do too much here. we can do too little an and sputter. the speech you ll hear follows the jobs report this morning. yes, the employment rate is down, but only 40 million jobs was added to the american economy. that makes it clear that the impacted american economy is still very much in trouble. the senate meeting ended early this morning with the senate passing a budget resolution. this morning the house will take up that resolution and it will clear the runway for democrats most likely to go it alone with a covid relief bill that is very much on top of the wish list. they re meeting with the president this morning at the white house, and the committee chairs said they will start writing details of the budget plan next week. with us to share their reporting and insights, phil mattingly, christine romans
time in a bipartisan way. and so i want to yield to the distinguished chair because the bill that the senate passed is identical to our instructions to the budget as we said to them. get behind the microphone. yeah. the speaker is right. we got the same amount in instructions back from the senate that we passed, so we can pass it with a simple vote today and intend to. then the committees will draft the legislation that actually creates the assignment of those dollars, and we ll bring that back to the floor in just a couple of weeks. and, you know, we only lost two democrats in the vote. they just voted for $1.9 trillion. so we don t anticipate a problem. madam speaker, do you have any concerns that a package this large approaching $2 trillion might sacrifice progressive policies going forward? absolutely not. one of the things that we always discuss is, as we try to address the emergency that we have now, to crush the virus, to save the lives and livelihood of the am