Where west ham have comfortably beaten freiburg to reach the last eight of the competition. West ham put themselves 2 0 up at half time, to take a 2 1 lead on aggregate in the tie, but went on to win 5 0, Mohamed Kudus with a brace, to win the tie 5 1. It means david moyes has led the team to a european quarter final for the third year in a row. Elsewhere, rangers are out after being beaten 1 0 on the night by benfica at ibrox. While liverpool scored four in the opening 15 minutes against Sparta Prague they won the first leg 5 1 rememeber, so safe to say theyll be in the next round. Brighton dont look likely to bejoining them, 4 0 down against roma from the first leg. It is goalless there. And Bayer Leverkusen Versus Karabec is also goalless. In the europa conference league, aston villa v ajax. Ollie watkins escort for aston villa and i can tell you as well Ollie Watkins has just gone off injured but aston villa are leading i o. Rory mcilroy has had a great start to the players champio
lava start to erupt from the ground like a fountain. then the icelandic coastguard then flew over the area in a helicopter capturing these amazing images of the lava erupting and spewing across the landscape. of the lava erupting and spewing the authorities have already evacuated the nearly 4,000 inhabitants of the fishing town of grindavik. the area is a volcanic and seismic hot spot south west of the capital. and these are the live pictures at just after 10am local time in iceland. louisa pilbeam has more. it s a breathtaking sight. the volcanic eruptions on the reykjanes peninsula transformed iceland s night sky. 0ne witness took this video, as they were driven past, as lava spews from the volcano. but with this display of nature s power comes the obvious danger to human life. scientists knew this was coming for weeks a series of earthquakes and changes to the ground were the early signs. everyone was prepared. they evacuated the town exactly when they should have done.
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i m katy tur. the midterms did not go so well, for the gop, instead of a red wave, it was a trickle, one that could look more like a single drip if the pressure on george santos wins out. stay tuned on him for a moment. why did republicans don t so poorly? candidate quality was surely in play. denying the election was not exactly a winning strategy. and showing some controversy fatigue. all of the trump daum weighed the party down. but one of the biggest reasons republicans massively underperformed was arguably abortion. the overturning of roe v. wade, a gop dream for decades, was more of a nightmare for the general election. the party paid the price. instead of backing away from what was proven to be a wildly unpopular position, house republicans are running right toward it. today, the first two votes, speaker kevin mccarthy will bring to the floor will be on abortion. the first, protecting so-called pregnancy centers, and the second, protecting babies born alive after late
welcome to the programme. iraq s president has said an early election could resolve the political unrest gripping the country. to those who have taken their eye off iraq, the violence that broke out in baghdad yesterday, might have looked like a sudden eruption of rage. in fact, the sectarian anger has been simmering for years. the country is riddled with corruption, it has not had a functioning government since the october elections and the spiralling cost of living is pushing iraq towards an existential crisis. the spark that ignited these protests yesterday was the sudden announcement by the shia cleric, muqtadr al sadr, that he was withdrawing from political life. sadr has been a major player in iraq since 2003, when his supporters known then as the mehdi army, began attacks on coalition troops. in october, the sadrists won the most seats in parliament but refused to form a coalition with the mostly shi ite iran backed parties. injune, sadr asked all of his mps to resign