the labour run council is struggling to pay off a huge bill for equal pay claims that dates back more than a decade. it has also had major issues with a new it system. our midlands correspondent navteonhal is there. the first thing to say is that the city council here has not stopped functioning, it has a legal duty to provide certain services and they will continue, but this is a signal to government ofjust how dire the financial situation is here, and admission that the council here cannot pay its bills. the people i have spoken to around birmingham say they are worried about what the future may hold. but for those who have been watching the saga closely, in some ways today has felt inevitable. the pressure on this city s finances has been rising and rising, and europe s biggest local authority is now in big trouble. the news that their council is, in effect, declaring itself bankrupt has left many people living in birmingham shocked and angry. oh my god, i ve never heard o
up with all that with ruby alice. build up was one of the main systems of rubiales. the new federation doesn t want to mix rubiales with the new federation. second thing, the government is pushing a lot to sac vilda. third, with vilda, no one spanish world player will go to the national team, so no way for him to be national coach. so it s montse tome who will now take charge she had been part of vilda s coaching team. the former levante midfielder won four caps with spain and will take charge of their upcoming games against sweden and switzerland this month. england s men s football squad have been training at st george s park ahead of their euro 2024 qualifier with ukraine on saturday. amongst them isjordan henderson. he has given his first interview to the media after leaving liverpool tojoin the saudi pro league. in the interview with the athletic, henderson says he was really hurt after being criticised forjoining al ettifaq. he has been a vocal supporter of the lgbt
and stopped from coming to the city two days earlier, the prosecution said enrique tarrio organised, orchestrated and took credit for what happened that day. the 39 year old was dressed head to toe in a prison issue orange jumpsuit as he listened to his lawyers urge thejudge for clemency. the state had asked for 33 years in jail, but as tarrio himself took the stand, he sounded contrite, he apologised for his actions and said he was embarrassed by what he had done. he also said he now believed donald trump had lost the 2020 election. nonetheless, the judge said he should be sentenced to 22 years in jail, and thus the most important and most senior member of the proud boys to take part in the riot of january the 6th will now serve the longest prison sentence yet handed down to orchestrators of what happened that day. more than 1,100 people who participated in or plotted the events of january 6th have been arrested and around 500 of them have been sentenced to prison or house a
that black spirit, that darkness. he just points the gun at my forehead. the first thing i started thinking of was my children. at first i was saying what does kidnap mean? my dad was stolen by bad guys. i lost everything that i knew just like that, gone. it was such a mystery, who was behind this. it was just tearing me apart. i was suffering so much. we if it takes everything we have, everything i can humanly do. i saw things that no 12 -year-old should see. i mean just the cruelty of incredible fear and agony. when is this going to end? and all the hell that we went through on all the pain has made us unbreakable. the green and white taxi parallel down the highway, something was wrong. why had the man paid ten times the fair for a simple package delivery? we can didn t pry open the alarm full of. the cabbie pried open the package. their terrifying story, more than a decade in the making was about to come to an astonishing climax. i was 12 years ol
labour sjeremy corbyn pleads for an end to sleeping rough. the search for an elderly british woman missing from the queen mary 2 ocean liner heading to the caribbean is called off. a 74 year old had been reported missing in the early hours of friday. sam allardyce is back in football at crystal palace. the former england manager has signed a two and a half year deal at selhurst park following the sacking of alan pardew. this year the queen celebrated her 90th birthday. daniela relph looks back on the momentous occasion and other events in the royal calendar in review 2016: the royal year. band plays happy birthday. it was the year of a big birthday, a queen at 90. happy birthday plays. for some of her grandchildren and great grandchildren, a trip to canada, the first official overseas visit as a family of four. the duke and duchess of cambridge were also in india, a reminder of royal visits past. applause. and for prince harry, a new relationship highlighted the tricky balanc