tonight there are going to be many households with split loyalties. let s speak to one of them. joining me are rob and julie smith and their two sons, sebastian and marcus. rob moved to denmark 20 years ago and will be supporting england. julie will be supporting the danes and as for sebastian and marcus, they are undecided! rob, you had a feeling this meet up between england and denmark could be on the cards when you look at the groups up at the beginning of the tournament. we groups up at the beginning of the tournament- tournament. we saw it coming actuall . tournament. we saw it coming aetually- we tournament. we saw it coming actually. we were tournament. we saw it coming actually. we were worried. - tournament. we saw it coming - actually. we were worried. denmark didn t do too well in the first two games and we thought it might not happen but they did a good job of turning it around. england have been really good the whole tournament. much rivalry in the house in the build
evening. this is the scene live as many of them are arriving very early, three hours before kick off. there will be some danish fans here but the vast majority of those ends the stadium will be cheering on england. i m jane hill. the other main stories labour says the easing of covid restrictions in england will cause a summer of chaos. grilled by mps, the prime minister has defended his strategy. all these decisions are a balance of risk, all these decisions are a balance of risk, and all these decisions are a balance of risk, and by all these decisions are a balance of risk, and by the 16th of august, we will have risk, and by the 16th of august, we will have put many more jabs into people s will have put many more jabs into people s arms. the government s confirmed that the £20 a week universal credit top up will be phased out in the autumn. one of india s most accomplished and respected film stars, dilip kumar, has died at the age of 98.
then it mightjust happen. there ll be 60,000 fans in the stadium, some of them danish, but the vast majority cheering on england. labour says the easing of covid restrictions in england will cause a summer of chaos but the prime minister has defended his strategy. the government s confirmed that the £20 a week universal credit top up will be phased out in the autumn. one of india s most accomplished and respected film stars, dilip kumar, has died at the age of 98. sport now, and a full round up, from the bbc sport centre. good afternoon. you will forgive us. it never ceases
to the truly terrible. how anxious were you about taking this on? i decided if i was going to do it, i wanted to do a very, very good one. and i suppose the only song that i really felt like it would great if i could get somewhere near would be you ll never walk alone. notjust because i am a liverpool fan, but i just think that song, it encapsulates a lot of feelings, really. # three lions on a shirt. # jules rimet still gleaming.# then it was the small matter of the lyrics. the hosts of tv s fantasy football david baddiel and frank skinner added the words. a combination that created a classic. as soon as i saw it, i realised they wrote an absolutely brilliant lyric. which i certainly wouldn t have been able to do. and itjust encapsulated everything that i hoped it would. it has since sold more than1 million copies
england are hoping to make history tonight, when they play denmark in the semi finals of the euros. if they win, they ll face italy in their first major final since 1966. olly foster looks ahead to the big match. this england team don t like to dwell on the past. the history hurts. but they can afford to look back at the last three weeks as a job very well done. commentator: then plays it into sterling! the rise of raheem sterling, his first goals at a major tournament took them to the top of their group. in comes the captain! harry kane joined the party quite late, but what an entrance that was against germany. pickford who saves it. what a good hand. they haven t conceded a goal yet. mason mount with the corner. there s another one. and then that game in rome against ukraine.