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Hello. We ll start with a busy evening of champions league football and a surprising loss for the five time winners of the competition. Barcelona have won theirfirst five la liga games of the season, but they were beaten 2 1 by monaco. Hansi flick s side were forced to play most of the match with 10 men, after defender eric garcia was sent off. George ileni khena scored the winner for the french side, who are back in europe s top competition for the first time in 5 years. They bring in players and it wasn t easy to defend it after ten minutes or 12 minutes, for the game change, totally, but i can see is the positive thing that we try to do first, we tried to defend as a team and also attack as a team and we had chances. But today, we have to accept that. 2 1. Elsewhere, a late header byjose maria gimenez gave atletico madrid a 2 1win over rb leipzig. The german visitors took the lead in the fourth minute but atletico dominated for the most part with 20 attempts on goal before finding t
And thats bbc news at six. Now its time to join our colleagues for the news where you are goodbye. Hello and welcome to sportsday. Iam hugh i am hugh farris. The headlines this evening. Thursday night is Champions League night, for one week only, as arsenal are the final British Club to make their bow. Ben Duckett Stars before england are spun out at Trent Bridge in the first one dayer against australia. And this will be the british Teams Opponent for a place in the Americas Cup, a rematch against italy for Sir Ben Ainslies Boat. We speak to him on sportsday. Each time we learn, we get better, so weve got a better overall package and i think we can Really take it to them this time. Also coming up on the programme fresh from their Win over the world champions, england name a squad for the Wxv Tournament that could have the next World Cup very much in mind. Hello again. Welcome along to sportsday. If the seasons first week of European Football has felt pretty normal so far, it might be t
President zelensky has repeatedly called for permission to use the weapons on targets across the border. He claims it is the only way to end the war. Our political editor, chris mason, has sent this report from the white house. I think the next few weeks and months could be crucial. What does President Biden make of russias threats against the west . I dont think much about that. This is the Blue Room of the white house, the president , the Prime Minister and their team spoke here for about an hour and a half. The war in ukraine dominated the conversation. Afterwards, Sir Keir Starmer wouldnt be drawn on whether he had persuaded the president That Authorising Ukraine To Fire Western Missiles at russia was a good idea. Instead, he said. Theres only One reason were having these discussions and thats because putin has illegally invaded ukraine and the quickest way to resolve this, obviously, lies through what putin actually does. Because its for him to end this, but we are having the disc
Countries in the region including the Czech Republic where 38 locations have declared the highest flood alert. Authorities there say the worst Rainfall And Flood risk should be experienced in the coming 2a to 48 hours. Poland, too, has also experienced heavy rain. Our correspondent in warsaw, Adam Easton, has the latest. Well, what this cyclone is doing, catherine, is causing extremely heavy rainfall which is leading to dangerously high river Levels Water levels in the rivers across the region. Many rivers have burst their banks, and thats causing flooding in many countries particularly, as you mentioned, in romania, where four people have been found dead in the east of the country by the River Danube delta. 5,000 homes have been damaged in the flooding and the romanian authorities have, as you said, set up Displacement Camps and are providing blankets and food for people who have been forced to evacuate their homes. In romania and in the Czech Republic, the floods have caused Tens Of