And while real madrids position might not surprise many, this is real sociedad, leading inter milan in group d. They take on benfica in lisbon. Sevilla are the third la liga side involved on tuesday and they host arsenal. Bayern munich are top of the group that Manchester United and copenhagen are in, the german champions are in turkey to play galatasaray. The Texas Rangers have reached Major League Baseballs world series. Defeating the defending champions in the process. In fact, they demolished the Houston Astros in the pivotal game seven of the American League championship series. Home runs from adolis garcia, corey seager and Nathaniel Lowe saw the rangers wrap up an 11 4 victory. Sending them to the world series for the First Time Since losing back to back fall classics in 2010 and 2011. It was. Remarkably. A seventh straight win in the alcs for the away team. With garcia hitting two homers. Going deep for a fourth consecutive game. Hes an incredible tire talent and we had contrib
Time for a look at the Business News now with tadhg enright. Luxmy gopal, thank you very much. We are going to talk about tax. A new report, funded by the european union, has found that the worlds super rich are still able to pay low rates of tax, despite decades of efforts to reduce evasion. The study says there are still too many loopholes and billionaires are able to pay less than 0. 5 of their wealth. The eu tax observatory, which is behind the report, is calling for a new global minimum tax on billionaires saying that if the richest 3,000 people in the world paid 2 , then it would raise 250 billion a year. Earlier, i spoke to Richard Murphy a Tax Reform Campaigner and professor of accounting practice, Sheffield University Management School and asked how feasible that would be. The good news in this report today is that a lot of measures that are being put in place which i campaigned for over the last 15 years are working. For example, tax havens are now causing one third of the ha
Its parliaments job to draw that line and the thought that may be events at the moment illustrate some of the lines arent in the right place. There have been reports from the Counterterror Commission and Law Commission and more recently from Sirjohn Saunders with the manchester inquiry inquest, talking about the law needs to change to be stronger at dealing with extremism and the Home Secretary and her colleagues are thinking hard about that. So, a constructive meeting in difficult times where sober and determined thought is required. That was sir mark rowley. The Environment Agency has warned there could be further flooding in the north of england and the midlands following torrential rain from storm babet. Across england, there are more than 100 Flood Warnings in place. And in scotland, first Minster Humza Yousaf has been visiting brechin one of the worst hit areas. Well have more on that in a moment, but first Greg Mackenzie has this report. Residents from more than 500 homes in thi
Targets. The countrys defence minister, yoav gallant, has warned the Military Campaign against hamas, which is designated a Terrorist Organisation by the uk and other western governments, could take up to three months. Saying the focus now is on limited airstrikes. Officials in gaza say more than 5,000 people have been killed by air strikes in the just over two weeks since hamas massacred 1,400 civilians in southern israel. Hamas massacred civilians here in southern israel. While the war continues, israel has said it will continue to allow aid into gaza but not fuel. With electricity already cut many hospitals say they have only a few days of fuel left to power generators. With more, heres our correspondent wyre davies. You may find some of his report distressing. Its a part of gaza where people should have felt relatively safe, the southern part of the strip is for israel and ordered more than a million palestinians to play away from their targets in the north but last night was the w
Results which were pleasing i think weve had a level of performance in every game that has made us very competitive against all opponents at home and away. Weve had some eventful games within that context but again, thats given us a Strong Foundation in terms of character and resilience of the group. Its been an encouraging start and where that will lead us, well find out. Now, remember the name. Marc guiu. The 17 year old made his senior debut for barcelona last night, coming off the bench. And then afterjust 33 seconds scored the winner. He came on in the 79th minute and tookjust two touches to score against athletic bilbao. Its the fastest First League Goal for barcelona in the clubs history. Every young footballers dream. The 17 year old spanish forward came on for Fellow Youngster Fermin Lopez in the 79th minute and struck almost immediately. |t means he has we always try to be confident with our players. From 17 years old i see them ready. The difference in this generation is the