yesterday was the hottest day of the year so far and we will see more hot sunny weather across united kingdom and again the risk of heavy and thundery downpours and we will have all the details throughout the programme. it s sunday the 11th ofjune. our main story: manchester city s long awaited mission to win the champions league ended in victory last night after they beat inter milan 1-0. it means the team are bringing home the historic treble, lifting all three major trophies in one season. john is in istanbul for us this morning. john, what a night! good morning. what a night indeed! yes, this is the first european cup for manchester city in their 143 year history and long time coming but at long last they can call themselves the kings of europe. the players are still celebrating inside the team hotel in istanbul this morning. what a long night it was, notjust for the morning. what a long night it was, not just for the supporters morning. what a long night it was, notjust
protests spread across the world following the death in custody of a young woman in iran. # starry, starry night. # paint your palate blue and grey. and painting with words. why the hand written lyrics of this famous song could sell for more than $1 million. hello and welcome. the war in ukraine has dominated the united nations general assembly in new york. in his speech, president zelensky said russia must face just punishment for its aggression against his country. he called for a special war tribunal to hold russia accountable and for a compensation fund to make it pay for the war. the new british prime minister, liz truss, promised to sustain military support for ukraine for as long as it took. she said the international alliance remained strong and threats by the russian leader, vladimir putin, would not work. our un correspondent barbara plett usher has the latest. on the second day of the general assembly, there were some strong calls for nations to stand firm in bac
attack on the company. and coming up we will hearfrom manchester united legend eric cantona, about his new art exhibition which chronicles the relationship between sport and modern society. good afternoon. the manchester city footballer, benjamin mendy, has been found not guilty of six counts of rape, and one count of sexual assault. jurors were unable to reach a verdict on one count of rape and one of sexual assault. it follows a six month trial at chester crown court. our north of england correspondent, danny savage, is there. tell us what happened today. we ve had this trial tell us what happened today. we ve had this trial ongoing tell us what happened today. we ve had this trial ongoing since - tell us what happened today. we ve had this trial ongoing since last - had this trial ongoing since last summer here in chester. thejury began listening to evidence back in august. they retired to consider their verdicts just before christmas and have been back for nearly two
Uk actionline. This is bbc news, the headlines. A crucial day in Donald Trumps Hush Money Trial in new york. His former lawyer Michael Cohen admits he lied to getjobs done for his former boss and intimidated reporters on the former president s behalf. The uk government says it will appeal against a ruling by a Belfast Court that parts of the rwanda policy should not apply in Northern Ireland. The bbc sees new evidence that the British Government was warned by its embassy in washington as long ago as the 1980s about the risks from contaminated american blood products. Turning now to a potential setback in the uk governments plan, to detain and remove Asylum Seekers to rwanda. Ajudge sitting in the high court in belfast has ruled it should not apply to Northern Ireland. Mrjustice humphreys ruled in favour of a challenge to the act saying that the law breaches Human Rights Protections guaranteed under post brexit arrangements. Rishi sunak has said the decision will not change the rwanda p