There is some mist and fog and a few showers around this morning. They will give way to a dry and decent with sunny spells. Later, some rain in Northern Ireland. Details coming up. Good morning. Its monday, 18th march. Vladimir putin has claimed victory in russias president ial election. Without any serious opposition, a fifth term was seen as inevitable. At least 80 protestors have been arrested across the country for vandalising Polling Stations. Foreign secretary David Cameron hasjoined other western governments in shunning the result. He said, this is not what free and Fair Elections look like. Our russia editor Steve Rosenberg reports. Foeradimir putin, six more years in the kremlin. Russias president is sounding more confident than ever. Translation whoever might | want to intimidate us, whoever might want to suppress us, our will and our conscience, they have never been able to do it, and never will. Then, mr putins first Public Comments on the death ofjailed Opposition Leader A
the m6,the manchester orbital ring road, some disruption there, and problems at the airports, these are top gusts from storm pia. gusts into the 70s in parts of scotland and also over the tops of the pennines, so some very strong disruptive gusts of wind. the centre of storm pia is actually quite away from our shores and it will be bringing some damaging winds into denmark as we go through the next 12 hours or so. we ve got these north westerly winds which will continue to feeding, continue to be very blustery through the rest of this afternoon, gusts in the rest of this afternoon, gusts in the range of around 50 60 miles an hour, strong enough to cause some localised disruption and as well as those strong winds macro plenty of showers packing and across north western areas. temperatures for many others reaching double figures today, so on the mild side, but cold air looking across northern scotland where overnight tonight the show is pushing into shetland will turn increasin
welcome along to the programme. let s start with the champions league as we now know, the semifinal line up. manchester city will play real madrid after completing the job in germany. against bayern munich in the quarterfinal. while it is inter against ac milan and the other semi after they held off benfica. jill linsky watch all of the action unfold. and joins us now. good to see you. manchester city had a commanding lead to take to munich and the got the job done. munich and the got the “ob done. ., ,, ., ., ., done. professional “ob for manchester done. professional “ob for manchester city h done. professionaljob for manchester city and - done. professionaljob for manchester city and an i manchester city and an intimidating place at the alley on serena. they drew on the night but that 3 0 lead people to up in manchester in the first like more than enough to see them through this quarterfinal and into the semifinal to play real madrid. the same team that beat them a
hello and thanks forjoining us, here s your latest sports news. we ll start with football because was this the weekend that the premier league title race swung back towards the holders manchester city. leaders arsenal were looking for their eighth league win in a row, but threw away a 2 goal lead to draw 2 2 with liverpool at anfield. gabriel martinelli and gabriel jesus put the gunners 2 up inside half an hour. mo salah pulled won back by the break and also missed a penalty early in the second half, dragging his spot kick wide of the post. substitute roberto firmino scored the equaliser inside the last five minutes and liverpool were denied victory by a number of stunning saves from keeper aaron ramsdale. well, i ma am from the outside world it was a great game to watch. we started the game really well. we really dominant in the first half, scored the first one, continued play, scored the second one and the half time we concede the goal and we give liverpool some momentum.