at that stage, anfield was rocking with the home side 2 0 up but real madrid came back with two goals before the half. from vinicius junior. the from viniciusjunior. the second of those from a goalkeeping howler from the liverpool goalkeeper. two goalkeeping blunders tonight. after half time, real madrid took control. three goals in the second half. two of them from karim benzema, which meant that real madrid, having been 2 0 down, won 5 2 on the night. quite extraordinary, and it means liverpool has a mountain to climb in the second leg in real madrid in three weeks time. napoli took charge of their tie against eintracht frankfurt , beating them 2 0 in germany. the runaway italian league leaders had a penalty saved before victor osimihen scored his 20th goal of the season. frankfurt had a man sent off as napoli controlled the game and giovanni di lorenzo made it 2 0 after an hour. they ll be favourites to progress in the second leg in italy in three weeks time. leeds unite
are a couple of stories here, yesterday was 17 degrees, back down to around eight or nine for thursday and friday but it will get chillier because we have a weather front coming, some much needed rain. this weather front coming, some much needed rain. this weatherfront is the coming, some much needed rain. this weather front is the colder air but once that weather front moves through there is very little rain on the horizon for the rest of february. high pressure is in, by friday staying into the weekend and the beginning of next week and we need the rain, it could turn out to be one of the driest february is on record, scotland have only had about 50% of the rainfall, in england only a few millimetres and even though we have cloud with us it is dry for the most part. misty and murky around the coast and we have that weather front looming but again even though we expect heavy rain in the room lest it might petered out in the east. where we see sunshine, perhaps around the mor
you for what you re doing and god you for what you re doing and god you all. presidentjoe biden with a pretty defiant speech stressing the united states and nato allies, support for ukraine will not waiver speaking of course in the run up to the first anniversary of russia s full scale invasion of ukraine. he has been in warsaw and a cheering crowd there that as he put it, president putin lust for power and land would fail. he painted the struggle as a generational one for freedom he said that autocrats had grown weaker over the last year and all of that, of course follows what president vladimir putin was saying in moscow this morning when he delivered a fiercely anti western and nationalistic address to russian parliamentarians. putin accused the west of provoking the war in ukraine of starting the war of escalating the conflict of trying to defeat russia it s self. the white house called his allegations absurd while ukrainian officials said that his speech was laden with c
ash wednesday will be cooler with outbreaks of rain around. the weather is changing but perhaps only briefly. a colourful end today in yorkshire with the clouds thickening up yorkshire with the clouds thickening up and bringing some rain. the clouds moving up from northern france bringing the first rain for quite awhile across eastern england. also thickening cloud bringing rain across scotland, northern ireland, heading into wales and western parts of england. lots of cloud and rain developing over many areas overnight and temperatures probably staying at five or six by the end of the night. quite a change in the weather. we will see the back of the rain in eastern scotland in the morning and then for scotland and northern ireland we ll get some sunshine, a scattering of showers, cold enough for wintriness over the hills in scotland. we keep some showers and longer spells of rain across england and wales, particularly cloudy across eastern england. temperatures as a result w