the preparation was absolutely enormous, right down to the last piece of sticking plaster in moving forward a casualty clearing station. they had everything to the nth degree. stories of that day will be told at tomorrow's commemoration which reflects the range of countries brought together for the attack. we travelled at night and stayed in the woods in the daytime. it was supposed to be a surprise. the canadians captured 27,000 prisoners and the whole thing 45,000 prisoners, besides all the ones who were killed. an awful lot were killed besides that. the german high command called it the black day of the german army. we called it the beginning of the last 100 days. exhausted german defenders did what they could to slow the attacks but the allies, nowjoined by the americans, were growing stronger. the men who fought and died here didn't know it, but on that

august day their advance took the world closer to peace. tomorrow's event in this beautiful building isn'tjust a commemoration. it serves to underline the importance of what is perhaps a lesser—known battle. a battle that took a war weary europe on the final journey towards armistice and peace. if you want to follow events tomorrow you can do so across the bbc. that's it. now on bbc one, time for the news where you are. have a very good night. hello and welcome to sportsday. i'm azi farni. coming up... jumping for joy.

dina asher—smith sets a new british record as she takes the 100 metre title at the european championships in berlin. a british one—two. zharnel hughes wins the men's100 metres ahead of team—mate reece prescod. diving for gold, jack law adds to his success with the 1m springboard title. and taking over, stan kroenke's £600 million bid forfull control of arsenal is accepted. but fans aren't happy. we have seen over the last eight yea rs, we have seen over the last eight years, he does not engage very much and this does not give us any confidence arsenal will be any stronger tomorrow than they were yesterday. hello there and thank you for

joining us. what a night it's been for british athletics, with a sprint double at the european championships. dina asher—smith won 100 metre gold with the joint fastest time in the world, and zharnel hughes led a british one—two in the men's event. ade adedoyin was watching in berlin. asher—smith came in here as the heavy favourite and delivered with a performance that will make the world ta ke performance that will make the world take notice, tenant .85 was not only the new british record and fastest time this year but it was the same time this year but it was the same time she ran last year when she won gold. we both of americans and jamaicans dominating these friends but that is no longer the case. we just saw a 12 in the men's and have so just saw a 12 in the men's and have so many fantastic girls, and she is definitely coming on and we will see

her for years to come in the 200 and 400, so many talented athletes from great britain so it feels great to be part of this way where we are all pushing ourselves up the world rankings. it feels good. - our at—bat, hughes came out in one in the championship, not bad considering he felt a cramp in his ca lf considering he felt a cramp in his calf and had a disqualification in the champions earlier this year. calf and had a disqualification in the champions earlier this yearlj am happy to see we could go out there and show the world we are capable. and i am really happy to see asher—smith able to come out here tonight and get the victory for great britain. two golds thus far. prescod got the silver medal and duckworth will be going for gold in the decathlon tomorrow and he leaves at the halfway stage. there was more success for the swimmers too this evening. adam peaty qualified for the final of the 50 metres breaststroke

with a championships record. and there was gold for the women's 4 by 200 metre freestyle relay. freya anderson completing the victory to take her 2nd relay gold of the championships, at only 17 years of age. duncan scott won 200m freestyle gold. the scottish swimmer had already taken gold in the men's four by 200 metre freestyle relay, to add to a silver in the 100 metre freestyle. meanwhile, ben proud took silver in the men's 50 metre butterfly. he was beaten by world record holder andriy govorov who secured gold. and georgia davies added to the british success with a silver in the 100m backstroke. that's her third medal of the championships. the championship is being co—hosted with glasgow, with edinburgh hosting the diving events and there were gold medals too for britain's divers in the commonwealth pool. natalie pirks reports.

remember their names, at 15, remembertheir names, at 15, he remember their names, at 15, he has only just remember their names, at 15, he has onlyjust made the step up from junior level and another is only three years older. talk about teenage kicks. brayden‘s first diving gold of the championships was closely followed by another, this one more expected. jack lott is brayden‘s most successful diver, adding his first individual european title to his ever—growing trophy cabinet in the one metre springboard, and another claimed the bronze. it is nice to see how strong we are at the moment, gold and bronze today, the fantastic results and depth as well here in british diving. be diving isjust getting going but the track and cycling is drawing to a close. and the elimination race, 19 start at only one for the when. the first major

gold of his career. tipped as a bird dunn another star, he needed a photo finish. a sneaky push on the wind was just good enough for a bronze. finish. a sneaky push on the wind wasjust good enough for a bronze. a can bea wasjust good enough for a bronze. a can be a confusing place and there is nowhere and more chaotic, admits the mayhem of 120 metre relay. not for brayden's laura kenny and katie archbold, and they finished six points off the podium. plenty to work on before tokyo. it's the second day of ben stokes' court case in bristol. the england cricketer has been accused of affray, along with two other men, following an incident outside a nightclub in the city last september. our sports editor dan roan was in court. thejury here at the jury here at bristol crown court let mark —— learn more about the

events leading up to a fight in the early hours of last year involving ben stokes and local men. two they had them occurred from the doorman at the embargo nightclub where the fight took place. that he told the jury fight took place. that he told the jury that stokes who was accompanied by his england team—mate alex hales had been abusive, spiteful and a bully to him, abusing him for his prominent tattoos and gold teeth and mocking to gay men outside the nightclub and throwing a cigarette but at the head of one of him. then suggesting cunningham had been aggressive towards ben stokes and alex hales, definitely not insisted the doorman. he said that the craters were lapping about the gold in crested shoes, and that it was playful banter. the players were lapping at the pair, not with them and says the cunning and. thejury

also hold from a local resident who filmed the fracas that followed, and the men involved were clearly drunk and acted he sat like animals. tomorrow we may hear more from ben stokes. he meant to be playing in the second test match for england against being dunn india that starts on thursday at lords but instead he will be back here. he denies the charge of afraid, as do his team—mates. arsenal's majority shareholder stan kroenke, who owns over two thirds of the club's shares, has had an offer to buy the whole club accepted. the other major shareholder alisher usmanov has agreed to sell his 30% stake in what he describes as the "best football club in the world". kroenke says single ownership will help to further arsenal's "strategy and ambitions". but the arsenal supporters trust are opposed to the takeover, calling it a dreadful day for the club with concerns over transparency and accountabilty. the worst—case scenario is the money

will be taken out of the club due to management fees to pay the debts which have been taken out by arsenal, and we know he is an investor so there will be less money going into the club and more going out of the club. let's have quick look at some of tonight's other sporting headlines. burnley have signed goalkeeper joe hart from manchester city. he has spent the last two seasons loaned out to torino in serie a and then west ham. he joins burnley for an undisclosed fee on a two—year deal. there were two games in the championship this evening, west brom scored late on to get a point at nottingham forest in a dramatic game at the city ground. matt phillips' strike denying the home side victory in a game they had controlled. elsewhere, middlesborough beat sheffield united 3—0 at home. there was a t20 double header at old trafford today. durham jets posted 154—7 from their 20 overs before liam trevaskis took 4 wickets to help seal victory over lancashire lightening by 4 runs.

and earlier in the women's super league, surrey stars beat lancashire thunder by 55 runs. lizelle lee hit 6 sixes as she powered her way to 70 off 37 balls as surrey posted 167 for 8. dane van niekerk then took 3 wickets and bryony smith took 2 to help seal their victory. johanna konta battled back from a set down to reach the second round of the rogers cup in montreal with victory overjelena 0stapenko. the british number one lost the first set in a tie—break but then won 6—1, 6—2, beating the 2017 french open champion injust over two hours. she will face either victoria azarenka or kristina mladenovic in the last 32. that's all from sportsday. coming up in a moment, the papers. hello and welcome to our look ahead

to what the the papers will be bringing us tomorrow. with me are arejim waterson, who's the media editor of the guardian, and jack blanchard the editor of the politico london playbook. welcome to both of you. most of the front pages are in. the daily telegraph leads on borisjohnson's refusal to apologise for comments about muslim women and burkas which the prime minister says are ‘wrong'. the metro says the former foreign secretary is under growing pressure from senior figures. the guardian reports that the eu is on a collision

course with donald trump over his reimposition of sanctions on iran. the independent leads on a study which suggests that over 450,000 children need treatment for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. the ft reports that shares in the electric car company, tesla, lea pt by 7% after the chief executive, elon musk, declared he wanted to take the firm private. the times claims that over one quarter of the staff working on britain's new high speed railway hs2 are earning more than £100,000. let's dip into at least some of those over the next ten minutes or so. those over the next ten minutes or so. u—boat admired the front page of the eye, tell us why. it is a very neat trick to sum up the situation that boris johnson finds himself neat trick to sum up the situation that borisjohnson finds himself in.

—— you both admired the front page of the i. they nicely spliced his distinctive eyes across the middle of their front distinctive eyes across the middle of theirfront page distinctive eyes across the middle of their front page and it is one of those stories that in some ways i think it is what borisjohnson wanted, he is the centre of attention in a quiet newsweek where he is being talked about and he is trying to paid to the base of the tory party and in some respects having people trying to deliver the checkers deal for brexit up only using him on something like this, it is pretty good for them.|j using him on something like this, it is pretty good for them. i agree with that, it is classic donald trump politics, you say something on the edge of outrages that will upset some people and have other people probably nodding along with agreement and the outrage just fuels the story and it is across many of the story and it is across many of the front pages today's. let's show another one, the telegraph is probably the most obvious one to show because that is where it all began. it began on monday night or

sunday night... is famous to file his column at short notice. it has been going on for days and yet here we are right across the front pages and the other important part of dumptrump politics is you never back down and you never apologise, you love and embraced the foray in front pages and he got exactly what he wanted. do you think he could be under greater pressure to apologise if he was foreign secretary. under greater pressure to apologise if he was foreign secretarylj under greater pressure to apologise if he was foreign secretary. i hope in his most outspoken remarks as foreign secretary, he didn't do stuff like this but he has free reign and has no boss now, and you notice the back down quotes are attributed to a source close to borisjohnson attributed to a source close to boris johnson and i attributed to a source close to borisjohnson and i do not think i would be breaking too many traditions to suggest that is probably coming from boris