tonight at 10:00: two police officers are injured, one seriously, after a major security breach at old trafford, with hundreds of fans invading the pitch. they're angry with man united's american owners, the glazer family, saying they've piled up debt and betrayed supporters over the defunct european super league. the club's just being bled dry by the glazers, it's a cash cow. but for us it's manchester united football club, and we love it. they've not communicated with the fans for 16 years, and that leads to this kind of anger. the match today against liverpool, one of the biggest of the season, had to be postponed. also tonight...

the government says it's the last lap of the race to beat coronavirus in england, but ministers urge caution, over the easing of the lockdown. we want to get to a position at the end ofjune where we can get life back as close to normal as possible. but there will still need to be some safeguards in place. the foreign office suggests nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, jailed in iran, is being held hostage by the regime and suffering treatment amounting to torture. # everything's gonna be all right! # and, at last, the revellers in liverpool, enjoying a music festival, despite covid. good evening. two police officers have been injured, one seriously, after a major security breach at manchester united's old trafford stadium,

with hundreds of fans invading the pitch to protest against the club's american owners. it meant one of the biggest games of the season, against liverpool, had to be called off, the first time ever a premier league match has been postponed due to the behaviour of fans. outside the ground, supporters faced off against the police, claiming the glazer family, which bought the club in 2005, has piled up debts and betrayed the fans by signing up to the now defunct european super league. our sports correspondent, joe wilson, reports on the dramtic scenes, at old trafford. we want glazer out! the concourse outside old trafford where protesters were expected to congregate to voice their continued opposition to the ownership of manchester united by the glazer family. some protesters soon decided to go further, and, ultimately, onto the pitch itself. this was the scene at one of the most famous football

grounds in the world, that revered manchester united pitch, the place of stirrring feats of football, occupied. as clashes continued, police reported two injuries to officers, one slashed in the face by a broken bottle. meanwhile, some of those who stayed peacefully outside were leaving. as we are speaking outside the ground, there are lots of fans actually on the pitch. is there? they've got through? what do you think about that? it's a frustrating thing because, obviously, as fans we want the best for our club. it has been from when we were young, watched it, it's been magical, the history we have had. and people get so annoyed with it. do you think the glazers will be watching? i hope they are, i hope they are. if they haven't, they should be i watching it online and everything. they'll know supporters have been l here and put everything on the table for them so it is up to them now to decide, isn't it? _ as we are speaking outside the ground there are fans actually on the pitch, do you approve of that?

no, i don't approve of that. well, they stayed. there was a match due to be played here. a match with direct implications for the outcome of the premier league, supposed to happen here. with protests continuing inside old trafford and also at the manchester united team hotel, there was no way the game itself, against liverpool, could be played. today, the reds were stopped. so, will it change anything? the direct response from the premier league was a statement — "fans have many channels by which to make their views known, but the actions of a minority seen today have no justification," it read. well, for 16 years supporters have opposed the glazers. for 16 years, they've believed the family is taking money out of the club. fan power has been reignited by recent opposition to the european super league. this anger runs deeper. does it take something extreme for the glazers just to notice? united! the pitch invaders were widely condemned and don't represent all manchester united supporters, farfrom it. but the landscape of english

football has changed, and these are the images viewed across the premier league's global marketplace. joe wilson, bbc news, old trafford. the foreign secretary, dominic raab, has dismissed calls for a faster easing of lockdown rules in england. he's urging caution, saying the country's entering the "last lap" of the race to beat the coronavirus. he also suggests "some safeguards" may remain, even when all legal restrictions end next month. the government is considering a range of measures, including a vaccination programme for schools, though no final decision has been made. here's our political correspondent, ben wright. it's been a testing time, and ensuring people do not have covid will continue to be crucial as the country reopens. the government is beginning a trial of daily lateral flow tests for people in england who have come into contact with someone who has tested positive for the virus. it could eventually mean the end of self—isolation. lockdown restrictions are lifting,

too, though ministers warn some precautions may stay beyond the summer. we want to get to a position at the end ofjune where we can get life back as close to normal as possible, but there will still need to be some safeguards in place. and particularly, i think it will be around distancing. maybe there'll be around masks. lockdown rules have differed in each part of the uk but they are now being eased everywhere. from may the 17th at the earliest, four people will be able to meet indoors in scotland, six people in england. pubs and restaurants will fill up in england, scotland and wales when indoor hospitality reopens almost fully. the same will happen in northern ireland a week later. may the 17th is also when some international travel will be able to resume. by the end ofjune, all legal limits on social contact may be gone. if you are mulling a foreign holiday, an update is expected towards the end of the coming week on which countries will be placed on the green list, allowing people to

travel and return without the need for quarantine. but one labour frontbencher is not rushing to book a flight. the truth is it will be quite complicated for a long time. the government is saying the rules can change at fairly short notice, you may be required to quarantine, you may need to shell out large sums for hotel bills as a consequence. people need to be careful about this. ministers insist there must not be another lockdown, which is why it's road map has moved at a cautious pace. for more than a year, unprecedented emergency laws have restricted who we can meet, and where we can go. those laws look set to be lifted in england byjune the 21st if the data around vaccines and infection rates supports it, and life will begin to feel something like it did before the pandemic. but covid will not have gone away and at the moment the government is conducting four reviews into vaccine passports and social distancing, for instance, that could well shape our behaviour for a long time to come.

vaccines and lockdowns have driven covid rates down. it scientists advising the government argue that risk remains. it is advising the government argue that risk remaine— advising the government argue that risk remains-— risk remains. it is too early to declare victory _ risk remains. it is too early to declare victory and _ risk remains. it is too early to declare victory and to - risk remains. it is too early to declare victory and to drop . risk remains. it is too early to | declare victory and to drop our guard. we do know that this infection has a tendency to come back again. infection has a tendency to come back again-— back again. the government is considering — back again. the government is considering vaccinating - back again. the government is i considering vaccinating secondary school though ministers say no decision has been taken. freedom from restrictions is coming. but it will be a process, not a day. ben wright, bbc news. britain is to send another 1,000 ventilators to india, where hospitals remain under intense pressure, during a second wave of coronavirus. the country has reported almost 3,700 deaths in a single day, another record high. yesterday, india became the first nation to register more than 400,000 new infections, in a 24—hour period. the latest government figures show there were 1,671 new coronavirus

infections recorded, in the latest 24—hour period, with on average 2,188 new cases reported per day in the last week. 1a deaths were recorded, that's of people who died within 28 days of a positive covid—19 test, which means four on average in the past week, 16 deaths were announced every day, taking the overrall five total to 127,538. just over 34.5 milion people have now had their first dose of a covid vaccine, and more than 15 million people have had two doses. for the first time the government says the ordeal of the british iranian aid worker, nazanin zaghari—ratcliffe, who's held in iran, amounts to torture, with the foreign office accepting she's being treated like a hostage. she's been detained for five years on spying charges, and was recently convicted of another offence and banned from leaving tehran.

our world affairs correspondent, caroline hawley is here. these are some of the toughest words used publicly by the uk government in relation to nazanin? it is used publicly by the uk government in relation to nazanin?— in relation to nazanin? it is the strongest _ in relation to nazanin? it is the strongest lung _ in relation to nazanin? it is the strongest lung which _ in relation to nazanin? it is the strongest lung which i - in relation to nazanin? it is the strongest lung which i have - in relation to nazanin? it is the i strongest lung which i have heard in relation to nazanin? it is the - strongest lung which i have heard to date. i think it is important for her and herfamily to hear the government acknowledge what she has been through. it comes after a medical report that found she had been subjected to intense psychological pressure, she was suffering from ptsd and depression, and her husband richard told me this was a big step, it sets down a red line. all along he has said she is being held as a hostage, as a pawn, as collateral at least in part for a debt that the uk owes to a run for some tanks during the islamic revolution in 1979. today, dominic raab said she was being held unlawfully, not solely over that

debt, but said it was difficult to argue with anyone who described her as a hostage. as if to confirm she is a hostage, state television reported today that she would be freed if the uk paid the £400 million debt. two people have been arrested, after police were called to reports of intruders in the grounds of the queen's windsor estate. they were found in the grounds of royal lodge, where the duke of york lives. the 29—year—old woman and 31—year—old man were released pending further inquiries. the uncle of the murdered police community support officer, julia james, has appealed for help to find her killer. michael turnbull said he'd loved his niece since the day she was born, and he called her attacker a monster. ms james was found with head injuries in woodland near dover on tuesday. no arrests have been made, and police are unclear as to any motive. flags have been flying at half—mast across israel, on a day of mourning for the victims

of friday's crush during ajewish pilgrimage. 45 men and boys died after becoming trapped in a narrow passageway, during the festival at mount meron. 0ur middle east correspondent, tom bateman reports. a mother mourns her son. yedidia went on a journey with his dad. it should have been a joyful pilgrimage. but the 13—year—old will never come home. his brother, shmuel, survived. his father avigdor was brought from the hospital. a final goodbye. "we didn't tell you enough we love you, yedidia," says avigdor. "god has taken you to your religious school, a class of 45," he says, referring to all the victims.

they dug his grave in the middle of the night. jewish tradition calls for a quick burial of the dead. i met the family on friday when yedidia was still missing. their hopes quickly faded. theirs is the grief of so many. 45 people, all men and boys, 12 in their teens and younger. friday's crush developed as crowds of ultraorthodox pilgrims became packed in a narrow walkway down a slippery ramp. those at the front became trapped. people i spoke to caught up in the crush here were angry at the police, who they blame. there is soul—searching going on in the country over the degree of autonomy the government gives to the religious and political leaders of the ultraorthodox and what part that had to play in poor planning and a lack of safety. israel's government has started a formal inquiry.

the search for answers will stretch into the months ahead but today was a time to pause and honour those they have lost. tom bateman, bbc news, jerusalem. in six months' time, glasgow is due to host the cop26 climate talks. it's a crucial meeting on the future of the planet involving leaders from all over the world. their aim, to agree on coordinated measures to tackle climate change. but the challenges are huge, as our science editor, david shukman explains. it all begins with this stuff, coal, which is basically ancient plants squeezed together over millions of years. when you burn it, you get a useful source of heat which, in fact, powered industrial revolution. but you also get carbon dioxide, a gas that acts as a kind of blanket in the atmosphere. at this power station, west burton a in nottinghamshire, they've been burning coal since the �*60s.

there are thousands like it around the world, generating electricity, but also changing the climate. over the last two centuries, a growing volume of carbon dioxide has been released, from power stations and factories, vehicles and homes. so, emissions keep rising. the result of all this is that the planet has been heating up, and it's striking to see how scientists have managed to track how that's been happening. this record of temperatures over the last 2000 years uses data from tree rings and ice cores, and, more recently, from thermometers. below average most of the time, but shooting up in the last few decades. but what if things don't get sorted? if world leaders gathering in glasgow later this year don't manage to turn things round? well, projections show that the more temperatures rise, the greater the risk of dangerous impacts, with some regions facing more intense droughts, potentially damaging food supplies and others increasingly struck

by floods, especially on coasts, as sea levels rise. so, scientists say that action is needed right now. if we just talk about these things, we're going to pass the threshold very quickly. and we can do something if we change policy now, if we start flying less. if we drive less. if we insulate our homes, if we cut the coal and go renewables. we have time to make these changes. but already the global average temperature is 1.2 degrees above the pre—industrial level, and the paris agreement on climate change says we should keep the rise to 1.5 or 2 degrees at most. right now, we are still on course for an increase of something like 3. so, what can be done? well, the uk's last coal burning power stations will close in a few years' time.

the end of the coal era in the uk is a really significant step. but it's only one of a great number needed around the world. and to make them happen, the summit is going to have to signal a real change of direction. david shukman, bbc news, in nottinghamshire. now, with all the sport, here's lizzie greenwood hughes, at the bbc sport centre. chelsea have reached the final of the women's champions league. they came from 2—1 down in the first leg to beat bayern munich 5—3 on aggregate. it'll be their first european final and it means they're still on course for an historic quadruple this season. maz farooki reports. some of the sport's biggest names, signed for one of the biggest of occasions. chelsea have spent considerably to put themselves on this stage this season. defeat last week had left them with work to do. but, as they do so often, sam kerr and fran kirby combined brilliantly

to put them back on it. it would take something special to beat the best fencing is football. zadrazil provided just that. a first goal in europe, want to remember. this match was always going to be tight, decided on fine margins. ji so—yun levelled things up. fitting that the player they broke the will transfer record to sign, pernille harder, would be to want to get the vinyl touch. fran kirby got her second into injury time, and chelsea knew they had achieved a landmark. do they had achieved a landmark. drr think it is a big day for women's football. we can talk about it being a big day and week for chelsea, and it is. but women's football, we have always had to play second fiddle. i hope there are lots of little girls at home, thinking, god, they are going to the chap is the final. barcelona weight in the final later this month. what milestone is next for a team on track for the

unprecedented? match of the day 2 follows the news so if you want to wait for the football results then don't listen for a bit, because they're coming now. nine years after his first premier league hat—trick, gareth bale scored another for tottenham as they beat relegated sheffield united 4—0. it moves spurs up to fifth. in the day's other game arsenal won at newcastle. scottish premiership champions rangers rubbed salt in rivals celtic�*s wounds by thrashing them 4—1 in their last old firm game of the season. celtic had a player sent—off and rangers took full advantage. it's rangers' first league title for a decade. lewis hamilton showed why he's a seven—time world champion with a remarkable drive in the algarve to win the portuguese grand prix.he had to to use all his experience to over—take rival max verstappen and then hunted down team mate valterri bottas. the victory extends hamilton's lead in the drivers championship to eight points after three races. frankie dettori won his

20th british classic in the 1000 guineas today. the 50—year—old jockey rode mother earth to a convincing victory at newmarket for ireland's aiden 0'brien — who becomes the first trainer for more than a century to win it three times in a row. and the final of the world snooker championship is extremely close, you can follow the action across the bbc. but that's it from me. back to you, clive. at sefton park in liverpool, 5000 fans have been at a music festival. the revellers had to show a negative covid test, and must have follow—up tests in five days' time. it is one of a number of piloted events is lockdown restrictions are easing. dan johnson lockdown restrictions are easing. danjohnson is there tonight. it is dan johnson is there tonight. it is all over and _ danjohnson is there tonight. it 3 all over and people are heading home. at whatever you fancy doing with your weekend, what has happened

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hello. i'm lu kwesa i'm lukwesa burak. welcome to bbc news. we're less than a week away from may's local elections, with polls showing different projections depending on where you live. 0ur correspondent lewis goodall has been taking a look at what's happening and where. we have got a bumper mammoth leviathan crop of very exciting elections coming up on may 6 across much of the country. but how can we judge on may 7 how each of the main parties have done? well, the answer is it's quite complicated because, as i say, there are lots of elections happening in lots of different places. but let's take scotland just to begin with. in scotland, obviously the big question is whether the snp are going to get their majority back. they lost their majority rather

unexpectedly back in 2016 — this was the 2016 result. you need 65 seats to get a majority. 129 seats in the chamber. back in 2016, they got 61. their number of seats unexpectedly went down — still by far the biggest party in the chamber. more than double the conservatives, the second biggest party, on 30. but they would dearly like to get their own majority back, or if not, a majority with other pro—independence parties, probably the green party in scotland because they have committed to independence as well. and they could potentially use that as a launching pad for a mandate for another independence referendum. so how likely is that going to be on the basis of the current polling? well, as you can see, the snp dominating in both the constituency and regional lists for the current polling for the scottish parliament. it was the conservatives back in 2016 which basically deprived the snp of their majority. they did very well in that election under their then new popular leader ruth davidson. she is now departing the scene. she's got a seat in the house of lords. their new leader, douglas ross,

not doing as well according to the polling, i think it's fair to say. the polling quite a bit worse means that it's a bit of a problem for unionism generally in scotland. labour, they've been going down in every single election in scotland since the scottish parliament was actually created back in 1999. they came third back in 2016, humiliating for a party that used to dominate scottish politics. they're hoping under their new leader, anas sarwar, to get back into the game. is that likely? if we look at the polls, put them into a machine and project — and it isjust a projection, we should say — project how that might look in terms of the chamber, how it might look on may 7, we can see. taking the last few polls, it would give the snp slightly up, on 63 seats — just shy, though, of that 65 magic staging post for a majority. but look at the greens, look at the scottish greens, doing very well indeed, according to that projection, doubling their seats to ten seats. that would leave a pro—independence

majority overall in holyrood, pooling the snp and the greens together, of 73, which would be, by far, the biggest pro—independence majority we've seen in holyrood since it was created. both the main other parties, the conservatives and labour, going down a little bit. conservatives maintaining their position as the main opposition party. so a very interesting scottish political situation to come. very different situation in wales, of course. there, welsh labour have been in office even longer than the snp has in scotland. they've been in office since the welsh parliament was created, back in 1999, over 20 years. still dominating in wales, labour, unlike other parts of the country. they got 29 seats back in 2016. they had been in a sort of coalition with the lib dems — a very small coalition, it has to be said, with their one seat — to give them nearly a majority of 30 in the welsh parliament. labour will be hoping to keep as many of these seats as possible. meanwhile, plaid and the conservatives battling it out for second place. a big question — what happens to the ukip seat? you can't see it, because they've since splintered off to lots of different groups,

but ukip did very well in these elections when they were last contested in wales back in 2016, before the brexit referendum was even contested — political eons ago. and it's hoped, the conservatives think that they will be able to absorb quite a bit of support and swell their numbers in the welsh parliament. but there's been a bit of a pro—independence sort of feeling, a big shift on constitutional issues in wales as well. plaid hoping to take advantage of that as well. and then, of course, we think, of everything that is going on in england. and if we think a bit about what's going on there and the fact that it's keir starmer�*s first outing as leader of the opposition before the voters, how can we assess how well he's done? well, one way is by comparing it to other leaders of the opposition in their first year before the voters and how many seats, extra seats, they won by comparison to how many they had before. tony blair, for example, his first set of local elections as leader of the opposition back in 1995, he increased their party's number of seats by a whopping 32% —

very, very successful. all good, very well for the 1997 general election for him. but then we look at william hague — not considered a particularly stellar leader of the opposition, it has to be said, considering that he only won net one more seat in the 2001 general election — he still did pretty well as well back in 1998, a 23.5% increase in the number of seats for the conservatives. the only one to do really badly in fact, really, wasjeremy corbyn, going down by 1.4% back, i think, in 2016. so, how well starmer does, where he fits on this table, will be a sort of benchmark for how well he's done in these elections. but, of course, many in the labour party rather nervous, given the apparent vaccine bounce that recently in the polls the conservative government has been enjoying. that was lewis goodall there. and we'll be taking an in—depth look at the papers with our reviewers, the broadcaster and psychotherapist lucy beresford and bloomberg uk politics reporterjoe mayes. that's coming up

after the headlines. and also the weather with louise. good morning. i hope you had a pleasant sunday. it's been another day of sunny spells and scattered showers. certainly the best of the weather was first thing in the morning. a glorious start for many with not a cloud in the sky. high pressure still dominates the story but the air a lot of that high quite unstable now. that's been triggering off some sharp showers as we've gone through the day. so this is been the story of the last few hours. showers drifting their way from west to east and some of them a real nuisance. that means that the weather watchers that we've been sent in a little earlier this afternoon, we're starting to look like this with some threatening looking cloud. the showers will tend to fade away as we go through the evening. the overnight, we start to see this area of low pressure we've been telling you about moving into northern ireland, gradually

bringing wet and windy weather. ahead of it, quite a lot of cloud, so that means temperatures