exeter beat london irish 45—5 to win a home play—off semifinal. oints adrift at the bottom of the table with just two games remaining. just a reminder, manchester city are premier league champions of 2017 — 2018 after manchester united lost at home to west brom this afternoon. it's likely to be a record—breaking season it's likely to be a record—breaking season from city, while we have not heard from pep guardiola yet, if we had, we imagine this is what he might have said. congratulations, what are your first thoughts weres we're happy. so happy. we're so happy. i we're happy. so happy. we're so happy. lam we're happy. so happy. we're so happy. i am so happy. we are so happy. i am so happy. we are so happy. 0f happy. i am so happy. we are so happy. of course, we are so happy. we are so happy. i was so happy. happy. of course, we are so happy. we are so happy. i was so happylj doubt he is the only one. bye for now. how little we know still about the brain. suzanne 0'sullivan is one of our leading neurologists, and she's called her new book brainstor

in the day's other game — london irish, who's relegation to the championship was confirmed yesterday,shed 51—14 by saracens — a result that guarantees saracens a home semi—final in the play offs. britain's chris and gabby adcock have defended their european badminton title with a closely—fought victory over the danish seconds seeds. the adcocks, recently crowned commonwealth games champions, beat mathias christiansen and christinna pedersen by two sets to one — taking the decider 21—18, in a match that lasted 66 minutes. they are the first english duo to defend a european title successfully for 32 years. at the world snooker championship, four—time winnerjohn higgins has booked his place in the quarterfinals. it could hardly have been easierfor him, cruising through against jack lisowski 13 frames to i. higgins made three centuries, including a magnificent 146 break, the highest of this year's competition so far. delighted. that's my highest break ever here at the crucible. i think my highest before was 142 or a3. so it was a good break, good break. i don't know if big ryan day will t

in the day's other game — london irish, who's relegation to the championship was confirmed yesterday,—final in the play offs. britain's chris and gabby adcock have defended their european badminton title with a closely—fought victory over the danish seconds seeds. the adcocks, recently crowned commonwealth games champions, beat mathias christiansen and christinna pedersen by two sets to one — taking the decider 21—18, in a match that lasted 66 minutes. they are the first english duo to defend a european title successfully for 32 years.

exeter finished top of the premiership and london irish were relegated following will stoke's win overat murrayfield. the visitors took the lead through their record try scorer, who scored twice on his 100th appearance. edinburgh hit back before the third try. great britain have been promoted to the top flight of world ice hockey for the first time in 25 years. it was a dramatic end to the game as britain came from two nil down against hosts hungary — robert farmer scoring the all important goal 15 seconds before the end to secure promotion and a gold medal. they began the tournament ranked 24th in the world, but next year will play the likes of canada, russia and sweden as they will be part of the sports elite. that is all the sport. here is better now with all the papers. hello and welcome to our look at the sunday papers. with me are prashant rao, deputy europe business editor from the international new york times and rachel cunliffe, comment and features editor at cityam. first let's take a quick look at the front pages. the observer leads with london mayor sadiq khan, calling for

elsewhere london irish who are fighting for their lives at the bottom of the league recorded a 35 fiveewcastle's top four hopes with a 2713 win. and in snooker world number one mark selby has the chance to claim his third china open in four years as he secured a place bristol coming up. we don't know who is going down. and in snooker world number one mark selby has the chance to claim his third china open in four years as he secured a place in tomorrow's final. the defending champion beat kyren wilson ten frames to eight and will face barry hawkins for the title after he beat neil robertson. that's all from sportsday. we were bracing ourselves for a manchester city party. they were 2—0 up, cruising towards the premier league. but manchester united beat them 3—2. the manchester city will have to wait. not the best week for them, i think it is there to say. good night from all of us. we had been watching the weather numbers today. 19.1; celsius at gravesend in kent, the uk's highest average of the year so far. not eve ryo ne average of the year so far. not everyone saw sunshine. in count

in the day's other game — london irish, who's relegation to the championship was confirmed yesterday, home semi—final in the play offs. britain's chris and gabby adcock have defended their european badminton title with a closely—fought victory over the danish seconds seeds. the adcocks, recently crowned commonwealth games champions, beat mathias christiansen and christinna pedersen by two sets to one — taking the decider 21—18, in a match that lasted 66 minutes. they are the first english duo to defend a european title successfully for 32 years. at the world snooker championship, four—time winner john higgins has booked his place in the quarterfinals. it could hardly have been easierfor him, cruising through against jack lisowski 13 frames to i. higgins made three centuries, including a magnificent 146 break, the highest of this year's competition so far. delighted. that's my highest break ever here at the crucible. i think my highest before was 142 or 43. so it was a good break, good break. i don't know if big ryan day will think that way, coventry went one point in front of him. the

and london irish have been relegated following worcester‘s win over harlequins. in a row at sandown park. johnson was runner up to ap mccoy on sixteen occasions but has now won the title every year since 2016. he could only manage second place on the final day of the season. winning the cheltenham gold cup on native river in march will be one of his highlights of the season. and one other big piece of racing news this afternoon. . .following katie walsh's retirement yesterday, nina carberry has followed suit after recording a victory at punchestown. carberry made the announcement after riding the 6 to 5 favourite ‘josies orders' to an easy win in the three mile cross country chase. carberry won the juvenile handicap hurdle at the cheltenham festival in 2005 and six further festival winners, plus the 2011 irish grand national. britain's dan evans has made a winning return from a drugs ban with victory in round one of qualifying for next week's atp challenger tour event in glasgow. evans, who was suspended for 12 months after testing positive for cocaine last april

and auster‘s win over harlech and cemented their place in the premiership next season, meaning london irishad by their record try scorer, who scored twice on his hundredth appearance. edinburgh hit back through james johnson and jordan late, before getting their third is glasgow fell just short. richard johnson has been named champion jockey for the third time in row at sandown park. johnson was runner—up to 18 mccoy on 16 occasions, and has 110w w011 every to 18 mccoy on 16 occasions, and has now won every title since 2016. —— ap coy. he could only manage second place on his final day of the season. place on his final day of the season. that will be one of his big highlights of the season. meanwhile, the seven time cheltenham festival winning jockey nina carberry has announced her retirement, and day after fellow jockey and her sister—in—law katie walsh revealed she too was retiring. carbury made the announcement after winning at punchestown. that is all the sport for now. you can find more on all those stories, including news on the f1 qualifying in azerbaijan, on the bbc news sports webs

the rest of the day's sport is on the bbc website including london irish being relegated from rugby union's, and previews of manchester city and chelsea women's champions league semi finals. you can see more on all of today's stories on the bbc news channel. that's all from me. goodnight. hello. this is bbc news. the review of the parole system, prompted by the controversial approval for the release of serial sex—offenderjohn worboys, has today been released. it calls for greater transparency in the parole process and for victims to be able to challenge decisions more easily. well, head of the parole board at that time was nick hardwick, who was sacked in march byjustice secretary david gauke after the high court's decision to block the release of the rapist john worboys. i asked him earlier about his reaction to the proposals. i think there's a big gap between the political reality and what is actually being proposed. what's being proposed is quite sensible, something i was advocating long before thejohn something i was advocating long before the john worboys something i was advocating lon

and worcester‘s win over harlequins cemented their place in the premiserhip next season, meaning london irish for connacht who beat irish rivals leinster and the cheetahs have beaten the southern kings in south africa. sebastian vettel will be on pole position for tomorrow‘s azeribjan grand prix. the ferrari driver beat lewia hamilton to make this his third consecutive pole start. the baku circuit is a narrow street track which led to a dramatic near crash between the two torro rosso drviers. joe lynskey has the details. in formula 1 every nation brings its own challenge. azerbaijan is about conquering the streets but when it is narrow and congested, danger comes into play. this is how close pierre came to a devastating collision. the team—mate he dodge pulled up with a tyre puncher, he was one near miss away from something much worse. lewis hamilton knows the road to a third career title is even trickier this year. he has ground to make up on the championship leader and once again he missed out on pole position. taking it to his final lap. that paved the way for sebastien vettel to ta ke pav

london irish recorded a 35 points — five win over harlequins.he leader, patrick reed, tees off at about 20 past seven. out of the courts already, tiger woods is playing alongside ian poulter but neither really making ground. the four—time masters champion has moved to four over par. poulter has been up and down. he is six over par. you can follow the action from augusta on the bbc sport website. live coverage sta rts the bbc sport website. live coverage starts on bbc two from 7:30pm. instead, world number one mark selby has the chance to claim his third china open in four years as he secured a place in tomorrowfinal. the defending champion beat wilson ten frames eight. he will face barry hawkins for the title after he beat new robertson. but is it a sports day. just to let you know that it is 3-2 to day. just to let you know that it is 3—2 to manchester united in the manchester derby. city could win the title today. 69 minutes gone. manchester united leading. we will have lots more on that game and the outcome at 7:30pm. a bit ofa a bit of a mix

unionist side in northern ireland and you met with ian paisley and prayed with him in the irish embassy in londonat was our first formal meeting. we had great difficulty in deciding where the meeting would be. finally, as a compromise, he suggested the irish embassy. ijoined in with his prayers. it is a very strange way for diplomacy to be conducted. it was just the two of us at the breakfast table and we had a very good breakfast and a very constructive discussion and at the end he said we will have a press conference. i wanted to have a joint press conference and he didn't and he said he would go out first and he said i will do another good sign of goodwill, i'll stand in front of the irish flag and make it look as if it's a mistake, which he did. he went out and in front of the media, he said he had breakfast with me and he said he had a very hard—boiled egg, because he said, he knew if there were hard—boiled eggs, i could not have poisoned them. i said he never took the orange. we are celebrating marking the 20th anniversary of the good friday agreement, it was not really until the st andrews

london. but where we have low cloud and mist and fog for the irish sea coast, typically here in cornwall, itpered as will fall away anyway the next couple of days because we getan the next couple of days because we get an atlantic westerly wind. still a lot of heat in the south and east through the weekend which will culminate in some storms. through the night time period the mist and low cloud returns around the irish sea coast. mist and fog developing inland as well. should be a dry night. showers even in scotland. be chilly, three or 4 degrees here in the glens. temperatures will continue to fall away, because of that atlantic influence and the risk, increasing risk of the heat triggering thunderstorms. as we go into saturday there is mist and fog around first thing which would take around first thing which would take a couple of hours to clear. plenty of sunshine for scotland, northern ireland, decent day until late on. in the south moor cloud bubbling up. if you like showers initially but they too could become quite intense. like today tempered as in the high teens across the northern h

london, but fresher in the north. is that sea breezes around the coast, plenty of sunshine with a few exceptions. the irishued by low cloud. temperatures barely 10 celsius. we'll see a gradual dip barely 10 celsius. we'll see a gradualdip in barely 10 celsius. we'll see a gradual dip in temperatures continuing this weekend, not because of low cloud but because of atlantic wind. the wind will bring in fresh air across most parts by the end of sunday but at the moment we still got that heat with us. it'll stay in the south and east for much of the weekend. so that could really increase the risk of thundery downpours as we go through saturday. initially there will be missed and fog first thing and around the coast. hopefully less than we've seen during the day on friday. the weather front approaches the west of scotland, but it looks a lot drier for scotland and bright for northern ireland. still quite pleasant temperature wise at 18, above average temperature wise at 18, above average for the central lowlands, and certainly across the south and east. the sort of heat we will see again during the day on satur

rent it would say you know no irish no blacks no dogs but what about that region they left behind some might argue the same kids and nevis swapped the colonial masters of london for the colonial masters of washington d.c. in the i.m.f. what is the you were prime minister took to if you have been doing meeting the i.m.f. certainly knows what is the telling you to do what we need to the i.m.f. quite regularly we are members of course of the i.m.f. we are contributors to that and we get advice and we get what record article for assessment so they come in from gives them the right to tell you what to do and govern well i don't know if it's you give them right i think they come in and they make suggestions or recommendations or look at the economy let's bear in mind there's a lot of us in the smaller countries we do have a scarcity sometimes of the technical skills and the technical expertise so they come in they have to be invited in and so it's not a question that they impose anything on us we decide of course whether or not we accept in fact we had. program an austerity program that the form of government incentives the u.s. had introduced in response to an out

to do would say you know no irish no blacks no dogs but what about that region they left behind some might argue the same kids and nevis swapped the colonial masters of london for the colonial masters of washington d.c. in the i.m.f. what is the you are prime minister talking to we have been doing meeting the i.m.f. certainly knows what is the telling you to do what we need to the i.m.f. quite regularly we are members of course of the i.m.f. we are contributors to that and we get advice and we get what record article for assessment so they come in from gives them the right to tell you what to do don't govern well i don't know if it's you give them right i think they come in and they make suggestions or recommendations or look at the economy let's bear in mind there's a lot of us in the smaller countries we do have. scarcity sometimes of the technical skills and the technical expertise so they come in they have to be invited in and so it's not a question that they impose anything on us we decide of course whether or not we accept in fact we had a program on the stairs you programmed it that the form of government incentives the u.s. had introduced in respons

london. these are today's top stories. matt: sterling slides, carney hints that next month's height isn't a done deal and he you officials are said to reject the you k's plan for the irish border. anna: oil heads for a second weekly gain as traders await the outcome of the key opec and non-opec meeting. we are live in jeddah. attorney u.s. deputy general's said webb told trump he is not a target in the molar -- mueller and cohen probes. ♪ matt: first off, let's look at how european futures are trading. just an hour to go until the start of the cash trade in europe. we see ftse futures gaining about one third of 1% this morning but not a lot of movement on dax or cap futures. after a mixed trade yesterday, we don't get a lot of -- a real sense of direction from european futures this morning. i want to quickly bring up these barclays headlines we are getting on jes staley. it looks like they have concluded their investigations into jes staley and barclays. anna: absolutely. we have these headlines getting through. barclays continues to recommend reelection as director. enforcement on barclays, the headlines coming through this morning. jes staley has a period to review. i

london. one is believed to be in a critical condition and another has suffered potentially life changing injuries. three other casualties are also being treated in hospital. police are appealing for information. two irishping a woman in belfast have been sacked by both ulster and ireland while paddyjackson and stuart olding were cleared of rape after a nine—week trial last month, there had been controversy over social media and text messages they had exchanged, which sparked a review into whether they should continue to play. the pair have apologised for their behaviour. the funeral‘s taken place in soweto of the south african anti—apartheid leader, winnie madikizela—mandela. tens of thousands of mourners crowded into a stadium, close to her home in soweto, where the campaigner was given a high—level send—off. mrs madikizela—mandela, former wife of nelson mandela, died earlier this month at the age of 81. in the last hour, sir martin sorrell, head of the world's largest advertising group, wpp, has resigned, less than a fortnight after the cumbria now is it was investigating an allegation of personal misconduct. —— company announced it was investigating. sir martin sorrell denies any wrongdoing but said

irish sleep. we could still reach 28 celsius in london this afternoon. lots of sunshine around.cularly cold further south. in scotland, temperatures here down into the' is. a bit ofa temperatures here down into the' is. a bit of a chilly start on saturday morning. any mist and fog will tend to clear. for many of us, dry and a bright start for saturday. later in the day we will see heavy, perhaps under e showers moving their way into southern england, wales, eventually into northern england. temperatures down a little bit on today will stop a largely fine day for scotland and northern ireland. going into sunday, we have this area of low pressure moving in. a cold front moving in as well. that will push in some cloud and rain. look at these isobars. the rain has —— wind has moved from the north—west. the blues are gradually moving their way further south and east woods. quite a bit of cloud on sunday. some showery outbreaks of rain. as we go into the afternoon some heavy showers in the south—east. generally drive. pressure. temperatures 12 to 15 in the north, about 15 or 16 degree

london. now they use chief breaks and they go she said michel barnier is in arlon to discuss the potential impact of bricks that on the irish border cross over the border and visit northern ireland in the coming hours when northern ireland will be the u.k.'s only land from to you after it leaves the block both sides want to keep the border open finding a way to do that has proven elusive so far lawrence lee has more from the irish city of dunbar. this is all about the european union's chief negotiator demonstrating that they're in listening mode and caring mode and understanding the concerns of people either side of the irish border both here in dundalk and just fifteen minutes up the road in newry the closest town in the u.k. in northern ireland this year bonnie is meeting communities individuals people from places like the chamber of trade human rights organizations young people who say they are desperately worried about the potential for the united kingdom leaving the european union leaving the customs union and potentially a hard border going up with things like road blocks separating the two countries and dividing comm

irish border, and a possible second referendum. ♪ welcome to "bloomberg surveillance." i am francine lacqua here in london.hese are your markets. you can see european stocks gained, and the banks are fluctuating. the stoxx 600 bank in europe is pretty much flat. 1.2164.lar is oil is gaining. we hear from the barclays chief executive in an exclusive interview. we will be talking to the riksbank governor after the central bank pushed back its tightening cycle. guy johnson will be speaking to the new deutsche bank cfo after the bank announced its downsizing program. we will get to that and a second, but first let's get straight to the bloomberg first word news. >> deutsche bank plans to cut back its investment bank to save costs and focus on european clients. germany's largest lender said it would scale back rates and trading, reduce its corporate finance business in america and asia. that came as it reported first-quarter net revenue of 6.9 8 billion euros, missing the lower analyst estimate. we will be bringing you an interview with the deutsche bank cfo later this morning. emmanuel says he thinks his u.s.

london. generally speaking, looking at about 18, to the low 20s. at about 18, to the low 20s. the rain draped across the far north of scotland. of scotland. irishot going to be a cold night. going to be a cold night. some patchy mist and fog as well. patchy mist and fog as well. without rain draped across the far north of the country. north of the country. going to be particularly heavy and it will tend to move away. it will tend to move away. beautiful day with a lot of sunshine. sunshine. sea breezes will develop along the coast. along the coast. highs up to about 26 celsius in the south. south. generally the high teens in the low 20s for the rest of the uk. the low 20s for the rest of the uk. stage that some of the onshore onto the coastline. those shouting saying it's not a rhododendron. rhododendron. they didn't shout loud enough, dan! enough, dan! ann distracted by her beautiful face! face! there you go, the full glory of the magnolia tree —— carol and. of the magnolia tree —— carol and. there you go! i need to watch more gardeners' world! gardeners' world! temperatures for the marathon, which we will have to watch out for too. your holid

nicely into the evening. 27 in london even by six o'clock this evening. 0vernight we will see clear skies for the most part, some mist and fog developing around some of the irish day. but there is a change on the way. some showers whichjust begin to a change on the way. some showers which just begin to develop down towards the south—west of the afternoon wears on. some of these could be heavy and thundery. still someone could be heavy and thundery. still someone to be had. mid 20s towards the south but cooler and fresher towards the north—west, the sign of things to come. these are showers will be quite hurt highs mess as the drift north was be very heavy when the crop up with some flashes of lightning and rumbles of thunder. and things continue to change as we get on into sunday. this area of low pressure swings the west. a cold front bringing some outbreaks of rain. as we go through the day on sunday, cooler air that will spread its way across many parts of the uk. but not before we have had a pretty one day for the london marathon. it could get up into the low 20s through the afternoon. there is a chance of rain later in the day of this weather front contin

to do would say you know no irish no blacks no dogs but what about that region they left behind some might argue the same kids and nevis swapped the colonial masters of londonor the colonial masters of washington d.c. in the i.m.f. what is the you are prime minister dougherty we have been doing meeting the i.m.f. certainly knows what is the telling you to do what we need to the i.m.f. quite regularly we are members of course of the i.m.f. we are contributors to that and we get advice and we get what record article for assessment so they come in from gives them the right to tell you what to do and govern well i don't know if it's you give them right i think they come in and they make suggestions or recommendations or look at the economy let's bear in mind there's a lot of us in the smaller countries we do have a scarcity sometimes of the technical skills and the technical expertise so they come in they have to be invited in and so it's not a question that they impose anything on us we decide of course whether or not we accept in fact we had a program on a stereotype program that the form of government incentives the u.s. had introduced in response to an out