some big teams left in the drawer including atletico madrid, marseille, sporting lisbon, cska moscow.rsene wenger said he wanted to avoid atletico in the last eight. after losing to manchester city twice and brighton before the first leg, it was a run of four defeats for arsene wenger but he says they have proved a few people wrong. we had a nightmare week and to recover from that we need to be mentally strong, to be solid. and the team needed to show a together response. that's what we did. 0verall, together response. that's what we did. overall, i together response. that's what we did. 0verall, ithink together response. that's what we did. overall, i think many people didn't expect us to respond like we did. the champions league draw takes place at 11 o'clock this morning, manchester city and liverpool are keeping an eye on who they will have

the american friends service committee, the quakers, set up their headquarters in marseille, where they were well situated to support local branches serving transit camps in the south of france and well situated to undertake immigration initiatives. with thers teamed up united states committee for the care of european children to of 100 children to emigrate to the united states. in the meantime, the french jewish philanthropic obtaination managed to the release of a number of youngsters from these transit , and they established and set up children's colonies for the youngsters. officials worried most particularly about the oldest of the children in those colonies. the adolescents on whose behalf we now appeal to you, they wrote to their workers, deserve special consideration. according to regulations issued of alien subjects living in france, the child is considered an adult as soon as of 15.he reaches the age the situation becomes even more tragic as the child draws near when he orge of 17, she may be re-and turned -- re-interned in the camps. so, home to help? whom to choose? this pro

the last attack was five months ago. attack was five months ago. an islamist on the steps of marseilleion. marseille station. forget and then something happens like the tragedy yesterday. like the tragedy yesterday. see how it is marked in the coming days. thank you very much. calling for tighter gun controls. month's school shooting in florida. and joins us now. schools and around the country to descend on the capital today. descend on the capital today. is a message about controlling gun laws and being safe at school. laws and being safe at school. safety and that will be their main message to the centre of power here. message to the centre of power here. thank you very much. the world including outside the american embassy in london. american embassy in london. we can speak to amnesty international now. speak to amnesty international now. thank you for being with us on bbc news. news. outside the sight of what will be the new us embassy there. the new us embassy there. place here and in other parts of the uk? uk? sensible gun control legislation in the usa. the usa. gone out and rel

elsewhere, dmitri payet was among the scorers as marseille won 2—1 at bilbao — and 5—2 on aggregate.in lazio‘s 2—0 win at dynamo kiev, as they went through 4—2 overall, and fernando torres scored twice as atletico madrid thrashed lokomotiv moscow 5—1 on the night — and 8—1 on aggregate. lyon are out 3—3 on away goals, after losing 3—2 at home to cska moscow. borussia dortmund are also out after a 0—0 draw at salzburg — who go through 2—1 on aggregate. sporting lisbon are through, despite losing 2—1 at viktoria plzen. a goal in extra—time saw them win 3—2 over the two legs. and rb leipzig drew 1—1 at zenit — to win 3—2 on aggregate. the draw for the quarter—finals takes place on friday. now, this is a washing machine. it's a symbol of harry kane's courage, apparently. tottenham manager mauricio pochettino reckons his star striker is so brave, that he'd put his foot in a washing machine if he could score. i don't get it either, but it's that bravery which has seen the england striker pick up an injury and a spell on the sidelines. he is warrior. i think he caught his leg ina he is warr

afterfracturing a bone in his foot and spraining an ankle during sunday's ligue un victory over marseille team doctor rodrigo lasmar confirmed the news to reporters, and said the 26—year—old will be out for up to three months but he expects neymar to be fit in time for the world cup injune. but the world record signing of more than 260 million dollars will miss the rest of psg's season. spanish primera division leaders barcelona extended their club—record unbeaten league run to 33 games, but they could only manage a 1—1 draw at las palmas. lionel messi gave barcelona the lead just after the 20 minute mark. butjonathan calleri's second half penalty rescued a point for the canary island hosts, although the catalans move five points clear of atletico madrid who they play on sunday at camp nou. england women dismantled france 4—1 in the shebelieves cup in the united states to hand phil neville the perfect start to his reign as head coach. goals from toni duggan, jill scott and this, the third of the first half coming from jodie taylor proved enough for the lionesses with fran kirby scoring a

marseille enjoyed a comfortable 3—1 home victory over athletic bilbao.ig and sporting lisbon. it has been an emotional day in florence, where thousands gathered to pay their final respects to fiorentina captain davide astori, who died suddenly at the age of 31. teammates, fans, politicians and former rivals alike came together for the service at the basilica di santa croce in the heart of the tuscan capital. the defender was found dead in his hotel room ahead of his club's serie a match against udinese on sunday. astori will be buried near his home city of bergamo, in northern italy. graham arnold will take over as head coach of the australia football team after this year's world cup. the sydney fc manager won the title with his club side last year, and has been part of the national setup as an assistant and interim boss before. he will take over from dutchman bert van marwijk, who has been brought in for the tournament in russia after previous boss ange postecoglou resigned. you learn from mistakes as a coach, and obviously i have made 20. but i ama and

neymar was hurt in paris st germain's league match against marseille last month.nths. the doctors are hopeful he will be backin the doctors are hopeful he will be back in time for the world cup, which kicks off in russia injune. john hardy has been called into the scotla nd john hardy has been called into the scotland six nations squad for the first time since he received a three—month ban for alleged cocaine use. three—month ban for alleged cocaine use. john hardie is one of ten players brought in by coach gregor townsend. he recently returned to training with edinburgh injanuary following his suspension. england are preparing to take on france on saturday, after losing against scotland, only their second defeat under head coach eddiejones. jones has been talking about being physically and verbally abused after travelling on public transport after the match in edinburgh.” travelling on public transport after the match in edinburgh. ijust got on with it, there was an incident that happened, it was done and dusted, i have had once before, it is not uncommon dusted,

fight the battles that still needs to stop spreading tell you that celebrity gossip and tabloid marseille's of the most important news today. off of advertising telling me you are not cool enough and wants to buy their products. these are the hawks that we along with our audience will watch. well you know the pirates they were kind of adopted because we were called pirates for so long. i mean they're in the small boats next to the hard pool of ships and it's. not something. the limited self to be told fish already ninety percent of the dots need to fall on because their. concept fifteen scoops seventy five tons they do it several times a day with a big fleet oh you get an idea on why. we have to understand we cannot stay still and just. be with them this will be used for you because you are. i'm doing this because i want the future world to future generations to have and enjoy the ocean we have. a. new case prime minister exposed twenty three russian diplomats from britain today retaliation for the kremlin's alleged involvement in the poisoning of a former russian intelligence agent and his

one was reportedly injured in others were not from thetototoe area but based in marseille and on a temporarymission nearby. the gunman taking shehelter at a supermarket i itrebes, taking a reported eight people as hostages according to police sources yet to be confirmed. local mediaa reports indicate te government and the mayor said he has declared allegiance to the islamic state group. according to the mayor, the supermarket's another person was also killed. these are yet to be confirmed details. we know the french interior ministry has requested the m media outlets n not to spread rumorors. the french primeme minister hahs declareded it to be e an act of terrrrorism. i amam joioined from london by l geddes, an expert in counterterrorism. we have been talking about the logistics of negotiating a difficult situation. a single person holding a police offificer hostage. it is all speculation. are we looking at possibly a lone wolf attack? it stresses the difficulty for police and other security agencies keeping track of people who could carry out such acts. this has happened in a small, remote

it was euro 2016 marseille, the dreadful scenes when we saw clashes between russian hooligans and englandicket allocations and applications, way down on what we saw by england fans compare to the brazil world cup, for example, where england were amongst the best supported teams, 20,000 fa ns the best supported teams, 20,000 fans travelling to south america. it's looking more like 10,000 for russia 2018. in light of events in salisbury and since then, the number may well dwindle further. dan roan. the new wales manager ryan giggs says his first game in charge tomorrow will be his proudest moment in football, but he will be more nervous than he ever was as a player. wales take on the hosts in the china cup. 7000 fans have arrived in the city of nanning, suspecting gareth bale to play some pa rt suspecting gareth bale to play some part of the game. another day, another round of autographs. and posing for pictures. halfway around the world, camp that the players hotel, you won't find more committed fans than these two. they started supporting wales decade ago, before the team was successful,

the first team will meet marseille in the last 8. elsewhere, the thtwo favorites r the title of what it each other for the draw. -- avoided each other for the draw. the eiffel tower is the world's most visited monument, but for one day it was transformed into a racecourse. whether 100 athletes worth -- more than 100 athletes were vying for the title. it is a grueling workout for the knees. the event is on to its fourth year. the quickest time was just under eight minutes. here's a reminder of our top stories at this hour. president emmanuel macron over france and germany's chancellor angela merkel have started work on what they call a roadmap for reform of the european union and the euro zone. in time they hope for a june eu summit. president macron said he wanted it to be clear and ambitious. and britain's foreign secretary boris johnson has accused russian president vladimir putin of personally ordering the poisoning of a former double agent in a british city. britain previously set the nerve gas agent originated in russia. that is

april on the say and the last october two young women were stabbed to death at a train station in marseilles a former british intelligence officer i mean the sean says the fact that the gunman was under police surveillance exposes wider failures. it's part of the passing that we're seeing emerging across europe over the last few years of people carrying out these low tech type of attacks with high victim rates who are of course on the radar of at least the police if not indeed of the intelligence agencies but for some reason they're not being watched carefully enough they're not being monitored carefully enough they were being followed around. and they're allowed to get more radicalized and carry out these appalling deeds it's hard to see what will france can do i mean they had a state of emergency declared after the massacre and attacks all the powers are still there in france they've just changed the name they've changed the terminology and yet all those powers are still preventing the security agencies and police from protecting their french citizens so i fell see how much more they can d

on the shop of the say and october two young women were stabbed to death at a train station in marseilles former british police officer peter kirkwood says even potential attackers under surveillance can still slip through the bat. i know the french and various other countries of. the security services and their intelligence gathering. oh over recent years particularly after the spate of very serious incidents that happened in two thousand and fifteen and so thousand and sixteen this sort of attack though it's the sort of thing that will get through the very best of intelligence gathering. functions it's a small town in the middle of nowhere it's not in a big city it's not predictable target it's relatively low tech yes there's a firearm involved but they're not that difficult to obtain if you put your mind to and got criminal connections we have got thousands tens of thousands hundreds of thousands more people with some question mark against them then we've got resources to look at them and some on fortunately will get through it's as simple as that unfortunately. the u.s. government has

april on the show and in october two young women that were stabbed to death at a train station in marseilles former british police officer peter kirk and so even potential attackers under surveillance can slip through the net. i know the french and various other countries of. the security services and their intelligence gathering. oh over recent years particularly after the spate of very serious incidents that happened in two thousand and fifteen and two thousand and sixteen this sort of attack though it's the sort of thing that will get through the very best of intelligence gathering. functions it's a small town in the middle of nowhere it's not in a big city it's not predictable target it's relatively low tech yes there's a firearm involved but they're not that difficult to obtain if you put your mind to and got criminal connections we have got thousands tens of thousands hundreds of thousands more people with some question mark against them and we've got resources to look at them and some on fortunately will get through it's as simple as that unfortunately. the u.s. government has narrowl

they would head from paris to bordeaux or to marseille. generally mar swaseille was the place to go. from there three would hop on the mediterranean, get a boat to algiers, iran or casablanca. sometimes they would get to algiers or iran and hop a train to casablanca from there. casablanca would become a major waystation for refugees. in july of 1940, 200 ships arrive off the coast of casablanca bearing refugees. it is a massive humanitarian crisis at the port. it would take weeks for those ships to offload the refugees. the protectorate would set up sheds at the port to provide food, clothing, medicine, medical care. they would also establish a makeshift interment camp outside of the town to process all of the refugees. so the country that sent men off to fight in france now found itself accepting refugees who were trying to flee france. at the center of the refugee crisis were actually what would become an aid to the refugees, the u.s. consulate. in 1940 the u.s. consulate had a staff of six. it was small, intentionally small because ther

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this began hours earlier a little north of here, unarmed police officers based out of marseille, francee is has recent attacks. this would be the first incident under president macron's watch. probably why he is acting with full force. we understand the french counterterrorism prosecutors are taking the lead in this, putting a lot of evidence on this supermarket here in the town of trebes. we believe according to local reports, many of the hostages initially taken in the supermarket were released but there may be one police officer still being held there. we're trying to learn a little bit more of it. once again things our train room has found, today is the sixth anniversary of shooting in toulouse. that is 100 kilometers north. terrorist like to base things on anniversaries of sort. we learned back in february the counterterrorism forces in france foiled a an attack that would have been on a sports team. fortunately that did not happen. but looks like what is unfolding now is an incident that we'll learn more of. it is very important to note these early reports can change but clearly t

it had died down, the last attack in france we could a tribute to islam is was back in october in marseillet as the president said, it's no longer a case of waiting for armed attacks organised by a network oi’ armed attacks organised by a network oran armed attacks organised by a network or an organisation, sending people out to commit these attacks, as we have seen, local people becoming radicalised by themselves in small groups, communicating social media, but not people who have left the region and then come back in general. we are waiting to see the profile of this man. but i would bet he isa profile of this man. but i would bet he is a local with a background in petty crime because that is the profile. and the events of the day didn't begin in this tiny town of trebes. they started in nearby carcassonne. what happened? the three incidents. esprit. we've seen that before as well. a man decides to go for it and he does. it can be a succession of different events and it's only later that you piece together what happened. there are three attacks, i'm not show in which order they came. the

paris saint germain, who've won the past three of these titles, beat marseille 3—0 to reach the semi's competition. with neymar out for an extended period following sunday's win in le classique, angel di maria scored twice and edinson cavani also got on the scoresheet for ps6 at parc des princes, while in the early match, lassana doucoure scored for chambly who are second bottom of the third tier as they shocked top flight strasbourg to reach the last four joining fellow third tier side les herbiers who won on tuesday. in spain's primera division, antoine griezmann scored all four goals for second placed atletico madrid in their derby match against leganes. the french international scored two in each half to close the gap on leaders barcelona to four points with the catalans playing on thursday. elsewhere, valencia missed the chance to reclaim third place after a 1—1 draw at athletic bilbao and sevilla beat bottom club malaga to climb up to fifth as villarreal were beaten at eibar. russia's olympic membership has been restored by the international olympic committee following its susp