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saudi arabias investment in sport has gone into overdrive. the country now set to host the 2034 world cup too. but theres also controversy among fears that one of the worlds richest oil states is using sports to distract from its human rights record and its impact on the environment. i travelled tojeddah for a rare opportunity to speak to one of the key figures behind the countrys remarkable sporting revolution. there seems no end to the number of sports you are investing in. are we at...

bell rings. bell rings. bell tolls. bells peal. bells peal. the bells tolling in memory of the dead. this is an incident which has deeply, deeply shocked this country. as well as those who died, people are thinking about the people who were injured, a number of those are still in hospital, some with serious injuries. we know that many of the casualties were cheque, three —— czech. czech. details have been emerging about the identities of some of the victims, one of them was the dir...

this was prague a short time ago — you can see the police presence there well into the night. our correspondent sarah rainsford has more from there. this mass shooting took place just across the bridge from where i am, the building went up there, the arts faculty is where the gunmen shot so many people wounding and killing many. deep shock here in prague and across the czech republic in a meeting is taking place of the cabinet and the president that parliament and the minister is tal...

in north america, which is its largest market fell 5%. in china, and other key market which is slowly recovering from a footwear sales were down i%. now, on the bright side, if you take footwear sales together with nike set sales of footwear in north america, which is its largest market fell 5%. in china, and other key market which is slowly recovering, footwear sales were down i%. now, on the bright side, if you take footwear sales together with like equipment and apparel, overall, th...

anti-immigrant rhetoric causing reverberations today. the white house calling the comments, quote, fascist, after the former president said this in new hampshire saturday. >> theyre poisoning the blood of our country. thats what theyve done. theyve poisoned mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just south america or the three or four countries we think about. but all over the world, theyre coming into our country, from africa, from asia, all over the world. theyre pou...

what the pilots had to do. first tonight, this deadly confrontation unfolding in front of witnesses on the streets of new york. police trying to arrest a suspect barricaded in. the suspect then opening fire on police. aaron katersky on the scene. this powerful storm system moving east, heavy snow and flood threats from colorado straight over to florida. then right up the east coast, the i-95 corridor, from d.c. to philadelphia to new york city. rain, snow, damaging winds. and rob m...

also on todays programme: nationwide puts up its mortgage rates by 0.45% — and other lenders also increase the cost of new deals. the kent hospital where the maternity unit was almost shut down by inspectors as basic hygiene was not observed. a medicalfacility in ukraine is destroyed by a russian missile strike, killing two people and injuring over 20. and british cycling says itll ban transgender women from elite female competition. and coming up on bbc news... three teams, two rele...

against russian forces. in a rare interview, oleksiy danilov told the bbc the planned assault was an "historic opportunity" — but the government had "no right to make a mistake" when making such an important decision. mr danilov has been speaking to our diplomatic correspondent, james landale. we have been talking about this counteroffensive for months, and during that time ukraine has been building up stockpiles of ammunition, its been taking receipt of tanks and armoured vehicles f...

forecast to maintain its majority in the countrys parliament. now on bbc news, inside the saudi sporting machine. its the country transforming the sporting landscape, from signing top stars to a revamped football league to an upheaval of professional golf and the staging of boxings biggest fights. saudi arabias investment in sport has gone into overdrive. the country now set to host the 2034 world cup too. but theres also controversy among fears that one of the worlds richest oil state...

2016 campaign and russia, special counsel john durham released his findings yesterday, a 300-page report. and in it, durham, who was first appointed by that attorney general william barr in 2019, accuses the bureau of acting negligently but did not reveal any bombshells, as many republicans had long claimed he would. durham found no evidence the justice department and the fbi conspired in a deep state plot to investigate trumps ties to russia in 2016. in addition, durham did not recomm...