forecast to maintain its majority in the country s parliament. now on bbc news, inside the saudi sporting machine. it s 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 boxing s biggest fights. saudi arabia s investment in sport has gone into overdrive. the country now set to host the 2034 world cup too. but there s also controversy among fears that one of the world s 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 country s remarkable sporting revolution. there seems no end to the number of sports you are investing in. are we at the high point now or are wejust beginning the journey? there is a lot, as you said. our ambition is to host the best events around the world in the kingdom for the people of the kingdom to see
now on bbc news: inside the saudi sporting machine. it s 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 boxing s biggest fights. saudi arabia s investment in sport has gone into overdrive. the country now set to host the 2034 world cup, too. but there s also controversy among fears that one of the world s 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 on the environment. i travelled tojeddah for a rare opportunity to speak to one of the key figures behind the country s remarkable sporting revolution. there seems no end to the number of sports you are investing in. are we at the high point now or are we just beginning the journey? there s a lot, as you said. our ambition is to host the best events around the world in the kingdom for the people of the kin
news, inter milan have overcome ckty rivals ac milan to progress to the champions league final. lautaro martinez handed them a 3 0 aggregate victory over both legs. john bennettjoins me. how big psychologically was the 2 0 victory in the first leg last week? it was always going to take a monumental effort for ac milan to get back into it but they did have hope with their star man back, leao recovered from a thigh injury. they started really well in the first half an hour. diaz and hernandez as well and just over half time, rafael leao with an effort that went inches wide from the tight angle, second half different story. completely controlled it, inter. one shot on target and then martinez finished the job, he scored with a shot which the goalkeeper should have done better but beat them 1 0 on the night it was always going to be lautaro martinez because no player has scored more goals against ac milan, come back to haunt them again and through to the champions league final, i
us treasury secretary janet has again sent a letter to congress warning the treasury would be unable to satisfy its obligations as early as 1june. presidentjoe biden will meet top lawmakers including republican house of representatives speaker kevin mccarthy at 3p able a good time on tuesday. of course that meeting was postponed from last friday. samira hussain has more from new york. in less than two weeks the united states could fail to meet its debt obligations. if lawmakers in washington cannot come to some sort of agreement. the republicans have continued to demand cuts to social security before they will agree to raise the borrowing limit. us presidentjoe biden has repeatedly said he would not set conditions that must raise the debt limit his failure to do so would result in an economic catastrophe. some of the possible outcomes of the job losses, those that depend on social security benefits won t get paid, and of course the most dire of outcomes would be the loss of c
there seems no went to the number of sports you are investing in. iwill number of sports you are investing in. i will be at the high point now or are we just beginning thejourney? high point now or are we ust beginning the journey? beginning the ourney? there is a loss, beginning the ourney? there is a loss. as you beginning the journey? there is a loss, as you said, beginning the journey? there is a loss, as you said, our- a loss, as you said, our ambition is to host the best events around the world in the kingdom for the people of the kingdom for the people of the kingdom to see but also to invite the world to the kingdom. we have formula i is one of them. the olympics. these are the highest events that any nation would love to host within their countries. within the 2030 vision, we have targets that we want to host the biggest advance to attract the biggest advance to attract the world sports to be part of that employee a role in that. do you want to be the number on