captain is said to have rejected a more lucrative offer from the saudi arabian side al hilal to move to major league soccer. it s thought messi wanted to stay in europe but there were no satista ctory offers. messi already owns a house in florida and his contract with inter miami includes sponsorship deals with adidas and apple. elsewhere, real madrid have agreed a deal with borussia dortmund to sign the england midfielder jude bellingham for $ 107 million dollars or £86 million pounds. 19 year old bellingham, who joined dortmund only three years ago from birmingham city, was one of england s top performers at last year s world cup in qatar and was recently voted player of the year in the bundesliga. bellingham who s agreed a six year deal with real madrid is due to have medical in the next few days. staying with football, the final of the europa conference league is well under way in prague where fiorentina are playing west ham united. west ham are looking to
hello, i m sarah campbell, welcome to the daily global, where we ll bring you the top stories from around the world. we start with prince harry. it s been his second day of being cross examined in the high court. the prince said he found it suspicious, that difficult conversations between him and an ex girlfriend appeared in stories in the daily mirror. the paper s publisher denies using unlawful means to gather information about the duke saying its reports were based on publicly available sources. our culture editor, katie razzall, was in court. the interest in this story shows no sign of waning. for the second day world s media gathered in a cul de sac in central london waiting for the high court s star witness. prince harry arrived here for another bout of cross examination. the mirror group is determined to show he is wrong to claim that articles about him were based on unlawful information gathering. mgn s barrister told him there was not a single item of evidence in the
the last few hours. he left tottenham in 2019. he joins after a dismal season for chelsea, they finished 12th in the premier league and our reporter has more. chelsea have enjoyed a terrible season, there west on points in the premier league, they lost on the tap of their matches. their squad is bloated, it is expensively assembled. they have spent £60 million since last summer. they have very little to show for it, they have not qualified for europe and as a result their spending in his first transfer window will be hit as a result. frank lampard, they interim manager, the third manager of the season, openly said standards have dropped. he officially starts in july, that gives him a month to ascertain who is up to scratch. it is a tall order but you suspect pochettino is probably one of a handful of managers who might be able tojuggle it handful of managers who might be able to juggle it all. you mention when he goes to manage it all, the experience he would have had alread
cruise missiles and drones were intercepted by their defences in what was the 15th air attack on the capital this month. our diplomatic correspondent, james landale is in kyiv. today s strikes were unusual for two reasons one, because they came in the daylight, and secondly, because they appeared to be targeted here at the centre of the city. until now, most of the air strikes came at night and they were targeted at the outskirts, at national infrastructure and some of the air defences itself. so the authorities said they managed to shoot down 11 ballistic and cruise missiles. of course, that meant that there was a lot of debris that came from the skies, landing on the ground, damaging some buildings. but miraculously, there were reports ofjust a few injuries. so what we re seeing is an uptick in tempo of this conflict. russia is putting more pressure on the capital here in kyiv, but it s also striking military targets elsewhere. ukraine admitted rarely that one of thei
correspondent orla guerin reports. it was a long night of celebration. for one side of turkey. supporters of the president massed outside his presidential palace here, marking a hard fought victory. hard fought victory. translation: hard-fought victory. translation:- hard-fought victory. translation: , ., ., translation: i ve been voting for him since i translation: i ve been voting for him since i was translation: i ve been voting for him since i was 18. translation: i ve been voting for him since i was 18. my translation: i ve been voting for him since i was 18. my generationl him since i was 18. my generation backs one. he won the election fairly, thank god. i love you a lot. and istanbul, he did it his way. with a sing along for supporters of his ruling ak party. and an attack on familiar targets. translation: is on familiar targets. translation: , ., , ., translation: is the opposition pro-lgbt? translation: is the opposition pro-lgbt? could translation: i