Of english premier league team newcastle united, effectively making the club one of the richest in the world. the move was described by amnesty international as a blatant example of saudi sportswashing . fast forwa rd a year, and football superstar cristiano ronaldo leaves his english team manchester united to sign with the saudi club al nassr for a reported salary of around £177 million a year that s around $226 million. at the time, it became the highest paying contract in sports history. since then, saudi clubs have been poaching more and more players and manchester city manager pep guardiola recently lost one of his star players, riyad mahrez, to a team in the saudi pro league. he said over the weekend that he expects more players to move there in the future. and it s notjust football last year the pif bought 17% of formula one franchise
Legal analyst elie honig is here morning. obviously this was about a whole lot more than money, but it is $787 million. so let s begin there. you want to put it put it in perspective for us. let s start with the bottom l here.his amount of money 787. million just an astonishing figure. no matter how you break it down now, look , you could look at this and say, well, it s only about half of what dominion originally asked for their original $1.6 billion figure, but we need to be realistic about what these figures are. these numbers that plaintiffs put forward are just that their numbers that plaintiffs put forward. there s no guarantee dominion would have won a trial, and even if they had, there s no guarantee they would have gotten anything close. 2 $787.5 million. now, let s put it in some meaningful context. poppy as you just said , this is an unprecedented payout if we look at some of the recent high profile defamation, settlements and judgments, we are seeing dollar amounts in the $222 million 177 million
Beef products inc. whatever the company was, but that was $177 million. so if you think about it, this is such an extraordinary huge, huge, huge settlement, and i think it s going to have enormous implications for how we see fox managed lawsuits moving forward now the question, alison we ve been talking about this all night. does it actually changed ? fox? does it change the way that they handle their coverage? it s hard to say i mean facts is not required to apologize to its views viewers. nor is it required according to the settlement issue. any retractions or corrections? that s huge. that s huge. that s the whole point. so do you know what my two cents is? dominion one? i mean, dominion got what they wanted. 787 is a huge historic settlement, but i m not sure that journalism or democracy or the country one because they re not admitting to what they did wrong and we lose help as the media because we now no longer get to see. you know
The amount of money been busy today is dwarfed by the amount of spending cuts. , , , ., ., ,, ., , cuts. just before we talk about this i want to cuts. just before we talk about this i want to say cuts. just before we talk about this i want to say that cuts. just before we talk about this i want to say that lancashire - cuts. just before we talk about this i want to say that lancashire police have said today they are looking into an incident after rishi sunak was filmed not wearing a seat belt while a passenger in a moving car. a spokesman said that he made a brief error ofjudgment by taking the seat belt off to make a clip. but to the broader point, brian, let s talk about scotland. there is £177 million of levelling up funding, ten different projects. but the devolved government not involved. trio. different projects. but the devolved government not involved. no, they re not. and government not involved. no, they re not- and bear government not involved. no, they re not. and bear in government not involved. no, they re not. and bear in mind government not involved. no, they re not. and bear in mind in government not involved. no, they re not. and bear in mind in the - government not involved. no, they re not. and bear in mind in the english l not. and bear in mind in the english case is one of the disparities across regions is that these funds followed the bids, the quality of the bids that come from individual areas. and certainly labour are
More than, £177 million per year. he called saudi arabia an amazing country during the ceremony. amnesty say ronaldo s signing is part of a wider pattern of sportswashing . novak djokovic is also continuing his build up to the australian open at the adelaide international but faced more of a challenge against quentin halys than he probably anticipated. djokovic was was 5 2 down in the opening set against his french opponent, ranked 64 in the world, before rallying to take that 7 3 in a tie break. halys pushed the 21 time grand slam champion hard in the second too, but djokovic ultimately had too much and now moves into the quarterfinals. the serbian will play denis shapovalov on thursday.