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let's go straight to gavin at the bbc sport centre. the africa cup of nations kicks off in ivory coast on saturday. despite going through a civil war just over a decade ago, the country has produced some of africa's greatest players — such as didier drogba and yaya toure. since the conflict ended, ivory coast has become a growing power in west africa. earlier, we looked ahead to the tournament with bbc sport africa's ian williams, who's in abidjan. the first in a0 years in the ivory coast, notjust excitement but pride as well that is coming back after so long. you see those distinc...

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and public service. we were just looking at those pictures there of prime minister sunak back in ukraine. we were speaking to my colleague earlier, he pointed out that the there billion —— the pointed out that the there billion -- the £2.5 pointed out that the there billion —— the £2.5 billion is a small figure compared to the amount of aid from the us congress, some $60 billion there. mo, what you think about this visit? i billion there. mo, what you think about this visit?— about this visit? i think it was an im ortant about this visit? i think it was an important visit...

and now the sport. we will start with some transfer news. arsenal have agreed a deal with chelsea for around £65 million for the forward kai havertz. chelsea bought him from bayer leverkeusen in 2020 for a deal worth around 71 million pounds. mikel arteta is looking to stregthen his squad arsenal had a second bid for west ham captain declan rice turned down this week. manchester city have agreed a deal with chelsea to buy mateo kovacic. the croatian midfielder willjoin the treble winners for an initialfee of £25 million with a further £5 million of potential add—ons. kovacicjoin...

lazio are into the semi—finals of the coppa italia after a narrow victory in in the rome derby — which had an ill—tempered finish. a penalty from mattia zaccagni just into the second half was the enough to beat rivals roma 1—0. three players sent off in stoppage time there, two from roma. who'll playjuventus or frosinone. they play on thursday. the other quarterfinal between milan and atalanta is underway. the winners will play fiorentina who beat bologna on tuesday. and in the semi—finals of the spanish super cup taking place in saudi arabia, we're into the second half of ...