But if ozil, who was substituted during his teens 3 0 defeat at the emirates, thought he would have the backing of his club, he was mistaken. In a statement, arsenal distancing themselves from what they called their players personal opinion. As a football club, arsenal has always adhered to the principle of not involving itself in politics. Human Rights Groups say1 million people, mostly from the uigher community, are thought to have been detained without trial in high security prison camps. China has denied mistreatment, insisting these people are being educated in Vocational Training centres to combat extremism. Today, its government said ozil had been deceived by fake news. Translation we welcome mr ozil to visit xinjiang to look around. As long as he has a conscience, can distinguish right from wrong and hold objective and impartial principles, he will see a different xinjiang. Premier league clubs benefit from a record half a billion pounds tv rights deal with china. Arsenal are among those to have also gone on Pre Season Tours there, in pursuit of new fans and sponsors. Back in february, the club, sending a special new year message to their chinese supporters. We enjoyed our tour to china. Two months ago, us basketball coach upset many in china by treating support for pro democracy protesters in hong kong. The nba said it suffered substantial losses and now the nba could suffer similar losses. There is the very real threat of tv viewing audiences declining, of sponsorship contracts being reviewed. Of Fan Engagement generally, and the pre disposition of fans towards arsenal and english football, possibly suffering as a consequence of this. Arsenal will hope the dispute between the highest played player and most important overseas market will not escalate further. Sports uneasy relationship with politics, exposed yet again. Dan roan, bbc news. Manchester city will have to beat real madrid, in the last sixteen of the champions league. Its one of the stand out ties of the round, and a challenge Pep Guardiola will have to surpass, if hes to win the trophy, with city for the first time. There are several other big ties to look forward to, after the draw in nyon. Heres Austin Halewood with more. Lots of really tasty ties to look forward to heading into the newer but it is in the spanish capital, madrid, where some of the big names will be playing each other. Manchester city facing setting time champion real madrid. A trip to the infinite santiago stadium. It will pit these two against each other for the first time. Pep guardiola won the first time. Pep guardiola won the competition twice, in charge of barcelona. An Zinedine Zidane twice. Despite the lustrous record, Manchester City will be confident. The second leg will be in manchester and we can see real madrids table look beatable. They drew a loss to Paris Saint Germain and they also could only manage a draw here. With Manchester City so far off liverpool in the premier league, they will be putting emphasis in europe. Michael owen thinks Manchester City should have enough to beat his old club. City are not in the best of form at the moment but there is a while to go to rediscover that form. Madrid are not quite at their best at the moment so, again, we will see the form and the two teams come february but it is a very, very tough draw. Probably the glamour tie of the competition so far and, if i was another team, i would want to avoid Manchester City. When they are on form, they are very hard to stop. The first leg here will take them back to the stadium where they first one the title. The reds will be confident in that midfielder. They posted as much on social media. Of course, liverpool beat tottenham in that final in spain but for spurs, it isa that final in spain but for spurs, it is a trip to germany. That is a tough assignment as well because, the german team are top of the german league. For chelsea, it is another german team for them and they go to munich. They take on five time champion, bayern munich. Saturn to bring back plenty of memories for Frank Lampard part of the chelsea side to beat the german tea m the chelsea side to beat the german team to leave the championship. Certain. Earlier this year, this standout moment of the season so far for them. To be honest i munich are struggling, only fifth. Bayern munich. This role the ties. We could see the rest of the last 16 matches. All of those first leg ties take place in february so lots to look forward to in the new year. Now, with the spotlight firmly focussed on the way italian football has been dealing with racist incidents, theres been fresh criticsim of the images used in their latest anti racism posters. Simone fugazzotto has produced three images of a monkey, each painted in different colours. It comes after the newspaper, corriere dello sport, was criticised for the headline black friday, alongside images of roma defender, chris smalling, and inter striker, romelu lukaku, prior to a match between the sides. Critics say these pictures simply reaffirm a racial sterotype but the artist feels the work shows everyone is equal. Translation to answer the question i heard a minute ago, why monkeys . An initiative against racism and you are using monkeys, yes, because at some point it is impossible to tell people at the stadium that it is inconceivable to call someone a monkeyjust inconceivable to call someone a monkey just because inconceivable to call someone a monkeyjust because they are black. Maybe i will teach them we are all monkeys, turning the concept around so, in my view, the monkey becomes the spark to teach everybody that there is no difference. It is not like somebody is a man and somebody else a monkey. At this point, if some people really cared telling a black person they are a monkey, then we are all monkeys. The anti discrimination group, fare, responded on social media. Staying in italy, there was a big match in serie a on monday. Third placed lazio against calgiari. Giovanni simeone got an early goal. And they held on right until stoppage time. Luis alberto equalised for lazio, then in the 8th minute of added time, Felipe Caicedo scored the winner the result keeps lazio 3 points off the top, while cagliari stay 5th. And in the english premier league, Crystal Palace had Wilfried Zaha to thank for their draw against brighton. Zahas stunning drive rescued a point for the home side, after brightons neal maupay gave them the lead. Now weve all seen a dog run onto the pitch, in the park, trying to steal the ball. And weve even seen cats on the pitch in stadiums. But what were seeing now is a rare sighting its a stag, using its antlers to dribble into the net and celebrate scoring. Thats worth a replay. Form like that, he could end becoming world player of the deer. Sorry about that you can get all the latest sports news at our website. But from me and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye. Most parts of the uk are pretty chilly at the moment, so we have had some snow across northern scotland and quite a harsh frost, but the main message for the week ahead is quite the opposite. It is going to be mild, wet, and very windy at times as well, but a bit of sunshine from time to time too. It doesnt look like it will be a complete washout. The satellite picture shows a fair bit of cloud across southern parts of the uk, drizzly, Northern England is quite misty at the moment with cold weather across scotland. We have had some snow here, it will continue to remain quite wintry through the early hours here, but temperatures are rising through the night. It was around 6 degrees in parts of scotland. By the end of the night those temperatures will be a little bit higher, but in the far south east, we are starting with around seven degrees. Quite a bit of cloud here, mist and murk around the midlands, Northern England, and there will be some sunshine around on tuesday. Not a gloomy day everywhere. I think the most likely place to stay cloudy and quite damp is east anglia and the south east. It is pretty chilly, around five degrees for many of us. The forecast tuesday night into wednesday, we are in between weather systems. This next one is heading our way but were just ahead of it, and that means that on wednesday or at least wednesday morning, we start off with a lot of fog around. There could be some real problems with thick fog particularly around the midlands. Then the wind starts to pick up, we will see some sunshine briefly before this weather front arrives on our shores and reaches south western england, wales, and northern ireland. This as a spell of very wet and windy weather. We are talking about severe gales blowing around some of these coasts here, in fact from wednesday and into thursday, gusts could be around 70 miles an hour. Not as windy inland, but still windy enough. We can see all that bad weather sweeps across the uk through the course of wednesday night and into thursday as well. At the end of the week, this big low pressure is basically dominating a whole chunk of the atlantic, western europe as well. It is notjust us that get bad weather too, there will be some rough, windy weather across parts of europe as well. As we head towards the end of the week, the temperature is going to pick up, we will see mild southerlies for a time we could heading around 13 degrees in the south. Thats it, bye bye. Welcome to bbc news, my names mike embley. Our top stories crisis at boeing the Company Suspends production of its 737 max aircraft grounded since march, after two fatal crashes. 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