Patrol with un peacekeepers and the Congolese Army in east india and see that you try to stop the rebel attacks that have already cost 1000 lives coming up in sports well see whats next for Manchester City as they take their punishment for breaking financial fair play rules to sports culture pale. So just in the past hour or so the u. S. Defense secretary has called china the biggest threat to the global order he was speaking at the Munich Security Conference markets accusing the Chinese Government of seeking advantage across the world by any means and at any cost and he again urged European Countries to stay away from the chinese tech giant huawei a demand that has been rebuffed by european allies. Under present shes rule the Chinese Communist party is heading even faster and further in the wrong direction more internal repression more predatory economic practices more heavy handedness and most concerning for me a more aggressive military posture it is essential that we as an Internat
to talking business weekly with me aaron heslehurst. let s go and to talking business weekly with me aaron heslehurst. let s go and take a look at what was on show. the show. the saudis are splashing out on sport. golf, football and boxing a role being pumped with cash but what does this middle eastern moneymen for the business of sport? qatar, bahrain and the uae of also bending the sporting establishment, but is it s about the speech, profit or trying to take the focus away from human rights concerns. upending the sporting establishment. i will discuss all of this with these two. there they are. leading expert on the links between sport and politics and top your spot investor he thinks there s millions to be made for a plane for profit. also on the show, i m going to catch up also on the show, i m going to catch up with the man he puts the big deals together for boxes such as anthonyjoshua and jesus rodriguez and asking how saudi arabia s vast oil wealth in shaping the p
wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello and a warm welcome to the show. you know, eye watering sums of money are being thrown at sports all over the world, but it s the middle east that seems to be doing most of the buying. and saudi arabia in particular. whether it s in football, golf, formula 1, boxing or cricket, billions of dollars are flowing in. so what impact is it having on the business model that has allowed these sports to become, well, some of the world s most popular forms of entertainment? just a few weeks ago, saudi arabia s sovereign wealth fund known as pif, agreed a deal to merge its live golf series with the us and european tours. the saudis, they re thought to be pumping in $3 billion. it ll bring their acrimonious rivalry, including lawsuits, to an end. football, it s also seen an influx of saudi cash. back in december, cristiano ronaldo signed for al nasr for around $220 million a year. it does include commercial activitie
to talking business weekly with me, aaron heslehurst. let s go and take a look at what s on the show. the saudis are splashing out on sport. golf, football and boxing are all being punched with cash. but what does this middle eastern money mean for the business of sport? qatar, bahrain and the uae are also upending the sporting establishment. but is it all about prestige, profit, or trying to take the focus away from human rights concerns? i m going to be discussing all of that with these two. there they are. a leading expert on the links between sport and politics, and a top us sports investor who thinks there s millions to be made from playing for profit. also on the show, i m going to catch up with the man who puts the big deals together for boxers such as anthonyjoshua and jesse rodriguez. i m going to ask him how saudi arabia s vast oil wealth is reshaping the prizes on offer in his big money sport. wherever you rejoining me from around the world, once again, a big hello
To become mandatory. Parts of the us are still struggling to get on top of the pandemic. If florida were a country, the number of new cases there in one day would put it fourth in the world. And Manchester City have overturned a two year ban on playing European Club football that would have seriously harmed their finances and their chances of keeping their best players. Welcome. The head of the World Health Organization has repeated his warning that the pandemic is getting worse it says too many countries are heading in the wrong direction. This is from its latest briefing. We need to reach a sustainable situation where we have adequate control of the virus without shutting down our lives entirely. Lurching from lockdown to lockdown. Which has a hugely detrimental impact on societies. I want to be straight with you, there will be no return to the old normal for the foreseeable future. One of the fundamental challenges of this pandemic is how little we know what covidi9 is doing to the