jay monahan saying it was an historic moment. the agreement will combine the pga tour and liv s commercial operations and rights into a new, yet to be named company which will also include the dp world tour. the likes of dustinjohnson, brooks koepka and cameron smith defected to the saudi backed breakaway league with huge prize funds on offer, and new team formats. our golf correspondent iain carter says it s an total game changer. isa is a been sworn enemies, the establishment corner and in the rebel breakaway corner, we ve had greg norman s operation funded by saudi arabia existing towards some of liv is an existential threat. and now we have this cordiality, this agreement and the calling of expensive and lengthy legal action as well. it really is an extraordinary turnaround. news also in regarding karim benzema who has agreed terms with saudi arabian champions al ittihad, after leaving real madrid. 35 year old benzema is the latest big name recruit to the saudi pro
hello, i m maryam moshiri. a very warm welcome to the daily global, where i ll bring you the top stories from the uk and around the world. prince harry has left the high court in central london after a day of giving evidence as part of his case against mirror group newspapers. he s suing the company for what he claims was unlawful information gathering, including phone hacking. prince harry said he lost friendships unnecessarily because of the paranoia the journalists caused. the publisher denies the allegations. this report from our media editor, katie razzall. in a cul de sac in central london, the world s media. ..focused on itself and one man. others have settled claims over the years, but here was prince harry, determined to have his day in court, telling those inside a packed court 15 and an overflow annex that every single article written about him had caused him distress and agreeing he had felt hostility to the media, even before he knew about their methods. he w
hello, i m lewis vaughanjones. you re watching the context on bbc news. the influential uk business lobby group, the cbi, wins a vote of confidence over its future after a series of scandals. let s start with the race for the white house, which has become a little bit more crowded today with chris christie announcing his bid for the republican nomination. you may remember him from his time as the governor of newjersey and also his unsuccessful run for the presidency in 2016. and that ultimately ended up with him endorsing donald trump who, of course, won and is running again this time round. mr trump isn t noted for being nice about any of his rivals, so we ll see what he has to say against his one time backer. back to our panel gillian tett, editor at large for the us financial times, who joins us from silicon valley in california. and nathalie tocci, from the institute of international affairs, is in rome. let s start with chris christie, what do you make of that? is in l
attack by ukraine. welcome to the programme. in ukraine president zelensky says the kakovka dam was mined by russian occupiers. russia says it was an act of ukrainian sabotage. we ll look who s most likely to have carried out the attack. also coming up. prince harry has been in court accusing mirror group newspapers of hacking into his voicemails when he was a teenager. the brain drain. nurses leaving ghana to come to countries like the uk. one nursing group says the situation is out of control. we start in ukraine and attack on the dam. un security council meeting in next hour. we re going to look at two things. look at scale of damage. and ask our experts who s most likely to have done this. this is the kakovka dam. water flowing through. 40,000 people being evacuated. 80 towns and villages impacted. this video tweeted by zelensky. these images from areas downstream. water levels could rise 12 metres. said one russian official. let s hearfrom a ukrainian mp who s there. t
gilda hakim. a federaljudge in the united states has sentenced the founder of the far right militant oath keepers, stewart rhodes, to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy and other crimes related to the storming of the us capitol on january the 6th, 2021. with the latest, here s our north america correspondentjessica parker. he was convicted at the back of last year, and now we ve learned that a federaljudge has sentenced him to 18 years in prison. prosecutors had actually sought a longer sentence of 25 years, but 18 years is what he s been given. in court, we understand he was pretty defiant, saying that he was a political prisoner something that the judge really wasn t having anything of, basically suggesting he still presented a peril to the country. in terms of what happened during the course of the trial, he wasn t the only member of the oath keepers who was on trial, and we expect some further sentencing over the coming days but he is the leader of this far r