by the opportunity to join one of the biggest clubs in the world. the 44 year old is chelsea s sixth managerial appointment in five years. leicester have said they re disappointed maresca has decided to leave given that he d steered them back to the top flight. spanish football journalist guillem balague has been explaining why chelsea went for their new man. somebody that s got the energy to actually keep improving chelsea and take them to the top four again. all of that comes on the basis of two things. what they saw that he done at leicester city and number two, the interview was very impressive. i think some people walk into the interview feeling that, yeah, we will see, a championship manager, not a lot of experience, came out of it thinking he has to be him. england are among the teams in internationalfriendly action on monday ahead of this month s european championship in germany. it s approaching half time in their match in newcastle against bosnia & herzegovina. engl
the israeli army has announced the deaths of four hostages abducted by hamas on october the seventh. one was named as israeli british hostage nadav popplewell. the news was also confirmed by a kibbutz community. we ve just had statement from foreign secretary lord cameron. he said: greatly saddened to hear about the death of nadav popplewell who had been held in captivity by hamas since 7 october. my thoughts are with his loved ones at this terrible time for them. with a new deal on the table, we reiterate our demand for hamas to send all hostages home. since russia s full scale invasion of ukraine, the crackdown on dissent inside russia has been intensifying. a string of repressive laws has been adopted to silence criticism of the war and of the kremlin. but, as our russia editor steve rosenberg reports from the city of ivanovo some russians are still finding ways to express their concern at the direction their country s taken. there are some faces you expect to see now in any russi