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
we start with the story that shocked the uk last year and made worldwide headlines. rishi sunak has set his heartfelt condolences go out to the families of the three people killed in the truly harrowing attacks. two university students, barnaby webber and grace o malley kumar, were celebrating the end of their first year. they were attacked as they walked home from a night out. ian coates, a school caretaker, was also killed. in a series of missed opportunities to prevent the killings, calocane had previously been detained in hospitalfour times, in a series of missed opportunities to prevent the killings, calocane had previously been detained in hospitalfour times, and a warrant for his arrest had been issued months before his deadly rampage. the families say, justice has not been served and the local police force has blood on its hands. navtej johal has this report taser, taser! stay where you are! this is the moment valdo calocane, a killer who caused carnage on the streets
metropolitan police officer matt ratana, who was shot in the chest inside a south london police station. louis de zoysa used an antique revolver, which he d smuggled into a holding cell at croydon custody centre, to shoot sergeant ratana in 2020. he was handcuffed at the time. the case was heard at northampton crown court. we can cross live there now to our correspondent frances read. as you said, in the last half hour, we have had it that guilty verdict. it took the jury some approximately five hours to deliberate that verdict. as we said, back in september 2020 that 25 year old, now 25 year old louis de zoysa was stopped as part of a routine search before he was taken to a police station, and it is there that he was able to discharge the shots from this antique revolver. let s have a little look back on the case now with daniel sandford. you re walking down the road with a duffel bag, right? which i believe may have staff equipped to do a burglary. may have staff equipped t
shortly after that cabinet call, we saw in person, arriving on foot, john healey, the shadow defence secretary labour and also sir lindsay hoyle, the leader of the commons, arriving in 70 whitehall, which is the cabinet office that adjoins downing street and that the connecting corridors all lead through as if it is effectively one building. we also saw the foreign secretary, lord cameron, going into downing street. the expectation in situations like this, when time allows comets that senior opposition figures such as keir starmer, who we think has probablyjoined a call to be briefed as well, as well as the defence secretary and the house of commons speaker, would be briefed, where time to allow and it would appear in this instance that there is time because, as we understand it, no military strikes have happened as yet. the uk government always has the capacity to respond without consulting either the opposition or wider parliament, but convention would normally point in the