Will combine to welcome 48 nations for the tournament. The six counties who will stage the matches are argentina, morocco, paraguay, portugal, spain and uruguay and they will all qualify automatically. Our sports news editor dan roan has more on this. Dan, how can this Work Logistically . It is an amazing deal that has been struck by fifa today along with a number of configurations that represent the different continents of the football landscape. If fans thought the idea Of A Winter World Cup was a novel proposition, they will be just as amazed perhaps is the announcement today. For the First Time Ever at the world cup will be staged across three continents. It will be staged in three countries in 2026 in the us, canada and mexico. Fifa have gone one better it seems with this. Six Different Countries over three continents. Spain, portugal, morocco are effectively the co hosts of this tournament, but in a move that is meant to honour and mark the centenary of the inaugural world cup in
Brighter with a few showers and it is still going to be worn this weekend. Its wednesday the 4th of october. After weeks of speculation, the Prime Minister is expected to use his leaders speech at the conservative Party Conference to confirm that hes scrapping the second leg of h52 from birmingham to manchester. Labours andy burnham, the mayor of Greater Manchester, accused the government of treating people in the north as Second Class Citizens, while the West Midlands mayor andy street, a conservative, was said to be distraught. Our Political Correspondent Damian Grammaticas reports from the conference in manchester. Pushing his way through the late night conference crowds, rishi sunak, relaxed and smiling. He has, it seems, made his mind up. Its the end of h52 to manchester. This was what the pm was saying 2a hours ago. What i want to do is make the right decision for the country. This is an enormous amount of peoples money, taxpayers money, everybody watching, billions and billions
Good evening. After weeks of speculation we understand tonight that the Prime Minister is going to scrap the plans to build the h52 high speed rail line between birmingham and manchester. He is expected to make the announcement in manchester at the conservative Party Conference tomorrow. Our Political Editor chris mason is there for us now. For the last couple of days, the Government Machine has felt quite low key, even underpowered, from the Prime Minister down, when it has come to the announcements they have had to make but tonight, that looks like it is about to change, not least with the confirmation is widely expected over the last couple of days, of the scrapping of the h52 rail line between the West Midlands and manchester. My understanding is the mayor of the West Midlands, a conservative, we included his views on our reporting of this last night, saw the Prime Minister this afternoon and tonight is distraught. Expect rishi sunak when he sets out his announcement to say that in
Next to the fallout from the Wrong Var Decision that denied liverpool a goal at tottenham on saturday. The audio from the incident has been made public. The referees governing body says a new Communication Protocol will now be developed to stop it happening again. Luis diaz goal was ruled out for offside but the var should have overturned that. Instead a lack of concentration and loss of focus accroding to the pgmol, led to the Onfield Decision being wrongly confirmed. Heres some of the audio. Check complete, check complete. Perfect. Thank you, nate. The Onfield Decision perfect. Thank you, nate. The On Field Decision was off site. You happy On Field Decision was off site. You happy with On Field Decision was off site. You happy with this . Onfield decision was offsite. You happy with this . On field decision was off site. You happy with this . Yeah. Delayed auain, happy with this . Yeah. Delayed again. Step happy with this . Yeah. Delayed again. Step the happy with this . Yeah. Delaye