The jobs that are being created. Ill have more later. In sport, italian championjuventus took a Big Stride Towards the Champions League final. Jose mourinho has set his sights on winning the Europa League in the semi final tonight. Also this morning the story of eight year old marin and herfriendship with police dog in training tag. He is my best friend. He is basically my special bff. And carol has the weather. There is a north south split, in the north it will be sunny, in the south it will be cloudy with showery outbreaks of rain. In the east in the breeze once again it will be chilly. I have more injust over ten minutes. Good morning. First, our main story. A bbc breakfast investigation into the treatment of Eating Disorder has shown rising numbers of men being affected by conditions like anorexia and bulimia. Figures obtained through a Freedom Of Information Request showed the number of males receiving out patent treatment in england is rising at double the rate of female patients
on twitter, like saud al-qahtani, who was accused of helping orchestrate the murder ofjournalist jamal khashoggi who you mentioned earlier. and this service is offering the sports offering that bein sports was offering. including the premier league? including the premier league. bein sports caught wind of this. they realised that. they did some digging themselves, as well as the premier league, and they discovered that the signal that was being used to air these games originated not from a colombian and cuban consortium, which is what the saudis were claiming, but from saudi arabia, from a company called arabsat, whch is a company which is majority owned by who? the saudi government. and then what happened after that is the qataris, they took this case to the world trade organization to kind of get to the bottom of why this was happening, and they took saudi arabia to the wto arbitration process and the wto then ruled
new owners in football, there s actually been much less about something we have obviously noticed on the media show, because we re a media show, which is, in the end this is a media story in a sense. tell us what are bein and beoth and how that all plays into this. so bein sports is the qatari backed sports broadcaster got the commercial rights to air premier league games and sporting events from around the world for the middle east and also a lot of the global south, for example, indonesia is a big market for bein sports. and what happened was in 2017 when there was an air, sea and land blockade imposed on qatar, which owns bein sports, what also happened, and this was imposed by saudi arabia, i might add, what also happened was bein sports was also banned inside saudi arabia. but then a few weeks later what you saw was the emergence of a new website called beoth that was being promoted by senior royal advisers
in favour of saudi arabia sorry, not saudi arabia, qatar. and they accused saudi arabia of essentially not charging and prosecuting the people behind beoth. and this was a big deal for the premier league. this was why newcastle that stalled that takeover. it is a massive deal for the premier league because bein s contract, for example, is worth roughly £500 million, and that is a lot of money for the premier league. and when the newcastle deal became public, one of the first people to condemn it and also lobby the premier league and the uk government against this deal was bein sports. but then what also happened was, in early 2021, we saw saudi arabia end its blockade on qatar. and as a result of that, what we also saw only last week was bein sports was allowed
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