as you are saying, pele died last thursday under december the 29th at the age of 82, of colon cancer. he had been ill for a while and for the past few days, brazilians were able to remember the key moments of his career, his most beautiful goals. he scored 1283 of them, so it was a time for brazilians to remember stories of the past. and pele was a key figure in the making of brazil s image abroad. at 17, he won brazil s first world cup in 1958. to give a bit of context, 1958 was also the year in which brazil s great composer launched the song that inaugurated the bossa nova movement, so it was a big year for brazil. in 1962, he won his second world cup and in 1970, the third world cup. that one has been talked about amongst brazilians because brazil was going through a ruthless military dictatorship at that time and the regime used that to try to divert the international community s attention from what was going on in brazil. but politics aside, pele was one of the greatest
but in a classroom, there might be around 30 of them. there are between 500 2,500 people at smaller gigs or in a nightclub. but see how 21,000 fans can fill manchester arena. and the biggest events hold more than this. more than 73,000 at the principality stadium in cardiff, 90,000 at wembley, and see how around 100,000 people turned out for this climate change strike during cop26. and this crowd are not even all of the 135,000 people who buy tickets for glastonbury every year. but 150,000 people, that is everyone who lives in a city such as 0xford. 0ther covid waves came and went. in march, july and october. but that was the last time restrictions on socialising were put in place. and crucially, while the number of people admitted to hospital with covid did rise with each successive wave, they were nowhere near the peaks seen injanuary 2021. and the same is true of deaths due to covid, each wave saw an increase in deaths, although nowhere near what was seen in 2021, and lowe
to the pope emeritus, benedict the sixteenth, whose body is lying in state at the vatican. good evening, welcome to sportsday this monday night i m chetan pathak, coming up on the programme: paying their respects to a football legend thousands of mourners gather in brazil where pele is lying in state. celtic score late to stay nine points clear, denying rangers victory in the old firm derby. and martina navratilva says she ll fight with all she s got after being diagnosed with throat and breast cancer. welcome along, thank you forjoining us. news from the premier league and an eventful old firm derby in scotland to come but we start tonight in brazil where mourners are continuing to gather to pay their respects to pele, who s lying in state at the football ground of his former club santos. the three time world cup winner died at the age of 82 last week. our south america correspondent katy watson is there for us. we know the brazilian government said there would be thre
to football legend pele as a public wake begins at his former club santos prince harry accuses buckingham palace of failing to defend him and his wife meghan before they stepped down as working royals in an interview for us broadcaster cbs. you know, the family motto is never complain, never explain, but it s just a motto. it doesn t really hold. there s a lot of complaining and a lot of explaining. endless. russia has acknowledged that 63 of its soldiers were killed in a new year s eve attack by ukrainian forces using himars rockets supplied by the us. the strikes destroyed a former vocational school in the donetsk region, where the soldiers are said to have been temporarily deployed. ukraine s armed forces say the strike killed hundreds of russian soldiers. this is what a russian ministry of defence spokesman had to say a short while ago: translation: the kyiv regime | targeted a temporary deployment point used by one of the units of the russian armed forces unit in