time in argentina with the rumour mill is saying he's going to be sacked, but officials saying his job is safe. he got the job last year because of chaos in the argentinian fa —— rumour mills. lionel messi briefly retired in protest from international football and the previous coach retired in protest. they had an election for argentinian fa president last year, 75 institutions eligible to vote, it ended up 38 each, do the maths. rail chaos in the argentinian fa. that allowed that they conceive or too come and get the job —— allowed that they conceive or too come and get thejob —— real chaos. it's no surprise he found it really hard. he's a thoroughly competent clu b hard. he's a thoroughly competent club coach domesticly in south america but he had never worked at this level before and he had no time to prepare, he was parachuted into eight rounds of world cup qualifiers without a single friendly to prepare his side. his record, three wins, two draws and three defeats, nine goals scored, ten conceded. his record isn't very good but i don't think he's had the greatest working conditions. him, many people will be saying why has it taken almost two weeks after the last game and the loss to bolivia to give him the sack? -- tim. argentina have only just elected the new head of the fa, they finally now have an fa president there, he was only elected in the last week of march so he's been getting his feet under the table. there's also the difficult situation of who is going to replace him. i had thought they were going to delay an announcement of bauza pass sacking until they definitely had a replacement lined up. that seems not to be the case. —— bauza's sacking. it looks like delegations from the argentinian fa are on their way to spain where they have two targets in mind, one is diego simeone, very busy with the champions league and atletico madrid, the other is someone who has just been knocked out of the champions league as the sevilla coach. it remains to be seen whether one of them will be tempted or whether the argentinian fa will have to scurry around looking for someone to scurry around looking for someone to philippe to's position. they don't have a game untiljune, that is eight friendly in australia against brazil. —— bauza's position. the next is a qualifier, a crunch game, at the end of august at home to europewide. how important is it that the lionel messi will be out for the next three games? -- at home to europewide. yes, very important, they are away to uruguay and they wa nt they are away to uruguay and they want him to come back for that one —— at home to uruguay. the next one, against venezuela, argentina would like to think they could beat them at home without messi. really the new coach has to be ready before the friendly against brazil in australia injune friendly against brazil in australia in june because he friendly against brazil in australia injune because he will want to get his players together to try to prepare a team to beat uruguay without lionel messi. tim vickery, brilliant, thanks for your time, we will chat to you soon. arsenal have been dealt a real blow as they look to keep touch with the top teams. the gunners suffered a 3—0 loss away to london rivals crystal palace, meaning they remain sixth and three points adrift of fifth placed manchester united with seven games remaining. the result lifts sam allardyce's side, who are 16th, six points away from the relegation zone. andros townsend opened the scoring in the 17th minute and it remained that way until two further goals during a five—minute period in the second half from yohan cabaye and a luka milivojevic penalty confirmed the win. it's the first time the gunners have lost four successive premier league away games under manager arsene wenger. i face that iface that in i face that in every press conference at the moment and tonight i'm not in the mood to speak about that. when do you think you will be letting the fans and everybody know? i think at the moment i need to pay more respect to the fact that we had a disappointing result and focus on that and not find as well excuse is that and not find as well excuse is that are not excuses. —— as well excuse is. —— that are not excuses. —— as well excuse is. —— excuses. former leicester city manager claudio ranieri says he doesn't think a players revolt was behind his sacking at the club. he lost hisjob in february, nine months after leading the club to the english premier league title. speaking publicly for the first time about his dismissal on sky sports monday night football broadcast in the uk, he says that somebody behind the scenes may have been working against him, but not the players. i can't believe it. i can't believe it, the players may be don't give the maximum because there are other problems. other problems is the year before they earned a little less and after they have double and triple, when you come back in pre—season, you win the title, you go around the world, you play in america, you play against big teams for the first time in your life, the situation is totally different. i can't believe it, i can't believe my players kill me, no, no, no. the usa, canada and mexico will form a joint bid to host the 2026 world cup it was announced on monday with the usa looking to host 60 games, with canada and mexico preparing to welcome ten each. it will be the first staging of the tournament under the new 48—team format and no concacaf nation has hosted the event since the usa in 1994. europe and asia won't be eligible to bid and with the 250th anniversary of the declaration of independence in the usa that year, it could prove timely. we don't have to build any hotels, any highways, airports, train tracks, buses, almost importantly, any stadiums and that's an extraordinary advantage. —— and most. it's not only an advantage for us most. it's not only an advantage for us but it's an advantage looking forward for fifa and the ioc as these events become very expensive and the criticism that comes after win stadium in particular an used for anything, that's been the case in southern africa and brazil and governments have taken criticism for that. we don't need to do that. there may be new stadium is part of this bid by the time 2026 gets here, but we're not going to build them —— new stadiums. the la rams are going to build one, that will be a phenomenal stadium, so that to me is not only a good thing for our bid but a good signal to the rest of the world that this can be done without necessarily building infrastructure oi’ venues necessarily building infrastructure or venues specifically for one event. the major part of the qatar it was to create an impact on the country's economy. “— to create an impact on the country's economy. -- qatar bid. local contractors manufactured the seats but the stadiums. kathrada is also scheduled to host the 29 world athletics championships, meaning infrastructure needs to be ready ahead of time in certain venues —— qatar. we are happy with the progress we are making at this time, we are announcing two or three new stadiums, the final number stadiums be decided with fifa within this year. as i said, we are full steam ahead. in the asian champions league one of the more entertaining goalless draws was played in group d on monday between iranian side persepolis and qatar's al—rayyan. one of the more obvious fouls you'll see in the box came from al—rayaan's musab khidir who didn't even attempt to remonstrate with the referee. the home side's striker then confidently stepping up and embarrassingly overhitting his attempted panenka style penalty. and the visitors had a chance to win the game themselves when this shot was tapped onto the post by the home sides keeper. but there were goals in doha as another qatari and iranian side met with home team lekhwiya coming from a goal behind to beat. esteghlal khuzestan and jump to the top of group b. nam tae hee with this shot from outside the area. and then almoez ali just before halftime to make it 2—1 which was how it remained. just enough time to give you an update on our top story: edgardo bauza, the argentina coach, has been sacked by the argentinian football factory. argentina are currently fifth in south american qualification with four games left to play, they are in fifth on 23 points behind chile, in fourth. their next game is on the 31st of august, which is a way to europewide. diego simeone or sampaoli. —— europewide. the atletico madrid or the sevilla coaches are in the running, no surprise there. —— uruguay. from me, tulsen tollett, and the rest of the sport today team, goodbye for now. good morning. sunday was the warmest day of the year so far with 25 degrees, 77 fahrenheit recorded, so whatever the weather on monday, it could have been a little bit disappointing, or was it? could have been a little bit disappointing, orwas it? on could have been a little bit disappointing, or was it? on the whole, not too bad across the south coast, as you can see from this weather watchers picture, and temperatures peaked at 16 celsius, which, with the sunshine, still felt reasonably pleasant. different story in the highlands of scotland, a great day and it looks like we're likely to see more cloud and outbreaks of rain into the north—west today. the wind swinging round to a bit more of a westerly, so that will take the edge off the feel of things as well but with some sunshine, not too bad on the whole, cloud and rain continuing out into the far north—west of the great glen in particular. top temperatures of around 11—6 team. as we move out of tuesday into wednesday, we'll see a series of weather fronts slitting their way steadily south and the winds pivot round more to a north—westerly, that will make it feel that little bit fresher on exposed coasts, especially as the winds will strengthen just two gale force wind of an north and west. with those weather fronts slowly slipping their way south it will bring showery outbreaks of rain, nothing particularly heavy but a bit ofa nothing particularly heavy but a bit of a nuisance, top temperatures of 10-6 of a nuisance, top temperatures of 10—6 team the height. that's the story through wednesday but with clearer skies through the night we could in rural spots sea temperatures into low single figures, a touch of light frost not out of the question for thursday morning but some sunshine in central and eastern areas before cloud and shall read outbreaks of rain gather again from the north and west —— hourly. a bit of a theme developing as we head towards easter weekend. the jet streams slicing the country into two and always coming from a north—westerly direction so a cold sores, low pressure out to the east, high pressure to the west and the settled weather is likely to be in south—western areas but with that north—westerly flow the chances are temperatures are going to get a bit into the easter weekend and perhaps just below where they should be at this time of year. but we could be heading for that classic case of sunshine and april showers, so if you catch the sunnier moments, the sunshine is quite strong and it will feel reasonably pleasant from time to time. on good friday, another wea k to time. on good friday, another weak weather front making its way slowly south across the country, sunny spells and scattered showers borrowing on behind, 7—15 the high. into saturday, the start of the easter weekend, again predominantly cloudy but a good deal of dry weather in the story, but that cool north—westerly breeze as well. take care. a very warm welcome to bbc news, broadcasting to our viewers in north america and around the globe. my name's mike embley. our top stories: g7 foreign ministers increase pressure on russia to abandon its support for syria's president. smartphones capture the moment a passenger is forcibly dragged off an overbooked united airlines flight. the firm issues a sort of apology but there is outrage online. the oil giant shell admits dealing with a convicted money—launderer to negotiate access to a vast off shore oilfield in nigeria. thousands of police line the streets of london for the funeral of pc keith palmer — killed in the westminster terror attack.