48 teams 16. asia get eight, africa get nine. all in all that is 46 places amongst the confederations, and the last two places will be decided by a play off tournament, to be decided amongst six teams. that will take place potentially in the november pre seeding the tournament year, fifa saying it could be a test event, that could be the death knell, then, perhaps, for the confederations cup. but fifa making clear that this is exactly how it wants to see the 2026 world cup divided amongst the confederations. it will now go forward to ratification in may. that would seem to be a formality, and for fifa this is the final step that has taken towards that expanded, 48 tea m has taken towards that expanded, 48 team world cup, from 2026. on their debut in the competition, manchester city s women have made it into the last four of the uefa champions league. lucy bronze scored the only goal in thursday s second leg, to seal a 2 0 aggregate win over danish side fortuna hjorring, a
the us election through propaganda on steroids, the startling words of a senior democrat who s on the senate intelligence committee, as it began investigating alleged russian interference in last year s us election. our correspondent in washington is laura bicker. she has all latest for us now. just a little bit of breaking news that i can tell you, that there have been reports that general michael flynn, now, he was one of donald trump s close advisers during the presidential campaign, and also he was appointed as national security adviser, now it is understood that he was asking, and is in discussion with, the senate house and house intelligence committee is, about giving testimony in return for being granted immunity or protection from what he calls unfair prosecution. now, it is worth remembering that general flynt was the national security advisor but was forced to resign from the administration after it was disclosed that he misled the vice president at about the natu
the main news from westminster: fears of a government power grab as ministers set about disentangling the uk from european union law. it has been suggested that the government is looking at henry viii clauses to take this through. so much for parliamentary sovereignty. scotland s aspirations for a voice also seem to be given the henry viii treatment with a rough wooing clearly taking place right now. will security cooperation be used as a bargaining chip in brexit talks? a former police chief thinks an implied threat has been issued. that the uk will withhold security cooperation with the eu if it does not get the trade deal that it wants was insensitive, reckless, or an empty threat, or all three? and calls to increase the jail sentences imposed, in england, on people who are cruel to animals. these individuals are practising cruelty, basically, on animals which they will then transfer on to humans. now that article 50 has been activated, work begins on what to do with the
on steroids, the startling words of a senior democrat who s on the senate intelligence committee, as it began investigating alleged russian interference in last year s us election. meanwhile in a new development a seniorformer aide to president trump, michael flynn, is reported to have offered to testify about what he knows but only if he is given immunity from prosecution. our correspondent in washington is laura bicker. she has all latest for us now. it is understood that he was asking, and is in discussion with, the senate house and house intelligence committees, about giving testimony in return for being granted immunity or protection from what he calls unfair prosecution. now, it is worth remembering that general flynt was the national security advisor but was forced to resign from the administration after it was disclosed that he misled the vice president about the nature of his calls with the russian ambassador, and the fbi is investigating his links to russia. but hi
he helped draw up and carry out the cia s enhanced interrogation programme after the september 11 attacks. he personally interrogated suspects using techniques like waterboarding. his critics say that he is a torturer. he says he has nothing to apologise for, and what he did was harsh, but legal, and necessary. so this is your study? yes. the thing that is useful about a library like this is, like, for example, this is reliance of the traveller, it s a book of sharia law from a salafist position. i ve got a couple of versions of the quran, because the translations are not always the same. what sort of insights, based on their knowledge from these books, as well as your training as a psychologist, about what motivates the kind of people you have interrogated into carrying out the deeds or wanting to carry out the deeds that we know about? i ve heard people say that these terror attacks that we re seeing in europe, great britain, and the united states had nothing to do with isl