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sport and for a full round up, from the bbc sport centre, here s chetan. we start with chelsea, who have confirmed an agreement is now in place for the club to be sold, in a deal worthjust overfour billion pounds to an american consortium. the investor and businessman todd boehly, who is already part owner of baseball side the la dodgers, is the man leading the group. the club was put up for sale, before owner roman abramovich was sanctioned for his alleged links to russian president vladimir putin. the deal is worth, £2.5 billion, with a further 1.75 billion to be invested across the club. if it gets premier league and government approval, it s expected to be completed later this month. we are going to see a change of culture as far as chelsea football club is concerned. under roman abramovich, the club spent more money on wages and transfers and lost more money than any other club in the premier league. it is unlikely that an american owner, with an experience of spo ....
talk about the relationship between them, how they got power, how beholden they are to him. i know some oligarchs are jailed, some are killed, some are critical of vladimir putin. you would think the power works this way. he gives his oligarchs billions of dollars, they are loyal back to him and there is this mutual support. but that doesn t seem to be the case right now. he seems separated from most of his oligarchs. can you talk about this relationship and this power arrangement? great question. it s not linear. it s a relationship that based on my reporting, u.s. law enforcement officials, foreign intelligence officials has changed over time. the reason why it comes up with oligarch is essentially they were given state businesses for pennies on the dollar to be able to make billions and all of the commodities and other these years they have amassed tremendous amounts of wealth, including in the military industrial complex. i think we ll hear more about the oligarch ....
good morning, everyone. we are so glad you re starting your morning with us. good morning. happy monday. it s good to be back. a lot of news. a lot of news to get to, so let s get started with five things to know this monday, august 14th. breaking overnight, 96, that is the death count so far from the hawaii wildfires and only 3% of the disaster area has been searched. the governor calling it a fire hurricane. it spread faster than a mile a minute, and now a new lawsuit against the state s main electric provide r. hours from now the fulton county district attorney is expected to present her case to the grand jury in the georgia election subversion case. this means a potential fourth indictment looms over former president trump. cnn learns exclusively about key evidence obtained by prosecutors. and a home explodes outside of pittsburgh killing five. gas systems were operating as designed, according to officials, who say it could take months to figure out what hap ....
heads for boundaries of a protective order issued friday by the federal judge presiding over the julk by attacking the special counsel and judge over the weekend. but it was star treatment for the former president at the iowa state fair this weekend. upstaging ron desantis and the rest of the field. plus, hunter biden s attorney s main prosecutor and the plea deal. they say a trial for him could still be avoided as controversy grows over why the attorney general grows. and the overwhelming tragedy in maui has victims furious with the rescue and recovery as the death toll nears 100 in the deadliest wildfire in a century. where were you guys? no. where were you guys to try and get us out, evacuate us? no. we re mad. we re mad. we lost homes, towns. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington where former president trump is already testing u.s. district judge protective order against him, lashing out on sunday in a string of social media post, slamming ja ....
to the deflationary spiral however now because there s a strong trend of wage increases, finance minister shunichi suzuki says it s over. joining me now is seijiro takeshita, who s a professor at the university of shizuoka. thank you for being with us today. talk to us first of all, this is a pretty unique set of circumstances that japan has pretty unique set of circumstances thatjapan has been pretty unique set of circumstances that japan has been through for the past generation. it is today s declaration calls for celebration? yes, i would think so. concerning the fact that for two decades, we haven t seen any wage rise. where the only country to do that. there are a lot of recurring profits, bits nine redeeming to their employees. this is, in that sense, a remarkable change. in most of the estimates, there were around 4%, but now it s been reported to be around 5.2, exceeding expectations. fist been reported to be around 5.2, exceeding expectations.- been reported ....