saudi arabia s investment in sport has gone into overdrive. the country now set to host the 2034 world cup too. but there s also controversy among fears that one of the world s richest oil states is using sports to distract from its human rights record and its impact on the environment. i travelled tojeddah for a rare opportunity to speak to one of the key figures behind the country s remarkable sporting revolution. there seems no end to the number of sports you are investing in. are we at the high point now or are we just beginning the journey? there is a lot, as you said. our ambition is to host the best events around the world in the kingdom for the people of the kingdom to see, but also to invite the world to the kingdom. we have formula 1, i think, is one of them. fifa world cup, and the olympics. these are the highest events that any nation would love to host within their countries. within the 2030 vision, we have targets that we want to host the biggest events to att
forecast to maintain its majority in the country s parliament. now on bbc news, inside the saudi sporting machine. it s the country transforming the sporting landscape, from signing top stars to a revamped football league to an upheaval of professional golf and the staging of boxing s biggest fights. saudi arabia s investment in sport has gone into overdrive. the country now set to host the 2034 world cup too. but there s also controversy among fears that one of the world s richest oil states is using sports to distract from its human rights record and its impact on the environment. i travelled tojeddah for a rare opportunity to speak to one of the key figures behind the country s remarkable sporting revolution. there seems no end to the number of sports you are investing in. are we at the high point now or are wejust beginning the journey? there is a lot, as you said. our ambition is to host the best events around the world in the kingdom for the people of the kingdom to see
now on bbc news: inside the saudi sporting machine. it s the country transforming the sporting landscape, from signing top stars to a revamped football league to an upheaval of professional golf and the staging of boxing s biggest fights. saudi arabia s investment in sport has gone into overdrive. the country now set to host the 2034 world cup, too. but there s also controversy among fears that one of the world s richest oil states is using sports to distract from its human rights record and its impact on the environment. i travelled tojeddah for a rare opportunity to speak on the environment. i travelled tojeddah for a rare opportunity to speak to one of the key figures behind the country s remarkable sporting revolution. there seems no end to the number of sports you are investing in. are we at the high point now or are we just beginning the journey? there s a lot, as you said. our ambition is to host the best events around the world in the kingdom for the people of the kin
we started in france. protesters dressed all in black, police armed with riot shields and barricades for the running battles taking place down the boulevard of the french capital where it is becoming street of paris. it s happening once again. this time on may day build mostly peaceful demonstration at ganz president microns controversial read france during my reforms in the pension marred once more by scenes of violence. these pictures are live pictures from paris. a little bit earlier you could see and actually hear tear gas being fired by the riot police in an effort to try to disperse protesters from the area. earlier i spoke to a member of the senate of france and of the commission of foreign affairs and defence forces. she believes part of the reason for the street protests is president macron his attitude and his personality. is president macron his attitude and his personality- his personality. there was a lot of dialo . ue his personality. there was a lot of dialogu
welcome to the programme. we start in sudan where the united nations is sending its top aid official to help co ordinate relief efforts. it comes as the agency s humanitarian coordinator in sudan says that the situation there is turning into a full blown catastrophe warning that more than 800,000 people may flee the country as a result of the ongoing violence. meanwhile, fighting continues in the capital khartoum despite a ceasefire agreed by both sides. evacuation flights are still taking off from port sudan on the red sea those not able to leave there by plane are taking boats across tojeddah in saudi arabia. 0ur correspondent andrew harding reports. 0n sudan s coast, the scramble to escape goes on. with airlifts ending, foreign nationals register for a boat ride to safety. this morning, some 300 of them arrived here injeddah, saudi arabia, having crossed the red sea from port sudan. all sorts of embassies on hand to claim their own. several british families were on