Will combine to welcome 48 nations for the tournament. The six counties who will stage the matches are argentina, morocco, paraguay, portugal, spain and uruguay and they will all qualify automatically. Our sports news editor dan roan has more on this. Dan, how can this Work Logistically . It is an amazing deal that has been struck by fifa today along with a number of configurations that represent the different continents of the football landscape. If fans thought the idea Of A Winter World Cup was a novel proposition, they will be just as amazed perhaps is the announcement today. For the First Time Ever at the world cup will be staged across three continents. It will be staged in three countries in 2026 in the us, canada and mexico. Fifa have gone one better it seems with this. Six Different Countries over three continents. Spain, portugal, morocco are effectively the co hosts of this tournament, but in a move that is meant to honour and mark the centenary of the inaugural world cup in
Is accorded World Heritage status by the Cultural Agency unesco. F s. e traditional allies of the United States, including saudi arabia and france, have condemned President Trumps decision, but israel says its a welcome step forward, in gaza, hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group, called for another uprising. In arabic it is intifada, a word synonymous with more troubled times. Israels Prime Minister is now claiming others will follow suit. Translation i have no doubt that once the American Embassy moves to jerusalem or even before, there will be a movement of many other embassies to jerusalem. The time has come. But the International Reaction so far suggests otherwise. In istanbul, anger directed at washington outside the us consulate last night. And americas allies, like france, also disagree. President macron was today at an airbase in qatar. A peace deal between the palestinians and israelis he says is only possible ifjerusalem has an international status. Translation the status of
Tell the story of the weather. This has been the story this morning in the Northern Isles but for scotland tomorrow i suspect we will have seems like this with blizzard like conditions and frequent snow showers tonight but how far south will they go . Stay watching and i will tell you in half an hour. Thank you. Well be talking to tvs nick hewer about why 80 of the worlds orphans arent actually orphans and what hes doing to help them. We might talk about that other apprentice presenter, dondald trump, as well. Hello. The leader of hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group, has called for an uprising or intifada in response to President Trumps decision to recognise jerusalem as the capital of israel. Palestinians in the west bank and gaza strip are holding a day of strikes and protests and israels military has used water cannon against protesters in bethlehem. Traditional allies of the United States, including saudi arabia and france, have condemned President Trumps decision but israel has
The candidates from the two main Political Parties in the first round of the president ial election. Partial results suggest the centrist Emmanuel Macron, whos never held elected office, and Marine Le Pen, leader of the far right front national, will contest the final round of voting next month. Lets join Christian Fraser in paris. Hello. A warm welcome from paris. It isa hello. A warm welcome from paris. It is a beautiful evening here. The cities is looking resplendent. There is the eiffel tower lit up. But the shining lights in the president ial election very much a Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. Both have gone through to the second round run off, which will take place a week on sunday. Lets show you how they are looking at the moment. There are still votes being counted. But the forecast, so far, the projection putting a Emmanuel Macron on 23. 8 , and Marine Le Pen on twitter i. 7 . And easy francois fillon, the former minister, i9. 8 , in a third. He conceded earlier. Jean Luc