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a hearing into a complaint of inappropriate behaviour made against red bull formula 1 team boss christian horner will take place on friday. bbc sport understands the claims relate to an allegation of inappropriate and controlling behaviour, and while red bull has not confirmed the nature of the complaint, the team said it took the allegations "extremely seriously" when they emerged on monday and started an investigation. horner has told a dutch newspaper he completely denies the claims. there could be a repeat of the women's champions league final from 2021 in this year's semi finals after the knockout stage draw was made on tuesday. barcelona will take on chelsea if they beat norweigan side brann and ajax respectively. barca's first title came with a win over chelsea three years ago. eight time champoins lyon will play benfica while swedish club hayken have been drawn against psg. the quarter finals will take place at the end of march. south korea could take a step
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closer to their first asian cup title since 1960. but to reach the final they'll need their somewhat bumpy run to continue. they've needed late goals in four separate games to make the last four, where they'll playjordan shortly. and it's led korean media to suggest the team are playing �*zombie football', coming back from the dead to make it this far in qatar. these two drew 2—all in the group stage with south korea's equaliser coming... yes... in injury time. obviously, the best material you can use as our group stage game with jordan, they played very well, the squad. so we need to wait and we need to score again, and they're very special fares, as you say, very special individual players that we are aware of that can put you —— beat you in split second so we have beat you in split second so we have be on top of our game to avoid any goals, and then play also our game to our strengths. world heavyweight champion
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oleksandr usyk has told the bbc he's not bothered about tyson fury�*s fitness after their fight was postponed unil may 18th. usyk missed the birth of his daughter while training for the original date and if fury, who had to call it off after a cut to his eye isn't fit for the rearranged bout... usyk will face the ibf�*s madatory challenger. that will either be anthonyjoshua or filip hrgovic. i don't think about it. it was not... because for me... it doesn't matter. ijust want not... because for me... it doesn't matter. i just want an undisputed fight. once a body like dad shrugs, you believe him. that's you up to date. see you a little later, thank you.
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as we've been reporting, king charles is resting at home after beginning out—patient cancer treatment on monday. so what does this diagnosis means for the king, for the royal family, and forthe uk? let's try and find out. it's time for your questions answered. hello, i'm maryam moshiri. welcome to this very special edition of your questions answered from buckingham palace. now, the news of the king's cancer diagnosis has brought forth reactions from across the world. many of you have been sending us your questions about what this means for the king and indeed for the royalfamily. now, on monday, buckingham palace announced the cancer was found in the king during recent treatment for an enlarged prostate — a benign enlarged prostate. the palace has not said what type of cancer the king has been diagnosed with. he will continue with his constitutional duties, but will step back from carrying out
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public engagements while undergoing treatment. but let's try to understand now what this diagnosis means for the king, the royalfamily and the uk. i'm very pleased to say i'm joined by a very expert panel today here at buckingham palace. i'm joined by our royal correspondent, sarah campbell, who's here with me. i'm also joined down the line by kelly swaby, who is a royal historian, and dr seamus mcaleer, who is a consultant clinical oncologist from belfast. thank you, all of you, forjoining me. well, let's get started. we've had a lot of questions, understandably, about cancer. so i'll start with you, dr mcaleer. the first question i want to put to you is from... i don't know who this is from, but it's from a viewer. and the question is, what does "form of cancer" mean? because buckingham palace, when they release the statement about the cancer, dr mcaleer, said that the king has a form of cancer. what exactly does that mean? i think it's fairly clear that the king has a cancer
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and he doesn't wish to tell which particular organ or type it is. and if you think about cancer, it's notjust one disease. there are about 200 different cancers. it depends what cell type the cancer originates from, because if the cancer cells get out of control, if they start from skin or start from bowel or start from breast, they're very different entities and they behave in different ways, so that they're saying it's not a prostate cancer, it's some other form of cancer, and they've chosen not to tell us. and that's the king's right to privacy, i think. ok, thank you for answering those questions. let's bring the discussion now back to buckingham palace and bring in our royal correspondent, sarah campbell, who's here with me now. and sarah, you've had people asking us what this announcement means for the royals — a kind of generic capsule question, but what does it mean for the royalfamily? i mean, it's been quite a start, hasn't it, to 2024? first of all, we know that catherine, the princess of wales, she had abdominal surgery, she was in hospital. and it was at that same time that king charles was admitted
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to the same hospital. and that is when, as we've been hearing, this form of cancer was discovered. so what does it mean for the royal family? effectively, it means that the king is having to step away from public—facing duties. this is not to say that he is not carrying out any duties, because as we know, the red boxes, the state papers arrive on his desk every day. he will still be going through those. we know that the king will still be meeting the prime minister, rishi sunak, every week — obviously, as long as his health allows him to do that — and he will be carrying out as many of those public duties as possible, as many of those may be involving small numbers of people. what he won't be doing is he won't be going out and meeting large numbers of the public. he won't be doing that. and that could be, we haven't been given any specific guidance or further reason for that from the palace, but one would assume firstly, depending on what treatment he's having for the cancer,
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that could take a physical toll. but also, as we know, many cancer treatments affect your immunity. so what you don't want to be if you're going through cancer treatment is going out and meeting lots of people, shaking hands with lots of people, which we know the king likes to do. so he's going to have to step away from doing that. so what that means is the rest of the working royals are probably going to have to take on some of his duties as well as, of course, their own. and there aren't that many of them we know. so, prince william, he is helping his wife to convalesce. we're not expecting to see her out and about until probably easter. so, prince william, we know, has got his first engagements in about a month tomorrow, so we'll see him out and about. princess anne, the princess royal, we know, one of the hardest working royals — she's out and about doing four engagements today. so she will be carrying on her work schedule. we have the duke and duchess of edinburgh — again, lots of engagements — and we have the other roles that maybe people aren't quite so familiar with, the duke and duchess
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of gloucester, the duke of kent. spate—mac so there are other members of the royal family, but primarily for the royal family, what it means is we won't see the king out and about in a way that we would be used to. but we will maybe see other members of the royal family. the one i forgot to mention, of course, queen camilla — she is going to be, i would have thought, quite visible throughout this time as well as, of course, helping her husband to cope with what is for anybody a really upsetting diagnosis. absolutely, it's upsetting for any family. yes, indeed, sarah. kelly swaby, let me bring you in at this point. talk to me a little bit about succession, and that's not the series on tv! i want to know about what's happening in the royalfamily, because someone has emailed us and asked us, what does this mean in terms of royal succession? so, in terms of royal- succession, at this point, | it doesn't actually mean anything| because hopefully the king makes a recovery and we don't need to think about it full stop. . but in terms of the line - of succession, when we talk
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about regency, prince william being the first in line, being the heir- the throne and being over the age of 18, he is eligible to serve - as his father's regent, | if we get to that point. and then succession also has a bearing . on the role of counsellors of state, those who can step in— and undertake engagements on behalf of the sovereign. i and they are the first four people in the line of succession - who are over the age of 21. and in late 2022 we saw that - princess anne and prince edward were added as counsellors of state. so that's really- the only implication the line of succession has at this stage. - but the palace have made it very. clear that at this moment in time, talk of counsellors of state being involved _ and a regent isn't necessary. but that isn't to suggest - that we won't need to revisit this topic at a later date. 0k. so many questions from people around the world, and do keep them coming. we'll try as best as we can to answer as many possible. i'm maryam moshiri,
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live from buckingham palace. bye— bye. and if you're watching in the uk, there are more of your questions being answered on the bbc iplayer — it's all just a few clicks away. it also worth saying that the bbc live pages up running the website include the latest on the royal family, who are going about their engagements as normal. princess anne attending her first engagement since the diagnosis. it points out too that princess anne, one of the hardest working members of the royal family are carrying out 457 of the royal family are carrying out a57 engagements last year, so taking off a few more on that list this year. but much more on the diagnosis and indications of it on the bbc website. stay with us on bbc news.
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hello there, good afternoon. it's going to be turning colder across the uk over the next 2a hours with snow in the forecast for some of us, including here in shetland through the day today, blizzard—like conditions here and across the north of scotland, coastal gales, blustery winds too still across the south of england. but here we're likely to stay in the milder air until we get to the end of tonight. and you can see that colder air sinking southwards behind the cold front, marked in blue here, just displacing that yellow, milder air further south. now, there will be some heavy rain on that cold front pushing southwards across wales through the midlands and into east anglia for the rest of the afternoon. blustery winds ahead of the front to the north. there will be some sunshine around and it will be feeling colder. of course, some snow showers piling into the higher ground of scotland, temperatures ranging between three and perhaps 1a degrees celsius. now there'll be some heavy rain through the evening rush hourjust clearing away from the south of england there. snow showers piling
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into western scotland. watch out for some icy stretches here, but there could be icy stretches further south as well as temperatures tend to dip back to low single figures. so a cold night ahead. and tomorrow, much quieter day of weather, much lighter winds. there will be some sunshine for many, but still this legacy of cloud towards the south coast. still some wintry showers, too, just pushing into scotland and perhaps across northern ireland, but feeling colder across the board, a to 10 celsius where we keep that milderfeeling air still across the south west of england and the channel islands potentially. and that rain returns. it pushes further northwards as a warm front as it bumps into that colder air, then it's likely to turn to snow as we head through the first part of thursday morning across northern ireland, wales and into the north midlands, also the north of england, particularly over the higher ground. milder air towards the south, of course. but this is where we're likely to see the snow widely, 2 to 5 centimetres, even to low levels with the intensity, but 10 to 20 centimetres
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perhaps over the hills. so, that cold air continues to push further northwards. it's quite a deep area of low pressure will bring some heavy rain to the south and also some strong gusty winds and maybe some blizzard—like conditions for a while, particularly towards eastern areas. that snow moves across scotland, rain towards the south. there will be some strong gusty winds as well and again, a range of temperatures.
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i'm maryam moshiri at buckingham palace. this is bbc news. world leaders send messages of support after king charles is diagnosed with cancer. the prime minister says he's thankful it was caught early. prince harry is reported to have arrived back in the uk from california to see his father. today's other main headlines... america's top diplomat travels to qatar as part of the latest push for a ceasefire in gaza. i'm anna foster in southern turkey. we're reporting one year on from turkey's deadliest earthquake, to see how survivors are coping in the aftermath. amazing rescues in california — where a major storm has brought torrential rain and causing widespread disruption.

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