as paul pogba tries to prepare to help manchester united reach the championships, he is under the fifa microscope. the governing hardy has not given any decision as to why they ousted the two heads of their ethics committee. england have drawn the group of death. facing argentina and france will be exciting according to eddie jones. and france will be exciting according to eddiejones. find out why this cyclist was left feeling out of it. hello again. plenty in the agenda including why eddie jones

hello again. plenty in the agenda including why eddiejones might turn to prayer before the next rugby world cup but let's start with the ball, and tomorrow night pol pot but will —— paul pogba will be facing questions at manchester united. what has happened to prompt this investigation? fifa have not revealed what has sparked them to look into this particular transfer, but there was the release of a book in germany that made allegations about the breakdown of paul pogba's record £89 million fee when he moved from juventus to manchester united in the summer claims that have been repeated in the media. the

accusation is that paul pogba's agent received 1a million. fifa have said there is no wrongdoing but they have written to manchester united to seek clarification. who was involved in the deal and how much everyone was paid. they are calling it an enquiry but there's an awful lot of questions swirling around is that transfer. there had been some angry reactions from the lower league clu bs reactions from the lower league clubs in england? further down the that all prim and it —— pyramid, with the chairman of accrington saying through a series of angry tweets that the premier league were allowing huge amounts of wealth to accumulate at the top of the pyramid and he had some strong words when we spoke to him about it today. it's outrageous. 20 time the costs of

running our club for a year, so for me, it'sjust outrageous. there was quite a bass response from the premiere league, they are going to write to him to see if they still wa nt to write to him to see if they still want to be supported. pub bar's -- paul —— paul pogba's agent was contacted and asked about that particular transfer, and he believes it won't cause any distraction to paul pogba ahead of this second leg of the

semifinal of the roper league which is taking place this week. '5 let's stay with matters at football's governing body. to outgoing epic committee officials have been called unofficial full they had been relieved of their duties. the pair claim there are several hundred cases of corruption still pending. here are is our correspondent richard. after fifa rules they should be replaced, they have come out fighting. claiming their dismissal is politically motivated and that the decision marks the end of the organisation —— organisation's efforts to change it's ways. fifa will suffer because

of this. the fifa code of ethics is... the manjointly of this. the fifa code of ethics is... the man jointly responsible for banning sepp blatter believes his own ousting will set fifa back yea rs. his own ousting will set fifa back years. what kind of message does this send? it sends a bad message because it looks like we don't want to have a clear combating on the interior mess. fifa's history is marked by corruption scandals but after a much heralded reform process , after a much heralded reform process, gianni evans see no set the crisis was over last year. he may have spoken too soon. once again,

jeering fifa's showcase week, the talk is not about that but the past and the politics. as well as leading and the politics. as well as leading a world cup bid, he's a world football vice president. maybe it's my canadian background, but i'm uncomfortable when judges speak to the media weather during their tenure ship or afterwards. i think it's unprofessional, quite frankly andi it's unprofessional, quite frankly and i think it's better that people who sit on those committees just do theirjob. maradona has been in town asa theirjob. maradona has been in town as a thief that ambassador trying to keep the game. but when he is involved, events be more like better than football. bbc news, bahrain. a win for arsenal at southampton will

boost their chances of finishing in the premier league's top four. a victory would put them behind manchester city who are currently fourth. there are still three matches to play so the manager could still maintain his record of finishing in the top six in every single year of his 20 year reign. above all, i believe that in the recent five games, we won for—mac. —— four. we've had a bad spell but we now need to show we can be consistent. the champions league semifinal is happening tonight between athletic on and calderon. ——

atletico madrid. sinews reaching us, rafa benitez, the real madrid manager has agreed to stay on at newcastle. he had originally refused to confirm that he would remain at st james' park, but to confirm that he would remain at stjames' park, but following to confirm that he would remain at st james' park, but following talks with mike ashley, the spaniard will be given some significant funds to —— strengthen the team. the six nations champions england have once again been given a very tricky draw for the 2019 rugby world cup. they'll face france and argentina, as well as two more sides yet to be decided.

in 2015, england failed to reach the knockout phase. at this morning's draw in kyoto, ireland and scotland ended up in the same group, alongside the hosts japan, with wales going into australia's pool for the second successive world cup. you can see that australia, runners—up two years ago, face them. eddiejones hasjoked runners—up two years ago, face them. eddie jones has joked that runners—up two years ago, face them. eddiejones has joked that he will have two visit a japanese temple to pray before taking on argentina. we'll hear from our reporter chrisjones on today's draw for the 2019 tournament injapan in a moment... but first, his namesake, eddie. well, we want to win the world cup. it's quite clear that we want to come here and win the world cup. what a great experience it would be winning the world cup injapan. it's the first time the rugby world cup is played outside the traditional countries, so we'll prepare well for that and every day until the world cup, we will prepare to get better. both of these teams have rich, world cup histories and will be formidable. eddie jones said

cup histories and will be formidable. eddiejones said it's not a tough group but a good group and they needs those kind of matches to prepare for the quarterfinals. a quarterfinal meeting could be in store if england make it out of their pool. as for the other home nations, wales face australia, novak djokovic is through to the next round of the madrid open. he

has set up a tie with lopez. djokovic has parted with his entire management team and has said that he will announce his new team shortly. he beat his opponent two sets to one. a rather embarrassing moment in the cycling in the island of sicily. he'd eitherforgotten he was meant to do lapse, and celebrated his win —— do to lapse. guerin thomas and adam yates came home safely in the remaining group coming second and third overall. the winner was from

luxembourg. that's all from sportsday. from me and the teams, goodbye for now. the latest headlines. president trump has defended his decision to sack the head of the fbi without warning saying james comey had lost the confidence of almost everyone in washington. the family of evha jannath — the 11—year—old girl who died at a theme park yesterday — say their world has been torn apart. the crown prosecution service says no conservatives will face charges over claims they'd breached the rules on campaign spending during the last general election. let's have a look at your financial markets. a bullish sort of day. he is the main measure of stocks across

the pond and trading still going on but wall street down. could now be the ‘moment of opportunity‘ for peace in the middle east? that's what the leader of the anglican church justin welby says. on a tour of the holy land, the archbishop of canterbury has met with both israeli and palestinian leaders. our middle east correspondent, yolande knell, caught up with him in jerusalem. something that was discussed in both meetings is whether there is, for all kinds of reasons, a moment of opportunity. one of the things i was particularly emphasising was the need, particularly of the poor and the weaker in the area, the minority communities, for peace. although some people can enjoy these situations for years, but others, it

becomes an injury report, and i'm thinking that perhaps some of the christian communities around... you met refugees caught up in other regional conflicts. what really struck you there? these conflicts are on a completely different scale. as we know, those have been huge wa i’s as we know, those have been huge wars in which the majority communities, the yazidis, the christians have been herded from place to place. kills in enormous numbers. barbarically so by organisations of evil. that's a very different context. but those listening, going to one of the refugee camps, and then sitting in a church, an

anglican church this thing to iraqi— christians were both moments which bring home to you the smallest bit of the utter horror that these people have gone through. what do you think the future is for christians in least? —— in the middle east? i don't know how to a nswer middle east? i don't know how to answer that question. i don't think it's really possible to make predictions. all you can say is that this is in the hands of god. we trust, we advocate, we seek to remind people of their existence. we must not let the world forget. them and any other place in the world