for the bbc african footballer of the year — sadio mane. and alex rodriguez drops into london and tells us why next year's major league baseball matches between the red sox and yankees will be special. hello and welcome to the programme where we start with footballing news. there were a host of international matches played on tuesday with some competitive and others friendly in name. and it seems to have been a bad night for one of europe's biggest clubs, paris saint germain, with two of their star players forced off injured. neymar could be a doubt for paris st germain‘s champions league clash with liverpool next week after limping off with a groin injury during brazil's friendly win over cameroon in milton keynes. kylian mbappe could also be a doubt for next week as he was substituted due to a shoulder injury during the first half of france's friendly with uruguay at the stade de france. the losses didn't affect either of theose players —— the losses didn't affect

either of those players‘ national teams as brazil beat reigning africa cup of nations champions cameroon 1—0 thanks to a richarlison goal while olivier giroud's second half penalty saw the world champions france to victory. elsewhere, italy scored a winner in the 94th minute against the usa through late substitutions. argentina currently lead mexico 1—0 and she let our 3—0 up against honduras. —— chile. in the uefa nations league, poland came from behind to draw against portugal — that means they'll be in pot one for the euro 2020 qualifying draw. that result sees germany drop into pot two — that means they could be drawn in the same qualifying group as england and world cup finalists france and croatia. elsewhere, sweden and scotland have both been promoted from their respective groups, and kosovo sealed a euro 2020 play—off place only two years after becoming a uefa—recognised national team — they thrashed azerbaijan 4—0. an international study has found that racist abuse is widespread at football matches.

27,000 fans across 38 countries were interviewed by british anti—discrimination body kick it out and swedish—based forza football. more than half say they've heard racist abuse from the stands, and only a third knew who to go to to report it. 60% back the idea of teams losing points as punishment. the 2022 world cup in qatar is now only four years away and it's eight years since the gulf state controversially won the right to host the showpiece event. the first of 8 new stadiums has already opened and construction has started on the other seven, while the longest distance between two stadiums is around 50 km in a country where the hosts are ranked just 96th. former arsenal manager arsene wenger is hoping that one or two non—european teams can put up more of a fight. hopefully, but it will be a workout

again because the 2018 world cup was again because the 2018 world cup was a great world cup but it was a european championship. 0ne invited team, brazil. 0verall, european championship. 0ne invited team, brazil. overall, we knew that no south american team apart from brazil was good enough to win. no african, no asian team. so europe looks miles ahead of all the other continents and i hope it will be much more level again. sadio mane has been nominated for the bbc african footballer of the year award for the fourth consecutive year, highlighting his consistent levels of performance and goal scoring for both liverpool and senegal. the 26—year old was instrumental in helping jurgen klopp‘s side reach the champions league final and he continued his scoring at the world cup, as senegal were edged out at the group stage.

i love scoring for my team. honestly, i love scoring for my team. this season it is motivation for us to repeat and try to work and win it. very important goals for myself because i was struggling in the moment to score goals and it cost my confidence. i thought i should shoot with my left and it was... i was happy. should shoot with my left and it was... iwas happy. i should shoot with my left and it was... i was happy. i scored at the world cup final, one of my best days. we were leading 1—0 and it can

be the best and worst day in your life. we were expecting to go far. of course i am very happy to be nominated for a fourth time as african player of the year. that gives me motivation to keep working harder and harder and hopefullyi will win one—day. my name is sadio mane. i play for liverpool and senegal. please vote for me and. sadio mane is nominated along with mohamed salah, medhi benatia, kalidou koulibaly and thomas partey — and you can vote for your favourite right now via the bbc sport website. that's bbc.com/sport and follow the link to the bbc african footballer of

the year voting page. voting closes at 2000gmt on sunday 2nd of december. major league baseball will be played at the london stadium next year as the world series champions boston red sox take on fierce rivals the new york yankees. the franchises will play each other in two regular season matches as the sport looks to get a foot hold in london and follow in the footsteps of the nba and nfl. 1a time all star and world series winner with the yankees in 2009, alex rodriguez has been speaking to our reporter seth bennett and telling him why fans will appreciate it. in many ways you have the nfl and nba and may have been here for over a decade. major—league baseball is probably the most similarities with the british people. were slow to move. were tied to history. were tied to numbers. it is an intellectual game. and while

everybody moves fast, we move slow. in today's world it is not as popular but in the long run we have an opportunity to sustain the game for 100 years and i think that is how our commissioner, has just been extended, that is how he thinks. here's a forward thinker, decades ahead. why here? there are so many places in the world with a bigger foothold. there is no league here, and no professional culture of baseball. major-league baseball has done an incredible job baseball. major-league baseball has done an incrediblejob of baseball. major-league baseball has done an incredible job of expanding its global ban, a brand from canada to japan to puerto rico to mexico. the british have proven to be incredible sports fans. sophisticated and tough like new yorkers but they are fair and they know how to put on live events. i hit great things about the 02

stadium and sports teams such as manchester united, liverpool... i cannot wait. i only wish i had a chance to play as a player. i can come and broadcast and talk about the game but as a player that would have been incredible. on thursday, tiger woods and phil mickelson will battle it out for $9 million when they go head to head in an 18—hole battle dubbed "the match". the money is well worth it of course but mickelson is more interested in getting one over on his long term rival. to have the unique opportunity to do something that i have had a hard time doing in my career which is to get a leg up on tiger on anything. even ina get a leg up on tiger on anything. even in a one—day event like this, for a chance to go head—to—head and win it is great to win the $9 million, ijust do not want to lose to him and give him that satisfaction. because the bragging rights are what will be worse than the money. everytime i see you, i

wa nt to the money. everytime i see you, i want to be able to rub it in. a reminder of our top story — brazil have beaten cameroon 1—0 in an international friendly, but the victory came at a cost. neymar hobbled off with an apparent groin injury and could now be a doubt for paris saint germain's champions league match with liverpool next week. elsewhere, morocco beat tunisia 1—nil, but it really should have been a 1—1 draw. tunisia's mohamed drager had a golden opportunity to level it in stoppage time. he won't thank us for showing this. there for nba matches taking place. toronto against 0rlando there for nba matches taking place. toronto against orlando and a lead 80- 77 toronto against orlando and a lead 80— 77 and the clippers are over —— up 80— 77 and the clippers are over —— up against washington. but from me and the rest

of the sport today team, goodbye. hello, good morning. as expected, tuesday was a really cold day, and it's been cold enoughjust recently to bring some sleet and snow to lower levels, even into the south—east of england. but on wednesday, the coldest air and the strongest winds will push northwards across scotland and northern ireland. so we should see some improvements further south. but we've got a cloudy start on wednesday morning. the wetter weather for northern ireland moving away from northern england, up into scotland. again, some sleet and some snow, particularly over the hills. but then we should see things brightening up, a few showers coming in as well. more detail in the afternoon. you can see the showers in the west country perhaps affecting east wales and the west midlands. for eastern england this time, some welcome sunshine, much drier weather as well. and that sunshine may develop through the afternoon later on into southern parts of scotland.

northern ireland still stays quite wet, frequent showers around here, quite wet for central and northern parts of scotland, some more sleet and snow, mainly over the hills. quite windy across scotland, gusts of 40mph around some of those eastern coasts, so if anything, it's going to feel colder than it did on tuesday for scotland and northern ireland, especially with the strong winds and rain, but it shouldn't feel quite as cold as it did on tuesday for england and wales, especially if you've got some sunshine and the winds are not as strong as well. but the wet weather will tend to clear away for most areas during wednesday evening, and that means clearer skies, that means tumbling temperatures, before we see cloud coming in off the north sea, bringing with it some drizzle, arresting the temperature fall, but further west with clearer skies, frost likely and maybe some icy patches. some early sunshine perhaps across northern ireland, into wales and western scotland. maybe some sunshine developing at times across southern counties of england, but elsewhere, cloudy, a little bit damp with some wetter weather pushing back into eastern scotland, seven degrees if you're lucky here. eight or nine, i think, will be fairly typical elsewhere.

another chilly sort of day. the threat of rain coming into the far south—west with this area of low pressure. higher pressure to the north of the uk, hence this east to south—easterly breeze, not particularly strong on friday. a nothing sort of day on friday. not much sunshine, a fair bit of crowd, most places will be dry, showers more likely in the south—west, and wetter weather again coming into eastern parts of scotland. those temperatures getting up to eight, nine, possibly even the heady heights of 10 degrees, so the temperatures are going the right way. the air is getting a bit less cold as it comes in from the south, but still not particularly warm if you're stuck under the cloud and some pockets of rain. a very welcome to bbc news — broadcasting to viewers in north america and around the globe. my name is mike embley. our top stories: american interests first. president trump says he'll stand by saudi arabia despite the killing of the journalist, jamal khashoggi.

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