a four—year investigation that alleged the club breached financial rules between 2009 and 2018. the private hearing is expected to last around 10 weeks. an exact date for a verdict is unknown, with reports only suggesting a decision �*early in 2025'. championship league is back. they're all out to stop bree out madrid for a record 15 time winning the trophy. they get under way tuesday and will be kylian and bobby's first match in europe for them after his sudden move from psg. jude bellingham is back fit and competent his side can deliver again what it matters.- again what it matters. we've lost two important _ again what it matters. we've lost two important players i again what it matters. we've | lost two important players for we've also lost another. this is been replaced by the best player in the world. or one of the best players of the world.

do i think we have a better squad than last year? yes i do. liveable take on ac milan the two sides or third epic counters over the years without available for the first time for liverpool since his move from juventus with up goalkeeper allison sounded a warning on the competitions view four. warning on the competitions view four-— warning on the competitions view four. �* ., ., ., view four. and the amount of his games — view four. and the amount of his games might _ view four. and the amount of his games might be - view four. and the amount of his games might be great - view four. and the amount of his games might be great for| his games might be great for fans but comes with concerns for players. fans but comes with concerns for maven-— fans but comes with concerns for players. it's always a good idea to add — for players. it's always a good idea to add some _ for players. it's always a good idea to add some games - for players. it's always a good idea to add some games to i for players. it's always a good l idea to add some games to the calendar that is not busy. i'm being ironic, a little bit. again, we're here to do our job. sometimes nobody asks the players what they think about adding more games. so maybe our opinion doesn't matter. the commonwealth games could be returning to glasgow in 2026.

it's only ten years since they last hosted the event and today, the scottish government is holding talks with commonwealth games australia about details of a possible multi million pound investment to help them — hold them again in two year's time. they've been in peril since the state of victoria withdrew as potential hosts because of rising costs. he head of world athletics — lord coe has been named as one of the confirmed candidates to become the next president of international olympic committee. coe is one of seven potential people to be considered to succeed thomas bach — who will step down next year. the british two—time olympic middle distance champion is up against the likes ofjuan antonio samaranch junior — who's father was the ioc president for 21 years. the elections will take place in march next year. england's all—time leading test wicket—takerjames anderson is a surprise target for major league cricket. bbc sport understands senior figures with at least one team's interest sparked by anderson's comments about a return to white—ball cricket. the unnamed franchise is to explore whether the 42—year—old would be interested in playing in the third edition of the t20

tournament in the us next year. switzerland's alinghi red bull racing beat britain's ineos britannia and united states' the swiss team just managing to beat the 45 minute race to take the point. and also when the tide for them in the other semi they will have a job on the hands, luna rossa and brittania lead their respective best of nine semi finals season season 4—1. and that's all the sport for now. the british prime minister travelled to rome this morning to meet his italian counterpart, georgia meloni. keir starmer says he is interested in learning about italy 5 scheme to send people, rescued at sea, to albania where their asylum claims are processed. italy has seen a big drop of the number of migrants crossing the mediterranean to lampedusa.

but that has meant doing deals with regimes in libya and tunisia with government that have highly questionable human rights records. but the prime minister knows that shamshing knows that smashing the gangs will not alone solve the problem. just yesterday 801 people arrived on the uk's shores eight others died at sea. so i'm pleased that we're deepening our cooperation here, led on the uk side by our new border security commander, who has been with me today here in italy at the coordination centre this morning to share intelligence, share tactics, shut down smuggler routes and smash the gangs. lets go to rome to speak to our good friend and regular panelist nathalie tocci. she is the director of the istituto affari internazionali. good evening. scraping on the show. clearly _ good evening. scraping on the show. clearly they _ good evening. scraping on the show. clearly they are - good evening. scraping on the show. clearly they are from i show. clearly they are from opposite sides of the political track some of these two. do you think there is something the prime minister could borrow from georgia meloni to help them deal with this problem in

them deal with this problem in the channel? it’s them deal with this problem in the channel?— them deal with this problem in the channel? it's clear starmer is looking _ the channel? it's clear starmer is looking for _ the channel? it's clear starmer is looking for an _ the channel? it's clear starmer is looking for an alternative - is looking for an alternative of the externalisation of migration. given that he has wanted to rightly, i should add about ending the deal with rolando. he's looking for alternatives. one, which is in the sense the old model paying countries to prevent migrants from coming to europe is in the sense that you need is your model or egypt or libya and in a sense there is a successful case which i has less to do with these countries and more to do with another country turkey, which has seen billions of euros to keep migrants out for that that one particular model st keir starmer is probably looking at then there is the more specific about more similar but fundamentally different model between italy

and albania which could be the alternative to the uk rwanda model. in the case of uk rwanda, it was literally a question of shifting the jurisdiction for the processing of asylums to another country. in this case are wonderful that in the case of italy the jurisdiction but still remain in italianjurisdiction but in italian jurisdiction but essentially in italianjurisdiction but essentially it would be off—loaded to a third country albania that is essentially being paid for that asylum processing. being paid for that asylum processing-— being paid for that asylum ”rocessin. , ., ., ,, processing. just on that issue. are ou processing. just on that issue. are you saying _ processing. just on that issue. are you saying that _ processing. just on that issue. are you saying that it - processing. just on that issue. are you saying that it is - are you saying that it is italians in albania processing the asylum claims? if it's valid fleabag valid they come back to italy and there asylum claim is granted for that if is not then what? claim is granted for that if is not then what? is claim is granted for that if is not then what?— claim is granted for that if is not then what? is always that question- _ not then what? is always that question- in _ not then what? is always that question. in principle - not then what? is always that question. in principle they - question. in principle they should be returning to their country of origin. in practice we know that the most irregular

migrants which is basically who were talking to do not. the whole point is if they are the third country, in this case albania they are processed in italy. we don't quite know whether they would stay in albania, they would regularly find other routes to moving on to the eu for the italy assumes that they would not be coming to italy. probably they would be going to other countries for example like germany. i think in the case of the united kingdom, of course there is it... wears the slack with a particular model is concerned. also it may or may not be a bit more to the uk. it is not improved for that yes indeed numbers have been going down the last year in italy from around 120,000 migrants last year to around 40,000 this

year. one year ago in 2023, sorry, 2022 no such thing for italy and albania and really the numbers are 60,000. more or less in line with how they are... , , , are... the issue is, when he says he _ are... the issue is, when he says he is — are... the issue is, when he says he is interested in - says he is interested in looking upstream at the area, perhaps libya we're already benefiting upstream from things that italy are doing for the upstream for us is france, germany, belgium, is a central european countries over which we have no control because we're outside of the european union. , union. exactly. on the one-handed _ union. exactly. on the one-handed there - union. exactly. on the| one-handed there isn't union. exactly. on the i one-handed there isn't in one—handed there isn't in albania available to the uk giving its geography. where can we do this, france? belgium? secondly, this is something to highlight, the italy— albania deal is not operational yet. so

too intent that wanting his work is not the italian— albania agreement. it may work, we don't know. because it's still not operating. there are these two fundamental questions with up on the one hand as a model and secondly, is it an effective model? wejust don't know the results. it would be interesting to see what he makes of it all. good to have you on the programme. if you have been following events in brussels you will know that after those european elections, president ursula von der lyon has had some difficulty putting the final touches to the executive, the eu commission, and the names that will serve within it. always a fine balancing act. but this morning another set back. france's thierry breton a heavyweight of the commission, he was in charge of the eu 5 single market and industrial policy, announced he was resigning he had already secured another term as commissioner. but in a letter addressed to von der lyon —

which he shared online for all to see — breton said he was aware she had asked paris to withdraw his name "for personal reasons" — and would in return reward france with a more influential portfolio in brussels. mr breton clearly thinks there was a plot against him, and in theatrical style he posted this which he said was his �*official portrait�* — an empty frame. his replacement was quickly announced — outgoing french foreign minister st phane sjourn will replace him. but it has delayed things somewhat. and begs obvious questions of what has gone on. to lift the lid, we have invited back politico�*s global playbook author and associate editor, suzanne lynch. what a to do. tell us the background and what has gone on. there had been fever or speculation about who was going to make what role in what positions in this new european commission. no one expected this plot twists this morning as you say breton posting his resignation for all to see on x. in one sense it is not that

surprising in that we know there have been long boiling it tensions between the french commissioner and ursula von der leyen. back in march when she was chosen by her own political group to be the leader he made a snarky comment on x about how few votes she got that was quite a public intervention. shortly afterwards there was controversy about her proposed appointment of a german person to a job within the commission to a job within the commission to do with sme, small and medium—size businesses for the end breton along with other commissioners publicly criticised her for that in a letter. we know relations were good for that we weren�*t expecting this. we had expected that emmanuel macron had backed breton for a second term now things move quickly today and we had that replacement fresh commissioner who is now that the nod and is expected to take up the nod and is expected to take up residence in brussels. 50 up residence in brussels. so auick. up residence in brussels. 50 quick. clearly he was up residence in brussels. so quick. clearly he was waiting for the announcement. it�*s of

course up to von der leyen to see which countries receive which roles and many countries including france and italy have been lobbying for a powerful portfolio, they always do. how do you think france comes out of this? we don�*t know until tomorrow if and when she announces her commission tomorrow. do we think they may benefit from a top and today? certainly breton suggested this is the reason he was shipped out and he is saying that france was promised a better role if they gave somebody else. what we�*re hearing is that france wants something in this kind of competitiveness role, that can be quite broad. there had been some reporting that the economic space. this would be controversial because france has repeatedly broken the eu budget rules. some of the eu budget rules. some of the more frugal reminded

countries in europe, i�*m thinking even perhaps germany might not be too happy with the idea of france at the helm is something very important they are. there is a possibility is that the new french commissioner may be giving a vice presidential role, something a bit more senior than other commissioners. a more overarching role that would involve oversight over a number of economic industry competitiveness links portfolios.— competitiveness links portfolios. competitiveness links ortfolios. ., ., ., portfolios. you hit the nail on the head- _ portfolios. you hit the nail on the head. this _ portfolios. you hit the nail on the head. this is _ portfolios. you hit the nail on the head. this is why - portfolios. you hit the nail on the head. this is why we're . the head. this is why we�*re interested because as you say, is a very divisive time at the moment to paris. you�*ve got the new prime minister trying to pull all sides together. it�*s the eu commission turns around and says actually, we want more cuts. neitherthe and says actually, we want more cuts. neither the hard left of the hard right want those cuts thenit the hard right want those cuts then it all implodes. this position that france gets could be crucially important.- be crucially important. yes. france really _ be crucially important. yes. france really does - be crucially important. yes. france really does matter. be crucially important. yes. | france really does matter in the european union, it�*s the

second largest country. people have been speculating, what�*s happened that the commission is now dictating to france as they see it who they can nominate as commissioner and emmanuel macron has come on to criticism both the front and the right interfering in the process was up interfering in the process was up it does matter who gets these jobs in the up it does matter who gets thesejobs in the eu particularly those more important portfolios. deserts get to be the issue tomorrow. who gets the big heavy hitting jobs like the competition portfolio, for example? or commissionerfor portfolio, for example? or commissioner for defence. where expecting a creation of this new defence. there are different heroes of portfolios for the 27 commissioners and everybody has to get something for them but some are more significant, more important than others. that is why the lobbying has been intense for the ursula von der leyen has been meeting these commissioner designates throughout the last few weeks interviewing them, apparently short interviews with up the head of the

european border commission. she does decide. one issue for her if she wanted more gender balanced commission portfolio. and what happened this morning was initially went back to step back, some people said maybe france will nominate a woman. but they did not. she�*s kind of lost the battle there in terms of gender diversity even some countries have changed and presented a female candidate at the last minute. she did not get her way on that. ultimately breton is no longer in the commission. this is something that von der leyen has brought about. france has accepted this. let�*s see tomorrow. particularly economics is the want to watch.— particularly economics is the want to watch. tomorrow is a bi da want to watch. tomorrow is a big day and — want to watch. tomorrow is a big day and it _ want to watch. tomorrow is a big day and it does _ want to watch. tomorrow is a big day and it does appertain| big day and it does appertain to the rules that we follow even here in the uk. watch closely as to who gets put in

what position. thank you for that. thank you for that. around the world and across the uk. this is bbc news. this has been a massive year for generative ai.

there has been huge investment in this technology, lots of government interest it how it can be harnessed for good. and one of the most impactful ways we are told it could help us, is in its application to climate change. indeed, microsoft is promoting itself publically as an ai leader in climate innovation, but now we discover the company is also selling its sophisticated ai tools to the fossil—fuel companies. the atlantic magazine has seen hundreds of pages of internal documents that would suggest the tech giant is raking in huge profits from the ai they are selling to companies such as exxonmobil and chevron. two of the biggest who are using it to explore and develop new oil and gas reserves. i have been speaking to the author of that

article karen hao. so i�*ve been working on an investigation, reviewing internal documents within microsoft for over a year and speaking with over a dozen employees. and essentially what i discovered was that microsoft has very deep engagements with the oil and gas industry to use ai for extracting more fossilfuels. so they are trying to sell this technology to firms for finding exploring new fields, developing new fossil fuel reserves, as well as trying to maximise the amount of productivity of those reserves. and they�*re specifically using the hype around generative al to try and secure more of those deals. and in strategy memos that i viewed, microsoft sees this as an enormous business opportunity because it can be anywhere between 35 to $75 billion of market

opportunity for microsoft. and that is really what executives have deputised their sales team to really try to go after and secure these deals. you say that al is making the exploration more efficient? does it exponentially increase what the likes of exxon could find and extract from the wells that it already has? it is both. so they are trying to sell technologies that will not only help a company like exxon develop new reserves, discover new reserves, but also to extract and milk the kind of every last ounce from their existing reserves. and one of the things, there was an employee memo that i read where part of the logic or the framing that they have for these oil and gas companies is the oil and gas industry is under a lot of pressure to stay cost competitive because there�*s a lot of energy demand. and they in order to continue serving it through fossil fuels specifically, they have to find specifically, they have to find

these new fossil fuel reserves these new fossil fuel reserves in more costly places in more costly places like undersea development like undersea development or in more remote regions. or in more remote regions. and so they�*re trying to pitch and so they�*re trying to pitch ai as a solution for that kind ai as a solution for that kind of pressure that these oil of pressure that these oil and gas giants are facing. and gas giants are facing. and it is kind of an irony and it is kind of an irony because, you know, because, you know, like the international energy like the international energy agency has mentioned before agency has mentioned before that we don�*t actually need that we don�*t actually need new fossil fuel reserves and highly respected new fossil fuel reserves if we just tapped out if we just tapped out the existing the existing ones and tried to transition ones and tried to transition to renewable energies to renewable energies into net zero as quickly into net zero as quickly as possible, that would best as possible, that would best serve our global situation that serve our global situation that we�*re in with climate change. we�*re in with climate change. but that is not but that is not at all the language at all the language that microsoft uses. that microsoft uses. interesting article. looking to interesting article. looking to what the implications of that a what the implications of that a a search engine. a search engine.

with me is the ai researcher with me is the ai researcher and highly respected colleague on al decoded, dr stephanie hare. i wanted to get your thoughts on this because there are companies that have taken a position on it. google four years ago said it�*s knocking to make custom ai for fossil fuel extraction for the are you surprised microsoft has taken a different tact? ihla surprised microsoft has taken a different tact?— different tact? no in the sense that microsoft _ different tact? no in the sense that microsoft is _ different tact? no in the sense that microsoft is a _ different tact? no in the sense that microsoft is a company . that microsoft is a company that microsoft is a company that needs to return maximum volume to its shareholders with “p volume to its shareholders with up it�*s more interesting what google did. it�*s up it's more interesting what google did-— google did. it's really important _ google did. it's really important because i google did. it's really| important because we google did. it's really - important because we talked google did. it's really _ important because we talked on the programme before about how tremendously resource hungry these companies are going to be comedies ai companies. these huge data centres building our go to use lots and lots of energy i read somewhere that the next generation ai models for microsoft will consume the power that india is using right now. here�*s a real question here when we say, ai is good to be for better good. when you

look at that alongside what they are using for data centres, can we be so sure? i think we always have to look at who is saying ai is good to be better for good. who is saying ai is good to be betterfor good. it�*s who is saying ai is good to be better for good. it�*s often the copies of profit from selling it. that�*s fine researchers need to take a view and test those claims of data. that�*s what we need to know. one thing we can say is that al on its own is driving a boom in fossil fuels for that we need to have more energy to power our utilities to get electricity, to power data centres and also water. microsoft for example is opening a new data centre every three days. just put that in perspective. they need to work with fossil fuel companies because it�*s in their own best interest to secure their own energy supply. that�*s true for every other ai company as well. it's every other ai company as well.

it�*s particularly true for microsoft simply because of the

enormous energy focus on this enormous energy resource that they are going to steal to build these data centres that they are going to use. which we just don�*t have the power to provide for them at the moment. we don�*t have nuclear power plants to run the centres with up is oil and gas they are going to be burning. more and more of us are going to be using this technology exponentially. i to be using this technology exponentially.— to be using this technology exponentially. i think that's also ai exponentially. i think that's also m for _ exponentially. i think that's also ai for some _ exponentially. i think that's i also ai for some governments and companies involved, if they neck the narrative about growth and innovation and jobs. nobody wants to talk about the dirty cost, if you will come of the environmental cost of ai and the fact that we haven�*t yet figured out how to make ai sustainable technology. that is the circle that must be squared. the circle that must be squared-— the circle that must be sauared. ,, , ., ., , _ squared. stephanie, happy huntin: squared. stephanie, happy hunting in _ squared. stephanie, happy hunting in germany. i- squared. stephanie, happy hunting in germany. i look| hunting in germany. i look forward to talking to you on thursday. we can take a short break. great panel for you tonight.

what�*s going on and a live press conference in florida about the assassination attempt on donald trump on sunday. plenty more to come. we will be right back. hello. where we�*ve seen some sunshine today, it has felt fairly warm. but temperatures are set to drop under clear skies tonight. just like last night, we could see some patchy fog reducing visibility, giving some poor travelling conditions first thing in the morning. now on the satellite picture, we can see this swirling mass of cloud — that is storm boris, that has continued to bring some heavy rain across central parts of europe. but we have an area of high pressure in charge, keeping things largely dry. many places will see clear skies overnight tonight. there�*s even a small chance of seeing the aurora borealis — the northern lights.

but we will have more cloud in the mix across the north and the west of scotland, a bit of rain there moving across orkney and shetland. further south, those clear skies, some fog patches most likely across parts of east wales, into the midlands, perhaps up into northern england, as well. temperatures will dip away — towns and cities around 5—6 celsius, some spots in the countryside i think could get quite close to freezing, say, across parts of northern england. some early fog across parts of wales, the midlands, up into northern england, that will tend to clear, then we�*ll see lots of sunshine through the day tomorrow. a bit more cloud into the southeast corner, where it will be quite breezy. could just see the odd light shower across kent and sussex. also more cloud rolling in across the western and northern isles, withjust the odd spot of rain — some of that cloud quite low, could be quite misty and murky across, say, parts of shetland. but the north of mainland scotland, up to around 23 celsius — it will be a warm day tomorrow. that warm theme continues into the middle part of the week, and actually, the cloud in northern scotland is set to retreat northwards. could see a bit more in the way of low cloud, maybe some mistiness rolling

in from the north sea. so, some patchy cloud here and there on wednesday, perhaps most especially across england and wales, northern ireland and scotland seeing a lot of sunshine, but it is a nice—looking day. quite breezy down towards the south — that mightjust take the edge off the temperatures, but still, 24 there in london, 23 across parts of northern scotland. as we head towards the end of the week, our area of high pressure is set to shift northwards, and this low swirling across iberia mayjust start to have an influence — it might bring more in the way of showers into parts of england and wales, maybe northern ireland, as well, perhaps the odd thunderstorm. staying largely dry across scotland, and it is set to cool offjust a little bit over the weekend.

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olarised attempts against his life. the polarised nature _ attempts against his life. iia: polarised nature of attempts against his life. tia: polarised nature of our political discourse in the vitriol associated with it is not only bad for a psyche, it is bad for governance as you can see, it can actually encourage violence. joining me tonight are annabel denham, deputy comment editor at the telegraph and former us deputy assistant secretary of statejoel rubin. looking at the pictures from florida and will take you to that as soon as it begins. the press conference to discuss what happened in florida and the attempted assassination attempt on donald trump. while we wait for that, let us bring you the latest bbc news. former bbc news presenter huw edwards has been given a six month suspended prison sentence, after admitting charges of making indecent

images of children, one of whom was aged between seven and nine.