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this is news coming to you live from berlin turmoil in european football 12 of the continent's top football clubs announced they're forming their own new super league the wave of says it will consider all available measures to stop them also coming up new zealand and australia create a quarantine free travel ball reuniting in person families and friends separated by the pandemic we'll take a look at the long awaited decision. hello
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i'm terry martin good to have you with us we begin with huge news in european football 12 top clubs from spain italy and england have announced the formation of a breakaway super league the midweek competition will be independent of european football's governing body the little super league is expected to be hugely lucrative and include europe's top moneymaking teams including manchester united ac milan and real madrid as well as the 12 founding clubs another 3 are expected to join before the 1st season which according to a statement will start as soon as practicable. well you wave has threatened to sanction clubs that take part in the breakaway league they released a statement saying quote the clubs concerned will be banned from playing in any other competition at domestic european or world level and their players could be
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denied the opportunity to represent their national team spirit well not all talk of europe's top teams want to join the super league earlier we spoke to rob harris global sports correspondent for the associated press we asked him why no german clubs know french clubs as well and the question is why if they decided to stay away was it fearing a backlash from the fans you know some clubs might feel they had to sign up so they didn't miss out on what could be a potentially transformative lucrative moment but not having those german clubs not having by and in particular that when they are the writing european champions does deal a blow to these new super league clans and they might their scope out the landscape in terms of not saying anything but waiting to see is this something that becomes an actual viable plan thus far more than a threat but something that would become the new main competition within european football what they all know is that your wife on sunday issued
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a statement that day threats in any clubs with not being banned from say that european championship that players but also nobody else playing at domestic competitions as well so we'll be able to play in tandem with the ball in this league and the champions league as the things that now favor of also threatened play as it played in part in a safely would be prevented from playing in a world cup as well. rob harris their global sports correspondent for the associated press send will have more football in the form of bonus the highlights for you later in this program. now australia and new zealand have this monday launched a 2 way travel bubble allowing for quarantine free travel between the 2 countries for the 1st time in over a year both countries slammed their borders shot at the beginning of the pandemic and despite the occasional outbreak both have had success in stamping out front of buyers rachelle harrison plus reports from sydney. it's been
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a lone 13 month why spout the day is finally here a covert safe travel call it all has opens between australia and new zealand with travel is no longer needing to quarantine on arrival in the country here at sydney's international airport around 2 dozen flights between sydney a new zealand scheduled to take off and land this monday whether they were uniting with family and friends or taking a well deserved holiday people are excited i'm grateful to be travelling overseas once again it was really weird feeling to be allowed to and us feel like breaking the rules a little bit of the but it was quite exciting yeah it's really it's great to have opportunity we just haven't been on a plane for so long it's kind of nice to. have to go somewhere get back on a plane we usually travel quite a bit so it's been a long toward we haven't seen each other for 14 months thank goodness fizzing and messenger and stuff yes i went to see him there announced it at 4 o'clock last
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she's a template for i've booked a ticket straight away this is only the 2nd travel bubble to exist in the world the 1st was set up between taiwan and pull out earlier this month both australia and new zealand of the close had free off to taking a tough stance and closing their international borders early on in the pandemic it's great to say that perhaps we're on. you know the have been down that path of recovery now many travelers may be dreaming of exotic getaways in faraway destinations bob this will have to do so now australian prime minister scott morrison has dashed hopes of long haul travel happening any time soon on sunday saying he's in no rush to open the country's international borders so this may be a 1st step towards future travel bubbles with other countries. or. other stories making headlines.
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around the world today there been emotional scenes of airports in new zealand and. united states has warned russia there will be consequences of jailed opposition leader alexina body dies in prison. no boundaries doctors say that after almost 3 weeks on hunger strike his life is hanging by a thread says he doesn't have access to independent medical care. well sco has expelled 20 czech diplomats a day after prague announced it was kicking out 18 russian officials it's said. that they were military spies russia promised to retaliate and it said the czech republic was trying to please the united states. egyptian authorities say at least 11 people were killed and nearly 100 injured when
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a passenger train derailed north of cairo for carriages ran off the railway in the city of. the train was traveling to the knowledge delta city of months from the egyptian capital. well here in germany the race to see here in germany the race to succeed angola magical has as chancellor is heating up and no party seems to be struggling more to find a candidate to stay and then her own governing c.d.u. c.s.u. alliance had planned to announce a candidate over the weekend the standoff is between the various premier marcus and the premier of germany's largest state north rhine west. i mean lush and he's also the president of the christian democratic union lash it is supported by party by the party leadership but zureda of the smaller sister party the seat as you is
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a lot more popular among voters being the biggest party in the conservative coalition it's traditionally the c.e.u. who nominates the candidate to spearhead the joint campaign. has not publicly endorsed either of. the. oh let's bring in mckayla chief political correspondent our chief political editor i should say they give a good to see the 2 rival conservative candidates here the 2 people who want to stand for the conservatives in this election become chancellor they said they would have this worked out as to who it would be who they would get the nomination by the end of last week it didn't happen so where does this go from here. yes we were even sifting the definition of what the end of the week is and there was a late night meeting on sunday evening for 3 and a half hours on the 2 men simply couldn't work it out. instead we saw the youth organization of the conservative block here in germany come out in favor of marcos
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zuda from bavaria so that's quite a surprise so this month fight that's been going on for just over a week now since my full suit just suddenly declares that he would now officially run is counted after having his posse and much of the opinion polls here in germany call for him for months and that is there's no end in sight to this state at the same time we're seeing the green party today declare that top candidate will be and no doubt this is damaging for the conservative c.d.u. just under 6 months ahead of those general elections in september but this jostling mckayla to become conservative chancellor candidate it's been going on for weeks can you give us the short answer of why it's taken so long. well the short answer is and that's it the newly elected c.d.u. party leader didn't you know that he definitely wants to take the job instead he
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says whoever has the best chances at the ballot box should become the man on the ticket or the woman event and then my office did i took him by his word looked at the opinion polls where he's way ahead and then declared his candidacy now with an accident still not wanting to back down after the upper echelons of the conservative c.d.u. are backing him so complicated isn't it but at the end of the day it's 2 men behind closed doors in a room who have to work it out and that is proving very very difficult and very bruising but i'm going to medical conservative senussi as you dock here and well speaking of uncle americal this you know we're talking about her party here what's her role in all of this because it is perper tensional successor we're talking about here. absolutely but she's the time and time again as recent as last week that she wants to stay out of this when it came to electing
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a party leader she was backing implicitly but ever since she's also criticized him and she's also been seeing is a former critic pretty much quote her along the way so she's doing her best to keep out of this at the same time it exposes that the map will style stability politics was also what held her own conservative c.d.u. c.s.u. blocks together so we're ready new political times leading up to these elections in september when uncle sam apple says she'll leave the political stage for good for him a thank you very much our chief political editor mechanic of the. elsmore german football nick santana but just like adults have reignited hopes of a top 4 finish with a win over brain and puts them within 4 points of a champions league qualification spot. following their champions league exist in
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midweek dortmund strode out in a special retro shirt hoping to draw inspiration from their mid ninety's glory days but russia brought them back to reality less than a quarter of an hour in a stunning pass from stein set the winner up for only his 2nd of the season. after nearly leaving in the summer russia has enjoyed an injury blighted campaign but he's finding his form in the run in he's now schooled on back to back match stage. however and rallied to just before the hall kallenbach 0 raina smashed in a bell to level the schools that jolted his teammates into action. captain mark who clearly won a penalty just minutes later i'm a hole and was on hand to score from the shots to make it to one of the tights and turned. then hall and had a healthy potion of luck topping in the back post for his 21st gold in $23.00
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appearances the hosts had hit 3 in 9 minutes to take a comfortable lead into half time after that early scare. after the break the 2 sides traded chances before dortmund finally added a 4th goal 30 minutes from time. months holes with a towering header which try as they might drain and couldn't clear off the line of a full to their 5th consecutive loss meaning they're still not quite safe from relegation while dog can continue to dream of qualifying for next season's champions league. so you look at the table with just 5 games left in the season draw allowed by an to stretch their lead to 7 points and dortmund shorten the gap on frankfurt in the race for champions league qualification at the bottom shaka are all but relegated after another heavy defeat and cologne or likewise running out of
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games to climb out of the drop zone. well in formula one racing red bulls max won a thrilling emilia-romagna grand prix in italy the belgian took advantage of a rare mistake by world champion lewis hamilton which saw him herschel off the rain soaked track of the briton recovered well to claim 2nd place hamilton's compatriots mclaren nora's became 13 came in 3rd. all news of a pioneering space mission now and nasa is gearing up for the 1st flight of its morris' exploration helicopter ingenuity if all goes to plan the 2 key low drone will make a total of 5 autonomous missions it will collect data and transmit it to the perseverance rover which beams it back to earth in just a few hours ingenuities maiden flight on monday would be the 1st time ever a powered controlled aircraft has been flown on another planet.
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