despite henderson leaving, steven gerrard has signed a 2—year contract extension to stay as head coachrd is reported to be one of the best—paid managers in the world, on a salary of around £15 million a year in saudi arabia. al—ettifaq, who finished seventh last term, currently sit eighth in the table, 28 points behind the leaders. england women begin the defence of their six nations title in late march, but their first training squad of the year has been announced with bristol lock abbie ward getting called up less than a year after giving birth to her daughter. head coachjohn mitchell has included six uncapped players in the 38—strong squad, and england captain marlie packer has been speaking to the bbc about the relishing the responsibility of wearing the armband. i look back at it now and an incredible year with loads of learnings and a lot of self—learning as well. being england captain, there is so much more to it thanjust, you know, being england captain. and i think as much credit as sarah got, i don't think she got as much credit for what she did do and was just relentless in

. but was described gerrard.chemistry lot. you chemistry matters a lot. you know, have all the know, you can have all the superstars the but if superstars in the world, but if they don't gel it doesn't doesn't they don't gel it doesn't doeand what about >> and what about the collectivist message to take from collectivist message to take frorwe also talk about >> we should also talk about sven off pitch, because sven off the pitch, because i think as think i said earlier, as a manager, he quite manager, he seemed quite vanilla. great manager , but vanilla. great manager, but quite, quite vanilla. but off the pitch, off the pitch, a bit of a lothario. >> well, brought nancy >> well, he brought nancy dell'olio to this dell'olio with him to this country i thought country and i thought she was a beautiful, glamorous woman, you know, sort know, and she, she really sort of of the wag of took control of the wag situation because the wag situation because the wag situation big those days. situation was big in those days.

he linked up with steven gerrard, the al—ettifaq manager.o be heading back to europe — having made just 17 appearances in the saudi pro league. a huge match for the hosts at the africa cup of nations later as ivory coast take on nigeria — who are looking to respond after their disappointing draw with equatorial guinea in their opener. both teams giants of the game on the continent. ivory coast are looking for back—to—back group wins for the first time since 2013. in that year, nigeria won afcon, having come second in their group. it's been a long wait for success in this competition from both sides, but the hosts know a win later will see them into the knockouts. the asian cup is under way. syria against australia, currently at goalless. a win for australia sees them into the next phase in qatar. palestine have the chance to respond to their opening defeat to iran — when they face the uae. a defeat, combined with a victory or draw by iran against hong kong, would end their hopes of progression into the knockouts, and that's all the sport for

away from al ettifaq but bbc sport understands that the manager and former liverpool captain steven gerrardt the club. according to saudi sources, the club are preparing to announce a two year extension to his contract. australia into the asian come after beating syria. uzbekistan could join in, not long kicked off against india. palestine have a chance respond to their opening defeat when they face in the uae later, laws were then combined with a victory or draw by iran against hong kong would end their hopes of aggression into the knockers. africa cup of nations, ivory coast take on nigeria, looking to respond after their disappointing draw with equatorial guinea in their oprah. a team chance of the game on the continent, ivory coast looking for back—to—back group wins for the first time since 2013. it had been a long wait for success in this competition for both sides. notes now, when later will see them into the knockouts. that is all this but for now. if you buy a train ticket from a machine at a railway station in england, you may be paying more than price what you would pay online fo

despite the imminent departure of the club's star signing, bbc sport understands that steven gerrarded to be one of the best—paid managers in the world on a salary of around £15 million a year. australia are into the last 16 of the asian cup with a game to spare after beating syria 1—0 earlier. jackon irvine scored the only goal of the game, in the second half. the victory means the socceroos likely to top group b. football now and, in just under 90 minutes time, mo salah's egypt kicks off against chris houghton's ghana in the africa cup of nations. it'll be the last of three matches in the schedule today. earlier, equatorial guinea beat guinea bissou a—2, while the hosts ivory coast against nigeria. bbc africa correspondent celestine karoney is in abijan for us. let's start with the games that are finished and currently ongoing. any talking points from so far today? yes. well as you mentioned byjara is currently leading that match against the host in a pack stadium. combating as put nigeria ahead. are really calm for nigerian fans were not impressed how the teams are in the competit

carter and gerrard are less, why is biden in such a situation nine months before the election, you see , anyway, biden has a series of personal personality problems related to himself. joe biden is partly rooted in the democratic party, partly in the domestic situation of the united states, partly in the foreign policy of the independent government , about his personality , it is related to his age . and if he wants to become president , he will be 80 by the end of his second term. within the democratic party, there is a big difference between the progressive current of the party and the main body they have strong differences, for example , the gaza war is an example of the internal policy of the biden government, apart from the economy, which has been successful to some extent, or at least the heavy inflation that occurred after the corona issue. after the war in ukraine , it was able to control it to some extent, of course, inflation is still high, prices are high, but compared to the end of 2021 or 2022, the situation is a little better, but the issue of border security is a controv

away from al ettifaq but bbc sport understands that the manager and former liverpool captain steven gerrardources, the club are preparing to announce a two year extension to his contract. crystal palace manager roy hodgson has defended his decision to substitute one of his star players in last night's fa cup replay defeat to everton — at a time when his side were trailing byjust a goal. eberechi eze was brought off with half an hour of the game still remaining — and they didn't manage to get an equalising goal. the decision was met with boos and chants of "you don't know what you're doing" by the palace fans — but hodgson said he did it with saturday's match with arsenal in mind. we had to think very carefully about it, but the fact is, as i have rightly said, i appreciate for the fans it's a long way to come and we appreciate their support. i would have been disappointed to see eze go off because he is one of our best players that i would also have been extremely disappointed as a fan if he had played another 30 or 35 minutes, got injured in the process or put himself in a situation where

i was going to steven gerrard. i was going to play steven gerrard.g to play it again, but i thought maybe we'll overdo it. but six months there a bit of a disaster . see, the thing is, the reason he's taken so much heat, if you're, pardon the pun, with everything that's going over, especially over in saudi arabia. um, was support for the lgbtq um, was he support for the lgbtq community? and then he decided , community? and then he decided, you know, is everything was, you know, it's a disgrace for what's going on over there. then heads over then gets big over and then gets the big bucks. paid bucks. so he's getting paid 350 grand week . how much of which grand a week. how much of which we he will see? i don't actually know. now because it looks like that now he's left. he's not going to get the money because they've just let him go after six months. but but there's so many other people that are involved in saudi arabia that don't get the stick that he seems be getting. we've got seems to be getting. we've got liv golf, we've got snooker is going be g

steven gerrard has agreed to a two-year contract extension with saudi arabia. jarat's current contract is valid until the summer of 2025 and will be extended until 2027 based on this agreement. the phenomenon of lead in the radar of the european giants , according to the claim of sky, napoli is currently leading the competition for the recruitment of matia popovice, and it is possible that this moving soon. be done milan and man city are other teams interested in buying this 18-year-old young man from serbia, and i offered him long-term contracts with high status to attract him. have a good time, god bless you. they want children like this, without history, culture without past. now both the human body is in pain and the historical memory of the nations , the gaza public library was destroyed . the 150-year-old gaza archive center was destroyed by the bombing of the zionist regime, and almost as far as we know, all its documents were destroyed. the occupiers who previously occupied al-ata library in beit hanoun and they have destroyed the libraries of rafah , t

so so there's way that it's going there's no way that it's going to gerrard because to be steven gerrarder to take over. so so obviously to be obviously this is going to be the time for liverpool football club to start thinking, right, we plans we need to start making plans now and the fans certainly going we need to start making plans no be|nd the fans certainly going we need to start making plans no be worriedfans certainly going we need to start making plans no be worried becauseainly going we need to start making plans no be worried because he's going we need to start making plans no be worried because he's asing to be worried because he's as good a manager as there is at the moment. >> yeah, paul coyte sometimes be one best managers in the world. >> paul coyte thank you so much. >> paul coyte thank you so much. >> just getting some reaction as well. >> i thought meant i might. >> i thought you meant i might. >> i thought you meant i might. >> well, you would as well if >> well, you would be as well if you were the you you were given the job, you would as well. would be as well. >> p

steven gerrard with the arab agreement. in the summer , an agreement has been reached to extend the two-year contract. jarat's current contract is valid until the summer of 2025 and will be extended until 2027 based on this agreement. according to sky napoli, the phenomenon of lead is on the radar of european giants currently, the leader of the competition for the recruitment of matia popovice, and this transfer may be done soon, bayern milan and man city are other teams interested in buying this 18-year-old serbian youth, and they offer him long-term contracts with high figures to attract him. khodang what points should be taken into account to prevent high blood pressure and cardiovascular diseases. we should reduce the amount of salt that we add to food during cooking, in order to avoid excessive consumption of salt at the table, we should not use salt, we should consume canned foods and many packaged foods. and ready to limit. to improve the taste of food , use fresh or dried herbs instead of salt. we should reduce the

stevie g after steven gerrard. palace fan. so why you've gone for stevie g? i don't know . don't know. >> um, will has seven dogs. he calls them smokey joe. scruffy chilling beans , sausage, kipper chilling beans, sausage, kipper and wait for it , donald trump. and wait for it, donald trump. have you done a weird and wonderful dog name donald trump? apparently that dog's ginger. >> yeah, yeah, but kipper sausage and beans . sausage and beans. >> have you got a breakfast? >> have you got a breakfast? >> there's a breakfast theme going on anyway. >> there you go. let's get the check on the weather for you with alex. >> looks like things are heating up. boxt boilers as sponsors of weather on gb news . weather on gb news. >> good morning, i'm alex deakin. this is your latest weather update from the met office for gb news pretty frosty out there again for most of us. a bit more cloud across the nonh a bit more cloud across the north and the east making for a grey and breezy day here. some places have avoided a frost tha

he said leaving saudi arabia managed by steven gerrard wasn't an easy decision.m day one. but the love wasn't universal. henderson has always been a vocal lgbtq+ ally, but angered the community by moving to a country where homosexuality is illegal, and punishable by death. this was jake daniels, currently england's only out professional footballer, last november. henderson messaged me when i came out. i have the dm on my phone, you know? he was backing me the whole way. he was, like, we're proud of what you've done. and then seeing him move to saudi, it's kind of like... slapped me in my face, really, haven't you? henderson has always denied the reason forjoining was the reported £350,000 weekly wage. he apologised for any hurt he caused, but defended the move, saying he thought he could help grow the league into one of the best in the world. by by joining byjoining ajax for less money he is hoping to restore a reputation that has taken a battering and breathe life into a giant that has been struggling. ajax's biggest wage packet for a top player over the years h

yeah, that's my little shrine to steven gerrard, who will not be succeeding jurgen klopp as liverpoolago that that looked plausible. or prime minister by the way. this succession is to many members of the public just as big as the prime ministerial. thejurgen klopp shock should have been a political edition of this podcast. we should have done the klopp shock and the rishi plot as one item. can you say that after you've. .. i'm never going to say it again. and actually, funnily enough, neither will anyone else. now i want to tell you that i was chagrined, i read thousands of emails a week from listeners. yes. and one of them wrote because we interviewed ken clarke and margaret beckett on broadcasting house a few weeks ago. and they said the abuse in politics is too much, it's driving people away. and one of our listeners is a councillor in surrey and she said, "this is happening to me, i'm an independent, i'm quitting". and this is what she said. how fed up am i? i'm at my wit's end with it. it's for me personally, it's been about three years of low level — i mean, not death threats,

it was only injuly that he left liverpool to join steven gerrard�*s al—ettifaq — for a reported £700,000ve that turned heads, now looks a move that turned heads, now looks a move that turned heads, now looks a move that has turned sour. jordan henderson is a current england international and he put that at risk for an important weekly wage of £700,000. the salary was extraordinary, the results were underwhelming. henderson�*s al—ettifaq are on a nine run windless run into one match in october was watched by around 700 fans. the centre of struggle at the heat and humidity and the criticism heat and humidity and the criticism he has received for his move from the country. under talks with this club he has being freed up to move on. he hasjoined the dutch side, i asked. that on. he has “oined the dutch side, i asked. �* , ., , ., asked. at this moment we understand that they they — asked. at this moment we understand that they they will _ asked. at this moment we understand that they they will make _ asked. at this moment we understand that they they will make him - asked. at this moment we

hyphen 009941 ds for the san francisco fire station number 44 at 1298 gerrard street.this is for your consideration to recommend to the board of supervisors. landmark designation. good afternoon. commissioners. peeler valley department staff, this is a board initiated a landmark so we usually give an opportunity to the um supervisor staff to comment before, uh, i make a statement, but at, um, i believe , um, supervisor walton, who introduced this is represented by his aide, natalie g. if she's available. miss g, you've been promoted to panelists. so you should be able to unmute yourself. good afternoon, commissioners. this is natalie g. with uh, supervisor walton's office. thank you so much for hearing this item today. um, i'm on behalf on behalf of supervisor walton, uh, to talk about our support for fire station number 44, located in the visitacion valley neighborhood at 1298 gerrard street. it was built in 1913 by renowned architect john reid. although the building was constructed in 1913, sf fire department didn't move in until 1915 as they waited for a delivery of

he led a golden generation of footballers including david beckham, steven gerrard, wayne rooney and franknd frank lampard. he also led the england team to the quarter finals of the 2002 and 2006 world cups, and the ,2,004. the 75 year old swedish radio show rather, the 75 year old told swedish radio that he has at best a year to live . at best a year to live. meanwhile, in the us , an airline meanwhile, in the us, an airline has cancelled all flights on boeing 737 max nine aircraft until saturday. that's as it waits for approval to get planes back in the air. it's after an alaska airlines flight had to make an emergency landing when an unused cabin door broke away mid—air on friday, the us has grounded 171 of the max nines since the incident. they say that's because all planes are installed with the same panel, 177 people were on board that flight on friday and luckily no one was hurt. the findings are being treated as a quality control issue and the princess royal has started her second day of engagements in sri lanka by visiting a buddhist temple . it's visiting a buddhist temple. it's

he linked up with steven gerrard, the al—ettifaq manager, but appears to be heading back to europe, havingances in the saudi pro league. a thrilling finish to the 3020 international between india and. skipper rohit sharma became the first batsman in twenty20 internationals to hit five centuries as he led india to 212 for 4 in their third match against afghanistan it looks like were into another super over there. it looks like were into another super overthere. more it looks like were into another super over there. more on that later in the day. england's rugby union head coach steve borthwick has named his squad for the upcoming 6 nations featuring seven uncapped players, along with returns for henry slade and luke cowan—dickie who missed out on the world cup. hookerjamie george has been named as captain following 0wen farrell's decision to step away from international rugby. the england squad feature seven uncapped players. the one and only mark, thank you. the government says it's begun the formal process of talks with fujitsu over contrinuting towards compensating for post office horizo

he linked up with steven gerrard, the al—ettifaq manager.e play off on saturday against ireland, the winner of which will take the last qualifying spot. meanwhile, the men's side have secured their spot in the qualifier semi—finals, with a comprehensive 6—0 win over china in theirfinal group match. the team will play new zealand on saturday. they must finish in the top three to qualify for the olympics. darts, and hot on the heels of his appearance in the world darts championship final last month, luke littler made his debut appearance in the wolrd series of darts at the bahrain masters. the teenager took on hong kong's man lok leung, and fought back from two legs down to eventually win 6—3 with his favourite double ten. the youngest ever player in the pdc world final turns 17 in three days' time. and that's all the sport for now. see you again soon. goodbye. hello there. good evening. staying very cold again today across the uk, but things are about to change weather—wise into the weekend. now, england, wales and northern ireland woke up to

cheryl sherville is co—owner of chorleywood bookshop and gerrards cross bookshop, as well .s bookshop uh since 2016. after working for 30 years at heywood hill bookshop in mayfair. so we have decades of bookselling experience. um vivian, let me begin with you . vivian, let me begin with you. if i may, uh, tell me about the joys for you of running a bookshop. joys for you of running a bookshop . well it gives you bookshop. well it gives you amazing power. >> really. um, to make the area that you work in and have called your own, um, a better place . your own, um, a better place. >> what sort of things do you do , vivian, to make your shop more attractive? to get people through the door ? well we don't through the door? well we don't just sell, um, books . just sell, um, books. >> we sell toys and stationery. um, we, um, are part of larger , um, we, um, are part of larger, um, initiatives in barnes . we um, initiatives in barnes. we founded the barnes book festival. um, three years ago, and we are also part of a reading group. um that has been set up by the, um, old sorting of

he linked up with steven gerrard, the al—ettifaq manager, but with reports he was unhappy there he nowbourne — with cam norrie the first of them to reach the third round — but he was made to work really hard for it this morning. the british number one was two sets down to italy's giulio zeppieri, who's ranked 133rd in the world. but norrie fought back — winning the following three sets to claim his place in the next round — matching his previous best performance at the tournament. he'll face the 11th seed casper ruud in the third round on sunday. butjack draper is up against it if he's to reach the third round in melbourne. he's playing america's tommy paul — who he beat en route to the adelaide final this month. but he is two sets to one down — and had that gruelling five setter in the first round remember. as for katie boulter, the women's british number one, she's level early in the first set with china's zheng qinwen. the winner will play either emma raducanu or yafan wang who play later. alexander zverev and swiatek already through, but british player —wise, a good morning for cam

gerrard is reported to be one of the best—paid managers in the world on a salary of about £15 millionut andy murray in the opening round. the women's reigning champion, though, is already safely through to the last 16. it was about as comfortable as it could be for aryna sabalenka, beating the ukrainian lesia tsurenko without dropping a single game. very straight forward for coco gauff, too — the us open champion beating fellow american alycia parks in straight sets. they'll both be glad to have got finished early, especially after yesterday — with daniil medvedev�*s match finally ending at nearly four o'clock in the morning melbourne time. it didn't start until after 11. the number three seed thanking the small amount of spectators afterwards for staying up almost to see dawn. now, after not picking up a dart for two weeks, since his history—making run at alexandra palace, 16—year—old luke littler has been back in action for the first time since he made the world championship final, and won on his return at the bahrain masters. littler beat hong kong's man lok leung 6—3. he said he w

arowned by his sorry , managed is owned by his sorry, managed rather by his former team mate steven gerrardcism from the lgbtq+ community because he he was always a proponent of that cause. he always spoke out when he was england manager. he was very much in england captain. rather, always in favour rather, he was always in favour of wearing the rainbow armbands. and then suddenly someone waves a front of his face and a check in front of his face and everyone well, actually, everyone says, well, actually, was genuine? your was it really genuine? your your concerns about about cause concerns about about our cause and was, you when and it was, you know, when you when you're thinking £700,000 a week, i think it was worth £338 million over four years. i think the contract is worth and now reportedly on the back of it, what? but, you know, we spoke on the on the show before about the criticism he received from from the lgbtq+ community and whether you thought it was the right thing. i mean, are you saying that you actually you can see why he went because of the money? yeah, yeah, yeah, i suppose

the england's vice captain, who controversially left liverpool for steve gerrard's saudi club in theiddle east and is looking for an escape route back to english. and joining me now is our wonderful sports broadcaster , aidan magee, to broadcaster, aidan magee, to explain what's going on here. now my favourite part of this story, aidan, is the fact that jordan henderson has said that it's a bit hot out there for him. did he not know that i know, i know well, it's not just him. >> i suppose it's his family he has to consider as well. as you mentioned there in the link, he could lose up to £7 million by in a tax write off effectively because if you don't complete the first two years of your contract, you don't get the full tax benefits, which of course is tax benefits, which of course is tax so he's on £700,000 a tax free. so he's on £700,000 a week there at and i think what's playing into this as well, dawn, is that he probably go back is that he can probably go back to saudi sometime in the future if but what's key if he needed to. but what's key in the short to medium terms is the f

wayne rooney is now joined of, you know, frank joined sort of, you know, frank lampard and steven gerrardt pléparticularly gooded out not to so many other really great pléparticularly good managers. 0 be particularly good managers. but not the first but yeah, not for the first time. you your on time. you put your finger on it. what what what what authority, what power, what strength. what what can strength. you know what what can you gary you never criticise? gary lineker? do lineker? take this down. do this, . you know, jump this, do that. you know, jump how high i extraordinary . how high i mean extraordinary. >> yeah. how high i mean extraordinary. >> he|h. how high i mean extraordinary. >> he is running the bbc i mean yeah yeah he is. they are terrified of him i mean you know no matter what think of no matter what you think of carol vorderman they, she left the because of her very the bbc because of her very strong political opinions. >> totally >> yeah. she was totally effectively gary lineker does the same thing and he's still there . there. >> but then. >> but then. >> but then. >>