well the club versus country debate is not confined to rugby union low the balance of power does tendo defend on the support. we have more. >> well, footballers are made available for friendlies although clubs get compensation if a player is injured on much international duty. well in last year the owner of the dallas mavericks said that the nba should start it's own world cup instead. and cricket makes more money playing in domestic tournaments like, and as a result many have chosen the ipl over their country, although some clubs reflectable alloware athletickible allowing players to do both. >> floyd mayweather and manny pacquiao will be meeting and they have unveiled a special championship belt entrusted with 3,000 emeralds. larry holmes was on hand and was happy to give his expert opinion on the fight. >> it will be a great site. i can't wait to see it. >> still playing granada day two on the cricket test on a day that was interrupted several times from breaks of rain. but he was out two balls later for 103 and west indies was dismissed at 299. >> that is all the sport for now. >>

there are a lot of rugby unions leaks -- leagues. there are defined periods of offense and defense. idea i want to expand. i think it is a great idea to expand. if you were to take the top four teams from australia from the european competition and meet half way and play in vegas if americans are ever going to love this sport, they will not love it because of exhibition games or -- like the new zealand team playing the american team in chicago. they are very different. the americans lie just outside the top 10. if you were to take the four top clubs of australia and europe and put them together in a competition where there is blood on the line because that is the nature of the sport, americans would love it. it is so easy to explain. once they understand a tackle is a down the only thing we don't do is throw the ball forward. charlie: do you think of yourself as an australian? russell: yes. i got to australia when i was four years old so i didn't know i came from new zealand in that way. my formative years were spent there. my attitude to the world came from there. when i went back

rugby union is a 15-man code.13-man code which americans understand easier because there's defined periods of offense and defense. so that idea to become the actual world champions in the rugby league, i want to expand that. i think it's a great idea to expand it. take the top four teams from australia and the european competition and meet halfway and play in vegas for example. if americans are ever going to love this sport they're not going to love it because of exhibition games or of games -- like recently the new zealand team played the american team in chicago, these two teams are very different. oil blacks are the pinnacle of the sport and the americans are out of the top ten. but if you were to take the four top clubs of australia and four top clubs of europe and put them in a competition where there is blood on the line because that's the nature of the sport americans would love it. once they understand that tackles is downs, we punt at the same time you do, the only thing we don't do is throw the ball forw

mark: coming up, i will be speaking to the english rugby union.y with us. ♪ manus: welcome back to "countdown." we tried to bring you the news from our digital sources, and on bloomberg.com, we kick it up with the tragic story from nepal . people are trying to figure out what this means for the people of nepal. in europe tragedies like this knocking at growth, the estimates are for growth in nepal to be dropped anywhere from 10% and 50 percent. it sounds almost grass to try to put numbers around such a tragedy, but the reality is as we go into recovery mode in nepal, the next position will be what about the economics for nepal to recover, the imf, and china and india ready to go, and last year, there was another landslide, the deadliest in a decade, 10% of power generation and that just gives you a little bit of sort of the challenges that will be faced by the people of nepal and the aid agencies as the world rushes to deliver aid. mark: not being in to decide about u.s. treasuries, and try flipping a coin. the government market has gone like that