tsunekazu takeda — the head ofjapan‘s olympic committee — says he'll stand down following allegationsto warn you, there's some flash photography coming up. it relates to tokyo's successful bid to host the games next year. french prosecutors placed mr takeda under formal investigation in december for suspected corruption in the bid. mr takeda said he wants to prove his innocence, and would also stand down from his post on the international olympic committee, where he heads the marketing commission. england and australia will wear names and numbers on their shirts for the ashes in the biggest change to kits in test cricket for 142 years. the icc thinks making players more easily identifiable will help more people engage with the test game, and the series in england will be the first of the new test cricket championship. while names and numbers have been used in the limited overs format for some time, test match whites have remained relatively unchanged. cricket commentator alison mitchell can give us more details. we might see a little bit of colour introduced as well into those numbers

french prosecutors placed mr takeda under formal investigation in december for suspected corruption in the marketing commission. it‘s the biggest change to kits in test cricket for 142 years. england and australia will wear names and numbers on the their shirts during this year‘s ashes series. the icc thinks making players more easily identifiable will help more people engage with test cricket. while names and numbers have been used in limited overs cricket for some time, test match whites have remained relatively unchanged. a record nine countries have bid to host the women‘s world cup in 2023 with a joint offer from north and south korea among them. the usa will defend the title in this year‘s competition in france, but the next tournament won‘t be back in europe. the other bids come from argentina, australia, bolivia, brazil, colombia, japan, new zealand and south africa all offering to host. a decision will be made by fifa next march. germany‘s footballers head into a new era after head coach joachim loew said he wouldn‘t pick thomas mueller, jerome boateng and mats hummels again —

tsunekazu takeda is being investigated by french prosecutors over an alleged 2 million euro bribe paidis position on the international olympic committee in order to prove his innocence. firefighters are tackling a huge fire at a texas chemical plant. it's been burning in houston since early on monday, and the city's fire chief said he expected the blaze to continue for another 48 hours. no injuries have been reported and the plants's owners say the air quality readings are "well below hazardous levels". attention dog lovers — there's a new museum in the heart of manhattan dedicated to four—legged friends. the american kennel club has created this dog haven, packed with all things canine, including a fossil of a doggy ancestor. puppies aren't really allowed, but that didn't stopjane 0'brien sneaking in with alfie. the museum of the dog does exactly what it says on the label, and i've been allowed to bring a very special guest to see it. this is alfie. this is the largest collection of canine—related paintings and objects in the world courtesy of the american kennel club. this is alan. a

step down when his term ends in june amid an ongoing corruption investigation against him suni katsu takeda is suspected of paying bribes to ensure japan would win the olympic hosting rights prosecutors are looking into two million dollars worth of payments made to a company in singapore ok this is he's done nothing wrong in two thousand and twenty games are less than five hundred days away. now some football and a new look new sponsor and a new team bus the german national football team gathered in both spoiled home of blokes wagner and the new team sponsor germany are preparing for a friendly match on wednesday against serbia followed by a tough qualifying match with twenty twenty euros against fellow group favorites netherlands over the weekend coach walking and kept in a manner where the neuer were absent for the baling of the new team bus goalkeeper neuer is the only player over thirty called up for the upcoming two matches in a reworked germany swann devoid of many of the big names of the past decade. and an unlikely visitor at the training ground of real madrid this week barcelona st

takeda denied the allegations. i would like to support him in that sense. onto the scene, not only in japan, but also globally in 2016 and 2017 as he left the legislature to run for the governorship of tokyo. you really gave the national government of shinzo abe quite a scare. since then, shinzo abe had a snap election and the ldp won. you campaigned on a new kind of politics. can you tell me your strategy? on the one hand, your popularity rose because you challenged the ldp, on the other hand, do you need the ldp to win again in 2020? as the governor of tokyo, i would like to encourage more diversity. women's participation in politics is low in japan. a placelike to make it where women can shine. in order to achieve that, we need support from the government. from that perspective, it's good for tokyo to get support from the ruling democratic party and the tomato party. we haven't heard exactly your tokyo will bether one of those cities. we know mgm is putting all of their chips in on osaka. having ayou stand on casino, which is not necessarily popular with

to step in looking at a company, for instance, like remember the faulty airbags a few years ago, takeda? it is highly unusual for the department of justice and the federal prosecutors to step in to scrutinize an airplane's development and the approval process of getting the 737 max into the sky, especially with the crashes we talked about and the questions over the anti-stall system and whether or not the computers actually crash the planes. charles: we had a guest on friday who dropped a bombshell and it's sort of being talked about now, the idea that the faa exceeded its authority in this role to self-certify safety. susan: the department of transportation as well, what role did they play. they are also looking into this as well because they have to authorize the planes eventually, the issue of licenses to get into the skies. charles: thank you very much, susan. let's check on the futures. we have been all over the place this morning. the dow has been under pressure, mostly that's almost all boeing you are looking at. the s&p which broke to a key resistance point, looking higher. nasd

mr takeda said he will stand down from his position on the international olympic committee in order towin—mosque shooting in new zealand have begun arriving in christchurch from around the world ahead of the victims‘ funerals. the slow process of forensic identification has made observing the usual islamic custom of burials within 24 hours of death impossible — only augmenting the grief of the mourning families. an australian gunman remains the only person to have been charged in connection with the attack. there will be a lot of focus on his motives — and the court case to follow — but the prime minister jacinda ardern said today that from this point on, she will not be referring to him by name. he sought many things from his act of terror, but one was notoriety. that is why you will never hear me mention his name. he is a terrorist, he is a criminal, he is an extremist, but he will, when i speak, be nameless. to others, i implore you, speak their names of those speak the names of those who are lost, rather than the name of the man who took them. we're joined now by clive myrie, who's

mr takeda denies the allegations.intensive care for five days. she was trying to be healthy. that's popular on our website. well — this is interesting — brazil's new president jair bolsonaro has visited the white house. lots of people suggest his style leans heavily on his host. here they are together. posing for a few photos, then they went inside and had a meeting in the white white house, as he can see the extent football tops, . it's not c extent football tops,. lear if mr trump raised president bolsa naro's repeated homophobia and mysogyny. they appear to be getting on, that election campaign led to a victory in october, just a month after he was stabbed while campaigning. when he arrived in the us on sunday, he tweeted for the first time in a while april american or brazilian president arrives in dc, it s the beginning of a partnership focused on liberty and prosperity, something that all of us brazilians have long wished for. president trump s national security adviser, john bolton, called the trip a historic o