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Thursday, January 17, 2019

Leeds: Marcelo Bielsa says he watches all opponents train

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Leeds: Marcelo Bielsa says he watches all opponents train

Leeds boss Marcelo Bielsa has sent a member of staff to watch every team they have played this season train.

Bielsa, 63, called an unscheduled news conference on Wednesday as the Football Association and English Football League investigate the 'spy' saga.

Before Friday's Championship win over Derby, the ex-Argentina manager said he sent someone to watch the Rams train.

"I observed all the rivals we played against and watched the training sessions of all opponents," he said.

"All the information I need to clarify, I gather it without watching the training session of the opponent, so why did I send someone to watch them? Just because I thought I wasn't violating the norm. I gathered information that I can obtain in another way.

"We feel guilty if we don't work enough. It [watching the opponents train] allows us to have less anxiety and in my case I am stupid enough to allow this kind of behaviour."

The Argentine said what he has done is "not illegal" but accepted that he will have to "respect the sanctions" that the FA or EFL may bring against him or Championship leaders Leeds.

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Friday, January 12, 2018

Pound hits highest level since Brexit vote

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Pound hits highest level since Brexit vote
Sterling notes
Sterling has jumped to its highest level against the US dollar since the Brexit vote.

The surge to almost $1.37 came after Bloomberg reported that the Spanish and Dutch finance ministers had agreed to seek a Brexit deal that kept the UK as close to the EU as possible.

The pound rose more than 1% to $1.3691, its highest level since 24 June 2016.

The currency had been trading at about $1.50 before the result of the referendum became clear.

Later on Friday, sterling gave up some ground to trade at $1.3666.

Mizuho analyst Neil Jones said the Bloomberg report was less significant than the sterling rally suggested.

"Just because two of the 27 members say this, it doesn't mean a softer Brexit will happen. I doubt it's as straightforward as that," he said.

Neil Wilson at ETX Capital said: "Although the comments came from just two ministers who don't necessarily speak for the Barnier team as such, there is a sense that the direction of travel for the UK with regards Brexit is a lot more positive than it was prior to December.


"We also have positive language around financial services and the prospect of Britain paying for market access."
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Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Trump’s daily schedule v Obama and Bush

January 09, 2018 NEWS , 0 Comments
Trump’s daily schedule v Obama and Bush
Donald Trump boarding Air Force One
US President Donald Trump is under fire for the length of his daily schedule, but he would not be the first commander-in-chief to forgo a nine-to-five routine.

Mr Trump takes his first meeting of the day at 11:00 after three hours of "Executive Time", according to a White House schedule leaked to news site Axios.

This is largely designed to accommodate the time that he spends in the White House residence watching TV and tweeting, according to the report.

The White House responded that Mr Trump spends this time making important calls and consistently "puts in long hours and long days nearly every day of the week all year long".

The Axios report highlights a long-standing criticism that Mr Trump spends too much time in front of the television.

What is Trump's usual schedule?
The schedule released to Axios differs from schedules the White House sends to the media every day.

According to the report, the president has designated "Executive Time" from 8:00 to 11:00 in the Oval Office, but actually spends these hours in his residence watching television, making phone calls and tweeting.

At about 11:00, the president emerges for his first meeting of the day, which is typically an intelligence briefing.

During the day he has a couple of meetings, with several breaks of "Executive Time" interspersed, and returns to the residence at about 18:00, says Axios.

According to the report, this unscheduled "Executive Time" during the work day is spent in the dining room next to the Oval Office where the president watches cable news.

In one example Axios presented, the president's schedule began at 11:00 with "Policy Time", then "Executive Time" at 12:00, an hour for lunch, followed by more "Executive Time" from 13:30.

The president's daily schedule has changed over the duration of his first year in office, according to the report.

At the beginning of his tenure, it is said he would hold breakfast meetings in the Roosevelt Room, but he has since pushed the start of his day back later and later as his first year in office has progressed.

On days when the president is travelling, his schedule often runs longer.

How early have other presidents started?
Many other presidents were known to have kept erratic schedules and most tailored their daily itineraries to suit their own needs.

Barack Obama began his days at about 9:00 or 10:00 after a daily morning exercise routine and always made it back to the residence to have dinner with his family, according to Matthew Dallek, a professor at George Washington University.

In contrast, George W Bush tended to get to the Oval Office by 06:45, according to the Axios report.

However, while Mr Bush was known for starting and sleeping early, Mr Obama had "night owl" habits and was known sometimes to stay up until 01:00 or 02:00 working after his family was asleep, Professor Dallek told the BBC.

Other presidents, like both Lyndon B Johnson and Bill Clinton, were known to make calls in the middle of the night.

The main difference, Professor Dallek said, citing recent reports questioning Mr Trump's mental health, is that Mr Trump's reported schedule could be detrimental to his ability to govern effectively.

"There's a chaos that this schedule reflects and breathes and encourages," he said.

Ronald Reagan worked a shorter day towards the end of his presidency, according to the academic.

In his last couple of years in office, the president was said to have appeared divorced from policy details and occasionally dozed off in meetings.


Mr Reagan was diagnosed with Alzheimer's five years after he left office.
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Barry Bennell: Ex-coach had 'unfettered access' to boys

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Barry Bennell: Ex-coach had 'unfettered access' to boys
Court artist sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Barry Bennell appearing via videolink at Liverpool Crown Court
Former football coach Barry Bennell was a "predatory and determined paedophile" who abused one boy on more than 100 occasions, a court has heard.

The ex-Crewe Alexandra coach "had pretty much unfettered access" to boys dreaming of a life in the professional game, prosecutors alleged.

Liverpool Crown Court was told offences took place between 1979 and 1991.

Mr Bennell, 63, who is now known as Richard Jones, denies 48 sex offence charges against him.

Nicholas Johnson QC, prosecuting, told the jury Mr Bennell had worked as a youth football coach in Cheshire, Manchester and Derbyshire.

He said some of the abuse took place at the ground of Crewe Alexandra and during tours by the football club, but many incidents occurred at the defendant's home addresses.

'Play fight'
Mr Johnson said one alleged victim, who says he was abused more than 100 times, met Mr Bennell when he was a scout for Manchester City.

The complainant would stay at Mr Bennell's house with other youngsters.

"Not only was there the promise of high quality football, but they were given lots of sports kit and allowed to eat takeaway food," Mr Johnson told the jury.

The court heard how Mr Bennell would "play fight" with the boys and play a game with them called Follow Me, where they would copy his actions while he would increase degrees of intimacy to gauge how compliant the boys would be to abuse.

The complainant said Mr Bennell would turn the lights off and play music to mask the sounds of the abuse, the jury heard.

Mr Bennell denied sexual contact with the alleged victim when questioned by police.


The jury was told how another alleged victim described the former coach's house as being like "an arcade with all the machines".
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Monday, January 8, 2018

Don't believe Brexit won't happen

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Don't believe Brexit won't happen
European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker, 8 Jan 18
"Don't believe those who say that it's not going to happen and that people in the UK have realised their error... I don't think that's going to be the case," he told a Brussels conference.

The EU budget commissioner said the UK's departure would leave a hole of about €12-13bn (£11-12bn; $14-$16bn).

The UK's exit is set for March 2019.

Budget Commissioner Günther Oettinger said the budget gap would have to be closed with 50% spending cuts and 50% fresh money. He suggested a Europe-wide tax on plastic products as a source of extra revenue.

The Commission will publish a proposal in May this year and has urged EU leaders to agree a budget deal by May 2019.


Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable and former Prime Minister Tony Blair are among the prominent voices arguing that Brexit can still be reversed, possibly by holding a new referendum on whatever deal is reached on the UK withdrawal.
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Sunday, January 7, 2018

May defends record ahead of reshuffle

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May defends record ahead of reshuffle
Theresa May
The prime minister has defended her record and set out her plans for the coming year, as she prepares to reshuffle her cabinet.

Speaking on the Andrew Marr Show, she defended NHS funding amid questions over the handling of winter pressures.

Mrs May also defended rail fair rises and pledged parole reform after the decision to release sex attacker John Worboys.

On the NHS, Labour said the PM lacked a plan to get "people off the trolleys".

Theresa May confirmed a cabinet reshuffle was imminent, but refused to give any detail.

She is expected to replace Damian Green, who was sacked as first secretary of state in December, but keep key figures such as Chancellor Philip Hammond and Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson.

In a wide-ranging interview, Mrs May also:

Set out plans to create a new Northern Forest stretching from Liverpool to Hull
Warned Toby Young about his language amid calls for him to be sacked from his job at university regulator for tweets about women
Said she knew one of John Worboys' victims, and she wanted to bring "greater openness" to the parole system
Dropped a manifesto pledge to hold a vote on the fox-hunting ban during this parliament
Confirmed President Trump would be coming to the UK
Said she wanted to fight the next general election, due in 2022
'More to do'
On the NHS, Theresa May said thousands of cancelled operations in January were "part of the plan" for coping with pressures on the health service.

She said she wanted cancelled operations to be "reinstated as soon as possible," but added the government was "making sure that those who most urgently need care" get it quickly.

Mr Marr disputed the idea that urgent care was being delivered in time, raising the case of Leah Butler-Smith and her mother, who, having suffered a stroke, waited an hour in an ambulance and a further four in A&E before seeing a doctor.

"If I'd been waiting for five hours before I'd seen a doctor after my stroke I would not be here talking to you. This is about life and death and up and down the country people are having horrendous experiences of the NHS," he said.

The prime minister said she had not heard of the specific case and so could not comment, and insisted that the NHS was delivering more than ever before.

"But of course nothing's perfect and there is more for us to do", she added.

Mrs May also defended the rail fair increase announced at the beginning of January, saying that rises were in line with inflation.

"For every pound that somebody pays on a ticket in the railways, 97p of that goes back into investment in the railways." she said.

Presentational grey line
Susana Mendonca, BBC political correspondent
Theresa May wants to reset her premiership after a difficult few months. The message she wants people to hear is that her government is about more than just Brexit.

So plans to develop a new forest on land between Liverpool and Hull have been announced and she's kicking a free vote on fox hunting into the long grass.

But old problems haven't gone away. The New Year has brought with it another deep winter crisis in the NHS with tens of thousands of operations cancelled.


Mrs May told Andrew Marr that postponing operations was all "part of the plan" to help the NHS cope. But Labour's shadow health secretary Jon Ashworth said that the current crisis was "entirely predictable and preventable" and blamed government cuts.
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Friday, December 29, 2017

Iran hit by second day of anti-government protests

December 29, 2017 NEWS , 0 Comments
Iran hit by second day of anti-government protests
Iranians protest against high prices in the city of Mashhad on 28 December 2017
Anti-government demonstrators have taken to the streets of Iran for a second day, with protests being held in a number of cities.

The protesters have been angered by rising prices and corruption.

Large numbers have reportedly gathered in the western city of Kermanshah, with a smaller demonstration in the southern city of Shiraz.

The biggest protest on Thursday was in the north-eastern city of Mashhad, where there were 52 arrests.

There have been calls on social media for protests up and down the country, despite warnings from the government against illegal gatherings.

The governor-general of the capital, Tehran, said no permits had been issued for public demonstrations.

He said such gatherings would be firmly dealt with by the police, who are out in force on main intersections.

Hassan Rouhani, the president who moved left
Iranians urge Rouhani not to disappoint
Videos posted on social media purport to show clashes between security forces and some demonstrators in Kermanshah on Friday.

'Harsh slogans'
A number of cities in north-eastern Iran held protests on Thursday. They started with anger at the inability of the government of President Hassan Rouhani to control prices - the cost of eggs has doubled in a week.


However, some developed into broader anti-government protests, calling for the release of political prisoners and an end to police beatings.
Iran map showing Kermanshah in the west, Mashhad in the north-east and Shiraz in the south
There were also chants in Mashhad of "not Gaza, not Lebanon, my life for Iran", a reference to what protesters say is the administration's focus on foreign policy rather than domestic issues.

The arrests in Mashhad were for chanting "harsh slogans", officials said.

'Seething discontent'
Analysis by Kasra Naji, BBC Persian

The demonstrations have taken the Iranian authorities by surprise. Impromptu anti-government demonstrations are rare in a country where the Revolutionary Guard and numerous intelligence agencies have a strong grip on the population.

Predictably they are blaming anti-revolutionary elements and foreign agents. But the protests clearly stem from seething discontent in Iran, mainly because of the worsening economic conditions faced by ordinary Iranians.

A BBC Persian investigation has found that Iranians, on average, have become 30% poorer in the past ten years alone.

Many believe Iranian leaders are spending money that should be used to improve their lot on war efforts abroad. Billions are also being spent on spreading religious propaganda and Shia Islam around the world.

But it seems that the hardliners opposed to President Rouhani may have triggered the unrest by holding a demonstration that quickly grew out of control and spread to cities and towns across the country.

The head of Mashhad's revolutionary court, Hossein Heidari, said: "We consider protest to be the people's right but if some people want to abuse these emotions and ride this wave, we won't wait and will confront them."

President Rouhani promised that the deal he signed with world powers in 2015, which saw Iran limit its nuclear activities in return for the lifting of international sanctions, would boost economic growth.

The economy has risen out of recession and inflation has been reduced, but businesses are still struggling from a lack of investment and the official unemployment rate is 12.4%.
Hassan Rouhani, 10 December, Tehran
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