Daily briefing Saturday 26th September

0:00This episode of the Times Radio News Briefing is sponsored by PwCWC. Staying competitive means getting ahead, not just keeping up. So how do business leaders cut through the noise and focus on what really matters. PwC takes you further with tech, from optimising the systems that put your data to work, to scaling AI from proof of concept to competitive edge. PwC helps you meet tomorrow's tech demands, so you can compete at a speed that rewrites the rules. Discover more at pwc.co.uk. This is Times Radio's daily briefing on Saturday the 26th of September. Manchester City's Premier League rivals and other football clubs could each claim£100m in compensation, after the former champions were found guilty of nearly all of their 115 alleged breaches of financial rules.

0:52City insist they have irrefutable evidence to disprove the charges, and it's understood they will appeal. But the hearing to determine the sanctions may not be held until after the end of the season, in which any appeal process is completed. Speaking to Times Radio, the football finance expert Kieran Maguire said the potential number of claimants, including individuals, is unlimited. Talking to agents, they say, well, let's first of all see what the sanction is, because if there's not been a points deduction allocated to Manchester City, it will make it that much more difficult. But could the owners of the club walk away from the club?

1:27And then you've got a very, very awkward situation, because the club itself doesn't have the money to pay these fines. And according to reports, members of staff at City fear they will lose their jobs amid some anger that those executives who were at the club at the time will not speak publicly. Angela Rayner says the Home Secretary's plan to make it harder for foreign workers to claim permanent residence in the UK is unfair. In an interview with The Times, a head of Labour's party conference, the housing secretary said the plan would affect foreign care workers who had moved their lives here to look after our loved ones.

2:00The Culture Secretary says the government will robustly defend certain elements of BBC programming after the corporation's new Director General said he couldn't guarantee any programme or channel will exist forever. Speaking to Times Radio, Lisa Nandy said the BBC is having to adapt to a series of revenue challenges. People are changing the way in which they watch TV. There are fewer people that pay the licence fee. And on top of that, successive government decisions to freeze the licence fee, often for good reasons, to try and protect people has meant that the BBC's revenue has fallen significantly.

2:35But the BBC exists for all of us and there are certain elements of programming, including news and children's programming, that are incredibly important to this country. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected at the Place de la Concorde in Paris for one of the highlights of the first papal visit to France in 18 years. Pope Leo began his four-day tour by giving what's being seen as a highly political address in which he spoke out against assisted dying as well as artificial intelligence. The Times Paris correspondent Adam Sage says the speech can be seen as a rebuke of President Macron. Only in August the French Parliament voted an assisted dying bill with President Macron's support so it was very difficult to see the speech as anything other than a rebuke.

3:20He went on to deliver another speech at UNESCO that was equally forceful. The United States has pulled out of UNESCO calling it a woke institution and the Pope said it was a privileged interlocutor for the Vatican. And Iran's foreign minister has proposed a new plan for the reopening of the Straits of Hormuz to maritime navigation within seven days. According to reports, however, President Trump is expected to reject it because Tehran says its conditions must be met, including the unfreezing of Iranian assets. There's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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