Daily briefing Sunday 31st May

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 Sunday 31st May. More than 400 people have been arrested in cities across France after the celebrations of Paris Saint-Germain's victory in the Champions League final turned violent.

0:48An estimated 20 ,000 people had gathered on the Champs -Élysées in Paris after the French club beat Arsenal on penalties. Thousands of police officers were deployed to curb the unrest that disrupted bus and train services while tear gas was used to disperse crowds. David Chazan is the Paris correspondent for The Times and is in the French capital. This was so serious that the interior minister spoke to journalists at one o 'clock in the morning bemoaning the fact that it's necessary to have such a huge security deployment every time there's a major football victory. Defeat for Arsenal means their quest for a first Champions League success will continue into next season, but the Arsenal players do have the opportunity to celebrate their Premier League title during an open-top bus parade on the streets of North London.

1:39The manager, Mikel Arteta, says the pain of defeat will fuel the fire for his players. First of all, you have to go through that pain, digest it and reach a different level because it will demand a different level with the quality that is around Europe. I want to congratulate PSG because they are, in my opinion, the best team in the world. what they are able to do. Nicola Sturgeon has been told there are legitimate questions to answer after Scotland's former First Minister claimed she feels like she is serving a sentence for a crime that she did not commit. In an exclusive interview with the BBC, Sturgeon refused to apologise after her estranged husband admitted embezzling£400 ,000 from the SNP, the party she once led.

2:23She has consistently denied any knowledge of Peter Morrell's crimes, committed between 2010 and 2022. John Boothman covers Scottish politics for The Times and Sunday Times. Where is she serving this sentence? She seems to be touring book festivals in a television studio this morning. Look, there are legitimate questions here and the media has to ask these questions. And if you look at that poll this morning, there's a pretty sceptical view of what people believe about what Nicola Sturgeon has said. West Streeting has suggested cutting employer national insurance contributions to encourage businesses to recruit more young people.

3:04In an interview with the Sunday Times, the former health secretary said the government should be thinking actively about incentivising employers to ease the problem of youth unemployment. And prevention and control measures against Ebola are being intensified in medical centres in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Already facing humanitarian and security crises, the large eastern city of Goma is now facing a new outbreak of the disease. A suspected case of Ebola is also being investigated in Brazil. There's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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