Thứ Ba, 14 tháng 11, 2017

World Cup play-offs: Honduras coach claims Australia spied on training


Jorge Luis Pinto
Honduras are aiming for a fourth appearance at the World Cup finals and their third in a row

Australia v Honduras
Venue: ANZ Stadium Date: Wednesday, 15 November Kick-off: 09:00 GMT
Coverage: Follow live text commentary on the BBC Sport website
Honduras coach Jorge Luis Pinto has accused Australia of "espionage" in the build-up to the first leg of their World Cup play-off last Friday.
Pinto says the Australians used a drone to film his team training before their 0-0 draw in San Pedro Sula - and the Honduran Football Association tweeted footage of the alleged incident.
"I think it is embarrassing for such an advanced country," said Pinto.
The Football Federation Australia denied any involvement.
Pinto attempted to end the training session during the 15 minutes of open media access allowed under Fifa rules, later claiming a reporter had leaked tactical details to the Australians.
"Let's not be innocent, it's espionage," he said. "It takes some of the merit away from the fair play."
The second leg of the play-off takes place on Wednesday at Sydney's ANZ Stadium, with Honduras aiming to reach their third consecutive finals and Australia their fourth.
"We are happy with the welcome we have had," said Pinto. "We need to be aggressive and I'll be even happier we're able to go back to Honduras with qualification."

ATP Finals: Jack Sock beats Marin Cilic to boost his hopes of reaching semi-finals



5 best shots as Sock beats Cilic

ATP Finals
Venue: The 02 Arena, London Dates: 12-19 November
Coverage: Watch live on BBC Two, Red Button, BBC Sport website and mobile app, listen on BBC Radio 5 live sports extra and follow text updates online.
American eighth seed Jack Sock boosted his chances of reaching the last four at the ATP Finals with victory over Croatian fifth seed Marin Cilic.
Sock won 5-7 6-2 7-6 (7-4) in the second round of group matches, after losing to Swiss second seed Roger Federer in his opener on Sunday.
Federer and German third seed Alexander Zverev meet in Tuesday's second match in the Boris Becker Group at 20:00 GMT.
The top two players from each group qualify for the semi-finals.
"That was a tough one for sure," said Sock.
"It's been an interesting morning so far, the fire alarm went off at 4am and we had to exit the building. But I love playing here in London, it's an amazing atmosphere, you make me feel like home.
"I'm just excited to win and keep myself alive."

Sumo champ Harumafuji investigated over 'bottle assault'




Media captionSumo wrestler Harumafuji sorry for 'causing trouble'

A sumo wrestling grand champion is alleged to have hit a fellow wrestler over the head with a beer bottle in a fresh scandal that has rocked the highly ceremonial sport.
Nine-time grand champion Mongolian wrestler Harumafuji, 33, has apologised for "causing trouble".
The alleged victim, Takanoiwa, was hospitalised for several days, the Japan Sumo Association has said.
Japanese media report the incident occurred during a drinking session.
Sumo association officials told AFP news agency that exactly what happened remains unconfirmed.
Takanoiwa, who is also Mongolian, is reported to have suffered a fractured skull. The 27-year-old is part of a so-called 'stable' led by Takanohana, a former grand champion who reported the incident to police, according to Kyodo news agency.
Harumafuji and his stable master, Isegahama, were questioned by association executives on Tuesday.
The grand champion apologised publicly but did not confirm the circumstances of the incident.
"As for Takanoiwa's injuries, I apologise deeply for causing trouble for stable master Takanohana, people affiliated with Takanohana stable, the Sumo Association and my stable master," he told reporters.

Mongolian sumo wrestler yokozuna, or grand champion, Harumafuji (R) and stable master Isegahama (L) - 14 November 2017Image copyrightAFP
Image captionStable master Isegahama and Harumafuji were questioned by association executives on Tuesday

Weighing in at 137kg (300lb), Harumafuji is considered a relatively small sumo wrestler, and is lauded for his technique in the ring.
Sumo's origins lie in Shinto rites performed in temples, and Japanese fans expect wrestlers competing in the ancient sport to live up to strict standards of good behaviour.
Wrestlers are expected to not show emotion after a victory and a rigid hierarchy exists.



Media captionCould the next sumo star come from Senegal?

But this case is far from the first time that the sumo world has been hit by scandal and reports of violence outside the ring.
In 2007, a teenage novice died after being beaten up by older wrestlers, with the stable master subsequently jailed for five years over the abuse.
That case exposed a culture of bullying and hazing within the ancient sport's strict hierarchy.
In 2016, a stable master and wrestler were made to pay nearly $300,000 (£230,000) to a wrestler allegedly abused so badly that he lost sight in one eye, according to reports.
Back in 2010, the sport was rocked by alleged links between sumo wrestlers and yakuza crime syndicates. A match-fixing scandal followed in 2011.
In 2010, Mongolian grand champion Asashoryu retired from the sport after reports of a drunken fight in Tokyo.

What is sumo?

  • Japan's much-loved traditional sport dates back hundreds of years
  • Two wrestlers face off in an elevated circular ring and try to push each other to the ground or out of the ring
  • There are six tournaments each year in which each wrestler fights 15 bouts
  • Wrestlers, who traditionally go by one fighting name, are ranked and the ultimate goal is to become a yokozuna (grand champion)

Mugabe allies hit out at Zimbabwe army chief

Zimbabwe Army General Constantino Chiwenga Commander of the Zimbabwe Defence Forces addresses a media conference held at the Zimbabwean Army Headquarters on November 13, 2017 iImage copyrightAFP
Image captionZimbabwe Army General Constantino Chiwenga warned of a military takeover
Allies of Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe have warned the military chief against meddling in politics.
Gen Constantino Chiwenga had said the army was prepared to intervene to end purges within the ruling Zanu-PF party.
His comments came a week after Mr Mugabe sacked his deputy Emmerson Mnangagwa, who has fled into exile.
But the Zanu-PF's Youth League, which backs President Mugabe's wife Grace to replace Mr Mnangagwa, told the army chief to "stay in the barracks".
Meanwhile, BBC correspondents in the capital, Harare, report that a few armoured vehicles have been seen on a main public road outside the city having left one of the country's main military barracks, Inkomo.
It is not clear where they were heading but they have not been seen on the streets of Harare. One of the vehicles had broken down on the side of the road.
The leader of the Zanu-PF youth wing, Kudzai Chipanga, said his members would not allow the armed forces to subvert the constitution and were prepared to die to defend President Mugabe.
He told a press conference in the capital, Harare, that the military chief did not enjoy the support of the "entire defence force".
"We will not sit and fold hands while threats are made against a legitimately elected government," he said.
Gen Chiwenga appeared at a news conference on Monday with another 90 senior army officers present.
President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace Mugabe and vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa attend a gathering of the Zanu-PF party's top decision making body, the Politburo, in the capital Harare, Zimbabwe, February 10, 2016Image copyrightREUTERS
Image captionGrace Mugabe and former Vice-President Emmerson Mnangagwa were once both seen as possible presidents
The country's state-linked media have observed a blackout on his remarks - the Herald newspaper took down an article it had initially posted on its website about his warning, the Zimbabwe Mail reports.
Mr Chipanga also asked the general to account for some $15bn (£11bn) of diamond mining revenues, which President Mugabe said last year was missing from state coffers, blaming foreign mining firms.
The BBC's Shingai Nyoka, in Harare, says at one time there was a partnership between the army's mining company and a Chinese firm that was prospecting in the rich Marange diamond fields in the east of the country.
The ongoing tussle within Zanu-PF is about who will succeed President Mugabe, who is 93-years-old.
Its youth wing backs Mr Mugabe's wife Grace, who is now the favourite to succeed her husband. She has referred to the sacked vice-president as a snake which "must be hit on the head".
Mr Mnangagwa, nicknamed the "crocodile", has rebuked Mr Mugabe, saying Zanu-PF is "not personal property for you and your wife to do as you please".

Iran-Iraq earthquake: Rouhani vows action over collapsed buildings


Hassan RouhaniImage copyrightHANDOUT
Image captionMr Rouhani said the government would give financial help to those left homeless after the quake

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has vowed to "find the culprits" responsible for buildings collapsing in a 7.3-magnitude earthquake on Sunday.
He suggested that government-built buildings had collapsed while privately-built ones remained standing.
As he spoke in the worst-affected city, Sarpol-e Zahab, he gestured to two buildings, one of which had collapsed while the other had not.
More than 400 people were killed and close to 8,000 injured in the quake.
Although an earlier report from the state news agency Irna said 530 people had died, the death toll was later revised downward, to 432.
The government is scrambling to get aid to Kermanshah province in the west of the country, where hundreds of homes were destroyed and people have spent two nights outdoors in the cold.

girl looking out from tentImage copyrightEPA
Image captionTemperatures have dropped close to zero both nights since the earthquake left many families homeless

President Rouhani visited the region on Tuesday - a national day of mourning - and made an address that was broadcast live on TV.
He said the government would lend and give money to those left homeless, and hold accountable anyone found not to have upheld building standards.
"Who is to be blamed?" he asked.
"These are the issues that we should follow, we should find the culprits and people are waiting for us to introduce the culprits.
"We will do that, we will do that."
A photograph circulating on social media shows an unaffected private building next to a collapsed building that was part of the Mehr project, a scheme created by previous President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to build two million housing units for people on low incomes.
Mehr is Farsi for kindness, and under the scheme hundreds of homes were built in Sarpol-e Zahab.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani visits Sarpol-e Zahab county in Kermanshah that was hit by a powerful earthquake, Iran November 14, 2017Image copyrightREUTERS
Image captionThe buildings behind President Rouhani highlight the difference in damage between privately-built and state-built homes in Sarpol-e Zahab

"Pay attention, please, that some of these houses are very new, some of them have been built by the government and they are not very old," Mr Rouhani said.
"However, you can see that some buildings collapsed. How could that happen?"
But Maj Gen Mohammad Ali Jafari, head of the elite Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), told state TV: "Newly constructed buildings... held up well, but the old houses built with earth were totally destroyed."



Media captionA dam in Iraq has developed cracks following Sunday's earthquake, as BBC Arabic's Rami Ruhayem reports

Mansoureh Bagheri, an Iran-based official with the Red Crescent Society, told the BBC about 12,000 residential buildings had "totally collapsed".
One aid agency said 70,000 people needed shelter after the quake, which struck at 21:18 local time (18:18 GMT) on Sunday, about 30km (19 miles) south of Darbandikhan in Iraq, near the north-eastern border with Iran.

Government's slow response criticised

Analysis by Jiyar Gol, BBC Persian
Forty-eight hours after the earthquake, thousands of people complain that still they have no tents, food or water. They complain about the lack of co-ordination between security forces and aid agencies. Although many soldiers showed up, they didn't have enough ambulances or proper machinery to move rubble.
More than 1,900 Kurdish mountain villages have been affected. The villagers say no one from the government has come to their rescue but ordinary Iranians from neighbouring cities and provinces have started sending aid.
Most of the government-sponsored affordable housing complexes for the poor were damaged severely, and many died inside. Even the newly-built hospital in Sarpol-e-Zahab was completely destroyed.
President Rouhani brought attention to this, saying those responsible for the projects - initiated under his predecessor's presidency - must be held accountable. But his opponents claim Mr Rouhani's aim is to divert attention from his own government's slow response to the victims.

Tremors were felt as far away as Turkey, Israel and Kuwait. The earthquake was the deadliest of 2017, and one of the year's strongest.




Although the quake hit both Iran and Iraq, the Iraqi side of the border is much more sparsely populated. Several hundred people were injured in Iraq, and 10 people died.

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