Zambia international Rainford Kalaba scored twice as TP Mazembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo beat Algeria's Mouloudia Bejaia 4-1 at home on Sunday to win the African Confederation Cup for the first time.

Mazembe made sure of the win having held their opponents to a 1-1 draw in Algeria in the first leg of the final last weekend.
They won the final 5-2 on aggregate, to add the Confederation Cup to their list of honours after winning the African Champions  League in 2015.
On Sunday, Mazembe went ahead in Lubumbashi after just seven minutes through Merveille Bope who reacted quickest to a Jean Kasusula free- kick which hit the woodwork.
Zambia international Kalaba (pictured) hammered home a volley on the stroke of halftime to make it 2-0 and scored again just after the hour mark to put the result beyond the Algerians, appearing in their first continental cup final.
Bejaia scored a consolation goal in the 75th minute from Sofiane Khadir but the three-goal advantage was restored within 60 seconds by Jonathan Bolingi.
Mazembe were eliminated early in the defence of their African Champions League trophy this year and dropped down to the continent's second tier club competition.
They will receive $660,000 following their Confederation Cup triumph with Bejaia receiving the runners-up prize of $462,000.
Mazembe will now play this year's African Champions League winners, Mamelodi Sundowns of South Africa, in the 2017 African Super Cup on the weekend on 17-19 February.


A US cable network has pulled a long running reality TV show following revelations of alleged sexual abuse by one of its members.

The series 19 Kids and Counting on TLC stars a conservative Christian couple and their 19 children.
It has been alleged that the eldest son Josh Duggar molested five underage girls as a teenager.
Duggar has not admitted to the abuse but has apologised for his behaviour, saying he acted "inexcusably".
"I would do anything to go back to those teen years and take different actions," 27-year-old Duggar wrote in a statement on Facebook on Thursday.
"In my life today, I am so very thankful for God's grace, mercy and redemption."
TLC network said that it was "deeply saddened and troubled by this heartbreaking situation".
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and victims at this difficult time," the statement said.
Arkansas police said on Friday they had received a court order to destroy records of a nearly decade-old investigation into Josh Duggar. No charges were filed against him.
Police concluded the statute of limitations had passed, according to the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette newspaper.
On Thursday Duggar resigned his role with a prominent conservative Christian group amid reports about the allegations.
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, who has been supported by Mr Duggar's parents Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, defended the family on his Facebook page on Friday.
"Josh's actions when he was an underage teen are as he described them himself, 'inexcusable', but that doesn't mean 'unforgivable'," he wrote.


Six years after his ill-fated takeover of Rangers, Craig Whyte has been cleared of a multi-million pound fraud which he had been accused of committing when he bought the Glasgow giants.

Whyte had been charged with using the football club's own money for the deal, while claiming the funds were his. The jury also found him not guilty of breaching a fundamental pillar of company law to achieve the takeover.
His acquittal concludes the most dramatic off-field chapter in Rangers' 142-year history.
However, the seven-week trial shed light on the behind-the-scenes manoeuvring at the Ibrox club.
The Glasgow Old Firm - Rangers and Celtic - have won more than 100 Scottish league titles between them, dominating the top flight of Scottish football for many generations.
Both clubs have massive support and records of success that extend far beyond the domestic game.
Rangers have won 54 top flight Scottish league titles and the final three came in the years preceding the takeover by Craig Whyte.
Despite them being reigning champions, Craig Whyte bought Rangers in May 2011 for just £1.
A single coin, thrown across a table, completed the deal.
However, crucially, Whyte also agreed to take on Rangers' financial obligations, which included an £18m bank debt, a £2.8m "small tax case" bill, £1.7m for stadium repairs, £5m for players and £5m in working capital.
Whyte, who was 40 at the time, sought to convince those selling the club that he had the money to back up his promises, but the truth was he personally didn't have more than a tiny fraction of it.
Before the takeover was agreed, one key player wanted to be reassured that it would not "turn into an almighty mess and embarrass everyone". He would be sorely disappointed.
When Whyte arrived at Ibrox he talked a good game.
He spoke of his ambitious plans to build the club and make it stronger than ever.
But as fans soon discovered, Whyte's claims and reality were poles apart.
In less than a year, Rangers Football Club Plc had gone bust, owing £9m in unpaid tax.
It was dragged through the legal mud - forced into administration, then into liquidation, leaving a trail of unpaid bills and tens of millions of pounds of debt.
Almost 300 creditors, large and small, were left out of pocket. Most still await payment - resigned to receiving just pennies for every pound they are owed.
Rangers' assets were bought for £5.5m in June 2012 by a consortium led by former Sheffield United chief executive Charles Green.
The Ibrox club started the next season in the bottom tier of Scottish football - a giant among footballing minnows.
Their thousands of loyal fans trailed around the country to watch their team play and even lose against Stirling Albion, Peterhead and Annan Athletic.
For them, this was an abject humiliation, heaping insult on to injury.
Before he bought Rangers, Craig Whyte seemed to have it all - a castle in the Highlands, a home in Monaco, and a reputation as a secretive billionaire who had grown rich from turning around ailing companies.
But doubts quickly emerged.
A BBC Scotland investigation uncovered serious questions about Whyte's dodgy business dealings.
He had been given a seven-year ban from acting as a company director - a serious penalty that raised big questions about his fitness to buy a publicly-listed company like Rangers.
Through six weeks of evidence, the jury at the High Court in Glasgow learned how the Rangers deal was put together.
Whyte claimed time and again that he would pay for Rangers with his own money - the cash coming "from his own pocket" as he apparently told the club's then owner, Sir David Murray.
Alongside Whyte's assertions were statements from trusted advisers, "proof of funds" and "letters of comfort" that he had the money - £33m - to buy the club.
His assertions were aimed at anyone who mattered, Sir David Murray, his team of advisers and key figures at Rangers.
The jury heard the cash to settle the debt had actually been raised through a complex deal, engineered by Whyte.
Months before he acquired Rangers, Whyte agreed to sell three years of Rangers season tickets to the London ticketing firm Ticketus.
This would provide the bulk of the funds - more than £24m - once Whyte had bought the club.
In effect, Whyte was mortgaging Rangers' assets before he owned them.
When Whyte bought Rangers, the club was embroiled in two major disputes with Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs.
Known as "the wee tax case" and "the big tax case" they both involved allegations that Rangers had avoided paying millions of pounds in tax that were due.
The trial heard that Craig Whyte agreed to pay out almost £3m to settle the "wee tax case", after he took over at Ibrox, in return for the sale price being reduced.
The "big tax case" was on a different scale altogether.
This dispute focused on Rangers' use of EBTs or Employee Benefit Trusts, used to pay players and senior club officials from 2001-2009.
The scheme involved Jersey-based trusts offering tax-free loans.
The tax authorities refused to accept they were legal, and demanded almost £50m.
A long drawn out legal battle followed.
It was clear to Rangers, the Murray group and to Craig Whyte, that if HMRC won this tax dispute, Rangers could be forced into administration.
There was not the money to pay the bill.
Years on, the dispute has still to be resolved, and we await a judgement from the UK Supreme Court.
In 2011, as the deadline for the Whyte deal approached, his lawyer Gary Withey had misgivings, telling Whyte he would be "mad" to buy the club, and that he should walk away.
Whyte apparently laughed - and pushed ahead with the takeover anyway.
Withey's law firm, Collyer Bristow, would later pay out £24m to Rangers' liquidators, a dismal price for its role in the deal.
Craig Whyte persuaded the Rangers owner Sir David Murray to sell him the club.
But throughout the trial, the defence team highlighted the Murray Group's apparent lack of interest in how Whyte was funding the deal.
It emerged Sir David had paid nothing to investigate Whyte's background.
He said Whyte was advised by a reputable firm of lawyers and financial advisers and he was entitled to assume that he was a person of good standing.
Whyte's lawyers argued: How could Murray NOT have known that Ticketus were funding the deal? How could this have been a case of fraud if the apparent victims were so passive, so apparently careless about where Whyte's money was coming from?
The court also learned that the deal came at a good time for the Murray group, which had been hammered by the financial crisis.
In 2010, Sir David's business empire was in dire straits financially - "technically insolvent", as one former director put it.
Sir David told the court that his steel and property empire had been hit by a triple-whammy amid the credit crunch, with the near-simultaneous collapse of the world steel market, commercial property market, and the Bank of Scotland.
As Sir David ruefully put it, he could have coped with one or two of these events, but three was a real challenge.
It emerged that Murray's bank, Lloyds Banking Group, brought intense pressure to bear on the reluctant Rangers board to back the deal with Craig Whyte.
But the court also learned the bank had dangled a carrot under Sir David's nose.
The bank would allow him to take back control of a key company, Murray Metals, once Rangers was sold to Whyte.
Was this an incentive, as the defence team claimed? Yes, admitted a senior figure from the bank.
Was this the reason, the defence claimed, for Murray's lack of curiosity about the source of Craig Whyte's funds? Murray and his team denied that.
It became clear, though, that Whyte did his best to hide the role of Ticketus before the deal.
The trial heard claims that Whyte issued strict instructions to his lawyers not to admit that Ticketus was involved.
Time and again, Sir David and his team told the jury they would never have sold the club to Whyte if they had known he was being bankrolled by Ticketus.
The court heard how prior deals to sell the Ibrox club had collapsed at the last moment because Sir David did not like what would-be buyers planned to do.
Several witnesses talked of Sir David's deep affection for the club he had owned for 23 years - and how this rugged businessman allowed his heart to rule his head when it came to the Ibrox club.
This was no "fire-sale", Murray claimed. He said he was in no tearing hurry to sell.
Sir David claimed he was simply blindsided by Whyte's strategy and by the scale of his deception.
The deal that passed ownership of the majority stake in Rangers from Murray to Whyte was written in a share purchase agreement, or SPA.
Time and again the jury was asked to focus on the wording of the document.
Why, asked the defence, did it allow for Rangers to be bought using "third party funds" if Whyte was funding the deal from his own pocket?
Was that the legal equivalent of a nudge and a wink, leaving the door open for Ticketus funds to be used?
But the prosecution countered with its own barrage of questions: Why did Whyte think he could go to Ticketus after the deal was signed, asking them to release £24m, even though the contract clearly required him to have funds immediately available? How could he claim he was acting in the spirit of that agreement?
This short contract, intended to set out clearly the fate of Rangers, seemed to fail the simple test of clarity.
At the heart of most court cases is a simple human drama.
The cast of characters in this trial was straight out of central casting.
But, as so often, the unspoken star of the show was the defence QC, Donald Findlay.
What's odd is that his relationship with Rangers goes back a long way.
He was the Rangers vice-chairman during the club's glory years, but was forced to stand down after being filmed at a gathering of Rangers fans, singing the sectarian song "The Sash".
Among those he cross-examined with his usual skill was Sir David Murray - his boss all those years ago.
Only once did he hint at his links with Rangers, when he asked his former boss: "Sir David, what did they do to OUR club?"
And yet he defended the man accused of bringing down Rangers.
Some may see this trial as Findlay's finest hour.
In the years that followed the collapse of Rangers, Craig Whyte has faced a barrage of legal action.
At one point he left the country. Eventually, he was tracked down to Mexico, held by police, and returned to the UK.
That salvo of litigation forced this apparent millionaire into bankruptcy. He was banned, yet again, from being a company director, this time for 15 years.
Six years on, Rangers are still on the mend, recovering slowly from the devastating chain of events that followed Craig Whyte's takeover.
No-one would claim his takeover was anything other than a failure but after years of accusations and a criminal trial, he can at last say it was not fraud.


This summer, for the first time, BBC Sport has broadcast live commentary on every day's play of every match in the county season.

Broadcasters have watched thousands of runs scored and hundreds of wickets taken in a season which has seen Durham win the County Championship for the third time in six years, Northants lift the FLt20 trophy for the first time and Nottinghamshire triumph at Lord's in the YB40 final.
We asked BBC local radio commentators to nominate players for the 2013 county Team of the Season.
Ed Joyce, Samit Patel, Michael Klinger, Scott Borthwick, James Foster, Alan Richardson, Kyle Hogg, Glen Chapple, Michael Hogan and Simon Kerrigan were among those unlucky to miss out after enjoying excellent summers, but here is the final XI.
"Varun Chopra's ability to make big runs at the top of the innings has again been crucial for Warwickshire.
"He reached 1,000 Championship runs for the third summer running and spent the latter part of the season as acting captain for the injured Jim Troughton.
"Chopra's highlight was his ultimately match-winning 226 not out against Middlesex at Uxbridge when he showed admirable selflessness by declaring just short of his career-best score.
"Unfortunately, he didn't make the best of his England Lions opportunity, but this winter's tour provides him with a fresh chance."
By BBC Coventry & Warwickshire's Clive Eakin
"Sam Robson's reputation as an opening batsman around the county circuit has been growing for a while, but this was the season that he announced himself to a wider audience.
"He looked certain to be the first to 1,000 Championship runs, but a slow middle of the season allowed Wayne Madsen to pip him to the landmark in a match which saw Middlesex put Derbyshire in to bat.
"Robson's game is built on his resolute defence and his ability to leave the ball, but his timing is immaculate and, once in, he can dominate bowling attacks.
"He now appears to have cleared the doubts over his international future by opting for England, his mother's native country, rather than Australia, the land of his birth."
By BBC London 94.9's Kevin Hand
"To be the first to reach 1,000 Championship runs is no mean feat.
"To do it in a struggling side, and to be the captain of that team, makes it an even more remarkable achievement.
"Composed as a captain, who is unquestioningly followed by the players at his side, Madsen also has a knack of taking wickets at crucial times and is an outstanding fielder - in short, he is a pretty decent cricketer.
"Add in his international hockey background, accounting for his wristy strokeplay, and a demeanour that exudes good manners and patience in equal measures, and you have some sportsman."
By BBC Radio Derby's Dave Jepson
"Moeen Ali finally came of age in 2013 after two summers of comparative underachievement.
"It looked as if the stylish, young Birmingham-born batsman had made the big career breakthrough when he passed 1,000 runs for the first time in 2010.
"But the security of signing a five-year contract extension has now borne fruit for an entertainer capable of destroying any attack.
"And he went into the final round of matches as the country's leading County Championship run-scorer with 1,331 runs at 66.55."
By BBC Midlands Sport's Ged Scott
"Gary Ballance has had a superb season in all forms of the game and has been given his reward with a place in England's squad for the winter Ashes tour.
"He has a solid defensive technique but is at his best when attacking, and the Yorkshire staff believe he is one of hardest hitters of a cricket ball in the team.
"Before the final Championship game, he had scored 995 runs at an average of 52, as well as 426 runs in the YB40 (average 60) and 269 in the FLt20. He is a real entertainer and an excellent fielder as well, which helps these days.
"Whether he makes the Test side in Australia remains to be seen, but one thing is sure, he will not let England down."
By BBC Radio Leeds' Dave Callaghan
"Steven Davies has been exceptional behind the stumps this summer.
"In the Championship he has always looked in good form with the bat and although he will look to convert more starts into big scores next season, he showed during his century against Warwickshire that he is lovely to watch when he is in full flow.
"In limited-overs cricket, he is a game changer on his day and his hundred against Hampshire in the opening game of the YB40 and 95 not out against Kent in the FLt20 showed what he is all about."
By BBC London 94.9's Mark Church
"David Willey's all-round contribution to Northamptonshire's fortunes is one of the chief reasons why they have competed strongly in all three competitions this summer.
"He caught the eye on T20 finals day with a 19-ball half century, a run out, a catch and a hat-trick to wrap up the club's first major trophy in 21 years, but Willey has also been consistent in the four-day game with nearly 50 first-class wickets and three fifties.
"The biggest improvement in his batting as he now plays each ball on its merits, rather than trying to crash it to the boundaries. His bowling is handy but if international ambitions are to be fulfilled, more work is required.
"His sense of fun has also stood out on the field - and off it, with his often entertaining tendency in press conferences to speak his mind. Northants are delighted to have seen him sign a new three-year contract."
By BBC Radio Northampton's Chris Egerton
"I first met Chris Jordan on the Sussex press day, a freezing April morning with a hint of snow in the air.
"Despite the weather, he couldn't wait for the season to start and gave the impression of a very determined cricketer who had a point to prove, so much so that I immediately decided he would be my 'player to watch' in 2013.
"Ahead of the final round of Championship games, his 52 wickets have elevated him to the top five wicket-takers in Division One, a top score of 92 shows he can bat, and with 20 catches he is one of the best slip fielders around.
"Surrey's loss is Sussex's gain. He has more than proved a point to his former club, and more international honours beckon after his inclusion in England's winter Performance Programme squad."
By BBC Radio Sussex's Adrian Harms
"Jeetan Patel's fall from grace with the New Zealand selectors has worked out nicely for Warwickshire.
"After a series of mishaps with overseas players in recent years the Bears have found Patel a stabilising influence over the past two seasons.
"The off-spinner's performances have been consistent and he has reached 50 Championship wickets in both campaigns. At times, he has also contributed significantly with the bat this summer.
"A popular, enthusiastic member of the squad, his presence has been crucial in a season when Warwickshire have endured so many absentees among their senior players and they wasted little time in signing him for 2014."
By BBC Coventry & Warwickshire's Clive Eakin
"Durham were tipped for relegation by so many cricket writers and have proved them all wrong by winning the title.
"Scott Borthwick has been terrific following his move up the batting order, Mark Stoneman continues to prosper as an opener in both one-day and four-day cricket and I am struggling to think of a better all-rounder at the moment than Ben Stokes.
"However, Durham's key performer has been Graham Onions, who has had to put up with an awful lot of disappointment from England, but has come back time and time again and continued to take the wickets in bundles.
"He has 60 plus this season so far, the fifth time he has taken more than 50 in a season. You always feel when he has the new ball in his hand the wickets are not far away, as many a team will testify."
By BBC Newcastle's Martin Emmerson
"Steve Magoffin must be a captain's dream - throw him the ball and you know exactly what to expect.
"He is the perfect partner for Chris Jordan, he rarely gives the batsmen a ball to hit, builds pressure, but most importantly, takes wickets, lots of them - 61 before the last round of matches.
"Nearly 30% of his overs bowled are maidens, not a bad achievement when you have bowled over 450 overs in the season, and all that with a knee complaint that needs careful management.
"The Australians might have missed a trick overlooking Magoffin this summer, but Sussex will be delighted they did, and skipper Ed Joyce probably owes him a beer or two over the winter months."
By BBC Radio Sussex's Adrian Harms
Compiled by Paul Grunill.
*Statistics prior to final round of County Championship fixtures


It was a beautiful sunny day in Mullaghmore on 27 August 1979.

John Maxwell remembers the clear blue sky and soaking up the sun's rays outside his cottage in County Sligo.
"The first good day for a long time," he said.
And then the thunder of an explosion tore the perfect sky, shattered the calm and ripped the canvas of John Maxwell's life from top to bottom. Everything changed utterly.
An IRA bomb was detonated on a boat off the coast of Mullaghmore, killing the Queen's cousin, Lord Louis Mountbatten, his grandson, Nicholas Knatchbull, 14, and John Maxwell's son, Paul, 15.
The Dowager Lady Brabourne died the day after the attack.
Nicholas' twin brother, Timmy, and his father and mother Patricia and John Brabourne were seriously injured.
The boat trip was a regular holiday outing. Lord Mountbatten, 79, and his family traditionally spent time at their castle, Classiebawn, in Sligo, every summer.
The local police kept watch for the one month a year that the family spent there. But Lord Mountbatten's boat was left unguarded at the dock in Mullaghmore where it was moored.
The explosion hurled seven people into the sea.
"Paul was a very outgoing wee boy - not wee, he was getting quite big," John said with a smile.
"He was interested in all kinds of sport. He played rugby, he did all kinds of things. He had a very cheery disposition. He got on well with everybody. He loved the sea."
Getting the summer job as boatman on Lord Mountbatten's boat was a dream come true.
"A local fella, Rodney Lomax, who is sadly now deceased, recommended Paul," he said.
"He was always about the place and he was very keen on boats. He went up and was interviewed and got the job.
"He thought it was the greatest thing being out with a man of his renown. He thought it was brilliant.  He enjoyed the whole experience and was enjoying it until he lost out on the whole thing."
The explosion on that beautiful day pulled John from the sunspot at the back of his Sligo cottage.
"It was a God almighty explosion and I knew from the direction of the explosion that that would be where the boat was - they took the same boat trip each day," he said.
"I thought it must be the boat. I rushed out, got into the car and drove where I thought the boat would have been.
"I stopped and looked over the cliff edge, but all I could see were bits of wood floating out from the centrepiece, the remains of the boat. I knew that nobody could have survived that."
From there, John Maxwell went around to the harbour and met a friend.
"He took me around to see if there was anybody left. There was nothing. The water was still churning up from where the thing had been blown up. It is etched in my memory. I don't like to think about it too much to be honest. It was so sudden and unexpected.
"There was a fair degree of security, every time that the boat - Shadow V - went out. The guards used to go a-pace with it, around the road on the headland. They were on the shore and the boat below them. But it didn't mean they could do anything about it. It is a hard thing to live with."
And now nearly 36 years later, Prince Charles is to visit Mullaghamore, the place where his beloved great uncle was killed in the IRA bomb.
John Maxwell will be there to meet him. The fact of the Royal visit is a sign of changed times, he said.
"It says a lot about English/Irish relations in that he knows he can do that now," he said.
"It is very positive. It is a big change from the 1970s and 1960s. I like to think we live in a better world. It is possibly a sign that the relationships are really improving and I think they are between the two islands."
He hopes the prince gets a good day to enjoy Mullaghamore at his finest. He still loves the place, even though it is where his son's life was cut short in a cruel way.
"Mullaghmore is a lovely place. I would like to see it getting its just deserts in terms of people arriving and staying. The people in Mullaghmore had nothing to do with this, I am quite convinced. It was, as they say, an outside job," he said.
"There is the scenery and the friendliness of the people. I hope he gets a good day. If the Atlantic storms are coming in he wouldn't see very much."
John Maxwell has worked to build relationships since that day. He played a major role in starting the first integrated school in Enniskillen.
And he also tried to reach out to the man who was convicted of those three murders, including his son's.
Thomas McMahon was set free under the Good Friday Agreement in 1998.
"I wanted to ask him his motivation and how he felt about it now and how he felt about meeting me," he said.
"Nothing came of it. I thought it would have made things possibly easier for me if he had shown some kind of remorse.
"On the other hand, it could have been worse, he would possibly not have. I am no better off in terms of him. Maybe it was as well I didn't."
What he treasures are the memories of a great son.
"He was interested in all kinds of sport. He played rugby he did all kinds of things. He had a very cheery disposition. He got on well with everybody. He loved the sea and being out on the sea with Lord Mountbatten was fantastic to him,"
And then there are the thoughts of what might have been - the path Paul might have taken and where he might have gone in his life.
"He might have ended up on the sea for all I know... if he had survived," he said.


Scotland prop Willem Nel has signed a three-year contract extension at Edinburgh, keeping him at the Pro12 club until May 2020.

The South Africa-born 30-year-old qualified through residency in 2015 and has 15 caps.
He missed this season's Six Nations with a neck injury, having also missed the autumn Tests.
"These are exciting times for Edinburgh and I feel that everything is moving in the right direction," said Nel.
"It's been great to see a lot of young talent coming through this season and hopefully I can help with their development in the coming years.
"I was very glad and honoured that Edinburgh and Scottish Rugby approached me with a new deal and there were no second thoughts on re-signing with the club."
Edinburgh are currently ninth in the Pro12, with just four wins from 17 games and host French outfit La Rochelle in the European Challenge Cup quarter-finals on 31 March.
Former Leicester Tigers coach Richard Cockerill will take over in the summer.
Duncan Hodge has been acting head coach since the departure of Alan Solomons in September.


Gareth Bale insists he can take the physical battering if England choose to get rough with him in Thursday's Euro 2016 match in Lens.

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Wales lead Group B and victory would see them qualify for the knockout stages while England boss Hodgson hopes for a first win of this tournament.
Hodgson insists England will not kick the world's most expensive player but Bale is not worried if they do.
"You always get it. Slovakia had a nice nibble on Saturday," said Bale.
And asked if he was expecting a couple of kicks from England players, the Real Madrid forward replied: "That's normal."
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The Wales talisman has made headlines with his pre-match comments insisting England could not match Wales for pride and passion, adding the English "big themselves up without doing anything yet".
Hodgson thought Bale's comments were "disrespectful" but if the 26-year-old has made himself a bigger target, Wales' £85m pound man is not bothered.
"I don't think I've said anything to be bad to be honest," said Bale, who has scored 20 goals in 56 Wales caps. "I've given my opinion what our country is about."
How England decide to deal with the double Champions League winner is likely to have a major bearing on arguably the biggest match between the countries since the first game in 1879.
But Bale says he does not care if England choose to man-mark him for 90 minutes as he added: "I'll just move the player out the way and create some space. It doesn't bother me.
"If I don't get the ball I will stand on the wing, he can stand next to me and there will be a massive hole in the middle.
"But I feel like I'm playing really well and that I can keep on improving."
It has been suggested that England centre-backs Chris Smalling and Gary Cahill might struggle to cope with Bale's pace and movement.
"The centre-backs are obviously good players - they play for Manchester United and Chelsea," said Bale. "They're no pushovers, but we know their weaknesses from what we've seen.
"We'll be keeping that to ourselves and trying to exploit it on game day.
I think we have a great chance of winning
"It doesn't matter who we are playing against. When we pull on the red jersey we fight together as a team."
Wales' opening 2-1 victory over Slovakia has given them a great chance to progress into the knockout stage of the competition, their first major finals appearance in 58 years.
But they have not beaten England since 1984, losing all four matches since and failing to score a goal in those four games.
Bale played in the Wales side which lost 1-0 at Wembley in 2011, but he felt that result was unjust.
"When we analysed that game we realised we should have won it," said Bale.
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"We felt we were the better side over the whole game.
"We did have our chances - Earnie (Robert Earnshaw) missed an open goal towards the end - but I think we are a better team now and more experienced."
Wales great Ian Rush thinks Bale's pre-match words set the tone nicely.
"I think that's what it's all about, having a little bit of banter and everything and that adds to the excitement," Rush told BBC Radio.
"I see Roy Hodgson saying talk is cheap. It's time for action now and a little pressure (is) on England because they've got to deliver now.
"The players should relish playing in these conditions and hopefully the top players come out on top."
Who would get in a combined XI from the England and Wales squads? Pick your XI - and then share it with your friends using our team selector.


The legal services firm Axiom UK is to double its Belfast workforce in a £9m investment.

The 97 jobs will be created over the next five years.
The firm began operating in Northern Ireland in 2012 and now employs about 100 people.
Invest NI is supporting the investment with a grant of £727,500.
Axiom is based in the US and employs around 1,200 people.
The new posts in Belfast will have average salaries of £40,000.
They include a mix of lawyers, project managers and technologists.
Axiom provides out-sourced legal services.
It recently announced a major partnership with an investment bank to provide improved risk management in derivatives.
Kate Docherty of Axiom said the company had been "delighted by the success of our operation in Belfast and its contribution to our growth globally".
"Our expansion in this region is a testament not only to that growth, but to the skilled pool of available talent in Belfast who have made that success possible," she added.


A 15-year-old boy who was arrested following an arson attack on a Torfaen school has been released without charge.

The fire on 1 January destroyed the nursery and infant classrooms at Coed Eva Primary School, Cwmbran.
The teenager, together with six others, was arrested on suspicion of arson with intent to endanger life.
The others, two aged 15, two aged 19, a 16-year-old and a 21-year-old, were released without charge last month.
A reward of up to ??5,000 is being offered by Crimestoppers for information about the fire that leads directly to an arrest and conviction.


A seaside town was reportedly in "lockdown" on Saturday night as disorder forced pubs and bars in the resort to shut.

Venues in Cromer, Norfolk, said they had closed early due to "local events".
Cromer Pier posted on social media to say its theatre bar was closing "on the advice of police".
Norfolk Police said extra officers were on patrol "following reports of low-level disorder" but stressed that accounts of a stabbing were unfounded.
Residents said a group of people had been fighting in the town, which they described as "in lockdown".
North Norfolk MP Norman Lamb tweeted: "Very concerned by what I've read online tonight. Of course happy to support people in Cromer in any way I can."
In a statement on its Facebook page, Cromer Pier said: "On advice from the police the Theatre Bar is closed to the public this evening as are all the other public houses in Cromer.
"Apologies for any inconvenience whilst we support our local police in bringing a difficult situation in the town under control."
The town's Red Lion hotel tweeted: "Please be aware the Red Lion is closing early this evening due to local events in the past 24 hours."
Another pub, The Wellington, tweeted: "We will not be opening our doors tomorrow. Hopefully normal service will resume on Monday."
Norfolk Police said extra officers were on patrol "to provide reassurance to the local community".
The force added: "We have additional resources in Cromer tonight following reports of low-level disorder earlier today.
"We are aware licensees of local pubs have taken the decision to close this evening."


The first police officer to arrive at the Bataclan has described the "indescribable moment of fear" he felt on entering the scene of the massacre.

The officer told French media how he and a colleague came face-to-face with one of three gunmen launching an attack, and shot him dead.
Ninety concert-goers were killed at the Bataclan concert hall, where Eagles of Death Metal were playing.
Dozens more people died in co-ordinated attacks across Paris on 13 November.
The policeman, a department head at the Paris anti-crime brigade (BAC), told FranceInfo radio (in French) that he and his colleague had been responding to reports of an explosion at the Stade de France when they were redirected.
They were ordered to go to the 10th and 11th arrondissements of Paris following news of shootings. On the way, they found panicked concert-goers fleeing the Bataclan and quickly decided to go inside.
"What surprised us immediately was the extremely bright light that blinded us," said the officer, whose identity has been protected for security reasons.
"The bewildering silence... and then hundreds of bodies one on top of the other."
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Soon after entering the music venue, the police duo saw a gunman walk on stage and point a Kalashnikov at an audience member.
"He was very calm," the officer said.
"Given the carnage, there was no doubt about what we had to do. We opened fire straight away. We kept shooting until he fell to the floor."
The gunman was later identified as Foued Mohamed-Aggad, a 23-year-old French national from Strasbourg.
The two officers, who reportedly only had service weapons and light bulletproof vests, then heard an explosion from elsewhere in the building and realised there were likely to be more attackers. Faced with extreme danger, the men phoned their loved-ones.
"We decided we could not leave the scene - we could not leave these people," the officer said.
"I was ready to die with my team that night. I phoned my girlfriend to say goodbye."
Elite police units soon arrived at the scene. Two other attackers who took people hostage in the concert hall eventually died in a final police assault hours later.
They were later identified as Frenchmen Omar Ismail Mostefai, 29, and Samy Amimour, 28.
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New York's attorney general says he is investigating Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's foundation over suspected "impropriety".

Eric Schneiderman said his office wanted to ensure the foundation is "complying with the laws that govern charities in New York".
The Trump Foundation has been hit by a number of damaging media stories.
Mr Trump's team have dismissed Mr Schneiderman, a Democrat, as "a partisan hack."
The attorney-general has endorsed Mr Trump's chief opponent, Hillary Clinton, for president.
Mr Trump's campaign spokesman Jason Miller said Mr Schneiderman had "turned a blind eye to the Clinton Foundation for years", and called the inquiry "another left-wing hit job designed to distract from Crooked Hillary Clinton's disastrous week".
"We have been concerned that the Trump Foundation may have engaged in some impropriety from that point of view," Mr Schneiderman told CNN.
"And we've inquired into it, and we've had correspondence with them. I didn't make a big deal out of it or hold a press conference, but we have been looking into the Trump Foundation to make sure it's complying with the laws that govern charities in New York."
US media say Mr Schneiderman's office has been investigating the Donald J Trump Foundation since at least June when it formally questioned a donation made to a group backing Republican Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi in 2013.
The $25,000 (£19,000, €22,000) payment was made at a time when Mrs Bondi's office was reportedly considering whether to open a fraud investigation into Trump University.
The fraud investigation never happened, although Mrs Bondi denies the decision was influenced by the donation she received.
Aides to Mr Trump have already admitted the donation was a mistake resulting from clerical errors, according to reports.
The US Justice Department has been asked by Democrats in the House of Representatives to investigate the $25,000 donation to Pam Bondi.
Other newspaper investigations allege the Trump Foundation reported donations that the supposed recipients say they never received, and also spent money on the candidate himself.


Senior US and Iranian officials have begun two days of direct talks in Geneva on Iran's nuclear programme.

It is hoped the meetings can revive faltering negotiations on an agreement that will provide a comprehensive solution to the Iranian nuclear issue.
Iran's lead negotiator said he was optimistic consensus could be reached before the 20 July deadline for a deal.
Differences reportedly remain over how much uranium enrichment capacity Iran should be allowed to keep.
Both sides are hoping to build on an interim deal agreed in Geneva in November that saw Iran curb enrichment in return for sanctions relief.
The so-called P5+1 - the US, UK, France, China and Russia plus Germany - want its sensitive nuclear activities scaled back permanently to ensure that it cannot assemble a nuclear weapon.
But Iran says its nuclear work, which it insists is peaceful, will continue - and wants an end to the sanctions that have crippled its economy.
The US government believes the negotiations on a long-term deal have reached a "critical moment" and has sent two of its most senior diplomats to Geneva - Deputy Secretary of State William Burns and Jake Sullivan, a top White House adviser.
Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi said he was optimistic about meeting next month's deadline.
"If this does not happen, we'll have to resort to extending the Geneva agreement for another six months so the negotiations can continue," the state news agency Irna quoted him as saying.
A senior US official said the talks would give both sides "a timely opportunity to exchange views" before the next full round of negotiations between Iran and the P5+1 in Vienna next week. The last round in May reportedly made little progress.
The BBC's Imogen Foulkes in Geneva says big differences remain over how much, if any, uranium enrichment capability Iran should be allowed.
Tehran is keen to have the sanctions that have crippled its economy lifted, but says it does not want to rely on foreign suppliers of enriched uranium for its nuclear reactors.
Washington meanwhile will not lift sanctions if it suspects Iran is enriching uranium to make nuclear weapons.
But, our correspondent adds, the fact that both sides are travelling to Geneva is an indication they remain keen to reach an agreement.


A County Fermanagh GP made a "gross error of judgement with catastrophic circumstances" when she took £10,000 from a patient to help her out of financial trouble, a court has heard.

Michelle Meloitte, 61, of Bannagh Beg Road in Kesh, appeared in court after admitting fraud by abuse of her role.
A prosecution barrister said Meloitte "dishonestly exploited" an elderly patient whom she had asked for a loan.
He added that she chose not to repay it until her conduct was investigated.
Meloitte, who has since repaid the money, will be sentenced next month.
Omagh Crown Court, sitting in Dungannon, County Tyrone, heard that the victim, Michael McGrory, was suffering from Alzheimer's disease and Meloitte was aware of his condition when she approached him in February 2010 "to ask him for a favour".
He agreed to sign a cheque in the presence of his home carer with a guarantee it would be paid back in the summer of that year.
The carer confronted Meloitte a year later when the money was not repaid, but the doctor told her "not to worry about it".
The money was returned when police began an inquiry.
Mr McGrory died in 2012 and a defence lawyer said there had been no financial loss to him or his estate.
Meloitte's reputation was now "besmirched", he added, and she had not practiced as a GP for the last five years.
The judge adjourned sentencing until 4 April.
The General Medical Council will decide whether to remove the doctor from the medical register at a hearing on 18 May.


Saracens scored 14 straight points at second-placed Exeter to extend their lead at the top of the Premiership.

Two Gareth Steenson penalties for Chiefs was added to when wing James Short intercepted Charlie Hodgson's pass to run 95 metres to score.
But Samuela Vunisa crashed over from a driving maul to keep Sarries in touch at 11-5 at the break.
In tricky, windy conditions at Sandy Park, Hodgson added three second-half penalties to secure the four points.
It means Saracens go five points clear of Exeter at the top of the league and have now lost just once in their last 20 games in all competitions.
Rob Baxter's side, who did the double over Saracens last season, were ahead by 11 points after 29 minutes in front of a sold-out crowd, as they controlled the opening exchanges with the wind behind them.
However Vunisa, in for England number eight Billy Vunipola, touched down his fourth try in four games and the Premiership's all-time leading scorer Hodgson knocked over all three of his second-half penalties to take the win.
Saracens director of rugby Mark McCall:
"If we had lost that one, I would have said it was one that got away as we had much the better of possession and territory but they defended very well.
"We were 11-0 down playing against the strong wind but we didn't deserve to be and Vunisa's try just before the interval was crucial as we went into half-time only six points down.
"It doesn't get any easier as we have Wasps next week and they have less players away to international calls than we do, but I have confidence in this group of players for the next few weeks."
Exeter head coach Rob Baxter:
"The result is not the be all and end all as we are still second in the Premiership and overall our performance was pretty good as we just lost a game, late in the day against a very good side.
"It was a tough game and a very close one but I'm slightly frustrated with certain aspects of our game.
"Our ill-discipline just before half-time gave them a try and it was a huge moment in the match, so we have to be a little bit better."
Exeter: Dollman; Woodburn, Whitten, Hill, Short; Steenson, Chudley; Moon, Yeandle (capt), Low, Atkins, Parling, Armand, Salvi, Waldrom
Replacements: Cowan-Dickie, Hepburn, Williams, Stevenson, Horstmann, Lewis, Hooley, Bodilly.
Saracens: Ransom; Ellery, Tomkins, Barritt (capt), Wyles; Hodgson, Wrigglesworth; Barrington, Brits, Du Plessis, Smith, Hamilton, Wray, Brown, Vunisa
Replacements: Saunders, Gill, Lamositele, Itoje, Burger, Spencer, Mordt, Earle.
Attendance: 12,450
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Mexico City Mayor Miguel Angel Mancera has expressed his outrage over the murder of photojournalist Ruben Espinosa and four women in the city last week.

Their bodies were found in a Mexico City flat on Friday.
They all had bullet wounds to the head.
Mr Espinosa, 31, worked for the investigative magazine Proceso. He had recently moved to the capital from the eastern state of Veracruz where he said he had been threatened and harassed.
The photojournalist covered social movements in the city of Xalapa in Veracruz.
He left the state for Mexico City after telling friends he had been followed and intimidated.
Veracruz is considered one of the most dangerous Mexican states for journalists - 17 have been killed there since 2000, rights group Article 19 says.
Mayor Mancera said that there would be "no impunity in this matter".
"No line of investigation will be discarded,'" he told reporters at a news conference on Monday.
Investigators did not give the names of the women killed alongside Mr Espinosa, only their ages. They were 40, 32, 29 and 18 years old.
Proceso, the magazine Mr Espinosa worked for, identified the 32-year-old as Nadia Vera Perez from the southern state of Chiapas.
According to the magazine, she was a social activist who had worked with Mr Espinosa in Veracruz.
She belonged to a student movement that calls for more transparency in Mexican politics.
A year ago, she told reporters that she had received death threats.
Local media said the 29-year-old may have been Colombian.
The 18-year-old is believed to have shared the flat with Ms Vera Perez and the 29-year-old.
The oldest victim is believed to be a cleaner who worked in the flat.  Investigators said three of the women had been raped.
All had bullet wounds to the head.
On Sunday, prosecutors said robbery may have been a motive for the crime, as belongings of the victims were missing.
But Proceso editor Rafael Rodriguez Castaneda said the brutality of the murders suggested it was not a simple robbery.
Friends of Mr Espinosa said he had started receiving threats after Proceso published an unflattering picture he had shot of Veracruz governor Javier Duarte on its cover.
Mr Duarte condemned the killings and said he would help with the police investigation.


Museum staff are trying to find a little boy who was "devastated" after accidentally smashing a historic jug.

Staff at Ipswich's Christchurch Mansion want the boy to know the 18th Century Delftware puzzle jug he knocked off a window ledge last summer has been fixed.
Thanks to a conservation officer's efforts, each of the 65 pieces it broke into have been painstakingly glued.
A campaign has begun to find the boy who is thought to be aged about five.
Carole Jones, who is in charge of Ipswich's museums, said: "He was visiting the mansion with his family and this beautiful ancient puzzle jug was on quite a low window ledge.
"He knocked it off and it smashed into about 60 pieces. He was of course, absolutely devastated, and his family were really upset."
Christchurch Mansion's duty officer Carrie Willis said it took about 65 hours to repair.
The search is on to find the little boy. Ms Jones said: "We don't know who he is, we don't know if the family is from Ipswich, or from further afield.
"But we'd love them to get in touch with the museum, we'd love them to visit again, and to perhaps meet Carrie."
The jug has moved from Christchurch Mansion and is on display at the Ipswich Art Museum in the High Street.


A senior Swiss border guard faces prosecution over the failure to get medical help for a pregnant Syrian woman who later had a stillbirth.

The Syrian migrant family's ordeal happened after they were turned back at the French border in 2014.
The woman was allegedly left bleeding at a station in Brig, without medical help, despite her husband's pleas.
The train later reached Domodossola in Italy, where she was rushed to hospital but the baby girl was already dead.
According to Italian doctors, the baby could have been saved if Swiss authorities had acted right away.
The family were on a Milan-Paris night train, but were taken off at Pontarlier, in France.
Then Swiss border guards escorted them on a long bus journey from the border to Brig train station in Switzerland, not far from the Italian border.
Reports say the 22-year-old woman's waters broke during that bus journey. Seven months pregnant, she was travelling with her husband and three small children.
The family eventually got asylum in Italy. Most Syrian migrants are entitled to asylum in Europe under international humanitarian law.
It is not yet clear what charges the guard will face. He was in charge of the border guard team at the time.
The charges depend partly on whether prosecutors can determine where the unborn child died.
The Swiss Border Guard Service says it has improved medical assistance for migrants since the 2014 incident.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.


The Isles of Scilly are not known for their high crime rate, but the exploits of its head of police have made him a star of social media and secured him a book deal.

Over the past seven years, Sgt Colin Taylor has used a child's bike to chase someone suspected of drinking and driving and kept the streets of Scilly free from anchor thieves and naked stag parties.
He has gained tens of thousands of social media followers, despite the islands only having a population of 2,200.
Now, as the 49-year-old prepares to resume his career on the mainland, BBC News looks back on some of his highlights fighting crime at the extremity of the British Isles, and how one police officer has gained such social media momentum.
"People said there's no crime on Scilly, but I've managed to write about it for the last five years. Sometimes things happen and you just have to find the funny side," Sgt Taylor said.
On this occasion Sgt Taylor had to travel across different islands and borrow a child's bike while in pursuit of suspected drink driver.
"It was lucky the little boy was there with his bike to help me out, sometimes you've just got to think on your feet and get the job done," Sgt Taylor said.
The Isles of Scilly is not a big place, there's a population of just 2,200 people over five inhabited islands, plus countless uninhabited islands.
Despite this, the Isles of Scilly Police Facebook page has attracted 60,000 likes - the same amount as the whole of the Devon and Cornwall Police force page.
The sergeant also has a blog and Twitter account which has gained thousands of followers.
"It's been remarkable, a truly unique policing experience," Sgt Taylor said. "I've used social media to give myself a voice here for people on the island, I never expected it to take off like it has, our posts have exploded over social media.
"It's not just me, there are a team of us making it work. I think people like hearing about what the police do and a bit more about behind the scenes. A lot of police officers use social media to keep in touch with people, hopefully our page will encourage more people. I think if you're honest, people will want to interact."
Policing can be especially tough when there aren't many clues available.
A shed door was forced open at a football club, but one of the only clues available was a fried egg.
Sgt Taylor said he was surprised at how this post was picked up, with the photograph going on to appear on the BBC show Have I Got News For You.
But humanising policing has brought him followers from across the world, and his popularity has won him a book deal where he has documented his many adventures.
The Life of a Scilly Sergeant: Adventures of High Tide and Low Crime, was published by Penguin and Studio Lambert, the creators of Gogglebox, have also met to discuss the story.
Sgt Taylor has served the Isles of Scilly twice in his career, as a police constable between 1998-2000, then returning as a police sergeant from 2011 until now, making him the longest-serving officer ever on the island.
But regardless of policing experience, sometimes it's worth remembering all it will take is a look in the right direction, and for long enough, to make your point when someone is, say, attempting a quick get away from a local pub at 2am while stealing a 25kg anchor.
"I didn't even have to say anything to him, he just looked at me, I looked at him and we both knew what was going to happen next. It's always worth lurking in the shadows on occasions like that!" he said.
When it comes to selling the job, Sgt Taylor clearly knew how to drum up interest.
He said the opportunity was "the most enviable policing post in the UK or even the world". He said skills required included "unflinching confidence to know what to do when you are alerted to an abandoned seal pup making its way up the main street".
This post was shared thousands of times and the team received applications from across the world.
"When we wrote some of our posts we forgot the audience we could attract from our little islands. Things just explode on social media," he said.
But it hasn't all been a barrel of laughs, sometimes the team need to tow the line.
"I'm not here to be liked. I've crossed swords many times with people who don't want to talk to me anymore. Sometimes you've got to break a few eggs to make an omelette, I'm not here to make friends.
"But I've also built great relationships with many people. That mix is what policing is all about," Sgt Taylor said.
Sgt Taylor caught one fan "butt naked" except for flip flops and flowers while holding a Hawaiian skirt with "pants AWOL".
The famed bobby said his fan immediately remarked: "Oh, are you the guy who does the Facebook stuff? Whatever happens here, keep it up mate."
After issuing a Â£90 fixed penalty notice Sgt Taylor used his police helmet to preserve the nudist's modesty.
Now the sergeant, his wife and two children are taking to the high seas to return to their family home near Exeter in Devon.
"I'm ready to move on now. It's right for someone else to take the job on and start policing here with a fresh set of eyes. I'll miss the community aspect of life here, there are hundreds and thousands of relationships that have been built, and I'll miss them.
"I love island life, I can't imagine this is my last island adventure. It's good fun, and life is meant to be lived. I'm looking forward to the future and all it will hold," he said.


Brentford defender James Tarkowski says personal reasons were behind his request not to play for the Bees against Burnley earlier this month.

In a statement, the 23-year-old revealed his mother is suffering from a "serious, incurable illness".
"In the run-up to the match against Burnley, I felt completely frazzled and unable to concentrate properly," said the centre-back.
"I thought that my distraction may result in an error."
He added: "After much thought and consultation with the gaffer, my family and my team-mates, I felt unable to guarantee my usual standard of performance and said as much to the gaffer."
Tarkowski was originally named in the starting XI to face Burnley in the Championship, but was subsequently omitted from the matchday squad as the Clarets beat Brentford 3-1.
The former Oldham player was disciplined by the west London club and has since returned to training, but was left out of the squad for Saturday's trip to Preston and will not feature against Leeds on Tuesday.
"I would like to apologise to my team-mates, the gaffer and the fans," said Tarkowski.
"I hope you can understand the pressure I was under and that no offence or insult was intended to anyone associated with the club.
"I have taken the sanction given to me by the club with good grace."
Brentford have rejected transfer bids for Tarkowski this month, saying offers have not met their valuation of the defender.
Bees head coach Dean Smith says he has been "reintegrated" into the squad, but the situation is "too raw" for Tarkowski to return to action immediately.
"We will try to help him through this tough period he has had," said Smith.


England captain Alastair Cook blamed a first-innings batting collapse for his side's defeat by Pakistan in the second Test in Dubai.

The tourists came within 6.3 overs of securing a draw, but Cook pointed to England's loss of seven wickets for 36 runs on Saturday.
"In these conditions you can't afford those two or three hours," said Cook.
"But the character we have shown today - we are disappointed not to get over the line."
England number eight Adil Rashid, playing in only his second Test, batted for four hours on a wearing fifth-day pitch while Mark Wood and Stuart Broad also provided admirable final-day assistance.
Joe Root (71), Jonny Bairstow (22) and Jos Buttler (7) were all dismissed before lunch, but the tailenders threatened to deny Pakistan what had looked a routine victory.
Spinners Yasir Shah (4-87) and Zulfiqar Babar (3-53) finally broke through in the final hour of the day to ensure the hosts head into the final Test of the series at Sharjah on Sunday 1-0 up.
"These are a fantastic bunch of players," added Cook. "The lower order showed a lot of character.
"You always think that it is never over. Mark Wood and Jimmy Anderson are capable so it wasn't impossible. Some good things have come out of this but we shouldn't have been in that position.
"We will dust ourselves off now. It will be a great last Test."
England have concerns over the form of Jos Buttler, Ian Bell and Moeen Ali, while Cook has a groin injury.
Buttler averages 13 in his past 12 Test innings, Bell averages 26.55 in 2015 while Moeen's six wickets against Pakistan have come at a cost of 53 runs each and he has scored 48 runs in four innings as opener.
"Moeen didn't quite get it right with the ball," Cook added on Sky Sports. "Sometimes when you are expected to turn it and take wickets you try too hard and force it.
"He will be disappointed. We are lucky we have a six-man attack to share the load.
"Jos is going through a tough time. This is what happens in international cricket, that someone is struggling.
"I am proud of my fitness. Yesterday I had a sore groin that hampered me. Maybe these days in the heat have taken their toll. I should be OK for the third Test."
Pakistan captain Misbah-ul-Haq said: "You have to give credit to the opposition.
"They showed character. They played very well on the last day against two really good spinners.
"Overall, the spinners bowled well, under pressure. When we needed the breakthrough they kept their nerve."


Brazil's federal police has begun investigations into possible Fifa corruption in the country.

Justice Minister Eduardo Cardozo said they were looking at possible tax evasion and money laundering within Brazil.
Costa Rica has opened an enquiry into US accusations against Eduardo Li, head of Costa Rica's football association.
In Argentina, a judge has issued warrants for three local businessmen wanted by the US.
Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff said football in her country "will only benefit" from the US corruption investigation of Fifa and other top officials of the sport.
In the meantime, the Brazilian Football Confederation has removed the name of Jose Maria Marin from the facade of its Rio de Janeiro headquarters after the former president was arrested in Switzerland on corruption charges.
A Congressional enquiry into corruption in the CBF may also be on the agenda.
On Wednesday, the Brazilian senator and former football player Romario made a formal application for an enquiry to be opened.
Mr Marin, who faces extradition to the US, was head of the CBF from 2012 to April 2015 and headed the local committee for the organisation of the 2014 World Cup.
Up to his arrest, he was part of a Fifa committee organizing the Olympic football tournaments.
In Costa Rica, prosecutors have opened an investigation into the president of the country's football federation, Eduardo Li, who was also detained on Wednesday.
The arrest of Mr Li was met with surprise in Costa Rica. He had become a national hero after the national team's unexpected run to the quarter-finals of the World Cup in Brazil in 2014.
A spokesman for Costa Rica's public prosecutor said: "The investigation opened today aims to determine whether the hypothesis of the US Department of Justice probe related to a case of money laundering and corruption involving Eduardo Li can be corroborated."
Costa Rica's tax office said it had also opened an investigation into Mr Li's various business interests in the country.
In Argentina, the football association - AFA - issued a statement in support of the US led investigation into Fifa.
"The Argentine Football Association states that it supports and joins the investigations on Fifa and Conmebol representatives and members, sharing the football world's concerns as regard transparency in our beloved sport."
A judge issued arrest warrants for three businessmen accused of conspiring to win and keep lucrative media rights contracts from regional football federations in return for millions of dollars in bribes.
The warrants were issued a day after the US Justice Department had requested them.
The head of the Argentine Cabinet, Anibal Fernandez, said the country's tax authority would pursue any money owed it and that bribery should be investigated in Argentina "no matter the cost".


A victim of the Hillsborough disaster was warned about the area where the crush occurred by a fellow Liverpool supporter, the new inquests have heard.

Eric Hankin was one of 96 fans fatally injured in a terrace crush at the FA Cup semi-final on 15 April 1989.
He and his group had tried to find a vantage point in the Leppings Lane end of the stadium, the jury heard.
Timothy Lyons said he earlier warned Mr Hankin he would not be standing in the same area due to a previous experience.
Mr Lyons said in a statement that he saw Mr Hankin, a 33-year-old nurse and father-of-two, inside the Sheffield stadium before the Liverpool versus Nottingham Forest tie.
He said: "Whilst I was waiting for my wife, I saw Eric Hankin come out of the men's toilet and he came over to talk to me.
"I told him that I would not be going into the central pens, especially after what I had experienced the previous year.
"I told him that my wife and I would be going into pen seven.
"Eric Hankin told me he was going to go behind the goal. It was a short conversation and I do not recall seeing Eric with anyone else."
Mr Hankin worked as a staff nurse at Moss Side Hospital in Maghull, Merseyside.
Stephen Brown, who also worked at the hospital and went to the match with Mr Hankin, described going into pen three.
He said: "Our intention would have been to try to find a vantage point to watch the game, but any plans we had for that were gone as soon as we got in to the crowd and it was just chaos in there."
In his 1989 statement, Mr Brown described how the crush became worse and he saw a man near him fall to the ground with his eyes closed.
He told the court: "It was different waves of pressure, because you would move in one direction and you would get caught in an area.
"The pressure would build and there would be a crush that would increase, increase, increase, and then it would be released and you would move suddenly to the side, or forward, or backwards and then the same thing would happen.
"The crushing just increased, released, increased, released and some people were lucky enough to get out when the pressure released."
He said when the pressure was tight he was "completely unable to draw breath".
The court saw a picture timed at about 15:02 BST, two minutes after the scheduled kick-off, which showed Mr Hankin towards the front of pen three.
It is believed Mr Brown was also pictured to the right of his colleague.
Mr Brown managed to escape through an open gate, the court heard.
The jury also heard from two police officers, Richard Liversidge and Stephen Perry, who tried to revive Mr Hankin inside pen three after the crush.
Mr Liversidge, who is now a detective inspector, said Mr Hankin was "limp" and "not breathing".
The two officers tried to resuscitate him but were not successful.
One of Mr Hankin's friends identified his body at 16:41 inside a temporary mortuary at the ground. His father, also named Eric Hankin, travelled to Sheffield to see his son's body the following day.
The inquests, held in Warrington, Cheshire, are due to resume on Thursday.
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It's been a year of unchecked success for Australia's rugby league team.

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They ended 2016 unbeaten under new coach Mal Meninga, have reclaimed the Four Nations title following Sunday's emphatic victory over New Zealand and they have returned to the top of the world rankings.
Just 12 months before they attempt to retain their World Cup crown down under, they look a formidable outfit.
They are a team which will "take some stopping", in the words of former Great Britain international Jonathan Davies.
After a decidedly one-sided Four Nations, can anyone realistically stop Meninga's team?
New Zealand coach David Kidwell said after Sunday's 34-8 defeat at Anfield that there were "possibly two or three immortals" in the spine of the Australia team.
He was talking about the half-back pairing of Johnathan Thurston and man of the series Cooper Cronk, and of captain and hooker Cameron Smith.
When asked about Kidwell's comment, Meninga added that he thought centre Greg Inglis could be considered in that category as well.
Their craft, composure and game management has been evident over the last few weeks and no other national team can compete with their combined skill and experience in so many crucial positions.
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As former England international Jon Wilkin said: "The most impressive thing about this Australian side is the rugby league brains they've got.
"In rugby league and rugby union, we're obsessed with producing athletes. These guys are good athletes but it's their rugby league brains that are so impressive."
Some wondered whether the Australian pack would be able to compete with England and New Zealand, but they more than held their own and laid a platform for their back division to exploit.
The Australians built pressure superbly, completed their sets, kicked clinically to pin down each of their opponents - and eventually wore them down.
We saw that at London Stadium, where England at one point led 6-2 - the only time the Kangaroos were behind on the tour - but lost 36-18.
"If I was a coach of any professional team, I would be cutting videos of Australia to show how to get key decisions right," said former Australia international Kurt Gidley on the BBC.
Rugby Football League chairman Brian Barwick said in his programme notes for Sunday's final that England had "much to build on" and that their Australian coach Wayne Bennett knows what is "needed to take them to the next step".
But after a Four Nations that saw England defeated by both Australia and New Zealand, fans could be forgiven for wondering if their team are as far away as ever from threatening the dominance of the top two.
Following England's elimination, new coach Wayne Bennett said his players do not "realise how good they are".
England had Sam Burgess back in their ranks following his return from rugby union, as well as top performers in the Australian National Rugby League such as James Graham and Josh Hodgson, and the best from Super League.
But they spilled the ball or conceded penalties at crucial moments on numerous occasions - and some people wondered whether the team had gone backwards after a morale-boosting 2-1 series win over the Kiwis last year.
"I'm not so sure England have gone backwards," said former Great Britain coach Brian Noble. "The fact we used three different half-back pairings leads me to believe Wayne Bennett was looking at the whole squad.
"We've got some fabulous players and there are 10 or 11 of those playing in the NRL, so they shouldn't worry about intensity or belief."
Davies suggested that it is not all "doom and gloom", arguing that England have one of the best forward packs in the world.
In the long term, it may well be that England simply need a bigger talent pool to pick from if they are to compete with the best on a regular basis.
"One thing we can do is come up with a long-term plan," added Wilkin. "It feels like every year we're talking about the same issues, about having more competitive games and high-intensity games to match the NRL.
"This conversation has been going on for 15 years. We need more junior players, and we need to put that in a cohesive plan for five or 10 years."
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The Kiwis might want to look back a little for some inspiration.
Back in 2013, New Zealand were hammered 34-2 in the World Cup final at Old Trafford. The following year, they defeated Australia twice as they won the Four Nations title under coach Stephen Kearney.
As Kearney's successor, Kidwell certainly had a difficult start in his first major tournament in charge of the Kiwis. They were scratchy in a 17-16 win over England, were held by Scotland and were hammered in the final.
"They will need to go back to the drawing board," said former Kiwi international and BBC pundit Robbie Hunter-Paul. "New Zealand are in the process of building again. They have a new coach who needs to put his own stamp on the team. It is a development phase."
Kidwell and his skipper Jesse Bromwich looked stunned as they answered questions after Sunday's match.
A former Kiwi international who played for numerous NRL clubs, Kidwell believes he has learned a lot about what he must do to make his team competitive next year.
"I have told the boys that we have got to get back our belief," he said. "That starts with hard work and doing the little things in games that really count.
"We made seven errors in the first 20 minutes against Australia and that is a tough way to try to win a football game."
Noble is adamant that they can be a threat next year.
He said: "They've had a disappointing tournament, that's all. They won't be far away for the World Cup."
They will need half-back Shaun Johnson to sparkle, they will need their powerful ball-playing forwards to find their form and they will need to find a resolve and discipline largely absent during this Four Nations.
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Nobody expects Scotland to win the World Cup next year but when analysing who triumphed in the the Four Nations it would be foolish not to mention the Bravehearts.
OK, so they got off to an awful start against Australia, losing 54-12, but they took the lead against England and battled to a famous and memorable draw against the Kiwis in Workington.
That draw ensured they became the first team outside the big three to take something from a match at the Four Nations.
"Any neutral fan can see how well we've done," said Scotland coach Steve McCormack.
Nobody would argue with that... but the jury is still out on how to stop the formidable Aussies.


A bank employee in Sydney has been charged with three counts of fraud after allegedly trying to steal nearly half a million Australian dollars from customers' accounts.

The 34-year-old man was arrested on Wednesday after the bank noticed multiple suspect transactions and contacted the police.
The bank has not been named.
Police uncovered 80 transactions totalling $492,000 ($376,000; £266,000) being paid into two separate accounts.
Det Supt Arthur Katsogiannis, commander of the Fraud and Cybercrime Squad, said arrest was part of a broader crackdown on financial wrongdoing.
"The good work of these investigators should reassure businesses in New South Wales that police are doing all they can to ensure they can operate in a corruption-free environment," he said.
The bank employee has been granted bail and is due to appear in court in May.


China's ICBC Standard Bank, the world's biggest bank by assets, has agreed to buy a massive vault in London.

It will be the first Chinese lender to own a vault in London as it looks to grow its precious metals business.
The vault, which is in a secret location and is being sold by Barclays, can hold up to 2,000 metric tons of gold, silver, platinum and palladium.
The deal will give ICBC more influence over trading, pricing and storage of precious metals.
No financial details were given but the deal is expected to be completed in July.
China accounts for more than a quarter of global gold demand but trading of the yellow metal remains centred out of London and New York. Around $5tn (£3.5tn) in transactions were handled in London's bullion market last year.
ICBC Standard Bank's head of commodities Mark Buncombe said the purchase "enables us to better execute on our strategy to become one of the largest Chinese banks in the precious metals market".
Last week, ICBC became a member of London's precious metals clearing system, which is where trades are settled.
As ICBC takes on more Western clients, the bank needs infrastructure close by to store the physical gold or metals.
Barclays, meanwhile, is exiting the precious metals business as part of a restructuring aimed at making the bank smaller and more focused.
The vault is one of the largest in Europe and took more than a year to build.
It was opened in 2012 by Barclays, which says it is located within the M25 motorway that circles London.
The London bullion market has seven providers of vault storage services, including the Bank of England, HSBC and JPMorgan Chase.


The German government was told of the risk of flying over eastern Ukraine shortly before flight MH17 was shot down last July, but failed to pass on the alert, reports say.

Diplomatic cables sent two days before the crash said the situation had become "very alarming", German media say.
The cables cited the downing on 14 July of a Ukrainian air force plane at a height of about 6,000m (20,000ft).
Flight MH17 was brought down three days later, with the loss of 298 lives.
The Malaysia Airlines plane had been flying from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur and 196 of those on board were Dutch.
A Dutch-led international inquiry says one of the main scenarios for the disaster was that the plane was shot down by a Russian-made Buk missile launcher.
Investigators have appealed for witnesses to the launcher's arrival in a rebel-controlled area shortly before the crash. Their final report is due to be published in October.
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According to German public TV channels NDR and WDR and Sueddeutsche Zeitung, the foreign ministry cables had assessed the downing of the Antonov military plane on 14 July 2014 as a significant development because of its altitude at the time.
The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 had been flying at 10,000m (33,000 ft) when it was hit.
German intelligence had repeatedly warned of the risk to aviation security, the report adds.
And yet, a Lufthansa source tells German media that no communique was given to the airline of a change in the situation.
Three Lufthansa planes flew over the area on the day of the disaster - including one 20 minutes beforehand - and it was pure chance that none was hit, the report says. Other German airlines had been avoiding the region for some time.
"If the government had given our company a warning with an advisory of 'new status', then certainly Lufthansa would not have flown over eastern Ukraine any more," the source said.


An elderly man has died following a road accident in West Lothian last month.

His Nissan Micra left the A89 at the Dechmont roundabout in Livingston at 13:55 on Sunday 22 January.
The 87-year-old driver was taken to Edinburgh Royal Infirmary with serious injuries but Police Scotland said he later died.
Officers are investigating the crash and wish to speak to anyone with information.
Con Martin Smith, of Police Scotland, said: "Sadly this collision resulted in the death of the elderly male driver and our investigation has been ongoing since 22 January to determine exactly what happened.
"We would ask that any other motorists or members of the public who can assist with our inquiries contact police immediately."


Ian Hutchinson won Sunday's rescheduled Superbike race to become the third most successful solo rider at the Isle of Man TT.

The 37-year-old Yorkshireman's 15th win on the island moved him ahead of the late Mike Hailwood.
Hutchinson was five seconds ahead of Peter Hickman, who achieved his first TT podium finish, while Kawasaki-mounted Dean Harrison was third.
Tyco BMW rider Hutchinson had not won a premier big bike class since 2010.
Early leader Michael Dunlop retired on lap two at Handleys Corner.
Dunlop's uncle, the late Joey Dunlop, holds the record of 26 solo TT wins, with Morecambe's John McGuinness on 23.
Michael Dunlop, on a Bennetts Suzuki, set the fastest lap of the race on his opening circuit at 131.13mph, opening up a 1.8-second advantage over Harrison before his retirement.
Despite securing trebles in each of the last two years after his return from serious injury, a Superbike victory had eluded Hutchinson since 2010 as he was forced to settle for second behind Dunlop in both big bike races last year.
For his Northern Ireland-based TAS team, it was a first Superbike win since Cameron Donald's success on a Suzuki in 2008.
"I was struggling early on in fourth place and on the first lap I was thinking I may not have the bike set up well enough to win," said Hutchinson.
"But I thought it's a TT race over six laps and I'll just dig in.
"I had a bit of luck with a few people going out and my pit boards were changing all the time in the early stages.
"I really had to start motoring after my lead was reduced to two seconds on the last lap and the backmarkers came into play. I just had to respect them, get past and keep smooth."
Harrison finished eight seconds behind Hickman, with James Hillier a further 1.7 seconds adrift in fourth and Manxman Dan Kneen and Michael Rutter completing the top six.
The Nortons of David Johnson and Josh Brookes were seventh and eighth, while William Dunlop was ninth.
Guy Martin crashed out unhurt on the first lap at Doran's Bend.


Conservation groups have defended a proposed Scottish wildcat captive breeding programme.

It came after an animal welfare charity claimed trapping wildcats to breed them in zoos harmed the species' chances of survival.
Captive breeding forms part of the Scottish Wildcat Conservation Action Plan unveiled in September 2013.
Scottish Natural Heritage and the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland said it was necessary to conserve the cats.
They are among 30 organisations backing the action plan.
The Scottish wildcat faces extinction because of breeding with domestic and feral cats, disease, habitat loss and being run over on roads.
The Captive Animals' Protection Society (Caps) has criticised the captive breeding plan, and instead supports the use of the the Wildcat Haven, a 500 square mile area that covers parts of the Ardnamurchan and Morvern peninsulas.
The peninsulas in north-west Scotland have few people, quiet roads and large areas of habitat favoured by wildcats.
Nicola O'Brien, campaigns director at Caps, said: "Taking animals from the wild to stock zoo exhibits is something which people nowadays see as unacceptable, a throwback to a bygone era where animal collections had nothing to do with animal welfare.
"Concepts such as using female cats as bait for males or throwing live animals into a cage to be eaten are barbaric ideas that also belong buried in the past."
She added: "Ignoring the substantial evidence from the Wildcat Haven project that threat-free zones can be effectively created around wildcat populations, this SNH/RZSS plan is unjustifiable, clearly little to do with conservation and everything to do with these zoos stocking their cages."
Emily O'Donoghue, director of the Wildcat Haven project, said: "Wildcats living here are safe from any threat and much loved by the entire community.
"We will strongly oppose any effort to remove wildcats from the haven region, and will be opening several new sites in the hope of protecting other wildcats against these plans."
But supporters of the Scottish Wildcat Conservation Action Plan have argued that it represents the majority view on conservation actions to save wildcats, and say the capture of some genetically important at-risk wildcats was necessary to conserve the species.
Breeding would happen at places such as the Highland Wildlife Park at Kincraig in areas not accessible to the public.
The plan aims to halt the decline of wildcats within six years.
RZSS said: "If we do not bring at least some of the remaining wildcats into the lifeboat that is the 21st-century zoo community, we will lose the species from these islands.
"This exact same approach was applied to Californian condors, black-footed ferrets, red wolves, Arabian oryx and European bison.
"All had individuals pulled into captivity, all became extinct in the wild, all have been the subject of reintroduction projects and once again exist as wild animals."
SNH said captive breeding would "reinforce" populations in the wild.
Andrew Bachell, director of policy and advice at SNH, said: "This work will use existing captive cats and would supplement the captive cat population with a small number of additional wildcats to avoid inbreeding, and ensure any breeding programme has a robust genetic base."
SNH added that work to establish six priority areas for Scottish wildcat conservation would start shortly.
The Angus Glens, Strathbogie in Aberdeenshire, Strathavon in Moray and Morvern, Strathpeffer and Dulnain in the Highlands are the six areas.


A pregnant drug dealer who asked not to be jailed because she did not want her baby born in prison has been given a two-year sentence.

Sarah Keegan, 32, who is due to give birth in June, admitted being concerned in the supply of heroin in April last year at a caravan park in Beattock.
A court heard she did not want to be in custody when her baby was born.
However, Judge Lord Boyd told her the offence was too serious to receive a non-custodial sentence.
Defence counsel Susan Duff told the High Court in Glasgow: "She is due to give birth on 18 June and she doesn't want to be in custody when she gives birth.
"She is asking for a non-custodial sentence to be considered."
Lord Boyd told her he could understand her wish not to have the baby while in prison.
He said she was drug-free and had said the right thing about wanting to be a "role model" to the child but added the crime was too serious not to result in a prison term.
"You have yourself been an addict," he said.
"You should know the misery that drugs bring to people and the communities blighted by it."
Keegan was arrested along with former co-accused Jason Jolley, who was jailed for five years, following a police operation codenamed Operation Boswell.
Police believed that Jolley, 45, and Keegan, both originally from Manchester, were flooding the Dumfries area with drugs.
Prosecutor Allan Nicol said: "Intelligence suggested that Jolley was directly supplying others and had local dealers working for him."
Jolley and Keegan based themselves at the Moffat Manor Country Park in Beattock, and were organising deliveries of the drug from this location into Dumfries and the surrounding area.
Officers swooped on this location on 27 April 2016, and recovered heroin and cutting agent worth a potential Â£65,000 from within the caravan occupied by Jolley and Keegan.
Inside the caravan police found drugs paraphernalia including a set of scales and 22 knotted bags of heroin.
Jolley and Keegan's DNA and fingerprints were found on various items throughout.
A small amount of heroin was also found in Keegan's underwear during a strip search at Loreburn Street Police Station.
Lord Boyd told Keegan: "I fully accept that Jason Jolley was the moving force behind the operation.
"However, your DNA was found on various items and you were clearly involved."
Ms Duff told the court that at the time of the offence her client had been a heroin addict.
"She doesn't want that lifestyle again and is not prepared to take any drugs that may harm her baby," she said.


Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) has said it was behind an attack on Yemen's defence ministry on Thursday that left 52 people dead.

The group's media arm, al-Malahim, said the ministry complex in Sanaa had been targeted because US unmanned drones were being operated from there.
The attack saw a suicide bomber ram an explosives-filled car into the main gate before gunmen launched an assault.
Among the dead were soldiers and civilians, including seven foreigners.
It was the deadliest attack in Sanaa since May 2012, when a suicide bomber blew himself up during a rehearsal for a military parade.
Thursday's attack in the Bab al-Yaman district, on the edge of Sanaa's old city, began at about 09:00 (06:00 GMT) with a huge car bomb explosion at the entrance to the defence ministry's command complex, one of the government's most important security facilities.
About a dozen militants then stormed the compound, targeting civilians working at a military hospital inside or receiving treatment there.
Two doctors from Germany, two others from Vietnam, as well as two nurses from the Philippines and one nurse from India were among those killed, the official Saba news agency reported.
The Philippine foreign ministry said seven of its nationals had died.
Other civilian victims included a top Yemeni judge and his wife, and one of President Abdrabbuh Mansour Hadi's relatives.
Security forces later retook the complex after killing the attackers.
Later, al-Malahim declared on Twitter that it had launched the assault "after the mujahideen proved that it accommodates rooms for controlling unmanned drones and a number of American experts".
"As part of a policy to target drone control rooms, the mujahedeen have dealt a heavy blow to one," it added.
"Such security headquarters in partnership with the Americans in their war on these Muslim people are a justified target wherever they may be."
President Hadi has publicly praised the US drone campaign in Yemen for helping his government combat AQAP and its allies.
As of October, the US military and CIA were estimated by research groups to have carried out 81 targeted killing operations in Yemen, most of them since 2009. The strikes - by drones, warplanes and cruise missiles - are thought to have killed at least 473 combatants and civilians.
Yemen's Supreme Security Commission, which is chaired by the president, said the incident would "not deter the security forces, the armed forces and the honourable sons of the nation from carrying out their religious and patriotic duty in the face of terrorists".
The attack came as Defence Minister Mohammed Nasser Ahmed was in Washington as part of a "strategic dialogue" to aid Yemen's political transition and to boost security co-operation.
The US military upped its regional alert status after the incident and was "fully prepared to support our Yemeni partners", a senior US defence official told the Associated Press.
The UN Security Council condemned "in the strongest terms" the attack and underlined the need to bring to justice the perpetrators, organisers, financiers and sponsors of such "reprehensible" acts.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon's special adviser for Yemen, Jamal Benomar, meanwhile stressed that "such criminal acts seeking to terrorise Yemenis will only strengthen their resolve to continue on their path of peaceful change".
Yemen has been plagued by instability since its longtime president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, handed over power after a popular uprising in 2011.
The country has held a National Dialogue Conference, bringing together various political groups and interests, as part of the process to draft a new constitution and pave the way for general elections next year.


A two-time Olympic medal-winning cyclist, Jack Bobridge, has been accused of dealing drugs in his native Australia.

Mr Bobridge, 28, was arrested in Perth on Wednesday on five charges of selling and supplying MDMA, including two of a trafficable quantity, police said.
He was granted bail on Thursday and will face court again next month.
Mr Bobridge retired from cycling last year because of rheumatoid arthritis after a career filled with accolades.
He was arrested after police raided his home and gym in separate suburbs of Perth.
It followed a long-running investigation into the alleged dealing of illicit drugs in licensed venues around the city.
Police said they had charged 61 people and seized about A$1m (Â£600,000; $800,000) in drugs as part of their operation since June.
The drugs included MDMA, crystal methamphetamine, cocaine and cannabis.
Mr Bobridge competed in three Olympic Games, winning silver medals in the team pursuit in both 2012 and 2016.
He also won four Commonwealth Games gold medals, three track world titles, and broke the world record for the 4km individual pursuit in 2011.


Ronnie Biggs, who has died aged 84, made a rare public appearance in 2011 and said he thought the public saw him as a "loveable rogue", not a criminal.

"It is the British press that made the 'legend' that you see before you, so perhaps I should ask you who I am."
So said an ailing 82-year-old Ronnie Biggs in a rare public appearance as he turned the tables on the journalists who have spent much of the past 48 years following and scrutinising him.
Biggs's part in the 1963 Great Train Robbery - in which a gang held up a mail train, making off with Â£2.6m - and his later escape from prison that sparked a global chase gave him a notoriety that has enthralled the press for nearly half a century.
His life as a criminal on the run filled many newspaper column inches over the decades, as did his return to Britain in 2001 to face justice, his return to prison and then the controversial decision to release him on health grounds in 2009.
At that time, his family argued he was severely ill with pneumonia and unlikely to recover. "Ronnie Biggs is about to close this last chapter. He will now be retreating fully from public life," his son Michael said at the time.
Yet, two years on, he was the focus of media attention again as he launched an updated version of his autobiography at a private members' club in Shoreditch, east London.
After all this time, how does he think the British public sees him?
Speaking with the help of his son Michael, because several strokes dictate that he can no longer speak, he denied that their view was of him as a criminal.
"I'm a loveable rogue," said Biggs by pointing to letters on a specially made poster.
Earlier, journalists awaited Biggs's arrival in a bright, upstairs room at Shoreditch House, to a soundtrack of Elvis's Jailhouse Rock and Thin Lizzy's Jailbreak, and the babble of Cockney accents.
When Biggs finally came in - nearly an hour late - his entrance was something akin to that of a rock star.
Wearing black sunglasses and skull and crossbones braces with a sharp black suit and blue tie, Biggs lapped up the attention as photographers closed in on his wheelchair.
"Ronnie, this way, Ronnie," they shouted. "In the middle Ronnie - gis' a wave Ron, thumbs up Ron."
As a frail Biggs responded to the requests, a smile creeping across his face, his son joked: "He'll be up tap dancing next."
Opening with a statement read by his son, Biggs gave a tongue-in-cheek thank you to those attending from "far and wide", including Australia and Brazil, where he spent 13,068 days on the run.
He added: "I can't believe this is my first press conference in Britain, but it is, and I apologise for not holding one after I went over the wall from Wandsworth (referring to his escape from Wandsworth prison in a furniture van after just 15 months behind bars)."
He explained how he would have liked to have had his own voice for the event, but added: "Despite my appearances my marbles are all there - or as many as I should have at my age and given my health."
He was quizzed on the actions that led to his notoriety and asked whether he wished he could go back and do things differently.
Did he regret the events of 8 August 1963? He answered "Yes" on his pad. If you could go back in time would you do it all again? A firm shake of the head. "No."
Did he feel uncomfortable in any way that the book was ultimately profiting from crime?
Biggs's son responded: "This is not profiting from crime this is profiting from his life. Yes he committed the crime but there's much more to my dad's life than the Great Train Robbery."
However, his son acknowledged that without the robbery Biggs would never have had the sometimes glamorous and exciting life he had. Instead he would likely have continued as a builder in Redhill.
Michael went on: "I don't look up to my dad as the Great Train Robber or as a criminal, I look up to him as the family man he became."
He said it was "never my father's intention to become Ronnie Biggs". Biggs had no way to support himself in Brazil so the press became his way to survive, he said.
"My dad was probably the Jordan of the 80s," quipped Michael, whose birth prevented his father's extradition from Brazil back to the UK.
One name that cropped up time and time again was that of Jack Mills.
He was the train driver caught up in the robbery. He was badly beaten by some of the gang and never recovered. He died in 1970 of leukaemia.
Asked if any of the proceeds from the book could go to his family, Biggs's son responded: "We haven't discussed that yet but it could be a possibility."
His family said the book - named Odd Man Out: The Last Straw - was a chance for Biggs to answer the "many misconceptions" about the robbery.
He has been working on the book since his release from jail in 2009.
Michael Biggs believes his father has been wrongly blamed for the violent actions of others. In fact, the man who Biggs claims coshed Mr Mills has never been caught. The convicted gang members still refuse to give him up, and he remains one of three robbers never caught.
Michael added: "My father wants to set the record straight (with the book). This is his last press appearance. He's retiring from public life 100%."
His son described the state of his father's health and how he developed chest infections every three or four weeks.
He also has no control over his mouth and throat, he said.
He said Biggs, who is originally from Lambeth, south London, had a final wish that his ashes be spread between Brazil and London.
But why is it that the Great Train Robber still holds such fascination now, nearly half a century on from his crime?
Daily Mail journalist David Jones, who has followed the former fugitive's story for years and met him in Rio in 2000, thinks he has the answer.
"He's the one who cocked a snook and pulled the wool over the authorities' eyes. Everybody likes to think they could do the same," he grins.
"They see him as a loveable rogue - and they're three-quarters right."