Welshman Tony Pulis believes Cardiff City need to return to the Premier League to truly put Wales on the footballing map.

The West Brom boss, whose side were beaten by Swansea City on the final day, welcomed the Swans' Premier League survival and Cardiff's hosting of the Champions League final on 3 June.
But he believes Wales' capital city team must return to the top-flight.
"We need to get Cardiff back in the Premier League," said Pulis.
Cardiff City were promoted to the Premier League as Championship winners in 2013, but were relegated after only a season in English football's top flight.
Born in Newport, Pulis attended Cardiff City games as a youngster, and despite the Bluebirds enduring a torrid  2013-14 campaign he says the club must get back to the Premier League if Wales is to truly establish itself as a footballing nation.
The 59-year-old said having the Champions League final, between Real Madrid and Juventus in Cardiff, would be a fantastic occasion.
"I think it's important that people realise that Cardiff is the capital city," Pulis added.
"It's lovely having Swansea there and they have definitely out-performed Cardiff over the years, but we need to get that city and that football club back into the Premier League.
"It (the Champions League final) is wonderful for the country. To have two giants of European football is absolutely fantastic. Cardiff is now a fantastic city with wonderful facilities.
"The supporters from Italy and Spain, as long as they behave themselves, will have a wonderful time in the city. Not just watching the game, but they will be welcome with open arms by countrymen who are known for their hospitality and celebration."
Pulis saw his West Brom side pegged back by Swansea at the Liberty Stadium on the final day of the Premier League campaign.
Despite taking the lead through a a Jonny Evans header, Paul Clement's men finished the season on a high thanks to goals from from Jordan Ayew and striker Fernando Llorente.
Pulis said he was pleased to see West Brom end up finishing 10th in the table, but was critical of his side's defending and finishing at the Liberty Stadium.
"I was disappointed. I thought at times  we controlled the game and had fantastic opportunities," Pulis added.
"But the last third of the season has highlighted that we need to defend better and when we go forward, take our chances. The first goal they scored was a third division goal. We need a leader, a voice, within the back-four.
"We've played well in games, but we've ended up not taking our chances and giving silly goals away which has cost us.
"We are disappointed because we've over-achieved this season and we should have over-achieved by more. Finishing 10th is a fantastic achievement by everyone at the club."


Antrim's hurlers got their 2017 campaign off to a strong start with a 1-18 to 0-12 win over Westmeath in the Walsh Cup at Kinnegad on Sunday.

The visitors trailed by 0-8 to 0-3 after 22 minutes, with Westmeath firmly on top thanks to the scoring efforts of Alan Devine.
Antrim made a impressive comeback and led 0-10 to 0-9 at the interval.
The Saffrons moved clear in the second half with Ciaran Clarke netting for the Ulster side on 66 minutes.
Antrim's first-half comeback was inspired by the likes of their goalkeeper Chris O'Connell, with the Loughgiel Shamrocks clubman deflecting a Joe Boyle goal shot out for a 65.
Defender Paddy Burke was also on hand to halt a Devine chance, with scores at the opposite end coming from Daniel McKernan, Niall McKenna and Neil McManus.
Saffrons edge in front
A Conor Johnston point levelled the tie for only the second time, before a Clarke effort from a free handed Antrim a half-time lead.
The visitors looked good on the restart with Eoghan Campbell, Maol Connolly, McKernan and McManus on target to build up a 0-16 to 0-10 lead.
Westmeath added back-to-back points but Antrim finished strongly with Clarke's goal coming when goalkeeper Shane McGovern failed to control a looping ball.
McKenna added another point to help Antrim to a nine-point win.
The Saffrons will face Kilkenny and DCU in Group 2 of the competition in the coming weeks.
Kilkenny are fielding a mainly Under 21 squad for the competition, and following a nine-point win over DCU in midweek, find themselves joint top of the group with Antrim after the first round of games.


Scottish Labour MSP Ken Macintosh has told BBC Scotland the "party machine" is bullying his supporters in an attempt to avoid a leadership contest.

Mr Macintosh and party deputy leader Kezia Dugdale have confirmed that they are standing for leadership of the party when Jim Murphy quits next month.
The Eastwood MSP said his supporters were being "bullied and intimidated" into withdrawing their backing.
Scottish Labour said the leadership contest would be conducted "fairly".
A spokesman said Mr Macintosh had since withdrawn his allegations about the party. However, Mr Macintosh insisted his comments still stood but had not been aimed at party staff.
He has not named those he thinks are responsible.
Scottish Labour general secretary Brian Roy said: "I have spoken to Ken Macintosh and he has withdrawn his allegations about the party. The leadership contest in Scotland will be conducted fairly and openly."
In response, Mr Macintosh said: "I am not withdrawing anything. I clarified with Brian [Roy] that the allegations are not against party staff, but against the machine politics which have too much influence in the Labour Party."
Mr Macintosh, the party's social justice spokesman, ran for party leadership against Johann Lamont almost four years ago and is likely to need nominations from six or seven MSPs to be a candidate in this leadership contest.
Ms Dugdale, who is widely regarded as the "obvious person" to take on the job, confirmed her leadership bid on Friday.
But he claims his backers are coming under "incredible pressure to withdraw their support".
"I want to have a contest but I've found the whole weight of the party machine yet again turning against me trying to close down a contest," he told BBC Radio's Good Morning Scotland programme.
"All the people that have been trying to support me, the party machine has turned on them, and they are being put under incredible pressure to withdraw their support. They are being bullied and being intimidated and pressurised not to support me so we don't have a contest.
"I wouldn't even have put my head above the parapet if I didn't know I had that support."
Mr Macintosh, who won a majority of member votes in the last leadership contest, said the three-college system used by the Labour Party to elect leaders was "ridiculous".
"I want the members to take control of the party," he said. "We need to move to one member, one vote."
He called for a quick contest, before the summer if possible, that is "fair and democratic".
By BBC Scotland political correspondent Glenn Campbell
Kezia Dugdale already has the backing of twenty Labour MSPs for her bid to become Scottish party leader. That's more than half the Labour team at Holyrood.
Many of them would like her elected unopposed.
Yet when she announced her intention to stand, Ms Dugdale said she would "absolutely" welcome a contest.
Ken MacIntosh is offering that challenge.
He is likely to require the support of six or seven MSPs to become a candidate. But he claims his supporters are being "bullied and intimidated" by what he calls the "party machine" in an attempt to avoid a contest.
He has not been more specific.
There are certainly those who think a coronation would save time and political energy and allow Labour to concentrate on the 2016 Holyrood election campaign.
Others argue that a contest would allow a fuller debate about Labour's problems and possible solutions and give the new leader more authority to pursue reform.
Mr Macintosh said he would campaign on fairness and social justice across the whole of Scotland with an emphasis on lifelong learning, housing and renewable energy.
"The reason I think it is important that I put my views forward is I think that is all about restoring trust in the Labour Party," he said.
"At the last election people could not bring themselves to put their trust in Labour. I can't believe that after all these years and what we stand for."
Mr Macintosh said restoring the Scottish Labour Party required integrity, principles and honesty and "moving away from machine politics and guile and the idea it's about power and position".
"I'm in politics to make other people's lives better, whether I'm leader or not leader, whether I'm MSP or not MSP. I am a conviction politician," he said.
He said problems with the "party machine" were about "people who want power and position and influence", which was an "issue for all politicians".
"We have to remember our principles and if we can't do that we can't restore confidence in the Labour Party," Mr Macintosh added.
Former East Renfrewshire MP Mr Murphy announced that he would resign next month after Labour's crushing general election defeat at the hands of the SNP.
Ms Dugdale, the Lothian region MSP, said she welcomed a leadership contest.
She has won the backing of more than half of Scottish Labour's MSPs and MP Ian Murray since announcing her intention to stand on Friday.
"I am proud to have already won the support of so many Labour colleagues in the Scottish Parliament," Ms Dugdale said.
"The geographical spread of support I have - with MSPs from north and south, east and west - as well as the backing of MSPs from different parts of our movement shows I can bring our party together."


Ricky Burns believes he faces the "biggest fight" of his career against IBF and IBO champion Julius Indongo.

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Burns defends his WBA super-lightweight belt on Saturday, and believes he can overcome his Namibian foe in Glasgow.
Southpaw Indongo won the IBF title by knocking out Eduard Troyanovsky 40 seconds into their contest in December.
"If I can unify the division and add another world title to the collection, it doesn't get any bigger than that," said 34-year-old Scot Burns.
"We know we've got a tough fight on our hands. It's going to be a tricky opponent, but preparation has gone well.
"He's tall, he has a height and reach advantage over me and he's a southpaw which makes him even more awkward, but the sparring has been great. We're confident that whatever comes our way, we'll be able to deal with it.
"Mentally, I'm always prepared for whatever's coming my way and I'm not afraid to lose. I will fight anybody they put in front of me. I will always give it 100%. I'm looking forward to it."
Burns, who celebrated his birthday on Thursday, weighed in at 9st 13lb, as did Indongo.
Burns is only the third British fighter to have won world titles at three different weights, and victory would make him Scotland's first unified champion.
That would open up the possibility of a lucrative rematch with American Terence Crawford, the WBC and WBO super-lightweight champion, who defeated Burns in March 2014.
Steve Bunce, BBC Radio 5 live's boxing pundit, said: "You look at Burns' record - six or seven years of title fights, a three-weight world champion, one of only three Britons to do that in the last 120-odd years... you'd be shocked if Burns walked on to one of those punches.
"If this was a 21-year-old African with a couple of quick wins under his belt, you'd be a bit more alarmed.
"He can bang but I just fancy Burns knows too much. We underestimate Burns, he's been going under the radar too long."
One huge left hand brought Indongo to prominence. Fighting outside Namibia for the first time in his professional career, it took less than a minute for him to grab the IBF belt from Troyanovsky.
Undefeated in 21 contests, he was unfazed by the home crowd in Moscow and he also fought abroad when he competed in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.
The 34-year-old believes he is fighting on behalf of his country and his continent, revealing the Namibian president had phoned him to wish him luck and tell him to keep his guard up.
"It's going to be an amazing night, when the impossible can become possible, things I never expected in life, whereby the world is going to know where I came from," Indongo said.
"I can promote my country at large, and believe me, the night is going to be an exciting one that nobody will ever have expected it to be. I'm going to give my all. I trust myself and it's not easy to reach this level. Nobody thought I would be where I am now.
"It's not easy to fight outside home, I have to adapt to the situation. My aim is to take victory home. I'm undefeated. He already knows how losing feels.
"My talent will prove to people who I am. I will give what I have and what the world doesn't know about."
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Rescuers in Antarctica have safely transferred all 52 passengers stranded on the ice-bound research vessel Akademik Shokalskiy.

The Australian rescue operators said the scientists and tourists were now all aboard the ship Aurora Australis.
They were flown there in groups by a helicopter from a Chinese ice-breaker.
The Shokalskiy has been trapped since 24 December. Its 22 crew are expected to remain on board to wait until the vessel becomes free.
The Shokalskiy was trapped by thick sheets of ice driven by strong winds, about 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart - the capital of the Australian state of Tasmania.
The vessel was being used by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition to follow the route explorer Douglas Mawson travelled a century ago.
"We've made it to the Aurora australis safe & sound. A huge thanks to the Chinese & @AusAntarctic for all their hard work!," expedition leader Chris Turney tweeted.
The helicopter belongs to the Chinese icebreaker, Xue Long, and each flight took about 45 minutes, round-trip.
The BBC's Andrew Luck-Baker, who was on board the Akademik Shokalskiy, says the 15-minute one-way flight was a "white-knuckle ride".
The passengers were taken to an ice floe next to the Aurora Australis and then ferried on to the ice-breaker by a small boat.
Our correspondent says the Russian crew staying behind could be on the Akademik Shokalskiy for weeks before the pack ice clears.
The Australian Maritime Safety Authority's (Amsa) Rescue Co-ordination Centre, which was overseeing the operation, had earlier said it was unlikely the rescue would go ahead on Thursday as hoped because of the sea-ice conditions.
But it later reported: "Aurora Australis has advised Amsa that the 52 passengers from the Akademik Shokalskiy are now on board."
The passengers are not expected back in Tasmania until mid-January.
Several attempts to break through to the ship by sea - by the Xue Long, Aurora Australis and French-flagged L'Astrolabe - failed because of the thickness of the ice.
Andrew Luck-Baker says the Aurora Australis, although big, was simply not up to the task and there is speculation two larger vessels may be coming to the area in the weeks to come.
Despite being trapped, the scientists continued their experiments, measuring temperature and salinity through cracks in the surrounding ice.
One of the aims was to track how quickly the Antarctic's sea ice was disappearing.
The ship had plenty of stocks and was never in danger.


Trade and counter-terrorism co-operation are officially at the top of David Cameron's agenda on a two-day visit to Indonesia as part of a tour of South East Asia.

But there's one issue the prime minister might be less keen to talk about.
Lindsay Sandiford, a 59-year-old grandmother, finds herself on death row in Indonesia's notorious Kerobokan Prison, not knowing when she might face a firing squad.
It's two-and-half years since the former legal secretary from Cheltenham was sentenced to death after being caught smuggling 4.8kg (10.6lb) of cocaine from Bangkok to Bali.
Her lawyers argued she was pressured into smuggling the drugs by a criminal gang.
She co-operated with the Indonesia police in a sting operation leading to the arrest of several members of that gang.
But at her sentencing hearing in 2013, that co-operation appeared to count for nothing as she was given the death sentence.
All appeal attempts have so far come to nothing.
It is a potentially awkward moment for Mr Cameron.
He is expected to announce hundreds of millions of pounds worth of trade deals with Indonesia.
At the same time a British citizen faces being lined up and shot.
Sandiford's legal team, which she is struggling to pay for, will be hoping Mr Cameron can exert some pressure on Indonesian President Joko Widodo when the two men meet here in Jakarta.
But it is a delicate business.
In the past such pressure has not worked.
So far this year Indonesia has executed 12 foreigners for drugs offences.
Perhaps the highest profile of them were two Australians Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran, the ringleaders of the Bali Nine drug ring.
They were executed in April after being caught trying to smuggling 8.3kg (18.2lb) of heroin from Bali to Australia in in 2005.
In their case the Australian government was publicly critical of Indonesia in an effort to get Jakarta to reverse the sentences.
Australian ministers even threatened to cut off foreign aid.
It didn't work.
Indonesia did not appear to like being told what to do.
And the death penalty for drugs offences has broad public support in Indonesia.
"Take one life to save the lives of many," one Indonesian man, who didn't want to give his name, told us on the beach in Bali.
"Drugs ruin people's lives."
And there can be no doubt that smuggling drugs in Indonesia, a country whose harsh treatment of drug offenders is well known, is a very stupid thing to do.
The rewards may be great but so are the risks.
"Britain or Australia don't criticise the United States which has executed hundreds of people," the man added.
And there is an element of double standards here.
Nobody realistically expects Britain to jeopardise trade ties with the US where there are 3,000 people currently on death row, including British citizens.
Or with China, which executes thousands of people every year.
In the run-up to the execution of Chan and Sukumaran there were large public demonstrations in support of the Indonesian government.
The death penalty is a vote-winner here.
So Mr Cameron is likely to try to avoid talking publicly about Sandiford's case.
Any pressure will probably be applied discreetly and behind the scenes.
Certainly speaking to Sandiford's legal team, you get the impression they want to avoid any public criticism of the Indonesian government or justice system.
What they would like is for the British government to help fund Sandiford's legal costs, something it has so far refused to do despite numerous legal challenges.
So despite Mr Cameron's visit, Sandiford's fate remains very much uncertain.
For more than two-and-a-half years, she has sat on death row, not knowing how many days, weeks, months or years she has left to live.


Bolton Wanderers have confirmed they have received a winding-up petition from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs for about £600,000 in unpaid taxes.

The Championship's bottom club are currently £172.9m in debt.
Despite Bolton asking for more time to raise the money or sell the club, HMRC decided to serve the petition.
"Quite clearly the club remains in a critical financial position," said Trevor Birch, who is acting as financial advisor for Bolton.
"We will continue to try and finalise a sale or alternatively raise some short-term funds needed to give the club breathing space and time in which to consider its options."
There are understood to be four parties interested in taking over the club.
If Bolton enter administration they will automatically be deducted 12 points.
"I think Trevor has a few plans in place to avoid that scenario," manager Neil Lennon told BBC Radio Manchester.
"He's confident he can avoid that because that would mean we'd be a League One team and we'd just be fulfilling fixtures for the rest of the season."
Former Bolton striker Dean Holdsworth is leading one of the parties interested in a takeover, while former Trotters midfielder Stelios Giannakopoulos is part of another.
"What we need is someone to come up with the money and help the club out and just get us through a difficult period until January," added 44-year-old Lennon.
"However, what we may have to do in January is sell some assets in terms of the football side. That could be a realistic proposition.
"If that means getting the club through stormy waters then that's what we'll have to do.
"It's not ideal for a manager, but the club's future is the priority rather than the present."


E-commerce site eBay is planning to split off its payments system PayPal into a separate company.

News of the move, which is expected to be completed in the second half of 2015, sent eBay's shares 7.5% higher.
It is a reversal of strategy for the company, which has previously resisted pressure to split. However, the boss John Donahoe said the logic for running the companies jointly had changed.
PayPal's revenues are growing at 19% a year, twice as quickly as eBay's.
Its payment system is available in 203 markets worldwide and is expected to process one billion mobile payments this year.
PayPal's annual revenue is $7.2bn (Â£4.5bn), while eBay's is $9.9bn and is growing at 10% a year.
"A thorough strategic review... shows that keeping eBay and PayPal together beyond 2015 clearly becomes less advantageous to each business strategically and competitively," EBay's chief executive John Donahoe said.
Earlier this year the activist investor Carl Icahn began pressing for eBay to sell PayPal, a plan that was resisted by the eBay board. He stopped pushing after failing to gain enough support.
"We are happy that eBay's board and management have acted responsibly concerning the separation - perhaps a little later than they should have, but earlier than we expected," said Mr Icahn in a statement on Tuesday.
He added the separation will "meaningfully enhance value for all shareholders".
Analysts cheered the move, because it is seen as strengthening PayPal's position as more e-payment systems, such as Apple Pay and Alibaba's Alipay, enter the marketplace.
"Breaking off from eBay will provide PayPal with more autonomy to compete in the payments space, particularly with respect to Apple Pay and other emerging mobile wallet providers," wrote online advertising analytics firm eMarketer in a note.
EMarketer estimates that in the US, mobile payments using smartphones will reach $3.5bn in 2014 and then balloon to $118bn by 2018.
EBay bought PayPal in 2002 for $1.5bn, and the payments company is now eBay's fastest-growing business, with 143 million active users at the end of 2013, up 16% from a year earlier.
PayPal's new president and chief executive will be the current American Express co-executive Dan Schulman.
Meanwhile, Devin Wenig, currently president of eBay Marketplaces, will become the new chief executive of eBay.


A telecoms firm "disadvantaged" Jersey customers with prices which "will choke off rivals", regulators have found.

An investigation into JT was launched in 2014 after the company raised broadband wholesale prices and removed cheaper options for customers.
The firm has been given two months to submit new prices to the Channel Island Competition and Regulatory Authorities (CICRA).
JT said CICRA had come to the "wrong conclusion".
"JT's prices at both a wholesale [to other operators] and a retail [to consumers] level are either the same, or lower, than those charged by the network owner in Guernsey", corporate affairs director Daragh McDermott said.
"We won't be deflected by these continual attacks from the regulator and will take all measures we need to defend the quality of our services."
The investigation was prompted by claims from JT's rivals, Sure and Newtel, that hikes in monthly wholesale line rental rates last year meant it was unviable for them to provide similar services on the JT-owned network.
"Margin squeeze, if allowed to continue, will choke off JT's rivals and return the market to a monopoly, reversing progress made to introduce competition over the last decade", CICRA chief executive Michael Byrne said.
"If allowed to continue without intervention by the regulator consumer choice will be damaged in a fundamental part of our everyday lives and critical to future economic growth", he said.
The States-owned company must now rectify the damage it has done to competition, CICRA said.


Adele looks set to take the limelight at this year's Brit Awards after being nominated for four trophies.

Her multi-million-selling album 25 is up for best British album, while she has also been shortlisted for best British female, single and video.
Pop trio Years & Years and singer-songwriter James Bay have also been nominated for four awards each.
Elsewhere, Eagles of Death Metal are up for best international group two months after an attack on their gig in Paris.
See the full list of nominees
Adele's nominations come after 25, her third album, sold 2.5 million copies in the UK in its first six weeks. The star is also due to perform at next month's ceremony at the O2 Arena in London.
She will be favourite for best British album, which is seen as the most prestigious award of the night.
Competition for that prize will come from Coldplay, Florence and the Machine, Jamie xx and James Bay, who won the Brits' Critics' Choice award last year.
This time, he will return as a contender for best British male, breakthrough act and single for his hit Hold Back the River.
Years & Years' number one King is on the shortlists for best British single and best video, while they have also been nominated for best British breakthrough act and group.
After the nominations were announced, singer Olly Alexander said: "It's really ridiculous. I don't know what's happening. It's nuts."
Bassist Mikey Goldsworthy added: "It's too much pressure. That's four times the anxiety. Sitting there and waiting for them to read the card."
The best British group category has also embraced One Direction, Coldplay, Foals and Blur. It is Blur's first Brit nomination for 12 years.
Elsewhere, Amy Winehouse has received a posthumous nomination for best British female following last year's release of the soundtrack to a documentary film about her life.
The ceremony will also pay tribute to David Bowie following his death on Sunday.
Geoff Taylor, chief executive of music industry trade body the BPI, told BBC News it would be "a fitting tribute to someone who's an absolute icon of the British music industry".
He said: "We're still developing it, but we have some firm ideas and we're involving the right people.
"I'm not going to go into the details - but we are very focused on honouring his legacy to British music."
Bowie was named best British male by the Brits in 2014 - but sent model Kate Moss to pick up the statuette in his place.
In previous years, Adele wouldn't have been eligible for the Brits. Her album was released in late November, weeks after the traditional cut-off point. This year, however, organisers extended the eligibility period to December.
It's a shrewd move. The Brits not only secure an appearance by the biggest-selling artist in the world -  they also stop themselves from looking out of touch in an increasingly fast-paced music market.
Over the Atlantic, the Grammys will only consider albums released before 30 September, almost six months before the ceremony. So not only have they missed Adele's album, but they're only just getting round to recognising Taylor Swift's 1989 - a record that's nearly a year-and-a-half old.
Of course, this all lends the Brits an overwhelming sense of predictability (Jess Glynne can't be holding out any hopes for that best British female award). But we can always hope that a megastar falls off stage again.
The performers at this year's ceremony will include Justin Bieber, Coldplay, James Bay, Little Mix, The Weeknd and Jess Glynne.
Glynne said she was "a little bit overwhelmed" by her three nominations - for best British female, breakthrough act and single for Hold My Hand.
She said: "It's so nice to be here in my own right and respected for that. It's hard to be respected in this industry and to do well, and to get anywhere.
"So to be standing here with nominations - I can't even put it into words."


Lincoln City are taking on Premier League giants Arsenal in the FA Cup quarter-finals on Saturday.

10 March 2017 Last updated at 06:43 GMT
It's the first time in more than 100 years that a non-league side has got this far in the competition.
Players from Lincoln's youth academy tell us what their club's extraordinary success means to them.


Elite performance director Graeme Welch accused Derbyshire's players of lacking "bottle" in the 222-run defeat by Surrey in the County Championship.

Derbyshire were dismissed for 125 in their second innings and lie sixth in Division Two, while Welch's side are also bottom of the T20 Blast North Group with six losses from eight games.
"We have had opportunities in games which we have showed no fight and no bottle," he told BBC Radio Derby.
"That is the most disturbing thing."
Welch described the loss to Surrey at the County Ground as "one of the worst he has seen" since taking charge.
"The senior players have let themselves, their team-mates and the club down," Welch said.
"There have been a few harsh words said and few a things said that people did not want to hear. We will see where we go from here.
"These lads have got everything they need so they need to look within. They need to look at themselves in the mirror as all us management do every day.
"They need to fight harder. There are lads with a lot of experience and they have to look in the mirror."


A Qatari sheikh has abruptly left the US after his yellow Ferrari was caught on camera racing through Beverly Hills.

Police were considering charging Sheikh Khalid Hamad Al-Thani with reckless driving and other offences before he - and his cars - disappeared.
The Thani family rule Qatar, but it is unclear whether Sheikh Al-Thani is part of the Arab state's royal family.
A video shows his yellow Ferrari racing a white Porsche down residential streets, passing a stop sign.
The video ends with the Ferrari's engine smoking as the sports car pulls into a driveway in the affluent section of Los Angeles.
Sheikh Al-Thani has been dubbed the "patron sheikh" of drag racing, according to the Los Angeles Times.
He has given millions to Al-Anabi Racing, and has been photographed driving on racetracks a number of times.
Police said the cars in the video were driving recklessly.
However, officers who arrived to find the cars in the drive were unable to make an arrest or issue a citation as they hadn't witnessed the incident.
Investigators have connected Al-Thani to the car, but they are yet to confirm whether he was driving either vehicle as the drivers' faces weren't clear in footage or pictures.
The footage drew further attention after police said someone involved claimed diplomatic immunity.
Lieutenant Lincoln Hoshino, a spokesman for the Beverly Hills police, said the car was not registered with the State Department to be brought into the US.
Mr Hoshino also stated that it was unlikely the man had diplomatic immunity.
"It's against a federal law for someone to claim diplomatic immunity when they don't have it, so we're looking at that and then we're also looking at the reckless driving," Beverly Hills Police Chief Dominick Rivetti told reporters.
Beverly Hills authorities said that they may look to prosecute those involved, and that the Qatari consulate has been contacted.
The video has since gone viral and has now been viewed over 1.2 million times.


The former Filton Airfield in Bristol has been sold to Malaysian developers.

The 350 acre (142 hectare) site was previously owned by BAE Systems and has been bought by YTL Utilities for an undisclosed sum.
Planning permission for 2,675 new homes and 62 acres (25 hectares) of office and industrial use was granted by South Gloucestershire Council in July.
The airfield closed in 2012. Three schools, a community centre and a care home are included in the plans.
Colin Skellett, chairman of YTL Homes UK, said "We are delighted to have acquired this significant site which is a strategically important development for South Gloucestershire and the South West region."
Mike Craddock from BAE Systems said: "We wanted to ensure that we chose a buyer with the skills and track record to deliver the vision for the redevelopment of this regionally important brownfield site."
Part of the old Filton Airfield site will be used by the new Bristol Aerospace Centre, which will house a Concorde museum, and is due to be completed next year.
The development is part of wider plans to build about 5,700 new homes on the edge of Bristol over the next decade.


The defence lawyer for one of the four Sun journalists cleared of paying military sources has questioned the use of the law that led to his trial.

Geoff Webster was found not guilty of conspiring to commit misconduct in public office on Friday.
His counsel Geoffrey Cox QC said the law was "vague" and criticised the approach of police and prosecutors.
He also said the jailing of other reporters and editors raised questions of proportionality.
The four journalists, prosecuted as a result of Operation Elveden, were all cleared of wrongdoing after a trial at the Old Bailey.
Ex-chief reporter John Kay, 71, and former royal editor Duncan Larcombe, 39, said their contact with two military sources was in the public interest.
Former deputy editors Fergus Shanahan, 60, and Mr Webster, 55, were cleared of charges they signed off payments.
The court heard £100,000 was paid to Ministry of Defence official Bettina Jordan-Barber, who was jailed in January.  Mr Webster had been accused of paying her for stories between 2004 and 2012, which he denied.
Mr Cox told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "The jailing of journalists and editors for newsgathering, provided it was information not of a restricted or classified kind, does raise questions as to proportionality.
"And if you have a vague law which applies to the newsgathering and editorial decisions, you have the risk that people will not report things that are in the public interest for fear of transgressing a vague law."
About 100 journalists have now been detained or interviewed under caution as part of the various police investigations into press practices.
Proving guilt has been rather more difficult: nine have been convicted of phone hacking; three for paying public officials.
Where reporters can demonstrate a clear public interest in stories for which payments are made - in John Kay's case army bullying, deaths in action and equipment failings - they have been acquitted.
Three years ago, the then director of public prosecutions, Sir Keir Starmer, anticipated the problems such cases would cause and issued guidelines about bringing charges.
The guidelines say if the public interest served by the conduct outweighs the overall criminality then it's less likely a prosecution will be required.
It is a difficult balance to strike - but given the latest verdicts, prosecutors may well review whether they've got it right.
Mr Cox said while he did not condone the breaching of confidentiality by those handling sensitive information, there has to be "proportionality in the use of the criminal law".
As the information at the heart of the trial was such that the Ministry of Defence or the Army "would put it into the public domain" themselves, and it was not classified, applying criminal law is "questionable in these circumstances", he argued.
The lawyer said the trial had a "massive impact" on Mr Webster's life, as well as that of his family.
"This has been three years of sheer hell and it's going to take a long time to recover from it," he added.
An editorial in the Sun on Saturday said that "the public have no appetite to convict and jail journalists for printing the truth".
The Crown Prosecution Service said it was unable to comment while related cases were on going.


Part-time students in Northern Ireland will be able to get top-up loans to pay for tuition fees under a new scheme.

The Department for Employment and Learning (DEL) has said about 20,000 students in universities and colleges could potentially access the loan.
It will become available next year. Students with lower incomes will still be able to access existing grants.
The DEL minister said grants were often not enough to cover the full cost of tuition and were also means tested.
"In reality, most part-time students are ineligible to receive any support and the vast majority must self-fund their studies," Stephen Farry said.
"Following a public consultation exercise, I am now pleased to announce a new, non-means tested, 'top-up' tuition fee loan for part-time students.
"Students from lower incomes will continue to be able to access the existing grants, but they will also be able to top them up with a loan for their tuition fees should they need to, providing them with the same level of tuition fee support over the lifetime of their course as their full-time counterparts.
"Students ineligible to receive the existing fee grants will also be able to access these new loans.
"This combination of grants and loans for part-time tuition fee support is unique within the UK."


Red Bull team principal Christian Horner says anticipated improvements to the team's Renault engine this year will create a "season of two halves".

Red Bull failed to win a race in 2015 as Renault's turbo hybrid unit lagged behind those of Mercedes and Ferrari.
But the French manufacturer's return as a constructor after buying out Lotus is likely to trigger "significant progress", according to Horner.
"The first half is going to be less competitive than the second," he added.
"I believe it will be a transitional year.  I think we are going to start the year with some progress from the end of last season, but I think with our engine partner's commitment to buying a team we will see staged progress during the course of the year."
Red Bull scrapped their previous contract with Renault amid last season's poor results and sought an alternative supply with Ferrari and Mercedes.
After those negotiations failed, Red Bull arranged a new deal with Renault that will see the engines badged with the name of new sponsor TAG Heuer.
Renault will be assisted in its development of the engine by British company Ilmor, which has previously acted as a consultant for Red Bull on engine design.
Horner was speaking in London at the launch of the team's new 2016 livery, which featured a toned-down matt paint scheme.
"It feels like a new era for the team, with a sharp new livery that's distinctive and is going to stand out on track," Horner continued.
"Over the years we evolved a certain look but with the clean sheet of paper we had this time we decided to do something very different.
"It's innovative and aggressive. It looks right and things that look good tend to go well, so hopefully we'll see that on track."
The new livery was showcased on a previous season's car, with the team's new RB12 not due to break cover until testing in Barcelona on Monday.
The new season begins in Australia on 20 March.


Postal workers get through two million red rubber bands per day, the Royal Mail has revealed.

In the past five years, the organisation has spent almost Â£5m on four billion bands which are used to bundle letters together.
Keep Britain Tidy has called for their use to be reduced because they say wild animals can choke on them.
The Royal Mail says the bands are necessary and that they use biodegradable ones.
The figures were released to the Daily Telegraph under the Freedom of Information Act.
It said that the amount the postal organisation spends on bands has increased by 40% in five years.
Keep Britain Tidy has long campaigned against the use of rubber bands.
In 2009, about 13,000 discarded bands were collected by people and sent in to the charity who then delivered them to the Royal Mail's headquarters.
Dickie Felton, from Keep Britain Tidy, has previously said: "We accept that dropping an elastic band is hardly the worst littering offence in the world, but none-the-less it is litter.
"The bands look terrible strewn on the floor and pose a choking danger to pets and wildlife."
A Royal Mail spokesman said: "Royal Mail regularly reminds postmen and women about the importance of avoiding litter.
"The vast majority of rubber bands are re-used by our people in delivery offices and mail centres across the UK."


Singapore is advising all pregnant women with symptoms associated with Zika, to be tested for the virus.

The city-state has now confirmed 82 locally transmitted cases of Zika, a mosquito-borne virus linked to severe birth defects.
It has initiated a drive to wipe out mosquitoes in affected areas.
On Tuesday, the US joined Australia, Taiwan and South Korea in advising pregnant women against non-essential travel to Singapore.
The latest global Zika outbreak originated in Brazil last year, but has since spread across the Americas.
Dozens of cases have been confirmed in Singapore over the past week, some outside the original cluster amongst migrant construction workers in the Aljuneid district in the south-east.
This has sparked concern that the numbers could escalate sharply.
The health ministry has advised pregnant women with symptoms such as fever, rash, red eyes and joint pain, to get tested.
It also said women with male partners who are Zika-positive, should be tested "regardless of whether they have been to Zika-affected areas" and even if they have no symptoms themselves.
Testing for such women will be provided free, but it "is not routinely recommended for other pregnant women".
Meanwhile workers have been fumigating public areas across the country and existing home inspections for possible mosquito infestation have been stepped up. Sales of insect repellent and insecticide are reported to have increased.
While Zika mostly causes relatively mild symptoms, it is particularly dangerous for pregnant women because it is thought it can cause microcephaly, in which babies are born with abnormally small heads and underdeveloped brains.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is advising pregnant women not to travel to areas with ongoing Zika virus outbreaks.
However, many governments, including the UK's, are advising women who are pregnant or planning to be, to speak to their doctors about any plans to go to Zika-affected areas, and take precautions against being bitten by mosquitoes once there.


Victoria Pendleton was denied a fairytale farewell on the track as she lost her Olympic sprint title to Australia's Anna Meares.

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Pendleton won race one of the three-leg final against Australia's Meares by 0.001 seconds but was disqualified for riding out of the sprinting lane.
The Briton - the defending champion - tried to hit back in race two.
But a stunning Meares finish gave her a 2-0 win and left Pendleton with silver.
Guo Shuang of China took bronze after beating Germany's Kristina Vogel 2-0.
"I would have loved to have won on my final race, but I'm just so glad that's it all done and I can move on," said Pendleton."
With Laura Trott winning gold in the omnium and Sir Chris Hoy defending his keirin title, Britain end with seven golds, one silver and a bronze to show for six days in the velodrome.
Britain have won seven out of 10 track cycling gold medals at the London 2012 Olympics
Women's individual sprint: Anna Meares (Aus)
Men's keirin: Sir Chris Hoy (Gbr)
Women's omnium: Laura Trott (Gbr)
Defeat by her fiercest rival was an unhappy end to Pendleton's illustrious career on the track, but the six-time sprint world champion has the consolation of taking keirin gold away from London 2012.
Meares, in contrast, came into the final with only a bronze from the team sprint to her name at London 2012, but the 28-year-old left with Australia's first gold medal in the velodrome of these Games.
The two riders have enjoyed some epic duels on the track in the past and their first cat-and-mouse encounter did not disappoint.
Meares stalked Pendleton like a tiger around the track and won the first race after the British rider was adjudged to have come out of her lane as she held off the Australian by the width of a tyre.
That left Meares needing just one more win to take gold, which she sealed with a burst of speed on the final bend that left Pendleton unable to respond.
"There was no disputing that final race. Anna Meares was just the better sprinter. We have to hand it to her, it was a great race but it's disappointing for Victoria Pendleton. I don't think Anna thought she could win judging by the look on her face at the end. She looked surprised. Meares was just stronger and she knew she had it on that final bend."
Tears followed from an emotional Pendleton, whose dream of becoming the first British woman to win three Olympic golds was dashed.
However, her two golds mean she remains alongside runner Kelly Holmes, swimmer Rebecca Adlington, fellow track cyclist Trott and sailors Sarah Webb, Sarah Ayton and Shirley Robertson as the country's most successful female Olympians.
Meares, meanwhile, was left to celebrate her second Olympic gold medal, eight years after she won her first in the 500m time trial in Sydney.
"Victoria's such a hard-fought opponent and she's dominated the sport for so long," said Meares. "It's been such a difficult challenge and to be able to win the Olympic title for me, it's so special."


Republic of Ireland boss Martin O'Neill has eased concerns over James McCarthy's fitness for Euro 2016.

The Everton midfielder's thigh injury has prevented him from training fully since he linked up with the Republic squad on Monday.
McCarthy, 25, may not be risked in Friday's friendly against the Netherlands but O'Neill said he would "definitely" be in his Euro 2016 squad.
"The doctor tells me he's making good progress," said O'Neill on Wednesday.
"He's got a little bit of time. He's been an important part of the team over the last two years.
"It's one of those things you just want to be right rather than rushing back."
McCarthy, who has won 33 Irish caps, missed the Euro 2012 finals to be with his ill father.
O'Neill reported that Ciaran Clark's ankle injury is "improving" while Shane Long was able to train even though he still has stitches in his knee injury.
While McCarthy's squad spot is secure, the Republic boss has decisions to make over his midfield options.
Eunan O'Kane, Harry Arter, David Meyler, Stephen Quinn and Darron Gibson are all battling to impress O'Neill and the manager admitted that he has still to make up his mind on his central midfield permutations.
"That's an area we'd certainly be having a look at and we'll be looking until after the second game (against Belarus).
"There are one or two places at this minute that are still undecided.
"The players I am talking about may have not had much game time, so it is these training sessions and matches that will ultimately make my mind up."
O'Neill also has a decision to make on which three goalkeepers to bring to France and Shay Given may be handed an opportunity to prove his sharpness in Friday's game against the Dutch.
West Ham keeper Darren Randolph looks certain to be named in the squad with Given, Millwall's David Forde and Sheffield Wednesday's Keiren Westwood the contenders for the remaining two positions.
Given, 40, returned to Stoke duty last month after being out of action since sustaining a knee injury in the Republic's win over Germany last October.
The veteran hobbled off at half-time in Stoke's defeat by Manchester City four weeks ago but fears that he suffered a serious groin injury proved unfounded.
The Republic play the Dutch in Dublin on Friday night before facing Belarus in Cork on 31 May.
Their first match at the tournament is against Sweden in Paris on 13 June, with Belgium and Italy their other opponents in Group E.


The number of affordable homes built in England in 2015-16 fell to its lowest level for 24 years, new data shows.

There were 32,110 built, compared to 66,600 in the previous year, according to figures from the Department for Communities and Local Government.
Ministers said the slump was because of the start of a new housebuilding cycle, adding the government was investing £8bn in affordable housing.
Labour said the figures were disastrous and many "affordable" homes were not.
The DCLG figures showed the number of new homes for social rent fell to only 6,550.
Labour said this was 80% lower than in the party's last full year in power (2009-10) when the figure stood at 33,490.
The number of homes for private rental at "affordable" rates fell from a peak of 40,730 in 2014-15 to 16,550 in 2015-16.
The total constructed for affordable home ownership dropped from 15,970 to only 3,430 over the same period.
Labour housing spokesman John Healey said the figures showed the government was building the lowest number of social rented homes since records began.
He added: "This all-time low results from Conservative ministers who have washed their hands of any responsibility to build the homes families on ordinary incomes need.
"We've seen six wasted years with the Tories in charge of housing.
"They have no long-term plan for housing and they're doing too little to fix the housing crisis for millions of people who are just managing to cover their housing costs."
Mr Healey also said the government was trying to hide its "failure" by branding more homes as affordable - even when they are available at 80% of market rent or have a purchase price of as much as £450,000.
"Public concern about housing is at the highest level for 40 years. Millions of families are struggling with high housing costs," he said.
A spokesman for the DCLG explained the drop, saying: "Delivery is normally lower in the first year of any new housing programme and so these figures are expected as part of a five-year housebuilding cycle.
"Building more homes is an absolute priority for this government, which is why we have doubled the housing budget to £8bn and we now have the largest affordable housing programme in 40 years.
"Furthermore, latest figures out this week show overall housebuilding is at its highest level in eight years and we will be publishing our White Paper shortly, setting out our plans to build more homes and more quickly."
Shelter's head of policy and public affairs, Anne Baxendale, said: "At a time when this country is crying out for more genuinely affordable homes, these figures are not only shocking but unacceptable.
"With 120,000 children set to spend Christmas homeless and in temporary accommodation and a whole generation of private renters living from one pay cheque to the next, the new government needs to get a grip on this problem once and for all."
The Local Government Association said: "If we are to stand any chance of solving our housing crisis, councils must be able to replace sold homes and reinvest in building more of the genuine affordable homes our communities desperately need now more than ever."
Terrie Alafat, chief executive of Chartered Institute of Housing, said: "Though a drop in the delivery of affordable housing may have been expected following last year's peak, the fact supply has more than halved in a year is extremely worrying.
It was now clear that the government must introduced bold and targeted measures to deliver its pledge to tackle the growing housing crisis, he added.


Claims that Scotland Yard and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) covered up evidence of police corruption in a high-profile money-laundering case have been given new weight after the discovery of a substantial number of documents suggesting an officer did take bribes.

The previously undisclosed material came to light after the Director of Public Prosecutions, Alison Saunders, demanded a review into the conviction of Nigerian politician James Ibori.
The internal investigation followed allegations by defence lawyers that prosecutors had "wilfully misled" judges about the existence of evidence that could support corruption claims. Now defence solicitors are being sent previously unseen documents discovered during the review.
In a statement the CPS reveals how "the review team found material to support the assertion that a police officer received payment in return for information".
"The review team has now concluded that this material should have been disclosed to the defence and the process of disclosure to relevant parties is under way."
Prosecutors had previously denied there was any undisclosed material to support the corruption allegations and the admission that considerable documentation exists and should have been handed over, represents an embarrassing climb-down for the CPS.
Ibori, a former governor of one of Nigeria's oil-producing states, pleaded guilty in 2012 to laundering millions in the UK through the purchase of property and expensive cars. Eight Ibori family members and associates, including former London solicitor Bhadresh Gohil, were convicted of linked crimes.
The convictions were hailed as a victory for the Department for International Development (DfID), which had funded the prosecution as part of its campaign against state corruption in Africa. The project included a special anti-corruption unit operating from Scotland Yard.
Questions about the safety of the convictions emerged after a bundle of documents was sent to the authorities purporting to show that police had accepted bribes from private detectives hired by Mr Ibori.
Ibori's solicitor, Bhadresh Gohil, had sent the documents anonymously while he was in prison. He protests his innocence and claims he is a whistleblower exposing possible police corruption.
It was alleged that the officer heading the DfID-funded unit, DS John McDonald, received payments in return for providing information to Ibori about the case. He has always denied any wrongdoing.
The allegations were investigated by Scotland Yard's Directorate of Professional Standards (DPS), which identified "no misconduct" and concluded the documents were forgeries.
Mr Gohil was subsequently charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice.
Prosecutors alleged that he had faked the documents to try to get his conviction overturned on appeal.
But the Crown Prosecution Service abandoned a planned trial in January this year amid defence claims that crucial evidence of alleged police corruption had been covered up.
DS McDonald's status was reviewed internally earlier this year, but he has since returned to normal duties, deployed to an operational post in Scotland Yard's specialist crime and operations unit.
Scotland Yard said it is "not aware of any new information or evidence previously received regarding this matter, but we have made it clear to the CPS that should they have any such material as a result of the review, we would wish to receive it."
Despite its discovery of previously undisclosed documents supporting claims of corruption, the Crown Prosecution Service says it "is confident that these prosecutions, which included four guilty pleas, remain safe".
However, in a press statement, lawyers for Gohil say "the question of whether any of the convictions are safe is a matter which is currently sub judice".
Asset confiscation proceedings for Ibori are still on-going and defence lawyers have lodged appeals against the conviction of Ibori and others.
"Defendants in the cases have submitted grounds of appeal to the Court of Appeal, Criminal Division and the proceedings will not be litigated before the Court until 2017," the statement on behalf of Gohil says.
"The principal question before the court is whether the convictions are safe by virtue of the CPS and prosecuting counsel having deliberately misled the courts on a number of occasions in respect of a number of defendants over a period of five years."


A woman claims she has cured herself of the bowel condition Crohn's disease through the medicinal properties of tree bark.

Marlene Barnes, 72, of Cardiff, had part of her colon and intestine removed due to the illness and began grinding up bark for a remedy 16 years ago.
Her consultant told her: "Recent investigations have shown no evidence of active disease."
An estimated 90,000 people in the UK suffer from Crohn's disease.
The former RAF clerical officer said she began the treatment because she had "a whole cupboard full of things which didn't work" and read that tree bark might be able to help.
She first used to cut bark from trees in a local park but was soon travelling around Europe to find a wider range of species.
Ms Barnes said "sheer determination" led her to continue with a trial-and-error approach, even when it made her sick.
"The first bark I tried came from a hazel tree - it felt like a dozen ferrets were having a fight in my stomach," she said.
"I thought I'm for the morgue this time. Then I started to feel better, a lot better than I felt in a long time and I thought there must be something in it.
"I started trying to work out which was the best, it was real trial and error, I nearly poisoned myself on so many occasions.
"I tried quite a lot of trees until I found which ones were the real miracle cures. The majority taste woody but not unpleasant although some are a little bitter.
"Some people who see me must think 'what a vandal - fancy cutting things off trees'."
Doctors had told her the Crohn's disease she was diagnosed with at age 14 was incurable but her consultant gastroenterologist has since said she has no more signs of the disease.
Ms Barnes currently consumes 120ml of bark daily and hopes to sell her recipe to a pharmaceutical firm.
She said: "I think these drug companies should be researching what nature has put there for them.
"I'm not anti-conventional medicine but I just think we should try other things as well.
"Bark has changed my quality of life so much - my only regret is that I didn't discover it sooner."


Sinn Fein has announced that Martin McGuinness will be the party's candidate for the Irish presidency.

Northern Ireland's deputy first minister has been approved by the party's officer board. It will now go before the party executive for formal approval this weekend.
If he was elected, he would have to give up his deputy first minister job.
During the campaign he is expected to stand aside temporarily. Another Sinn Fein minister will stand in.
Mr McGuinness is currently in New York along with First Minister Peter Robinson on a five day investment mission.
Speaking from New York he said he was "honoured" to have been given the opportunity "to build on my work within the peace process".
"I hope that my campaign will give citizens the opportunity to make a stand for the new Ireland," he said.
He added that he believed that those who had voted for his election in Northern Ireland would be pleased with his decision.
"They will be very happy that I, as an Irish republican from the north, will be prepared to stand for the Irish presidency," he said.
"The whole all-Ireland nature of the agreements that we have made, make it incumbent upon all of us to continue to bring about - I hope - the reunification of Ireland by purely peaceful and democratic means."
Mr McGuinness emphasised that although he would be stepping aside as deputy first minister during the campaign process, he would not be out of the decision making process in Northern Ireland.
Education Minister John O'Dowd is thought to be a more likely stand-in than either Agriculture Minister Michelle O'Neill or Culture Minister Caral NiChuilin.
Besides Sinn Fein's 14 TDs, Mr McGuinness will have to get the backing of three others to secure a place on the ballot paper for the election in late October.
He is certain to face questions about his IRA past - but his party colleagues believe his high profile as a result of the peace process should help build Sinn Fein's vote.
In a statement, Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams  said: "This is a time of great challenge for all the people of Ireland. We need positive but authentic leadership.
"It will be a great honour for me to propose Martin McGuinness to contest this election on a broad, republican, citizen-centred platform.
"I believe that this election will give Martin the platform to continue the work which he has led in the north and in the peace process and to put it on a national footing."
Speaking to the BBC at Sinn Fein's party conference last week, Mr McGuinness said he "hadn't even considered the prospect" of running for the presidency but added "we'll see what happens over the next short while".
Sinn Fein has opened up a space on the left of Labour and is in a good position to grow in the south.
It is rather odd that the party has chosen to go back into its past to someone who was in the IRA and back to a senior older Northern leadership.
It is strange putting an older northern stamp on its southern profile. I am not sure it is the way for the party to expand its base in the south.
Mr McGuinness is not going to win the presidential election. He will bring out the Sinn Fein vote.
But it is hard to see what is in it for Martin McGuinness. He is presumably ending his career as deputy first minister to go to what? A respectful showing in a presidential election in the south?
Fine Gael's Gay Mitchell, Special Olympics boss Mary Davis, buisnessman Sean Gallagher and poll topper Michael D Higgins of Labour, have already put their names forward for the October election.
Senator David Norris appeared on RTE's Late Late Show on Friday night to discuss his renewed attempts to secure a nomination.
Mr Norris reactivated his hopes to run by meeting Independent TDs (members of parliament) on Thursday.
He pulled out of the race in August after it emerged he wrote to an Israeli court pleading for clemency for his former partner Ezra Yizhak.
Yizhak had been accused of the statutory rape of a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in 1992.
He admitted the charge, pleading guilty and was convicted in 1997.
Speaking on the show he said he hoped to re-enter the campaign but it would be dependent upon receiving the necessary support.
"I think people love a comeback and this would be the biggest comeback in Irish political history," he said.


The ancient Greek goddess Europa features on a new five-euro note unveiled by the European Central Bank.

It appears as both a watermark and hologram on the note, which otherwise largely resembles its predecessor.
Other notes will likewise be reissued in what is only the second series of euro banknotes since the single currency's launch on 1 January 1999.
The new series will be phased in over several years with the five-euro note entering circulation in May.
Europa has featured on some euro coins before.
The new notes are appearing at a time of continued uncertainty about the 17-nation eurozone's stability. Last year there was intense speculation that struggling Greece might have to exit the eurozone, so some may see it as ironic that a Greek goddess is now the face of the euro.
In order to use up remaining stocks in many eurozone countries, the original five-euro notes will be issued for several months alongside the new ones. The two series will circulate in parallel as legal tender.
The ECB has not yet set a termination date for the first series as legal tender, and says the deadline will be announced well in advance.
In Greek mythology, Europa was a noble Phoenician woman whose beauty inspired the god Zeus to seduce her. He appeared to her as a white bull and carried her away to Crete. Later she bore Zeus three sons, one of whom, Minos, became ruler of Crete.
The image used on the five-euro note comes from a vase in the Louvre Museum in Paris. The vase is more than 2,000 years old and was found in southern Italy.


Ambulances spent nearly 1,200 hours queuing outside the Queen Alexandra Hospital in Portsmouth in one month, city councillors have heard.

Portsmouth City Council's health scrutiny panel heard the figure is now down to 300 hours a month.
Tracy Redman, head of operations for South Central Ambulance Service, said this was "still too high".
A spokeswoman said the increase in lost hours for ambulances could have partly been due to the "winter rush".
The 1,200 hours lost in January is nearly double the figure for October, when patients were waiting for up to seven hours in ambulance queues.
The scrutiny panel also heard the time taken for ambulances to reach patients hit a peak in March.
Ms Redman said more than 100 of the most urgent patients, categorised as "red" calls, waited for more than 30 minutes, the highest total for a year.
She said the situation had recently "settled down" and waits were "not as high now".
The panel was told problems with queues were "more acute" on Mondays, because fewer hospital patients were discharged at the weekend.
A spokeswoman for South Central Ambulance Service said: "We are not seeing as many ambulances queuing outside the Queen Alexandra Hospital now, however we have still got lots of work to do to drive down the delays further.
"Around that time of year we do always see a significant increase in pressure on all NHS services between January and March."
It is not known how the service is working to cut waiting times, however in February this year a CQC report revealed the hospital had made "sustained improvements".


Cardiff Blues coach Danny Wilson says a larger squad is needed to deal with the increasing number of concussions.

Prop Brad Thyer and centre Ray Lee-Lo and flanker Ellis Jenkins  are the latest Blues players to be sidelined with head injuries.
"More squads will have to be bigger for the reason that we lose players to concussion almost every week, for a week if not longer," Wilson said.
"Safety first - but it does put a stress and a strain on the resources."
Wilson has strengthened his squad by signing Ulster lock Franco van der Mewre,Leicester centre Jack Roberts and Exeter second row Damian Welch for the 2017-18 season.
"We all work to budgets and constraints and to those constraints we feel we've made some good signings and got some good people on board to add to what we already have here at Cardiff Blues,
"Ultimately the bigger and the deeper the squad you have the more you can deal with injury problems and the latest problem in the game is concussion," Wilson said.
Cardiff Blues have also in recent weeks offered new deals to young fly-half Jarrod Evans, centre Garyn Smith and props Dillion Lewis and Ethan Lewis.
The region have a high number of home grown players in their current first team squad, which is a necessity according to Wilson.
"With the financial constraints, you need to bring players through the academy system and develop from within," he said.
"Credit to this region a number of players have come through the system and play not only for Cardiff Blues but also for Wales and long may that continue," Wilson added.


A council boss has been suspended while an independent investigation into his conduct takes place.

Cheshire East Council said the suspension of chief executive Mike Suarez after a disciplinary committee meeting on Monday was a "neutral act".
The Conservative-run authority will not reveal details of the allegations.
Councillor Howard Murray said the suspension was "a neutral act taken in the interests of both the council and chief executive".
The chair of the investigation and disciplinary committee added: "It is important that this investigation is undertaken objectively and therefore it would be inappropriate to make any further comment at this stage."


Media in India are discussing the government's plan to reform the country's judicial system by changing the way the judges are appointed.

The lower house of India's parliament on Wednesday passed a bill to replace decades-old system of appointing judges.
The old method, known as the collegium system, allowed a forum of the chief justice and other top judges to appoint and transfer their colleagues.
The new bill replaces the collegium system with an independent commission.
The bill will become law after it's passed in the upper house of the parliament and is approved by the president.
Some experts have expressed concern that the law may undermine the independence of the judiciary.
But Law Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad says the proposed law does not impact the judiciary's independence.
"We are for maintaining the sanctity of the judiciary... We have said that this house respects the independence of the judiciary. That should be assuring," The New Indian Express quotes him as saying.
The report say the passage of the bill "marked the nascent Narendra Modi government's opening innings in passing big legislations".
The "landmark bill" comes amid the "government's assertion that the measure was aimed at ensuring that only meritorious people are selected as judges to the higher courts", The Times of India reports.
Meanwhile, newspapers and websites are also discussing a "rift" in the anti-corruption Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) or Common Man's Party.
Shanti Bhushan, one of the founding members of AAP, recently criticised party chief Arvind Kejriwal's leadership.
"Arvind (Kejriwal) is a great leader and a great campaigner, but in my opinion he lacks organisational ability. He does not have the kind of competence which can spread the message of the party all over India," the First Post website quotes Mr Bhushan as saying.
Mr Kejriwal's party made a stunning debut in the Delhi state election in December, but he quit as the chief minister in February after his anti-corruption bill was blocked in the assembly.
In the general election held earlier this year, Mr Kejriwal and his party candidates lost badly in most seats.
The Business Standard says Mr Bhushan's statement has brought the "division within the party to the fore".
The Mail Today says this is "not the first time when questions have been raised about Mr Kejriwal's control over the party functioning".
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The death of Footballers' Wives star John Forgeham has been described as a "shock to all of us" by his friend, producer Simon Golding.

The 75-year-old, best known for his roles in the ITV drama and The Italian Job, died on Friday.
His daughter Jonesta paid tribute to a "wonderful and charismatic man" in the Daily Mirror.
She said: "He would want to be remembered as this wonderful actor. He lived and breathed acting."
The actor, who also starred in Crossroads and Mean Machine, is said to have fallen from his bed at his home in Worthing, West Sussex, on Wednesday and broken his collarbone.
He later suffered internal bleeding which proved fatal.
Speaking to the BBC, Mr Golding paid tribute to an "extraordinary character" who told "hugely funny and entertaining stories".
He described how once, when he turned up to visit, Forgeham had forgotten he was coming.
He said: "I called him on his mobile - he was actually in Sherwood Forest in Nottingham playing conkers with comedian Freddie Starr!"
He added:  "I am in touch with both daughter and son... you can imagine their total grief.
"He was ill for some time and had not really worked for a year or so.
"But he had a new flat around Christmas and was on the mend - so it was a shock to all of us.
"He has left a void in my life."
Friends and colleagues have paid tribute on Twitter, including co-stars Vinnie Jones and Susie Amy.
Forgeham, who was born in Kidderminster, Worcestershire, also leaves a son, Jason, and five grandchildren.


Jennifer Boyle is thought to be the last surviving person to have worked in the British embassy in Cairo during the Suez Crisis.
Aged 21, Jennifer left London the day the Suez canal was nationalised by Egypt's president, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, arriving at the embassy on 7 August 1956.
Now 81, Jennifer remembers the "emergency telegrams flying backwards and forwards". Her short time at the embassy, was like "living the pages of history".
When she arrived as an MI6 secretary, the youngest by six years, "it was already at pretty good fever pitch".
Meeting the British ambassador, Humphrey Trevelyan, was "just like being presented to royalty", Jennifer wrote to her mother and father.
He was "rather small, with sticking out ears, but still he was very charming. He informed me that I had arrived in stirring times."
At first, the "general situation was quiet" and throughout "all Egyptians are charming," she wrote.
A few days into her work deciphering messages, Jennifer wrote again to her parents: "Nobody really knows what is going to happen. But underneath the surface, the atmosphere is pretty tense."
Everyone feels as if they are "doing things for the last time and therefore must get the maximum amount of enjoyment out of it".
Jennifer explained to her parents: "There is still no indication of which way the tide is going to turn out here. Although the tension and the work have certainly mounted and we have started burning some of the very old embassy records just in case. And what a frightful job it is, as every bit of ash has to be raked through afterwards."
But as the embassy staff shrunk and wives returned to the UK, Jennifer remembers "playing hard".
"There were nightclubs, belly dancers. We would get to bed at three o'clock in the morning and were back in the embassy at seven. I was having the time of my life."
"We got an allowance of 200 cigarettes and two bottles of spirits a month for Â£1. So it made entertaining quite easy."
"I was invited out to His Excellency's tent in the desert for a picnic supper," she wrote.
"Little did I dream that the first meal I would ever have with an ambassador would be sitting in the middle of the desert chewing chicken bones in one's fingers.
"Lady Trevelyan is now the only wife left down here. If only things would just quieten down a little, we would have the most glorious time as there are so many unattached males wandering around and just no girls!
"Only at the moment one might just as well have a bed in one's office. I only tell you all this just in case anyone ever feels like telling me I don't know the meaning of work!"
But if not working, Jennifer says they were usually "in the club" having dinner with friends.
"In my case", the 21-year-old wrote, "nearly all Charlie boys from the embassy registry and a sprinkling of Dutch and American."
The fun was "drowned only by Ms Dunk, a large spinster of uncertain age, who has just arrived from Damascus where, according to her, she was the ambassador's right-hand woman.  It is just like a gramophone record of 'I said to Sir John' or 'Sir John said to me'.
Recalling this 60 years on, Jennifer agreed "she was a dreadful old bag".
As the crisis intensified, the ambassador was left "out of the loop".
The first thing anyone knew in the embassy of the attack by Israel was "a telegram at quarter to one in the morning," Jennifer said.
The code over the telephone, summoning her back to the embassy in the middle of the night was: "Shall we have a cup of tea?"
"And then, 'Shall we have some friends with us?' That meant it was top secret."
Having helped the ambassador decode the telegram, he turned to her and said, "It looks as though things are moving. You better go home as it looks as though you might be leaving soon."
Jennifer was told to leave with just one suitcase weighing 1st 6lb (9kg).
"The Swiss had volunteered to look after British assets. They're very good, the Swiss. They know what they're doing."
They were put on the last flight out of Cairo. The aircraft had four seats too few for those wanting to fly and Jennifer said she moved to the back of the queue in the hope of staying.
However "that was foiled," she said.
As they took off - quickly and "straight up" - an elderly American gentleman turned to her and said "ooh gee, I hope he doesn't rush it".
"I looked out of the window and there, each side of the runway, were the Egyptian tanks."
"There's no use saying I was frightened because I wasn't. The atmosphere was typically British: determinedly cheerful."


Jack Holland scored an injury-time equaliser for Bromley to dent Forest Green Rovers' automatic promotion bid.

Kurtis Guthrie's first-half brace put the visitors in control, his first coming from a redirected Brett Williams' shot before a close-range second just before half-time.
Pierre Joseph-Dubois halved Bromley's deficit from six yards out.
Despite Paul Rogers sending' off, Holland rescued a point for Bromley when he headed home in stoppage time.
Forest Green boss Ady Pennock told BBC Radio Gloucestershire:
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"I'm very annoyed. They let me down today, they let all my staff down. To go 2-0 up, 10 men, the second half is just not acceptable.
"Why should I be on the sidelines shouting and hollering, it all comes to how badly they really want it, I badly want it, all my staff badly want it, the fans want it.
"It all depends if they really want it and some of them have really got to look at themselves now because Cheltenham are in the hot seat."


Reading manager Jaap Stam is confident his players will learn the lessons of their chastening 7-1 defeat at Norwich.

The Royals were 5-0 down within 35 minutes at Carrow Road on Saturday in their first defeat in four games.
"We've had a couple of defeats in a row before this season and we've succeeded in bouncing back," Stam said.
"The players have got the mentality to want to do that and I'm confident in the team that they'll want to do well towards the end of the season."
Reading remained fourth in the Championship. They have a six-point cushion inside the play-off places over seventh-placed Fulham with five games remaining.
"Unfortunately days like this can happen," Stam admitted to BBC Radio Berkshire. "But we still have five very important games to go to secure that top-six spot.
"There's not going to be a lot of difference (on the training ground) in what we normally do. We'll speak about what's happened and we'll show some clips and talk about what we need to improve and be better at.
"But sometimes it's not tactical, it's about feeling from players. Because you're working with human beings, you can't always bring the same standards week in, week out.
"We're a team of young players that need to develop, but also some older ones who sometimes struggle to play to the standards they did before.
"If we're not playing up to standard, perhaps we need to make it a bit more difficult for the opposition."


Leyton Orient have appointed former Sampdoria boss Alberto Cavasin as their new manager on a two-year deal.

The Italian, 60, takes over after the O's, 17th in League Two, ended Andy Hessenthaler's five-month reign as boss in late September.
He becomes Orient's eighth manager since Italian businessman Francesco Becchetti bought the club in 2014.
Interim boss Andy Edwards, who had overseen one defeat and one draw, reverts to his role as assistant boss.
Orient travel to Southend in the Checkatrade Trophy on Tuesday.


A 1937 letter from Chinese Communist Party leader Mao Zedong to then-Labour Party leader Clement Attlee has sold at auction for £605,000 ($918,000).

In the letter, Mao asks Attlee for "practical assistance" in battling Japanese troops who had invaded China.
Auctioneers Sotheby's said the historical letter was an "exceptionally rare" example of Mao's signature.
The lot far exceeded its £100,000-150,000 estimate and was bought by a Chinese private collector.
In the typed letter signed by Mao, the communist leader tells then-opposition leader Mr Attlee: "We believe that the British people, when they know the truth about Japanese aggression in China, will rise in support of the Chinese people, will organise practical assistance on their behalf, and will compel their own government to adopt a policy of active resistance to a danger that ultimately threatens them no less than ourselves."
The letter was written from Yan'an in north-west China, where the communists set up their headquarters following the Japanese invasion.
Sotheby's said the timing of the communication was significant because Attlee had started to lead the party away from its "long-held pacifist position", and became "a major critic of the Conservative government's policy of appeasement towards Nazi Germany and her allies".
Mao's letter was sent to Atlee by the journalist James Bertram, who added an accompanying note to Attlee advising the British politician to "keep the enclosed letter, if only as a curiosity".
Gabriel Heaton, Sotheby's specialist in books and manuscripts said the letter was "an extraordinarily early instance of Mao engaging in international diplomacy, and is an exceptionally rare example of Mao's signature".
He added it was "only the second document signed by Mao to appear on the international auction market in recent decades."
The sale, in London, comes after several weeks of interest in China following the much-publicised four-day visit to the UK by Chinese President Xi Jinping in October.
Chinese history gained further attention last month when Labour shadow chancellor John McDonnell threw a copy of the Chinese Communist Party leader's Little Red Book at Chancellor George Osborne in Parliament, claiming UK assets were being sold to the Chinese.
Elsewhere on Tuesday, a red prime ministerial dispatch box belonging to the late Margaret Thatcher has sold at auction for £242,500.
Born in 1893, Mao Zedong was one of the founders of the Chinese Communist Party and was an influential 20th Century thinker.
He helped build the Red Army, led it on a 6,000-mile "long march" to escape its nationalist foes, and emerged as the most powerful party figure.
After victory over the nationalists in 1949, Mao proclaimed the People's Republic of China and became its first leader. His policies resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people.


The scale of membership decline at a trouble-hit multi-million pound leisure centre has been revealed, with a BBC Freedom of Information request.

Dumfries and Galloway Council declined to release the figures for the DG One site last year during its legal wrangle with builders Kier Construction.
It has now provided details of the membership decrease at the Dumfries centre and its replacement facilities.
They have fallen more than 70% from a peak of 1,415 in 2009 to 387 this year.
A council spokesperson stressed that membership figures were not the same as "actual attendances".
"Since the opening of the temporary facilities in October 2014 both the Loreburn Hall and the temporary pool located at the Ice Bowl have seen an increase in attendances," the spokesperson said.
"The increase in usage demonstrates that we made the right decision to provide these temporary facilities.
"Membership numbers have been a challenge long before DG One closed due to the level of competition from the private sector."
Combined attendance figures for the pool and Loreburn Hall have risen from a little under 37,000 in the first three months they opened to nearly 49,000 in the three months up to June this year.
The FOI request also revealed the total repairs bill for the site, which was forced to close completely in 2014 a little over six years after the Â£17m facility opened.
The figure for the contract costs of the remedial works is Â£9,985,685.
Dumfries and Galloway Council declined to reveal the scale of its contribution claiming it would be an "actionable breach of confidence".
It also refused to release any correspondence between the authority and Kier Construction.
The council said it considered that the public interest lay in "maintaining confidentiality between the parties involved" and outweighed the "public interest in disclosure".
A long-running legal wrangle between the two parties over the centre was settled earlier this year to allow major remedial work to begin.
DG One opened to the public in May 2008 but has suffered a string of problems which ultimately led to its complete closure in October 2014.
Temporary gym facilities at the Loreburn Hall and a swimming pool at Dumfries Ice Bowl have been put in place while the centre is closed.
The scale of the work involved means that it is unlikely to reopen until 2018 at the earliest.
The council is about to conclude a contract with McLaughlin and Harvey to carry out the remedial works.


Plans to double funding for Wales' poorest pupils will be announced at the Liberal Democrat party conference.

Education Secretary Kirsty Williams wants to increase the Welsh Pupil Premium from Â£300 to Â£600 per eligible child to help raise the attainment of disadvantaged pupils.
Ms Williams is the sole Liberal Democrat in a coalition with Labour.
Meanwhile, Welsh party leader Mark Williams said parties should work together against the Tories.
Ahead of Sunday's speeches in Brighton, the party's sole Welsh MP and leader in the country, Ceredigion's Mark Williams, defended Ms Williams' decision to join the Welsh Labour cabinet in May.
The Ceredigion MP told Sunday Politics Wales the Brecon and Radnorshire AM was taking Liberal Democrat "themes and priorities" into government "very effectively" as education secretary.
He also urged opposition parties to work together against the Tories, saying there was a case for "progressive politicians" to talk about "issues of common interest".
He was left as the only Welsh Liberal Democrat MP after the party's disastrous 2015 general election, with Ms Williams its sole AM after a 2016 assembly poll he said was "arguably worse".
"At this point in time, with boundary changes which massively support and encourage the Conservative Party electorally in the future, I think there is a case for politicians to be talking," he said.
"What I would loosely describe as progressive politicians to be talking about issues of common interest."
Mr Williams said politicians had campaigned across party lines for a Remain vote in June's EU referendum, albeit unsuccessfully.
"There was a positive in the referendum, even for those of us that lost it, in that progressive politicians were working together on a really important issue," he said.
"And I think that dialogue should be extended on other areas of policies as well - otherwise we have the spectre of Conservatism in power in Westminster for a very long time."


The BBC News website has run stories in the past week, one of which asserted that Christmas 2016 may be the cheapest ever, while the other said that Christmas dinner costs had risen 14%.

The claim: The cost of Christmas dinner this year will either be the cheapest ever or 14% up on last year.
Reality Check verdict: The two pieces of research look into the cost of buying different things at different shops so it is no great surprise that they get different answers.
The Reality Check team was asked to investigate which is true.
The first headline came from research by Good Housekeeping, and the first thing to stress is that when it says it will be the cheapest Christmas dinner to date, that means since it started doing the calculation in 2009.
The headline figure was that you could feed Christmas dinner to eight people for £19.84, or £2.48 a head, but that involves buying your 11 essential ingredients from four different shops.
It's that figure that is the lowest since the research started.
The 11 items are:
If you buy them all from just one shop, then the cheapest you can manage is £22.03 at Aldi, followed by £24.57 at Lidl.
The cheapest of the big supermarkets was Tesco at £28.08, with the highest price for the basket being £49.40 at Marks and Spencer.
Of the comparable supermarkets that they also looked at in 2010, Asda, Morrisons and M&S are more expensive now, Co-op has barely changed and Tesco, Lidl and Sainsbury's are cheaper.
There is a huge range of prices, and you would have to go to a great deal of trouble to get the sub-£20 dinner.
The second headline comes from BBC research using figures from mySupermarket.
It's based on making Christmas dinner for six instead of eight, and the basket of goods is different.
There's no brandy butter, mince pies or Christmas cake, but you do get gravy, red and white wine and a box of crackers.
This research is into what a typical shopper will pay, so it concentrates on the big supermarkets where most people shop, such as Tesco, Sainsbury's, Asda and Morrisons, rather than the discounters Aldi and Lidl.
It also uses averages across types of products, rather than necessarily looking for the cheapest.
It means that the typical cost of Christmas dinner comes in at £10.71 per person, up from £9.41 last year.
That's a huge difference from the £2.48 a head in the Good Housekeeping version, which wouldn't even pay for the £25 turkey in the BBC research.
Just the wine and crackers add £3.68 a head, and they are among the products that have gone up in price the most.
These are by no means the only pieces of research we've had about the cost of Christmas.
The cost of Christmas past widget claims to offer comparable figures for Christmas expenses going back to 1968, including purchases such as a 6ft Christmas tree and best-selling toys.
But the items in the Christmas dinner, not all of which are traditional festive ingredients, are:
The selection may have more to do with which items are in the Office for National Statistics' inflation basket of goods going back to 1968.
Taking a broader look at prices, the British Retail Consortium says food prices were 0.8% lower in November than they had been a year earlier, claiming that overall the cost of the Christmas shop is lower now than it was three years ago.
So food in general is slightly cheaper - what you end up paying for Christmas dinner will depend on how you shop and how much time you have to do it.
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Hackers that breached US government databases stole the personal information of at least 21.5 million people, officials said on Thursday.

Those affected include government job applicants, federal contractors, and over a million of their partners, the Office of Personnel Management said.
The figure is more than five times higher than the number of people that were feared to have been affected.
The data breach, which came to light in April, was widely blamed on China.
Authorities in Beijing have publicly denied any involvement.
The breach prompted a series of hearings in Congress and widespread criticism of the state of US cyber defences.
Politicians from both parties demanded OPM boss Katherine Archuleta be fired.
House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, a Republican, said President Barack Obama "must take a strong stand against incompetence in his administration and instill new leadership at OPM".
Last month, officials said personnel records of 4.2 million current and former federal government employees had been stolen in an incident.
On Thursday, OPM said that while investigating that breach they discovered additional information had also been compromised, including the social security numbers of 21.5 million individuals.
The stolen data also includes health and financial information, criminal records, and the names and addresses of government employees and their relatives.
Those affected include 19.7 million people who underwent background checks and 1.8 million others, mostly the partners of job applicants.
OPM serves as the human resource department for the US government. The agency issues security clearances and compiles records of all federal government employees.
The agency said that it had "no information at this time to suggest any misuse or further dissemination of the information that was stolen from OPM's systems."
But it said that for anyone who underwent a background investigation in 2000 or afterwards "it is highly likely that the individual is impacted by this cyber breach."
Last month, US intelligence chief James Clapper said China was the "leading suspect" in the massive data breaches.
His comments came after three days of high-level talks in which China and the US agreed to a "code of conduct" on cyber security issues.
Earlier this week, US Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said China was "trying to hack into everything that doesn't move in America".
China has dismissed claims of involvement as "irresponsible and unscientific".


Doubt has been raised over the authenticity of a painting purported to be by Vincent van Gogh which was displayed in a Reading cafe.

Houses at Auvers II was hung in the Picnic Cafe on Friday to launch the Open for Art weekend festival.
David Brooks, from Toronto, Canada, has been a van Gogh specialist for 18 years and claims it is not genuine.
Owner Mark Lawrence insists it is a real van Gogh, but admits it has not yet been authenticated.
Mr Brooks, who the Van Gogh Museum said "owns the largest van Gogh website in the world", told the BBC it was not a known work by the artist.
"To me it screams 'not van Gogh'," he said, adding: "It's not well executed, the style is quite poor."
The Van Gogh Museum, in Amsterdam, is the only place that can officially authenticate a van Gogh work.
Mr Lawrence said he had been working with the museum to get the painting researched since the beginning of the year.
The museum said it had received an email from Mr Lawrence on Monday, and had advised him to send a request for research along with a photograph of the painting.
It added an investigation could take weeks or sometimes months, depending on the type of inquiry required.
Mr Lawrence said: "We are doing everything that would normally be done to get it authenticated."
In relation to Mr Brooks' comments, he said: "It can't be fully authenticated simply from looking at a photograph, it has to be tested."
He also said it was possible the painting had areas of over-paint from restoration which "covers up some of the details".
"There's a lot of heavy cracking on our painting too which is commonly found in van Gogh work particularly ones he painted thickly, and it also has a protective thick varnish on it," he added.
Mr Lawrence previously said he inherited the painting from his grandfather who died in 1980, along with 200 other paintings.
The 27-year-old director of the web-based Reading Gallery is looking for a permanent home for his collection, which is currently in storage and is said to include works by Rembrandt, Picasso, and Dali.
He said House at Auvers II was bought in the 1920s by his great-grandfather for 300 francs in Paris, and added it was not known to the art world because it had been in his family since before van Gogh's works were first catalogued in the 1930s.


Algeria Football Federation (FAF) president Mohamed Raouraoua has strongly denied reports that they have approached current Morocco national team coach Herve Renard over the vacant manager's post.

The Desert Foxes are managerless following the shock resignation of Milovan Rajevac earlier this week.
Raouraoua told the FAF website: "I categorically state that we have never contacted Herve Renard and not even when he was unemployed about the Algeria coaching post.
"It is not our usual practice to contact a manager under the employment of another federation. We will never engage in such an irresponsible and unacceptable act."
Meanwhile, former AS Roma and Lille manager Rudi Garcia has rejected an approach from Algeria, according to reports in his native France.
Garcia, 52, was listed as one of the favourites to replace Rajevac along with Alain Perrin, Paul Le Guen, Rolland Courbis and Marc Wilmots.
It had been reported in the French media that Garcia was offered the position by FAF officials, but had turned them down.
Garcia, who has never managed a national side, has been out of management since being sacked by Italian Serie A side Roma in January.
Algeria were forced to a 1-1 draw at home by Cameroon last Sunday in Group B of 2018 World Cup qualifying.
Their next 2018 World Cup qualifier is away to group leaders Nigeria on 12 November.
Only the group winners will qualify for the tournament in Russia.