Fifa president Sepp Blatter is the victim of a conspiracy from "behind the scenes", his daughter has told the BBC amid the corruption crisis gripping world football.

"Nobody is without fault but (...) he's not the person who is taking money," Corinne Blatter said.
Her comments come as key Fifa officials face a string of bribery charges.
Mr Blatter, who has been re-elected as Fifa president, has not been implicated but faces calls to stand down.
Asked whether she thought there was a conspiracy against Mr Blatter - who won re-election as head of world football's governing body on Friday despite the current crisis - Corinne Blatter said: "I wouldn't say from the Americans and the British, but certainly people working behind the scenes, yes absolutely."
She added: "I don't know if you want to call them dark forces but I mean they really tried hard, they tried in September, October last year. How can Uefa who is saying 'we are the strongest confederation', how can they not put up a candidate?"
Mr Blatter beat rival Prince Ali bin al-Hussein of Jordan on Friday in an election that was overshadowed by arrests and corruption allegations.
In September 2014, Mr Blatter had come under pressure to quit after  rejecting calls for a report into alleged World Cup bidding corruption to be made public.
Corinne Blatter's comments came as the head of the English Football Association called on Uefa president Michel Platini to unite Europe behind a collective boycott of the 2018 World Cup.
And in further intrigue, South African newspapers reported on Sunday that the nation did pay $10m (Â£6.5m) to a football association led by a figure at the centre of the Fifa allegations, despite a week of denials.
Corinne Blatter denied claims that the events of the last few days had left her father with no credibility.
"All these things happened just to discredit him so that he would resign. But I can tell you in about [two or three] weeks no one will talk about it anymore.
"Other news will be top and he'll work normally, as he said yesterday at the press conference he had a great executive meeting and everyone is going to work together. He's also the president of those who didn't vote for him and they have to work together now."
And she denied again that Mr Blatter had taken any money.
"All the money he earned he earned it by working and he is a hard working president.
"All these people who say that he takes money I don't know what kind of money he should take and he's not the kind his character is not like that, he's not taking any money."


A new design for lithium-air batteries overcomes several big hurdles that have stood in the way of this concept.

Lithium-air cells can store energy much more densely than today's lithium-ion batteries, making them particularly promising for electric cars.
The design, published in Science, uses a spongy graphene electrode and a new chemical reaction to drive the cell.
It loses much less energy and can be recharged many more times than previous attempts at lithium-air batteries.
The hope for lithium-air batteries is that they will take in regular air to fuel the chemical reaction that releases electricity: lithium ions move from the positive electrode to the negative one, where they are oxidised.
At present the engineers behind the new effort, at the University of Cambridge, have only made laboratory test units which operate in pure oxygen, rather than air.
In a first, however, the prototypes can operate when that oxygen is moist.
"What we really want is a [true] lithium-air battery - one that just takes in air, without having to remove CO2, nitrogen and water," Prof Clare Grey, the senior author on the study, told BBC News. "And now we have a system that at least tolerates a lot of water."
Despite the significant progress made by Prof Grey's team, they say a commercial lithium-air battery is at least 10 years away.
Their demonstration units, for example, are still rather sluggish.
"Our batteries take days to charge and discharge, when you want it to happen in minutes and seconds," Prof Grey explained.
But the design has major pluses.
It packs in energy at a density that is almost the theoretical limit for lithium-air batteries. That energy density is what will eventually send electric cars across countries, rather than cities, on a single charge.
It also charges at a voltage of 3.0 and discharges at 2.8 volts - an efficiency of 93% - meaning it loses surprisingly little energy as heat. This is close to the efficiency of current lithium-ion batteries, and a big improvement on previous lithium-air efforts.
And crucially, these test batteries can be charged and recharged more than 2,000 times, with little effect on their function.
"We've been able to cycle our cells for months, with very little evidence of side reactions," Prof Grey said.
Part of the reason for this success is the design of the cathode, which is made from a sponge-like arrangement of graphene. This so-called "wonder material" is built up from one-atom-thick sheets of carbon.
The holes in the porous cathode allow reaction products to build up, as the battery discharges, and then dissolve away again as it gets recharged.
Also critical is the chemical reaction itself. Prof Grey's team has used an additive, lithium iodide, to change the chemistry at the heart of the battery.
Instead of lithium peroxide (Li2O2), as in most other lithium-air designs, the discharging reaction produces lithium hydroxide (LiOH) at the cathode.
And that lithium hydroxide can be completely dissolved away again, when the battery is recharged and the lithium ions return to the anode.
"It's a very different chemistry; it gives a new way of thinking about it," said Prof Grey. "It's a way off being commercial, but it does provide some interesting new directions to study."
Dr Paul Shearing, a chemical engineer at University College London, said the Cambridge design was "an important step" towards taking lithium-air batteries out of the lab.
"It's very impressive work," he told the BBC.
"Lithium air batteries [have been] plagued with problems, particularly around poor cycle life. This potentially could address those problems."
If successful, Dr Shearing added, lithium-air batteries could make a huge difference because their energy density very nearly matches the energy-per-kg packed by petrol.
As Prof Grey put it: "It's the energy density that's going to make that car battery that gets [from London] to Edinburgh."
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A man who was secretly detained and sent to Libya with his pregnant wife in 2004 has spoken of his disappointment that no-one will be prosecuted.

Ex-Libyan dissident Abdel Hakim Belhaj says the UK's MI6 helped to arrange the couple's rendition - saying they were covertly taken from Thailand to Libya.
Sami al-Saadi and his family were also sent to Libya in 2004, where he was allegedly tortured.
Prosecutors said there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone from MI6.
Mr Belhaj told the BBC he was "very disappointed that individuals responsible" would not be prosecuted, adding: "If there is political interference with the courts, then it undermines British justice."
Rendition involves sending a person from one country to another for imprisonment and interrogation, and in some cases torture.
Mr Belhaj, who commanded an armed opposition group against Libyan dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, and his wife, Fatima Boudchar, had been trying to seek asylum in the UK when they were taken from Bangkok to Tripoli in 2004.
Their lawyers claimed it was a joint operation between the US intelligence service the CIA and its UK counterparts from MI6 to help Col Gaddafi round up his enemies.
Mr Belhaj alleges he was tortured by his jailers and questioned by British intelligence officers during a six-year detention.
Mrs Boudchar, who was pregnant at the time of her detention and transfer to Libya, spent four months in a Libyan prison.
Speaking in her first television interview, she told the BBC: "My hands and legs were tied and my eyes were covered. They injected me with something. I didn't know where I was going.
"I was six months' pregnant. I was so scared that I was going to die."
Separately, Mr al-Saadi and his family were taken from Hong Kong and sent to Libya, where he was allegedly tortured. Memos indicated that MI6 was involved in his transfer.
The Metropolitan Police and the Crown Prosecution Service opened an investigation in January 2012 after documents found following the fall of Col Gaddafi suggested that MI6 had been involved in the rendition.
The documents included letters signed by "Mark". It has been claimed that this is Sir Mark Allen, then MI6 director of counter terrorism.
In a letter to Moussa Koussa, head of Col Gaddafi's intelligence agency, dated March 2004, "Mark" thanked him for helping to arrange a meeting in the desert between then Prime Minister Tony Blair and Col Gaddafi, as part of a warming of relations between the UK and Libya.
"Mark" wrote: "More importantly, I congratulate you on the safe arrival of Abu Abd Allah Sadiq (Mr Belhaj)â€¦ This was the least we could do for you and for Libya to demonstrate the remarkable relationship we have built over the years."
Even though there will be no prosecution of MI6 officers, the Libyan case still raises many questions.
For the first time, the CPS statement confirms that MI6 was in "communication" with individuals from foreign countries involved in the rendition, and seems to confirm the broad outline of the allegations (even though it finds insufficient evidence to charge).
In one of the most intriguing lines, it also says that the MI6 officer involved sought political authority for "some" of his actions, but not in a formal way. This goes to one of the mysteries surrounding the operation - who authorised it?
Sensitive MI6 operations are supposed to be authorised by politicians - normally the foreign secretary. Jack Straw was foreign secretary at the time and has denied any role in rendition.
And today's statement seems to support the idea that MI6 was operating at the time with only partial political cover.
There was no written record and nor did the officer, we learn, get authority for all his communications and conduct from whomever he talked to. That will raise questions about whether MI6 was operating under sufficiently strong oversight at the time.
The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said an unnamed public official had been investigated for aiding, abetting, counselling or procuring any offence of torture, and misconduct in public office.
It was found the person did not have any connection with the initial physical detention of either man or their families, the CPS said.
Sue Hemming, of the CPS, said: "Following a thorough investigation, the CPS has decided that there is insufficient evidence to charge the suspect with any criminal offence.
"We made our decision based upon all the available admissible evidence and after weighing up all of the information we have been provided with."
Mr Belhaj's lawyer Cori Crider told the BBC: "This suggests to me the security services are functionally above the law. If you're not going to charge in this case, then when are you going to charge?"
Lib Dem MP Alistair Carmichael has called for the government to make a statement to MPs following the CPS's decision.
The government's Intelligence and Security Committee said later it would examine the families' case as part of its ongoing inquiry into detainee treatment and rendition.
Scotland Yard said a small team of detectives had spent more than two years conducting a "thorough and penetrating investigation without fear or favour", and it was for the CPS to decide whether to prosecute.
Both Mr al-Saadi and Mr Belhaj pursued civil claims against the British government and named individuals. Mr al-Saadi settled out of court but Mr Belhaj's case is continuing.


Author Philippa Gregory has said she now insists on a "clause" in her contract with film makers to stop them changing historic facts in her work.

"I could not tolerate script writers changing the history of the novels," she told the BBC.
"The temptation of film makers to treat historical fact and fiction as if they were one and the same thing... is something I oppose."
Gregory's book The Other Boleyn Girl was adapted for film in 2008.
Gregory told the BBC that script writers "of course have the right to adapt the fiction to a drama".
She added: "It's one of the interesting issues that emerges when writing a hybrid like historical fiction, when the history is on the record but the fiction (the material of the novel) is of course imagined."
The best-selling author added that this was a new clause for her contracts and that it "doesn't apply to works already in development, but I imagine I will try to apply it in all future contracts".
She was asked about the film adaptation during a talk at Edinburgh International Book Festival, saying that "having gone to all the trouble of getting it right in the novel" it was frustrating to have the content altered, The Times reported.
She told The Times: "Let me assure you that when the producers have put Â£72m on their film production, they are not going to stop because I say, 'that hood is not right'.
"They are going to say, 'thank you honey, have another glass of champagne'.
"Once you are in a big, big, massive, expensive production like that, your importance and interest diminishes probably proportionately. So I was 72 million times less important than I was at the beginning of it."
She said of changes made to the history in her books: "It distresses me so much when I am trying to defend the history of the film, having gone to the trouble of getting it right in the novel.
"You know, three years' work and now you are saying it doesn't matter. It matters to me very much."
Two of Gregory's books have been adapted by the BBC for drama series - The White Queen and The Other Boleyn Girl.
She told The Times that when the latter was adapted for the corporation in 2003, she was closely involved in the script.
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"When the midwife came to the house, Aimee went floppy and unresponsive and the midwife called for an ambulance straight away.

"It all happened very quickly. They told me that she had a 5% chance of surviving."
Charlotte Heath, 28 and from Cheslyn Hay near Walsall, fights back the tears as she recalls the moment she was warned her five-day-old daughter may die.
Little Aimee had been infected with early onset Group B Streptococcus (or GBS) which, while harmless in most cases, can lead to a range of serious illnesses, including septicaemia, pneumonia and meningitis within the first week of a baby's life.
The bacteria - carried by an estimated one-in-four pregnant women - is passed from mother to baby.
In the majority of cases, babies can be protected if the mother is given intravenous antibiotics during labour.
But Charlotte did not know she was a carrier.
Despite the bleak outlook, Aimee survived but has been left with quadriplegic spastic cerebral palsy which means that she cannot sit unaided, walk or talk.
Charlotte said: "I know people will probably look at me and say, 'you know, she's got all these problems, you're fantastic, I don't know how you cope', but you do, you just get on with it because you know it could've been different.
"We feel lucky to have her."
Public Health England, which collates data for England, Wales and Northern Ireland told 5 live Investigates that the number of babies being made ill by the infection has increased by 12% between 2011 and 2015.
According to the British Paediatric Surveillance Unit, 518 newborn babies in the UK and Ireland were made ill as a result of the bacteria, 27 died and dozens more like Aimee were left with disabilities in the year to April 2015.
Craig White and Lynsey Dalvarez's son Frankie did not survive. Like Charlotte, Lynsey, 29, was unaware she was a carrier of the bacteria and was not tested or given the antibiotics which may have saved her son.
"I'd never heard of it before," she said.
"We didn't understand how sick he was. Saturday and Sunday they tried their best.
"On Sunday night he had gone into multiple organ failure and he'd started having seizures. They said they'd try one more thing and if not we'd have to withdraw care.
"They did a brain scan and it showed damage, so they took us into a room and removed support and he died 20 minutes later in my arms on the Monday. It was very quick."
Both Lynsey and Charlotte feel very strongly that every mother should be tested for  the condition.
While this is done in some European countries and the US, routine screening is not done in the UK.
The decision on whether to introduce it in this country is down to the Department of Health, which takes expert advice from the National Screening Committee.
The screening committee is currently looking at this, but has said in the past that it does not think there is a case for routine screening here because it does not believe it is accurate enough.
Dr Anne Mackie, Director of Programmes for the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), said: "The UK independent expert screening committee's last review of screening for group B strep carriage found testing in late pregnancy unreliable.
"This is because the test cannot distinguish between women whose babies will be affected by early onset group B strep and those who would not. This could lead to a high number of mothers and babies being exposed to unnecessary antibiotic use."
Campaigners disagree with the screening committee and say concerns about the overuse of antibiotics should not prevent mothers from being routinely screened.
Jane Plumb from the charity Group B Strep Support, said: "Screening will save babies' lives, stop families going through the trauma of seeing their baby suffer preventable infection and ease the burden on our overworked NHS."
They point to a clinical trial undertaken at London's Northwick Park Hospital in which more than 5,000 women were screened, with those testing positive offered antibiotics in labour.
Full trial results are expected to be detailed in the British Medical Journal soon but preliminary results given after the first 18 months showed an 80% reduction in the number of babies infected with the bacteria.
More than 250,000 people recently signed a petition calling on the Department of Health to introduce routine testing in the UK.
The Department of Health declined to comment until after the screening committee report, which is expected some time this month.
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Cliftonville manager Gerard Lyttle has begun his expected clear-out at the Solitude outfit.

Marc Smyth, Johnny Flynn and Paul George have not been offered new deals with Ciaran Murray and Caoimhin Bonner both transfer listed.
Lyttle was appointed a month after Tommy Breslin's departure in September.
He guided the Reds to the League Cup in January but they struggled thereafter and needed a play-off win over Glentoran to confirm a European spot.
However, Cliftonville's play-off victory was worth at least £160,000 in Uefa qualification payments and as a result, Lyttle is set to make a number of summer signings.
"We thank all of our departing players and we wish them all the best for the future," said the Reds manager.
"We are currently in discussions with a number of clubs for some of our other players and I envisage three or four of the remaining squad leaving before the start of the new season.
"I have identified a number of targets and the club are working on securing these players."
Smyth joined Cliftonville in the summer of 2012 after spells with Scottish clubs Ayr United, Partick Thistle, Airdrie United and Greenock Morton.
Flynn, who is also a defender, moved to the Reds from Falkirk in 2014 and played 70 games for the club.
George moved to the club last October but only made 10 appearances.


CCTV images showing a man travelling on a bus days before he died have been released as part of a murder inquiry.

Paul Groom, 48, was found with head injuries at his home in Fazakerley, Liverpool and died later in hospital on 10 December.
Detectives are hoping to trace passengers who travelled with him on the 17 bus from Kirkby to Fazakerley two days earlier.
A man is to stand trial accused of his murder in June.
Mr Groom boarded the bus at Valley Road at 06:14 GMT and got off on Lower Lane in Fazakerley, said police.
He was wearing a green camouflage coat and was with his dog, a brown whippet, which he was often seen walking in the Fazakerley area, said police.
Det Insp Cath Haggerty said: "We specifically need to speak with anyone on this bus who may have spoken to Paul or remembers having any kind of interaction with him.
"If you were on this bus or recognise anyone from the images, please contact us immediately."
Detectives said they are also keen to speak with anyone who may have seen or spoken with Paul between 15:00 on 7 December and 10:00 on 10 December.
Mr Groom, originally from Wrexham, died from a blow to the head, a post-mortem examination found.
Michael Hill, 32, of Oakdale Close, Kirkby, is charged with murder and is due to stand trial in June at Liverpool Crown Court.


Residents have clashed with asylum seekers in a town in eastern Germany that has become a flashpoint for anti-refugee sentiment.

Some 80 locals, described by police as far-right, brawled with 20 young asylum seekers in Bautzen.
The asylum seekers were chased to their hostel and put under police guard.
The mayor said the town had to avoid becoming a playground for the far right. A curfew has been imposed on the young asylum seekers.
Anti-migrant tensions have been mounting in Bautzen this year.
Locals cheered when a building due to house migrants was set on fire in February.
The following month, President Joachim Gauck was verbally abused when he visited Bautzen to discuss the influx of refugees in Germany.
Bautzen and the nearby town of Niedergurig are home to four asylum shelters.
Bautzen is 60km (38 miles) east of Dresden, where the "anti-Islamisation" Pegida movement began.
Since the arrival last year of 1.1 million irregular migrants and refugees in Germany, some areas, particularly eastern states, have seen a rise in anti-migrant violence as well as support for the anti-Islam AfD party.
Germany's federal police force says there have been 700 attacks on asylum accommodation this year, including 57 arson attacks.
Each fresh outbreak of refugee-related violence is potentially a political problem for Chancellor Angela Merkel. Some voters say large-scale migration could destabilise German society.
As a result the chancellor's conservative coalition has been haemorrhaging voters to the insurgent anti-migrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party.  That's a particular worry given that this weekend voters in Berlin region go to the polls, and next year Mrs Merkel's national government faces re-election.
But many Germans from other parts of Germany are more likely to blame the clashes on racist sentiment, rather than see it as a product of the chancellor's welcoming stance on refugees.
That is because this beautiful area of ex-communist eastern Germany already has a rather ugly reputation for neo-Nazi support and right-wing extremist violence.
Wednesday's outbreak of violence in Bautzen was a dramatic escalation after days of tension in the town.
The clashes appeared to be triggered by an incident the previous evening, when a 32-year-old resident was hurt by a bottle being thrown.
On Wednesday night a group of some 80 people, described by police as right-wingers, shouted slogans at up to 20 young asylum seekers, accusing them of taking over the central Kornmarkt shopping centre.
Tensions escalated, fuelled by alcohol, and scuffles broke out.
Police said they tried to separate the groups and asked them to leave. Then the asylum seekers - all thought to have come to Germany as unaccompanied minors - hurled bottles and wooden sticks at the police, who responded with pepper spray and batons.
When they did disperse, they were pursued by the locals to a nearby asylum centre.
An ambulance crew was caught up in the clashes when far-right residents hurled stones at their vehicle as they tried to take an 18-year-old Moroccan asylum seeker to hospital for treatment.
"It wasn't anarchy, but there was at least a chaotic phase that I would say lasted between 45 and 90 minutes," said police chief Uwe Kilz.
Local mayor Alexander Ahrens said he would not tolerate the violence. "It cannot be that Bautzen turns into a playground for right-wingers spoiling for a fight".
The young asylum seekers will now face an alcohol ban and a 19:00 curfew.


The Department of Health in Stormont has promised to publish draft advice on abortion for the NHS in Northern Ireland next week.

It was revealed during a High Court hearing in Belfast which had been due to decide whether the department had to publish the guidelines.
The attorney general said there was now no reason to proceed with the hearing.
Unlike the rest of the UK abortion is only allowed in very restricted circumstances in Northern Ireland.
The judicial review in the High Court was sought by the Family Planning Association (FPA) which has been campaigning for more than a decade for guidelines to be issued on the law on abortion.
The organisation received a letter from the office of the Health Minister Edwin Poots on Tuesday night which confirmed his decision to put proposals to the ministerial Executive in Belfast by 7 March.
He will submit a paper seeking approval to consult on a version of the guidance on termination of pregnancy.
Outside court Audrey Simpson, chief executive of the FPA in Northern Ireland, called for guidance to be issued urgently, and said it was unfortunate it had to resort to legal action.
In a statement issued through her solicitors she said: "The action now promised by the department is something that should have happened many years ago.
"It's essential that the guidance should contain clear pathways for referrals for women and directions for aftercare services which is essentially what these proceedings were all about."
After previous legal action by the charity, the Department of Health in Stormont issued a 20-page document in 2009 containing guidance for health professionals on the termination of pregnancy in Northern Ireland.
It was withdrawn the following year after a successful legal challenge by anti-abortion campaigners led to a ruling that sections on counselling and conscientious objection should be rewritten.
Meanwhile, two Stormont assembly members are attempting to change the law to make it illegal to perform an abortion outside the NHS. It follows the opening of the private Marie Stopes International clinic in Belfast last year.
The DUP's Paul Givan, who chairs the justice committee, and the SDLP's Alban Maginness have tabled a joint amendment to the Criminal Justice Bill.
The laws covering abortion in Northern Ireland are the 1861 Offences against the Person Act,  and the Criminal Justice act from 1945.  It is a criminal offence, which carries a life sentence.
The only exceptions are to save a woman's life, or if there is a risk of permanent and serious damage to her mental or physical health.
Last year official figures confirmed that at least 40 terminations a year are carried out on these grounds.
More than a thousand women a year who don't fit in these categories travel from Northern Ireland each year to have an abortion in other parts of the UK.
In England, Wales and Scotland access to abortion is covered by the 1967 Abortion Act.  That permits terminations up to 24 weeks of pregnancy on grounds which include risk to the physical or mental health of the woman or existing children in the family, and abnormalities which could lead to a child being "seriously handicapped".
It is also allowed over 24 weeks if a woman's life or health is at serious risk and for serious disabilities.
Abortion remains a sensitive issue everywhere, but is significantly more controversial in Northern Ireland.  The opening of a Marie Stopes clinic led to demonstrations and scrutiny by a committee in the Northern Ireland Assembly.
For that reason it is quite possible that any guidance could face further legal challenges.
Speaking before the department's announcement, the Society for the Protection of the Unborn Child (Spuc) said in a statement:  "By taking this legal action the FPA has demonstrated a growing frustration at its own lack of success in winning support for its agenda. Despite its efforts abortion in Northern Ireland remains a criminal offence.
"In trying to force the Department of Health to publish guidelines the FPA is actually attempting to medicalise the issue of abortion. The law, however, is perfectly clear and requires no guidance.
"Besides, any guidance which accurately reflected the law would not be acceptable to the FPA because it refuses to recognise the limitations within the current law. "
The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists said its members were working from the earlier draft guidelines, described by government officials as having "no status".
The college said it hoped the judicial review "will lead to more clarity for professionals and better care for women residing in this part of the United Kingdom".
There are some parallels between the legal battle in Northern Ireland and the debate in the Republic of Ireland, where abortion is even more restricted and is only permitted if there is a "real and substantial" risk to the woman's life.
The European Court of Human Rights said in a 2010 judgement that there were no clear criteria in the Irish Republic to apply to the case of any individual woman. Like the UK, the Irish Republic is signed up to the European Convention on Human Rights.
The death of Savita Halappanavar in a hospital in Galway in October last year hit the headlines around the world and reignited the debate.  Her family said she asked for a termination when she began miscarrying but was refused, a decision they argued led to her death several days later.
An inquest into the death of the 31-year-old dentist is due to be held in April.
After taking advice from an expert panel the Irish government has said it is drafting legislation to address the European ruling and expects to be in a position to publish that in the next few months.


Two senior Iraqi army commanders were among five people killed in a suicide car bombing near the city of Ramadi, military officials say.

Gen Abdel Rahman Abu Ragheef was the deputy commander of operations in the strategically important province of Anbar, while Brig Safeen Abdel Majeed was a divisional commander.
Islamic State militants control Ramadi, 100km (60 miles) west of Baghdad.
An Iraqi offensive to recapture the city has been making slow progress.
The bombing happened in the Jerayshi area.
Brig Gen Yahya Rasool told state TV that the bomb went off as the army intercepted an explosives-laden vehicle which they believed was targeting them.
"But the resulting explosion led to [their] martyrdom."
At least 10 others were wounded in the blast, he said.
The battle to recapture Ramadi is being led by the military and the police, supported by Shia militias, Sunni tribal fighters and US-led coalition air strikes.
The city was captured by Islamic State (IS) fighters in May - one of a series of embarrassing defeats inflicted upon Iraqi forces over the last year - and thousands of civilians fled.
The BBC's Jim Muir in Beirut says that government forces have made little progress in their efforts to recapture the city, which remains firmly in the militants' hands.
Our correspondent says that the deaths of the two senior army commanders have caused a stir in Baghdad - where numerous political figures paid tribute to them - and will do nothing to improve the morale of state forces as they try to dislodge IS from Ramadi.
US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter said in May that the rout of Iraqi troops in a matter of days when the city fell showed that they lacked the will to fight.
Mr Carter told CNN that the Iraqis had chosen to withdraw despite the fact that they "vastly outnumbered" IS forces.
But Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi responded by saying that he was surprised at the US defence secretary's comments and that Ramadi would soon be recaptured.
Mr Abadi has however cleared the way for a court martial of military commanders who abandoned their posts at the city.


820 Squadron at RNAS Culdrose has been commemorating its role in the sinking of the German battleship the Bismarck, 70 years ago.

A special exhibition for schoolchildren took place at the Naval base, telling the story of the battle.
The ship was caught when a torpedo from one of the Squadron's Swordfish planes hit her and damaged the rudder.
Commissioned in August 1940, The Bismarck was one of the most famous warships of the Second World War.
Hannah Quigley from 820 Squadron explained: "We managed to get the line open again for the ships to come across from America and get supplies back into Britain which was good when we were struggling with rations, so it was really good that we managed to get rid of the Bismarck."
At 45,000 tons, the Bismarck, was the largest battleship in the Kriegsmarine (German navy) and contravened the Anglo-German Naval Treaty of 1935 which limited German battleships to a maximum of 35,000 tons.
On the morning of 27 May 1941 the HMS King George V, HMS Rodney, HMS Dorsetshire and HMS Norfolk caught up with the incapacitated Bismarck where it was heavily attacked for almost two hours before sinking.
One of the children at the exhibition, Georgia Higgs, said: "I learnt that it was quite a big factor in Britain's victory in the war."


A bomb discovered near a Londonderry hotel was to be smuggled inside before a police recruitment event, the High Court in Belfast has heard.

Prosecutors claimed two men made a 140-mile road trip to leave explosives concealed in a fire extinguisher among undergrowth close to the venue.
The alleged plan was to later move the device to the Waterfoot Hotel.
Details emerged as bail was refused to one of two men accused of bringing the bomb parts across the Irish border.
Darren Poleon, 41, of Drumbaragh in Kells, County Meath, is charged with preparing an act of terrorism.
He is also charged with conspiracy to cause an explosion, and possessing an improvised explosive device with intent to endanger life or cause damage to property.
Co-accused Brian Walsh, 34, of Dunshaughlin in County Meath, is charged with the same offences.
A prosecution lawyer said the pair were in a car stopped by police in Omagh three days before the bomb was discovered.
They claimed to be in Northern Ireland to buy an engine, the court heard.
Officers found a rucksack, bolt cutters, walkie-talkies, binoculars, a head torch, toy gun, latex gloves, wigs and a fake beard inside the vehicle.
At that stage the two men were arrested on suspicion of going equipped for theft, but later released on bail.
However, this changed after the explosives were found on 9 October, the prosecution barrister said.
"The police view is the device was at a transit location - it was to be moved closer or within the hotel prior to the PSNI recruitment event to take place the following day," she said.
Examination of the satellite navigation system in the car the two men were in revealed it travelled from County Meath to the "destination" at a roundabout near the Waterfoot Hotel, the court heard.
It also contained an address for Belfast Metropolitan College, where a similar police meeting was to be held, the prosecutor said.
The barrister said a reservation at the hotel for the night before the police event was made using Mr Poleon's name, but no one turned up for the booking.
A defence lawyer said the case against his client was "replete with speculation", with no DNA or fingerprint evidence linking him to the scene of the bomb find.
He also disputed allegations about the sat nav and hotel reservation.
Arguing that that the device could have been left in the undergrowth a month previously, he added: "It's a very weak circumstantial case."
Items found in Mr Poleon's car were only Halloween garments, a plastic cowboy gun and a child's walkie-talkie belonging to his son, he said.
However, the judge refused bail, saying there was prima facie evidence of involvement in a "very sophisticated and clearly terrorist-type operation.
"The circumstances and nature of the alleged offence raises real risks there will be further offending."


Everyone in Athens is nervous about the outcome of Sunday's referendum on the creditors' proffered (and semi-retracted) bailout terms.

One group more tense than most are those running the banks - because they know more than most that the outcome is life-or-death for their institutions, and therefore for Greek prosperity.
So the latest opinion polls, showing voters split right down the middle, are the stuff of bankers' nervous breakdowns. "It is nerve-wracking," one said to me, perhaps euphemistically.
Here is the ecstasy and agony of what could happen next week.
If Greeks vote "Yes" to the deal with creditors - pension cuts, VAT rises and all - just maybe the European Central Bank (ECB), whose governing council meets on Monday morning, will lift the ceiling a fraction on the provision of Emergency Liquidity Assistance (ELA).
That might not permit banks to start operating as normal with immediate effect. But it could allow the 60-euro daily ceiling on withdrawals to be raised a bit and the total freeze on transfers abroad to be eased somewhat.
And that might allow the Greek economy to be taken out of the deep freeze it has been in since banks were ordered to more-or-less close last Monday.
But if Greeks vote "No", as the government wishes them to do, there would be zero chance of the ECB turning on the ELA tap again.
And as I said a few days ago, a "No" vote might persuade the ECB to demand additional collateral from banks to cover the risk of losses on the 120bn euros in emergency lending it and the Bank of Greece have already provided.
This would be very painful for the banks. Right now they have unencumbered assets sufficient to borrow an additional 17bn to 20bn euros from the Bank of Greece, if the ELA ceiling were lifted.
But if the ECB decided these assets - such as loans to Greek companies - are intrinsically less valuable than it currently thinks, and imposed a bigger so-called haircut on these loans, that 17bn to 20bn of possible additional credit could shrink to zero or a negative number.
Or to put this more clearly, rather than lending to banks, the Bank of Greece and ECB could start to demand some of their outstanding credit back. Which none of the banks are in any position to give.
Greek banks would go from their current frozen state to totally and utterly crippled. Which would dash any chance of them providing the fuel to re-start the Greek economy.
And that would create a vicious cycle of more of the loans they've made to businesses and households going bad. Which in turn would wreak further damage on the banks.
So there is a heavy responsibility both on Greek voters and then the European Central Bank over the next 48 hours. They will decide whether the Greek financial system and Greek economy stands or falls.


A body has been found by police searching for a 56-year-old woman in mid Wales.

The police helicopter and three Mountain Rescue teams had been brought in to try and find Catherine Brooke, who was believed to be in the Pentrecwrt or Llandysul area.
Dyfed-Powys Police said: "Sadly we have found a female body, but formal ID has not taken place as yet."
The woman's family have been told about the discovery.


Monsignor Brian McGee has been appointed as the new Bishop of Argyll and the Isles.

The diocese has been vacant since April 2014 when Bishop Joseph Toal became Bishop of Motherwell.
Mgr McGee is currently Vicar General of the Diocese of Paisley and parish priest of Holy Family in Port Glasgow.
Reacting to his appointment, confirmed by Pope Francis, he said it was "humbling and frightening", but also "exciting".
He will be ordained at St. Columba's Cathedral in Oban on a date to be confirmed.
He said: "It was very humbling, and indeed frightening, to be informed by the Papal Nuncio that Pope Francis had nominated me to be the new bishop of the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles.
"However, after reflection and prayer I now face this mission with quiet but definite confidence.
"Yes, I remain aware of my limitations but I am even more aware of the power of God's grace which, with our co-operation, overcomes our shortcomings. Experience has taught me that positively answering God's invitations is always to our own advantage."
He said he would be sad to leave the Diocese of Paisley but was "excited" about going to Argyll and the Isles.
"It has an ancient and proud heritage whose roots stretch back almost one and a half thousand years preceding even its spiritual father, Saint Columba," he said.
"I am also mindful of the diocese's rich Gaelic character and I, although not yet a Gaelic speaker, will endeavour to promote its rightful use in the worship of God."
Mgr McGee was born in Greenock in 1965 and educated at St Joseph's Primary School, Greenock, Holy Cross Primary School, Greenock, St Vincent's College, Langbank, St Mary's College, Blairs, and St Patrick's College in Thurles, Ireland.
He was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Paisley in 1989.
Administrator of the Diocese of Argyll and the Isles, Monsignor James MacNeil, said: "We welcome him with joy and he can be sure of the support, cooperation, affection and prayers of the community of the diocese as he begins his ministry of leadership and service."


A "manifesto" left by Islamists in Mali indicates that disagreements between them may have led to their defeat - so far - on the battlefield.

The document, published by a French newspaper, is said to contain advice by the head of al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM), Abdel Malek Droukdel.
It criticises militants in Mali for implementing Islamic law too quickly and predicts France's intervention.
The document was found by journalists in Timbuktu, northern Mali.
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The advice and instructions, said to be given by the Algerian Mr Droukdel, revealed in the Liberation paper, are dated 20 July 2012 - four months after a loose coalition of al-Qaeda-affiliated groups and ethnic Tuareg fighters took control of northern Mali.
In the document, versions of which were earlier published by Associated Press news agency and French radio station RFI, Mr Droukdel warns his subordinates not to implement Islamic law too quickly.
This advice, he said, was because the jihadist project in Mali is "a baby in its first days that is still crawling".
The highly unusual document is written almost in the style of a chief executive officer issuing instructions to his middle management.
The AQIM leader criticises his subordinates for allowing Islamists to destroy shrines they considered "idolatrous".
This destruction was one of the acts which drew the attention of the outside world to northern Mali.
Mali crisis: Key players
Mr Droukdel also predicts a Western military intervention against the Islamist project in Mali.
He was right, of course; French forces spearheaded the expulsion of the Islamists from Mali's main towns early this year.
The criticism of subordinates in the Islamist movement by Mr Droukdel appears to indicate that he thinks some of the groups operating in northern Mali were hotheads who needed to be reigned in and adopt a more softly-softly approach if the ultimate aim of a jihadist state was to be achieved.
If this "hothead theory" is correct, it may help explain the apparently irrational military advance that the Islamists made towards the Malian capital, Bamako, in early January.
Experienced Mali-watchers were perplexed by the sudden military lurch southwards made by the Malian Islamist groups, Ansar Dine and Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa (Mujao), which prompted the French response.
These observers said it was most unlikely the Islamists could ever control the whole of Mali - and that they should have been aware of this.
The Mali-watchers pointed out that while northern Mali is sparsely populated and contains some groups sympathetic with Islamists or the ethnic Tuaregs, the same cannot be said of the south, where most people oppose the radicals and separatists.
It therefore seemed irrational when these groups advanced in early January on the north-eastern town of Konna, which is within striking distance of a major military airbase at Sevare, near the city of Mopti.
The threat to the Severe airbase, the biggest in central Mali, appears to have been what made the French move - and defeat the Islamists, so far, in the main towns and cities of the north.
Of course, it is possible there were also other sparks to the war between the French and the Islamists. But the hothead theory appears to be bolstered by the Droukdel instructions and advice.
The document is described by Mr Droukdel as "a set of directions and recommendationsâ€¦ to the brother emirs in the Sahara".
In essence, it advises caution in order to avoid a "very probable, perhaps certain" military intervention by Western powers "who still have many cards to play".
The AQIM leader advises his direct subordinates against being "at the forefront". Many of the AQIM top cadres are thought to be Algerian.
Mr Droukdel says the strategy should be, rather, to include local Malian activists to share both the management of the jihad and any possible blame if the West intervenes and failure ensues.
"The aim of building these bridges," Mr Droukdel says, "is to make it so that our Mujahedeen are no longer isolated in society, and to integrate with the different factions, including the big tribes and main rebel movements and tribal chiefs".
The aim of the manifesto is clearly jihadist. But the tone is tactical and managerial - in contrast to the passionate, extremist image sometimes attributed in the West to the Islamists.
In the document Mr Droukdel strongly criticises "wrong policies" and "the extreme speed with which you applied Sharia [Islamic law]".
He writes about two major mistakes "which I hope you will not repeat:
The tone of the document implies that a rational, long-term planning mechanism is in place.
One implication of this is that while the French military may have scored impressive short term success, AQIM and its allies will almost certainly be back to try to re-implement the plan at a later date.


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Sally Conway admits she is already thinking of the next Olympics in Tokyo but is determined to enjoy the spotlight provided by her bronze medal in Rio.

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The 29-year-old returned to her club in Edinburgh after her success in the -70kg judo class.
"Tokyo is definitely on my mind," she told BBC Scotland.
"But I am just going to take every year as it comes, be the best I can be and just enjoy the moment."
Bristol-born Conway is looking forward to taking a rare break from competitive judo.
"I am just giving myself time to relax and soak up the atmosphere and just enjoy it," she said.
"We compete so often and don't get to enjoy our wins too often because we are always looking towards the next competition.
"But this was the biggest one for me - it is my dream come true - so I am going to enjoy it and concentrate on next year when it comes."
Conway was delighted with her reception at Edinburgh Judo Club.
"I didn't expect to be that emotional," she said. "I am so happy with the support and messages I have had and this just tops it off.
"When I walked in with all the bagpipes playing and saw everybody, I just welled up. That support is unbelievable."
Conway said her medal was a team effort and praised the role of her coach, Billy Cusack.
"He and I have gone through a lot together and I am so happy I could bring home this bronze medal, not just for myself but him and everyone else who has supported me," she added.
"It is like a family here. Everyone is so friendly and so happy when you do well.
"It is such a fantastic club to come into. The atmosphere is so good and I am just happy to come back."


Goals from Louis Moult and Scott McDonald helped Motherwell down Partick Thistle and climb into the Scottish Premiership top six.

Moult capitalised on flailing Thistle goalkeeper Thorsten Stuckmann to guide in McDonald's cross from the left.
And Moult returned the compliment as he squared for his Australian colleague to curl neatly past Stuckmann.
Chris Cadden hit the bar after the break and Ade Azeez had Thistle's best chance, but headed over from 10 yards.
The result means Thistle have yet to win at Fir Park on Premiership duty, with Well recording just their second win in seven league games.
The hosts went into this match with just two wins in their past 12 games. Manager Mark McGhee knew something had to change. The Scotland assistant boss decided to match Partick Thistle with three at the back but it was the two at the front who did the damage.
When Moult and McDonald click, it's a joy to watch and they certainly clicked in the first half, when the damage was done.
McDonald was provider for the the first. His cross from the left led to Stuckmann clashing with his central defenders and when the ball fell to Moult at the back post, he had a simple tap-in for his eighth goal of the season.
Just after the half-hour Moult's ball from the right hand side found his strike partner and McDonald swept the ball beautifully past Stuckmann.
Alan Archibald's side were looking for their third away league win in a row but in truth, never really looked like they'd secure it.
They stroked the ball around well in spells but there was little in the way of a cutting edge.
Azeez looked lively with the ball at his feet when Thistle enjoyed more possession in the second half, but when he found space for a shot they were always wayward.
McGhee had asked his players before this game to turn performances into points and they answered his call.
The Steelmen looked hungrier and were first to the loose balls all across the pitch.
The clinical finishing in front of goal was matched by a work-rate that was deserving of the three points.
It's a Motherwell side that has proved what it's capable of; the key now to climbing the table is consistency.
Motherwell manager Mark McGhee: "We changed our shape today and we didn't give Thistle a lot of room. I thought we won the battles all over the park and worked very very hard.
"(Scott) McDonald always amazes you, doesn't he? He plays against all these huge defenders and he still manages to take the ball down and control it. The strikers played very well today. Equally pleasing is that we have a clean sheet for the first time this season."
Partick Thistle manager Alan Archibald: "Motherwell deserved their win. We couldn't handle their front pairing. We had three centre-backs playing today and we couldn't get to grips with them.
"We had a little flurry in the second half but we just couldn't get back into the game. The boys have been playing well collectively and we know we have a big run of games coming up but we have big characters."
Match ends, Motherwell 2, Partick Thistle 0.
Second Half ends, Motherwell 2, Partick Thistle 0.
Richard Tait (Motherwell) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Callum Booth (Partick Thistle) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Louis Moult (Motherwell) wins a free kick on the right wing.
Foul by Adam Barton (Partick Thistle).
Scott McDonald (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sean Welsh (Partick Thistle).
Scott McDonald (Motherwell) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Danny Devine (Partick Thistle).
Abdul Osman (Partick Thistle) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Craig Clay (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Abdul Osman (Partick Thistle).
Attempt blocked. Steven Lawless (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Attempt blocked. Adebayo Azeez (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Corner,  Partick Thistle. Conceded by Louis Moult.
Corner,  Partick Thistle. Conceded by David Ferguson.
Attempt saved. Steven Lawless (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Craig Clay (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Abdul Osman (Partick Thistle).
Corner,  Motherwell. Conceded by Abdul Osman.
Substitution, Partick Thistle. David Amoo replaces Christie Elliott.
Attempt missed. Abdul Osman (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Foul by Scott McDonald (Motherwell).
Sean Welsh (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Attempt missed. Adebayo Azeez (Partick Thistle) left footed shot from outside the box is just a bit too high.
Craig Clay (Motherwell) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Abdul Osman (Partick Thistle).
Attempt missed. Adebayo Azeez (Partick Thistle) header from the centre of the box is just a bit too high.
Substitution, Partick Thistle. Steven Lawless replaces Chris Erskine.
Foul by Scott McDonald (Motherwell).
Sean Welsh (Partick Thistle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Corner,  Motherwell. Conceded by Liam Lindsay.
Attempt saved. Kris Doolan (Partick Thistle) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top centre of the goal.
Ben Heneghan (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Adebayo Azeez (Partick Thistle).
Chris Cadden (Motherwell) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Sean Welsh (Partick Thistle).
Foul by Danny Devine (Partick Thistle).
Louis Moult (Motherwell) wins a free kick on the right wing.


A man has been charged with the murder of British backpacker Mia Ayliffe-Chung at a hostel in Australia.

Queensland Police Service earlier named the suspected murderer as 29-year-old Frenchman Smail Ayad.
He is also charged with two counts of attempted murder, 12 counts of serious assault and one count of serious animal cruelty.
Miss Ayliffe-Chung died after being stabbed in Home Hill, near Townsville, on Tuesday night local time.
The 21-year-old from Wirksworth, Derbyshire, died from multiple stab wounds, a post-mortem examination confirmed.
Mr Ayad is due to appear before Townsville Magistrates Court on Friday by video-link.
Earlier, Supt Ray Rohweder, regional crime co-ordinator from the Northern Region, confirmed a 30-year-old British man, Tom Jackson, who was critically injured in the attack, had tried to save Miss Ayliffe-Chung after she was stabbed at Shelley's Backpackers in Home Hill.
Mr Jackson, from Cheshire, remains in hospital with critical head injuries.
Of his intervention, Mr Rohweder said: "His subsequent actions were absolutely fantastic. I have no doubt that his actions on that day, as completely selfless as they were, led to the injuries he now has."
Another man - a 46-year-old named by a friend as Grant Scholz, who ran the hostel - received non-life threatening injuries and has since been released from hospital.
A dog at the accommodation complex was also killed.
Confirming there was CCTV footage of the incident, he added: "There's no-one that can view that CCTV that doesn't come away feeling sick to the stomach. It's absolutely horrific."
The suspect was on a second visit to Australia and had arrived in the country for the second time in March.
Mr Rohweder said he understood Mr Ayad had been in Home Hill for about a month while Miss Ayliffe-Chung had been there only a couple days.
Police have claimed that as Mr Ayad was being transferred from hospital to the station on Wednesday night he became violent towards officers and was Tasered and doused with pepper spray in order to subdue him.
Forensics teams have returned to the scene and specialists from Brisbane are going to Home Hill to do further testing.
Another British backpacker was injured and is in hospital being treated for injuries to both his ankles.
Miss Ayliffe-Chung's family has paid tribute to an "amazing young woman with an adventurous spirit".
The statement, on behalf of Mia's mother Rosie Ayliffe, was read out by her partner Stewart Cormack.
He said: "Mia was full of the kind of open-minded compassion for life that you don't see that often. It felt as though she was reminding us all of the beauty and possibilities we each have that we should live life to the full.
"Mia was a rare person who saw beyond race, creed and belief. She would always treat others with dignity, respect and kindness.
"As a peaceful person Mia had huge respect for everybody. She would not want to be the reason for any hostilities caused by any misrepresentations of the events."
Miss Ayliffe-Chung had lived in Surfers Paradise, on Australia's Gold Coast, and worked as a waitress at the Bedroom Lounge Bar before making an 800-mile trip north to work with animals on a farm.
She was just days into the three-month trip when she was killed.
Her last Facebook update was on 20 August, four days after starting work on the farm.
Miss Ayliffe-Chung went to Anthony Gell School in Wirksworth before going to Chesterfield College to study psychology and communication and culture.
She later went to Buxton and Leek College to study childcare.
It is understood she travelled to Bali before arriving in Australia.
Paul Lovatt, head of pastoral care at Anthony Gell School in Wirksworth, remembered her as "enriching the school environment".
"We knew Mia as a student with so much joy and energy who was well-liked by her friends and teachers," he said.
"She joined our school in Year 9 and flourished here, both in making strong friendships and in achieving high-level GCSEs."
Rachel McVeigh, curriculum leader for education and childcare at Buxton and Leek College, said: "Mia had a zest for life and was free-spirited, with a keen desire to travel.
"We are devastated and extremely sorry to hear such tragic news. Our thoughts are with her family and friends."


A ski lift operator has been found guilty of the indirect manslaughter of a boy who died in the Alps.

Kieran Brookes, 14, from Devon, was strangled when the straps of his backpack became entangled as he tried to get off a ski lift near Geneva.
Richard Cettour, 50, of Bonnevaux, France, who was supervising the lift, was given a six-month suspended sentence.
Kieran's parents said they did not feel justice had been done.
The firm which operated the lift, SAEM Sports et Tourisme a ChÃ¢tel, was also accused of indirect manslaughter but was cleared of the charge.
Kieran's parents, Nick and Cindy Brookes, said: "This has been an incredibly difficult process and yet we do not feel that justice has been done.
"We are satisfied that someone has been held to account over Kieran's death.
"However, we believe that this tragedy highlighted serious industry failings which went further than an individual's inattention.
"Without widespread improvements across the industry we think a similar tragedy could happen again.
"It is only a slight consolation that the resort operator has apologised to us for failings, and admitted moral guilt over Kieran's death."
Richard Cettour was responsible for the safety of skiers using the lift, but was found not to have been at his post at the time of the accident, and failed to react to other skiers who were calling for him to press the emergency stop button.
Kieran, a pupil at Torquay Grammar School, was on a six-seat ski lift at ChÃ¢tel when he tried to climb off at the top of the slope, in February 2011.
He was suspended in the air for around four minutes before he was released, according to eyewitness accounts of the accident.
Attempts were made to revive him for about eight minutes before he was taken to a hospital in Annecy, France, suffering from a severe brain injury.
Kieran was later taken to the Royal Devon and Exeter Hospital, where he died in March 2011.
Mrs Brookes said: "We couldn't bury Kieran for six months because of the police investigation.
"We also couldn't donate his organs which was something that would have given us some comfort."
The family's lawyer Mark Montaldo, of Slater and Gordon, said: "It has been heart-breaking for Kieran's family to hear details of the very serious safety failings which led to this tragedy.
"From the outset, Mr and Mrs Brookes have been determined that lessons are learned from this incident.
"They hope that this verdict and sentence will send a powerful message throughout the industry that safety must be paramount."
The French charge of indirect manslaughter is roughly equivalent to involuntary manslaughter in England and Wales.


About two-thirds of people are left with ringing in their ears after a night out at a club, gig or pub, a poll suggests.

Campaign group Action on Hearing Loss said the poll of 1,000 adults also showed a third would ignore the "safe level" on their music players.
The group warns that people doing either increase the risk of tinnitus.
DJ Paul Oakenfold urged people to wear ear defenders to gigs and to "turn down the volume".
Half of those surveyed said they listened to music for between one and six hours a day - up to a third of their waking day - perhaps in the background at work or on their MP3 player on their way to and from work or studies.
But one in five would not do anything differently to take any care of their hearing.
Action on Hearing Loss warned that one in 10 people across the UK is affected by tinnitus every day, ranging from a "light buzzing" to a "constant roar" in the ears and head.
It can affect everything from the ability to concentrate at work to getting to sleep at night.
The poll also found that one in 10 people does not know what tinnitus is, with 3% thinking it was "big ears" and 4% a "repetitive strain injury".
It has created an audio version of what tinnitus sounds like in order to raise awareness.
Paul Breckell, chief executive of Action on Hearing Loss, said: "Listening to loud music for a long time can trigger tinnitus and is an indication of damaged hearing.
"Most people have experienced tinnitus, but those who are severely affected can experience fear, anxiety and feelings of helplessness that affect their quality of life.
"Currently there is no cure for tinnitus. As a charity we are doing all we can to fund research into treatments, and in the meantime offer support to people who suffer."
Paul Oakenfold, the DJ and record producer, is supporting the campaign.
He said: "I feel passionately about listening to music safely, and urge music lovers to wear ear defenders to gigs and avoid dangerously high volumes on personal music players.
"Getting decent noise-cancelling headphones also cuts down the risk of damaging your ears and suffering tinnitus caused by overexposure to loud music. No-one wants that."


Liberia has opened a new national cemetery to provide safe burial sites for victims of the Ebola outbreak.

A Liberian official said the 50-acre site in Monrovia, half of which is ready to use, will enable "dignified" burials instead of cremations.
Meanwhile, the World Health Organization says the number of people infected by Ebola in Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea has now passed 20,000.
The virus has killed more than 7,800 people since it broke out a year ago.
The WHO said more than a third of the 20,081 cases in the West African states were in Sierra Leone, which has become the worst-hit country.
The situation in Liberia has improved in recent months but health officials warned on Monday that dozens of new cases had emerged near the country's border with Sierra Leone.
Liberian Assistant Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah said the new cases, mostly in Grand Cape Mount County were due to the movement of people across the border and the traditional practice of washing victims' bodies.
"In a very small population, an increase in the number of [Ebola] cases raises high levels of concern that we need to take very seriously  - the people of Liberia and people of Grand Cape Mount in particular," Mr Nyenswah said.
The new burial site in Liberia's capital has been created on land acquired from the Disco Hill district at a cost of $50,000 (Â£32,000).
Mr Nyenswah said the new site would be staffed by trained burial teams and would accommodate Muslim and Christian ceremonies.
He said the site would allow "dignified and safe burials, where people can practise their rituals but not touch dead bodies".
A memorial to Ebola victims who have been cremated will also be erected there, he added.
Nearly 3,400 people have died from Ebola in Liberia over the past year with nearly 8,000 cases total.


Millions of people have put their names to online petitions in an attempt to influence the government.

New government figures, released just over a year since the e-petition website was launched, show 12 people every minute are signing up.
In its first year, a total of 36,000 petitions were submitted, attracting 6.4 million signatures.
If a petition secures more than 100,000 signatures it can be considered by MPs for a debate in Parliament.
The website was set up by the coalition as a way to "build bridges between people and Parliament" and increase public engagement following the expenses scandal.
At its launch in August 2011, Leader of the House of Commons Sir George Young said it could provide a "megaphone" through which the public could make their views heard.
One year on, and the site has been visited 17 million times, with an average of 46,500 visits a day.
A large number of petitions have been submitted, although nearly half - 47% - were rejected for failing to meet the government's criteria.
So far, 10 petitions have reached the 100,000 signature threshold and of those, eight have been debated in Parliament, with a further one scheduled for debate when MPs return from their summer break in September.
Only one - which called for the government's NHS reforms to be dropped - was not accepted by MPs because, at the time, they were already debating the issue in Parliament as part of their scrutiny of government legislation.
But it still had its day in the spotlight.
Labour went on to use one of their regular days of debate as the opposition to discuss the issues raised in the petition, which also - perhaps helpfully - fitted with their own wish to see the Health and Social Care Bill dropped.
Topics debated have ranged from last summer's riots, disclosure of documents relating to the Hillsborough disaster and making financial education compulsory in schools.
The next parliamentary debate triggered by an e-petition is scheduled for 6 September when Labour MP Frank Field and Conservative Nicholas Soames will lead a debate on immigration.
It follows an e-petition, signed by 142,000 and created by immigration think tank Migration Watch, which calls on the government to keep the UK's population "well below 70 million".
A spokesman for Sir George said: "Debates relating to e-petitions, such as that on the release of papers relating to the Hillsborough disaster, saw some of the highest viewing figures for television coverage of Parliament and have seen the government change or clarify its position.
"The site has allowed people to raise issues that would have otherwise not been considered in Parliament and gain public support for their campaigns."
The highest number of people visiting the site was last August, just as the system was launched; a petition on the London riots reached the 100,000 threshold within a matter of days.
Since then the site has struggled to reach the same peak and demand has varied, with visits reaching a low in May this year.
Of the 10 petitions to pass 100,000 signatures, six of these were in the site's first 100 days.
And the system has not been without its critics. The Hansard Society, which published a report on e-petitions, has warned the system is too closely controlled by the government of the day and responsibility for it should rest with MPs.
Dr Ruth Fox, Director of Research at the Westminster think tank, says the large numbers using the website show there is clearly an appetite for e-petitions.
But, she argues, public engagement is "a two-way process" and the way in which the system is set up, with communication in the hands of government officials, means it is difficult for the Commons to engage with petitioners.
"A parliamentary debate airs an issue but provides only limited opportunity for deliberation on the issues raised," she says. "Real public engagement needs more than that."
"The petitions system should empower citizens through greater engagement in the parliamentary process."
"There should be an ability to look at a whole range of issues raised by e-petitions, not just those reaching 100,000 signatures.
"And MPs should be able to look at more than just having a debate. There could be, for example, the option of referring a matter to a select committee for an inquiry or approaching a minister directly for a response."
Dr Fox would like to see the site taken over by Parliament with a special Petitions Committee established to look at how e-petitions work and which ones should get parliamentary attention.
This would lead to more direct contact between MPs and petitioners, she says.
The government says it keeps the site under "constant review" and is committed to continuing to "evolve" it.
If the site were to be transferred to the House of Commons, the government would need to ensure the system was "affordable, accessible and continued to have a trigger for debate," a spokesman for the Commons leader said.
MPs on the Commons Procedure Committee have carried out a review of how e-petitions work and a trial is expected to start in the autumn giving more time for petitions to be debated by MPs outside the main Commons chamber.


A security officer smuggled a camera into a high-security psychiatric hospital in a bid to sell photos of Moors Murderer Ian Brady for £50,000, a court has heard.

Alan Hagan, 48, is on trial at the Old Bailey over dealings with News of the World reporter Lucy Panton at Merseyside's Ashworth Hospital.
He denies misconduct in public office.
Mr Hagan was allegedly paid £1,000 for a story headlined "Suicide Brady hid pills in his sock" published in 2008.
The jury heard that it happened a month after Mr Hagan, of Galston Close, Liverpool, first made contact with Ms Panton.
The pair went on to hatch a subterfuge nicknamed "The Project" to smuggle in a camera to take pictures and video of Brady, the first since his mugshot was released in 1966.
The court heard that he approached the News of the World because he was "disgruntled" with his employer, believing he had been "badly treated" by management.
Prosecutor Mark Trafford QC said: "His revenge, and his road to seek large sums of money, was to seek to sell pictures to the media."
Brady, 77, who has been a patient at Ashworth since 1985, became notorious for torturing and murdering five children with Myra Hindley, who died in prison in 2002.
He was jailed for three murders in 1966. The pair later confessed to another two murders.
In April 2008, an attempt by Hagan to smuggle a camera into the hospital inside a belt failed, the court heard.
Then in August, the court heard, Ms Panton emailed her boss about meeting her Brady contact in Liverpool, telling him: "Meet Friday, it looks like there will be an opportunity to get the project back on."
By October, Hagan had a new piece of kit enabling him to take pictures and video inside the secure hospital.
Although he did manage to smuggle a camera into the hospital to take pictures of Brady the pictures were not good enough quality and they were not published, jurors were told.
The trial continues.


The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge are visiting Northern Ireland on Tuesday for the annual garden party at Hillsborough, County Down.

Prince William and Catherine are joining about 2,500 guests at the party which is being hosted by the Secretary of State Theresa Villiers.
The visit is only the second time the royal couple have visited Northern Ireland together.
Their previous visit was in March 2011, weeks before their wedding.


Sports Direct has said it expects full-year underlying earnings to be "at or around the bottom" of a previously estimated range.

The sportswear retailer issued a statement after its shares dived on Tuesday following comments from founder and deputy chairman Mike Ashley.
Mr Ashley was quoted by The Times as saying "we can't make the same profit we made last year".
He also said: "We are in trouble, we are not trading very well."
Sports Direct's shares fell more than 10% on Tuesday following the comments.
In a short statement on Wednesday, Sports Direct said it now estimated that underlying earnings for the full year to the end of April 2016 "are at or around the bottom of the range announced on 8 January 2016", which was between £380m and £420m.
On Tuesday, the House of Commons speaker said MPs could order Mr Ashley to answer their questions about how his workers are treated.
John Bercow said the matter could be taken further by immediately assessing if Mike Ashley could be held in contempt for refusing to appear at Westminster.
Mr Ashley branded MPs "a joke" on Monday as he said he would not attend, despite being formally summoned.
A Commons committee wants to quiz him over a review of staff conditions.
A BBC investigation in October 2015 found that ambulances were called out to the headquarters of Sports Direct 76 times in two years.
Former workers said some staff were "too scared" to take sick leave because they feared losing their jobs.
Sports Direct said at the time that it aimed to provide safe working conditions for all. In December, the company said it would review all agency worker terms and conditions.


Work to reconnect two parts of a railway line which was divided into two over three decades ago has begun.

The Great Central Railway, between Leicester and Nottingham, was left with a 500m gap after infrastructure, including bridges, were removed.
A new £2.5m bridge, in Loughborough, is the first stage to rejoin the 18-mile (29km) railway, described by GCR as the "UK's only main line heritage railway".
The £8m project is due to be completed by 2019.
Updates on this story and updates from Leicestershire
One section of the railway runs from Leicester to Loughborough - the GCR - and the other from Ruddington, in Nottinghamshire, to North-West Leicestershire - the GCRN.
Separating the two railways is the gap where tracks, embankments and bridges were removed in the early 1980s.
Source: GCR and GCRN
The new 30m bridge will carry a single track of the heritage railway over the main line between Derby and London St Pancras.
Bill Ford, of GCR, said the start of the project was "a very exciting moment".
"We have cherished this vision for decades, so to finally make a start on the ground is very important for us," he said.
Nicky Morgan, MP for Loughborough, performed a traditional Victorian style "turf cutting" ceremony to mark the start of the work.
"It was fantastic to be a part of history," she said. "This is a project that has been talked about for 40 years."
"It's going to bring big benefits to our local area - more tourism, more visitors, more employees... I'm really excited to be a part of it."
Paul Kirkman, of the National Railway Museum, said: "Leicester had one of the world's earliest railways and was also a hub of the Midland line.
"This joining of the line seems another positive step towards making the area and region rich in railway heritage, and inspiring a new generation to get involved in our nation's railway story."
The project also involves reinstating embankments and repairing other bridges which have survived along the gap.


Ryan Johnston's half-time introduction help Kilcoo edge out 13-man Scotstown 1-8 to 0-9 in the Ulster Club Football preliminary round game at Clones.

Johnston's goal put Kilcoo 1-6 to 0-6 up early in the second half and was always likely to prove decisive in such a low-scoring contest.
Kilcoo's lead was cut to a point but the Down champions moved three ahead again and then held on.
Scotstown duo Francis Caulfield and sub Brian McGinnity were sent off late on.
Caulfield was dismissed after getting a second yellow card while McGinnity saw red after appearing to strike impressive Kilcoo full-back Darragh O'Hanlon.
The Monaghan champions, beaten by Crossmaglen after extra-time in last year's provincial final, only had points from Darren Hughes and Donal Morgan to show for their early domination as several other good chances were missed.
Kilcoo hit back with five unanswered points after Aaron Branigan opened up their account in the ninth minute.
Conor Laverty's typically busy display was crucial to Kilcoo's improvement as Donal Kane, Paul Devlin (two) and Martin Devlin also notched points.
After being held scoreless for almost 20 minutes, Scotstown found their range again late in the first half as the lively Shane Carey pointed a free and keeper Rory Beggan also hit the target from a 45 after missing three earlier long-range efforts.
Aidan Branigan's departure at half-time looked a blow for Kilcoo but instead his replacement Johnston went on to become the central personality in the match.
The sides were level at 0-6 a piece when Johnston held his nerve to produce a great finish past Beggan after Laverty had flicked on a long ball.
After Shane Carey's reply, Johnston looked to have palmed in a second Kilcoo goal but the effort was ruled out - harshly it appeared - for a square ball.
The controversial decision looked as though it could be match-turning as another Carey point cut Kilcoo's lead to the minimum but crucially Beggan and Carey then missed chances to get Scotstown on terms.
Paul Devlin's superb long-range point and an Aaron Morgan score, after more great work by Laverty, left Kilcoo three ahead with three minutes of normal time left and Carey's seventh point was all Scotstown could summon in the remaining eight minutes of action.
In addition to Johnston and Laverty, Niall Branigan and Darragh O'Hanlon were among Kilcoo's stars as they set up a meeting either Kilcar or Glenswilly on 30 October.


Two teenagers have been taken to hospital following a fight involving 10-12 youths in the centre of Glasgow.

The two 15 and 18-year-olds received minor injuries in the incident which happened near the underground station in Buchanan Street at about 16:10.
One of the teenagers was taken to the Queen Elizabeth University Hospital and the other to the Glasgow Royal Infirmary.
Police Scotland have appealed for witnesses to contact them.
Unconfirmed reports suggest that the injured teenagers were stabbed.
Insp Shaun Ramsay said: "We received reports of a disturbance involving around 10 to 12 male youths in Buchanan St near to the underground station and at this time two young men are being treated in hospital, although thankfully their injuries do not appear to be life threatening.
"Anyone who witnessed this incident or anyone who has captured the disturbance on their phones is asked to contact officers at Baird Street Police Office via 101."


Populations of 10 British bat species are stable or increasing following previous years of decline, a new report has suggested.

The species included Daubenton's and Brandt's.
The Bat Conservation Trust (BCT) enlisted more than 3,500 volunteers to help with its National Bat Monitoring Programme.
The citizen science project collected data from 3,272 sites across Great Britain from 1997 to 2012.
In the report, the trust said the results revealed a "generally favourable picture" and "signs of recovery" for bats over the monitoring period.
The study did, however, generate different trends for Natterer's, serotine and pipistrelles.
The report added: "This study demonstrates that use of volunteer programmes can be successful in monitoring bat populations, provided that key features including standardised survey methods and volunteer training are incorporated.
"Some species that are more difficult to detect and identify may however require specialist surveillance techniques."


A crackdown on "unsavoury incidents" involving offshore workers travelling on trains to and from the north east of Scotland has been hailed a success.

British Transport Police (BTP) joined forces with the RMT union and train operators after concerns increased.
Officers travelled on 350 trains to monitor more than 2,000 workers between Aberdeen, Inverness, Dundee, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Newcastle.
BTP said conduct had "noticeably improved".
Sgt Ashley Forbes said: "It is pleasing that the warnings issued by BTP and the train operators appear, in the main, to have been heeded.
"There will be no complacency and officers will continue to carry out high-visibility patrols at stations and on trains and work with our rail industry partners to tackle the issue.
"We have made it clear that passengers and rail staff, who may also be RMT members, should be able to travel and work without encountering alcohol-fuelled anti-social behaviour, which is often experienced when offshore workers are travelling."


As the first American to orbit the Earth, John Glenn became a national hero.

His achievement restored some pride to the US after first Yuri Gagarin and then Gherman Titov had successfully put Russia ahead in the space race.
Like all of the original astronauts, Glenn had seen service as a military flyer before joining the space programme.
And at the age of 77, after a career in politics he did it all over again, becoming the oldest person ever to travel into orbit.
John Herschel Glenn Jr was born in Cambridge, Ohio, in July 1921, the only son of a master plumber and a schoolteacher.
He went to the local high school, which now bears his name, and then to college where he studied engineering.
He failed to complete the course which would have led to a Bachelor of Science degree although his college awarded him one after his earth orbit.
He learned to fly just before America entered the war in 1941, and was commissioned in the Marine Corps in 1943.
He was a pilot in a Marine fighter squadron in the Pacific and again during the Korean War, when he gained a reputation for being able to attract enemy anti-aircraft fire.
After one mission he returned to base with more than 200 holes in the fuselage of his F9F Panther fighter.
He was posted to the US Test Pilot School in Maryland and in 1957 became the first pilot to complete a supersonic flight across the continental US.
Two years later he became one of six pilots selected for the fledgling US space programme following a gruelling series of physical and mental tests.
Glenn almost failed to make the final selection. He did not meet the required academic qualifications and was close to 40, the age that would have barred him from being considered.
On 20 February 1962, Glenn boarded the Mercury spacecraft Friendship 7 for a space journey that would last more than four hours and see him complete three orbits of the Earth.
There was concern over his safe return after instruments indicated a malfunction on the capsule but he splashed down safely in the Atlantic just 40 miles from the target area.
His first words when he was lifted aboard a US destroyer were: "It's hot in there."
Glenn received a rapturous welcome which included a ticker-tape parade in New York and a personal award from President John F Kennedy.
However, this popularity proved to be a double-edged sword.
He wasn't permitted to return to space the following year, allegedly on Kennedy's orders, so Glenn turned his attentions to a career in politics in his home state of Ohio.
But he was to find that being an astronaut could be a disadvantage; people didn't seem to see him as a serious politician.
His first attempt to run for office in the Democratic primaries in 1964 failed after he was forced to give up campaigning following a fall.
But he was successful 10 years later when he won the primary and defeated the Republican incumbent to become senator for Ohio.
As a politician, John Glenn had integrity and an independent mind.
But he was a dull speaker and a poor organiser. He found it hard to delegate, and was something of a loner.
His attempt to win the Democratic nomination for vice-president failed in 1976 after a lacklustre speech at the party's convention.
And he lost out to Walter Mondale in his attempt to secure the Democratic nomination for president in 1984, a campaign that saw him run up debts of $3m.
He'd also had to fight off the negative image of himself as portrayed in the 1983 film, The Right Stuff, which was an account of the astronaut training programme.
Based on the book by Tom Wolfe, the film portrayed Glenn as an argumentative character and a poor team player
His campaign debts were one reason why Michael Dukakis decided not to have him as a running mate in 1988 - that and the fact that he, like Dukakis himself, lacked charisma.
In October 1998 Glenn, who had stood down from politics, was back in space at the age of 77 as part of the crew of the space shuttle Discovery.
During his 218 hours above the Earth, he undertook experiments to examine the effect of space travel on his ageing body and allow comparisons with the data collected on his first flight, 36 years before.
But some commentators questioned the scientific value of this flight, which they felt was a political favour granted by President Clinton.
Once more he returned to a ticker-tape parade and a hero's welcome from a new generation of fans.
John Glenn, the astronaut, never lost his popularity.
He remained the man who had put credibility back into America's space programme and helped pave the way for the 1969 Moon landings.


The Ukrainian and Russian presidents have said that a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine is "largely holding".

Ukraine's Petro Poroshenko and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin spoke by phone to discuss steps to make Friday's truce durable.
But by Saturday evening there were reports of shelling near the southern city of Mariupol.
Meanwhile, Russia vowed to respond if the European Union imposed new sanctions over the Ukraine crisis.
The EU says the sanctions, targeting more Russian individuals, will be introduced on Monday but could be later suspended if Russia withdraws troops from eastern Ukraine and observes a current truce.
Russia has repeatedly denied accusations by Ukraine and the West that it has been sending regular troops into eastern Ukraine to help the rebels.
Some 2,600 people have died in fighting after pro-Russian rebels seized towns in Ukraine's eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions in April - a month after Russia's annexation of the southern Crimean peninsula.
In a statement Mr Poroshenko also said that the two presidents had stressed the need "to maximise the involvement" of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) in monitoring the truce.
The two leaders also discussed ways of co-operating in delivering humanitarian aid to the region.
In his turn, President Putin said in a statement that an agreement was reached to "continue dialogue".
The ceasefire deal was signed during talks between representatives of Ukraine, Russia, the OSCE and the separatist rebels in Minsk, Belarus.
The truce came into effect at 15:00 GMT on Friday.
There were no reports of major fighting in the east for the first 24 hours, but by Saturday evening the BBC's Fergal Keane  tweeted from Mariupol that shelling had resumed.
The spokesman for Ukraine's National Security and Defence Council, Andriy Lysenko, said earlier on Saturday that the rebels had fired 10 times on Ukrainian troops since the truce.
Unconfirmed reports also say a number of fighters from Ukraine's Aydar battalion were ambushed and killed after the ceasefire.
Meanwhile, the rebel leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Aleksandr  Zakharchenko, said the truce was "not being fully observed" and that rebels had been subjected to shelling in the town of Amvrosiyivka near Donetsk.
Also the International Committee of the Red Cross said in a tweet that aid trucks on their way to Lugansk had been forced to turn back by shelling, without giving any further details.
Our correspondent also spoke to Andriy Biletskiy, the commander of Ukraine's Azov battalion, who said he believed fighting would resume within "five to seven days".
"We will see how the situation develops," he said. "If it was a tactical move there is nothing wrong with it... if it's an attempt to reach an agreement concerning Ukrainian soil with separatists then obviously it's a betrayal."
A BBC crew that travelled to Donetsk airport on Saturday morning heard a few gunshots and small explosions but residents said the night had been quiet.
Earlier on Saturday, the Russian foreign ministry said there "will undoubtedly be a reaction from our side" if the new EU sanctions were passed.
The fresh sanctions would add another 24 to the list of people barred from entering the EU and whose assets have been frozen.
Among them would be the rebel leadership in the eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, officials in Crimea, which was annexed by Russia in March, and Russian "decision-makers and oligarchs",  European Council President Herman Van Rompuy and European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso said in a statement.
The Russian foreign ministry said the EU was "practically sending a signal of direct support to the 'party of war' in Kiev".


Gateshead were held for a third time in four National League matches after Danny Rowe's goal helped Macclesfield leave the north-east with a draw.

The Tynesiders went ahead with the first real chance of the match as Mitch Brundle's floated free-kick allowed an unmarked Danny Johnson to hammer home.
Macclesfield nearly drew level almost immediately as Rowe's deflected strike went inches past the post but the midfielder would not be denied again, heading home from Jack Mackreth's cross.
John McCombe and Danny Whitaker cleared efforts off the line to keep the Silkmen level, while Gateshead midfielder Wesley York was twice denied by goalkeeper Craig Ross after the interval.
Ross again came to the rescue for the visitors, using his feet to keep out Brundle's attempt as Gateshead were forced to settle for a draw as they stretched their unbeaten league run to nine matches.
Report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Gateshead 1, Macclesfield Town 1.
Second Half ends, Gateshead 1, Macclesfield Town 1.
Substitution, Gateshead. Reece Styche replaces Sam Jones.
Substitution, Macclesfield Town. Paul Lewis replaces Kingsley James.
Liam Hogan (Gateshead) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Gateshead. Wes York replaces James Bolton.
Second Half begins Gateshead 1, Macclesfield Town 1.
First Half ends, Gateshead 1, Macclesfield Town 1.
Goal!  Gateshead 1, Macclesfield Town 1. Danny M. Rowe (Macclesfield Town).
Goal!  Gateshead 1, Macclesfield Town 0. Danny Johnson (Gateshead).
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


Israel is barring some Palestinians from entering the Old City of Jerusalem after two knife attacks, one fatal, on Israelis.

The restrictions are for two days and will stop Palestinians from entering the area unless they live there.
On Saturday, a Palestinian stabbed two Israelis to death. Another stabbed and wounded an Israeli teenager. Police shot dead both attackers.
There are reports of renewed unrest in parts of the occupied West Bank.
Disturbances are also reported in parts of East Jerusalem.
More than 70 Palestinians have been wounded in clashes with Israeli security forces and Jewish settlers in the past 24 hours, says the Palestinian Red Crescent.
The latest violence comes days after an Israeli couple were shot dead by Palestinians in the West Bank on Thursday.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is due to hold emergency talks with security officials on Sunday.
The following restrictions will be in place for two days:
Violence has increased recently, with rising tensions over the flashpoint al-Aqsa mosque compound and violent confrontations between Israeli security forces and Palestinian youths, says the BBC's Yolande Knell in Jerusalem.
The mosque is built in a compound in East Jerusalem known to Muslims as the Haram al-Sharif (Noble Sanctuary) and to Jews as Temple Mount, in a compound and which is revered by both faiths.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has warned of a dangerous escalation in Jerusalem and the West Bank following the attacks.
"Recalling the recent deadly attack on another Israeli family in the occupied West Bank, and in light of the wave of extremism and violence sweeping the region, the secretary-general is deeply concerned that these latest incidents signal a dangerous slide toward escalation," his offices said in a statement.
Mr Ban said he was "deeply troubled" by statements from Palestinian militants, including Hamas, praising such attacks.
The first stabbing incident took place on Saturday evening in the Old City.
A Palestinian man attacked Aharon Bennett, 21, his wife, their two-year-old son and baby daughter who were on their way to pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, the Israeli foreign ministry said in a statement.
The attacker was named as Mohammad Halabi, a 19-year-old law student from a village near Ramallah in the West Bank.
Rabbi Nehemia Lavi, a reserve officer in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), was killed as he tried to defend the family, the ministry said.
Mr Bennett's wife was seriously wounded, while their young son suffered minor injuries and their baby was unharmed, it added.â€‹
In the second incident, a Palestinian teenager stabbed an Israeli teenager on a street in West Jerusalem in the early hours of Sunday. The attacker was also shot dead by police.


About 150 Gurkha soldiers have marched through Aldershot in Hampshire to celebrate receiving the Freedom of the Borough of Rushmoor.

Troops of 10 The Queen's Own Gurkha Logistic Regiment began their parade at Princes Hall.
Road closures were in place as members marched along Grosvenor Road, Victoria Road, Station Road, High Street and Princes Way.
The parade was led by the Brigade of Gurkhas Band.
It also included the regimental pipes and drums.
Mayor of Rushmoor Councillor Martin Tennant, who presented the Freedom Scroll to the regiment, said: "Rushmoor is extremely proud of the long historic link with the Gurkhas as they have made their home in Aldershot.
"They continue to serve the British Army and the local community with tremendous distinction."
The decision to award the Freedom of the Borough to the Gurkhas was approved by Rushmoor Borough Council at an extraordinary general meeting in July last year, when councillors unanimously backed a motion conferring the honour on the regiment for their "bravery and courage" and for its contribution to the life of the community.
It is the highest accolade a council can give and marks the 200th anniversary of the Brigade of Gurkhas.
During its time in Aldershot, the regiment has completed two operational tours of Iraq and two of Afghanistan.


France's far-right National Front party has made significant gains in local elections, winning an outright majority in one town on the first round.

The party is in first place in some other towns it is targeting, according to projections.
President Francois Hollande's Socialists have lost ground overall and may lose control of some major towns.
The vote is seen as a key test for the Socialists, deeply unpopular after nearly two years in power.
The Socialists were also hit by the low turnout in the first round of the elections - exit polls suggest up to 35% of voters stayed at home.
The vote is to choose councillors and mayors in more than 36,000 villages, towns and cities.
The anti-immigration National Front (FN) took 50.26% of the vote in the northern town of Henin-Beaumont, which has historically voted for the left.
Elsewhere, in Avignon and Perpignan in the south, the party's candidates for mayor had the biggest number of votes.
In some 200 places FN candidates have won through to the second round next weekend.
Marine Le Pen, National Front leader since 2011, hailed the results, saying her party had "arrived as a major independent force - a political force at both national and local level".
The BBC's Hugh Schofield in Paris says that in most cases, these candidates have little chance of gaining control of the town halls as they will be beaten in round two.
However, it is a big advance for the far right and an expression of the growing popular exasperation with the establishment parties of the right and the left, he says.
Many people who voted for President Hollande two years ago chose to abstain, which has meant losses for the Socialists, our correspondent notes, and in many important towns they will struggle in the second round to hold off challenges from the main centre-right UMP opposition party.
Earlier, pollsters identified half a dozen towns that could see National Front rule as a result of the elections, giving it the chance to show it can be trusted with power after attempts to run four towns in the late 1990s revealed its lack of competence, Reuters news agency said.