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bombarded. and refloating the costa concordia, the biggest in history gets underway. >> i will have all your sport. >> germany are celebrating their fourth world cup after beating argentina and reaction from berlin coming up, later in the program as well. ♪ thousands of people continue to flee from northern gaza as the conflict enters its 7th day, casualties are rising as the offensive focused on the northern part of the territory overnight and israel says it plans to intensify its air strikes, the death toll now stands at 173 palestinians and let's speak to the correspondents on the ground and

we are on the border with gaza but first let's speak to john who is in gaza city and outside of one of the main hospitals and speaking with some of the victims there, what have you heard, john? >> i'm at the main hospital in gaza city and when serious things happen they are brought here, when that largest incident to date happened and 18 people were killed at the police chief's home, survivors were brought here, this hospital was full of people all suffering from explosive wounds. we talked to a girl, i should say we talked to her father because she is no longer speaking. she has shrapnel in her head and her leg and head due to a resent explosion and we talked to a woman who was injured in a bombing that struck a hospital for the disabled. everybody here is suffering from

those same kinds of wounds and we spoke to a doctor named eric fasa from norway who came to treat patients like this and this is what he had to say. >> regular explosives, bombs to destroy houses. then of course everybody inside normally gets killed, enormous energy and gets killed by explosion or what dropped the bomb on them and other personal weapons designed just to kill people and not buildings. conventionally there could be rockets, grenades, bombs, and metal for shrapnel and have numerous injuries and of course we see mortar and more sophisticated weapons particularly a bomb which is designed to be dropped from the drones. so it's a very light bomb and it's very accurate.

and they have the latest and put the bomb in the ground and it is hit by the energy wave coming from the ground and up and normally the legs disappear on the body and have numerous burn injuries. >> reporter: and, john, what is the situation today as far as aerial strikes are concerned? >> reporter: those aerial strikes have continued. you can see there is not a real rush at the hospital now. it is already full. but we haven't had the kind of severe night we had last night for many nights and the same kind of rush and nevertheless every room is filled and we asked that doctor what it was this hospital was suffering from and he said all of the emergency patients are getting their treatment, the patients that are not getting treated are the chronic ones, the cancer patients and heart patients, the people who are pushed out of the

hospital and not receiving any treatment at all while the emergency patients are here and meanwhile they have a shortage of all kinds of equipment, disposable medical equipment and medicine and the concern is if there is a ground war and particularly a prolonged ground war the hospital also be overwhelmed and run out of equipment to treat people. >> we are joined from southern israel near the border with gaza and you are checking out what has been going on in the last couple of hours and bernard what have you found? >> along the eastern edge of israel border with gaza. we spent much of this morning driving around the eastern side and the northern side of gaza looking for evidence of this military build up of ground forces and there are places, there are farmers' fields where there are tanks positioned and encampments positioned and clearly some sort of a build up going on. remember that israel called up

36,000 reservist and told them they must report for duty. they cannot keep them sitting around forever but there is no indication nobody will tell us of course on the israeli side when they are going to launch a ground invasion so there is no indication it's going to happen any time soon but quite clearly there is evidence of a build up of the material and tanks and personnel and support personnel preparing should the orders come from the israeli government for that ground invasion. >> thanks for that, bernard smith. protests around the world condemning israeli attacks and this was a scene in paris where thousands of people turned out and in europe there were 20 protests in the uk and demonstrations in germany, ireland, spain and norway. there were also protests in india and pakistan, the largest were in new deli and karachi and a long turn out in hong kong.

palestinians in the occupied west bank have been protesting against israeli aggression in gaza, they have not been coming out in large numbers and we explain why from ramala. >> reporter: for gaza living in the west bank the past week has been all but normal and she prepares a feast everyday her heart and mind are with family under israeli bombardment in gaza. this is a daily skype session she has with them and she has not been able to sleep at night because of the way her mother describes gaza now. >> it looks like it was hit by an earthquake or a tsunami and was thinking it was a tsunami. and the international community would move much faster to the

events. >> reporter: after this they joined a rally to express solidarity with gaza. they and hundreds of peaceful protesters say that is the least they could do. there is a sense of helplessness here and palestinians on the west bank feel there is not much they can do to stop the carnage in gaza and this is to build aggression on gaza people and it's consuming them. but there have been angry protests marred by violence, hundreds of palestinian injured in skirmish with them in the west bank but trying to contain protests and doesn't want to see the west bank dragged into further violence and many agree an escalation with israel is pointless. >> if you reach a check point, open area, throw a spoon and they will retaliate with bullets

and palestinians are killed actually for nothing, to show solidarity we can show it in many different ways and actually we do. >> reporter: and this is why palestinians are trying to go about their daily lives normally. many showed up to watch the world cup final. but stressed, that doesn't mean they don't care about gaza. >> translator: we have been oppressed not only for weeks but for decades and we cannot remain separatists and we need to do something to change the routine. >> reporter: it has left their hands tied and still looking for normalcy and hope some day the people in gaza will have that too. i'm with al jazeera. >> there is full coverage of the situation in gaza on our website, there is a live blog with updates rounds the clock and videos from our teams there, that is at al jazeera.com. and we move on to other news, libya two have been killed in

forces loyal to renagade and in the city of benghazi and they launched a major offensive against armed groups he describes as terrorists. meanwhile tripoli airport is shut after fighting between rival malitia and 7 people were killed on sunday as armed groups battled control and they are preventing libya attorney minister from traveling to a meeting for talks over the crisis. syrian opposition groups say government barrel bomb attacks have killed four people in aleppo and this building was destroyed in shelling. one child is among the dead. activists say syrian troops have been advancing on rebel-held areas in northern aleppo. a bomb has killed at least four people in the iraqi capitol after parliament failed to break a deadlock after forming a new

government and deep divisions are hampering efforts to pick a new president and prime minister and speaking of the house and maliki is facing pressure to step aside even from influential leaders and we report. >> he is one of iraq's well-known figures. but he is also highly controversial. ironic because of how inclusive his message is. unlike others like iraq's other who called on followers to take up arms against sunni rebels to fight the forces in the north they believe sunni and shiate should unite to get rid of eye rock's resent problems and prime minister maliki. >> translator: following the decree that they will wage war on the rebels fighting the government, there was an attempt to get him to add his name to the call and he rejected this

saying he could not support such a position because it would drag iraq in a destructive civil war. >> reporter: that has prove tone be a dangerous position to take. [gunfire] on july the first iraqi forces under the supervision of the government stormed in the home and office compound. his followers were beaten, tortured and killed. in this video of the attack soldiers mock the man who is barely alive, where is you now, they taunt. and maliki has often been portrayed as sectarian with focus on sunni groups fighting in the north and shiat support base but many in iraq and particularly among people opposed the sectarian came about as a result of iraq's problems.

>> translator: the problems are not sectarian, just as there are sunnis opposed to it, there are sheer who oppose the government's destruction policies that brought division and death to iraq. >> reporter: and his family is a well-known politician, until a few days ago he was the deputy governor with over 2 million residents. >> translator: through the past year in office particularly in resent weeks it became clear to me that maliki's government was killing the position and as a politician i cannot be a part of a government that kills its own people and not a tool to make our people suffer. >> reporter: he is under hiding following destruction of his home and a wanted man. followers believe this is outrageous and say what he needs now more than ever is a leader who calls for team work. i'm with al jazeera.

gunmen in egypt northern sinai killed 8 people include agree security officer and a child and i happened at a military post. and egyptian security official said they fired mortars close to residential building and 25 others injured. he will soon be released from prison, appeals court overturned his one-year sentence for failure to carry out an order to legalize a company and this is followed by mohamed morsi. supporting three al jazeera staff jailed in egypt and calling on prime minister tony abbot to intervene in the case. fahme, greste and mohamed were convicted of colluding with the out lawed muslim brotherhood and al jazeera rejects and they tweeted a photo of the tri with the photo journalism is no

crime. >> reporter: journalism is not a crime. journalism is not terrorism. and, yet, that is precisely what peter and his colleagues have been found guilty of and sentenced to long jail terms in a cairo prison. as we have done many times before, we say once more: we urge prime minister tony abbot to personally contact presidenc -- abdel-fattah el-sissi and release these men from prison. >> reporter: fly by in france to mark the first world war and not all visiting troops are getting a warm welcome. married couples only and anger in india over restricting access to surrogacy and we will be live

in berlin. ♪ hundreds of people from eastern ukraine are headed to russia to seek refugee status and include residents of slovansk and donsk and includes women and children from the families of family pro-russian rebels. in resent weeks ukraine troops pushed separatists to the east and scott reports. >> reporter: word coming out what the government calls antiterrorist operation saying five air strikes were carried out on sunday evening and early monday morning and evidence of a battle going on recently and some of the vehicles destroyed tanks behind me and another vehicle up this way are still smoking. why is this strategically important and this is the road to the airport and they held the airport for the three months that this battle has been going

on here in eastern ukraine and hearing now from kiev, they say that they have controlled now the area around the airport. now, that is something that is a new development. now we can hear shells in the background going on here midday on monday. now this is something obviously that kiev said they are going to continue to do, continue to push these separatist fighters into certain pockets but what is going to happen once they are able to do that, what are separatists fighters going to do, go south to donsk and it's difficult to tell at this stage because this battle is still going on. cruise ship costa concordia hit a rif in i'd la and capsized in january 2012 killing 32 people and more than two years later an operation is underway to remove the vessel and dominick cain has more. >> reporter: for 2 1/2 years this shipwreck has been an unwanted addition to the landscape here. a reminder of the day in 2012 when so many people died. last september it was hauled on

to a platform to sit up right and over the next few days it will be refloated, allowing for the ship to be towed away for strapping meaning for the people here it will soon be no more than a memory. >> translator: we will all be very happy when it goes away. for us this is a moment of joy, naturally there are still the sorrow and never forget what happened but the fact the operation will be successful makes us happy. >> reporter: the operation is believed to cost billions of dollars and the largest maritime salvage in history. earlier this month the authorities released under water footage of the vessel. the calmness of the submerged decks now be lies the trauma the moment it sank. the size of the task of refloating this wreck is clear from the damaged done to its structure. >> we have been waiting for two years for this position and now the time has come so monday we

will pick you up and move. >> reporter: the captain of the costa concordia is on trial for man slaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship, he denies the charges. some environmental groups expressed concerns that salvaging the vessel could damage the eco systems here but the people just want it gone, dominick cain al jazeera. >> july 14 is the day in france, anniversary of the french revolution, this year troops from dozens of countries traveled to paris to pay a special tribute to mark 100 years since the start of the first world war and we are live from the french capitol and i believe it just finished, was it any good? >> reporter: yeah, it has indeed, welcome here and what is the tail end of the celebrations. you literally just missed the president whose motorcade has

driven past and there is a helicopter flying above and the audience and thousands lined the route beginning to leave. this has been one of the biggest celebrations since it started here in 1915 but goes back to 1880 and the world's longest running military parade. we have seen various divisions from all across france armed forces and seen a motorcade and all making their way along the historical route to them and there are international troops as well and there goes a dignatory behind me. as i said international troops around 69 different countries and from australia, new zeeland taking part in the event to commemorate the start of the first world war in 1914 and not free from controversy, algeria, one of the armies took part in

the display faced stiff protests from the national front and say it's far too soon to allow them to take part in the event 50 years after the bloody war of independence that finally allowed algeria to gain independence from france and say it's about unity and remembering those who lost their lives in the waters and wars. >> controversial from what we are hearing from there an announcement that french troops based in mali might be sent elsewhere in the region. what are you hearing about that? >> reporter: yes, absolutely right. despite the ceremony here some of the weapons and hardware are the things that the french military are using in active conflicts around the world and north africa. over the weekend france's defense minister announced that the operation in the north of bali against the separatists has now come to an end according to

the french president and mission accomplished there. back in 2013 and january the operation began but france sending over 2.5 thousand troops and the troop also be redeployed to bring about and then to on going fears of further violence there. and acknowledgment perhaps on the french leadership but some progress has been made in the north of mali but much more work needs to be done to ensure stability across the region as a whole. >> thank you for that. let's get the weather now with everton and in the philippines seem to have bad luck with weather and i believe a typhoon is now heading their way. >> we have another system on the way and hopefully not too powerful but it will cause flooding over the next few days. massive cloud which has been in the western pacific over the last few days, it's going to

head toward manila and at least this is an area which is more used to coping with these systems and it shouldn't cause too much problems in terms of the wind strength but talking 130 kilometers per hour and the system is forecast to run right across manila as we go on through the next 24-36 hours. so we are looking at the winds picking up to 150 kilometers per hour by around 1800-gm temperature today so it will intensify further and when it makes landfall we expect it to start weakening quite rapidly for a time before it moves to the south china sees and you see how the system will ramp it's way up and continue to drift from the east as we go through tuesday then and go into wednesday, continues to make its way a little further westward, at that time as well. i think over the next 24-36 hours or so some of these parts could easily see over 300 millimeters of rain and lots of rainfall coming down and the rain will be the most

significant feature and we will see widespread flooding across the region and lead to some landslides, jane. >> thank you for that everton. surrogacy is big business in india with thousands of foreigners traveling there every year to babies but it's not open to every one and illegal for same sex couples and single parents for example and we report. >> reporter: they are every bit the doting parents, after years of trying to conceive naturally and cycles of failed ivf treatment in britain they finally have a baby boy. five months ago an indian woman gave birth to luke by sur surrogacy in new deli. >> this is a gift that, i'm sor sorry, it's a gift that you just wouldn't expect someone else to

give you. >> reporter: like the barkers, thousands of foreigners and indians pay for surrogacy every year. in an attempt to better regulate the multi million dollar industry, india's previous government announced rules to protect the rights of surrogates and parents but some of the requirements are controversial. the regulations say that foreigners looking for surrogacy services must be heterosexual couples married for at least two years and gay couples and people who are singles are ban and activists and doctors say they are outraged. the doctor has delivered around 2000 surrogate babies, many of them for foreign same sex couples and single parents. she says the regulations are discriminatory, only foreigners are effected because they need to verify marital status

applying for visas. >> there was a time when we did not accept it when they walked in the office and i said what, what is that, you know. and the world is evolving. people are accepting. >> reporter: india's new bjp government did not respond to our requests for an interview but rights activists say the party's conservative ideology means they are likely to reverse the rules. >> looking at the practical to be optimistic about it. in reality they have stood against on television chat shows with me, they have stood in the opposite side speaking against gay rights. >> reporter: for the barkers ionia and the thriving surrogacy business made dreams come true and many argue the country should be as welcoming to other loving parents, i'm with al jazeera, new deli. >> i spoke to the director of the center for social research

in new deli and asked her what she thinks of the regulations. >> this is against the constitution and it's guaranteed to the individual there will be no discrimination so anybody whether it is the same sex couple or anything, it cannot discriminate. the issue is not only violation of human rights or rights of the same sex couple. it is much deeper, the question is much deeper than that which is about the rights of the surrogate mother, the woman, the poor woman who is willing to rent her womb for this surrogacy and there are no protection for her, there is no laws regulated and also there are only medical guidelines which are being followed by the doctors and the practitioners. only the medical procedure has been followed but the protection for all the four stakeholders that is a surrogate mother and commissioning parents and child and also the doctor doesn't exist so far. >> i was going to ask you about

that, jumping in here because i should imagine it's not same sex couples or single people who pose the problem here but rather the fact the surrogate mothers are not being well looked after and there are middle men who are causing problems. >> absolutely. we have been very extensive research in india and new deli and bombay and timing and going in the drafting of the law for regulating surrogacy. because the mothers, there is no proper, formal, legal framework so there are like informal activity and they procure and provide the mothers and can be women and women from poverty stricken and want to join in but health insurance is not there. their own children because unless you have children you

cannot come for surrogacy, the children don't get protection while she is nine months confined by the doctor to produce a child and she is not getting the money she has been promised because middle men negotiate the money, she doesn't understand. most of the cases she is very poor and illiterate. >> more to come on the news hour on al jazeera. under fire, we ask why arab governments are not standing up to the people of gaza like they have in the past. and christian groups in china and the government is launching an antireligion campaign. and in sport brazil's world cup comes to an end along with the reign of their football coach and robin will have the details. ♪

top stories on al jazeera, israel's bombardment of gaza is continuing for the 7th day, the death toll from offensive now stands at 173, international cause for a truce have been ignored. hundreds of people from eastern ukraine are heading to russia to seek refugee status and include residents of several towns and cities. but still sell bra -- celebrati in harris and 100 years since world war i. returning to the top story and thousands of pal -- palestinians are fleeing and the death toll is rising and stands at 173

palestinians killed and includes 29 children, most of them killed in their own homes and 19 women have lost their lives so far and meanwhile there have been no israeli deaths. chris is a spokesman with the united nations relief and work agency committed to palestinians and joins me from skype in jurisdiction lumbar -- jerusalem and have been allowed into gaza and what are you seeing and hearing? >> reporter: they have been to gaza and this trip is about solidarity and support for the people of gaza who are enduring this huge, dramatic up surge in violence and the refugees and the staff. he visited a school which had been quite badly damaged and

pictures of that are available on twitter but they are dramatic pictures of the damage and i think the images speak for themselves. enough civilians have been put in harm's way, well over half of those who have been killed so far are civilians including women and children and we, again, call on all of them in the past to respect civilian liv lives. >> sorry we lost you there for a moment, are you talking to both the israeli government and talking to hamas who is operating from homes where families live and often these families are being targeted and are you having conversations about geting people out before they take any action? >> you have to understand that this is a humanitarian organization and not a political organization, we have a very specific mandate and paid by

donors for doing specific things. there is a branch of the u.n., and they are charged with the kind of conversations which you have been talking about. however, we are very concerned and speaking out publically about the protection of the civilians. and he made it very clear that enough civilians have suffered. of course we condemned the rockets that are flying out of gaza and terrorizing millions of people in israel but around let's look at the relative death toll, so many civilians have been killed inside gaza, the figure today we have is that 25,000 children are deeply traumatized and need support and imagine being a five-year-old in gaza, the third time in your short and fragile life you are subject to the kind of bombardment so we have to avoid the situation where patterns of

violence erupt every two or three years. the under lying causes of the problem really need to be addressed. >> okay, chris, i will quickly jump in here because the quality is not great and we are running out of time and seems like they are preparing for offensive and how do you get support there, you say there is emotional support but surely they need more than that. >> absolutely and doing our best to provide it. 17,000 people have come to us, fleeing the heavy bombardment and we opened up 20 of our facilities, mainly schools in order to receive them, we are prepared to receive 35,000 people and in the last fight in 2008, 2009 there were over 50,000 so we are concerned that with a $22 million under fund emergency work for gaza we will run out of funds so we need people to come forward because they see pictures on the tv sets

leading the international response to dealing with the displaced and doing this one one hand behind our backs because we will soon come up with a funding crisis. >> and thank you very much chris. arab government reaction to gaza is tepered and will fight israel but less support in the region to do so and we explain why. >> reporter: his father mourns his child who was killed in an israeli air strike on gaza. he is one of the many palestini palestinians caught in a new cycle of confrontation between hamas and israel. many have been killed and homes destroyed. but unlike 2008 and 2012 when israeli offensive in gaza

triggered an uproar in the arab world and few shows of solidarity from the arab government at this time. on monday arab ministers will meet in cairo to come up with a united response to the conflict. but that is unlikely to happen. >> the situation in the arab world now during this war is different from the situations of the arab world and the region in previous similar roles and the arabs are very business with themselves and there are much more number of casualties in surrounding arab countries than what is happening in gaza. that is why the palestinian israeli conflict and the palestinian cause is no longer as prominent as it used to be in the arab world. >> reporter: egypt which has traditionally brokered israeli, hamas conflicts has not had a

good relationship with the palestinian group recently. cairo accuses hamas of being the armed branch of the banned muslim brotherhood and also says hamas supporting armed group tighting egyptian troops in the society and hamas ties with the region syria has severely deteriorated. the 2011 uprising against president el, assad was a turning point and expressed support for rebels and he left damascus and went to katar and they considered hamas support for rebels a betrayal and iran was critical of hamas' political shift but reports suggest hamas and iran are working or rebuilding ties and iran for many years has been hamas main

financial and military backer. but hamas can still tap into popular support in the region. scenes like these, growing civilian casualties and massive destruction in the gaza strip instigate arabs and muslims. on the streets of turkey, lebanon and many other countries there is anger over what is happening in gaza. i'm with al jazeera. prosecutors in china filed charges against a british man and american woman linked to bribery allegations against pharmaceutical giant glaxo-smith-kline and accused of illegal obtaining and selling personal information about chinese citizens and hired by the company as investigators. glaxo-smith-kline have

accusations of bribing chinese doctors and officials to use the products and christian groups in the east will guard against the church and against what they call an official antireligious campaign and local governments are forcibly removing crosses from the tops of churches or in some instances demolishing them but officials say the size of the crosses violate local regulations and rob mcbride has more. >> reporter: a village and the congregation pray for protection of the cross on top of their church from the local authorities. just to be sure they also have tons of rock and two containers blocking the front gates. and scores of people, young and old, sleep in the church around the clock. . >> translator: i don't know why we are a threat to them. we love our country. we love our church. we follow the law. the chinese constitution states we have freedom of religion. >> reporter: the church nearby are evident of crosses that have

been forcibly removed for being too conspicuous and trees cover a mound of rubble where there was once a church and the resent demolition brought the issue to international attention. authorities deny accusation of religious persecution and it's a question of churches being bigger than permitted and christians suspect they are being targeted because their religion itself is becoming too big. christians makeup 15% of the population in this part of the province and congregations are growing by 10-20% annually. they have been spending more money on grander churches and bigger crosses in a country that is technically atheist and that is weary of anything that might under mine the ruling communist party. this church replaced a cross with a bigger, brighter version in time for last christmas and

did not escape this purge. >> translator: they said the provincial bosses wanted the cross to be removed. >> reporter: church leaders say it amounts to persecution. >> translator: chinese citizens we are meant to have human rights but we actually don't have any, they won't listen to us and do whatever they want. >> reporter: as the standoff continues construction on many new churches has been halted. in those that have recently been completed part of daily worship has become the evening vigil wondering if the wrecking ball is on its way, rob mcbride in china. for the first time in history the church of england will vote whether to allow women to be bishops and he is hopeful the move will be approved but a vote alone doesn't guaranty the change will happen and ema

reports from york. >> reporter: at st. mary's church in york the congregation is full and led by catherine jackson, she was one of the first women in england to be ordained 20 years ago. catherine like thousands of other women in the church of england cannot become a bishop, stopped by the stained glass ceiling. >> holding back the ministry of the church really, when we are only using the gifting and talents of half of the population. >> reporter: in york the church's ruling body, the general sinot is debating to bring it in line with other churches within the uk itself and some others further afield. the church of england has been down this road before. in november of 2012, it was thought that enough people in the general would vote in favor of women bishops but in the end they were narrowly defeated and some called it a crisis and left

those complaining for change deeply disappointed but determined to fight on. >> because i think we look ridiculous. i think god has been calling us on this road for a long time and we need to get on with it. >> reporter: but traditional lists in the church refuneraling to budge claiming their argument is based on theology. >> in principal i believe the bible teaches that men and women were created equal but different and that god has different roles for us in the church family and in the domestic family and so for me the bishop represents a role that i think is designed for a man. >> reporter: what happened in city this week could determine the path the church takes, whether it chooses to stay in the path or move forward, emma hayward for al jazeera in york. the goal which secured germany's first world cup in 24

years, all that action just ahead. ♪

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for the biggest game and they started nervously with the misguided header and missing the chance for argentina. the same player had the ball in the net minutes later and this effort was off side and the first half finished with germany looking dangerous and argentina hanging on. missed opportunities remained the theme of the second half and messi joined in, the final was heading into extra time and the extra minutes for argentina had a chance to be a national hero, a status instead taken by girtz of germany. a finish of rare composure ending argentina's hopes, 1-0 the final score and germany world champions for a fourth time. andy richardson, al jazeera. as we heard from andy's report four world cups for germany now and first as a nun

-- a unified nation and they beat hungry and 20 years later they had the trophy for 2-1 victory of netherlands and 1990 defeat argentina and germany is level with italy and brazil topped the list of five wins and we will go live to nick spicer and capitol in berlin and good morning to you and the party obviously still going where you are. i imagine a few sore heads this morning. >> reporter: yeah, i think berlin, like germany, woke up groggy but extremely happy. last night was an explosion of joy here on the fan mile where there were hundreds of thousands of people, particularly way down at the end of this street, at the brandenburg gate where they

watched the game-clinching goal on the giant temperature -- tv stream and said this was the fourth time as a unified country and celebrations went to the wee hours of the morning and they will start again on tuesday when the victory team comes at the airport and comes here in some kind of open deck vehicle and expecting over half a million people to welcome them, to congratulate them and to share in the feeling of victory. >> talking about the numbers i imagine of course there is a huge sense of pride among german fans but what are they saying and telling you, what is the reason being given for the success of this site? >> reporter: well, the reason for the success is that the german football federation

decided to focus on youth, around a decade ago and the national coach and love who is the coach who coached the team to victory put a lot of emphasis in getting young players well trained and under 17 and having them come up through the national federation and so you have a new golden generation it's called, people who are used to playing together, there are some stars of course in the german team but players who are not all looking out for themselves but taught to play together and pass more quickly and think more about defense and then there is always the element of chance but those are the things fundamentally that help make the team as strong as it is and many in germany and elsewhere in the football world are saying germany has created a team that should be dominate for years to come. >> nick spicer is live for us in berlin and thank you for that. the mood was a lot more somber

in the argentina capitol of buenes-ares. >> you would not think they lost with the goal and this is the start here where the argentina comes with the victory and will not let defeat in the final ruin the party, thousands of people are streaming in to the street behind me to celebrate a great performance as they see it in the world cup final and watching it in plaza and parks and bars and restaurants around here and fought the fireworks and will let them off any way and delighted the way the team performed and obviously there are long faces and obviously there is disappointment but for now they are celebrating having reached the world cup final. >> some consolation for argentina despite the loss and mesi won the golden ball as the

best player at the world cup and despite saying he was subdued he scored four goals in the tournament and the goal keeper was given what is known as the golden glove. and how about the golden scorer at the tournament was columbus rodriguez and scored six goals and five matches at the quarter final and germany was best with five goals and some analysis on the 2014 world cup as a whole and jacob is a football journalist and is live from london and jacob before we get your over all impressions of this in brazil give us your thoughts of the golden ball award and did he deserve it? >> i thought he had a good tournament over all and some criticism is over the top and argentina would not reach it without him with the round of 16

match against switzerland but could see how people could think this is like a sponsors pushing for mesi to be the golden boy and i think thomas miller or rodriguez would have been far more deserving than mesi last night and given not a great performance from him and missed a chance to get ahead. >> a cup of goals, players suspended for biting another and teams threatening of bonuses and sent home and entertainment and a lot of it, what did you make of this world cup as a whole? >> i think it was a fantastic world cup. i think again people are going too far when they say it was the best world cup of all time and i wasn't alive in 86 or 82 but there is a case for the world cups being better and i think some of the games as it went to the knock-out stages became tactical and teams were much more defensive as we saw particularly in the semi final

between argentina and holland and last night there was lack of entertainment here and there, a good final but not a great final but over all it was a fantastic world cup and i enjoyed it and group stages and some matches were incredibly entertaining and had some shocks and great stories and a lot of controversy like the biting, something that has never been seen before in a world cup and over all it's a great success for brazil and it's something we will see again in the not too distant future. >> it changes to 2018 and russia and questions about the awarding of the world cup and 2022 in katar and how do you see this playing out for the next few weeks and months? >> the award in 2022, personally i have no idea what will happen but i wouldn't be surprised if more allegations emerged in the

next few weeks and months about the world cup and something coming out about russia and i don't see that being moved but i see 2022 world cup being taken away from katar given allegations made in the newspapers in the lead up to the world cup and as much as you have to say as well the problem we have over the heat in the summer in katar is a huge headache for fifa in the coming months and years i think. >> thank you for that, jacob is live for us in london and brazil sacked the coach after a disappointing world cup campaign and included brazil defeat of 7-1 loss to germany in semi final and 3-0 defeat by netherlands and left brazil with back to back losses for the first time since 1940 and the football association is expected to make an official announcement in the coming hours, that is

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