please a parliamentary vote will be held next week. ross's president has arrived in new caledonia it's emanuel recalls first visit to the french island and south pacific tensions are running high head of an independence vote which is set for november the majority of the island's indigenous cannot ethnic group support a full break with france after thomas says the latest from new math. president is here in noumea at a referendum that this territory will hold like to this year on independence from france now as president of france he says that he is in his official capacity neutral friend but as a frenchman he wants new caledonian to study french this is significant for more than just frumps because in the pacific is a growing issue and when you've got be western countries like australia and the us and france competing as many see it with china influence over the pacific having an important french territory late in the middle of it with an important french

military base here as well is significant a counterbalance to china. as well from a commitment to commando. if you're with us on facebook live our friends at plus we're going to show you how. it is in kenya it was a little bit early and somalia are tossing without many of the gun stockpiles.

andy is here to talk was going to say ice hockey you don't say i thought he's a hockey. it's a canadian definitely not. confirm that the ice hockey world championships got

underway in denmark on friday that begin with one of the sport's most famous showdowns can either against the usa or this totems been running for nearly a century makes it older than the football world cup that began in one thousand nine hundred thirty this year's event how some added significance as it sees the return of n.h.l. players to international action they missed the winter olympics because a deal couldn't be reached with north america's top probably however many big names still won't be out the world cup as the tournament is happening at the same time as the n.h.l. playoffs is our correspondent paul race. training has an extra intensity when the usa are about to take on canada and for the americans their hunger has more of an edge every year. they open the ice hockey world championships here in denmark against a canadian team going for a record twenty seventh gold medal decades have passed since the usa won this title . just a few months after the olympics and n.h.l.

players are packing their international colors with the chicago blackhawks patrick kane one of those bringing quality that was lacking. yeah how many now i think we've almost zero impact so it's a great opportunity to grow the game and play for your country especially if you get the chance i think a lot of guys maybe not on their message missing out on their picks they want to take advantage of this chance and play in the world championships now canada such a big rival for us it's it's a pretty easy game to get up for. taking the sport to new fans means that the quiet city of henning is co-hosting the competition with copenhagen. but not all of the hockey world has come to denmark the stanley cup playoffs are in full swing in north america so the international i saw the federation hasn't quite had the flood of and i tell stars it might have hoped for what it does get is a new tape ninety eight years after these championships began south korea and making that debut south korea's qualification sees them step out of the shadow of

a winter olympics where the unified north and south women's team took the spotlight that first exposure to this level of hockey has been brought about by jim pak the first korean ever to win the stanley cup as a player it's a real special moment. because we are and it but these guys here they worked extremely hard to earn their position here in the top division and the world champions this is where the hockey people i believe come together and there's no other winter sports or anything involved or politics it's hockey and that's what we have to concentrate on which is great. international hockey can say it's in good health t.v. figures for last year's championships were reported at one point three billion three hundred thousand tickets have been sold as denmark play host for the first time. but the game might only be seen at its best when the biggest rivalry is no longer club versus country. hall reduce al-jazeera heading denmark we've also been

hearing from the new man in charge of australia's cricket seem he says one of his kate's hassocks will be to earn the respect of the cricketing world former test player justin langer here i was to lead that same into a new era following that goal tampering scandal that resulted in the caps in opening batsman and coach all quitting that jobson. to may respect moral worth more than all the gold in the world so respect all of the cricket field but there's also another really important band i should buy the last six years in western australian cricket is that we look to encourage great critters we're also a great people so that we can encourage great cricketers and brightest ryans over the next four years starting from day one i think that's really important then dyson for us it's not just about how we play our cricket it's also about being good citizens well when some of australia's leading players admitted to cheating it prompted sol searching seemingly just about every level of australian society so

what langer says is really under the microscope cricket writer ali martin picking up on one of his quotes in that press conference elite may chip within the australian cricket same is going to be a cave alley and you want no one seems to know all that means we shall see australian broadcasting geoff lemon skeptical lang can bring in meaningful change justin langer to coach australia after all someone was good after abuse but if you want to true cultural shift it's hard to see him leading it this time from one of langer's old adverse rays former england captain michael vaughan he has no doubts about his qualities justin langer is the new aussie cricket coach no question it will have a positive impact. concerns me already about next year's ashes series against england let us know what you think you can tweet me directly at and they are on the school sports more from a in the eighteen hundred g.m.c. news hour but for now let's get back to come up thank you for that and that will do it for this newsgroup this day you can get in touch with us on the hashtag a j

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