it's for women passages only and drawn by women drivers. features like a panic button and twenty four. drivers. this is al-jazeera. this is the news hour live from london coming up. the saudi led coalition launches a major offensive to take yemen's port city for data despite warnings of catastrophic humanitarian consequences. the u.n. holds an emergency meeting to vote on a resolution condemning israel over the violence in gaza. in rome where the government is embroiled in a diplomatic standoff with from so bridge migration policy while hundreds of

refugees and migrants turned away from italy head to spain. the member associations of canada mexico and usa have been selected by the feedback on the. tools the twenty twenty six. broke out thank you jubilation from mexico canada and the united states as the joint paid wins to host the twenty twenty six football world cup. hamas with all the sport asked spain's national coach to get sat just two days at a before the team's opening will cup match against portugal we'll have all the reaction from russia later in the program. in yemen has launched a major offensive to take control of the port city of her data from the who he rebels that's to. spite u.n.

warnings of catastrophic humanitarian consequences the security council will now hold an emergency meeting to discuss the operation on thursday but it is yemen's second largest port after aden and a key aide hub intense airstrikes have hit locations south of the city who thiis say they responded by launching missiles at a coalition ship who theses today during october twenty fourth seen as part of an effort to topple the government of president. hadi. some seventy percent of yemen's food enters the country through her data and its fear the fighting will cut off much needed supplies of food fuel and medicine twenty two million people that's around two thirds of yemen's population rely on aid and eight point four million are already at risk of starving save the children says famine is now a real possibility as some six hundred thousand people live in and around her data some of fled the fighting and many are still there or has more.

a major military operation is underway yemeni government troops are on the ground to take the port of poti from the rebels warplanes and warships of the saudi emirate coalition have also launched strikes on the city and reinforcements are joining soldiers on the ground for what many say is a decisive battle for control over northern yemen but they do feel a little that they are here on our way to for data and we will liberate it from the who we are determined to celebrate you and mark the end of ramadan there. daters seaports is a vital lifeline for the whole thesis the sardis say that's where the shia rebels get weapons smuggled in from iran that's denied by both and the houthi is the united nations fearing what the spokesman called

a bloodbath if the data was attacked by coalition forces has proposed and you deal that would see houthi as hand over the support to the un but that wasn't accepted the bourse also a vital lifeline for millions of civilians caught up in the war and aid agencies are now warning of a humanitarian catastrophe they say supply routes for urgently needed aid will be caught and more than a quarter of a. million lives are at risk the fact that we have more military operations going on will just exacerbate the situation which means that not enough we entered for the entire population of yemen we have already today eighty percent of the yemeni people who rely heavily on humanitarian aid thanks the war in yemen has already claimed tons of thousands of lives most civilians many have died of hunger and disease but the fighting has gone on so far none of the attempts to have its

leaders know how succeeded none of the players are working to go their regional players or the most players so they can bring your money to the table the saudi am already coalition leads the campaign to drive the whole things out of the data and to get any capital sanaa and reinstate the government of president out of also hardy i love the rebels remain defiant firing ballistic missiles into saudi arabia and vowing to do the capital to the possible barbara. let's get more now the offensive will impact yemen is joining us live in this year's dinner and mamoun who's the head of policy and advocacy for oxfam international yemen program thanks very much indeed for coming in so you've been in yemen just about a week ago how big an impact will this have anything on operations there if they if they do strike at the who data port it will be huge we know that because we already

seeing the telltale signs of what may come we're already seeing significant increase in the number of displacement people who are fleeing their homes because of the fighting we're also seeing that. fuel is difficult to actually obtain people who are selling fewer are withholding it because they are expecting prices to increase they're expecting the court to stop operating. so this is already taking place so what do you do if the if the port is not accessible what kind of options are there for aid companies to bring stuff in well this is we've seen this before when we've had blockades time and time again over the last three years of the conflict basically meant that there are no supplies coming in through where they don't which means that twenty million will be at risk of famine tom you know you and other aid agencies have been abridged because of security reasons

to pull out of yemen and what's able to do in but in practical terms there well for more time you know these agencies there have evacuated from where they were not from yemen so we are operations in yemen are continuing and we also are putting in place contingency plans in order to scale up in other parts of the government because we are expecting that people will flee to the north or to the south of where they were or even to other governments of yemen and others as u.n. meeting to discuss this on thursday do you expect this to change the minds of the people involved in that that this could actually be averted it can be it can be and it's really down to the member states if they act collectively especially those who have leverage over the saudi arabian u.a.e. coalition they sell huge arms sales to both sides arabia and

u.a.e. and if they act collectively they should be able to stop it does a little bit about the role of the data itself stand there's a huge problem with money tradition and children especially but it is controlled by the who think they are they actually helping the population living there or they also blocking aid from getting to be who need it i mean historically people in her day there are monks the poorest in yemen anyway in terms of of the of the blockade we're not seeing block a player say we've had. instances where access has been restricted by different parts whether by the coalition or by the who it's access to the country or access within the country itself so that's why we are calling on all parties to this conflict to really put the yemeni people at the forefront of their consideration because the terror groups and we're seeing pictures of the momentum is the scenes of of these children who are in a terrible state where whereabouts do you do actually manage to help them get the

hospitals or them in a bad place i mean don't always do the difficulties for children in particular well yes i mean we know that hospitals are only half of them are fully operational we also know that people who have fled recently particularly those in the last week they are living in makeshift tents there absolutely no services available we're reliant on only local partners in order to reach them and in terms of the the the the aid itself i mean is it access to medicine as a problem or is it you mentioned oh that's so we seem to be a factor in yemen isn't it yes oil is always an issue in terms of access but then there is also issues around if the port is not accessible or even the supply line that goes from beda to sign up for example and to the other governments if this is destructive this could really mean catastrophe. thank you very much indeed for them to totally appreciate it thank you. only nations general assembly is holding an

emergency meeting on the recent violence in gaza members will vote on an arab backed resolution condemning israel and calling for the protection of palestinians but any resolution adopted it is and it won't be binding. as the occupation intensifies its brutality. witnessed every single day in the oppression intimidation and humiliation fenian men women and children by the israeli occupying forces and extremists. and as the dangerous political impasse persists the need to protect our people under this occupation remains urgent and unquestionable in fact this resolution makes peace less possible it feeds a narrative to the desperate people of gaza that their leaders are not responsible for their predicament. it stokes patron. it sacrifices honesty

accuracy compromise and reconciliation in favor of the advancement of a narrow political agenda. posted in protest as in gaza have found a new way to take on the israeli blockade demonstrations along gaza's barrier fence a flying burning kites over the border to start fires in israel but is leading to calls for a dangerous response from the israeli military. some of their toys for the israeli army they're a dangerous weapon. every friday during anti israel you protests in gaza kites have soared high into the sky and given the israeli army a problem they hadn't encountered before an oil soaked rag is attached to a kite and once it's over the border they cut the string and it falls into israeli territory causing a fire no one's been hurt by the fires but some two thousand two hundred fifty acres of fields and nature reserves have been burnt causing two point five million

dollars in damage according to the israeli government they make the cuts in gaza from recycled waste but what was once an innocent hobby has become dangerous the kite's is such a problem that israeli politicians have called on israeli snipers to shoot the call it flies. the kite makers here say they've been targeted so they cover their faces when we interview them. the idea came during the second week of protests to use the kites against the israelis on the border these kites have trouble the israelis because we can reach the border without going there and we will continue to do so despite the fact the israelis say they will shoot us. the cuts themselves follow a very simple but effective design and cost less than a dollar they fly them high with pictures of those who have died in the protests often friends and relatives. we use the pictures to show the world the sacrifices we have made and use them to make our demands to open the border to help the

injured and to break the siege. the cards have become a very potent symbol of the friday protests so much so that the israelis say that they use fighter jets to fire warning shots against a makeshift tent like this one where kites were being made. kite flying is popular across gaza with children using the streets as playgrounds so there's no shortage of skilled fliers. israel sent drones to intercept the kites but palestinians have had some success in bringing those drones down combine that with the damage done to israeli land and the protesters believe they can still fight back against the eleven year long israeli laid siege imraan khan al-jazeera central gaza. more than nine hundred people have arrived at the italian port of katana insistently after being rescued at sea by the italian coast guard it comes amid a growing diplomatic route between italy and france over the new italian government's refusal to allow a foreign rescue boat to dock france's president has called that cynical and

irresponsible china has this ripple. disembarking in italy nine hundred thirty two migrants and refugees rescued in the mediterranean by the italian coast guard on the crossing from the libyan coast among their number more than two hundred miners and two dead bodies. heading instead to spain hundreds more on the ngo rescue ship aquarius the italian government believes it's borne the brunt of this crisis alone for long enough and international rescue vessels like aquarius now banned from italy it says an invitation to people smugglers and this is what it amounts to in practice file pictures of the u.s.s. trent on a navy vessel currently on patrol in the med with forty shipwreck survivors on board and twelve dead bodies it's unable to transfer them to a german rescue vessel because italy won't give them safe harbor real time

consequences real lives at stake. facing criticism from n.g.o.s the u.n. and some fellow e.u. members the italian government is unbending the far right leader now interior minister mattel's salvia new who authored this change of policy has shot back at the french president for calling it cynical and irresponsible salvini his view that's pure hypocrisy here's what he told the italian senate that pretty much a no you request. from january first into the end of may moment ten thousand people that content back in france into italy in the relocation agreement of twenty fifteen france agreed to take nine thousand eight hundred migrants instead it's taken six hundred forty so i asked president micron to take in one thousand migrants tomorrow morning in the show of real generosity not just words meanwhile civil society has been joined by civic society pushing back the mayor of palermo in sicily is among

a number of mayors declaring their cities remain open to all we remember our grandfather we remember. were. relatives and will remember that. difficult is when their way of bajor when they were in germany where this is for america too because of that the human beings there where would be italy has a proud post in which immigration played a major part but he needs a future perhaps less so join a whole al-jazeera rome. butler has more from paris on the diplomatic fallout between italy and france. well the french president tomorrow my call is certainly trying to calm the situation he said in comments on wednesday that france and italy had always worked side by side on the issue of migrants in europe he also urged all sides to stop getting caught in emotions now lists of course just one day off to man or mark or sparked

a diplomatic row with this silly with his comments that the italian government had acted irresponsibly and cynically in its blocking of the aquarius ship now that seemed to put france on the higher moral ground and that infuriated italian officials who are very quick to point out that of course france did not put its hands up to take in your kerry's boat that we know his fall into spain and the interior minister of italy also speaking out against on france in the front simply hasn't done enough to share the burden with italy of the amount of migrants that are coming into the country trying to share that burden and ease the burden on the italian people now emmanuel markhor is shuttle to meet the italian prime minister on friday that may not happen italian officials are saying it could be canceled they are demanding that amount of apologize for his comments it is unlikely that the french president will apologize but he would certainly want that meeting to go ahead he says it would be a good opportunity to talk about perhaps

a new solutions. coming up on this news from london the syrian refugees who say they have a better shot at life in their own country as the war drags on. we're also hearing in this what they think of donald trump's nuclear talks with north korea just weeks after the u.s. president withdrew from the iran nuclear deal. and in sport roger federer bounces back i mean from behind to win his first match for. this president donald trump has arrived back in washington after a summit with kim jong un in singapore it waited just landed a long trip but everybody can now feel much safer than the day i took office there is no longer a nuclear threat from north korea in one state might pompei or has arrived in seoul to brief south korean leaders donald trump's decision to cancel annual military drills on the korean peninsula is expected to top the agenda the move has surprised

the pentagon and regional u.s. allies improving relations with north korea has wide support in the south but some conservative groups say the say a poor deal gives away too much from mcbride reports from seoul. throughout south korea voters are going to the polls these elections for as and councils are local but the day after the singapore summit many voters have international diplomacy on their minds and president jane's ruling party could benefit. he deserves a credit for starting this whole process i am concerned that the ruling party is becoming too powerful and fast not. just as trump and kim are back home now presenting their achievement as a win so mood also has a lot to gain the whole thing has been driven by the domestic political reasons by three important players in front of trump and present as well so

absolutely here in seoul the politics is very important movements policy of friendly engagement remains popular with majority support but the summit deal also has fierce critics conservative parties and the right wing media have attacked trump suspension of military exercises between the u.s. and south korean forces as a concession that gets nothing in return and they claim this deal is far worse than previous ones signed by the north koreans but they've renee gone anyway also concerned about the canceled military drills as japan. we believe the u.s. south korea military drills are vital for the security of north east asia i would like to see an understanding of this between japan and the u.s. and south korea. for north korean defectors like choke your opinions are divided

one of thirty thousand who lives here he believes the country he left is finally changing. the actions he took before the summit shows their willingness for change we will have to see how they implement the declaration. what happens next it seems will be the true test of whether this is a deal of substance bright al-jazeera so. we're just a month before that historic summit the us president pulled out of a twenty fifteen nuclear deal with iran iranians say it's proof that he cannot be trusted but many are not just angry with trump as a mistress he explains in the capital tehran. as the world this week turned its attention from iran's non-existent nuclear weapons to north korea's actual ones iran's working men and women tried to come to terms with the personal price they've paid for the years their government spent building a nuclear deal with one american president only to see

a broken by another one of those who you know them he has. also break the deal with north korea he's an unwise person and no one has confidence in him today he says something tomorrow he'll say something else someone who makes a pledge and an hour later takes it back is not human no one trusts him and as the iran nuclear deal is lost so is hope that it would bring a better future iranians don't just blame the american president for their circumstances they say their own politicians also share the blame for decades of hostility against the united states and an endless pursuit for position on the international stage across the street a father of two says iran's people have no choice but to continue being patient but for him there is a difference between surviving and thriving and for the sake of his sons he says he plans on leaving the country is that us. i'm stressed my mind is always busy thinking about what will happen tomorrow what wrong decisions our leaders will make

next how will they decrease pressure on the people i hope one day we will see our leaders make better decisions but now they think in a selfish way they don't think about their people they just pay attention to some specific interest. it's a common complaint from iran's working class their leaders have pitted them in ideological battles against so much of the world for so long it keeps hurting the economy and makes just getting by more difficult every year i mean but then i don't even know america has no pity for iran and iranians but also we have no power to stand against the of us so everybody says we should negotiate with them like north korea these guys you know. right now no one is happy with the economic situation any story go into with like the price of gold things here get more expensive every week in some cases prices increase hour by hour. it's almost certain things will get worse before they get better the value of iran's currency keeps falling more

u.s. sanctions are set to take effect in august and european companies have already started leaving the country so for iranians there are more clouds on the horizon is in basra the old zero to one. iraq's firebrand cleric has declared a surprise alliance with an iranian backed militia chief in a bid to form a new government sudden out see joining forces with mary's political bloc after weeks of negotiations said his coalition won the largest number of votes in last month's election and america came second the neurons will only control one hundred one seats far from the one hundred sixty five required for majority status as they'll be inviting other parties to join them qatar has reportedly extended a five hundred million dollar aid package to jordan to help it struggling economy happened after his foreign minister how talks with the jordanian king in amman angered austerity measures triggered waves of protests in jordan in recent weeks

which brought down the prime minister announcement comes two days after saudi arabia the u.a.e. and kuwait pledged two and a half billion dollars to help jordan. thousands of syrian refugees in lebanon are preparing to return home as the fighting becomes less frequent many say they have a better chance at life in syria than in the refugee camps yet for others going home is still not an option so hard to report. their life in exile is about to end it's been five years since they arrived in lebanon the ramadan family is preparing to return to syria now that the war is winding down our hosts are still standing it needs some repairs but it is better than living in a tent and their relatives told us our village now has electricity and water some three thousand syrians will be leaving the border town of our sell mainly to the column on region just behind the mountains it will be the second batch of voluntary returns in recent weeks many complain about what they describe as unbearable

conditions in the camps. i mean we are paying for an electricity garbage collection from the twenty seven dollars each person gets a month from the u.n. it's not enough that's why we want to go home. the united nations refuses to organize returns it says conditions are still not suitable many of the refugees escape political persecution when they left syria and there is a need for security guarantees. to return but conditions need to be put in place the people have a different situation than ours some of their family members are still there. the population as a whole was displaced everyone should be able to return with. the estimated one and a half million syrian refugees in lebanon have been an economic burden officials here would like to see more returning home as more opposition areas come under

government control but there are problems many of the refugees do not have homes to return to towns and villages have been reduced to rubble by the fighting and the international community is withholding reconstruction money it is using it as leverage to force the syrian government to making political compromises. that may not happen soon and that is concerning refugees because some lebanese politicians are making life more difficult for them they want to cancel the refugee status of those who travel to and from syria classifying them as economic migrants. i am not wanted by the syrian government for any wrongdoing but if i go back now i have no way of feeding my children i may have little choice lebanese security is refusing to renew my residency papers they say i should go back human rights groups say there have been cases of refugees being pressured levanon denies forcing anyone to leave that may be true for the ramadan family who like others want to return and

to escape the life of misery in these camps but they still worry about a life of misery in syria where there are fears about safety and economic security . north east lebanon. it was still ahead. can argentina's green wave overturn one of latin america's most restrictive abortion mills. melting away antarctica loses almost three trillion tons of ice says the early one nine hundred ninety s. plus. m b richardson in the russian city of sochi west spain will be going into the opening world cup game against portugal and a state of unexpected off the field chaos.

hello there is something of a chinese taking place in the weather across europe at the moment we're losing mates and across northern parts of the continent further down to the south where weather the warm air is running into somewhat cooler here we're seeing some pretty lively storms so we've had storms across southern france easing their way across parts of the alps enormously into the adriatic you still see the found a hazy pushing into the balkans and a little bit east moby downpours coming in here as we go on through thursday they can be some lively weather just around rumania still back into hungary was pretty poor for a good part of italy further north. struggling to get into the twenty's there in london and paris twenty three celsius there for berlin and stockholm remember just last week we were getting up into the high twenty's into a good part of scandinavia just about getting up to around ninety degrees much warmer though for madrid fine dry warm and sunny over the next couple days or a spell of wet and windy weather coming to the northwest of europe so sunday across the british isles feeling

a little less pleasant as we go on through the next few days still there down to a southern possibly not quite as widespread as we make our way towards the weekend but i want to the other side of the mat it's lost a fine and try a hot one in cairo thirty eight warner for about twenty four. i don't it's just it is plain i was a kid things would go for me was a pleasure and oppression would want me always found the ball to play with the told you believe in to. guide to pick out one playa who's made the difference to made yachts or write a book is it the big farm or some who can make things up and people can make things change you know thank you football turia brahimi on al-jazeera world. in a world where journalism as an industry is changing. fortune or to be able to continue

to expand to continue to have that passenger drive and present the story in a way that is important to our viewers. everyone has a story worth hearing to. cover those that are often ignored we don't weigh our coverage towards one particular region or continent that's why i joined al-jazeera . they're going to amount to the top stories. a major battle is underway in yemen as the saudi emirati coalition begins an offensive to capture the rebel held port city of data. nations general assembly has voted in favor of

a resolution condemning israel for the recent violence in gaza and calling for the protection of palestinians. nine hundred people have arrived at the italian puerto katon year after being rescued at sea by the italian coast guard the government turned away another boat carrying six hundred twenty nine rescued migrants sparking an international route. argentina's congress has been debating whether to legalize abortion ahead of an historic vote on the matter hundreds of people have gathered outside parliament to watch the session it's an issue that's deeply divided the country which remains strongly influenced by the catholic church argentinean or only allows abortions in cases of rape or when a woman's life is at risk. or is about joins us live from outside congress in buenos aires so tell us what's going on at the moment where you are. what it behaves story day you know argentina i'm angry i have been debating now for

several hours the first time that congress has the possibility of. or seem to have lost to reserve for the moment and let's just take what we can get a back notice our history has gone apologies for that loss of a line or two but as our as we're trying get through the back of it right at least nine people have been arrested after university students and professors staged a violent protests in the bolivian city of la paz raise five tear gas and shot water cannon while protesters retaliated by throwing rocks and explosives students and staff are demanding wage increases and financial aid public anger has been growing over expenditure on a new government palace and the president's trip to russia for the world cup. folks foreign has been fined will now billion dollars by a court in germany over the diesel emissions scandal prosecutors say more than ten million vehicles made by v.w.

were fitted with software which allow them to appear to have lower emissions when tested in labs the car maker says it accepts the fine and its responsibility for the crisis it's already paid billions of dollars in damages to car owners in the us . and talk to has lost almost three trillion tons of ice since the early one nine hundred ninety s. according to a new study scientists have tracked the thawing by satellite data they discovered sea devils have risen almost a centimeter causing a risk of flooding from the pacific islands to florida most of the ice is lost from west antarctica and the antarctic peninsula where woman ocean water is melting floating ice shelves at the end of last years. let's get more on this address live from leeds in the u.k. is andy shepherd he's the lead author on the study into the antarctic ice melting is a professor of earth observation at the university of leeds thanks very much indeed for being with us so we surprised by it by these figures. very much so.

large group of scientists to more than eighty was involved and we were all surprised at how quickly on top the curd switched from situation where it wasn't losing a great deal of ice to something that's more worrying what's that the main cause of this is that so they are able to establish with this or is that not something they can declare as a result of this research. so we have different methods different satellite sensors in space and they tell us different things about the ice in antarctica and we can see that they're going to see is a speed. they're speeding up in places where they're in contact with warm ocean currents this is an apartment article but it's a potential sea level contribution of around three and a half meters and the question is how how rapidly that that might happen and is it your impression that this is because of climate change. the ocean

temperatures around this part of antarctica are only about half a degree centigrade higher than they should be but the ice that i just can't withstand the amount of heat it carries a lot of heat the oceans it's melting around five meters vice from the meat but we wouldn't be surprised where we live by half decent a great change in the temperature it's just that the antarctic continent is much more sensitive than we we used to think. sorts of changes are not in constant with what we've seen for the rest of the planet we don't go as far to link the two things to one another because there's a great deal of. between. us apart at. the same size i think we have got it back there were a few gremlins with this line it's a pretty ropey line but if you still then you can sort of standish's happen would you say there are measures that would help to reverse this situation. well the ice in antarctica can grow back again but we have to cool the planet and i

don't think that in any of the scenarios that have been put to governments that that's expected so we should plan for future sea level rises that are above the central estimates because i'm talking now is tracking the upper end of the i.p.c.c. projections not essential level and thank you very much. thank you. it's about the quality of that line still ahead. here. the world's biggest. international reputation. and as the n.h.l. champions bring the stanley cup to washington story coming up later. business updates brought to you by qatar airways going places to get the.

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the u.s. canada and mexico will jointly host the twenty twenty six football well cup the north american twice as many votes as its only rival. but rules governing body is denying that pressure from the u.s. president. reports from. canada mexico and usa have been selected by the fee for congress to host the twenty twenty six world cup the world cup overturns the united states of america for the first time in thirty two years it's been involving mexico and canada the united states was the heavyweight cans of it it was an in fact taken on surprising triumph with

one hundred thirty four votes to sixty five the other contend. the u.s. where the big players in this all along play we host sixty games mexico ten and candidates him thank you for entrusting us with this privilege the privilege of hosting the fee for world cup in twenty twenty six. let us also salute our friends from morocco at the end of the day we are all united in football that's the spirit of the world cup snubbed in that twenty twenty two losing out to qatar the stars and stripes of loom large over faith it was the american investigators attorney general and the f.b.i. who brought down sat boxes free for three years ago new faith issues the politics of keeping america sweet and crucially making money the united bid promised billions of dollars more this host decision was a transparent vote for the first time which caused its own problems so hundred

three national associations with their decision under political scrutiny president trumpet tweeted in april that it would be a shame if countries that we always support with the law be against the us did. i'm not worried about anything at the least i'm worried about about the president of the united states or mexico or canada prime minister or and i think you should. a finger question was answered i don't think anyone tries to take over fever fever belongs to football and to the members of fever now the task to trumpet is have been a station the way to work closely with mexico canada neighbors were playing relations have been distinctly strained in recent months over immigration and trying to promote pride in their bid terms of frustration this is the fifth time they have tried and failed and they made strong right progress to have a genuine chance still the tournament has been staged in africa just once the tone

of that's about to kick off here in russia will feature thirty two nations competing but it's all we get so mexico canada and the united states twenty twenty six they'll be forty eight teams more teams more money and that's what appealed to the fee for fighters here but despite its critics its own win is set to be a big success the wellings zero moscow. what is why north america's political divides officials assist the decision came down to what's best for a football game really is on days in new york with more just it's usually a big party this was a scene in doha nearly eight years ago when qatar was awarded the twenty twenty two world cup when brazil was named the host of the two thousand and fourteen tournaments this was how brazilians reacted in rio de janeiro but in new york city on wednesday morning no such celebrations many people didn't even realize the u.s. mexico and canada were bidding for let alone had won a joint bid to host the two thousand and twenty six football extravaganza the most

excited people seem to be tourists it's where the but they do show mexico is i think is going to be a good. work up. maple mexico have to prove that is the best team in the. mexico voters are a loser. football is everything in mexico. and back home this is what mexico's president had to say. you have a little successful host country or not all different after the successful tournaments held in one nine hundred seventy nine hundred eighty six mexico will make history by becoming the first country to host three world cups. the us is also hosted one thousand nine hundred four and canada hosted the women's world cup a few years ago but it will be the first time world football's marquee showcase will be held in three countries simultaneously in many ways selecting north america was an easy decision everything is already built and ready to go such as stadiums

in airports and all that infrastructure and then of course there's new york city but despite all this people still needed some last minute convincing not that the united states would be ready but that the world would be welcomed president donald trump sent three private letters to feet officials in the past few months assuring them that america would not prohibit any fans officials or players from any country coming to the u.s. for the tournament even if trump is reelected to a second term he won't be president in two thousand and twenty six but he wanted to assure people and none of his anti immigration policies or travel bans would apply when the u.s. co-hosts the world cup while there were no big celebrations here or even in mexico or canada for that matter after it was announced the world cup was coming back to north america this is what it will probably be like in eight years promises of the biggest and best world cup to date hosted in three nations across one continent.

new york. the biggest and most expensive football well cups ever will get underway in russia president vladimir putin hopes a little russia will rub off on the fans who travel the around the world for a challenge reports on whether the world cup can help russia mend its tanishq global reputation. the fans are arriving at football chancer reverberating around city squares one of the biggest sporting parties in the world is upon us once again mad and that is how. it was eight years ago that fever announced the two thousand and eighteen host would be russia amid allegations of corruption and the world cup bidding process nevertheless by the may

putin was pleased enough to accept with a rare speech in english been all that believe in these things and in fine. you can make it work. we will come but eventually we'll get. to that it is still. world cup moment is now here russian business news site estimates the full cost fourteen point two billion dollars and for that reason gets a chance to generate some much needed goodwill for the country because internationally russia has something of a reputation problem the annexation of crimea and the war in eastern ukraine the sports doping scandal allegations a russian interference in foreign elections the poisoning of a former spy and his daughter in england all these and more the list of perceived transgressions is long enough the political analyst under

a kalashnikov suspects any world cup image boost will be limited to the home front . it's extremely important too to make such a gift to a domestic audience but for. russia will not change its image as a toxic toxic paul or toxic country. because there are so many events for father can't that even the good organisation of. person can change and i think i'm sure. but as he spoke at the feet of congress on wednesday booted made it clear hosting the world cup isn't just. about pleasing russians or international politics it's about giving visitors the best impression of russia to know what's in the word goal is that all our guests from football stars to simple fans feel the hospitality and cordiality about people that they learned the authentic multinational culture and unique nature of russia and that they would like to come

back to us again it's something he's tried before four years ago russia hosted the winter olympics in sochi the region was flooded with cash to smarten it up for all the visitors for the world cup that's been done on a much wider scale in total eleven world cup cities have received investment money from the huge metropolises of moscow and st petersburg to smaller cities like san francisco and some model the aim is to get fans and money to parts of the country far off the usual tourist trail making sure visitors get a russian experience is something that's filtered into the choice of this year's official world cup instruments to these. and they're not dates on the spring played in traditional russian folk music the sound of a full stadium banging these together is something you're going to hear a lot of in the weeks to come. for visitors to have the best possible time here of course involved keeping them safe the european championship two years ago in france

violent clashes between english and russian fans were broadcast around the world since then russian police have come down hard on local hooligans they want no repeat of such violence here and you're a security measures such as a strictly controlled id system are in place to prevent bombs and other attacks for a month the eyes of the world will be on russia everything has to go smoothly rory chalons al-jazeera moscow. to all of us this for now has some. thank you very much and i am as you heard earlier the u.s. canada mexico have won the right to host the twenty twenty six world cup the north american joint bid collected one hundred thirty four votes at a moral cost sixty five it twenty thirty six event it will be the first expanded tournament at featuring forty eight teams instead of thirty so it is also the first time the time of the world be hosted by three different countries. is the

editor of world soccer magazine he says that the fans weren't considered and the decision of purely comes down to politics and money well it's always been the case that money has to take to defeat its operations and it is particularly so now with the president journey in france you know his promise to all the members feet to. donate give each member of fifty six million dollars in development money that was an election promise from the entrance we know he now has to fulfill that promise and he needs money coming into free and the problem that treat the house is that the last few years the corruption scandals that have been gulped you are going to zation with previous work up decisions has forced a lot of sponsors away scared or sponsors away from three for the desperate bring money back into the organization. the american bid the north american bit was seen

but it was a safe option an option that would bring north american and western european an equal back into free for the moment the main sponsors the chinese and russians and free for want that money coming back in from from western europe and not north america to pay for in france who knows election promises there's a mixture of politics and finance there's that the two are linked. good. good. good. good. good. spain's coach june and love to he has been sacked just two days before the team's opening walk up match against portugal the spanish football federation say they were forced to let him go because he failed to tell them that he had agreed to join real madrid at the conclusion of the tournament and which isn't

a report from sochi. behind me is the stadium where twenty ten world champions spain will kickoff their tournament against the reigning european champions portugal is also expected to be the venue for julian to take charge of spain at a major tournament for the first time but that has all changed on tuesday it emerged he would be succeeding down as ryan madrid's coach at the end of this tournament and it appears those negotiations have been taking place without the knowledge of the spanish football federation it was news they were less than happy to hear about so unhappy in fact that they've chosen to fire a lot at stake now his reputation at club level is decidedly underwhelming his one foray into coaching a senior team came in portugal with porto and it finished with him being fired inside two seasons but with spain he's had great success he's led the age group

seems to suit european championships and since taking over the senior team after the euro two thousand and sixteen tournament he has had great success and has guided them to a twenty game unbeaten run coming into this event and then one of the favorites to lift the trophy but they now go into their first game in a state of unexpected off the field chaos and they have a tough game to get organized for their taking on a portugal team lot of course by rail madrid's christiane. often under here will take over as spain's a replacement coach for the world cup the former spanish international who played at four world cups that has coached for just one year at a second division side he told media wednesday that he want to look to change anything ahead of the opening game. in the current circumstances a sip this responsibility with courage it couldn't be any other way i'm aware that we have a group of staff and players who have been working towards the world cup for two

years i've been sporting director for the last seven or eight months and i understand if your body's great excitement i just couldn't let them down beyond that i have the greatest respect and affection for lot to take he for the great work he's done over these last two years without a doubt i wish him the best. but many spanish fans are unhappy with the decision you're going to be bigger than i think the way it's been done is not the right one i believe real madrid should have waited until the end of the world cup to make the announcement to avoid destabilizing the national here. i find the decision to fire love to take you head of the world cup in correct an outrageous because we're two days away from the opening match against portugal which is the most difficult rival we're facing in the group i think leaving the team without a coach at the stage is going to be fatal because at the end of the day the dynamic they had until now is going to be lost i don't see much future for spain at the world cup due to this decision. has returned to training ahead of egypt's world cup opener against uruguay on friday well he gave his fans

a boost when he joined his team mates for assess and on wednesday the liverpool striker has been sidelined with a shoulder injury that he picked up in the champions league final loss to real madrid is still not known if hill start in their opener. roger federer has won his first match back at the stood guard open after three months layoff he will number two looks rusty early on and dropped the first said to his german opponent. but the swiss star found his rhythm unbroken twice in both of the next two sets for the win federer can take the number one ranking from the rough on the dollar by making it through to the final. second major the u.s. open gets underway on thursday and tiger woods says he is feeling confident after being in contention at a number of recent events however it is a decade since the former world number one last won

a golfing major and five years since he last won a tournament. and finally the celebration continues for stanley cup champions the washington capitals tens of thousands of fans lined the streets of the u.s. capitol to catch a glimpse of the first ever stanley cup to be brought to the city it's also the first ever schools for a to be held in washington says nineteen ninety two that's it for me back to lauren thanks for artificial intelligence is not on the stuff of science fiction it's used in smartphones cars and even children's toys exactly how business is a harnessing its power has been on display at the world's largest ai summit in london so you could go is there. what we think of the world of artificial intelligence it's a world that ranges from the mind blowing to the modern day but essentially it is part of what every day lives the phones that we use the vehicles that we drive in london that this ai summit is examining the practicalities go towards making our

world a little easy it's function to how we say i used here in this this motorbike well there are a couple of cents on the bike every so often we get. to go see the temperature in the. you can see the guest there but you can see the press so here you have the best three if you're like me and we don't know where the engine is this can help you see the engine for a and do some small maintenance work like changing the battery for example if you move the left side up there are screwing going and it literally shows you exactly how it goes with how to get to the battery that we need to remove the seat the seat this guy to respect yeah it's really useful a bit you know we can negotiate with people having some classes really make their life easier of course let's not forget it's a very few minutes of companionship making a comeback text robot perhaps the perfect addition to the busy techies lifestyles.

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