i couldn't believe that when the. so we in the custody of the military should. remain. if it is. our. federal court i would like to think mr infant you know and i would like to congratulate him on his efforts that were done in order to hold this world cup and we are hoping to continue our cooperation in for years to come for. a moment. able to open a friend in all if you. could a lot of them and i think with inertia in august. got to meet and get the should that's that i'm going to manchester and you're going to spend an hour. just on the problem appreciate that are at the. top of your excellence mr president people will come to me to need to will be

a very important event for our country i recall the year to maybe ten when we got this right to hold this event and it will be a huge and we'd best of all for all of our country now to come. at a faith in. thought that there could be a. home if you don't think i said i limited edition. would be. she did it that was the book but i guess the. venue i would like to invite all of friends will spare no effort in order to welcome all of france to our country where that can. be in an age. and he and the community. property we should be able will the only think we are hoping for that our national team will repeat this excessive russian national team even. see the success. i'm

sympathetic and we'll do our best. but there you go the official passing of the ball from russia's president vladimir putin russia of course the host of the twenty eighteen world cup to the. cats who are hosting the next world cup tournament in twenty twenty two let's bring in rory chalons who was listening to that exchange with a painful through all the translators but nonetheless. a pretty lighthearted event

rory and what a great success. russia's world cup has been by anybody's measure. yeah has been it's been a great month i think and the sun is just setting now on russia twenty eighteen we have just one match to go don't we've got the final between france and croatia kicking off in a little while here in in moscow it's going to bring the curtain down on why it's been a pretty exciting month by any any measure i think russia has hosted johnny infantile you know calls just a couple of days ago the best world cup ever russians have enjoyed it i think the fans who come here have enjoyed it too and in that ceremony just there we go i think you know fairly uncontroversial hand. from. the russian president.

to the emir of. gianni in front of the president basically overseeing the event and saying that he hoped that the same positive experience that everyone's had here in russia can be repeated in cats i said we've all fallen in love with russia in the time that we've been here that will fall in love with cats are. in four years time and what will the impact and the legacy of this world cup be russia rory. well i think what we have seen in the past few weeks is really russians get a different impression of the world and in different impression of themselves and correspondingly i think the visitors who've come here have been impressed by what they've seen they came here many of them i think with quite negative opinions of what russia might be and generally those impressions have been overthrown by the

reception they received by the hospitality they've received this was of course a big geo political project undertaken by the to me of putin hosting the world cup is about politics it's about how your country is perceived on the global stage but i think that actually what the kremlin has done since the tournament started is actually take a step back and the ambassadorial work to be done by the people of the country and i can explain a little bit more about that now in my report. the party is almost over many of the visitors have gone already this country is still blowing the past month has been a tonic for russia often people here feel the world is against them perhaps. now

that perception is changing so we're enjoying the trip knowing places from russia would be able to. rise to our reception to the brazilians russia is a big beautiful country people love for russia is so nice a world cup hasn't a raised accusations of russian there are a tearing ism rights concerns or the fragility of autonomy but for a while at least it's allowed russia to feel positive about itself. without the usual undercurrents of confrontation. probably because of our problems with the drowned in politics and economics and this championship became a gulp of fresh air it let is brief and forget about everything next week we'll think about what's happened in our country but now we're just enjoying the celebration. officially the review is no less positive president giani in frontino gave his verdict on friday a resoundingly thumbs up i lifted

a new leaf to any is the best world cup ever little went wrong much went right russian policing not renowned for its soft touch was on best behavior a country that often struggles with infrastructure managed to move fans to matches in cities hundreds sometimes thousands of kilometers apart. russia's world cup may be earning plaudits for its efficient security and organization but that by itself is not enough for a great party you also need a little bit of magic and that happened here on nikolsk us streets in central moscow it spontaneously established itself as the beating heart of this well car place where russia and the world got together and how to paul. before matches russians and foreigners to party hard after matches win lose or draw the party analyst alexander bound of thing. there's

a big demand for this new mood in russia russians and men type to be in. india's high alert against the rest of the world they were happy to find in themselves city fun site of the tragedies known the violence cycle such a case in part that you are able to be patriotic and to. to show your patriotic feeling in hospitality when hosting rights for the world cup was important enough for vladimir putin that he personally accepted the honor in zero rick in two thousand and ten but interestingly he's been a marginal figure for much of the tournament one or two photo ops attending the opening match in the final the kremlin is perhaps realize that heavy handed official p.r. is not needed putin has left russians to present their best face to the world and it's worked reach allan's al-jazeera moscow let's speak to bill law who's

a journalist and contributor to middle east i joined us now live from london bill we were hearing there about the impact that this world cup has had on people's perception of russia. and how that might lead to dividends in terms of investment and tourism what's your take. yeah i think it's been it's been a wonderful term for russia people are saying we love russia has had russia now this is the same russia that of course a nice crimea that brought down a passenger jet. conducted a chemical attack against british citizens here living here. but yeah i mean that's the magic of sport and particularly the magic of football but that for that time people could put aside these political concerns and just enjoy the football which was amazing i'm not alone in thinking this is the best world cup ever so we all kind of took a gulp of breath as one contributor commented next week that reality will settle

back in again but this week today we enjoy the game we enjoy the match and and well done russia they've had a real real coup i suppose it could be argued that the russians global reputation was so low that the job of changing perceptions over with the world cup would be a relatively easy one. well indeed. that is one point another point is that whilst as well couples have been going on the russians together with bashar al assad have had a significant breakthrough in the syrian war in southwestern syria they've taken the ton of debt out of the city of denver which was the really the home of the of the revolution of the civil war so quietly and with all the positive press and the media focus on the world cup they proceeded to to make very serious achievements on behalf of consolidating assad's gains and we shouldn't forget that

after the sochi olympics it was when putin moved into crimea just a couple of weeks after that so clearly he is his is on bigger plans it is a geo political exercise as well as a sports a sports spectacle that really gets to. live in london sunday school cup final is in what is expected to be the most watched match in global sports all the lot of chance for one nation to take over the sport ultimate prize at the richardson reports from moscow. french friends in moscow are experiencing a familiar feeling for the third time in the last six world cups. in the final. thanks for asian fans and footballers going where no croatians have gone before the creation same may not be looking quite as fresh faced as they were for their pre-tournament photographs all three of the knockout games have gone to extra time so they've affectively played an extra game when compared to france croatia

strength is their ability to dominate possession in midfield with players like luka moderates and even rockets each and the danger posed by their white players even parasitical be able to exploit the inexperience of french fullback benjamin pavano many of their key players including moderates all the wrong side of thirty this is their one chance to win football's biggest prize listen it got. me the most important thing is to never give up and believe in yourself and just push forward no matter what is in your way there are ups and there are downs but wherever happens you need to continue to believe in yourself and that the french have a generation of players arguably more talented than the squad that won the title in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight much has been said about the impact of teenage strike and killing and back pay but this is a team built on a strong defensive corps goalkeeper and captain hugo aris has excelled around has stood tall in the defense and the work of holding midfield and goal i can say

allows him to run free this is also a side determined to heal the scars of losing the european championship final on home soil two years ago you know my search for santiago denotes a good general good with the inner strength of our team from the beginning of the tournament which has guided us this will help us to overcome any challenge this is certainly the most important match of our career superstition my also have a role to play in deciding what set of fans are celebrating on sunday night in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight on the way to winning the cup french defender laurent wrong. hits the ball for his goalkeeper fabien barthez before every game. on the plaza taking to the considerable facial hair of the defender before every game on the richardson al-jazeera moscow so kick off in the world cup final is at fifteen hundred g.m.t. later today not very long now and then that's it let's look at that moment that we saw within the last twenty minutes or so of the the official ball pass from

vladimir putin to the emir of qatar qatar holding the world cup next to twenty twenty two the m.e.'s says it'll be hard for cats not to repeat russia success as world cup hosts discuss how such a small country but by the way think about council they all have a good try that's it for that has i'm here to update you next here on al-jazeera i'll see if by some.

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these distance continues with the silver friends we're going back to a poor south african neighborhood where music and tradition come together in an annual competition for the people who would. we want on al jazeera. iraqi security forces fire in the air and used tear gas as anti-government protests spread to several cities.

this is. also coming up an eerie calm israel agrees to a cease fire in gaza after it launched the most intense round of an strikes since the twenty four thousand war. haiti's former prime minister sudden resignation after a violent protests against fuel price rises. from russia with love a world cup ball is officially passed to the twenty twenty two hundred before the final on something. of a curfew has been imposed in the iraqi city of basra that's after police used water cannon and tear gas on protesters who tried to storm a government building people have been demonstrating of the past week against. high costs on a lack of basic services it appears many phone lines have been cut an internet service has been disrupted across the country the government's blaming sabotage

a spokesman says normal services are expected to return in a few hours while you've been with. judy is to provide security for all iraqis and also to listen to all the demands and salute all the protesters the peaceful and the civilized to state their demands in a civilized manner reflecting the nobility of iraqis and their country but those who assault the institutions of the state and the security forces and its investments disrupt the aspirations of the people and should be held to account let's take a closer look at where iraq's demonstrations have been taking place two protesters were killed in may sound province on the border with iran on sunday demonstrators stormed the provincial government building in the city of karbala on friday demonstrators stormed nagell international airport demanding better services and job opportunities they've also been demonstrations in iraq's southern province of bus where some stormed another government building security forces opened fire on

tuesday killing one and wounding five the protests have now spread to baghdad where the authorities have deployed troops and appear to have cut all lines of communication who did it nearing is a journalist based in the northern iraqi city of erbil and she says the iraqi people are angry because their suffering. does have been happening for i think about eight or nine years every summer because in that area in basra it's about fifty degrees it goes over fifty degrees and every summer again there's not a left enough electricity if you don't have money you don't have a generator either so people really suffer. and then this is the day area of iraq where all the income comes from ninety five percent of the iraqi income comes from the oil from basra so people are saying why don't we have jobs it's all foreigners working there so give us the chops and as for the electricity we also

see a role of iran in these. iran has been providing electricity and water for the past eight years on and off. but this summer and it has cuts that they say because it has not been bait but it seems that there might be a relation to the problems there are between iraq and a sorry iran and washington over the nuclear deal it could be that iran is trying to make. a signal to america look if you are not working with us if you leave us hanging like this. we can do a lot of problems. in the region.

the official world cup handover ceremony has taken place in moscow before sunday's final russia's president and qatar as emir took to the stage in a show of unity as fish president led the symbolic change in host status qatar will host the tournament in twenty twenty two. it is so important that we can be here together today in this iconic place in the kremlin to mark a pass of a ball from the organizer of twenty eight into the organizer of twenty twenty two world cup this is football this passion it is emotion it is love it is family it is unity and. these sentiments that we have been feeling here in russia we transferred them to qatar. our correspondent andy richardson is live for us in moscow so the symbolic

handover there between the respective leaders and it certainly does seem that qatar has a hard act to follow after the events of the last four weeks in russia. and what a way you look at it it's the biggest sporting event ever to come to the middle east and a number of issues already circulating around the tournament not least just how many countries will be taking part qatar i've been preparing for thirty two team world cup like we've seen in russia that is that sort of and they bid for it in twenty ten but there is a push to accelerate the move towards a forty eight world cup there will see in twenty twenty six south american countries want to see it in two thousand and twenty two joining fanciness says he remains open to the idea it looks as though a feasibility study will take place at some point katz sort of said well we'll see what that feasibility study says but whatever way it goes it's got to happen pretty quickly because qualifying for for the world cup in some part of the world that she

started in early twenty nine seems there needs to be some decision made in some clarity on vatican two i think the other thing is that a lot of fans i've spoken to here are still unaware that the world cup in qatar will be a winter world cup taking place in november and december so as we move towards that in the repercussions for european leagues that will become more of a factor is as awareness is risen also something that was spoken about in the handover ceremony was the importance of the national team doing well this tournament has really lifted off with the russian team. defying expectations that they would be the worst ever host nation of the world cup and in fact coming through to the quarterfinals and beating spain along the way huge challenge for cuts a country that's never qualified for a world cup before i think one of the things that's going to be quite interesting about the qatar world cup compared to the three previous was a particular south africa brazil and russia is the huge distances fans have had to travel and fans are. saul's to be costing a lot of money i take it takes them

a lot of time to get from game to game in qatar which will be a very small compacts world cup with stadiums no more than a few kilometers apart fans can go to a couple of games a day and that's something that i think will completely change the atmosphere around the world cup compared to what we've seen in russia. and so looking ahead then to sunday lots of anticipation an expectation in the air there moscow for the for the big final. absolutely yeah i think france are the favorites they have to be so much talk about their exciting forward line led by killing them but maybe this is a team built on a very strong defensive call he's going to racing goals been fantastic for running a central defensive rock goal i can see in the holding midfield role he allows all the forward players to go off and do what they need to do and it's a team looking to move on from that from the huge psychological scars of losing in the final of the euros years ago where the players admitted they went into that final against portugal a little bit of a confidence that's taking on

a croatian team who just do not know when they're beaten the last three games have all gone into extra time so they've affectively played one more game than france but against england it was in that what's hard more rapidly than croatia nothing of course you can stay in the game because there was a point during that england game where finland have been a bit more clinical they could've gone to will free up on encourage you to be finished croatia can just stay in the game it seems as though their self belief grows and they become stronger and stronger they've never beaten france before when they got to the semifinals in one nine hundred ninety eight it was from the sea beat them now would be a pretty good time to get their first win over the french to. be fascinating to see what does happen later today and the ridge that life was lost. by israel has reportedly accepted an egyptian brokered cease fire with hamas after the latest round of violence in gaza on saturday israel launched what it says were the most power. full daytime airstrikes is the twenty four thousand gaza war and least two

palestinian teenagers were killed israel says the strikes were in response to border protests and rocket fire from hamas furnace smith has this update now from gaza. the cease fire holds but it papers over major widening cracks in the relationship between the israeli authorities and how much that runs gars a fundamental problem is that garza has been under siege for around twelve years now under an israeli blockade and there's no relief in sight even after three and a half months of protests along the fence when the palestinians in gaza hoped that would persuade the israelis to give them some relief from this blockade there's been nothing and if anything israel has tighten the screw by closing the main crossing into guarded the guards of that brings in industrial goods so this flare up while israel says in response to the incendiary balloons floating from gaza into real israel and setting fire to crops the palestinians will say well we've not got any relief any relief from the siege so unless there is over the coming days weeks

or months some concrete attempt to try and relieve the situation of people in garza this flare up the biggest one has been since twenty fourteen risks provoking another flare up and the risks of an all out confrontation and possibly a war between the offices in gaza and israel. haiti's prime minister has resigned after days of violent protest jageler fantomas government has been under pressure since unveiling a plan to remove fuel subsidies gabriel is under reports in the capital port au prince. he arrived to parliament as a prime minister of peace in his political fate and calls to resign jack deal up on tons unpopular fuel price hike which he probably suspended after riots a week ago left his government in deep races the chamber of deputies had planned to force the prime minister out with a no cause. couldn't vote on saturday but abruptly resigned instead of.

before even coming here i sent my letter of resignation to the president. the resignation it a week of political tension in haiti most people from the middle class to the poor say the prime minister who had only been in office seventeen months needed to go and the calls for him to do so grew louder by the day that the gas price hike and reversal were just seen as another sign of an ineffective government as eventual downfall came on a day of tension in the capital. the streets there were protests not nearly as large as the ones last week that turned violent but still anger at the government and calls for more resignations to play oh you know you have. this is also a message to the lawmakers a warning to everyone we're telling them to be very careful our problem is not only with the ex prime minister but to everyone in this corrupt system including the

president. was in parliament that day of confusion members of the chamber of deputies yelling at each.