sixteen then democratic party presidential nominee hillary clinton had to apologize for statements like this that seem to defy black communities the kinds of kids in the concept of predatory no conscience no empathy at the time then president bill clinton was signing legislation that led to record african-american incarceration and that's also an issue that's likely to hold true biden if he runs in twenty twenty not only does he take credit for such legislation he was against desegregation in the seventy's we made so much rock norm appears to believe he can ride this controversy out but perhaps things have changed which may be problematic for democratic politicians who in the past have turned a blind eye or even pandered to white voters for electoral gain. the upsurge of racist violence and rhetoric since donald trump's inauguration has that to a renewed sense among a radicalized younger democratic base that racism will not be tolerated in their party she had her town see al-jazeera. well the weather next and the fear of

a pin still afghan women worry about that paycheck if the u.s. battles with the taliban and withdraw its troops. is a strong get together north and south koreans hope to revive projects as that country's great place that. we've got some pushing into western parts of europe now that a crowd spilling in from the atlantic that there was the change from the cold the wintry weather seen temperatures in london getting up to around ten degrees celsius on monday as is usually the case at this time of year when you get the mild weather that means cloud that means rained right intended to snow or the leading edge as it bumps into that cold resume three degrees celsius for paris on monday off in a single figures across many central and eastern parts even moscow getting above

freezing in some snow there on the baltic states there a bit of snow too down into the balkans and some rather heavy rain is going to continue across central parts of the mediterranean popping up further as because through tuesday may well generally fine in trying to central areas temperatures pick up to around seven celsius there for paris london still staying up into double figures but whether once again knocking on the door the full and for wales western england a good part of scotland some weather to say making its way into the far north of africa temperatures suppressed for algiers tunis and for tripoli say just about getting up to around twelve degrees celsius weather just running across northern parts of libya by cheese day afternoon. a face can tell a story without uttering a single. and knowing god. can guide us.

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a president has accused the u.s. of inaction over the murder of saudi journalist amount to show g. four months ago. also said saudi arabia's crown prince and its former foreign minister told lies about the killing. and the refugee footballer has been denied bail by a court in bangkok was fighting extradition to his native frayn i came to be was detained in thailand in november whilst on holiday after bahrain called for his arrest. here's president donald trump has again pushed for the withdrawal of his troops from afghanistan in what has become america's longest war a little over a week here representatives from the u.s. and the taliban agreed on a framework for peace but whilst afghans are encouraged by talk of the war ending many fair deal with the taliban could once again see women's rights crushed he reports me to resign owns a coffee shop in the afghan capital kabul she's one of millions of women whose

lives have been transformed since the u.s. led coalition removed the taliban from power. i think freedom for post taliban women is a big achievement and if we once again go backwards there will be a big step back and a very heavy price for us. many afghan women are worried about a peace deal between the united states and the taliban they don't want to go back to a time when their rights were limited. i won't accept a pace that asks me to go back and sit at home i will raise my voice and never be ready to accept a peace that costs me my freedom restricts me and makes me wear a burka and puts me in a cage. it's been nearly two decades since the taliban was toppled from power since then of the eight million schoolchildren in afghanistan more than two point five million are girls in two thousand and four women were able to vote for the first time in decades more than a quarter of the seats in parliament are reserved for women and they make up nearly

a fifth of the workforce but rights campaigners say all that progress is at risk. obviously we all want peace afghan woman part want peace the afghan people want peace we have heard the two are but i think when it happens this trashed and when we are not included and we are not being talked to we are not being consulted in terms of what we are worried about what we want from this group that's going to come back and try and join the government then we are worried that we are going to lose rights the taliban say they've moderated their approach to women's rights but there are no women involved in the peace negotiations and many say they have too much to lose to take the taliban at its word victoria gating be there or a forward there has claimed victory in el salvador's presidential election i've been kaley campaigned as the anti establishment outsider promising to stamp out corruption has two major rivals have conceded defeat kevin that cats are some more

is the former vice president of costa rica and he says the next president will have to find a way to engage with el salvador's gangs the back of the matter is that you've become so how did they get to a. territory of the country. particularly in the in some of the main cities and in some ways you know where everyone still around caracas has to find an accommodation. with the gangs because they they have become political actor in their own direct that's not unique tools over though i mean. in a similar way you find this kind of the nominal in the but whalers in rio in brazil you wind it in the townships in kingston jamaica and for a long time you you know you could find the same kind of thing in the in southern

italy with the mafia so you know it has become not simply a security issue but also a political. yes fashioned way for north korea's state and by going as n. seoul where he's expected to finalize arrangements for donald trump alan's next summit many south korean business leaders hope the meeting will revive joint projects between the north and south but not pride reports from seoul south korean business leaders anticipate what a second summit between kim jong un and donald trump might mean for the economies of both careers they only have to look to the case only industrial complex to appreciate both the opportunities and the risks. it was shut down three years ago when relations were near their lowest point. and many factory owners believe after the past year of reconciliation led by south korean president moon j.n.

it's time to restart it. along must we endure this agony of awaiting the reason we have not raised our voices before was because we believed when genes commitment to enter korean economic corporation. opened in two thousand and two just on the northern side of the border between the two careers the complex brought together south korean management and investment with north korean labor to offer a glimpse of what a unified economy might look like it's an intriguing prospect south korea is one of asia's richest economies north korea is one of its poorest in recent years south korean investment has increasingly flowed to other asian countries but given the chance north korea would seem to be the more obvious destination. of clear terms of distance ok sun is less than an hour away which is nothing compared to china and

vietnam there in a tariffs and we are the same nation. need to have workers from both careers working alongside each other is the true reward of moving closer together if we are the same nation we speak the same language activating k. song would also help create jobs in the south and if the success of case could be recreated elsewhere so the argument goes that imagine what a unified korea might be capable of public pride al-jazeera. but francaise has landed in the united arab emirates the first visit by a head of the catholic church to the arabian peninsula his three day trip will see him hold talks with the crown prince meet muslim elders and attend a multi-faith gathering his balances celebrate mass at the stadium in abu dhabi on tuesday the way is home to around a million roman catholics most of them from the philippines and india. it's a historic visit because. it really represents the kind of message both francis

now represents a global world there is much more fragment the then it used to be and the catholic church is really acting as a messenger of unity and opportunity and also facing a significant headwinds not just in the global world but also within the got a church where ripple francis is sometimes is today a logical if you've got a church there is in the western world especially in the north america special there is this believe it around what kind of catholicism the pope should interpret and easy ease efforts in reaching out especially towards muslims in muslim countries. so not really understood or taken as

a sign of weakness india's hindu mega festival is in full flow of millions bathing in sacred rivers as the world's largest religious gathering some thirteen million people are expected to join every joint session of the two month long events place in india have rescued more than a hundred and eighty people during a crackdown on human trafficking a whole media says thirty two men and one hundred fifty one women say that in the northeastern state of man a poor and laura and the man mob order at least forty women and girls were from nepal police arrested eight people they say the women are being sent to says he's in south asia and the never is. the country's prime minister has visited india admins of kashmir for the first time since pulling else of the coalition government into territory. infrastructure projects and warned what he called terrorists will be killed civil rights groups in kashmir accuse the indian government needs is of

targeting civilians in the continuing crackdown and to monaghan reports. with his mind on the general election in a few months time india's prime minister came bearing gifts for the german kashmir region a virtual security lockdown was in force in the capital srinagar modi unveiled electricity education and health care projects dozens of activists were detained and separatist leaders were put under house arrest to prevent anti india demonstrations for his visit many in the state with the muslim majority population are unhappy with the policies of the government in new delhi they are angry with the continued presence of security forces some are armed and demand autonomy. modi vowed a tough response to what he called terrorism our god who i want to enjoy the question means to them die a nation of the status and to be forcibly dealt with every it does this of this don't lead them to by contacting a surgical strike on pakistan be short of a clear intentions that would be big the back of

a dozen and kashmir. activists say twenty months old he is an example of what that crackdown means for the people in the kashmir valley they say she's the youngest victim of pellet guns fired by security forces he went to the baby was in her mother's arms when a pellet tore through i drink gunbattle nearby her mother fears she's about to lose the sight in her right eye when at the motel a.m.d. i guess we were sitting inside and our home got field with tear gas we couldn't see anything the kids began coughing vomiting and crying i picked him up and took her to open a door so that fresh air would end to a student open the door to soldiers fired towards the door no where else my son and i were hit in our hands and my daughter was hit in her eye. rights groups say firing shotgun pellets violates global standards on the use of force some reports say more than five thousand kashmiris mostly teenagers are fully or partially blind after being shot in recent years what has happened in the last five years and. is

that despite. used by mr modi in his speeches about kashmir the violence in jammu and kashmir has only escalated the armed forces have more than bothered. and at any point of time both india and pakistan claim kashmir as their own pakistan denies accusations by the indian government of supporting what it calls terrorists attacks by separatists india's army has extended powers to arrest and use force under a special role in kashmir. as modi reiterated the continuing crackdown during his visit kashmiri such as heber and her mother say they are suffering the consequences since monohan al-jazeera. and the u.s. fans of nearing the patriots celebrating their victory in the super bowl the final score against. thirteen three six title the patriots. about on causing all trading in bangor of trains in kenya has angered many across

the island of law my government says the decision will help the environment but residents argue they have no other material to build or a path that buildings and i doubt there are reports. the dense mongrel forests of kenya slum or island and cutting down these trees is now banned the government says the money groups can help reduce the impact on the environment coast but extreme weather. at the yad on the island lie heaps of money group confiscated from traders. of the law means he's here to ensure his post to multiple two way but they have little value in the end this is now one word for construction . and only fit for use this fire the band has made life difficult for us. a seven hundred year old town of alarm houses was dizzying nater that unesco world heritage site in two thousand and one. means the people living here aren't allowed

to make alterations to the buildings in the town's old quarters. a section of lamas three hundred year old jimmy faces imminent collapse. oh ship doesn't now forced to pray on just one side of it but due to the man group the building cannot be properly repaired. nor the material will last as long as mangroves pools due to the use of coal mine in construction there. it's all right we are not digging the government our houses are collapsing and the rainy season is coming we will have a disaster here if the government doesn't heed all calls. mung groove trees unknown us couple and sings they did used greenhouse gases by capturing carbon dioxide and taking it out of circulation but some argue that doesn't mean they can't be harvested more though some of the percent of mongrel forest in kenya county they

there isn't full but say the local community which has been using traditional methods of conservation to protect the forest they say the government is unnecessary. this is the man leading the complain to lift the monk group ban because. the lesson passed down to us from past generations is one of caring and nurturing the mangroves we don't cut down to destroy but use the selective harvest intake mix we learned from our forefathers with the farm knowledge that people will be the direct victims of natural disasters if the law among groups that depleted the government for now remains unflinching in its decision. mohamed atta well just . can't you. know watching out of there these are top stories several e.u.

countries are set to join the u.s. and canada and recognizing one quite as venezuela's interim president set current president nicolas maduro sunday deadline to call new elections but he's refused. to wellington even thought of it we don't accept ultimatums from anyone it's like as if i told the european union i give you seven days to recognize direct public of catalonia and if you don't we are going to take measures you know international politics can't be based on ultimatums that was the area of empires and colonies he's president has accused the us of inaction over the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi four months ago adept also says saudi arabia's crown prince and its former foreign minister have told lies about the killing footballer hakim raby has been denied bail by a court in bangkok was fighting extradition to his native bahrain araby was detained in thailand in november whilst on holiday he lives in australia where he

was granted refugee status in twenty fourteen is demanding he returned to a jail sentence for vandalism but al-arabiya and rights groups say they'll be tortured a former mayor has claimed victory in el salvador as presidential election campaigns as an anti-establishment outsider promising to stamp out corruption democratic governor of the u.s. state of virginia is defying calls for his resignation if i was a scandal over a college yearbook photo showing students in costume one in black face the other as a member of the ku klux klan denies appearing in the picture. and india's handy mega festival is in full flow with millions bathing in sacred rivers as well as large as reds gathering as many as thirty million people are expected to take. place a grammy nominated rapper has been arrested by u.s. immigration officers for overstaying based musician twenty one moved to the u.s.

from britain as a teenager and twenty five didn't knew his visa had expired a year. is all the headlines more news off the inside story. as politicians in washington the fight over the border war we talked to the people at the center of the story many up then just said you know it's very dangerous to send somebody comes and it's not it's a very safe place migrants smugglers and people who live along the border talk to all just the right. catalan wins the asian cup victory for the world cup the smallest host nation puts it on course for twenty twenty two that will the big win in the united arab emirates east or exacerbate tensions in the gulf this is inside story.

except. that. hello and welcome to the program dennis cattles football team started the asian cup ranked a lowly ninety third in the world but after an almost flawless month long torn amid the three players brought home their first major trophy all the more remarkable because the matches were played in the united arab emirates is one of the four countries imposing a twenty month long blockade on qatar so cattery fans were banned from going to cheer the team on and the players endured outright hostility on the pitch. a full reports. a triumphant return for the asian cup football champions the mirror of qatar welcomed home the winning team after they beat japan three one zero. then it was off to

a victory parade on doha's waterfront many of these fans couldn't attend the tournament in the united arab emirates. they could only watch the action from afar off to the u.a.e. saudi arabia bahrain and egypt seven ties with qatar and imposed a blockade in twenty seventeen i know it's a great feeling thank goodness we got here after a lot of hard work and perseverance. i can't describe my feeling today i feel as happy as any arab especially when my country achieved something like this it was a great game too and to be such a great team like japan makes it an even bigger achievement it's a win for the amir the amir father and everyone who lives in qatar and every arab everyone without discriminating between them. the team faced a hostile reception throughout the tournament crowds through shoes and bottles at the players when they defeated the u.a.e. in the semifinal. and no qatari fans were allowed in the stands so supporters from

oman stepped in to cheer albeit with discretion. but despite the political tension overcame the odds to win its first major football trophy showing perhaps that sport can triumph over politics. well let's have a look at a few other examples of how politics and sport of merged in history african american athlete jesse owens won four gold medals at the nine hundred thirty six olympic games in berlin presenting a huge challenge to nazi leader adult hitler's ideas of ariens you primacy the mexico city olympics in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight is perhaps best remembered for. sprinters tommie smith and john carlos giving the black power salute as a u.s. national anthem is played at the munich olympics in one hundred seventy two eleven israeli teen members were killed by the palestinian group black september and the

winter olympics just a year ago brought the two koreas together marching under one flag and the first combined women's eisel key team in decades. all right let's introduce our panel now here in doha we have mahfood ammara head of the sports science program at cafe university is also the author of sport politics and society in the arab world in amsterdam via skype we have james dorsey he's a senior fellow at the rajaratnam school of international studies and hazing author of turbulent world of middle east soccer joining us from london is rob paris an international football writer welcome to you all but mahfood can i start with you because of course everybody loves a champion everyone loves success but how significant is this victory for cattles footballing prowess. thank you for having me this is very important because

catherine from member when they won the bid to host the fifa world cup they received many criticism one of the criticism was that doesn't have the affordable culture i mean this victorian but in all there is a football culture of year and there is a system which is in place in terms of football development and the victoria is in with literacy of this system and rob coming to you in london i mean how big a surprise was the seventy you cover international football the time this is their first major international truthy what will you completely go plant by it. i mean it was an astonishing feat their run to a first ever semifinal then the final winning it and only conceding once on the way while winning all seven games scoring nineteen goals is an incredible performance and one that will also bring renewed scrutiny on the team the interest in terms of how the team is being put together how it's progressing towards challenging in

twenty twenty two but as we saw when the u.a.e. lodged a yet complaint with the asian cup organizers after losing the semifinal about the eligibility of two players there will be then that focus and questions that will have to be addressed and they'll be that as natural as a team progress they get more successful at what it does show to the world i think for cats are is the fact that many thought that the team might be embarrassed on home soil in twenty twenty two now there's a different narrative and no be a sense of just what can the team achieve i'm dead janes and answer them much of the tournament seventy one for the cattery games was played in a real sense of toxicity i mean it was hostile hughes bottles thrown on the pitch to the team did exceptionally well given that it was a role of faith in all of this given that these matches were played in such unsportsmanlike conditions well i think the role of fish is far more cut and blix

and goes far beyond what happened during the asian cup what the country victor is has done this really is as much a sporting achievement as it is a political achievement in the narrow band of soccer of football politics but also in the broader band of geopolitics and feet first role in that has been on both levels because it in a sense what you have is that sports and politics are inextricably interlinked and that has become nowhere more clear then in the gulf over the last twenty months because of the rift among the various gulf states. to which they increasingly play right muffet coming back to you in because you've got firsthand knowledge haven't you of the system that's been put in place here in cata because this this special team hasn't come about through accident has it there's been a lot of investment made over time starting not even with this amir but with his

father. i think of the asian games i think that will host the young two thousand and six where i think the key moments for the strategy of qatar using sport for development and for in or for in and also in terms of elite sport development and though we have now in qatar a system in place where you have you know the all the in all the. kind of the stakeholders working together in or so you have aspire academy that are in or providing the the coaching and the techniques and you know helping developing the kind of the skills and also we have a spirit or a more providing the health and in all science provisions and you have other stakeholders in a working together and developing this system. we're in now we see the in all the products of the system with this national team but not only in

football or also in other sports as well and. james you were sort of alluding to the fact that this is more about more than just football which i accept but are you suggesting that katter's participation in the asian cup and its eventual success is actually changed anything in the in terms of the geopolitical situation. well i think what you're going to see the years that got us victory is going to escalate the opposition by primarily united arab emirates and saudi arabia to go to hosting the world cup and we've seen a lot of that already over the last several years. but at the same time of course it is in there and enhanced got just position because what got out of the way got to will play this is to say that it is as before and despite that we have the resilience to reform. to perform despite the diplomatic and economic boycott that

has been opposed on it and that it didn't need has the sort of football culture of the for performance dos to world cup indeed let's look forward ten to twenty twenty two rob and as has already been mentioned it it does put castro in a very good position doesn't it. deals with a lot of the criticism which suggested that qatar was not particular footballing nation and this is a victory that is being celebrated around the arab world which of course twenty twenty two is meant to be as well well perhaps not in all part of the arab world some of the newspapers in dubai and headlines such as unlucky japan loses the final no reference even sick to catherine those headlines so it just shows how the diplomatic and political discord actually spills over into the sports pages and i think just when we thought and reviewed the organization is quite stable for the twenty to twenty two world cup fever and its president johnny fanciness seem to

term into metal with it to try to tart of self in this role as peacemaker he said he wants to try to ensure other countries in the region have games at the world cup even though cats are one that vote in two thousand and ten i think he's looked at what the i.o.c. president thomas barker achieved with the winter olympics last year bring in the careers together and seize a role himself to be something more than just a sport. minister aides say he sees himself as having this ability to bring countries together where perhaps the politicians have not succeeded so far so i think that is going to be that the big issue in the coming months does in favor and in france you know try to force games in twenty twenty two on other countries in terms of certainly going against what cats are right in the eyes of the tournament want. that's an interesting point rob put it to james because currently pfieffer is is looking at a feasibility study as to whether or not to expand twenty twenty two from the

thirty odd the thirty two teams to forty eight in if that were to be the case that would involve the participation of all the countries in the region i those countries who are currently blockading cata how complex how how plausible is this as an idea given the current situation if i can take what rob said a step further i think the notion that forcing the c.i. a situation which got there would have to share the hosting rights with other states in the region it's piety and that that would serve to bridge build bridges and. to spark every conciliation process is pie in the sky now whether on the infant teano the face of president consciously or unconsciously is doing so in effect he is trying is serving the agenda of both united arab emirates and saudi

arabia in the sense that they would in the not deal situation like the seat got to deprive the hosting rights and if it cannot be deprived of that at least be forced to share the glory and that he's trying to do by eyes or forcing use of by forcing a situation which you would have an expansion of the number of competing teams to already be in two thousand and twenty two instead of at the two thousand and twenty six cut as it's scheduled but you do see this effort on a much broader scale for example in the. proposition that jut janeen for tina likes put forward by japanese venture capital fund soft bank which wants to invest twenty five billion dollars in fee for and to. create two new comp. fissions and that again is part of a greater effort but quickly on the part of the se but to a lesser degree on the part of the emmy rowdies to enhance their influence within

global soccer government and the saudi efforts to allow it not be particularly successful right ok we're mahfood asking you now because you'll hear how do the caches feel then about the prospect of this increase in the number of teams participating in twenty twenty two and of course the prospect of of possibly sharing matches in the world cup event with other countries. i think so far in all they are going with the in or the idea that this events you know the two thousand and twenty two is going to be a horse that by qatar and on the qatar and that's the you know on the basis that there would be the holes and of course in all the events being promoted as being the fifa world cup not only for qatar but for the whole region but when it comes to you know the to the the delivery they already know invested a lot in terms of meeting all the requirements of the farm that have been many

visits of before on the basis that all the events will take place here in qatar but of course you know the we don't know what will happen in next four years i hope that we hope we all hope that you know this and all kind of conflicts will be resolved very soon and maybe this may be some good signs and i have been for when the social media they could see many saudis and emeritus were celebrating the success of qatar you know and because you know of the end of the day this is a team and arab team from the goal from the region that won this trophy by when it comes to showing in all the some of the much as or in terms of co-hosting i mean that's i think it's too soon to say anything about it right now i mean the qatari in the organizers are you know are going to. for these events to take place here in qatar with the hole but the borders will be open and will be in all. of history beautiful more only for qatar but for the whole region and also mccourty for the

visitors to come and see how qatar has advanced in terms of its development using sports as one of the means rides and gains a little bit early he sounded just a tiny bit cynical as to what the measure of asian could be behind fief is particularly germany inventiveness. desire should we say to expand the number of teams taking place and indeed to spread the glory of the world cup do you feel that it's just a complete pipe dream that spreading the love if you like spreading football can actually build bridges where politics and diplomacy count well first of all i think that. indeed i am a bit cynical about journey in france he knows approach. i think he has been doing the bidding of others but on top of that the notion that. soccer or football can be

a driver of bridge building is simply not brought borne out by history with other words if you have an environment in the gulf in which for tightness we're looking for a way of building bridges then football can make a contribution however football is not going to be the vehicle that's going to commit convince others to change the political stance and suddenly look for reconsideration and just to give you an example out of history we can go back to one nine hundred fourteen christmas when the brits and the germans in world war one declared a cease fire for twenty four hours to play a soccer game as subsequently for you it was killed millions of people and the same is true going back to the two thousand and seven iraqi winning of the asian cup which brought together people in the streets of baghdad at a time of heightened sic tarion violence for twenty four hours and they then went

back to kill each other behind ok well rob if the beautiful game doesn't have the power of reconciliation embedded in it looking forward ten to twenty twenty two do you foresee that for that there will be obviously there will be negative and that that have an impact if the blockade is still in place just in terms of logistics and hosting the world cup here. yes i think obviously and the mass influx of fans that cattles never seen before would be a serious and significant impact impact on the country and i think many thought the burden would be eased by the fact fans could stay in dubai fly in for games for instance and fly out again and help the east in that logistical burden so that will be one of the challenges if you can't fly in directly as we saw the fact the cattle team can even fly directly to abu dhabi for the asian cup they have to fly via q.a. i think one of the other issues that hasn't been touched on in terms of this

co-hosting plan that johnny fancy you know is trying to introduce in the region at this point i made when i interviewed him fancy you know in october given all the human rights scrutiny of cattle in the advances that catalyze had to make in the plans put forward would he also impact request cumin right strategies from new car house in the region and would there be the need for them to sort of make some of the changes that katter has had to to abide by fief as requests and that would be another layer of complexity in terms of spreading the co-hosting and spreading the hosting of the tournament and games clearly you can see where they go and please continue james. i just wanted to take this one step further with just if that indeed the economic and diplomatic boycott of got that were to continue at the time of the world cup in qatar this is going to be a real problem for for the saudis the button

a nice the end the rowdies because they're set and citizens at this point run a risk if they were to travel to gattaca so you will have for the first time a world cup in them in the arab world and in the gulf of which citizens of major countries would be barred and that probably is going to force a situation in which the south but he's the governor he's about raise would have to breach their own boycott because otherwise this would create domestic issues. alright and coming back to my food all of this. political tension this regional rivalries taking the shine some was off what is an exceptional development. achievement in terms of cattle or its commitment to sport and indeed its football success i'm particularly taken by the fact that i think cafés any country in the world that has a national sports day which underlines its commitment i think what is interesting

now the national sports day has been taken over by other countries neighboring countries and there's been and now it's we have national sports there i think in europe maybe saudis or saudi arabia are also thinking of having the similar events yeah i think sports is you know is quite unique here in qatar it's. you know one of the pillars i would say of in or in all of development in the country in terms of using sports as a means of looking for other to diversify the economy in terms of sports for development spoil is of the heart of the how the city is now is being reshaped and redesigned in all. in all it's quite unique in the in the here in qatar and maybe that's why other countries in neighboring countries are maybe trying to maybe apply

this the similar system of using sport as a means for development of course you are in qatar they have been one of the. then the sudan port and so on the power of sports may be earlier than other countries in the arab world in particular in the region saudi arabia is also mao is more open to this idea of having you know using you know the kind of the capitalizing on the on sports and more as a means for development there so i think about will in or even in the other parts of the arab. are things that would be particular to the elite sports system or maybe twenty two. votes in on terms of you know trying to use it as a best practice and rob judge from from what you've seen in terms of katter's footballing performances in the asian cup how much how much of an improvement have you noticed how far their football in credentials

burnished now by their for performance and obviously looking forward to twenty twenty two what do you how do you rate their chances or the made the world stand up when they be switzerland a few months going to friendly and that was pretty noteworthy victory in the fact it's quite a young team that won the asian cup shows that much not many years of progress ahead of them i think what many people looking at will a big name coach be brought in to manage the team at all michael emerson name and perhaps what might put cattle off that is the fact the big name coaches who are in charge of teams in this tournament right licky and eriksson did not do well at all so that's the question do they stick with we what they've got or do they still bring in the big names or joe simmering now in cattle the other week doing some television punditry and it's all about now how the team progresses and that big challenge will be in the summer because they're going to be playing in the copper america the south american championship and in the group state of argentina so that's going to be one of the challenges that will show just where the teams are ok

james i think they're going to get the last word to you because you've written a book called the turbulent world of middle east soccer is the turbulent world of middle east soccer any less turbulent today following this amazing victory on the part of cattery football. i think the turbulence is going to be different from the time that i wrote the book that was. referring to the popular air of two thousand and eleven but in terms of turbulence itself i think you're going to see greater rather than less turbulence all right thank you all very much indeed gentlemen mahfood. james. sadam and rob harris in london thank you very much indeed and as if you want to see this program again you can go to the web site al-jazeera dot com if you want more discussion as perhaps you might you can get our facebook page facebook dot com a.j.

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other than more of this is al jazeera life and also coming up. president says you can't understand us. and denounces what he calls saudi lies about the. yemen's crumbling hospitals are overwhelmed by new help. crisis an outbreak of swine flu. and a new face of a trail salvatore's presidential vote ending a two party system that's long dominated the violence plagued country. all those stories coming up but first we're getting some breaking news out of somalia where there's been a huge blast in the capital mogadishu witnesses say there are clouds of smoke coming from a shopping center not far from a local government administration building joins us on the phone from nairobi

a few details so far can you tell us anything more about this blast. well detailed field come to lower but what we're hearing is they want to expose from the heart of that issue just right for the city administration had called since it's also the biggest a mall in the comfortable way an investment by returning some money it's been living in exile so far i would just as we spoke to say they hired a huge explosion and then small in there it's not known whether. it's the mall targets or. headquarters but it looks as if this is just a continuation of. to keep the government on its toes they have. been included in the number. in the weeks. with u.s.

troops to somalia killing dozens of them the last of which was about seven to one of them. and i don't see any reports of an attack in the sunny uplands waves of puntland in somalia the official in a port being shot dead also about claiming responsibility for that attack. yeah some of it was all very much in. hiding just a few moments of pull out the official walked in and they are hiding. at the time by us trained the somali falls to remove them over the. body cutting off kind of a tux targeting high profile government officials and also clerics will speak against them and even business minimal supporting them or maybe giving them the tox

clean porcelain businesses and individuals so. survival so read much alive and push them in plausible ok mohammed thanks very much for fans of a background to that breaking news that we're getting out of somalia a huge blast heard in the center of the capital well that this will bring you more information on that blast as we get it. france says it believes venezuela's self declared president is the man to organize and carry out new elections seventy you countries are set to throw their support behind one day after current president nicolas maduro refused the ultimatum the put more pressure on the tour or the u.s. canada and lessen american allies are already calling for him to go but he maintains the support of russia and china came up with the time we have to go to wellington him in order we don't accept ultimatums from anyone it's like as if i

told the european union i give you seven days to recognize the republic of catalonia and if you don't we are going to take measures you know international politics can't be based on ultimatums that was the area of empires in colonies meanwhile u.s. president donald trump says military intervention in venezuela remains an option even though now there is an ally russia is warning against it speaking to u.s. television network c.b.s. trump also said he won't meet the door well he is requested a meeting and i turned it down because we're very far along in the process you have a young and energetic gentleman but you have other people within that same group that have been very very. if you talk about democracy it's really democracy in action alas in america as still is see a new man reports now from caracas on how why don't we came the hope for change amongst his supporters both at home and abroad. it's late at night at the

basketball court when one wide summons his neighbors to share with them his vision for than israela. we were born on this earth to be happy will do everything possible to achieve a political way out about crisis and show that we are powerful united you are powerful never let them take away our ability to dream. he's only thirty five years old but for those who dream of seeing president nicolas maduro go why the war is the yes we can. many in fact are comparing his looks and his style with barack obama. a remarkable turn of events considering that most venezuelans had barely heard of why the until the opposition controlled national assembly put claimed him venezuela's interim president i heard of him two weeks ago when i put on the t.v.

. and what is your opinion of him anyone is better than the one we have now. this working class neighborhood used to be fiercely loyal to deceased former president chavis was it hard as we tried on this day we can't find anyone who doesn't believe that his successor. has struck out. is angry. white or represents hope for our country we need takes over god willing investors will return to venezuela and so will my two sons because with maduro no one believes in venezuela is handed over to criminals twenty six year old says that now that he's heard of he likes what he hears. change to be able to go to a supermarket and find what they want a future of our children. not that it's been easy for y. daughter get his message across. the government. or curtailed much of the

opposition media and that includes access to the internet. i put into a european n.g.o.s the track censorship addressed a mass rally on saturday the state internet carrier blocked the social networks for twelve of the thirteen minutes in which he spoke. president charges of foreign intervention to bring about regime change are heard everywhere i am but for many venezuelans the issue of sovereignty has become less important than the promise of better days to come. to see a newman al-jazeera. president says saudi arabia's crown prince and his former foreign minister have told lies about the. despair of the u.s.

in action so i think. he was killed in saudi's four months ago. to this day. mentioning. about how there's been no real movement also referred to the united states disappointment in how they are talking and this is what he had to say. i cannot understand america's silence been such a horrific attack took place and even after members of the cia listened to the recordings we provided. but he had harsher words going back to when it all began. the saudi foreign minister of course he was saying that there was a collaboration there was a collaborator to dispose of the body of jamal khashoggi this is the saudi version of course the body of mr hersh has still not been found who said well if there is

a collaborator who is he where is he what is his name if you know that he also mentioned the saudi crown prince mohammed of inside man saying that initially his version was that he had left the concert and he said now we know that those two things were laws so he also called for those fifteen men the fifteen saudi nationals that flew into it stamboul on the day of the murder he said these are the perpetrators we need to know who they are and of course turkey has already requested their extradition but the saudis are conducting their own investigation nobody knows who the men are that they have indicted eleven men have been indicted five of those facing the death penalty but it is a very opaque process now all of this comes just as. the u.n. special. has wrapped up her visit here in turkey she's really the first independent person looking at this because of course it is such a politically loaded story all the countries yes they want to put pressure on saudi arabia but the same time no one really seems to be willing to go that extra mile to

break relationships with the kingdom so for months still no body and certainly a big question as well as to who ordered the killing of a high profile journalist in the saudi diplomatic mission here in istanbul. yemen's war ravaged hospitals have a new health emergency to deal with swine flu and as to a severe cholera outbreak in a country where millions of people are weakened by salvation priyanka gupta reports . another arrival in this hospital in the capital sanaa another victim of the consequences of the war in yemen fatima is suffering from each one n one influenza also known as swine flu it's known to break down the immune system and cause lung problems among other complaints but the saudi u.a.e. coalition's repeated targeting of hospitals means the flu which is best treated of detected early it's been diagnosed late or. she suffered

from coughing for about twenty days we have seen several doctors in several hospitals but it is here where she has finally been properly diagnosed the virus is spreading graphically mostly in the hooty controlled areas of sanaa souther and abe for hundreds of cases reported so far there's only one type of medicine available most hospitals are running out and pharmacies that do stalk the medicine are charging forty dollars for it the lifesaving drugs are simply out of reach for the families of the patients because they live out of who are now looking for the medicine that deals with such a virus we were shocked to know that the hospital only gave us some of the needed tablets and not all of them because of a medicine shortage. that we and other patients need more meds so we urge the united nations and the ministry of health to do whatever it takes to make this medicine available. that's a tall order where more than fifty.