was abdul aziz hatton, who claimed the honor of scoring the 1st goal at the stadium. will note the console for in school and the hosts go to the group which also includes oh man and iraq. as this tournament unfolds over the coming days, it will play a key role for organizers getting ready to host the middle east's biggest ever a sporting event next year. and for the cat, our national team, as they get used to playing in front of expectant home crowds that we hope to convince both the fans and themselves that they really are ready to take on the world. and the richardson al jazeera, the cats are outdated stadium. ah, hello, you're watching out his ear. and these are the top stories this our scotland and the netherlands have confirmed army kron was in europe before south africa alerted the world health organization last week. the dutch health authorities say they have

to take to the new coven 19 variant in to samples from november 19th. south korea meanwhile is reporting a new daily record of newly 5200 corona virus cases. then it strained to health care system has prompted the government to shelf plans to further relax restrictions. more than 20 countries have now reported cases of only crime. the u. s. isn't one of them though, but how 1st health experts rather say they're testing samples to detect it. alan fisher has more from washington dc. this might be a new variant, but the advice from the public health officials here in the united states is the same old thing that we're been hearing for more than a year. we're a mask particularly, and doors keep your distance, wash your hands if you've been vaccinated. that's great. get the booster if you haven't, then get the vaccination as soon as possible. that is a concern that it will be here very soon. in other world news,

honduras is leftist opposition candidates. him. our castro is said to become the country's 1st female president. arrival from the ruling national party conceded defeat on tuesday. 2 days after voters went to the post the u. s. and the taliban have concluded 2 days of meetings here in kata, where they discussed the humanitarian crisis in afghanistan. the taliban has asked us to unfreeze assets and removed sanctions. uganda is deploying troops across the border into democratic republic of congo as it battles and group. it follows it a strikes against the allied democratic forces, part of a joint operation with the congolese army. the armed group is based in easton congo, and has pledged allegiance to i. so those are the headlines. the news continues here on al jazeera after the stream, and i'll be back at the top of the hour. for both a year, host, the middle east 1st will come in preparation. the country is

a major theme. nations going head to head in thick purpose built stadiums for 2022 will keep you across the action. as council prepares, the region's biggest ever schools and events, the fee for our come on out there with hi us, i me okay. the fee for our campus just got it on the way. 16 teens competing for this amazing cart at the base. it's solid gold covered in a map of the arab weld to down the street. why we should be paying attention to this tournament. ah

ah, helping us unpack the arab cup. we have has an a, we have lee, we have rob as an anal, i think what team you could possibly be wrapping for, but please introduce yourself to our it's not audience. tell them who you are, what you do 1st. so thank you so much for him. on the show, i side my page, my website, my, my pot cost there are couple postcards basically to get a wellness out there about their occupational team, especially in english. because unfortunately when you put into google, iraq for bo, everything just negative. so i try to fix that. i'm bring news to to the well about

iraq football looking forward to hearing from you in just a moment. lee wellings might as well just moving to the stream office. hello lee. welcome back to the stream. and i know audience who you are, what you do, saw below journalist and a bold cost specializing install for 30 years and, and also to my from our 1st book, the little girl which is about 14 society is coming out early next year. and it shows our concentrates on a lot of matters off the page. not just what's happening on the bridge. oh, we have so many big gets on the day, shall i rob? tell everybody who you are, what you do? yeah. i'm surprised. least not got all his books ready behind him. so you were to advertise the world a global sports correspondent, dissociative press, covering a lot of degree for all matters, all in off the page. so that means a lot of the football politics, how things all intersects with the geo politics the world, but also the font as well, the world cups the olympics and particularly the last accuracy,

the bidding process for the work up and the preparation for the work up in katherine next year, all right, 3 excellent experts and you audience as well. if you're on youtube right now, the comment section is open for your punch tree. jump into the comment section, and hopefully i'll be out to bring you into today's show. the, our comp has quite a patchy history study back in the 960 s, and it pops up every now and again, not regularly. but let's, let's do some posting has a name for that for the team that you love and wreck our iraq has has one more arab cups than any of a nation. yeah, absolutely. i weather though, we can extend our victories to 5 cops. i dont know seems unlikely at the moment given how we played today. oh yeah. my mom penalty. yes. yeah. for sure. yeah. yeah. it was lucky or was it was used and the result or chill went away. but i mean, we hold the record in terms of the most winds. we want to

r 4 times the cup has a special place for all the rockies. so it's exciting times for all of our i'm just thinking of the out of campus as a tournament. me, how important is it? well is creating huge excitement. there's no doubt about that in the middle east and north african region. the big challenge for the tournament, and then leading into next year is to increasing excitement global. and this is obviously a tournament that's a really important test bed in many ways for, for you used to be able to compare to why she's caught that test that, that, but now they're using this tournament. there's a lot invested in it. and i think a will can use the standard of football and for the excitement that's produced to actually get people to gauge beyond the region, this is what needs to start happening. it's not being shipped to ukiah, have to tell you, or at least a few days i'm outside looking. so there needs to be things that happened,

you know, right click on social media, get people excited about it because i think the high standards that could be found in football need to, to get a wider audience than, than just to me to wage it. well, i'm going to play a tape until cut down respects him a little bit early on the stream. how to listen to what he has to say. they bounce immediately off the back of him with your thoughts. his abdul narrow copies but and also be recognized. and organized by people, this has both on presented attention to the tournament. many sponsors are involved, which means you could have prize money for the nations involved. 60 nations and go ha, i know be a charge for the wall to see the venues that we use for the walk next year. with regards to the favorites, i think i'll g, rio due to the 33 unbeaten street are probably the favorites for the tournament. with honorable mentions for egypt, morocco and of course host, or who have

a chance of fighting for the tournament on a personal note, my nations to that will be participating. i hope to please can give the nation something to share about of the recent political events in the country. just so much a reflection of the hope left football can bring to and the region for cats. i think it's a great chance for them to try to prove that to ensure that on the page they had that really amazing run to win the agent cop in 2019 that not really hadn't competitive game since then. because of course qualifying for the world cup automatically as high. and of course incredibly, but i will come to ab when they are the house, say they've been playing games in europe recently. and likes of all island to they last say say there's been the struggles, but this is a chance to be able to show that credentials for the players to get a flavor of what it's like to perform a torment on the home soil like that. so they're actually ready for the next year because it's going to be a huge moment for them and he has time and the same message on their,

of what my achieve what they achieved in winning they asian confederation tournament. that that's something that the word hasn't been spread everywhere about how good the council and say maze. and of course the part of the house next year we'll give them a chance of doing really well and it's 111. yeah, i think the not really heard that much in a play is there's probably a bit of a reticence for the players. and i say to build a profile to speak to the why to media because they will perhaps fear getting questions that are beyond their remain, whether it's from human rights or about cats. i was a country rather than demos, as football as yet. it is a challenge perhaps in the next year to actually start to see cats. i was a football team because these perception was around the big a decade or so ago and sent that not of cats are no vocal. heritage were actually that has been lead going by many decades. there is history of football that they're just not a big country physically just like iceland and only qualified for major told me that the 1st time at your 2016. so countries do have to take that time off them to

get the chance to be a total. but you know, we saw in 2019 the asian comp just what they can do. that was a told them nearby, obviously in the, in the, you a and that this is a, is a chance to play. they need as much gain time as possible. and this can offer, i sent a not, i'm just looking at the draw result for the fee for our cop 2021. you are in the same group as a mang, bahrain as well. how do you think you're going to do english pay? it really can go any way, but there will be favorites. obviously they're, they're very good team. they want asian company, 1019. they've played a lot of competitive games recently against big european size like to watch to an island. and it's going to be interesting to see how they cook without having played a really competitive match in a long time. but they've got very experience squad, and they will be favorites for the whole cup, not just are quantifying, from group 8 or the other 3 teams that we saw today on organized team. they're,

they, they're good in terms of make, maintain, in good shape defensively. ok. it's when i want to, i mean, i can tell you the pain that you're having to say look like right, right now this time you were right here. let me move. imagine i should my, to my missing out on some players, most notably, my salad. yes. if i thought was a bit cheeky, using my most salary image right, when he's not actually playing in the fee for our cup. and not reason for that is because this cup of this torment comes when lots of other european leaks playing, some of the biggest stars are playing in those leaks and they're not going to release their players there. what is a chaotic football calendar anyway at the moment? with some children's being, she whole didn't like the a couple of coverage which is going to take place in a couple of months talking about the africa cup of nations, which is coming up in january. and some of the notions here, of course,

will be playing in, but i think usually way we used to rocco, in egypt and jerry, as mentioned, and i'm being really powerful with some big styles being missing because of the reasons you mentioned there is going to be more of a chance for, you know, and i should like you back. i know you've got to put it back in the tournament for parts. no, absolutely. at the top of your phone at the moment. so actually, you know how you saw thoughts of how you finish. yeah, but i would, i believe that we actually were missing a large number of players. we have a lot of players based in sweden. we have a few plays based on the u. k. ready and denmark, unfortunately, to follow these plays one, able to be released public ups actually impacted us in the same way, i'd say seems like al jerry up. so it's a bit of a confusing situation because, i mean, obviously fee for kind of taking control of this tournament. and other organizes and yet the place still haven't been released and it's seen as

a frenzy. let me one of the reasons all this is is how the play of hands rarely because not a doubt to attend to. the complaint stays by the annual football calendar is set out every year in terms of agreements between clubs and leagues all round the world and they set out through the year. these are the windows. when the clubs who pay the players have to release them to international tournaments or qualified, so it states, well there's a well cut baron. european championship or an asian cup clubs have to release the players all. they'll get punished. potentially. this is an extra solomon, so it didn't exist even when this calendar was being formed. so there was no way of mandating liverpool to release my salary sickly when they're already going to lose him for the i asked on it in a few weeks time as well. is also january, so i wanted to play with his around the hands. i suggest. so let me move on a bit because to explain why this at a tournament is happening is because in a year's time, we are going to be talking about the faith that well come. this basically is

a dress rehearsal be our company is addressing, has all the next year been counting exactly the same country in the same stadiums. i want to bring up jo gasha raska. she has been looking at some of the most fascinating stay here across kata, and this one is stadium. 974. take a look. ah, the 1st thing times will notice when they arrive at stadium 9. 54 is that it looks a bit like it was constructed using children's building blocks. and that sounds highly too far from the truth just on a much bigger scale. this stadium has been put together with 974 shipping containers, 40000 seats, and a metal structure. they cool is a modular stadium. it has this advantages. it keeps costs slow in low as the number of building materials they need to use. and it can be put up relatively quickly because, and i know that you have been in casa quite recently. how ready,

do you think cutaways for not just the outcome that's on the way already, but the next year, a year out for the beef a welcome. i'm sure is very close to where it needs to be when i arrive, because i was shocked to how amazing the infrastructure is, how i think there was. but there was still some little deficiencies in terms of administration things. so for example, it took me a just to actually get the up and running. so a lot of issues are related to code. and then i think this is an important run for pop up to kind of identify where the problems are and, and sold in time for all the hundreds of thousands of funds all never to do make. there were a couple of questions here on you. cheap overseas that people are going to be asking about the situation with labor rights, human rights, li on you. sure people are asking that right now. i know a lot of work is being done in that area. tell us more. well, covered this extensively over the years, and actually i saw

a quote about haven't seen before from the head of the international labor organization and go ha, who said, we've been in office 3 and a half years obviously not happen before that. but that tell them that they met, and we've seen real progress and change during this period. the same time we recognize there's a lot of work to be done. now if that same comment as it come from the organizes, you can imagine it being plausible. so actually what we've got here is there isn't that much of a difference between those who are widely looking into the situation, sorry commission to improve and what you'd hear from those are actually running toward him. and what i'd like to see from the, i'd like to see the engaging with people around the world on this and not being defensive about it. the truth is, the truth, the truth. so if there were issues still there, addressed them, be open about them, talk about them open because we know the progress has been made in the middle east . but we also know that it is an extremely difficult situation for welcome from the

poll bangladesh. pocket stall is coming in a dating, but these conditions we know that have improved, but most that needs to be done. and i think that's where we are. and i think that actually it's time to make sure that there isn't this kind of always philip, the journalist around the world are picking on capital by actually bringing up these issues. these issues need to be discussed openly. i'm yes, so go ahead is about how much as well that the changes are in full. so, cats are often lumped together in terms of assessments of working conditions. where is the work of organizers themselves put in more stringent labor conditions and regulations before the why the country did? then there were changes the labor laws across cas out. now there are still issues with wanting you to companies build the infrastructure, making sure work is a paid that they're not pay for the right to go to work in the country. they do get that past calls back, they can switch jobs, and those are the things that are highlighted. but undoubtedly cats are,

has changed in a way unimagined all the time that the world cup was awarded. does not say that the reason to give a tournament to a country, but the pressure from human rights groups and from the media has actually accelerated a pace of change. so the organized the work up to acknowledge the fact that has been criticism. but on the other hand, they point to that criticism lights the foreign rights group, say it has delivered some meaningful change to actually improve working conditions . but it's going to be massively in the spotlight for over the next year. as i say to building up the tournament, typically when the so many projects as well from smaller companies that are distant removed from the work of organize themselves. but everything does get characterized course as the world cup preparation. i saying, and i'm looking here on my laptop, the new minimum wage is coming to effect today. the 1st of its kind in the middle east. and then if i go into a government website, i can also see in focus, labor reform. do you think that this issue with labor rights is going to want to

impact the our cap and then impact the welcome next year? inevitably. well, because there has been a systematic attack on pop up, but what people failed to mention is up as a country in its infancy. and they will inevitably be issues and problems within how the country operates. this is normal, but it was a problem for me is that we have all these western countries in western media. i talking about when these countries themselves are built on slave trades. they have there and i know i don't need to come in there because when i've been had the privilege of covering this from the stall in 2010, it's actually 11 years. an unprecedented situation with a warning to weld cops at the same time, one in russia, 2018, and want to catch our controversially, the whole process with a face for executive committee, of course that we know the issues of corruption around them. i think what's

happened is cats, i was found itself in a position where from the start it has to be understandably cautious and defensive . and in a position where it's defending, it's want to house the tournament when now, 11 years on. and it's the time to actually start embracing or why bother with told to start actually showing some of the joy and spirits and what's happening in tone and the construction of it and the guidance i find that we haven't really seen over the, over the past few years when the tournament kicks off, and i mean the well, what they say for our cup it will be a success because that's what happened with well cuts. and this is a compact to limit that journalist. well, i think appreciate 32 teams there before the expansion to 48. but the next few months there will be a lot of turbulence. there'll be a big spotlight and there's no agenda around the globe. it's only right in scandinavia or germany of the u. k. australia aware of the they're all questions asked about this tournament,

and i think those questions have to be accepted an answer honestly. i think it's been answered in many parts. we've had a lot of football is obviously protesting from march, almost with vague human rights teachers. but the government themselves in iowa haven't come out to really tell their story necessarily to sort of talk through are forms. if you're showing tweets and websites, the announcements can be quite dry. i mean, not say, get in the substance of detail. i'm just picking up from that previous point about cats or being a young country can't be expects an essay to meet perhaps other standards. well, we're not so not so complex matters. some of the issues i, the last few years about our work is being made to be out in the heat too long. that has got new rules around that, particularly in the face. i hate all day being paid properly and on time. these are basic standards and yes, there's always some christians, the west, just even overnight and last 24 hours. prince charles, out in barbados, apologizing for britain's pass right away. and back to kata, if it's ok, i would have been a muffler, a mara, i here to play in making a rough,

but i want to be is that matter tomorrow because he's heading on something that has an end. i think that you're going in the same direction, which is the 1st, the 3rd well cup in the middle east. that is exceptional. are we missing that story? his method. when you hear the end of the video, please response is going to be also an occasion for communities while you're here in a car to see the great adversity of identity and also to go to support their national teams who are going to come here and cut off from a stop this event actually for parties for the whole region. and this is really would be an interesting, you know, our goal them opportunity to see about yeah, i think he's absolutely spot on. i think this is a torment that needs to happen in terms of it not only being organized by fi, fi,

it being a game that will be broadcasted internationally on. our football needs this. we have a lot of talented players across the world and we need the, the big games to be broadcasted. we need coverage to encourage scouts and other countries that actually see the parents. we have hopefully giving a chance to some of our better players from ad are both going into different leagues expanding, improving, improving clubs, and that will lead to the gradual development on a proven of our football. what they think i'm gonna get you all of them a guest to actually come in italy who you for take will predict will when the are of cough. so i'll give you a moment. i don't have a thought about that. well, thank you. thank. let me go ahead. yes, nothing has told me it won't get to. there is a stress test. fully lots of fans coming in from slightly different parts of the world. it will test full of stadiums, but that's going to be a huge thing that's gonna be a culture shock attacker in a year's time. what is good is a middle east celebration. it should be the lifting of the boy call of tax. all

does actually enable travel across the region in a year, which looked in doubt even up to a year ago. and what i do take issue a some of ice around the world who complained about having to move the torment to the band with december. when the world's guy needs to accommodate the world by the agent told that they are going to be able to accommodate different climatic conditions. so the media gets a child excited to welcome when it's such a hot bed of passion and fans. it's just all the process behind it. i don't know if i'm transmitting the fan voices right. fans are never afraid to put date. who is going to win a tournament. all right, so we spoke to some fans about the our cop. this is what they told us that immediately has an ann lee rob. i want to go predictions as well as getting funds fast. marcus and my heart, broken in my dna, marcos, my team marco as my niece and i'm proud of it. let me explain. you guys why maroka lou in this, erica was show moral class recently. have won the african cup of nations for

localized players. those players are the same players that will put this a bit at the arrow cook. those plays know how to win this tournament. i wouldn't be shooting my home country, never know. there'd be games versus asia and julia and some time and the end i wouldn't talk. yeah. they are looking forward to the most at p f. our cup is to see how palestine gets on in a pretty difficult group. in my opinion, were victims of our own success. we had player score in croatia, portugal and switzerland over the weekend because the erica isn't we didn't see those international match the calendar. we weren't able to call up all these players into our squad as such, i think the team most likely to win is turner is one that can navigate these types of problems. one with a good amount of deaf, probably one of the north african sizes from push to pick a winner. i go it tenicia. ah, that signs a boat that all the gas ball he can only say one country iceland ain go ahead. easy

turn us. i think they're the only the ones i, they date they, one to day had november the 30th 1st out of our i comfortably. all right, denise, league name, the county member team to these nero's well, i want to be different, but i think katha alton is your current counselor with nancy. our right? mm hm. hi. with vantage hunting advantage, rob dive, he's i one, i'm the guy with castle because i've done this hats. i am score to die in the win against barbara board and the asian car finer when i for japan in 2019. so i think the conditions a world place, but as also as another trophy chance i love your boldness. hassan ain lee rob. thank you for talking to us about the fee for our of cop and also what it means for the fee for woke up in 12 months time. have a look here on my laptop. this is from a j plus. it's beautiful. everything you need to know about the 2021 fif a arab cup, and it's from a j labs at a j labs on twitter. you will find this

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