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walcott door is over. now, cutter moves closer to hosting the tournament to november. where does the drawer leave matches? how much progress has been made in preparing for the games. this is inside stores. ah. hello and welcome to the show. i'm sammy's a dan. well, the stage is set for the world cup 2022 in cutter. it'll be the 1st time the middle east house the tournament, but it hasn't been easy. most recently, carter is had to navigate a blockade, a global pandemic, and now the global effects of a war and ukraine. but despite all of that, though, has kept its promise, the groups playing each other have now all been set. the stadiums are ready. oh,

on the fans, they can't wait to get their hands on those tickets. johnny gosh! roscoe was at the drawer on friday she brought us this report. after months of qualifying matches, this was the moment football fans around the world will waiting for to find out who their country would play in the opening games of this. she is world cup and cattle was keen to show fans what they could expect. at the 1st edition of this tournament to be held in the middle east. ash overcome was sad. i feel proud and happy from this moment and beyond the world. we'll see carter as we promised we shall provide an extraordinary addition of the world cop. the full governing body has faced a turbulent build up to this draw, excluding the russian team over its countries. invasion of ukraine. faith is president using this occasion to call for peace. since we know that hundreds of millions of people are watching this row and many leaders of the world are also

launching our plea. the plea of the wall football community to every one. to all the leaders sent all the people of the world. this stop the conflicts and the wars please got. hi, katara will face ecuador in the opening game of the finals. and the draw threw together some tricky ties with 2 of the last 3 champions due to face each other at the group stage, terminate. spain and germany withdrawn in group each time it is for the next few days, all those matches will be pulled over in detail by the teams who are qualified and the fancy follow them with you. now that the great been drawn out, there's a real sense of excitement here in so ha, that off to 12 years of preparation and build up the 1st middle east. well, cup is getting very real. indeed. john casual sca i'll just read though.

oh, carter has come a long ways since it won the bid to host the world comp over 12 years, the country has built 7 state of the art stadiums. one will be dismantled and reassembled elsewhere. transportation has also improved cause has constructed a new international airport and 76 kilometers of railways. it's also refurbished hundreds of kilometers of roads. although there is still a long way to go. the country has been improving labels and it's human rights record. that's off the concerns about the treatment of migrant workers were raised by rights groups. the. well let's bring in our guess. now they're all in dow hud. we have daniel race. he is a visiting associate professor at georgetown university and also the author of the book called her and the 2022 fee for wolf comp, politics control the sea change. i shall call mcgee shirt,

is an african football journalist, and rob harris is a global sports correspondent for the associated press. welcome, i will, malcolm i should say, to all of you, if i could start with rob, so germany versus spain. let's talk a little bit about some of the highlights after the, the lineup par and groupings. this is going to be a clash of the titans and group is net. yeah, me see of the 2010 in 2014 world champions. obviously they have not quite had the heights of success in recent years, but it does offer one of those thrilling match ups, which is actually only come about because the germans are in call to do their recent performances. and unlike every other continent, europe can have to from ad that their own consonant within the same group. so we gave quite an enticing fixture for those early stages. or, you know, obviously the way the groups assess up the never know the germans did go out of the

group state in 2018. so, you know, that will be where we this time again, a lot to watch out for daniel, your book touched upon politics in a world cup, i think is going to get a little politically heated in group b when we start seeing iran versus the u. s. or the u. s. versus its former colonial power. england. heck. well 1st of all, as i me a thank you for calling my country germany a tie tam. i'm not so sure it was i was a sister as a case, i think, but really generous enough to give you guys that title. yeah, thank you. but as a political science professor, of course i was laughing when the u. s. and iran were drawn into one group. i don't, what are the chances will be i think the match won't be heated because it's a traditional, very frankly, into actions and sport between the u. s. and your arm, particular in wrestling. i let me bring in ayesha. where is the

drawer left? the rivalry i should you think between south america on the one hand and europe will south america be able to avoid that patent of being eliminated by europe, which we have seen in the past. but yes, i look south america obviously bring a lot of quality change to the world cap and it goes without saying that i need to try to to see what your met, you know, messy and gina can do this on time, but also your grad, a big quiet and in there, and i feel that the going to bring a lot of energy into this well kept. obviously the time difference is going to be a little bit complicated for their funds. but also for the plasma been playing europe and they know each other. they knew each other, they played against each other at club level in the leaks in, in europe, but also in the u. s. a champions league. so that should be quite exciting. but i

think south america this time will have an upper hand. i guess we'll see rob nother interesting development canada. they're going to draw the crowds off the qualifying for their 1st world cup in 36 years. yeah. what a success. it was for a candidate to find the make it back to the woke up. they see as a reflection of the growth in recent years and we certainly see in as well as the women's games successfully that, that they are the olympic champions. and yet the man have been waiting since 1986 to get back to the world cabinet. got belgium, who are the world's number one brain to you and they have been for several years, but they do have that distinction and actually winning anything even throwing it away in the nations lee last year. so i think will it has that be we'll talk who actually be in go scoring for chelsea going into the torments is torment like no other in world cups because of course it's coming in the the middle of the european season. kind of, there are also facing morocco and croatia to, well,

moroccans bring a lot of fans to cats are given the year that the, you know, the close proximity osher. we've got to talk about africa. where does the groupings, whether the groupings leave africa always said fall 12 years ago? honestly, i saw this coming before the jo. i was thinking to myself, it would be quite interesting if again i called on. yeah, so i'm really, honestly, i don't think that that ends or even then the african continent has ever recovered from that moment. so it's going to be a fresh is going to be a hated game then, isn't it? it's definitely going to be a heated game demand in there and gunner are going to come out to say, okay, we were robbed the last time out because they could have actually become one of the fast african team to make it to the semifinals of a woke up effect go had gone in and been accepted, but obviously

a lot of sense just send it via are but either way it's very tough group for ghana especially if we had to look at their qualification journey to getting to the woke up. yes, they beat nigeria, but not that convincing. however, at the top they have to i don't who has done an incredible job with that and been out of experience if they can get, hadn't had some doors and teach to play for them. i think that could change a lot of things and set top of the team. i've not only been a journey for them. let's talk about the may king to get to this point. daniel spend a bit of a journey getting to carter 2022 though the preparations is the country ready. it is. i think when we compare this with a couple of them, pic, games, most new as we read before, the event were concerns. most of the infrastructure i was getting ready. this seems

to be not an issue. he has a stadium completed, but also other infrastructure such as the middle school. so i think that countries on track of causes has never hosting an event of such magnitude. so it remains to see there might be also unforeseen issues happening during that event because of that section for a cup when the fan caught was introduced and didn't really work that wall. and then the organized has decided to abandon it, which i think was a very good decision. so it's also about being a quick learner when you host an event of such magnitude. and if stuff happens and says, always stop that happens, then we need to quickly adjust as the organizers have done that or a cup which i would consider a pretty successful preparation event. all right, well i have gone from not to 60 for the quick, they want to go back to asha though and say, still there are concerns about accommodation. is everyone going to get a place to stay the a think gotcha. wisely. i was here in december for the fee for

our cab, and i remember just trying to figure out, okay, so if you have one me, then people coming into town, where can they stay? obviously there's an incredible line up foretells here, but they also options it personally. if i was a fan and i was moving to the woke up, i didn't want to stay in a 5 star hotel. i want to stay perhaps like on a boat and maybe in the desert, there's a couple of places i saw out the door about an hour away where they've constructed like tense and these 10 you could stay there with your friends, maybe about 5 people in one tent and i think that, you know, would be like a good experience for everyone coming into guitar. it's november will be winter in europe or most parts of the northern hemisphere. so if people can just come and pick up and be open minded and not really just want to be in the 5 star hotel,

then there's, you know, options that they can consider during the walk up why there's been a lot of controversy robber around labor issues how have they evolved over time despite the reforms? some rights groups like human rights watch last month talk about reports of work has still not receiving wages for months. they've been reports about workers being paid low wages or recruitment agents taking large fees from people signing up for jobs. how is how's all of that evolved? well, it really reflects the need for enforcement across the country so. so my sector in the 8 well capsized, no stadiums are largely finished with how you regulate the construction that is all across though higher in particular, you just have to walk around the capital and the constant building work um hotels and the roads as well. so there's a lot of regulations to actually check being in force,

particularly very often it's joint venture between our european friends. and they're all those calls still for actually the unscrupulous pull employees to actually be clamped down on which will florence is do say they are doing side, but there will still be those depths. and also it's looking backwards as well as that being compensation for those workers who have suffered in the construction of the infrastructure required this well cut. all of the complete investigations, the transparency over the numbers of those who have been injured. those who suffered in ways that are unquantifiable sometimes it's been working in the high heats and then unnaturally dying early because of the implication perhaps on your heart. and we often have a lot of natural death that data being put down to which might not factor in fully the impact of the working conditions. but certainly katha is in a better place now when the bid was one and around the time the bit was being pursued at the end of the the previous the decade at the end of 2010 now. well,

they weren't really discussing the rights issues in cath hours more about the he is catherine. subordination is it when could actually accommodate the world cup? so anyway, the building started to begin, really the likes family, the focusing on the unsafe conditions, the laws that actually denied rights to workers to be able to lee jobs and the cost of them even coming into the country. the exit ve permits as well. they had to pay for, and the reforms that been introduced have actually been at a pace that might not happen, had it not being pulled back up. also things like this month in the fall, a system which has not happened in other countries. so it definitely the welcome has brought about changes. now the rights groups that demand and that those, those changes do continue to be brought about after the walk up. and the enforcement as well. once the footballing spotlight is off counter, that's a really interesting point, daniel. maybe i get you to comment on that. we often look at this in terms of what

is cut to doing to the world comp process. but what does the world comp process done to cutter? right there's, there's been an awful lot of change because of the intense scrutiny and spotlight that's been put, maybe more so on carter than any other golf country. when it comes to labor conditions, labor laws, the car found a system which which daniel, which rob mentioned the introduction of a basic wage and so on. yeah, i concur with much of what rob said, and i think when cut out was the water. what cup in december 2010. as this came the main issue and cut i was right, 40 criticized treatment of migrant workers a. but we should also recognize that a lot of changes have taken place. maybe it took a bit too much time until they were realized, but they were so the can find

a system was suspended. this means workers can now change their workplace without approval of the employer. they can leave the country without needing an exit comment. as a summer working hours have been extended by outside book is not allowed, a minimum wage has been introduced. so on the legal level, a lot happens, of course, now we are in the different states. now it's about proper implementation. but i would also like to mention that that's a government that many inspections all of us the summer and find many companies. and now it's also the responsibility of private companies who are from all of us would to properly implement these reforms. so i think it's cut on our perfect place . no, but changes that have taken place needs to be recognized. nice and of course, challenge has remain. but we should also stop comparing cover with countries from

the west. we need to compare, cut with countries in the region, and in the region cut out became our pioneer. and i would wish that countries such as those who bought a cutoff would funnel as a category lead and implement similar reforms. this would improve the life of millions of people. all right? you mentioned that your presence, you said, hey, i'll stay in attend outside of doha. what about transform? how is that shape top, you know, in the sort of the build up to the games. we've seen articles in some of the english newspapers talking about english fans coming on a fact finding mission and then complaining that they've had to walk 45 minutes from a metro stop to a stadium as that sort of challenge been addressed. they thought through now all of the, the transport network i'd like to believe so because as you can see, the see foreign camp in my opinion, was

a good tournament to sort of prepare for the woke up and obviously before they used to be the confederation kept a year before the woke up, the dad didn't happen last year, so the arab cub, you'd say with 16 teams was a good fit. obviously you have to dub with that to see a couple of things that can be addressed. and i remember doing the yes, there was some issues, you know, for example, if you go to the c d and you know, you have to walk in a certain direction and it's really a long way. and i felt that back then, there was not really so many provisions for people. for example, you know, we'll check that the distance is very long for them. or if someone is walking on crutches and how accessible would it be for them? or if they're an old fashion, maybe in the seventy's and they're unable to work. but i think that these things

have been addressed since that is 3 months of december. so i feel that, you know, that there are, in that sense is ready for the woke up and talking about the metro. you have obviously the measure that is low connected to the stadiums and people need to know that this is going to be the most compact woke up ever. if anything, if you look at, for example, russia, you know, it was very difficult to move from one venue to another, literally across the country, brazil as well. it was huge. you have to take flight for hours, but here you have 7 stadiums almost in the same area code. and you have a distance of at least a maximum 45 kilometers. if you're in the city center, for example, the stadium 9747, kilometers away. you know, and then you have the sale, which could be the fastest that 22 kilometers right from the center over here. so people just need to be open minded. i feel that there's been so much negativity

towards katara hosting this workup. and this is just the open minded to come and enjoy the work. all right, let's hope people come and enjoy it. let's hope everything goes smooth for rob. carter. 22 has faced all kinds of headwinds over these years, right? i mean, unthinkable things from a blockade a global pandemic. now, the war in ukraine is the, can we finally say is the show now unstoppable. yeah, this is the work that does look. concourse, probably helped by the pasted, the pandemic. so many other sporting events impacted in the last couple of years that the postponements in the, your rise to the lympics and impact you saw you much around the world. but i suppose many thought this is the welcome mike that i've reached the point to kick off a towel that has looked less lightly. that would be threatened in recent years, but the media pay read off to be awarding and devote in 2010. the focus of the corruption investigations be for finding some wrong doing in their pro,

but ultimately not enough that warranted anything that believed it should be overturned as they found issues with many of the beds around the period when fi for conduct was questionable. encourage course the european season with european clubs and leagues not happy about the switch from the usual june, july slot. so november, december, and there's been investigations particularly showing how cattle was very concerned about how it could lose the right. so, but actually trying to sort of make sure those who took part, the decision making, would that not be going against them. and then of course, the more recent years with the diplomatic crisis in the gulf and being targeted by saudi arabia, by the u. i. e and the attempt to squeeze on my son, catherine forcing thou how to go and search for the lights of turkey to bring in construction and elements to be able to ensure building stayed on track. and there were perhaps one point when faith was even trying to spread the well cut beyond

capital, will make the denali cancel the right to have this 1st middle east. well, companies and that was talked about referring to the after the vote as well in 2010 . but that'll be managed to preserve the status as the sole host and fees of have to get his wish to be the peacemaker. at the time as being seen, the bringing the, the neighbors back together again. alright, daniel, you, 1st in about, as i said, politics and control the see in fif in the world. come, where do you think a successful hosting of the games is going to leave the thief forbid to try and make the world cup every 2 years. instead of every 4? will it strengthen the argument of those who say, look, you know, this will help to give other regions other countries a chance to host and pull off a good show? yeah, certainly, i mean football, it's the most global sport. and that is sufficient interest around some would also tell us what cup every other year. i think the question once more

how, what effect like for example, the attention women's, what championship get up, group competitions and other spots all assume they were not that happy about the work up every as a year. but you know, their sports and soccer. we have every year, what comes in hand, but every other idea. so football of the 1st part, but it seems a bit that this issue is on hold, but it's remains to see what's going to happen. i was not surprised. it's just come suggesting it comes back on the table. all right, fantastic guys. it's been good talking to have i. unfortunately, we are out of time. let's thank con guess daniel rash i show coma and rob harris. i am thank you to for watching. you can see the show again any time by visiting our website al jazeera dot com,

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