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count down to well cut 2022. the skies about kettles, capital light up on the eve of the kick, off of the historic tournament. oh, wow. oh beaver is in the air fans from all over the world to stand on counter to chair on their favorite t. ah, that one carry don't mrs. out there or where live from do i also coming up? thief, his boss, john, the infant tina defends cattle and accuses western critics of hypocrisy. class time takes down at the cop $27.00 climate summit in egypt. no deed on the table and humanities future at stake. ah, it's now less than 16 hours before kick off for the 1st ever football world cup in the middle east. or than 1000000 fans are expected to arrive into our,

to support their teams. of the next 4 weeks festivities are already underway. in kat asked capital, 32 teams are i in the coveted trophy or defending champions. france are hoping to become only the 2nd country after brazil to win back to back tournament. the 1st game is on sunday, between host country keta and ecuador. and the president of what was world governing body has hit out critics of the tournament. johnnie infant ino has defended the treatment of migrant workers, saying europe should not be giving what he calls moral lessons, threat sabu of the migrant workers. if you allow me we are told many, many lessons from some europeans from the western world. i'm european actually i am european. not just i feel european

i think for what we europeans have been doing in the last 3000 years around the world. we should be apologizing for next 3000 years before starting to give moral lessons to people. this doesn't mean that we shouldn't point. edward doesn't work hidden carter as well. of course, there are still things that don't work at the need to be addressed. but this moral lesson giving one side, it is just hypocrisy or paul reese has more on the fif, achieves comments? well, johnny and santana was very keen to get on the front foot with the media as this

world cup is about to kick off. and that's because of the criticism that katha and fee for of had in the last 12 years since katha won the bid to host the tournament . as some of those issues the rights of migrant workers. they're working conditions or whether gay people will be welcomed in qatar during this woke up given local laws and john infancy know said that they absolutely were. and indeed his communications director, i spoke to said that he was gay and he stood behind thief his stance. now, in fontana sounded very frustrated at the level of the criticism of the relentless criticism. and he said that, of course some of it is fair. but he said the only way for these problems to be worked out was to have the woke up and cutter and to engage with those issues here . and he said that much progress had been made. he also, as you might expect, legs,

people to now focus on the football and that will be the focus on sunday. as kat are, the hosts kick off against ecuador at our bait stadium. there might be hope for cathy in that, even though this is their 1st woke up. no house nation has ever lost an opening match up a torment that might give extra pressure for these players as well. the brazilian national team arrived in katara short while ago. it's the last team trying to touch down. brazil has won the most well cups and torments history and is going for 6. title fans greater the team at their hotel than the name on his teammates hit the pitch for that 1st match on thursday against meanwhile, defensive world accomplish champions. francis suffered a set back in the fee for $22.00 cup. on the eve of the tournament, it seems stars darker in benjamin, has been ruled out of playing and in the upcoming match is off to sustaining an

injury during training and tore a muscle in his left thigh on saturday, which dr. say will take at least 3 weeks to recover ending hopes of him featuring in, kept her home over the 1000000 fans are expected in cash off of the tolerance with supporters arriving from all over the world. so some of them that there was how much international some of the 1300000 football fan have been arriving all right before the walcott, you'll hear a lot of rabbit chancing behind me. we've had lots of people arriving, especially from latin america and seen, or i've been speaking some mexican funds. i've spoken to some 1000 funds, and everyone is super excited. i've got 2 fans of just lands if they've come all the way from ecuador, and they seem to be really excited to have john, you said you and yeah, my name is john and you i'm, that is, i'm how long is it taken for you to get here, i mean, it was a long flight, it took around, let's say, more than 24 hours already because we had to make

a lot of layovers for it says, my brother came all the way from well or to mother. and then we had to travel to bodies, then we have our flight and we just landed. and you just landed with traditional ecuador in must. does that right? yeah. these are the show last me like typical people for my country. so we're happy to be here representing 17000000 people of my country. now i'm assuming that the opening game, which is happening in less than 24 hours from now, is between capital and ecuador. i'm assuming that's where you're going to be tomorrow. yes, we're going to go to more game as, as well as a lunching of of these tournaments and we're so happy we're so excited to be here. we're really hope we can make like tomorrow, good game. and we're hoping and looking forward to win tomorrow's game. and start, this will come in in the best way, and i have one more question for you. what sorts of ecuador installed do you think you're going to be singing out the stadium to get all the quit or in fans excited?

i mean, we have, we have many by we have chosen already one that he's among our favorites because he's my older brother and we went together to rescue 2014. i was also in day and they will come on their 20 in poland, 2019. and we are so happy to be here. so we decided to sing a song already because from our country we look hard. okay, well let's hear it again. oh god. oh yeah. oh oh, oh, oh, oh oh, i mean that's happening. we've been receiving, hey, of all the people that are arriving, that are really getting into the group of the walls coffin in this airport in

particular, they've had a massive expansion and they say that they all ready for the $1300000.00 football fans are due to arrive of course not all ac was, all supporters were able to make that very long trip to the middle east from south america. but back in ecuador, the fans are no less excited or that in america editor lucien, even in the port city o'clock, you have an open market in y. a key where people are preparing to dress for the world cup. they're ordinarily excited about it. they say that they know that the eyes of the world will be on their national team in the opening match of the world cup. that's the 1st time that that's ever happened in ecuador doesn't usually make it to the world cup. but this they say that everything could change, especially this year because they have a very good team, a lot of very, very young players. one of them will follow black on black has been nicknamed the black. messy in quite yet, keen,

ecuador is largest city. there's a frenzy to obtain the national teams jersey before they sell out all over the phone. every ecuadorian is a fanatic about football. walk already. this woman confesses, she's buying a small one for her dog. huh. football fever has taken over la oklahoma, cause we're going to win by one mill. the 12 year old jeremy disagrees. yes. okay, and let them, oh, i think that in the 1st half will tie but in the 2nd half will whim to nil. thanks to cancel a platter. he's referring to ecuadorian football. idle gonzalo plata, who like almost the entire team, grew up in poverty, gallagher, i'm going from 22 year old bladder nowadays for spain's rail via the lead, and has bought his family, this new house, where he keeps many of his trophies one. when john there blacks whites mulattoes from the mountains to the coast, we will become like one like brothers nodded back in his old neighbourhood. they

haven't forgotten him. madeline is shows us a photo of platter with her grandson and says he's an inspiration for other boys. so they don't turn to drugs and crime. 2 weeks ago the government declared a state of emergency and a curfew here. and why akil and 2 other provinces because of uncontrollable gang violence. because of security concerns, local officials have had to cancel a huge fan fest that they plan to host all the same ecuador and all over guayaquil are preparing for the big day. even the gangs have called for an unofficial truce to allow people to think of nothing else but the game. a true ecuador has never come close to winning a world cup. but people young and old, tell us that this time, they're sure their team will take them further than ever before or well, i can tell you, the jerseys are starting to run out here in this stall,

pretty soon. in fact, this is going to look like one huge yellow branch, the people that buy a deal. and i had a pretty tough time over the last couple of years. first, there was the pandemic. then the rise in crime and now the state of emergency precisely during the world cup. but they are excited. none the less, and they're going to be at least 2 impromptu fan 1st being organized by football clubs in the city, one in the north and one in the south where we're expecting thousands of people to gather. and they say, hopefully do or celebrate the victory over guitar in the opening match. when russia invaded ukraine in february, the lives of millions of people were turned upside down. despite that the ukrainian national team just missed out on quantifying for the woke up as well. the challenge reports from a pin that just outside key if for many young people football is a welcome distraction from the war. when russian troops closed in on the key of

suburb of ear pin in february, searcy and arena left their apartments and fled. it was april before russia abandoned its push on key. if the family ventured home again go mister the baltimore sir bottom was a mr. gleaton, when we return, so we found a burnout kitchen and a shall department. here are the remains of a cottage. they went through 2 walls, but fortunately, did not catch fire or in warner. what became the place, his uninhabitable. but others had it worse. there's a door, the door young j, as in the just before and pin was liberated, one of the neighbors was killed and we weren't allowed to bury him immediately. his body lay next to the other, captured people for several days, and it was 3 days later before he was buried in the yard rebuilding has begun, but he up him still bears deep scars at a mortar damage. sports club saggy is back to his job teaching kids football

edition, assailable. that's my job. he tells me these boys have been through hell, like him, many lost their homes and fled but through the trauma and the turmoil, football was a constant. another course i swore often walls get his them and they believe wherever they are, the boys look for boys use their relief in a way to distract himself. sure. foot boys their favorite thing in life. you can destroy homes and stadiums. conversely, you cannot destroy their love for football and they're going to become football players. all parents watch from the sidelines. the war goes on, but this is a semblance of normality. at least one of the eloquent to learn the children wanted to return home, meet the coach in their relatives as soon as possible. i think football is amazing . children need as much joy,

fun and time with their friends as possible. and of course, like millions, if not billions of people around the world, they arise around the world. cup in capital. must be, unfortunately, the national team hasn't qualified for capital 2022. so there'll be no ukraine playing there in blue and yellow. that football is still helping bring this traumatized water country back together and the kids know who they're supporting. ingle and my phone is spain. my favorite, dim england, my for countries, portugal to rory collins. how does era here pin ukraine or stella had her on al jazeera this she sooner makes his 1st visit to cleave as british prime minister, promising continued support form on his 1000000 sco hungry madagascar. we look at what his response

ah, anticipation is rising. and so with his hair low, they will look to east asia, and the weather's been set rather fair across much of china, temperatures have been above the average, but it hasn't been as hot as it has been over the past few months. now one place where we have seen rather abnormal heat is the korean peninsula, with temperatures in pyongyang, and sol, about 5 to nearly 10 degrees above the average. but there's going to be a change to come on monday. we've got wet weather and more cloud winter mix as well blowing its way further east. that's going to knock temperatures down across the peninsula. now, much of the wet weather has been plaguing japan. you can see it start to move out by the time we get into monday, some recovery for cities like tokyo. and it's a similar story for much of the south of china. it's largely fine and dry situation

here as it is for much of south and central asia, up in the north pakistan and india in bone dry conditions. it's down in the very southeast that we are seeing that wet and windy weather pull out of the bay of bengal. chenise going to these very heavy downpours and storms in the days ahead. much dryer, however, for that southwest corner for places like carola, a bit of cloud coming in. but look at that sunshine for bangladesh and me and mark as well as nepal. by monday, that should weather update to with sponsored by cats on a ways what's going on in vladimir putin's mind right now. could this war go new player is being on that front team, the golden ticket to electro victory? can americans agree on any immigration policy? is there a middle ground between 0 tolerance and open borders? the quizzical look us politics, the bottom line, what we do it i'll just theera is try to balance this story and leave the people

who allow was into their lives, dignity, and humanity. lou, the me. watching out reminder of our top stories. now this is now less than 16 hours before kickoff. the 1st ever will come from the middle east. well, the 1000000 fans are expected to cheer on the next 4 weeks. the 1st game is on sunday. as the country caught up on the fee for president johnny infant, tina was accusing western critics of hypocrisy. when it comes to defend the treatment of migrant workers should not be giving what equals more lessons

leaders. the comp 27 climate sonnets in egypt are working late into the night to reach a deal at stake because of global consensus to try to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees celsius. an issue of compensation from richer countries to poor ones. the creation of the loss and damage fund has been a sticking point, leading to an extra day of negotiations. project thing is head of a global political strategy at con action network international. he's that the talks in a shuttle shake and explains why compensation agreement is vital. this is going to be a landmark, the ones that is adopted. we have been waiting for the last 30 years, the new 30 years ago in 1991. that there are going to be climate impact, which are already logged in because of the freezing temperature. but there was no system that was created under the u. n. to help people who are losing their homes, farms, and income, and the current system was mandatory,

and it is insufficient. and it's under stress to respond to the increasing intensity and frequency or climate impacts. so this one was absolutely needed. a scale of financing to help people recover. so imagine how we saw how to fix pictures of flooding in focus in niger area. and currently hundreds of thousands of people on the move in somalia. so there are impacts of the bad, but this system under un climate change was not able to respond because there was no fund to help such people. but with now this fun being agreed, we will be able to respond to the needs of people who are already facing climate emergency. but i guess because famine last year was said to be the well, the 1st disaster induced by climate change. some disagree with that assessment instead ending poverty and poor governance. be the white millions of people are facing acute hunger. that clark reports now from iran in southern madagascar.

when crops consistently failed, you take what you can find. who cares if normally only cattle, characters, and boiled up? it fills a gap for a while. they had only says an a t and it had been an hour. poor dick. she, she, the village is in a very bad situation. no food, no water. i that is the biggest issue in this region. we need help to solve this because people are living on cactus. that's all there is a general ha. in the regional capital of amber von bay, a woman has brought her 7 month old daughter to hospital after she became seriously ill with diarrhea and vomiting to her name is sarah. i that i hannah, i live on the market up, get them in every day. it was the pick up along the road like with cactus fruits. i'm exhausted and i just can't breastfeed my baby because i'm so hungry. i have no make in my pressing them if there is no food you just with what i and slim in here

in the malnutrition unit, they're preparing for big influx in december and january. we're going into what is called the the lean season. so it's a time when it's very difficult for families to grow their own food, harvest their own food, there's a lack of rainfall we expect cyclones to start appearing sometime in the new year. and so this is the time when families are really forced to forage for food. and so there are estimates that around $480000.00 children between now and february, april of next year, may need to be treated for acute now nutrition. ah, not that the food isn't there, and i have always market. you wouldn't think times are hard, but these goods are mostly imported into the region and spiraling prices push them well out of reach of the poor. hundreds of thousands across madagascar depend on outside support from the likes of water aid, the world food program. here the government is delivering 1st loads from seeds to

fall and they need all the help they can get. but if there's no rain, no m l to fertilizer will. i'm the melodic is on a deed made the hula our soil is fertile when there's no rain, things out this cassava die. i think in the future it will be a desert hair. i think the next generation will have nothing to it. i will tie younger now the you and call the family here back in 2021. the 1st 5 men. pause in the world solely by climate change, but a lot of people disagree with that. they say it's down to poor governance and to poverty. the truth, i think it's a combination of all 3 climate change that it's wreaking havoc around the world, calling devastation here in madagascar. poverty, 90 percent of murder, gaskins live in poverty and poor governance inside and outside the country. for the people, though it's all irrelevant for them these times simply known as carry the hun.

let clark al jazeera iraq with them. the turkish national defense ministry says her kia has conducted the air raid operations in northern syria and northern iraq. the targets are said to be kurdish groups. the p k. k, and the y p g took here accuses them of a bomb attack in istanbul. one week ago, 6 people were killed and more than 80, others were injured. the kurdish groups have denied involvement. malaysia is facing a hung parliament after title contest a general election delivered no clear winner opposition leader and why abraham says his coalition has enough support to form a government, his rosalind a former premium. he didn't yassin as also claim to win the country has had 3 prime ministers in the last 4 years. lawrence louis has more from continental, no, as surveys had largely predicted, there is no one party that can claim majority in parliament. no one party conformed

government on its own, and this means that the smaller parties are in the position to play kingmaker and i expect negotiations and horse trading would have already started. the next logical step though is for the national front to work together with the national ally. and again, these are parties that were already working together when parliament was dissolved and if they continue to work together, then it means status would be maintained. now this means that politicians in the national front who have been tainted with corruption, well continued to remain powerful. yes, some of the may have lost that parliament defeats in that election, but they still hold positions of power within the party. and if the party is back in power than it means these politicians would remain powerful. now the other implication is it appears, voters have continued to vote along racial and religious lines in multi cultural, malaysia. the national front and the national alliance are parties that champion special rights and privileges for the malay ethnic group. the majority group in

malaysia, they form about 70 percent of the population. and it appears votes as have largely rejected the opposition's proposal that the government provide assistance based on needs rather than race. so it appears malaysia will continue to be divided along racial and religious lines. and the 3rd implication is political stability may still continue to elude malaysia, the national front and the national alliance have been working together for the last 2 years. but it is a partnership that's been beset by in fighting. and there's no reason to believe that a 2nd attempt at this partnership will be any smoother. she sooner cause visited ukraine's the 1st time since becoming britain's prime minister. he met to president for the mess lensky in chief sooner pledged his government's continued support, including an air defense aids package, worth $60000000.00. we will stand with you until ukraine has won the peace and security it needs and deserves. and then we will stand with you as you rebuild your

great country. and i look forward to hosting a reconstruction conference in london next summer by then let us hope that we have ended this fall berth war and secured a just peace of jonah. how has more now on the visit for give when he was in and out this afternoon on an unannounced visit for obvious security reasons, making his 1st visit to cave after becoming prime minister at the end of october, and falling and walking in the footsteps. of course of his previous s a, but one boris johnson, who became the 1st foreign leader to visit keith in the early months of the war. he's had a street named after him parish johnson, hugely popular. he had no words as to whether any similar offer on or is on off of the richie soon act. but he did come bearing a package of support for the $60000000.00 worth of military aid being offered by britain to ukraine, including in particular antique aircraft guns and radar and technology were told to

ward off a taxed by drones. and that's particularly important because after 2 waves of aerial bombardment by russia just this week, 6 since october, mr. lensky said, since the 1st days of the war, ukraine and the u. k. have been the strongest of allies in war from richie soon as he described his visit as deeply humbling. he said, britain knows what it means to fight for freedom. with you all the way ahead of equitorial guineas, legislative, local, and presidential elections. the government has been deporting tens of thousands of migrants. it says they're living illegally in its territory, most of the neighboring cameroon cars. huck reports not the return home they wanted. after being expelled from neighboring equitorial guinea. these cam rooney and migrates, are being repass, read it to their country. they've come back broke empty handed and scarred by the

violence at the hands of security forces ahead of equitorial guineas, presidential legislative and local elections. thousands of migrants in the isolated an oil rich central african nation, are being rounded up by security forces and forcibly deported authorities, accused them of committing crimes and creating instability. nonsense as this communion migrant. she says they were there to do jobs, locals don't want working as mechanics, housekeepers or teachers. some were beaten, others held days without food. all have had their homes and belonging seized by the state, beth to it fled the violence of book a harm fighters in cameroon, thinking she and her children were safe. she worked as a maid for years. last week she was arrested, separated from her children and all of her savings were taken away. the saddle jeff at was i was forced to spend 3 days, cloistered in the house without eating or drinking. 2 soldiers arrested me and took

me to the stadium. they took me to the basement, i resist edmonton, but then they forced me to undress and they abused me. human rights watch a que security forces of rape, torture and arbitrary detention after 43 years in power. 80 year old president, what era of young and grimma is running for reelection? he sure to win his party. the democratic party of equitorial guinea, one almost a 100 percent of the votes during the last parliamentary elections, nor my everything is normal. people feel like it's fun. it doesn't feel like a campaign like in other countries where there are problems. no, everything is normal here, both for the democratic party over total guinea and for the opposition parties. but critics say it's anything but normal, describing the country as 8 dictatorship. there is no real opposition. they say a small elite enjoys lab.