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so nato secretary general is calling all member states to pledge more aid for ukraine during winter as it braces for more russian attacks. e n. c. stoughton bergs spoke ahead of a nato foreign ministers meeting underway in the romanian capital. at the moment. russian attacks on ukrainian infrastructure have left millions of people without power. tilden berg accused russia using winter as a weapon of war repair, but he said nato is prepared to meet the challenge rashaw. so recent losses intruding, its withdrawal from has song demonstrates the incredible courage and bravery of the ukrainian forces. it also shows our support our support makes a difference on the battle field and must continue the russian military and retains significant capabilities on the large number of troops. it is willing to use

extreme brutality leave ukraine cold and dark this winter. andrew simmons live in bucharest, reporting on this nato summit. andrew, what additional aid can ukraine expect to receive from nato while start on berg has been spelling out his view and everything without winterized zation or non brilliantly point that russia is trying to use the winter as a weapon of war. in doing so, he's been giving assurances of weight unwavering support to ukraine. and what does he want to do? well, he wants independent states of their own volition to engage in deploying systems weaponry. ready systems to protect ukraine's ad defense is to use that it's as space to get it made much safer. defense against attacks from the air

missiles, from bombings, and so on and so forth. he wants that to happen. furthermore, he wants to see much more done to try to repair the shattered infrastructure for energy water as well. and that could be where actually blinking the u. s. secretary of state steps in, in trying to help with a package of repairs with engineers and equipment going in. but of course that could happen. but if the air defenses on bolsters the could be a critical problem. furthermore, there is also assurances that will be more reinforcements for romania as forces. we went to butcher the main ad base for a minute to see how they're doing. romania is building its defenses at a fast rate. here a transformation of its main air base is underway. usf 16 aircraft have replaced

outdated former soviet megs only 17 f sixteens for now, but $32.00 more on the way. everything is under pressure. so we were in time leaving to go, then we fight to again, the 2nd. we have a lot of mission runnings, and this is the old emissions, our focus on giving us more security in the safe environment. we are different and i mean in a space and over, over contributing to the nato security and the it is a big it's an important through time. but we are doing what we are prepared to do everything. by every day he means the coordination with other nato forces policing the asset base and 24 hour stand by for any incidence descends to the skies above nato's eastern flank has never been so intense nato faces of colossal

challenge. not often. yeah, not on the ground to russia would call this escalation, nato prefers the word deterrents here us and romanian forces on an exercise. recently these maneuvers came only a week after a stray ukrainian air defense missile crossed the border exploding in poland, killing 2 people. germany has offered patriot missiles systems to defend polish air space. poland wants the systems to be positioned on the ukranian side of the border, while germany doesn't appear to agree, however, increased russian attacks on ukraine's energy infrastructure. mean there's a clamoring among some nato states to give ukraine more air defenses with major power outages at a time when sub 0 temperatures are worsening,

and humanitarian emergency is becoming more severe bother day president putin is now trying to use a weapon. ah, i use the winter as a weapon or war against the ukraine, and this is horrific. the nato foreign ministers meeting is undoubtedly going to hear that additional advanced air defense systems are urgently needed for ukraine. along with more training in their use, andrew simmons al jazeera butcher air base romania. earlier we spoke to ridley clear coat, the mayor of keven. he says, ukraine needs nato allies to provide more military support. main point, the air defense and direct systems, sir, because safety right now, it's mean priority for every one in ukraine. and yes, of course we are very appreciate for support to political support, financial support to me than health,

but we need right now. generators for now, for our country, we need to also defense weapons and direct systems and defending systems because one more time safety is main priority for every citizens of our hometown in our country. it's situation right now, he's holding grain and also in capital is critical because after the last record attack to our hometown is our infrastructure was also have huge damages destroyed. and we are fighting 24 hours. okay. i told you we were keeping an eye this our on a chinese rocket launch will it's about to happen in just under a minute now. so we want to bring you those live pictures. 3 chinese astronauts are heading to their newly built space station. last off is in under 10 seconds. i'm told was it? yeah, the launch site is at ju kwan in the gobi desert. right. this is listening. see

what we can hear. now. thank you. now, 2nd, now the key factors. alright, you are watching the live pictures of the launch of son joe 15. now the rocket is carrying a spacecraft through the chinese space station which has just recently been completed just during the course of 2021 china space modules into

into space to build this one for the astronauts referred to as ty cannot live in and the 2 others are labs research laboratory that will be used shortly. imminently to start carrying out scientific experiments in space. all right, let's be in an osha, he's a director of the u. k. national space academy. he's a science advisor also to the european space agency and joins us from lester. and i don't know if you were able to watch the live pictures that were still in the 1st minute post lodge. what. what do we need to know about that 1st minute because i understand it to be crucial. i absolutely mean hello cyril, it's great to join you, and this is also unprecedented the china to be on what you're going to screen just down here. so my right hand side and yet to top the live coverage all over human

spaceflight launching is unprecedented. so yes, in that 1st minutes, you know, with pushing through that dense, lower layers of the be and accelerating a colossal right. and so this is when the, the aerodynamic force is on a vehicle or a maximum. so i'm looking at the footage now. we still got the, sorry booster stretch on so that 1st 2 minutes is absolutely critical after that, what we're above most of the atmosphere. but we still got to power on an air speed is going to go up by a factor of 6 or 7 more because by the time we get to the speed to all the earth, we're traveling nearly 8 kilometers every 2nd. and so from a stand still on the pad, it, you call that i kilometers every 2nd. all of that is done in 8 minutes. and again, looking at that footage now a few years ago trying to to broadcast life footage of such a high profile mission. you know, this is unprecedented, it just shows how much more confidence the chinese space program has in the sort of

areas to share these like images yet and feel free at any point. by the way, as you're watching the, the picture of life to educate us on the importance and the significance of anything that we're looking at. but for context, china wants to become a major space power. it has made strides in recent years and it wants to make more in the next 5 to 10 years. tell us more about that. yeah, i mean china is be doing spice stuff was i'll put it since 1970. i want to say spy stuff. i will say when people say what you mean by space, i say it's 3 simple things. it's looking out there, which is astronomy. it's going out there which is exploration, but it's also the satellites which will focus back here on us. this is space for the benefit of life on earth, and this is what has led to so many services we take for granted, you know, global telecommunications, global navigation, we satellites it powering so many of our wrap. so china was, was late to get started in 1970. they lost their 1st human spaceflight mission in

2003. but in the last few years, in all of these areas of space science, china has been on a curve like this is called gold ambitions. to be a world leading player across that space science field. and it's throwing all the resources that it, it is pushing forwards on its boundaries and, you know, in terms of what they're doing now. so we've just seen now the stage separation. i mean, i don't mean it's like trying to like, but i think we're seeing about the same thing that you're seeing. i was going to ask you about what the astronauts are that the tie cannot so you can call them both are feeling right now. this leading heavy so now those boosters, of course, the acceleration is really going to kick in. so this is pulling about 3 or 4 g. so, you know, i've got a massive 80 kilograms. this is if i would have another sort of 300 kilograms sitting on my chest, and so they're going to be powering through with the acceleration going up and out, peaking at about 40 until suddenly i minutes off to launch. the final stage kicks

off and then they're floating, they're free falling around the earth. so we seen the, the strap on bruce to separate. they will be one of them has flown before, but 2 of them except 1st mission. so i think it's a combination of exhilaration, but more importantly, monitoring all of their systems because as an astro, any aspects of my slide, you are always trained for contingency. so they're looking incredibly focused now, and they'll carry on with this right until they have a final stage household in a few minutes time. a contingency such as a contingency, such as what if they get a failure of a rocket booster? what if one of the stages fail to separate? we have this in 2018 with a use mission that was launching a russian asteroids euro. sorry, alex a option and make a goose and nasa astronaut and then they, they went on a space flight but they didn't attain all of it. and they ended up doing an

emergency landing and you know, way of target in the context on desert. so although we've been doing human spaceflight since 1961, it's still pushes our technology to its limits and, and we need to remember as well as of the 600 or so people have gone in to spice 19 have died in the process. so this is still a high risk endeavor, but i'm really pleased that china is sharing this teacher in real time is with the n o o r. thank you so much. i cannot think of a better person to walk us through the 1st few minutes of this launch. we really appreciate your expertise here. we'll check back in with you. and if thanks a lot. thank you very much. for any more head on the news, our, including how chinese authority, the trying to com, public anger, caused by coven 19 lockdown to stay with us. ah.

though in the context of the ukraine, russia war, european countries are diversifying their gas supplies in order to reduce their dependence on russia. well, with that in mind, germany has struck a deal with guitar to supply $2000000.00 tons of liquefied natural gas a year. and that will start in 2026. the deal will run for 15 years, more on that from dominic cain in berlin. from the german perspective, this is a deal which the minister concerned robert hardback has said is great. he said that from his perspective, this 15 year deal shows that categories part of the world market. he says, there are the countries in the world market. but let's be clear. qatar represents one of the biggest parts of the world market. from the german perspective, the governmental perspective, that is, this is also good news because very recently they've shown the world one of the new floating l n g terminals. i've been to see myself in the port of vin, hadn't have, and, and so this deal, which would represent 3 percent of germany's gas needs. well,

it will when eventually this comes through will be coming to places like that and half and, and feeding germany's gas requirements for those 15 years. but what it also spells out is clear that this environmentally concerns and conscious german government is having to accept the needs the necessity of having fossil fuels for a very long time. mr. havoc has said we're going to be carbon neutral by 2045 steel runs till 20. 41. no question about it. right now. the situation, the energy crisis is forcing this german government to make decisions that would really prefer not to, but openly say, they say that this deal is great. we want to delve deeper into this 1st though, take a look at germany's gas import since the beginning of the ukraine war before the war, pre war and 2021. russian gas accounted for more than half of germany's imports. 55

percent. now. germany no longer receives gas directly from russia, has halted imports through the north stream one pipeline. however, note that berlin is still importing russian gas through 3rd parties. and germany has increased imports from norway, from belgium, and from the netherlands. and this deal with guitar will supply just under 3 percent. 2.7 percent of germany's annual gas meets. all right, let's bring in no brenner, he is the executive editor of operations that energy intelligence. he's in london. no, just under 3 percent of germany's annual gas, these that doesn't sound like a lot we'll certainly yes, we need to put this in the context. it's not going to solve. germany's gas shortage is overnight. a 6 percent of the amount of gas that they would need to replace the ac come in for russia. on the other hand, though, it does vary in germany,

passwords diversifying it's overall energy system. and it's certainly a of the largest, the largest really all and g player world is a good star. katara is one of a handful of countries that europe has turn to for more gas, right. to make up the russian shortfall. how much of this shortfall do you think ultimately they could make up for a we always going to be at this around this 3 percent mark, or is there room for more there? well, i mean there's certainly a l n g terminals that are being set up. i think there's something that they're hoping to bring on line by the end of 2023. those are going to be where germany has the opportunity to bring on, you know, quite a bit of additional volume. there's by one gas from, from other places either within the european system or from places like norway. but i mean, they, you know, germany is the largest gas consumer or it has

a very powerful industrial base that it needs to support. and so, you know, there are certainly going to be other deals like this where we see germany go out to identify other supplies. it can bring home and talk about guitar specifically, where do you see control fitting into this? this bigger picture of europe, long term shift away from russian gas, especially as guitar as port billions, tens of billions of dollars into expanding its export facilities. sure, i mean, because our is the most important source of supply with the extension of the north field in 2 phases. coming on roughly 20252026 is you know, the most important chunk of additional supply coming into the world market around that time. period now, you know, we will see additional supplies coming from united states. we will see additional supplies coming globally from places, whether it's any other, you know,

other elegy facilities. but guitar is really the biggest. and it's also see another very reliable supplier, any credible reputation in the market for meeting a contract or having their projects run effectively and efficiently. and so, you know it's, it's probably the most important additional gas supply coming out in the global market. you're for it. noah brenda, thank you very much. becky. at least for palestinians were killed by his really forces in 3 separate incidents in the occupied west bank. the palestinian health ministry says dozens of others were also wounded during early morning raids near hebron and ramallah. the latest incident that palestinian was shot dead after allegedly ramming a current in his really soldier at settlement. bernard smith reports from ramallah in the occupied west back. all behind me are students from visits,

university and amidst them on 2 stretches all the bodies of jawad and offer him out . 21 year old daughter was an i t student here. there's 8 university he and his 22 year old brother were killed in confrontation with israeli soldiers earlier on today in a village. not far from herr, this is the funeral service, a funeral procession if you like, for them being held by the fellow students. also earlier on today, 44 year old palestinian was killed near hebron again in confrontations with israeli forces. am reports now that there's been a ramming incidence near a security check point in the occupied west bank and a 45 year old palestinian we understand has been killed in that incident. it's a $153.00 palestinians killed so far this year, the deadliest by our calculations in 16 years in the occupied west bank. and all of this has happened under and is railey government. that essentially was supposedly

sort of centers made up of a centrist coalition. this is before the most right. when government in his railey history has come in to power. that coalition led by benjamin netanyahu won an election earlier this month, coalition talks are ongoing, but in not government will be too far right. extreme is politicians whose goal is to serve the settler constituents. meanwhile rallies will be held in several countries to mark the international day of solidarity with the palestinian people. one of them is outside the united nations office in garza. this year's day of solidarity comes 6 months after the death of al jazeera journalists, sharina blankly shot by an israeli soldier, while an assignment for al jazeera in janine whom he occupied. westbank, sophia mentor from the palestine liberation front says the worldwide recognition of the day is very significant in that democrats adopting this international day of solidarity with the palestinian people. coinciding with the anniversary of the

commencement of the division of palestine is the greatest confirmation of the magnitude of the historical injustice that befell our palestinian people. while it came from the forces of global colonialism and the zionist occupation and requires the situation to be addressed with hard work, to help out people and stand by them until they obtain all the historical rights that they fought for and are still fighting for the rocky prime minister mohammed, she asked the dani has arrived in iran on an official visit aimed at strengthening ties between darren and baghdad. the countries, 2 leaders are due to discuss issues including iraqi mediation between iran and saudi arabia. baghdad has hosted 5 rounds of talks between saudi arabia in iran since last year. they focused on normalizing relations. authorities have deployed additional police officers in china that says they tried to head off more protests against the government. strict coven 19 controls. analysts say the unrest is

unlikely to prompt any swift change, even though officials say that they will address people's concerns. patrick fock has more. this police patrolling the streets of beijing by night. it's a far cry from scenes and the chinese capital just the day before. the government has increased security and several major cities following the biggest protests and decades. and shanghai scuffles broke out when police officers demanded people delete images from their phones. and not filming any more. this woman is saying. authorities are keeping tight control of what spreading on social media. they don't want people to see that and they are other people who are, you know, courageous enough to go to the streets, to protest. barricades now lined the streets where hundreds of people had gathered before calling for an end to strict locked downs, warranties, mass testing, and disruptions that have been enforced for 3 years. reports quoting demonstrated, say, authorities have opened inquiries into the events of the past few days and have been

summoning people suspected of attending protests to give written statements detailing their activities. many people have used the demonstrations to speak out about a range of grievances including censorship and diminishing civil liberties. despite the challenge to the chinese government, unless the down to the force any change, people can go to the street, i somewhat as spontaneously to boys. they are a discontent to demand for freedom. ah, you know, but for any kind of movement to sustain, you need an organizing structure. you need a civil society groups, union activists, but those people are gone. they are in jail. they are silent though. are there any desire or the media briefing on tuesday, health official did say they would address concerns about excess of controls and fine tune regulations to limit the impact on livelihoods. but they stopped short of conceding. there was a problem with a 0 coven policy. downtown good evening trin leila,

some citizens and the general public se the biggest problem is the oversimplification of the provincial control measures. you currently arbitrary imposition of restrictions and a one size fits all approach your shoulder. it's not the 1st time the government has acknowledged public frustrations. in the past, though nothing has changed, which suggests it could be some time before china reconsider its response to the pandemic. patrick, fog, al jazeera hong kong. ah, i woke up action now. guitar are playing the netherlands at our bait stadium. a winner draw will be enough to get netherlands to the knockout stages. however, for guitar, this war is won't change very much at all because after losses to ecuador in senegal, they can not progress beyond the group stage. and synagogue decisive match against ecuador is also underway at holly faint, the national stadium cynical need

a wind to progress to the round of 16. while a draw would be enough for ecuador, the score for both matches or for both matches is still pending. we will confirm when we know all right, there's more will cup action on the way our special coverage continues. we have roll back coming up often. ah hello there. this heavy rains come for parts of central and south america over the next few days. thanks. was circulation out to see that's gonna chuck some very heavy rain at coastal areas of columbia bringing in some severe storms as well on tuesday as we going to wednesday that does tend to ease, but the showers are gonna join out with plentiful showers across much of the north

of the region. we're also thing since via storms continue to affect that eastern coast of brazil with heavy falls and some thunderstorms for the likes of rio de janeiro and fall. paolo now it's been much dryer and hotter down further south. we are going to see a change in that, whether it's going to turn cooler as fun, the storm start to roll in for places like northern areas of argentina as well as paraguay. if we look at the 3 day for us when she on, you can see that reflected, we are going to see those thunderstorms expected to last through the weekend and it will feel cooler. now as we move to central america, it's much dryer for northern areas of mexico, but still some lively showers to be found in the south. we'll see the heavy rain pick up for nicaragua from tuesday into wednesday, some a story for costa rica and panama. the weather has improved for trinidad and tobago . we are seeing lots of sunshine across the caribbean, that she, whether ah

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full lou. with welcome to walk up to die our raw hole compact i where lived at our studio, our dog house waterfront did a house nation. kathy crunch time in groups. i and b as places are decided for the knockout stages. the netherlands have one foot in the next phase, type gillhouse cut off, because well, compet venture ends with this match, ecuador instead of gold, both have the last 16 in their sites,

will have the latest from the cali to state. there's a block cluster when a title match lay throughout the united states and iran face often the americans last when to progress, and only a huge win with to for why i was against neighbors, england, with the bragging rights at stake in the all ukiah clack. ah, are joining me in this year for the show is football analyst, one around guy we got to have a, a little chat about today's games. one good to have you here. let's start with the netherlands. as you said, you got one foot in the, in the next phase. i haven't been in a walk up since 2014 brazil. they kind of want to go deep in this total, but i haven't really hit top for me or have i haven't hit top form, but they're basically cornering katara. now as we speak, of course up one nil. and they're leading goals scores on this tournament showing up again. so that's been key for them. yeah, exactly. he's been, he's one of these players is like not many people that heard about him ahead of this well cut, but he got also

a great start. and he's that mentions carrying forward in, i guess the value i should have his price douglas, we going up and up about right now we're talking about that just recently or what was eric to not saying a couple of weeks ago. hey, i want him and as well now they're gonna have to, whoever wants him has gonna have to pay significantly more. yeah, probably not here. that's what i like doing, putting over the price for us just a tad bit level found here is catalyzed law skylar in the told him and i know that one know down at the moment, but that giving a better account themselves that in previous matches they're going to want to go out to high on they good, not only go on the high it's, it's the end of one process, but also you have to look at it as well. if you're, if you the korea thing as the beginning of another because looking at is just 2022 and that's, it ends up being a very short term visualization of what their overall project looks to be in everything that they've built around it. they have to look at 2023 in the asian cup, and maybe looking to qualify to 2026 as well, and it is a young team. so there is that scope to, to, to get better as exactly you use. have to start looking at it,

not only that development, but the ferber further growth and how to play, not just at the regional level, but plant the world cup level to be able to get there. are kind of going to have to move on from that one's not nice to talk to you about how the fans are back. how about feeling about these matches that vatton is watching with dutch fans and amsterdam. and nicholas hock is incentive. golwood supporters in back are we going to start saw a way that nick koch. what's the mood right now? in fact on next? good to talk to you. mm hm. absolutely electric rule. just going to step out of the shots. you can see what's happening right now. but with silence, it's like that anticipation to see that goal happen. and then suddenly the crowd goes into an uproar every time there is an occasion. and there's been a few during this game one from going to a gay, a player for everton who how did occasion and, and another one from ya was another player from the italian lea. there's homes that despite the fact that your money is not present in the team,

that they can finally make score a goal. because this is a make or break moment for senate. golly, they lose their out if they score and they when they go through the qualifying round. and so it feels in the words of a fan that i spoke to like it's their final, it's their final of the world cup. and i can tell you right here and across the capital, it feels like people are in the stadium encounter, such as the level of excitement. we met some of the bands that came out of university skipped class for the occasion to watch the game. some of the businesses have shut down in order for people to watch this game, or you see say the coach, a, in a press statement. press conference said that senegal is not the cynically team is not ready to go back home. and it's all now being played out right now as, as we speak ro, they go look great pictures behind you. i don't have a shuttle to school to call that place is got, it are absolutely off. it's going to be amazing to say,

but we get across the set basset and answer that he's with, with a couple of a dutch fans in our axis. johan croyt, a stay that converted the arena into a huge found, bought, now the atmosphere. i know you can get pretty crazy for our exciting games that. what's it going to be like? well, what's it like for this much a lot more than $30000.00 happy dutch fans here. i can tell you not when that goal was made by your home. there was a lot of really, but i'm version of excitement here in the stadium as you can imagine when here. and the ex fabian and i'm saddam is also called the johan thriving arena after our ducks latch. and so to say deductible both now, you know, johan tries and people have traveled from all over the country to get here to watch this match together. because a lot of people couldn't afford to go through that time with any band where you

want us really gathering together and joined is mad at these people here happens with 2 hours. i think you don't have to travel very far to come here. right? yeah, you're about to 55 minutes how not that far? that's okay. i was so much so far out so far. yeah. i think you know, they say stronger. so i think we'll be yeah. and if i did very well, i think it wasn't so good. i mean, to come and take this war. i'm happy. no. the beginning of that. that would be that also the on the games right up very well. no, i think it will keep going on and i think that will make it one of 2 weeks ago. i experience yeah. oh yeah, it's a great experience with friends and everybody is in a very good mood. everybody happy? and i think everybody mila, they'll stay deep. every dollar with dr. young showing it. thank you so much, tom. yeah, 5 minutes here. there's

a lot of optimism that you can be happy to say for now let's you will have to see how this will go away. wonderful. stop lovely for sorry for that. we'll have to leave it there, but we're going to move on now to some of the other matches that we're gonna have to. that was one of the most anticipated games. all the group stages when that draw was by now even more is on the line as iran and the u. s. meets with a spot in the last 16 at stake. samantha johnson has more in the going where politics and football meet turned to stage. there are big games and there are huge games and around taking on the u. s. a. and the 2022. well captain capita has got to be one of them. take that and the continuing protests back in iran and this match promises to be a thing. hi, i'm smith at johnson. this is weld cut, one o one. it's not as if there hasn't been enough drama already surrounding arrive in their game against england. the players refrained from singing been national anthem,

drawing attention to the human rights demonstrations back home in their 2nd game against wales. they sang, but their supporters food. the supporters changed their to later in the game when their heroes, one to nail their manager, call us kiros, has faced constant questions about how he and his players are coping. he says, the only reason his side are competing in the world cup is for the hands. he and the men and women cheering in the stands will be relying on route, but she has me and for i'm in rosie on to work their magic. yet again, them and their talisman met detail. amy, the u. s. is famously ambivalent about football or soccer as they call it. but given the political background between the u. s. and iran, viewers back home will be watching this game. if the 1st dream of football transcending real world reality is, is to have any meaning. surely it's here and now ah, can record alert i be out tomorrow. stadium,

anti richardson is they're watching the game for us r r d. this was the start out fixture where the drawers are one of the standard pictures when the draw was made. and now the sorrow marks riding on the outcome. there is this, i mean, this danger of a football match actually taking place at some point, isn't that? i mean, we were still, i was 3 hours away from kick off, so fans will start coming into this stadium. and the next few minutes, we think about that the history between the 2 countries, no form of diplomatic relations between iran in the us. more than 4 decades now they did, of course meet back in 998 to the world cup and friends on that occasion. the rom play as gifted white roses to the us team. i had like games, a sign of friendship and, and peace. be interesting to see what happens or if anything happens before, before this game. tensions again, really raised in the last 2440. i was also do with a social media post from the us soccer federation, which included an unofficial picture of the iranian flag,

the writings full of adoration, a majorly made a complaint saying they wanted the u. s. t ban from from future tournaments to see how that all unfold. and it seems to been a little bit so poorly thought through because of being done without the knowledge of the coaches and all the players here, the us soccer federation immediately deleted the post and said they've done it in solidarity with the people protesting the women's rights back in iran, now pretty much press conferences as well. my role can be fairly dry affairs. one took place 24 hours before this game, anything but the whole range of subjects were targeted and very few of them out of anything to do with football. the u. s head coach greg wholesaling with the location of the us naval fleet in the persian gulf about race relations in his country about his country's immigration policy to be fair to him, and his counterparts call us care of a part of it pretty well. listen to what was said in the bill of this game. the

team in this group that the perform the produce the best performers and in our group was without any adult tonight. this thanks they, they took to great fantastic things with no doubt about that. so in this, in this moment, only making this reference call attention to whether bothered that you're going to have a very, very difficult game that with the team that we need to respect. but that's, let's make it simple. this is not about always start all we do it in the middle. this is all about, are we finished? and what i see from the group is this tremendous amount of focus. there's no, there's no real distractions. you know, i know there's a lot going on here, but the group is focused on how do we get a win now for all the political complexities, the footballing equation, fairly simple, the us team has to win a draw should be enough. but iran, unless whilst cut off a big upset against england and the runs team,

it's john tremendous resolve. and it's told him it's coming back from the big defeats. i'm going to say that in their opening game and the last 6 to pipe really well against wales. admittedly pretty limited wales team. one of the most dramatic games of it's ornaments we'd like to like goals the kept them alive in this tournament. the us team with us still thinking to resolve the eternal problem of football house of school goals, and when they don't seem to have a ready solution for even at fis ornaments. but it is a young squaw still looking ahead to 2026 when they co host the phone number that would be desperate to do well here. the best of a performance at a well come back, came back in 2002, the last time asia hosted, the ultimately goes through to the quarter finals a win tonight. and they have the chance to do just as well as out or even better with this generation of players and the wretched center live for us there. thanks very much for. that's our car. we're gonna cross over to our client herancha here in the she had atlanta look and he said there might be a danger, a football match,

breaking out with all the political. i do not against going on around the i me will both sides. the i was a put the politics to one side and focus on the football. you're a footballer, you have to, there's no excuse because at the end of the day, all politics in the world aren't going to kind of save you or exclude you from the resolved. if you end up being on the wrong side of it, there will be criticism of what you do on the pitch, not of what your beliefs are politically, are going to save you or not. now that being said, you have to give a lot of credit to the coaches. you have to give a lot of credit to the players, a great bro halter just as carlos get us, got chaos, has received a lot of criticism. you remember that the criticism group cleans me think well, you know, either perfect clinton gimme a break. i did that come from exactly where that kind of a guy who he does have a dive, a little bit exactly that on the animal. second of all, there's a lot of credit you have to give some of these players one and i'm not and, and in that to stand him are over any other, but many, both iranian, in iranian as well as is american player one in particular was taylor adams. that came out with a great deal of maturity to handle the situation in a very,

very just exceptional manner. so i, i guess that's what you have to really start standing out instead of really taking out the negatives. i think it's actually quite interesting or our really enjoy your enjoy, but really respected the iranians and american plaza. they're not shirked away from these issues. i have not answered the questions and you know, we all know what a difficult situation raining to rain, but you know that they've not gone. i'm just here talk about the football which no, you can totally understand if they did say that they've actually chosen to, to speak out. and yeah, you have to give credit for that. please are in the dan, if you do damn, if you don't situation because if they do shut up and dribble, especially in the united states, we know how that plays. and iran, of course, we know what happens over there as well, in terms of, of the backlash that they could receive. so again, for them to be able to, to be so forthcoming, so open, but also very open to the other side. really should be an example to people how they should be looking at this whole situation from both ends. okay, well thanks for that. we'll talk to a little bit later on. now. this will only be the 2nd time. there are 2 sides of met, sir, at

a well caught. the 1st was in $9098.00 at the francois copper going described as the most politically charged in fee for history. all natasha butler reports from lira where that match took place. 24 years ago. i am a book of precious photos and memories. iranian born lily mo jack, jack remembers the 1998 world cup game in france between iran and the usa as if it were yesterday. yes, here is me. my mom and the friends and iranian friend in the own is just after the match. so we were very happy with our shirts coming freshly from your i your all to do these friend armored for sale. he was also in the stadium today. he's a wine cellar in the city of leal, where the match took place, present worth it quickly called call. i was so happy to be able to say that we are iranian playing. the americans offered people hope for these 2 countries that were tearing each other apart. costello missouri afy for jordan saw iran in the usa,

pitted together was clearly welcomed by some friends. but he caused a diplomatic headache for organizes. it had been nearly 2 decades since he ran him . revolution ousted the u. s. back shaw and relations between t. ron and washington were hostile. both teams were under pressure and in the spotlights, we have security, $94.00, we have security right now. we have friday focus for the game and nothing else. iran supreme leader forbade the iranian team to walk up to the americans to shake hands before the game. so a compromise was found. the iranians gave flowers and the 2 sides posed for a photo. during the game, there was a protest not against the u. s, but against iran's government, but it didn't disrupt the match which ended in a thick tree for iran. t ron it, kate, in celebration. once the matches are played here these days, but it was in the stadium in 998 that a rome,

b u. s. a. to one in one of the most politically charged games in world history says it was crazy, amazing. the game changed the image of iran and iranian girl with the painting of iranian flag and her cheek a, she was kissing and then re can support, you know, and i mean, it was really, really fun. iran and usa meat once again in the casa world cup, political tensions remain high between the 2 countries, anti wrong current down of anti government protests. mean that a modern lily, se, they'll watch the game, but with mixed feelings more than 20 years after experiencing the excitement of iran 1st ever will come when natasha butler, l. japira. leon? well, i can tell you in the going between set of cool and set a goal and it could also go have just taken the lead smart saw scoring the goals

that i run. it sits by the thought was the replacement society or monday. so he's really, i'm, he's really stepped off and it means that at the moment's, that's a good netherlands and set a goal are going through out of group, but still a low why to guy will play at the same time as the year on us. i game the other game in food be it's taking place that i made that alley state even now round to the west of doha and pull race is standing by for us toll, there's always a little bit extra element of spice so well cut when to you nations, when i was in england, of course i'm talking about go ahead ahead and both sides still with a child so qualified for the last 16. i think i've been very cards while they've got a tardy child to qualify and have a nice we're oh yeah, i mean considering how close are these 2 nations are 160 mile border between them? how many wells play as play in english, premier league, and the the low leagues of english league. there's very little history between them

at this level. in fact, this is their 1st ever well cut much. obviously whales haven't qualified as since being knocked outright. brazil in 1958, they've only played each other once in a sort of major modern tournament. that was in 2016. the euro's england beating while t one a in the groups. but then wales going on amazingly to the semi finals. anglin, getting knocked out by iceland in the last 16, something that the at the wells really loved and butts. they have played each other a lot in the past a 103 times. i believe that's. that's mainly because of the british. how you, championship, way, england, wales, scotland island and then northern islands used to play at play against each other. so there is a long rivalry there. quite a face rivalry, especially on the well side the wells. still that really liked the fact that king henry the 8th made wales

a part of england in 1536. that definitely 2 countries on the football field. i'm in terms of the context of this march and i england be around 60 when that 1st game, that of a timid to draw against the year. i see your essay in the next match. england could still grow if wales beat them by, by full goals. as you say, you're a whole, that's fairly unlikely, but the whales will love it. if they do that, hon somehow managed to get to this group and into the no. karen's writes, a full sanky. i'm going to have a little chat refund on while we were chatting a little bit about england before kenneth goes, it's england who are going to be going out on this group of very small charts whilst i'm speaking to someone you know, from outside of the house being from outside of england do do foreigners of people from not from english. do they look at the england team and the names i have in that squad? i just think seriously guys, i mean, you should be doing a lot better than here. i mean, in english with voice only playing this, the classic plays the hang break on it. does it puzzle to get people from other

countries to see how england struggle it's ornaments that you could price the collective answer be. come on, gary southgate, what are you doing? which at, which is one of the main things to look at. and i mean, it's not only just a hambrick as you're so the question, the transmission your standard question, a lot of things in terms of, of what this england site is doing and what this england side can do. yeah, i mean, you know, i just remember seeing the teen 4 years ago as a hey, this team in 2022 can end up being a semi finalist. it's not, you know, it, it's still within the realm of possibilities. but it still seems that as if gary southgate has this england side, poised to not lose instead of to going up when. yeah. and we've seen at this well copied, the teams are passive, don't tend to do wells. are things that go for whatever situation happens to be, they're the ones that are found successful in a weird way. i mean, while they're gonna want to come out, they want to give a good shows to their phones because it's probably got to be the last guy. do they have to scored off a lot of go? well that how england, because england don't tend to play very well when they have to make the play. but when they're reacting, say, playing on the brake, they've got pace in that side that might actually help their gang flow out. yet we

have to see exactly if that's what we're looking to do or, or are they gonna try and go after him and be a counter attacked? that's going to be the big question more because we'll has also a team that's very reactionary, that it's a team that starts out slow ends up being reactionary. second half the end up being strong. so the 2nd half can probably be a very compelling story. if we start looking at it from that perspective in trends . yeah. so many compelling story. that's why i love the font around the latches in the groups idea. it's going, they woke up get very, very tasty. well, the rivalry between the 2 nations goes back centuries, but when it comes to that border, nothing is straightforward. the day but baba went to columbia, where to find out morse. in most other places, this would probably be called hedging your bets. but the sight of the welsh and english flag side by side is nothing unusual here. and connie minish, a place that lies right on the border between the 2 nations. not that you'd notice much of a boundary in this area, just the occasional roadside perhaps. but sitting on the divide does make things a little complicated when england play whales,

like on tuesday evening. hearing the cross key dollar welcome, but there's a definite, lean towards garrett south gates, england side. a few short steps across the main road in the village. and you've gone from england to wales and the dolphin pub, landel, john turned proudly where's his wails top as he gets ready for the big game that the reads have to win. but nothing straightforward. here. he's from london and he's expecting most of his customers to be back in england. the vintage itself is le muller. either way is english or welsh, to be honest. it's it's, you know, we don't have at one side and the other side, me personally, i'm, i suppose england. so i have oversee goodness, b spokane, and but really want west wales to win because he's very important for the country, the local football club. connie mann, i have c claims to be wells, these oldest teeth. but of course there's

a twist as of this year. it's playing in the english league just as taught welsh teams such as swansea in cardiff, take part in england's professional system that doesn't stop. many of its players were being proud of their welsh heritage. and the same goes for laura alice jones conway. she's from the area, unlike her husband to be watching the much with her for this is all like, well co foreign o'connor thing, the screen saver, whoever loses is going to have to pay for a nice not your way. so i can do the dish and do the dean barbara al jazeera honeymoon is on the whales england border. okay, well let's move on here and look, talk about the teams that have already are qualified last start. brazil and portugal joint france is at 3 trains to to make sure that they will be in the last 16 getting the job done in just 2 matches for i'm going to focus on brazil am again many people's favorites. would you say more people are making in their favors?

how could they seem to be doing just about enough to you know to, to qualify but you just feel that there's a lot left in the tank and coach tita is doing that on purpose. he says, i know this team can get better, but this is what we need to do right now. well, he's right. he can, they can get a lot better. but also if you look at teachers sides and what they've been able to do, well, they have a tendency of waiting until after the 60th minute to score. it's kind of using those 60 minutes to kind of figure things out to kind of see where the weaknesses are. it's like a box or taking a couple of rounds to stay their opponent. but what's more compelling and in what i did here, amongst a lot of my colleagues from brazil, you hear a lot of this brazil side has weapons and other areas that can be great. absolutely . what are quickly want to talk to you about porch go? yes, qualified with a minimum of fuss. i normally is more of a rollercoaster ride with them. but yeah, i got a great score. they got a really, really great squad. if you look at brazil, you look a french look at argentina, then you look at portugal. yeah, they're, they're about there and ends yesterday against your why it was them just being a little bit more aggressive than your of why again,

so aside the waiting for them to go out and when, and that was a be complete from the york wine side. okay. i left it when it's half time in the 1st 2 matches that we've had in the day the deciding games in group i. who do you think i was going to be happier sir, at the break of course that gotcha. leading cats are under, i'm sorry, go, are leading, echoed out the moment, but obviously the most obvious answer would end up being the dutch week for obvious reasons. but then number 2 right now it's synagogue because they know that the, the margin of are still isn't more expand it still, they don't have much of a could because one gulf record or puts ecuador back in the round of 16. yeah, it looks pretty, pretty tight. any, any, think it's a long way to go and not guarantee you that, that the stories down. yeah. i could was, there is a long way to go. but based on what i've been seeing in terms of what synagogue synagogue has been the more practice site synagogues been going for that goal, and it's a deserve pride that they had after 45 minutes. aquila is gonna have to open up a lot more like i woke i faxed on thanks for joining me on the show. it's been a delight. i'll see you again very,

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