to a close, we look back on the events that have shaped the news and look ahead to mid december on al jazeera along the conflict between india and pakistan, a pristine cat, $21.00, and with the kashmiris, i on al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera ah. hello until mccrae. this is the news. how alive from dr. ha, coming up in the next 16 minutes. curious, basketball star, brittany griner has been released by russia and a prisoner swamp. political upheaval and peru, dena palatez sworn in as president after the impeachment and arrest of pedro castillo nigeria as military as accused of running

a secret mass abortion program. forcefully ending at least 10000 pregnancies, telling their own story, britons prince harry and macon michael open often a new documentary and getting sick for the quarter finals. brazil prepare for. they woke up clash with croatia. ah, american basketball player, brittany cried out, has been released from a russian prison. griner was freed in the united arab emirates as part of a prisoner swap. where you as president joe biden says she is safe and on her way home. her white house correspondent, kimberly hell kit reports. president biden announced the news in a tweet, releasing a photo of himself, vice president comma la harris and brittany grinders wife sharelle, speaking to the basketball star,

as she flew back to the united states. she safe. he's on a plane, she's on her way home after once been unjustly detained in russia. grant was arrested in february at moscow airport for drug possession and smuggling after authority found trace amounts of cannabis oil in her luggage. she was convicted in august and sentence to 9 years of hard labor in a russian penal colony. us officials, led by the president, condemned her sentence as disproportionately harsh for months. the u. s. has been negotiating with russian diplomats to release her. she endured mis treatment and showed attitude a show trial and russia with characteristic grid. the white house will say what suddenly changed only this week brought a breakthrough on thursday. griner was sent to the u. a as part of a prisoner swap for russian arms dealer. victor boot, he'd been serving 12 of

a 25 year sentence in a u. s. federal prison for conspiring to kill americans, acquiring and exporting anti aircraft missiles and providing material support to a terrorist organization at the white house grinders wife expressed relief. her ordeal was finally coming to an end time until had been so privy to one of the darkest moments of my life. and so today i'm just standing here overwhelmed with the emotions. but the most important emotion that i have right now is just sincere gratitude for biden, still faces. questions about american poll wayland left behind, and currently serving a 16 year sentence in russia on espionage charges. his family says he's innocent, sadly, for totally legitimate reasons. russia is treating paul's case differently than brittany's, and while we have not yet succeeded securing paul harris,

we are not giving up. still, there's fear about president biden's decision to swap a convicted arms dealer for an american convicted of drug possession. their fear, as it could encourage further hostage taking and send a global message about the price. the white house is willing to pay for american lives. kimberly held can al jazeera, the white house. william connie is a former white house senior director for russia, ukraine, and duration of fish. he says, although the swap was not a fair exchange, it was the best option available. it normally is not our place to difficult, but because. busy relations are very strained out with moscow. both sides have been concerned about what might be the reaction to giving up a certain prisoner in the united states. victor boot the scene as a hard criminal, international pro. but he served most of his sentence already, so it makes it a little bit easier to, to give up. if he were at the beginning of a sentence,

then that might be politically difficult for the white house to do that because of part line opposition. in the period we had a number of trades in which harden spies were traded for human rights advocates in the soviet this kind of unequal trade. and that's what this one is as well. the russians may have been concerned that if they accepted the us proposal to give up to the prisoners, paul, re amber, their rider in return for only victor boots. that are to be criticized by hardliners russia for an unequal trade. so in the end, the russians really force the by the ministration to make a confession, to give up on what paul valence and just have a one for one extra year. but it just an extent is, is a, when there will be some to criticize him for giving up your boots. but by and large this, this will be seen as a when the confession about leaving baldwin for another day, won't be

a concession hurts him too much dinner. bullet water has been sworn in as peruse. interim leader after congress and pitched president pedro castillo, he was arrested just hours after saying he would dissolve congress by presidential decree and move the constitutional courts. it was a crude, a tar marina. marianna sanchez has the latest from lima a d of hold while may be due with vice president. he never knew out of the been sworn in the country leader nissan. they look us the, you dissolved congress by presidential decrease. ah, a move the countries constitutional court said was a, could deter figured out as a result, he quickly lost the backing of his political allies. geography, though in plain thought, it was a co attempt, has been made an initiative laid by mister pedro castillo. it was not echoed by any democratic institutions or the people following on from the constitutional order.

this congress has made a decision in it's my duty to act accordingly. oh, it was congress's 3rd impeachment attempt to oust gusty you. he tried to save himself with a bold move, though maslow, this is young, will temporarily digital congress and establish an exceptional emergency government while calling for elections for a new congress, him up and drafting a new constitutional ah, he then went even further ordering the military to patrol the streets with a night m curfew, but as lawmakers began voting for the impeachment castillo left. the presidential palace with his family. police say he was going to request political asylum in mexico, but instead he was arrested. his supporters clashed with police outside the station where she was held throughout his presidency. castillo had constant confrontations with the political opposition. he was even expelled from his own party. now lawmakers say they want to work with

a new precedent. get weighing uncle wing i. we, ne, think he should come with a cabinet that helps. still probably not ministers who only praise her that i mean you never knew of that is the 1st female precedent of the 2. she has asked prove it for unity and lawmakers for a truce. well let's go live now to marianna sanchez, who's in the capital, lima for us, and you're outside the prison with the former president is being held. what does his future look like from here? we're in front of the present where the former president here, but all in your body now the only for medical and made him the we are a here. well, i've come to give their support the former president feel this is a group of protest who are very concerned about the the well being of the oh,

they said well, in closing, what the people have been demanding the presidency. and that should not be in bad to say that, you know, a lot of vice president was no precedent for a traitor. is a 20 you guys. so that's why i, that's why these people, i think it's a small group. i'm, we've seen people around the country in places like why and i was in favor of, you know, i'm against the number of people who want everybody to go know the question here began this morning and hearing the other thing where you know, for a preliminary because it's not that the police have been said yesterday

that he was leaving, knowing that the mexican, i'd love to confirm that you called him asking for a sign them. and that you said yes. and that the, the, i'm back that are going to be a will here because there is a, there's a danger, according to that certainly seems like those protests is and he himself won't be going quietly. thank you very much. that is marianna sanchez life for us in the capitol hill. germany says it expects more of wrists and rides in connection with the far right plot to overthrow its government. police right of 130 sides across the country. on wednesday, the prosecutor general says 25 people were detained for planning to violently seize

control of parliament, a soldier, a judge, and a russian national are among those arrested nation tough, but it's not really comprehensible. you hear about such plans in other countries, but for this to happen outside my front door, the government we have is not ideal, but probably better than what they had planned as this is i 9 shot it to shut down neighbor organized to put you would far right, radicals with don't let me call them fashion. quite honestly, i'm sure that the prince, things he has the right to do something like physical democratic rule of law. to be honest, i have no words. it's so far away from what i personally believe. so i find it hard to grasp. ah, the nigerian armies been accused of running a secret illegal abortion program. reuters is reporting at least 10000 pregnancies

have been forcefully terminated in the northeast since 2013. many of the women have been rapes, many victims, se boca harm fighters were responsible. nigerian military leaders deny the program existed. in the beginning, we were in our town. booker, her arm came and attacked. they grabbed us and took us away to the bush. after that, we were in the bush in their hands. soldiers came and took us. after that they took us to do our barracks and they are boarded our pregnancies for me to mila has more from a boucher o'neil on thursday. the night julian government addressed the media as well as issued a written statement in response to the allegations made by the reuters news agency that thousands of women rescued from book around by toes had been forced to undergo abortions. and that reports by reuters agents had said that at least one of the

women that's spoken to had described how she had been taken to adopt them off to being rescued, forced to take tablets as well as given injections, which then resulted in abortion and in her situation, there were at least 5 other women in that room. now being like 2 in military has, in that statement that they issued as youth a number of adjectives to respond to these allegations, saying that they alive it. these are concocted stories concocted allegations that they're wicked, and also calling it demonic journalism and a fictitious series of stories intended to insult nigerians and nigerian culture. that statement issued by the military also went on to say that thousands of bikers specifically had surrendered in at least the last 18 months. and many of them were part of a re integration program following their surrender from the book of fighters

. and it also said that it had wanted to respond to this reuters report as to the journalist from ways that agency had to be collecting their information. but it has now had the opportunity to respond. it is said that the librarian soldiers have under no circumstances taken part in any systematic or legal operation to conduct abortions that this hasn't happened and that my children show soldiers, they chevy life and thats despite the difficulties and the challenges the nigerian government is facing in terms of security in the country and you report by human rights watch has accused authorities in tennessee, a failing to protect women from domestic violence. in 2017 tennessee adopted law, 58 to curb violence against women. that a child

w says police don't investigate or provide protection. that means thousands of women are at risk. they were 69000 complaints of domestic abuse in 2021. and it's all compounded by a lack of funding for support services, which means survivors often have no where to run. who kinsey been as this is the author of the report. she says that more resources needed to implement tennessee as anti violence law. then commission myself, i was one among the many who believe that to me as a regional leader in terms of women's defense, we didn't realize the things we as gloomy and the lie so strong that we could imagine that the implementation was so weak. so i do think i was surprised that insufficient measures are taking for so many sides, for example. so through the year, studying and focusing on this topic, everything, the 30 cases of women suffer from a sheer lack of protection and read mechanisms that are in place in order to make

sure that women can be delivered protection order. that will, for example, hold of users away from them for to 6 months and make sure that they don't approach them. so many guarantees have not been delivered on the law sufficient. of course, there are amendments that could be made within the law. went to church tonight, especially explicitly sexual violence within the within companies. so married to the right, princeton. so there are improvements that could be made. but january, the last, a strong insufficient funds are allocated to the organization, which is that most of the mechanism that should be in place are empty shells. they're also faces. i think these are still harbored by judges for each officer, sometimes even medical stuff that mean that we're not able to change mentality. having the law and baby will not be used by them. so any a has turned away. nearly 20000 refugees and migrants in the past year were despite having an official policy to medically assist them. first al jazeera meant some asylum seekers who say they had serious injuries when they were rejected. civil and

spoke with 2 of them. a 530 kilometer long, 4 meters high barbed wire fence to keep out refugees and migrants. but video footage given to us by the lithuanian border police shows people are still crossing the border. some have accused the bell erosion forces of copping defense to let people through. not long after they are seen being pushed back through the same hole by the lift away the ants. this re lunk, a man who does not want to be identified as this is what happened to him too. after crossing from bellows, he says his feet were injured, but lithuanian border. police did not supply medical aid. the other day. we raised our hands asking for help, but they show no mercy. they took us right back to the forest, so i was praying that i would survive the experience. he says he spent 10 days in the cold forest. after crossing again into lithuania,

he was finally admitted to hospital both his feet suffered from serious frost bite and had to be amputated. his lawyer is preparing a legal case against border police for negligence. well, there was intentional or intentional threat to life and failure to perform the duty. every person has a right to life and nobody should be left in life threatening situation without the system. what and 4000 refugees and migrants mainly from the middle east and africa, arrived in lithuania from bellows. last year. the e u accused fellowship leader alexander lucas shanker of youth and followed the people as a weapon of war after europe and the us imposed sanctions on his government. this is one of the recently bill bought offenses. aiming to turn the european union into a fortress for refugees and migrants. still people are risking their life, making the journey through the forest and freezing temperatures,

trying to get through to friends into the e u. a journey that often ends right here in the cold forest deliver. when the deputy interior minister says all of those pushed back will be medically assessed. but when asked about the 23 lankin, he admits they may have been returned with injuries very few cases. perhaps better keep in mind that they are, are they hiding in any cases they want to escape from the border guards are not responsible that they enjoy themselves this way. lumpkin man is suffering from serious mental health issue fences, amputation while human rights organizations say the push backs is against the un convention for refugees. lithuania says it will continue as long as the situation at its border with bellows does not improve. steadfast and al jazeera vilnius. the us secretary of state says he is competent, finland and sweden will soon be nato members. there foreign ministers are in

washington, d. c for talks, rushes invasion of ukraine, push them to apply to join. the military alliance has been delayed by consents from to kia over kurdish separatists and both countries. but any blinking says those issues have been addressed. mike, hannah has more from washington out of the city, nato members. 28 have signed or ratified the membership for these 2 countries. only hungry and turkey are actually holding out at the moment, but we heard there from secretary blinking, that he's convinced that they will be agreement. we heard from the swedish and finish foreign ministers as well, that this is something that they believe they have been in discussions a step by step discussions with took here on the security issues. and they are confident that gratification could come by the end of april. so it does appear that

although this process is slow, it is underway, took here originally accepted the membership application. however, in subsequent months, it to reverse course and away are many believe that hungry is following what it's very close ally is doing. but this other issues involved as well as some speculate that turkey is holding out to try and squeeze some concessions out of the u. s. in particular, for example, the sale of f, 16 fighters, which the u. s. has been reluctant to push through. so all of these issues are coming together, but we heard today from the u. s. secretary of state and the foreign ministers of a sweden of finland, that they are confident that the hold up will end and that they will become full members of nato. this would be a massive switch in terms of regional alliances. these 2 countries having been non

aligned for decades, the war in ukraine clearly pushing them over the edge, driving them to join nato. a cutter has held at 6th anti corruption awards the event it recognizes those have contributed to the global campaign to uphold the rule of law. 7 organizations and individuals were recognized during a ceremony in don ha, the world of world center is the gen. listen documentary, filmmaker and the recipient of the international anti corruption excellence award, and thank you very much for joining us here in the studio in pittsville. can you explain a little bit about what one you the support. thank you very much for having me. what warn me? that ward is the general mystic work that i've been doing in zimbabwe, which is focused on exposing corruption, particularly the looting of public fans and the abuse of natural resources in zimbabwe. the situation is so bad such that the biggest was between his and bob with one leg,

one metallic theatre which was built in 1977 by the colonial government. and as a result of that, 2500 bub. when women die every year and giving birth, that's the equivalent of about 14 jumbo jets, crushing every year and killing only pregnant women. you personally have suffered because of the work that you've done. i think you've spent, you know, 85 days in jail, a since 2020 you've essentially been persecuted for what you do. does that make you think twice about it or more determined? ah, i've ceased to think about myself and my safe. it is sad because i look at the sorrow in zimbabwe as we speak, central hospitals, they don't have paracetamol. the whole country doesn't have a single waking, greater therapy cancer machine. so when someone gets a diagnosis for cancer in the required to therapy, thus a death sentence hanging over their head. so i think exposing those things and pushing for the government to do something about it is more important than me

worrying about my, my, my, my safety it's, it's so bad that the government is been 4 years saying that they, we don't have material theaters because of sanctions imposed by the american government and yet imitated theater costs only $3.00 to $7000.00 to, to build a one and crews that will give us 11 martinez theaters. the government has got hundreds or if not thousands of flint cruises in service. so is a dereliction of duty caused by incompetence and corruption. so i think more about the people that i see suffering, i think more about 9 to 5 be stand or for a potential workforce that is supposed to been work that that is not in wake. i think about the individuals and families across, as in bob where that don't have clean drinking water, do you think that your work is making a difference? is corruption getting worse, despite what you and other journalists are doing in zimbabwe?

unfortunately, the government is not doing much to mitigate or corruption is not doing much to put an end to it because the people that are supposed to be making sure that it doesn't happen identically involved. for instance, the last time when i was thrown into prison or the 1st time i was thrown into prison in july 2020. just because i had exposed at the looting of public funds meant for coven 19. now imagine if a government, our government ministers, i involved in the looting of our fans meant to stop or help their citizens during a pandemic. such people are callous. are you hopeful for zimbabwe future? i hope so. i hope so, because i think the a please. the faith in the youth, the youth can save the country and i hope they will. thank you so much for your time and congratulations on your award and reading through some of your work. it is

clearly extremely well deserved. thank you. there is hope well to no, no, thank you. thank thing in the studio with us tonight. thank charities and community groups in the u. k. are responding to a surgeon energy prices with the creation of so called warm banks, thus spaces where people can go to avoid the cold if they can't afford to heat their homes. nave bark had traveled to her oxfordshire, were volunteers a helping vulnerable people. rural england, on the coldest day of the year, so far, pitcher perfect villages. but for some increasingly rustic living standards saint mary's church is opening its doors every week during winter, for those seeking warmth, comfort, and company. and i am certain times everybody is affected. we had it so easy to may . you know you've turned the tap has been hot water. i'm have money to pay a bill, so any term heating on, there's only been very,

very lucky in this country. very lucky and we've always rate how others. now, we need the help across the country, thousands of public buildings are being turned into so called warm banks, where people can go to heat up for free, especially if they can't afford the soaring costs of energy bills, which have doubled it down to charities, businesses a community groups to step in amid a worsening cost of living crisis. this is an affluent part of the country, chocolate box, england. but this crisis is affecting a broader spectrum of people than ever before. every one is getting poorer, every one's wages are being squeezed and every was costs are going up. and for those people who've been just about managing money, couldn't be any tighter. and now, increasingly poverty is embedded within communities. form banks operate on the same principle as food banks like this volunteer joe payton is

packing surplus goods destined for people who can't afford to feed themselves all their families. can we see and i guess the last month is we're seeing people that are working or people who've been on benefits, but they've coped. and now they've got to stages this. there's nothing left, there's nothing left me to put on the metre, i comp heating on because i hadn't got any money left this week. you can is the only g 7 country with a smaller economy. the before the pandemic and inflation is at its highest and 40 years the pandemic and warn you crate are undeniably at fault for bricks. it in recent political mismanagement of stifle hopes of a fast economic recovery. the result, more people relying on the kindness of strangers to meet their basic needs. these bar couches era, oxfordshire, there's plenty still a hit here on al jazeera where i live to. i will come studio with foreign smell, counting down to some heavy white contests in the quarter finals. ah,

there good to see the rain is piling in for a huge suassa, portugal and spain and see this batch of rain here around the strait of gibraltar. i think on either side, we could see some flooding, not just the rain, but we're also dealing with blustery conditions. speaking about those winds, as we hit toward the northwest, we got this broad northerly when that's a cold wind. so we painted on the colors dark of the blue, the lower the temperature here, london waking up friday morning to minus 2. scott, watch out for some icey surfaces. you'll bounce back to 3 degrees, weather alerts in play for some snow over the scottish highlands as while there is snow for the alpine region, we got this rain finally not the cross. northern italy, top end of the atria, attic see could see about a 100 millimeters here that's about a month or 2 months worth of rain within

a short period of time. got to keep the risk of showers in the forecasts for assemble on friday with the high of 15 degrees and away we go to africa. shower streamed across morocco, that western side of algeria. here's our hard when we can trace it, lifting the sand in, does mauritania, that western side of algeria, and easy as while, and some big downpours for not only zambia, but it's in bob way. and that eastern side of south africa on friday, that update, thanks for stopping by. ah. join the debate. when we talk about climate change in africa, we should focus on education knocked mitigation on our online at your voice. it shouldn't be exploiting that what, what not is being right now is being everything that is going to benefit them more revealing new perspectives like getting this out of proportion. no, no. his reach and has power is what is disproportionate. the street where

a global audience becomes a global community on al jazeera ah, [000:00:00;00] with after more than 2 weeks of intense competition, we're now down to the final 8. we've witnessed some side to make up fat, but many of the world's top teams still remain. katara 2022 on al jazeera

with welcome to world cup today i far as val and we're live at our studio on go has waterfront to the house nation car for cathy down to the quarter finals with mouth watering classes to look forward to brazil, stars have danced into the last 8th for waste data between them and the semi lassie looked at the end 3 argentine a care up for a big test again as we speak to the delivery drivers who despite their long hours have been enjoying the world, come here and cut tar ah, it may be another rough day at the turning met, but there is no rest for my football. for my guess football and list one ranko i

let's get straight into fridays quarter finals. the 1st match up is brazil against probation. one, brazil have lost their last 5 knock out again. european teams. is that going to happen again? right now it doesn't look like it, although there is one doubt left back. we're going to see what alexander is capable of doing upon his return and what he did suffer not he did miss the match against south korea, but all science point back to teacher being able to have him once again in the starting, 11th, danny low, going back to right back, but you see this team overall, really enjoying this turn or even teach you in today's press conference one instead of brazilian football is kind of back in terms of what it's identity and its roots are because they're joint game. now. they're really enjoying football at this point and junction of the of the of the tournament. now this feels like the last dance for this croatian team who made the 2018 finals and russia

do you think they could cause an upset? let me answer with 2 answers. could they cause an upset? probably not. yeah. but then again, we've said that a lot about this gratian team. could this be the last dance at this point and how we've seen this creation side or this generation of creations play? i think they play until they're 50 and they're so competitive. but all that being said, it's a team that knows that this will be one of the greater challenges that they face. maybe with the greatest child that they faced, dating back to the 2018 work up final against france, so they know exactly what they're going up against with his brazil side and lack of knowledge as i'm very prepared for it. ok, all right. one while lean unless he's emotional world cup story continues against the netherlands after $21.00. when in the last 16 against australia, argentina now face of team with high hopes is ending bessie's last run at these finals and richardson reports from joe ha. whether he likes it or not so little

messy is the focus the most camera lenses when argentina hit the training ground, competing at his last world cup 35 year old, messy is closing in on his 1st global title that tens of thousands of fans have traveled to catherine from argentina, hoping to witness one of the games all time greats. kathy's international career with football is biggest price. financials i'm with ford is again casey. we see the effort that everyone has made to come here and be part of the games. and also the people enjoying it from argentina. i know the all of aren't tina would like to be here, but that isn't possible. the unity that we have enjoyed for a while is very beautiful at every much. it's incredible how they are living each game and transmitting so much passion and energy. i thank them because it's incredible in the netherlands. female face in the quarter finals certainly enjoyed the new account when again,

the usa at the last world cup of parents in 2014 dutch fun, came to an end with defeat against george and sina. in the last 4, we know that you are 3 games away from glory. you could be 3 games away from glory . and we are in this position right now. we wanna show we want to perform and get, leave it all on the page, and hopefully get success. and this is opportunity. touch coach louis van haul is another rallying point for the players. he returns the job for a 3rd time last year, the 71 year old, guiding the team through world qualification, while also being treated for prostate cancer. she's a very good guys. well, you can speak to a normal and i think everyone is good for with him. and i think also because this will be the last one, wants to fight for women duelfer argentina sends hoping it will be their team. it

bring the netherlands 19 game unbeaten run to an end. and the richardson al jazeera will massey, an argentine or be denied by the mabel ends the thing. oh, we could flip a coin at this point because they're so evenly matched. although there's one thing that you can say, the netherlands have been very solid all throughout, but you see argentine with an a sending curve dating back to that last to saudi arabia with each match, argentine has gotten better how they separate. yes. have they improved? yes. as well, but it all really dictates on how the collective ends up working with argentina. yes, messy works in flashes and spans and, and inconsistent moments. but if you're going to have the ball, he's on his money, you're going to be a major factor. how is the defense going to be able to stand up and, and not allow the novel to have opportunities? netherland site that may be as a group look much more solid, but they don't have those stars that they've had in the past that truly were difference makers and be games. but the netherlands will, while will be determined,

don't want to win this for their coach louis van haul. he's been suffering with cancer. no doubt. that's a major factor for them. him, you see a very loose louis on hall for good and for about for good. obviously for the, for the team, but also if you start looking, all of that looseness and all that very joyful type of attitude has led to a lot of poster board material and the argentine side leave and has been talking about how argentine is just what messy does or messy doesn't do. and then today he came out and lashed back at his b. maria, who said he was quote, unquote, the worst coach you ever had while he was a man, just united. oh wow. ok, great to get your thoughts for now. one, while international fans have been a central part of this world cup, another group of supporters is just as passionate delivery drivers from can. yeah. gambia and gonna play an invisible but critical role in several industries. and cuts are and football is in their blood. the motorcycle driver zigzag the city in doha, delivering fast food, groceries,

and even medicine. but when african teams are playing, they can often be found. one of the free sweeney vote product could be on the weekend because they came, they came and did a good job which is trained in the name of africa in jerusalem. daniel brenda came to catch her from ghana a little less than a year ago. oh, catch you some world cup action is a welcome break. comes 12 hour shift in the week. i do, i do very of invisible. i've seen africans before me. so what is going on? so i feel a site that i feel isn't that it just needs to be familiar with. it doesn't matter that their countries aren't playing at catch are 2022. my human goes from the gambia. he says he's followed the gains feature african sides closely. i'm very much out beyond and grateful and watch in the football year in cut the and, and i know every other week on here. we'll be also happy if you don't know where

now you want to watch it again. this year was the 1st time all african teams, one, at least one match in the group stage, sub saharan african make up roughly 6 percent of the population. and cutter football is by far the most popular sport back home. and for many of these migrant workers, being this close to a faithful world cup, is a once in a lifetime experience with gerald, i kinda is, is a former professional athlete and coach these days. he's the professor at northwestern university, working in sports management in africa, african here large minority, a blue collar job, or sales. he's lost, his job for them got to her present something exceptional, they work. and moreover, up we got them doing well. a death is very exceptional, and ethan mil pride for all, most people who are normally not socially i the high level a doing, said he off here, then got to have

a present under port unity every present stage that give them value with a 90 minute passes quickly and it's time to get back on the road again to customers, they may be faceless nameless service providers. but behind the uniforms and helmets are passionate supporters of african football, bullying we in algebra, europe early earlier my colleagues as fanta and were who were joined by colleagues . they do not professor at the wayne state law school in michigan. he's monitored the western media is woke up coverage and he told us an anti muslim bias has been on full display during car 2022 the scale of negative media attention largely coming from british media, european media, american media. i think fixated unfairly on the human rights concerns coming article thought in a way that wasn't the case with the previous real cup and russia even though there were human rights concerns out of that country. it even just oppose 9 months ago

with the winter olympics. and china wasn't the same scenario. just the scale, the fervor, you know, sent a message that's something the fairies was going on listening to the coverage as it's developed over the couple of weeks for the well couple that we had. now in the 3 weeks. have you noticed actually that the coverage is changing slightly. as these reported correspondents are less become less ignorant about the counselor that that supports. again, i think i think 3 interesting things are going on. the 1st thing is when the actual matches start, that tends to chill and silence and negative media coverage because the focus, big shifts. second, you have british fans, american fans, european fans who come to cochrane in a sense, you know, essentially function is ambassador speaking on behalf of what's been covered in the western media has been essentially stereotype and caricature. and then 3rd, i think that, yeah, the, the play has been sublime and competitive. and then we have stories like morocco which has been really inspiring, you know, for, you know, kind of said re centering the attention on sports instead of the negative media

attention. how going forward do you think future woke up host will face the same, you know, will be under the same scrutiny that no, no, i don't think so. i think there's a double standard. you know, there's a lot of poxy going on, given that cutter is a muslim majority or a country in the next side of the world to be north america. and you know, i'm an american, the united states is home to a range of civil rights and human rights concerns, but i can guarantee you that in 4 years it won't be the same scenario. now it's not just football happening in car this month around the world. cup there have been musical gigs and festivals. robbie williams is performing right now at one of those events were joined in the studio by haitian american rapper one g. thank you so much for being with us. i just want to start off by asking you, how has your experience been here so far? you know, i gotta say the experience in doha and guitars been incredible. i think the amir

shake mohammed and zacky for this great opportunity. i got to tell you this country is just been so much judged by what i've seen around the world. i think that could tar is that a great job with the world cup. and it's incredible. and as an american visiting the country, i could tell you, i've never felt safer in my life being in a country like a tar great job to the guitar. he's great job to the citizens and great job to the world cup and great job again to the mirror. yeah, so yeah, go ahead. go ahead. well, i'm going to go read a whole bunch. let me ask you this question because we're in terms of, of, of your football support. i mean, you said you support brazil right as the board brazil use of what brazil, because of, of your friends. one in particular, one name or, or you, or is it because of, of your heritage because of your, of course, for many in haiti. brazil is the national team of choice in brazil, brazil is the national tv choice. it always has been and i think you have name or

happens to be a friend of mine on the team, but you know brazil's culture and history in the sport. it's been incredible and you know, i believe that brazil always finds a way to compete at the top level. and just just, you know, just blessings for those guys. so it's just because the name or it's actually the history of brazil and theme that my friend, my good friend george, the mattel's will tell me if the official is the official team of his family, but also the official team. when, when, when, when the world cup is taking place, haiti is just crazy. so crazy for brazil. now i know you're going to wrap for us later, but i want to ask you, what's it like visiting had tar as a performer because are so many performers that are visiting right now. yeah, i think i think it's a good time to visit guitars. performer, you know, the people are super friendly and i think music has a big, big there. but there's a lot of music lovers here. and, you know, coming to cars, a performer, you hear all the different things. but when you get here, you just see how the crowd that everyone knows the songs,

everybody knows what's happening around the world with european culture, american culture. so i'm excited for the opportunity. but again, regarding the music culture here in guitar. it shocks me on how much the car categories know about hip hop music. yeah. well what, what makes the world cup such a unique moment for both football and music be see, we see it sort of twine, you know, i think i think that, you know, when you have it's, you know, i think it's the only stage besides the olympics, where the world competes right where sports teams from other countries compete. i think that's very important for what's going on in the world. it shows diversity, it shows communication. it shows a melting pot culture coming here of guitar. so the world cup means something in professional sports that i don't think any other sports in the world covers the world cup and feet. doing a great, amazing job by bringing the young culture and the sport of competition between countries together. it's incredible, and we look forward to hearing you perform a low later. we'll keep our viewers waiting just

a little while longer. i thank you both for joining me. i'll have more in our next world cup special at $2130.00 g m t. now it's back to tom in the studio. thanks very much for both still ahead on al jazeera. could it be the last chance to save the planet space season ecosystems will have the lightest from high stakes talks in canada. ah

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rain caused flooding. at least one person has died. cars was submerged in some roads, tunnels and metro lines shut down and lisbon. the severe, whither is forecast to last until friday were to canada. now we are high stakes talks on biodiversity are underway in montreal, is being billed as the last chance to save the planet species and ecosystems from irreversible human destruction. representatives from around the world will negotiate an agreement to shape the next decade of action. lena barrera is the vice president for international policy for conservation international. she joins us from montreal. thank you so much for being on al jazeera. now, as i mentioned, this conference has been billed as the last chance to save nature. a things really that dia hi, tom, thanks for having me. yeah, things are pretty bad. nature is increase, that there are more than a 1000000 species,

that risk of extinction. and that means that humans are in crisis to rate more than 50 percent of the global economy depends on nature. so the longer we wait, that means the more we have to lose and the more it will cost us to recover. so this really is a, you know, a last opportunity for us to agree to finally halt and reverse the lot of nature by 2030, for our own good, as well as that of other species. can you just briefly outline what you're hoping to achieve by the end of this conference? absolutely. so what we'd like to see is an agreement that to halt and reverse nature laws' by 2030. and that needs to include recognition of the role of indigenous peoples in achieving that objective. it needs to include a focus on the areas that are most important for humans, for the areas that provide us the water. we drink the air, we breathe, a stable climate. and it needs to make sure that there are sufficient resources for implementation, right?

there's a $700000000000.00 ah, funding gap right now, and we need to close that. okay. i guess, you know, that's all well and good and sitting these targets. but what is going to hold governments to actually achieving that? because in the past we've seen that, you know, these conferences have gone ahead and then a report comes out a few years later and things are normally not no better or even worse than they were before. right? that's true. the, you know, some of the last targets you know, weren't met. ah, but there were some bright spots. you know, there's been more conservation over the last decade. the last funding goal, which was to double funding to buy diversity was met. so what we need to achieve here is really to be sure that the goals are ambitious, but also that the right amount of resources are agreed to. and then beyond that, countries really need to be willing to do some of the hard work, right? you know,

changing our economic system so that humans and nature are driving together is complicated, but it doesn't mean it's not possible. you know, we do know how to do it and we're seeing that level of change with climate change now. and it doesn't mean that it's not worth it because we really, it's our own survival that's on the line. yeah, of course i think you mentioned before, a 700000000000 dollar funding gap. i mean, how is that going to be close with the money going to come from? especially as i mean, even the rich nations at the moment is struggling with an economic crisis and potential recession next year. yeah, that's a great question. and it's really, it's a 2 part process. the 1st piece is that we need to reduce the amount of money that we're spending that actually ends up destroying nature, right? that's about $500000000000.00 per year, just in subsidies that lead to, ah, to nature destruction. the other piece is that we do need to invest new money. right. and that has to come from public sources. it has to come from the private

sector as well. and innovative approaches to how we generate those funds and get them to where they need to be. are you hopeful? are you hopeful that this time this conference is going to be different? i am hopeful, you know, i think we've seen a, you know, we've seen a change in attitudes globally over the past few years. and you know, there's new evidence that really tells us how we can deal with some of these crises . so for example, at conservation international, we've just produced some new research that shows that the land that gives people the most benefits is also home to at least 60 percent of mammals and birds, and reptiles and amphibians. and that on top of that, those areas provide 80 percent of the critical ear recoverable carbon stocks in the world. so you know, we can really focus in on a few places and get address a lot of the crises that we're facing. and that's an opportunity here to make sure that we're doing that. okay,

we wish you all the success that is lynette barrera. the vice president for international policy with conservation international thanks very much for joining us on al jazeera. who scientists say found walt could be the oldest dna if a discovered the 2000000 year olds of mineral was material. it was on earth from ice age sediments and greenland had means researches will be in a better position to understand what the region was like at the time. it's correct to you. of course that issue type of deposit because 2000000 years ago we had this forested alignment with mastered on some rain dears, and hairs running around in the landscape a together with a lot of different implant species or so we act to be found that the unique can survive for a 2000000 years, which is twice as old as the previously found dna. and do this dna, it comes from our part of the of greenland,

the northernmost part and comes from an environment there. do we don't do not see anywhere on earth today. britain's prince harry has opened up about why he lives the u. k, with his wife megan and their 1st child, the couple are pulling bag, the curtain on their lives. in the boil spotlight and a new t v series. nadine barber reports. it's really hard to look back on it now and go, walmarts happen, it's 2020 and prince harry and his american wife megan, that you conduct yes, of sussex a leaving the u. k. and just finished, ah, 2 weeks on the final crucial loss. stant of mortgage once it's just 4 years after they 1st met the level of 8 that has been stood over the last 3 years, especially against my wife and my son. as if my mom outside with archie. i'm

generally concerned for the safety of my family. all of the 1st of 6 episodes of his netflix series goes back to harry's childhood. oh richard. okay. if can replace this one? got. it explores how he felt the glare of the media of the effect it had on his mother, princess diana, who died in a car crash while being chased by press photographers her in the series, harry says, members of his family questioned why mega should be protected from the press, the difference he told them was the elements of race. the way tabloid. newspapers used racist strokes when talking about megan, marco has been well documented. but there was, according to the suffixes, also racism from within the royal family. something the families denied. it led to a breakdown in relations, most notably with harry's father, king charles and his brother, prince william, and contributed to megan, feeling suicidal for a long time. people at myself had been talking about the insidious nature of the racism in britson. and we've seen it so many times,

light reflects twice in the british press. and we've been told that we imagine day, although being too sensitive. what this does is it forces a conversation about race and racism, and the class system within britson. all the interviews in the netflix series were done by august this year. the month before queen elizabeth died. it's very much the couples account and the royal family says it's not common on it. the worsening relationship between the sussex is in buckingham palace as an institution dominated royal coverage here in britain, during the last years of queen elizabeth's life with prince harry's father now on the throne, you might think there'd be a chance for a reset. this new documentary suggests it's still complicated. nadine barbara, al jazeera london canadian sing, a celine dion has announced that she's been diagnosed with a rear neurological disorder. as you know, i've always been an open book. in an emotional video, she said that stiff person syndrome was affecting her ability to walk and sang the

grammy award when his courage to it was due to start in february that has now been postponed. the rest of her performances for the year have been cancelled. that's all from may thoma crisis news. how lauren taylor is in london mixed with ah mm and

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