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oil price count, we are looking at the impact on russia and the global oil market. so africa is in the grip of a political crisis. how will it affect the economy? certain cultivation is big business in india, but how much is it costing the environment? counting the cost on al jazeera, it's almost time for the semi finals here in cats are welcome along to well kept today. i'm geminus and i and peter stammered the 1st semi final seas missy read moderate. it's a case of last john saloon for 2 of the games grades, the sooner the pins are closing in on may 1st walk up front, but only one can progress. to look ahead to that argentina, croatia, semi final morocco looking to pull up another major upsets by leasing while

champions france low discuss the north africans chances and former england defender gary natal took soldiers here as far as smell about the level of scrutiny faced by host nation casa and joining us in the studio to unpack all that his football analysts or anger, and they received correspondence after looking at ah, we are at day away from the furthest, semi final of cats are 2022 argentina showdown with croatia, features 2 of the games, great intimacy, angelica moderate, both are looking to win the title for the 1st time, and what will most likely be the last world cup? matthew is hoping to lead argentina to that 3rd title in 1st. 198635 row with 1000000 gold. and the copper america that has yet to win the big one. as for moderate, she's eyeing his 1st major international title. the 2018 it runs out to the match,

as under up, but a sounding confident. you know, i don't think we need to say anybody. we need to look at ourselves to play our best game. we will do a thorough analysis with the head coach and the technical stuff. and then we will see how we will attack the game. mobile. i would say the secret of our successes, togetherness unity, the fact that we act and play as a family. everybody plays for one another. we play a team and that's our secret. ok, let's begin our conversation then without getting special thought with you may see versus moderates to of the grace of the era. if not all time they both way. number 10 at the end of the semi final who will be left standing. you know, my wish i hope that the will see the re matcher from marcel. so in the demo result doesn't have to be 3 and i will agree. let's win on penalties again . the problem with that, and in the lead up to this, one of sasha,

everybody was talking about this correlation side. you know, the age of the pie as being an aging squad. nobody really gives them, gave them much of a chance. so how they managed to get this fall, they didn't care about that, you know, they knew they're really good now strong and they show that the recently in nations lead, you know, we be to denmark and france in a, in june. we beat them or can copenhagen, we beat france and paris france with the bends, emma and, and, and, but there, so they show the, their strength in the, in those matches, we went through to the nation's league final 4. and the, at the end of the day, this is still more degeneration. oh, ok. well case for years older than he was in rush about who is the key player, afraid madrid champion of europe, you know, will commodity. so he is still on a extremely high level. also we have amazing go players mcfield along look alike brockovich like qualities. we have an amazing good player in even a parish, and that is the key of power of our team. and also some new players came up,

especially on what to do, who is, by my opinion, one of the best center bit backs at the world cup so far. so i think that the disgrace chaise also wears stronger. there are some differences. of course, when you compare it, a met with a t from a rush about this is feel strong theme and they showed the one a short time ago. we just had from the out of it saying that they don't fair anybody. but should they be worried about this argentine aside now for a 2nd about special was talking about argentina to be quite honest because a lot of the points that you hit on also seem to be a lot of the talking points that are being talked about argentina messy is older, and by the way, creation was old 4 years ago. so let's, let's, let's leave that the whole old guys on the didn't on the new fly with, with russia. they have, they have this animal instinct. they have this, this, this competitive animal spirit that just really ends up putting them in a position where they are. but going back to the point, argentina have gone through very similar things. they're said messes, old or messy, just about a year. go mess, he's done, mess. he's finished. and a lot of keep in mind the starting line approach and team that gets gratian.

there's 4 players on this team that were part of that 3 bill dropping that they suffered. so that's very important. i also point out fear, i don't think either side fears and the other to be quite honest with you so much so that listen to louis one holy other day saying argentina, fears of argentina, we're going to take them to penalties and we're going to beat them and what is us, please? god, please, please, please take the penalties we want. we want penalties as well. so go figure, well, let's take a break from speaking about argentina crisis and focus on the other. sent me finally one more. okay. take on from that. so based on wednesday, it will be a match and loaded with history and symbolism. rocha gains independence from france, $956.00 off the king mohammed returned from exile and many fans. in morocco they went over, france will be like a 2nd independence, say that net settings, yet lately we have a history of a 1200 years. i think we should never be dependent on any countries. if we are an independent people, i will feel proud if we beat france,

then they and confirm that we have power. and also we will confirm that we are not obliged to follow a specific site is an old law cuddly came about the relationship between morocco and france. i'm a little tense. what we hope the next match will bring people together. but yes, you can ask me which team my support? i've spent 52 years in france. so bluff off. hang on to keep your shop your on demand. friends is a great team. it's the role champion, but we hope to celebrate moral cause when it's going to be a great match and we're going to win. that's for sure. just 18 months ago, morocco midfielder as that he knew now he was an unknown player in the french 3rd division. now he is playing full from sneak ot on j, and here is his story. ah, underwood can undo enough cervical, dumont, nevada, in sharla hill. i shouldn't. so push her latasha level on. i don't even do any

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i know i won't be in my chill or know the children because i'm a no one is mobile, blah, blah blah. you got better off if you just get some some, some food as to just some clarity on pcs. back on that she was, she woke up with julie, saw so much for hold on please. let's see the phone all a little bit. so i do feel cut off seconds, convers machine, which they all told ah, all right, let's talk a little bit about france and morocco, especially from a correlation perspective. you'd be watch,

let's assume the crew should be taught and seen a year in the final. and you're watching that 2nd semi find what would you prefer? a rematch of 2018 or a rematch of the group stage game, or be honest, or miss the group? of course, it would be the best feeling on earth to be france in the final, you know, but i would like to play with morocco. great team. absolutely. i mean, there are ways to do some final was amazing. first african team average. so they wrote history already here and i, we use them to rewrote it again at wednesday, and in that case it will be enough. yeah. ok. ok, you reach the final they have to get past francis. what chance do you give them the doing the same chance we get? what mean? same chance that they ended up proving they deserved against portugal. the same chance that they thought they end up showing us that they deserving in spain. pick

your poison with france, because if you drop back and wait there, they're going to burn you. if you go out and face them head to head, they can burn you. if, if you end up only focusing on one player as england did, they're going to burn with someone else. so pick your poison, which one is the one. so if you look at their biggest strength, it's in the middle, it's the, the central defenders. and knowing that you do have the, probably the most qualified person to be able to mark gillian and, but which is actually a kimmy who is esteem it at the s g. so why not? and again, the biggest problem with france will end up being low. they're going to try and force them out, widens and crosses. portugal said something like, $53.00 crosses during the match against against him roughly. so how many opportunities they were able to get on go barely any. so that's going to be the biggest key for them. what are they going to do, where they're going to try and do to neutralize france? and there you can have an opportune again, the force have to step up. have to step up in a big way, especially since we're talking tactics and such. croatia at this woke up very patient, very defensive. it's what's worked up until now. we're not really going to see

anything different in the semi finals, and indeed should they get to a final oh, well, now that, and i think that, you know, there is a big difference between this team and the team from russia. and that difference is an attack in russia, we had a model manager kitchen who was one of the best attackers in the world he played for you, went to ski, play for bar me only great clots you and champions, league, etc, etc. right? now we don't have such quality in attack, we have to be honest with that. and i think that definitely, you know, has the influence of on, on, on our style of play. so i think that the we could expect of the pretty st better nor as in the, in the 75 in the quarter final against the brazil. but i also think that the not is great team. of course, they have that messy factor and you always know that you can expect something crazy from messy, probably the best player in history. but the at the end of the, at the end of the day, i don't think that you know, such a strong thing as brazil. so i think that against dina,

we will have more chance to play than against brazil. thanks lasha. one is going to remain here, but we know you're going to be going off to cover croatia today. the pretty much press thank you for joining us. and for your insights now has been under more scrutiny than any other high nation. and former england defend gary levels has not all of it has been justified level play to, to welcome to england. and now what's the television? pundents you told a far is my one of the co hosts of the next world cup. the usa have some major issues to address. there's no doubt that ours been targeted more than any other country that have out the world cup. you know, i don't believe south africa was targeted much all china with toxic revenue olympics is much all russia. it's on the from the wilcox, it's ours been like a lightning rod for people to come together. so i think actually part of it to me, i think it was the middle east. it's wednesday is it was football. it brought me to the middle east. there is some jury listening when you've covered the story for many, many years, but the majority just jumped on the market in the last 6 months and started to

highlight it. if we're going to highlight issues in parts of the world, we should highlight them wherever we go. we're intertwined with relationships and partnerships for the middle east. not happen for 20 years. so i'm struggling to understand a little bit why all of a sudden. there has been this sort of what would be the thing that we should of a will up in the middle east. we should of relationships with guitar. we should have relationships with the middle east and countries. all families come just, that's not how it works. that's not always been the 20 is my life. we're up intake into football countries all over the world. well, you know, you said you've been coming here for 20 years while i've lived here for a long time. i have a deep connection to this country and i took it personally like a lot of the stuff that the u. k. media was saying, do you think that there are biases by the u. k. media? why don't understand this? how f one tallies, gulf energy, banking, finance, retail, the royal family and horse races can all have relationships with the middle east,

but football comp. i don't, i'm not accepting that anymore. i'm not sitting there next football player looked, playing football in different parts of the world. for 20 years is now being criticized for basically coming over here and compensating for the whole broadcast fee, football games, while everybody else in our country. most of the people that say most of the sectors and i couldn't re, can enjoy relationships with the middle east and far east. in countries we have the same work system which of the same so of what would be beliefs? i'm sorry, i'm not accepting that it's always football players. next football players will have to sit that. and so obviously like the perfect challenges the so obviously a lot, you know, we have the fights for everybody, but politicians and all the people institutional positions don't. you can see is more of our media, more of the world's media comes over every experience is the middle east experiences. what happens over it? now it's sort of different than, than our country. the look back and think about what our country can do better,

what the middle east can do better. but should we have partnerships relationships with the middle east, with the fire east? we absolutely need to. we politicians now a country you call people who are trying to come all the for a safe alive invaders. yet, i would, i would meet your country focused heavily on what would be the problem with migrant workers over here. well, the way in which we treat people who are trying to come over, i was sure to work to see refuse to be a say, but it's terrible. so i'm off the conversation is happening. i'm getting to the end of the children, albany, 3 weeks. i've taken a personal criticism myself and i'm willing to have this conversation continually for next wednesday is one thing. so sir, and i'm not gonna stop coming the middle east, so you're talking about, you know, ok since the term it started, people that you work with are the u. k. media in general? do you think their preconceptions have changed since covering it or since the world cup has started? soon will. i think some will change definitely. you can feel it as soon as the lives of made it a position that they don't believe the wilcox should be over here. and they'll not change. and but the conversations good to have. we're going to america 4 years

time gun laws, abortion, women's rights, state capital punishment in many states, racism in large parts of america. we should be talking more about these things in football, but in every country, in every country, not just in, not just in this country. and i think we've turned a blind eye 4 years ago to russia. you know, 4 years ago in russia, everyone said in a blind eye to what was happening. and basically this time, i think it's over compensate starting and gone too far. the other way. alcohol has been something that people have been talked about. it talked about a lot here. do you think the decision to not have it in and around the stadium because maybe me the atmosphere at the stadium a lot more family friendly. i don't think it was a problem with no, i'll call up. it's only a problem of the fact that it felt like a decision. it was made too late. and that's the only decision i can think can be critical of the relative is i don't think it's hard for the ultimate in any way,

shape or form. if i think that if anything i've roles felt really safe, go into the games. everyone's probably been really good atmosphere is i think probably sometimes you probably drove calico before going much probably feel better going some she sober. so i think that's the only criticism i would have was been if you live in the delay making the decision. but in terms of the actual decision itself and how it happens, the stadium has been fantastic from a football point of view in the atmosphere point of view. and what if you thought about the one city format, the players will absolutely love it. if you speak, the players know travelling, people said in america, and if you decide not told me that scott, scott will be out of funds travelling 3 for 5 hours potentially between games we knock out games and the group games. it'll be tough for the players because you getting on a plane after every game, to fly by the base. so the one city told him the ones that the format was always going to work. the only thing that was worried about was, was, was traffic. that's been handled really well. i was worried

a little bit about the concentration of phones, maybe some trouble like and that's not materialized. so the 2 things that we're concerned before the told me, which was a, the days are 3 things accommodation. a bit of trouble and traffic have been handled brilliantly generally during the tournament. are you, are you worried about? are you concerned about the changing to the 48 team format in 4 years? i think i'm worried about the 48 team format. it seems that is how it works, how it so of bills and, you know, great participation for african teams. teams from different postulates different possible asia, i think was something that we've rocco, will mean that people will say that an increase for me is probably something that's right. because if i think infancy will feel justified in his decision to expand the torment because he wants to try and create a greater world, caught robinson is more of a specific 32 teams on. however, we still have to make sure that football tournament itself is of high quality and not still yet to prove and with a 48 teams on. okay, who do you think it's going to make it to the final?

i think, well, all predictions are out of the window this to order. yeah, i would think i would think it will be arjun siena and france. that's what i think the final will be if i look at it on paper. but you probably shoot to predict that because it could easily be a mock morocco, and gratian all creation from sober cohen eyes and seeing that because you just feel now you just feel like it's messy and buffy in the fi. like how you feel it's going to end up. i'd be surprised if it didn't do an argentine you've got nastiness to them that you feel could get them over the line that was by and that little bit spirit. and they got great from base over as well. well, interesting stuff that from gary one, what did you make comments? do you think the level of recently cause face thing? not, not of. i live in a state where you cannot talk about slavery in schools. i live in a state where rights are being taken away to minorities. i live in

a state where women are having their rights taken away. i live in a state where you cannot say, basically gate. if, if the i'm gay were if you're a kid. because if not, you can be outed by authorities. i live in a country where black people are oppressed by authorities, by people, by institutions, by police, have people that are killed point blank. so in terms of that, do we have that, that, that crystal house, that we can throw stones at others? not a lot of problems in the west. i'm thrilled that the world cup is going to be my home country. i'm thrilled that i'm going to have that opportunity. if you ask your wife what happened in the 2016 co america, they have to travel in california back to philadelphia, back to california in the group stage along 6 hour flight back and forth. not only that you have i sitting sometimes. yeah, we can listen. he told me about that. what all, i all, david,

that's what got side for. thank you. can remember more on our website out every dot com forward slash welcome. and we'll see you again at 1030. look forward to your company, then take a all the best i studied football when i was 7 years old. i didn't have that much money. so i play in one big room and i keep the ball to the all. that was the best play of the school. so my brother said don't you up football because i know you reach something . we lost our father situation. some charity people help us. so i went to this school of football and after one year from my c p, i went to take her on. and then after 2 months from 15, i go to national. my goal is to play for our national team in afford up to reach these places. do you have to be strong?

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