destiny crisis seems to be one of particular populations to dismantle the sound bites. there are lots and lots of women who are likely agenda a kind of anti feminist agenda and demand the truth. those the size of fascism. we have to really recognize what we're off of yet. we are determining what is the future of democracy in this country. join me markham on hill, for up for what al jazeera. ah, this is al jazeera. ah. hello until mccrae. this is the news. how alive from dar ha, coming up in the next 16 minutes. a dramatic rescue of the english coast $43.00 migrants abroad to safety out of their boat capsizes. but at least 4 others have died. explosions hit central parts of the ukrainian capital, as russian forces continue to destroy energy facilities. ah,

peru expands its state of emergency to deal with growing protests after former president. pitcher castillo was ousted and de times to form a coolie does go hit to hit in fiji selection and what seen as a test of its democracy. and there is another huge, semi final coming up at the faith, the world cup with morocco taking on france. ah, 43 migrants attempting to cross the channel have been rescued from cold waters off the coast of england. their boat capsized in the channel. at least 4 others are confirmed. did. 30 of those rescued were plucked from the water, the international organization for migration estimates that 205 migrants have been

recorded as missing in the channel since 2014 or we have to correspondence following the story. nadine baba is across the political fallout he will be outside the u. k. parliament. but 1st, andrew simmons is in dover. the port city in southeast england from where rescue boats were deployed and given just how cold that water must have been. it seems remarkable, andrew, that any one could have survived. yes, it remarkable indeed. and also it would seem that the rescue services were very fast and efficient in removing people in rescuing them and getting them into the warmth of and the safety of helicopters and boats. and to take them back here to dover, and then on to hospital in ashford. kent dover has been the main port for the rescue operation. we've just seen a, a life boat leave from here. this is a life but station just beyond here. and they've been incredibly busy. it was in

the early hours of wednesday morning that this small boat, we've seen so many of them. this one was smaller than usual, a crammed with people seeking refuge or seeking a better life. but braving that lives in the most appalling weather. apparently they had seen that the winds had dropped and they were in france, and they had been advised. invariably, these are criminals who are advising them. now's the time to go. and the sea was reasonably calm, but the temperatures were well below 0. so just imagine falling into icey waters in the pitch black. really, really difficult. so the numbers we are told are confirmed for dead. and something like 43 were rescued. but so that we don't have any total number of those on board as possible at the rescue is don't know a,

but this is very light. it's a be a recovery operation rather than a rescue operation right now. this, ah, we don't. so we don't have a final figure on those rescued either, but this is not the worst case in terms of tragedies that see in the a migrants crossing i was a year ago just over a year ago. that's d 7. my good sir. died at when there's a rubber dingey, boat capsized between england and france, england and france. a big controversy. you no doubt hear about later from the deem a politically, but also a massive humanitarian emergency. because since those $27.00 died, a year ago, more than $44000.00 migrants have crossed the english channel. that's nearly double the number of the previous year. so this problem hasn't been solved. people have not been deterred, and the criminals seemed to be going on on, on, organized crime,

no doubt whatsoever in plying their trade in human lives and big money. it would seem still no answer though to this human tragedy. clearly, thank you. that is andrew summons for us in dover. the camp sizing of the migrant boat and the english channel was addressed and the u. k. parliament during the prime minister's christians, his wife richie sooner had to say, mister speaker, i'm sure the whole house who share my sorrow at the cap sizing of a small boat in the channel in the early hours of this morning. and the tragic loss of human life, our hearts go out and all those affected and attribute to those involved in the extensive rescue operation. nadine bob joins us from westminster now. and this is once again put the migrant issue front and center for the u. k. government and he doesn't have a plan to handle it will. it says

it has a plan. it's been evolving over the last few months. but as you heard from andrew vis or tragedy has reminded people of what happened in november 2021. when 27 people drowned in the channel trying to reach the shores of england. now am richey soon ack expressing his sympathy. so did the lead of the opposition care stammer here in parliament, not a long ago, but they both 1st dressed that it reminded people of the need to try to break up the criminal gangs involved in people smuggling, getting people over to britain on these m a very dangerous boats, so a braverman and the home secretary had a similar sentiment, but then she went on to tell people what the government was doing. she said that so it was crucial that they stopped these crossings. and just in fact, on tuesday, the primary, the outlines, a new thrust, which would see or the fast tracking of summer side m claims,

but also making it easier if he succeeds with his plans to send people straight back to where they came from in europe or before crossing to britain now, and so the brother man has outlined erm. first of all, a new command under the border force agency here to try to tackle via issue. but also she's reminding people of the a deal recently struck with the french or saw authorities which would involve cooperation and some british officers actually working with their french counterparts in france. and she also talked about him working to create, to expand as she put it safe and legal routes once the government had dealt with the criminal gangs. well, some people might think that that is very wishful thinking. because at the moment, there are hardly any safe and legal routes and some of the nationalities arriving our countries which have seen such good scheme. in fact, still like syria, like,

or afghanistan. sewell abrahamson insist that it is possible for people with a genuine case to apply for asylum, but at the moment, most of them do have to arrive her in the u. k. to do so. nevertheless, she says that the government is doing what is needed to tackle the problem with its partners. she talked about an ambition for an e. you wide agreement on migration will be used, been trying for many, many years to do that. some sort of quota without that going anywhere, which is why it's so problematic for countries like greece and italy for. so for the time being, the government are saying we are getting tough while letting people in who have a genuine case. she said there been 450000 people admitted to the u. k. a since 2015. but that of course is not just asylum seekers or whatever the case the government knows it's under pressure, not just from the public on migration,

but of course on a humanitarian level to try to stop more tragedies and a thank you so much. that is nadine barber for us at westminster for more than 40000 people have crossed the channel and small boats this year is the highest number since figures were 1st collated in 2018, albany ins and afghans may count the largest number of migrants claiming asylum this year and as andrew just said last year, at least 27 migrants died after a ding he sank while hitting to the u. k. from france, the government has announced new measures to tackle illegal immigration earlier this month. the u. k. in france have also signed a deal to stop asylum seekers crossing the english channel and small boats. alex kempton is director of operations and campaigns at the refugee buddy project. she joins us from hastings in the united kingdom. thank you so much for being on this news. our now, i mean, 1st of all, let's deal with what's happened today. it seems incredible that anyone could survive and what must have been absolutely freezing waters. do you know any more

about what happened and where they would have come from? we don't at the moment, we don't know how many more people have died. as you said, as your previous correspondence said, the government is saying that it is for, and i wouldn't be surprised if that price, as you said, it's incredibly cold in the southeast of england at the moment. i mean, i'm sitting here, i can see to see from my office and it is better. and so i'm not surprised. unfortunately, the people who died in this tragedy move of 40000 people have crossed the channel and small boats this year. the m, the think that the government is put in place clearly on working. what do you think should happen from here? but the, this is a very simple way of stopping these, these bite crossings, which i will just say are not illegal. it's not able to cross the channel if you're a mistake asylum. and it's really kind of characteristic of the hostile environment of the government that they are claiming that these are illegal migrants then, nor a legal because they're claiming a signer. there needs to be sanctioned legal rates. that's the biggest issue that we've got at the moment is the people are making the journey from calais because

there is no other way of doing it. you have to be on british soil, on the island in order to seek asylum am, and there's no foss tracking funding from cal any. there's no sensor and callaway eating. hi miss items that people have no choice but to make this journey. and that is that the single biggest thing that the government could do in order to prevent people having to risk their life. and unfortunately, as has happened to day and like your colleagues that happened a year ago and people you losing their lives at the china. yeah, the u. k. interior minister, the soil brothman has just said we have to in small boat crossings. do you agree with that statement? is that the best way to deal with us? i absolutely agree that we should. stocks will buy in crossings, but i think i'm probably coming got it from a slightly different angle to so enterprise men. i think we should be stopping them because they are in humane and people are having to risk their lives and to come across and to seek aside. and whereas we should be taking our international responsibility seriously in this country and given people other rates to come and join us on of in the u. k. o o, just who the tragedy was predictable and inevitable at the that's the criticism

against the u. k. government, do you think that the u. k. government has failed and at the sofa? absolutely. i filed and the united cloud a year ago when we lost 27 people in the channel. not far from air and i found against i and they will continue until i can proper accessible rates for people to come into this country. and then you know, the rhetoric around opening a new rates, for example, from afghanistan. you know, our organization is currently working with afghan men, you have made that journey across the channel by edge because there is no other way for them to get here. and if the government was serious about writing down on, on small by cost, and then that would, is the most effective way of doing it. okay, we'll have to leave it there. thank you so much. that's alex kempton from the refugee buddy project in the united kingdom. oh, to other news now the kremlin says there's been no discussion of a truce with ukraine over the christmas new year period. russia has launched

a new wave of strikes on the ukrainian capital officials in cave, say 2 administrative buildings were damaged, but it offenses were able to shoot down 13 russian drones, preventing further destruction. russia has destroyed much of ukraine's energy facilities, causing rolling blackouts as winter sits in where we childrens has more on the attacks from keith. another day where russia tries to hate energy infrastructure targets. but thankfully today, as we just heard from president the landscape at least a day when they did not succeed, 13 out of 13 drones were shot down. you can see the results, one of those shooting downs behind me. now this is an administrative building. thankfully not the residential one, but you can see the damage that joined it, even as it came down. after being shot out of the sky by ed offense. there were several waves that launch. we were told that they come up the denise river flying

low to avoid detection so that they're only spotted at the last minute, but at offense has done its job. today. every thermal power plant has been damaged in ukraine by recent ways of ass strikes, missile strikes, joined strikes. so this, the country has a massive energy deficit. they just cannot produce as much energy as it needs to light all the buildings to keep everything running. so you have these emergency power outages shuttled power outages in the near reality for, for this country. it's why ukraine and it's government have been asking it's international friends and allies for so much help and assistance just yesterday in paris at a donor conference, $1000000000.00, which was pledged $400000000.00 of that to go to fixing the energy infrastructure.

we just hours away from finding out the 2nd world cup fine list morocco playing france at l by stadium leisure on wednesday. they are the 1st african team to make it this far in a world cup. and not only are they up against the writing champions, but frances, their former colonial rule and natasha butler is with french moroccans and paris noon. yet there's no question which ti mina is supporting. she was her morocco shirt, with pride in her own cannon grocery shop in paris. born in france to morrow, can parents. she said she'd love to see morocco when the well cut for the 1st time . but you'll support france if they go through. they keep up with these other jo, symbolic teams for us, and they will present the front in our friendship of our country, our house divided between the 2. we can't separate one from the other 2 minutes on

says she feels the same. i would be happy the role for when, but in, in friends when i will be happy, you know, because it's my love and my 2 lovers friends. and the best thing in my life when naco made it to the semi finals last saturday. there was celebrations in paris. news at france were all say through added to the excitement, the dream semifinal for many, nearly 70 years after the end of french colonial rule in the north african countries. there also ties between france and morocco on the page. some morocco plays were born in france, and one of france's players is a moroccan heritage and there were friendships best friends and p. s d, teammates, french strike, a killing him, pappy and morocco defender ash rough hacky me have caught up in doha and wished

each other luck. ah sir, give it to moral sylvia owns a furniture store in the city a few years ago. his brother meds in it, in sudan, the french algerian football inspired many young french people of north african origin. sophia says morocco success and cancer is nurturing the dreams of a new generation. oh man, his father, what's happening is magnificent. it's not just because real moral good. it's the enthusiasm across the world in africa, in all arab countries. every one is supporting morocco hub like self. yan mina will watch the semi final with her family. she says, she's sure the web of france or morocco when victory would be at their fingertips. natasha butler al jazeera, piracy or morocco, support as a flocking to doha head of the world cup, semi final against france. there's been more than 30 extra flyers put on over the past 2 days. they'll join thousands of fans already in the country have made sure morocco has been one of the best and most loudly supported teams in the tournament

. a lot of full god willing we will win and reach the final and when the trophy we came, he happy and enthusiastic for the semi final and hope to reach the final why not? we will win against franklin and we will be in the final with argentina and it will be a star, long live morocco plate to show you moment we are always supporting morocco, god willing, we reach the final we will when it gets froth, giving me messy. asada hot outs, following the book up action and how sick, why kish? no surprises to say you found a few moroccan friends down there? who do i get in front of the camera? no, not for friends. it just arrived last night on them are open and usually support. 2

to the links obviously we just had earlier from natasha, but i really like and we hope we're going to be different software can country to the finals. and hopefully that was one to win as long ago. i mean, it was amazing. i wrote the other one way because i didn't have my ticket to go to my doctor my to go home. i just arrived when to hope just to the game. yeah. and we will get a game or will and hopefully we'll have to plan. okay. one moment, thank you and telling me a,

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we will have much more in our special world comp coverage with a smile and gym and nash at $1330.00 g m t. there's plenty more ahead on this new south, including the us rolled sound, the red carpet for african leaders, as they try to count a russian and chinese influence in the continence ah, peruse, government has expanded a state of emergency as protests continue to spread across the country demonstrate as a demanding that for president pedro castillo, be released from jail. he's accused of and attempted coo and was arrested last week . at least 7 people, including teenagers, had been killed in the young breast. marianna sanchez reports from lima ha violent protests continuing discreet of didn't was more desert yankee may say in in

the whiteness in explosive winter wounding at least 15 police officers in lee. my 5000 police have been deployed to contain the protests. when they say they've been authorized to use rubber pellets. it is defense minister says the armed forces will take control of key infrastructure like airports, highways at willis plants in light of protests. 8. so the regions are now in a state of emergency resident dina, when we're depleted with demonstrators to stop, the violence will yell at the young man as basket i call on you to ask the social basis to come down the violin week. it will be unfair. don't deserve these deaths if the situation of gales peruvian do not deserve it. and what it be has formed a crisis committee that defense on interior ministers have been tasked to whole

talks with demonstrators. but many protesters say they will stop them, tweedy and to former president did with us to you is free. the he won freedom for president castillo, not mrs. bullard, that she has done, and the presidency that number leanne senior for now castillo will remain under arrest. a judge denied his appeal to be freed up or forbid. ogazio has gone beyond those borders. the left wing president of mexico, argentina columbia. believe you have said that he is a victim of harassment, and he was legitimately elected the foreign ministry has responded. st. castillo was ousted, we're attempting to dissolve congress illegal. these pull to says one castillo freed, calling for general elections. now, proceed in what the has committed to bring them forward to 2024. but for now, she's pleading for comb. it in front to fantasy that in the middle vote counting is underway and fidget general election,

which has 2 former coolers via to become prime minister turnout was low in an election seen as a test of fidget democracy while hi reports as they went to the polling stations voters in fiji, echoed the concerns of so many others around the world. the cost of living crisis and rebuilding the economy after the coven $19.00 shut down. this government is doing so much for the people. they are giving bus fares, food vouchers, even the lot of things the government has done, people are just really nervous about how things gonna turn out and am excited also on for the possibility of change. that nervousness was because the election was largely a choice between 2 men with a history of interfering in the democratic process. prime minister, frank by name or armor laid a military coup in 2006, and has been in power ever since. as with the previous vote in 2018,

his main challenge was another former military man. cit, benny rumble cap, who led to coups in 1987 before being democrat collected as prime minister. given the collective history of the 2, there's been plenty of apprehension in fiji about what could happen after this vote? i accepted a mighty 9090 man. congratulated mr. cherry october. ah, president house and office. and i hope we can do that though. we cannot live forever with them our room forever. as bonnie madonna went to cast his vote in the capital sousa, he was in no mood to discuss with the media whether he would respect the outcome. i haven't got any until the report from australia to come and ask me questions. but a question. thank you. this year fiji found itself at the center of a geopolitical tussle between china and the united states and its allies, australia, and new zealand. while fiji cheered the pacific islands forum,

beijing launched a diplomatic offensive, attempting to sign a regional security and economic packed with pacific countries, which was unsuccessful. any military intervention after this election would again test regional relations and potentially add to the economic concerns of fijians. wayne hey, al jazeera the election is also putting the spotlight on fiji is growing proximity with china. that's happened under encumbered prime minister, frank, by name rama, since he took power in 2006, but opposition leaders, seraphine, ra booker has signals. he could pivot away from beijing if he wins. earlier this year, china signed the security packed with the solomon islands and moved that alarmed australia, and on tuesday cambra signed a similar agreement with vento otto beefing up its rival, re with china. chinese and russian influence on the african continent is also

coming on to focus at the 2nd us africa. some of the washington d. c. president joe biden has invited thousands of african leaders for 3 days of talks. it's the biggest international gathering in the us capital since the start of the curve at 19 pandemic from a lead is day 2 of the summits on wednesday, she have returns. he joins us from the, in the u. s. capital and she is biden trying to, to, to try and combat chinese and russian influence in africa. and will he be successful? ah, what the irony and what he's trying to do is not mention china and russia. the main message from the wife says, look, we are your partners, we just, we, we respect your g, i strategic priorities. we are asking you to choose between the us and china and russia. we just want to be partners with here. messages being received with

a certain amount of skepticism here, given the u. s. history on the continent, but i think what will be watching for at $1830.00 g when president biden addresses, the conference is the tone whether he sticks to the script so far it has to be said . and a lot of the public pronouncements, even as they're saying that we don't ask you to choose a lot of white house officials talking to help themselves and immediately start talking about what they consider to be the malign influence of china and russia on the continent. and what we have this morning that is the u. s. africa business for him. really getting in to get several hours of discussions about trade investment, agribusiness, the digital future, us secretary of state antony blink. and we'll address that about in a few hours. then we got the, the biden speech, and then we have a dinner at the white house for the head of delegation. and joe, by know, bilaterals between joe biden and the various heads of states here. but we've been told to expect quite substantially of little moments between biden and the various

leaders as will be the trauma offensive that we'll see presumably out before him at the dinner by the will be at the leaders for him on thursday as well. the bilateral school to secretary of state lincoln, as far as we can see, for a schedule, he's been working his way steadily through every delegation. we've got very, very general readouts about what was discussed. we have the broad parameters of the message when we're not asking you to choose, we're going to give you $55000000.00 for africa over 3 years. weeds and scrutiny about that. we don't really know what that $55000000.00 actually means. whether it's, you know, weapons and act in a title thieves or whether it's something more substantive and will support and a you seat for all at the g at the g. 20 there. the other thing tonight is there any nearly leader who is really getting the i p v i p treatment as the egyptian president. busy gets a by that true with as of the blank and but he also gets to go to the pens again this afternoon and get some, an on a god and meet with the secretary of defense. okay, thank you so much. that is, she have returns the 1st in washington dc, this time forth with now his kara, hello there. let's have

a look at the world cup weather ahead of the semi final between france and morocco here in casa. and while they may have their differences on the pitch, weatherwise, it is looking pretty similar. we've got systems moving in from the atlantic, bringing some really wet and windy weather to both southern parts of europe as well as north africa. so rain is expected across much of france, a bit of a wintry mix at play as well, and that snow is likely to fall in paris suddenly on wednesday evening. but it's an improving picture. we'll see sunshine here by friday. now that's not the case. across morocco we've got wet and windy weather pulling in, you can see that moving into rub bad. it's going to be a bit of a washout of a weekend with funder storms through to friday. but it's unlikely to rain on the teens. parades here in cuts out in the middle east, looking rather unsettled up in the north as systems pull east out of the mediterranean, bring some very heavy rain to parts of the levant, but for the south, for the gulf states, fine and dry conditions. the temperature in doha sitting where expect it to be for

this time of year. it will however, cool slightly as we go into that late kickoff, we're coming up after the break. gym and faro will be here with else fisher will comp coverage. that's right tom, the count down to kick off and the 2nd semi final has started. it's been a sunny day here and i hope it will. the french team be able to weather the moroccans later this evening as the address lines to make more history. the african out oh, prostrated by political, i'm rest, battle wrapping gives a voice to disenfranchised youth in the arab world. who live here would look for music that actually reflects their contact. but

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a tooth. welcome along to welcome today. i'm far as smile. we've got a packed show coming up. yes, me certainly do. i'm devin us. there is plenty to talk about to help you build up another huge semi final here in castle morocco. say they are delighted to reach the last 4, but they're determined to go all the way and when the trophy. 9 will be up against defending champions. frogs be say that prepared to face morocco, i'm that noisy fans. and we've got reaction from one to cyrus as argentina and celebrate their team reaching the final thanks largely to their star player lino messy. a pretty messy here. let's see,

hold on for quality. all i me with all will get the thoughts of gemma celera shortly. but 1st the world cub hopes africa rests on the shoulders of morocco. there, of course, the 1st aside from the continent and the 1st era team to make it through to this family point goals. but i have a big task ahead of the line. you weight that fell by stadium defending champion products. you want to go, ah, they've arrived in their thousands, in the hope of witnessing a historic upset. never before has an african team got to the semi finals of a welcome. and it could be a once in a lifetime,

chance to see morocco step further as they faced france. 30 extra flights have been put on over the past 2 days. boosting a pace of supporters move already made sure the atlas lions, as they are known have been one of the best and most lovely supported teams at this tournament. so here think history will never witness anything like this before and everyone excited about. 6 anyone for we it's very overwhelming in exploring anyone and united with a broker go into the game as giant killers having already beaten belgium, spain, and portugal. they've conceded just a single goal in cattle. and that was an own goal. that coach is pushing his players to continue to rewrite history normally course on his shaw sala dimensional . i've noticed that for 2 or 3 days we have wanted to be satisfied with making the simmons that whatever happens, we will have succeeded in this world cup. and i want to change that mentality to

that you might think i'm crazy, but we want to get to the final of the world cup. we're facing the best team in the world. and when you have desire commitment in the support of your crowd, then you can win it the france, the defending champions and have a star studded lineup, which includes the tournaments joint top scorer, killian and pappy. still, they know that morocco will turn up to al bait, with a 12th man on their site. mitchell s on play venue. i told the players about the noise for morocco funds, but that's not gonna score you goes. although it is something we need to take into account and it's great to morocco's place to have such a loud support when you prepare for a match. you've also got to prepare for the atmosphere for match. now we know what to expect. oh, it's not just neural confines getting behind that team. the atlas lions have united support is from across north africa and the arab world. making sure that cattle 2022 has felt like a home world cup for them to ah,

join his raska autism. well, he just heard at jay's report there and we can now speak to a live she's at the american team. hey, so, so joe, a huge day for these players. let's hope they got enough sleep and there wasn't any say french fans causing any mischief. we've had stories in the past, a very loud music being played to disrupt opposition. a interesting yeah, i mean we're not hearing that there are any french rounds here, but there's a lot of moroccan, a lot of people have tons up hoping to get tickets from the team hotel because they've arrived either this morning or overnight from morocco and they've been told they could get tickets at the airport then of course there was any tickets in the airport. they were told i could go to the stadium to get tickets there, but the crowd that has been a huge they've come here is the last results. get tickets. but we all, with some very lucky friends who have got to get this. uh huh. he's 10 years old and he's going to go to the much they also tell me about why you've come to castle

to watch morocco light. i've came here because my uncle more in the lot like the key here was oh, golf coach and he like and he was close friends with the moroccan team and that inspired me to like become a footballer. and they also like i also started really liking the team of morocco. so i'm started watching them a lot and a lot. and this is the 1st time i've ever seen them play. and it's really an honor . and it's your 1st well cut match. and yeah, what a well cut much to come to. oh boy jamal, tell me you come from paris, you've got a ticket as well. i haven't lived in france as well, isn't gonna be a win win situation with mural current fronts. so i'm gonna go with moral cuz my blogs, my country. so i hope so low america with 20 very delighted to be in some sense. if i weren't golf or golf course, i know i've got to find who you were looking to take it. is it oh no, i'm not to,

they did, it was more loud i can hear or not, but with okay, i was going to tell me a fine. she couldn't find any tickets. exactly. as you can find anything else, you know, there were all of us. they're all out of stocks. so she came here sadly. i from switzerland. yeah. okay. just still looking for. yeah. and so you're still looking at. yeah. they're looking for i, i know i can see that you're looking for to get what i told you. they told me that it's multi gets a closed people do get tickets, you know someone inside we get tickets if you don't know you with. okay, but you're going to be supporting morocco anyway, a yeah. okay. so we need tickets. leave the

message here. got your message. you also needed to come yesterday from us. we didn't about today. i got lucky, a cheater official research platform a lot. all right? looking for like 3 weeks from do you like any on the retail or official website? i know i go to one just lucky enough. yeah. just like 20 minutes ago guys. lucky. there you go. i think i'm on them and also a bit of luck, but give me a chance around. yeah. i managed to get a ticket later. thanks for that. done, will you find tickets, jim? i'm so lucky girl you let's scan over it tomorrow. now nicholas hock is in casablanca for us, and nick,

exciting excitement must be building over there as well. no. no, i met a few days ago. a young boy, 13 year old from katara, who flew over back to casablanca, to watch this game, because there's going to be a crowd at least 40000000 people in morocco. and i'm sure people across the world, in africa, at least, we'll be watching this game closely. many people were watching the game. no at the found though, but in cafes like this one and we've seen a crowd slowly building up, you can see the waiters wearing their shirt or all that i thank you and on the menu and we show you the venue here. they gave you ref. lisa, which is the rooster, the rooster, is that the symbol of france and hear people say the lines of the atlas will eat them up tonight during the game. and i've been speaking to few, the people that are here that have been looking on you tube on their phones. what's gonna happen? there's so much common commentary around the game. and joining me now is as the

deed and bar you've been following the moroccan. yeah, he or their success since the beginning. what does it feel like to see morocco do so well? i feel really i'm so proud of my team of my time. so i, i love to be more broken. and i'm so proud and i hope we're not gonna win today, even i think france is a warm difference. but i think we've gotten that when i'm sure. how do you explain that? so many people on i've seen during the last game came out on the street. and how do you feel just hours before the game? you can see any more rocco, we love or to poll. we with the name plus one, plus one is everything. here you can see, especially in casablanca, you now read that is the famous theme in a more gulf or so we are separate o c, and we've got the balls more robust today. there's

a number of players that are from casa blanca. you said lady, we dug, for instance, all you're going to see or not he born or is that there's a lot of players right? that are to the law. so what's your, what do you think is going to be this for tonight? i think before gonna gonna be 2124 and moreover, and go on for found anyone score. i think hacky me and the the yes, i hope. thank you very much. you can thank you so much excited hope that morocco will win this game and people will be following it. these like this one. we're just hours away and people are slowly coming into these phase and getting ready for this her story game. and we'll be watching this closely back to you. all right, so much passion there. nick hack. thank you so much for that. we can now speak to

former moroccan international hassan samar rooney. he joins us live from fairfax, virginia. thank you so much for joining us. how so now you played a national team in the seventy's, did you expect and were rock and side to go with this far at a world cup? yes, indeed. i was talking to many people about about morocco, an upcoming games. even though we were in dead groups of dealing with this yolanda in spain course. yeah, i'm canada. i had some hope i'm not. so people who do believe what i was looking at, but look today, you know, so the finals now we've seen how big of a fan base american team has in places like france and canada. what about where you are? what is the level of excitement among moroccan fans there while the excitement is high and the expectation is high?

so look, i do coach, he's the closest person to the players. i don't know what he's saying today or yesterday in his press conference. he's very confident as well as we are. now when you were playing didn't you have that same kind and fan support and do you think it helps with team success? look, if you were this jersey, you're going to be an artist lie, and it doesn't matter what time and do in the history. so yes indeed, the excitement was there, but unfortunately, we're not. and of the lights whatsoever. it's taking place now with the media and everything else, but we do families and players them fos force. the excitement is always there. ok, and what do you think were all those chances are against france today? oh no,

we are looking at the finals and tina ok are ada has this summer, honey. thank you so much for your time. my pleasure. well, i was great, you know, and it doesn't get your thoughts now it can work. i do this, can. can they beat from lisa? i can they, i think they can. maybe i'm not that optimistic as professor of her son, but i think they will have their chances for for me front is a better real team in the tournament, but they have shown little about some vulnerabilities. they haven't been able to get that clean sheet so far yet. and especially against england, they showed that the left side in the defense, they kin have sometimes problems there. so i thing it for morocco i have the chances and they are sharp and it be concentrated in the chances they will have a chance. they can make any mistake in defense. they have been doing that very well so far. but they have to be very focused because they are playing against the best

forward line in the tournament. now morocco coach says that they don't have a plan to counter kilian and bob a, do you think that will be a problem for him for them? i think her members having a momentum, so i think it's impossible to have an anti him up a plan. at least you cannot do that for 90 or 120 minutes. it's impossible. and also if you focus too much on ember, there is a good man and you know, having a momentum done predictability of them believe. so it's too much immoral core. they have shown a such a huge success being a blog, a very defensive, tough blog. so i think they have to focus on that and keeping what it's been working for them now. pounds shootouts or sorry, semi finals, i should say it lost my train of thought that that me final say can b k g affairs? i know last night's wasn't but it can definitely happen. so the french and americans might need to work be prepared to face

a penalty she's out later. so let's delve into the psychology behind spoke kicks now with a guy a jordan who's a professor at the new weekend school of sport sciences sir guy a thank you very much for joining us now. you spent 5 years studying wildcat penalty shootouts. what's the secrets of taking a good penalty? that's a great question and i still wrestle with this. but i can say as much that there are many ways to take a really good power to kick the kids. of course it has to go into the goal. but how it gets there can be so varied. just look at messy in this woke up and he scored multiple out this and use very different techniques last night. he blasted it quite high with power with pace. early in the tournament, he used a completely different strategy where he had looked at the goalkeeper, made the goalkeeper make the 1st move and then just simply roll it into the of the goal and the other side. so many ways to take a really good penalty kick,

living 5 single awesome rock. today's obvious reasons, they enjoyed incredible supports that this well kept so far. and how much do you think that had a bearing on that the outcome of the penalty shootout with spain? and i think it matters. one of the things we know about panel tissue out, no surprise, but pressure is the one single determinate or, and the way that you deal psychologically with that pressure is, is the big factor space will go into that shoot out with a much higher status. there bigger team also with more quality on their players, one to one, at least normally speaking. so that gives a lot of pressure to spain. and america was down the dogs and so they could benefit from that. and now fortunately for a morocco, i think that they will still have that on the dogs stamp if their game tonight were to go to penalties. and the hurricane scenario in the england france came, i find that very fascinating out. so he was off against is talking to mate,

you got to reese, put away the penalty emphatically, but then sky's the 2nd over the bar a terrible penance. you'd have to say, why couldn't he replicate the success of the 1st one? did you notice anything different between the surroundings or his that lead up to taking the penalties? i mean, great question, of course, and again, england goes out to the welcome on the penalty kick, which is a little bit of a digital they're at now i did study those spell tickets and hurricane is normally an excellent penalty take are very secure from the bow despite the show that for the 1st one, i couldn't find specific behaviors. so very concrete things that he did differently from kick number one to number 2. but i did see one difference. and that is that on the 1st one, jordan henderson, his teammate, was on the pitch and what jordan henderson did, it's the same thing that he has been doing at liverpool for many years now. is that he protects the parent to take,

or he takes care of the parent to take the 2nd in the 2nd leading up to the parent to get to what henderson essentially did was that he scored at hurricane to the parent. this spot gave him some security, some comfort, some comforting words, and provided that atmosphere around that they kick and kick. sorry, kerry, i'm sorry. sorry for the 2nd kick. jordan henderson had just been substituted off the field literally 2 minutes before they kick the he was not there and suddenly hurricane, they're all alone. it's him against basically 5 or 6 french players were standing around him around the penalty mark than the english players. the other english players are coming to to help him, but maybe it's a little bit too little and a little bit too late. oh yes, it was a little too late with a guy, a job at that professor at the norwegian, at school at sanchez. thank you very much. that was really fascinating stuff. thank you. all the winner of today's match will face argentina in the final, the south american side,

east pass croatia to book their tickets. the world cub showpiece argentina were worn and a penalty and the 34th minutes when julio alvarez was brought down. lena massey scoring from the spot to overtake gabriela batista. as argentina's talk world, come full score with 11 reads was man responsible for doubling argentina sleep. 5 minutes later the 22 year old strikers showing skill and a bit of luck to get past for way. shes single handedly in the middle of the 2nd half. messy, showed his class with tia she man rolled back the years and providing the use this for alvarez to score again. vintage massey, the crater as argentina made it 3 nodes and felicia's hopes, argentina room to their 6 the world cup final. get their chance to redeem themselves for the final loss in 2014, when their 1st world cup since married on his team in 1986, the life for massey and his teammates, who will be back at this stadium on sunday. they will indeed, but the question remains,

he will be playing them on sunday. thank you very much. and for your fun the temple or hope that back will be back at 1530 gmc with much more build up to france versus morocco for now. it's back to tom. thank you so much, jim, and far up, we'll still ahead on al jazeera, we meet a fisherman and iraq who's livelihood is in danger, as brokers in the country trial. ah, i

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a decline in their harvest for the 2nd year. climate change is also taking a toll on the inland fisheries industry. the cities fish catch has decreased from 2000 tons and 2018 to just 700 this year as a result of drought. my mood. abdul. why? he'd reports from nash f. central iraq. this is a popular iraqi dish. cold mess. goof fish grieved on an open wood fire. for decades, fish markets thrived across the country. but these days the industry is floundering in nudge. if a city south of baghdad, dozens of fisheries have shot down. i were a little hazily says his business has suffered because of water shortages, but that's only part of the problem. my associate model been that of the so i'm in it. we recycle water. that means lack of fresh water and oxygen needed that impacts

the growth of fish. the price is a feed of also gone up from $200.00 us dollars per ton to nearly $700.00 and workers wages of triple iraq to life lines the tigris and euphrates rivers. have shrunk a result of droughts and dam projects in neighboring cherokee and the year on contamination . levels have increased as rubbish, and sewage are dumped into the reverse. every year. thousands of thousands of fish die of common treatable diseases such as cohere piss. farmers say they need more government subsidized vaccines. weighing just 20 grams. this finger link needs to be in queue, waited for about 6 months before it's big enough. roughly this size to be consumed, but fish farmers who say the spread of viral and pictorial diseases

combined with poor quality feed means many fingerings are dying in the process. zaden habit was $200000.00 fishery was destroyed in a power outage. he laments his losses. sean gus will towns of fish died when his oxygen and water pumps ground to hold. shattering mia chattering via the state power grid can only provide between 180 to 190 megawatts. but the amount required to operate the generator to keep pumping oxygen and clean water to the fish is $250.00 megawatts. we asked the agriculture ministry, what authorities were doing to protect the industry. you'll get deborah hopper motto, jiffy adams. hop on the water. christ, his is hitting many regions across the world, not only iraq. we are working on building water treatment plants and the ministry is lazing with the government in baghdad to put pressure on neighboring countries

to stop damming operations and diversion of water resources. to increase productivity, scientists suggest introducing more robust to strains to build up the fishes resistance to disease. until then the survival of this beloved traditional dish remains in doubt. mahmoud abdulla algeria, in no jeff center in iraq. that's all from me, tom. a cry for this news, al, but i'll be back in just a moment with more of the dice in years. ah, i they all ready for the 1300000 football fan. ah, i mean this is only the beginning, the noise going to keep moving forward

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