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with fans across kata as they get the party started ahead of what's promises to be an unforgettable match to his he is president under pressure to resign off to saturdays, historic low turnout and parliamentary elections and coles for justice. after a palestinian french human rights lawyer and activist is deported from his homeland . welcome to the program aids just past 11 jam tate, 2 pm in casa. joining me is host geminus, where just for weeks away jam and 32 nations and 64 matches down for the quest for footballs ultimate prize, which has come to an exciting conclusion raining champions. france will take on agen tina at lou sales stadium in just a matter of hours. that is right emily at the french looking to become the 1st station to successfully defend that title since police brazil at 60 years ago. but

it so much that could also see a little messy, a winning the trophy for the 1st time in his final dance on a wild comp pitch. in just a few hours, at least el stadium will be packs with more than $80000.00 to spectators. alright, let's get a sense of what the mood slide outside one of the team hotels in the hours before the final katia lopez is appleby accommodation with messy and the engine team team . i staying at any sign of the team katya so far yeah. 2 things for the most part have been pretty quiet. the last few hours, it kind of feels like this is argentina's personal space and everybody's respecting that. but there is also a very concrete reason why that is, security is very tight here. there's a lot of security checkpoints, a lot of inspections to get to this point and it doesn't seem like that's a mistake. it seems like the coaches on the team toes this location, this campus, this camp, campus housing unit, in order to keep

a bit of distance from maybe around the fans and all that extra enthusiasm. we've been seeing these last few days, kind of maybe some space to have less distractions when they're trying to prepare for a match, especially the one happening later on this afternoon. how will sail stadium, it's about 10 minutes from here is about a 10 minute to 10 minute drive. so it's not very far, but you will imagine that on the way over there all eyes will of course, be on messy. however, we also see an interesting combination of players. of course, the influence of madonna is a constant here back in argentina. it's kind of seen as the football god. but we also see the next generation a lot of talk now about william about is the 22 year old who scored 2 goals against croatia a few days ago. but of course, in between those names today is the day of your mess. the a lot of fans hoping that today will be the day when he can add to list of football accomplishments, winning a world cup cache. we are looking forward to the day. thank you very much for your

coverage. kathy lopez hold the line for us in doha. all right, so jemma over to you, i want to get a sense. you've been covering this now for the last few weeks. give us a sense of what we can expect tonight. obviously messy is a massive player, but we've also gotten paid for the french side. tell us a little bit about what, what lies ahead. wow. who knows what lies ahead? one thing for sure that it's going to be picking 2 of the world's best players against each other. little messy as you mentioned and kill in a buffet. i just want to focus on messy 1st, but because this is his 5th and final walk up, last chancellor. and for him, he's had this incredible last risk. this is the one thing missing from his trophy cabinet. the world cup he did, of course, when his 1st major international trophy, lost it with arch and you know, the copper america, he said that took some of the pressure off his shoulders and he could play with more freedom and he's so that's and he been enjoying his football here in the castle, he really have been the driving force in that campaign. quite reminisced you'd have to say marzano in the 1986 where they of course took home the trophy. he and

kidding him by the top scores in the tournament 5 goals each. so on paper, this could be a really exciting one. it's not just a place i a and messy we have who can alvarez thought and seen us live a very for from he's now that time meeting go score. he's had a fantastic woman as this brilliant attacking force all over the pitch. so hopefully we can expect an exciting match and plenty of goals, fingers crossed, fingers crossed and as an easy that has seen their side lose to both fronts and identity. i think that's going to be absolutely spectacular. let's get a sense now of what the feeling is like outside the french teams hotel with how malick is standing by for us to have any sign of the plays. well over here outside the french team camp, it's been pretty quiet all morning. we do have a favorite of security now, because you know, fans will probably be thought to come in big numbers. you know, as we get closer to the kick off and close to, to time that

a french team will eventually leave. we have a little trickle to find some come and go, hoping to that, get that magical selfie with a player or even the team buff get fed up and get bored. you know, this pipe spoken to a lot of fans over here that have come the numbers i've trickled every now and again from can we might have to leave it there. unfortunately, that connection isn't quite working out. that was so hail malik, lead for us there. and joe, hi jim. yeah, shame. but the excitement not just building hitting virus courses. i highly anticipated and from this one, the, the ash about that report from paris throughout the world cup france supported jeremy. all he was quietly confident that his team would go far. now, but france are in the final, he hopes they can beat argentina and win the tournament. no one can you always be sure, but you have to be confident when your friends, because you are a bit very victim. this. this is the 4th fire. know in 24 years that is in raising

his favorite plays clean and by the 23 year old style striker from the parish suburbs, i think her and buffy is a symbol in friends because her, it comes from a very mother's background and he's mixed. so he represents a lot for the younger players in the young kids are around france and i think it's her, it's her a player that we see once a generation maybe once in a lifetime. oh, excitements building in the country. her support is way to find out if france can defend the world cup. i could, i hope france wins. so we go to 3rd star. it's a beautiful team, even if the others weren't bad at all. she has yellow contest, grissman jew, and but a so we would when greece, man g o, an in by pe are among the players who are also in the winning 2018. scored a team whose success inspired

a generation of football lovers. he was here on the show, the leads a good friends, celebrated when france won the world cup 4 years ago. if they win again, this famous avenue will be packed with fans once more. the french president, a self confessed football fan, was in doha for the semi final. i'm says he'll return to watch france argentina. i think this is a team with a lot of willingness generosity. and there you will have 68000000 people backing them. and we, we bought them a fig tree on sunday would be a 3rd world cup idle for frogs. and the 1st time in 60 years, the team has one consecutive titles. jeremy says he'll watch the final in his favorite ball on the day that also happens to be his birthday, a france victory, the elite gift he really wants to butler al jazeera, ours,

and we have our report is right here in doha covering all that van action jim, yeah, that's right. sorry, high right is at a barbecue policy organized by argentina and fans, and bala village will speak to her shortly. but 1st let's bring in victoria gate and be his at dice. how's souk walk if and the victoria, how is the atmosphere there? at the stake, any sign of any barbecues, no barbecue is down here, but there are a lot of argentinian fancy spoken to saudis to bangladesh used to egyptians today who are all supporting argentina. that's on top of the 50000 dodge and tinian fans who have been in jo, half the all this will come right from the beginning. we've got now with us. no g as in frank or heavier, who has blown in this morning from tanzania in africa. and why was it so important for you to come on? witnesses in person rather than just what you on the television, they got you on these matching really to seem for out in dina. we did go, well,

why do i were feeling nowadays? laker is like a did a b, i don't need any more. did i get what another 510 years? i don't need it any, any assistance my mind will be perfect and more today that because we are going to we okay. so i was just going to ask you what do you think your chances are of when he how do you think the match is going to go? yeah. 99.9 percent. so i would say 100 yeah. yeah, yeah, i correct. yeah. why confident we are playing? well, i know of course is i know i and i have all the faith on it. we are going i will definitely. yeah. when i talked to i continue fans down here in the sea. they often talk about how important it is lane or messy it's, it's probably as last well cup. is that something you would agree with? you feel like i agree? well i, i, i really like miss you to when they woke up, it will be perfect for he missed, he saw an amazing player the best at the moment. i will be up perfect for

him to win these i'm he really the serve on these woke up. he has been playing very, very good. the skis best would come. so i wish all of our him but also for the all, are they hardly a gun ziann? dina, or we one, these are the most important thing is not in our life. all right, well thanks very much the to into as i know you going to lease out stadium a bit later on. so good luck tonight. thank you. say that playing against friends friend will have won the world cup twice. and if they successfully defend mama, oh, that will be the 1st time that had been done or how they did that in the 19 days. but certainly down here, people think argentina willing, i couldn't sounding argentine fans that victoria. thank you. all right, let's go to sarah. hi, right. who's among more? argentinian fan said, wow. village. certainly no french fans. they weigh usaa. it's just after 2 pm. he local. so certainly lunch has been and gone. how. how was the barbecue and how else

have fans been preparing for the match? oh, well, i'll tell you, they came, they barbecued, they hadn't drink a coffee, they sang, and now they've left their bellies full. they're on their way to the stadium in a few hours from here. this is the main place where a lot of the audience indian funds have been saying they have all across the locations of where they're from. it's very much in austin and pinion tradition before the game where you pay your band with the same way or from the fans from your home town. can also see you locate you and, and to you on there was also a bond if you could just see just behind me, there was a family of 4 argent pinions that drove all the way from spain. it's been a they've been following that team. brian, for all the song, every so often you'll get caring. there was some face painting just ahead of guessing to the stadium. and also i have and i didn't pinion found those. come all

the way from miami, got on. you have collected a huge number of falling on social media. what you started chronicling your journey from the us to get here and everything you've been finding stories and you've and it's all in spanish. you've got lots of follows. tell me more about that, but also some of the characters that you've met, including will say, doesn't speak english, but got some was going to help us a bit more about well, so maybe you can give us a bit of a background. yeah, like you said, i started, it's about a month and a half ago, 16 followers left and humbled to get us over $11000.00. now letting people see my. busy experience you my eyes a little bit about the the. busy busy human happened and i've just been more or less to me was probably the most interest reserve was. busy going to have committed questions, but he's a fantastic learning. yeah, i will say you, you were telling him how do you well, it was the 84 years of 84 years on that was the can you tell me more about what

is it that i'm hearing is attended? my understanding is every single walls cut it, it gives it with the local go eat, then if one will give any sort of one the others i think 191974 in germany. all. oh, so sus 13 will cuffs just then you've been 5 in following argentina. seem right from the thought now for you. how much did it mean to be here amongst all the odds and simian fans and what kind of experience you finding since you've been here? so this rebel and really moves everything to me. i have my own. i mean, i can't compare to well to euro, but i have my own version of what this means to me since i'm 7 years old waiting to somebody. so the final in italy 9090. i been feeling like a champion but never becoming one. so for me it's, it's amazing to be able to be your experience with experience is going to be my 26th game. this woke up by the woke up, but just the feeling of i've been feeling really it's never like never before.

and it's been se along here mess the support says every i was trying to look for you in the crowd. everyone have they argentina and everyone has messed the on the background. this is going to be lost a very lucky because there's no more messy. sure. so, so all the way to pick it up by your message. sure, no, no, no, you guys. and you said you bought your ticket. yeah. i was able very lucky to buy it last night. so i was very concerned about that. i couldn't leave well watching the game. and you'll see that in a few hours. all, now you guys say they're off now to the stadium, which is su hours from here in the 2nd law to get it all set to meeting wants to get to the stadium early. they can all get together. they're expecting 35000 dodge in simeon fans in the big game or continue right until the end. they all

going to hold what an incredible atmosphere and so beautiful to meet walter and gaston. thank you very much, sarah. hi rod to live for us there in doha. now, according to one study cut, i faced an unprecedented campaign of negative reporting in international media. since it was awarded the world come, some analysts say coverage of make a sporting events is usually negative when they happen in the global south. as i'm a binge of aid report in the morning, ah, people and just been incredible, never known anywhere in the world. this is a huge you were on the streets of doha, describing what he saw from tick talk to twitter and snapshot to instagram social media influences with millions of followers from all over the world have shared, similar recounts. but if one was reading newspapers in watching tv in the western hemisphere, the expectation would be quite the opposite. the campaign has been relentless for

years from overall migrant debts being attributed to cutler's world cup to newspapers, calling the international event a moral debacle. 4 weeks across europe, there was a chorus of boycott cutter through news media and some depicted other it's people and players in orientalist and is lam a for big tropes. one study showed that 66 percent of the articles in mainstream u. k. media. since that there was awarded the world cup where negative the fee for president called it hypocrisy. i think for what we europeans have been doing in the last 3000 years. around the world. we should be apologizing for next 3000 the us. before starting to give moral lessons to people, germany's former foreign minister called it arrogance in a tweet he noted my mother still needed her husband's permission to work. retreated guest workers, crappy, and how's the miserably that does not mean that writes issues,

including those about migrant workers in cotton and the white region are not real. officials acknowledge imperfections and say they've changed laws and will continue to make improvements. they also believe coverage of mega sporting events in the global south always tends to be negative. so his theories and one is racism 2nd is hate, and 3 is orientalism. the best thing to counter propaganda is by doing it in the ground. people left with good memories. you see mexican, you see english, you see europe ian, wedding, the petra and the street. what does this show you before this was a sign of shame to dance different. i think cut, i have succeed. not to change only the perception of kathy, the perception of arab muslims, given the ferocity and scale of the negative press him that there is some analysts here believe that it has exposed the bias of the media. and critics trade unionists have been telling out there that it will take impartial balance journalism to hold the cotton is due to their words, but negative campaigns, aimed at

a country are not helpful. some, a majority of their stuff. let's get some more analysis of this now and on that is of 5 fil alamo deca. he is the editor in chief of the gulf times newspaper 5. so thanks so much for being on the program. we've seen images will, as is always the case. there's controversy and high media scrutiny and the lead up to any woke up. we saw that with russia. we saw that with brazil. so how's the scrutiny of khattab before the games kicked off? been any different? well, i think what happened in katara is more than what happened in russia and, and told him that had been happening before. it was part of a propaganda that was led by, i will say, i will divided into 3 parts. one was propaganda. and 2nd was by slam phobia. and again, i think it was also kind of racism. and you know,

there was the 4th pillar, which is the people who are and the economic insight. so i think this one cup really has opened eyes for a lot of people. you know, the viewer by today or final will be 5000000000. so this is 5 time the super bowl. we have crossed the records of people who are attending and we always say seeing is believing. so, you know, by having all this nations visiting katara, getting introduced to the out of the culture. you know, we are not on the cuts out. we are a part of the middle east and them into leads is 450000000. that has been all was bad. seems and the news and bad news and you know, so this is really an opportunity. so people get together and i think really it's kind of like, you know, gave that impression of what we want to do, you know? yeah, one of my favorite images has been the fans wearing the traditional story. but in

colors for me, i think that's been such a beautiful image. what do you think that means and what do you think fans have learned? foreign fans have learned about this region and how, how they shown what they've learned. look, i'm very glad emily that you have put this in front because look, it's been 100. there is a study of 100 years of hollywood movies as being and of 1000 images of people wearing that letter and a thought about 950. it's all about negative. so if you go to the movies, lawrence of arabia, the movies of the sort of sand about that many movies you know, and it's on, was put the guy who went to the thought is the greedy or the, you know, the, and i get the part and really vis won't top kind of destroy the studio type and gave, you know it's, it's another traditional clothes for a nation that is peaceful that as well coming,

that has hospitality. and this is what the, what the whole idea was about. i really give a big credit on the guy who made the spectra and different flags because this kind of, i mean, what are you going to do? the stereotype that has been built, i think, have been destroyed and the capital ian diet. and if i, so this is the 1st cut off, the 1st arab and middle east nation to host a world cup. just what does it mean for people in this region and elsewhere? look, this region has a population of 2 thirds of youth. so i think the tournament have gave a hope for the, you know, for the other countries in the middle east and, you know, we can hear the president and continue have announced morocco will be the championship for the club. we heard saudi is bidding for the next world cup. so really, this good challenge gives, i think this is what the customer have inspired our neighbors, you know, and put everybody together and, and have you seen, you know,

categories or so the supporting morocco, moral can supporting john as you saw, really this football i think made people together and besides any conflict that has been there, you know, for, for any reason that fi, so this unifying nature of this tournament, i think, particularly struck by this. i was the audience in a saudi arabian saudi arabia, fans. i think she was saying a lot of this much we're going to be supporting. she does the same iraq, i can you just explain this sense of connection with the arab nations and how they will coming together? look, i think that culture of diplomacy and sport diplomacy have when the clear diplomacy because you know, whatever you do in diplomacy and the seas and by let's run the sports or the football have made everybody together so. so you know, a couple have been doing a lot on the mitigation of i've got to stand culture museum. so this is part of the,

i would, i call it sport diplomacy, while fi. so we have found it incredibly moving to be a part of those stories i think will stay with us for many, many years to come. thank you so much for your time. be national the yes. how much time? national day that was 5. so the editor in chief of the golf times these type of thank you. thank you. have to move on now to other world news and to see is a position is calling for the president to step down a day after a parliamentary election is political critics. i say it has lost his legitimacy following the lowest turn out since the 2 newsy in revolution more than a decade ago and less than 9 percent of voters cost the ballot and a poll which the opposition boycotted down. and as many of us of the electoral commission says the turn out is 8.8 percent. we say it's an earthquake of magnitude $8.00 on the richter scale. not not. and yet we ask those who run the country

illegally and without any legitimacy to leave hashem, our whole barbara has lauren this from tune in this was an opportunity for the opposition to say that the whole political process thought heard by president a society in 2000 went to one, was completely wrong eroding democratic gains in, in his ear and threatening his future. and this explains why are they made that 1st statement, asking the president to step aside quoting fullerton's additional period and for the main political parties to come together and shot a new transition though, would pave the way to new presidential elections and new constitution. but you know, this is going to be a tough way ahead for all the parties. all the other hand, what took place i, you do, i think now he faces the biggest challenge, which is basically, he needs to win the hassle minds of people. but ultimately,

he does understand that is only the political part is the hub in prevailing over the last 10 years. the have the potential to bring together a genuine sense of a democratic life into nicea. israel has deported a palestinian french human rights lawyer and activist after his jerusalem residency rights were revoked. earlier this month, sila her murray, had been detained without charge since march, and a so called administrative detention israeli authorities have imprisoned him several times, alleging his involvement in an assassination plot of a former chief rabbi. he was also branded a terrorist by israel as a member of the popular front for the liberation of palestine from mcbride is in west jerusalem and has more on him tori's deportation. the interior ministry here confirms the temerity was put on a plane early thursday morning, bound for paris, so bringing to an end his long fight against deportation. he is a,

a palestinian french human rights lawyer also activists. but according to the israelis, he is a terrorist. they say he's been involved with a terrorist organization. he has several times in prison. his longest prison stretch was 7 years, and that was after a plea agreement in the alleged plot to assassinate a former chief rabbi and also a spiritual leader here. now after he was released from that sentence, the, according to the authorities, he was still involved in what they say were terrorist activities. they revoked his jerusalem residency. it's this residency status, the palestinians in the occupied east jerusalem live. and once that was without, because he is a jewel national, a with french citizenship, and then opened the way for him to be deported to france. but he has never spent any length of time in france, although he has a french wife and his children who are in france themselves. it's a jerusalem has always been his home. so it has re serious concerns from human

rights groups. here that's the authorities could use this to target other activists . it's also race concerns in france itself. sunday is international migrants, day and opportunity to raise awareness about the challenges faced by people who leave their homes in search of a better life. un secretary general antonio good terrorist says more than 280000000 people have left the country. a majority of them did swords to escape poverty, unemployment, political instability, and violence. in less than 10 years, at least 51000 migrants have died and thousands of others and missing european roots account for the largest number of missing people, or parts of africa plays the 2nd biggest risk for people on the move. minot at samar tay, summa is the commissioner of health, humanitarian affairs, and social development of the african union. she explains the complexities around human migration, you law verda, and flux a showed us that to a migration is not these, but to stick, stuck to 30 foot. ah,

because in the recent years, africa has risen are changing button of migration, migration easy fennel man that has big game both for a dynamic and extremely complex globe complexity due to mildew city of for factors that includes so sure. economy condition, the poverty, and now we fear. so to do climate change and nerdy live to choose political is the ability of the road is a box in a, in africa that mid the migration issues, complex power has been restored in parts of ukraine after a barrage of russian missile attacks that punched millions of people into darkness . moscow says friday's high precision strikes it military and energy facilities, and were aimed at disrupting the delivery of foreign weapons. the attacks have left

ukrainians struggling with rolling blackouts and water shortages, as temperatures dropped below 0. opposition parties in liberia have been protesting, accusing the government of corruption and wasteful spending. the cost of living is rising in the west african nation and come, says president george, we're is wrapping up a $48.00 day trip abroad. a member of parliament has found a motion calling for an investigation into his prolonged absence. a state of emergency has been declared in the texas border city of el paso over an anticipated influx of migrants mer. oscar leases says as many as 6000 people could soon be arriving in the city from mexico. every day, the emergency declaration comes ahead of the lifting of coven related water restrictions that prevented some migrants from seeking asylum in the u. s. ah!

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