this is deja vu news live from berlin pope francis breaks his silence on the plight of the rare hinge on calling for decisive international action on the refugee

crisis the catholic leader has been celebrating an outdoor mass of bangladesh where more than six hundred thousand american jobs are now living having fled violence to me and mark he set to meet some of the refugees later today also coming up chats on the back all needs a potential partners germany's president tries to break the country's political deadlock in the former coalition become the new coalition government. plus a plan in response to the shocking reports of people being sold as slaves in libya . but while i was screaming he can't shouting i want money i want money she he cut my negative again and again want to cry and. european and african leaders agreeing on a merge and see measures to evacuate thousands of my green stranded in libya before they go on the auction block. plus the countdown to next year's. world cup in

russia begins with excitement growing ahead of today's draw for the tournaments groups. i'm brian thomas a very warm welcome to the show pope francis is in a bangladesh right now where he's praised the south asian nation for giving shelter to refugees fleeing mean more the pontiff led an open air mass for some one hundred thousand roman catholics in the bangladeshi capital dhaka but he did not directly mention the i think identity of the me and more muslim group francis has stayed away from allegations that me and mars army is waging in a campaign of ethnic cleansing against the ro hinge on the possible need some real hinge or refugees later today. pope francis is asia tour has taken him to two sides of

a desperate humanitarian crisis on the one side me on maher accused of systematic ethnic cleansing of its rohingya and on the other bangladesh rolling out the red carpet has welcomed more than six hundred thousand of those who fled. addressing the country's president the pope heaped praise on bangladesh but again disappointed observers when he chose not to say the name injure you mean he. in recent months the spirit of generosity and solidarity a hallmark of bangladeshi society has been seen most vividly in its humanitarian outreach to a massive influx of refugees from wrecking state providing them with temporary shelter and the basic necessities of life. that will not deny he. where the pope goes so go to church his followers by any means possible amid the excitement ahead of the pope's mass high hopes that his visit will bring

a solution to the crisis. this visit will be fruitful for bangladesh if he comes and solves the problem about the road inja refugio. the pope ended his first day in bangladesh paying his respects to the assassinated founding father of the nation. while following the pope's visit for us is our if until islam from the dalai service good morning to you are counted minority in bangladesh has been under immense pressure how important is francis is visit in the country right now for them. it can't allude previous to. this has gone missing this. year old william rosario was also a hit out at a local missionary school in northern bottom of this and krysten ritter was hacked to death at the same location last year and f.x. one minute to start trickling in the muslim issue if you can through bottom of this

so experts think pope's visit to the country will give hope to the extent community that they are not left behind more than if you thousand catholics in the country are taking far as. my spear lived by the history of. now ok now you're on your way again today to the refugee camp and cox's bazaar where many of the roads are living right now from what you've been hearing from them what are they hoping to to hear from the pope today well a group operating here if you would use is due to move to the poor in takar that they have high hopes there today and don't go. back to. that group includes sixteen people who are among more than six hundred thousand doofuses who have clear to me and microscope hull and safety in the camps in forces about there were. fighting and. as you know up when he was out i was in dhaka yesterday and says.

the international community into it didn't do you solve that however despite pressure to confront the issue head on the hope is to actually architect. in probably doing his will he wants are just not. used that building his visit to myanmar where the group being early migrants are not entitled to full citizenship to our hard working hard line. making their country again. ok are of those things much for now those are for to islam following the papal visit more hear more from him today thanks very much. well here in germany last night germany's president brought together chancellor all the macro and leader of the social democrats martin scholz with the aim of breaking the impasse over the formation of a new german government the meeting at the presidential palace in berlin lasted

more than two hours afterwards the party leaders left without giving any statements stance on the macro has been trying to put together a workable line since september inconclusive election the social democrat leader martin schultz at first refused to consider forming another grand coalition as it's called but now says his party is open to holding exploratory talks. so how things go last night joining me now to talk about that is our correspondent all over celica morning all over to you you know after the first meeting do we have a sketch now of what we can expect for these talks but we don't know for sure if there will be any other talks at this point though so rumors basically right now we are waiting for any official confirmation of that of course what we know is the talks lasted laying longer than expected and this was quite a historic situation really when the president called in all leaders of different

german parties here and especially yesterday the social democrats and the christian democrats here to sort of like five set the basis for possible exploratory talks later today there will be a press statement very likely of martin shields was in a very complicated situation because he would have to perform a u. turn he promised several times that he would not go into another coalition there with. christian democrats now and because of that what we can expect if these exploratory talks would start if there will be this process continues what we could expect there is that they would put up a high price tag on continuing to cooperate ok so so what happens next where does this go from here. well the next step certainly will be that we will have to hear an official statement of march in seoul so as germany wakes up right now the whole country is excitedly awaiting any further steps your phone from the social democrats because party certainly is ready to negotiate here it's all eyes on the

social democrats right now and even if he says yes let's continue then we will certainly have to wait for the party convention they will have to ask the voter base because of this huge turn and i've just that i've just described he will have to ask his party base for permission this will happen by the end of the week ok so first we have to wait for marshals to say something there's a big if right there and then it goes to the s.p.d. the social democrats base they have to vote on it what we hear is that the young social democrats are not particularly in favor of going into talks with the christian democrats with all of the machall so the big step really is this vote by the social democrats coming up i mean that's fair to say isn't it fair to say i mean there's not only the young social democrats who really oppose this move they were weakened by the recent election was historic election defeat for the social

democrats margins holds the s.p.d. leader is very much weaken and they fear that going into another grand coalition would weaken them any further ok oversell thanks very much for that this morning. ok let's check out some of the other stories making in the news at this hour a panel chaired by japan's prime minister shinzo abbay has agreed to a date for the country's emperor to abdicate akihito will step down on april thirtieth twenty nineteen with his eldest son the crown prince nora hito taking the throne it's the first abdication in japan in about two centuries eighty three and has suffered ill health. and argentinian court has sentenced forty eight former no. terry officials to prison they were convicted of committing crimes against humanity during what's known as argentina's dirty war between one nine hundred seventy six and one thousand nine hundred three many were involved the practice of murdering civilian prisoners by throwing them from aircraft over water

. and argentina's navy says it has given up all hope that the forty four man crew of a missing submarine will be found alive efforts to locate that vessel will continue in the ocean off argentina's cosas believes an explosion on board calls that submarine to sink more than two weeks ago. riot police in hundreds have clashed with supporters of the main opposition candidate in the presidential election after you used the electoral court of fraud delays in releasing results from sunday's election of raised suspicions of vote manipulation with ninety three percent of all ballots counted the incumbent president won her long ago and mondas holds a slim lead. this is that of a new still to come on the show a plan in response to the shocking reports of migrants being sold as slaves in libya we'll look at new emergency measures to evacuate thousands of migrants before

they go on the auction block. the guards here now on oil is currently over the sixty dollars mark over a member states are hoping it will stay there yeah at least that's the aim of the ladies deal agreed in vienna thursday opec will keep the pumps on low revs extending a cap on global supplies for the next nine months saudi arabia believes the market has yet to rebalance and warns it's premature to talk about exiting the cuts at least for a couple of quarters due to on rest in libya and lower the number of normal production in nigeria opec members also decided to limit nigeria's output but have yet to agree a cap for libya. still producing nations have agreed to end subsidies that distorts markets g. twenty ministers have been meeting in berlin to avert a trade war over still overcapacity has been causing international tension deep

divisions remain. expectations were low from the outset the interests of the participating countries were just too varied the goal of the summit was to put the brakes on steel production worldwide to reduce crippling overcapacity but in the end that mission remained impossible there was at least some agreement as to the cause of the problem though it can and you know it finished members recognize the need to make sure that the market forces are working better and that means agreeing that there should be a reduction of steel subsidies that are distorting the market so. that agreement is not binding though the o.e.c.d. says currently the market is flooded with an extra eight hundred million tons of steel around five hundred million tons of it comes from china by far the largest steel producer in the world but europe is also producing too much and the u.s.

is threatening further punitive tariffs and complaining of dumping prices. unemployment in the european union is dropping statistics agency euro stats says it stood at seven point four percent in october its lowest level since two thousand and eight the year of the global financial crisis the slightly less good news the chance of finding work varies from comes into country and some companies on all complaining they come find enough skilled workers. check firm linnet has desperate for more workers. the hospital bed manufacturer has seven hundred employees an annual sales of two hundred seventy million euros it could increase those figures if it could only hire more assembly line workers service technicians logistics specialists and engineers. many other czech companies have the same problem as linnet. the czech republic has the lowest unemployment rate in the

e.u. at two point seven percent this compares to germany with joblessness at three point six percent across the bloc unemployment stands at seven point four percent on average that's a total of more than eighteen million people. the jobless rate is highest in southern europe especially in spain and greece. these southern european countries have had high unemployment for years. many young people from the region have left looking for better work prospects that's making it difficult for some companies such as this woodworking shop to find employees as the outlook slowly improves. who does this city belongs to their citizens you might think but for an increasing number of them living in their own city has become un affordable like in berlin for example property prices have been rising for years in many big cities that's why investors from all over the world are buying large apartment blocks convert them

into condominiums and sell the single units for a higher price it's a good deal for them but less so for the tenants many could be driven out of their homes because a comp a the higher rents we have this exclusive report from berlin. every kind in berlin every time and if you're paying rent you're at risk. if you pan there's no right that guarantees everyone can live in city centers. and that of course the city must be there for those who live and work in it otherwise it will stop being a city of. who does a city belong to and who can afford to live in it a common topic among berliners in the working class quite spec district many residents live on modest incomes so they're upset about the current push towards modernization which could end up doubling their rents but that's the plan for real

estate firms like phoenix play house the tenants so they can really rent flats or sell them. the companies don't like to be named and shamed the shareholders don't like it. the government and the senate who are doing nothing about this need our votes and we need to shout more to them about doing something about it to the mix. in the city. when investors are lured by internet ads if you realize that others are losing their homes and it's not only the real estate that's being dressed up the publication of the paradise papers reveal that phoenix prey had concealed rental income to the tune of millions of euros many berlin homes are registered to subsidiaries in new jersey a tax haven. in the past few years berlin real estate prices have risen steadily people from around the world want to invest here the austrian company asimo ogg

a started buying up houses and commercial properties in the city more than ten years ago this is still quote unquote cheap compared to other metropolitan cities and we forecast that berlin will make this legion so if you believe it will happen and you compare it to other major cities then you'll see there's still a long way to go. for urban ologists this conflict between investors and renters is detrimental to cities in the long term that's busy and it's the things that have yet to what we're seeing is that these exploitative strategies are diametrically opposed to the city's interests and needs and that the solution is relatively simple limit those market forces. some say cities should belong to everyone because houses aren't just investments they're people's homes. talking about investments have you been investing in bitcoin this week well you better check your portfolio because bitcoin is tumbling the currency has been all

the rage lately inspiring ever more investors to jump on the bandwagon just this week the price hit a record high of over eleven thousand three hundred dollars but since then because it has low. lost over twenty percent of its peak value reaching a low of nine thousand dollars its reason volatility has prompted warnings from prominent investors that bitcoin is well into bubble territory. and there's no plan to stop the modern day slave trade and brian has more on that that's right there heard as been put together at a summit of european and african leaders in ivory coast in response to the shocking reports of slave auctions in libya now the plans calling being called an emergency measure to evacuate nearly four thousand people stranded in libya but the african union says there could actually be as many as seven hundred thousand migrants trapped in libya a good number of them at the mercy of the highest better. french president among

the lead the way by saying that migrants should be helped to leave libya as quickly as possible delegates from the african and european union summit in ivory coast agreed on an action plan and a crisis meeting on the sidelines of the summit it involves increased spending on setting up a task force to facilitate the rapid repatriation of migrants. next year the stimulus we must act quickly we must evacuate those who are willing to help them get back to their home countries will be diligent mccall was talking about people like adam from ivory coast adam was abducted on his way to europe by people traffickers in libya and sold on many times you know often we don't you know. they looked at us and a house was up and then someone gave me a telephone to call my mother he took a knife and cut my leg. while i was screaming he kept shouting i want money i want money we cut my leg again and again want to cried because he pleaded with us.

in the end adams family paid a ransom of five hundred fifty euros. two weeks ago he was flown back to ivory coast by the international organization for migration. the organization plays a central role in the new action plan it is tasked with bringing the migrants home but according to regional director might be an ashram many parts of libya are too dangerous for her workers without the help of the military. will mainly have access to detention facilities around by the libyan government in the north of course it remains challenging security is still a difficult issue even in those areas. so the logistics of these of these operations are quite quite complex however participants in the summit have promised to start implementing parts of the action plan in the coming days according to

mussa faqih chairperson of the african union commission thousands of my brits in libya have already been identified. that there is no rules of will we haven't convinced our international partners in europe and the united nations to repatriate three thousand eight hundred people immediately with the help of a task force put up but. libya is the only issue delegates were able to agree on there was no resolution on what was meant to be the main goal of the summit developing a new strategy to help africa's youth expectations have been high but it seems africa's most vulnerable have been left out in the cold. war let's go straight to ivory coast and didn't you correspondent young philip scholz he's in operation for us young fella first of all can you tell us more about this emergency plan and the task force to help rescue the african migrants in the slaves in libya right now.

mainly to buy french president micro and the outlines were discussed during an emergency meeting at the summit. from what we know at the moment it's mainly contains two aspects first of all more money for organizations involved in the rescue operations which is mainly the international organization for migration and then secondly the creation of a task force that force so post to be made up by intelligence units and police units and they are supposed to find out more about the human trafficking networks in the desert and then eventually smash those networks it's hard to say at the moment of the plan will really be successful it's definitely an important initiative looking at those terrible reports about the conditions in libya but people that work on the ground say that it's impossible to operate in a lot of those areas unless they have very strong military and this suspect the

military aspect is left at the splenda at the moment and certainly will need to be discussed no doubt now have these reports that you mentioned coming out of libya the slave markets the networks the terrible conditions have they been affecting the flow of migrants into libya are migrants now trying to get north via other routes instead. no not really i think it wherein this work of course is an important aspect and the information about those dangerous routes. they have to get but i've talked to a lot of migrants on their way and i think a lot of them are quite aware of the risks involved but they think there's this general feeling ok it might happen to others i've heard about it but it won't happen to me and of course the level of desperation is quite high no matter people truly from conflict up from poverty generally from off perspective i told i have

even met people that went through hell and live you know are parts like not. on their way to europe then they went back home and they even want to try it again ok now this summit was supposed to address some of that lack of perspective you just talked about did it come up with. no it definitely didn't it was quite disappointing to disappointing there was this initiative by france but apart from that there were not a lot of. outcomes of this on that i think it has several reasons first of course of all of course the trafficking issue dominated the whole son that there were obviously also some tensions between european and african representatives basically the africans. yes we want financial assistance but we don't want those permanent lectures about the europeans only once to give financial.

commitments to policy improvements and good governance young fellah feels for us and obvious john thanks very much. now investigators in the hague are looking into how a convicted work criminal was able to bring a deadly chemical in to united nations courtroom on wednesday the former bosnian croat general. dramatically took his own life by drinking that substance after his guilty verdict was upheld in that courtroom in bosnia and croatia the response to his death has been mixed many bosnian muslims say that he's avoided justice now a number of croatians feel the guilty verdict is deeply unjust. hundreds of person in croats gathered for a candlelight vigil in central must one of the keep battlegrounds during the former yugoslavia as years of civil conflict they came to mourn a man the international community called a convicted war criminal for his one time comrades the former general slow but

proud yet was nothing short of a war hero who gave his life for an ideal it was an order to know such a man he was a true soldier just like all of us he fought for creation we never attacked anyone we were defending our homes i was defending mostar my city i have taken in shocking scenes on wednesday. poisoned shortly after the judge at the international war crimes tribunal confirmed he would serve a twenty year sentence he later died from the effects of the poison and for other persons his action confirmed his guilt it's not and i think this was an act of a coward he couldn't face the truth of the verdict he shouldn't have done it but the court has confirmed all the allegations that probably is a war criminal. in croatia parliament in zagreb lawmakers observed a minute's silence the prime minister clearly unhappy with the court's verdict. we

are sorry about what happened in the courtroom for his own reasons perhaps moral reasons general probably act took his own life it's clear what he thought about the verdict in our opinion also it was unfair. the acts suicide ends his own chapter in croatia's troubled history but a wider reconciliation still seems a distant prospect. this is date of you know still to come on the show on world aids day we'll find out about the pill that can help prevent hiv infection during unprotected sex and how it's been changing the rules for the gay community here in berlin. all of that and much more straight ahead. pick up. independent scientists say. any time to

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well i'm not a real person but i'm still just a piece of. scientists around the world are working to measure our emotions. so hopefully i can be a helpful piece a song. the virtual person as a therapist or a robot as a teacher neither would have a human empathy. what does a machine need to do to create empathy and a medical context would i disclose more information to a person or to computer in this case algorithms instead of feelings measuring emotion starting december sixteenth on t w. welcome again this is the w. news our top stories this hour pope francis is in bangladesh where he's held an open air mass for some one hundred thousand catholics in that country he's praised

the country for giving shelter to re-injure refugees fleeing me and maher but stop short of calling the my north group by name. and gesture on the macro has met the leader of germany's social democrats with the aim of breaking the deadlock over forming a new government the meeting at the presidential palace in berlin lasted more than two hours and the party leaders left without giving any formal statements. well it was thirty years ago that scientists that then if i had hiv the virus that's behind the aids pandemic and today on world aids day were asking about the state of awareness of aids and how far the fight against each i.v. aids has come according to the united nations thirty six point seven million people worldwide are living with hiv although the number of annual infections has fallen by sixteen percent since two thousand and ten one point eight million people became

newly infected in two thousand and sixteen alone now without proper treatment hiv can lead to a life threatening illness as of course progress and what's known as antique retro viral therapy has increased patient's life expectancy according to one study in one thousand nine hundred six for example a twenty year old living with hiv could expect to live for another one thousand years a decade and a half later this figure goes up to fifty three years now which means a twenty year old who got hiv in two thousand and eleven could reach the age of seventy three. now some new developments in asia the medication are showing promise what's known as spread or pre-exposure prophylaxis is a drug that can prevent an infection during unprotected sex now the pill used to be hard to get it used to be very expensive but has now become more widely available that's good news in the fight against hiv aids but critics worry it could also

promote unsafe sex it's already been changing the rules for the gay community for example here in berlin a man who is a professional musician he's gay and a chevy negative and that's how he wanted to stay that is why he relies on prep and antiviral medicine against hiv infection it's mostly meant for the high risk group of sexually active gay men this. sort of until about two years ago i just used condoms but there were always risky situations of mine for calling i started to mistrust condoms. then i heard about prep and it really sounded like a savior. i know that. people used to pay up to eight hundred euros a month or semi-legal the order

a cheaper generic version from abroad but recent efforts by a cologne pharmacist drastically lowered the price to fifty euros a month today over sixty pharmacies in germany offer them medicine cloudy and i how store was one of the first in berlin. not. the demand has been very high since october we've had two hundred to two hundred thirty patients here just in this pharmacy and in germany in general it's around one thousand three hundred fifty now thousand but i think for a man well the pill changed his life. as. prep took my constant fear away not only in the bedroom but in everyday life it helped me get emotionally intimate again before every potential partner was also a potential danger. critics of the pill are

afraid that unprotected sex will spread other sexually transmitted diseases but people who take prep like a man who will get tested regularly for other is t.d.'s possibly coming the spread the combination of better hiv treatment and prep is having a significant impact abroad. yet. we are now certain that prep can definitely start new infections and the u.k. new infections have dropped significantly and we can see the same in san francisco we can have these successes in germany as well. for a monorail prep is already a success it finally means freedom from the once life threatening hiv. to talk about this and other topics on world aids day i'm joined by linda gail bakker in cape town south africa the president of the international aids society little girls i so much for being with us this morning you know we just saw that

report about how the drug practice being used to help prevent hiv here in germany globally though most cases affect people in sub-saharan africa is perhaps helping people there. so it is very early days for the rollout of freaks as a preselection in southern africa can and damn i think while there is a great deal of interest and my country for instance has a license to buy our medical drugs and you have agency it is not freely available and i think that is just a matter of government and i guess locating the the finances to be able to finance a convention intervention well we've all got a very big treatment drug bill to pay for abbott both king and south african business leaving ford in trying to get prepared to to why the greeks population

ok what about the criticism of this drug could have prevented a drug like actually have a negative effect in terms of people becoming more careless when it comes to sex without protection. i think that always remains a theoretical risk and but in fact we haven't seen that play out in practice saying all the clinical trials and there but pain randomised clinical trials at that when into a recent matron alice says that showed that this is a very effective way of preventing a tragedy in all of that as there was not an increase in risky behavior and and so i think you know this sort of theoretical risk remains that because people may reduce at the use of condoms that we will see other sexually transmitted infections come about but i think quick brain is a very important intervention for those people the struggle to use condoms in the

first place so you know from my point of view least with preventing a child b. and and and as you will your. you know your program had just eluded to what you really want is that people really gauge was essential health services come in and get tested for instance regularly we think there's a c.i. were circulating in the ranks prick gives a reason for people to engage with the health services coming get screened and of course get treated for that as well yeah i'd like to jump in there we have time for one more question what about the future briefly if you of age i.v. and aids treatment you'll be chairing next year's international aids conference. craik said we are looking forward to going to amsterdam on the twenty third of july i will come for it to be an important conference and we'll be looking actually already achievements we can make twenty one million people now in treatment but there is still a great deal of work to be done and i think we will be we are reviewing we

prioritizing and making sure that we actually do all seeing him a delegate to be sure we're looking forward to amsterdam in twenty eighteen ok thank you very much for that president of international aid society linda gale back are joining us this morning from cape town south africa thank you so much for having me gonna and ukraine two countries that i first glance don't appear to have a lot in common but one d.n.a. and has set up a special exchange program that's been making a difference in the lives of young people with the help of donations and her own money money she saved working as a cleaning lady harriet bruce and started an orphanage for elected children in the capital accra some of them have now gone on to study in ukraine now it's up to the beneficiaries will make their own positive contributions in their homeland just like parents own example. harriet bruce on and brought these children to the foster

home ten years ago. derek. abraham. this is james brown today a twenty seven year old student studying agriculture in kenya. he and the other former street children have the chance to get an education and they're using it. they have heard to think perry bruce on and got them accepted to universities in kiev the medical students by teenagers law and business students. why in ukraine because it's a country like ghana striving for democracy fareed explains. the an invaluable lesson because the problems here it is also happening in most of african countries and then they can learn that people stood and fought for

democracy then you don't give up in your cream always turn to for their country. youth are always leaving their leaders to do whatever they like it shouldn't be so . ukrainian law requires that they were turned to ghana after their studies that's important for harriet that was her plan when she moved to do sold off germany fifteen years ago. she worked there as a cleaning lady and center savings to ghana to build an orphanage. she looked for sponsors and donations and founded the organization african angel. for a long time the children and students did know that harriet had to scrub toilets and use a loft to finance their education. that came as a surprise. with. humility at that because if someone like mommy. it's

this humble and pleased to get money to cater for. me i have no reason. to say i'm madeleine and that applies to all of us and for me to admit. i didn't know what to say because i wasn't going to school and for some arts a clean toilet just to take of drink i was really happy i think. i didn't know what sue saw here because our hours in going to school know where to go and just to have that chance to go to school or. get hungry. this student mary comes from a poor neighborhood in the gunning capital accra. her parents had been unable to take care of her they'd been unemployed to stop the girls from going into

prostitution and the boys from living on the street harriet brought them to the orphanage. for a long time harriet kept silent about her sacrifices she just wanted to the children to get on in life and help their country to develop. if they are studying industrial countries and stay there or kids about their mad there when they take it to where the they really need to that's where they can really have great impact on the society from where they're coming from for me my primary aim is to guide them improve their conditions assist somebody help somebody here everybody is complaining everybody is talking about this is there this is there see if you have the opportunity i think i should in this office about it i've got education i've got. i have something to do with my home so i go back home i have a couple of business is in my mind already i want to become

a big at the playground. and one of james's business ideas came from the best chocolatier in ukraine. he loves the beautifully packed chocolates and dreams of opening a shop like this one in his homeland. ready you can get this jacket from will begin to cook you from. probably from guyana. yes from ghana so if you can produce if there was then. we have we help the country's economy was not. going to help cool we have sugar we have all the foods and then you can make this one thing for the flavors to its book or. something like pineapple something like a couple something like something like coke or to give you different flavors. the young people are learning a lot in ukraine and they enjoy the market banter the most the vendors also enjoy

their company in are happy to reward their handling with a good price i'm going to present my. hairy pussy her efforts are paying off. zip standish isn't divorce their independence that confident they have chances in life they know exactly what to expect that makes me happy and proud no one can push them around they know exactly what they want. to get over the. next year james and richard will be the first in the group to graduate and they will always be grateful to harriet for giving them such a great start in life. are aware of the. eighty's. so by the. way. time for some sports now and today is

a crucial day for football fans with only about two hundred days until the world cup kicks off in russia next year tonight the competition groups will be decided by the luck of the draw at a gala ceremony in moscow a massive sports event is an opportunity of course for russia to present itself as an open and friendly nation did abuse emily short one has been checking out the mood among russian fans. it's minus seven degrees celsius in moscow but that doesn't stop the amateur football team. they play at least once a week no matter what the weather. on the moral him has been playing with the team for two years he's a school sports teacher but on and off the pitch soccer has always been his passion . here in russia football is the game of the people you have to strike shoot beautiful goals we may not be at the world cup but we definitely try to play an elegant game over seven hundred thousand tickets to the world cup in

russia have already been sold so far about half of them have gone to the country's own fans including. where there are reminders of the upcoming event dotted across moscow even a countdown to the kickoff. and the majority of russians feel positive about hosting the world cup this coming year. was it in the pride yes it's a good thing of course a lot of tourists a lot of guests will come we're always happy to have guess what are the best. it's a serious major event and i know that a lot of people are already buying tickets online people here are definitely looking forward to the world cup. for the world cup has given a boost to the infrastructure of cities like. so. and wonderful stadiums have been built now the guests just have to arrive. there still. the city of moscow has been feverish lee preparing as well investing one and

a half billion euros to improve pedestrian zones and roads. in cooperation with the city has even given one of its metro trains a make over it will be spreading the soccer spirit across moscow until the end of the world cup. but i like sun that and his team mates won't be needing any encouragement when it comes to the soccer spirit today they're watching a game at a teammate's local bar. alex on that has been an avid football fan since he was six he'll of course be back in his home team at the world cup and will be watching the draw closely. with the hosts so the main thing is for us to at least come in first or second in a group we hope that the russian team will end up in an easy group the whole country is hoping for an easy group just on the top of the russian national team

currently is the lowest ranked of all the world cup participants but no matter who wins fans like alex on the can still enjoy a month of the beautiful game. ok so i'm very hopeful signs that we're joined now by the altar of that report emily sure one from our moscow studios and you know we've heard from the fans but more broadly how important are these games for russia and for president vladimir putin. well i think these games are very important for russia and of course for putin this is an opportunity to show that russia can really be one of the top players internationally and can play an important role on the world stage which is something that putin is always striving to show and of course this is an opportunity as well to show russia from another side i mean and in the last few years really we've had a lot of bad news from russia you know you had bionics ation of crimea the

sanctions against the country and now there are the repeated allegations of widespread hacking that's come from russia allegedly and you know people in russia and politicians in russia have been saying that this is almost part of a smear campaign against russia that the west is trying to portray russia badly so this is potentially an opportunity to show another side of russia and if all goes well this will be an opportunity to have some good news from russia as well apart from of course the tourists who will come to the country and potentially boost the economy as well ok what is the general society not just fans saying about this is a major sporting event you know you mentioned some of the concerns there would have people saying about the world cup. well my impression that people are general is that people are generally very supportive of this upcoming event in fact surveys shows that about sixty percent of russians think that the

world cup will bring more positive things than negative things and on the streets you get that impression as well we saw that young man who said that this will the world cup will bring huge infrastructure improvements for a lot of provincial cities as well as moscow and i was looking online and on social the social media page for example of the. stadium people were remarking on how beautiful the stadium has been turning out they were commenting on the way it's been being built and their photos being posted there all the time so people seem to be excited and in moscow my impression was that even people who aren't that into the soccer are looking forward to the tourists as well you know russians are very hospitable so i think in general people feel rather positive about it briefly if you could how are preparations coming along after all events like this i mean a lot of building a lot of preparations are they looking. well

officials are saying that that russia is one hundred percent prepared of course in the run up to the world cup there have been a bunch of kind of scandals. you know costs have overrun by a lot and of course now there is this doping scandal which seems to be threatening to hit football as well and so we'll have to wait and see how how that turns out and whether that casts a shadow over the upcoming world cup sure one for us or moscow city as thanks very much. so which teams are up for the world cup group stage at that draw later today in moscow well among the top seeds we have some stellar teams minus the eliminated italy of course but there is also the surprise team poland they benefit from their high fever ranking after a strong qualifying campaign now moving to draw to peru find themselves among the

second seeds alongside former winners spain and england now part three includes tournament debutants iceland a surprise showing there who now know that they cannot be drawn in the same group as their fellow nordic nations denmark and sweden remember europe is the only confederation that can have two teams in one group now the final pot has some comparatively big names such as the former semifinals south korea they're set up for a very tough group indeed ok to talk more now about what we can expect from the draw we have mark oregon from the to be studios. sports desk rather here in the studio with us good morning to you mark over and. let's start with the basics which teams do everybody want in their group and which teams does everyone want to avoid . the saber russia from. the host you would think it's a bit contradictory they think they'd have the partisan home support but really

they're a team with a much pedigree. they were very poor in europe twenty sixteen. and they had a poor confederations cup at home as well so on a very young squad with any any big names there so they would be the team everyone would be looking for from paul one in terms of teams to avoid larkin there import spain. they've had to perturb them and crushed in the group infamously in world cup twenty fourteen how the peer u. twenty sixteen but there's still so much quality there they've got any as they've got biscuit and some youngsters coming through school there for example so. you don't avoid them ok spain's can be tough russia will have the advantage of being a home team you think they're going to benefit from that no i don't think they had the advantage in the confederations cup earlier this season and they were they were poor and i think that the team of really struggled under the weight of expectation from the home press over the years that's really pressing down on them weighing on

them things that this world cup ok well can you tell us about some of the smaller teams and the ones that you know haven't been at the world cup for a while well as iceland's debut in their their the team they've really been the talk of international football for the last couple of years and you know a country of three hundred thousand people and they've qualify for two tournaments no back to back famously brought an incredible number of fans the u. twenty sixteen in france they brought their their thunder clap chant. on the pitch they brought some some quality as well infamously b. england. and they would be expected to make waves as well in russia maybe get past the group stages and as we've been reporting that iceland has benefitted from their youth program those indoor holes that they switched to you know there's a lot of them to play football through the winter with just the winter for long in iceland which teams are looking past a straw and actually thinking about winning and lifting the trophies at spain well spain definitely with a chance by thing for me would be germany the holders. they didn't have such

a great year or twenty sixteen maybe expected to win but they won the confederations cup with ease there with the second string slate earlier this year and they've got some form of the strength and that. players come the young players coming through as well a civilian go that skill making a name for themselves so they would be favorites for me aside from not maybe looking at france with like them and brazil as well are always up there ok we'll know more tonight after we see the draw on how it's looking mark thanks so much for that and i suppose this. and thank you for joining and joining us here don't forget there's always more to website dot com for now though for me bryan thomas an entire team thanks for being with us.

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