use your ear chateau braving the cold for us there in moscow thank you very much yuri. and as you mentioned all eyes there on the draw for the world cup so which teams are up for the group stage let's take a closer look among the top seeds we have some a stellar teams minus the eliminated italy of course but there's a the surprise team here of poland they benefit from their high fever ranking after a strong qualifying campaign going on to group to find themselves among the second seeds there alongside some of the former winners here england and spain for example a group three includes iceland making their debut they now know that they cannot be drawn in the same group as fellow nordic nations denmark and sweden and member europe is the only confederation that can have a two teams in one group the final group has some big names like the former semifinal as their south korea they are set for a very tough battle indeed well let's get more on what to expect from the draw we have a young expat here from d.w.

sports joining us with some analysis if you are playing in this world cup who do you want to face who you want to avoid most teams and it seems strange to say this will want to face the host russia of course they've got the home advantage but they've been drawn in the top group and usually this is the group with the highest ranked teams in the tournament however russia because their hosts have been drawn there even though they're the lowest ranked team in the tournament as well they will host so they qualified automatically they don't have a lot of practice in competitive fixtures in recent is so that lack of action as well as a lack of quality in general in the russian squad i think will make them a desirable opponent then every team will want to avoid spain because they have been drawn in part two because of their low fee for ranking though really on a pull to team they have a lot of quality they of course won the tournament in two thousand and ten and they have a good mixture of experience as well as youth so i think whatever group gets spain is going. be the toughest group at the world cup what about the smaller teams or

the newcomers yeah i think there were some fantastic stories coming out of the qualifiers to really jumped out for me the first was awesome and we all saw them last year at the euro two thousand and sixteen torn england in round of sixteen that was an inch even in itself now to make the net the world cup that's just next level this is a country with a population of just over three hundred thousand i think the next country close them is your go with three point five million so that's you know a massive achievement and really i guess punching above their weight the next team is agent they do qualify for the first time since nineteen ninety since ninety ninety they've had a lot of heartbreak in world cup qualifiers they deserve to be there and they also have some big names such as mohammed sala lupul and they will also have the oldest player at the world cup the goalkeeper. he will be forty five so that's one to watch out for as well so who's actually going to win this tournament you know i think there's a mine favorite so of course germany has to be one of them as the defending champions but no team has defended their title in the world cup since the 1930's i

was italy so it's a tough ask for germany to do that then that we have france they probably have the best squad on paper but it's yet to be seen if the coach studio can make it or click on the field in the last one for may the big pick is brazil i really think they've been rejuvenated under coach teach they have some fantastic players in name and jesus and i think they will be one to watch out for they really have the goods to win the world cup all right you give us a young expat for us said thank you very much for that nick. now after protests from the general public germany's public broadcaster air d. has decided to stop being the media partner for roger waters tour next year the x. pink floyd member is a staunch supporter of an organization called b.d.s. which pressures artists and musicians not to perform in israel it's being accused

of being anti-semite anti-semitic here's more. roger waters founding member of one of the world's most critically acclaimed rough bands pink floyd is under fire rogers is a member of the boycott divestment and sanctions movement b.d.'s the targets israel over its occupation of territories where palestinian six statehood for years waters has used a giant inflatable pig is one of his staple props german performances the peak was seen as a symbol of political criticism in the vein of george orwell's animal farm in recent years waters peak has been in blazoned with symbols of capitalism and fascism together with the star of david and it's this combination that's raising accusations of anti semitism. the palestinian based campaign b.d.s. started in two thousand and five as a grassroots movement and now has the support of more than one thousand two hundred

artists including award winning director ken loach critics accuse the movement of being openly anti semitic. today artists like elton john. madonna and nick cave are against the call to boycott israel performed in israel this year as part of a stand against what he says is an effort to censor musicians. a number of public broadcasters in germany have withdrawn support for roger waters his twenty eighteen to a will go ahead but where the waters will let the pigs fly remains to be saying. what's printed of us culture editor robin merrill who's with us robin what do you make of this b.d.s. movement while i'm in two minds about it really on the one side are believe asses should be able to reform whether they like however i'm aware of the fact that boycotts like this does help can help change things we just have to think of the

boycott. south africa before the apartheid boom however with all the pros and cons i tend to go towards nick cave for instance and others like him indeed tom york of radiohead was pressurize not to perform in israel by b.b.'s but he did perform in israel and he did say recently and i quote music and art is about crossing borders not building them about open minds and not closed ones about shared humanity dialogue and freedom of expression i thought those were very good words from what about the stance of germany's public broadcaster a r d well this is of course a debate about press freedom some people think. what the he is doing is not adhering to that now on the other side. it's correct that public funds some people think it's correct that public funds are not being used to promote roger

waters who supports what is a quantum controversial organization the b.d.s. this is of course an extremely sensitive topic here in germany and one which will continue to be debated for months if not for years to come and i understand it's already had an effect on a local festival here in berlin yeah sadly has that something's happened here in germany the pop cool tool festival which is subsidized by the in local government is an indie music festival with bands from all over the world and one musician performed this year was called riff cohen here she is. not a problem for the other musicians performing that is an israeli musician performing there but riff cohen got four five hundred euros from the israeli embassy to cover her travel costs now the embassy logo was on the website and the sponsors of the as a sponsor of the festival the b.d.'s got hold of this rope to artists and said you

shouldn't go there on a tax actually consequently didn't go to the fest. they had nothing else to say i guess the office is south but they say she was being funded by what they call an oppressive state all right well we have more on this controversy on our website www dot com slash culture all right and meryl thank you very much. and we just have time for a minder of our top story at this hour a new development in germany's political crisis the leader of the social democrat says he is not ruling out coalition talks with chancellor angela merkel conservatives but martin she will stress that he has not given the green light for another grand coalition. thanks for watching it still get will be here in just a few minutes.

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