the hosts russia and saudi arabia now and russia are one of the lowest ranked size to ever host a world cup at the lowest ranked side in the tournament so optimism really among the fans and the media is quite low but then that committee that they're not behind this world cup they're very very enthusiastic about it people we've been speaking to can't wait to have some of the world's best players here lightly and messi and neymar in terms of the match tomorrow they will be thankful that at least saudi arabia are also one of the lower ranked teams in this tournament three places about russia in the rankings so russia will need to get off to a good start because they are in a group with egypt and you're acquired two very strong teams so a win against saudi arabia for the host will be crucial jonathan crane in moscow thank you. we'll keep an eye on what's going on in moscow across the rest of the program and as soon as that makes that decision we'll bring it to huge news for the world cup that's happening

just tomorrow one of the favorite space. their coach on the eve of the tournament pataky has been let go because he agreed to join vale madrid after the world cup reports say the spain coach did not inform the federation that he was leaving there for paid the price just two days before his country's first game against portugal on friday news is that the twenty ten world cup with us reeling. after a decades long name dispute macedonia has reached a historic accord with its neighbor greased macedonian is also the name of a greek province the country will now be known as the republic of north macedonia decision opens the door for the former yugoslav republic to join the e.u. and nato but not everyone is happy about the name change. two embattled neighbors extending their hands in peace greece and macedonia have ended

a twenty seven year rout over a name. they've agreed to change their constitutional name for all uses they've agreed to rename their country the republic of north macedonia change that will apply in their international and by relations. domestically. the. greece says the new name removed any connection to the northern greek region of macedonia and the ancient kingdom ruled by alexander the great fearing territorial and cultural claims greece had long blocked macedonia's bid to join nato and the e.u. the new name means that greece should lift that veto on macedonia as prime minister urged voters to support the deal in a referendum later this year. all

citizens to seize the future twenty five years of being stuck is enough. many generations have been lost macedonia must go forward with the worst. of the same quality of life. but the deal has sparked protests in both countries with opponents in athens saying it doesn't go far enough decades long disputes die hard. look sir germany as germany's parliament could be about to approve a major contract with an israeli company to lease germany's first weapons capable combat drug issues highly controversial for the country or u.s. forces have been using them for years and many here are skeptical about the weapons as a legitimate instrument of war or counter-terrorism and they see them as violations

of international law. these of the drones that the german military could soon be sending into battle the only plans to use the heron tepee for reconnaissance but it is possible to fit the machines with lethal weaponry the bundeswehr has used a small unarmed fashion before to deliver aerial images in mali and afghanistan. but what happens if these images show german soldiers being attacked on the ground older content gauge an enemy and it takes time for aerial support to arrive at the battlefield with a good force but now try to imagine these drones were also able to attack an approaching enemy this process could happen more quickly. with the hare and could kill attacking troops instantly this is how germany's american allies use them but critics say combat drones idea. we have learned from experience that

sometimes they cannot interpret the images they are seeing civilians are hit by accident very often people who should not be in the line of fire all parties in the government calling for a debate including on what the drone pilots find it easier to kill because they're further away from the actual war zone. some people raise ethical objections saying that the inhibitions against killing are reduced but others say that a helicopter or fighter pilot has even less time to decide whether to press the button they have to act much more quickly than someone who's watching a computer screen at a safe distance. the opposition green party fears war will become dehumanised the next step is autonomous weapon systems that is weapons where computers support the decisions or approve the decisions that step is not a large one and that's why international law must be developed to keep pace. but the army doesn't want to lose pace with other countries. advancing weapons

technology whether it will be allowed to use drones in combat it's now up to parliament to decide. a polygamy is generally illegal in india but because of a colonial era the exception is made for muslims. control of a possible offense like marriages divorce and inheritance and in today's india's predominantly muslim regions it's common for men to take more than one wife but a growing movement to ban polygamy is getting stronger now the country's supreme court is set to decide if the law violates the constitution. siobhan of big rooms tiny living room doubles as a workplace she lives here alone with her children even though she's married chip on his husband moved out and in with his second wife shabana and her husband have been married for sixteen years but a number of years ago he married another woman unbeknownst to her. the neighbors

told me he had a second i wife they told me that they go out together in public and in there he takes her on the motorcycle i didn't believe it every time i asked him he denied it . at his father's funeral a year ago i met her. and gave her the ones that give it you. together with three of her children siobhan moved back in with her mother and sisters her eldest son stayed behind with his father and the second wife shabana is not happy with the situation but under muslim law her husband can marry up to four women he's supposed to support the whole family but shabana says he doesn't she doesn't get a single rupee from him. i trained as a nurse but i can't do it because i don't want to leave my kids alone. well so i learned how to sew. because with that i can work from home.

once a week and goes with her youngest son to the women's center. ship on a can too much about her husband marrying another woman polygamy is generally illegal in india but for muslims there's an exception made that dates from colonial times muslim communities are allowed to regulate their own personal affairs when it comes to things like marriage divorce and inheritance women's rights activists like jamil and the shot hope the supreme court will decide that this violates the constitution. since independence equal rights have been in shrines in the constitution and they're supposed to be a uniform family law our politicians have playing with us agency playing with the lives of these men these that minority women knocked on speed they had not cared for because there is not a body. sharia law is still in place in the muslim area of hyderabad here

it's the men who have the say and they don't want that to change one of them is. he's a muslim family judge who marries and divorces people if that's what the man wants he's strictly against the state interfering in their family law. family law all comes directly from out of the most full people are not allowed to change a single word and this is how it will stay till the end of the world then they think. there are no statistics on exactly how many polygamous marriages there are but they are common in the predominantly muslim quarters of india. mohamed chuff he could dean works together with his second wife hasina in this small shop his first wife lives elsewhere sometimes mohammed spence's nights with her but mostly with hasina the woodwork ambling i haven't done anything wrong. twenty three years ago i

married my first wife and i married the second twelve years ago i didn't tell my first wife i remarried she found that out later on i think that's all right. hostin and to found out after the fact that her husband had married another woman she's come to terms with it. now not all but i she treats us the same he treats us both well if he has four if anything he brings two of them to me so we don't have to argue about who gets want everything goes pretty smoothly. and i'm in love. but no one's happy here at the women's center most have been neglected by their husbands after they married new younger wives the women on the other hand aren't allowed to be with another man and can't get divorced without their husbands approval women's rights activists conducted an anonymous survey in the neighborhood of the one thousand women one of the nine hundred were against polygamy their hopes

now wrist with the supreme court. copy that i the muslim community won't solve this problem alone. polygamy must finally be abolished so the state needs to ensure that both hindus and muslims are treated equally. everyone should be allowed to have only one spouse. if and when this will happen is unknown the supreme court has accepted the appeal but there is no date set for hearing for shabaan a big room any verdict is too late now her husband has taken a third wife she says she wants a better future for her daughters and her son shouldn't get any ideas about having more than one wife. now the football world cup and starts tomorrow to day pfieffer will decide who is the host the twenty twenty six total and the decision is going to be announced by afi for president giani in fan taney from the expo

center in moscow so we'll be keeping an eye on that i'm told that a decision is expected in the next a few minutes while we wait for them max metal from the don't whose phone is here to bring us up to date so what's going on in moscow right now max yes the final minutes before the decision there's been a big change to the voting of the two bids morocco on the one hand and north america on the other hand where we have the u.s. mexico and canada joining forces it's not going to be decided as was usually done by a twenty four man executive committee that was subject to a lot of allegations of corruption especially handling the bids of the two thousand and six world cup which went to germany and then the twenty eighteen want to russia which is kicking off tomorrow and the twenty twenty two world cup coming up in four years time in qatar so instead of having a twenty four man executive committee we've got all of fifty's members costing the vote aside from the four nations involved in the bids of course the two bids that

so two hundred seven members that cost in a vote electronically very transparent we've been told although there were some slight technical difficulties with the voting system earlier on today i'm hoping those have been remedied and so this time around a big a vote so many people getting involved of course again we're going to have a vote rating and people tactically voting some countries that are not happy with the politics of one of the bidding nations or some countries that want to be in solidarity with that continent so we expect african nations largely to vote for morocco also some asian nations have expressed their support for morocco. and this twenty six will be the first world cup with forty eight teams that have a lot worse yet it's going to have eighty games a whopping eighty. games so figure it's up to forty eight from what forty eight at the moment we have let me facts right thirty two i think it is yes and right now looking at those two bids there are pros and cons for both but when you examine the

fact that there will be more games and more teams involved on the one hand the north american bids you have three countries involved a whole lot of infrastructure already set up all the stadiums already basically ready so on the one hand that could cater for a lot of fans and a lot of teams all across the continent the north american continent the downside is the travelling and that's why morocco have been keen to highlight that for one they have a lot less traveling involved if they was win the bid the teams would be able and fans especially fans would be able to travel easier shorter distances cheaper as well and morocco also have going for them the times and that they're in so then the g.m.t. time zone which means that for the european market and also parts of the asian market it's a very beneficial thing and africa of course to have the games kicking off that show was a reasonable times that was a tricky thing in the two thousand and two world cup for instance a joint bid there between south korea and japan which was successful but which lead

for a lot of countries in the european and african regions having some struggles with the kickoff times that and we heard from jonathan crane a little earlier in moscow some questions over the infrastructure of the morocco bid yes in morocco three categories they received the lowest marks when that bid was assessed that's transportation stadia and infrastructure so. you have key things that you know in the world you want those things to be running smoothly and in morocco's case seven out of the fourteen stadia that they've put forward who have bid haven't been finished yet haven't even been built so. seven not even built a further two would have to undergo massive construction so we're told that nine out of fourteen stadiums not even being ready and. the other bid the rival north american bid can go to that point and say look we're ready infrastructure wise and in terms of australia and i'm i right in thinking that there was some control over this because lots of countries withdrew their bids because they're not actually

making money from it yet i mean the world cup is a very complicated thing for a country to undertake thief have for instance in brazil there was a case of them changing certain laws regarding alcohol consumption the stadiums the so-called budweiser laws it was called at the time and it can be profitable the american bid is confident that they can achieve a record profit of around fourteen billion dollars but on the other hand it's a huge cost some morocco for instance estimate that they would have to pay anywhere between fourteen and sixteen billion dollars to get the country ready and just to put that into context that's around sixteen percent of the g.d.p. so a huge investment that carries the risk if things run behind the costs could go high and also profits on guarantees so what what does a country like morocco. get out of hosting the world cup beyond well just the name being everywhere yeah i mean of course there are also political implications and in

terms of that image across the world number rocker have been especially keen to host the world cup this is their fifth time making a bid they lost out to the u.s. in one thousand nine hundred four and they've been plugging away at it have a sense trying to get the world cup so that country they say that football is ingrained in the d.n.a. it's a way of life for many people it's that favorite sport and the biggest sport in the country and there's a certain prestigious well i mean we see it in russia now hooten is making a lot of appearances surrounding the world cup ahead of the tournament and well i expect to be featuring quite presently in the media's attention during the world cup so there's prestige and image which things that i think many leaders of their countries are interested in proving and and demonstrating to the world that they're a modern country that can take such it's a woman on. this so we have the joint usa canada mexico bid and a dream that's a pheasant trump a strike there will be consequences for those countries who vote against it which

is an extraordinary thing to say yes surprise surprise on twitter because the gel even tina is speaking let's get the decision in is there in front of you. i would suggest that you go straight to the vote you have your electronic devices ready and they and all their then to the secretary general. for the procedure thank you very much before we pass on to divert egregious said we see you. very quick information. off the two hundred and ten member decision present it is a bit too good seven member have a q is dave what do you write. as per the provision of the faster the sixteen thirty two the seven countries who cannot vote today include the four bidders but also the football association

i think that as john porter again the football and the us virgin island soccer federation meaning that we have two hundred and three members present and entitle to vote zero member being suspended sold instruction is as follows do you want to award the right to host the twenty twenty six fifa world cup final competition to the big submitted by as american football association called marrocco beach. to the joint bid submitted by the cannot pass association the mexican food will association and the united states so configuration called united beat

all to none of the big cold none of the beads thus reopening the bidding process excluding the four member association having already submitted the beat if you vote in favor of morrocco press morrocco beat. if you vote in favor of the joint or united big press united big if you don't want to select any of the bid and not press none of the big if you want to abstain meaning you don't want to vote please don't cut your system. and so vote stat now you have fifteen seconds.

separate. but. close. now let's wait for the results.

that is ill at ease. and i'm giving back to the floor to feed president to announce. we need a. bigger thank you very much secretary general. so we have a winner. florida twenty twenty six feet will cup. the member associations of canada mexico and usa have been selected by the people congress to hold the twenty twenty six people well thank you. it indicates and gentlemen silence in the room please.

i would like to ask now the representatives of. the in the united bid to come on stage please and the president of concord i'll use. the president that i don't at the same time and that is that. motto could be what sixty five votes always thirty three percent united

got a hundred and thirty four votes. sixty seven percent and no no they beat one or one percent. so he wanted to talk to was a president in thanking as well very much the whole delegation all of them are all kobe to did an extraordinary job joking around i would like to give the floor to one or two or three of representatives of united. i'm. sorry it's a bit emotional for us today. thank you president frontino fellow presidents general secretaries and everyone in our fi family on behalf of our united bid canada mexico and my country the united states thank you so so very much for this

incredible honor thank you for entrusting us with this privilege the privilege of hosting the fee for world cup in twenty twenty six we want to convey our appreciation as well to the thief administration and your staff president frontino especially the task force who worked so hard over this entire process let us also salute our friends from morocco at the end of the day we are all united in football that's the spirit of the world cup the beautiful game and game transcends borders and cultures football today is the only victor and in that spirit we wish our russian hosts and all the teams competing here this is the very best of luck thank you all again very much.

so we have the result then of the world cup it's going to be for the twenty twenty six feet for world cup if it's c. it is the united to bid that's the united states mexico and canada from d.w. sports hitters max medal at quite a decisive victory as well yes one hundred thirty four votes and it wasn't quite clear who the there was in the cliff a vote before the the bidding was done and the united bid was seen as the more simple bit i suppose the low risk bid as it was assessed by fever when they went

through the two bids closely and i think what attracted them to this bit is mainly the profit that was almost guaranteed by the bit is who's saying it anywhere between fourteen and fifteen billion dollars in profit they see some fee for and of course the infrastructure that was already available in those three countries mexico has many footballing studies that are ready to go as does united states the united states canada will prove to be providing some as well and. all in all it should be a fairly easy world cup to prepare for as so much is already there so much is already in place i'm a little bit surprised by how fast they want to go to say morocco are not getting anywhere close to the votes that are expected you'd expect a lot of the african federations will have given them votes but that's around fifty three so only only twelve other additional votes for morocco little let us go to the expo center in moscow where that's

a decision was taken we should find jonathan craig that welcome jonathan so any facet victory that by the united for the united bed. indeed it was very emphatic as well max i was saying that i don't think any of us expected really united bay to win so you comfortably over the two before this was that it was going to be a very close race they were lobbying long into the night yesterday both still trying to pick up undecided votes this is that it does it's turned out really comfortable win for the us a bit more than the simple majority needed to studs of the votes and i think that will go down very well. with the fee for executives jamey and can see you know i think they're very pleased because of course this was the bit that is low risk and high generating revenue for feet which is what it all comes down so often with before money talks here and i think at the end of the day morocco really came to

this too late so they were always playing catch up as we had a lot of the stadiums still need to be built the infrastructure really isn't in place even though they were saying that hotels near the stadiums can't even cater for the number of people that would be coming in to the country for this world cup so we have the united because they played up that word united uniting three countries of course we had the geopolitics in this is well in the run up to the vote with donald trump getting involved with his treats we understand he sends out three lexus to the feet of president giani and francine ahead of the vote reassuring him that people would be able to travel freely into the united states and between countries and so i think at the end of the day that has one this for the united states ok so the decision that only a twenty twenty six world cup is that it is to be in the hands of the the united to bid what has to happen over the next eight years.

well in terms of the bid itself a lot is already ready and i think that was one benefit of this you know i see the stadiums are in place the infrastructure is in place and the focus is really generating the revenue for fee for. they're promising a lot of kind of innovation in the digital spheres about something that fifa will be keen on the big question mark and other ways that will be question marks is what happens in the white house with donald trump what happens with other countries and his relationships with those but it doesn't seem to have put off the fee for a delicate facing here today they have gone without united paid and quite some facit played by jonathan crane in moscow for not we will be more i'm sure in the course of the day. just approaching the top of the us if i could just thank you to max merrill as well. just to catch up with what's been going the decision the hosting of this which is twenty six world cup has been made the decision has gone to the united bid that's the united states mexico and canada they won

the voting was one hundred thirty four.