this is you know we news live from berlin the twenty twenty six soccer world cup goes to kind of mexico and usa have been selected by the people called. to blows the two hundred twenty six people broke out thank you the thought worth the tournament to north america over a bid for morocco well you know when it comes as world cup fever grips the host of russia on the eve of the kickoff for this year's month long championship also coming up. aid groups are raising the alarm warning that one of the world's worst humanitarian crazies even in yemen could get even worse after he saudi attack on

the mean port threatens to cut off food supplies to the entire country. and done deal president don't trump back in the u.s. for claims there is no longer a nuclear threat from north korea others back to differ. from. iraq thanks for your company everyone soccer's greatest prize has gone to north america while the twenty twenty six world cup tournament will be hosted by the united states canada and mexico a soccer's governing body for ward of the cup over at the morocco bit the twenty twenty six world cup will be the first time three nations will host the prestigious tournament the competition will also feature in record forty eight teams in a poll of people members of the north america bid to beat the north africans in one

hundred thirty four votes to sixty five or the president of us a soccer karla's secretary was overjoyed. 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 will come up in twenty twenty six 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 . to talk more about this exciting news joining us from washington is claire richardson and with me on the set is e w's oliver moody clare i want to start off with you how has this news been received in the u.s. . highway well as you might imagine u.s. soccer fans are absolutely delighted by this news this is

a sport that's really been growing in popularity over the past couple of decades especially since the u.s. hosted the world cup last time back in one thousand nine hundred four a lot of the excitement tends to come from immigrant communities here who are rooting for their home countries teams particularly among the latino population in the united states compared to the rest of the world it should be said that the u.s. is not as a soccer crazy as some other countries it's competing with other major sports here obviously like baseball in american football and basketball and of course this year the u.s. men's team didn't qualify so you're probably not seeing the same level of excitement here as you are where you are in berlin for example but overall i do think that there's hope that this winning big means that there is going to they're going to be able to see this sports to really take root something that was just rekindling americans and trusts oh right and over morocco a lost out to the north american juggernaut they are soccer currency they are participating in this world cup but to no avail this time around they're scrappy

underdog the big five times we talked last out you've really got a feel for the moroccan football fans of five times it's an incredible number but in truth it never looked likely that morocco would win this bid you know feet clearly from a very early stage or at least the leadership preferred the north american bid in partly because they did so well in the evaluations of the morocco certainly but also because of the money and this is the fear is that like the costs of the moroccan bridge looked much higher they needed to build nine stadiums they had this kind of sixteen billion dollar infrastructure plan where's the north american bid all the stadiums are already built and also it promises more revenues or at least we can expect more revenues from north america world cup and we could have from morocco so i think with the money that was already decided of a lot with decided already will circle a bit more about well something related to money has come under a lot of pressure for not being transparent enough into. we've used bits that they for awarded for instance to qatar and russia has even more transparent this time

and this is certainly a very different process to what we had the last time that a world cup it was it was proved gone of the days of sepp blatter and his executive committee which made it always plagued by stories inside many. members of the executive committee who have since been convicted or at least accused of four now we have two hundred federations casting a vote in the world cup donna electronically as well so we can see who voted for which bid and what not of course doesn't rule out corruption it doesn't mean that the whole thing is completely no one can say that but it's certainly a very different story it's what happened for the bid for this world cup for example and it's encouraging of course in the right direction clare want to go to you in washington president donald trump threw his weight behind this bid what the unintended consequences be that soccer ends up saving now after. well that's right we saw him on twitter calling for other countries to vote in favor of the fed it's interesting that this comes at

a time that the united states has had such fraught relations with its neighbors in canada and mexico for mexico obviously the repeated calls to build a wall on the border calling of mexican immigrants coming to the u.s. rapists and murderers the renegotiation of nafta as you mentioned is of major point of tension with canada we just heard him and insulting prime minister justin trudeau after a g. seven summit in which donald trump managed to snub some of the united states' closest allies fire arriving late leaving early in favor of meeting with north korean leader kim jong un and refusing to sign onto a joint statement of common values at the very end so in this political climate you might think that this would be really fraught however it's important to remember that fifo is going to be the one doing a lot of the heavy lifting in terms of organizing and most importantly donald trump is not going to be in office once we get around to twenty twenty six. so the thank you so much here for now and all the i want you to stick around because we're going to talk about another breaking news story that's related to the cup because one of

the favorites of this year's world cup is in disarray spain after having sacked their coach just two days before their first game. it was meant to be the biggest week in his career you look at the he was going into his first world cup at the helm of one of the favorites spain on tuesday he had been announced as the next coach of champions league when israel madrid due to take over for the tournament in russia but the timing and manner of the appointment sparked outrage among the spanish federation and firms hastily arranged press conference the day before the world cup kicked off sealed his second we don't know if. his negotiations for real madrid were legal there is no issue with that. but the federation's was not informed about it we were told five minutes before press release and we had to send a clear message to all employees of the spanish royal football federation. there is

a way to proceed and we have to stick to our principles. less than a month ago look at iggy had signed a contract extension with spain keeping him in the job till twenty twenty. but the lure of succeeding xina dean's they've done in madrid proved too much look at the last minute replacement is from mundo here to spain sporting director and former real madrid captain. all the way out how big of a shocker is this this is this is stunning that i don't think anything like this is a happened at the world cup with one of the favorites has fired their coach on the eve of the element two days before the opening game and spain certainly were probably among the top four favorites as world cup so certainly and with with with a chance. i honestly don't think i can recall certainly in my lifetime an act of self-destruction quite like this we obviously play

a meltdown as you think of sanity and sit down with the head but back in two thousand and six we've had play revulse and what not where the atmosphere just wasn't right but i can't recall a federation or country have a deliberately making decision the homs that chances so much it's incredible suddenly so where do spain team spain go from here well it is still a great team let's remember that as well these players are very very good now been playing together for a long time as well as we had and i don't yet know who is a spy and legend around madrid legend as well he was also already involved in the set up so he knows the players he knows how they've prepared for the tournament i think he will still be able to get a lot out of this team i think certainly they'll get out great for example but certainly their chances of going down in my estimations and i would perhaps pick them to get to the quarterfinals now maybe i wouldn't say any further. what developer. is keeping us on our toes already thank you so very much for that. now to other news a saudi led coalition has launched an assault on yemen's main port city of data the

battle could prove a turning point in yemen's three year long civil war the coalition is trying to retake the city from whose the rebels backed by saudi arabia's arch rival iran and pushing ahead with the assault despite grave warnings from humanitarian groups the u.n. says the offensive risks causing massive civilian casualties and could threaten millions with starvation and earlier we talked with the n.s.a. series who's with the charity save the children and asked him what his teams in new data are telling him about the situation on the ground our teams and for data are now living in hours on where they should also protect their own lives but our teams where they do are trying to save lives there we are supplying hospitals with medicines supplies in order to save children who are living in a bigger city and we're supplying them with. with three months supply so that's in

order to keep them alive for three months but if the assault continues for four more than three months that's going to be disastrous will include increasing the coverage we're trying to cover more than more than one health facility at the time because the number of that we were covering it had a there was very specific was very limited but now we need to expand to further areas where we can save lives we also have given people and can cash assistance in order to be able to to live by food by by water etc we also reduced all nonessential non-essential activities in the city because because it's very dangerous now to to hold any other live and activities other than lifesaving activities. and assyria there from save the children speaking to us earlier about the situation in yemen want to bring you up to speed now with some of the other stories making news around the world the european union and the united nations have

welcomed a decision by greece's northern neighbor to change its name macedonia is to become the republic of north macedonia the country has been in a decades long dispute with the greece over its name athens objected because greece has a northern province with the same name. home on the wall for one month after iraq's elections shiite cleric without souther an iran backed militia chief had the meeting have agreed to form a political alliance their two blocks came first and second in may's vote groups was marked by historically low voter turnout civil and allegations of fraud like a brush fire in the hills over beverly hills california has threatened houses and for some evacuations more than two hundred fifty firefighters have been working to contain the blaze there have been no immediate reports of injuries. and we say

in the us where the american president donald trump has declared that there is no longer a nuclear threat from north korea well that's a day after his unprecedented summit with kim jong il and state media in north korea portraying the summit as a win for peace on the enlisting american concessions including the promised and to the u.s. south korean military exercises while critics of the deal point to its vagueness and the fact that it contains no mention of washington's demand for the north's complete verifiable and irreversible denuclearization. in a train station and north koreans huddle around newspaper stands to learn the outcome of the historic meeting between their leader and former donald trump on state television glowing praise for kim jong un in with a newsreader and answering that washington would lift sanctions against their country and suspend its joint military exercises with south korea and. the

exercises have angered pyongyang for decades conducted several times a year there a major part of washington security structure in east asia but now donald trump says there provoke a tive and a waste of money war games that cost us a fortune you know we're spending a fortune every number of months we're doing war games with south korea and i said what is costing we're flying planes in from warm and we're bombing in the mountains for practice. suspending the drills is a concession that came as a surprise to many and in japan there's concern it may weaken security in the region when the water civil to stir up it's my understanding that u.s. troops bases in south korea and japan maintain an important role in the safety of this region she could runs into. and seoul newspapers criticized that the denuclearization agreement was missing three important words complete irreversible

and verifiable but the south korean government called the summit a success. as did trump after landing back in the u.s. he tweeted that north korea was no longer washington's biggest and most dangerous problem and that the world can now sleep safer. r.a.d and is now with ben as briggs and draws closer are brits moving forwards or backwards where they're going it's really hard to tell i think they're running around in circles basically that's probably the best way to describe it scottish law breakers have staged a walkout the irish say the u.k. needs to make a decision the germans will there be no wiggle room and the british government forced into a compromise agreeing to give parliament a bigger say and brigs at a cozy ations rebels from all parties want to avoid a hard break that and keep close a huge size on spreading leaves the block. we are used to the right age three hundred twenty four the nose to the left two hundred ninety eight so these

are the savage. and narrow victory for theresa may made possible by some last minute concessions to pro european m.p.'s on the streets to those who oppose britain's departure from the e.u. continue to ensure their voices are being heard. the path towards breck's it is still far from clear. and there are big questions looming over the future trade relationship with the e.u. after britain's planned exit from the union on the twenty ninth of march two thousand and nineteen. there's a lot at stake for businesses on both sides germany is the most important of britain's e.u. trade partners and in two thousand and seventeen exported goods worth around eighty four billion euros to the island goods worth some thirty seven billion euros travelled in the opposite direction. meanwhile the e.u.

sends goods worth a total of around two hundred ninety five billion euros to the u.k. british exports to europe are worth about one hundred eighty eight billion euros. so it's hardly surprising that companies a nervous breaks in negotiation period is more than half way through and businesses still don't know exactly what conditions they should be preparing themselves for their demands for answers by the day. we are standing craig if the government is doing a good job preparing the u.k. for departure. i will insides through the good job in preparing people but at the same time i think it's an extremely difficult position the part the whole thing of these negotiations is that they have their idea what it looks like the there are they what breaks it looks like and a compromise must be found it's extremely difficult to provide assurances to a business when they can't guarantee what businesses want them to guarantee so while they are trying their best it's very difficult especially again when the so

much division within their own braggs cabinets on what the e.u. exit looks like so i'd have to say no but i'd also have to say that it's a very difficult position to be in. all the brits moving out the irish cozying up to the e.u. that its biggest power in an exclusive interview you skate brady spoke with irish farm is design company. do you think island has the ability to replace the u.k. and that that's going to be left behind act no i don't think we can ever replace the u.k. and i've said the present really is a new is using is for everything i think i think he britain's place in the world will be weakened both politically and economically by their decision to leave the european union because they will no longer have the solidarity and support of. half a billion people in the same way that they've had today so i think the european union will be much weaker because britain isn't part of it any longer i think our lands is going to face real difficulty also in the context of bragg's and so nobody

is winning out of this i think it's a it's a political tragedy to be honest but it's happening so we have to face this and we have to look to try to compensate for the absence of britain and the european union in the future and that is why our lead to spending a lot of resources on expanding our networks across the european union in germany and france in particular so we're hearing this call as you say from to blame from berlin and paris as well from law even a say in the european union what do you see as the solution as to how the how the european union can overcome these risks to the union stability especially in the face of nationalist populism. i mean my answer that question is proactivity you know if we try to just maintain the status quo but to allow populists to promise the world even though they can to live for us to create fears. on the back of you know genuine concerns around people security and terrorism and radicalization and

so on if we allow that type of populism to take hold then managing it politically is going to be very very difficult in the future for the european union so this is a time for the center to stand up in terms of politics to build narratives and visions that can excite people in terms of what the european union could together as a collective can do as a power. forests not only for our improving quality of life across the european union but also to impact positively in other parts of the world that are going to impact on europe in the future if we don't become more proactive that is why in my view the european union establishment the institutions of the european union need to be talking in much more ambitious terms about a foreign policy agenda particular in the middle east and africa particularly in relation to the transatlantic relationship in the future which today is somewhat under strain. but but which is hugely important for global stability in the future and we need to remember the us now when we talk about possible retaliation far

decisions that are being made in washington recently. know a witness in this tragedy as the irish foreign minister described brags that they are in news just in the fumes of the diesel gate affair afaf from clearing german authorities have slapped fox fogging with another one billion euro fine for cheating on emissions levels you know he says he won't contest the penalty the scandal has already cost the world's largest comic more than twenty five billion euros of buybacks fines and compensation e.-w. remains mired in the eagle wolves at home and abroad. and briefly in an e-mail to stuff tesla c.e.o. elon musk says layoffs unnecessary for the electric com make it to become profitable the concert which will see nine percent of workers lose their jobs comes the company grapples to address a number of problems including the departure of senior staff and crashes involving self driving cars musk says the production of testers mass market model three sedan

won't be a thing. i'll have fifteen minutes of business for you next thank you so very much ben france is doing some damage control after a diplomatic dispute erupted between france and italy when the french president criticized their fellow e.u. member states for closing their ports to a rescue boat carrying hundreds of migrants over the weekend the year for. foreign ministry now has issued a statement confirming that france is committed to cooperate with italy on the contentious issue of migration while today at least changed its own hard line course allowed a vessel carrying more than a nine hundred migrants to dock in sicily to have been rescued off libya's coast and brought on sure i do you tell him coast guard in a wide ranging speech on european union policy germany's foreign minister had almost touched on europe's differences on how to manage migration emissions.

we should proceed where we already have broad agreement and installable your show my concerns at its heart we have to fight harder what creates refugees and improve extra no border security we have time for italy and greece alone with these tactics for too long carolina goodness and so i second all member states have to stop using migration as a domestic instrument of cheap propaganda against the e.u. you want to shine with absolutely no sympathy for migration issues being misused to distract from a country's own political shortcomings. from germany's foreign minister speaking there are we're going to move on to other things nothing beats the magic of a starry night but fewer and fewer get to enjoy it because our bustling cities fill the night night sky excuse me with lights and pollute the view all that's what set five photographers on a mission to capture the beauty of the heavens and share it with others the documentary film star hunters opens in german cinemas on thursday.

everywhere on earth people look into the same starry sky full of longing curiosity and questions. when i was a child of course i was intrigued by the infinity of space i asked my mother how big is the universe i get the dissatisfying answer it's infinite but what's beyond that. people like baron are called star hunters or in german stand in. a film by the same name follows some of the top aster photographers in the world to the farthest corners of this planet. in my travels i am searching for the loneliest places wherever there are people near there are always sources of light that disturb the view that's why i'm often here in norway all alone the silence is unlike any other. the artificial

lighting surrounding all our cities has long replaced the darkness of the night those who want to see the stars must travel that's why back to fresh air is climbing through the desert and he's seeking a crystal clear view into the starry sky far from any signs of civilization. the first loop see the move really touched me so deeply that almost changed my entire life. and since then to freshie journeys alone around the world on the hunt for fresh images of the night sky. people who are to use to restaurants told me nighttime is the time to connect with nature. through an array of spectacular images the documentary shows how united these star hunters are in their mission their glimpse into the cosmos is meant to sharpen our own perspective on life on this planet john goldsmith follows his. calling across

western australia. i mean church through astrophotography to bring the wonders of the universe to people because one thing that often learnt is that our planet's really is a small place and that's what astrophotography reveals to us. anyone who wants to dream a while beyond our own tiny place in this universe can take a look at some of the magic captured by these star hunters. we'll wrap things up now with a new baby that's getting all the attention at belgium's. twig the jurassic is the sixth calf for him to his mother barbie it already tops two meters tall a leg a newborn was frolicking around his enclosure within just twenty minutes of his birth and his tie rings out that either arrived just in time for world giraffe day

which takes place in style. how's that for right before i let you go and remind you of our main headline this hour. the fog has picked north america to host the twenty twenty six football world cup the joint bid by the u.s. canada and mexico beat one by morocco it will be the first world cup to be played in everything different countries. on the rock in berlin on behalf of the entire new seem thank you so much for spending this part of your day with us the news continues at the top of the hour.

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this week on t.w. . when i first came to germany the dictionary was my best friend i used to write down every new what i learnt it was tedious but i knew i wouldn't get by my job without learning the language i had to change changing course that's what we're talking about on today's show it started for me by learning the what full square will i see .