ratio is at arctica. one of the most important projects at the one carlos the 1st station is its study of the herd and johnson glaciers. for the reason is moving valuate at the state of the mass balance of the antarctic ice sheet and found the gains of us have been greater than the losses of a signal of laziness but it's just out of the proverbial today that the opposite is the 0 is a getting colder and arctic. system for the end of yes it is getting colder but our measurements and emitted to the last 15 years following. scientific studies need to examine a punitive it least 30 is if we'll close so we can see that it was a gradual temperature increase for 15 years and a temperature drop in the subsequent fish dinis but globally the trend is towards only.

on our trip we didn't see much snow but the year before there was so much snow that the 2 metre high stakes used to monitor the glacier disappeared to find them the spanish team had to dig. and dig. and dig. located next to livingston island is half moon island. we made a discovery in this miniature sized antarctica the weather here changes very suddenly .

within minutes the snowfall turns into a blizzard. clocking winds of 80 kilometers an hour. the next stop is deception island home to the station gabrielle because. this island is the caldera of an active volcano last erupted in 1970. glaciers are concealed beneath the ash. because

d.s. station is run by the spanish army. wait didn't we say the antarctic treaty bans all military activity. due to the island's difficult terrain and the danger posed by the ok no it was decided that the army was best equipped to operate the station but above us all and our. our mission is to make the visiting scientists believe horses and that they come for a very specific time period to work on research take samples do experiments and collect data. if they can i say that our job is to ensure all the logistics are in place all so they can concentrate on their work but i mean the. end don't they so there are no weapons here no one that i know was. deception island is home to a large colony of chinstrap penguins. and they spot a bossa has been studying these animals for 20 years. i specify what if there were

no other species like the penguin those populations have decreased dramatically on and talked about an incident about 60 percent of the chinstrap penguin is also threatened by extinction. but other species like the gentoo penguin have profited from present day conditions it's populations of increased by about 15 to 20 percent that's basically what's been happening over the course of 4000000000 years on our planet you know that it's called evolution. and the what is it and if there are species that thrive under positive conditions then they vanish and are replaced by others of this. fundraising installed a camera to monitor the penguins all year long the images track the birds and their offspring as they gradually flee beyond sort of colder temperatures. we see siegel's fly by. the drifting icebergs.

the arrival of storms that bury the camera in snow and then blow it free again. in the long lonesome winter. the formation of sea ice. the sunsets that no one else sees. in october the penguins return soon they begin to lay their eggs. and a few weeks later chicks are born. one of the spanish navies tasks is to map the undersea topography of around these islands. drive a deeper. 08 seats.

in 4th and buffer because the antarctic coast is so immense less than one percent of the area underwater has been properly going to be open if they are lost yeah i go there are they for example you have to change your ships because of an iceberg it can be dangerous to leave the zones for which there are accurate data. so we need to produce more maps to prevent shipwrecks oil spills or other accidents. but it is not just to protect human lives but also to prevent damage to the environment here we go through them but nothing we really have lots of work ahead and it will take. every country with the ability to cooperate should pitch in on me and i recall it out. of. the british captain william smith made the 1st recorded landing in antarctica in 1819 an accident after he was blown off course by a powerful winds spain claims the honor forgot because the who it says discovered the continent in 1603 though that's never been proven. it's

probable that seal hunters set foot on these islands before william smith but they kept quiet about their discovery so as not to have to share its treasure trove of fur. made up of a family of s. for these are photos of organisms from the weddell say a nobody knows what family genus all species they belong to they have yet to be classified. which is true of lots of completely different types of animals but i'm interested in the us. despite its remote location far removed from almost all human life on earth the southern ocean is a vital and precious region of the planet. that team of modern day explorers has been dispatched to the region by the university of barcelona.

and that's about south africa people thought that because it's so cold with resources in terms of food there would be little phone on the seabed that's not true. but all the muslims adapt to the ecosystems in antarctica at the oldest on the planet so species have had a long time to adapt is that it's an aerospace is that are in fact unique to the ecosystem here. do you feel a bit like explorers. and while yeah i do. explorers of antarctica today and in times past.

in 1011 norwegian explorer. ruled norway and britain's robert falcon scott race to be the 1st to reach the south pole ahmanson triumphed while scott's team perished trying to return though his expedition ended in tragedy scott was celebrated as a hero. on his way back scott had picked up a fossil from a tree also found in south america and india. to find support of the theory that the continents were once joined and had drifted apart. and so the race to the south pole contributed to a better understanding of our planet's evolutionary history. the remnants of an old whaling station can still be found on deception island long ago the location was referred to as red bay because of the blood stained water or

stinking bay due to the stench of rotting meat and processing oil. it was shut down in 1931. and international ban on commercial whaling came into force in 1986. japan was allocated a quota for scientific research purposes. it was long suspected of violating the terms of this quota by pursuing commercial whaling in antarctica. we support sustainable use we'd like to see ways. it was not the only way so that you know. it's all in. sure you have any

to help. animals in nature you. in 2014 the international court of justice in the hague ruled against japan's whaling program that god concludes the special pammy granted by japan for the killing taking and treating the whales in connection with jack i too are not for purposes of scientific research christiane to articulate but i got one of the convention. japan complied with the court decision. but only for one year after which its ships were back out whaling in the southern ocean again. whaling is not the only problem we should be concerned about. the patagonian tooth

fish is an antarctic treasure it's subject to cash limits but amid high demand poaching is a lucrative business. says poachers ignore quotas and on fishing to. these mandate the use of a long line in the law which allows for a selective fishing by ways of the coaches use children at risk nets and indiscriminately kill tons of other fish as well. in 20142016 spanish police interpol and the new zealand navy took joint action against the dollar out of my daughter as a spanish company accused of illegal fishing when it went off but it was a milestone internationally because spain issued a public acknowledgement saying we admit this is a spanish pirate fishing company and we know there are many others but this story didn't have a happy ending. dollars appealed a little clips conviction the supreme court decided in its favor ruling that the

alleged hoping had taken place in international waters and spanish courts had no jurisdiction to try the case in a spaniard. from here. head south. it sails into the gallagher strait one of the most spectacular locations on the entire. continent.

this is the argentinian station. the primavera station is run by the army that unlike other stations has a system of raised walkway s. so we have oil trampling on fragile plants including mohsen algae as to cause the least possible to see. why is it that international cooperation works here but not of the other when. i'm not a foreign policy expert so i can't say but the antarctic treaty works very well. if you ask me why i can't really say it just does say i wish the rest of the world this way but probably there is more ego is that other places. there is there cooperation between argentina chile and the united kingdom to. play

in fact i arrived with the phrase station there's no problem in that respect. here in antarctica it works perfectly i'd be happy to show you a bit more of the station. 2 the commander mentioned the phrase station which is chilean but nothing specific about the u.k. it may just have been coincidence or maybe he was avoiding a sensitive topic. in 1902 argentina and britain went to war over the falkland islands. for many it left wounds that never heal. for days we watched otherworldly scenes unfold before our eyes.

during those weeks we discovered and are to go infinite beauty and one of its biggest threats. and that you know that we saw all right called president numbers in 20082009 with some 46000 tourists the financial crisis hit the tourism industry in numbers dropped to below 25000 recently they were back up again to 46 ounces which may be one of the numbers keep rising as embrace even if we don't know what will happen i think numbers will increase but these trips on cheap. cost between 5 and 10000 euros

you. know i know it's a lot of people can afford such luxuries. for every researcher in antarctica there are now 10 to arrests it's a business that rakes in some $400000000.00 euros per year. to remove a few years ago and. i am here inside a british station dating from the 1950 s. . but otoh there are rules of conduct for visitors but more needs to be done and it would help if tourists were required to make a monetary contribution to regional conservation and opera it's currently only 10 of the 521-0000 heroes they will pay for their trip going to war to raising their footprint but on and goes to conservation management. often it's the tourists themselves who found complaints against the tour operators who found regulations.

do you think tourism may have a negative impact on that personally you know we were we were able to have a lot of time to walk and child and that i was i'm walking around the island and so far we've found some trash which is very surprising in a way because you know in our mind at least in my mind i thought an article will be a very prestigious and remote location would be untouched but they're looking at you know a milk carton from china and chinese i can read that and looking at different water bottles and waste on beaches it's shocking in a way. it's not just tourism any human presence in antarctica can pose a threat. that they are looking for aliens.

well that's fairly in the sense of species that didn't exist in the region before they arrived check out the local conditions and if they meet their ecological requirements they settle and propagate. we want to identify the invasive species that have displaced local populations. see last if the temperature rises even slightly species that would previously have been unable to some fine. propagate if you can invade and occupy the habitats of native species and supplant the need or point of. how do these invasive species reach antarctica or not they arrive through different natural channels either on a whim and by sea or tree trunks or other floating objects or on animals but natural roots are the main source of invasion it's humans soon inadvertently carry them on very cold wheels. but many species die in the harsh conditions that other

more hardy ones become invasive it all. i got what i mean by you. that's why we were required by the spanish polar committee to carefully vacuum each one of the items we took with us to antarctica. he will tell you solve this problem alone. and that's what i'm going to know what the great thing about it arctic as the cooperation between the many countries active here what if employed a good example is our success in eradicating an invasive species 2 years ago when i got enough it was a coordinated effort at the spanish or english argentine polar communities. and that despite the fact that britain and argentina have a history of conflict in the region. we are radically to the invasive species and it actually. russia call us from about maybe ecologists or the earth's doctors now we've diagnosed it is yes now the onus is on society to follow the

doctor's orders medical. after a week on the gallows straight the s.p.d. this makes its way back to the spanish station from there it will return home. but i couldn't leave antarctica without investigating the world single biggest threat to peace and the environment to the american one part of the data recorder and without a doubt there are mineral resources that are to your hand there is oil. and there are not just hydrocarbons in the film is not as gasoline petroleum but also minerals like nickel gold and silver i think this will lead to some recent publications even report findings of the time that my heart the dominant. color with my 5 figure i coming creasing the easier and cheaper to reach at arco there could be minerals here with a value so great my justify their exploitation of even in such

a remote location and hostile environment but if it's worth both your know it a lot of power they are not going to i'm going to kind of thing. that i witnessed the prestige oil spill firsthand we conducted research to determine the skins impact along the entire coast of northern spain and the findings were devastating that massive. massive oil isn't just hard to remove it's impossible and if we take off the upper layer but the rest stays stuck. with that just because you are no oil spill in antarctica on the scale of the prestige would be a total catastrophe. if the only less impact on the ice sheet would be far more dramatic than any of the effects of can have in other regions gets it it does not but why. the 1st of all because it would be impossible to reach all of the affected areas in a 2nd here. when it freezes the oil gets trapped inside the ice so in the much heart of the marine calista disappears into other areas in the belief that he's the

best. in 1909 signatories of the end arctic treaty were poised to open the door to limited oil and mineral prospecting that had new countries lining up to join the club. but then once again a miracle happened there that i thought we were going to mark the day saw the signing of the madrid protocol of the agreement aims to protect the environment of it arctic the only remaining pristine territory on our planet when the video market said to stay in force for the next 50 years. when. as so often the world's most powerful countries were divided. around erupted between the more environmentally conscious mostly european nations and the united states soviet union china and britain for the millionth of what i remember. in the end all agreed to a 50 year moratorium on the exploitation of mineral resources the ban can only be

lifted with the unanimous agreement of all signatories which is virtually impossible so i would prefer the protocol was a compromise between the interests of the 2 sides and the exploitation of resources that could of course severe pollution and irreparable damage to antarctica but it failed to impose a permanent ban was. the madrid protocol will be subject to review in 2048 what happens then. achieving consensus when anything is a very hard thing to do so as long as you haven't convinced all of the countries the change from current policy is needed then the current ban on mining continue as all we will matter. that may be. but some are still tempted in 2007 britain asserted new claims to a vast area of the seabed off antarctica is set forth and there's

a reason why countries go to great lengths shipping resources and people to open stations and talk to get the oil yes that they would they want to ensure they will be there when the continent is did it or. even if no one will say so with all of the doubt and couple. as a researcher do you feel you're being exploited for that and. no but i'm not not at all but. i have always believed it's better to join forces with your enemy. to take advantage of all that resources. see. or say even more if through our research we can obtain at a time it will help protect time talk to a lot of weight up i guess i believe that sound best option or feeling of a harmony that your point about avoid best the other.

and so the spanish researchers and military personnel take leave of the southernmost continent. shortly before we reach the mainland we receive footage of the penguin colony on the section island. the chicks were born 20 days ago. the embryo in this egg is dead its parents can't lay another until next year. it's hard for them to let it go. suman kind also tries desperately to protect the things it loves. and science has

shown that the human heart is bigger than that of a penguin. for which you beg to differ. you know that's the one thing we can agree on.

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this is to give you news a lot from berlin should germany extend its 2nd lockdown vaccinations are underway but more than 2 weeks of stringent restrictions have failed to curb new infections medical experts are raising the alarm also coming up india gets ready to vaccinate its huge population against covert 19 with a nationwide dry run with vaccine approval expected in a few days the country aims to immunize 300000000 people in a matter of months. and the unwanted bonus legal record debt stood for more than 5 decades but could tons of money of berlin's $31.00 game winning a streak soon be beaten one team is on the verge of doing just that.

michel oku welcome to the program here in germany there has been a surge in covert 1000 deaths over the past month more than half of all deaths in the entire pandemic were recorded in december calls are now growing louder for germany to extend its current lockdown. talks. to discuss that lockdown. dr. desperate need of relief. with. chief international editor richard walker richard.

politicians and doctors are calling for an extension of the or those calls justified. i think an extension of some kind at least is looking very likely when politicians meet during the coming week to talk about to go beyond the 10th of january which was the plan until now and what's driving that is very much the health system you just mentioned there because the kind of infection numbers that we've been looking at of the last 10 days aren't. partly being driven by the fact that of course over the christmas new year break there's not so much testing. of many numbers. but what is happening what you really do see is the health system getting close to the brink of what it's capable of delivering and is one example. if you look at the number of people in intensive care and hospitals 34 percent of

intensive care hospital beds. patients right now just one months ago that was 24 percent so that's a very significant jump. of this month and. a really worried about the german health care system hitting the kind of situation. in spain and the . regions of those countries the health system. and then they have to start turning away some patients from the they needed that would be. wants to get the blame for so i think that is driving this kind of sense the politicians like lisa are on the side of caution when they next meet the cautionary tale that's tearing over all the thinking here would also this 2nd lockdown affect schools in kindergartens where there is debate around that and so there is a lot of pressure for schools to reopen at least partially so that children can get

back into education because you know there's a growing awareness of the psychological impact on children of being cut off from from really good quality teaching in schools. but there's also a growing when the schools do play a role in infection so you know one suggestion has come up is for example to allow younger children back into school but children to be still at home the children being both more independent and capable of working from during their studies from home and also potentially putting a posing a high risk if they did go into school so you can expect some debate around that this week that's for sure richard briefly germany started its mass vaccination program on december 27th of course i think it's safe to say it hasn't gone very smoothly that's right i mean there's a huge debate opening up around this you know excitement just before christmas when these vaccines started getting approved you know there's the biotech vaccine that was also developed in germany getting approval these huge vaccination centers being

opened up in concert halls and airports around the country. but these don't have enough vaccines to actually get properly to work. and the head of that company the c.e.o. of that company biotech has actually come out and said why didn't your opinion order more of a vaccine they could have done and this kind of goes to the heart of this debate because the european union has taken over a very central role within europe of ordering vaccines now they say of course they had to divide up their orders among different companies because they didn't know which. would come through 1st. but they are facing accusations of not ordering enough i think one thing we have to emphasize that when discussing this is the the e.u. is in the fortunate position of being able to afford these vaccines which of course many countries around the global south simply can't at this stage jackley. richard walker thanks as always richard india is testing its

nationwide to over $1000.00 vaccine distribution systems as it prepares to roll out an inoculation program the trial includes the entry of data into an online platform that will monitor vaccine delivery the dry run comes a day after regulators need to review the potential vaccine candidates including covert shield developed by astra zeneca and oxford university in the hopes of when ocular a 300000000 people in the 1st 6 to 8 months of the year. for more i'm joined now by our correspondent in delhi. india has reported over 10000000 covert cases 2nd only to the united states it says it hopes to inoculate some 300000000 indians by summer is there any concern about whether the government can actually pull this off. well this is definitely a massive logistical challenge michael and the government has laid out of

a very detailed plan on haiti for us that's to talk and 30000000 people who will be considered front line local or simply what has got locals cost and then sadly she listens to chart people but the true challenge will emerge when we then move to the other 270000000 people that india will to lacson aid by the some long which includes everybody about the age of 50 as well as those below what the age of 50 who have but it is now this is on data that is going to be added or that in an organized manner and he is in the country so now the priority lists are being built across the country people will have the option to enjoy on the digital platform or in the going after they would be given to be designated school up to show up and get their pre-booked vaccine but of course tracking this data to be a true should staff and this and each vaccines and us will fight it seems that it will only get you out a 100 vaccinations but be it which means that thousands of sites and doesn't be

needed across the country looking at proficiency to had this docket. india's health care budget is only a small proportion of its g.d.p. yet millions of people have to be reached including some in remote and rural areas as you know what are the challenges here. well michael india and you know targets to draw on experiences it has had in the last even though nothing discreet has been gotten out of india hasn't robust your loss even as the sheeple gram which backs needs which gives out hundreds of millions of dollars is all back to nations don't just mothers as men it's intense and this is been jumped up significantly over the last decade which has improved india's would have seen infrastructure which is basically how a lack seems didn't support it from the delivery point still actually in operation with the patient in addition it has also batra like on its mostyn election it's

beginning to spend millions what in a single day it's a similar want it in a fashion wonderful as the out significant challenges the quantity in storage and mentioned is useful but not a part of accessing that people through a vaccine which is quite a step because of between 2 and 8 degrees but then you look at something that defies the act seems to quite as temperatures of minus 17 degrees this is do think this is too massive a challenge in a country like india and that is not the be much more difficult to pull off there's also concerns around the time management making sure that people come back for the 2nd was following up on the observations of the people who get the vaccinations and of gloucester ending was an. correspondent. for us there in delhi really appreciate it misha thank you. taking a look now at some other international stories french police have been recording the details of revelers leaving an illegal new year's eve party in the western region of brittany some 2 and a half 1000 people from france and abroad attended the rave it was held in

violation of a nationwide curfew and ban on gatherings and continued until saturday morning. for the 1st time since donald trump took office republican and democratic senators have overridden a presidential veto more than 2 thirds of the chamber passed a major defense bill to which trump had objected that means the bill will pass into law on walking more than $700000000000.00 worth of military spending. ruling party candidate mohamed zoom has won the 1st round of presidential elections in the west african nation. but the electoral commission says he will have to face the country's former president in a run off on february 20th this vote could mark the 1st peaceful transfer of power in the country since independence. well it's often been called the forgotten war the conflict in yemen the latest victims were 3 people killed as

a shell exploded at a wedding party in the port city of whole data both the saudi backed government and iran backed rebels blame each other for the attack their 5 year long conflict has left over $100000.00 people dead and many more starving. saeed is just a year and a half old and he's fighting for his life his parents brought him to this hospital in yemen's capital sanaa dozens of starving children arrive every day but in many cases the doctors a powerless to help. the don't do i think but don't how others they talk to see it on being paid we have no medicine for the sick children there's no food for them either even though they are now nourished some of the mothers are really desperate they can't breastfeed their children because they too have a starving mobs. then they know sarah and has. 5000000 children in yemen

don't have enough to eat the u.n. figures show many have to go to work instead of to school and their plight is only worsening the country's been at war since 25th day and leaving its economy in ruins and now yemen is being hit by the coronavirus. charity say this is the world's worst humanitarian crisis. the situation in yemen is very serious we are very close to the stage of the clearing of famine in yemen because of the deteriorating food security situation for millions of people across the country aid workers say some 1500000000 euros is needed to help give many survive the winter with money running out as the situation worsens. switching gears now in football germany's shako will be hoping to end a run of $29.00 games without a win when they face her to berlin later today they're on target to set an unwanted

record the longest winning streak in the bundesliga the current holders of that title or berlin team called manya who set the record back in the 1960 s. and despite the negative connotations has money are not keen to relinquish their place in history i lean on known throughout germany for one thing that disastrous 196566 season the cup win 31 matches without a win in the campaign a bonus league or record they also hold the record for the fewest goals scored in a season and the most goals conceded i thought form a player that's a becca's says the small club is still proud to this day of competing for that one season in the bundesliga. cond i can say that we were of course proud to play at least one season in the owners league sometimes just to meet the expectations to do but also to never disappoint and to eventually realise when the

opponent was simply better than us. then again a bit. but now they're winless record is in danger of falling current bundesliga side shall cut doing their best to use up. they haven't won in 21 matches for the 7 time german champions it's an embarrassing predicaments. it's a threat to their identity to become surprisingly attached to this undesirable record and don't want shell cup taking make glory. maybe it would be possible that soccer breaks this record but i can't imagine that we did it in one season and try to get it over through season so there's a for me it's not competitive for us through the. shell to have just 2 games to save their reputation with a victory to zali biggest cheerleader will be. they want their record as the bundesliga worst ever team to stand i this is news of live from

berlin sports life is coming up with a look at how rich regimes are buying up football team history improve their image that's after the break stay with us. in the eye of climate change. for. what's in store. for the future. for the major cities to get insight could counter. hi i'm neal and i'm game did you know that $70000000000.00 killed worldwide so that we can include but it's not just the animals at all suffering it's the environment we went on a journey to find ways out of the nutrition if you want to know how a one click to

a priest and the focus changed as we take a listen to our podcast on the green. governments know that investing money in sports can make them look good it's what's known as sports washing. sports washing which is to say the attempt by a government to whitewash to cleanse to project a more positive image obvious that is accurate really an alternative version of events is that well this is not

a new. it can be used for nefarious ends. we're looking at how the government so. yeah i was. followed by the woman tapes of the news to. you know political purpose it's a way for oppressive governments to rebranding self's qatar is one of the best examples the tiny. not only buying a team but bankrolling its record transfers sports t.v. channel and even the rights to host the world cup tournaments. but it's a different story behind the scenes the country has been accused of multiple human rights violations the serious problem the other gulf states that the violation of workers rights the treatment of migrant workers in the gulf got are is. some people talked about it being a form of modern day slavery and this has become far more visible because of that

successful with the horse 2022 well. they brought in. the thousands millions of migrant workers that make up possible very sensual. and structure. stadiums. and the question of the guest workers is definitely a complex question there is no question about our commitment when it comes to that rights there has been over the years plenty of question about your cool and fair enough i mean those were basically based on some media campaigns etc but the truth be nice and you're lousy conditions you know all these might be we acknowledge that and we acknowledge that as a matter of fact the most recent amnesty international report we have welcomed that human rights watch come to the house on a regular basis and we have to see that criticism very well despite pressure from the international community qatar's atrocious human rights record continues but its

financial muscle has cost many countries to look the other way though even if you want to ignore all these problems let's say you're just a football fan and you only care about football well they're also destroying the sport as we know it too let's stick to it for. major involvement in football was back in 2011 when they. and started pumping millions to bring telling to the french capital. most notably in the 2 most expensive transfers in the world football today. massive expenditures have translated to domination of french football. the club have been crowned champion 7 times in the past 8 years. the french league well some say it's a joke. this is. the day. they were both vocal about course and one of the. things it's something

big is huge exposure. and these ridiculous sums of money have. turn the transfer market on its head meaning that fewer clubs will be able to keep up and competes. she also hold winter training camps in qatar but rather than benefit from warm weather training the trip more to showcase the country. don't forget main goal isn't having the walls best football it's cleaning up their image so the country has also invested in other teams take f.c. barcelona probably posted having a 111 year tradition of not having a paid shirt sponsored. but that all changed in 2011 once qatar offered the club 150000000 euros to display the name of the middle eastern country for 5 seasons. is it really worth all that money in qatar there's no doubt. there is so much loyalty in football that once we get the associated with

a football club it will boost our passenger appeal and at the same time it will give us the. footprint. to expand our footprint into other parts of the world where we are preparing to pull qatar have gone on to sponsor the shirts of italians that roma and belgian clubs. but perhaps the country's most important shirt sponsorship deal at the moment is with german giants munich. qatar airways the state on airline paid birand 10000000 years a year and in return the club fly to doha for mid season training caps they've been doing so since 2011. some by and supporters have a big problem with that they're against their club. due to the country's human rights record. during matches fans have held banners protesting the club's dealings with the country and that's happened on multiple occasions. express.

discontent you know they've become. very they. it's the club directly on these issues with. the club's higher ups it's business as usual going as far as offending their position. on the mention of. the turkish currency leslie because of the currency frenzy nothing it's real. and. true it. were the reality is that. there. are more helpful if they would have. a more realistic assessment

of the problem or indeed if they would actually call for forms that would help. and we don't even need to travel far from qatar to find the next case of sports washing their neighbors in the middle east abu dhabi in the united arab emirates was even a step ahead as the premier league side matches for city back in 2000 and. 90 group transformed the club overnight into the world's richest football club the emirate has spent more than 1000000000 pounds in transfers since buying the club. has been controversial even until today regarding. but the cash has delivered positive results on the pitch man city have won 4 premier league title since just like atar. interested in financial profit or after something else. has virtually serial democracy and has repressive freedom of speech 90 percent of the

population are migrants and the vast majority of them are paid the bare minimum and live in poor conditions. magister city success gives abu dhabi a chance to offer an alternative story about the country to the rest of the world. the country paints itself as a top holiday destination. that's also quite easy to do when you know football stars from all over europe vacation that. today investment in man city has turned into something bigger city football group which owns different clubs across the globe. city football group gives abu dhabi a platform to consolidate and strengthen their political influence we have an ambition as well as a football group to work to have an organization that that is global and that will have multiple clubs part of it so i would say when the opportunity arises and we are looking at opportunities you can expect us also to add to the number of clubs

we have already within within their organization all of their clubs were similar colors have similar badges they even have the same sponsor as you had airways and that's just one of the 2 of the u.a.e. state owned airlines they're both making big moves in football. emirates is going after the european elites ryall madrid the world's most famous and most successful club. what's in their shirt. emirates. the dubai paste airline has a myriad of sponsorships and football besides being real major its main sponsor emirates has deals with clubs such as ac milan benfica and arsenal emirates have the longest running sponsorship deal in the premier league as they have sponsored arsenal since 2006 the club's homegrown even bears the airlines name the emirates stadium and that won't change anytime soon the stadiums naming rights will last until 2028 you may imagine our cars would be one of the groups of supporters from

a protest against the involvement of emirates so it's not like the government of dubai or the party. it relates to the thought that the by international reputation as been normalised. over many years. long before the terror sports washing was coined when it comes to sports washing russia are leading the way and they do it through the gas company. on paper as a private company but since 2005 the russian government has own more than half of the company's shares in this league outside shot at have a longstanding deal with the russian company the sponsorship was 1st established in 2007 in a deal worth 150000000 euros. also owns russian club the senate st petersburg conglomerate bought the club in 2005 making the club a major force in russian football esperance investment mensah needs could make significant moves in the transfer market bringing in players like another marquee c.e.o. axel that still halted and most recently i think it is we want to go but we are

being more. control. i need is the political and that is i think when existential issues command claims by which i mean are they going to ruin clubs that are they going to rid the game or generally. uses the club and its players for multiple p.r. stunts such as having them play football on an offshore drilling rig these images help glorify gas problems are 3 expeditions and downplayed the environmental impact caused by extraction as well as owning them pumping money into clubs guess brum is also a major player in the champions league partnership with you a fight began in 2012 and it was extended until 2021 russia knows how to play the game the 23 world cup powered by none other than guys from what's russia's crown jewel. what you saw in the run up to 2018 was a lot of coverage of what was happening in russia low coverage of the rights abuses

love at 1st and not a lot of engagement. than what the counties will up north this was how that all vanished as soon as the farce. blew. and i think everyone became captivated by football. because we know they're going to get through that 1st well so there are federal rules and then we'll look to hold a successful tournament. to cement their reputation so they'll get a reputation and history would suggest. they will so what do you think is sports washing a big problem football or said shows the future. conflicts you don't hear a lot about t.v. in your fees days before more than 2 months from gary combust financial corruption and the government demonstrations my guest this week from sofia to speed so such

a bust minister made him such an artist why does she continue to struggle it's mistreating its most vulnerable people in violation of its human rights. flicks. how do we cope with atrocities some people simply break down others stand up again and rising to overcome the trauma how to the depths where all the psychological crisis is called chris hill indians resilience helps us overcome crises we can also to become more resilient and last better prepared for hard times in good shape. in 60 minutes on w. . with different languages we fight with different. that's fine but we all speak up for freedom freedom of speech and freedom of press. giving

freedom of choice global news that matters w made for mind. when is the government going to get the message and resign we're getting a lot of different messages from the protests is your government afraid of the truth the of being you being afraid of the. we don't understand the problem you don't hear a lot about it in europe these days but for more than 2 months garia has been convulsed by anti corruption and government demonstrations for 7 years in a row it's on the dubious distinction of being the most corrupt country in the e.u. my guest this week from south korea is the. minister of labor and social policy.