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the games later this year. ah, irish manager, welcome to did up the news asia, and you could join us indonesian football players and fans have been left is made and disappointed by a decision by fee for the governing body of wild football to drop indonesia as host of the under 20 woke up next month, the move followed weeks of political turmoil and protests in the majority muslim country about israel participation in the tournament, even though it qualified last june, the host country steam heard the news late wednesday in an emotional gathering that left team members deflated, worried about their future prospects here, some of what was heard during and after the team meeting in jakarta, the opportunity that you should have had is suddenly gone up. regardless of the

issues we're talking about sports people might say, this is just a world cup that's for those who don't understand football. but i'm sure this is the dream of all of us. then we've done our best preparation. we trained 3 times a day. people just don't know how hard we've worked. so please if you want to say something or give an opinion, be consider it because we, the players are now affected. but now just us, but all footballers yeah. i just hope and pray that indonesia won't be sanctioned. so we can still participate in other people tournaments and our footballer said so that we can still have a career in football. there's disappointment across the board in a country that was looking forward to hosting the games. did up those asia pacific bureau chief garrick matters, and rebecca and after polo report,

this is where the opening for the u. 20 world cup should have taken place. the glory bombgardener stadium. it was, are there the infrastructure, the slogan? even the mascot might just do months. me for the kick off. the dream for indonesia as football fans is over, i'll only of course, i'm disappointed it was a dream, a once in a lifetime opportunity for indonesia to join the world cup. but the decision has been made. let's pray for the burst of any of my good. yeah. so that when i and let's fix our football 1st, there are a lot of problems we face in our football association. let's do it needs to be done for our football lab, or what the label seaver port, the wall cuts on the horse mission, indonesia, following protests against israel. als participation. israel qualified last june, quite sports ever under 20 world. come. but the protest here in jakarta erupted

only 2 weeks ago, demanding that israel not be allowed to, but it's a mean it was all triggered by the governor of bali asking the government not to invite israel al, to their bali stadium, indonesia and israel al, do not have formal diplomatic allegiance and support for the palestinian cause and the world's most populous muslim enjoy. the nation runs high experts now fear that the clash of politics and sport has jeopardized the entire countries reputation as host to big events. gallagher, m is that is about the maybe that i think there's also a risk for international organizations, or if there are international events at it. and then we bid to become the host or bidding because the international community will be taking notes on this issue. my philanthropy, i don't know how indonesia can rescue its image. my sat up in the matter. these

young players now have to pay the price. the automatic qualifying spot as host nation is gone. officials have already warned that losing the tournament will cost a country hundreds of millions of euros. and v far is traveling further sanctions, potentially even excluding indonesia from the 2026 world cup qualifiers that began in october. and gentlemen are for more context on this is d w correspondent rebecca. now be to follow from our jakarta bureau back up. what is the mood right now in and in indonesia? yes, it's been a pretty gloomy day for indonesia. this has been a dream not only for the football team, but also for all indonesian to be able to participate in the world cup, but sat lee. that dream has to be gone and not only for the football

fans, but also for the players. they've been expressing their disappointment and anger through social media, saying that of course this is not the result they do hope for. they've been practicing. and they've been preparing for this very big moment and we have to understand how important and how dear football, if to indonesian for fire be i believe every kid, every boy in indonesia grew up playing football once in their lifetime it has become a part where the football fans and the players have a deep interaction towards each other's. and the last time in an easy joint world cup was back in 1938, where we joined to as the dutch east in b. so this is actually an opportunity that we've been waiting for such a long time. but sadly, it has to go another way. and what is there for the impact of this decision on

indonesia as participation, specifically in the under 20 football world cup and in a larger sense on football. in general. yes, the reason the indonesian football team are able to join those under 20 world cup is because we have that opportunity to be the host of the world cup and by us not becoming the host of this year's world cup. it means that the indonesian team will not be able to participate in this world cup as well. and for the national football, we are still waiting for the fi busters ation. whether or not we will be given any sanction on this. but if so, probably harm to the national football team back from any far tournaments. and we

also have to mention that the indonesian government, they have poured out 10700000 euro in preparing 6 lidiam across indonesia for this big events. and not only in sports events as well, but this big moment has been a great opportunity for the economy and also for the tourism local tourism across indonesia. but that has to be just another dream for the people to host another international events that would bring a big impact to the local communities as well. rebecca, how much of the control receiving seeing is connected to presidential election slated for next year? yes, so next year 2024 in a nisha is going to help one of the biggest general election. and one of them is the presidential election. 2 governors who decided not to

welcome the israel lead team to play in their area. are bali governor e y n cost letter and all saw central job our governor, gang jetta know war. and they expressed their obstruction for the israeli team to play in their area because they feel like it is a respond to indonesia support for the palestinian and some analysts seen this to be adjuster for them to be able to say that they are standing with the people, they are spending with the value that the, that most indonesian believed in class in an asian is one of the biggest muslim majority countries in the world. and also ganja or the central java governor. he is actually one of the most potential candidate for the president for the

presidential election next share. so this has been given him a lot of spotlights on this controversies of, from his statement to result of this. you 20 world cup in indonesia will innovation football be able to recover from this control the c that is the hope that i do believe indonesia. all information is shared even though we're still very sad about the result we are feel disappointed about the results. but i got to talk to some of the football fans on the streets earlier. and they said that they hope in the next 510 or 20 years, indonesia will be able to show that the football team will grow and the organization will become a better organization and managing all this. 7 football team and also events, especially the world cup cause this is one of the big dream for indonesia. so

hopefully the next generation will keep up that fire within them and will be able to recover together from what has been unfortunate events for the country will leave it there for the time being. thanks so much for joining us today at rebecca and tupelo. ah, hong kong is set to make history when it becomes the 1st asian city to host the gay games in november. the chinese territory will be sharing hosting duties with guadalajara mexico. the covert pandemic forced to delay in this latest edition of the games, which had been held every 4 years since 1982. 0, hong kong and bytes. the world to come out. why? because of this city will be the 1st ever asian host of the

game. later, oh, it's been a long struggle. hong kong, 1st one, the bit in 2017. since then, there's been the 2019 pro democracy protests and subsequent crackdown. and the coven pandemic. when hong kong imposed one of the world's strictest prevention regimes. ah, after stalling for months, the gay games will take place in november 2023 organizers say in hong kong. it's now okay, we're to come out. you know, that's what i'm hoping to do here today is to help you know, my gay fellows and our allies to do the same, to have a little more courage, particularly in hong kong. i think these phenomenon will help updates. hong comes to south po, narratives around the algae bt plus community. and he gets

a society which fights for freedom. as we had seen the past few years, should also believe in the freedom to the freedom. that is why they respected by hong kong public. and so far tolerated by the cities, beijing backed governments does it for today as a proposed mo, from the region on our website. plenty of back here at the same time tomorrow. good bye. enjoying the view. come to take a look at this tv highlights every week in your inbox. subscribe now. oh, you become a criminal. mm franklin. i am ready news

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