this victory came as a surprise. the numbers surprised the editor. what you make of it? surprised by the scale of the victory. not by the outcome. i think united bid was the strongest of the two. it has the infrastructure. it has a high-profile that you sueed in these sorts of bids. i agree with the sports editor. i was surprised by the scale of ththis. more tha 65%. i think it will be really

interesting to see how that vote was broken down. think as systemems go for this united bid, it is a huge undertaking. unprecedented 48 teams across three different countries, very big countries.. in some respects, that is an absolute surprise. t i bng this 48 team whatever think happens, whatever voters concerns have about [indiscernible] will be out of the picture by the time the world cup comes around. that is another issue. the concerns aboutut trump right now, it seems a big delivery of this world cup in 2026 it was clear the united bid was the strongest in that respect.

choran we have spoken a lot mexico,football culture, world cup winners, hosts in the past. when you say canada for example is an obvious choice? are they trying to introduce footballll to the canadians her yeah.l, looking back in 2015, womenen's woworld cup, canada did a fantasticc the in terms of postingg that tournament. probably the best women's world cup that we haveve had. that was i in small part to thte infrasastructure that t canada d on. canada has become aa contender n its own right. canada i is in the position similar to the united states in 1994 when it first hosted the rld cup, that is seen as s a way of breaking into a country thatt

has previously been dominated by icic h hockey. nonon-footballing country like mexo. mexico 1970 hahabeen testhe b b examplple of that. in united states world cup 1994, that was a watatershed momentnt in termss of thee intet that then emerged out of that.t. as we have seen since of major league s soccer. culminating in the likes of david hiskh weight b behind this united bid. anchor: it is a big day for fifa . we hadad this announcement not e least because we are on the eve of the world cup opening in moscow. they have suffered with a certain number of scandals in

recent years. would you say that is behind them? they have turned over a new leaf? >> i certainlyly would not w wt- i would not want fifa to think it was behind them. the moment when fifa thinks these sorts of scandals are behind it, that is when they begin to rest on their laurels. that is when this corruption can creep back in. it is still a long way to go in terms of addressing some of the clear issues that persisist witn this organizization. there have been n a number r of reformrms, but they have been piecemeal. when the crisis broke in 2015, it was a great deal [indiscernible] they are more root and branch with morore of the organization. we have seen t that.

c certainly happy on this path of r reform. thatat is a long pathth. it may beomething, with this being a u.s. led investigation. it will be interesting to see just how the world cup principally being held in the uniteded states and this u.s.s. investigation, whether those pathths i intersect, crosssver i one another. that will be interestingng certainly over the next decade or so. anchor: thank you very much for u.k. g us in southampton, for more on the economics of e at discussio by the minute the business desk. it seems they went with the money. reporter: they certainly did. the figures were contrasting,

$14 ion prd from united bid when in revenues $7 million from the moroccan bid. fee for wind withth the argument of what they could earn it also the infrastructure. there is a financial bonus for fifa. the contract to broadcast the 2022 and 2026 world cup's, if the united states is chosen for 2026, to get a quarter of a billion dollars more for the broadcasters. there is a financial sweetener. that would have been controversial in the run-up to this decision-making, by the infrastructure is there and the united states investment has to go into a ratings. it is small compared to what would have happened in mexico. advanced economies do better at hosting a world cup. there is a play at the start to make sure everything is in place tourism industries, hospitality, well.ll -- they do

because the geographical spread is quite high, although the majority are and they ended the, there is a knock on benefit for canada and mexico to come out of this. the fact that they will have to travel long distances will be an issue, but there are hotels and provisions for people to come in huge numbers. we imagine a similar number to go to these three countries in 2026 for the bid anyway. there is a big economic boost. usually these things come down to big promises, very difficult to see benefits further down the line. the russian bid said they were hoping for an economic boost $31 billion over 1 years. we may see numbers like that bandied about, but whether they turn into an actual benefit is much more difficult to calculate. anchor: moving from the money side to the logistics, our

sports editor, i wonder if you could tell me about the large distances, traveling between the three countries and the tensions that exist between the u.s., canada and mexico? there was the question of visas when going to the united states. certain countries struggle to get them. how will that be affected? >> very early to tell how will be any definitive say, but the usa, the country you would assume would impose the most problem, won't really have a choice because fans are going to want to travel. they will not be in any position .o say no to traveling fans where the question really arises is if fans from around want to come -- from iran want to come. asia, syria trying to five for the world cup. the political aspect does come

into play strongly, but i think the moment, you decide to host a tournament like this, you take on the responsibility doing the best for the traveling fans and to ense things go well. it is early to predict the stigmatic issues, but for me in my view, they will not be able to say no to any traveling fans from any country if they are coming with a valid reason and simply to watch football. reporter: it is a bigger world cup as well. there are more teams going to be competing from 2026, which means you have to be able to provide the extra space and logistics necessary. as a devoped country, you have the space to move people around. fifaecided the united states. >> you have reactions from pepeople around the world that a

lot is happening in the united states. one person say you get the same players winning the fifa award, same countries hosting. fifa is a disgrace. you are having these double-sided argumenwhate were t before the vote happened, whether it is logistics are not, is fifa doing the right thing? 67% of the vote, i don't that you can argue anything area anchor: it seems plenty of people agreed. for more on that we cross to moscow where our sports editor is there. we are hearing reactions about the decision to go for the united bid, and there are perhaps two camps in that process, one wanting to expand the reach of football, and those who would vote for a safe financial bid. could you tell us more about the gap between those two schools of

thought? that the i think result today really showed that huge gap between the ideal, that the president campaigned on before he was elected. he was the one that wanted that expensive, -- expansion, more teams for 2026. he added squads of, for example, the african football confederation. he has been promoting this worldwide football, trying to move away from the always playing into the european market , who are always the biggest ones, or the south americans, football is king. he has always promoted that ideal of expending football to really the whole world, but then when you look at fifa, you look at the criteria, the

restrictions on the bidders imposed by fifa it held, it goes completely against that idea. those criteria cannot be met with the amount of money, that investment some of these countries like morocco would reach thet in criteria. we can see it is in the reports published by fifa on these two bidsahead of the vote -- ahead of the vote. the score of morocco was low. it was high risk on numerous criteria out of 20 elements. most of them are considered high risk. it really is a problem forifa that they will have to deal with deciding whether they need to lower their standards to help other countries and perhaps poor countries be able to bid successfully, or if they have to give up completely on trying to

give these countries the possibility of bidding if they are not going to win in the end anyway. anchor: thank you, sketching out some of the diplomatic and geopolitical issues. by choosing the united states as one of the three countries, there is a certain political amount of weight behind that. do you think there will be retaliation from certain nations who don't agree with the policy of the country now? reporter: i would not imagine so. this is a football events. it is a game. stephen is talking about the economic ramifications of toting such an event, b say there would be political ramifications i think is going to far. what you will be getting his people voicing their opinion, for or against the african continent. they will be disappointed by the decision. they will lodge complainints wih

fifa in the coming days. you might hear people saying fifa is a disgrace. fifa went for the money, but that is not really a surprise. it is not something before has hidden. they do need financial backing now more than ever. they have been in the midst of on.uption scandals and so i would not imagine there to be any serious political ramifications, but after a vote such as this, you will have people falling out with each other, and perhaps that will be the case again. anchor: in terms of the cooperation of the countries involved, infrastructure suggests construction building and more. stephen: this is the time when those countries are renegotiating their trade agreement. it will be interesting to see the effect on those talks. they are not the best of friends , justin trudeau donald trump did not emerge friendly after

the end of the g7 meeting last week. so these events are supposed to bring people together. perhaps we may see a softening of ties between mexico, the united canada. i would not hold your breath in the short term. anchor: thank you very much. moscow about the world cup. now we are turning to our main headlines today. refused safe port in italy, the aquarius rescue ship is heading to valencia with 629 migrants on board. this comes after spain offered help on monday following concerns about overcrowding on the vote -- the vote. it is being accompanied by two smaller italian rescue boats. despite the resistance, the boat carrying 937 migrants has managed to dock in sicily. for more, we go to josephine mckenna in rome. we have heard italy's foreign

minister has summoned the french ambassador after criticism from paris. this has gone to a ministerial level. it is becoming a diplomatic row. what is the latest? reporter: relations between italy and france struck a new low when the foreign minister summoned the freh ambassador say the comments made by french president emmanuel macron, calling italy irresponsible, were completely unjustifiable and were compromising relations between france and italy. italy is demanding an official apology from the french government before it considers the visas -- the visit by the prime ministers giuseppe conte at the palace on friday. i just spoke to the office of

the prime minister. we don't know if the prime minister will be attending the meeting with president macron. so a very tense situation, and the interior minister has been speaking in parliament. he stepped up the pressure demanding an apopology from the french government and said it was unacceptable, saying the french had held to accept more migrants, failed to meet a commitment to accept the 9000 migrants it had pledged to accept over the last several yearars and also pushed back 10,000 migrants who had tried to cross the border from into i france in the past few months. action, notanding words from the president and saying the current policies are unacceptable. the words that were used yesterday were offensive and unacceptable and are

compromising relations between the countries now. anchor: do you see a growing rift between two camps in your -- in europe? hungary defended italy, and spain is perhaps joining france e.re in the ton you see this spiraling? there is a risk of seeing this become bilateral negotiations between various countries instead of something dominated and handled and coordinated effectively by the european union. that seems to be at risk. be havingvini will discussions with his hungarian counterpart. he spoke to the german engineer -- interior minister saying they had reached some sort of agreement about a new kind of plan to stop the flow of migrants coming acroross from libya. matteo salvini, the leader of

the anti-immigrant leg, has been very crititical of france in the sesense that he accuses france f toling to do enough in libya stop the flow of migrarants, to ststabilize the country and leae italy alone to handle this problem. this is not something going to go away soon. what we are seeing from this new italian admiministrationon is zero-tolerance for italy to have to h handle this influx of migrants on their own. anchor: speaking of those people trying to reach european shores, can you tell us about the situation in terms of where these folks and people are in theit josephine: we had a new arrival in catania. an italian coast guard vessel brought in more than 900 migrants who landed there this morning. that is an interesting distinction since we have had such an uproar over the fate of

the aquarius. the interior minister says this is different because this boat had been brought in by an italian vessel and not by an ngo . he wants to shut out the ngo movie said are running a business of trafficking across the mediterranean. so this boat has landed with 900 immigrants. ngowatch, the german nco -- , had another vessel with 40 survivors trying to make its way from libyan waters. it will be interesting if we see another confrontation between that ngo and the italian government because mr. salvini has said we will not be accepting that vessel. anchor: we will keep you updated on that. .hink you, josephine mckenna now to yemen, an internation coalition of countries led by saudi arabia has launched an assault against their main port.

this is the battle for yemen's fourth-largest city. gunfire directed -- erupted wednesday. we have more. reporter: pro-government fighters are dotted along the edge of the red sea towards c', main point of entry for imports. the coalition by saudi arabia is trying to capture it. data are advancing to who to -- liberated from the rebels. troops led by the united arab emirates have advanced to the outskirts of the city area now the battle has begun n and heavy gunfire can be heard in videos on social media. a large amount of military and eight has come through the port since the start of the civil war which began three years ago.

the u.n. estates 6,000 people lee here and in a a woworst-case scecenario, a batte could cost 250,000 lives. coalition wants to cutt supply lineses to the cacapital which is held by houthi rebels. the u.n. has called for the transport of aid to be maintained in a matter what. >> it is central to preserving anytimehediffer city were not to operate consequences in humanitarian terms would be catastrophic. haverter: over 10,000 people een killed in yem's civil war. the ongoing battle will be crucial that has driven yemen to the brink of famine. anchor: after the summit in singapore with kim jong-un,

donald trump is making his way home via guam and then hawaii. pyongyang has called it the success of the century, and the president may have described the talks as very good, but it is not shared by politicians at home. let's take a look. reporter: it was handshakes and congratulations all around as donald trump boarded air force one. air bound or washington, the calls back home began. congratulations from republican lawmakers. we just got off the phone with the president from air force one, the plane back from singapore. he sounded confident and upbeat, and he should because he accomplished more than many felt would be possible at this summit. reporter: after being lobbied at the senate lunch, the optimism of some republicans was met by an equal dose of skepticism from democrats.

do.hoto op will not we need followthrough. president trump seems to have given away to or three of the major things kim jong-un wanted. a meeting, flags next to e each eher, no delay of th sou koreaho anything in return. republicans said it was too early to tell if it was a success. >> we will not be judged by what happened yesterday but whether in a year or two years north korea continues to possess nuclear weapons. ifhed't, it will be a success. reporter: with the jury still out on u.s. lawmakers, trump took to twitter, calling his critics haters and talking heads . the u.s. president preferred to focus on his great relationship with kim jong-un rather than on critiques of the summit, too many concessions and not enough discussion of north kor's track record when it comes to human rights abuses.

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