looks ahead of the selection the joint u.s. mexico and canada bid to host the twenty twenty six world cup looks like a done deal at least on paper the north american bid seoul rival morocco barely passed the features a valuation scoring two point seven overall against four stadiums and accommodation in morocco were considered high risk the african country would need to invest a whopping sixteen billion dollars into infrastructure to host that event and the projected revenue of the north american world cup is two times bigger the twenty twenty six bid is well presented and strong in terms of government commitments but would need to build most of its tournament related and going to infrastructure the united twenty twenty six bid on the other hand has promising levels of infrastructure already in place and fully operational but there is one obstacle on the world cup's journey across the pond and its name is donald trump starting with

purely practical things after all the us president introduced a travel ban for a number of arab countries yeah it probably will be gone by twenty twenty six but you never know due to new entry regulations the currently being proposed in the united states in relation to citizens from certain countries there are significant risks to discrimination free entry to the country he is also building a wall on the border with a country which is part of that bid mexico wait what trump also demands mexico pays for that wall occasionally getting a very hard no from the neighbors down south hardly the most cordial alliance ever . no mexico will never pay for a while not now not ever sincerely mexico all of us and then there's a personal aspect as well remember the famous or should i say infamous whole

countries remark of the united states is racist he really is the devil this is an actual quote from the actual president this is the gift that he decided to give the american people they're not all countries for one donald trump isn't their president. well technically those countries account for fifty four votes and that is more than half of the necessary hundred and four needed to win the bid hard to blame them if they decide to support morocco against the us and now add that to the football federations of the countries blacklisted by trump and when the us president tried to extinguish the blaze and secure the bid he might have made things even worse the u.s. has put together a strong bid with canada and mexico for the twenty twenty six world cup it would be a shame if countries that we always support were lobby against the us bit why

should we be supporting these countries when they don't support us including at the united nations today's on the gianni in front dinos rain is going through a massive reforms and one of them is that the decision on who gets the world cup will be made through an open public vote by all member associations it leaves one to wonder if trump had that in mind when he tried to bully the countries into a voting for the us alexy russia ski r.t. . when it gets to it it's going to be huge the twenty twenty six world cup will be the biggest since the tournament began in one nine hundred thirty it's going to consist of forty eight teams sixteen more than the current format football consult a new form of fee for communications director water. column break is expectations for the vote. easier to try and host this massive tournament in place or does it make more sense to try and absolutely absolutely want when this would be kind of your only factor in are the need to go to morocco already when you have one single

country but different states it is very complicated and you can imagine if you have three different legal systems in all. it's for sure more more complicated than if you have one single country by the end of the day money is talking and if you see the forecast is more than fourteen billion us dollars for four for the united bid and i think seven billion still enough but it's half for the more. i think that there will be the main reason for all other for voters to go for united no doubt there's also been some extreme lobbying going on from each of the big hopes of. dalton been trying to get the african nations on side morocco jumped out in front in that who do you think has the upper hand in terms of trying to wrestle votes or at least support or you just mentioned trump you know for me trump

was the best campaigner for morocco and. i don't want to quote what he said about the africans but i think. he was not very helpful let's put it like that for united bit and it might be difficult for some countries to vote. for the united bit purely because of geopolitical reasons and because of the trump and miss ration that will be for sure something negative for united bit. so while the twenty twenty six host has been chosen nazis the world cup host goalkeeper peter schmeichel spoke to fifa chief gianni infantile you know about the current issues the facing. it is no secret a lot of tension between the world and the world cup host nation. how are fifa how are you dealing with i mean how exhaustive. coming in making this the best event in the world with all that's going on at the moment by focusing on football i think

that's the key and that's the secret we have to focus on food but i think there are enough. sadly people around the world to try to just you know divide or argue or dispute or whatever we have to try to unite football is uniting football is has this is this magic and this power of bringing people together we don't want to make politics we don't want to take positions on whether and who is right or wrong we have to organize football and if thanks to football we can send those on messages of unity and football is about bringing together about enjoying about about creating an atmosphere which will show to the world as well a country like russia with a hundred fifty million people who want to welcome the world in there in their

country and i think football has this power to change those are the perception of people about the country and about maybe a particular period in time and i'm sure that this world cup. in russia. but they got a moment of thought and we'll have quite a significant impact. on the long told when it will be in every host city giving you a big taste of the action starting today at five pm moscow time but nine hours from now the british michael and artie's neil harvey will start our live coverage for you from the very center of the russian capital. when all the truth seems wrong. just don't.

get to shape out just being active. and engaged equals betrayal. when something find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. at the expense of a longer term growth. vesting in the future products and employees you're taking all of future revenues if you're booking it today just like the met is buying back all the stuff in his own store yes he bought back all of a stuff in his story he has a lot of revenue but now a store is empty and he has nothing to sell so the next quarter he says my sales are zero because i have nothing in the store to sell i bought it all myself so similarly with apple they'll buy back all their stock they want to bask in the future and when it comes time to report earnings in a year or two from now they'll have nothing to report.

as well as left on lies and choose to a summit between the leaders of north korea and the u.s. the american presence explained what was key to bringing kim jong un to the negotiating table. the rhetoric we wouldn't have been here i really believe you know we had sanctions and all of the things that you would do but i think without the rhetoric you know other administrations i don't want to get specific on that but they had a policy of silence sometimes i felt foolish doing it. but we had no choice that summit in singapore was full of mutual reassurances but as you have reports north korea should look to the example of other countries who placed trusted us presidents in the past. what's not to like a new nuclear disarmament deal potentially one less country with nukes where all

bets are off one of us and we have this truly historic moment on film. so why does kim jong jr seems too suspicious could be anything poison assassins or trump just waiting to backstab him the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal come to think of it america's nuclear deal seemed to last exactly as long as the incumbent president take the rainy and deal brock obama his partner has worked on it for years so much work so much effort just for trump to tear it all up

don't forget obama negotiated the iran deal one of the worst disasters the dumbest deals ever negotiated except don't feel sorry for a bomber just yet george bush his predecessor also struck a nuclear disarmament deal with gadhafi the two leaders discussed this agreement should help to bring a painful chapter in the history between our two countries closer to closure. it worked gadhafi gave up his nukes and what does a bomber do well he goes and bombs gadhafi is army alternately allowing the rebels to gruesomely mud him we came we saw that he died. it's almost like something out of game of thrones and we aren't even done bush screwed over bill clinton stop and roll back north korea's potentially deadly nuclear

program we'll continue to implement the agreement we have reached with that nation get smart it's tough clinton had worked for years to make a deal with kim jong un's father to prevent then north korea from making a nuclear weapon and bush tore it up as seems to be tradition north korea's regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. while starving insists states like the and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil trump is one for tradition in fact he has a habit of tearing up documents memos papers when he's done with them he had a bunch of guys at the white house whose job it was to piece back together the papers he shouldn't have torn up we literally had to spend hours per day. piecing together the puzzle prior to taking and here we are

generations of presidents generations of betrayal double crossing and deception and it seems that hasn't been lost on kim. germany's chancellor angela merkel faces a government crisis after locking horns with the interior minister over the country's immigration policy she's rejected the so-called migration master plan proposed by the horsy of it has changed to reject migrants rights the german border if they've either applied for asylum elsewhere or been refused in another e.u. country merkel's rejection of the plan provoked outcry in the bundestag this latest row over migration policies were sparked last week a failed asylum seeker was arrested in iraq suspected of killing a fourteen year old girl in germany a body was found near a refugee center in minds. so far this wednesday morning from moscow i'm kevin i was pretty sure the fact you were checkered r.t.

if you've not got are up already want to download it for all those twenty four seventh's news and especially on the now of course for the world cup well and truly with us here in russia now there for me have a very good. i've played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside i. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch put the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman each kill the narrowness and spending to get the twenty million one player. it's an experience like nothing else on to because i want to share what i think of what i know about the beautiful guy a great one more chance for. the base this minute.

when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it's meaningless in the death penalty just because i think that's a fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict just found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying and those just new leaders present and that we hear even many victims' families want the death penalty to be abolished the respect they get pelley hears because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way.

after this it's n.p.r. but sentosa it is i'm finally here in moscow and this is a way begins and ends i'm in this nigga stadium it's completely rebuilt for the world. and i'll do seven matches played in india so more than a million people will be watching football in here and that includes of course the old the match between russia and saudi arabia and the final vote in moscow that two venues. i'm at the second moscow venue. this is spotted moscow stadium and for each of the five games that are being played here more than forty five thousand people will be watching on from the stands going to see illegal messi on. to play the minus that

that beats and the pick surprise from the year two years ago i said that i'm in the capital an obviously a lot of stuff is going on what exactly. might. take some of that stuff out. i'm in the middle of a skull and you can just sense oh well it's just around the corner holding games tomorrow and asked so many people in the streets and you can hear the accents not rushing only. from everywhere in the world and sense. that the world is fine in the beginning.

i'm on top of one of the big but cell phones of use and taxi with the red square there it's completely empty it's closed that's a big crunch like going on tonight and one of the stop the fullness is a guy that i met simply just the pianist they just met so if he's invited me to it i'm not going but this is where i'm going to spend the whole world cup. that's a studio i'll show you. this is a lot of people they just and. these have become loose so i'm going to be looking at that for most of the world and the view is simply stunning i have to say that. who's reading this the first bit he. sees. i speak

and he joins p. and i know. he thought made it easier for fans to access the championship process in taking a look. this is where. the whole program that is going to do during the world cup click in a huge play where you have all the camera feeds. this is my camera. here so basically i'm going to be standing there with a with a red spot in the background. my country and. then my place on the sixteenth then we play australia and then we end up playing. france here in moscow and if you are in moscow. a really good step if you really want to see football history we've got the football museum here that fisa has made especially for the world.

i'm testing myself on the i don't know if i'm for this right. yes. so miles of sight. that see it you know world cup trophy. it was stolen base it's you know with you know one and it's never been recalled with. that yes since he's the only goalkeeper ever to win the bondo and then won the the world cup in one thousand nine hundred eighty six that's a long long time ago and when you have an association with them and feel how desperate they win the trophy. you got frightened spec'ing by your own call if you don't cry fail as well so they played in the one nine hundred seventy four final and germany wanted to one. so when we were at the draw.

in moscow in that in december i met george coupled with a legendary mexican goalkeeper but while they can special forces should so kambal was not the size of you'd expect the gold people to be actually quite small but he always wore these sort of clothes. and there were a couple of numbers too big for him. ronaldo that both going to be there. new contenders for that is named. as this one mythology and if you manage to get that fit. in here. from here it's about. as a space for the two thousand and eighteen world cup in russia so so what will win this thing michel.

i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten white collar crime stamping each day. eighty five percent of global wealth he longs to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred three per second per second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china's building two point one billion dollars a i industrial park but don't let the numbers over will.

the only numbers you need to remember is one one distance for two minutes and one in only. short term gains at the expense of a longer term growth. vesting in the future and in products and employees you're taking all of future revenues if you're booking it today just like the man is buying back all the stuff in his own store yes he bought back all of a stuff in his story and he has a lot of revenue but now my store is empty and he has nothing to sell so the next quarter he says my sales are zero because i have nothing in the store to sell i bought it all myself so similarly with apple they'll buy back all their stock they want about the future and when it comes time to report earnings in a year or two from now they'll have nothing to report.

the world cup is just around the corner so i've gone to syria to defeat the headquarters to meet the man in charge gianni infantrymen. it's his first world cup a feat for president and i'm really intrigued to hear what he has to say this is your first world cup afifa president you've been obviously been to european championships you've been to world cup before but now you fee for president so what are you looking forward to. buy don't think too much of a future president who you are. really trying to think about that would go bust as i would think. i would have thought about it four years ago or eight years ago as a football fan assessor mother was special obviously being fully aware of the responsibility that the position of his or president is about but i'm i'm really

looking forward because the world cup is the best competition in the world is where you have the biggest emotions is the competition where everyone in the world speaks about football and about the match of the night before whatever team plays whether it's. our eyes on the wild card for the first time or brazil or germany everyone in the streets in zurich or in john as work they speak about that and they live with it. and it will be it will be just fantastic it will be emotional it's also in a particular time i think where we need to feel some some unity in the world and some unity around football i think is the message that that's a that's a very very big issue because it is no secret a lot of tension between the world and the world cup host nation. how are fifa how are you dealing with i mean how exhaustive. coming in making this the best event in

the world with all that's going on at the moment by focusing on football i think that's the key and that's the secret we have to focus on for but i think there are enough. sadly people around the world to try to just you know divide or argue or dispute or whatever we have to try to unite. football is uniting football is has this this magic and this power of bringing people together we don't want to make politics we don't want to take positions on whether and who is right or wrong we have to organize football and if thanks to football we can send those on messages of unity and football is about bringing together about enjoying about about creating an atmosphere which will show to the world as well a country like russia with under fifty million people who want to welcome the world

in their in their country and i think football has this power to change those are the perception of people about the country and about maybe a particular period in time and i'm sure that this world cup. in russia and this but they're going to moment of time will have quite a significant impact we've all unfortunately in in the years in france we saw some really ugly scenes. and it's a worry i mean looking at it from going into the tournament it's a worry that that there is this thing happening in russia with internal matches and how a fever dealing with that or the thirty's dealing with that is again something that people shouldn't be afraid of that is certainly something that is that with very seriously. everyone is aware but they are the authorities in russia of the

situation of the different. supporter groups who are. biola and so the focus will be done. or will be will be put on on on the on rather gating you know making sure this doesn't happen and this can be done in an event which is you know happening in one man's very much focus and if a lot of preparation unfortunately idiots are living all over the world and violence around football is happening all over the world as well when you are over south america or. africa or whatever else this is something that we always have to focus on generally it's not an easy one because violence is also a reflection of society. but for a big event like like the world cup the attention is very much this is safe to go to russia of course it is safe to to russia. for this and it will be very safe but

it will be even safer the world russia during the world cup because the authorities in russia very much aware of what the world cup means and they want to feel as well and welcoming country and. that preparations in terms of security for the little club are beyond any other. events so the conditions will be there for a very safe world cup and obviously those who want to go and enjoy football and enjoy a part of the summer they should go to russia those who want to go to have riots or whatever they better go somewhere else exactly go somewhere else how much how much is fifa new involved in setting you know the security and organizing that do you have a saying and how all that should be dealt with it's the police authorities and so

on and in russia who are in charge of security obviously we are in contact with them we can share with them the experience that we have teeth. from previous events that coordination is contacts counsel if you look for example where russia is also part as well as all other european countries have specific task forces in terms of security because you know you can always learn and make things better so this is all taken very much into account and we think we have an active role in contributing to that is what you said before you don't see itself as fifa president but you are you also a private person and a football fan so when when you plan your schedule for the world cup how. is it important you watch all the all the teams play at some point yes and i have.