israel's defense minister avigdor lieberman has been tweeting let's just take a look at this tree has some quite strong things to say he says it's too bad that the soccer heroes from argentina did not withstand the pressure of the israeli hating agitators whose only goal is to undermine a basic right to self-defense and to destroy israel we will not yield before a pack of and you submit to terrorist supporters strong words. all you semitic terrorist supporters we are not anti-semitic we are pro humanity and the president of argentina football as a nation just that officially that they have done this and hope this is a contribution to world peace and to the second half of the question so you know and to submit to you terrorist supporters now we are we stand up for we are like we have members across the world over forty million who stand up for the issues that they care about so the reasons thank you so the reasons that argentina gave for counseling the march decisions because of security concerns do you accept that or would you think the this is more about politics so we've talked to o

qualify for the finals in russia but moving the match to drew slim has backfired defense minister avigdor lieberman said argentina had given in to israeli hating agitators a blow to israel politically but also a blow to argentina with a game due to have been the last warm up before the world cup kicks off next thursday. he wasn't. really looking at the controversy over creative talents that's coming up shortly. to accidentally shed some. trolls. time in the field. can you get out. with code. this week on d w.

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qualify for the finals in russia but moving the match to drew slim has backfired defense minister avigdor lieberman said argentina had given in to israeli meeting agitators a blow to israel politically but also a blow to argentina with the game due to have been the last warm up before the world cup kicks off next thursday. another team lacking so much practice as he ran there the first team to arrive in russia for the world cup but had a recent warm up with greece council because of tensions between greece and turkey where the match was due to be played iran have at least given themselves plenty of time to settle into their base in the moscow region before their first match with morocco on june the fifteenth they were greeted by excited fans on their arrival with world cup appearance. forbes has released its annual top one hundred list of richest athletes this year for the first time there are no women football stars cristiana rinaldo a little messy are featured in the top. three the box of floyd mayweather has reclaimed the league from typically a leave once a three with the finch in the top one o

qualify for the finals in russia but moving the match to drew slim has backfired defense minister avigdor lieberman said argentina had given in to israeli hating agitates as a blow to israel politically but also a blow to argentina with the game due to have been the last warm up before the world cup kicks off next thursday. just over a week the most watched sporting event on the planet kicks off as you heard the soccer world cup host this year's russia a country with a history of racism in sports football or brian is heading to the world cup with the nigerian national team as a player in the russian football the it is familiar with the racism that some black players have had to endure. as a player for senate st petersburg bryan remembers being abused by a fan by a show. there was this sam who told me there's no black in zen it's called those that was it and i was with friends from the team we were all wearing this and it's kids and the fans said what's going on why you with kids thank you my friend got angrier than i did you know i just responded with a smile that was from a little you know yeah ye

qualify for the finals in russia but moving the match to drew slim has backfired defense minister avigdor lieberman said argentina had given in to israeli hating agitators a blow to israel politically but also a blow to argentina with the game due to have been the last warm up before the world cup kicks off next thursday. joining me now from ramallah is foggy corral he's the only organization of us for the ground your organization was behind this campaign opposing the match taking place in jerusalem first briefly going to tell us why. well number one i want to say thank you to argentina for taking a position that says palestinian lives matter and scoring a goal for humanity against oppression the reason we were against this game is that after over one hundred and nineteen palestinian civilians were killed and living fourteen children we thought and believe that it was an ethical for the argentinian team to play a game just miles away from where the north palestinian protesters were being shelled and i need to also make clear that this was a global campaign hundreds of thousands of people from argen

proposes a maximum ten years sentence for anyone recording similar videos the defense minister avigdor lieberman tweeted his support saying i.d.f. soldiers are subjected to attacks from those who act against the israeli people and tera supporters who try to humiliate the shame and harm them we will put an end to this but the proposed law comes in response to a series of videos recently seen as harmful to the israeli military's image the bill's wording though has been questioned it refers to the intent of the person recording a soldier's behavior being to injure their spirit or harm national security israel's attorney general has called the bill in its current form illegal if and when the bill does become lords understood it would be in a very different form the maximum sentence reduced from ten to three years if n.c. changed from filming or distributing images of soldiers to impeding them from carrying out their duty the head of the human rights group that circulated the hebron video says that doesn't mean the bill is being watered down rather that it's being incorporated into existing law now t

well there was a fairly strong response from the israeli defense minister avigdor lieberman he tweeted it's unfortunate the second the rights of argentina did not withstand the pressure of the israeli hating insights is his only goal is to home basic right to self-defense and bring about the destruction of israel we will not yield before a pack of anti semitic terrorist supporters or let's talk about this with our correspondent now is in leicester is and so we know how every door leave in the feels about this but what else are you hearing about reaction within israel. well it must and we know that the israeli government is pretty upset about this furious really i mean but it's effectively scored an own goal it shot itself in the foot because originally this game was supposed to take place in the northern port city of haifa and how that remained the case it probably would have happened it probably would have taken place argentina would probably have come in on the sell out crowd to sell out israeli crowd that wanted to see leon all messy would have had those dreams come true but because

the smith who is in west jerusalem and so pretty standard kind of rhetoric then coming from avigdor liebermanstanding sounding very feisty and very defiant. yes but you also heard one of the one of those of the people interviewed on the streets of jerusalem explaining the other side of the issue and that is the decision to try and really secure jerusalem the minds of everybody as the capital of israel this game was originally going to take place in haifa a port city in northern israel had that happened had it stayed there it probably would not have caused so much concern but the israeli government paid for the game to be moved to west jerusalem to a stadium in west jerusalem and the palestinians will say that by moving the game to western roussillon it is politicizing the game by flogging the game as a celebration of the seventieth anniversary of the foundation of the founding of the state of israel it is rubbing the palestinians nose noses in it and that is why there was so much pressure and why the palestinians managed to gather momentum to put pressure on the argentinian team to cancel the

qualify for the finals in russia but moving the match to drew slim has backfired defense minister avigdor lieberman said argentina had given in to israeli hating agitators a blow to israel politically but also a blow to argentina with a game due to have been the last warm up before the world cup kicks off next thursday. joining me now from on the story is social media editor. welcome not you to boycott this imagine is reticent to huge social media campaigns what have people been saying i mean we really saw that anger from the reported it's been brewing for a while now on social media it was all channeled into a campaign to get that match cancelled really the biggest target was argentina's star you know messy he's a big name in global football of course these pro palestinian activists they were part of this campaign and they were not subtle you can see them staining missy's jersey with red paint to resemble blood this was actually done in front of argentina's training complex in barcelona we also saw some personal messages as part of this campaign this one here from palestinian footballer mohammad w

proposes a maximum ten years sentence for anyone recording similar videos the defense minister avigdor lieberman tweeted his support saying i.d.f. soldiers are subjected to attacks from those who act against the israeli people and tara supporters who try to humiliate shame and harm them we will put an end to this but the proposed law comes in response to a series of videos recently seen as harmful to the israeli military's image the bill's wording though has been questioned it refers to the intent of the person recording a soldier's behavior being to injure their spirit or harm national security israel's attorney general has called the bill in its current form illegal if and when the bill does become lords understood it would be in a very different form the maximum sentence reduced from ten to three years the offense changed from filming or distributing images of soldiers to impeding them from carrying out their duty the head of the human rights group that circulated the hebron video says that doesn't mean the bill is being watered down rather that it's being incorporated into existing law now t

qualify for the finals in russia but moving the match to drew slim has backfired defense minister avigdor lieberman said argentina had given in to israeli hating agitators a blow to israel politically but also a blow to argentina with the game due to have been the last warm up before the world cup kicks off next thursday. as you can imagine this issue has been all over social media don't do social media call the welcome call so calls for argentina to pull out of the match against israel turned into quite a heated campaign yeah i mean that anger that we saw there in that report is kind of brewing for a while on social media it was really channeled into this campaign to get the match canceled and of course the biggest target of this campaign was the biggest star in the world. place for argentina and these propellants the activists they were part of that campaign they were not subtle actually staining nesis. jersey with red paint to resemble blonde this was in fact done in front of argentina's training complex in barcelona we even saw some personal messages as part of this campaign including this one

in moscow today, the israeli defense minister, avigdor lieberman, warned russian leaders that israel will not accept iranian forces near its frontier. the supreme court of china today overturned the fraud conviction of a retail tycoon. zhang wenzhong was released in february after 12 years in prison. the court called his case "a misapplication of the law." the decision came as the ruling communist party tries to reassure nervous business leaders. back in this country, sears is closing another 72 stores to stem financial losses. that will leave the company with 800 outlets, down from a peak of 4,000 back in 2012. and, on wall street, stocks fell today on worries about the budding tariff war. the dow jones industrial average lost 252 points to close at 24,415. the nasdaq fell 20 points, and the s&p 500 gave up 18. still to come on the newshour: the e.u. ambassador responds to new taxes on europe's exports to the u.s. amid an immigration crackdown, we speak to the outgoing director of immigration and customs enforcement. the economic consequences of educating women, and much more. >> wo