my colleague donna barcelona reporting that i'm filing some christmas chair from a ski resort in the us state of maine. that's where a whole host of santa is on these and snowboards hit the slopes to raise money for charity. more than 250 of them got some runs in before the busy christmas period begins and they'll be swapping their skis full well slays. probably. you're watching the w news. as a reminder, the top stories were following for you. the european parliament has voted to remove one of its vice president from office eva kylie is being held in jail on corruption charges linked to the gulf state of katara. she has denied the allegations through her lawyer, france as well comes ukrainian officials and international donors to paris, their meeting to organize water, power, food and other forms of aide, to help people that get through the winter as moscow continues. it's a sold on ukraine's infrastructure and that's it from me and the news team from out of an update for you at the top of the hour coming up next close up. get out office in berlin. they switch ah, with ah. with heal

donna barcelona says argentina fans are the dominant presence and cutoff here in doe, hi, there are so many more argentina fans than france man to the feeling really is that argentina is the team that everybody wants to win. of course there's the magic surrounding this argentina aside because it will be leonor massey's last world cup and he's chasing that trophy that he hasn't ever been able to win in his career. there's obviously, if he does get his hands on it, it would pretty much solidify his place as the best player of all time. so everybody was a messy fan. everybody was in argentina. they had pretty much, every football fan kinda wants him to win except for france. vance, and they're looking to choose their own history. they're the reigning tabs. they're looking to defend the title. that's something that has it been dining like 60 years . so it would be massive if they wanted to. hopefully for the final was the absolute cracker of the match. she wasn't d, w, knew was life from berlin state you went for business near was the drop box, but more on the door were free speech at twit

let's go to donna barcelona from b w sports. she's on location in kata. tonya, brazil have been counted by many as the favorites to win this tournament. did their performance make a believer of you? to these their i had resign as my tournament favorites the entire time. but yesterday's performance really showed everyone why they were considered tournaments here. it's any. they instantly dominated south korea. now this brazil side has a team full of incredibly skilled individuals, but they work so well as a team. they really are the complete package. i mean, we saw that in the charlatans goal. the build up had such great skill, but then they worked so as a team to finish it off. i mean brazil is just flying high right now. everything they do, it looks so easy. name are their key players back. he got to go yesterday. he's chasing pallet's record for the brazilian with the more scores. so really isn't a great spot. brazil, it will be a daunting task for croatia. ok, they're flying high. are looking forward to the day. what are your

argentina cam croatia, pull off the upset, we put that question that to the w spoke, responded donna, barcelona. i mean, croatia is a great side. they're very difficult to play against. they know that coming into this game, they won't be the favorites. argentina obviously will. and they'll have the momentum of the stadium on their side by actually croatia they produce some of their best football and most spectacular tournament moments when they have their backs up against the wall, they're going to be very compact defensively, very well organized. and they never, ever, ever stop running. now if the skin does go into extra time, croatia are the experts. 8 of their last 9 naco games have gone into extra time and they're $4.00 to $4.00 on penalties. so if anyone can handle it, it's croatia. dana barcelona reporting back from caught up and he is a reminder of our top story. the european parliament has voted to remove one of its vice presidents from office. eva kayley is being held in jail on corruption charges, links to the gulf state of ca top. she has denied the allegations to our lawyer coming u

i asked it abuse both corresponded donna barcelona. i mean, croatia is a great side. they're very difficult to play against. they know that coming into this game, they won't be the favorites. argentina obviously will, and they'll have the momentum of the stadium on their side by actually croatia they produce some of their best football and most spectacular tournament moments when they have their backs up against the wall, they're going to be very compact defensively, very well organized. and they never, ever, ever stop running. now if the skin does go into extra time, croatia are the experts. 8 of their last 9 naco games have gone into extra time and therefore to 4 on penalties. so if anyone can handle it, it's croatia done about a loan of that. and finally some christmas chair from ski resort view. a state of mine, that's where whole host santos on. stephen snowboards hit the slopes to raise money for charity. more than 250 of them got some wrongs in before their busy christmas period begins and they'll be swapping their skis for well, i suppose you are watching the

now we're our sports correspondence on you. barcelona is covering the world cup forest game to you, donna happy friday to you. so south korea's when over portugal means that they joined japan in the last 16. i mean, these are good times for asian football, right? absolutely. i mean this rogue cup has been brilliant for asian countries. and then we saw what japan did, beating spain and germany topping their group south korea. ok. australia is not a part of asia, but they do play in asian football confederation. so great times for the asian countries. now, portugal they'd already qualified for the next round. so they were able to rest a number of their players. now who they didn't arrest was christiano. rinaldo? of course everything is christian or another man. yeah. here. there has been a lot of talk about him, but it hasn't really faced portugal that much in their last 5 goals that they scored grew center. and although hasn't actually scored so that means they have a young, solid side who is not so reliant on rinaldo anymore. yeah, yeah. times change job careers result. it meant that urug