. >> we spoke with the world cup controversies with james montague, and i asked if all the drama couldake qatar regret become the host country. >> i don't think so, because ultimately there's a lot of criticism about qatar's world cup, a lot of it legitimate. some of it comes from -- we heard him railing about european problems, there is criticism that falls into the orientalist trap but there is legitimate criticism of the system in place needed to build the stadiums. but in the long run, you have to think about what the rest of the world thinks as well. it's a global game. there was a lot of criticism in western europe but in asia, the middle east, africa and south america, it doesn't have that much traction. looks like someone outside of the western powers getting a world cup and that's a good thing. it's much more positive. in the balance, i think they'll see it as much more positive. the reason they wanted the world cup is because it's a nation building exercise. there's nothing like a world cup to normalize and promote your country on to a global stage. >> and that was james mont

. >> joining us from world cup host nation qatar is james montagu he is a journalist and author of "whenday comes." so good to have you with us. i want to ask you first about the fallout and reaction from the fifa president's opening remarks. his comments can caused consternation. what did you make of his speech? >> i mean, it was incredible, wasn't it? incredible in the worst possible way. fifa has been under a huge amount of pressure and qatar has been under a huge amount of pressure as well in terms of criticism around the world cup, especially around worker rights, human rights, gay rights, all of which were absolutely legitimate, and you can see -- i mean, to me it looked like he was a man that was really under pressure, he was a man who has had enough of the criticism and he was lashing out at the media. to be honest there was a bit of a donald trump about him, you know, it was almost the more you watched it it was like a car crash. you couldn't really pull away from it, you were rubber necking. i don't think it's a particularly good sign of where fifa is at at the moment because i