qatar promises they've have 90,000 hotel rooms in qatar by the time the tournament gepts underwent. it's estimated qatar has to employ a million migrant workers to complete the projects. although the venues have yet to be built, the general working conditions of these mainly south asian workers have been called into question. in response to the criticism, qatar 2022 released a statement saying, the health, safety and well-being and dignity of every worker is of the utmost important as we are committing to ensuring that the world cup serves as a catalyst towarding sustainable improvements to the lives of all workers in qatar. nine years away from kickoff and still plenty of challenges to be overcome. the qatar 2022 organizers insist it will be ready for the world cup. al jazeera, doha. >>> that just about does it for this program, but there's plenty more on our website as always, aljazeera.com. parents who depend on federal funding are feeling the pain. who's on track to be the world's biggest gin producer. it's not saudi arabia. >>> a case involving the "f" word but not one you're t

and now let's go to joe in the capitol of qatar.izers of course among the stake holders as fifa has mentioned. what has the reaction be in the capitol of qatar. >> i think it really is going to business as usual as far as they are concerned. they have always said they are prepared to host the world cup here in june and july, and they continue to invest millions in the cooling technology they will be putting in the stadium. the stadium behind me here is where the delegates fought before the big process, so they could experience the cooling process. qatar has always denied anial gayings of wrongdoing. they said it's really up to fifa when the world cup will be scheduled. so they are prepared to host it in june and july, but many fifa made the decision to move it to the wintertime, then the qatar committee says they can accommodate that, but the construction goal is for june and july. >>> thank you very much for that. >>> to the club [ inaudible ] now your's second tier competition, the spurs had a comfortable win. >> very good first h

it is a huge problem not only in qatar but across the middle east.cup, iton the world proves that they are living up to basic human rights standards. hugeey are already under scrutiny about playing conditions, given the scorching summer heat in the desert. is this merely post posing -- postponing the inevitable? it seems paving the way regardless. is that fair? >> that is exactly right. this is the first of several steps toward moving the world cup. it seems to be putting the cart before the horse, or whether we do it this way around, inevitably we will end up with the world cup in qatar. >> they will examine the ramifications, having the consultation period, hoping that will satisfy broadcasters, leagues around the world. how much of a disruption will be changing the football calendar? >> is not only one year but three years but you have to -- because you have to change the calendar on either side. broadcasters lobbied heavily for this to be really thought through before they rushed into anything. >> thank you for your thoughts. there you have it. i

rah rulraul reports from doha. >> the fifa world cup is qatar. >> reporter: it was nearly three yearsn qatar was awarded the right to host the 222 world cup, but almost immediately questions were asked about how a country where temperatures can ex-seat 40 degrees celsius, could handle a football tournament in the summer. sebastian is an expert in organizing big sporting events. london 2012 olympic chief says issues such as the climate shouldn't stop countries like qatar from bidding or hosting world cups or olympics. >> we can't just sort of sit here over the next 20 years and say, well, only a relatively few handful of cupped reus are in a position to host great sporting events. and we could also recognize that in building that global capacity, we are going to confront challenges. sometimes they are climatic, sometimes political, sometimes cultural and social. >> reporter: from the outset the organizers of qatar 202020 have said that they would have the technology in place to deal with the heat. neutral air cooled stadiums were a centerpiece of their bid to fifa. but that sort of tec

the qatar 2022 organizers insist qatar is ready for the world cup whenever it is held.l jazeera, doha. >>> the two-day meeting to discuss those issues began in zurich a few hours ago, but has been overshadowed by protests from a swiss workers union. several dozen members of the movement have been outside the fifa headquarters protesting against the alleged mistreatment of migrant workers in qatar. lee wellings has more from the meeting in switzerland. >> reporter: there are 27 items on the agenda for this fifa executive committee meeting in zurich, and there's no doubt about which subtle is tom nat - dominating. this protest just formed and it's about qatar and fifa and the subject of workers rights in qatar. this will be addressed by fifa. it's item 25 and it's taken seriously that fifa wants to do something to make change. the qatar committee is reassuring people of the health and safety of the workers is of the utmost priority. they hope to take that forward in a positive manner after what has been a very, very damaging story that has emerged over the last few days a

it will cost qatar $220 billion. of that 140 billion will be spent on transport infrastructure, new roads and new airports and a brand-new rail and metro system. 4 billion is set aside to help build nine brand-new stadiums including upgrading three existing ones and also $17 billion will be spent on increasing the amount of accommodations. qatar 2022 promising they'll have 90,000 hotel rooms here by the time the tournament gets under way. it's estimated qatar has to employ nearly a million migrant workers to help to complete the massive construction projects. although the world cup venues have yet to be built, the general working conditions of these mainly south asian workers have been called into question. in response to the criticism, qatar 2022 released a statement saying, the health, safety and well-being and dignity of every worker is of the utmost importance, as we are committed to ensured that the world cup serves as a catalyst to create sustainable improvements to the lives of all workers in qatar. so nine ye

thank you. >>> now to the executive director of qatar 2022 joining us live from doha.now you will say you will be ready for either a summer or winter world cup, so as a football fan, would you rather watch a football world cup when the temperature outside the stadium is 40 degrees isn't it grade plus or between 15 and 20 degrees centigrade outside? >> i would like to say that for us as -- as you rightly said we would be ready to host the world cup whether that be in the summer, winter, fall, or spring. i would like to see cooling technology being implemented. we have always said from the very beginning this technology is a legacy for countries and regions that have similar climates at the gcc, the gulf, qatar and i would like to see this technology being utilized so countries can take advantage of it. >> that is a great pr answer. i have to give you that. and you are head of pr for the 2022 bid. but from the football fan's point of view, which would be better, 40 degrees outside or 15 to 20 outside? >> well, look, i mean you are posing this question to the football fan

qatar quickly became a hot topic. the organizers have been asked to defend their first-ever world cup in the middle east. after stories the tournament is being built on forced labor and so many questions about the weather. throughout qataris have remained defiant but even they can see the timeling may change. >> if the football community comes back and says they want to change the time, that's a decision the football community makes and we will adhere to it. >> every world cup have been held in the middle of the year. u.s.a. 199 4, mexico in 86 were especially squety but qatar is on a different level. researchers used this heated chamber where temperatures approach 40 degrees to study the effects of playing sports in this condition and they concluded even the fittest athletes would be at risk. >> but welcomed organizers are competent their strategy to artificially cool the surfaces and stadiums will work. >> they want to make sure the kickoff times late in the evening when it's like thirty conditions will be at their

despite this, he himself back qatar as host nation last december. >> it was not a mistake. because of the rotation, it was time to go also to the arabic world. >> last week he confirmed the competition will go ahead but a decision on the precise date is not expected until next year. but a rescheduling to winter comes with its own complications. the australian fa already threatened to sue if the change goes ahead. sure to be described also -- japan, south korea, and the u.s. lost out to qatar and the bidding process. europe's top leagues would also have to be suspended. sports lawyers predict a legal minefield. >> even if they make small changes in the necessary agreements with the raiders organizations and each country involved, it will not change the fact they will only sell one part of the issue of we will not have sorted out the problem of existing contracts or the conditions of how the world cup is awarded, which change when the scheduling of the world cup changes. >> almost 2.5 billion euros worth of broadcasting rights have already been sold. a majority bought by amer

qatar detains journalist for a documentary for labor conditions for world cup workers we talked to one of the reporters about what they discovered prior to the arrest. a lot off for russia's most prominent opposition activists like scene of on is jail term for him bell's lament is commuted to a span it stands but his conviction is upheld. and no respite in america's debt standoff as lawmakers stall on a decision with just over a day on till default could strike we look at those waiting in line to get what's left of the budget. what you are going to live from moscow i'm marina josh and welcome to the program and we start with some news just in the largest chunk of the meteorite so far discovered has been pulled out of the lake and the russian province scientists have confirmed the extraterrestrial origin of the rock a record breaking a number of car dashboard cameras and you know ball phones captured to the sound of the a steroid as a blazed through the atmosphere in february the shock wave crushed houses and injured more than a thousand people twelve pieces of the rock have been recove

died on a construction site on qatar in july. she received $380 in compensation from his employer but she says that's not enough to pay off the ploan amassed to get the job. while discussing this situation to al jazeera she was overwhelmed with her father's death. >> all our land has been sold off to pay our debt. >> these families put their faith into unscrupulous agents, who should be held accountable for the deaths of nepali workers? >> if the any pal government had given more attention to issues like these, perhaps there would be less of the incidents in the future. >> some governments like the philippines have taken it upon themselves to negotiate higher wages and better working conditions for their nationals. >> it goes without saying that when you allow filipinos, we would like them to enjoy the same type of protections that workers are in philippines. >> for their seemingly small world there is renewed concerning, al jazeera, coricot. >> southwestern darah. activists say government shelling has intensified. despite that,

jamal ahshia reports. >> leaving their country for a job in qatar. but the promise of a better life hasn't materialized. knocked off a scaffolding, colleague killed. but it's not just at work where these men suffer. many live in overcrowded labor camps. they sleep in cramped dormitories where sanitation is often poor. >> the plight of migrant workers has become more of an issue for qatar ever since it was awarded the 2022 world cup. unions have criticized qatar for not doing enough to protect laborers. but the government insists it is doing its best to improve conditions. this week it met with workers of woodworkers international. >> there are concerns over companies that confiscate passports but this is illegal and we prohibit this practice. as a improvement we've introduced is an increase in building site inspections and bang staff working from 11:00 a.m. to 3 p.m. in the summer when the temperature is too hot. for many of the migrant workers here the risks associated with their working conditions are huge but they take those risks because qatar pr

coming to life from moscow with memory josh welcome to the program qatar is taking a zero tolerance stands an anti probing into its human rights record to german reporters investigating the slyness conditions facing workers at twenty twenty two world cup construction sites were detained in the middle of their investigation one of them peter has described to us what happened. first we got arrested by the federal police in hotel rooms with taken to the headquarters which is an doha city and we were questioned and interrogated for a couple of hours and just after midnight we got cuffed our equipment cameras all the memory sticks we had everything was taken from us and we were taken to a state security prison right in the suburbs of doha where we had to spend the nights in separate cells my cameramen and meet. we were in there in that prison in those separate cells for a total of twenty one hours the best thing about those twenty one hours was that we weren't even allowed a single phone call not to embassy you know to families and no one was there to tell us what the charge was really so we we

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qatar detains journalist for documenting poor labor conditions for world cup workers we talked to one of the reporters about what they discovered prior to the air arrest. a lad off for russia's most prominent opposition activist on the scene of ali's jail term for embezzlement is commuted to a suspended sentence but his conviction remains unchanged. and no respite in america's debt standoff as lawmakers stall on a decision with just over a day until default could strike well look out there was waiting in line to get what's left of the budget. this is already coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program tara isn't brawled in a fresh scandal over its twenty twenty two world cup preparations two german documentary makers were detained there after talking to out there taking and talking to and filming migrants building the events infrastructure they were investigating claims that labor conditions in the gulf kingdom border on slavery and have led to dozens of migrant workers dance party talked to filmmaker peter del who told us about his attention a

trapped and terrified migrants in qatar have been speaking about the desperation they're enduring and there are more than eighty million in the country manny of whom are working flat out again at the procedures world cup of and ready qatar is not the only gulf state where the migrant population is large in proportion to the locals both qatar and the united arab emirates have migrant populations that go beyond eighty percent and awaits the region's other leading oil producers about seven out of tan workers are foreigners while in amman and saudi arabia migrants make up almost thirty percent of the population and if we take a glimpse at the whole region the number of migrant workers there is about eighteen million out of a total population of just forty two million tests are still he has more on how the world cup focus is drawing the world's eyes to migrate suffering. the reno to organize. detour trended to fifth vote cop is coming. but the initial celebration and christie should be overshadowed by ford workers claims of maltreatment not getting paid anything that not being allowed to l

the qatar control to see the plight of migrant workers get in the nation's world cup together shines a light on the suffering of other foreign employees and the wealthy gulf states. and a look behind the barbed wire r t gets rare access inside the notorious one tunnel prison. we've heard about it like several movies but you don't really this is a place that people forget about we don't ever think about it we're talking sergeant or rebecca wood from the guantanamo media team of all the why she actually loves her job. ever warm welcome to you if you're just joining us here on araa to we're live from moscow you with me to mom would say to our top story right now. the united states has avoided a potentially catastrophic economic default by the skin of its teeth with just hours to go the house of representatives approved a deal to raise the debt ceiling and reopen government services which have been paralyzed for over a fortnight live to washington d.c. and artie's and he said now with as. america's d. faulting would have bludgeoned other countries' economies what the politicians when the

and the other question to qatar qatar has been accusing the west for being the reason for the rise of radical islam and for supporting radicalism. >> well, thank you very much for the question. look, france is one of our oldest allies in the world. and i have a very close working relationship with fabia the day i started this job on many issues from syria and protecting the security of our citizens. protecting our disenlz in this world is a very complicated very challenging task and it is an every day 365 day task unfortunately because there are lots of people out there seeking to do harm to other people. we see much more suicide bombs taking place in various parts of the world right now. so ambassador rifkin met today with alexander ziegler the cabinet director of prime minister fabiu srveg, we will have ongoing bilateral consultations, that address this question of any report by the united states government. our policy we don't discuss intelligence matters. and lots of countries are engaged in the activity of trying to protect their citizens and the world. as the president -- as pre

and coming out day twenty twenty two football world cup in qatar put slave labor on the medias res at the have a first term to count all of the working conditions in the gulf states after this break. according to the. numbers we have more than two thousand political prisoners i'm behind right now of course if you look at the system what the bahamian government is trying to do is they're trying to label many. all of these prisoners as terrorists. right. were struck. and i think the jury. on our reporters like. you will train their week and i'll say welcome back in syria a suicide bombing a tsunami checkpoint has claimed the lives of at least thirty people in the central city of hama states media reported a truck loaded with explosives around the post and detonated the damage was an intensified turn kept parks nearby the court alight the country's been looks in a tangle wall between their government and the fragmented rebel groups are his very few notional made it into one opposition stronghold we know that the tell all your brother next to the syrian lebanese border is just eighty kilo

but qatar has been a mediator here. some local media here in lebanon says there was a large amount of money involved. technically what took place was these pilgrims were kidnapped and then cones -- consequently the two turkish pilots were detained. and now the relatives of the pilgrims are insisting they were not directly involved in this kidnapping but effectively what did take place was a quid pro quo. to further complicate the issue there are demands for the release of women prisoners that were involved in the syrian regime. and they expect that is part and parcel of the release. we are talking about several parties. we are talking about the relatives of the pilgrims and we are also talking about turkey which insists it's not directly involved in any of this. qatar tried to broker the release dramatically. and it appears that it's been the key issue. that qatar has managed to pool it -- together. we'll see in the coming hours and days. we'll see the pilgrims coming back to lebanon and the pilots going back to turkey

qatar said they helped mediate. they are in turkey an will be ae returning. >>> the police have blocked the rerun of the presidential election at the last moment. they say the vote violates a supreme court order. the prime minister had been favored to win. >>> bush fires have desstroitd - destroyed almost 200 hos 200 hon new south wales. >>> the united states is calling on syria to allowed aid convoys. they continued to condemn the bombing. there are reports of children dying of hunger and people have been without basic necessities for a year. the areas are under control of the rebel fighters. >>> desperate conditions have forced millions of sirians to seek shelter abroad. gergermany has agreed to take in some of them. 5000 soy far. >> after months and months of fear and war and waiting it's back to school for these syrian children in a country where they can at last feel safe. ali learns to say he is 44 years old. because whatever they did before it's back to the basics for the adults as well the family head to lun

and fifa meet on thursday and fry to discuss the possibility of moving qatar world cup to winter.the organizing committee has released a statement concerning they are willing to accommodate the change. we have reports from switzerla switzerland. >> reporter: expect the executive committee here at fifa headquarters to confirm the switch of the 2022 world cup in qatar to winter. they realize now that's got to happen, and it will be a case of making it official. then it will be about the discussions over the next few weeks and months they'll talk about harmonizing the calendar. they want everyone to have a say including the english premiere league, perhaps more than anyone who is going to suffer with the connective fixture schedule in 2021 and 202002. added to the scheduled will be the subject, the serious subject of workers rights in qatar, the spotlight on deaths over the summer in construction work in qatar and the supreme committee have come out very quickly and said, look, it will be a priority for our health and safety when construction of world cup sites begin. but fifa wants

la decisiÓn final sobre las fechas del mundial de 2022 en qatar podrÍa posponerse hasta 2015, dijo hoyla fifa, joseph blatter. pero todo pinta a favor de cambiar los meses del torneo debido al abrasador calor del verano en el desierto, aunque blatter no descartÓ la posibilidad de que qatar cumpla con su promesa de organizar el mundial en junio y julio con sistemas de refrigeraciÓn en los estadios. la pequeÑa nacio Ón del golfo pÉrsico ha estado bajo presiÓn en meses recientes por el trato a los trabajadores migrantes que construyen obras para el mundial, mientras un fiscal de Ética de la fifa sigue investigando las acusaciones de que qatar y rusia, sede del torneo de 2018, violaron las reglas antes de ser elegidos en una votaciÓn en diciembre de 2010. y vamos con lo demestico, con lo nuestro. porque, despuÉs de conquistar durante la semana la copa abierta de los estados unidos y que los clasifica para jugar el prÓximo aÑo la liga campeones de conccaf, dc united recibe esta noche en el estadio robert f. kennedy al chicago fire que lucha por clasificar al playoffs, mientras que el dc uni

a german filmmaker and his cameraman have been claiming that they were arrested in qatar after filming the working conditions of migrants building those venues for the twenty twenty two world cup trade unions have been ringing the alarm over conditions in the region for years but it's this prestigious football event that really put the issue firmly in the spotlight both in qatar and the united arab emirates immigrant workers migrant workers account for eight out of ten of them are foreigners know it's a similar picture in kuwait as well the region's other leading oil producer of course slightly different picture man in saudi arabia migrants there make up about a third of the population. has born next on the conditions some of those workers have to endure. do we know to organize. trended to fifth vote cop is coming. but the initial celebration of christie should be overshadowed by ford workers claims of treatment not getting paid and he did that not being allowed to leave the country the international trade union confederation claims that about four thousand migrants could die before a

not the only gulf state where the migrant population is large in proportion to the locals now both qatar and the united arab emirates have migrant populations of over eighty percent now in kuwait the region's other leading oil producer about seven out of ten workers are foreigners while in amman as well as saudi arabia of migrants make of almost thirty percent of the population now if we take a glimpse at the whole region are the number of migrant workers there is about eighteen million out of a total of a population of just about forty two million of syria was in qatar and has more on how the world cup focus is drawing the world's eyes to migrants suffering. do we know to organize. trended to fifth vote car is covered. but the initial celebration of christie should be overshadowed by ford workers claims of maltreatment not getting paid and either that not being allowed to leave the country the international trade union confederation claims that about four thousand migrants could die before a football is kicked in twenty twenty two the worker becomes the property of the employer they are

blueness is high profile story isn't the first either if qatar doesn't change its ways to save it in two thousand and twenty two we will have the world cup of shame the world cup of slavery chairman of qatar's national human rights committee responded to allegations there is no slavery or forced labor in qatar there have been some problems only to the fact that there are forty four thousand businesses in the country but i can assure you that the authorities are constantly making efforts to resolve the problems in the meantime he continues to hope his poor. will soon be resolved have to stop playing they ended my career mentally i don't see myself playing have to see what to do with my life. aren't. always plenty more stories are click away at our t. dot com including this n.s.a. leaks revealing that the us has been spying on top mexican officials and had help washington get the upper hand in diplomatic talks and find good investment opportunities like r.t. dot com for the full story plus. general practitioners in england getting fifty pound bonuses for predicting which of their patie

national human rights committee responded to allegations there is no slavery or forced labor in qatar there have been some problems only to the fact that there are forty four thousand businesses in the country but i can assure you that the authorities are constantly making efforts to resolve the problems in the meantime he continues to hope his poor. will soon be resolved have to stop playing football they ended my career mentally i don't see myself playing i'm going to have to see what to do with my life. r.t. . i mean there's always plenty more a click away for you would r.t. dot com including this and say links reveal that the u.s. has been spying for years on mexico's top officials watching it the upper hand in diplomatic talks and find good investment opportunities like an r.t. dot com for the full story plus. general practitioners in england have been getting fifty pound bonuses for predicting which patients will die within a year and placing them on a so-called death list in order to reduce the number of occupied hospital beds details on that on line. in syria at least thirty p

that time of year temperatures in qatar routinely exceed 120 degrees.here are also concerns about the migrant workers building the facilities. lee is live in zurich. hi, lee. >> reporter: hi, stephanie. well there are 27 items on this executive committee agenda, but it's item 25 that has dominated proceedings. as was proven by the protests at the gates of fifa they said this is not the first time they have challenged fifa on human rights. they are extremely concerned about reports coming out of qatar, and they wanted to make sure they have said their peace. the organizing committee, they are in sur rick, making sure they are start of the discussion. >> i don't think it has damaged the reputation at all. in the very beginning we have always indicated we are committed in terms of worker welfare, the state of qatar and the committee are dead -- dedicated to the safety of everyone involved. there is an independent body that will be reviewing all of these issues raised, and will be reporting to the government, and the government will be taking steps regardin

vuelve a la palestra el famoso tema del mundial de qatar y su calendario. 2022 se dispute en el periodo invernal, para evitar el intenso calor del verano, comienza a tomar cuerpo, el presidente de la fifa, el suizo joseph blatter, ha admitido esa opciÓn porque hay que proteger a los principales actores, los jugadores", ya que en verano las temperaturas pueden alcanzar en qatar mas de los 100 grados. blatter indicÓ que, no obstante, tienen tiempo por delante para reflexionar y decidir si el torneo se disputa en enero o a finales de aÑo, en vez de las fechas habituales en verano. michel platini, presidente de la uefa, comentÓ que preferirÍa el torneo se llevara a cabo en invierno, pero que serÍa un gran dolor de cabeza hacerlo ya que seri Ía en medio de sus temporadas. por su parte, la concacaf comentÓ que prefiere que el mundial se lleve a cabo en verano. el 11 de octubre se viene otra fecha fifa y panama se prepara para viajar al estadio azteca y enfrentar a mexico. ana caty hernandez nos tiene mas detalles. vamos con novedades del futbol america que tiene

beluga says high profile story isn't the first either if qatar goes and change its ways to say that in two thousand and twenty two we will have the world cup of shame the world cup of slavery chairman of qatar's national human rights committee responded to allegations there is no slavery or forced labor in qatar there have been some problems only to the fact that there are forty four thousand businesses in the country but i can assure you that the authorities are constantly making efforts to resolve the problems. in the meantime he continues to hope his problems will soon be resolved i'll have to stop playing they ended my career mentally i can see myself playing itself and then i'll have to see what to do with my life and the tests are cilia r t. coming up as promised tough talking with the executive director of greenpeace that's the late edition of worlds of. right after this break. you know when i look more and more into it i find that there were a lot of myths and exaggerations about what happened in russia during the soviet era however one really bad rumor seems to be true if you

national human rights committee responded to allegations there is no slavery or forced labor in qatar there have been some problems only to the fact that there are forty four thousand businesses in the country but i can assure you that the authorities are constantly making efforts to resolve the problems in the meantime he continues to hope his poor. will soon be resolved have to stop playing football they ended my career mentally i don't see myself playing i'm going to have to see what to do with my life. r.t. always a plenty more stories online for you what our team dot com including this and say leaks reveal the u.s. has been spying on mexico's top officials to help washington get the upper hand in diplomatic talks to find good investment opportunities click on r.t. dot com for that. general practitioners in england have been getting fifty pound bonuses for predicting that patients will die within a year and placing them on a so-called death list order to reduce the number of occupied hospital beds details on that on line. in syria at least thirty people killed after a suicide truc

defending its image at all costs qatar detains two journalists investigating the harrowing conditions faced by migrant workers preparing the nation for the twenty twenty two world cup one of those reporters tells us what he uncovered. was just hours until a potentially devastating us debt default the hurt is already being felt from a looming credit rating downgrade to international frustration u.s. lawmakers have done what few animists could put the dollars very future on the line . russian opposition figure had only seen a volley avoids a five year jail term as a court overturns the sentence while holding his conviction for embezzlement. this is coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshie welcome to the program now qatar is taking a zero tolerance stance on any probing into its human rights record to german reporters investigating the slavish conditions facing workers at twenty twenty two world cup construction sites were detained in the middle of their investigation one of them peter does al describe to us what happened. first we got arrested by the federal police in the ho

el tema del mundial de qatar volvio a ser punto de la discordia las autoridadesdes de ese deporte.oseph blatter, anuncio Ó hoy que el organismo no tomarÁ una decisiÓn acerca del cambio de fecha del mundial de fÚtbol de qatar, programado para 2012. la idea es hacerlo durante el invierno para evitar los agobiantes meses de calor del verano durante junio y julio, cuando tradicionalmente se celebra el certamen. otros de los puntos que fueron debatidos por los 25 miembros del comitÉ ejecutivo de la fifa es cÓmo minimizar la publicidad negativa que estÁ recibiendo qatar por estos dÍas. el pai Ís Árabe esta siendo acusado de esclavizar a sus trabajadores extranjeros en la construcciÓn de las obras relacionadas con el mundial 2022. hasta aqui los deportes feliz fin de semana. las notas de farandula cuando volvamos!! semana, y maÑana sabado la invitacion es a un festival que ademas de diversion, otorga importante informacion para cuidar el planeta... el festival verde es un evento divertido, para toda la familia y de mucha inspiración para la comunidad, en donde habrá actividades divertidas

. >> an unusual event for this small restaurant in a poor area of doha, qatar. the trade unionists are meeting with construction workers. this is one of them. he has not received a salary for over two months. >> in the camp where i live, we sleep on the ground and i don't get a regular salary. >> the unionists have come to the emirate of qatar for three days especially to hear problems like these. it is an unannounced visit that has seen them barred from several sites and companies. by exerting a bit of pressure, they have managed to meet some officials. >> it is a shame. the majority of their population today is made up of immigrants. we have to make them see that human rights are for everyone, not before qataris -- not only for qataris. >> guitar has been accused of exploiting its foreign workers -- qatar has been accused of exploiting its foreign workers. >> some of the numbers -- they do not really reflect the reality. there are many -- some negative. in the end the [indiscernible] >> however, the delegation held a press conference to declare these efforts i

the new center here in moscow and to bomb would say let's get straight into our main story this hour qatar is embroiled in a fresh scandal over its twenty twenty two world cup preparations two german documentary makers were detained after talking to and filming migrants building the events infrastructure there investigating claims that labor conditions in the gulf kingdom bordered on slavery and have led to dozens of migrant workers deaths r.t. talked to four make a predictable who told us about his detention in doha and shared some of the video that led to his arrest. first we got arrested by the federal police in a hotel rooms were taken to the headquarters which is an doha city and we were questioned and interrogated for a couple of hours and just after midnight we got cuffed our equipment cameras all the memory sticks we had everything was taken from us and we were taken to a state security prison right in the suburbs of doha where we had to spend the nights in separate cells my cameraman and me. we were in there in that prison in those separate cells for a total of twenty one hours th

national human rights committee responded to allegations there is no slavery or forced labor in qatar there have been some problems only to the fact that there are forty four thousand businesses in the country but i can assure you that the authorities are constantly making efforts to resolve the problems. bellew this in the meantime he continues to hold his problems will soon be resolved i'll have to stop playing football they ended my career mentally i don't see myself playing it and then i'll have to see what to do with my life desiree cilia r.t. . nobel peace prize recipients are called on blood in a potent to drop the charges against greenpeace activists arrested for storming in all rig and russia's arctic next hour in our program worlds of politics on a boy who goes head to head with the environmental groups executive director of the organizations recent protest is a quick taster. one of the things about greenpeace is that the words green and pisa equally important yes we do take very strong peaceful action but we do not cross the line into. beyond any action that can be better t

trapped and terrified migrants in qatar have been speaking about the desperation of am doing there are more than eighteen million in the country many of whom are working flat out to get the prostate is a world cup event ready cadotte is not the only gulf state where the migrant population is large in proportion to the locals and i both qatar and the united arab emirates have migrant population they go beyond eighteen percent in kuwait today the region's other leading all produce about seven out of ten workers they are foreigners as to in oman and saudi arabia migrants make up almost thirty percent of that population now in. if we take a look at the whole region as a whole the number of the migrant workers there is about eighteen million out of a total population of just forty two million now that's quite a high number of foreigners who are working but it was in qatar has more on hold the world cup because it's showing the world's eye to migrants suffering. do we know to organize. trended to fifth vote cop is coming. but the initial celebration and prestige have been overshadowed by for

but first migrants working to make the two thousand and twenty two feet a world cup in qatar reality are allegedly having not been paid in months and many reportedly dying under slave like conditions a german filmmaker says he went to investigate the british media reports on the subject but was arrested after interviewing some of the workers artie's tessera so it takes a closer look at the situation in the gulf state do we know how to organize. ditto dreaded to fifth world cup is coming. but the initial celebration of christie should be overshadowed by ford workers claims of maltreatment not getting paid and even that not being allowed to leave the country the international trade union confederation claims that about four thousand migrants could die before a football is kicked in twenty twenty two the worker becomes the property of the employer they are not allowed to leave the country they're not even allowed to leave trying to a job and if the employer agrees this means that the workers have no real power no real voice to. fix up very very bad working and living conditions zire bal

trapped and terrified migrants in qatar have been speaking about the desperation in doing there are more than eighty million in the country many of whom are working flat out to get the prestigious world cup event ready and qatar is not the only gulf state where the migrant population is large in proportion to the locals let's take a look at this birth could talk and the united arab emirates have migraines a population of about eighty percent now you move over there to kuwait the region's other leading oil producer with about seven out of ten workers there for an hour while in oman and saudi arabia there is about thirty percent of those who make up of those foreigners and if we take up the whole region as a whole the number of migrants stands at eighteen million out of a total population of just forty two million that's very high tells us leo was in qatar and has more on how the world cup focuses is showing the world's eyes to migrants suffering. no reno to organize a detour treaded to fifth vote car is cut. but the initial celebration and prestigious have been overshadowed by ford worker

there is a lot of examples in qatar in the oil and gas industry where the standards are extremely high and we are looking for standards similar to those. >> china chee jinping, joint investment opportunities during chee's two day visit. trade between, eight rats for every human in the world. that makes malaysia's rap population in excess of 220 million. the government has launched a campaign to contain rodent numbers, after an outbreak of a rodent borne disease killed 20 people. >> setting a trap to catch a rattle, the rat population lives with paren apparent impunity. growing up in a rural village rodents hold no fear for him. he'd rather be doing this than trying to rid the city of other pests. his team sets several traps around the area. >> i've probably caught 30,000 rats in the past 15 years. i love my job. i'm helping to reduce the amount of rats and the disease. >> that's a good thing too because malaysia has launched a campaign to try to reduce the population. they'll pay for any rat brought to government disposal centers. there's been a spike in l lepto leptosporosis, a diseas

and the plight of migrant workers in qatar and plenty more stories after this break don't go away. crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want. mission free cretaceous three times torture free. range month free. three stooges free. download free blog clothing videos for your media projects a free video dog r t v dot com. welcome back you're watching our timeline for moscow now the data set for a long delayed syrian peace conference is expected to take place in just over a month from now let's get all the details now from our correspondent. has got all the very latest that is so it looks like there is finally lot of the end of the tunnel in the syrian war do tell us more. you know we finally have today for geneva two talks according to syria's deputy prime ministers november twenty third twenty fourth russian the u.s. pledged to bring together the syrian government and the syrian opposition in order for them to map out a political solution peaceful way out of the crisis now for a while as you know opposition fighters would say they would not sit down with q

explain to you what that is it's a law basically stating that every migrant worker that comes into qatar has to find his own personal sponsor meaning his boss the firm is working for the corporation. and that sponsor has to take care of him legally legally medically but most of the sponsors obviously take the past posts away from the migrant workers and that put so numbers of them maybe tens of thousands in a miserable situation. because it's also the case to late edition a break in the set investigating in human conditions facing met police workers toiling away in qatar if you want to catch that program it's on a website street and get a call to a country of two million people there are currently three hundred forty thousand nepalese migrant workers many of which been assigned to world cup construction but according to several reports released by the guardian the workers face brutal working conditions long hours lack of pay and wretched living quarters and just yesterday it was confirmed that seventy napoli's laborers have already died while working on a world cup projects yet both the

their release was the result of intense negotiations involving syria, turkey, lebanon, and qatar. a case that highlights how the syrian conflict is affecting neighboring countries. >> a hero's welcome for the turkish pilots who spent just over two months in captivity. their prime minister is on the tarmac to greet them, as well as relatives and the crowd of journalists. i'll being held hostage the two say they never -- while being held hostage, the two say they never lost faith. >> we will be healthy emotionally. we need to stick to these rules. >> the turkish airlines pilots were abducted outside their hotel in beirut by a group named [indiscernible] , previously unheard of. the men put pressure on them to really nice nine men -- to release nine men kidnapped on october 12. after diplomacy, all hostages were freed. it appears as though officials played a key role. >> qatar is supporting opposition to president bashar al-assad. they are supporting the opposition. supporting also turkey. because turkey had their pilots taken hostage, it was possible for qatar to discuss with the op

national human rights committee responded to allegations there is no slavery or forced labor in qatar there have been some problems only to the fact that there are forty four thousand businesses in the country but i can assure you that the authorities are constantly making efforts to resolve the problems in the meantime he continues to hope his problems will soon be resolved i'll have to stop playing football they ended my career mentally i don't see myself playing and then i'll have to see what to do with my life. r.t. . great programs lined up for you tonight up ahead info exam the ducks he could sort of the go for mexico oil disaster one of the worst spills in history programme for the next hour the next news update after that. you know as i look more and more into it i find that there were a lot of myths and exaggerations about what happened in russia during the soviet era however one really bad rumor seems to be true if you were an outspoken advocate against the soviet status quo then you could be considered insane and be locked away until the psychiatrist convinced you that khru

for you in the program here in our human rights groups raise the alarm over struggling migrants in qatar find out firsthand what it's like for workers and how it could affect the country's world cup bishan zz in a couple of minutes. in the meantime painful for three full body cavity searches that's what a handful of detainees are still experiencing at america's notorious guantanamo bay military prison a mass hunger strike began in february and has since subsided to less than two dozen protesters against indefinite detention r.t.d. has now gained rare access to the prison and here's a first in a series of reports by an associate. after a few months of people worked to get cleared to visit the base the trip to get mobile hop and a skip from the big apple to fort lauderdale in florida and from there were short hour and a half flight one largely kept under wraps with no indications of it on departure boards. the minute we landed were greeted by escorts who stay with us every step of our trip the special guantanamo joint task force media team. one of them sergeant rebecca wood far from the st

with the start of a crunch meeting on the twenty twenty two world cup that is said to be hosted by qatar the gulf state came under fire following a guardian newspaper investigation which revealed nepalese workers have been dying while building the tournament's for civil. egyptian military authorities have