football's governing body fifa it'll be the 1st time the tournament has been hosted in the southern hemisphere. those are the headlines on al-jazeera will have more news for you. but it and today's inside story. he's the longest serving russian leader since joseph stalin but a lot of the putin wants to stay in power even longer a referendum on the constitution would almost call it extend his rule so how will this shape the future of russia this is inside still. hello welcome to the program and it's made. me a putin was 1st elected as russia's president in 2020 years later he's still ahead he served longer than any.

have in just a moment on the news hour sports news the women's world cup is heading to the southern hemisphere for the 1st time. following on let's cross over to andy in doha for the sports hi andy. thank you so much darren will liverpool have won the english league title for the 1st time in 30 years it happened in somewhat anticlimactic fashion 2nd place manchester city had to beat chelsea to keep the title race and a long night at c.u. baldwin for chelsea and liverpool became champions of 7 games left in their season it's the 19th time the club of won the title means little and now the reigning english european and world champions john barnes was part of the polls last title winning team. about 32nd. excitements not that i've gone down because to be honest with you i knew it was going to happen i didn't think it was going to happen tonight so it's great that it happened but i think it was only 'd a matter of time i don't about lee it's not about tonight's stories about the last night games about what this team has done over 18 months as much as 30 years 4 years ago i would not have thought t

than me still to come here on the news out in sport the women's world cup is heading to the southern hemisphere for the 1st time and here with that the rest of the sports are just about. to support his thank you so much a joint bid from australia and new zealand has won the rights to host the 2023 women's world cup colombia in a vote held by football's governing body faith events is being expanded to include $32.00 countries and it will be the 1st time that's all and that's been hosted in the southern hemisphere brazil and japan and pulled out of the bidding due to the financial impact of coronavirus. the future council has already decided that as of 2023 years of the world cup 2023 there will be $32.00 national teams participating instead of $24.00 so it will become even more global and having a much bigger positive impact on the development of women's football for fay for also announcing plans to invest $1000000000.00 in women's football over the next 4 years and its final report said australia new zealand have the infrastructure in place that would make for a commercially successful tallents

and as museums and cultural sites open their doors in the northern hemisphere, in the southern hemispherenga zoo in sydney welcomes back visitors and the state's main art gallery allows people to once again walk among its prized acquisitions. there is relief as economy started to whir back to life, but there will be concerns too about safety and the threat of a second wave of infections. for now, though, these moments are a welcomed respite. reged ahmad, bbc news. with football leagues beginning to restart around the world, teams face playing matches in empty stadiums. coronavirus restrictions mean many fans will still be unable to attend the game, so in response, clubs have been creating innovative new ways to keep the involved, including a danish ‘drive in' stadium. matt graveling reports. never before have drivers celebrated getting a parking ticket but for these fans of a danish club, their ticket gives them a space at the ground when them a space at the ground when the game goes on inside. it is not a normal match day experience. i think it is a very nice arrangement to show the play

and as museums and cultural sites open their doors in the northern hemisphere, in the southern hemispherey welcomes back visitors and the state's main art gallery allows people to once again walk among its prized acquisitions. there is relief as economy started to whir back to life, but there will be concerns too about safety and the threat of a second wave of infections. for now, though, these moments are a welcomed respite. reged ahmad, bbc news. bursts of light that filled the night skies ofjapan. dozens of fireworks displays erupted simultaneously across japan on monday to cheer up the public, as the country comes out of coronavirus restrictions. more than 160 manufacturers launched their displays at 8pm in the evening at sites across the country in a five—minute display. the postponement of the tokyo 2020 olympics was a major blow for the fireworks industry, leaving craftsmen unable to sell fireworks they had spent months making. some of the fireworks had written messages attached to them praying for the end of the pandemic. let's go live now to the white house's rose garden, where p

of football's governing body 50 it'll be the 1st time the tournament has been hosted in the southern hemisphere. those are the headlines on al-jazeera we'll have more news for you. but it and today's inside story. he's the longest. joseph stalin. a referendum on. all. rules so. the future of this story. hello welcome to the program. vladimir putin was 1st elected as russia's president in 2020 years later he still had he served longer than any russian or soviet politician since the early 1950 s. and it could be on course to be one of his nation's longest serving leaders putin's opponents say he plans to never leave office constitutional reforms introduced in january will allow him to stay in power for another 26 year terms his current one and in 4 years russians have started voting in a weeklong referendum on the amendments but the state duma has already approved those changes to the constitution while also passing a law that says the reforms must have the public supports president putin says he'll consider running for a 5th term in 2024 he said this to the russian media if this doesn't happen t

really underestimate the amount of money that's happening on this planet and especially in the southern hemisphere where we can't see it you know lithium iron copper cobalt as you see quickly in the film these are really contribute 10 percent of global energy emissions the energy needed for mining. so it's just you know like the censorship the attacks were both dismaying and the same time kind of like it made me realize what a threat the movie as to that josh fox started the attacks on us with the like he said that our distributor pulled the file. we were the only distributors through you tube so even the film for action that he said pulled the film called him and said that's not true. if you still kept it going you got picked up in usa today i don't know if you found this and i want to talk a little bit about what it is i think you attacked and i and i think that these people are. and i know all of them i think they're in the business of selling hope they're not in the business of speaking truth. and it's a false hope as your film i think correctly documents. but i wondered if you could comment o

officials waited for the announcement it will be the 1st time the tournaments wasn't hosur in the southern hemisphere and there will be 12 host cities with 7 in australia and 5 in new zealand. hello again the headlines on al-jazeera u.s. state of texas as whole to phased easing of virus restrictions following a sharp rise in infections a record one day rise in cases was reported across the country on wednesday almost 37000 cases were confirmed that's the highest number since the start of the pandemic more than 2300000 americans have been infected in about 122000 have died india has also seen a record number of new virus infections for a 2nd consecutive day with almost 17000 reported cases in the last 24 hours new delhi is a major concern the government predicts there could be more than half a 1000000 infections in the capital by late july and there's renewed concern in europe because of an increase in infection numbers last week. in peace weekly cases for the 1st time in months. for weeks i have spoken over the surgeons it's good grease it just measures incivil could be because you took these risks h

we are now not only beyond the cusp, we are fully into it and the southern hemisphere is now raging as they go into their winter. now every single one of the second tier economies, the so-called bricks economies, every single one of them has a giant epidemic going on right now. brazil, south africa, mexico, inkni inindonesia. go down the list. meanwhile, in europe, where they seem to have declines with the uk still struggling the economic impact is absolutely staggering. a new report just out this week from the oecd, basically the financial club of the richest companies on earth, estimates that every single country in europe and every single country in the oecd is going to see a negative gdp. their countries are going back wards. the uk, france, italy, are going to be approaching negative 15% gdp. that's great depression. that's staggering. you know, we were -- after 2008, we were gasping because we were down to only positive 1% growth. now they're predicting for the united states, negative 8.5%. to put this in perspective, rachel, the worst case scenario pandemic plan that i saw last

part of the reason is because it's now spreading to the southern hemisphere. seeing in some of the warmer states that these cases are starting to rise as well. so this particular coronavirus, we're not sure why, doesn't respond to the heat and humidity like some of the other coronaviruses. so it's not going to completely go away this summer. it will get better under control, but there will always be that underlying wave of coronavirus that's out there until come the fall. once we start getting into cold weather, it will start taking off again into higher numbers. that means that everybody is going what they need to do to keep safe throughout the summer even with the reopenings. without that it will spread more so and return to outbreak, steve. >> there is news that got a lot of attention from the world health organization, that coronavirus patients without symptoms aren't driving the spread of the virus. they note that asymptomatic spread can occur, but that it's not the main way its being transmitted. the whole issue of asymptomatic transmission, the idea of

hosting rights for the 2023 women's it will be the 1st time the tournament will be staged in the southern hemisphere. yet some really exciting i think. obviously really nervous it was completely out of our control and we had no idea what was going to happen. but then just say even here like the 1st syllable of a stray leaving said i think everyone just l.a. ssion and we just went absolutely wild i mean that's pretty embryo i got up this morning to hear the announcement and yeah i was just ecstatic it's amazing opportunity when you say i'm full and just for school in general and for me personally it's going to be amazing just to have my family friends all dances support us so yeah i'm super excited all right that's all yes but for now it is back to pizza. joe thanks very much we'll talk to sammy is here with so few minutes about his role well he was on the other side of the break i will have another news out of the team g c that. a global pandemic mass protests demanding change economic recession and geopolitical tensions not to mention the small matter of a looming election join me steve clemons in

years they will get hit been this pandemic the vast majority of emerging markets are in the southern hemisphere they will be ill-equipped to deal with this virus you have to keep in mind when you look outside the usa it's dominated by japan, uk and look at emerging markets, it's dominated by china that's a huge question mark right now. is china a friend, a foe, an adversary or all of that rolled into one >> i'm sure we're not done talking about that very specific topic. chris, thank you for joining us today. thanks for your historical insights as well >> my pleasure >>> we're getting some updates on the president's comments to the nation's governors >> that's right. the president has been in situation room over the past hour and having a video tele conference members of the media about what the president has been saying to them on this video conference. the associated press reporting the president has told the governors most of you are weeak you have to arrest them. robert costa a washington post reporter is reporting that he is on the phone with a number of people who are participating in in c

we now not only are beyond the cusp, we're fully into it, and the southern hemisphere is now raging as they go into their winter. so now every single one of the sort of second-tier economies, the so-called bricks economies, every single one of them has a giant epidemic going on right now. india, you know, south africa, brazil, indonesia, mexico. go down the list. meanwhile, in europe, while they seem to have generally declined in most of europe with the uk very much struggling, the economic impact is absolutely staggering. a new report just out this week from the oecd, which is basically the financial club of the richest countries on earth, estimates that every single country in europe, every single country in the oecd, is going to see a negative gdp. so their economies are going to be going backwards. in some of them, it's really bad. the uk, france, italy are going to be approaching negative 15% gdp. i mean that's great depression. that's staggering. staggering. you know, we were -- after 2008, we were gasping because we were down to only positive 1% growth. well, now they're predict

australia are in contention now whoever wins the fisa vote it's one that is set to be held in the southern hemisphere for the 1st time japan pulled out of the race lights on to to the financial consequences of coronavirus and we've been talking to women's football writer samantha lewis he says the tournament should not be recognised as one of the leading global sporting events. well let's go it's not so that's in fear with samantha lewis talking about the women's world cup the women's world cup has become the biggest women's football tournament on the planet based on what we saw last year in france over a 1000000000 people from around the world tuned in to watch that competition domestic huish it records were smashed in places like england france italy and brazil traditional footballing nations that have taken quite a long time to come around to the women's game stadiums all across france were packed out for the 2019 games and we can expect that 2023 will be the same if not bigger than that and that's sort of why recent reports of you wait for officials in particular describing the women's world cup

rights for the 2023 women's world cup it will be the 1st time the tournament we staged in the southern hemisphere. yeah some really exciting i think we were obviously really nervous it was completely out of our control and we had no idea what was going to happen. but then just even here like the 1st syllable of a surely being said i think everyone just lation here and we just went absolutely wild. but we just over a week away now from the opening race the delayed formula one season in austria teams like red bull have a thing getting ready time british driver alex album completed 100 kilometers around the silverstone circuit on thursday is the 1st time he's been behind the wheel of his car in 118 days the team has also been practicing social distancing measures wearing their personal protective gear it's certainly different seeing everybody working in face masks you lose the expressions that you sometimes concrete either elation or despair in a mechanic or a engineers face but i think it's something that will get used to it's important for the safety of you know of our team of everybody you know.

nelson was not outspokenly religious, but he was a man who longed to reshape the southern hemisphere in an image of christian democracy. he believed that his civil religion of crude would stymie communism's influence and would ensure america's place at the head of the new international order. indeed, big oil's apostles would not have worn biblical convictions on their sleeves. they were willing to drop insistence ease for the sake of universal brotherhood. yet however much they were drained of its dogmatism, oil's promise continued to inform their actions. its solicitations to extract god's bounties from the earth with an eye to a higher being at a higher sense of being. oil's global topography became their theological plains. the civil religion of crude is one thread in oil's religious biography. certainly vital to understanding the united states' role in international context. but if we want to understand some of the profoundest turns in modern united states politics, you must also look to the american oil patch, a unique landscape out of which stirred an reversible challenge to th

know they'd be seeing people to have fans right by then yeah is the first ever one held in the southern hemispherems in australia. and 5 venues in new zealand that's the opera house all lit up in last summer's tournament in france attracted record-breaking audience women soccer the center stage and then boom, you know covid happened so nobody's watching anything in person anymore be twenty-twenty through ok that might be a safe bet all right so from that let's go to jeffrey host alex trebek and his wife they're stepping up. efforts in a big way and they're going to help the homeless in southern california they donated $500,000 to a rescue mission in l a. the ceo of hope of the valley rescue mission says the money is going to help pay for a new facility to house the homeless seniors and medical create a site for them as a thank you. the multimedia room in the shelter is going to be named for about that. >>all right on that note, let's take a quick look at the forecast again your seven-day around the bay shows the temperatures are going to be cooling here over the next day or 2. so that's kind of ni

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