A done deal also coming up pope francis finally uses the word rohingya as he meets muslim refugees in bangladesh he says he is sorry for the worlds and difference but thats after he failed to raise their plight publicly on his visit to me and who were the bodies while i was screaming shouting i want money i want money we cant buy milk you can then again want to cried the shocking sale of refugees as slaves in libya european and African Leaders agree on emergency measures to evacuate thousands before they end up on the auction block. On World Aids Day we meet a woman and fighting to break the stigma associated with the disease shes speaking out about living with hiv in india in a bid to end the social isolation that often comes with the virus. Plus the countdown to next years world cup in russia begins with excitement growing ahead of todays do. Wrong for the tournaments. Im simply someones gonna get to have you with us the leader of germany social democrats that all options are on the table for forming a government martin shells will let ask members decide on whether to Start Coalition talks with Angela Merkels conservatives at a Party Conference later this month its an option he rolled out after septembers election but he has come under intense pressure to break the deadlock gripping german politics marching childes made it clear that his party has not decided anything a grand coalition as well as other alternatives are still on the table. There was broad support for not ruling out any options when it comes to forming a government. We have an acting government in place and we are not under time pressure. So i poke the s. P. D. Chairman rejected media reports that at a meeting last night with president hung steinmeyer his party opted to pursue a grand coalition steinmeyer invited chancellor Angela Merkel the varian conservative leader horse over and schultz to discuss the ongoing governmental impasse. Schultz was visibly irritated at the media reporting on what were confidential talks and blamed conservatives for the leak. Because these statements seem to have originated in the conservative bloc i called mrs merkel and told her that i find this an acceptable to. The s. P. D. Rank and file are divided on whether to enter another coalition with conservatives many social democrats want the party to make a fresh start in the opposition the s. P. D. Youth organization is collecting signatures to protest another grand coalition and the general public is also skeptical. I think this is a bad solution a political deadlock i think this would be a bad idea. For im all for fresh elections and no good reason. Its maybe the only chance to form a government on the other hand wed lose out on the s. P. D. Is a strong opposition. At this point only one thing is clear until there is a new government. Will stay on as acting chancellor. And chief Political Correspondent melinda crane is standing by for us hi melinda where do you think all of this is heading. Well i think that Party Conference that was mentioned of the social democrats is likely to agree with clenched teeth and by no means with an overwhelming majority to let the partys leadership begin Coalition Negotiations but that does not mean that another edition of the grand coalition between the s. P. D. And chancellor merkel social christian democrats and Christian Social Union that the varian sister party is by any means assured the fact is whether the speedy does agree then to actually enter a coalition i think will very much depend upon the results of the talks and in particular on whether the s. P. D. Get significant concessions from the chancellors party there is one plus for the s. P. D. Martin schulz as many of our viewers will probably remember served for a long time in brussels in the bureau paean union hes very interested in shaping policy towards europe and being in the coalition in a grand coalition would allow him to do so but that is not a real vote getter among the parties rank and file so what they will be looking for are very visible concessions visible benefits for the middle and working class perhaps along the lines of Health Insurance reform and if they dont get that then i think its not at all likely that well see a grand coalition and of yesterday has been very reluctant to joined us a grand coalition and Martin Schultz actually ruled it out after the september elections what do you think this all means for him. Thats right and his discomfort and his ambivalence were absolutely written on his face today at that press conference his fate essentially depends on the same thing that i just discussed on results again the party is reluctant because in the past two grand coalitions with the christian democrats in Christian Social Union they have seen a significant loss of support the fact is for the junior partner in a coalition with the chancellor it is not easy to maintain a real profile even if they do get some of their policies through so they will be looking for something thats big and visible to come out of coalition to go she ations and if it doesnt happen that i think the walk away and martin chills may very clear hes going to take his time to make sure those concessions are achieved how much time do you think its likely to take for germany to form a government its really pure speculation. As theyre saying it could take as long as into next february or march and what about the concerns melinda that germany is not stable right now is that still business as usual under this a caretaker government. Heres the thing and this is very very important particularly for policy for Foreign Policy the government is stable yes it is conducting business but it is not in a position to take any kind of decisive policy steps and there is one area of particular concern in my view and thats europe we have dramatic proposals for a Forward Movement in europe from french president a man we call he has very much targeted and shaped those proposals to bring germany on board and hes waiting for an answer from berlin the window that that is open now for that kind of Forward Movement will not remain open indefinitely so we need a German Government in there to move forward on that and other issues he might be waiting for some time to come our idea of these chief Political Correspondent melinda crane for us thank you melinda. Now pope francis has asked for forgiveness from rome hinge on muslims for the indifference of the world the head of the Catholic Church met with a small group of refugees during his tour of bangladesh he held hands with them as he listened to their stories these were his or just a few of the more than six hundred thousand to have reached the country after fleeing their homes in me in march the United Nations has described their persecution as ethnic cleansing. Earlier pope francis have praised bangladesh for giving shelter to a range of refugees and called for Decisive Action to end the humanitarian crisis his visit though was aimed at reaching catholics in the capital dhaka he led an open air mass for a crowd of tens of thousands. Even though catholics make up less than one percent of the population it felt like most of them had turned up here during mass the pope ordained sixteen new bangladeshi priests thats a sign of the relative freedom the church enjoys here but this freedom cant be taken for granted christians are often persecuted in this region which is why for fear of their safety francis has walked a diplomatic tight rope over a growing humanitarian crisis more than half a Million People have fled here to escape persecution in neighboring myanmar these range of muslims arent even recognized in that country forcing the pope to balance diplomatic niceties with his moral imperative. On thursday after meeting bangladeshs president used his sharpest language yet on this trip and avoided identifying the ranger by name. Its imperative that the International Community takes decisive measures to address risk grave crisis not only by working to resolve political issues have led to this must displacement of people but also by offering immediate material assistance to bangladesh in its efforts to respond effectively to urgence human needs. From serious isnt shared jewel to visit this refugee camp close to the Myanmar Border but nonetheless the focal point of his trip is a meeting with a range of delegation in dhaka. We have good of you south asia expert sandra pages men with us she just returned from reporting in bangladesh hi sandra the pope is now used the word for the first time how significant is that i mean if you look at the quote he literally said that the presence of god today is also called i think thats quite a strong statement to make and its acknowledging their presence as a people as an ethnic minority which he didnt do while he was in my and more he steered away from anything that was even coming close to the r. Word but now in bangladesh i think to the very end of this very emotional meeting where he listened to the story of some selected ranges he decided to make that point what more do we know about this group of riches that he met from what we know is that it was a selected group of sixteen amongst them women and children as well and they came from by the kali cam most of them and kali is where most of the new arrivals are put its rapidly sprawling campus which is kind of growing together with to prolong which is the more well known camp for you. Refugees and what we see now is that these two camps because of the rapid influx are literally growing together its right next to a nature. Reserve and the nature reserve as we go along with day and day and day is literally chopped down you know because nature needs to needs to move because new refugees are coming into the country and we still see an influx of a couple of hundreds every day and you actually visited some of these refugee camps how do you describe what you saw i mean its People Living in little bamboo shacks sheltered with tarps tarpaulin and what you see in terms of lets just look at the conditions thats quite terrible you know you see people drilling for wells right next to let. You see a lot of open deaf occasion in the camps because there is simply not enough toilets and then the water gets contaminated the water samples we heard the vast majority is contaminated with e. Coli bacteria we already see cases of acute watery diarrhea inside the camp and of course there is the big fear that we will see cases of cholera or maybe a cholera epidemic we see measles spreading rapidly amongst the children and children are the majority of refugees over fifty percent of the people were talking about are children below the age of eighteen there was an agreement struck this past month between me and my own british to allow someone to return home to those people you spoke with do they want to go home i think deep down in their heart they want to because Rakhine State where most of them are coming from is the only home they know but then you know we spoke to refugees and especially this one woman barely eighteen year old heavily pregnant about to give birth im sure she has done so by now she told me i rather not then to go back there she was so terrified she had a huge gaping wound on her forehead because as she was fleeing hold her burning village she hit a bumble plant and it was just piercing inside her forehead it was you know past leaking our to because she hadnt received any treatment yet heavily pregnant as she was very exhausted so i think very consistent stories we could hear inside the camps of atrocities happening though my own marise military is denying most of it already have you sunder pictures none with us from the studio thank you for sharing those stories with us. Now to some other news making headlines around the world Argentinas Navy says it has given up all hope that the forty four man crew of a missing submarine will be found alive efforts to locate the vessel will continue in the ocean off argentinas coast it is believed an explosion on board caused the submarine to sink more than two weeks ago riot police in honduras have clashed with supporters of the main opposition candidate in the president ial election after he accused the Electoral Court of fraud delays in releasing results from sundays election have raised suspicions of vote manipulation with ninety three percent of ballots counted the incumbent president won orlando and this holds a slim lead. A panel chaired by japans Prime Minister shinzo abi has agreed no date for the countrys emperor to abdicate akihito will step down on april thirtieth two thousand and nineteen with his eldest son crown prince not to he to taking the throne it is the first abdication in nearly two centuries hito is eighty three and in poor health. Now european and African Leaders meeting in the ivory coast have drawn up an emergency plan in response to the shocking reports of slavery auctions in libya these emergency measures will see the evacuation of nearly four thousand people stranded there but the African Union says there could actually be as many as seven hundred thousand migrants trapped in libya a good number of them at the mercy of the highest better. French president among them mark who led the way by saying that migrants should be hauled to leave libya as quickly as possible delegates from the african and European Union summit in our very coast agreed on an action plan and a crisis meeting on the sidelines of the summit it involves increased spending im setting up a task force to facilitate the rapid repack creation of migrants. Next year the stimulus we must act quickly we must evacuate those who are willing to help them get back to their home countries. Mccall was talking about people like adam from ivory coast adam was abducted on his way to europe by people traffickers in libya and sold on many times you know often we dont see ms and. They look at us and a house which up and then someone gave me a telephone to call my mother he took a knife and cut my leg. While i was screaming he kept shouting i want money i want money cut my leg again and again while i cried cause he pleaded with us. In the end adams family paid a ransom of five hundred fifty euros. Two weeks ago he was flown back to ivory coast by the International Organization for migration. The Organization Plays a central role in the new action plan it is tasked with bringing the migrants home but according to regional director might be an ashram many parts of libya are too dangerous for her workers without the help of the military. Who may have. Detention facilities around by the Libyan Government in the north of course it remains challenging security is still a difficult issue even in those areas. The logistics of these of these operations are quite quite complex however participants in the summit have promised to start implementing parts of the action plan in the coming days according to mr faqih chairperson of the African Union Commission Thousands of my brits and libya have already been identified. That there is no we havent convinced our International Partners in europe and the United Nations to repatriate three thousand eight hundred people immediately with the help of the task force. But you always did when you saw. Libya is the only issue delegates were able to agree on there was no resolution on what was meant to be the main goal of the summit developing a new strategy to help africas youth expectations have been high but it seems africas most vulnerable have been left out in the cold. All right ben is here now were looking at the question is a Property Price bubble developing here in berlin and then we did some reporting here on this over the summer and there were a lot of interest from Foreign Investors coming in and buying up tens if you know dozens of apartments at a time and other people left to sit in forty square meter pop and they could be kicked out soon i mean theyll be a lot of happy people if a bubble does burst here but a lot of very unhappy and best as i have to say but who does a city actually belong to the citizens well for many living in this city has become unaffordable Property Prices have been rising for years in many big cities thats why investors buy logic pop and blocks and sell off the single units for a higher price its a great deal less so for tenants many of driven out of their homes as they cant pay the higher rents we took a look at the situation in berlin. Every candidate in berlin every tenant if youre paying rent youre at risk. If you can theres no right that guarantees everyone can live in city centers. Of course the city must be there for those who live and work in it but otherwise itll stop being a city of. Who does the city belong to and who can afford to live in it a common topic among berliners in the working class quite spec district many residents live on modest incomes so theyre upset about the current push towards modernization which could end up doubling their rents but thats the plan for real estate firms like phoenix play house the tenants so they can really rent flats or sell them. The companies dont like to be named and shamed the shareholders dont like it. The government and the senate who are doing nothing about this need our votes and we need to shout more to them about doing something about it to the mix. In the city. When investors are lured by internet ads if you realize that others are losing their homes and its not only the real estate thats being dressed up the publication of the Paradise Papers reveal that phoenix prey had concealed rental income to the tune of millions of euros many berlin homes are registered to subsidiaries in new jersey a tax haven. In the past few years berlin real estate prices have risen steadily people from around the world want to invest here the Austrian Company asimo ogg a started buying up houses and commercial properties in the city more than ten years ago if you could still quote unquote cheap compared to other metropolitan cities and we forecast that berlin will make this legion so if you believe it will happen and you compare it to other major cities then youll see theres still a long way to go. For urban ologists this conflict between investors and renters is detrimental to cities in the long term thats busy and its the things that have yet to what were seeing is that these exploitative strategies are diametrically opposed to the citys interests and needs and that the solution is relatively simple limit those market forces. Some say cities should belong to everyone because houses arent just investments theyre peoples homes. Over to our correspondent daniel cole whos in the Financial Capital frankfurt one of the most expensive cities in germany daniel how do you see the situation. Well with bricks banned prices are really most likely even going to go up as we are seeing them right now eighteen meter square thats what youre paying one thousand euros im sorry per me just grit thats what youre paying right now and sometimes even three hundred people applied little bit earlier i talked to told by other hes one of the talks top experts here in germany when it comes to housing prices lets listen in. Well its always a question of supply and demand hopefully but on the other hand i think specially in the case of germany we will be facing a structural shift and into a new price level which is for the most of the chairmans coming from their good old days obviously shocking but to be fair i dont see any negative impact mainly due to the press shift of course somewhere like beyond but in the general view im still happy from analysts and others than point that direction well the one prices are too high we had the bonus bank always saying that there might be sort of folk oreck soon coming up do you think this is going to be the case i think its always first of all a good job that the bonus monkey gives us some signs because we have every investment think twice i dont see any bubble in this case but to be fair i think what we can see of course is a slightly decrease in these in these super high primary luxury high end level which is of course a new phenomena money and we see a utility leave there so if there is a kind of a bubble this will be of course this little niche Market Segment and my understanding well you just landed this morning from hong kong where prices are extremely high already in frankfurt we can see that three bedroom apartment can easily cost up to one thousand five hundred maybe even after two thousand euros do you think this trend we are seeing right now from hong kong might be shifting over here to germany as well not in that direction again as i can imagine that will face that when next ten years the level of hong kong by the way whether in frankfurt on muni go berlin but fair to say i think the motivation to go in the city center is rising prices by you and me by the way and specially coming from the International View on chairman ian in frankfurt its so fantastic positively speaking negatively speaking which seems tranquil is so cheap compared to the rest of the Global Capital market approach this is of course was so much money is facing chair money as investment up and i dont see any end the next two to four years either way thank you very much. Talking to our very own daniel cope now for another shady aspect of urban living the share a commie is meant to make us all feel so much better about ourselves sharing workspaces cars bicycles all with the help of us a black but one entrepreneur once told me its all a scam and sharing concept less about caring and more about getting your data is a good example. Is this your telephone number. Yes. Is this your profile picture yes. All this information can be seen on the internet. Customer data made publicly accessible this is bike sharing we asked a volunteer demand to test rental for registration by smartphone is quick and easy and it just one euro for thirty minutes its a bargain but what de maton other customers dont know is that their data is not secured its available online. With just a few clicks investigative journalists from the very end broadcasting were able to easily find the names numbers and profile picture of users from around the world they even Found Movement data including of our test subject dammit. Is this why youve just been oh my god yes what do you think of that not good in fact its terrible after all im paying them to use the bike and id expect my data to be safe. Oh by excess the security gap has been fixed the bike sharing business is booming almost all the big providers come from asia with too many end bikes its practically raining two wheelers in beijing the bicycles can be parked anywhere which is very appealing for customers. But. This summer germany got in on the craze too like here in munich and berlin suppliers underbid each other offering ever lower prices are the real from Customer Data instead. You have less data from customers and you can call the right data or up at the right moment and match advertising precisely to the customer thats what makes this information so valuable for advertisers and the movement profiles can be sold to brokers and for a lot of money. But its likely most people will be more annoyed about all the bikes left lying around on land. In the water and in the air. Now its the ups and downs of the bundesliga with me thank you ben well this weekend the coaches that two of germanys biggest call just feeling the heat darkman spitter bosch last saw his side when a league game in september while Peter Sturgis cologne havent managed a victory all season both need results this weekend or they could be out of a job. And are in dire straits after rivals chalco came back from four mill down to the draw in the rule darby serious questions are being asked about coach Peter Parsons future. Thats perfectly normal i wouldnt expect anything different i saw it happen to my coaches when i was a player and you know im a coach myself and know that a top and i dont waste any thoughts on it because that would get you nowhere. Thats brinkman its part isnt the only one does league coach on the brink. With just two points from thirteen games cologne have made the worst start to a bundesliga season in history its enough to put even a popular and long serving coach like peter stirred under pressure but the sides from the clubs boardroom has been deafening. I just think that clarity would be a very valuable thing. It would help if we had some clear statements coming perhaps he just stood there should be careful what he wishes for with cologne up against high flying shout and do it when facing leverkusen this weekend could see the fate of both struggling coaches sealed once and for. Youre watching the news still the calm fighting stigma in india on World Aids Day we meet one woman speaking out about life with hiv. Plus well visit some football crazy fans in russia gearing up for the world cup stay with us. But dont your back cast being branded as dangerous prank and find billions. Kids struggling to regain its credibility. Now for the First Time Ever the executive level opens its doors to journalists. And a talk manages respond to the question how dangerous it is. In forty five minutes. But you are one up. For in focus Global Insights the news out for local heroes. A w made for mines. Their black and living in germany. Has reminded what that means on a daily basis presenter like this not being able to blend in and i was. You know different than the way. She traveled because germany to meet other black people had to hear their stories so. Its. I grew up in a white family in a white neighborhood it was definitely a challenge. She decided to put me up for adoption. So. The main thing was to keep your head down and your mouth shut of course of the face like this i could never completely. If you see all the stereotypes about africa its good to see you. Do something for your country but youre still the black. Afro germany starting december tenth d. W. Book im back youre watching news live from berlin our top stories a new development in germanys political crisis the leader of the social democrats says he is not ruling out Coalition Talks with chancellor Angela Merkels conservatives but march until stresses that he has not given the green light for another grand coalition and pope francis has finally used the word pro hinge on a visit to bangladesh he met with muslim refugees fleeing persecution in me and mark where the pontiff had earlier failed to specifically name the minority. Not today marks a World Aids Day thanks a better treatments people with hiv are living longer and with a better quality of life than ever before one of them is indias mana baloney she tested positive for hiv in one thousand nine hundred nine but fought the disease and began working for indias Hiv Aids Alliance in new delhi shes campaigning for a world where hiv sufferers are treated with dignity. One of bologna is one of the few women in india who speak openly about being infected with hiv shes lived with the virus for twenty years the husband and son both died from complications of aids the government h. I. V. Program started just in time for medical treatment and free drugs have saved her life lesson for us living with the Main Business blessing. I could do with my why this woman. The trucks are helping me to live a normal life her oldest son mohit is a child of a negative but has still suffered other children were not allowed to play with him he also feared losing his mother for moner the social exclusion is almost as bad as the illness itself. He saw my fight with this is safety he saw my fight with my soul because he is the witness since childhood. Whole i am suffering with my health something. I am struggling with my health than my. Duties or my family. Just over two Million People in india a living like mona with hiv the government is making a concerted effort to combat the epidemic with some success the number of people infected with hiv has halved since two thousand and ten one reason for this is that india does not recognise the peytons filed by western Drug Companies more than half of aids patients receive free medication produced in india i want. Because. The so i think india believes in access to treatment for everybody and therefore whatever is necessary good quality treatment is available generally drugs that. Takes part in a support group in delhi she tells young hiv patients they need not fear for the future with treatment they can even have healthy children. I lost my. Because i was not aware that i hope. During my pregnancy or after my delivery so it was like. The battle against the reverse is certainly not been won in india but there has been significant progress thanks to people like mona bologna. Lets bring in d. W. Sonia found the current delhi for more on the story high sonia we saw in that report india seems to have made some strides in combating aids hiv and what is behind that. Youre right i think india in many ways is a Success Story when it comes to combating each i. V. Now more than two decades ago india launched a free hiv aids drug program that was centered on Community Based prevention to reach high risk people such as sex workers or drug users. The government has also set up hundreds of antiretroviral Treatment Centers across the country they provide free drugs for people who require medication so patients get access to doctors they get access to pharmacists they get access to peer support and experts say all these interventions have really led to a big drop in new infections in india in the last decades and i have to say another thing that has worked in india is favor is that the country is home to pharmaceutical companies that account for you know that produce about eighty percent of the Global Supply of antiretroviral medication and a lot of experts here in india say that that the availability of medication has does play a Critical Role in really kind of turning the tide in the fight against hiv lets talk about the stigma we saw in that report mona bonnie saying that the social exclusion is almost as bad as the disease itself and that is a problem thats not limited to india of course but our attitudes there are changing. Well theres still a huge taboo around aids in india anyone who is it will be positive or or or has it still suffers crushing discrimination once the condition is discovered you know weve had instances of children being thrown out of schools of adults being sacked or refused jobs or housing or denied access to hospitals because doctors of them now those attitudes are changing in the big cities like delhi and mumbai but in smaller towns in the rural areas i think the problem still persists attitudes are still often based on superstition on ignorance but earlier this year india did pass a landmark bill that aims to ensure equal rights for positive people and this basically means that illegal discrimination discriminating against hiv positive people now is illegal denying them access to jobs excluding them now is illegal and many activists say that is a right step in the right direction and so on or what do you think are the other major challenges that india faces in its fight against aids well i think that we in recent years one of the biggest problems has been the nonavailability ironically off antiretroviral medication in government run centers theyve been frequent reports in the indian media of a shortfall of drugs off the shortfall of testing kits and all this of course has a devastating impact especially on poor patients who simply cannot afford those drugs on the open market another big problem is a lack of funding you know in two thousand and fifteen the Indian Government under Prime Minister nouri interim or the slashed indias federal its budget by twenty two percent saying Indian States have to step up to the plate now unfortunately that hasnt happened Many Health Workers in Indian States have been laid off and i think as a result many prevention programs on the ground are really suffering so i think the big fear now is that a lack of political will a lack of bureaucratic will could end up reversing the decades of progress that india has really made in stamping out each of you here you sonia pharmacare reporting for us from india sonia thank you for analysis. Well not all countries are having a sum of success that indias had in reducing the number of new hiv infections pakistanis want to free some Health Officials there of blind dating apps and social media for a rise in infections over the last decade and Federico Baggio is here from our social media team to tell us more about this hi federico what is pakistans Health Ministry saying hi sunnis so the Health Ministry has pointed out that theres been an exponential rise in new infections over the last decade especially among men who have sex with men and Officials Say that thats partly due to which make it easier in a way to find Sexual Partners take a look at this graphic it will show you how the number of hiv cases in pakistan increased from eight thousand three hundred sixty in two thousand and five to forty six thousand in twenty fifteen thats an annual increase of almost eighteen percent and officials in pakistan have also conducted a survey of people who recently contracted hiv and one in four respondents and they said that they met their Sexual Partner through a through an on line up and its not this is not just true in pakistan weve also seen other countries making similar claims linking to hiv for instance earlier this year the first lady of malawi she openly accused social media and platforms like whats up for instance of a of contributing to a spike in hiv cases among the youth of course so many of these claims are also in no way missing the bigger point which is that hiv infections are partly due to a lack of a safer sex practices and often also a lack of education about the disease and how to prevent it and especially in very socially conservative. Very conservative countries such as. It can be very hard for people who are at risk of contracting the disease to talk about their issues and to even to get information about it and how to prevent it how are the apps and the platforms themselves responding to these accusations well weve seen some ups have tried to introduce features that help people identify themselves when they have hiv and identify others for instance the popular gay dating app grindr it has introduced a similar feature that even sorts potential chat partners by their hiv status however it has been quite controversial and a lot of a lot of people have been saying that moves like that in a way they. Serve to stigmatize disease even more weve also seen other apps that are trying to help people who have hiv themselves one of them is called daily charge and he helps people with hiv monitor how and when they take their medicine so they have it helps them to to plunder treatment and stick with it and more importantly it offers. Information about how to cope with the so part of the goal is to fight against the stigmatization of the disease and partly its really to offer practical. Solutions and practical help to people who have the disease right due to the use of federico budget thank you for bringing us that story on World Aids Day. Well britains Prince William and harry Princes William and harry have long championed the cause of aids sufferers following in the footsteps of their late mother Princess Diana in the last hour prince harry and his american fiance Meghan Markle have been attending a Charity Event in the city of knocking them to mark World Aids Day the couple met with workers from an aids charity and a Youth Program it is airing meghans of First Official appointments and say announced their engagement earlier this week. Now friday is a crucial day for football fans with only about two hundred days until the world cup kicks off in russia next year the competition groups will be decided by the luck of the draw a star studded ceremony in moscow a little later today news emily sure when has been gauging the mood among russian fans. Its minus seven degrees celsius in moscow but that doesnt stop the amateur football team. They play at least once a week no matter what the weather. On the morrow he has been playing with the team for two years hes a School Sports teacher but on and off the pitch soccer has always been his passion. Both around the world and here in russia football is the game of the people you have to strike shoot beautiful goals we may not be at the world cup but we definitely try to play an elegant game over seven hundred thousand tickets to the world cup in russia have already been sold so far about half of them have gone to the countrys own fans including alex on the. Right there are reminders of the Upcoming Event daughter it across moscow even a countdown to the kickoff. And the majority of russians feel positive about hosting the world cup this coming year. Because its in the cards yes its a good thing of course a lot of tourists a lot of guests will come and were always happy to have guests but i think. Its a serious major event and i know that a lot of people are already buying tickets online people here are definitely looking forward to the world cup. The world cup has given a boost to the infrastructure of cities like. And wonderful stadiums have been built now the guests just have to arrive. To. The city of moscow has been feverish lee preparing as well investing one and a half billion euros to improve pedestrian zones and roads. In cooperation with the city has even given one of its metro trains a make over it will be spreading the soccer spirit across moscow until the end of the world cup. But alex on that and his teammates wont be needing any encouragement when it comes to the soccer spirit today theyre watching a game at a teammates local bar. Alexandre has been an avid football fan since he was six hell of course be back in his home team at the world cup and will be watching the draw closely. With the hosts so the main thing is for us to at least come in first or second in a group we hope that the russian team will end up in an easy group the whole country is hoping for an easy group just on the top of the Russian National Team Currently is the lowest ranked of all the world cup participants but no matter who wins fans like alex on the can still enjoy a month of the beautiful game. Well lets go right to. Standing by for us in moscow just outside the kremlin high yury it looks very cold and snowy there i can see how important is this world cup for the kremlin and also for vladimir putin. Hi sue me russia has been paying lots of attention to this show tonight into the world cup generally an historical one for this country which is a normal asli important for russias president putin the message from bolivia putin is clear yes we can hes trying to score politically putin has been seeking respect and appreciation internationally for a long time and tonight russia in the next few months be covered in the media not as an aggressor who has to be punished and isolated too with the sanctions but as somebody who is ready to welcome the whole world to its eleven host cities what about russians themselves yuri what are they saying well its cold here in moscow minor a man is five degrees here and thats where what im saying right now but its pretty hot in the building behind me in the kremlin palace where this ceremony will get started in just ten minutes for all the russian sunia this event snide and in the world cup next year is a unique mix of a state reception reception a casting show a meeting of celebrities from all the world and pop concerts and a great opportunity to be proud of their country finally given everything works what have some of the criticisms been yury of the preparations for this world cup well as far as this stadium construction goes there is no problem at all swimmy problems are more likely to arise from poor infrastructure here in moscow for example a baptism of fire for the renovated Luzhniki Stadium ended in cowers for tens of thousands of fans just a couple weeks ago after the match they had to walk several kilometers to leave the stadium it took six hours to reach of the myth made through the subway the Russian Press described it as a mismanagement and ticket blitz disaster but the officials admitted to mistakes and promised that all arrows will be fixable see we mentioned jury that a seven hundred fifty thousand tickets have already been sold how much do these tickets cost and how Many Russians can actually afford them. Well the majority of the consumer applications subluxations came actually from russia prices range from ninety euros for a Second Round Group match to nine hundred forty euros for the final in moscow here in the capital moscow where incomes are higher than in other parts of russia some say tickets are a luxury but a cold in two previous tickets in policy is russian residents who have a special prize category with tickets starting at nineteen euros. Use your ear chateau braving the cold for us there in moscow thank you very much harry. And as your mentioned all eyes there on that draw for the world cup so which teams are up for the group stage lets take a closer look among the top seeds we have some a stellar teams minus the eliminated italy of course but there is a the Surprise Team here of poland they benefit from their high fever ranking after a strong qualifying Campaign Going on to group to find themselves among the second seeds there alongside some of the former winners here england and spain for Example Group three includes iceland making their debut they now know that they cannot be drawn in the same group as
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