president to resign saying saturdays record low election turned out proves he lacks legitimacy. peruse, caretaker, president urges congress to bring forward general elections to try and calm. rising anti government protests and ukraine races to restore pilot and heating from millions of people following russian attacks on energy facilities. well, teams from 32 nations competed in 64 games for footballs, ultimate prize, the world cup just being held in the middle east for the 1st time here in cutoff raining champions. france will take on lena massey's argentina. in a thrilling final at the la salle stadium. france is looking to become the 1st nation to successfully defend the title since pallet's brazil 60 years ago. but it's a match that could also see the messy winning the trophy for the 1st time and cement his legacy. avante, richardson, i report if football was a sentimental game, then lino messy may well have been handed, the welcome trophy already. now aged 35 massey says this will be his last world cup game, a chance to win the one title that saluted him during a career of close to unrivalled success in 2016 the jump to find against about sort of now miss, he was starting to play in the team, that's 2006 grind tucked on the 22. but 16 years later. and just in contest for being player for turn them and all roads. athena leading taylor sale since this world began a month ago. it's where argentine is, campaign began folk, disastrously without defeat, against saudi arabia. happy memories have followed for them here. subsequently, most recently, the semi final went over croatia. the 1st time france of played this venue is where did the day she could become just the 2nd coach in history after it, please. sorry, i thought so. back in 1938 to when to world cups. they shop also lifted the trophy as captain in 1998. as did he go a race in russia 4 years ago. the race and his team out to stop message final shot at a well title. you need a special focus on him, but it's not only about him. you know, it's a strong team with the tenant players. was a young generation of players and you can see that they're all dedicated to 2 little missy preparations have also been incense for the man who be in the middle for the biggest game of his career. is the middle of the season. not like it was before that event and of the season, et cetera. now players are fresh to want to win. i mean, you see the fire, the ice of players and we expect verify games. yeah, that fire is burning just as brightly amongst the firms in castle all hoping to witness one last when from their team and the richardson al jazeera lucille well on saturday crash, a secured bronze medals with a victory over morocco. they beat the atlas lions to one of the heli, for stadium croatia took an early lead before morocco, stiffly nicolai's. but miss lab horace's pinpoint shot, proved to be the winner. well, what about the fans watching back home? well, we'll hear from nicholas hark in casablanca, in just a moment, but 1st to mar, inverse it, with some very happy supporters in zagreb. what are they to be a football fan in croatia as people are taking it through the streets, coming here on the main square opposite end? after 9 o 8 grey shall manage to do it once again. ha, ha ha. bronze medal is now 4 years ago when parisha came a 2nd in the finals, a estimated 500000 people came to give them a one big massive thank you. now you can see here that we have this big stage that is already a sat after that semi final game ration national team. they come back to their grow asia as a victorious team after meeting morocco to one exactly the same result, like back in 1998. tomorrow. around the 1700. c. d. a gratian. national team will be arriving at the international airport to 2 hours later. they'll be coming here and do a continued festivities with gratian fans. so we'll see how many of them will come to say one big massive thank you. listen to the applause. there is so much glide among the long can for their national team. and those that come to watch this final game resolve. what was, what is history? the see a moroccan team and eric team and african team goes so far in a world cup in the middle east could toward 2022 is something that all of these people will remember. my grad, they say there is so much pride. now, most people and some of the fans i spoke to say there's a before and after katara 2022. now the light has been shown on what an arab team can do, what an african team can do. the name of our shop dory bono, the goalkeeper are names that were unknown to most people. now they are celebrated as heroes throughout the world. and thus worth celebrating will. meanwhile, in argentina, fans are getting ready for the big final in rosaria. that's the home town of lino messy. there is hope and excitement that there prodigal son can finally guide the country to the 1st world cup since 1986. they would stokes reports 300 kilometers north of one. a sat is on the western bank of the parent river. you'll find resario, the farming city where little messy grew up and 1st kicked a bull. his image is everywhere, with murals, celebrating their favorite star, or kneel. so beverly out of the, he was a funny child, his life was soccer. more than anything playing with all the kids. he's what he's to day for all of us. we think he's a great, he's a star. but people like me still see him as the child who continues to play, who continues to share and be a team player. and that nice guy like a. the truth is that he deserves the best in love because he's a beautiful person, a bon leader, and he will make all of us happy. we are already champions nearby and the 10 of 17 know a huge and woven number 10 argentina shirt, hangs above the streets attribute to messy, and his teammates who play france in the final of cats are 202213000 kilometers away membrane. obviously as she now port again, it gives me goose bumps because behind the shirt there is work with us. there is heart yard. there is blood sunday's match will be messy. second well cup final having lost to germany in 2014. this year's opponents presents a formidable challenge from the defending champions and to become the 1st team to retain the title since brazil in 1962 plus bill. but all it's going to be a close game. i feel that both teams will be careful. i feel that they are going to attack because there is a style they both have. i think ads and tina will go with a line of 5 again with 3 down and 2 more open going down and forming the line of 5 . i feel that they will defend and not attack as much because we know what is at stake. the tooth teams will go one step further up the leather. it's a pivotal match and which have a wag goes, it will be the 3rd cap for whoever wins. at massey's form a club new was old boys. there's a confident mood ahead of the big game and i wanna see what we're going to win. that's how it is because these guys are up for it because of the way they treat each other. apart from doing it for gen, tina, they're going to do it for my c needs, and we'll end of setting old directors because that's how it is. it's craving this mural. and rosario reads from another galaxy and from my neighborhood victory on sunday would see messy. repeat, diego mar, done as achievement of 36 years ago, and take his popularity to even greater heights. david stokes al jazeera, one of the well cup comes to an end to 0 as a san binge of age spoke with me on the way me. the executive director of the supreme committee for delivery and legacy on her impressions of the tournament. so 12 years of preparations, a lot of controversy going into the tournament. it came and it rent, was it a success or failure? it's has been tremendous success for us. oh that not only for us as an organizer, as well as we can see from the fans, feed back, our world cup is really unique. the compact nature of it fans can actually attend more than a match a day. the compact nature between the stadium. it's me is even there is no internal flights, people can actually spend more time exploring the country. we have over 1000000 funds who actually came to this tournament and a lot of them, it's their 1st time to be here in the region. and for us, i think her, it helped a lot and changing the perception and the mind said that they have, especially when it comes to the middle east and the upper world, there is a lot of miss stereotype and miss a perception. so you can see me like this shift happen. it's been a world cup of 1st the 1st in the region, the 1st being hosted by him of some countries. what do you think were the highlights off this cup? and what were you able to bring to the world? i think this world cup had a lot of unpredicted, things happening on the field. the moment of saudi. where was the matcher on the group against argentina? you can actually see moral co. it's the 1st out a country, the 1st african country actually to reach to the semi final you can see me like there's a lot of work up obsess because he a lot of these funds going to the games where we can get the arabic. so and the other because withdraw on their head. so you can see how actually they have indulged themselves and became part of the experienced being here. and this is, i mean like how he can see like the impact or the influence of the, of our culture. and even like the hospitality, some of the stadium, this is actually close to some of the neighborhoods. like out to mom, a stadium. you can see a lot of people, locals outside the game with their coffee and some food and dates are, you know, a giving out to, to funds as they leave the game. there is a lot of actually people even called us to reach to the fans, to host them at their home and give them to hospitality. so i think, i mean, these are me like these moments like especially like the touch people's life. because again, when people would go away, this is, i mean like the memories that they would be taking with them making you new friends and bridging the gap, the cultural gap that people would be having. and i think this was actually one of the beautiful moments that i have seen. let's talk about some of the concerns. quite a few of them were legitimate about workers' rights, migrant issues, et cetera. what happens after the work up does the work that got there said is going to continue, stop at the world cup or if the division to prove things going forward. we always have been saying, i mean like this world cup was a, it has been as a catalyst to help and actually pushing a lot of our national vision. 2030. so for example, when it comes to the worker reforms, it's actually mission and division, which was launched in 2008 before even we bid and won the rights to host the world cup. and we can see me like the time spent the last 10 years. i mean there is a lot, a lot of even legislation and legal reforms that's happening on the country to the benefits of the workers and our journey. would it be stop after the world cup? it will continue. there is going to be a sport segment and then there's going to be the socio political legacy off destroy them. and where do you think that there stands and how will people remember this 1st? well, cup in the movies for us, i mean like hosting the world cup and the way how it's happened. i mean, history has been made here. and for us, i think this is what actually be kept in people's mind and memories. and you can see, even when it comes to the outside world, we had for our teams who actually participate in this world cup this tournament, helping uniting a lot of people together. everyone who's actually cheating, reagan sweat out of out up country would be making. everybody was actually go and get attending to have always said that this world cups, not only for a product to present the whole region, and it's for the benefit of the whole region. and we have took the spot responsibility in our shoulder to make sure element this legacy, whether it's like the softer legacy, the people, the sentiment, people coming together, especially after covered period where funds were not allowed to be or, and supporting a games. but also like the heart and we have the hard legacy of the stadium, but also like the workforce. we made sure, i mean, we know usually in this may get events. we will always relate international expertise that they would be coming and moving to the next event. but we have the program to suit initially with retrain a lot of the workforce locally here and also from the region just to sure. i mean, like this knowledge with retained within the region, whether it would people would be here to cut that or they would be going back to their home countries in the region. they can actually have this knowledge where they can help their countries and staging sporting events. what happens the day after, where does carter go after the work for us? i mean, other has always stablished herself to be a sporting cup. and this, i mean, like all started from, i mean hosting the asian games in 2006, we on a yearly basis do post more than 100 internet locker region international sporting events. and the world cup is the biggest events on earth. i mean and got out of that has hosted by me like that's not going to be the end. we're having, i mean, the agent up 2023. we're going to be having the formula one for the next 10 years. we're also going to be having the agent come in 232030 and i'm hoping one day we'll be hosting the olympics here as well. well, every world cup has been defined by certain images that people remember for years to come. canadian calling jackson is the fee for woke up artist here in cutoff, and she's been using her brush to record the tournaments highs and lows. nguyen has more from to ha mm. a picture is a bomb it frozen in time. and as these moments unfold at this years, world cup carlene jackson has been painting them on euros across the city. like this one on dill has cornish depicting one of the best goals by certain brazilian child carling is one of the most commission sport artists in the world. to start playing football, i was foreign canada and my dream was to play the world cup as is everyone footballers dream. and so when that dream was dashed away by injury, the ability to come here as an artist now is transformational like i don't have, i don't really have the worth is having the knowledge of being a former athlete. i'm able to understand the moments these athletes what painted the passion, the sense of immortality, the emotion on the field and, and to it. it's actually paint something. you have to experienced the emotion and then translated into paints on the campus. she works exclusively for professional athletes. having been one herself, she calls them portraits of immortality, capturing moments like this 1970 s shocked of pelley and bobby, more than that and several others were taken by john, barley of the daily mirror of london. his grandson james varley is working on the world cup and cutter, and has teamed up with carly to exhibit these images at the next world cup in 2026 . what we want to do in 2026 is showcase these photographs. the funds of the next woke up in canada, mexico in the united states, and we can show these iconic these retro, these incredible woke up images at all different cities across 2026 and hope to really like tell the story of football and get people excited about the next will go nowadays, click can capture single moments, but not all of cut out. 2022 is defining moments are captured on camera, some captured in public mural, and gets into world cup history and in a career of memorable moments will messy, provide one more thinking when al jazeera doha. ah, let's take you through the days of the news. now counting has begun intimacy as parliamentary election. the 1st under a controversial new constitution, turnouts been extremely low or just under 9 percent. the opposition, which boycotted the votes. as president chi site has lost his legitimacy. they want him to step down out. his ear was hush, my old bar reports. now i'm tunis, tennesseans appear to have a little appetite for parliamentary election. fewer than 10 percent shows up to vote. the lowest turnouts is democracy was established 11 years ago. some major setback for president ice i yet who had hoped for strong support in favor of reforms introduced in 2021. the new parliament will have less say, the government will be appointed by the president who has consolidated his own powers. in the last 2 years, as soon as polling stations opened, it was obvious. people had stayed away, gun were the long queues, waiting for their turn to vote. and emily enriched as i have hop, things will improve and that the new parliament will save our interests. are not the m p 's personal ambitions? this election was seen as another step in a roadmap. presidents i had introduced when his suspended parliament sacked the government and introduced major political changes more than a year ago. the national salvation front, a coalition of opposition parties. by quarter the election, despite the low turn out a defiant presidents, i had defended the election as a crucial step to build it, lasting democracy fell out before with to this is your historic moment. don't miss the opportunity vote so you can get back your legitimate rights for justice and freedom woman and my for an a waste of democracy in a region beset by instability and violence in india had been won by a coalition. lead by the conservative another party. but oftentimes, consensus didn't work, major reforms were delayed, progress, slowed, and people's past rations got worse. last year pace, i had stepped in expanding his powers and limiting the role of the countries independent judiciary. opponents accused him of carrying out a qu, they offspring begun here in tennessee, a galvanizing millions, across the region to call for political freedom and economic reforms. but while these later tis ellipse different is political landscape changed by president, a science who insists dissolving the parliament and changing the constitution were necesary measures to prevent a descent into civil war. but his opponent, se the country is sliding into a forest, had been rule, has mobile algebra, tunis, internationally acclaimed iranian actress, tottenham reduced, he has been arrested state media report. she's been accused of sweating, false information, the star of the oscar winning movie. the salesman had a call on the international community to intervene following the execution of a young protest. her and i do see had also posted a picture of herself on social media without a head scarf holding a sign, reading women life freedom. the slogan is a symbol of the protests, which were spock by the death of masa armine in police custody in september. peruse, acting, president, dean, i bought a lot is urging congress to bring forward general elections. it's one of the main demands of the supporters of the detained formerly that federal casteel. on friday, congress voted against boulevard his request for an election. next december, the asked president is facing charges of conspiracy and rebellion after he tried to dissolve congress last week. at least 20 people have been killed and unrest since then. john holmes was at a protest in the capitol lima. on sunday morning president dina blew up the old peru who's been in charge for about 10 days of the country was giving a speech off the recent protests about among other things, how they should be love in unity with them. peruvians at the same time that she was giving that speech the anti terrorist unit of the police will rating the offices. you can see behind me of the confederation of campuses. i got smooth sco foam as a political party level crew being critical of her and her government. they said that they were looking for weapons and anti terrorists propaganda. what leaders of that political party said, is it, this is an attempt to intimidate them, to stop them protesting, improve about what happened during the state of exception in which multiple people have been to. we can hear the people shout, you know, they say liberty, liberty. they turned out as well to protest against the fact that they still more than 20 people inside this building, the r apparently being held by security forces while we're here. this is a complicated situation in the country president dina blue update is saying that she's calling for fresh elections, which is what the majority of these people will want. and that she has made a clue for that. and the congress has voted down those fresh elections that they voted against, holding elections in the country as early as december, 2023. well, that's going on. there's a state of exception in the country. the army is what is the police are out in the straits and there it seems like this one, riot police that it just lined up here. they're actually flanking the crowd here and closing them in. and those things are sending an alarm bell in this country about growing militarization. well, marianna sanchez is in lima with moran dina. below his speech. miss the nation printed in the urge lawmakers reconsider their vote to bring forward elections to 2023. the president said, 83 percent of peruvians want new general elections and she said that they should not be blind to the people demand, seniority congress, richmond without political vendors or political interests to not be blind. look at the population and act accordingly to what the population is demanding. we have already complied. we have already presented the bill to bring forward the elections . lawmakers have said that they want to bring electrical work, but they do not want to reform all of the constitution in our close additional assembly, which is something that the protesters are demanding by what they said. it's not time for political revenge. what? well, nor to fit in her message, focus or do not gain anything from destroying infrastructure around the country. she said that she had only been a few days in office and hadn't had time to talk what she had her ministers to different parts of the country to begin building bridges with protesters. and now that she would be re shuffling her cabinet and then she said that she will not resign. the power had been restored and parts of ukraine falling a barrage of russian missile attacks of plunged millions of people into darkness. moscow says friday's high precision strikes hit military and energy facilities and were aimed at disrupting the delivery of foreign weapons. ukrainians have been struggling with rolling blackouts and water shortages, as temperatures plunged below 0. along the main thing to day is the energy sector. over the day we have managed shrink electricity back to almost 6000000 ukrainians. repair works are ongoing. now they continue without interruption. after yesterday's terrorist attack russian battle sar to his in ukraine's eastern city of dawn. yes. say 3 people have been wounded by ukrainian missile strikes. the shelling occurred in the bud, your nib school district in the so called donny exc people's republic. when a 4 areas annexed by moscow in september, i heard 2 shells landing one i heard was sure. the 2nd one was mike in a fog of our own house was destroyed. so he came here to live with our friends. and now this, you see. so africa as african national congress has selected 2 candidates and a race for their parties nominee for the next election. delegates chose current president, serial importer and former health minister is really mackenzie the party, has until tuesday to decide who will lead them into the 2024 election on the policy is seen as the favorite, but he's come under fire recently. aft and independent panel found, he may have violated his oath of office committee. mila has more from johannesburg . one of the key issues around that is the, the verification of at least $4500.00 delegates attending the elective conference at least perhaps 10 percent of those delegates who are due to vote. haven't been verified. we've heard from some of them who have complained about the verification process, which we've seen every elective conference, but for some reason there seems to be administrative issues this time around which the course has delayed proceedings. there are a number of policy documents, as well as various committees that have to get under way ahead of the vote. so because of all of this, it's uncertain when the vote will take place. but ultimately for this conference, it's the vote of not only the president of the agency, but also 5 of the top officials that is most important given that it will direct the future of the a and see ultimately, especially at a time when the party and the leadership are facing a number of challenges, including the allegations of the ford and corruption of the governance running of south africa, south africans experiencing rolling blackouts. the economy is also performing slightly better than it did during colbert 19th, but many would say there's a lot of room to improve and of course, high level of unemployed people. so these are some of the issues a conference like this would have to talk at some point aside from dealing with the voting top membership. opposition parties in liberia protesting accusing the government of corruption and wasteful spending. the cost of living and inflation is continuing to rise in the west african nations. it comes as president george, where's wrapping up a $48.00 day trip abroad? one member of parliament has filed a motion calling for investigation and his prolonged absence. or protest or not welcomed by everyone. as liberian struggle in the midst of political instability, ridiculous or tablet protest cannot solve the problem. it brings about chaos. it brings destruction. it brings about many things. i see no reason for a protest. if we have issues with the government, the right thing to do is to go to the ballot box and make the difference with that is what it does. the point is, is important because we are tired of suffering. we are looking in liberia right now across the country. we realize that more people are suffering, especially the young people. we are educated, but the m nor jones. long lines have been forming at crematorium in china's capital beijing after surgeon corona virus. cases, workers at funeral homes have been calling in sick after testing positive, leaving the facilities overwhelmed by demand. their affairs, the new wave infections could spread to rural areas during upcoming public holidays . all use of course, on our website there it is on the screen. the address onto sarah dot com. ah, a picture of the headlines here on al jazeera, raining football, woke up champions. france will take on little messy as argentina in what's expected to be a thrilling final at the la salle stadium here and cut out later on sunday. france is looking to become the 1st nation to successfully defend the title since.