a punishment for his success. new figures show the world's 2nd largest economy is altering with warnings that china could be in for a bumpy ride as it lifts curve 19 restrictions, political chaos, and peru, a state of emergency, and full effect for that's not stopping protest as across the nation. benting their anger and it's, and buffy is france versus missy's argentina in the welcome, final, the defending champion to bring an end to morocco with tens of thousands of nurses in the u. k. are on strike in their 1st ever national walk out. it's the latest trap to an abyss, a pay dispute with the government. nurses with the national health service, one to 19 percent pay rises. they face the cost of living crisis due to inflation. but the government says that can only afford 4 point. 3 percent british prime minister wishes to knock and opposition leader kissed armor. had this exchange in parliament on wednesday. last year, when everyone else in the public sector had a public sector pay fries, the nurses received a 3 percent pay right. mister speaker, nurse is going on. strike is a badge or shame for the way. instead of showing leadership, he's playing games with people's help. if he thinks it's right, that hey, demands of 19 percent all met than he should say. so what, what week mister speaker is, he's not strong enough to stand up to the unit yet. jane, how has went from oxford? the nurse is joining now, striking rail workers striking transport workers. the boarders boat board stop will be on strike, sued bus drivers across the public sector. but the nurses really, this is historic. it's the 1st time such a wave of strikes in the nursing profession has happened in the entire history of the national health service. a service that many say is close to collapse. 19 percent is what the nurses have been asking for. if you heard that around 4 percent is what been offered in terms of an independent hey review. not enough say the nurses they are simply struggling to continue in the profession under a crippling cost of living crisis. one of them is with me now amy prichard, george me, thanks amy for joining us here. 19 percent is a big number. do you realistically expect to get 90 percent? no, no, i don't. but i think if we don't ask, we don't get and we cannot continue like this. deborah, we are depleted as a, as a staff team, we are waiting lists are unmanageable and unsafe. the patient care that we deliver is below standard. and that's not because we don't want to deliver back to patient care. we don't have the resources, the time, the money, and the support to do that. okay. be pretty willing to that. thank you very, very much. lots of public support being tutored by cause parsing, the nurses admit that this is all going to have an impact, particularly on non urgent care. but they say the time has come to take a stand opposition parties into kia are rallying in support of the mayor of istanbul, half to a court sentenced him to jail. for insulting public officials. the trial focused on remarks that economic had made during the mayoral race. in 2019, if the appeals court upholds the verdict and prevent him from holding public office for the duration of the 2 year 7 month sentence, then alu, as seen as a potential challenger to president wretch of typo on and elections next year. cynical, c, l, u has more from that rally and assemble. thousands of people gathered in front of a stumble, metropolitan municipality to show support for sambal may re cremmit molo, and it is a protest against the court decision. the which wants the jail is stumbled mayor and impose a political bed. now what is next for a crown. mo, mo law is a matter of concern, and now away for court of appeals is open for him. and the next step is there. even the court of appeals up holds the verdict, the current verdict. then another way is open for him until the supreme court decides in, in the opposite way, until the final decision by the supreme court extra mo, mo lou has the legal right to stay as the mayor of his stumble and the political band on him will not be imposed by many people. he are here who are mostly the main opposition party members, and people who voted for him are saying that the yesterday's court decision against a criminal moley is totally unlawful. motorcycles, who is a professor of political science and international relations at a stumble, iden university. he says the mass imprisonment could affect the result of the general election. it's for sure that this particular event that will have some political consequences regarding the upcoming presidential and parliamentary elections. the opposition people are simply saying that the links between the government then the judiciary has been well established. so it would have been impossible for the judiciary to take such kind of a very important decision in a very important and why them are right now. but we also know that the government authority issue, how to cook night, the fact that this kind of an event will have some repercussions in the upcoming election. so my own opinion is that the government has not been directly involved in such kind of a case because the final outcome will be very much. it's not in the interests, it's for sure. because what happened in the past then credited out on was mayor of his stumble. he was put in prison just for the fact that he. busy planned for example, so this particular event had boosted his credentials to become. busy busy president prime minister and president of the country. so at the same time, how do you all might even might, it was in the context of a mayor of stumble, a criminal. so it would have been quite impossible to think that the government took a very important action in pushing the court members to take such kind of decision . but we all know that it is inevitable that this particular event will have some credit card consequences on china is racing for serge in kevin 1900 infections after the government, less scaled back and strict measures public fairs amounting now of a large outbreak. and that's undermining hopes of an economic recovery, which is kimber of what's now from hong kong. there are a few signs of life at many shopping districts in the chinese capital fears of a looming covey 19 outbreak. keeping many people off the streets. mister chin barely sees any customers at his tea shop these days, but he is holding out hope that business will bounce back. you don't consider the damage will eventually go away. it will take some time, but i believe things will recover, step by step and my business will gradually improve. the latest official economic data is less optimistic. for the 2nd consecutive month, retail sales spent almost 6 percent on last year. investment and industrial growth . both slowed in november and unemployment rose to the highest since may policymakers launching huge stimulus measures and pumping billions of dollars into the banking system. but analysts say it may take more than just money to spark and economic rebound. so there's a lot of fear in the country right now, so consumers, frankly, just are not willing to go outside to restaurants. a lot of parents are refusing to send their children to school because they're scared of the families catching cove it. so i think the economy is a very weak state, much weaker than most analysts realize. the sudden relaxation of long standing pandemic restrictions has seen some shoppers stockpiling at supermarkets and pharmacies. i know that i am very worried. the problem is i can't buy any medicine . now, what should i do if i get a fever? it's too risky to go out. don't like the government is trying to reassure the public that everything is under control. it's boosting vaccine production, rolling out more booster shots for the elderly, and ordering hospitals to increase capacity as intensive care units. but international health experts say china's lack of exposure to the virus over the past 3 years. and it's low vaccination rate among seniors means there's a risk that around a 1000000 people could die, that the country rapidly transitions out of its 0 covey policy, which had kimber al jazeera hong kong. while it's the final day of the u. s. africa summit in washington, d. c. leaders have been gathering for what's the biggest international meeting there since before the start of the curve. 19 pandemic. by the end of the day president joe biden is expected to announce more than $55000000000.00 to the constants. the next 3 years, it comes after growing concerned about china and russia's influence in africa, or let's speak to, she had bra tansy joins us now from the summit. she, i'm, how's the charm offensive going over there? it's quite bracing, actually this really isn't like some new nato somewhere. wherever, on your socks up to the us you can really feel that the sense of skepticism around in the science from different african african leaders. that sense that, you know, as skepticism about us always has a american exception list. we are the indispensable nation narrative. and clearly they helped indispensable nation on the african content continent. completely dwarf by all the countries, notably, notably, china, this is about, well, what are you offering? you mean this, that you actually want to be having mutual success, mutual partnerships, or is it just about, as it always has been in the past, you know, trade barriers coming down the america flooding africa markets with its own goods, agribusiness, destroying native industries. and then we have a possible post, the possible live possibility of being invaded or will have no government overthrown. you know, that doesn't happen with other countries. so there is, there is this narrative that it's up to the us to prove it has really changed its tune about. so when we out on the outside, you know what's happening behind the scenes and in the bilateral meetings and what, what else is going on, joe? biden, in order to show that this is really an important event for him, he's having a 2nd to have engagement with the summit. we saw on wednesday, he made a key to drive the advice of the african leaders to the white house for dinner. today we will be taking part in 2 different forms. one on the agenda, 2063. that's the african unions development model going for development plan from next 50 years with specific as seminars on good governance, growth piece and so on. and on a food security seminar in the afternoon, good governance, that'll be an interesting one to see what bite and says, will he be giving lectures? i mean, it's notable that the only african leader who got a huge red carpet treatment yesterday was the egyptian presidency. is that good governance is the model that's the big the us is promoting. i mean it's always difficult to see. so yeah, we're going to, we're going to look at this with interest to see what bite and actually says, indeed she returns that summit forth in washington, d. c. thanks so much. she had, well, it's not bring in america, uncle. she's the practice head of africa at the razor group, and she also joins us from washington, dc. and i want to start with the timing of this meeting. i recall back in march when the war and ukraine began and the west for the very vocal us proposed un resolution condemning russia, 17 african countries, it abstained, eritrea voted against. with that all a bit of a wake up call that predicated this whole influence campaign. perhaps perhaps there's clearly a sense that the us feels that its influence has been wayne and on the continent, and especially in light of its geopolitical tensions with china. and the ongoing war went russia, it feels like it needs to show up those friendships and relationships on the continental help. it's achieved. it's foreign policy goes. well, let's then talk concrete outcomes when it comes to that whole charm offensive that she was talking about. there's been plenty of speculation about what the u. s. might want out of the continent as you alluded to that. but what do you think african leaders want from the u. s. as a plethora of other actors offering to sell alms, build roads? does the prospective us support on things like climates and technology beat those things? i was this. most african policymakers and african citizens want us to focus more on helping to support economic transformation. u. s. foreign policy in africa often tends to focus on projects in us values, democracy, human rights. and those are all things that africans care about, right? we don't want, we, most africans really value to political liberties. that's not gonna change. but the biggest obstacle to competitive mature democracy is actually poor economic outcomes. and africans want the us to pivot and want to focus on that rather than just project project values. because ultimately that's what's going to help us achieve those values in the region. it sounds like it's a bit of a question of a diverse as investment. i want to ask you that about the turn of the discussion. because china is rhetoric towards african notion, is often all about mutual benefit. have you noticed a change in washington's tone? there's definitely been a change compared to when trump for president trump made the relationship very clearly about china and about country. china biden has made it more about nice rhetorically about a partnership. the tone is different. the problem isn't what they're saying. they're saying all the right things, the problem is they're not doing anything differently. they're still focusing more on, on, you know, open societies on values rather than on increasing investments and sort of a more concrete approach to encourage and businesses to invest in the region. so i think it's really like, like you said china tab doesn't do value promotion and so it's been more transactional, had coal infrastructure investments and things that are concrete. and while we want the u. s, we people bike, the focus on, on human rights and those kinds of things. that's important. but we also want vol, concrete investments to backup that rhetoric while in terms of concrete things, the u. s. has also said it will support africa joining the g 20 and, and also for a permanency that the un security council, by my understanding would take a lot more agreement and a lot more political capital for that to actually happen. does africa view that as a realistic gesture or more lip service? i think that's a good gesture. that's an important gesture. it's it's, it's a good gesture, but it's still that's being on the g 20. that's all fine. right? and, but it's, we still people still one to see. got the us actually think believes that in africa, economic transformation is in its interest. right. i do believe that american authorities see that i just think that doing themselves that the service by catherine to relationship small as if they're competing with for influence with china. right. because that's, they don't really need to do that. they just need to focus on convincing african policymakers that africa was economic transformation and becoming development is in us interest. and indeed, we're hearing more and more lines like that, coming out of us, diplomats, among who and who they are from the origin group speaking to us from washington dc . great to get your thoughts. thanks so much for joining us, america. thank you. ah, well, france have booked to their place and the welcome final against argentina. the defending champions beat morocco to nail the result and a dream run for morocco who became the fest african and arab team to make that final for the french team stunned. the atlas lines with an alley go, and despite several attempts rural, who couldn't find the back of the net. and then with just 11 minutes to the final whistle from school, a 2nd goal, they'll pay croatia now in the fed. a fail holamen or let's bring in alexia. brian, she's down on dough, has waterfront area, the cornish for us, and alexi. what's that next to you? well an associate, as you say, i'm down here on the coronation where hundreds of people are waiting in line behind me. some of them up to an hour to see this. this is the fee for will cut, but when is trophy now that is the trophy that will be taken home by whoever wins that big final on sunday night, argentina, or france who will it be? now this one is trophy, though, is different to the original of faith, a trophy that one has been in use since 974 and has been won by 8 european teams and 4 south american teams. that remains to be same. which side it will be going to on sunday night, and that one is 6 kilograms and made of pure gold. there are actually some interesting rooms around who can touch these trophies. you can see probably the guys behind me when they come in and take a selfie with it. they are not actually allowed to touch the trophy itself. and that's because it can only be touched by previous champions, by the faith of president or hate of state. all the new winners of the fif a world kept on sunday. and if we talk a little bit about that match, it is between argentina and france, both of whom awaiting and hoping for the 3rd world cup of vic, 3 argentina. it's been a hot minutes since they last held a trophy. they had it in 1986 led by diego mera donna the man with whom he is often compared. lena may say, hoping that he will be able to lead his team to victory and that they'll wait, taking this trophy home with them. france low. they won last time around on 2018, another global superstar on their team and a buffet. he's hoping that they'll be taken home. that trophy may actually join out by a fan who's why didn't line to say the trophy. come on and mabel mabel, who do you hope will win that game on sundance? i've written for rab wire. why do you want france to it? am, i'm originally from the u. k and m e. and the you can used to be part of the e u. and since prices that you know, i have to, as well, my place. why was it important for you to come down here and say the trophy that was the climax of everything for me, you know, the wall is an experience of a lifetime on for me, i've seen a lot of the matches coming to see the trophy was something that was very important to me because i have a lot of stories to tell them my grandkids, you know? so it was very important that i came my family and it's been an amazing experience . i was happy to wait for as long as i could do, wasn't so long just 40 minutes. it's about to beautiful yanna subway for, for this opportunity. it's a blessing from god. busy how has he woke up experiences with your family? what matches did you get to? okay, i watched the fransen australia. we my husband, my kids watch the. i think it was semicolon, netherlands, we my husband, my husband got to watch the same. if i an outside is amazing, so we're going, what's the plan as a whole? we don't have tickets of ash. they're quite expensive. so that's a gash ball. overall. it's been beats a full life for the festival of live. be fun. festive out. we've been having an amazing time touring the seats. we just mr. costa and i don't think i'm going to lease contract again. you came by this much mobile. i think it'll be a lot of excitement here for, for this charge me and for the competition still haven't heard more in the queue. i think i'm coming down here to see the chart feet while it is on show on good job. skipping the queue there, lexia brian for us under how's cornish, thanks so much. lexie. a football fan, meanwhile from the u. s. says that he has received incredible treatment for free after a serious accident while visiting cathy for the wildcat. david canal was in intensive care for several days before being rushed back, nursed back to health, i'm sorry, the hospital under her victoria gate and be reports you've been in business since. 9 days after arriving in doha from maryland in the us football fan, david canal was in a quote by accident. he fractured 12 ribs and damaged his lungs. for after he was discharged from hospital kentoria authorities moved him and his family to this 5 bedroom villa at a recovery center opened, especially for the world cup. we have food breakfast, watching dinner, transportation, where we want to. we have service who helps us out here in the house with everything we need and anything we need, we just ask for and they're happy to to provide anything for us. so since we arrived here, we haven't had to spend anything the family have been given a bicycle and an i pad for 9 year old ica as well as cable television to watch the matches. a doctor and a nurse visit david every day to dress his wounds and prescribe pain medication. this recovery center where david irina and i can have been staying for the past 12 days as a total of 19 villas, a swimming pool and the gym. families can stay here for free, for as long as they need to recover. the family said they chose to speak out because they're grateful for the assistance they've received. and we feel a little bit of a celebrity ascii perth. i mean, you don't see this kind of help on the years in, i mean, we're really glad that she was able to be in contact with, with the ministry and everything that they do for us right now as being more than enough. the family say they plan to stay a doha until the end of the tournament to enjoy the last few days of what the world cup has to offer. victoria gay to be al jazeera, doha ah, we're moving on now and the pan american highway and through remains blocked as protestors and eager continued to demand the release of the former president. there have been demonstrations across the country, at least 8 people have now been killed and the violence. some protesters want, the new president denied palatez to resign and for new elections to be held. a state of emergency has been declared. well let speak to john holman. he joins us now from ega in southern peru. john, can you tell us a little bit about where you are right now? yes, sure. we're on the outskirts of eco, which is a city in the south of, for that said bast, in, in general, the south of the ex president. now pedro castillo, and till a few moments ago, actually there was a blockade here. you can probably see like some of the people that are still meeting that were part of that blockade as a protest. and you can also see on the ground some of the wires and things like that that lead strewn across the road to make it impossible for, for laurie's in cars to get past. there's a huge line of cars that he can't see going back over the horizon and good laurie's that were lined up to try and get past this point. he said, this is one of the, the most ways i'm of the most traveled emperor. but what they've decided over the last couple of moments is that they're going to stop this blockade. i was just chatting to some of them and they said, listen, we'd been here for 5 days now. we will go to work. we've got to get some money in. we've got children to christmas. he's just coming up. so that's enough. i just, austin. one of them actually have you achieved anything with this? he said will. the situation remains in crisis. actually the supreme court's right meeting right now to decide whether to put pivotal castillo in prison for 18 months while he awaits trial. so it seems a moment in which nothing decisive has been done here, but they couldn't hold out any longer. the other thing that's happening is that proves just declared a state of emergency, which means that the police and also the military can start moving own gatherings like this that haven't been previously requested. an authorized not think that was a big worry for them as well. that beyond me could be coming. we haven't seen that yet, but could be coming on. what were they going to do then? the woman was say, we can't fight against the army. of course john holman, there on the ground for us. m e k, into it, with all the nations. thank you so much, john. oh, stella had here on al jazeera where lived child castle 2022. well kept studio with rabbit for the count down as on to sunday, the epic. finally, between france and argentina. ah hello, the weather remains pretty hot across northern parts of argentina, southern parts. so brazil, but we will see a slightly less hot weather as we go on through the next couple days. little area cloud here, some showers pushing up towards want to service 30 celsius on thursday. so we're still a couple of degrees above the seasonal average is the shower slide, though by further north which will introduce a slightly cooler suddenly wind is coming in quite a series at around $27.00 celsius, with some sunshine coming through dry weather to into rio line of bird lie, v showers there into central and western parts or brazil, east. there's a precinct went whether not too bad as we push up into northern parts there for columbia into venezuela dry than it has been recently. somewhat dry, too, into the east, not as of the caribbean, one or 2 showers, just creeping towards the wind woods for a time. but i think the wet weather will be able to wars, nicaragua, costa rica cassie, some showers here for a time more so as we go on into friday, as you can see, for the island, 10 retry, and 5, we have got this line of cloud that will slide its way across the gulf of mexico and its the remnants of this system which brought those lively powerful storms across the deep south of the us there clearing through on thursday, snow of the northern flank. but dry to the south. ah, ah, ah, a full across southeast asia, a growing number of women are recruiting funding and even killing for violet groups . one, a one east investigates the rise of these female bottoms on al jazeera. there was a time to be direct. there is a growing realization that rights can be taken away in this country to cut through the rhetoric. how can we resist this narrative and how dangerous and demand the truth? join me mark him on hill for up front when i was 0. lou . with welcome to woke up today. all right, ronald pop back. i where laurie that off studio on our hot water front in the house nation catalog. it's a rest day for the teens left in the thought of it. but the count doubt is on to the biggest match in well football. hm. bye bye. and really need to be with destiny grow. have history in that site, thought the seeing a moral code in the study fido. it sets up a mouth watering class with argentina in that fido club theme writes killing him back by a little messy, going head to head for the tri state on the policy continues in dough catch up with some freestyle footballers who have been showering off that st. scale, the majority me in the studio is a football and this one around the high that one will get his thoughts there in just a moment. time it says, let's have a look at the action from a night of french delight and morocco and heartbreak in the 75 of a historic one of the 1st african seem to reach the last for coming to an end. and france, keep it there. are there hopes of defending that title? morocco came into this match without conceding a goal from an opponent in the whole toilet. rocks quickly made a breakthrough with pale hernandez. putting them ahead just 5 minutes in that the earliest well cups the final doll. since 1958 who i've seen, he then had a chance to level things up for the rock. there you go. luis was up to the task. rocker came close again just before he saw that in spectacular fashion. you are url, make daisha the bicycle cake, hitting the post in a 2nd off and just coming and just off the coming on as a substitute random call of what he put from to up with his international goals. couldn't batteries run the creating the chance to make the guy said that the way he said or get results to the company 1st, they said to retain the world title to brazil in 1962 in the masses shall take on. i'm always so proud of me. a cheaper result like this, it was the last step we had to take to reach somebody. finally, it wasn't easy, but with the right mix of quality inn experience with our team spirit, we were able to dig deep when things got tough. and as a coach that gives me so much satisfaction and pride in the group of players we have out there. if it's not ready, thinking about myself, but about the players are, if or slightly good, you know, seriously compet, we need to stop being regulars, that this competition so that we can put morocco on the world. footballing maps at the same level as brazil, france, or england. we need to come back every time and not have to wait every 20 years. we need to be regulars, and then in the future will be normal for team like morocco to reach the semi finals here. this is a big step forward hoops, i think psychologically this run for morocco will free a lot of african teams in free the minds of lots of young african sky and let them know they are capable of taking on brazil. got france and england. we too are capable of progressing in the world of football, and kudos that we can't rest on our laurels on the still work to do yet. this is just one competition that we need to start being regulars, to show that this was no accident. vickers, i kevin lets her bring in a one a rug. uh huh. um we're hearing from the morocco couch that what do you think the future is full? this group of morocco players and their coach actually is, is well cut, run just the start of the journey. now actually it's a continuation of it. if, if we look at what you think the moroccan football association has been able to do in terms of the investment in terms of, of what they've looked to do in terms of not just men's football but also women's football. it's at an f, a level at an administrative. it's been the example in africa, maybe in some parts of the world as well. up as far as the team itself. well, you could argue he'll end up staying on his coach most definitely because they need a process. they need a continuation of that said process leading up to the african combinations. and also leading up to that to $26.00 woke up qualifiers, or maybe even another qualification to the worker. so as far as the players for that for some might be the end of the road for players of act of a key me i can, who's, who's one of the youngsters that that was brought in. he hasn't had any minutes, but yet is being highly taught. are sought after by, by the moroccan training staff. and also a, a daisy who's it was been also player that was coming out of barcelona. you system that decided to, instead of playing for spain, he wanted to play for, for morocco. he too also ends up being one of the cornerstones, going towards the future for this moroccan side. i will get to talk about that those places in just to work with us. what ask you that? does morocco success make the case for more african spots at future? well cups? yes and no. yes, because it does show you where they have been, but we need to see it more consistently. i was talking to some colleagues from the concord caffrey general. well, but we had, we were able to beat them head to head in the world. cup of 3393 matches turn. yeah . but australia also went through you see the competitive nature that saudi arabia can also offer if they're more consistent, if they're not just thinking about beating argentina, korea also other was able to come through. japan was very close to advancing in their, in their respective who see see the competitive aspect of asian football that can also help out with africa. you seen the same thing as well. donna, was very close to coming through. obviously what barrack has been able to so all of these factors come in on top of the tea that did not qualify the egypt, ask you that the i rico's other than nigeria, et cetera. yeah. those teams, it does give you the keys for yes, they should have more. they should have more spots. well, let, let's look at that, that morocco squad are in. can you see more of that score? joining the likes of a of hockey, me and zack and playing for high profile champions league sites. yes, yes, yes. ah, oh you could, you could see may be, oh, well they're talking about i'm rabbits may be going to liverpool now that the player from fiorentino, he's the primary example, the one that really has been able to shine a couple of defenders. they've already been talking about in terms of being already in the radar of certain bigger teams in european football. but why not? i mean they, they've shown what they've been able to now the sin would end up being would be signing them just based on what they did on the work up alone. you have to see what their trajectory has been with the club as well. i can, let's say, let's say move things along to the final itself. i'm a sales and tater. going to that font i would say is t d t d tardy favorites based on the respect to the semi final performances. what will be the key things to get right ahead of the game for both sides? what would they be looking to do? let's start with france. yeah. good. he had a go the former ra, madrid. midfielder came out with it with a quote earlier and said that's so far. he hasn't seen france play a 100 percent. now what they have to do that they have against argentina. they're going to have to up the intensity. and if they do, how will they play me? so that's the big question. now. if they don't, if they think they can regulate that, that's one thing that we've seen with france in this tournament. when they do regulate, when they do bring it down a notch or 2, it's very difficult for them to advance get the pragmatism, as we've mentioned before, ends up being so prevalent with them a and to increase one, in my opinion, has been the best player in in this world for them, the most underrated has been i didn't have you. so you, again, that's been the key. how does that sector the pitch and the operating maneuvering the bar? i'm playing it out towards i am, but being company, but you did say that 4 years ago they were doing the same thing. they were being fragmatic doing what they needed. so what are the well cut? so i guess if it's a, if it ain't broke, don't fix it. but in this particular case, they faced the team in england and england started to show them, hey, you know, you do have some frailties here. you go back to the nations they, they did something similar. karesha said, hey, by you, you have some frailties here and there when you, when you have that downturn and intensity, can argentina come in 90 minutes and absolutely sup to pressure them? probably they could. and also with the fact that you have a messy that, that is very plugged in to what's going on. i will. yeah. now that is, is playing out of his mind and a road legal to paul being that anchor in the middle. and maybe you have on kathy mighty, a starting was under percent. that could be a factor and role another factor bay the are the alleged argentina, 12 man, because let's be honest though rocca have gone. they are the biggest group of ours . certainly the loudest group of found so left in his thought of it. well, we're seeing the same thing about morocco and how intense or fans were. but as soon as france jumped on top, it was very silent. now will it take only that to bring down argentina? i doubt it. i think there's gonna be a lot more therefore, one of the reasons why i believe it's going to be at least 2 or 3 goals being scored in this match. i can well, thanks so much mo, from you light in the walk up in. cathy has brought together some of their to go the planets talk 2 superstars playing in teams that will go down in sporting history. the world a freestyle football association has brought together a different team to cat are 8 free starters of all nationalities, backgrounds, and physical abilities who have been performing on match days from new fil year. union has been thought the best footballers are intuitive. instinctive showing off skills honed on the streets and in school yard with that's football, but it's also freestyle and pena doll technique played by one on one football. jacked down is a 2 time world champion, but he says his journey wasn't always easy. year and a half ago i had a collision, enough match, which actually, i mean, ruptured, blew up my liver. so i was in the hospital for 30 days. i was in to coma is allowed to walk again, talk again. then came back and one of which i'm to just when i started everything was an old school because there was no career in panama. it wasn't something you could aim towards. i feel like i called it alongside others who have called at the same time only a world champion could be able to put this past name r. a with pos number hardy is the 1st female freestyle or in her need of iran. she is the 4 time free style champion, and she has now inspired a new generation of women. a i have lots of thinking about increased by their biggest one for me is now going to i that is the bill into law and before mass mail for emily, mail football, player and news from shows. and i think different thing in iraq, i think alike is so much the world pop has been a performance of what ball added. fine it, the world's most coveted players and modern state of the art stadium free style football. bring that back to with basic because all you need, if you and the boss and why they even got that far. i think i'll just leave that to the professional. the glad jacket, hutner performed all around the world. there is no bigger stage for football fan in the world cut thinking read al jazeera. so now the excitement of the good stages hearing cancer has that the questions about where the fee for should rethink its plans to expand the next well come in 2026 from 32 to 48 teams. earlier we were joined in the studio by former player did he had told me, and he thinks there was a risk of hardly the competition by making the finals too big. it's always a dilemma when you have that, you know, 48 team. it's great because you are, you going to have small teams is going to cheer for the walcott. it will improve dinner there, the, the development of the country and make a country happy for months. but at same times in a 48 it's, it's, it's, it's a lot, i think. so for me it will be $32.00. why? because in group games you will have a lot of difference. even though the margin, you know, as a, as decrease a lot between the, the level of teams and more into 32 teams. and it would be perfect and it was perfect for me. 48. it's so light, it's solid in term of, of, of, of level is a lot of in term of ecology, of as well. you know, you have to bring all that team or, but at the same time to small people cheering, hope people, you know, know, you know, supporting their country. so, but if you ask, be no, i'm more into saudi to change you less thing upon on this on, on the see the council will decide next year on the format for 2026. i mean, what do you think about having more teams? something that you are approving then, like i said before, yes and no. because it depends on on which, which regions are going to be getting more. ah, i'll be completely honest with you in south america, south american teams getting more. does it mean that it's going to be better in south america, basically kills off the work of qualifiers in that region who have throughout past few cycles have been amongst the hardest. if not, the hardest reason to get out of it takes away that attraction in that interest in it. at the same time, you start bringing in teams from other regions that you start saying, wait, wait a 2nd, why is this team even it being talked about? if you're going to have 48 teams, well distributed, so the best teams are in the world. yeah. you can have more african teams. that's fine if you have less team from south america, so be it. but as long as the best teams around that ends up being a good argument. now, when it comes to how fee for looks at it, it's about having wider representation, making it a more worldly game. instead of making it a better competition for, in terms of left, right from the qualify you, me to the fido itself. if say 32 teams out to 48 progress from the group stage or in what support the group sash. what's the point of the group stage in some cases, what's even the point, the qualifiers going back to it? second of all, if you're going to have more games in a world cup, does that mean there's going to be more time to prepare? does that also mean that there's going to be less gained at the club level? does that mean that there will be less matches to qualify in? so the white them are the more i hear about players need rest, the more matches are being played. we already got confirmation that there's going to be a club, rural cup as well. so it ends up being kind of a talking on both sides of the mouth are club. thank you very much for that. lot small to be talking about that. i'm sure this is what we are building up to the climax of cut out 2020 to the welcome final between argentina and france, which will take place at the so our clinic stadium on sunday. we'll have more from here in our next well cup of special at $1830.00 gmc, but for now, it's back in sazia in the studio. thanks natural. well, stella had here on out there. iran is outstanding from the un, great task with empowering women locally wine. in australia is parliament appraise a gas priced cap and energy subsidies as holds and small businesses. ah ah ah ah ah ah, i'll come back. now the irish army says, one of its soldiers with the un peacekeeping mission and lebanon, has been killed, and another seriously injured. the convoy, reportedly came under small arms fire, near sarah fund in the south, while traveling to bay route. the un mission says it's launched a joint investigation with the lebanese army. the on group has. willa says locals were involved in a quote, unintentional incident and says it was not involved. my thoughts are with the family to this because this is the worst possible news for them. at this time of the year or peacekeepers, i think distinguish ireland overseas. i think that bring great great dignity to the country. and it is very, very sad that we have this morning that in a very serious instant, one of our peacekeepers has been killed. while our correspond dana hotter is at the site where the incident took place. this is not considered to be their normal. the main highway is adjacent to this road from forest palace that they got lost. there was a lot of crowd, there was a crowd in the street that was just after the world cup match. now what happened after that conflicting narratives? a few talk to people here some, some will say that the un peacekeepers were trying to leave the area. they hit somebody other say that people from this area, they open fire out the vehicles resulting in one of the vehicles overturning. we are thing videos online on social media. you can actually hear the small arms fire and you can also see a vehicle over turns. now, whether you talk to politicians, officials, and even the irish defense ministry, they're all calling. no one has called this an attack or a deliberate attack. but at the same time, this will not be the 1st time you, you know, fil, a unified convoy. it gets involved in some sort of an incident with the local population in southern lebanon. in recent months, we've seen a minor incident, permission between the people and the u. n. for now, hundreds of mourners have attended the funeral of aroma, teen who is shot by great police cost us frog willis died on tuesday after 8 days and intensive care, the shooting and his subsequent death sparked violent protests. john travellers reports not from bethel. oh nicky, the body of 16 year olds cost us from gullies is finally being laid to rest after a $3.00 day morning period where it was kept at his parents house. he was surrounded by his wife, his sisters, his father, uncle, and grandparents, and many other relatives where he was mourned, dressed in formal clothes, with a baseball cap on his head and a bed of flowers at his feet. causes from gullies died on tuesday morning. authorities say, with a bullet lodged in the back of his brain, put there by police who pursued him after he left a petrol station in the small hours of december 5th. without paying for 20 years worth of fuel that he had put in his pickup truck. police say they acted in self defense after courses from gullies attempted to ram their motorcycles. but the roemer community here seriously doubts that version of events given that the bullet was fired into the back of his head. and given that there is no supporting evidence for the police version from a community here, expect to see justice done. they want to see the officers put on trial. they want to see a full judicial investigation and if necessary, they want to see the officers responsible go to jail. a ne, a separatist. how can yet skin eastern ukraine says the city has suffered its heaviest shelling in years? the pray russia administration says 40 rockets launched by ukrainian force as a hipaa city overnight. meanwhile, the mayor of khaki, the says russia has launched more strikes on energy facilities there as well. the attacks that have left millions in ukraine without regular access to a pallet wash or heat while they face sub 0 temperatures. now the international criminal court has upheld the conviction of a former canon. rebel commanded dominic on when had appealed against his 25 year prison sentence for war crimes. last year, judges at the hague, found him guilty of $61.00 offences, including rape, murder, and sexual enslavement. over a 100000 people were killed by his rebel group, the el rey, in northern uganda, in the early 2000. well, there's been more fighting between afghan and pakistani forces at the time and spin balls at border crossing pakistan says one person died and more than a dozen, others were injured. the 2 sides of 5 ask each other multiple times over the past month. last sunday, a pakistani civilians and one african taliban member were killed. i've kind of stone and pakistan of had territorial disputes that board at the desk decades when iran has been removed from the un commission on the status of women after a vote led by the united states to iran, has been criticized for suppressing the wave of protest that began with the death of many in police custody in september. and for me to go to the james bay's report, it was the u. s. ambassador to the united nations linda thomas greenfield, who decided to draw up a resolution to expel iran from the u. n's main body, which deals with the rights of women. she argues the de ron's actions since the protest began following the death of massa mimi in september, disqualify it from membership of the commission on the status of women. but before the vote, iran's ambassador argued, the move had no precedent and was entirely the result of hostility towards iran by the u. s. and its allies, one member at willing member natalia's for disobeying the un charter international law, intend to pursue. it's unlawful request would remove an elected member from the commission on the, on the base of on funded condemns and fabricated arguments. the council now proceed to vote on the vote conducted using an electronic system, expelled iran. but out of the $54.00 countries entitled to vote 8 countries voted against and 16 abstained. despite this ambassador thomas greenfield told me a clear message was being sent to luck. a yes felt is a yes bolt. but as i've said before, and i'll say it here, this was the right thing to do. and this was the time to do it. and i think we sent a strong message to the iranian government and we send a strong message to iranian women. the voters are further rebuke towards iran of the un following last month's decision by the human rights council to launch a fact finding investigation. but the u. s. is making it clear, it would like to see even more pressure in the coming months. james bay's al jazeera of the united nations. the head of the international nuclear watchdog is in south korea. the talks in the 1st visit there by an 18th and 5 years of kansas. north korea has ramped up, its nestle testing units can, has more often fall top of mind at the meeting between the i. e. a chief and sal chris foreign minister parks in is north korea and is nuclear weapons program. this is the secretary general rafael, rossi's 1st visit. of souls is coming to the post in late 2019. and while we don't know the details of their meeting, we do know that grossey is very concerned with the prospect of north korea returning to nuclear testing. what he called an eventuality, which of course has been echoed by officials here in south korea as well as the united states. now ahead of his visit, rashi did help local media here that there has been several indications activity at the made nuclear testing site couldn't get a specifically at 2 new tunnels tunnel free and tunnel for all 6 previous nuclear tasks were conducted at tunnels one or 2 rossi also met with president use on your earlier today who requested for an impartial review of japan's readiness to release . treated was still tritium, lays a water from. it's heavily damaged. we're pushing my diet, she nuclear plant, which according to local report say could happen. could begin as early as next spring. well astray. leah is putting a price cap on gas and coal as it tries to cub storing prices. parliament has approved a plan to set a price limit on energy supplies. it also says it will help households and businesses transition from gas to electricity inflation and the war and ukraine have pushed up australia's power prices. sarah clark has worn out from britain. it's been described as an extraordinary market intervention. that's what the opposition being the coalition party, the government, they didn't lock the site that they're an intended consequences by interrupting and disrupting the market for energy. they tried to amend the rule. they tried to split it in the senate and we saw 3 and a half hours of buy in the senate, but i grew, they didn't get to the city because the government had the majority because it signed up with the, the grains and some of those cost mentioned so in the, in the past $29.00 at $24.00 in the last hour the treasury costing suggest that this bill in the early days my transitional trans liked to aside you about $160.00 . the average annual family electricity bills are not much, but certainly a stock, but what was also part of not just the kept on the energy price rises, but it was also the package of $1000000000.00 package which was given in return for the support from the not mine, a party package to what they call it, electrify, how some of these houses around stripe, particularly targeting the low middle income families as well as more businesses. and this is simply converting from gas a to renewable energy. and this is of the maximizing energy efficiency addressing at the level of emissions outputs. the strategy has, of course, drifting climate change as a result. and hospitals will be given concessional re bites and loans to help them pay to electrify behind the house. also, i should say also that the energy process is not long term, it's temporary only, but it will be in place now for 12 months. now the main opposition candidate in fiji is during the election says he will contest the outcome after a reported technical glitch cause the results apt to go offline. former prime minister through to enter a booker says that provisional results showed his party in the lead before the app then went down for several hours. when the results came back online, current prime minister, frank by nima rama's party, was in the lead and also projected to win both men, our former crew leaders. and this election is being seen as a test of the country's democracy. while the eldest child of the king of thailand has been taken to hospital with a heart issue, 44 year old princess budget, the of her lost consciousness during an event and ne and thailand. on wednesday the royal palace says her condition has stabilized and she was transferred to bangkok by helicopter. the princess is eligible to succeed. her father king maha budget, budge era, long cotton. but he has yet to name a successor of land space walk by russian cosmonaut to board. the international space station has been cancelled after a coolant league. the fluid spewed from the sawyer spacecraft, doctors to the i assess, nasa said that none of the crew were in any danger. it's working with the russian space agency ross come us to investigate the fault. the us and russia have continued to cooperate in space despite the war in ukraine. well, that's it for me for this news out, don't go away. i'll be back in a minute with a they all ready for the 1300000 a beginning that equity noise going to keep moving forward a make or break moment percent happy here. i can tell you that the funds with make sure they got it to that they would not happen. do believe what argentinians are feeling here in central when excited and here in the center of so you could all meant to be given. but thinking that sat through with an opportunity for found to be creative and celebrate their team, la ah, in depth analysis of the days headlines from around the world, whatever the deed was supposed to been, they have to sign because they didn't, they wouldn't get in front assessments, do you think diplomacy still spends a chance? i'm not very up to about any kind of negotiation informed opinions. everybody tweets. everybody's on tick, tock, tick, tock doesn't vote for a winter. it's going to have a whole there pretty soon. inside story of al jazeera. ah, how do i get away with unprecedented strike hatch and across the u. k. up to 100000 message woke up the job to find the best pay and what information ah hello 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