Clear of uruguay at the top of the table. Argentinas victory over chile takes them up to third, with colombia up to fourth, which is the last of The Automatic qualifying places. Ecuador are now fifth, which is the play off position, while chile, the reigning South American champions, drop out of the qualifying places completely after that defeat in argentina. Lets move to asian world cup qualifying where iran have edged closer to a place at next years finals in russia. They beat qatar 1 0 in doha, where mehdi taremi beat the off side trap to score the only goal of the game early in the second half. The result take iran four points clear at the top of group a. A giant step forward but now we still need to be focused on these four games that remain. Because as everything is showing, the results, everything is showing, the results, everything is showing, the results, everything is very tight and it is not over. We need to be fully concentrated to collect the points that we need to qualify
Time for reporters. Welcome to reporters. Im philippa thomas. From here in the worlds news room, we send our correspondents to bring you the best stories from across the world. In this weeks programme. Football on the front line. Richard conway reports on syrias world cup dreams, and asks whether soccer can help to unite a country at war. Football coming back to syria provides the people with a chance to forget about their worries. At least for 90 minutes. The plight of the people of western mosul. Orla guerin reports from the camps in iraq, struggling to feed up to 500,000 survivors of the so called islamic state. They say they have no running water, no electricity, no access to medical supplies, and people in the queue are really afraid that the food is going to run out before they have been able to get some. Returning to crimea, after three years. Steve rosenberg finds out how people feel about russian rule and sanctions. Moscow insists that most of the people who live here are happ
Im philippa thomas. From here in the worlds newsroom, we send our correspondents to bring you the best stories from across the world. In this weeks programme. Football on the front line. Richard conway reports on syrias world cup dreams, and asks whether soccer can help to unite a country at war. Football coming back to syria provides the people with a chance to forget about their worries. At least for 90 minutes. The plight of the people of western mosul. Orla guerin reports from the camps in iraq, struggling to feed up to 500,000 survivors of the so called islamic state. They say they have no running water, no electricity, no access to medical supplies, and people in the queue are really afraid that the food is going to run out before they have been able to get some. Returning to crimea after three years after Vladimir Putin annexed the region. Steve rosenberg finds out how people feel about russian rule and sanctions. Moscow insists that most of the people who live here are happy to