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The month-long football extravaganza, which opens in Doha on November 20, made headlines in France this week as Paris and other large cities announced they would not erect the customary giant screens to broadcast the matches in protest at the tournament’s environmental impact and the widely documented rights violations during Qatar’s preparations for the event.
It all started in the northeastern French city of Strasbourg last week, when city officials decided to opt out of any celebrations supporting the world’s largest and most popular football (soccer) tournament. There would be no fan zones and no large-screen TV’s in the city during the November 20 to December 18 World Cup, authorities said, citing Qatar’s poor treatment of migrant workers and its disregard of the event’s environmental impact.
England captain Harry Kane will wear an anti-discrimination armband during the team’s World Cup matches in Qatar this winter.
Saudi Arabia will offer multiple-entry visas to fans at the Qatar World Cup as neighbouring Gulf countries look to reap benefits from the competition.
Meanwhile, a United Nations investigation has found that Israeli forces fired the bullet that killed Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh. The Palestinian-American reporter was shot dead last month despite wearing a jacket marked "press", while covering a raid in Jenin in the occupied West Bank. The UN's findings contradict Israel's assertion that indiscriminate firing from Palestinians was to blame. Israel has dismissed the results of the UN probe as unfounded.
Meanwhile in Japan, the co-founder of the Japanese Red Army, an anti-imperialist militant group, has been released after two decades behind bars. Speaking to reporters in Tokyo, Fusako Shigenobu said she was deeply sorry for the harm her group had caused to innocent victims. The once-feared Marxist-Leninist organisation, which supported the Palestinian cause, carried out several attacks in the 1970s and 1980s.
Meanwhile, we discuss Afghanistan's economy since the Taliban took over last summer. 2,000 out of 5,000 factories in the country have shut down, the banking system has collapsed, and the purchasing power of Afghans has plummeted - further deteriorating an already struggling economy. Our reporters Shahzaib Wahlah and Sonia Ghezali went to Kabul and met the business owners who are struggling to survive under the new regime.
On April 12, people ran from a smoke-filled New York City subway train as they desperately tried to get away from a shooter on board. The man opened fire during the morning rush hour in an attack that left some 20 people injured. The shooting came as Joe Biden made a fresh bid to boost gun control in the US. The US president announced new measures cracking down on so-called "ghost guns": difficult-to-trace weapons that can be assembled at home. They have increased tenfold over the last five years.