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Germany crash out while Japan and Spain advance to knockout stage
Germany crashes out of the Qatar FIFA World Cup after Japan produce an unexpected win over Spain to top Group E.
The youngest wonderkids and oldest veterans at the FIFA World Cup
From teenage sensations to international stalwarts, RNZ looks at the youngest and oldest footballers competing at the Qatar World Cup.
Fans accept no alcohol at World Cup
Football fans at the almost alcohol-free World Cup are ready to pay high prices for a beer but most simply accept that drinking is off limits.
Blowing the whistle on World Cup corruption
Qatar’s ‘sports-washing’ World Cup has backfired in PR terms, but it's taken the heat off world football’s corrupted governing body FIFA who gave it a green light in the first place. Mediawatch talks… Video, Audio
Blowing the whistle on World Cup corruption
Qatar’s ‘sports-washing’ World Cup has backfired in PR terms, but it's taken the heat off world football’s corrupted governing body FIFA who gave it a green light in the first place. Mediawatch talks…
Video, AudioSports commentator Sam Ackerman
Athletes around the world and here in Aotearoa are speaking up this week, confronting issues on and off the sporting fields, velodromes and waters. Sam Ackerman explains why this is such crucial… Audio
FIFA threatens football players who wear OneLove armband
Football's world governing body, FIFA, has threatened to sanction any captain who wears the OneLove armband during the World Cup.
The multi-coloured armband supports diversity and inclusion -… Video, Audio
Media wrestle with ‘sportswashing’ Qatar’s World Cup
The FIFA World Cup in Qatar was already controversial before this weekend’s kick-off. Organisers have told the media to ‘focus on the football’ but human rights, workers’ suffering and and allegations… Video, Audio
Media wrestle with ‘sportswashing’ Qatar’s World Cup
The FIFA World Cup in Qatar was already controversial before this weekend’s kick-off. Organisers have told the media to ‘focus on the football’ but human rights, workers’ suffering and and allegations…
Video, AudioRasmus Tantholdt: The World’s Eyes on Qatar
On the eve of the World Cup in Qatar, many people are undecided about how they'll view it, or not view it, literally. On the ground in Doha is a senior correspondent for TV2 in Denmark, Rasmus… Audio
All will be revealed on the opening days of an unusual Fifa World Cup
Analysis - With only a few days until the Fifa World Cup kicks off in Qatar, just as many eyes will be looking at the action off the field.
BBC World with Robert Hugh-Jones
The BBC's Robert Hugh-Jones joins Nights with the latest new from around the world. Tonight, the annual summit of the G20 nations in Bali, Russian forces withdrawing from a key city in Ukraine, and an… Audio
Charlotte Bellis: 'I'm one of your people and I need help'
Pregnant Kiwi journalist Charlotte Bellis feels let down by her country after failing to gain an MIQ spot and being forced to seek safe refuge in Afghanistan as she awaits the birth of her first… Audio
Qatar, Egypt agree to supply fuel and basic building materials to war-ravaged Gaza
Gaza officials estimate it will cost $685m to rebuild homes and infrastructure damaged in the May fighting between Israel and Hamas.
Newcastle's Saudi owners "new low in corruption"
The Saudi Arabian-backed £305m takeover of the Newcastle United Football Club has been described as a new low in football's corruption by money. Tom McTague is a London-based staff writer for The… Audio
Charlotte Bellis: 'I'll stay in Afghanistan as long as I can'
New Zealand Al Jazeera journalist Charlotte Bellis had been visiting Kabul Airport -- the only way in and out of Afghanistan at the moment -- this week, as locals and foreign nationals alike tried to… Video, Audio
Calling Home: Laura Taylor in Sao Paulo, Brazil
Art director Laura Taylor was on a job in Tunisia when Covid-19 took hold of the globe, and with the help of the British Embassy she was able to get back to her base in Sao Paulo. Now she is under… Audio
Trump's lawyer offered info to ex-diplomat for $1m - report
US President Donald Trump's lawyer asked the Qatari government for at least $1 million in December 2016 in exchange for access or insight into the Trump administration, the Washington Post reported.
Football's billionaires club
Money talks in the world's most popular game and writer James Montague has travelled far and wide to find out who's funding the world's biggest football clubs and why. Audio
Unpicking the Qatar crisis
Kathryn Ryan speaks to former Al Jazeera journalist and current head of Amnesty International's UN office in New York, Sherine Tadros, about the diplomatic crisis between Qatar and four of its… Audio