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Activists have launched several campaigns to raise global awareness during the world cup for palestinian plight. their goal ultimately is to make the palestinian flag at least as recognizable as the israeli flag. and to make the world care about their situation in the west bank ensure slim. so palestinians have been handing up lags, waving them in the stands, wearing palestinian apparel, and chanting palestinian songs. one palestinian told al jazeera, quote people from all of the world are here ...

>> were looking at a plant. >> reporter: it uses a fraction of the water. but he wants politicians to listen up. >> people just keep saying, well pump some water. what happens in 50 years? what happens to peoples kids and grandkids and where does all the food come? just kicking the can down the road and hoping for the best is what everyone seems to be doing i dont think is a path to success. >> reporter: residents see their plight as a warning to others. >> america, wake up for the folks that ar...

Contact. >> reporter: even in the areas of ukraine that russia has annexed, mothers are taking a stand. return students to their studies this sign in donetsk says. >> translator: please return our children. there are many dead, many captured. the rest of the children are physically and morally decimated. >> reporter: soldiers mothers traditionally carry a lot of sway in russia, and russian president vladimir putin seems eager to show hes not tone-deaf to their plight. recently visiting wihat the...

Just try to continue to promote hope to the people in that community that we so need to serve. >> todd: would these people not have a hot thanksgiving dinner if not for you? >> im quite certain that many of the folks standing in our lines and we had families, we had a man, a woman and a child or children standing in our lines and they said to me w withhaving to interpret anything. we wouldnt have had any thanksgiving if you guys were not here, im encouraged by that. i know where we are, i unders...

Annexed, mothers are taking a stand. return students to their studies, this sign in donetsk says. >> translator: please return our children. there are many dead, many captured. the rest of the children are physically and morally decimated. >> reporter: soldiers mothers traditionally carry a lot of sway in russia. and russian president vladimir putin seems eager to show hes not tone deaf to their plight, recently visiting what the military says were new recruit, even firing a sniper rifle himself...

After intense scrutiny from the west in the build up to the tournament, over issues including the countrys treatment of women, gay rights and conditions for migrant workers. heres our sports editor, dan roan. despite everything, qatars determined to put on a show — a celebration to mark the opening of the fan park in doha tonight on the eve of the world cup. but fifas come under fire for bringing the event here amid human rights concerns and today, the games most powerful figure turned on his ...

Most powerful figure turned on his critics in an extraordinary speech. today, i feel gay. today i feel disabled. today i feel a migrant worker because i know what it means to be discriminated. but that was just the start. infantino then appearing to liken his own experience as a redheaded child of immigrants in switzerland to the plight of gay people in the middle east. as a foreigner in a foreign country, as a child at school i was bullied because i had red hair. qatars been under mounting scru...

My don chair. >> and they had a position, and do they have -- together. >> afghanistan is facing a tsunami of hunger. >> the mayor featured in that documentary, a champion of womens rights, has since had to flee the country. hillary and chancey clinton are among the producers of this film. and it was directed by -- a young african filmmaker were joins me now. thanks for coming on the show. there have been a lot of documentaries about the war of afghanistan. the plight of its women. why did you w...

But that was just the start. infantino then appearing to liken his own experience as a redheaded child of immigrants in switzerland to the plight of gay people in the middle east. as a foreigner, in a foreign country, as a child at school i was bullied because i had red hair. qatar has been under mounting scrutiny, especially in europe, over its treatment of migrant workers and the lgbt community. infantino then turned on the critics. i think for what we europeans have been doing in the last 3,0...

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