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>> we're coming up to the world cup and i think a lot of people are going to be reading about crime and all of that. how do you think it's going to go, the world cup? disaster or it's going to somehow work out? >> i think it will be a success. >> you think it will be a success. >> i'm sure of it. >> salvador is one of the host cities for the 2014 world cup. a huge stadium has recently been completed, but a lot of people are worried, concerned, if brazil is ready. i have been told thousands of prostitutes are studying tourist-appropriate languages in preparation, so probably a lot of people are...

Russia when they said they would not discriminate, unfortunately, they were proven wrong. you challenged them. and today they came full circle in terms of putting that into not only the charter but into host city contracts, that there can be no discrimination in those cities on the basis of sexual orientation. and it's really a historic day and amazing that it's come in just a year, although we still have work to do, because we don't know for sure where our transgender brothers and sisters fit into that. they have said that it's included in the "other" phrase of the non-discrimination policy. ...

Think that it was here, on this show, when our friend anita de france was challenged by lawrence o'donnell when she says she has no choice but to believe russia when they said they would not discriminate, unfortunately, they were proven wrong. you challenged them. and today they came full circle in terms of putting that into not only the charter but into host city contracts, that there can be no discrimination in those cities on the basis of sexual orientation. and it's really a historic day and amazing that it's come in just a year, although we still have work to do, because we don't know for...

This is a typical day. at 1:00 in the afternoon, the temperature 124 degree heat stroke weather. 20 degrees hotter than in brazil which they declared first of its kind water break in the middle of the match. soccer federation officials were warned by the potentially dangerous heat and about what human rights groups called medieval labor conditions for immigrant workers. >> seven, eight, nine, ten in this room. >> reporter: but all that was ignored in the final vote which came down to qatar and the united states with its 18 potential host cities. >> the winner is qatar. >> reporter: not long af...

Qatar. this is a typical day. at 1:00 in the afternoon, the temperature is 124 degrees. that's heat stroke weather. 20 degrees hotter than in brazil which in this year's world cup they declared the first of its kind water break in the middle of the match. >> it could be dangerous. >> reporter: soccer federation officials were warned about the potentially dangerous heat and about what human rights groups called medieval labor conditions for immigrant workers. >> seven, eight, nine, ten in this room. >> reporter: but all that was ignored in the final vote which came down to qatar and the united ...