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This qatar games was built on the backs of brown and black people. they faced temperatures of over 40 degrees celsius and saw sometimes colleagues collapse from the heat. some died, and they didn't feel they could speak out. because when inspectors came, they had to say they were being treated well to save their jobs. these are their stories. he is back in kenya but says he is still suffering from trauma. after three years of construction work in qatar before the world cup. >> calling me a black monkey. >> reporter: the 38-year-old is a life-long football fan but hasn't watched any matches.

The qatar games, there's a lot much speculation, you saw the represent for fifa saying, i don't know fp as of now, they're going to go on in russia and qatar. you have the death toll, you have this insane unsustainable situation that you have done incredible reporting on, and there's a real question now, is this the straw that breaks the camel's back, do they say, we're yanking the game's from qatar? >> i think it's a fair question. if you asked me last flight at this time, i would have said 100%, 2022 is going on in qatar, as sepp blatter has vowed repeatedly. he's said words to the effect, o...

Fifa has long been viewed as wildly corrupt with rampant allegations of bribery involving top fifa officials. despite a widespread perception of flagrant corruption. fifa has long been able to operate without impunity. loretta lynch along with officials from the fbi and irs. along with corruption charges against 14 people. including an official alleged to have taken $9 million in bribes. >> these individuals threw these organizations engaged in bribery to decide who would televise games.

In the cookie jar. i think one of the good reasons for that, is frankly, i don't think he's had his hand in the cookie jar. people, even his most persistent critics will tell you, he's not someone necessarily interested in personal enrichment, in lining his own pockets. he lives very nicely indeed in zurich. he's paid a lot of money. probably 5 million u.s. dollars a year, he doesn't pay for anything, he loves power, like a true bonds villain, he's done everything he could to perpetuate that power. that being said, i'd say his position is more precarious than it has ever before been. >> i want...

Desert, essentially on this rush job, because it appears or possibly they were bribed, fifa was bribed into awarding them the games, that's the real human stakes here. >> you could not imagine a worse country to host the world cup than qatar, a place that's 125 degrees during the summer. they've already said they're going to play the world cup in the fall. that's not even the most serious part. the most serious part is that the world cup in qatar is being built by slavers, basically. it's being built under conditions of slavery, conditions that are so dire, as robert silverman wrote today afte...