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Iranian drone attack kills two US soldiers
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Two American troops killed and one missing after Iranian attack in Jordan
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This is the Global News Podcast from the BBC World Service. I'm Will Chalk and in the early hours of Sunday 19th July, these are our main stories and Iranian attacks on Jordan have killed two American servicemen. Another U.S. service member is still unaccounted for. Two warehouses belonging to Russia's biggest online retailer have been hit in some of the latest Ukrainian drone attacks and a prominent Cuban dissident has gone into exile in the United States after being allowed to leave Cuba, where he'd served a long prison sentence. Also in this podcast, Netflix's latest gambit to try and win the battle for our attention.
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Sean Crankle
It's sort of a strange mix between a playable movie and a little bit of a game. This thriller that kind of magically uses your phone and your TV to interface
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Will Chalk
with it and history is made in the football World cup bronze medal match with a 10 goal thriller. It's something that will be a painful reminder to people in the US of the human cost of the Iran war. Their country is raging thousands of miles away in the Middle east. The deaths of two U.S. service members and the announcement that a third is missing. U.S. central Command, which is responsible for American military activity in the Middle east, announced on social media that the casualties happened in Jordan during defensive action against ballistic missile and drone attacks by Iran. As we record this podcast, the American bombardment of Iran has been continuing for an eighth straight night after the US President declared that the temporary ceasefire was over. We've also heard, in a way from Iran's supreme leader Mojtabar Khamenei. He's not been seen since the war broke out, but a few hours ago, a statement attributed to him was read out by a newsreader on Iranian state tv. Now that the American enemy is seeking to escalate conflict and bear even greater costs and greater disgrace, it should know that the dear Iranian nation and the resistance front have unforgettable lessons for it. Nick Johnson is our reporter in Washington.
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Nick Johnson
U.S. central Command, which is responsible for American military operations in the Middle east, has confirmed that 2 of its service members have been killed, one is missing, and this follows an Iranian missile and drone attack towards US Troops in Jordan. Now, US Central Command hasn't gone into any specifics regarding the identity of those who've been killed and that one who is missing, nor the specifics of the incident itself. But the US does have a permanent presence at a number of bases in Jordan. And actually last night, the Jordanian military said it had intercepted around 10 missiles fired from Iran into its airspace, but it reported no damage. But then a little earlier, we heard from Iranian state media who said that Iranian forces destroyed at least two US Aircraft in Jordan. But that's something we haven't had yet confirmed from the Pentagon.
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Will Chalk
That takes the US death toll in the conflict to 16, and we should say thousands more have been killed across the Middle east since the conflict began. But I guess it is the US Death toll, isn't it, that will bring this home to a lot of people in the United States.
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Nick Johnson
Yeah, absolutely. We've heard from the Defence secretary, Pete Hegseth, who on social media has said, godspeed, heroes, this only strengthens our resolve. But yet you point to the wider number of casualties. And it is worth saying that Iranian state media has said, and it attributes this to the Iranian Red Crescent, that at least 50 people have been killed in Iran and at least 500 have been injured since these hostilities renewed over the past few weeks.
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Will Chalk
We've had seven days of attacks. Now, is there any word from the White House that this tactic is going to change or modify going forward?
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Nick Johnson
It's difficult to say what the plan is. And as we know, Donald Trump doesn't often know what the plan is in the long term. He often works day by day. And yeah, we've heard from Pete Hegseth, but we've also heard from Iran's supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, who has released a written statement. I mean, he said that America's repeated breaches of the agreement had laid bare a fundamental truth, that the signature of the US President is utterly worthless and devoid of credibility. Of course, he's referring there to the signature of the president on the memorandum of understanding which was signed last month, which was meant to be a temporary ceasefire agreement between the two countries lasting 60 days. We're not even a month into it now. And then that would pave the way for peace talks for a longer term peace settlement. But it looks very much like that memorandum of understanding is a peace deal by name only. If you look back to 10 days ago, when President Trump was wrapping up that NATO summit in Turkey, he talked about the ceasefire being over. That was in response to Iranian attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz. And that prompted more limited tit for tat exchanges between Iran and the U.S. but fast forward to where we are now. We've heard news of more American military personnel being killed Iran and accusing the US of striking its civilian infrastructure deeper into Iran. Things like railway stations, bridges, roads. But this is something that the US has denied. Nevertheless, with such strong rhetoric on both sides and the ramping up of military strikes, it's difficult at this stage to see any way that teams can get back around the table for peace talks.
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Will Chalk
Nick Johnson there. When Ukraine launched another wave of drone attacks against Russia on Friday night, two of the targets were warehouses belonging to Russia's biggest online retailer, Wildberries. Russian officials say seven people were killed and more than 20 injured at one of the sites, a logistics center in the Tambov region more than 400 kilometers southeast of Moscow. One of those injured was a security officer at the warehouse. We were about to let people out, but herded them back inside because there was firing right near the fire exit. The firing was close by. We got everybody back inside. And that's when it happened. The impact blew out the doors and windows. Everything went flying. Everyone nearby got hit. Another of the retailers sites was hit in the Moscow region, along with a nearby oil depot. Videos posted online show columns of thick smoke at the sites. Our World affairs correspondent Paul Adams, who is in Kyiv, told Pete Ross about the significance of Ukraine's military targeting retail warehouses.
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Paul Adams
This certainly was a devastating attack, as you heard just now in that clip. We think it's the first attack of its kind. Ukraine has been attacking energy infrastructure targets deep inside Russia for a long time, but this is different. This is a civilian target with civilian casualties. Now, Ukraine's argument, as expressed by President Zelensky, is that Wildberries, which is essentially Russia's version of Amazon, is playing a central role in Russia's military logistics infrastructure supplying components for drones and navigation equipment. President Zelensky calls this a campaign of long range sanctions and experts who I've spoken to today say that it Wild Berry's role is even more widespread than that, that soldiers buy all sorts of military equipment from there, from uniforms to body armor to walkie talkies and other gear. Ukraine also says that it's revenge for Russia's attacks on Ukrainian cities. Russia has attacked Ukraine's online retailers for several years and probably for very similar reasons. One other suggestion is that since Wildbar is is owned by someone with a close relationship with Vladimir Putin, the attacks may also have had the effect of disrupting parts of the Russian economy that the leader in the Kremlin really cares about.
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Will Chalk
This seems like the sort of latest
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Paul Adams
step in these widespread Ukrainian drone attacks.
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Will Chalk
What sort of impact are they having in general?
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Paul Adams
Well, they're having a pretty huge effect deep ins Russia and inside Russian occupied parts of Ukraine. The mayor of Moscow published a map today showing almost 1900 Ukrainian drone attacks on the Moscow region in the past week alone, with only 207 of those being intercepted. So it is an increasingly effective strategy. It's disrupted oil storage and refining as much as 10 to 15% of Russia's total capacity. It's led to fuel rationing in Crimea, forced Russia to import refined oil products, which is a pretty shocking situation for one of the world's biggest oil producers, and put additional strain on Russia's war budget. Ukraine has also been hitting vessels that are part of Russia's shadow fleet exporting oil in an effort to evade sanctions. So that's also having an impact. I think it's become an absolutely key part of Kyiv's strategy and one very much identified, I should just add, finally with the recently ousted Ukrainian Defense minister, Minister Fedorov, who protesters are on the streets right now here in Kiev demanding his return to his position.
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Will Chalk
Paul Adams in Ukraine There, the Cuban performance artist and prominent dissident Luis Otero Alcantara has arrived in the United States. He was jailed in Havana nearly five years ago for insulting national symbols, contempt and disturbing public order, and was just released last week. Known for his painting and his performances, he founded the San isidro movement in 2018, a group of activists defending freedom of expression in Cuba. Here he is in archive footage describing their aims. We want to have a project, a single project where we can talk about culture without it being seen as a danger to national security, luis Fajardo from BBC Monitoring told me.
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Luis Fajardo
More Luis Otero Alcantara was member of an artist group called the San Isidro Movement, a dissident group in Cuban society who have been active for several years and many of them were arrested and imprisoned during the crackdown in the years around 2020, 2021, he is a very high profile dissident and his opposition to the Cuban government had clearly created a lot of headache for the communist government in the island.
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Will Chalk
And is that why then, with thousands of people risking their lives every year to try and get out of Cuba, he is being allowed just to hop on a plane because he's so much of a thorn in the side of the government?
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Luis Fajardo
Well, decent media have been describing the circumstances of his going to the US like a forced exile, almost a banishment of him. Apparently one of the conditions for his release by the security forces after he had finished a five year prison sentence was that he was agreeing to leave the country, presumably on a permanent basis. So it is clear that Mr. Otero Alcantara had the potential to create headaches for the government in Cuba. Marco Rubio, the US Secretary of State, was posting in social media highlighting his arrival to the US So clearly a very high profile person who had a lot of potential to cause further embarrassment and problems to the government. And he has been apparently released under the condition of leaving for the United States.
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Will Chalk
So does this mean then, if this was agreed before his jail sentence, that this is irrelevant? The oil embargo that the US has got over Cuba, that's not putting any extra pressure on?
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Luis Fajardo
It's hard to say. There's lots of speculation again in exile media and Cuba. The Trump administration has been applying what they describe as maximum pressure against the Cuban government for quite a long time, not only via very drastic and continuously escalating economic sanctions, but the discussion, at least implicit, of potential actions, even military actions, against the Cuban government. There's also lots of versions about potential talks between the Cuban government and the United States, presumably around liberalization of the government. But the fact is that there's still no concrete advances. And one thing that can be said about the communist government in the island of Cuba, of course, is that it has proven very resilient for decades. And even in the face of very, very serious economic crisis and, and great political pressure, they managed to survive. So it's not clear at this moment what success will these policies have against Cuba and the potential implications of this very high profile political prisoner landing in the us.
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Will Chalk
Luis Fajardo there Now, as multiple streaming services vie for our attention and our money, there's a constant battle to have the latest must watch show Netflix believes the answer is to think outside the box. It's launched a new immersive video game called called Unhinged. Sean Crankle is the head of narrative games at Netflix. He's been speaking to Sean Farrington about how the game works.
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Sean Crankle
It's sort of a strange mix between a playable movie and a little bit of a game. The way that it works is that it's this thriller that kind of magically uses your phone and your TV to interface with it. So you're looking in first person at your tv. Massive storm has rolled in. Most of your neighbors have left because they've, you know, evacuated wisely. Your best friend who lives across the street, who happens to be played by Sadie Sink, is somebody who's saying, we should probably get out of here. You, the player character, are played by Zoe Kravitz. And your phone, when you get a phone call, it literally is getting called on your phone. And when you turn on your flashlight on your phone to peer into the darkness and move your phone around, it actually works in real time. And so what starts as a fairly benign, let's get out of here for the storm story escalates into a very crazy sort of thriller slash horror experience about a home invasion.
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Brandon Drennan
Yeah, I've seen the trailer, and that
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Phil McNulty
gets pretty terrifying quite quickly. So the phone, is that like a controller as we would have known it with other consoles?
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Sean Crankle
Yeah. So this is what I'm so excited about for this, is that it's very approachable in terms of how you play it. Your phone, when you get a call on it, you'll just press the button and you'll hear, literally, you know, Sadie coming through your phone, and you'll hear your character's voice on tv. And then the way you move through the world, instead of having to learn very complex controls, when you're aiming that flashlight around, you can just sort of aim where you want to go click, and then you'll move to that space. And so it's. Even though the story gets very intense, the way you play it is actually dead simple. It feels more like you're at a great Disneyland ride than it is a game that you have to get, you know, very good at playing. It's quite different. I think it broke our brains as we started to approach this one, because as game developers, I think the teams regularly want to build on what the rest of the industry has already done. And I think for us, we came at it from a very different perspective, which is to say there's people on Netflix who are coming to watch a great horror or thriller film or show, but they probably don't want to have to clear the skill bar of what it takes to play a great horror game.
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Will Chalk
Shawn Crankle speaking to Sean Farrington still to come in this podcast, what We
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Mainull Islam
See Now, I never thought that I would see this happen happened in my lifetime.
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Will Chalk
We hear from black voters in the U S State of Alabama who say the Supreme Court has dealt them a big blow.
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Will Chalk
This is the global news podcast. The wildfires in Canada are big. Nearly 30,000 square kilometers have already been scorched. That's an area roughly the size of Belgium. Now, four of the members of the US Congress from Michigan have written to Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney saying it's the third year in a row that Americans have been affected by dense smoke coming across the border. In an escalating war of words, they say Canada isn't doing enough to prevent fires. President Trump has also accused Canada of willful negligence and threatened more tariffs. Speaking in Thunder Bay, Ontario's Premier Doug Ford had this to say in response. You don't get on and start threatening and criticizing, because guess what?
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Paul Adams
One day it's going to be your turn. But to make the comments they did
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Will Chalk
through the administration, absolutely unacceptable. We're trying to get through this. And maybe I got an idea for President Trump. Why don't you get rid of the softwood lumber tariffs? Because 33% of the lumber that you use in your building, guess what? It comes from Canada. You want us to clear the forest? Well, open up the gates. Eleanor Olzewski is the Canadian Minister of Emergency Management and Community Resilience. Owen Bennett Jones asked her for an update on the fires.
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Eleanor Olzewski
We have a really challenging wildfire situation in the province of Ontario. There are a number of wildfires that are out of control a lot. Those fires are affecting northern and remote and first nations communities. They're not accessible by road. And so they are very challenging, not only in terms of fire suppression, but in terms of evacuations as well. In the province of Ontario and then, of course, drifting into the United States as well, there is a significant amount of smoke. Some of the smaller centers where we're doing evacuations, we're doing those because of smoke, too, not just because of the wildfire.
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Paul Adams
Now there is smoke across US Cities, too. And I just want to read you what four congressmen have been saying from Michigan. We were told last year that this would be treated with urgency. It wasn't. We were told the causes, chronic underinvestment in forest thinning, fuel reduction and prescribed burns were being addressed. They're not or not adequately enough to matter to the people we represent. So they're saying these incidents, you could be doing more to stop them happening.
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Eleanor Olzewski
For decades, we've had a very collaborative working relationship with United States. That relationship has included the exchange of aerial firefighting assets as well as firefighting personnel. And so from an on the ground perspective, that absolutely has continued. And our officials are in touch with American officials throughout this wildflower season as we have been in the past. And we have provided the Americans certainly with assistance when they've had wildfire issues to deal with. So we sent aerial firefighting assets when they had the Palisades fire in California. And in fact, really recently we had water bomber pilot die while he was working trying to suppress a wildfire in Colorado a couple of weeks ago. So we do have a longstanding relationship with the United States. And at the present time my primary objective is the safety of Canadians who are facing wildfires in their communities who may need to be evacuated. And that's absolutely what my focus is at the present time.
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Will Chalk
Eleanor Olzewski, the Canadian minister of emergency Management, speaking to Owen Bennett Jones. We're in Bangladesh next, where heavy monsoon rains have caused severe flooding and landslides across the southeastern part of the country. One of the worst affected areas is the coastal town of Cox's Bazaar, home to more than a million Rohingya refugees in the world's biggest refugee camp. Across the country, at least 51 people are known to have died, with more than a million affected by the floods. Mainull Islam is head of programs at the Norwegian Refugee Council in Bangladesh. He leads the organization's humanitarian relief efforts for Rohingya refugees and often travels to Cox's Bazaar. He spoke to us from Dakota this year.
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Mainull Islam
Last 7 days the amount of rain we had, it's like last 42 years we didn't have similar amount of rain. Like in six days, more than 1400 millimeter of rain. In Cox's Badar and Chaturam area that was significant. So things are getting unusual also in the climate change if impact. And in six days, 95 landslides in Rohingya camps has been also reported. So that is quite unusual. The camp is in hilly train Bangladesh and it's not a solid rocky mountain. It's very saturated soft clay. So when it's heavy rain and also the human habitat was established on the hilly train, it was used to be a reserve forest. So there has been a lot of damage done to these hills. So when it's heavy rain it becomes so soft that the shelters are very vulnerable to these landslides. And shelters in the camps are made with makeshift bamboo, plastic sheets and some basic items. So it's not a permanent struct structure. So landslide makes it significantly vulnerable. Both for shelters, learning centers means schools. There has been a incident in on one school, eight children died on the spot due to a landslide during this flooding time. There are 1.3 million Rohingya refugees living in 33 camps. It's the most congested refugee camps in the world. So it's around 22 kilometer or even less than that. So people are very congested. It's very narrow, like 50,000, 60,000 people in some of the camps. In some, there are incidents that people even didn't have a space to bury those bodies who died. So it's quite devastating situation actually. And people are coping with what they have. They don't have nowhere to go because Rohingya refugees are allowed to live only in the camp, not officially allowed to go outside. So it's a disparate situation for the Rohingya refugees.
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Will Chalk
Manul Islam from the Norwegian Refugee Council in Bangladesh. Back in April, the Supreme Court in the US Struck a blow to a part of the Voting Rights act that had helped give minority voters more representation in Congress. That law, passed in 1965, was meant to ensure that the right to vote was not denied because of race. But the Supreme Court's decision allows Republican led states to redraw congressional maps and erase Democrat leaning majority black districts. Alabama is one of those states that could see its black elected officials lose their seats ahead of the midterm elections in November. The BBC's Brandon Drennan has visited Alabama to see what this means for the people there.
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Brandon Drennan
Butler Chapel Methodist has been at the center of the African American community in Tuskegee for decades. When I arrive, members of the congregation are spending a misty Alabama morning socializing on the steps outside. But 70 years ago, it served a far more pressing purpose. When black people could not vote in this area, they used to have secret meetings right here at this church, and
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Will Chalk
my father was a part of that.
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Brandon Drennan
In 1957, the Alabama legislature redrew the boundaries of the city of Tuskegee, carving out many black majority areas, denying them the right to vote in civic elections. Butler Chapel served as an organizing center for a campaign that led to a landmark Supreme Court decision against racial gerrymandering. The redrawing of electoral maps to deny black people elected representation. Now Tuskegee and dozens of communities like it find themselves at the center of a new debate over black voting rights.
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Mainull Islam
What we see now. I never thought that I would see this happen in my lifetime.
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Brandon Drennan
In 2023, a federal court struck down a congressional district map drawn by the state's Republican legislature. They ruled at the time that it violated a key clause of the 1965 Voting Rights act, dividing black voters in southern Alabama across three different districts, leaving them a minority in each A new map was forced on the legislature, which created two seats where African Americans ran the majority or close to it. This is the district that gave America the Tuskegee Airmen, rosa parks. In 2024, Shamari figures was elected as the first African American to represent Alabama's 2nd congressional district in modern history. And it is the birthplace of the civil rights movement in Montgomery, Alabama. But in April, the Supreme Court issued a new ruling that makes it significantly more difficult to challenge maps based on racial discrimination, leaving Alabama clear to change their map. Figures now goes into the midterms. Defending a redrawn white majority seat. Montgomery, the state capitol is over 60% African American. Like Tuskegee, it will become part of the newly redrawn second district. But not all African Americans here oppose the move. We're walking on generations of generations of history. Cedric Coley, a Republican party member, backs his party state government over the interference of federal judges. I would rather have family disputes with the people of Alabama instead of federal judges stepping in and saying, because your past is racist, we must be racist in the future and create racial maps and box people in racism, racial quotas. I just don't believe that. State Republicans reject outright the allegation that race was a factor in their new map. The run up to the midterms has seen state governments on both sides rush to redraw districts to give their party the edge. Back in Tuskegee, the congregants of Butler Chapel Methodists tell me the Supreme Court decision has eroded their right to representation, but they remain determined, determined to exercise the voting rights they still possess.
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Mainull Islam
Yeah, you just gotta get up and go vote on a day that you have to vote.
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Will Chalk
Make your way to that poll and you vote. Brandon Drennan with that report. Right. Finally to the Football World cup, where, well, basically forever, the third place or bronze medal match has been seen as a bit of a joke. The game no one wants to play in. But to be fair to England and France, who've just played this year's, it might have been the game of the tournament so far. England dominated the first half and were four nil up at half time. A done deal, you would normally think. Well, not where the French are concerned. They came back in the second half with two goals from Kylian Mbappe, and somehow it eventually ended up finishing 64 to England. Watching it in the US for us was the BBC's Phil McNulty.
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Phil McNulty
It was an incredible game. England 4 nil up at halftime, Barely believable. But then it was almost like two sides had swapped places. In the second half France almost pulled it back and as you said, as the so called bronze game goes, I think there will be none that would have been better than that.
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Will Chalk
Yeah. Why do you think that match was so good to watch compared to especially some of the other England performances we've seen in this tournament?
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Phil McNulty
I think the pressure's off, isn't it, that both teams can play with, with a freedom. There is nothing at stake really. I don't think people will remember who came third in years to come. Although the third place finish does actually represent England's best men's World cup result field since they won it in 1966. But all the pressure was on the semi final and maybe there's just some sort of emotional release of freedom that allowed both teams to play like that. England in the first half and then France pretty much in the second. So I do think it's the release of pressure that enables teams to play like that. There's nothing really at stake.
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Will Chalk
And do you think then from the French perspective there will be, you know, much heartbreak over this or do you think it'll be a bit of a shrug of the shoulders from the French fans?
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Phil McNulty
I suspect it will be a Gallic shrug. I don't think we shrugging at half time it sounded like some of their fans were, were a little bit upset by what they were seeing, but I think it will be, you know, yes, well, fair enough. They wanted to win it and once they, they were not in the final, I suspect whether they finished third or fourth was only merely a small matter of pride for them. I don't think they'll linger too long over it.
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Will Chalk
As we've said though, it was a great watch. I mean, are we expecting, given that the pressure will not be off the final eighter to be a similarly free flowing affair?
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Phil McNulty
Well, if there's any game with a lot of pressure on it, it's the World cup final, isn't it? But I was at the press conference yesterday and both representatives from Spain and Argentina seemed incredibly relaxed. They won't be like that tomorrow. But we're talking about two absolutely high quality teams. Spain very controlled and skillful. Argentina, skillful, but with a real intensity. I think I've seen them two or three times at this World cup and they, everyone says they are the team that's beatable, but nobody's beaten them yet. They battle their way to the final inspired of course by, by Lionel Messi. Messi will take center stage of course tomorrow, but Spain look absolutely outstanding in beating France in the semi final. So I think it's a 5050 game, really.
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Will Chalk
Phil McNulty there. That's all from us for now. If you want to get in touch, as always, you can email us. We're@globalpodcastbc.co.uk we have a sister podcast too, the Global Story. Have a listen to that. It goes in depth and beyond the headlines on one big story. This edition of the Global News podcast was mixed by Charlotte Hadroy to Gymska, and the producer was Emma Joseph. The editor is Karen Martin. I'm Will Chalk. Until next time. Goodbye.
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