What’s behind attacks on Qatar as it hosts FIFA World Cup 2022?

Tracing the political, economic and cultural factors at the heart of misinformation campaigns against Qatar.

As Qatar hosts the 2022 FIFA World Cup, the Middle Eastern country has been the target of misinformation campaigns in several European countries.

In this episode of Story to Follow, we trace the roots of the political, economic and cultural factors inciting these campaigns against Qatar, especially in the United Kingdom, Denmark and France.

Al Jazeera is owned by the government of Qatar.  This programme  is nothing more than an attempt to white wash all of the wrong doing and abuse in the run up to the World Cup

German football federation to take legal action over Fifa’s OneLove armband ban

Move comes after supermarket chain cuts commercial ties with DFB in protest over row at World Cup

Germany’s football federation has said it plans legal steps against Fifa over its banning of OneLove rainbow armbands at the World Cup as it faced the humiliating decision by one of the country’s largest supermarket chains to cut its commercial ties over the row.

World Cup 2022: American journalist 'detained' over rainbow shirt ahead of U.S.-Wales match

Two American journalists have been told to remove rainbow-patterned articles of clothing by authorities at World Cup venues in Qatar in recent days.

On Saturday, Los Angeles Times reporter Kevin Baxter was told by a police officer at the U.S. men’s national team’s Qatari training site that a rainbow-colored mask was not allowed.

Two days later, at the Ahmad bin Ali Stadium, where the USMNT plays Wales on Monday night, longtime soccer journalist Grant Wahl said that he was told by security to change out of a shirt with a rainbow pattern around a soccer ball. FIFA told Yahoo Sports that the incident was a "mistake," and said it has been "sorted."

Migrants hired to work at the opening match waited all day without food and water.

Instead of a day of work, the workers endured no water, no food and no toilets under the hot desert sun.

A group of more than 200 migrant laborers hired to work concession stalls at the Qatar World Cup’s opening game said they had been left without food, water and toilet facilities for seven hours while they waited for their assignments.

Standing in front of the Bedouin-tent-shaped Al Bayt stadium in Al Khor, the group were desperately trying to contact their employer without success. Several said they had been asked to report to a facility close to the arena before 10 a.m., nine hours before the game was scheduled to start.