Shocking TV ambush raises World Cup safety fears

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Fears implicit the information of tourists travelling to Qatar for the FIFA World Cup person erstwhile again risen aft a shocking effort astatine censorship caught connected unrecorded television.

Danish newsman Rasmus Tantholdt was doing a unrecorded transverse connected the streets of Doha for TV 2 NYHEDERNE erstwhile 2 Qatari locals interrupted and threatened to smash his camera.

Tantholdt was chatting to a camera, erstwhile two men appeared successful a buggy. One of the men turned the camera distant from Tantholdt arsenic the newsman argued.

"Mister, you invited the full satellite to travel here," helium said.

"Why can't we film? It's a nationalist place. This is the accreditation, we tin movie anyplace we want."

The antheral past threatened to interruption the camera, to which Tantholdt replied: "You privation to interruption it? OK, interruption the camera. So you're threatening america by smashing the camera."

Tantholdt revealed that helium and the Danish web had received an apology from some the Qatar International Media Office and the Qatar Supreme Committee pursuing the altercation.

The incidental involving Tantholdt comes amid wide contention surrounding the Qatar World Cup.

Calls from Germany's nonrecreational shot leagues person travel for the World Cup to to beryllium boycotted successful the weeks starring up to the tournament.

Last week, earlier the past Bundesliga crippled up of the league's extended two-month wintertime break, Freiburg fans down 1 extremity held a immense banner with the words, "Boycott Qatar."

Other ample banners highlighted alleged injustices successful the country, portion it seemed astir each protagonist successful the 34,700-capacity stadium held an idiosyncratic motion calling for a boycott of the tournament, 7 days earlier it was owed to begin.

Mainz fans besides called for a boycott during their team's gully with Eintracht Frankfurt.

They were the last protests aft weeks of nationalist displays crossed stadiums against the tourney controversially awarded to Qatar by FIFA amid allegations of vote-buying successful 2010.

"It was incorrect and it's inactive wrong," Bernd Beyer of the "Boycott Qatar 2022" inaugural told The Associated Press past week.

"The fans bash not place with it and are saying they don't privation to person thing to bash with it, but they are actively criticising it and not conscionable switching off."

Former FIFA president Sepp Blatter admitted past week that awarding Qatar the World Cup backmost successful 2010 was a "mistake".

Even popular stars person weighed in, with British popular sensation Dua Lipa hitting backmost astatine reports that she'd beryllium performing astatine the World Cup.

The 27-year-old, who precocious toured Australia, said she'll lone sojourn Qatar "when it has fulfilled each the quality rights pledges it made".

"There is presently a batch of speculation that I volition beryllium performing astatine the opening ceremonial of the World Cup successful Qatar," she said successful a connection connected Instagram.

"I volition not beryllium performing and nor person I ever been progressive successful immoderate dialog to perform.

"I volition beryllium cheering England connected from afar and I look guardant to visiting Qatar erstwhile it has fulfilled each the quality rights pledges it made erstwhile it won the close to big the World Cup."

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