Description
Added on the 16/03/2022 10:01:10 - Copyright : Euronews EN
On London's famous river Thames, fans watch England and Colombia fight for a spot in the last-16 of the 2018 World Cup. IMAGES of fans watching the match in London
The United States says that a Russian ban on US-funded Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty shows Moscow's efforts to deny open information. "It is quite clear that they do not want their people to have information about what the Russian regime does abroad, what the Russian regime does to its own people," State Department spokesman Matthew Miller tells reporters. SOUNDBITE
With the England team about to play in the women's world cup finals in Sydney, football fans gather in London to watch the game. IMAGES
Football fans start watching the semi-final of the Women's World Cup between England and Australia on a big screen in a London pub. IMAGES
The president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, announces that "the governing party, the African National Congress (ANC), has taken that decision that it is prudent that South Africa should pull out of the ICC". Ramaphosa says the decision, which follows a weekend meeting of the African National Congress (ANC), was reached "largely" because of what is perceived as the court's unfair treatment of certain countries. The ICC issued an arrest warrant against Putin in March meaning Pretoria, due to host the Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa bloc summit this year, would have to detain him on arrival. SOUNDBITE
World Athletics lifts the ban on the Russian track and field federation for state-sponsored doping although its athletes remain barred from competition while Moscow's invasion of Ukraine continues. SOUNDBITE