[Anderson:] Welcome back. Fans of English Premier League giants Manchester City will be breathing a major sigh of relief today, Monday, after finding out their club will, in fact, play in next season's Champions League. We're joined by World Sport Patrick Snell. And as I said Patrick, a great day, for City and their fans a terrible day it has to be said, for UEFA?
[Patrick Snell, Cnn Sport Anchor:] Yes, no question Becky. Thank you so much. I will say, this though, City supporters you know, this is the news they wanted to hear. Their club was facing a two ban from the prestigious UEFA Champions League an unthinkable prospect to a club of their desires and ambitions. Remember, City who would always deny any wrong doing, but originally punished by European football's governing body UEFA. Later these serious breaches of club licensing and financial fair play regulations. City appealed and the ban on Monday was overturn.
[Snell:] Now on a statement Manchester City saying the club welcomes the implications of today's ruling as a validation of a club's position and the body of evidence that it was able to present, the club wishes to thank the panel members for their due diligence and the due process that they administered. Meantime, UEFA saying it had noted the cast panel found there was insufficient conclusive evidence to uphold all these CFCBs conclusions in this specific case and that many of the alleged breaches were time barred due to the five-year time period foreseen in the UEFA regulations and we'll stay across all the key developments. Now once again, it is the ugly stain of racism in football after it emerged two Premier League players Sheffield United's David McGoldrick, Crystal Palace and Wilfried Zaha have suffered racist abuse online. And now one Premier League star is telling us he finds online racism worse than racist incidents actually inside stadium. The Watford defender Christian Kabasele saying that while all forms are reprehensible sending monkey and banana emojis to players on social media means that somebody has taken the time to think about their message before sending it. Well, Kabasele spoke to World Sport Contributor Darren Lewis back in March about the racism he has experienced and why he says social media platforms have failed to deal with incidents he has reported in the past.
[Christian Kabasele, Watford Defender:] When you're on stadium sometimes the fact that you are put down by other person, you just disconnect your brain and you do something stupid that when you write something on Twitter, you have time to think about what you are doing, and it's worse than something happen in a stadium.
[Darren Lewis, Cnn World Sport Contributor:] Now I know that you reported, when you received the abuse, and you were quite shocked by the response. Just talk us through that.
[Kabasele:] Yes. So I was abused in Belgium during a game, and after I went to my Instagram and I took a monkey picture, and I put next to a picture of myself, and I was asking am I looking as the same as the monkey? And I think the day after, Instagram deleted my post and just said that I broke the rules of Instagram that I was violent and I was spreading out cities spreading violence and the message on my Instagram. So I should stop it. That's quite unbelievable, because when I was abused again on Instagram, I reported the message that I received and after a day of investigation they found out that there was no violence message against me or break rules so it's quite amazing how you can have two kinds of reaction about this? It's unbelievable. It's difficult to understand and believe, but it didn't happen only once, several times because that day I received a lot of message, and I reported maybe for three or four of them. They said no violence in the account that you reported.
[Lewis:] Where do we go? What do we do with this? I can't see a situation where this is going to stop people or allowed to do all sorts of things on social media?
[Kabasele:] Yes, but I think the first step, maybe, is to obligate every person who is on Instagram, Twitter all those kinds of things do to use their ID. The system follows that. You put all the details of your ID on Instagram, like this doing something bad. We know who is behind this kind of thing and maybe it will make people think twice before making things like this. Maybe that's the first step, I don't know.
[Snell:] Well, Darren Lewis joining me now. Darren, I mentioned also there the incidents involving McGoldrick. Just how timely is your interview that, a powerful interview you had with Christian and the statements it's been making as well?
[Lewis:] Yes, we've done that interview before the lockdown, Patrick, and all of the issues that he raises in that interview are all relevant now that we've had the news today that the Crystal Palace forward Wilfried Zaha and the Sheffield United's striker David McGoldrick who both received racist, let's not call them offensive, they're racists messages on social media, on Instagram. Now I want to read you something from Instagram. It's on their twitter feed which has 35.3 million followers says this. We started to get racism in all its forms. We started in solidarity with the black community. Real change comes through action that's the pinned tweet on Instagram's twitter feed with 35 million followers. Now if that's the case, why is it that so many footballers and people are failing to get them to say look, if there is racially offensive material on your twitter feed you will be removed. We will take action. Why is it taking Patrick, taking so long for footballers to get the kind of address that they're asking for because that would have undermine Instagram's message.
[Snell:] Yes, yes, you make an excellent point. And question so many out there that still need to be answered. But I want to kind of top into that and elaborate some more developing what we saw over weekend regarding Zaha and McGoldrick as well. Generally speaking and elaborating Darren, what did you make of the response we saw in the hour that ensued to the abuse they received?
[Lewis:] Well, the response we saw was always get, the cops were supportive and the football community was very supportive, but the players has a resignation just like you have from sports stars in the U.S. and just like you have from sports stars all around the world. David McGoldrick he tweeted 2020 and this is life, and that's the reality, if you're black and you're a footballer, if you're a sport star, if you perform around the world, you are likely to get that kind of abuse. You can post all of the black squares, you can kneel, you can wear badges and all those gestures of solidarity that you like. But if you can't take action when black people say, protect us from the abuse we're suffering when we go to work then none of it matters.
[Snell:] Yes. Darren, thank you very much for joining us, really important we stay across this every step of the way. Becky, I'm going to send it back to you. I want to tell our viewers that on Tuesday we will bring you part 2 of Darren's interview with Kabasele, recounting the abuse he suffered during his particularly in Eastern Europe. Back to you there Becky.
[Anderson:] Yes, thank you very much, indeed. And it is great to be back. We covered some essential stories for you this hour. That story of course Man City one of them for sure it matters and as America's catastrophic response to COVID. But spare a thought for Yemen. We heard that the mortality rate there as high as 25 percent with COVID. Imagine that you catch a virus, highly contagious and you have a one in four chance of dying is like playing Russian it appalling. We're in Lebanon where the county could finally be running out of luck falling of its own financial cliff that would be disaster for the entire region and contrast to other responses from countries well-equipped to handle it like here in the UAE and Gulf states. Not just a matter of money. It can't buy you way to safety. Jordan a poor countries, also managed to keep its outbreak under control. Even with all of this going on right here the Emirates preparing to the roam the solar system. This is a complex nuanced region. It's a complex world and we'll be connecting all of it for you. I'm Becky Anderson. For the time being, it's a very, very good evening.