Andres Cantor World Cup Preparation

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You know what I really love love the In the Oval Office yesterday, President Trump shrugged off new economic data that shows inflation in the U S. is surging According to the Bureau of Labors statistics, the overall cost of goods in the US is now four point two percent higher than a year ago is the third straight month that inflation numbers have gone up. The increase has been driven almost entirely by energy prices. which skyrocketed after Trump took the U. S. to war with Iran But the president has repeatedly brushed aside the issue of rising prices for Americans callalling concerns about affordability a quote, con job He has said that the economic pain now is a small price to pay for national security and has insisted that any damage to the economy will only be temporary. Inlation comees down between now the war is over It' coming down. I know. It's gonna come down like a rock ours later, the president escalated the conflict with Iran. I just spoke with President Trump, who is currently in the situation room. The president tells Fox News that forty nine tomahawk missiles were used to hit targets inside of Iran. of them The U S. launched a new wave of attacks after Trump said Iran was taking quote too long to negotiate and would have to pay the price Both Trump and Secretary of defeense Pete Higseth made clear the strikes are meant to try and pressure Iran to agree to a deal on Trump's terms. If we need to negotiate with bombs, We'll negotiate with bombs, and we're very good at it. Nobody better in the world In response, Iran said it carried out its own series of strikes on U. S. bases across the Middle East Taken together, the flurry of strikes this week appears to contradict Trump's repeated claims that the two countries are on the verge of a peace deal In Northern Ireland, the city of Belfast is on edge after a graphic video of a brutal stabbing this week set off unrest there The video captured one man attacking another in the middle of a Belfast street on Monday And authorities later charged a thirty year old Sudanese refugee with attempted murder the footage spread quickly online and led to calls for protests by anti immigrant activists. with one prominent far right agitator, calling it a quote, invader attack on our people. On social media, Elon Musk, who has repeatedly boosted far right messaging in the UK and elsewhere, weighed in sharing a list of locations around Northern Ireland for people to gather by Tuesday night crowds took to the streets Police said while some people protested peacefully, others, including young men in masks targeted immigrants firefighters had to escort immigrant families from homes that had been set on fire One local official said, quote, People were being terrorized simply because of the color of their skin or where they came from Last night, violence flared again, and police used water cannons to try and disperse crowds who had set small fires and hurled bricks and bottles The unrest in Northern Ireland comes after another high profile stabbing in the UK that has also galvanized far right activists In that case, police in England recently released body cam footage of the aftermath of a fatal attack. The responding officers initially handcuffed the victim An eighteen year old white college student before realizing he was the one who'd been stabbed. been misled by the actual attacker, a British born Sik man who told police he'd been the target of a racist attack Nigel Farraage, the head of Britain's far right Reform Party, claimed the police response was evidence of, quote, anti white prejudice, and Vice President JD Vance jumped in claiming it showed that, quote, European elites had allowed a mass invasion of migrants British officials pushed back sharply on Vance's comments nototing that the attacker in that case was not an immigrant a spokesman for the U.K's Prime Minister accused Vance of quote seeking to stir up division on our streets Six months ago, Australia began an ambitious experiment It became the first country in the world to ban social media for everyone under the age of sixteen It was an attempt to protect kids from the potential harms of those platforms, like anxiety, bullying, depression, et ccetera The law requires TikTok, Instagram, Snapchat, and other apps to verify the age of any users and remove young teens' accounts Or face fines of tens of millions of dollars In terms of how it's going though. Well, if you've met any teenagers recently, they're very tech savvy and they've really found a bunch of ways around this. VPN is a popular option. A lot of age verification systems that the apps have put into place have been pretty fallible. So kids have been able to get around it by drawing mustaches on them, using somebody else's face to scan them And there's also teens who say their accounts never were flagged in the first place and continue to work without a hitch Victoria Kim covers Australia for the times. She's been talking to families about the effectiveness of the ban. Something that kept coming up in conversations with parents I've been having about this law is that the real kids that may be benefiting from this are actually the younger kids who are not yet on social media. So kids who are twelve and younger, who don't have older siblings and haven't actually been on social media yet And for parents, they say this law has really given them the confidence and the backing to tell them, it's illegal, you can't have it. And that may eventually get to a point where enough of them, a critical mass of them are off it and that peer pressure that kids feel from their friends may lessen over time Victoria says so far, no social media companies have been fined, despite how many kids are still using their platforms though there are compliance investigations underway against some of the tech giants For now, Australia's mixed results haven't stopped other countries from pushing for their own bans Just this month, lawmakers in Canada and the UK said they are moving forward with similar proposals to keep kids off social media. And finally, evenven if you've never heard the name Andres Cantor You have heard his voice the nineteen ninety four World Cup. The Argentine sports broadcaster became a global sensation for his iconic goal call. Please welcome Univision's Andres Cantor, Andres He made the talk show rounds. He did TV commercials. This job has taken its store And for many people, his call has since become the sound of soccer. I want to get to the World Cup as prepared as I can Mentally, physically and obviously with the strongest voice possible knowing that I have a very hectic schedule. I'm calling a lot of games in a very short amount of time The Times recently caught up with Cantor to see how he prepared for this World Cup. which kicks off this afternoon, and where he'll be calling games for Spanish language broadcasts He said he has been training compleplete with a voice coach. When you start pulling up like this, start this. Emotions can't come out, air can't come out, energy can't come out and it gets more tired quickly. Before every World Cup, I ask Wendy to get me in shape as much as I can because obviously My voice takes the doll after calling so many emotional games. The last World Cup when his home team of Argentina won the whole thing. His goal call where he was barely keeping it together went viral. was overtaken by emotions. It was something that I had been waiting for as much as all the Argentinian soccer fans for thirty six years I good Kantor says at this point with the games kicking off today