Vincent McAviney: Europe Correspondent on the increased security around the football international between France and Israel

Paris authorities are taking no chances with this morning's French football international against Israel at Stade de France. 

The game comes just days after violence between pro-Israel and pro-Palestine football fans in Amsterdam. 

About 4,000 police and 1,600 private security guards will be on patrol, with an elite anti-terror unit providing security detail for the Israeli squad. 

But correspondent Vincent McAviney told Ryan Bridge the stadium itself will be mostly empty, with the Israeli Government advising its citizens not to attend. 

He says after that guidance, no more than a hundred visiting Israeli fans are expected to turn up, but some local Israelis may attend. 

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
And right now, Vincent meca any our UK europe correspondent,
France is deploying lots of cops. This is for the
Israel football match. This after the violence in Amsterdam.

Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah, that's right. Last week in Amsterdam, a game between
Ajax and Maccabi Tel Aviv was surrounded by controversy because
you had the mccarby fans themselves involved in vandalism, tearing
down Palestinian flags, attacking a taxi and chanting anti Arab
slogans according to city authorities. Then they were targeted by

(00:32):
small groups of rioters on first and in scooters and cars,
which then pursued them, and there was a lot of
violence and ugliness in the city, and various politicians have
been saying it shows that there is a problem with
Semitism in Europe. But this was also some classic sort
of football hooliganism as well. Now tonight thousands of police

(00:54):
are having to be deployed to the stad of France
in Paris to ensure security because France is playing Israel.
There is a guide though from the Israeli government advising
people not to really attend the match. The stadium can
hold eighty thousand, it's only going to be about a
quarter full for this UA for Nations League game. It's expected,

(01:16):
after that guidance from the Israeli government, no more than
one hundred or so Israeli fans are actually expected to
travel to Paris, though there might be some Israelis in
the city that decided to pitch up. But the stand
of France is itself in an area of Paris which
has a big Arab population, big Arab North African population,
and so the police taking no chances with security tonight.

Speaker 1 (01:37):
All right, let's go to the Bond franchise. The producer
has given a few hints about how the Nicks Bond
might be.

Speaker 2 (01:44):
Yeah, that's right. It's been quite a while since Daniel
Craig wrapped up his final Bond film, and there's been
a lot of speculation since over who will take it over.
Barbara Broccoli, who is the part of the family that
owns the rights to the movies. They've produced them going
back decades now, she's given an interview in which she
says the next actor not an actress, so she's clarified it.

(02:05):
James One will still stay male, will need to be
in his thirties, could be of any race, but will
need to be young enough to be able to sort
of carry the franchise for around a decade at least.
You know, Daniel Craig was cast all the way back
in about two thousand and forty thousand and five. He
did I think five films in the end, finishing up,

(02:25):
you know, two three years ago with no time to die.
The franchise, that sort of studio MGM has been bought
by Amazon in recent years and they're looking to try
and do what they always do with Marvel and Star Wars.
They're trying to really build it out and build it
out into some sort of mega franchise. So the producers
saying that they're going to need someone, a man young

(02:47):
enough to be able to sort of carry that for
a number of years, because we saw from Daniel Craig
it's pretty physically demanding and if you get injured, as
he did several times, it can really stall back production.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
Well, if they need a white man in his duties,
I think they've found them. Thank you so much for that,
Evince and macaviny a UK, you're a correspondent.

Speaker 2 (03:05):
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