The group stages provided endless high-octane thrillers, all laced with an air of unpredictability. With 28 goals scored in the Round of 16 matches, this tournament has continued to deliver.
But behind the captivating lure of this footballing spectacle, there has been an existential battle taking place at the Al Jazeera offices.
Kashef, the artificial intelligence (AI) robot, analyses more than 200 metrics, including the number of wins, goals scored and FIFA rankings, from matches played over the past century to predict his match winners.
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After every day of action, as players and fans settle down to sleep, Kashef dutifully downloads the day’s data and predicts the outcomes for the next day and its expected route to the final.
The group stages were not kind to Kashef, who erred on the side of caution and failed to foresee any of the many major upsets.
However, as the sentient emotional highs and lows – that come with the adrenaline-fuelled World Cup environment – settle and players acclimatise to the schedule, Kashef’s conservative approach began to produce results.
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After 56 matches played overall this World Cup, Kashef has a 68 percent accuracy level. Every day, Kashef processes new data, honing his skills at predicting and updating which team will most likely make it to the next round.
It’s Morocco V Spain in today’s first round of 16 knockout game. Who is going through to the #FIFAWorldCup quarterfinal? Make your match prediction below 👇 — AJE Sport (@AJE_Sport) December 6, 2022
After a nail-biting goalless match that went to extra time, the 2010 World Cup winners Spain were knocked out of the tournament by Morocco, the last remaining Arab team, who are yet to lose a match this tournament.
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Portugal face Switzerland in today’s second round of 16 knockout game. Who is going through to play Morocco in the #FIFAWorldCup quarterfinal? Make your match prediction below 👇 — AJE Sport (@AJE_Sport) December 6, 2022
An identical result if you round off the percentages is a promising sign that sometimes humans and technology can both get it right.
In an explosive end to the Round of 16, Portugal’s Goncalo Ramos scored three goals as his team thrashed Switzerland 6-1 to set up a quarter-final against Morocco in the 2022 Qatar World Cup.
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Predicting match results is no easy task. External factors like team morale or player fitness make a big difference in how the game goes.Banners depicting former Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh hang on a building overlooking the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank, on July 14, 2022. [Ahmad Gharabli/AFP]
Shireen Abu Akleh was killed close to over four months ago. More than seven separate investigations by media, human rights organizations, the Palestinian government, and the UN say it was Israeli forces who shot and killed her. The United States says she was ‘likely’ killed by Israeli forces. Israel does not. We hear from Palestinian journalists who were there when Shireen was killed and from people who know how Israel runs their investigations.
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Halla Mohieddeen: Hi, Halla Mohieddeen here! Today we are back from a summer hiatus. In the next few months, you won’t be hearing from Malika Bilal as often; she is out for a bit on maternity leave. But she left some stories we will listen to in the next few weeks.
Halla Mohieddeen: Shireen Abu Akleh was killed almost four months ago now. In the occupied West Bank city of Jenin. She was there with her press vest and helmet to do her job, to cover the news.
Shatha Hanaysha: First. They shoot the building. Then they shoot Ali. Then they shoot Shireen and they still, shooting to me. They trying to shoot all the time. There is shooting come.
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Halla Mohieddeen: At this point, there have been half a dozen investigations, all pointing to the fact that Israeli snipers targeted Shireen. But neither the Israeli army nor the American government have come to that same conclusion – not definitively – not yet. So, according to Shireen’s family, Al Jazeera, Shatha, and everyone who loved her and watched her around the Arabic-speaking world – there’s more to be done.
Halla Mohieddeen: So, today we’re looking at what happened with the Israeli investigation. Monday, we’ll look at the American one to find out what’s missing and what many people think went wrong.
Shatha Hanaysha: I work with a Palestinian website called Ultra Palestine and I’m a freelance with Middle East Eye and some local, uh, websites. I remember, first of all, I remember when I woke up that morning my colleague called me and told me there is an operation in Jenin camp, wake up and I wake up and start checking my phone, trying to figure out what happened. I remember he asked me, do you want to go? And I told him yeah, yeah, of course I’m coming.
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Halla Mohieddeen: So, Shatha started getting ready. It was still early. 5am. But she put on her bulletproof vest marked PRESS – With the big white capital letters on the front and back. And the matching dark blue helmet.
Shatha Hanaysha: And I remember when I arrived it was a quiet day and I asked my colleagues: where’s the soldiers? Where’s the army? Everything was quiet.
Halla Mohieddeen: So of course, they waited. Shireen Abu Akleh wasn’t just a colleague – she was Shatha’s hero. Shatha’s 29 and she grew up watching Shireen.
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This handout file picture obtained from a former colleague of Al-Jazeera’s late veteran TV journalist Shireen Abu Aqleh (Akleh), shows her reporting for the Qatar-based news channel from Jerusalem on May 22, 2021. [Handout/AFP]
Shatha Hanaysha: And I always saw her speaking about what happened going here and there from camp to the city to the village around Palestine.
Shatha Hanaysha: My first time I went to Shireen, I introduced myself. I told her I work as a journalist and she was very kind with me.
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Shatha Hanaysha: When she saw me, she said: Hi Shatha, how are you? And I was shocked. Oh, my God, she remembered me. And this was amazing. And I remember I told my family and they told me: wow, she’s become your colleague now.
Shatha Hanaysha: And then when Shireen comes we start walking in that side street. Everything was quiet. There is no clashes, no boys who throw stones and we start laughing together, joking and I remember that morning, very clear because I remember how happy we were all of us, and the guys in the street they were joking with us and they asking us about if they can come with us. And we told ’em: no, no, it’s not safe. I ask my colleague Mujahed where is the soldiers? And he told me, you don’t see them? And I just moved my head a little bit and I saw them.
Mujahed AlSa’adi: I knew about Shireen since I was a kid – that’s 20 years now, specifically since about the year 2000, when she became really well known for how strong she was on Al Jazeera. She and I became close over the last three years and especially over the last year. She was calm. Really professional, really balanced in her work. She never liked loud noises. She belonged to Palestine, and to her hometown Jerusalem. Shireen really respected humanity.
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Mujahed AlSa’adi: At around 5:45 in the morning we reached the area together where the Israeli occupation army was conducting the raid. We waited there for a while until we met up with our colleague Shatha Hanaysheh, who’s another journalist, and Ali Samoudi, who sometimes worked with Al Jazeera as a producer.
Halla Mohieddeen: They knew where the soldiers were – but they were trying to make sure if things started to kick off the soldiers saw them. They were pretty obvious, Shatha said.
Shatha Hanaysha: We were six people, six journalists, all of us wearing the vest that had a big press on it. And we stand there to take photos, videos, to know what happened around and it’s near a building and we hear the first shot.
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Mujahed AlSa’adi: The occupation forces started shooting at us. And as soon as they started shooting, I told Shireen and my other colleagues, “They’re shooting at us! We’re the targets!”
Shatha Hanaysha: And that’s when Mujahed start screaming and told us that they’re shooting on us and told us come here. I told him I can’t come because of the vest, the media vest. And I told him the media vest is heavy.
Mujahed AlSa’adi: As soon as I realised what was happening, I jumped behind the wall that was next to the street we were walking on.
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Children visit the site where veteran Al-Jazeera Palestinian journalist Shireen Abu Akleh was shot dead while covering an Israeli army raid in the occupied West Bank, in Jenin on May 12, 2022. [Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP]
Shatha Hanaysha: When the shooting start, we run from that vehicles from the Israeli occupation vehicles, we run from them. When I
