World Cup chiefs apologise to TV crew after staff threaten to break camera

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Qatari World Cup organisers have apologised to a Danish television station whose live broadcast from a street in Doha was interrupted by security staff who threatened to break a camera&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Journalists from the TV2 channel were &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;mistakenly interrupted” late on Tuesday evening&comma; the Supreme Committee for Delivery and Legacy acknowledged in a statement&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Upon inspection of the crew’s valid tournament accreditation and filming permit&comma; an apology was made to the broadcaster by on-site security before the crew resumed their activity&comma;” it said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Reporter Rasmus Tantholdt was speaking live to a news anchor in Denmark when three men drove up behind him on an electric cart and tried to block the camera lens&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You invited the whole world to come here&comma; why can’t we film&quest; It’s a public place&comma;” Tantholdt was heard saying in English&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;You can break the camera&comma; you want to break it&quest; You are threatening us by smashing the camera&quest;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The incident&comma; five days before the global football tournament starts&comma; revived a subject that has been sensitive for tournament organisers who have denied claims there are strict limits on where media can film in Qatar&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Event chiefs said they later spoke to Tantholdt and &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;issued an advisory to all entities to respect the filming permits in place for the tournament”&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Denmark’s football federation has been one of the biggest critics of Qatar among the 32 World Cup teams over the emirate’s record on human rights and treatment of the low-paid migrants who have worked on the massive construction projects since Fifa picked Qatar as host in 2010&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Danish players will wear strips with a toned down badge and manufacturers’ logo when they play France&comma; Australia and Tunisia in Group D&comma; as a protest in support of labour rights&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>A third-choice black shirt has been included as &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;the colour of mourning”&comma; for construction workers who have died in Qatar&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68cd1d189eab3">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; function &lpar;&rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; false &equals;&equals;&equals; &lpar; window&period;isWatlV1 &quest;&quest; false &rpar; &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&sol;&sol; Use Aditude scripts&period;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings &equals; window&period;tudeMappings &vert;&vert; &lbrack;&rsqb;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;tudeMappings&period;push&lpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;divId&colon; 'atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68cd1d189eab3'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;format&colon; 'belowpost'&comma;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;if &lpar; document&period;readyState &equals;&equals;&equals; 'loading' &rpar; &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;document&period;addEventListener&lpar; 'DOMContentLoaded'&comma; window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub; else &lbrace;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback&lpar;&rpar;&semi;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&rcub;&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;script>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>


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