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Pep Guardiola said he will continue to use his platform as Manchester City manager to speak up for victims of global conflicts and violence, adding that society must work collectively to improve.

Guardiola was speaking at a pre-match press conference ahead of City's League Cup semifinal second leg against Newcastle United, five days after he voiced support for children in the occupied Palestinian territories at a charity concert in Barcelona.

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00:00Hi, Pep. Sorry, this is just a question that's occurred to me now when you're talking there
00:03about images, when you talked about Palestine and Ukraine and Sudan and things like this.
00:09You obviously gave the big talk in Barcelona last week, which was received very well by a
00:14lot of people around the world. Why do these subjects matter so much to you, to the extent
00:22where you're very comfortable talking out? There is someone here. No, honestly, I appreciate
00:29it because in 10 years or last two years is the first time one journalist asked me about
00:33that. It looks like you are not allowed to do it for your work, I don't know. But there
00:37is someone who see the images will happen in all around the world, about the words around
00:41the world, you don't affect me? He is not questioning about who's right or wrong. Maybe politician,
00:51right wing, left wing, of course. Everyone, the ideas can do it. But there is someone here
00:59that no effect will happen every single day. But today we see it, before we could not see
01:03it. Today we see it is not something you touch something. It hurts me. For me, it hurts me.
01:11It would be the opposite side, it would hurt me. It would harm for another country, it hurts
01:18me. It's not about the position. So every argument, I'm sorry, this is my feeling. You can discuss
01:27when completely kill thousands of innocent people, it hurts me. It's no more complicated
01:34than that. No more. I have a lot of people and friends who, you know, for many, many countries,
01:43it's not. It's a lot of friends. But when you have an idea and you have to defend, you
01:47have to kill thousands and thousands of innocent people, I'm sorry, I'm a stand up, always
01:51I will be there. Always. I cannot imagine nobody, anyone cannot feel that. When you see the images
01:59every single day, the fathers, the mothers, the kids, being happy when they happen, being destroyed
02:05their lives, and absolutely, the people cannot feel a little bit of, be attached. And now it's
02:11not just in this part of the world, in every, every branch of the world. And what's happened
02:15right now, still right now, with all technologies, all the advances that we have, the humanity
02:19is better than ever, in terms of possibilities, we can reach the moon, we can do everything.
02:25But still right now, we kill each other for what? For what? So, and I see the images, I see
02:34the images, I'm sorry, it hurts. It hurts to me. That's why in every position, I can help,
02:40picking up, to be a better society, I'm not, I want to change anything. But I try, I will
02:46be there. All the time. It's for my kids, for my families, for you, for all of you, for
02:52your families as well, for the kids, for the family, my players, for all the staff. And
02:56everyone do whatever he can, you know, in his job, in his life, the best. And the injustice,
03:02from my opponent, the justice, you have to talk. You have to talk. Otherwise, the justice
03:08one, one, one. You know? Look what happened in the United States of America. We have René
03:15Good and Alex Priti. So, have been killed. One in the infirmary, a nurse, the NHS. Imagine
03:21the NHS, you know, five, six people around him, go on the grass, ten shots. Tell me how
03:27you can defend that. Make something wrong, okay, go to the tribunal, go to the suit, go to the
03:32jail, is something wrong. That is what happened, you know, in the modern, in the modern. There
03:37is not a perfect society. I know everybody is perfect. I'm not perfect. Nobody is perfect.
03:40Societies are not perfect. I have to work to be a better place. You know? A person who
03:45go there, go defend, defend a woman there, surrounded, has been killed for ten. Who can defend that?
03:51I don't know. I will be always in front of that.
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