Is Brazil ready for the World Cup?

When Brazil won the right to host this year's World Cup, it felt to many as if football was going - if not to its birthplace - but to one of its spiritual homes. The ultimate soccer tournament being staged in the ultimate soccer nation the country which has won the World Cup more often than any other.

But almost since Brazil got the nod for 2014, things have gone pear-shaped. The Brazilian economy has stalled and yet Brazilian visions for the tournament were grandiose but as costs spiraled those visions had to be trimmed. Last year there were riots in Brazilian towns and cities as people expressed anger that 14 billion dollars was being spent on a soccer tournament. Money many Brazilians thought could be better spent on schools, buses, hospitals and roads.

Then came the question marks over the new stadia. Projects over budget and behind schedule, workers dying in accidents as deadlines loomed.

The latest row is over the still unfinished Arena Pantanal in the state of Mato Grosso, damaged by fire the state authorities insist it will be good to go for the big kick off.

But now federal prosecutors - as Latin American football expert Tim Vickery's told the programme - federal prosecutors are opening their own investigation into the possibility of structural damage, revealed in a leaked report by a team of local civil engineers.