fly from berlin history is made in moscow croatia which is the world cup final for the very first time striker mario much you could just scored the winning goal against england in extra time giving his team a two one win that was followed by an endless night of celebration. also coming up trumps tears and she was nato allies the us president unleashes a barrage of criticism in brussels pressing the leaders of the military alliance for largest spending increases but he did sign a joint statement reaffirming existing commitments we ask what all this means for

nato suture. i'm sumi so much going to get to have you with us the football world cup in russia has delivered another thrilling clash croatia beat england in the semifinal and the country is now heading to its first ever world cup final they recovered from an early goal to england to set up a final showdown with france. during limper croatia under pressure from the get go forcing a foul on dilly dally and giving them a first chance on go karen trippier with a perfectly timed free kick one though for the three lions in the fifteen minutes. it took croatian to the sixty eighth to break anyone's defense even parazit far more determined to get the ball than call woke up one zero zero. and despite multiple chances there were no more goals in the regular ninety minutes the game.

heading into extra time. in the one hundred ninth minute merriman's you catch with the decider i score paris's term provider and you wouldn't pick for it in the goal was without a chance. this young three lions team's dream dashed in the most painful way while croatia celebrate reaching their first world cup final i. have is all over moody was following all of the action inside the stadium last night we spoke to him earlier about croatians that very question didn't really look that impressive early on the england very much dominated the opening exchanges and of course took advantage of that to some extent with the opening goal but really they just made the rest of gracious performance all the more impressive the fact that they managed to fight back through the second half and really sort of take the game by the scruff of the neck and then through extra time maintain the upper hand as well and

you've got to remember gratian had played extra time in their previous two rounds so a lot of people i certainly was expecting them to to struggle as the game went on to england to have a physical advantage as the game went on in fact quite the opposite happen the question plays look fresh air going into extra time and i think the two goals showcased as well both came really from croatia players reacting more quickly than england defenders did so very impressive in croatia and it bodes well for them going into the final. and the final will be played on sunday against france and croatia fans are understandably in a confident mood heading into the big showdown let's take a look at how they celebrated the team's historic semifinal victory over england. the reaction in zagreb to strike among the human soup kitchens extra time go on a go no that took the small nation of roughly four million to the press ever world cup final and. sometimes even trying to capture the moment.

for a shot hands on now on cloud nine heading into the final. was you know should still prevail but we're still trying to let this sink in the atmosphere is impossible it's unlike anything i've ever seen in my life for those who are going to. boycott cheer for you for your hair has no limits zagreb some fire croatia will be champion of the world's largest poacher to face something unexpected but again somewhat expected i can't say i'm surprised that it was that outer. rain shaft pants won't stop believing. they are this close to victory they can almost taste it. right to some breaking news that's coming into us now a u.s. president donald trump has threatened to leave nato if other member states don't

immediately boost defense spending trump unleashed a barrage of criticism at u.s. allies at a nato summit in brussels yet despite his threats a joint communique was signed that includes the censoring russia over its occupation of crimea and formally inviting macedonia to join the alliance a move that is sure to anger russia as nato continues its expansion into eastern europe. and let's get the latest with deed of news max huffman he is at nato headquarters in brussels he joins us on the line hi max we've heard reports that donald trump as we said is threatening to leave nato over the spending fight what more can you tell us. i don't think that's the exact wording as we have some of the other they don't partners on some twenty two percent of their g.d.p. b.d.'s the sense that the americans were there and i was saying what exactly that means i don't know we're still trying to get independent confirmation so far we have one yes or doing this and we also have to find out if this is catering to the

whole crowd or is there really is a substantial trust behind this what i can say is that you had a press conference scheduled with the german chancellor are going to back out which was postponed indefinitely maybe there is a connection there although we should ask the purpose max this does come after day a very tough rhetoric from the u.s. president on day one of the nato summit so with that backdrop how seriously should we take right if it is confirmed. well it's a pattern that we've seen before for example with the seven summits everything there seem to be communicated they seem to be on the same page and just as the summit seems to wrap up and in this case the nato summit is about to wrap up there's a tweet or there has been or something that puts everything that has been achieved into question this holds true if we get confirmation of that this is the same pattern we've seen in the past and what i can say is that officially the u.s. has carried the communicate which was prepared over weeks of course the pows it

they did not even reopen it to try to change things so this is the sharp contrast between what the trump says and what they do in these process procedures that we have of nato what it actually means in the end that's anyone's guess at the moment next what exactly are we talking about here in terms of defense spending we know that nato members have pledged to increase the defense spending to two percent of g.d.p. but we've also heard heard the u.s. president demanding that they double that amount to four percent. right now and we have to get this straight because not an official pledge to spend two percent i know it might sound credit but the germans and just on bad what they have pledged is the aim to spend two percent which is that the same thing because that means the two percent on binding so that's where we are at the moment tom tom has consistently ne in the past the four percent four percent he requested apparently on wednesday during the working session was more or less ordered by the rest as

a state government that will present at least that's what our sources are telling us and he didn't take the opportunity. to reopen the official communicate and write that in there. you see the disparity between what donald trump says he tweets and what's written in the official documents is huge and it's very unclear which path you follows if he's just catering to the home crowd with his rhetoric but he's willing to continue doing the same thing that. nato has done over the last years with the type of tone of confrontation that we're seeing there in brussels max what's the reaction that you've seen from other leaders other countries. well so far the reaction has been ok i'm not usually surprised because they have grown to know donald trump and i think they think the might have found a way to contain him more or less if those statements that are now being spread through publicized through one agency really hold true then that was

a mistake because it's clearly not working. other than that the germans have been. you know what you hear a lot is ok trump is trump and he's always doing things that made him diplomats always expressed the hope that he will not touch medo in its military part and the hope is because when you look at what trump does it's always about the business side of things that's what you know that's what he has experience and you know the whole burden sharing thing with the two percent of g.d.p. that's the business side of nato but he's never talking about the military and. the alliance he's never for example questioning that you need to have a bigger presence in the eastern part of europe or a training mission in iraq never about the substance of the military substance of nato it's always about the business part being said max with his words he has called a very mission of the alliance into question you know what is the future of nato with the type of elation. which you which you have asked me quite frankly an hour

ago i would have said it looks like they're just going to continue that path that they had in the past because the communique like i said signed it carried by the americans and donald trump might continue to cater to the to the whole crowd but on the ground here actually with what nato does it doesn't make a huge difference we have to wait and see what he really said. and what he really does because those are two very different thing but what all this. back and forth it does for the allies is that the trust they had in the past the americans would be there if article five was triggered that's the one that. assures common defense meaning that if one of the allies is attacked all the others help like it with their own territory the trust in that card is being eroded because you can never say it's donald trump is going to stick to his word and if worse comes to worse he's really going to say ok our american troops are going in there they're going to

help and without the americans nato isn't worth much quite frankly and they may think you want to ask you know it does seem that the u.s. president has particularly singled out germany in his verbal attacks at least yesterday and today again via twitter why is that. it's a mixed bag well first of all in that you have a point there of course germany is europe's largest economy and they're one of the countries that's been in percentage to the g.d.p. . the least compared to other countries on defense so that is what where the ambassador the u.s. ambassador to nato hutchison also emphasized germany could do much more and they we want them to play a larger world germans have said they're willing to step up their their spending but there seems to be more than that trump is really singling out germany why he's doing that isn't entirely clear all right our correspondent mark horstman bring us

up to date on the very latest at nato nato headquarters there in brussels max thank you very much. now they had prayed and hoped for weeks that this day would come the parents of the boys rescued from a flooded cave system in thailand finally visited their sons in the hospital for the first time but they were only allowed to see them through a glass window the twelve members of the wild boars football team and their coach are in good shape after they were deal but doctors say their immune systems could still be compromised. happy and relatively well after a two and a half week or deal in a flooded cave now the boys are recovering in the hospital the doctors say they'll be under observation for ten days and then resting at home for another month with only water from the caves walls to drink the boys are underweight and exhausted they're being kept in quarantine because there's still a danger of infection. the relief is overwhelming parents are not yet allowed to

hug their children but they're happy to see them alive. the tiny the seals have published these a standing images of the rescue and explained in detail how difficult and dramatic this mission really was the boys were taken out of the cave just as the amount of oxygen dropped to a dangerous level they were sedated in order to prevent them from panicking in the narrow underwater passages doctors monitor their condition at regular intervals along the route that tiny the seals were jubilant that they were able to achieve what many thought was mission impossible side by side with international volunteers . this unity is not only with chiang roy or thailand and it's a global unity and this incident was more than

a life saving mission it's gone beyond that and it's the unity or nationalities that. we want to talk. back home the boys friends are eagerly waiting for them. and my friend don was in the cave i was so relieved to learn that everyone had been rescued that they're ok. we were told not to ask them any questions about the case which just wait for them to tell us if they feel like it but. planning a big welcome ceremony when they come back now and then i hope. that their high school and or ray of welcoming posters. the children and teachers hope to see the boys return soon. but the boys will have to wait for the celebrations. the head of the rescue team says the mission isn't fully over the final mission he says is to send them back home. you're watching news and with that

she will have a live update from the nato summit for you that's coming up at the top of the hour . nico he's in germany to learn german. emerged in the. why not learn with him online on the mobile and free form of the w.p. learning course.