from the forest. w. . this is the w. news live from berlin after twenty years experience again france have lifted the world cup trophy for the second time he gave the strongest team even croatia in the final and also setting up wild celebrations back home which will undoubtedly last well into the night. they did crush croatian hopes with a convincing her she would land or twice in each town and the police and the people

of britain not enough france are not the world champions. is also coming out of high stakes summit in finland between the u.s. and russian president donald trump lands in helsinki in preparation for talks tomorrow with one of your poutine ahead of the meeting trying to label the european union a vote over trade deal drawn to the finish capitol. police. thanks for joining us i'm mary and i haven't seen in a thrilling final france triumph over a show to win the twenty eighteen soccer world cup and here in the studio with me is nick mechanic line from did always towards nick i did get to watch at least half of this match please do take us through what happened as the credit. a match for

true of course as we've mentioned that is the highest scoring final since nine hundred fifty eight when brazil beat sweden five to so many goals with us see how france won their second well up title. and early and one of these maul free kick made its way past the croatian keeper but it was a croatian head that noticed it in mario man juke each with an unlucky own goal to get from to the lead i but the croatian come back kings hit back in the twenty eighth minute even parish itch i've he went from hero to zero though as a video review showed him handling the ball in the opposition box a soft penalty but nonetheless tucked away by i'm two one these maul for his fourth of the tournament i in the second half runs extended their lead through paul pogba a long range efforts tucked into the corner was julien pay repeated the trick again beating dannielle suba sheets from far out for one france

then took their foot off the gas mario man juki chased down a back possible hugo lloris to score an embarrassing mistake but the french captain didn't frown for long for to the final score live below win the world cup for a second time with smiles all round i all right so smiles all around for the french team nick do you think they deserved this title the second one in twenty years i have france to win the title of the kenya tournament but after that performance in the group stage i wasn't so sure any longer they had it see one win against australia which wasn't super they weren't that good and then they had a one day when it has proven us thinking what's going on here and the only torments involved france that was against denmark south of the first three games i think a lot of the with thinking are they really going to go that far but as susan doc out stage kicked in they beat argentina for three they'd be your guy two nil and of course then they beat belgium this colossal week one nil although it wasn't a high scoring game as one for the football purists is very very good football so overall including today's match they really did deserve to to win it's let's see

let's hear what the welcome winning coach had to say after the final whistle. that among those attending is simply beautiful and it's marvelous for these players there's such a young generation some of them are world champions it's just nineteen even though others have been around a lot longer but feel we played brilliantly today that we showed lots of mental strength but in any case we scored four goals it's deserved. to be thinking. all right nic do stay with us but i would like to now cross over directly to the french capital paris where correspondent ali mo talking is standing by alina season jubilant crowds behind you was a glorious day in paris we can see the fans celebrating and tell us what's happening where you are exactly. it's been trying to get young over the years the last time that thanks for getting that make us cry was progress thanks thanks i can't even get i think it was like trying to stand up i was spanked. i

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a lot of excitement is happening. all right nick let's for a moment of though speak about croatia they were the underdogs at this tournament how good is it that a team from a country that's as small as croatia actually made it to the final of the world cup because there's a population of four million people that's equivalent to a bell in just slightly more than one billion house and what they've shown especially is that they had love and passion in the team it was incredible how they developed over the tournament and there's a lot of very good players in that team that's in the commodity rackets it's fantastic world beating players because margaret has won the golden boot but what they really showed is that the individuals they played as a team and they got as far as they did because they just never gave up they three times in the knockout stage went a goal down and went on to then advancer penalties it was absent incredible performance by then of this world cup and although they have been defeated in this final it will be i think tomorrow that we've still be quite happy to go as far as

they did well nick stand by once more for me because you and i of course watched the match on television but correspondent eileen rudi was in moscow and he joins us now from there so ali we know that a major rainstorm began right as the final ended but from what we've been hearing it doesn't seem to have dampened the excitement tell us about the atmosphere. yeah indeed a dramatic end to the tournament in terms of the elements. fitting for the occasion really and indeed what was going on on the pitch it was the croatian fans making most of the noise in the ground the creation fans and the neutrals supporting crozier in this game this country of just four four half million people brought so many people to this tournament and brought such great atmosphere to not just this fine with the semifinal as well a few days ago they really did bring it to life in style inside luzhniki stadium behind me tonight so we have to give them

a lot of credit for that however you also have to give the french team a lot of credit for coping with this fear coping with the kind of hostile nature of the crowd inside the stadium and playing their game and being cool and calm and collected and being clinical with their chances as well and you could see with the celebrations at the end just how much it meant there not just right at the end of the game but the goals from above as well with all of the subs coming out and celebrating with the players on the pitch you can see just how emotional force and a really fitting end to the tournament has given so much emotion so much passion and so much entertainment as well well speaking of entertainment and there was a forest an incident that actually brought and the match to a brief halt when a few protesters stormed the pay should tell us what happened there. yeah it was a real shock actually that particular moment seeing people running out onto the

pitch while the game was being played given the huge security presence that they've had not just here for the final of course but throughout the world cup you could see that in lovren in particular the croatian defend was not impressed he looked absolutely furious and i can imagine there was one moment at least in the stadium he was not impressed at all and that's of course vladimir putin this was his big final and it was to a degree spoiled by that protest pussy riot the protest group. as claimed responsibility for the pitch invasion so we'll have to keep an eye on this story because it really could run and run and we'll have to see you know what happens after this all right all the live reporting for us from moscow and nick mckenna klein here in the studio with me thanks to both of you. well moving on to some other news now and u.s. president donald trump has arrived in finland for a high stakes meeting with his russian counterpart vladimir putin trump landed in the finnish capital helsinki where he's aiming to strengthen

a personal report with poutine in a one on one talks to do on monday morning all ahead of the summit at least two thousand finns demonstrated in the capital in support of human rights democracy and the environment issues that protesters say both trump and cuttin are neglecting. let's go straight now to deal with you correspondent teri schultz who's in helsinki for us so terry we know that protests have been following president trump throughout his european tour what's happening in helsinki. as you mentioned the protests here this afternoon gathered up to two thousand people and i have to say that most of the protesters were actually more carrying signs and protesting against president trump more than president putin and i asked a couple of them about that and they said you know they just think that it's more useful to demonstrate against the u.s.

president that they find him more offensive and i can tell you that this is this is something that didn't used to happen back in the day of helsinki's long history as as a site for summits between the u.s. and soviet and russian leaders i actually as a young journalist covered both the nine hundred ninety summits between us and the soviet union at that point and one nine hundred ninety seven and back in those days you would just get a handful of protesters at the time so this is definitely it was definitely a more rambunctious and raucous crowd as as you've seen on the video definitely trying to make their mark trying to get their voices out ahead of the arrivals of the two presidents well terry the u.s. president gave an interview to the american network c.b.s. earlier today he talked about the e.u. in no uncertain terms can we bring up that quote from that interview. he said well i think we have a lot of photos i think the european union is a foe what they do to us in trade now you wouldn't think of the european union by

their foal and that of course brought a direct response from donald tusk he's president of the european council and he tweeted america and the e.u. are best friends whoever says we are photos is spreading fake news so terry is this just an elaborate plan from donald trump to make these statements before his meeting with the russian leader. well far be it for me to know what donald trump is planning but it certainly has been his modus operandi on this entire trip to europe i was also covering the nato summit in brussels and on the morning that that meeting was to start in a completely unsung scheduled unscripted and and surprising announcement he started lashing out at germany and chancellor angela merkel in a breakfast that was just supposed to be a photo op saying there again as he has now that germany on trade doesn't treat the u.s. fairly that it shouldn't be spending its money on gas from russia when in trump's

words the u.s. is spending its billions to protect germany so that seems to be what he's doing again lashing out at the europeans and in that interview it should be said also that the interviewer was quite surprised and mentioned that you know really the e.u. is the number one foe against the united states and trump said absolutely you wouldn't think it but you know ahead of russia and china who are who are foes in some respects so it just seems that he wants to again put his mark down against europe to finland to the host is a member of the european union and certainly there will be those people saying that this is something that president vladimir putin of russia will be happy to hear as he comes to town to meet president trump. all right d.w. correspondent teri schultz reporting from hell thinking many thanks indeed. and just to take you back to our top story in the world cup coming to an end after thirty two days with thirty two nations taking part in sixty four games and now of

course the future world cup is over for another four years so let's take a few minutes remembering some of the more amazing moments of the final tonight. i. can. recall using germany to learn german. salute from the. why not learn with him online on the mobile and free to suffer from the c.w. learning course you can speak.