breaking news here an r.t.a. russia has got its hands on the golden statue of the world cup after winning the bid to host the event in twenty eighteen well the announcement was made by the football governing body in switzerland one of the world's top sporting events is expected to bring billions of dollars of investment and a massive influx of tourists now meanwhile catarrh was announced as host in twenty twenty two well our correspondents are covering the latest news across the world we can now cross live to our correspondent peter all of our believe we have them in moscow we have peter all over they're going to skim over and some farmer there in zurich i'd like to begin with you pete tell us about all the work that now has to

be done to prepare for this world cup in twenty eighteen. well is an awful lot of work that needs to be done to make sure that russia is ready to host this total and the actual winning of the rights to be able to host the world cup into a dating just the first step of what needs to be done to make sure that they're ready to put on not told them and when it comes around in a year's time not to stadiums that need to be built also stadiums that need to be revamped including the one just behind me here in moscow dilution at the stadium where the final will take place in twenty eighteen of course luzhniki how seeing great footballing events in the past just two years ago we saw the champions league final held here with great aplomb russia doing a great job i don't think that would have gone any way to hauling the chances when they could win the voting was taking place inside who would get this but that is an awful lot that needs to be put into place in russia to make sure that they are ready in order to host this told and today yes time stadiums infrastructure road networks hotels all of that has to be built a lot of they say

a lot of these big by russia was based on the fact that the potential that they could put henschel bids the potential total that they could put on was what could be done in the future so three not a little close close is put on that great told with what they promised you she even more than two farmer is in zurich for us andrew massive news for russia this evening how much of a surprise wasn't there in switzerland. she was surprised it was i think it would be wrong to say was a massive surprise but what the race was all about is that it turned into a two horse race if you like it seem to over the last few hours between england and russia and looking at both of the last presentations they were both excellent but i would say that russia no matter what happened in the pits always had two very very strong arguments russia had never hosted a world cup before the other bidding nations had england had it back in sixty six

spain had it nine hundred eighty two if you look at who won the twenty twenty two world cup it's cattle that hasn't won a world cup before so that's something obviously with the three executives were thinking about secondly i thought the presentation from russia was excellent it was slightly different from the others simply because from the very beginning it actually sorokin their c.e.o. for the russian bid said look we don't want to bore you with facts and figures all that is in our brochures but we do want to talk talk to you about is what is in our hearts and he went on to explain why this world cup would be so important for russia so one i think that from the very beginning russia's name was always mentioned as a potential winning candidate for this race it did get very close various. celebrities and high five high profile pay from the betting nations came here the prime minister the british prime minister david cameron is here so is prince william so is david back in but whatever you say how much you dress something up you can argue with the facts and the fact is russia has not held

a world cup before and i think that really was a deciding factor questcor were telling you go or here's in cousin for us the city which will host some of the games in twenty eighteen they've also had an interesting way of supporting russell's bad i guess that today football game they put on was well worth it wasn't it you go or. absolutely everybody is extremely excited to hear him explain to you what's happening i'm standing on this football pitch since. an indoor football pitch stadium in the center of the city's minus twenty five outside and has been holding this two day long football match nonstop of course with boyer's changing but nonstop from eight am on wednesday morning to half an hour before the final analysis from switzerland people were gathering here and watching it live on this big t.v. screen installed here and started screaming laughing dancing the running around

with flags home you hugging each other because as you said is going to be one of the cities which is going to host some of the games during the two thousand eight hundred foot wall to cup so for these people here in gaza and it's not only about sports and skies and already squad developed in that way it already has been the football team which is very successful in russia and is clearly taking part in the european champions league it has a very successful hockey team that was named the sport capital of russia last year so it's not only about sport was about also understanding that this is going to be a huge investment this is a green light for huge amount of investment to other cities which are also going to take part in the hosting this championship in two thousand and eighteen new roads and new hotels and new airports and more everybody here. was hoping for russia to get this bid to win this bid understanding that this just opens

a window of opportunities for future generations not only in terms of sport culture but in terms of modernizing the country as well. all right we're going to scale no andrew farmer and peter oliver live for us covering this breaking news of russia winning its bid to host the world cup in twenty eight what we're going to keep the conversation going joining me now in the studio is. he is he works for and t.v. station and our sports. parters thanks for being with us let me ask both of you how big of a surprise it seems almost like russians are more surprised they won then the rest of the world not russia with a lot sort of growth if you really think about it i'm very surprised evolve the role that the are built with the world cup given to south africa to brazil to russia and then to qatar this is interesting about how the trend of emerging developing countries being able to also take the stage and also it's not just countries that are already like england seems like they're not lying they're

bringing football costs of people they really do what about u.k. we're ready for russia to when i was ready for russia to win on the basis for a couple reasons you don't generally like doing so and he i had a feeling that the netherlands belgium big would go and also spain portugal despite spain having won absolutely everything there is in football quite recently so that meant that we it was england versus russia and fee for is very much a mentality of trying to promote exactly stargaze said the new countries that did new ideas spreading that football and having a new legacy and that's exactly what proved to be the case in that we were getting reports coming through that in england had gone awry in the first round so that we did russia who were the favorites is from contention. how much does russia really need to do our correspondents have been talking about the stadiums that need to belt but this is going to be a massive project for the country we have the olympics coming up in twenty fourteen of them four years later the world cup yes it's absolutely massive project but i think we can cope with it why don't people has the choice of the truth be they

could choose something to that which was already prepared radios like the evil league and little bit and some think through the best something for the future. between present and future and the future so all of our mission now is to cope with that oh yeah we could get it done to make their interest in both of you going to moscow for a couple of years now you follow sports and tentatively how much do you think this is going to do for the national unity i mean we saw how fans react to any kind of football wins this is huge for russia what do you think people are feeling right now i think the sense of elation i mean there are differing views on how people see world cups and how they develop. sports in general my first of us question optimistic won and i think that by having a world cup it will not only promote a sense of national pride and unity and a sense of purpose also in the development developments really g.'s well there's

also how it benefits generally on a grassroots level in the money will then be invested in infrastructure in the ground speed programs and so that's why i say so to the north basically to say they have to therefore they can invest in their clubs therefore they can invest in training and therefore i can't see it as a benefit for as he said the growth of sport development of infrastructure and the country's economy as a member being in guatemala when they won the bid for the olympics and it's indescribable the emotion that was saw there in people were were crying hysterically it really is an amazing moment let's talk a little bit more specifically about football in russia i am not the biggest expert on football let's talk a little bit about the sport may. be compared to england of course that the the whole of football what is football to russians because difference between english football and the russian is that english football is business is business english people they can earn money by football in russia we feel kind of the russian youth

is more like entertainment of course a lot so for big corporations spend their money saluki without profit into russian football invest money we have no alternative to getting something probably all the image so english football is business for us in football is not business yet but i think we are coming close to became to try to find this commercial aspect of the ball maybe it will so with the world cup in a few years we will be will be learning how to do it why does that football in russia passion pride i mean kate you chime in if you have anything you want to add to that what i would say is something that dick advocaat the russian national coach said in the fact that the the to come back the the come the country itself and the clubs have been waiting for this there isn't those nights it would happen that they were the favorites and he coaches an interesting example in the fact that he said when he came regime is recent so petersburg coach he said that he almost saw the

beginning then of a development in the ground and an infrastructure around the ground and so forth and so it's proved in the fact that there's another champions they've gone to me recently the russian premier league champions yesterday they were doing really well and you know you wait for a cup so i can't help but think that this is the knock on effect of this will develop across the sport as a whole you have to both question in private i think you could do it in between passion and pride if you special but the has never become pride because we don't have really big success with lately the russian gold guy was saying we think you know by having this kind of invest we have nothing to be spread in the throat the those little successes the pride and the away sin that you do see is quite amazing really i mean the way people come out on the streets of moscow across the country. it's amazing to watch and it seems like it's the first step but it could really turn into something huge and i want to ask you i just really world about under they are so i haven't being there is this the step towards football maybe becoming a business he's a huge star now. yes maybe a little bit i agree could be a step but it's

a much bigger. issue to bring your show into the stage we should learn to how to manage football of course we will recommend the jurors with their. sponsors where they can have a real investors here in football and where we'll be trying to do it what about coaching is russia has a lot of foreign culture brought into coach are we going to see russian coaches in the future in eight years maybe they're growing up there finishing their careers in careers before ball players like i'm very sorry maybe the russian coach for the three way why are there so few russian coaches and what does that have to do is it with the football culture not being developed there's also an element where. in itself is now such an international international aspect i mean for instance if you look in the english premier league the longest serving managers. but also and you look at the design it this is an example is

a good one in the east each honest lets you get an italian with in russia i think there comes a point now where they're just taking people take from the best of what is available and also these people tend to be in form of success with it and i think that now with that investment with that with that sense of national pride with that sense that we can develop clubs in their own rights and from the clubs in themselves having a feeder systems you know you develop players and from good players as well players that have a bent to coaching you can go on from there i want to ask you about the actual voting i mean how secret is it we're hearing leaks that england was booted out in the first round we have or find out who actually made the final choice and who was up against who in reality i haven't already i have heard the rumors. it after the first throw it will be very little between russia and portugal spain and germany and holland so there's going to lose so by all that they will receive only two votes and these three votes will be. the one who gets the three votes from belgium

and holland. between weeds but you know we've heard the word of the first row and i concur with that it's upright that was a surprise to us i still don't believe it it's true but you surprised in the sense that england being not so well it doesn't make you wonder about all the effect that the media reports the allegations of corruption and so forth maybe that had a bearing on the game from a result used to say maybe. let's talk a little bit about the actual presentation we had interest of all of first deputy prime minister speaking he mentioned something that i thought was interesting which was not so much really just about support he said people think they know but they don't really know and we want to show the real russia what do you think that's all about it's a big problem i think we we are here with russia because we have big huge legacy of the soviet union and we have i think a bit different image in the whole world. we do not see us as we are in the know

about bears and things like that the symbol of russia and we really want to show or we're all. the more than russia russia that develops the russia over there he's with the european community we've been of the european community within the world community we're going to take a second to remind our audience of course that we have breaking news here on our team russia won the twenty eighteen bid to host the world cup let's listen in to the big announcement. twenty. ladies and gentlemen to be organized and.

then amazing moment there are lots of excitement let's go back again to this presentation because obviously it had a major part of them winning the bid what do you think were the strong points of the russell bet i don't think that the presentation itself is something that could affect the executive committee the course everyone everyone and i think you know the way they go that well it's everything i don't think they really believe that any of the executive committee members they come to the office today and they didn't know what to do i will see in the presentation i will see david beckham on the stage and maybe i will decide if it's good i think everything will have been decided we could go months ago in their mind because of what what made them make that decision a week ago is you say i won't own research they were traveling they read reports of

the war investigating the beads and they've made up their mind it would be and the presentation is just some official and official part of the real work was done before this presentation do you agree with that or do you think today was was it about making it seem like it's all the scientists base and and now excited about how we're going to like the stars and keep us away so kind of like you know this is you can see it worked it in a second so if you want you certainly kind of the anticipation absolutely. i'm just i'm kind of half and half on this i tend to think that yes absolutely there is nothing that went by. you have a kind of a core idea within the minds of the executive committee of what they want to do i think people can be swung at the last minute can that be swung by personalities i happen to think they do i think it's quite interesting that promised to putin to get he must have been quietly confident that was that was really that to me that was quite a revealing a revealing factor because he didn't he didn't get when we were speculating on whether he thought how could it possibly go but clearly there is a real confidence in the russian ranks i think doesn't it but england have prime

minister cameron they had prince william and they did seem very confident basically it was said and i heard you guys talking about earlier that basically they could host the world cup tomorrow if they needed to because of the infrastructure that they have they already and also there is a big emphasis on commercial exploitation as well england has the english premier league which of course is global and makes lots of money england can exploit the commercial rights of the huge tournament within the country but as i said the x. factor is that we we talked about so much in the studio beforehand that they're very much keen on promoting this global idea having a new country having a new legacy and exactly sergei said the it was interesting why we're so fascinated by qatar is it reflects on russia it's the whole idea of having that new pushing the parameters pushing the boundaries of football and internet has already has to do russia has an eastern europe hasn't and a middle east country to its absolute countries the fact that it will lose it

but it's nothing they have everything they have stadiums they have for. media support we do support they have a popular through football. play football they like with a lot we both have sold a lot so there's been very little to nothing but russia against everything with the with the with with when we were behaving in a few years everything that you know of us having now how much investment we really bring into the country and billions and billions of dollars of it. it's very difficult to quantify but in terms of the one factor that struck me looking through everything was that you get so many movies it is and also the whole idea of seeing russia as it really is i mean having used to as you say yourself when you come here you don't know what to expect now with the whole perspective perhaps visa fee travel it's easy to get into the country that you will see it for what it is and in doing that it will just spread the word that more people perhaps who come here make the effort to come here that in itself has commercial values every match generates

mascots and reviews those that we saw at the world cup before i can't see a knock on effects that an infrastructure benefiting all the clubs anyway i think everybody's a winner and even more i think russia is ready to organize a kind of very favorable investment climate for those who come to participate in the organization of the world cup or point source or for media for people in for thirst or for partners we can think they even think about tax tax benefits for the room for them and things like that so we can attract people by. by or a restaurateur really involved. to organize and what about these corruption scandals of the late. in the in any concerning feel for how much did that have to do with the decision you said you thought you know weeks ago it was made to that have any effect on what the delegations are very surprised that in going to work what was the motive of the nation united who you guys are supposed to

know this. for both so they were not united they would have you know they were fighting they were competing for the world cup with the same time b.b.c. was throwing their films about corruption just exactly at the same time it's incredible i can read about it happening in russia for example do you think as well that that had something to do with them maybe even i mean doesn't believe it but we are hearing rumors from the b.b.c. that they were booted out in the first round could it be because of the scandal i mean here you can say but it's obvious it's no good does it end. like i was right to have even considered it that way coming from england to be an english journalist and knowing how we do everything and we have exposed these all the time i never really took it's really happened because it's very curious that the news came probably b.c. . yes because it is not the right thing because i would believe that the yes perhaps it did i happen to think rather than being negative i ask instigates as well rather than actually thinking was england's to lose i'd like to think in positive terms and things that russia's to wit in the fact that all those positive

factors the new country the big investments the opportunity to develop the country develop the country sport benefit the economy i would like to think in a positive way that with those of the side effects of the negative things do you think that i mean obviously will be a challenge preparing for the olympics there are still a lot of these down to or will it be a conflict between preparation of food for the winter olympics a lot of money we're talking about a lot of work to be done. maybe but we have four years more between winter olympics when the world cup which is quite a long term play and we think of all of the games held in the stadiums in sochi that have been built for the olympics i'm not sure because things such as they're building because both early home of the rainy winter sports can be organized and the football stadium i'm not sure that maybe only if there is only one of the but i know i know that some of the stadiums they are building in sochi are meant to be kind of taken down and be able to be rebuilt into other stadiums so perhaps it will

be that i mean i do agree with the city with the years that took into account and also it's a natural thing to have and i have a lot anyway commercial sense and it makes for transportation sense as well such few developed an infrastructure anyway for most of that like yelling and to use it for the world cup to have a good example it gave the summer olympic games in brazil in the world cup in brazil just two years it seems like there's a bit of a trend going on as well because we have the olympics coming up in rio the world cup coming up in rio the olympics in sochi the other coming up in russia is that we're just very probably pygame some by i suppose up the. most i think in russia so sick and just want as you said about the winter games that will have to grow pretty there's lots of development we did russian sport generally interesting that this isn't falling on to the football this well we just saw the grand prix coming straight it seems to be a general trend of sporting investment which again i think is what younger

generations kind of investing in the future footballers are there any programs is that something that's a priority for russian sport yes who are trying to do something about twenty two eighteen we're trying to make some youth program some but it wasn't already before it was you know fixed it was in the pool legislated because we didn't know about the outcome of days of the race now we know that russia will host the world cup in . eighty years so i think there will be much more experience of both organizing this program so both make stadiums feel it's all over the country about attracting more boys spoiling for the ball room media for them to war over food bowl and to find this commercial this perfectly which is more important than one of the things i thought was interesting in the presentation at least the promo that they that they filmed was they really tried to show how varied russia is a lot of people don't know that russia has so many different cultures so many different languages and perhaps that had something to do with it i mean. we had the

world cup in south africa nobody thought it could be done there and now it seems like russia wants to sell the world how very different its people are absolutely and also what a great way in talking of commercial sense with a great way to actually promotes a country as well i think to be saying here is a country that you don't know do you come and visit and by doing that you can see one of the greatest sporting events on the us what a great way to do it absolutely there is a group of persons you know the distance between the two extremes to do so the russian beat community wrote the. book is about like the distance between would return to prague for example so we've been one country with russia we can show the whole world the present for example which is a very beautiful feet to the capital for mostly republic have you ever mentioned maybe the world cup or football world cup and it was live republic but you'll see it in because i always seems like there is because what the first trying to do

we're talking about the kind of more diplomatic side if you from bringing people together it's becoming quite a theme isn't it. absolutely i mean that was the main thing that we picked up when we were. quite surprised i mean so you know it was an absolute delight and about russia i mean i just thought it was it was great in terms of investment everything so but also the big surprise was cut so it was that sense if we looked we've come thinking maybe australia because they've tasted they've they've tasted for the world cup and i felt you know come last gave them to be twenty four the united states because they were looking then suddenly can't so we hadn't really considered that and that was probably more surprising than the russian result but it makes sense as you say in the trend of waiting probably the biggest question whatsoever you're going to political board qatar hope really beginning of december twenty. ninth here i was ok absolutely incredible i don't know if. you know there is something more every thirty degrees. right let's talk about football hooliganism

it's a problem in every country where there's passion about the game what is the best way to deal with it and how much will russia have to battle this i mean it's a it's a security question if the best way is to start with you know what we could see for example you know we could we could go in the real playing so-called what we call center in this treaty and shooting and destroying all of them i feel that the holy ghost which are living. there starting and preparing for the world cup unfolding games undoubtedly. have more experience than anyone in the world fighting for them but we will try to get this experience to gain that experience and i think it was great to do it is probably the best way to start right now absolutely also he started you asking me what i mean how social you have a social i mean it's to take advice i mean whenever there's been

a problem with before there's always been a it's like a cross pollination between different security security forces within within the. and countries and i think that sharing of information of knowing who people are being able to stand pat people from coming so many. people who are the ring it is other than that as well it's also sharing information had to do situation i think now that in fact by having a new country opening up its borders to football socially and culture as well a part of that exchange is knowledge and knowing how to deal with situations that arise from big events so take it from the big countries like england or she say and also where they've hosted twenty chances for success in. other parts of the price we chose to mention another good example of soap opera which was took over the latest world cup. the question of security was the most crucial africa with all the crimes which are happening there but the cost to that it was ok i was into

his work i like it very much. all right well thank you very much our sports presenter kate partridge and queen and from n.t.v. plus thank you very much for your input from both of you. well just to remind you russia of course is celebrating the ultimate goal after winning the right to host the football world cup in twenty eighteen we have more reaction now from peter all of us in moscow for us peter ross of course will have a lot of work to do to prepare for this event tell us about the job ahead. well that's right a lot of russia's bid was based on the potential of the type of told that they could put on russia will have to be winning the actual rights to be able to host this told and just the beginning as far as the work that needs to be done goes really russia needs to build stadiums they need to build hotels they need to build transport links and training facilities all those international teams will be coming here to russia to play in twenty eight c. though russia already has some great stadiums i'm still just in front of one of the loose.