dramas the. stories others who refuse to notice. faces change the world. picture of today's. on demand from around the globe. dropped. to fifty. international with me kevin owen and more the big stories of the week russia's presidency in brazil the third and final stop of his latin american tour he's at met with the german chancellor angela merkel with whom he discussed the crisis in ukraine let's get the details in from full scope is in rio de janeiro now said.

russian president vladimir putin has just arrived in rio ahead of sunday evenings world cup final he's just concluded a meeting with german chancellor. over the agenda was the situation in ukraine and both leaders are great at the situation in the east of the country is deteriorating and they are urging for a cease fire from both sides russian president vladimir putin also went on to say that any ukrainian shelling of russian territory would be totally unacceptable following reports of. it is a room radio ahead of the world cup final which takes place later on sunday in the american are stadium nearly eighty thousand spectators will be packed in watching germany take on argentina wrangler marco is clearly here in support of her nation hoping that they can stop messi and co for responsibility for the competition i will be handed over to vladimir putin on russia to force host the tournament in four years time. ok paula before that martial bit later of course it was for scott

ritter there now with brazil about to hand over the world cup to russia and we're looking ahead of our correspondent harvey snow in one of the eleven russian cities set to host matches of the tournament in twenty eighty years catch up with him. to give you a feel for the place so quickly here a few facts and figures first of all is the capital of the russian republic of tatarstan the population of just over one point one million people that makes it russia's eight biggest city the kremlin now this is a world heritage site i did take a look around today and i was interested to find that there you have a church and a mosque situated practically side by side i think but it goes some way to enjoy the reputation of sandwiches of being a place where muslims and christians co-exist very peacefully side by side a fact that probably not too many people know about the city is that in two thousand and nine the people of russia. capital of the country will design is

a cool song of russia's eleven host cities for the twenty eight world cup and i was lucky enough to take a visit to some of the other places involved let's have a look at how preparations there are going to n.t. eighteen feet for both ladies and gentlemen we'll be organized. back in two thousand and ten it was all smiles as russia defied the odds to be named host of the twenty eight world cup. victory came last thanks to a slick promotional. he's pledged to develop football among the country's youth. with another big selling point was russia's ambitious plan to build several new stadia which will keep games could be plate for years on how exactly is not planned looking of the twelve stadiums to be used for under construction there in killeen the drought. nizhny novgorod and somalia the move should be rolling soon enough

with those projects to be underway by the end of the see it and meanwhile the progress that some of the other venues has given russia to celebrate. what here in sochi there should be no problem whatsoever the fish stadium is tried and tested during the olympics it proved itself to be a great success that will be one at a slight alterations needed in order to turn it into a football stadium but they're only minor. this one up as a success for the host nation. this is the arena and boy is this a versatile stadium because last year they hosted the world student games that next year they'll put into swimming pools for the staging of the championships and after that it will be converted into a football stadium. in the russian capital there are two very different projects taking place with the new stadium going up just as an old one gets down first as they spot tanks stadium

a high tech high cost ground that in order to protect its pitch from the harsh russian winter is he's using the very latest technologies and they include football's equivalent of the giant head drawing. board through the profile. with all the soil hitting. the sufis keeping the chance to show as it should be and also laying. off the pitch. lights all. so here is the spot that stadium in. all its glory the playing surface is looking absolutely spectacular while the infrastructure is just days away now from completion it took four years of work and four hundred thirty million dollars of investment together to this point and it sees the stadium spot tacked on the brink of becoming the new kid on moscow's footballing blockbuster if you're one of those fancy prefers you'll stadium to be a little bit bigger of a house of

a little bit more history and there really is only one place to go. and that's here to the luzhniki which in twenty eight team will host both the opening game of the tournament and the big one the world cup final however in order to look the part for the big occasion the grand old lady of russian football is having to undergo a monumental make over. by bank of what i really mean is it's been completely gutted which is a bit now some found in this field of the truth of losing the stadium that's filled with so many memories just like the 1980's and mischka that there has to be on the moscow olympics. the sun shouldn't be too sound because while the insides might be new the facade of the luzhniki is set to remain which means that it's not really good by more case the

c.d.c. . says neil harvey reporting for r.t. . more the big stories of the week next relations between germany and the u.s. took another blow this week when burley kicked out his cia chief assigned their itself to two high ranking german officials were on masters allegedly american spies sparking some angry words the german interior minister dismissed the information obtained by the alleged buys as laughable of the week but said the political damage is disproportionately serious because of it a left party member was outraged meantime saying there's no longer blind trust in the united states and the justice minister to say as well demanding that u.s. spying in germany be stopped once and for all here's our europe correspondent peter all over. sent packing with a flea in his ear and. i just want to say that if you see it was human common sense

in my opinion spying on allies and friends is a waste of energy. germany has now told the cia contact at the us embassy in berlin to get his things and leave. for the first time after a series of spy scandals this is a strong message from the germans that they've had enough of washington's behavior you know experience or foreign intelligence services isn't something we're taking lightly but it took a whole string of and biasing snooping slip ups to get to the stage that paints a picture of an abusive relationship in june of last year it emerged that the u.s. had spied on its european allies prompting this response from the chancellor spying on friends is not acceptable then it was revealed that mrs merkel's private cell phone was bugged by the n.s.a. washington promised not to do it again but refused to sign a no spy deal bilin still wanted to talk trade and rebuilding of trust between the

transatlantic partners flash forward to april of this year when germany's request to see the chancellor's n.s.a. file was turned down and even then it was content to stand side by side with the u.s. president as he again spoke of their close friendship but the discovery of two potential double agents in germany and his many weeks and a lack of cooperation from the u.s. with the investigations looks like the final straw and it will be interesting to see what effect the expulsion of the cia official will have on an already strained u.s. german relationship now that berlin has shown its willingness to act peter all of a r.t. germany. yeah it was strange because this isn't the first time u.s. intelligence has been caught spying on its ally that's the problem last june it was revealed half a billion private messages in call center received by german citizens were monitored every month chancellor angela merkel fell victim to her phone was tapped

big fuss over that and in february it was reported the former chancellor gerhard schroeder's phone calls were snooped on and in the run up to the u.s. led invasion of iraq one american investigative journalist told r.t. these latest revelations are leaving berlet embarrassed the german and american security systems are so interwoven you can't even separate from the basically to say infrastructure the same architecture of security so if germany was to say they don't want to it's very hard for them not to because there's so many institutions which are basically into a wall that is the same it's the german political leadership. wants to be involved that it states they want to have an integrated security structure it's part of who they are it is part of who they've been since the end of world war two but this recent espionage scandal of america being spied on and of the two ropes recent cases is embarrassing for the german political system because it shows that germany

has been very loyal to the united states with the united states still doesn't trust . more the big stories that help shape the week's headlines for me in twenty minutes time here not international next day you'll bushels lined up with truth seeker slight looking at kids military campaign in eastern ukraine. old. technology innovation all the least of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. i'm abby martin the stories we cover here you're not going to hear any right seven story extra headlines same time there's a reason they don't want you to now. reset you should be completely outraged now let's break the set.

the genocide in eastern ukraine and its quote shameful cover up in this program. bombing the wheat fields to make sure there is famine. kiev's later repeat settlers genocidal. and ukraine. by western europe. some million people were slaughtered in rwanda as a snick genocide in just one hundred days the man who assassinated the country's president spoke that frenzy was trained by the u.s.

ministers confirmed the missile the blew up the president's plane came from u.s. stockpiles once the core of massive blood boils predicted by the white house again memos show the us did everything possible to keep the murder going vetoing any intervention to stop the violence and even instructed u.s. government officials and mainstream media not to call the genocide a genocide to avoid public pressure to quote actually do something. be careful genocide finding could commit the us government to actually do some of the genocide spread to resorts rich congo and was a huge success for washington bringing us puppets to power when the scale of the atrocity came out bill clinton was forced to make pipes the most on this statement by a u.s. president in thirty years admitting u.s. claimed concern for quote human rights and democracy round the world just crocodile tears even when there is genocide the white house only ever does anything. he said

when it seemed american multinationals quote interests whether we get involved in any of the world's ethnic conflicts in the end must depend on the cumulative weight of the american interests at stake interests of journalist william angle joins us great to talk to you so genocide is just another foreign policy tool for the u.s. well susan rice is a prime example when she was assistant secretary of state for africa policy under clinton she and her advocacy enabled the deaths of five million africans through the congo crisis. we have people in the washington ministration who are. unfit to stand trial for war crimes their record has such blood. and the libya responsibility to protect which is responsibility to commit genocide in libya and in reality. i think the same cache are trying

to orchestrate a genocide in eastern ukraine just like unit but it is not. all the polls lying on the ground another villages organs hanging on the outside only a tool so left the latest victim of. the bally bombings of civilians reports of li ke of us again used cluster bombs in this attack designed to kill indiscriminately the bomb splinter maiming or killing everyone in the surrounding area vanya celebrated his fifth birthday the day before the bombing the next day the cluster bomb blew his leg off he died almost immediately in front of those toys how would you expect prison poroshenko feel she says if that was his children. from those historian eric is the most fun.