all. the headlines in r.t. several american soldiers are wounded as an afghan soldier opens fire at a military base in northern afghanistan. calls intensified the u.k. prime minister to resign describes protests outside downing street many day criticizing the reason major response to wednesday's deadly tower block five. victory for russia much of the confederations cup the hermitage can't predict the bank calling or you've got the correct school didn't do. we'll have a look at the polls next on all.

the welcome you're watching r.t. international start with news from afghanistan this hour because according to a spokesman for the country's military four american soldiers have been wounded in an attack by a rogue afghan soldier at a base in the north of the country shot dead the u.s. has only said that several of its soldiers were injured in the in the incident dismissing early reports that american soldiers had been killed well here's what we heard from a journalist in kabul. an afghan soldier used a rocket propelled grenade during a military exercise on the way to the shooting range or the shooting range and according to this officer several u.s. soldiers were wounded this comes not long after afghan commandos killed at least three u.s. soldiers in the eastern province of. the base where the incident today took place

is where at least ten attackers killed more than one hundred forty army soldiers in april in what was a massive security breach you have to remember the taliban are expanding their area of recruitment from where the afghan police and army recruits so the risk of afghan soldiers or new recruits being turned into taliban infiltrators is really high as well as a below the said there this was the latest in a string of similar attacks we heard from a research analyst at the center for conflict and peace studies he told us what is behind these incidents you know looking at the taliban spring offensive strategy for twenty seventeen it's the key element within their new strategy for spring offensive you know there were several motivation for afghan forces one was the infiltration where afghan afghans were sent to carry out his attack the second was

co-option where serving military police were recruited by the taliban for whatever motivation sometimes because their family were living under taliban area or they were provided some in. the second as personal grievances which i believe in today's attack it could be the personal treatment is what afghans are really asking is two things one is push for peace process in second pressurising the pakistani taliban sanctuaries. actually there so i think i would agree with many afghans in this because troop surge and the military solution is no is not a solution for the afghan problem and i think the americans must have realised as well because you see there are so similar comments coming from the american officials particularly those from india on policy but you know it's contradicting

what they're doing and what they're saying that. they believe that it has to be peace process in peace settlement that can. work but in the other hand they are sending additional troops. crowds of protesters gathered outside downing street in london schools grow for the resignation of the u.k. prime minister many do seem to resume a position as untenable following her party's election upset and also her reaction to wednesday's tower block fire in which it at least thirty people died and see chocolate reports. we're right outside downing street where if you can see hundreds of people have gathered to protest against a recent mase government this was originally intended to be a protest pressing the issues following the election lots of people have been saying they're unhappy with the snap election that's recent made holes in the following coalition that was formed with the scene and this was the original reason

but since the tragedy with the grand isle tower where as you know force thirty people confirmed dead more expected to be announced and really hundreds left homeless following what problem there will be people are saying this is becoming the final straw with the unhappiness of following the decisions that this government has been making because a lot of them who have been gathered here today are saying that what happened with graeme bell was some of it had to deal with the u.s. territory measures that had been carried out for years now by the conservative party is certainly lots of calls for i am serious they're saying they want the real numbers of how many people have died there seek the death toll is really much larger for not only enough there are lots of concerns about whether or not this could have been prevented considering some of the material used in the reconstruction works that were carried out and what happened with. by many here see as something that's just a symbol of the huge disparity that exists here in the u.k.

and in london between the wealthier and those who are a little less well off and situate chalk in the reporting that will mean while people have been paying their respects to the victims close to the boom time tower and among the most formal will champion books i mean can. you believe we can we can not come down you know thank you resent me you didn't know what it was really now you want of her brought out to have come. from everything and look i want to we all are going to treat everyone with. nothing what can she do. i think she's just got to start acting as a actually you know coming out and talking to people i mean gauging we people in a human why as opposed to acting like you're always at the press press briefing every time there's a long string of things and i think it's just been more and more frustration from even from myself as a british citizen of someone that is supposed to be this strong and stable leader and you show nothing but the opposite and i think is really getting to

a boiling point where the prime minister has allocated five million pounds to help those affected by the fire however. now reports criticism of tourism a continues to mount especially she seems to be adopting her rivals campaign called . when your own ideas fail just borrow your parents. no one and no community is left behind doesn't that sound a lot like this no one and no community is left behind and this no community and no one is there behind this nobody and no community should ever be left behind in fact jeremy corbyn used that throughout the labor party leadership race last summer he even used it to launch labour's election campaign for the general election perhaps threes in may thought that borrowing a labor phrase would help attract some extra support given how badly she fadden has

self-imposed snap general election a vote in which jeremy corbyn went from zero to hero. like a political chameleon to reason may has borrowed more than have fair share from the right as well in the run up to the e.u. referendum she was a quiet remain but this was back then. people say the e.u. does not make us more secure because it does not allow us to control our border. but that is not true we were the voters but we want our country back a new role for ourselves in the world as a strong country with control over our borders. the single market accounts for a huge volume of all trade look at the facts the potential risk to jobs for our

economy if we were to leave the european union framework of the single market i would say is a beginning but you must be optimistic about what i am proposing cannot mean membership of the single market nigel farage accused of stealing all his policies by getting britain outside the european union controlling immigration and helping small businesses and for years old the british prime minister was running on exactly the same ticket while thrilled to ukip supporters flocked to join the conservative party when public opinion skewed right to reason may adjusted her speech and her ideas to fit the agenda when it swung back to the left so did her rhetoric it's textbook electioneering but as to reason may's disappointing results at the polls have demonstrated relying on it too heavily may do more harm than good poll ratings are now as low as jeremy corbin at the start of the snap election

campaign that's not deterred the labor leader from borrowing some of the reason may's campaign phrases but only for a law i'm going to show you all move forward to well during the queen's speech just as soon as the coalition of chaos has been negotiated. it's not possible the labor party stands ready to offer a strong. antti london well to reason may's plans from the lines with the northern. democratic unionist party in order to form a working government are one of the reasons for today's protest do you pay support northern ireland staying part of the k. while their main rivals are the national party going underground tackle the issue with sinn fein and pay chris has it any dealings between unionism and tory governments have been bad for local people and for ireland since you know when i

think a tory government has never been a good thing for the people of ireland specially the people of the north of ireland we look at our communities devastated by tory is terribly i myself was a government minister last year i seen the effects of tory a sturdy on our budgets but the real public anger and the real public anger the d.p. in the assembly election just in march the d.p. lost a number of seats up to ten seats they lost it was real public anger so you know we see in this we now see you know shadowy backroom deals and that's why there needs to be transparency what it was talked about here because let's be clear with this tories and tory policy have been devastatingly bad for the people of ireland since two thousand and ten tourist areas taken a billion pound out of our block grant you know it's our public services are being punished here and the do you need to be very mindful of. now it's been a cracking start for host rusher in football's confederations cup we live from st petersburg after the break.

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according. again that the opening match of the twenty seventeen feet confederations cup has just ended in some can host russia have claimed the first victory of the competition with a two new when ivan you see even so let's get the details now with new. england footballer stumm calling.

the sun just about to set on the opening match day of the confederations cup twenty seventeen it was the result but russian founds wanted oligopoly it was the result also that the tournament needed alongside me michael hi stan collymore victory goals from government policy take us to the action yesterday was a thoroughly deserved win borussia they started the game very very well by finished the game very very well and new zealand that came with a lot of bluff a lot of bluster there's lots of talk and speculation i might put a face to this mike just a bit but just see the call for the second goal paulo's with the first go plenty more chances kind from that they go the little tap in there and towards the end of the game it was across from the right on so i'd not be really different to the whites actually my of course little because i have to defend and polos do is as good for woods and attacking midfielder has just more so the from post so

a very very encouraging start for russian as the girl she called go it was excellent pricing we're going to hear that word so often in the confederations cup world called teams pressing on the pitch to win the ball back you see grisha consciousness of the goalkeeper and tops the ball in fairly straight forward the russian sporting public will be happy the manager will be very happy the players will very be very happy the only man that one prays perhaps on to the hudson that did expect his team to come to were simply and compete today but they didn't you were watching the game pretty much throughout was it a deserving victory for russia for many wanting to ninety two ninety three min. can see one real effort on tall gate for the new zealanders and that was from distance we saw very early on plays like small offering the action polos you mentioned there are good she calls who do have tightly and particularly well so it wasn't a surprise when they open the score to what seventeen eighteen minutes could have

gone on to be more comprehensive stun the prediction king one guy one correct prediction me all three have some of that i found i have to say you mean this is why we get the premier league footballer on board all the cats i have to say the l.t. bosses were race room and considering to put them into katherine is my co-host but you've saved a position i think without you know prediction i suggested to the top of the show that it was perhaps important for the competition as a whole that the host nation have have a good time and perform well just to keep the interest you know high for everybody what do you think that speckle mateys i think that whatever tournament international tournament play you want the host to go as far as it's possible to go i think there are two reasons for that obviously to mind citing local and national interest but don't forget this is a new team the russian team in the european championships were very poor i watched them play england they would they have got drawn that day but they were desperately

poor overall didn't qualify that they were bottom of the group so a new team with new momentum has to start to sell the russian public that they're not just going to be able to compete in this confederations cup approach more importantly in twelve months time when we're back for the world cup the big event. right skate park ridge was it simply says bird from the zone imagine she meant lots of abi runs. but we had to do we speak to the very back of the fans line so that we can get some scientists you can imagine the noise here is really quite something ninety is it the blue touch paper i think it's also like to be a cake series well there's plenty of be a flying when it is off to rule the city of culture and just before we have kick off in this very very merry and happy of environments the. thank you some of the fans and they were anticipating a very good sort of it as well will be the rush up at the same marvelous country it's amazing what you have here and your history. of if we see details that there are still their world so we wanted to know your country. i am very happy there.

and i am very much excited. to see our. she did tell by seville the year the cheering fans there and i think you were just lucky enough to miss some of the fans will keep out as well you sent me a fine voice as well so when you said your happy environment for the russia for the fans is in the first match of the confederations cup you can hear them. so we've seen a bright sunny day here in st petersburg and a very positive sunny outlook for the host nation well don't know if you're reading some of the international media coverage of the build up to the competition for example today there was an article published in the new zealand herald that was talking about things that we've heard many many times already about things that have happened in russia the have been incidents of racism and games that have been incidents of hooliganism saying at the last major championship they're saying

though that russia should not have the chance to host any major told and because it is a fair comment because these things have also happened in italy it happened in england they've happened in france nil you don't have to justify anything quite simply football hooliganism happens where. ultras into clothes into national teams and maim the whole paul hopwood with england over many many years and it took a long time for england to shake off that you know the european championships last year there were french or. english really good and there were some russian hooligans as well. we've had conversations with the organizing committee hundred. there are going to be no does imply cross border agreements to be able to make sure that. get into the territory of russia while the world so i'm confident that will be the. beholden of all of the sports fans. on

passionate about sports but the majority do not get sold with the british because. i don't mind people accurately reporting wherever hooligans of from but want to do . this for the whole nation of russia. absolutely absurd to journalism and if you don't take fans word for it it's always best i say speak to the found themselves the guys who go to the stadium that's exactly what our correspondent. today he was at the st petersburg stadium he was chatting to the new zealand fancy quite surprised i think at any suggestion that there's anything amiss. i've spoken to a number of fans outside the stadium you come up to them you ask them about the whole again you ask them about the problem and they look back at you and they're baffled all of these people have told me that they're having an amazing time in st

petersburg they haven't experienced any problems and definitely they wouldn't believe it and they disagree with the stuff that was written in the herald the russian hooligans on out even if you wanted to die. just the russian people are absolutely fantastic. and the russian people have extended their hospitality to las. vegas show found somebody does this mean that he actually is very quiet it's the trouble that we see in this town center. we didn't leave it in. the stuff so you know. one of the great benefits of the car federation's car will be the memories that the fans will bring back home but there are no british teams taking part in this tournament so there won't be many people coming back to the cape tell the brits how people in this country really do get

offended when you kate media are saying that football culture in russia is only about violence yes of course there are some problems still but issues exist in any country in fact here's a little history lesson for you in football it is when did football related violence first become a problem we don't know for sure but it can be traced way back to fourteenth century. back then it wasn't so much the beautiful game as a rowdy mass brawl between rival villages kicking a pig's bladder across town you had with the second word this could lead to social unrest and banned the cases of football hooliganism from the modern game fast forward to the eighty's that's when the so-called roughs started causing trouble at football matches talking rival fans and players as well as referees but the heyday of football hooliganism and the actual term came about a century later starting from the sixty's clashes between rival supporters of both

of them to plug a nice fights between large gangs of hardcore fans so-called friends in the first five years of the decade with twice as much violence is that the previous twenty five british hooliganism spread rapidly during the seventy's and eighty's becoming known abroad as the english disease reached its tragic peak at the european cup final in one thousand nine hundred five when the liverpool fans attacked their italian rival causing a stadium collapse killing thirty nine people after the disaster in his clubs were banned from pool in european contests factors the government wants to clamp down and look at it by the one nine hundred ninety. football related violence in the u.k. gradually began to wane but the reputation stuck when england failed to qualify for the one nine hundred ninety four usa world cup the committee chief was delighted that the no england fans. with three countries in the world whose presence would

have created logistical problems so we're very pleased they will be coming at the iraq iran and playing. in the coming years many key international tournaments where mas quite badly behaved in the. now days football hooliganism is of course not only an english but an international disease one that thankfully isn't as prevalent as it used to be. back to the action on the pitch i think stan part of the fun when you get big games like this is everybody likes to try and predict who's going to win what the score is going to be i have to say great kid just to you but to know prediction very early you said to one you convince that museum we're going to school is wrong and that's why you're the some projections for tomorrow i want to grow food chili to come. alexis anxious. to genuine world class players and then the other guy

who got christianne over an elbow against. two former teammates of course a bunch of geology and lots of speculation as to whether the great man christiane would all go for maybe the best player in the world at the moment will be moving on for a real madrid are going to go poor to goal to mexico warm so to nil to chile against cameroon to warm to portugal against mexico this is a few people out in a boat with flags behind this more not to get us a reason to celebrate about you know about your predictions i'm not crowning you the champion just yet you're not secure because you have a lot of competition is doing quite well for example do you remember a killie's hermitage cat also picked the winner although maybe not quite as convinced about his decision it's all you obviously i'm getting stick here more jobs on the lawyer and i went there with a bold to no prude prediction of a look at achilles that he didn't want to know is having a little sniffle. then he was flirting with navy seal and he stuck his nose briefly

bore the russian flag more jobs under threat ulysses is fine but the fact with a sweep of this is a defensive performance so they've got to go they've got to go bold now the put the balls out on the ledge a man struck him in the middle there's a lot of pressure on him to be fair the big crowd watching. by jerry will attend octave a tentative call for russia i think that is going to have to be a bolt on the next production if he's going to if he's going to take my place he has to come out and say hey if doesn't stop there what about nicky the polar bear for going her way and. contradictions for this competition moskos who adopted mika of the she was found as an awful this is a heavyweight striker i would say she also discovered a love for the beautiful game that she's predicted too much she still to come picking mexico as the winner of the portugal so one of these going to be wrong and germany to defeat australia and technology and the second engine the day everybody has an opinion hopefully you will so you will follow all this and trust dollars

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i don't seek out a cup strap to do that anyway i only. think it's good for the ball roll. you have a team of for with a brief period. you know divorce immediately i think that's. the story moment to. and it is very difficult to predict how things will be told. i'm going to france is broadcasting around the world from washington d.c. tonight cuban relations revisited donald trump announces massive changes to the

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