headlines now r.t. seven american troops are wounded as a rogue afghan soldier opens fire at a military base in northern afghanistan. also to come this hour of course intensified for the case and battle prime minister to resign is trying to protest outside downing street with many criticizing teresa mayes response to wednesday's deadly tower block fire. there has been a victorious start to the confederations cup for the host nation russia. international. joins us to talk about picture of.

being with us tonight watching our international start with news from afghanistan where officials there say seven american troops have been wounded in an attack by row afghan soldier at a base in the north of the country he cited was shot dead the u.s. mr early reports that american soldiers had been killed the taliban says it was responsible although that claim has been disputed here's what we heard from a journalist in kabul earlier today and 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. along after a commando 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 and 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 and we also heard from a research analyst at the center of the conflict in pace studies. you know looking at the taliban spring offensive strategy for twenty seventeen is a 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 these attacks the second was co-option where serving military or police were recruited by the taliban for whatever motivation sometimes

because their family were living under taliban area or they were provided some incentives that second those personal grievances which i believe in today's attack it could be that personal grievances what afghans are really asking is two things one is push for peace process and second pressurising the pakistani taliban sanctuaries are actually terror so i think i would agree with many afghans in this because troop surge in the military solution is no is not a solution for the afghan problem and i think the americans must have realized as well because you see there are similar comments coming from the american officials particularly those forming the afghan policy but you know it's contradicting what they're doing and what they're saying at one hand 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. in other news crowds of protesters gathered outside downing street in london. for the resignation of the u.k.'s prime minister many do see position as untenable following her party's election upset and her reaction to wednesday's tower block fire in which at least thirty people died with more his and see. we're right outside downing street where if you can see hundreds of people have gathered to protest against a recent me 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 calls on the following coalition that was formed with the meeting 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 rumsfeld 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 to know the real numbers of how many people have died there seek the death toll is really much larger and they're not telling them 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 was. by many here seen 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 says that well meanwhile people have been paying their

respects to the victims close to the burn tactile and among them was former world champion boxer and the account i would have believed we can we can not come out you know thank you read to me you didn't know it was moved beyond her brought out and i'm sure i'm going to some everything but look i want to we all are going to treat everyone with. i think what can she do i think she should. got to start acting as a as an actually you know coming out and talking to people i mean gauging with people in a human why as opposed to acting like you're always at a 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 his party boy now reports criticism of the

reason may continues to mount especially she seems to be borrowing her rivals words 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 that threw out the labor party leadership race last summer he even used it to launch labour's election campaign for the general election perhaps treason 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 risks to jobs the uncertainties 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 four years old the british prime minister was running on exactly the same ticket while thrilled ukip supporters flocked to join the conservative party when public opinion skewed the right to resume a 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 welcoming the queen's speech just as soon as the coalition of chaos has been negotiated. possible the labor party stands ready to offer a strong. r t london. well after may's poor showing in the snap general election she's now seeking the support of the minority party to form a viable government however her approach to northern ireland's democratic unionist has upset their rivals going underground talk of the ship. any deals between unionism and tory governments have been bad for local people and for ireland since you know one 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 tories terribly i myself was a government minister last year i seen the effects of tory

a steady on our budgets but the real public anger and the real public anger the d.p. and the assam the election just in march the d.p. lost a number of seats up to ten seats that they lost it was real public anger so you know we see in this we now see shadowy backroom deals and that's why the needs to be transparency what it was talked about here because let's be clear about this tories and tory policy have been devastatingly bad for the people of violence 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 d.p.p. need to be very mindful of the. now still ahead a cracking start for house russian football's confederations cup will be live from st petersburg in a couple minutes. it's. more my guide to financial survival this is. a device used by professional

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again should be twenty seventeen feet for confederations cup has just ended in. russia have claimed the first victory of the told with the two new when we get details now from neil harvey and former england footballer stan calling. sitting in the center of st petersburg we got the rock n roll down says not too many of them but they are they lack in numbers that making up for it enthusiasm and stars also some ballerinas

a bit more classical celebration lots to be cheerful about here in the venice of the north there was a suitable victory for russia revenue zealand in the opening match of the she's confederations cup alongside me former superstar at liverpool must in villa strike a stanley column or stan we have goals that we from palos gulf talk a city action yes it is a fantastic performance from start to finish from the russian national team under a great deal of pressure it's fair to say as well this is the second goal in the second off paul was just hanging around at the far post when you get the ball down that right hand side all you do is gamble as a striker or as an attacking midfielder so he was very simply there just to see him and that sealed the deal the first one was for me very very good pressing pushed off just to lift over the goalkeeper you just see there a little bit of a melee on the line one or two one happy new zealand defenders as you see do you start not anything like that we just have to. put out

a very good game that has to be said the new zealand guardian books for over who a very very silly performance cliches no goals against and two goals to the good old from lot of happy people i would imagine here in the st petersburg central area in the stadium of course and in other areas absolutely can't portion it sure was simply to speak fun from we wish we were there rather than talking to you to be able to speak to them she seemed very happy founds. she can imagine the noise here is really quite something ninety is it the blue touch paper i think it's all. the being serious well there's plenty of beer flying when it is off to rule the city of culture and just before we had kick off in this very very merry and happy of environments we speak to some of the fans and they were anticipating a very good sort of and as well will we came to russia because you we've been

keeping a marvelous country it's amazing what you have here and your history is full of if he details that there are still their world so we wanted to know your country and panel for many happy that she had this time and i'm very much excited. she could 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 or if sadly it's fine voice as well so it's certainly a happy environment for the russian for the fight fans is in the first match of the confederations cup you can hear them so lots of happy people in the found zone but some fans who came here for the confederations cup they were warned by the media in the home counties about what they might come across during the competition the new zealand herald for example published an article today accusing russian fans of racism saying they could not be trusted aussies corresponding to me but trying to

meddle with some new zealand supporters here and ask them about their experiences so far i've spoken to a number of new zealand fans outside the stadium you come up to them you ask them about the only gets you ask them about the problems and they will back you and the powerful all these people have told me that they're having an amazing time and see petersburg we haven't experienced any problems and definitely wouldn't believe and they disagree with the stuff that was written in the fall of the russian hooligans on an overnight if you want to die. this russian playboy absolutely fantastic he will be in for arbor await mail and the russian people have extended their hospitality to wash my shoe. and i might look like a shell found somebody. anybody actually that is very quiet it is no trouble that we've seen in this town center. pockets we didn't live in. the

stuff so yeah no good one of the great benefits of the car for the ration sculp well be the memories that the fans will bring back home but there are no british teams taking part in this toward it 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 u.k. 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 is when did football related violence first become a problem. but it can be traced way back to fourteenth century. back then it wasn't so much the beautiful game as a mass brule between rival villages kicking a pig's bladder across town compared with the second worry this could lead to social unrest the. cases of football hooliganism in 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. the actual turn came about a century later starting from the sixty's clashes between rival supporters of both into the fights between gangs and hardcore fans the so-called phone in the first five years of the decade was 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. it's tragic the european cup final in one thousand nine hundred five when the liverpool. fans attacked their italian rival causing a rule in the stadium to collapse killing thirty nine people after the disaster in this clubs were banned from european country matches the government wants to clamp down. by the one nine hundred ninety two related violence in the u.k.

gradually began to wane but the reputation. when england failed to qualify for the one nine hundred ninety four usa world cup committee chief was delighted with the no england fans. with three countries in the world whose presence would have created logistical problems we're very pleased they will be coming with iraq iran and playing. in the coming years many key international tournaments where marked by badly behaved in the. nowadays football hooliganism is a poor not only in english but international disease one that thankfully isn't as prevalent as it used to be. so if we just talk more about the new zealand herald article let's take it at its word russia doesn't deserve any major football tolerance because it has some problems with religion islam and racism following that logic through that it was racially

abused a very high profile incident in italy recently therefore italy carlos that he made it sort of it is also happening at the top player korean with was racially based so england itself is out of the equation and it doesn't stop there are numerous small countries where do you draw the line where you draw the line at common sense it's an absolute absurdity to suggest that russia doesn't deserve to host the world cup all the confederations cup on the back of forty fifty maybe a hundred hooligans if that was the case england wouldn't ride euro ninety six which passed off without troubles only seven or eight years after the very dark days of english football hooliganism look quite simply i travel around europe. around the world having covered two world cup tournament being covered several european championships and tournament hold cool have wanted to. latch on to the official group and that once or create trouble book breena round

green around having fun interacting with. the spells national stereotype bring national me i'm not what we want to be encouraging not fear mongering i want the reasons you know you were brought in on the project with grateful that you did come in was to get basically an independent perspective on what life is like in football in russia but also we've been trying to speak to the fans as well myself about it with them some really lowell's the need found here and we talked to them about allegations of racism and who can is a buso want to speak to me about their passion for the guy. they stand town to which is not truthful we're going to go in a safe petersburg sick with the local fans are going to watch look and see the gang sedates tackle biggish. sees a real commodity real russia we asked awesome action di was.

how big a deal like this was an eight russian full russian national sea boy the. he called this fake snow. sounds. for the british the american press this is called the world call platform foundation for all fans feel welcome in some place for commercial uses the in a was because it just. when you look at the spot that. you know singled out that whole said couple of years ago that every time he played there was an issue space race chance comments about. how considerate not just on your personal interest but then your families for example because you believe this much is too much of this to which you feel as though you say what you want to talk about them and you should remember the beautiful political leader and his journey to the

right for you to stick to this result but this. site very good. to have a little bit of a celebration but we did promise you that we were going to talk about the darkest sides of football which is part of the game we're trying to address some of the accusations and the issues involved we do want to talk about little blighter things as well the nice things now we talked about predictions today did when you were fantastic you got to you know russia you know yes for the opening game and not going for portugal victory tomorrow victory tomorrow so we'll see if that transpires but you should be very proud of yourself because you're on a par with the cat was going to say it's a menagerie all the more versus the menagerie not only achilles the cat but now we've got. all this look at.

first because boy was this painful decision made to look at this i don't want to choose is supposed to be like paul the octopus you choose one of the countries is it new zealand is it russia one of the bowls of food you think it would be that much encourage one but this one did this was a reluctant hero and this is the action replay you see the light. of the moment seems something. with the fruit a good many just dixie snow to see going to school is he going to drop his nose into it go on achilles we're all a little bit you alone can we see it going soon yeah definitely rochelle i thought when i said we aren't i think we need bottom line technology just to see whether there was actual contact with the phone that ok let's move on now to nick of the whole a bad. it's also throwing her weight in gold contradiction to the confederacy everybody wants to be a star look at that that's how you make a decision to say to be fair i want you don't want to be in the white people i'm up one for making the bad no problems it's all straight to the the ball will well i

guess through the total see which one could break stanley's knickers predictions by the way mexico to be portugal germany to be australia i'm not going to disagree with that said ok the music has started there is a lot to celebrate for the russian fans the band about to strike up well but with more see you next hour. i'm stan collymore and knowing neil harvey. we're going to be your hopes for the tree thousand and seventy confederations cup right here in russia we're going to be visiting the host cities or so chief has announced to petersburg moscow is going to be great i'm talking full of course also politics i think pretty much covering every topic the fans need to know about the head of the match so don't forget to tune in to some field guy it's going to be full and let me know.

it will be with. you at those dog. called and then we position. you as down by the. i'm option or a chance and this is going underground there's debate over whether the u.k. government will full reaches fever pitch in the wake of what some are calling to

raise amaze hurricane katrina coming up in a show where this book we are skoal sort of getting by states possible culture and austerity britain dr lisa mackenzie if state backed neglect corruption cuts to services that just social cleansing at the ground fell tower in west london this week and we asked the tory co-chair of britain's royal party safety and rescue group so david amos how much theresa may was to blame for the london fire and. what could the cia have conceivably got to do with the death of the best selling soundtrack artist of all time the inimitable whitney houston we will cointelpro with award winning filmmaker nick broomfield and sharon framed on whether to raise them a good deal with the means the end of the northern ireland peace process all of them all coming up in today's going underground but first no one really knows how many people have been killed by government austerity to bail out the bankrupt city of

london since twenty zero eight the journal of the royal society of medicine says thirty thousand deaths alone could be linked to health service cuts but if anyone wanted member for the slashing of emergency services social housing and capitalist regulation this week's tragic and lethal inferno in london was it no wonder social cleansing emerges an issue within minutes of the fire breaking out in west london and increasing inequality that learned to raise a maze chief of staff gavin vowell who allegedly sat on a tower block fire safety review even state mandated u.k. broadcasters at the scene couldn't avoid the topic of rich was as poor as they sought opinion from the local community one thing i wanted to say to that i was saying about i might have been afraid to exploit it was something that i don't know about what i do but i do know is they did regeneration last year building that they talk about doing to all of these buildings they did it that they wouldn't only ten million pounds they're talking about and put the plastic things on men.