plus. we are just hours away now from the. final day of the final. you will be joined by. a few. of the country's people. here on the program.

friday morning here in moscow you're watching international from all of us here a very warm welcome to. the french president has tabled a new plan for preventing human trafficking in libya and it involves military action and has already been widely criticized especially in light of the french led western military intervention in libya that left the country in ruins. slavery and human trafficking of vile offenses sadly common now in libya but no need to fear president macron is here he has the solution for libya's problem send in the troops it's a new city zone we're proposing police military action we're not waging movement

this is a country in a political transition political transition he calls it does sound better than a savage civil war more politically correct nevertheless a number of african and e.u. states are ready to help fight this war or rather not really a war says macron but a military operation still round two for france in libya. today were intervening in libya we are intervening in order to enable the libyan people to choose their own destiny it must not be deprived of its rights by violence and terror the fact that slavery is so rampant in libya is because the country's army and political order were obliterated under nato bombardment six years ago since then libya has been stuck in a brutal and bloody political transition as president macro calls it or

absolute chaos and anarchy as anyone out call it as long as it is a failed state the problem will come back as a failed state because the regime of cut off the top was not the mice regime nobody says that was destroyed by it by the french and the british together in two thousand and eleven so of course michael can do something now but it will be it will reoccur. africa is the region where the problem of modern slavery is worst asia and the pacific region coming in second place with central asia and europe coming in third wells talking of europe for example to france itself has become a key trafficking hub at least according to a new report from the us state department it lists the country as a destination and transit point for men women and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking and we spoke to the vice president of the libyan presidential council and i asked him about macro lens new military idea that we.

currently have but no. we cannot accept anything. to be done with our representative libyan libyans it would be that one will do this . with the help of support of the measure. well that i way to help them we're going to. do the right them basement on that country for you know libya is not the country of origin a democratic libya is a country or we as a libyan have already invest in africa and we want to see anybody talk of they were going to face that their country of origin and to help to make it through to stay with their loved ones with their families. it is the day of the final draw for football's twenty eight hundred fifty world cup we'll be bringing you coverage from

our special studio in the very heart of the russian capital his aunties and neil harvey stan collymore and their very special co-host. hello and welcome to our studio right in the heart of moscow where we are just hours away now from the draw for the fee for world cup finals that is where the thirty two remaining teams will learn who they'll face in the group stage next summer stuart that's a big draw it's a big deal and we've decided it's more than a one man job so r.t. has brought in somebody to help me out can you guess who it is if i tell you that this is a player who played one hundred twenty nine times internationally and he scored one goal would you say yes i can repeat that on at what if i then told you he's a goalkeeper that's more impressive isn't it and what if i said that he won a champions league and a european championship now i've got your interest i am very pleased to announce

that joining me throughout the world cup coverage on r.t. is going to be the great dane himself peter schmeichel he's such a pleasure to have you with us and i'm not too embarrassed to say that in my opinion you are the best goalkeeper i ever saw play the game you're making me blush . in the cold of moscow but even so it is a change of over and it is so great to have you with us and i want to talk about that goal because you must afford your friends of friends to tears with that you scored a goal as a keeper maybe i can bore you as row with pride frankly it's a penalty in the frank friendly match against belgium you still had to to score. a goal is a goal great to have you with us lots to look forward to first of all though because we got more than just the goalkeeper on board you got a striker as well as thank ali moore took a sneak peek behind the scenes ahead of the draw which is going to take place at state crown palace just behind us. welcome to the media center here at the kremlin head of the world cup draw on friday as you can see people having their photos taken with the famous trophy which

will be given out at the luzhniki stadium in july next year to the winners of this most famous tournament format. so. you call that this is the official fee for world cup full of monies to get my hands on them it's a fee for going over that and offering there's the logo. this is going to be what's kicking off the will cope in the mission if you study moscow right the way through to the end in the middle of july. cannot light. rather just about it's going to draw a whole different from local drool on friday he's going to be one of the first to get in. that as you can hear over my shoulder the drool behind the scenes has already started going to keep it nice and simple for you they're all thirty two nations divided into four parts of my team spot on all the house russia and include the top seven ranked things on the planet so russia joined five times

whereas brazil the world champions germany christiane we're now doing portugal the european champions you know messi and tina belgium the golf course these two women's france two nine hundred ninety eight champions and finally poland. you can see you can fly by comment from around the world they are very excited as we all were going to have some special guests and also you through the day so keep it all see on espanyol arabic and english and who will following the way brazil argentina england and the house russia get supply at the free for world cup next year we'll find out and also a. piece of course first on russia's hosted this big event a lot of pressure on the organizers and on the team itself what is that like what i think this is this is probably one of the biggest challenges that russia will have

a face one thing it's a whole organization. you know just by being here you can kind of sense that. everything is under control the other thing is being a player in the team having to represent your own country in a world cup that that that you host that's a completely different you know the fish extra pressure it's extra pressure and i made a couple of guys. who's actually been in that situation both of them played in the world cup winning team in france back in one thousand nine hundred eighty where friends were the host and they know exactly what is going to be like to be a player for russia but. who do you see as the favorites to win that result there is little difficulty with germany germany because they've shown great ability great steel with their sick and team doing the configuration and brazil because if all together at the same time

the money's you know to play well they have individual players who can make the difference and i the same time quality media are very tough in the city. brazil and germany and spain and maybe your friends is a cause in someone that we don't look at too often that you can say way they can do really good. looking after creation maybe you never know sweden of surprise everyone you know on the. t.v. without having any individual players but they made it maybe didn't the mark was way to be good so. we have a good play here we love the stands i love i love it could be one of the big stars . for me

a name because the one you want. including. miss. cousineau want to go we want we want someone else is the only one potentially that can you know shine you know behind the cellar and i'll go and macy so we hold neymar and but big loser french guy for france for germany for brazil for every team in the court one may be you know don't take to spain because we should take spain he was a group very very out nigeria we have iran there are teams that are you doing that or you might be quite easy to play against them but to me geria is a good team there is a very good costa rica is a very. severe team because. obviously the big name players are the center of the attention you can do without the fans

you know this and there are eleven particularly enthusiastic guests who will be coming to tonight's big event i'm talking about the call them the super fans i think the lucky fans there eleven forty fans have been chosen in different cities right across russia all because of their passion for the beautiful game and it's clear from looking at their ages so you can love football however. the youngest super fan is just sex. why the oldest one twelve times his age. i am. going to have to follow. this path yeah yeah. the ball. i mean.

someone could. order. it out. for money. now the world cup will offer the chance for a lot of football fans to come visit russia for the very first time. general. kohli more about russia experience i really was fascinated by the level of local authorities and more importantly by the woman welcome there what pleased you the most from the russian welcoming in the some of the confederations cup because i was here and one of my roles i believe as i like. to speak honestly about whatever country i broadcast and i've been in six or seven times now another fantastic time people don't look at me differently on the street people don't treat

me differently. which is against some of the stereotypes that we are presented with but when exactly what you just described when i came for the first time in russia it was in july last year. one month after my assignment and definitely like every african. president. just feeling to be treated differently and i was ready also to help people think differently about africa and africans but as we speak i've been here for at least twenty times and together i haven't suffered any issues so with just over six months to go until the world cup russia is getting its stadiums ready for action and many of them though have already been tested out of course at last summer's confederations cup and another fans who travel here for that tournament they've told us they had such a great time and they will definitely be back in two thousand and eighteen.

when we play with the much of mexico russia we thought maybe the like going to have even one match completely opposite they were still playing really friendly russian people are so friendly friendly that's easy to meet. in the full gallop and we would come back from work to. make it.

working at the confederations cup and i can testify to that funds the really did love it and a lot of i'm going to it's a long journey it's expensive a lot of them are coming but let's get to the draw that's what we're really here for just a few hours to go now and as i understand you actually take a polity in one of these things so i have experience different levels obviously being a player you're waiting for the draw you know you're excited about who you're going to get we're going to play against. in two of the euro's draws as well but i actually picked out the balls and i posted the jaws and they're all exciting in every way the thing about being a player so when you qualify obviously you don't think about you going to play. the next time you kind of think about what's going to happen is what the seedings when the parts are actually being announced and you can see who you can actually kind of sort of finding your way through who do you want who do you not want and then obviously when the draw comes around it becomes probably the most exciting part of

the sort of pretty world cup and it's not really who you really want it's who you know and so void yeah absolutely so you know the draw is really really it's exciting because it's such a big part of what's going to happen in the summer you. probably don't want to. be very exciting everyone's got their own opinion it's just a matter of hours now until the draw gets underway get the. time do you stay with. myself for all the build up.

everything today is about the individual so it's so nice to be a little bit different and it's all about the team and i think it's. it's a quality that icelandic football players have maybe because we come from an amateur environment so we know that the the other nations have that that individual and more individual qualities that we have so we have to be collectively better than the other. one else seemed wrong why don't we all just don't all. get to shape out these days become educated and engagement equals betrayal. when something many find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common

ground. thanks for joining us here on aussie international today a new poll conducted in the united states has revealed that an overwhelming majority of the country's millennial is want a third political party a correspondent caleb maupin speaks to young people on the streets of new york to find out why. in the us today it's democrats and republicans it's always been that way a two party system now some people might think that makes the country more stable but millennial seem to have a different perspective let's break down the millennial case against the two party system now sixty five percent say that the country is moving in the wrong direction and seventy one percent of them say that they're ready for a new third political party but wanting to see a new political player in washington is nothing new according to the figures

provided by gallup the number of americans who favor a third party has been increasing over the course of the last five years in two thousand and twelve it was only forty six percent but in two thousand and sixteen it was up to fifty seven percent now you rarely hear about it but third parties have actually been around in american politics since the nineteenth century now why is it that in all these years an independent political faction has never been able to take the white house well maybe it has something to do with the fact that mainstream media is working overtime to keep people marching behind the elephant and the donkey so you can understand the all human going to throw a party kind of that can put a new issue or new solution on the table but it is hard to make the case the bodies what's happening here and let out of their part of who we now know that third party candidates out there are very much not qualified if that's your experience or through knowledge now amid the growing disillusionment with the two major parties let's see if americans would really prefer a third option do you feel that the establishment parties represent your values i

feel that they are to align like different things so i feel very independent of any support for any party nominee depending. i think both sides are have valid. and valid thing to say in both sides stink sometimes not really honest i'm kind of further to the left than the democratic party has room for and there's nothing on the right for me if a viable third party emerged that was closer to your values would you support it. yeah i will. that makes sense but i know it's very hard for those type of parties to get out there you know i would consider voting for a third party they represent my value is. i would if i had a chance some people say if you vote for a third party you're throwing your vote away do you agree with them unfortunately the system has been rigged to such that it ends up being a wasted vote like it shouldn't be and that's wrong i do think the way it's structured right now but i'll be you know local elections being on exception i

think you are kind of throwing it away no i want to say that but i can see why some people see it that way expression when people say like i don't like bernie sanders losing bernie sanders running is why he could last for someone but i don't think anyone who voted for them is a loss now is used in america grow alienated from the two major parties the question remains what new political grouping could fulfill the needs of the younger generation. are to see new york. the passion of a cutline independence having apparently cooled off madrid is taking precautions to ensure that things stay that way the spanish government has introduced an unusual ban in barcelona targeting the city's fountains. premade helped a lot of that yellow because it means freedom for all political prisoners it is the color of freedom.

it seems silly to me because yellow is just a normal color i think it's a desperate campaign by politicians trying to stop the independence movement and video it's complete nonsense. it's pointless everybody has already decided. and that's one change pace seen yellow or another color. yellow another color could be used that's just absurd. it is already international with relations between america and russia hitting global headlines almost weekly three time oscar winning filmmaker all of us stone has shared his views on ties between the two nations with sophie shevardnadze stones the latest

documentary series which was added earlier this year and gave an insight into vladimir putin's personal and professional life with no topic off limits his new book which he was in moscow to promote talks about his meetings with the russian president putin's rise to power and global relations. i am a person who has researched russia a bit i know a bit about it i've been to russia many times actually since one thousand i came here for the first time to interview dissidents i was working on a movie in one thousand nine hundred two called the defiance and it was about the dissidents who were coming out of the psychiatric clinics but i try to stick to what i feel is the truth and i don't take i didn't say one false word to mr p. at all i didn't say what i meant when i said it when i said to him and one of the i think one of the first things i said was it strikes me that you're this you're a son of russia because you know i pushed him but whatever people say i pushed him and certainly i could feel his irritation when i was pushing him hard on the

democracy question on this the question of his succession and what's going to happen next year. it is friday december the moscow thanks for joining us here on international we were talking with your world headlines in about. everybody. hollywood. proud american. this is my buddy famous financial

guru she's a little bit different. with all the drama happening in our country. have some fun every day americans. to bridge. again this is the great american people. look. to me. this footage is unique because the zoe tribal lands are normally off limits to the public eric's allowed in because he's the seller his personal doctor. the people here know him simply as dr eric he's rich famous some always on the move saving yachts and flying aircraft that.

was long. long. he's considered one of the best neurosurgeons in brazil. that's happening almost. all or so since going to busy doing the math is going to the to the population because it's going to keep people long as on . the welcome to sophie and co and sophie shevardnadze today moscow welcomes to draw for the fifa twenty eighteen world cup with the lucky teams already looking forward

to the group stage one of the debutantes of the competition iceland has already won the hearts of fans to waldo over at the twenty sixth and here us and it's manager a mere hall glimpse and is my guest today. the first time in history i said speedboats is bring in the viking spirits to the future world cup being the smallest of the nations and bright for sports owed them a prize which during iceland's meteoric rise from food balls punching bags to fear giant killer is their nordic undertow tour just a passing fad or are we about to see the birth of a new food bowl superpower on the world stage. him here whole grimson welcome to the show it's a pleasure to have you on our program now this is going to be asked once first ever world cup are you going to pull of another app sat on progress out of the group

stage or even further when after year or it seems like anything is possible for iceland. if course. to do well. we have to be in russia like leg everyone else and we've done quite a lot of good results so why not in the world cup finals we had least hope so but we are also realistic that we can have a fantastic games but but still lose against. nations normally in the world cup final so we are realistic but ice on this are normally really optimistic so how optimistic are you i mean what is your goal to to what to when you reach semi finals quarter finals. well to begin with of course it's a great honor just to be there if we progress from the group stage i think that is a big achievement for for iceland but we know that from the past from unlike past

five six years that if we have all best games we we can beat anyone. but. i think it's healthy to dream to hold the world cup. in our hands but of course it's. statistically probably not likely we're going to win it but. like i said before we have we're optimistic and we don't know yet more teams we played against or what nations we are playing against so we haven't set any any gauche yet but of course we go in there to to progress from the group stage and from there it's champion it is like a cup. so if we have a good game we can we can we never want to let now only play in the cup but now your team iceland has all this international experience facing top teams so you could choose which countries do you want to.