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met its maker. all the fun that we all have in the drawer for the two thousand and eight saying world cup finals page just walk alongside me the results are in place although it's only going to get russia go russia scott so you're a good cuban you're a blogger lots of analysis coming up john is that a few votes. in other news a mass evacuation is carried out after an explosive is found in part of town next to the german cities of christmas markets. former u.s. national security advisor michael flynn pleads guilty to making false statements to the f.b.i. as part of a probe into russia links. a

very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international broadcasting to you live from the russian capital and they care and good to have you with us. while the draw for the two thousand and eighteen world cup has been completed and we now know who will be playing who in the group stages next summer neil harvey and peter schmeichel have been following the tour for us. welcome to the last a day ahead so moscow it might look like a winter wonderland the snow gently floats down it was a blizzard earlier but we didn't notice speech michael long sought me because of all the excitement of the draw was fantastic wasn't all that joe's kept as warm. views fantastic but it really really is cold he and his party itself and joe was a great little you know i was like i suppose bring up the dollar seventy five

a look at it first or just very briefly say russia. really really really good group draw saudi arabia in the opening game and then egypt in europe who are so really good for russia and europe i would say without but the kickers in group b. that spain portugal you know that was going to be some game by the way and then obviously shoots from my heart then mark we've got draw against france australia and peru and so you're keeping you became you're out on the sort of the ones close to your heart will do a bit more specifically in a few moments but before that i just want to talk about you've got no side like your principal your first day with us and you got some things not just president but practically it was a who's who of wilco when isn't the greatest footballers of all time tell us about that experience well for president tuesday was holding a reception for for basically every legendary football lose lose in moscow for the draw and you know the world that was incredible to work to see this many guys who

stand so much for football and you know basically are the big superstar hero legends in the game and even when you are a huge name yourself do you still feel slightly intimidated to being in a ring with you know rinaldo marathoner well i think the big thing for me was. telly pelleas not the best. the time of the moment he was in a wheelchair and gordon banks and him they were having a conversation about which which joins that had replaced but it was quite quite fifty five a suite sort of moment and those two just sat there having that chat was a really fantastic moment and it just it just put the whole sort of event into perspective that these guys that are in this room i mean they has been running for political marathon it was a course for now the indian you are food kind of our guys who's listed the world cup trophy and i was quite proud to be part of that of course you are now but there were a few of them going in the piece michel is in here don't think you know sell yourself short you know everybody that was it was

a big name star and for very good reason they can stop all this stan collymore you in a threatening manner up front it is indeed we're in the mix and if we just pan around to our rights our cameraman loken the swedish national manager is there by sickly now most of the manager is a coming round into the mix zone and we're waiting for gareth southgate the england manager former teammates of mine twice once at crystal palace when we started out and then later on in a career aston villa club that peter is played for as well if we pan ran the other white bloke and we can see the must ranks of the british media led by this henry winter at the front there with his laptop they are white seem to say what tomorrow's headlines will be across the united kingdom just behind us we have the belgian technical director who of course were white in for a person martin is the belgian manages to come out because belgian cine england and panama are in the same group so we decided to rock up here but yesterday we met some truly legends you we know we go on there with pizza but we add fabio cannavaro

that's when the world cope with italy of course the banks that's what we're doing going to nine hundred sixty six laurent blanc that were in the ninety ninth version with france and here's what they had to say. which two or three teams the feel of the favorites to win the tournament golf course. german team of the spanish team. the brazilian team but i think is a good time for messi to do something new even more because it is that the last is the last chance for him now italy for the first time since nineteen fifty i disappoint you or you as a as a former captain i'm so sad because you know for us it was a. big disaster but now to be honest with you is a good moment to come back stronger than before.

i do feel england are shaping up or heard of the world cup next year in russia the last couple of games of saying that they don't know for sure if a korea has been putting some youngsters in you know which didn't put too hard but then go experience you know nothing i think they need experience badly when when you're in a in a tournament modish. iroquois who's winning the world called. i would put a four foot for my i think in point of view like i said france england may be getting not in their favor because you have to choose someone that they view i think spain using a great moment have to because bassil is playing really well we know germany would like be there again germany's general they are always there they've been of the are not winning the cup they are in the second place between the if semifinals they are

always fighting. to be given one spot if not to support it so i think is a. be competition you know do the walk up is a very nice computers and it people be destroyed and i see i hope the weather will be better draw. theater production because it means so much to so many people who have got the results now so let's we have a look at the end for the full draw in its entirety let's cherry pick some of the games now and i want to start with less about the host nation then because you know you know i studied and i don't mean to put any of the teams in russia down but saudi arabia agents and year ago i surely the russia thing was subtle but at the start of the day i got on the night in the in time we sort of been off for looking

at the media around the world and everyone agrees that russia they've had a fantastic draw and i agree with that but it is a world cup there's a lot of pressure on russia there on the home homes or you know the expectations not having played competitive football for so long it's going to be difficult regardless but the first game is against are you're a group that is that is a good good game to start with and a slight double edged sword in the sense that now if russia fails it's an absolute disaster because the expectation now is there's a very good chance the process of argentina i since last was a great day and i will take place here in moscow spartak stadium so iceland have already proved their ability to upset the apple cart and i want you to never know that their greatest or lights were argentina's get better i mean they had a terrible start to their qualification campaign and as we talked about enough those programs they sneak through the greatest to the last game see i think of in

genesis an example great last case great they think the last day that they had a convincing win in the ask yeah and when you look at how they qualified that actually looks quite convincing but that's because the other result argentina will always be you could offer little more opponent in the world cup on the don't. forget the go argue be the best player in the world messi he was the best player in the last world cup and i don't think he's gotten any worse it's a fascinating call contrast because you've got really global names like i say and then how you could actually name the iceland players but the very fact well that's it i mean that's a proper football team this is all about the the collective and and the whole squad has been used they've got a. fantastic manager who's pictures managed to get one hundred percent out of every play that he's played and i have to say from the group they qualified from which one of them was obviously the courageous ukraine and turkey to win that group i

mean that's impressive you don't flick you way through all that over the lower interest because you are the best team in that group as performances and you know iceland against argentina it's one of those games i can't wait for that because it's to contrast in styles of football it's the guys been from up north you know it's the furthest the know this team qualified against argentina who is not near enough the most southern seam in the world near enough and i think banksy watching i'm old enough to remember watching cameroon beat argentina will cup so if they can do the ice and could pull off a similar process let's move on to now they see an exciting side so many ways spain against portugal and i just want to say because i've been to the fishtailing pick stadium in sochi and it's are going to be really warm sunny beautiful down by the black sea is the perfect setting for spain against one out i think this is probably the pig of of the whole jaw this is the result of i mean spain portugal you just

think about ronaldo against spain plays in spain he makes his living he plays for madrid i mean and then such as well coming spain spain i think it's out of the four but they are on their way up again and maybe one of the dark horses to win the whole tone in my. and you sold this is a tasty one and i you know you try to call it now absolutely no there's no way that you can do that this is i mean this is the pick of the bunch absolutely yeah on the day anything could happen but let's not talk about that i mean world cup as well called everyone has worked very hard over the last sort of eighteen months to get to the world cup and to get to the jaw today you know all these teams are good and capable teams don't forget so anyone can really beat anyone on the day but you know over three games with this show. host nation the whole that is fair you know it's going to you know carry almost going to carry the whole nation some percentages through i see russia and europe right on through from this group ok let's move on

to. england these are this is a much that involves so many players don't know each other because of all the bows and seen play in england and the fact that you were not many surprises there now and not many surprises but i can attest to one i think i think they'd be very very happy with the joy they've got. but again you know so many belgian players play in the premier league so you know it's going to be very familiar but the thing about germany i mean obviously martinez is he's managed and in the premier league he knows all the english players as well it's an interesting one that's going to be that's going to be a tactical battle but i mean that that the play is that they can they can field is you know the expectations for the last world cup was that they possibly could go all the way that's how good they were and again with the euros they haven't managed to get you know the last bit in but they've had another two years to prepare themselves qualified really well you know belgium it's

a tough one but for england you know the yankees media the ass soul happy with this trio and we spoke about this. and you're not sure how to not only build on a really good team you get the gold but remember two teams go through them but you told me that you were in to have it but with a job well i won the hardest possible. group because that way you know if your team is really capable of winning you know you get a really tough group and you get three you know there's a reason to get excited in england the fans get very excited about beating anybody and if they qualify they think they can win the world cup they tend to get ahead of themselves so. i think they can do that. when i when i speak. stops or to speak to the british morlocks. i still cannot believe the fact that i'm standing in the draw hole here in moscow and it's actually happening and now we have all the teams lined up there obviously you've talked plenty about the big names the favorites the belgians the english and

all that but let's talk about the teams which can be considered as dark horses and one of those teams maybe costa rica which as we now know has been drawn together with the likes of switzerland cost brazil and serbia and now i have here the play former costa rican national team player former west ham united and manchester city player we thank you so much for joining us hello so brazil again for costa rica you're team actually did very well in brazil yeah excited are you. the last world cup to be honest i mean when i when i saw brasil you know in the in the same group . you know very bad memories because. the first time that we would play against brazil was ninety ninety. and then in two thousand and two we play against against brazil and the score was you know five five to two two to wrestle but now. they're

very strong as always. we're looking forward to you know to the great challenge what about serbia can be also a tough challenge for me because maybe back home in costa rica they will think that maybe it's a good group but you know we know we know the cerebellum. always had you know good players and it will be tough and switzerland we have a common friend with switzerland and yes and swiss i mean it will be tough for costa rica but if anything does last work you know we were with the way that you're of why we leave with england and still we we want to you top the group right here so you think any chance of this happening or you know you know no world cup is this the beauty of football this is what live t.v. is all about the whole slurry snow just from my head and the reason i mention that is because even seemingly simple things like this come with houses so i want to ask you for it so you know we think the draw it's very easy you just pull balls out of

paul and you've been involved in them do you get nervous that you can mess this terrifying it is. i was hosting the chairman's the joke and we had of rehearsal and one of the polls popped up and went inside the table right now imagine if that happens life that's no way you can redo the joe but imagine what the repercussions people will be calling fix exactly exactly i tell you or you are hands are shaking and and some of the pull in sometimes it's difficult to sort of open them up and you know your life my goodness so it's a simple thing and it's powerful it's a little thing with huge consequences if it doesn't go well well let's just see didn't go smoothly were there any massage here are the highlights of the show.

and tell. you know. who would. be. saudi arabia. in our game against saudi arabia ensuring that we feed you and your crew feed. costa rica. germany mexico sweden.

i told world news headlines now an explosive device has been found in pots down next to the german city's christmas market with police immediately evacuating the area so more on that that's cross live to our europe correspondent paid to all of it now peter what's been happening today. right well police are still investigating whether a suspicious device that was reported them or at around two thirty local time today did actually contain a viable explosive device it was a suspicious package that was pointed out at around two thirty local time it was found it was delivered to a bigger part in the pharmacy which is near to the christmas market in the building in the german city of potsdam now a bomb disposal robot in timor on the scene they used that robot to determine what it was and whether it posed a risk it was the device itself was deemed to have been destroyed by this robot but what we're talking about is been described by police as a syringe

a cylindrical object containing cables batteries and nails but no sign of an ignition device as of yet so the the the investigation into whether this could have been a. viable explosive device ongoing police are issuing statements very regularly asking the press not to speculate on what could this have been and what could have happened but what we do know is that other areas have been cordoned off by the police around the center of pottstown the christmas market in the central square there remains cordoned off there is an extensive search going on to see if there is perhaps any more. suspicious packages any more potential explosive devices that have been in the area at the mare of potsdam has been at the scene he said that he expects the christmas market to open again tomorrow he's praised the police for the work that they've been doing but in the past germany has been the victim of numerous terrorist attacks if we look just this year in. october at the end of

october in twenty seventeen and when i say victim of terrorist attacks it's also there's been attempted attacks that have taken place or attacks that police say that they've cautioned in october of this year the police arrested a one thousand. old syrian asylum applicant here in germany charged him with attempting to cause what they call a serious explosive attack in july of this year a knife wielding man attacked people in a supermarket and humbug he was later found two of had links to islamic extremism if we also look back to the last time explosives were used now this hasn't been a thankfully hasn't been a major issue in germany where a nick an explosion has been detonated by a tourist group in order to kill or maim but if we go back to the summer of twenty sixteen in the city of in southern germany there a a suicide bomber detonated a vestey he injured just over

a dozen people killing only himself the world more thankfully that he didn't kill any other people in that attack that put of course the the major terror attack that comes to mind when people think about christmas markets and germany is what happened here in berlin last december where. tear. failed asylum application to had links to the islamic state tow organization rammed a truck into a crowd at a christmas market here in the german capital and killed twelve people there were threats made by groups claiming to represent islamic state saying that they would target among other european cities over this christmas period cities in germany police are investigating as to whether this incident in potsdam represents a valid threat say a valuable explosive device they are confirming or did confirm at least earlier on that the suspicious package did contain explosives and that investigation continues

of course very worrying news as we enter into this christmas period the markets are incredibly popular here in germany there's well over two and a half thousand it's estimated that they they bring in around two billion euro worth of business of course not all comes from people attending. these christmas market so that investigation continues imports done to determine whether this is a viable explosive device that has been found by police at a christmas market ok that's peter oliver with the latest details from germany there thanks peter. a former u.s. national security advisor michael flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. over his links to the then russian ambassador to the u.s. the latest details we can of course live to caleb moore in to find out more good to see you caleb now flynn has now admitted to lying to federal agents what else do we know about the story. well michael flynn has pled guilty

he's pled guilty to lying to the f.b.i. and at this point he is going to face according to the plea deal that he made with the prosecution between zero and six months in prison as well as a possible nine thousand five hundred dollars fine now at this point the press is in an uproar however we've heard from the white house and the white house points out that no one other than flynn is implicated by this guilty guilty plea this guilty plea only implicates flynn for misleading the f.b.i. in their investigation and when they were investigating him related to his alleged ties to russia and all kinds of issues now at this point it's important to look back and remember why michael flynn stepped down to begin with michael flynn stepped down after he had made contradictory and misleading statements to vice president mike pence at that point he stepped down after it became clear that the

statements he had made to mike pence were contradictory and misleading so at this point we're not really seeing any anything come forth and at this point you know there's been an investigation into alleged collusion between donald trump and russia it's been almost a year since the u.s. presidential election and this vast plot the mainstream media seems to be looking for that somehow involving the trumpet ministration and the government of russia all colluding together it just doesn't seem to come into being and we've got a few indictments of different individuals who are misleading misleading federal officials are making false statements but at this point we don't have anything you know seeming to connect to the mainstream media accounts that this is talk of some kind of vast plot to reality so at this point michael flynn has pled guilty to misleading federal officials and is awaiting a sentence. and has kind of open thanks for the kind of.

well more on the world cup draw shortly while in other news the french president a man in the crown has tabled a new plan to combat human trafficking in libya involving military action but his plans have been widely criticized as the previous french led intervention in libya left the country in ruins as margot's de of explains. slavery and human trafficking of violent 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 necessity zone we are proposing police military action we are not waging war but this is a country in a political transition political transition he calls it does sound better than 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 micron but a military operation still round two for france in libya. today we're 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 calls it or absolute chaos and anarchy as anyone out sward call it as long as it is a failed state the problem will come back as a failed state because the regime of gaddafi top was not mice regime that was

destroyed by the french and the british together in two thousand and eleven so of course michael can do something now but it will reoccur. well the problem of modern day slavery is worst in africa this is followed by asia and the pacific region with central asia and europe as well france is south has become a key human trafficking hub as according to a report from the u.s. state department lists the country as a destination transit point for men women and children subjected to forced labor and sex trafficking we spoke to the vice president of the libyan presidential council and also take him about look ron's plan for military action but we are going to be right but no. we cannot accept anything to be done with all our efforts in the libyan libyans would be the ones who do the action with the help of the lord to come up. with that i way to help them make it

and do the right investments on that country for you know libya it's not the country for you to make a libya it's a country over there and we as a libyan have already invested in africa and we want to see any by the look of it we're going to be first at the country of origin and we're going to be similar to you to stay with the loved ones with your families join me at the top of the hour for the latest headlines. greetings and sell you teach us here in the united states talk watchers many in the

press and on capitol hill are not brave enough sadly they do not. have the guts to admit that our political system here in the u.s. the one we love to flaunt so much to the rest of the world is deeply and tragically broken and like most problems in complex machinery it's not the mechanical moving parts that are fault but good old fashioned operator error that's causing this rube goldberg machine that is our government to falter for evidence look no further than the us congress who in their short sighted fast food version of political discourse have gotten so caught up in political infighting and media grandstanding over the republican corporate tax breaks sorry republican tax reform bill that they've forgotten or at least appear to have forgotten a rather important date looming on capitol hill calendars december the eighth and what happens on december the eighth you ask well that is the deadline by which congress.