all the fun we are having the draw for the two thousand and eight same world cup finals page mike alongside me the results are in place are all they tell me to do with russia's courts all your stupid blog lots of unknowns is coming up join us in a few moments. in other news the mass evacuation is carried out after a suspicious object possibly an explosive device has been found in pottstown next to the german city's christmas markets. and 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. a

very warm welcome you're watching r.t. international with me aaron good to have you with us this hour now the draw for the twenty eighteen world cup has been completed and we now know who will be playing in the group stages next summer neil harvey and peter schmeichel have been following the two a forest. welcome to the last two decades and moscow it might look like a winter wonderland snooze the snow gently floats down it was a blizzard earlier but we didn't notice speech michael long saw me because of all the excitement of the pro is fantastic wasn't all that joyous kept as warm on. the view is fantastic but it really really is cold here it is part it's i mean the job was a gravel it was not as opposed as bringing very briefly say russia. but i 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 thought was going to be some game by the way and then obviously shoots from my heart then mark we've got joy against france australia and peru and also you know keeping you became you are out on the sort of the ones close to the hall will do a bit more specifically in a few moments but before about well let's just see didn't go smoothly or whether any massage here are the highlights of the draw. for russia and we are still looking keep france in france.

to get you know. the two way. is cheaper. all eyes on saudi arabia. and then i think game against saudi arabia also. in that group egypt and europe was that group of eight brazil switzerland costa rica and serbia group after germany mexico aside like your principle first day with us and you got some things not just president but practically it was a who's who of will win isn't the greatest football of the whole time tell us about that experience for president putin was holding a reception for for basically every legendary football who's who's in moscow for the draw and and you know they were all that it was incredible 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're a huge name yourself do you still feel slightly intimidated to be entering with an iron album or don't know yet i think the big thing for me was. pelli pelleas not having a good the best of time at the moment he was in a wheelchair a golden banks and him they were having a conversation about which which joints they've had replaced that was credit card you could write a sweet sort of moment vehicle marathon it was a post your knowledge of the indian your car food you kind of our guys who's listed the world cup trophy and i was pretty proud to be part of that of course you were none but there were a few of them going in the piece michael is in here don't don't don't you know sell yourself short you know everybody that was it was a big name star and for very good reason they can install this stunt collymore we saw a threatening manner up front here the break up because you can see which actually at the moment chunks that i could pick it would be real working. in the neck out so

the quote four hours are over in argentina have the upper hand. no no is it of that in the troll the main thing is we just have to keep training is this the tournament well you know messi replicates the incredible achievements of diego maradona and lifts. the world call may see those who need to prove anything being the best in the world is waiting for a bird's eye mountain as the belgian manages to come out because belgian. england and panama are in the same great obviously been our golden generation just as a funny thing we've got a group of players that in our country of eleven million to produce the sort of footballers are something to be proud of the biggest job we have to be able to see the players working hard for each other but enjoying the responsibility of being seen as one of the best generations of belgian football has ever had we have this because belgium who we know everything about them so. yeah i think that game will capture everybody's match and i see how we feel an exciting thing

a team that are only going to get better but we are a team that lacks some experience of those big matches so we decided to rock up here but yesterday we met some truly legends. which two or three teams the feel of the favorites to win the tournament golf course. german team of the spanish team and. the brazilian team but i think he's a good time for messi to do something new even more because he is that the last is the last chance for him now it's only for the first time since nineteen fifty i've disappointed or you as a as a former captain i'm so sad because you know for us he was a. big disaster but now to be honest with you is a good moment to to come back stronger than before.

i do feel england all shape you know perhaps if the world cup next year in russia well the last couple of games i've seen they don't look for terrific he has been putting some youngsters in there you know which to. put it to them go experience you know nothing i think we need experience badly when when you're in a canoe too long on it. you're a boy here's what in the world called. i would put a four foot four my i think in point of view like i said france england may be getting not the favorite because you have to choose someone but the view i think spain using a great moment have to because brazil is playing really well we know germany would be very game germany is generally they are always there they've been if they are not winning the cup they are in the second place between the if semifinals they are

always fighting. to be given one sportive not supported so i think it's a. big a petition you know to do the walk up is a very nice computers and have become bitter and i think i hope the weather will be better brewer. 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 in the full draw in its entirety let's cherry pick some of the games now less about the host nation because it's not i don't mean to put any of the teams in russia down but saudi arabia agents and your acquired surely the russian team will settle for that at the start of the day i got on the night in the in time we sort of been off looking at the 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 home soil 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 really good. that is that is a good good game to start with and a slight double edged sword in the sense that now if if russia fails it's an absolute disaster because the expectation now is that there's a very good chance to keep it positive argentina ice 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 wanted to enter not at their greatest or lights 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 city i think of in genesis in excel were able to last guests great they think the last day that they

had a convincing win in the last yeah and when you look at how they qualified that actually looks quite convincing but that's because of other result argentina will always be a good. formidable opponent in the world cup on the don't forget the go arguably 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 that very effective world 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 let's move on to now this is an exciting time 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 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 charges were coming spain spain i think. so out of the four but they are on the way up again and maybe one of the dark horses to win the whole show in my opinion so this is a tasty one and 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 the world cup as world called everyone has worked very hard over the last sort of eighteen months to get to the world cup and to get to the georgia today you know all these teams are good incapable it seems don't forget so anyone can really beat anyone on the day ok let's move on to. england these are this is a much that involves so many players who know each other because of all the belgian seen play in england in the in the primary were not many surprises there now and not many surprises but i can attest to one i think i think they would 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 if you're not too happy and i don't mean building a really good team but remember two teams go through but you told me that you weren't too happy but with the draw well i won the hardest possible group because that way you know if your team is really capable of winning a know you get a really tough group and you get three you know there's a reason to get excited in england the media the fans get very excited about beating anybody and if they qualify they think we're going to win the world cup they tend to get ahead of themselves ok listen hello when i speak. here believe as stocks or to speak to them a bridge is more or less. there 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 young and 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 player former costa rican national team player. former west ham united and manchester city player one chopper thank you so much for joining us hello so brazil again for costa rica your your 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 same group. you know very bad memories because. the first time that we would play against brazil was ninety ninety any telly and then in two thousand and two we play against brazil and the score was you know five forty two to wrestle but now. they're very strong as

always. we're looking forward to you know to the great challenge and switzerland we have a common friend who says switzerland. i mean it will be tough for costa rica the funny thing does the last word you know we were with the euro 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 fell from my head and the reason i mention that is because even seemingly simple things like this come with has it so i wanted to ask if it's you know we think the draw it's very easy you just pull balls out of pots and you've been involved in them do you get nervous that you can mess this terrifying it is. i was hosting the champions league joe and we had every hustle and one of the poles 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 in and some of the pull in sometimes it's difficult to sort of open them up and you know you're like my goodness so it's a simple thing and yet simple thing with huge consequences. if it doesn't go well and of course out of any major tournament so much attention on the infrastructure in the preparations had a chance to test out some of the stadiums that were used in the world cup but this is confederations cup and found themselves from all over the world came to experience what it was. check out what i thought.

we would do much russia we thought maybe they would like going to bat we want match completely out they were still playing really friendly russian people friendly friends that he. was a beautiful guy their friend would come back from work. to be. done and dusted the draw is settled we know who's going to play here and where they're going to be now we move on to the action itself and peace you're going to be back in much warmer weather next year i'm going chung's will be in sochi on the beach and it is lovely that ana and i'm really looking forward to this because we're going to travel around russia together and experience some of the host cities

check out some of the stadiums get a feel for the looking forward to this i'm really looking i'm looking forward to experiencing. to deliver stories that are of course with surrounding but also with the culture and really on the good fortune and hopefully we can get to. a feel for what the country is like and you know maybe encourage them to go watch the games themselves and will be going to the games as well i am sure it's been great to have you on board peter and many thanks see you in a few months see you in the few months prior. another word news now a suspicious device has been found in pots down next to the german city's christmas market with police immediately evacuating the area pisa oliver has the details well

police in the city of port stomach urgently investigating whether a suspicious device that they were called to in the afternoon on friday was a viable explosive device that had been placed or certainly the livid to an address nearby to the christmas markets in the center of the city now this all started around two thirty local time in which this package was delivered to the pharmacy which is very close to the central square where that christmas market is located now the bomb disposal department were called they arrived on the scene and sent a robot over to assess the package they determined that it was a cylindrical object containing cables batteries and nails but it said that it didn't have any well certainly at the time nothing that they could describe as a viable ignition system no ignition device was delivered

a firing pin if you will to use old of pile answers. so currently police are investigating whether this could have been used as an air as a viable explosive device whether it could have been used to target the people that were gathering at that christmas market just in october of this years or just a month ago we we saw in one thousand year old syrian national being arrested and charged with what's being described as planning to commit a serious. terrorist event but this also isn't the first time that germany has been the target of real terrorist attacks. with.

the former u.s. national security advisor michael flynn has pleaded guilty to lying to the f.b.i. for his links to that then russian ambassador to the u.s. sick a kidney attic with the latest details his. we have michael flynn pleading guilty to charges of making false statements to federal agents now this is a guilty plea and it's been entered in court at this point he's facing a sentence of between zero and six months in jail as well as a possible fine of up to nine thousand five hundred dollars now of course the

mainstream media is in an uproar others talk about the rush investigation all kinds of things are being made in the press this is being treated as a very big story out a very earth shaking event but it's quite interesting let's recall how michael flynn stepped down as national security adviser let's remember donald trump's explanation of why he left the administration let's take a listen to a thing is he didn't tell our vice president. properly and then he said he didn't remember so either way it was a very satisfactory to me so when he was serving in the trumpet ministration mr flynn misled vice president pence and now it appears that he's pled guilty to misleading federal agents now at this point you know the white house has come forward and said look this charge doesn't implicate anyone other than michael flynn

he himself it looks like he's pleading guilty to misleading federal agents now it's been well over a year since the u.s. presidential election investigations have been going on for months and yet there seems to be no sign of this vast plot involving donald trump and russia this vast conspiracy that mainstream media seems to be so determined to find hasn't really come into fruition we've had several indictments at this point individuals who misled federal officials made false statements are now facing criminal charges but as of yet the collusion story isn't really materializing. the french president a man who mccrone have tabled a new plan to combat human trafficking in libya involving military action but if plans have been widely criticized as the previous french led intervention in libya left the country in ruins and some aren't counted against yet explains. slavery and human trafficking. fences 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 to tunisia to zone we're proposing police military action we're not waging war but 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 micron 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 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 at our feet up was not a mass regime nobody says that was destroyed by the french and the british together in two thousand and eleven so of course michael can do something now put it full reoccur. the problem of modern slavery is worst in africa this is followed by asia and the pacific region and then central asia and europe so it well france is south has become a key human trafficking hub. according to a report from the u.s. state department it lists the country as a destination and 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 asked him about mcconnell's plan for military action. we are going to be but no. we cannot accept anything. to be done with our differences of libyans libyans would be the ones who do the action with the help of the lord to come up. with the right way to help them. to create the right investment on that country for a libya if not the country for you know to make a libya is a country of iran we as a libyan have already invested in africa and we want to see anybody talk of ever going to face with the country what it can and to help the similarity to stay with their loved ones with their families but i would r.t.

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persons instead of talking about the org what's next why stop there you'll ban me from getting this close to the white house i'm with a group code pink why not ban the color pink one hour stretch beyond the rock i should be sent to the town because i'm going to try to break me on the wheel but what i long time is this sort of nonsense you don't scare me and i'll continue to voice my opinion i'll continue to speak out in good company i'm in good company you're going to be you want to do this because we're all free thinkers. washington d.c. faces a december day mukesh taxes government funding immigration are just some of the hurdles the u.s. government must jump into before the end of the month we'll take a look at this and more on this edition. of the politicking on larry king donald trump and republican lawmakers face

enormous pressure for some kind of legislative achievement this year december holds a jam packed agenda for congress including tax reform a government funding debate to avoid a christmas time shutdown and a renewed fight over the fate of hundreds of thousands of young undocumented immigrants who's likely to win who lose what happens have nothing makes it over the legislative finish line we're going to talk about it with robin by road democratic strategist former obama campaign field director and a u.s. army ranger vet he joins us from atlanta and lanny ten research fellow at stanford's hoover institution he said to the george w. bush administration and was an adviser to the presidential campaigns of marco rubio and mitt romney and he joins us from the campus at stanford let's start with the

tax bills from. some major differences between the house and the senate you think we're going to get a bill by the end of december. larry i do think there will be a strong push whether they actually get it by the end of december if it slips into twenty eighteen we'll have to see but i do think that republicans are commit something out they of course cross the first hurdle this week with a vote in the budget committee on the senate side so i do have confidence that they will be a tax bill now whether it's going to look more like the senate version of the house version that remains to be seen but certainly i think the political and the policy momentum is there why robin is the end of do.