drones on his territory. a welcome to the program here at r.t. international for this saturday i rule re sushi become your latest world news headlines the draw for the twenty eighteen world cup in russia has been completed and we now know who will be playing whom in the group stages next summer the host nation russia is expecting in excess of half a million visiting fans to arrive and support their teams during the big championship understand around three and a half million people applied for tickets when the first batch went on sale ahead of the draw. and peter schmeichel now taking a closer look at the chances each team has of lifting that trophy.

welcome to the last few decades of moscow it might look like a winter wonderland snooze the snow gently phillipstown it was a blizzard earlier but we didn't know it's a speech michael long sought 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 coming to joe was the gravel it was not as opposed as bring up the dollar seventy five a look at it briefly say russia. really really really good group of draw saudi arabia in the old game and then egypt in your garage so really good for russia and europe i would say without but the kicker is 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 so you're keeping you became your own on the sort of the ones close to the hall will do a bit more specifically in a few moments but the four of i want to see didn't go smoothly the weather any

massage here are the highlights of it all. i see on the rush hour and we are still thinking lance in france. to give you enough. to weigh. all eyes on you 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 aside like your principle first day with us and you got some things not just president putin but practically it was a who's who of will win isn't the greatest football this of all time tell us about that experience well for president tuesday was holding a reception for for basically every legendary football who's who's in moscow for the job and 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 here are legends in the game and even when you are a huge name yourself do you still feel slightly intimidated to be entering with you know an album or a downer well i think the big thing for me was. pelley pelleas not having a good best of time at the moment he was in a wheelchair and golden bangs and him they were having a conversation about which which joints they've had replaced that it was cracked if you try to sweet sort of moment vehicle marathon it was

a course for now the road and the new car for the kind of our guys who's lifted the world cup trophy and i was quite proud to be part of that of course you were a number there were a few of them going in the piece michael is in here don't think doing you know sell yourself short you know everybody that was it was a big name star and for a very good reason they can install this stun collymore he would solve a threatening manner up front we hope it's as you can see not much action at the moment but chance to take a big take break we've been here working the room as they say. so the qualifiers are over and argentina have the upper hand. does it does that mean. the main thing is we just have to keep training is this the tournament where leno messi replicates the incredible achievements of diego maradona and lifts the world called missy doesn't need to prove anything he's been the best in the world for the last ten years for

a person martin is the belgian manager to come out because belgian. england and panama are in the same growth and obviously there have been a golden generation just as a funny thing we've got a group of players that. 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 imagination we feel an exciting thing a team that are only going to get better but we are a team that some experience of those big matches. 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 disappoint you know 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. if the world cup next year in russia well the last couple. doing just showing that they don't know all terrific korea has been putting some youngsters in you know which didn't put to. go experience you know nothing i think they need experience badly when when you're in an inner turmoil is.

not you're a boy who's winning the world. i would put it for for my i think 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 will be there again germany is generally they are always there they've been if they are not winning the cup they are in the second place it's in the if semifinals they are always fighting. to be given one spot if not to support it so i think is a. big a petition you know to do the walk up is a very nice computers and it be can be destroyed and i see i hope the weather will be better. theater production because it means so much to so many people who 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 if not i don't mean to put any of the teams in russia down but saudi arabia agents and your acquired surely the russian will settle for that at the start of the day oh my god i mean i thought in the end in time we've sort of been off in 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 the world cup there's a lot of pressure on russia there on the home home soil it's going. the expectations not having played competitive football for so long it's going to be difficult regardless but the first game is against saudi arabia argentina ice and so that's what's a great day and i would take place here it must. stadium so iceland have already proved their ability to upset the apple cart and i wanted senior not at their

greatest in our lights for 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 cynics were right the last guests 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 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 going to be really warm sunny beautiful down by the black sea it's 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 playing the plays in spain he makes his living he plays for the drinker i mean and then such as well coming spain

spain i think that it is dip in form but they are on their way up again and maybe one of the dark horses to win the whole tone in my opinion sold this is a tasty one and this is i mean this is the pick of the bridge absolutely yeah on the day anything get out but let's not talk about the i mean world cup as world called everyone has worked really hard over the last sort of eighteen months to get to the world cup and to get to the georgia you know all these teams are good in capable teams don't forget so anyone can really beat anyone on the day ok let's move on to. england another these are this is a much that involves so many players don't know each other because of all the bells and seen play in england in the primary were not many surprises there now and. not many surprises but i can attest to one 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 sure how i'm building a really good team but remember two teams go through so you told me that you

weren't too happy with the draw well i want the hardest possible group because that way you know if your team is really capable of winning or 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 and i think we're going to win the world cup they tend to get ahead of themselves ok listen when i when i speak. here believe is still sort of speak to the british more like. hey 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 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 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 in the same group. you know very bad memories because. the first time that we would play against brazil was ninety ninety you need telly and then in two thousand and two we play against brazil and the score was you know five five to two two to wrestle board now. very strong as always. we're looking forward to you know to the great challenge and switzerland we have a common friend who says we still have years and i mean it will be tough for costa rica but the put it in the last work you know we were with the euro why we leave with england and still we we want to you talk to group right here so you know

any chance of this happening or you know you know no world cup is this the beauty of football this is what life 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 is 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 chairman's the joe and we have every and one of the balls popped up and went inside the table right now imagine if that happens live that's no way you can redo the joe but imagine what the repercussions people will be crying 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 oh my goodness so it's a simple thing and it's terrifying civil thing with huge consequences if it doesn't

go well and of course had a very major tournament so much attention on the infrastructure in the preparations . to test out some of the stadiums that were used in the world cup but this is confederations cup and the fans themselves from all over the world came to experience what it was a lie check out what they thought. we would so much mexico russia we thought maybe the like going to have to be one that completely obvious they were still like friendly russian people are so friendly

friendly there still believe me it was a beautiful gathering we would come back from work. maybe. make them. sit down 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 there 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 for life there you're looking forward to this really looking for i'm looking forward to experiencing russia. to deliver stories that are of course with football surrounding football but also with the culture and really on the good fortune and hopefully we can give people

a feel for what the country is like and you know maybe interesting to watch the game himself and will be going to the games as well i am sure it's been great to have you on board peter many thanks see you in a few months see this in months. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game and so i got. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch to the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money just kill the narrowness and spend two hundred twenty million on one player. it's an experience like no one else

want to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy played great so one more chance with. the base he's going to. claim trying to cause more than just money it's more than just revolutionary it's affecting black call that's sucking in every asset class nouns in the history of humanity into one glorious up to who knows where. good to have you with us today here into multiple sources now it's an extremist campaign the one who see.

the same unit which would be in charge of drone operations is standing accused of killing ten civilians in somalia this summer something the u.s. africa command has denied now that the u.s. is apparently planning to open a new front in its drone war this could also mean more work for the pentagon's p.r. machine. done of r t one month ago the death of four u.s. soldiers in an ambush in new revealed america's military presence in the country it's something even senior u.s. politicians seemed unaware of american troops were deployed under the obama administration to help knees arion forces fight local terrorist cells african affairs analyst lawrence freeman says that west african countries can be put under a lot of pressure by various western partners. probably less than

a thousand troops in this year and this will now significantly increase that over a thousand this is the first time now that armed drones will be flying so this is a big problem for the government and for west africa and for all of africa. is now allowing united states to carry out these kinds of military attacks this as you will now work it's not going to be successful without a larger strategic picture and the african countries now are being pressured by the west in the chuppah ministration to allow these armed drones and other military build up and i'm sure it's going to cause them many many internal problems and it will not solve the problem of terrorism and. above all an art exhibition devoted to the concept of martyrdom has sparked controversy featuring terrorists alongside the

likes of socrates and martin luther king jr those behind the shows say they want people to think about what martyrdom really means. peter all of a picks up the story. an exhibition called maltese museum has just opened in the german capital alongside socrates and mostly say king jr it places those that flew planes into the world trade center at the attack is of the but cyclone theater the suicide bomber that killed forty people on the moscow metro saying that they are all examples of people that gave their lives for what they believed in it's all part of a festival of knowle the new european oh it is the brainchild of today both the organizes and the artists themselves refused to either give us an interview or to allow me to film the exhibition they did send this e-mail. what do the people of bilin think about muss militarists being venerated in this way is it right to

put these people on the spot in this type of exhibition here in the know from you know like it was just a reference i think that people would have differing perspectives obviously lumping different groups of people together is always a complicated subject because they come from different backgrounds i don't know i don't think so why. just be at two different types of people and it's not the same move we agree with even perspective on more news is not for us to decide because react is i pretty much yes the exhibition is about is about moving the psychology behind most of them or towards people who do certain things it's not a problem as long as the exhibition focuses on the differentiation of martyrdom that could potentially lead to murder curses martyrdom that that you know the civil rights for example like that should be sick human rights the motto or. die only for themselves or believe yeah yeah in what they have believed and now on that

matter because they count i'm not that person are many other person so i don't think that. but you put the piece together the artists had previously explained to the media that the idea was to try and put yourself in the mindset of somebody who's willing to die for what they believed in even if that belief was horrific to you a sensory experience using lights and sounds to try and explain the old adage of one man's terrorist being another man's freedom fighter. the point is to present a complex view on the world of martyrs and we understand that everyone has a different perspective but it's the personal perspective that matters in this exhibition but for some it's impossible to see the artistic intention beyond the reality of an exhibition that places mass murderers alongside civil rights

champions peter all of. us has imposed a nationwide curfew i mean on rest and allegations of ballot stuffing in the wake of the country's presidential election. the country's government has temporarily suspended citizens' freedom of movement to

help the honduran police and me to deal with the situation rest was sponsored by the presidential vote count which the opposition alleges involved electoral fraud i'll be honest and at least one protest have died and around twenty others were injured in the violence. you saw today world headlines here live on r.t. international we are back in about half an hour. there is no center in the united states political discourse it's all center right

ever since the clinton people came into power the center right has become the right and there is no peace party that exists in my country and i don't see any evidence of it except this third party that is so criticized the. we. are told. this is school bus broadcast around the world from washington d.c. i'm barred children filling in and i'm going to be coming up will sit down with the father of financial futures to talk about the latest endeavor of the american dream and the exchange then we'll hear from melissa are mo stock shoes to talk about the

latest retail numbers and sales plus china is still fighting for market economy status in the world trade organization but first let's get to the stories that are topping today's business and financial headlines. that coin has had quite the week at one point the cryptocurrency soared past eleven thousand dollars which is a ten thousand dollars jump from the start of the year eventually the price started fluctuating leading many to assume that it was on its way down but it's rising again following news from the u.s. commodity futures trading commission the f.t.c. chairman christopher john carlo announced that the agency approved futures trading on three u.s. exchanges in a statement he said a virtual currency is a commodity unlike the can and he that commission has dealt with in the past we expect that the futures exchange is through information sharing agreements will be monitoring the trading activity on the relevant cash platforms for potential impacts on the futures contracts price discovery process including potentially

market manipulation and market dislocations due to flash rallies and crashes and trading outages. by friday morning republican senators said they lock down the fifty votes required to pass the tax cuts and jobs act they spent the rest of the day. other details before the final vote however members of congress have the rest of the month to continue debating what should and shouldn't be included in the bill so far i want to turn to you and ask you some questions about this most notably about the out dated an analysis from the tax policy center which said that in the next ten years a quarter of americans could see their taxes increase they also had some questions about the growth projections included in the bill so what are your thoughts on that what do you think members of congress are going to do what couple of things one you know not only that group but the congressional budget office which is run by a republican appointee but it's a nonpartisan in the staffers and that the person

a guy named keith hall used to be the top economic council advisor for president bush so he's a republican but he's a public servant and a good fellow.