as the head of a game in the english city on tuesday to roma supporters are under arrest on suspicion of attempted murder i got more details earlier from marty's alexy ever shifting. in twenty eight hundred semifinal the champions league we're not talking about the brilliance of muhammad salo roberto filomena or even a late comeback from roma we're talking about football violence again that's a set of roma supporters attacked liverpool supporters outside of at a field the stadium in liverpool allegedly carrying baton belts and even sledgehammers and now one fifty three year old irish man a fan of liverpool instead of celebrating a beautiful five to when he's in hospital fighting for his life in a critical condition the merseyside police in liverpool investigating this as an attempted murder and two men from rome twenty five and twenty six years of age have been arrested as for reaction obviously to clubs every should statements with. websites condemning this violence in the strongest terms possible your way for saying that it was deeply shocked by the violence outside of the stadium in liverpool which is bizarre because they should have just looked into the past and

saw how six fans of liverpool were stabbed by roma fans in two thousand and one there have been other cases of violence perpetrated by this particular club fans. now i'm going to roll next week for the away leg does this kind of reaction we can sell me by no means and all this happens is as we remember fifty days before the world cup and every single day we're hearing stories about the russian who are against the threat of russian hooligans that english fans should not be travelling to the world cup because they will get in trouble with russian hooligans almost as if you know these newspapers in these writers do not acknowledge the fact that hooliganism is a universal problem and speaking of which we are running a documentary throughout the day on r.t. called football beasts and let's watch a clip of that. excitement .

think i'm going to get up to my saying that. the police. will slug. punish me and infirm to. get done policies from the start. the world's largest advanced economies want to get a better picture of russia the g. seven nations are planning to set up a special working group to study what they describe as moscow's malign behavior

russia was at the top of the agenda at a gathering of the group's foreign ministers this week encountered a talking to guys the story. the g. seven a club of some of the world's leading industrialized nations tackling the planet's biggest problems from financial crises to military conflicts but it's also the g. eight minus russia and it seems they just can't help talking about the member they kicked out russia was the focus of the g seven foreign and security ministers meetings in toronto the g seven foreign ministers are calling attention to so-called malign behavior by russia the respected look at ways to keep pressure on russia without imposing new sanctions for two days g seven foreign and security ministers rub shoulders in toronto at an event with the tagline building a more peaceful and secure world and apparently for that to happen first and foremost russia needs to be put in its place then things like war and world hunger can be addressed just like last year and the year before that and so on because you see in ukraine and russia's actions all of the very reason for the brussels summit

this is now the second year in a row that the g seven is without russia another example of russia's isolation ukraine is the victim of russian aggression we must never forget that fact if i think about the position of you to know he's you know he's so far is really the repeat of russia now this time around it included a whole laundry list of russia issues condemn russia's irresponsible and destabilizing behavior check demand such alleged actions cease immediately check agree that it is highly likely moscow poisoned sergei screwball and his daughter and that there's just no plausible alternative check and the acting u.s. secretary of state went to far as to tell reporters that russia has to be a quote constructive partner in syria or be held accountable so to be fair they did manage to cover a lot of ground it just more often than not happened to be russia related let's just hope they can avoid getting too carried away with their plans. what we decided

was that we were going to set up a jew servant group that would look at russian malign behavior in all this money frustrations whether it's cyber war whether it's this information assassination attempts whatever it happens to be and collectively try and call it out and the hostile it may not have reached its peak either this meeting was perhaps just a preview of what we can expect when the leaders of the g. seven countries come together in june to tackle the russian mess. the pursuit of beauty has contributed to a humiliating fall from grace for the former leader of spain's madrid region christina has resigned earlier on wednesday after a video emerged appearing to show her getting caught stealing two pots of anti-aging cream from a supermarket back in twenty eleven. so

for him to have been the region's premier since twenty fifteen when she became odd in scotland last month when it was alleged there were irregularities with a masters degree she talking she's been the victim of a smear campaign with pressure mounting she says she's stepping down early so that her party isn't affected by the fallout. although the united states insists that all the missiles fired at syria a couple of weeks back hit that target the russian defense ministry says it's found fragments which suggest otherwise we'll take a look at that for you after a short break. wrong. just don't. get to see. this day become active. engagement equals betrayal.

find themselves worlds apart we choose to look for common ground. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside out. football isn't only about what happens on the pitch put the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman each kill the narrowness and spending two hundred twenty million on one player. so it's an experience like nothing else on to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy a great so well more transfer. and thinks this minute. welcome back as the syria military works to secure complete control of the battle

scarred city of duma kilometers of insurgent built tunnels have been discovered r.t. has exclusive images of the subterranean network. well now they starve this they harass this they moved around in our blood as you see these tunnels are massive they make out his work on them as well as civilians that they wouldn't feed those who refused to work and you can see how big they are and how much they have in there is like a city beneath a city and as though. we would be taken to the spot where the fighting would be and they would give as a matter fifteen minutes before it started they showed us how to act and whom to

shoot the guy he told us what to do you would then disappear after that it all depended on luck before the fighting they used to tell us about jihad these martyrs of jihad and about heroic death on the battlefield but other times they treated us like dogs. the russian defense ministry is displayed missile fragments recovered from syria they did that malfunctioned or failed to reach their targets on the part of the barrels launched by america the u.k. and france this month more details from nic aaron. well as you know we've been bombarded with two different versions of events solve those strikes that hit syria in mid april and today the russian defense ministry really upped the ante by providing some actual tangible evidence of those missiles that it says were either intercepted or simply malfunctioned and this is going to be an embarrassing development for the u.s. side which had lauded the success of those one hundred five as strikes which it

said was were precise and overwhelming also dismissing any suggestions by russia that any of those missiles have been intercepted also insisting that the syrian air defense capabilities had been largely ineffective with their syrian missiles merely being fired into open air take a listen with way over one hundred missiles that it is shooting worn down the equipment didn't work too well their equipment. they didn't shoot one you know you heard all the show forty and then they showed fifty and there were. no sure every single one of it stored so i think we can be quite confident and say that the u.s. side is not going to let this lie or probably already crafting a response to email or response statement should i say as we speak the russian defense ministry also went into detail earlier about the targets of those one hundred five missiles twenty two only twenty two of those one hundred five missiles actually hits their intended targets and this being revealed at that site they

actually hit civilian objects rather than the ledge chemical supplies the u.s. has been so persistent upon take a listen just. some of the missiles don't reach the targets apparently due to malfunctions they were a threat to civilians there in civilian buildings at the same time the logic of the u.s. u.k. and france in choosing the targets is unclear they see they were stockpiles of toxic agents there if they were hit by cruise missiles this could lead to widespread poisoning and if it was for damascus itself tens of thousands of people could have died so this. latest development is probably going to deal a blow to the us presidency ego is while he had boasted as so optimistically about the performance of his mis sauza and after those strikes even still his popularity on the upturn with his approval rating jumping a few percentage points so this turnabout is not something we could expect him to let lie. and nationwide opinion poll in germany suggests that the majority of

people there see donald trump's america as a greater threat than russia the survey comes just days ahead of chancellor merkel's visit to washington as our berlin correspondent peter oliver when i google or merkel meets on friday with donald trump in washington one of the aims for the chancellor will be to show the president how sanctions against russia are impacting business in her country the german government will point out where the interests of german companies have been affected and make it clear where there are concerns and where we see undesirable consequences it's estimated forty percent of western losses since sanctions were imposed on moscow have been german industry starting to ring the alarm bell the german economy is facing damage in the short term to the extent of more than one hundred million euros and in the long term projects its total value is several billion euros may be threatened it's not just about bottom lines and balance sheets for. public opinion at home is also

a big factor when you look at a recent poll that shows that a significant chunk of germans view the united states as the biggest threat to world security not russia the vast majority of those polled said that they weren't scared of russia while almost half of those said that they blamed the current tensions between the west and russia on the united states with only a quarter saying that moscow was responsible for the current impasse while almost eighty percent said that they felt that donald trump was a bigger threat to global so. curity then vladimir putin armed with portraits of the two leaders i set out on to the streets of berlin to ask people who they thought was the most dangerous trump or. both of them are unpredictable but trump is even less predictable and he does not represent western political goals i don't know what he represents except himself. i would see equal work one day

if. you're going to ask is yellow the moral comments only i like it. and that's why you're here to do you know what do you. really see trump because he's unpredictable putting has been in politics for many many years i think he has his way more stable force that i think donald trump is way more unpredictable and that's quite interesting especially with to keep you in north korea east to. the would you agree to give the current. looks to maintain pressure on moscow she may well find herself under scrutiny at home over just how willing she is to risk damage to german business in order to keep the pressure on peter all of a r.t. . now to the top of the world in seven days a team of women from europe in the middle east have completed a weeklong skiing expedition to the north pole and their journey was sponsored by the global cybersecurity company kaspersky lab as part of

a campaign to empower women are to accompany the team on their quest. it gives those girls i know say the team a platform from which to share their story and that's to be the powerful thing about this expedition is that we're going to share all story and hopefully inspire little small girls and boys men and women to go on and never reach beyond the expectation of others. but i could i would equate the i believe i'm the first kuwaiti to ski to the north pole but i certainly don't want to be the last this is the goal or a better state a message to all women everything is possible if we are ready to put enough effort

if we're really willing to reach the goals. that. will serve the state and the boarders they conquered the north pole even the twice if they reached it the first time set up camp that should get the food at night the ice flame outta my way when we came to locate the mother and if they were five kilometers away from the north pole and we took them back. and that's news for now i'll be back in just about half an hour ago i'm going to global update see that.

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a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest goalkeepers of alternative but there was one more question and by the way who's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous is a huge star among us and a huge amount of pressure come out you have to go i mean eighty percent of the football we are with you and we will show you all the great game the greater good you are the rock at the back nobody gets us to you we need you to get the ball going left go. alone and there's a war in europe and i'm really happy for drawing down to him for the two thousand and three and world cup in russia meet this special was or was altered reassure me to just say the. theology teams latest edition make up a bigger certainly better look. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or

rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be friends . it's a good way to be for us this is what before three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters about our. question. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things considered i'm peter labelle after sixty eight years the two koreas are on the verge of signing a peace treaty a donald trump summit is in the works is peace coming to the korean peninsula well

it's possible the foreign policy blog and the corporate it's media are less enthusiastic after all conflict is very business model. crosstalk in the korean peninsula i'm joined by my guest and washington he is a senior fellow at the institute for china america studies also in washington we have john merrow he is a former chief of the north east asia division of the bureau of intelligence and research at the u.s. state department as well as author of korea peninsular origins of the war and in new york we cross to daniel as our he is an author and freelance journalist who writes frequently about the middle east eastern europe and the us constitution right gentlemen cross-like rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate so let me go to you first in washington if you look at the mainstream media and particularly the cable stations all the focus on the. korean

peninsula is directed towards this summit that may have with the north korean leader but really i think it's what's more important is happening this weekend if the two koreas coming together how does this change the situation on the peninsula if north korea and south korea can find some kind of meaningful and let me stress meaningful reproach moment go ahead in washington. let me in response to your question later. right over here that the real credit for what the situation the opportunity that we have today is because of president mungy in south korea you know if we had a the same all the conservative south korean government in place today what would have happened is kim jong un would have gone through with his condensed testing schedule and then after that he would have gone straight into his bunker emerging from time to time with grave threats and snarly garley threats to blow everything

up the fact of the matter is that mungy is the person who has been able to tease kim jong il kim jong un out into the sunshine and has open and shown him a pathway to global integration and as well as not south reconciliation. in the south korean progressive government has a lead this process of reconsolidation which has dramatically altered the dynamics on the on the korean peninsula of course the olympics also have helped and therefore it is north and south they extend that they leave the process that they would have dragged the other parties along including the united states credit allies with the peninsula parties ok john let me go to you more or less the same question here because the dynamic changes considerably if there is a peace between the two koreas after sixty eight years makes started coming to some kind of defense and security measures that both can accept then regime change as it

were that we hear so many people talking about in in the washington foreign policy blob that kind of is taken off the table because that would not be in south korea's interests go ahead john in washington. right peter well i think i think you overstated it a little bit i do give president moon a lot of credit but i think the main credit i never thought i would say that i know obviously belongs to donald trump i know you're going to say that. this this this this is this is the man who said he wanted nothing more than to sit down and have a hamburger with kim jong un and looks like he's going to get his chance right now there are apparently still cia people liaison people behind in pyongyang at least according to the south korean media and people are hard at work and mr pump aoe is the guy that's been running this. formerly from his post

as cia director but hopefully in a few days as secretary of state so i think i would agree the president deserves a lot of credit and certainly with a progressive government a lot of things are possible that weren't underpass conservative regimes but i think we have to give president trump his do as well and i just i just hope things go ok it's topsy turvy world exactly and you know and i'm very happy that this process is going on let me go to daniel i don't care who gets the credit i think that is really low on the hierarchy a bit of an important see are getting peace on that peninsula where you have the most heavily armed border in the world after sixty eight years who are considerable american military presence is there and the chinese have come in and in ways that i think we'll find out in the future they were very constructive here it's the result that counts most importantly go ahead daniel well. let me speak up for ken john

i think it's played his cards extremely well. this is not in the door a political endorsement of him by any means but he is a very smart yap player yet and he has done. very good job. he's. kind of you know seize control of the opening seize the opening there that trump corded him and has really run of the i think it's a it's a pretty impressive performance ok let's go back to washington. and i think what's really important here i mean it's good to get down to really the details here because we have a do you need arise south korea i'm sorry korean peninsula means north and south so that means that american nukes would not be allowed there i mean this is the kind of opening that i think the north korean leader was looking for he's looking for a grand bargain and you know what folks he's been asking for a grand bargain for a while and i think he had to go through all of the theatrical of the missiles and

the launches and you know all of the heated rhetoric back and forth this was the opening that he was looking for and it was the south korean leader that opened the door and we got a nod from donald trump i mean we'll find out where it goes so you know it really gets down to the details of what that means because we know all along north korea wants security guarantees maybe russia and china can be guarin tours of that go ahead sort of been in washington you're absolutely correct on that i mean the devil is in the details in terms of how do you go about staging nuclearization in terms of how that process works out the mechanics of that process but you're absolutely correct on that point with regard to denuclearize the nuclearization that it is not just a north korean affair it needs to be a peninsular affair let me throw out a useful principle which might be useful here both in terms of denuclearization as well as in reduction of conventional forces in terms on the peninsula and in terms

of the hostilities that are there in terms of denuclearization we're talking of course complete verifiable irreversible nuclearization of north korea they can have a civil nuclear program which. civil nuclear program which will be very intrusively watched over by the i.a.e.a. full scope see if guards etc etc but what that means for south korea is that of course they have this civil of very extensive civil nuclear program but there will be no strategic forces on their territory and they want to even be an extended deterrent to south korea provided by the us so long as there is complete nuclearization of the north now the parallel fact which north and south korea frankly need to work out because denuclearization is essentially a topic of discussion between north korea and the united states with regard to conventional forces what the disposition at the end of the day needs to be that the

peninsula is is kind of insulated from the larger the geopolitics off the north east asia south the south korea has already shown that it is not not terribly interested in getting into things like a regional ballistic well it's not interesting i'm going to eilat for a line we're going to find we're going to find actually let's yeah we're going to find out just how far the pentagon wants to go along with it john let me go to you because if you get if you look at the mainstream media and the punditry that we are bombarded with all of the time the mainstream media is really not on board here is it just because they don't want to see succeeded anything or in the military industrial complex i mean south korea and they and that region of the world is a nice. trough for arms in the us as a vast military establishment there and that needs to be paid for i mean there's a combination of these things here and go ahead john in washington. well you know i

peter i don't know that's that's that's kind of hard to say what i will say is this i think what has happened is that we have now gotten a de facto freeze for freeze this was the proposal you have that was made by moscow and beijing years ago and i wrote on this subject about a year and a half ago and i got excoriated now for saying that but this is what it is this is what is now de facto in place and so this is this is a big deal it is you know the u.s. the u.s. military exercises this year the joint us are ok exercises are a shadow of their former self last year we had three aircraft carrier battle groups participating this year it's one small aircraft it's really an assault ship with a short takeoff and landing j. thirty f. thirty five so it's

a huge deal now there are huge military asymmetries on the peninsula which are going to be astronomically difficult to resolve so we may get a start in these in these discussions when the two korean leaders may meet they may in a few days they may even declare and then to yes the korean war at least hostilities but it's going to take a lot of tough slogging to work through some of these details and to particularly to put in place the security guarantees which i think the north koreans are going to insist on to go forward daniel let me go to you i mean the security guarantees that's what it's always been about and i'm glad that john mentioned the freeze for freeze because that's been around for a while nobody in the mainstream media says that where that idea comes from but i can tell you if you go to last year during the security council you could see the russian and chinese ambassador at length go through that. process here daniel before we go to the.