it is not possible to imagine it any other way especially after the tragic events that happened in libya and iraq the north koreans remember them very well. because i still hope that this meeting a very brave and mature decision u.s. president donald trump has made to have direct contacts with north korean leader kim jong un will take place and we all expect a positive outcome from. now president putin and the world eagerly awaiting this meeting between president tran and the north korean leader but another eagerly awaited event is of course their cut which kicks off on the fourteenth as well that enjoying this interview and sums up the chance to ask president putin and some questions and they will obviously still pull related thing is the big event sixty to kick off since we all know president putin is a great friend of his schools and this is what he had to say on the matter.

that's a difficult one there are many title contenders there are latin american teams like argentina and brazil we also know that the german team showed great game at previous tournaments and a high quality of football was also demonstrated by the spanish team i'm sure they're going to be other title contenders but the strongest will win you for the most. i mean i used to have a couple of footballers whom i consider extraordinary and who can obviously lay claim to the title among russian and soviet players it is live among foreign footballers it's pay leg well i also like mara dawna that you can. see there we have a president and his chinese counterpart met five times last year but ahead of the world cup they have the t.v. schedule ahead of. in the state visit. live downtown central moscow thank you very

much. so it was a lot of making here's a world cup predictions as excitement builds over which country will lift the world cup when the final in moscow next month he has been picking the brains of perhaps the most famous manager out there. on how the tournament will play out and we invite you to challenge the special one and make your own predictions i don't want to be emotional to be. traditions because there was. also on my plate. so this is going to be tough if you feel up to testing your knowledge against the might of marine your head over to facebook or twitter and follow the hash tag match merino there will be two rounds of predictions from the group stage to the knockouts with the first starting this wednesday in just well a few hours. so the time teams are beginning to arrive in russia or ahead of the world cup's opening game of the iran squad the first to touch down in moscow they are in group b. for the tournament who will face one of the favorites spain as well as portugal and

morocco and the iranian coach described qualifying for the world cup in russia as a dream come true adding that it has taken an awful lot of effort and determination on the part of his players. now on tuesday russia played its last friendly fixture before the world cup gets underway they drew one one with turkey in the russian capital it's the second the game in a row the russia has failed to win and we asked people outside the web arena in moscow about their impressions of the match and what team russia should do to buck the trend. oh no no no no. oh. i mean a festive mood the world cup will be a major celebration and these home stadiums in my never happen again just. like you like about me do i need. to feel the desire from the country the spectators fantastic great atmosphere great people i

just your team could provide them with what they deserve family support russia off across both. england first richest second. danish goalkeeper peter schmeichel has been checking out russia as our world cup host cities for us here's a put all to much stop some petersburg where we indulge in the city's art and architecture for the meantime though we will see you shortly. i mean isn't peter's birthday to you and i have to say looking up at the fabulous everyone watching football you would have a great view. but then i look down and there's no pitch but don't worry that's

because this is a smart stadium they rolled the pitch out and when they need it they're both back in and here is the pitch just laying there. being through and the way they roll it back in is. just normal wheels in those absolutely. spectacular. it takes about ninety minutes each way at the moment the pitchers in the sunshine getting ready to be perfect for the seven games of the be played here and i think the pick of the partners there must be that costa rica gets another shot at brazil in the world. i've been told that st petersburg is a fantastic city and peter schmeichel and i'm so weak it's find out is the truth. but i started to travel around to the eleven old cities and everyone said to me once he gets things he did you would see something truly amazing my first stop the

peterhof policy where this used to come every summer residence and it's beautiful. and i got the privilege to stay in the fountain on. i think in those pretty pretty good with the water coming out of it and also i think i did a pretty good job. because they lived a charmed life i can tell you the. fountains statues. it's so extravagant all the cool all the glitz. that looks precisely like the hotel in sochi where brazil is when they come to st peter's puts in place because if they see this they must feel right at home.

i'm enjoying my time as a tourist the grounds v.o.r. and first if i have to say it's well worth a visit. one of my favorite musical pieces is not enough second piano. to challenge the foundation is a big football fan happens to be one of the feet from the top on top of being one of the best. in the world would you believe it. he in st petersburg so i've decided to go and see. some of them as you say i used to see a good way pm so i know i don't think yeah i think it's like this. from authority in football so when i was younger i playing football too crazy about that and i broke my hands few times and how does that work you think i'm much faster. you play

something place and i go yeah. second piano concerto soloist but that it's me. that's what you play that for me this is my favorite be the play in the way we play in the. ok.

i want to. say you know that it would interest you also it takes how many years to play this. twenty totally i play so to be honest i don't mind that more than three hundred times not a lot of tennis would take that on because i see difficult somebody counted more than fifty five souls and that's the way you play the very very aggressive and this is what i really like i mean i listen to japanese pianists i'm very soft and it doesn't come out the same way that this is not i aggressive this is special but i don't mind if number three is doesn't work without personal the bullshit question as well absolutely i play football for my show called a lot of the same things for example conductor orchestra the chief coach players orchestra players something that most important loyalist should play for the audience this is the most

important things and i just put you in context so who are you you would be someone like messi over and out. oh yeah oh yeah you also play chess is my son is my second pluff i'd like to hear you play it.

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always in the water. they said. it is good to have you with us today. under pressure amid calls to expel the u.s. ambassador to germany it comes off to richard grenell who's been in the post for just about a month said he's working to strengthen right wing movements in europe the german foreign ministry has asked him to clarify his remarks. peter all of a investigates. at the beginning of the last century then american president theodore roosevelt said the u.s. diplomat should speak softly and carry a big stick while the current us ambassador to germany he's opted more for shouting

loudly and using that stick to smash diplomatic norms have a look at what he had to say to the right wing news site breitbart the right lot of conservatives throughout europe who have contacted me to say they're feeling there is a resurgence going on i absolutely want to empower other conservatives throughout europe other leaders while i'm but for the good now is announced himself as the all right cheerleader in chief in europe some people in berlin on top be that such a senior diplomatic figure is involving himself in the day to day running of european politics hiring king officials from me from me united states and maybe needs to be a little bit more careful i cannot imagine that i never never ever but i'm fifty years now and never ever had heard something similar over the last decade. do this casting this person should be so none of our country we don't do

this in the us and they did do it shouldn't do that. this is horrible and the u.s. government this is a shame sorry for that but that's my opinion i think he should have been more diplomatic and i believe that the right wing is not the right way to be pushing but you know that's i wouldn't call this incident and then john affairs but as a diplomat who should be more neutral politicians on the left say the ambassador who's only been in the job for a month should bucky's bags and go home and bassett is a representative of their stays and not her political movements u.s. ambassador now however does not behave like a diplomat but more like a far right colonial officer we won't tolerate such behavior it's nice to have a hand here it is not only a breach of at. that it is also a violation of the vienna convention on diplomatic relations there is an article forty one in which it is very clearly stated that ambassadors shall not interfere in internal affairs he has to go because he has broken too much porcelain in

germany he has become a real hate figure and that is not a good platform for a us ambassador this isn't the first scandal that mr goodell's been involved in just a few days into his tenure the opes german businesses with these comments off the washington pulled out of the iran nuclear deal. as little trump said u.s. sanctions will target critical saxes of iran's economy german companies doing business in iran should wind directions immediately. to their grinnell's brush shoot from the hip style certainly seems to be from the same playbook as president donald trump but he may well find out the hard way that envoys are expected to act on behave in a certain way whether they're at home in d.c. or here in the german capital peter all over. washington has responded to the controversy us state department spokesperson heather now it says america has strong

ties with germany adding though that ambassadors have the right to voice their opinions pastors have a right to express their opinion their representatives of the white house whether it's this administration or other administrations and we hear them voicing their opinions and their sometimes opinions that people may or may not like and that there is the right to free speech as well. the fifty six mission to the international space station is set to blast off today from the baikonur launch site in kazakhstan with a crew of three on board and improve the is at the launch site learning more about those taking part in the x. expedition.

this is the vehicle by which the three latest crew members will be making their way to the international space station true includes dr serene on chancellor from nasa . from roscoe's lost and alexander garrets from east now for the american and the russian this will be their first trip into space but for gears this is already his second time around and he'll be taking over a station commander on the i.s.i. . the three have been training intensely for months together now and according to garrett twitter some of the exercises are less than pleasant. for the astronauts social media is a way to connect with the earth even from so far away. and eager to share the news. with everybody who's interested down there and i. would write out there on the on the trends. the most and work with the big secret

positions with people out there apparently actual antigravity is easier to handle than the training required in order to prepare for it during their six month stay on the station that's really will be carrying out over three hundred experiments ranging from topics on the effects of space on human bones to robotics to quantum physics and the hope is that the results of those tests will one day be able to benefit those of us way down here on earth but it's not all work and no play the world cup may be taking place on earth but the results will be followed in space as well or better riding on the outcome of the lose lose. lose the ability to consume. the sun some place flew through the. systems you didn't need to. use the you see the new pleaded with. the flight it's a lose lose lose sleep. this is the new. blast

off today from baikonur if you can stay with us for our coverage this is international but back soon with more. face with frustration and. even members of the g.o.p. donald trump is sticking to his campaign promise to recast washington's trade relations with the world the reaction has been loud in swift on the verge of a global trade war.

the reason we call these our ships is because they're a ship to sail on the seas of tomorrow that's kind of why we call it that they're not a house house needs power lines coming in and gas lines coming in and so we had lines going out and water lines coming in. a nurse ship is a bessel or machine that provides all of these things there are six things that humans need on this planet they need water they need comfortable shelter that doesn't use fossil fuel they need electricity they need to treat their sewage and some way and they need to treat their garbage in some way and they need food these housing units called earth ships address all of these things all over the world and these are the same six things that humans all over the world need to have addressed . living in the ship community here in the greater welds there's about there's more than seventy houses about one hundred forty people with

families living here who know what when i was little i used to feel like some kind of like. a fairy a living there because you know it's so very. very organic very unique looking a something click like i was a woodland fairy living man a secret castle and. it feels really feels really solid and there's this sense of solidity living inside an earthen structure itself there's this sense that. we connect to something steve. cooley kind of see the little guy. that we can get the house that's conventional. materials. because it's a little more connected to the outdoors as well you know when you're indoors but it's quite comfortable i think to like a few people can compare you know being in a suit to home. in a sense to you know sweat loads like once you're inside of it you do feel much that

you feel that you need to being taken care of. as you say and you feel the solidity you really feel careful but at the same time it goes in both directions so you need to take care of your house for your house to take care of you properly. we just close the skylights which are basically the hut during the day evacuated through the skylights and because it's now night time we just want the heat at this time to stay inside the house so every night which is close to the place it's retaining the opening to release. we use tires for the structure of the building we call them. radially

reinforced rammed earth bricks as what they really are the tires are radially reinforced with steel for being tires but that works perfect for a radially reinforced brick. full of pounded compacted earth they become compression bricks and they're laid just like bricks and they will last forever termites don't eat them they don't rot and they're tremendous structure and tremendous thermal mass and thermal mass is what you want to hold temperature mass holds temperature and that makes it so that the building stores heat. for the winter and the heat is brought in with the sun. absorbed into the walls and given back when you need it most at night.

so two buckets just went to. this point you're not going to be really wailing on the third thing yet because the church still thought i was free so we're going to do is i'm going to use the tool to push the material into the sidewalk of the time . i feel welcomed everybody here and welcome me not just in this session but to a global family and cats from all over the world students from eight different countries speak english. ok so this is celeste. my friend and she's from portugal i come from my name is mario. i was born in recent minutes moved to put it. two years ago it was kind of her dream and then we got slammed by super storm and everything changed you know three hundred

sixty degrees night in day so there were twenty. came down things so you guys are super grateful i'm sure you know we are there to not think we're ready you know just go back there have revealed in puerto rico from the ground. from everything that happened recently from puerto rico to mexico this house this type of house is very good because it's resistant to hurricanes as well ask. wake's also free think of california on the wildfires that they have because you have the ties are protected it's all covered with a berm this house could also protect you know from fires in the future. so here's a simple survival it's the first one that we've built ever and since then we have

built several all over the world. come on in you're welcome. so these houses are called simple survivals because the systems themselves and also the way that they can be built should be easy for anyone in the world with a set of plans and basic training to be able to build the systems themselves are sustainable the same as in all other us ships but they're very basic and they have a lower cost in terms of disaster relief the electrical system in this house is also very good for traveling because this is our storage system which consists of a car battery and then it has different fuses which can be found anywhere in the world and also an inverter it works with a flexible solar panel which is on the roof which you can also travel with so with two bags basically you can go with your solar system. so all the water that's being

used in this house comes from the ring it's being harvested on the roof and then it's getting stuck insistence which is behind the house and then from there it comes to this water organizing module which is as i was saying very simple and i'll show you exactly how it works so let's say if you want to make sure that you have enough water in the morning for the shower when you come back from work let's say you basically open the valve that activates the pump and the wolf. that basically means that it was full so one thing it's full is just overflows because we have clung to look around the water to get through the cycle by the flow. again and. this is the water you use is it all the rainwater yeah our water it's parasite remotely if he spouts over there once the m.p.r.

finally everyone goes through several filters that screen well. so this this into the houses where the black water. so you can see it's really changed. the landscape out here where it's sagebrush is the natural environment here but as we are containing the sewage and and musing to plants to process the sewage. we create our own little oasis here. in the toilet is flush the pulp panel sucks up the water and flush the toilet with it cleaned that used water so that's reusing the water the water is used for washing dishes then the water is used for watering the plants and it's cleaned up by the plants then the water is used pumped back to flush the toilet. then it goes

outside and does landscaping so that's a conservative four time use of water and as you can see the sun's coming in it's winter the sun's coming in and heating the house and being stored in massive walls that absorb the heat and then give it back and then the electricity of course comes from photovoltaic panels from the sun and the house is built using bottles and plastic bottles and cans. i first learned about michael reynolds when i was in a college class and someone mentioned earlier talking about the environment and immediately the idea of building with tires and repurpose materials resonated with me i thought that maybe if you could create your out self-sufficient power and be disconnected from the grid you could create your own political and social power that would not be so heavily influenced by corporate or government and

trusts about personal freedom. and you see i've dug it out a little bit actually put some more of you do i really do a little house bag to get it all. going to start another big. i moved here strain of school as i tend to do. and. started working there is existing already. a mountain community of herships and so i started working up there. just doing basic stuff mixing in. entry level. suspicions. the first earthship community this is an extreme say that no one thought it was ever possible to build on a site the state demonstrate he can build anywhere.