the fourteenth. 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 the high quality of football was also demonstrated by the spanish team i am sure there are going to be other title contenders but the strongest will win you for will do most. i mean they 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 yeah among foreign footballers it's pay leg well i also like mara dawna to keep the lid of the running so a lot of i put in a right making his world cup predictions and his excitement builds over which country will lift the world cup in the final in moscow next month he has been picking the brains of perhaps the most famous manager jos

a marina on how the tournament will play out and we invite you to challenge the special one and make your own predictions are the tools of emotional to be able to contradictions because the lead plays to win but they also want my place to go on the whole it is so this is what it does if you feel up to testing your knowledge against the might then head to facebook or twitter and follow the hash tag match marine you know there will be two rounds of predictions from the group stage to the knockouts with the first starting in just over one hour in the meantime teams are beginning to arrive here in russia or ahead of the world cup opening game the iran squad the first to touch down in moscow there in group b. for the tournament will face so one of the favorites spain as well as portugal and morocco the iranian coach described qualifying for the world cup in russia as a dream come true i think that it has taken a lot of effort and determination on the part of his players. on tuesday or russia

played his last friendly fixture before the world cup actually gets underway they drew one one with turkey in the russian capital it is the seventh game in a row that 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 no. oh. i mean a festive mood the world cup will be a major celebration and these home stadiums in my never happen again but. i. can feel the desire from the concert the spectators fantastic great atmosphere great people i just your team could provide them with what they deserve really support russia off across both. england first russia second just more you got me going. danish goalkeeper peter schmeichel has been checking out russia's world cup host cities for us his

penultimate stop some pages above where we indulged in the city's diverse culture for the meantime though we will see you shortly. it's. i mean isn't peter's book stadium and i have to say looking up it looks 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 again and here is the pitch just laying there. being through and the way they roll it back in is. just normal wheels it looks absolutely. spectacular.

it takes about ninety minutes each way at the moment the pitches 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 i was ill and that will come up and told. st petersburg is a fantastic stadium and peter schmeichel and i'm so weak it's find out if that's true. but i started to travel around to the eleven of the cities and everyone said to me once you get something creative you will see something truly amazing my first stop the peterhof policy where this os used to come every summer it's summer residence and it's beautiful. and i got the privilege of telling the fountain on. i think it looks pretty pretty

good with the water coming out of it and also i think i did a pretty good job. cause they lived a charmed life i can tell you the. fountains statues. it's so extravagant all the cool all the glitz. that looks the size me like the hotel in saatchi web brazil is when they come just st peters puts in place because if they see this it must feel right at home. i'm enjoying my time as a tourist the grounds they are in 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 feeds asked us from the top on top of being one of the best. in the world would you believe it. in st petersburg. so i've decided to go and say. hello and i just say i used to see him give way pm so i know i don't think yeah i think it's like this. for the ethical so when i was younger i playing football too crazy about that and i broke my hands a few times and how does that work with my foster family. you play something play so i thought i'd go yeah. second down a bunch of them soloist but that it's me. that's

all played out for me this is my favorite opie's you play in the way we play in the . ok. i want to. say you know it it would interest us all it takes how many years to play this. twenty totally i play down across

a lot of my in the more than three hundred times none of the pinnace 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 up the same way that this is not i aggressive this is best but i don't mind if number three is doesn't work without personal the bullshit passion 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 a bit most important loyalist should play for the audience this is the most simple of the things and i just put you in context so who are you you would be someone like messi over and out. might have done for you. you also play chess is my son is my second pluff i'd like to hear you play it's.

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apply to 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 for the final school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the super money killed in a round of spend spend each year to twenty million. it's an experience like nothing else going to be true so i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy great chance with. the base going to.

the top stories here on out c thanks for joining us. is 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 roughly a month said that he was working to strengthen a right wing movements in europe german foreign ministry has asked him to clarify his remarks a paper on of investigations. 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 u.s. 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 conservative throughout europe other leaders while ambassador 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 when i'm fifty years now and never ever had heard something similar over the last decade this is still gusting this person should be so know out of our country we don't do this in the u.s. and they did do we shouldn't do that. this is horrible and the u.s. government this is a shame sorry for that but that's my opinion and i think he should have been more diplomatic and i believe that the right wing isn't on the right way to be pushing. that's i wouldn't call this incident madelyne in german 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 but he's bags and go home and bus it is a representative of the stays and not have 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 air. 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 embassadors 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 business is with these comments after washington pulled out of the iran nuclear deal as donald trump said u.s.

sanctions will target critical sectors of iran's economy german companies doing business in iran should wind down the peroration mediately. for the 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 and 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. so the fifty six mission to the

international space station is set to launch today in just a few hours in fact of course it's going from the baikonur launch site in kazakhstan with a crew of three parties jacqueline verger is there at the launch site learning more about those getting ready for blast off. this is the vehicle by which the latest crew members will be making their way to the international space station the true includes dr serrano on chancellor from nasa so the approach from roscoe's most and alexander gerstner from east to now for the american and the russian this will be their first trip into space but for garrett this is already his second time around and he'll be taking over as station

commander on the i asked us 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. shared. with everybody who lives down the. road on. the most of them were. pretty good decisions. 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 movie. but if you. consumed recently the newness of sun symbols floated in the soup in the east in the seventy's he says he didn't leave the room you see you see the police do not believe he did because he says either one it's the news media believe was the incident this is the one and no. make. up the last of us or say just a couple i was not here when all of the international the many of your top stories to continue at the top of the hour.

just. played. around with thanks. paul. butler. literally. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president or injury. or somehow want to be rich and that what's it like to be for us the slightly before us three in the morning can't be good that i'm interested always in the waters of our.

city. faced 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 and swift on the verge of a global trade war. greetings and salutation. as kids may include the navy is used to play the age old childhood game of who could throw the biggest rock into the pond to make the biggest splash you know kids pick up rock rock in the water splash makes ripples. and effect cause and effect and seeing the state of the world of politics today one

has to wonder if the age old lessons of rock and upon cause and effect just never quite took hold on our politicians the take the iran deal and the splash and ripples that have been cascading across the middle east ever since the us president donald trump told the united states out of the deal and left the united kingdom russia france china germany and the rest of europe hanging in the balance and now it's being reported that one of those ripples is a potential middle eastern nuclear arms race and kicking off that race is not iran but saudi arabia yes with the iran nuclear deal fraying saudi arabia is now legibly seeking to bow to develop its own nuclear weapons program the men press news the middle east monitor and many other outlets are reporting that the israeli government has begun selling the kingdom of australia rabia information on how to develop nuclear weapons according to a senior official at an israeli military organization i h l s this of course comes

on the heels of saudi arabia's recent military threats towards cutter over their government's plans to buy the russian made s. four hundred air defense system and a letter addressed to french president emmanuel mccrone saudi king solomon stated in such a situation the kingdom would be ready to take all the necessary measures to eliminate this defense system including military action. one can only wonder just how far reaching and potentially devastating these rocks thrown into the middle east. will be as we start watching the hawks. but what if you look like the real thing it's like. the plot of. the day like you know that i got. the.

wrong number on the watch of the hard science i robot and i'm tapped and while it's . still more nukes i'm still firmly in may no nukes gunning no new category no nukes grew when i was much more looking for the news of oh we're nukes are gone no more no you don't think the more nuclear weapons in the middle east will bring peace and harmony of the why he went on but you know now that the whole idea of mutually assured destruction as a way to keep from mutually destroying each other is one of the most eighty odd eric. there's so many things they can say about in various parts of the world that would be considered inappropriate playing or other vaguely be out in philly and it is really about money and it's about power it's not really about some concern that a nuke is going to magically make everything better well it seems that everyone now

wants to use which was one of the fears of the united states pulling out of the iran deal was the fear that like now we can use iran as the scapegoat for us to buy a bunch of nuclear weapons you know my gosh now now they're buying centrifuges and all these guys that blah blah blah blah blah which is only you know you see those headlines about iran going right now like oh my god they're going to buy plutonium except that was actually part of the original deal that it's not weapons grade put the you know it's not going to grab the nozzle to ensure that you have to get it into the world brand and it's ok it's interesting because the nuclear deal that's being reported right now is kind of coming you know western surveillances are letting it slip so we don't know how verifiable that it was but. a senior nuclear commentator for what's called israel's homeland security which is this kind of private company which acts it's not actually a you know israeli division of their government it's

a private company kind of acts as a hub for all things like defense and security and israel. this guy we do on has been sounding off on the potential saudis really nucular partnership citing a report by error be twenty one the middle east monitor reports that iran expressed concern over the nuclear moves stating quote this information should shock us as we see the world is changing for the worse following the race for the possession of nuclear weapons that passed right over our heads in the middle east and he also went on to say one of the big reasons that israel is suddenly stepping up to share nuclear information with saudi arabia is because they they're fearful of like saudi arabia doing business with pakistan to get all pakistan's nukes. as if that there. i have some how israel thinks or israeli politicians to be clear. that israeli politicians who are doing that seem to think if you if you sell someone a weapon they magically can't use it against you right isn't that amazing how they

await they have never figured out how to make weapons only at the people that you want and this is a thing that you know you've seen all of the seven it's so easy this is why it's so easy for a media east west north south it doesn't matter to shape these stories and it's all or nothing or here's the bad guy here's the good guy ivory things great this will help more weapons well that's how you can get progressives to vote for more war so you get liberals to go i mean this is one. so that's how you do it that's how words . yeah you know what's interesting is what's going on no like saudi threatening kotor right so you have this are which is going through all of this upheaval and suddenly you know they're the bad now they're the bad boy everything's got to watch out for them there or whatever so cutter qatar's former minister foreign minister mohammad been. told the media that quote the purchase of any military equipment is a sovereign decision that no country has anything to do with it's unfortunate that

they see this as destabilization because qatar does not represent a threat to saudi so saudi arabia bahrain egypt in the united arab emirates have all severed diplomatic and economic ties with qatar last year excusing the supporting terrorism which it did not. cause are and russia signed an agreement on military and technical cooperation last year because of that your friend your friend of your friend or your enemy is my enemy is friends buddies next door neighbors brothers sisters. and their kids and guess guess who doesn't win. everybody who lives in qatar and saudi arabia nobody who doesn't isn't able to make that decision and israel just putting people at risk and it's disgusting for a few a few dollars of death machines true true it's just. the criminal case a former dean of michigan state university's college of osteopathic medicine

william strand begins this week seventy year old travel faces for criminal counts including fourth degree sexual assault misconduct by a public official and willful neglect of duty related to accusations that he did quote harass discriminate demean sexually proposition and sexually assault a few male students in addition michigan state university home physicist fifty one year old joseph allen hattie was charged with committing acts of b.c. ality and sodomy against a dog michigan state university spokesperson emily grant told local news that quote how the was immediately put on administrative suspension pending the investigation the university has been and will continue to cooperate with law enforcement officials on this matter and this u.p.d. is providing digital forensics support in the investigation you know with this kind of swift action and support of victims would have been helpful any time during the decades that larry nasser was able to sexually abuse an assault over three hundred

young female athletes because emmis you ignored report after report after report after report of his actions even williams trampled the latest in what seems like a long line of predators that imus you as alleged to have helped cover up mausers abuse maybe next time we can start taking the sexual abuse of assault of women just a little more seriously and swiftly you know like we do for dogs. you know you are exactly right i mean look let's say it out loud like this let's put it on the line and say let's just take sexual abuse of assault seriously across the board when the man woman or animal or whatever it may be maybe let's actually just take sexual abuse scariest lead and actually have swift justice and actually you know investigate try it out bring it to trial do all it should read it as something serious as opposed to you know we got to protect the students or oh no we're going to protect the sanctity of the institution right or whatever the next

player sandusky and everybody else i don't care you could rip down every single every single statue of anybody who helped cover up the sexual assault of abuse of men women children i don't care if you did it anyone anything to do with it you're done i don't care you're over by and nothing to do with more problems and my opinion strebel places a number of charges for his role in the cover up of this of the decades of sexual assault abuse by larry nasser you don't have to the twenty fourteen investigation it was who was asked to make sure the protocols were in place to insert in the house or complied with the you know protocols that her place to make sure the military did hurting anyone and this was after he was initially cleared in the title nine investigation you know it's interesting because strong poll allegedly never made sure that these protocols were put in place which allowed masseur to

sexually abuse at least twenty more young athletes because this guy sat on his hands who now are coming to find out oh he was a little he would say i got it through yeah he was sitting on his hands he was using them for something and the thing is they're able to get away with that because people make excuses that same thing sexual assault rape abuse domestic violence these things aren't reported as much as they. because people feel they won't be believed and in the case of these young athletes it's even more insidious because you have very young kids who are put into these sports programs this were going to the olympics all this and from childhood they are grounded in a certain way groomed in a certain way to win and the adults around them are a little bit blind to it and that's one thing i didn't understand is this week last week and this week there are hearings on the senate judiciary committee as having hearings for the protecting young victims from sexual abuse.