when it comes to taxes when it comes to any sort of legal discussion already when you have one single country but different states it's very complicated whether the end of the money is talking if you see the forecast is a more than fourteen billion us dollars for four for the united bit and i think seven billion still enough but it's half for the more i think for the france it's even something that might be like you know they could say ok we go and have fun at the games and then we travel around so i don't think that this is kind of a negative factor but in terms of organizing a world cup talking from fever aside for sure it's easier having one country. before voting at the fifa congress got underway president putin welcomed football's main governing body to moscow thanking them for the close cooperation and assistance they gave during the seventy years of preparations for the world cup and

stressed that the event has special meaning for russia the only defeat a world cup is an event of great importance to us many generations of fans have been dreaming about the world's top teams coming to our country and this dream comes true tomorrow is embodied in twelve top notch stadiums and modern infrastructure but the most important thing is the great number of fans who are coming to our country to share the joy of belonging to this exciting sporting event . well come post and goalkeeper peter schmeichel spoke to the current thief achieve gianni and contain about the current issues faced in russia. it is no secret a lot of tension between the world and the world cup host nation. how are fifa how are you dealing with i mean how exhaustive. coming in making this the best event in the world with all that's going on at the moment by focusing on football i think that's the key and that's the secret we have to focus on full but i think there are enough. sadly people around the world to try to just

you know divide or argue or dispute or whatever we have to try to unite football is uniting football is has this this magic and this power of bringing people together we don't want to make politics we don't want to take positions on whether and who is right or wrong we have to organize football and if thanks to football we can send those on messages of unity and football is about bringing together about enjoying about about creating an atmosphere which will show to the world as well a country like russia with under fifty million. people who want to welcome the world in their in their country and i think football has this power to change also the perception of people about their country and about maybe

a particular period in time short of this world cup in russia this particular moment of time will have quite significant impact. going to something of a head start the world cup host cities have been welcoming all the die hard football supporters who've been arriving early to watch their teams train mexican fans have been putting on a fantastic show getting into the mood in bright national costumes and sombreros with supporters really getting stuck into the spirit of things we've been asking some of the fans from france what their hopes were for their squad. led to the senate finally before we disappointed if we don't make it to the final. well i think that we can get to the final although i'm not sure i could say all when. we want to when we want to second start now while most international fans have been

arriving in russia by plane as you'd expect some of decided to get creative and use some unexpected modes of transport take a look. thank you. both . our first time to be in the world cup. since the. two years ago i have felt the first match earlier with the ball for the way in the first match but the other think it's a finished. up . the fuel tank thank you

thank. you. we will it drives russian that all the car but it wouldn't be the same the joke is to try to rush a lot of. the russian car. thank. you no matter how far the team goes we will follow it in the car and so the longer the team stays the longer we drive and we were up for that we were excited for. a lot of russians started adding us and sending us messages on instagram a lot of them were offering. to give us a tour of the city and two they were showing off their own lot to us because they love the car lengths.

because i'm seventy years old. trick. to use other transport would be to receive nothing because the country. very intensive will not feel the joy of his opposing me taking this is such a. very good news for you about hubert's and we just saw the end of that. they've now arrived in moscow where they were met by police trolling the outskirts of the city and then accompanied him to his final destination although he started his journey back in may by truck that could've been that comfortable covering more than two thousand kilometers to get here let's hope he's not too tired to watch the actual

football. throughout the month long told him and we will be with you in every host city giving you a taste of the action and about forty five minutes from now style gold peter schmeichel and the hobbit will start live coverage from the very heart of the russian capital. the trunk in summit in singapore we certainly rich when it comes to optics but what about the substance both leaders are clearly looking for a win in process has started there are plenty of obstacles ahead and no shortage of people whose worst nightmare might come true peace coming to the korean peninsula short term gains at the expense of a longer term growth. vesting in the future and products and employees here taking

all of future revenues in your book it's a day just like the buying back all the stuff it is all store. yes he bought back all of this stuff in his story he has a lot of revenue but now it stores empty and he has nothing to sell so the next quarter he says my sales are zero because i have nothing in the store to sell i bought it all myself so similarly with apple they'll buy back all the stock they want about the future and when it comes time to report earnings in a year or two from now they'll have nothing to report. welcome back our other headlines story this hour in the wake of tuesday's summit with north korea's kim jong un the us president donald trump has been explaining why he thinks he's tough talking diplomacy was crucial in bringing about the

landmark talks on denuclearization without the rhetoric we wouldn't have been here i really believe you know we had sanctions and all of the things that you would do but i think without the rhetoric you know. i don't want to get specific on that but . a policy of silence sometimes i felt foolish doing it. but we had no choice and while the singapore summit for trump promised to guarantee the north security in exchange for its denuclearize ation pyongyang might have reason to remain wary of its historic adversary as well i guess d.f. now explains. what's not to like a new nuclear disarmament deal potentially one less country with nukes where all bets are off all of us and we have this truly historic moment on film. for the nation. on earth.

so why does kim jong jr seems too suspicious could be anything poison assassins or trump just waiting to backstab him the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal come to think of it america's nuclear deals to seem to last exactly as long as the incumbent president take the rainy and deal brok obama his partner has worked on it for years so much work so much effort just for trump to tear it all up don't forget obama negotiated the arendelle one of the worst disasters the dumbest deals ever negotiated except don't feel sorry for a bomber just yet george bush his predecessor also struck a nuclear disarmament deal with gadhafi the two leaders discussed this agreement

should help to bring a painful chapter in the history between our two countries closer to closure it worked gadhafi gave up his nukes and what does a bomber do well he goes in bombs gadhafi is army alternately allowing the rebels to gruesomely murdered him we came we saw you died. it's almost like something out of game of thrones and we aren't even done bush in turn screwed over bill. clinton stop and roll back north korea's potentially deadly nuclear program we'll continue to implement the agreement we have reached with that nation get smart it's tough clinton had worked for years to make a deal with kim jong un's father to prevent then north korea from making a nuclear weapon and bush tore it up as seems to be tradition.

north korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. while starving its citizens states like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil trump is one for tradition in fact he has a habit of tearing up documents memos papers when he's done with them he had a bunch of guys at the white house whose job it was to piece back together the papers he shouldn't have torn up we literally had to spend hours per day. piecing together the puzzle prior to taping and here we are generations of presidents generations of the trail double crossing and deception and it seems that hasn't been lost on kim. the german chancellor is facing a government crisis after locking horns with her interior minister but over migration

policy i'm going to merkel reportedly rejected a so-called migration master plan proposed by horst c. hoffa it aims to reject migrants right at the german border if they've either applied for asylum elsewhere or been refused in another e.u. country rejection of the plan provoked outcry in the bundestag. this later hour over migration policies broke out last week a failed asylum seeker was arrested in iraq suspected of killing a fourteen year old girl in germany earlier this month a body was found near a refugee center in mind. international relations professor peter schultz thinks germany has to bend to pressure from across europe and address the flow of migrants even sweden and denmark or. france. and systems against. illegal but most gratian so i think the german government has to do as well according to the majority of opinion among the

european members. zero for knows this better. well and she is on the up there fall in that kind of search because it should. be and there will be a cunt also off a compromise but this very strong influence of the us that riverdance is the party of sister studio and that's it for now i had to r.t. dot com get world events updated every minute twenty four seventh's it from a finale thirty seven minutes away peter schmeichel and neil harvey kick off r.t. special world cup coverage for free for twenty eighteen. join me every thursday on the alex salmond show and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics or business i'm show business i'll see you then.

when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murderer i would prefer an it be willing to the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying the is just no really the present and that we're even many victims' families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to get pell here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way.

after visiting the tent hosts it is i'm finally here in moscow and this is a way begins and ends i'm in this new stadium it's completely rebuilt for the world. and i'll do seven matches played in india so more than a million people will be watching football in here and that includes of course the opening match between russia and saudi arabia and the final play in moscow to venues. i'm at the second moscow venue. this is spots our moscow. and each of the five

games that have been played more than forty five thousand people will be watching on from the stands on the scene. when he takes. to play them minus the deputes and the pick surprise from the year two years ago i said that i'm in the capital an obviously a lot of stuff is going on what exactly is this mike and i'm gets to take some of that stuff out. i'm in the middle of a skull and you can just sense oh well it's just around the corner holding games tomorrow and asked so many people in the streets and you can hear the texans not rushing only. from everywhere in the world and sends is a place in the world it's fine in the beginning.

i'm on top of one of the big but cell phone use and taxi we've got the red square there it's completely empty it's closed that's a big crunch like going on tonight and one of the stop the fullness is a guy that i met simply just the pianist they just met so if he's invited me to it i'm not going but this is where i'm going to spend the whole world cup. that's a studio i'll show you. this is a lot of people they just and. these have become loose so i'm going to be looking at that for most of the world and the view is simply stunning i have to say that.

who is reading this the first video. oxys. speak and he joins p. and i know. pizza made it easier for fans to access the championship process can take you know look. this is where. the whole program that is going to do during the world cup click in a huge play where you have all the camera feeds. this is my camera here. so basically i'm going to be standing there with a with a red spot in the background. my country and. then my place on the sixteenth then we play australia and then we end up playing. france here in moscow and if you are in moscow.

a really good stead if you really want to see football history we've got the football museum here that fisa has made especially for the world. i'm testing myself on the i don't know if i answer this right. yes. so miles out of sight and. that sewage you know. trophy. it was stolen base this year with you know one and it's never been recovered. since he's the only goalkeeper ever to win the bondo and then won the the world cup in one nine hundred sixty six it's a law long time ago and when you have an association with a new feel how desperate they win the trophy. you've got friends spec and i'll bet against you and call if you don't cry fail. well so they played in the one nine hundred seventy four final and germany wanted

to one. when we were at the joy and in moscow in that in december i met george coupled with a legendary mexico gold people who won't make him special forces should so who was not the size of you'd expect the gold people to be actually quite small but he always wore these sort of clothes. and they would couple of numbers too big for him . messi ronaldo that both going to be there. new contenders for that is name. is really one mythology and if you manage to get a good fit. and here. from here it's about there. is a space for the two thousand and eighteen world cup in russia so cool when lifting the trophy.

for a world cup twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest kill people . but there was one more question and by the way it's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star among us and a huge amount of pressure come after you have to put me to the center of the beach . and do all solo the great. good you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get down going let's go. a low as i want to and i'm really happy for the. undoubtedly and for the thousand

in-field world cup in russia meet the special was come on top of. me to just say to review the aussie team's latest edition to make up a bigger face i need to address a book. when a loved one is murdered it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it means to win the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict just found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying the is just no way to present and that we're even many of the times families want the death penalty to be abolished the respect they get help here is because that's what murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace it's going to give them justice and we compensate. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way.

to. get a phone no i don't have what was the last time that you went on the internet no i am not used to me these village isn't safe because. i sure there is no access to music ters there they are all going to be sure to build the baby doesn't cover his that is the. one who was going to see were gone and only the four. is dead as part of that was have to get. by before work i was. previously yes no they are being false form of where he and his family member of the society. where you live.

feel. the world com this is just around the corner so i've gone to syria to defeat to headquarters to meet the man in charge gianni infantry. it's his first world cup a feat for president and i'm really intrigued to hear what he has to say this is your first world cup afifa president you've been obviously been to the european

championships you've been to world cup before but now your fee for president so what are you looking forward. by don't think too much of them see the president who you are at but i yeah i try to think about the world cup us as i would think. i would have thought about it four years ago or eight years ago as a football fan assess somebody was special obviously being fully aware of the responsibility that the position of his or president is about but i'm i'm really looking forward because the world cup is the best competition in the world is where you have the biggest emotions is the competition where everyone in the world speaks about football and about the match of the night before whatever team plays whether it's. our eyes on the wild card for the first time or brazil or germany everyone in the streets in zurich or in john as work they speak about that and they

live with it. and it will be it will be just fantastic it will be emotional it's also in a particular time i think where we need to feel some some unity in the world and some unity around football i think is there that that's a that's a very very big issue because it is no secret a lot of tension between the world and the world cup host nation. how are fifa how are you dealing with i mean how exhaustive. coming in making this the best event in the world with all that's going on at the moment by focusing on football i think that's the key and that's the secret we have to focus on full but i think there are enough. sadly people around the world to try to just you know divide or argue or dispute or whatever we have to try to unite.

football is uniting football is has this this magic and this power of bringing people together we don't want to make politics we don't want to take positions on whether and who is right or wrong we have to organize football and if thanks to football we can send those on messages of unity and football is about bringing together about enjoying about about creating an atmosphere which will show to the world as well a country like russia with one hundred fifty million. people who want to welcome the world in their in their country and i think football has this power to change those are the perception of people about the country and about maybe a particular period in time and i'm sure that this will come up in russia and this but they got a moment of time we'll have quite a significant impact we've all unfortunately in in the years in france we saw some

really ugly scenes. and it's a worry i mean looking at it from going into the tournament it's a worry that that there is this thing happening in russia with internal matches and how a fever dealing with that or the thirty's dealing with that is again something that people shouldn't be afraid of there is certainly something that is that was very seriously where everyone is aware but they go to the authorities in russia of the situation of the different. supporter groups who are. biola and so the focus will be done. or will be will be put on on the on the rug a deal making sure this doesn't happen and this can be done in an event which is you know happening in one man's very much focus of a lot of preparation unfortunately idiots are living all over the world and

violence around football is happening all over the world as well when you are over south america or. africa or whatever else this is something that we always have to focus on generally it's not an easy one because violence is also a reflection of society. but it's for a big event like like the world cup the attention is very much this is safe to go to russia of course it is safe to to russia. it is and it will be very safe but it will be even safer the world russia during the world cup because the authorities in russia a notch aware of what the world cup means and they want to feel as well and welcoming country and their preparations in terms of security for the little club are beyond any other. event so the

conditions will be there for a very safe world cup and obviously those who want to go and enjoy football and enjoy a part of the summer they should go to russia those who want to go to have riots or whatever they better go somewhere else exactly go somewhere else how much how much is fifa new involved in setting you know the security and organizing that do you have a saying and how all that should be dealt with it's the police authorities and so on and in russia who are in charge of security obviously we are in contact with them we can share with them the experience that we have teeth. from previous events that coordination is contacts counsel if you look for example where russia is also part as well as all other european countries have specific task forces in terms of security because you know you can always learn and make

things better so there's all taken very much into account and we think we have an active role in contributing to that is what you said before you don't see is of his future president but you are you also a private person and a football fan so when when you plan your schedule for the world cup how. is it important you watch all the all the teams played some point yes and i am going to do that yes i'm i'm planning to. to watch all the teams and to be in all the venues at least once. then yes i can see this is that's doable but as the ability level now that our other duties that that day is sometimes too much is per day. but. i must do it i want to do that i want to see those i want to experience it it's a it's a fantastic ok asian and it's also

a question of respect for those who were participating you know the fifa president has to be there it's very clear we we had a bit of a debate when we did the things i'm going in in moscow with the joe and since then you you have announced that it's going to be part of the world cup but it's also been written into the laws of football yes so why now. why you know because. we tested it. for two years. and because the results of the tests were cruise if and have managed to convince us that we should. make this step this is what we have decided to years ago well let's test it for two years and in two years if it works if we are committed it works people in the laws of the game and everyone can and every competition or it has

a kind of decide if he wants to use it or not. personally i was. very skeptical i have to say at the beginning i did not really believe that. it could work because i was afraid about the flow of the game and interruptions of these kind of things. but on the other side you know for decades everyone was saying well we should have some video for the referees and so on and so forth and it's true that. in two thousand and eighteen if everyone in front of his t.v. or inside the stadium with his mobile phone knows of within a few seconds whether the press committed a big mistake and the only one who doesn't know it is the referee himself we make something wrong and the referee does noire not because he doesn't want to know it but because we prohibit him from the point but everyone else knows it. it's not

right it doesn't feel right so we had to make these tests i have to say that i was i completely changed my mind and convinced that it's the right thing personally to do but whatever my position is generally i thought considered that it's the right thing to do because of the results of the tests we've tested there around one thousand matches with more than one thousand matches. matches not friendly sufficient matches and the result has been that without the a r. there would have been or there was one clear mistake of a referee every three games with we are there is one clear mistake over every every ninety eight. the accuracy. example the a curacy of the decision without v.a.r. ease of ninety three percent of the referee's decision which is already extremely high ninety percent of these things are correct. we three are these percentage goes

up to ninety nine percent so hundred percent but it's ninety nine rather than ninety three when it goes to the interruption to the flow of the game. one of the statistics there which has really captured my my attention which i was not aware of in the world is that actually on every match we lose seven minutes for steroids. seven minutes throwing doesn't decide anything else while you're able to destroy the sites again. it put fifteen seconds on freaking yes but minutes that da r. is one minute per game. and it decides the gate so we can lose one made per game if this has an impact on the result.

so it's been two years since you were elected for president. an interesting time i assume what what what what's it been like a very interesting time a very challenging time the last two years with me incredible incredible experiences of course coming in in a very very difficult moment for four feet first albeit an easy task but. to refocus thief on football has been the most important to achieve things and challenged that we had obviously reforms to be implemented but more than that i think we have we've been really focusing on on the full believe element on not investment in development programs with the photo program all around the world on. you for my part of the world cup with forty eight teams of twenty twenty six to

give more chance to more countries all around the world to participate focusing on women's football focusing on news football focusing on the club world cup where we study new ideas so i think not to speak about the pitches well obviously with the we are amongst other things it will be a challenging time but i realized even more that football is the number. one sport all over the world we have to cherish this and to protect this to a lot of good ideas and to focus on the global but the fact is a lot of people left fifa for various reasons. and you need people to implement all this is is it has been a big challenge to get the right people in and are you there and i with the right organization or we're working on that we're working on it of course it's it's never easy to to change organization because you'd have to change the culture as well of

the organization from the top being i would white organization it brings additional challenges as well in terms of cultures of mentalities of people and what they want to do here and fever is really also in the administration to bring people from all over the world because this. is maybe at the beginning a bit more complicated because you need to understand each other but it is also enriching an organization like this is maybe the the biggest difference because before you were employed to lead you if and now you are elected to to lead the world of football that you have to you have to look at all the diversity all the cultural differences and you have to make sure there's common ground that's absolutely right that is the main the main difference is not just about executing isn't just about being mostly an operational function but it's much

much wider than that and it is worldwide and who is important all over the world and wherever you go. in the world whether it's in east asia south africa or in the caribbean swear i were there are challenges and the response for football and you have to take all of this into account and the the same time if to keep your line and do things because if you go for the lowest common denominator you don't do anything we don't want personally is a key word traveling the world to experience different ways of passion would have been surprised. of it's really the passion of existing countries which i would never have expected like we have now to the enemies national team on the twenty three right second in the asian cup and the way they celebrated the

team when it came back it took them five hours from the airport to the city center roof millions of fans and in the streets. that has been just just an amazing experience and. speaking to be enemies people what they were telling me what football brought them in terms of joy and pride for the whole country. one hundred million people living enough has been great for four hundred twenty three tournament so it shows that they impact and power of football beyond boundaries and we all know what we can imagine is that that the thinking behind the expanding of the next world cup. that the countries like vietnam or springs was based on that do we use level that they actually get opportunities to get into the work and play and yes that's that's exactly did the purpose and on one side i think we all witness all of us that the level of football generally all over the world is

is growing the passion for football is asian thanks to media is. also everywhere in the world now if these teams were growing. qualify for the usual cups who make even some interesting results never have a chance to qualify for the main world cup just because of how the history has developed and the slots per configuration are. and have historically been being awarded well then we don't do what our main job is which is to develop football because we all know that the best catalyst for developing this success example i'm always giving is you know imagine that match last qualification edge and you your striker. is in front of the goalkeeper and shoots and his opposed and the ball goes out the team is eliminated

it's a big big disaster in the country for the country doesn't qualify for the world cup the coach will be sacked the president of the federation has to leave the kids they go to play rugby or other sports cricket or god knows whether other than football but if they say striker instead of hitting the post well he's still the ball in the mall and does it to the net and you win that match in the ninety's minute changes the complete landscape of the country from october when the last majesté plays until june when the world cup starts you have an enthusiasm in the country the coaches the hero the present the federation is a genius because they hired that course the players are all gods because they brought you to the world cup. and so on those and just this just because of a coincidence because of a goal or a post that that can change the perception of people to football and we need to foster they said we need to foster the joy of trouble to give i'm smiling because

i've been there yeah i've been exactly in that situation i think i was a main character there and i'm just kind of hoping that this forty eight team idea would have happened back then. it would put it. on a more personal. like me you you were a son of immigrants left it's in the camps with my father was polish came to denmark so how is that journey been for you we use enough said right at the top of the footballing world that some journey has quite that's quite a journey that's right and i think to some extent being. the son of immigrants being an immigrant. helps as well because you grow up embracing different cultures different languages. and tearing into conflicts which existed in these times

even more. than in switzerland certainly. and you're into it and you have to find always you know ways to to get along who has always helped. to find dialogue to find ways to fog humans and fight as well but to do to bring together in the village were where i grew up where i was born i grew up this way said the dahlia and communities around around the bowl and the rubble matches and you think. this openness for diversity in different cultures and that is helping you in the president. yes i'm convinced that this is this is helping when you are part of a minority in

a place you and you want to be heard or you want a means of value of something well you need to have major arguments that the others are at least that's the feeling you get but you need also to listen to the majority and and to understand the different dynamics so it opens certainly or your mindset it helps then when you grow to recognize that what people in different places think different they take differently they have different traditions and different. mentalities and and there's a come natural to them that comes through today quite natural to me today yes when the. not well. when i was growing up and with a different fight we were having all the time you develop and you understand that it's not always you know your way or the way of your community that is the right

one for from their point of view what we have seen already and what we can see what football can can move for example it's been about development of women's football in some countries and i went to iran to speak about development of women's football with president rouhani now and criticized in western europe for going to iraq and speaking to the president of iran but for me as he thought president if i don't go and if i don't speak to the president of iran and to the authorities there about women's football and women's access and state of who is going to do it what do we achieve if we just criticize if we just dispute if we just argue if we block if we boycott what do we achieve in chief nothing if we go if we dialogue maybe we achieve only a little bit but even a little bit is better than nothing and maybe which is nothing but at least we keep the dialogue and the discussion open and maybe one day we achieve or our successes

or whether we'll achieve something thanks to my philosophy has always been and will always be like this because also us as we were saying before i grew up this way and switzerland as a country gives you this opportunity and to. to grow and to make your way and to argue and to convince sometimes a bit more sometimes a bit less but but certainly always with an open mind set the very hardest question i save that for last italy i'm not in the world cup. in three or finish here so so growing up. speaking is it five languages you speak perfect more or less didn't grow up in switzerland where you have influence so to germany to france and everywhere. and they're all there you know you know. who you're going to support that's a tough one i support the referee said a. good one hope no good the referees team will succeed

by it's tough it's tough i think the wall dismissing and we'll miss you in the world cup the odds already are like your ideas as well you know these traditional teams who have made a story at the world cup. but the best of the half that's so how this ties in with with your idea about the smaller countries must have an opportunity yes so the bigger country needs the needs to say they need to stay and the game they conscious expect so but you still haven't answered my question which team i was supposed yeah. that mark. it's a really good one i would love that we would love that to see you in every every three at the beginning and then the next three as well and then obviously you are going to get us the final so that will be there for sure so. i want to thank you very much and very very interesting everything so thank you very much for spending

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there are celebrations elsewhere as fee for chooses who will host the tournament in twenty twenty six. months. it's. back to this world cup in artie's top pundit renowned manager to say marina gives us his predictions for which teams will go for this. portugal and brazil the first of course will people will say that i'm doing good emotional jaw. yeah might be. and in other news a new era of peace donald trump hails his historic summit with north korea's kim jong un as a success but some are questioning whether he'll make good on his promises to be young and.

i there for me in the team in r.t. h.q. in moscow this wednesday the thirteenth of june it's five pm here i'll have our other headlines story for you a little bit later first though attention here in russia is well and truly locked on to the biggest football event of the year. with just a day to go until the world cup officially launches the teams are training the fans excitement building for thursday's opening match between russia and saudi arabia time to join our own top flight squad to bring you the best of russia twenty eight . ladies and gentlemen and children falls welcome to our teams coverage of twenty i think in the world cup and in my humble opinion by shining interesting day he puts up in a very good situation to follow this because he would are taking the time to be bringing you analysis from managers for them speaking to players will have pains i

will have celebrities now this is all so that you don't just know who wins each game but more importantly you actually understand why they won and we're going to make mistakes it's strange they happen occasionally it's live t.v. now i'm prepared though because i've got along side me the great day one of the greatest we'll see the greatest ever the dawn of paragraphs peter schmeichel he said save me should i make a mistake not going to happen how you feeling peyton jordan if you're looking good this is this is spectacular we've got a backdrop here's where the red square we can hear the preparation for the concert that's going to go on and i all the v.i.p.'s the president of russia the president everyone who's anything will be there tonight enjoying the day before the opening but i have to say and as you heard there at the top of the hour the big news in the world and this is going to go on for the whole that you raised in all four weeks is that spain have just sacked and manager which again is very very unbelievable but

let's just hear the official explanation before we start talking about. the money go to we're all here because we've had to dismiss the manager of the nationals. they have provided no information to the royal spanish football federation we learnt it only five minutes before the press conference it has to be a message to all employees of the rule spanish football federation that this is no way to act. so picture this is a complicated story i want to help england stylistic chronologically so first of all yesterday we had lipitor gray he was the spanish coach essentially side by rail madrid great for him what do you think of that and it's not a thing it was a strange announcement because you know what he stands for is ticketek of football which is not the real madrid brand of of playing we've just seen them win three consecutive champions league in their own way with individual players basically making it up on the spot which is a great quality to have and then they pick him as a manager and everyone thinking hey that's a little bit but it's

a way that he was announced that has kind of sort of annoyed that the spanish f.a. and the new president louise bialys i think his name is he's only been the president for the spanish f.a.a. since may the seventeenth and he's won the election on the back of promising to making the spanish have a stronger and not having to to always listen to what real madrid and barcelona they want to do before they can make decisions and this is i think it's a power play and he's shown his hand he's shown exactly what he's going to do but to do this to sack such a successful manager after one month what do you think of his argument you know ruby alice says that basically he was bypassed that madrid should have come to him should it come to the spanish f.a. and said look we're going to speak to your manager they never did this is that it's not an explanation or an excuse and he's being petty. well maybe maybe he should

have you know evolved that the f.a.a. that that's one thing but at the end of the day we have a manager here who has worked with the f.a.a. for many many years since two thousand and he's made to understand and i. on the twenty one's european champions he's been in charge of spain at the scene in twenty games he's won fourteen and he's drawn six so not lost a game with them i mean all the time is that away with the f.a.a. he's only ever lost one game so here we have someone who's clearly on the right track of creating a football team that goes in by the way to this tournament as number two favorites off to brazil you know i see this this is it's so messy and this is going to go on for every time there's a press conference this is going to be talked about not the football yeah and the players i don't think a very happy there were reports in the spanish press that actually some of the senior players i've gone to the f.a. and tried to get them to overturn not to switch but you know any of these hugely successful players and obviously the captain you know he's won the world cup before

he knows exactly what feeling that is just listen to anything about that. you never see a comeback on the moon the. sense of you're not on. a local no boys and t.v. in the company in the morning and then the portugal quality when you're going to make it are going to say momento and momenta they won the gold by sea. he said a moment. that i made on which a lot and shone a little see me and. my mother you know. even i get i'm being told the mother you know they're on the other hand if it's true it's a risky move by ramos to govern complain because the particulars going to be he's new prospect how does this affect spain's chances he got here and is going to take over a lot of people would know him as a player but not so much as a as a culture while he's been the director of football for spain this is the second stint he was then he left for six years and came back in the end but he's a safe her hand there's no doubt about that he's one of spain's biggest football

star one of the most successful ones but he's a different character you know and they now have a different voice in the dressing room which always makes it true. we know how hungry these spanish players they are success there are eight players from real madrid as i said before they are so used to winning they play this is for me you know perhaps the most crazy thing they play the biggest rivals on day two of the world cup they played portugal and someone else is going to line that team up maybe he's it is agree with one of two positions i mean this is going to be completely different spain and very difficult for the yeah i think the spanish i've been watching too many santa barbara reruns because this is a storyline straight out of a soap opera but that's a real spice to everything that comes not just seeing the rain you have special post as well alongside pace he'll be joining us tomorrow he picks spain to fans from green bay he might be wanting to revisit that picture right now though given

the later scenes well let's put a little bit more than that because maureen you have a shot hope you have seen all the mapped out which country you think will make it out of the group stages into the last sixteen and then on to the quarterfinals now he's giving us protections of who will make it through to the final. four shoulders ill if i say of course you'll be able to say that i'm doing emotional jol and i think. am i being asked of a forceful final i will first of all go for the school. and doesn't in the gym. i know what i want. in brazil germany is the revenge of the result. so brazil will finish so. you

know it does mean it's not just. like the tour i can do it. the extra time penalties the level of play is to take a penalty. that is only one more penalty and that's the last penalty one takes let's see another one it takes one. in their lives to go to magic. was a very funny exercise. but. probably didn't even go over the group phase and probably some of the teams that didn't include in the last sixteen probably there will be a lot more to fight over and in the semifinals and finals football is unpredictable and that's the main reason to be the beautiful game i think you'll enjoy. it to get totally different i don't understand why do you need another just i want to know

well you can never have too many merinos so for the world cup we found the perfect co-host for you so much expertise from just a movie don't miss it at all to guys i'm not going to work with him it will take all the attention and i want another co-host. well i can handle one marie you never mind what a handful if you don't agree with the man she started by just predictions that and you might think they're a load of old tosh well prove it had to auntie dot com head to facebook twitter check out his predictions use the hash tag match the rayno and let us know you think he's going to progress. so portugal argentina i think he had there no he lost me when when he put think that australia should go through from that then my going through france he picked australia he had a nerve that picked it i think he it's exactly what he said their football is

unpredictable and thank god for that because if if it was predictable who would want to see. you know when you look at all the teams you prepare yourself to do the t.v. and you have to talk about all the team. you come up with strengths and weaknesses for everyone players that can change games i have to say remember a world where there aren't that many great players who can change a game and actually that many teams who could actually do the business yeah and i think that we've seen in the past how many great one and then the next tournament round failed spectacularly so that the nothing you know you can be certain of in this game that's nothing no part and let's go to some other footballing news people members of today voted for the host of the twenty twenty six world cup competition yeah this is basically interesting he's going to be expanded for much more teams through to the finals and they have chosen a joint north american bid from the u.s. canada mexico the projected morocco and going to be the first time the town of st held across three different countries that's great probably the place people are

traveling correspondent has the story. with. us associations. next you will see. the history has been made the twenty twenty six world cup will be going across the atlantic to north america the joint bid by the united states mexico and canada comes as little surprise if i'll be completely honest because in the run up to this vote actually the first transparent open public vote conducted at a few for congress electing a world cup host country so in the run up to that vote a lot has been said about how strong the north american bid is how little there is to be done in terms of infrastructure in terms of transportation whilst the big coming from morocco was somewhat inferior in that respect more than sixteen billion dollars were had to be invested if morocco had won the right to host the twenty

twenty six world cup but in case of the united states not only. of the north american but not only the actual spend the expenditure on the infrastructure would have been. but the profits the projected profits would have been as well so the vote was overwhelming in. the side of the north american bed with more than one hundred thirty member states one hundred thirty four to be precise voting for the north american plate with around sixty placing their ballots for morocco that's about thirty three percent and now obviously the world cup and twenty twenty six will be going to north america despite all the speculation that trumps rhetoric in the last let's say couple of months even trying to expedite this bid and in a way bully the countries into voting for the north american bed despite all that north american became stronger some may say it was mind over heart but in this

respect it once mattered to the people of mexico u.s. and canada because they will be hosting the biggest event in world football in eight years from now. and live with us here special spot in. the moscow sky and i want to call you. your football consultant and you are also a former. director of communications with your so you are you surprised that the united big want to read it because when you know when you know i've seen all the facts. they were mentioned no it was it was clear the united bit but you know you never know because it's also an emotional vote you know because. it's about the continent it's about africa morocco it's a fifth time bidding for the for the world cup so i mean they play the motional court the presentation of the bit today they were saying. people to africa because

africa gave a look back even if it's true but maybe that was very smart because some of the people thought that it has to work aggressive. no but overall the they were both fantastic that the united bit was the big one also because you know the forecast as you know is fourteen billion revenue board seven billion how much how important is because we think about football and politics and money i don't mix it is strictly a party i think and it's nothing negative in order to talk about money and especially one fee for says that i want to invest more and. more in all the social projects so it has to be financed by someone. that that's the first thing the second thing is it make also a sense because a few forced criticize in the past also in brazil that they're doing stadiums and

then they have their so-called wide elephants you know i mean the u.s. they already already to do or to host the world cup so they're all of the freezer. at the end of us one so obviously us mexico i think they've been there and done it before so they have experience candidates is very new for them one of the challenges and they're going to face in this joint hosting preparation coordination first of all i think their media wise they will be attacked because in this where you have joint bet on on a sports level but on a political level we all know the that trumper ministration was talking about the wall the one they want to build. at the mexican border so people really don't understand it all but i think. the biggest challenge is to bring together all the different legal systems because it's a really very a very mean you know it here in russia it's very complicated to organize world cup

in one legal system if you have three different countries it's it's even more what about the distances that there was and needed the teams. certainly the fans may have to travel fast enough appen a distance from canada to mexico what you know what. in cup. the world cup when you're twenty two so just ahead of the twenty six world cup there will i think a distance of maximum pain economic so they will host the world cup basically and one city and i think after that the fans might be ready to travel hundreds and hundreds of kilometers but i think. they will use the world cup we experience also the three countries i think it's not it's not a negative factor right well let's just get a bit of reaction because after the announcement representatives from the three countries i'm speaking about they held a news conference and they were asked about their impressions of russia. yesterday

we spend a lot of time going through the different compounds of going for the races and all around the center of most school and i so. thousands of people going to the. and i saw something that. i was very excited all were mixed all were working on the streets all were kind of a great family having fun american support just i think one hundred ninety thousand tickets. five hundred and ninety thousand get get get a load of that that's a huge number of tickets for anyone who says that we don't have a passion for football you're going to see a lot of americans around here over the next month. and i'm also there's a lot of anticipation for this world cup a lot of people you know critical had it before it started what people post to my wife said she saw a little messy walking down the time of the one hundred ninth street in moscow

yesterday had a mask on it at the mascot for a second put it back on huge following so it had a mess you know. what it was a messy well it was either messy it was a little like but he was feeling a lot of people said huge crowds i've seen how he funding atmosphere so far i think it's fantastic we're just looking at square and so people are really waiting and. it's a fantastic experience rove said it too many people working here for the first time it's easy to say when you know really involved directly but you have to enjoy that because this is a once a lifetime opportunity for everybody and i've seen people already carrying on the message shirts on all the shirts so it will be hopefully i'm sure a fantastic event can i just go back to what you were what happened with the announcement today of the united players because we've just heard this noise i mean the sacking manager and what's really remarkable apartment building today he was

explaining our standards from from going if you got any idea why they didn't maybe they were they were too busy to find a new coach i don't know for sure if it has to do with i mean their neighbors you know rocco maybe they decide they don't want to go with either one. for sure surprise for me a surprise was that brazil voted for morocco. not for. you know the american. soldier or italy for instance. also was for moral or not for the grass pollen that well so. i think. but you know at the end of the day and the earth today i want to touch you i want to have does that tell you about it the new peeping from when it's not the executive committee you know with secret ballots this was an open road i think that's the best water for you for them because you know all the this criticism in

the past that it's a transparent that people are feeling behind you know the scenes and so on so that's the best because then you have to stand up and it's good if you have a vote you should just stand up and say well i'm voting for a you for being done to be a friend and i think that that's that's that's very good coffee for four fifths of the patients it might be that some effort is they will have a problem back home because maybe they should have voted for someone else but i think that that's really beautiful and they want to thank so much for joining us pleasure to katie hopefully see you again just hold it all to think you dorio the former communications director for faith and i also worked alongside sepp blatter but you got a chance speak to the new yeah i want to didn't work the next three words or infantile you know but then i had the opportunity to go to sort and speak to inferencing about your thoughts about russia and especially the question is it safe

i think fan to travel to russia. it is no secret a lot of tension between the world and the well cup host nation. how are fifa how are you dealing with that i mean how are you sort of. coming in making this the best event in the world with all that's going on at the moment by focusing on football i think that's that's the key and that's the secret we have to focus on full but i think there are enough. sadly people around the world to try to just. you know divide or argue or dispute or whatever we have to try to unite football is uniting football is has this this magic and this power of bringing people together we don't want to make politics we don't want to take positions on whether and who is right or wrong we have to organize football and if thanks to football we can send also some messages of unity and football is about bringing

together about enjoying about about creating an atmosphere which will show to the world as well a country like russia with one hundred fifty million people who want to welcome the world in their in their country and i think football has this power to change also the perception of people about the country and about maybe a particular period in time and i'm sure that this world cup. in russia this particular moment of time will have quite significant impact. so we're almost there after all the talk all the buildup seems like forever but pretty much that atonement kicks off with a match between the host russia and saudi arabia on thursday and of course we'll be

following as well millions around the globe and not saving much and this yes even made it easier for fans to access the challenge of introducing the so-called fan i.d.'s and getting these ensure a visa free travel to the country and free rides between post cities so you can imagine how many fans are heading to russia often choosing some unconventional means of transport. our first claim to be in the world cup. since twenty years ago i have felt the first match. with the focus away from the first match but the other think it's a boy i finished.

thank and. we will drive to russia than the other car but it wouldn't be. good. to try to rush . the russian car. no matter how far the team goes we will follow it in the car and so the longer the team stays the longer we drive and we were all for that we were excited.

because if i'm seventy years old my tracks. to use other transport would be too easy i'd like nothing cause the country car. but we saw you need to be very intensive on the roof of the drawing visit following me taking this is such a. thank you but he's a riving a little bit later today after the problem from germany here in moscow and by the way if you want to see the whole interview that i did with you know defeat the president then it will air on i believe in about three hours time which for that you have rare opportunity to hear the thoughts of the man of the top cheney and for that i want to say let me remind everyone i sold out

a lot that. they were just starting up with warming up the engine i said we might mistakes chase my words but will get even better with every hour watch. will be fine tuned and ready to go in about half an hour on top of the headline news this hour though in the wake of tuesday's summit with north korea's kim jong un the us president donald trump has been explaining why he thinks his tough talking diplomacy was crucial in bringing about the landmark talks on denuclearization without the rhetoric we wouldn't have been here i really believe you know we'd say actions and all of the things that you would do but i think without the rhetoric you know the administrator is i don't want to get specific on

that but there is a policy of silence sometimes i felt foolish doing it. but we had no choice of all the singapore summits will trump promise to guarantee the north security in exchange for its denuclearization might have reason to remain wary of its historic adversary as my guest now explains. what's not to like a new nuclear disarmament deal potentially one less country with nukes where all bets are off all of us and we have this truly historic moment on film. with. you. so why does kim jong jr seems to suspicious could be anything poison assassins or trump just waiting to backstab him the

united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal come to think of it america's nuclear deals to seem to last exactly as long as the incumbent president take the rainy and deal brok obama his partner has worked on it for years so much work so much effort just for trump to tear it all up don't forget obama negotiated the arendelle one of the worst disasters the dumbest deals ever negotiated except don't feel sorry for obama just yet george bush his predecessor also struck a nuclear disarmament deal with gadhafi the two leaders discussed this agreement should help to bring a painful chapter in history between our two countries closer to closure it worked gadhafi gave up his nukes and what does

a bomber do well he goes in bombs gadhafi is army alternately allowing the rebels to gruesomely murdered him we came we saw he died. it's almost like something out of game of thrones and we aren't even done bush in turn screwed over bill. clinton started roll back north korea's potentially deadly nuclear program we'll continue to implement the agreement we have reached with that nation get smart it's tough clinton had worked for years to make a deal with kim jong un's father to prevent then north korea from making a nuclear weapon and bush tore it up as seems to be tradition. north korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction while starving its citizens states like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil trump is one for tradition in fact he has

a habit of tearing up documents memos papers when he's done with them he had a bunch of guys at the white house whose job it was to piece back together the papers he shouldn't have torn up we literally had to spend hours per day. piece together the puzzle taken and here we are generations of presidents generations of betrayal double crossing and deception and it seems that hasn't been lost on kim. picking up on the truck and summit cross talk discusses what now that is next this is the internet thanks for watching.

hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the tram came summit in singapore was certainly rich when it comes to optics but what about the substance both leaders are clearly looking for a win a process has started there are plenty of obstacles ahead and no shortage of people whose worst nightmare might come true peace coming to the korean peninsula. cross talking the singapore summit i'm joined by my guest gareth porter in washington he's an independent investigative journalist and historian as well as author of manufactured crisis the untold story of the iran nuclear scare also in washington we have one she is a visiting professor at georgetown university and a former senior special advisor for embassador and christopher hill at the u.s.

state department all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciated gareth let me go to you first even bing about what was happening before the summit what are your what are you or your reactions to the summit now now that it's gone into history go ahead gary. you know peter it was never the case in my view that this summit was going to produce a substantive document that was going to represent you know negotiated agreements on some of the tricky issues that necessarily will have to be resolved in reaching the agreement on nuclear deal. in korea therefore you know the rather and substantive document that was produced didn't surprise me at all i thought this was about what one would expect from the first meeting ever between a u.s. president and the current leader of north korea given

the history of that issue and the politics that attend the issue particularly in the united states you know obviously this is not going to be a document this is going to give you a roadmap to a settlement it's not going to have the. timetable that some people in the media said was missing of course it wasn't no surprise there this was a political document that shows that they got along well and they're ready to start a process both of them basically the same question to you i mean i agree with gareth it's not really a road map i mean least the document that they released i mean it's kind of long on hope is this a beginning of something being in washington go ahead while i certainly agree with gareth and i've also argued exactly the same thing but i also argued that this entire summit was never really about the nuclear issue and in fact really

the nuclear issue in another itself has been distracting the nuclear issue was never really the problem then the nuclear issue with north korea was really a symptom of the much bigger problem of north korea itself really being the. problem itself meaning that was really the heart of the issue of the division of the korean peninsula itself and really what we're talking about is the division of the korean peninsula and that being at the heart of the issue in northeast asia and the stability of the entire region well that's a very interesting point it's interesting but it's kind of gotten ahead of me because that's where i really wanted to go here because this process if it is a process we really don't know yet but it's trump owns it now ok and it seems to me that he's actually given a stamp of approval for the koreans to actually get down to business i think about being this point very interesting there because this is if anything is actually

really going to happen it's going to happen between the koreans themselves ok and i think that's the door that has been opened here and it looks like the koreans north and south want to walk through it go ahead. well i think melvin is right that was the sort of missing link in the in the whole presentation of the problem in singapore and it obviously was a crucial part of the run up to this summit that both north and south korea were ready to go i think further than ever before in terms of into a korean peace and i am quite sure the president moon's role in bringing president trump along with the process that he started with north korea was crucial to getting trump to singapore and so there's no doubt in my mind that

is a crucial part of the background and the dynamics that will continue to support a process of reaching agreement i think it's a very positive extremely positive me to part of the entire issue that is going to help to propel this toward the ultimate goal of a u.s. north korea agreement ok i don't mean it one of the interesting things in the next step that it's possible and it's and again we're dealing with the koreans the united states never officially went to war against north korea was a quote unquote police action remember under truman but for the koreans it's a very different thing if they could in the next i think reasonable step would be a peace treaty ending that conflict sixty eight years after the fact but that is a really interesting move because if hostilities come to an end in on the peninsula then ultimately you have to ask the question then why are u.s. troops there ok you can you can justify it now because there's an armistice but if

the peace comes then that question is you know maybe not immediate in the north koreans aren't pushing it now but it's going to be something you're going to have to confront go ahead being in washington. well this is exactly the heart of the issue and i think what people don't seem to understand is that again we're conflating all of these issues so americans for the last specially in the last six months to a year we have sort of distilled this down to americans are suddenly frightened about you know nuclear bombs raining down on american cities from north korea ok well that this was completely essentially this was never really the threat if you're really worried about americans in the homeland being frightened about north korean threats you should frankly be far more worried about cyber attacks that is actually a far more realistic threat and you know every single american should be far more worried and you know sitting in your home and having your internet connection go

down and you know your facebook connection going down or your bank account your. more realistic farmer the exact or your electricity grid or you know these are the things that you know most americans should be frightened about but aside from that you know a nuclear that is completely unrealistic but the point being that that so so there is that issue number one but but the point being that first of all peace you know declaring the end of the war yes that is between the two koreas and it is not for anybody else whether it's china or the united states or any other country that was involved during the korean war or of the united nations which was the official combatant to be involved the two koreas must decide this but let me also point out that peace does not equal stability on the korean peninsula which also does not equal unification which also does not necessarily mean that the end of conflict or

hostility so these are all different things which also does not mean the end of north korea's missile programs or the end of a. north korea's threats or the end of the north korean regime or the end of north korea's nuclear programs so all of these issues are all completely separate and the world different countries in the region and americans we all need to understand these a separate issues and i think everybody just thought that on june twelfth that president trump and kingdom would want sit down and suddenly americans and everybody else would feel safe if well the summit succeeded or if it failed we would suddenly go to war well i'm simply not the case so i think the media and gareth you've been talking about this i mean the media's been pretty shameful in the narratives that they've been pushing but that almost has everything to do with domestic politics in the united states let me go to gareth theory because you wrote written recently on

this topic go ahead. well yes of course it's true that the media have played a very nasty role in the run up to this summit really trying to discredit the idea that there could be an agreement that would effectively denuclearize and i guess i from from what i heard. say just a moment ago i think i disagree with the conclusion that there can't be. a connection between the various aspects of a peace agreement. between the united states and north korea as well as between north and south korea and denuclearization i think there is every reason to believe that those two things are intimately connected i didn't and they have said ok i'm going to go i am happy to well you were going to reply finish up your point there get them ok ok so the point the point i want to make the point i want to make is that the media have been saying that north korea has no interest in ever giving up

its nuclear weapons and that i think is simply not supported by the historical evolution of north korean policy excuse me they they have in fact. made it clear that they believe that north korea's interests lie in reaching an agreement with the united states and that their nuclear program as well as their missile program have been aimed at ultimately that outcome yeah that was that was part of what i wrote about in my latest piece starting in two thousand and thirteen when kim jong un came in to power he immediately embarked on a build up it's true nuclear and missile program that would give him more to bargain with but it was also made clear to americans who met with the north koreans in two thousand and thirteen that the intention was that when the united states was ready to negotiate seriously north korea would negotiate on denuclearization in

order. to achieve that ultimate goal ok if you're in a peace agreement let me let me jump in here i want to go but what about being a giver of forty seconds reply before we go to the break go ahead well being in washington go ahead what well first i didn't say that it can't be linked i just simply said that they don't necessarily all linked together so so i don't think you know i don't think we necessarily disagree on that what i will dispute though however is your conclusion that north korea will bargain away these nuclear weapons and the reason i say that is that the nuclear weapons are a strategic. nuclear weapon serve a strategic purpose to tand i don't think that the nuclear weapons well absolutely they are a deterrent but the purpose they serve is not so that the united states will provide the sick security guarantee it's not just about the united states ok but

being absolutely right on the niger state let me just let me jump in here we're going to go we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion on the singapore summit with our. short term gains at the expense of longer term growth so you're sort of vesting in the future and products and employees you're taking all of future revenues if you're booking it today just like the met is buying back all the stuff in his own store yes he bought back all of the stuff in his store and he has a lot of revenue but now the stores empty and he has nothing to sell so the next quarter he says my sales are zero because i have nothing in the store to sell i bought it all myself so similarly with apple bell but about all their stock they want to invest in the future and when it comes time to report earnings of a year or two from now they'll nothing to report.

when a loved one is murder it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it be when the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying is just no really hasn't been that we hear even many of the dems families want the death penalty to be abolished the reason we have to keep the death penalty here is because that's what murder victims' families want that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite enough we've been through this this isn't the way. welcome back to crossfire where all things are considered

a month we're discussing the singapore summit. ok let's go back about being in washington right before winter break here trying to finish up a point go ahead. the single biggest mistake that people make when analyzing the korean peninsula is that the focus is on the united states i agree you have to understand that for the entire korean peninsula and remember that north korea and south korea have only existed as separate entities for the last seventy years korea has been around for two thousand years for two thousand years korea has been surrounded by great powers united states has only been around for as far as korea's been concerned for one hundred years so for for north korea the united states for the last seventy years so for for north korea's nuclear weapons united states is

only one actor so so the nuclear weapon serves a strategic purpose about independence and security for all the great powers so even if the united states provides a guarantee of independence and security for north korea now it's still about independence against china russia and potentially any other great power that threatens the korean peninsula in the future ok you said that is why north korea will not give up its nuclear weapons to the united. to the united states are you jared i mean. brings up a fascinating point because when watching kim and trump signed the document and then the. spoke to reporters and then and then try. rather strange i have to say encounter with the media afterwards because it was so vague. what does denuclearization actually mean because we really don't know what that means ok because they'll be in a brings up a very good point and and so it's still kind of

a here and that's the obstacle here i mean we had a lot of optics you know photo ops and stuff like that in the look good it was felt good but now there's the hard work ahead go ahead carol. well you know i don't think it's really quite true that we have no idea what denuclearization means well i mean like the like and time like a time frame like a time frame ok i mean and then sanctions i mean if that's a day i sleep better if it takes five or seven years to go through this and and then sanctions are only dropped then i mean again this is all really really they go ok i'm for this process very much for this process i very much agree with what del being is saying but it's a korean deal that has to be worked out here but i mean filled the lid language here is so very vague ok and expectations are higher than they were go ahead carol . you know the the language is vague and i think that's to be expected but but i think that both sides have agreed on a principle of that there will be

a phased process in which both sides will make certain moves in tandem with one another i think that's the key to this and that means that the north koreans have agreed to basically get to have the the destruction of nuclear weapons or process that obviously would be i.a.e.a. driven watched over. to get rid of the nuclear weapons as well as the capability to deliver them. certainly liver them to united states at the very least and that process of figuring out what the precise relationship is in terms of time between the different steps and which steps go with which is obviously a very detailed process that can't be done in a few days or few weeks it's going to take some months to do it it goes i think the

agreement at this point has gone farther than any previous agreement in this regard and i've looked at the record of what happened in the clinton and bush administrations the us government was nowhere near where they are today in terms of agreeing to the kind of. sort of arrangements that the phased mading of denuclearization with the political security moves and economic moves that are contemplated in this agreement so i think that this is really on track and i think i have to say that i disagree with the idea that north korea cannot exist without nuclear weapons if you go back to the early period. there was a ok ok well i thought that was the implication i'll be glad to have you clarify it but. i want to simply state that i believe the north korea does. that does that north korea does believe that it can exist. securely without nuclear weapons as

long as it has certain preconditions that have been realized so you're saying security guarantees i mean my pompei i came out and said that ok you want to jump in that's the whole point of the program go. ok well let me again clarify i did not say that north korea cannot survive without nuclear weapons all i simply one more time nuclear weapons serve it is one simply one tool of serving the purpose of independence and security for the currying peninsula now can other substitutes be served that purpose absolutely and at some point north korea may decide that something else can be substituted for nuclear weapons in fact north korea and kim jong un may have decided that another asymmetric weapon could easily in fact be much more efficiently serve the purpose

of nuclear weapons and in fact perhaps cyber weapons for example could actually substitute and be much better than nuclear weapons that that is that in fact what may have brought him to the table i don't know so yes i agree he north korea could have made that decision i don't know so absolutely i'm not saying he it has to be nuclear weapons so that was my point ok now i don't know what statement you read but that statement absolutely is not the most comprehensive go back and read the six party agreements and i don't know why you're referring to the agreed framework the six party agreements was absolutely the most comprehensive this statement signed yesterday was a joint agreement and it completely just reiterated in the vegas terms every other previous agreement that was already signed by north korea it simply reiterated in the vegas terms everything that was reiterated that is simply all it did ok let me

and it just restarts all over again occasionally but this time it will be done with it i think this time it will be different because we have historical precedent and it's called libya and it's also the u.s. walk. away from the iran deal gareth this is what really is interest it's an interesting mix right here because it's a question of trust i mean why you know i if i were in the north korean leadership i'd be saying well why would we go down a long road of negotiations when this president in this country that we're dealing with walks away from internationally agreed agreements i mean this throws into the mix here and of course bolton really wanted to poison the well when he was saying yeah the libyan example you know and of course i don't think trump was aware of it when he was backing it up at the time ok. the point the reason why i'm saying that because i saw his press conference and he's kind of thin on historical facts ok so i mean about libya talk about iran when it comes to the north koreans go ahead

karen. well we know that the libya model that was advanced by john bolton was aimed at sabotage again the whole process of reaching a summit and beyond and that failed fortunately for very good reason that both trump and kim did not want to have that interfere and both took steps to overcome that obstacle and i think that's why we are talking about the summit as we are now but i think it's not just the libya model that is the problem in terms of trump in terms of mistrust and trump it's really the wider much more fundamental problem that the u.s. political system has a serious difficulty. actually reaching right an agreement that can be then transferred from one administration to the next it appears that we've lost the

ability to pass international treaties in this country and that i think is a serious problem that i'm sure. and the north koreans have been thinking about they're going to insist i'm quite sure on a treaty and the question i have really is whether at this point the u.s. congress is going to be willing and able to deliver on an international treaty surrounding this agreement but being as usual you want to jump in go ahead. let me point something out first of all one more time. please understand that not everything is about the united states no no no harry i don't hate of all hang up a rough well being they have no hang on my point is no no my point is very different than nuclear weapons my point is trust because i know. you could talk as you can talk about size when you can just about thirty or nuclear weapons but you have to talk about the ability to negotiate go right ahead and go ahead you have

brought out libya iran and trust so that those are the three things i would like to address go ahead number one trust is simply i think over and for size in international relations trust to simply over emphasized let me point out that north korea the korean peninsula has never trusted any neighbor ever for two thousand years you have to understand the mindset of the korean peninsula the world. has been. then no i wish there is some and then why would somebody if they have no trust of outsiders why did they have put on this whole shirov in singapore that's when i sense to me i mean if you they see a chance certainly want something and if you why they said it go right ahead go right ahead so let. i'm trying to explain this so the korean peninsula has been an

independent kingdom for almost two thousand years or so but it doesn't trust its surrounding powers because it has been constantly invaded and for the last one hundred years it was colonized its sovereignty was taken away and then it was divided at both sides both korean sides of the north and the south believed that it was divided not because it wanted to be voted on as by the great powers and that it went to war ok because it was forced to and that the south is occupied now why did kim jong un come to the summit because it wants it wants recognition and it wants to assert kim jong un wants to assert his legitimacy and he wants to be recognized as a world power that's why he came to the summit now whether or not he was going to give up to bargain away his nuclear weapons we still don't know we still back in libya

and he run so. we still don't know yes that is correct now back to libya and iran north korea does not believe that libya and iran are good examples yes north korea follows other countries but north korea says we are unlike any other country here's the thing ok this is a very it's very enlightening ninety four anybody anywhere but out of time gary speed to be any run out of time anything so my guess and once you've been in and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at our d.c. unix i mean remember across the teams.

elliston. it is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos and nimble fleet dismiss it like you know. this isn't my cup of tea is going out to study hall maybe you know john tells. me the only palestinians who gets the most help from its jerusalem counterparts i don't think there's some of those who in the world under the oak vision didn't know only could do this. and that is all of your knowledge to how to display any of them a salvage yard i know a digital t.v. in the doesn't seem to do more in the middle don't piss off. and running right now in spades world cup adventure starts with a sack aig as the head coach is dumped just two days before their first game but there are celebrations elsewhere as fee for chooses who will host the tournament in

twenty twenty six. months it's all down. to the. pundits for a vis world cup renowned manager chose say marina gives us his predictions of who will be the last two nations standing in the final. for surely it was ill for the festive course you'll be able to say that i'm doing emotional jol. yeah my b. plus another huge huge hero of the piece from hell says historic summit with north korea's kim jong un as a success but some are questioning whether he'll make good on his promises to be young at.

hello for me in the queue in moscow this wednesday the thirteenth of june it's six pm here on headline story for a little later but first up we are now twenty four hours away from the first kick off in the world cup when russia will face saudi arabia in the opening match the excitement well and truly building for the signature event in global football which half the planet is expected to watch top flight scottish primed and ready to bring you the best of russia twenty eight. well he's covered just twenty eight when i said i want to said can i come to

believe you are in the perfect place covering this championship because we hear it on t.v. going to bring you analysis and these are going to be speaking to managers and the players and celebrities and. anybody who is worth listening to we're going to have been here on the show also important alongside me one of the greatest goalkeepers of all time twice he was the best goalkeeper in the world peace michael the great safe pair of hands i think on the pitch and as a broadcaster great to have you with us and first of all let's talk about the atmosphere because i just see the brazilian fans down there in the pub some people having a great time already we are in an unbelievable spot we've got the red square going to be a big concert that's and i. you know you say thousands of football fans for. hours and then taking in the host cities before the game that is being played tomorrow is russia they can sell your and get just haven't a. clue. so

i say she has just sex that blue is will be obvious who is the new. president and spending to pay he's only been there since the seventeenth of may so less than a month or so he's deputy you can say that on the wealthy by sacking a very successful coach and i've just sort of wrecking my brain trying to think about anything that can compare this to a you know sometimes crazy things happens in football and this is definitely one of them all i can think about is roy keane was being sent home from from the two thousand and two well cup in the career in japan but other than that here you have a coach who's been with the f.a. for all for

a number of years he's been on the nineteenth roach the under twenty one coach and he's won the european championships with both of those teams he went to porto for a little bit and he's come back it's spain's number one coach and you know that time he's only ever lost one game that was one of the only teams and as a number one coach twenty games fourteen wins and six draws and just because he didn't tell the the president it was time for real madrid he got a bit upset and this power play i think it is to examine the second honestly i can that sets up like a con honestly like this out i understand your supply it is staggering it's not like he was caught in some kind of sex scandal it was just some little photo op perhaps but and the players of course are reportedly extremely upset about this there were reports in spanish media that actually there was a consistency at that decision at the time but what the whole story obviously obviously they they want this guy to be there off the successful and they want that

code. to be in the world cup of cost and these guys are hugely successful. some of them have won this tournament let's just hear from the captain and hear how important it is and what a big experience it was for them to to win the world cup. never see a comparison so soon to nothing. i don't know boys and thieves in the company in the morning and then the point they're going to call it to you when you're going to make it i'm going to say momento and momenta they won the gold by sea. he thought that i mean i won which a lot and shown a lot of. my mother you know. even a little we'll see where you get on be i told them out of a year no they were on that other such a drama speaking on the stand calling will show that ramos understandably he's a winner he's going to think that this is damage that chances should i think. that the whole situation create. a big problem for spain it's not how we're going to talk about this day it's not featuring the media the pressure on the on and on the

hero now comes in and it's a cold it's going to be huge the players are going to be asked about it every day there's no doubt about that so the concentration that they've built up is taken away from there today so they play portugal the day after tomorrow it is the archrivals its biggest game for them in in the group they think they have not in the same preparation mode that they should explain and spank goes into this tournament don't forget that second favorites after brazil. and they want to they know that some of these players know how to win this so the expectations to what this country could do that fans of give scott ideas because he was the type of football for the spanish team he's been in that position before went away for six years came back in november and he's been he's been thrown in front of the lions it's no doubt about that but he's a massive football personality spain and he's got this sort of pals zone where you

lou. and you feel comfortable but it's a different person to particular there's no doubt about that so we're going to wait and see well yes you said they were one of the favorites pre-tournament and i suspect a lot of people back spain probably feeling very uncomfortable now and also just a marine you know another big name hosts for this tournament he picks spain to advance from group b. and i wonder now would he make the same choice with the arrow in charge or would ask him to be here for more of what he's mapped out i hope you've seen this he's matched up the punch that he thinks going to go from the group stages into the last sixteen and then on to the quarterfinals now he is giving us the protections of the would be the last two teams that.

portugal and brazil if i say of course will be able to say that i'm doing emotional jol and i sing. yeah might be just a little forceful for the final i will first of all go for the school. and comes into the gym. i know what i want. in brazil germany is the revenge of the results. so brazil will finish so. you know it does mean it's not just normal. likened to a country with. extra time and all to. the level of play is they take a penalty. that is the one more penalty and that the less penalty one takes let's see another one it takes one. and that leads to your image it. was a very funny exercise. but. and all those probably

didn't even go over the group phase and probably some of the teams that i didn't include in the last sixteen probably there are going to be a lot more to fight over and the semifinals and finals football is unpredictable and that's the main reason to be the beautiful game i want to lose i don't want. it to get totally different i don't understand why do you need another just i want to know well you can never have too many merinos so for the world cup we found the perfect co-host for you so much expertise reaches a movie you don't miss it funnel to guys i'm not going to work with him it will take all the attention and i want another co-host. personally i think what one marine you know is more than enough and you can find more of the manchester united manager predictions if you had to r t dot com and if you will be was talking a load of old nonsense prove it by heading to facebook and twitter use the hash tag

much mirroring your give your own predictions and as we've said peter is a very difficult business to your head i don't have to go to twitter or anything now i can say now what i think is choice of a finalist portugal is very emotional thing highest is the word yeah it's a motor truck i think portugal they have a really good seat there's no doubt about that european. but they are depending on one player and although. i don't think we will look at for another the last two or three months we don't bring no wherever at all the reason terms of. this the strength of the only show how do they win it without him in the final of the year of sydney we got injured so i think they come exist if he's not on top but if you if you think about the euros and take her now they're off. they would the but they're up to the best. form of mourinho has done he's got massive and now it's a popular choice half the world's population. and join in on that so he's creating

a you know. we haven't seen game so what i want you to know for me that's more controversial because they just got the rush by spain in a friendly that doesn't fill me with come out with their friends and coaches and finding out who will come to be united and that we're going to play. in the first game in argentina play iceland and then in moscow on saturday and then there if they're not prepared for ice then they they will happen at the price to beat iceland you have to use very very best so i think the coach is now and i can see cold he sort of been experimenting exactly how can i live my team up for that in the first game don't put anything into all of the results at the time pre-tournament and the same goes for russia when they play tomorrow i know that's a lot of unhappiness about the result of the russian team i hear there's not a lot of. belief that russia can be put russia having played competitive games open

competitive matches for two years so they play saudi arabia for points tomorrow this is where we see how good this russian team ok well as well as well as the spain use has been the big news will come face to sweeping across russia of course but the number something voting for the host of the twenty twenty six competition and they take a joint north american bit from that the u.s. canada and mexico over the one from morocco and that will be the first time in this one of its history that it's going to be across three countries correspondent has the details. the nurse association's. kind of sequel i think you will see. the history has been made the twenty twenty six world cup will be going across the atlantic to north america the joint bid by the united states. mexico and canada

comes as little surprise if i'll be completely honest because in the run up to this vote actually the first ever transparent open public vote conducted at a fee for congress electing a world cup host country so in the run up to that vote a lot has been said about how strong the north american bid is how little there is to be done in terms of infrastructure in terms of transportation whilst the big coming from morocco was somewhat inferior in that respect more than sixteen billion dollars were had to be invested if morocco had won the right to host the twenty twenty six world cup but in case of the united states not only in case of the north american base not only the actual spend the expenditure on the infrastructure would have been smaller but the profits the projected profits would have been bigger as well so the vote was overwhelming in. the side of the north american bed with more than one hundred thirty member states one hundred thirty four to be

precise voting for the north american bid with around sixty placing their ballot for morocco that's about thirty three percent and now obviously the world cup in twenty twenty six will be going to north america despite all the speculation that trumps rhetoric in the last let's say couple of months even trying to expedite this bid and in a way bully the countries into voting for the north american bid despite all that north american became stronger some may say it was mind over heart but in this respect it's one matter to the people of mexico u.s. and canada because they will be hosting the biggest event in world football in eight years from now. and after that announcement representatives from the three countries they held a news conference and they were asked about their impressions of russia. we spend a lot of time going through the different compounds configurations and

all around the center of most schools and i show. thousands of people going to loop. and i saw something that. well i was very excited all were mixed all were walking on the streets old who are kind of a great family having fun americans have purchased i think one hundred ninety thousand tickets one hundred and ninety thousand get get get a lot of that that's a huge number of tickets for anyone who says that that we don't have passion for football you're going to see a lot of americans around here over the next months. until things settle in who is from the fifth through wall players union is now joining us thank you very much for joining us so the united bid won it i don't think that was a big surprise protrude from a player's perspective or do you think. that as you you you even know better than

me the players when we talk about the world cup i sometimes say if they have to play on the moon they're going to play there. i think that if you look at the facts and figures it's quite obvious that yeah with all respect for my home but. yeah. the figures and it does start to switch off the united because yeah much better so the best has one outshining uses for the place called matching planes would like be ideal travelling from country to country like they see in just. for the drain almost already a challenging competition yet of course to players it's a big problem in professional football by the way that players are travelling much too much we did just finalize a research on that. and that's not good for the health and safety of players travelling is even i think that the that this affects travelling for players does

not make them better so perhaps they can play or something then they might know the city about it so now i think i sold it because i discussed it with players and i think that that could be a problem but on the other hand as i said the players are used to do that and i think that's played for a while for world cup that for players this. is a small bit of it they are a little bit more flexible the older they get very he was with us in the last hours that rather the next world cup everything is within eighty kilometers so the next one can be some more distances and there's also parts parts of this is here in russia and europe from friends. missing peters but it's such a. soap so what you think of how the preparations pond here what are your expectations now i think i expect because with world cup of course it's it's just the event of the world so in my opinion it's always it's have to be played in

countries where the organization has to be perfect and i've been here already for a couple of days and i've been there before so i think that i have no doubt that russia has it under control and that it will be. a good world cup and then i also hope as also the football fan that we have also very good quality games and yet but that has to be done by the by the players and not by the russian government after steve all the big news this breaking story about spying sucking the national coach what did you think when you saw that news yeah i have to admit that it's just by accident that the new president of the. federation was working with us as a representative of the players' union for eight years so i had him on the phone when i heard the news and it is quite clear that this is has never happened but.

yeah i think that if a coach and this is the coach knows that he's going to. bat and be the new coach real madrid that was the case and he is not. just one hour before the press conference in madrid you're going to inform yeah in this case the president of the federation i think that's not done i think that. that that that's not professional that said like that and i understood for him that. he knew but yeah it's a firm decision in talks with the players and did. c d c to know about the decision he made you must have expected there was going to be some blowback comes yeah of course but but as as i understood because i. he was not informed at all by the coach and that's i think it especially in spain this is a this is. it it's

a story that's going to but it's going to roll on and on and i'm sure it's going to every time we see spain that is the old press concept we have everything is going to just be about that for at least the next couple of weeks you said you worked with the who is with us. what kind of feller is it what kind of person is it yeah of course you should first of all you still young the next player is a very motivated. but he also has. the character. and yeah he's he's did it very good job with the players and spray but yeah this is another job i'll tell thank you very much for joining us i hope you enjoy the world cup and i would get so you got to see some really good football ok ok stay with us for a run for one second and see that we just move on to our next line which is that the talk is going to kick in of course at the moment all one thousand four hundred smash of saudi arabia on the night and of course we'll be following it as will millions of fans right around the world mainly here the russian of this is of the

big interests and this year fever made it easier for fans to access the championship by introducing the so-called fan i keep getting these ensured visa free travel and free rides between host cities so you can imagine how many fans are heading to russia and often choosing some unconventional means of transport. our first time to be in the world cup. since when you get two years ago i have the first match earlier with the focus away from the first match but the other ticket the boy has finished.

the. thanks. we will drive the russian that all the car but it wouldn't be the same the joke is to try to rush a lot of. the russian car. no matter how far the team goes we will follow it in the car and so the longer the team stays the longer we drive and we were up for that we're we're excited.

because if i'm seventy years old my track series eighty to use other transport would be too easy i'd learn nothing because the country car. the old the moment all you need three are very intensive on the roof of the building trying to zip calling me taking photos to this is such a. place to say that human virtue you saw just there has now successfully arrived in moscow with his canine companion i have my dad. it's different it's a mode of transport he was met by police patrols on the outskirts of the city and then accompanied him to his final destination he started his journey back in may and he covered more than two thousand kilometers to get him brave well done i love that i get up and go literally yellowness not ok exactly this time tomorrow russia

and saudi arabia i think going out to head to head but seeing what you'll see for a new you have to think about you know. russia saudi arabia pressure for russia they have days they start the world cup at home. the oldest watching them and this is the big chance to qualify used to be saudi arabia that in spite of some talent is a nice team is a team from a different reality and russia has to win it. so what was he saying to russia when both of you just said on the phone so i think those could dodging the question is you know i think the opening match if it really is we don't know week we can breed into every team we can see what they've done in

their preparations once the first game is played is being played even as a player you don't know and i actually have personal experience about playing saudi arabia in an opening game in our group was new in the game of the tournament and that's twenty years ago in france you played saudi arabia which did win one mil but it was very very difficult and i have to say it was with russia's preparations not having played competitively for what is nearly two years now not having played the point this is the biggest test for them tomorrow can they can they get that bit of flame that you need in the twenty's and i hope that playing at home and the excitement of having the world cup here. but they can and i have to say with the quality that russia the should win the game and i just want briefly ask about because i mean much as traditionally can be very cagey quite quite defensive is this great for the viewers because you've got russia playing a team who they will see on paper as being their best chance of

a victory perhaps and so the incentive is on them to attack is nick maybe that will give us more instinct since we don't have the rights to show the games i can be quite honest here that the problem in the not the problem the challenge you have by playing the three games in ten days is you you have to try and get something out of the first game. because if you get something out of the first game then you set up for the next one you match if you don't get something out of the first game then you're under pressure in the second game you either have to win that or you have to draw that and then obviously the third game. so you could try to at least get a draw from the first came out of a draw is a very very very good result ok let's cut now to a press conference because the new spain manager fernando yetto is speaking to journalists i'm sure the lots that they want to us let's listen. thanks again. for assuming this challenge the way you have done. please feel

free to address them to the democrats please speak. with questions now. thanks. to sister good luck for the new challenge and please let us know how are you feeling how do you. ask me how do you face this challenge right now to the president tell me what's going on. on the first place this is a beautiful challenge. because times are what they are. as. and therefore i accept the responsibility. with strength. if it. thinking that we have a very strong very working group of players. i've been there i've been the sports

the rector over the last years and i am aware of the huge expectations that everybody has on this team and i'm going to try not to fail everybody from there. my. greetings my love for the former national team coach you look at the year for the work he has been doing and i would like to say that i wish him all the best on his new. job. as you were commenting me. this has not being a nice moment for us. we are acting with responsibility. we've spoken with the whole staff we've spoken with all the football players we've spoken with all the family. and friends has been introduced with everybody. has been having a very powerful speech and now we have

a very exciting challenge and i'm sure that we're going to overcome all the problems. what do you want to do what what are you what is your idea. what we can touch in two days whether we can change in one day is what has been done in the last years of work. the whole staff the whole team is with us we know how it has been gone. we know how the next much has been prepared then we know we're very close to it so the whole team has been working in the same direction and we need to be core and we need to follow the. is there action. and since from here till the end of the world cup we don't have much possibility of change. we need to. we need to follow with the same word barry has been down day by day in which we've

been already. present and this is america as a group this is a fantastic group of kids who didn't know or some qualification stage before the world cup and what i've asked them to simply be themselves to follow their personality or their world level class and to go for all towards. the next much. as i wanted to ask you because some players wanted they wanted to continue to take a year and i wanted to ask what did you tell them tomorrow we will see. tomorrow who learned. their doctor and their second coach will get to our stuff and they will help me. on this. job. i've told them i've explained them the circumstances i've told them that i

fire i've i've been in their place i've been international players i know i've been in their position and i know the kind of challenges that they face from now on. they have to come here to fight for a world cup everybody is excited everyone has huge expectations and. a lot of their focus of our performance here must be our game not the problems not everything that we've been going through. nothing is going to be nothing is going to just defy. our performance in the world cup and that's why we have to fight for. a. catastrophic. plan and your position is just for the world

cup for once the world cup is over. and you will. remain as a national team. you know. this is my my job is just the match against portugal and then the next marks and then the next match we don't think on what's coming in the future we don't think what's coming after the world cup. we we want to defend a country that it's. very excited about the challenge and this is what i needed to everybody. that i want to transmit the year. acted with a huge level of solidarity hitch is just been just thinking on helping spain. move forward face the challenges continue with the dynamic that the team has already had and i want to thank you for the know and the team for his of course their generosity. if you know.

or. say that he was not disappointed by julia look at he did you have the same feeling i'll be i'll be honest with you. we will be mistaken if we think in the past not in the future. i have my head is very relaxed my thoughts are relaxed and i only have to face what's coming in the future i'm not thinking in the past i know what the circumstances are you know and i know what happened but it would we will be mistaken if we morphed. if we didn't consider the situation that we have and we were not positive if we didn't move forward. it would be a big mistake. not to compete in the world cup which is what we are we are here for . the world cup will not come will not come back until after four years so we need

to take this chance focus on the world cup focus on the sports issues and do the best minister and the fiddle. record how much the players are affected by the latest events. are you convinced that we can aim to have the same role in the world come yes if i was not convinced of the power of this team i would not be here our kids are professionals they are mature guys they are they are very good they are very nice guys they are very good very good football players and they need to face the reality and i have no problem with it i am. convinced. that. they will do their best and it was an easy day for anybody

but. i am convinced that they will do their best. so we saw the nice feynman intervention on that saying he thinks that things will just continue as they would he's just going to keep a steady hand on the tiller just mosquitos it reminds me of what things to willcox ago when france raymond domenech lost the confidence of his players and it turned into a disaster on the pitch if the spying players got the manager they didn't want without the result so i don't think they got the manager they don't want. is a very popular figure within the spanish but it's not a manager they want knows it but but that's a different situation i think. the reality is that next man is significant that he sits there and actually looks the finance he's on god you know watching every little word for it and i mean finance a cast and talk to the people there's no doubt about that but he's right i have to

look forward i can look back which i have to look forward i have to prepare my players i have the game against portugal then i have to next game and then i had the next game and that was his answer when he was asked if he's a long term option for the job three games we talked about it before and you can you can see the pressure on the he's on god he know that what he's done is hugely hugely controversial and you have a man here who as i said been dropping deep and he's not been part of the preparations in terms of every training session what it's supposed to be how the players have been prepared what's been said to every single player throughout the period of maybe six months preparing for the world cup there's a lot of things finance a carrot has been taken taught him he's got a really tough job there's no doubt about that he's right he's got fantastic players and a long way along the road they can do the job they need to be someone with with the philosophy and the guy to how this is going to happen and i can tell you lewis will

be out is not the guy you know one month into the job very inexperienced at that stage he's already on every front page of the world how is he going to deal with that in the next day. the next three days and this is the problem that spain is facing you know it's not about football it's about that i suspect the team psychologist will be working overtime to get this through this on its own but throughout this month long two one of them we will hear so much about spain azzi will also be live with special studios across every host city not everybody a couple of hosts is it. all giving you a taste of the action yeah i'll go and see st petersburg tomorrow so join me for coverage from that i will be here again though with pizza at the scene of the not next hour in the heart of the russian capital to see it on. the world cup kicks off in. less than twenty four.

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. i again is calling brad all th q we're bringing you a full news hour on to our other headline story in the wake of tuesday's summit with north korea's kim jong un the us president donald trump has been explaining why he thinks his tough talking diplomacy was crucial in bringing about the landmark talks on denuclearization without the rhetoric we wouldn't have been here

i really believe you know we'd saying chanson all of the things that you would do but i think without the rhetoric you know the administration's i don't want to get specific on that but they're the policy of silence sometimes i felt foolish doing it. but we had no choice while the singapore summit sold from promise to guarantee the north security in exchange for denuclearization pyongyang might have reason to remain wary of its historic adversary as my guys do have now explained. what's not to like a new nuclear disarmament deal potentially one less country with nukes where all bets are off one of us and we have this truly historic moment on film. for the nation. on earth. so why does kim jong jr seems to suspicious could be anything

poison assassins or trump just waiting to backstab him the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal come to think of it america's nuclear deals to seem to last exactly as long as the incumbent president take the rainy and deal brought obama his partner has worked on it for years so much work so much effort just for trump to tear it all up don't forget obama negotiated the arendelle one of the worst disasters the dumbest deals ever negotiated except don't feel sorry for obama just yet george bush his predecessor also struck a nuclear disarmament deal with gadhafi the two leaders discussed this agreement

should help to bring a painful chapter in the history between our two countries closer to closure. it worked gadhafi gave up his nukes and what does a bomber do well he goes and bombs gadhafi is army alternately allowing the rebels to gruesomely day him we came we saw you died. it's almost like something out of game of thrones and we aren't even done bush screwed over bill clinton stop and roll back north korea's potentially deadly nuclear program we'll continue to implement the agreement we have reached with that nation get smart it's tough clinton had worked for years to make a deal with kim jong un's father to prevent then north korea from making a nuclear weapon and bush tore it up as seems to be tradition north korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction. while starving its

citizens states like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil trump is one for tradition in fact he has a habit of tearing up documents memos papers when he's done with them he had a bunch of guys at the white house whose job it was to piece back together the papers he shouldn't have torn up we literally had to spin our workers per day in peace and together the puzzle taking and here we are generations of presidents generations of betrayal double crossing and deception and it seems that hasn't been lost on kim. austria's intelligence agencies have launched an anti terror investigation over death threats sent to chancellor sebastian kurtz on social media it's believed the threats are linked to the government closing several mosques and expelling dozens of him arms over their

alleged links to extremism here's our europe correspondent peter all ever. sebastian cortes is hard line against what he calls political islam has seen the austrian chancellor on the receiving end of death threats this all started after courts announced on friday that seven mosques would be shutting their doors and as many as sixty in moms were facing deportation six of the mosques run by the austrian turkish islamic union are accused of having links to extremism as well as being accused of harboring hate preaches one mosque run by the group in vienna but they caused a stir back in april when pictures emerged of children as young as four years old dressed in turkish military uniforms and saluting the turkish flag sixty him arms are also having their residence permits reviewed two of those of already being told that they have to leave the country could says he's sticking to promises he made

while campaigning but only. parallel societies political islam and radicalization have no place in our country the federal government is taking action against these undesirable developments the decision to close the mosques which are accused of promoting turkish nationalism has been strongly criticized in ankara where president aired the one has accused the chancellor of fanning the flames of religious hate your material shows its use could cost you dearly you must know that closing a mosque in austria and deporting religious men could start a new birth of the cross and the crescent for which you will be responsible at just thirty one years of age became chancellor at the head of a coalition between his conservative austrian people's party and the right wing freedom party now immigration is alarm featured prominently in the campaign and as we've seen from this latest move continues to play a big part in the policy that they're inactive however since the chancellor is

receiving death threats it does seem that this is a policy that isn't going down well with the whole of austrian society peter all of r.t. berlin the german chancellor is on a collision course with m p's over migration we'll have the details when the r.t. new to our returns in two minutes. i've been saying the numbers mean something they matter the u.s. has over one trillion dollars in debt more than ten by color timestamping each day . eighty five percent of the global wealth he longs to the ultra rich eight point six percent market saw a thirty percent rise last year some with four hundred to five hundred trades per circuit first second and bitcoin rose to twenty thousand dollars. china is building a two point one billion dollar a i industrial park but don't let the numbers overwhelm. the only number you need

to remember is one in one business shows you can afford to miss the one and only boom bust. you know world a big part of newton's law and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that mainstream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the bad and shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now for watching closely watching the hawks. play.

hello again the german chancellor is facing a government crisis after locking horns with her interior minister over migration policy i'm going to merkel's reportedly rejected a so-called migration master plan proposed by horst see how for him to reject migrants right at the german border if they've either applied for asylum elsewhere or been refused in another e.u. country merkel's rejection of the plan provoked outcry in the bundestag or this latest round over migration policies broke out last week a failed asylum seeker was arrested in iraq suspected of killing a fourteen year old girl in germany earlier this month her body was found near

a refugee center in mind international relations professor peter shields things germany has to bend to pressure from across europe and address the flow of migrants even sweden and denmark and all of the netherlands and france. all fortified their systems against the intro of the illegal but migration so i think the german government has to dance as well according to the majority open opinion among other european member states and i think that in zero one knows this very well and she is on the up and therefore in that kind of search. in the end there will be a kind also of a compromise but. very strong influence of the of the variance just the party of the society or. six young people who grouped together to restore an abandoned spanish village and now facing jail time after being found guilty of illegal

occupation. we have that in this village could be. good for our players. here we have a twenty first on a solar panel and a way to allow us to kind of fill my notes over all or supplies of energy so we bring the water that was broken in the story. when we know that this was illegal our way which i thought get our limit with the local government the government refused any kind of agreement

with us anyway we keep working here because we think it's good for the land it is good for their region we have this problem with their population in spain they. don't there are in. their own with less people in spain. we spend actually poses a person hero we're spending all the money without. the local government that we don't want us here but we always for economic reasons here . hunt the lady or the hunting a.d.r. the civil government a lot of money. the neighbor from the military and then. i are really nice with that as

they really support less we are doing it this is. hope. we are ready. this he said. the golden. because we don't know what we are doing and we hope. the seas to. this so for now all have had lines for you in five minutes then we're back with our world cup team as we count down the hours to the moment all the twelve months this is all to international thanks for watching. what hopes is just to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. some want to it's. actually going to be for us this is what the full story of the more people that i'm interested in the water

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clue. from r.t. this hour spain's world cup adventure starts with a sacking as they head coaches just two days before their first game but there are celebrations elsewhere as fee for chooses who will host the tournament in twenty six. hours. of this world cup party's top pundit the renowned manager chose same radio gives us his predictions for who will be the last two nations standing in the final. brazil the first of course will be. emotional.

yeah might be. in other news the saudi led coalition launches its largest air sea assault in the yemeni conflict humanitarian groups call for no further escalation in the port targeted is said to be the source of food for two thirds of yemen's population. and the era of peace donald trump pales his historic summit with north korea's kim jong un as a success some are questioning whether he'll make good on his promises to pyongyang . i mean the team at r.t. h.q. in moscow this wednesday the thirteenth of june it's now seven pm here and i'll have our other headlines story for you a little bit later in the program but first up this time tomorrow the twenty eighteen world cup will be well and truly underway when russia will face saudi arabia in the opening match the excitement ramping up for the signature event in global football which half the planet is expected to watch along the way our own

top flight squad is primed and ready to bring you the best of russia twenty eight. illo . ily ily ily ily ily. ily good evening how well can see on t.v. coverage of the twenty eight team playing so well i know you won't shut up because they still were killed what else would you be doing right now to make me say a long side be proud it's all in the will be a great day to smikle twice a vote see the best goalkeeper in the world hates it you're looking for it well by the way i think moscow six eight i just want to say pieces here especially basically help me because i'm going down to join the football fans and have

a few beers say. i'm going to risk rather big concert that tonight it's opening officially opening of the world cup. and my friend that i met in st petersburg i think is not jewish he's he's playing part of that concert so i am really really looking far forward to that and i can see you know the world cup you can smell it it's here so many friends already here they're taking in the whole cities and they're taking it in before the opening game which is of course tomorrow between russia and saudi arabia have a look at this. and. i think live. live. live elite zero zero zero zero. zero zero

live. here in the full. flow. and i think you might be able to hear this down below as there are lots of fans a lot of brazil fans i say and they're in fine force it's really something wonderful to see all these people having a good time to relax and enjoy the business this is going to be more and more and more the further we get into the world cup the more fans are coming in usually fans are coming in for the second or third game and it will be for the atmosphere it's going to be fun fantastic absolutely everything i hoped it would be and it's only getting better so not to like yourself to take it and enjoy the atmosphere that was first not quite so great here spanking final because well they can see football association is it's just decided to sack the coach as you to two days before he. got to we're all here because we've had to dismiss the manager of the national team

they have provided no information to the royal spanish football federation we learnt it only five minutes before the press conference it has to be a message to all employees of the rule spanish football federation that this is no way to act. so like i said it's not textbook preparation for a world cup is it second your manager the day before the competition starts how do you think this will affect them it's going to affect them there's no doubt about that it's going to. it's not going to go away and this is this is a problem with spain players will have. every contact with the media which is every day for longer or shorter or longer periods but it is every day they will be asked about this they were asked how's the atmosphere now do you miss the coach house fund and the hero theory and it's comical one like that and this is going to be a problem and i think. spain comes into this is second favorite i think having sacked the coach it's going to diminish their chances i'm not saying that he can

win the world cup now but it's going to be more difficult for them but they've announced from the piano he's now the new coach for at least for the curation of the world cup and let's just hear what he. he said in the press conference an hour ago. the circumstances are what they are i accept this great responsibility i think we have a very strong skilled team i've been spain sports director for a while and i'm well aware of the high expectations that everybody has of our team i'm going to do everything possible not to let them down. so we look to this differently i thought he was kind of diplomatic about the whole thing but i mean you saying he's in a difficult situation is nothing much you can do i think he's been dropped right in the deep end and. you know two hours ago he was director of football for spain now he's a coach and he's tasked with a very very difficult task of motivating the players getting the players in the right shape of mine and also putting out players and you have to try the difference

between coaches you know one one coach will see this player as a good player another one is he this fits into my system and he hasn't had the time to prepare and self other than looking at the team from his job as technical director if you can call it like where the coach has been very specific into every single player of his team spoken to them know exactly how they feel. and i think the coach would have had the eleven that plays against portugal two days from now he would have had on my financial year he's never had to think about that he had other jobs so this is now his task and i think it's really really difficult and also on top of that eight of the players that he's got this was a real madrid player and obviously for you and look pretty but to keep we had different pronunciations how do you propose a particular to protect him and we've just had from the press conference how they were we can't even say that but much like you know he started the interview on the

just cold and this is where all this started but he didn't tell the president of the spanish f.a. . check that he was indigo she is and so they feel that they can play behind the back of them and they've they've got this big bum and at the end of the day you know they they've ended up sucking it which i have to say i find it staggering that it can happen have you ever been in a situation even remotely like this where you get a new manager just before a big game i mean what would you feel like as a player if that happened no i've never ever been in that situation but i've been in situations where the manager was threatening to leave the job because of outside circumstances not nothing to do with football so we had a german coach and he was called the manager for then mark at some point the press was on about his tax relations with denmark which was the dickens and the ended up being an absolutely non story but he threatened to leave the job and it really

upset the players because young certainty of knowing what he wanted from us as a coach and to who we're going to get him and how he's going to win the next game that really does affect you so i think it's going to be it's going to be very difficult for the spanish players but when all that is said these are players that are hugely successful a lot of them eight as i said from real madrid it's just one the third consecutive champions league that they used to play on the big big pressures so i'm not saying that it's going to take on a fault at all but it's going to be somehow multi-focal for i think that's an important insight and that's one of the reasons we got here facing a safety that just gives you an idea things to save you from falling over and that these things can be unsettling now i think it might have unsettled jay's a marine years predictions because sees one of the kind of ice for our teenager and his championship he's been taking he thinks will do well and those he won't i hate originally chose spain to advance from green bay although it would seem to not

understand. we also know and i hope you know what's wrong with watching along the way that he mapped out which countries that he thinks will. make it through but through the group into the sixty nothing and then the quarter finals now he's giving out his predictions of who will be the last to team standing. portugal and brazil the first of course will be able to say that i'm doing emotional jol and i think. yeah might be the highest of all for sure from the final i will first of all go for the school. and i wasn't in the german. north i want. than brazil germany is the revenge of the result.

so brazil will finish. and you know it does mean it's not just. like after i come to. extra time penalties. eleven players they take a penalty. that is all one more penalty and that's the last penalty one takes let's see another one takes one and that leads to your image and. it was a very funny exercise. but. probably didn't even go over the group phase and probably some of the teams that i didn't include in the last sixteen probably there are going to be in the quarter finals and the semifinals and finals football isn't predictable and that's the main reason to be the beautiful game and hope you enjoy the world cup it will get totally

different i don't understand why do you need another just i want to know well you can never have too many marine us so for the world cup we found the. perfect goes for you so much expertise fringes i mean you don't miss it politic guys i'm not going to work with him it will take all the attention and i want another co-host. after to see if. our you can find more of the manchester united manager is predictions if you had a meeting dot com you might think he was talking nonsense if you think so challenge and head to facebook or twitter use the hash tag much more and you make your own predictions and print is an awful lot. precisely joins live now by the chief executive of russia's football players union alexander sort of it's good to see you getting you to join us for the world cup for the drawn christmas bucky what december and it was a lot worse weather and we did say we were going to get it would be nice and indeed

it is it is great absolutely there are a lot of people on the streets so funtastic kind of you know russia person very well is this how you feel things would be things progressing everything's authorized things going to plan a couple of weeks ago i told myself this is the world cup coming through russia because i could not see in these you know big signs or why it was required but in the last seven days after a lot changed the city just like it's a big call it. a lot of people i see from home from a lot of different countries mexico per. year of why america is from just a few you know it's funny because i was here two weeks ago and i'm like damn not even ready for this but in the coming in a couple of days ago we didn't really looks like that the world problems here we got the old thinking about growing right there so here. and so everyone i speak to that knows a russian team and sort a little bit apprehensive about the qualities where worse is russians you know the

world will see tomorrow because i think that is the most important game for us because the games with japan. your wire will follow and the mood that will decide the first game is very important we have a lot of. people for saying our team is really really bad i don't think so i think it's about the board we have a lot of young guys we have some very old guys like to shave which i mean all for sports you know that's just good enough when you think very old how old is and what are your three years younger than thirty six thirty seven we're still hopeful for small for running around maybe like a big tournament but still i think their training picture in the law will show what they've got i sense there's a lot of outside pressure from russian people to the to the to the players what's it like from the inside out they ready how do they feel they've prepared well and they're in the right spot for this first game which is again sort of the sense of

saudi arabia's i think they are and the pressure is really bad i mean even yesterday i mean strikers he made a speech on you tube and asking people to come. in and support and i think that's what friends will look at because i really want to form and qualify them and state . it's a big night everyone has their own opinion we've asked. who's considered an expense famous money jim is a marine you know is speculating to how he thinks it may gain michigan saudi arabia will go and how the group will translate some of this. russia saudi arabia huge pressure for russia they have days they start the world cup at home. the oldest watching them and this is the big chance to qualify used to be saudi arabia that in spite of some talent is a nice team is a team from

a different reality and russia has to win it to. xander. chosen it out was just mesmerized by his very casual susan isn't it he said the question i asked the when it's nothing and i just don't think anything did nothing startling in that revelation russia has to win if you want i was there with every which was a higher percentage so would you think they will take an attacking approach to this new meetings a quite case the first match up will they go for this but i mean. saudi arabia is like a very unknown for for a lot of fans team so. in any case we have to attack we have to go forward because . you know as we said that there are nineteen us just maybe not some organized well maybe but i would say also that their game i think would peru and they weren't that good in defending but they had some good players and i think you know with all this . with all this commotion going around the world cup they can also perform they can

you know live up to their dream to perform better that they can and so they're a tough opponent so but i think we have to talk we've got to go forward and score as many goals of which i am not completely sure that i think you can say that saudi arabia is a naive team first of all they qualify their fans scratch at church one of which isn't there which is nice you know secondly a personal experience twenty years ago it is a point in one thousand nine hundred ninety eight in our group we played our first game against our various on your radio and i have to say that the pressure a notch was to win this game everyone thought saudi arabia and it was a very very tough game. stick to your job and you stick to your guns. eventually i think you will get the pick had a job done against them because there are a breaking point where you know the quality shows a difference so we want to gain the one deal but we have to scrape it so again with

russia playing this team and i return to the question i have before do you think that that sheen russia with that kind of pressure and with this kind of knowledge. as well you think they're completely ready for the snow. well i mean everything i think a lot will be decided this night when they sleep how they wake up how they have their breakfast and if they really have this real in their hearts in their eyes they will perform i don't know not a magician i'm going to save this for i've lost the sense you have i mean i think they're ready yeah they're ready i think they're ready of they're a bit annoyed by this or this talks about their being lousy players and everything so i think they're want to prove that they're not and i'm sure the russian fans among the case many thanks for doing something right thank you thank you peter thank you for. talking with the world cup fever sweeping across russia phaethon members have voted for the host off the twenty twenty six competition yeah there are lots of people who want the chance to do justice to host it and the winner is

selected as a joint north american bid from the u.s. canada or mexico they defeated the efforts of morocco and dummies is the first time the tone will be held across three different countries i want to know what you think about that but we'll listen first to our correspondents reports. the numbers you. see you will see. history has been made twenty twenty six world cup will be going across the atlantic to north america the joint bid by the united states mexico and canada comes as little surprise if i'll be completely honest because in the run up to this vote actually the first transparent open public vote conducted at a fee for congress electing a world cup host country so in the run up to that vote a lot has been said about how strong the north american bid is how little there is

to be done in terms of infrastructure in terms of transportation whilst the big coming from morocco was somewhat inferior in that respect more than sixteen billy. dollars were had to be invested if morocco had won the right to host the twenty twenty six world cup so the vote was overwhelming in. the side off the north american bed with more than one hundred thirty member states one hundred thirty four to be precise voting for the north american plate with around sixty placing their ballots for morocco that's about thirty three percent and now obviously the world cup in twenty twenty six will be going to north america despite all the speculation that trumps rhetoric in the last let's say couple of months even trying to expedite this bid and in a way to bully the countries into voting for the north american bid despite all that north american became stronger. and i said i want to ask you a question as

a player how how do you feel about the prospect of you know flying maybe in one of the times and maybe several hours per day in preparation for a game some just part of the part of the normal day job for you or no i don't think that's a big problem and i think when you read the bit it's not like you play in vancouver one day the next day you play in the mexico city just it's very geographically sort of so. the part of sort of you have different groups playing different way at different areas so they're not going to be travelling over games massive difference in distances and through the time zones but i have to say i was really proud of football today because there's so much going on in. politics at the moment and the ironic thing about this bit is that you know that the president wants to do one person want to pin the wall between through the countries winning the bid and you know to the north in the trade war for football today i think one could say that's football can it can unite and i think for mexico and canada and the u.s.

to win this but. in a tournament that's going to be forty eight teams i think it was it was it was perfect. it's it's a perfect moment in life oh in in time really for that to happen i feel like you're running for president that was a wonderful a wonderful and you know what you really know your politics we need to tell you up as a news presenter our anyway it's been a great pleasure to have your company this hour the fans are continuing to pile into the pub and i am going to put some space to get me out here over to the concert hopefully some of the headlines that.

i don't know are other headlines stories with me calling brad artie h.q. in the saudi led coalition has launched a major offensive to capture the rebel held yemeni part of the data it's fair that the battle which is the largest of the conflict could worsen yemen's already dire humanitarian situation but saudi arabia's crown prince has defended the assault claiming it's in the yemeni people's interests sions operations to liberate data is part of the coalition's unwavering commitment to support the people of yemen against the tyranny imposed by iranian backed militias that are spreading chaos and destruction in yemen addressing the humanitarian situation in a sustainable and effective manner requires liberating yemen from the control of the rebels which intentionally disrupt the flow and distribution of humanitarian supplies. well average video reportedly shows saudi backed forces heading towards her day it's the first time that the riyadh led coalition of nine arab states has

tried to take such a heavily defended rebel city since intervening in the conflict in twenty fifteen one of the few aid organizations working in the country called care says the assault poses a grave risk to the six hundred thousand civilians inside of data right now it also says that the seaport feed two thirds of yemen which according to the u.n. is already experiencing the worst humanitarian crisis in modern history let's try to get an update now and talk to red cross spokeswoman. welcome to our to you sir it's up circumstances how devastating to expect this assault to be for the cell billions who are in the data right now. the assault risk to exacerbate an already catastrophic humanitarian situation in yemen and indeed their concerns are twofold first of all the six hundred thousand people who live in her data and who must be spared so here we launched an appeal to all those fighting in this conflict reminding them of their obligation under

international law to spare civilians to spare civil infrastructure such as hospitals and water and electricity networks us with us to allow those who would like to free to do so safely but beyond these hoody there is a lifeline for millions and millions of yemenis and later reminds you that yemen is a country of twenty nine million people and three out of each four yemenis need humanitarian aid most of these aid comes through the port of data so these aid not be able to flow into these poor it would put at risk literally millions of lives how do you think this new front in the conflict might affect those supplies trying to get in and out of the port such as they are on a very little been able to get in and out anyway. indeed it was already difficult to use the war because of their use going towards the flow

of the vessels was slow ourselves the international committee of the red cross have not been able to use the ports in february last year nonetheless vessels with bulk food were guiding and we can only hope that they will continue being and that there was fighting we allow essential shipments of food and of medicine and goods to enter her data and from there to each the rest of the country it is difficult to assess the situation as we speak but we have ourselves a team on the ground in her data we have pre-positioned food and medical supplies and we hope again that those fighting in this conflict will keep humanitarian considerations in mind what are the conditions like for teams like yours trying to get that much needed aid through data to the people who really need it. well certainly having supplies on the spot is not sufficient. to be able to

distribute them we need those fighting to allow humanitarian workers to go ahead and again it is difficult to assess the situation tonight we hope by tomorrow morning to see more clearly what is going on and we hope to be able to work and again it is extremely important that hospitals be spared the civilians be spared and that those who might want to flee holiday there because of the fighting be allowed to do so safely and that humanitarian workers be allowed to access those displaced with the needed supplies the prospects are complete at this point we're ok water that's i know you will the red cross for now though you're lander's akamai at the red cross thanks for joining us from. and in the wake of tuesday's summit with north korea's kim jong un the us president donald trump has been explaining why he thinks his tough talking diplomacy was crucial in bringing about the landmark talks on denuclearization without the rhetoric we wouldn't have been

here i really believe you know we'd say sions and all of the things that you would do but i think without the rhetoric you know the illustrations i don't want to get specific on that but they're the policy of silence sometimes i felt foolish doing it. but we had no choice and while the singapore summit saltram promise to guarantee the north security in exchange for its denuclearization pyongyang might have reason to remain wary of its historic adversary as my guest now explains. what's not to like a new nuclear disarmament deal potentially one less country with nukes where all bets are off one of us and we have this truly historic moment on film. for the nation. on earth. so why does kim jong jr seems to suspicious could be anything

poison assassins or trump just waiting to backstab him the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal come to think of it america's nuclear deals to seem to last exactly as long as the incumbent president take the rainy and deal brock obama his partner has worked on it for years so much work so much effort just for trump to tear it all up don't forget obama negotiated the arendelle one of the worst disasters the dumbest deals ever negotiated except don't feel sorry for a bomber just yet george bush his predecessor also struck a nuclear disarmament deal with gadhafi the two leaders discussed this agreement should help to bring

a painful chapter in the history between our two countries closer to closure it worked gadhafi gave up his nukes and what does a bomber do well he goes and bombs gadhafi is army alternately allowing the rebels to gruesomely murdered him we came we saw them died. it's almost like something out of game of thrones and we aren't even done bush in turn screwed over bill. clinton started roll back north korea's potentially deadly nuclear program we'll continue to implement the agreement we have reached with that nation get smart it's tough clinton had worked for years to make a deal with kim jong un's father to prevent then north korea from making a nuclear weapon and bush tore it up as seems to be tradition north korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction while starving its

citizens states like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil trump is one for tradition in fact he has a habit of tearing up documents memos papers when he's done with them he had a bunch of guys at the white house whose job it was to piece back together the papers he shouldn't have torn up literally had to spend hours per day. piece together the puzzle. and here we are generations of presidents generations of betrayal double crossing and deception and it seems that hasn't been lost on kim ok that's it for now thanks for watching you know neil got you covered with the news team in the coming hours but in less than thirty minutes from now we'll be back with our world cup squad as we count down to the biggest festival of football on the planet this is our team and from.

readings and sell you tell you should. i don't think you need me to tell you that history was made this week oct watchers yes u.s. president donald trump and north korean leader kim finally made good on their promise of reaching some sort of an agreement to end hostilities and denuclearize north korea. now i know after the war of words and the words of war between the two leaders in the last minute cancellation of the meeting of inlet in the weeks leading up to tuesday's historic summit i wouldn't i wouldn't blame anyone for thinking that this would never happen but it did it even brought dennis rodman the tears mazing according to a joint letter signed by trump and kim the united states and the d.p. r. k.

will join their efforts to build a lasting and stable peace regime in the korean peninsula now as part of that agreement north korea has reaffirmed its commitment to working toward a complete denuclearize ation of the korean peninsula and in what one would you know assumed to be a show of good faith u.s. president trump agreed to call off the war games the united states and south korea had scheduled for this summer sounds reasonable to me hey you know but. yeah apparently not apparently not but it is a significant concession and it's interesting for the president of the united states to refer to us south korean joint military exercises as provocative because really that's the point of view of the north koreans if we withdraw our forces and that's part of the deal i can't support the deal that will lead to more conflict not less our forces in south korea are stabilizing asia they're trying to drive the side of asia china it is and that would be

a bad deal and those military exercises serve multiple purposes not only do they deter aggression by the north but they serve other interests in the asian pacific region so i think taking those off the table is going to be to the detriment of american national security. yes according to your friendly neighborhood military industrial complex cheerleaders the ending of war games or you know calm for a bit removing the u.s. military from everyone's backyard as i guess you know far far far more destabilizing in terrible for a region. i don't know nuclear war. i guess i'll let you decide which which you think makes more sense as we start watching the hawks. if you. want to feel good looks like i'm thrilled with it would be glad to keep the ball out of it if you. like you know that i got.

three. weeks. welcome on the watch of the hawks i am tyrone for the turf and i'm capitalists. even. when brett. dennis was at tears over all this you know look you know hey we don't want to be stabilizes the cream from them slow or asia as a whole if we stop war games that would just be the end of the world. i dos right war games war war war and. pretty much everything. is very strange and it's very strange to have this idea and it's reminiscent of of when obama was running. and ultimately was running for reelection as well but kept

coming up is this idea of you can't talk to dictators without preconditions like oh my god he's going to he likes to talk to dictators remember it was all obama love to talk dictators just because he said we need to talk in order to get here and now all of a sudden it's the script is completely flipped and you've got everyone you know fox news and everyone on the right saying like oh oh what a great job he did on those so on look at everyone tarred to the heroes they are people who scream that we shouldn't talk to. most of those up your necessarily personal opinion none of those up your fans of donald trump i don't support i don't you guys are already doing that am i but i support a peace and i support a use at all costs i know that's a weird thing to say i mean just to give an example stevens jim acosta tweeted out jim trump said he gave up nothing in the summit with kim jong suspending military exercises with south korea is not nothing thank you jim thank you i mean that's war oh it is and you know it let's not forget how expensive these war games are talking

about millions and millions and millions and millions of dollars that could be going to help our own people train for new jobs in manufacturing or feed or spend it on our immigration courts but why would we do that why would he doesn't make sense and. look you know for those of you out there who are you know maybe you're on the fence about the whole canceling of war games or you know or a small nuclear exchange or stopping war you know you these things are on the fence according to global zero even a regional war of one hundred nations were produced by terror grams of black soot tara grams of fiber. kilograms that would rise up in the earth's atmosphere and block the sun what there is of course would produce a sudden drastic drop in global temperatures that would last longer than twenty five years and especially destroy much over protective ozone layer yes for a small nuclear i would rather know wargames as

a concern then you know or care. you know their minds saying hey maybe we should just push the button yet no i would i would like that to not be how is it this is not a normal thing for people to sit and they really don't think about it all it's all in the theory it's not human lives north koreans aren't people they're just these dolls that we know it's provocative it's this it's that you point out something amazing about this deal and you know the work of that i have done covering it is an. organizations like watch try to find and i especially from the korean war are still going on technically and north korea one of the four points that was made that. donald trump actually got on the table was. the p.o.w. . working with in order to bring back the remains of soldiers that it may have died on that soldier people that were lost and one of the things

we were talking director of defense p.o.w. m.i.a. accounting office. actually said we're in close communication at the white house with the defense department of defense of the department of state that this mission will be part of the dialogue and i think it's interesting about those as people don't think about port that was that was a major issue that he ran on and that's a big issue is bringing people and being that war and bringing people home and that to me is is one good thing it doesn't erase any of the other things it doesn't mean i'm a carriage whatever but. you know i don't want to forget before we before we run out of time on this story is that something else is not being talked about while we're kind of talking about that i want to just real quick before we had that going is that this there's a joint military partnership between the u.s. an addict i'm sorry it was not a dictatorship i'm sorry it's a monarchy and saudi arabia that. both the u.n.

and the red cross have announced the this week that they'll be evacuating staff from the yemeni port. in advance of what they know is going to be saudi and united arab emirates led coalition invasion they're planning on bombing the port the last remaining port and so this is why we don't we want to avoid for even if it was. from the top of. the united states immigration system is underfunded under resourced and saddled with political pandering disguised as policy we haven't had meaningful immigration reform for over thirty years despite the fact that the democrats demographics of the country have changed dramatically but the needs of our economy are wildly different than they were in one nine hundred eighty six but because of this discriminatory policy is once again quietly being slipped into our law books on monday june eleventh attorney general jeff sessions abandoned it two thousand and sixteen decision by the justice department's board of immigration appeals that decided the victim of domestic violence was eligible for asylum

sessions claims he is negating this legal precedent because quote the applicant must demonstrate membership in a group which is composed of members who share a common immutable characteristic as defined with particularity and is socially distinct within the society in question and that quote the applicants membership in that group must be the central reason for her persecution but this ingle most disturbing and conspicuous things about sessions decision is how bleak the gender bias is he continually uses she. she and her when speaking in general terms about immigration law even going as far as to say quote an asylum application has the burden of showing her eligibility for asylum now sessions claims that the asylum laws are too broad and should include victims of what he calls private violence private violence according to jeff sessions is violence committed by gangs or domestic violence we need immigration reform in the united states if only to

refrain from caging crying children and to going back to the days when domestic violence wasn't a crime but a private matter and the group these clearly female abuse victims belong to jass is called womanhood one woman the world over come to america for asylum because they are under the assumption that women as well as men are treated as equals in the us the women are not property here sadly the policy of just sessions and the lack of substantive opposition to it are putting the poorest most abused and neglected women in the world on the road to death. women are property in the actually belong to to come here to the united states to get rid of good safe from harm that's extraordinary blow my mind i have the need to be in a special group that specifically shows that why you're getting beaten up is because you're part of that crew and what's crazy too is it like it's not like the places you know they're coming from

a bad part of the world would recognize the issues like these great this is really what he's talking about he's trying to stop every couple of years ago we had a lot of central american women and mostly women and children coming up here because of the exact violence that they talk about that's really that's really awful i mean you know it's interesting because it's like you know there's a lot of what comes up to is it's like the talk about like oh you know gangsters are a problem but like i mean you're talking about places like el salvador honduras guatemala these are the highest rates of murder in the world and one of the salvador with a woman he. this decision on she was no salvatore i saw her is literally one of the most dangerous places to be a woman in the world and he's like well i don't know if they're really really made our hell up because it's like when you look at when you can when you take you know violence against women and gangs they actually you see this correlation there because look this cruise director of survivors foundation bottom all she says want to gang says this is my territory they were talking about everything the houses the

businesses and the people and specifically the women in the girls of that area in kids in need of defense report called neither security nor justice that actually states gang presence also limits access to justice for those affected by violence by creating additional barriers to reporting investigation and prosecution further entrenching impunity heightening the need for refugee protection for its victims so for those people say well that's a private problem well no it's not it's a call it's totally an issue there but again runs a neighborhood that's an institutional problem yes they control everything in their neighborhood right in some neighborhoods in this world that's the sad truth right and that's what about it incredibly and surprise surprise it's jeff sessions. this is one of those things that is so backward and so disturbing but it's his bread and butter yesterday it's as this occurring reason to want to claiming to want to be like i want to reform immigration so it's you know with good people and whatever

it's garbage that man is in the pocket of immigration special interests that you know some people get paid by the n.r.a. some people get paid by big banks just sessions is definitely in that special interest group the weird thing about jeff sessions to me is that he's a native as to which is odd because white america white europeans were not actually native to the united states doesn't always forgive throw him out out there but one of the thing is that he is closely and closely tied in the pocket of a network of anti immigration groups that are run by a gentleman named john tam who is a retired. i dr and founder of a number of organizations including a pro eugenics organization. in two thousand and eight he so sessions got an award from the anti immigration group numbers usa which was started by dan for obstructing immigration reform in two thousand and nine the franklin society in another one that was not me that gave him an award for obstructing this just actions doesn't understand how economies work he doesn't understand how people work

it's it's own and missteps and you know we have mr we know how to go to break clock watcher so then we're going to let us know what you think about drivers with government facebook and twitter so your poll shows that our dot com coming up we have locked the door of the prison industrial complex and what many are doing to tear down its walls where the dirty and they are. so too. thank. you

all we often talk about the evils of the present us real complex military industrial complex there's an all other union of profit and subjugation that has an equal influence over politics and culture here in the united states which is of course the prison industrial complex according to market research firm us world in two thousand and fifteen private correctional facilities were a four point eight billion dollar industry with profits of six hundred twenty nine million dollars and while the union of corporations and prisons is not new the ways in which good people around the country are fighting back against it is which is why today op watchers will be talking with a social justice attorney author and one of the leading thorns in the side of the prison industrial complex through work with national mamas bail out campaign and black youth project one hundred welcome thank you and it's a pleasure having you on the show and i want to i want to start with just so people get an understanding is what in your opinion is the single biggest misunderstanding

people have. about the person industrial complex here in the states. i would say that it's necessary or that it must exist i think people can't conceptualize a world in which we don't have prisons or gels and so because people can't conceptualize living in a world without these punitive systems that it's hard to like actually tear down and reduce the prison and jail population so i think it's that it's a necessary evil and that it has to exist and therefore it has always existed even though that's not true as you said it has expanded and transformed in the last forty years the last thirty years and continues to expand and transform i never thought about that i actually like a war you know what are the other alternatives that we could do would start of jailing people well i think the first thing is to axe the question of why people are jelled in the first place right. there's the assumption that people are in jail because they deserve it or they've committed some crime or they're harmful to the community around them and that's just simply not true most people who are

incarcerated are victims of crimes or victims of interpersonal violence of community violence most people in jail are have some type of mental illness or disability most people in jail are prior to joe are living in poverty so this is jails and prisons have historically and currently been used to how social problems that we fail to address so even before we say like what's the alternative alternative is if we invest in housing transportation food and resources that allow people to live the lives that they want to live then we wouldn't actually need jails and prisons i think generally we have to learn also how to deal with people right so if somebody if you have a friend you have a disagreement your friend your first thing isn't to call the police or rest the person has to have a conversation and figure out how we can restore the community. but most people who are in jail or nonviolent crime of poverty of people trying to survive and so we criminalize survival but we don't give people options and resources and we have

places in society that currently exist cities that's been largely mounts of their budget on housing large amounts of their budget on education so we have models that actually work in which there are not high levels of jail or prison populations in certain cities and then we have other cities that are predominantly black and brown predominately immigrant predominantly poor who do see like whole communities being transported into jails and prisons because governments fails to invest in these communities i mean we say in chicago where they'd rather spend money on a prison right next to a school in just one door and wander out in there you go right bail is one that you brought up you recently wrote an article on the the injustices surrounding the whole bail system and the u.s. justice system you called cash bail the life but blood of the prison industrial complex one. how is the how is the bail. to see all that president astro complex and then what how can we change that you know what can we do to to push

that away so the prison industrial complex essentially about profit corporations and individuals who are making money off of people being in cages essentially and so cash bell originally is not supposed to be a form of punishment is supposed to be a surety that if you come to if you have a court date and you come to a court date then you have a bill would assure that you'll be at your court date because there's no standard law of how judges should you know a proposed bill then you see district attorneys and judges abusing their power to hold poor people essentially because you can commit any type of crime and if you have money to pay your bill then you can get out of jail but this is essentially profiting off of poor people who they know will not have the money to pay for bell and so currently there's sixty percent of people woman and gels are being held on pretrial bell and again this is before people even go to their first court date.

they're essentially being pretty saying saying that they're guilty before going through what we call due process and so eighty percent of the people who are currently in women jails or who are identifying identify as woman in these shells are mothers are caretakers are community members and so this is completely the straps communities and completely disrupt the economic unit and the economic ability for children and other people in the community to thrive and so when people are housed in cages it exasperates your well whatever mental health condition that you have and it makes it more likely that you'll enter into a plea deal so if you want to get out of jail or you want to get back to your family or you just want this to be over with you're more likely to be vulnerable to exploitive and coercive plea deals that district attorneys oftentimes put towards. people who can't afford bill and we already know that the public defender's office is underfunded it is under resourced and so there's just not enough resources and

representation for people to actually fight against their charges and so the district attorney is going to give you the highest. crime charge then you're going to stay in jail until you admit that you know that she did this crime that you had no due process to prove that you do good otherwise it is easier for the district attorney and things like that to be like oh i can get this plea deal because of my numbers and didn't know everything so i learned you know attorney general gets reelected and all of that you see that state by state and as a whole the country as a whole you know it's also interesting too is when you peel back the curtain of the military the prison industrial complex you peel back the curtain the percentages of people of color of color and carcer in the united states is truly shocking and i think people it's easy for people to kind of ignore that fact or look beyond it don't see it according to u.s. department justice black u.s. citizens make up thirty five percent of jail inmates and thirty seven percent of prison inmates yet outside of prison black systems only make about twelve thirteen percent of the total u.s.

population that's a huge discrepancy that a nobody can sit and say that that's you know there's not something afoul there right and you would have to necessarily believe that black people are inherently criminal in order to justify those numbers right so because these people are criminals and therefore they should be incarcerated and i think the causes of this stem from slavery colonialism right again when you have. when you can no longer produce labor or profit through slavery then you find different forms of enslaving people to produce profit and because we live in a racist society we live in a sect a society we live in a trance phobic you know society then you the jails again are are used to house people who have been other by the state and who the state has deemed you know not humans are not worthy of the resources of the state and so you have an interesting enough why you have the. numbers of incarceration going down for specifically like black man and men in prison you have increasing rates of incarceration among women

specifically in the wake of nine hundred eighty s. on the war on drugs and so you have so many women who are being criminalized for everything criminalized for being pregnant criminalized for having an abortion criminalized for trying you know trying to survive on welfare so many different forms there's thousands and thousands of laws on the books and so and there's so much about it because having grown up in wisconsin i watched whole thing play out in the media of the wealth the welfare queen where we were just like i said so much through the media and local politicians this idea that scores of black women were getting on buses in chicago and driving up to walk and getting double like these women don't have the money to take a bus across town and these people want and the politicians are literally saying no no they're spending all this money to come up and stay in hotels to get a check right and nobody questions right and again like even if that was the case then it's a failure of the state and the failure of the state i think we have to keep going back to there's actual politicians like individuals it's not like

a corporate individuals who are making decisions every day in congress or in their local state houses to criminalize people and it like under jeff sessions where expanding the role of criminalization we're expanding the role of police officers expanding the role of district attorneys to incarcerate more and more people and i know you said earlier black citizens this is even exasperated when you're undocumented or documented and the expansion of our immigration detention centers i think black immigrants are twice or three times as likely to be deported on a criminal offense or any other you know offense than any other immigrant even though we make up a very small percentage of the immigrant population and so we see racism being compounded we're also in immigration detention centers where you have ice agents that have fool unchecked privilege and power to literally imprison people for years and the sad thing is this is new to this this country. something that's been like you said decades and years in the making building up to this and i think a lot of this falls apart the fact that people are getting educated on the

mainstream media doesn't necessarily talk about it or get as in-depth as like you know the people out there are you know fighting against us in the streets and things like that people like yourself and i really want to thank you for coming on today and breaking this down for those because it's helpful that's good and thank you for the work out there that you're doing level always a pleasure thank you thank you very much thank you. mother nature isn't happy a study released this week shows that meat only eighty percent of our diet is using eighty three percent of our farmland and that whole going to get playing my actually be the right course after all justin trudeau god has come up at first finding three and a half billion dollars buying an oil pipeline when he claims to care about the environment now some say that this is just a trick of a life that made as i broke my nose falling off it's payback for double crossing canada's indigenous people and the lands they protect and to africa eight of the thirteen oldest the tree is have inexplicably died over the last decade and it

isn't disease it's climate change some of these trees are more than two thousand years old but now their deaths are being caused by agrees temperatures and drought since the bay up trees can store nearly thirty thousand gallons of water in their trunks the lack of water to store is literally killing them major is here to remind us of what it means to be a human and shall not be eyebrows right off your face if we keep most and with our swastikas on my good eyebrows i love movies i love nature yeah wow that video of justin trudeau but it was super creepy and super great that what were you told me earlier that is probably just a break up it probably is really a make up issue or the sarcasm to the other eye because it makes this he has like what he needs to do is just like so of the rest of us and also stop pipelines that put oil into indigenous people's. that would help and let's try to do something to save those trees and we're good clues about people we can do this ingenuity all right that is our show for today remember of one in this world we are not told that

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that nothing. is. going to make. sprains world cup adventurist starts with a sucking out their head coach is just two days before their first game but there are celebrations elsewhere as fifo chooses who will host the tournament in twenty twenty six members. all the time they see the mistake. i. heard this world come parties tell pundit right now in moscow jerde just saying lottery gives us his prediction. who will be battling it out in the final on july. fourth.

in other news this hour the saudi led coalition launches its largest assaults in the yemen make a few monetary and groups call for a no further escalation of the port targeted be said to be the source of food for two thirds of yemen's population. summons the french ambassador and demands an apology for a minute. decision to turn away a migrant. twenty four hour news live from moscow welcome to our to international my names you not only good as always the have your company headline stories a little later but first in the program. this time tomorrow the twenty eighteen

world cup will be in full swing with the opening clash between host russia and saudi arabia having just wrapped up the excitement is ramping up for global football's biggest tournament which billions are expected to watch. top flight squad is primed and ready to bring you the best of russia twenty thirty. ladies and gentlemen good evening and welcome to the coverage of people like the world cup to all beautiful studio here right in the heart of moscow let me use my coach for our coverage of the championship over the next month peter schmeichel the

great they have very very safe pair of pants and a fantastic presenter got to say you're a safe burns in the studio as well as a few dusty for us and i just want to say there are two things i think that you're going to benefit from by changing into aussie during this challenging warm we're going to bring you the expert punditry inside people inside the game play is just pick to see love josie marine young people who will know the things that you could never possibly have experienced the other thing is atmosphere just listen carefully apart from the clinking of being classes you can hear things through there was a list some found in the background it's a wonderful scene wherever you're watching us from in the world i just want to take a deep breath and just soak that up because that's what it's about it's football it's a world cup and it's here and russia risen bracing it and i hope and i believe the fans are in bracing it and it's something to enjoy do you think as a football fan peter i think so and it's so nice that it's finally here we've been

talking i've been preparing myself i travel around to all the eleven host cities i've seen all the stadiums have been very excited about that but we're away we're on the studio here with the view over the curb and the red square there where the big opening officially opened but that's a big concert that today the russian president will be the future. yes and will be there i'm going. back to doing that i believe need to stop you know i'm going to do it honestly tomorrow we have to face again and it's just exactly what we've waited for this is much about this isn't it as well as just watching the football it's embrace of the host country and the culture it is i mean and we hear a lot of a. truck or a running into any every world cup. now we hear it's all about football and really the forward to that and we can see thousand the football fans have already dealt

with b.p. and russia you saw them before you can hear them are they taking in the whole state is before this opening game that we have tomorrow between russia and sanyo right now just have a look at this. and. i think . they are asking. them to show their. dearly fully. ok there is plenty to get up to this evening across moscow not just drinking and eating there's lots of live entertainment on t. course when it is done is in the center he's getting paid to have fun what's happening. well if you're a fan of classical music you could be chasing down tickets to see those who will be

performing just minutes ahead behind me for months if not years it is a night of classical music of opera music here in the red square it's an unusual mix i should say this sort of entertainment and football for but that's only from the first glance because as you can clearly see behind me the red square he's getting more and more packed as people have seized this chance to. see all of these classical music stars perform live before their rice no this is of course not the only activity here in moscow for fans and anyone who's for fans and anyone who's interested in the world cup just a few hundred meters away from here people will be up for a light show on the walls of the bolshoi theater also a few days ago in another part of moscow opened recently opened a fan a fee for found sensate will be featuring a massive plaza a screen an open and a venue for all fans to gather together and cheer for them for their favorite teams

now also as the intice a patient is in the air here in central moscow as we've is our crew was making way to this spot here we could see groups of fans literally moscow was bustling with founds we could hardly make our way through the all sorts of crowds wearing all sorts of crazy outfits now this is all of course the head of tomorrow's opening ceremony and tomorrow's first game of the main event of the year. many thanks our correspondent it is down to that side down there amongst all the many many people or something for that concert that you want to go to and this is an acquaintance a friend of yours if you filmed with. two weeks ago i was in st petersburg and i feel one of the few from bassett hours for the world cup he's one of the best pianist in russia if not the past i know just about his name is that he's been through it and he will be playing that's one of my favorite composer my favorite

piece of music as a rock man of the second round of country and it was away from my site to film with us because he is also the chairman of the rock man of the foundation and he played it for me and it was fantastic so if you are in moscow. get to the red square and listen to this classical concert it's going to be and i think only russia could do this combining think the classical music quintessentially russian. classical music combined with a formal think of beauty i think this one thing to behold open avars well now a lot of funds are painting this post and i would know i was just going to say. you're not going to school you go to the pub for your english if you can get me and that would be lovely if you came to the concert i think of you're going to have you found a watch on t.v. and have a drink with the facts yeah them a good bunch the non-classical side has got bunch and a lot of those fans look pretty happy i don't see too many spanish fans down there no no that's because the spanish french today might be

a little bit upset captioned return to an attorney. because the country's football association decided this morning to sack the coach and that is that two days before that huge game against portugal. i got we're all here because we've had to dismiss the manager of the national team they have provided no information to the royal spanish football federation we learnt it only five minutes before the press conference it has to be a message to all employees of the rule spanish football federation that this is no way to act sort of above so if you have been under a rock somewhere and you didn't know this and you might want to brace yourself because kind of second the manager the day before the start of the competition that wasn't part of the plan pay time and it can't have helped no no i mean we just let's just run through what's happened so so. that means it and left real madrid after securing consecutive terms. only

a week ago so untrue as to night which is the day before as yesterday every movement announcer julia particular which look at ticky would be different every time i don't like them all. but he would be the new current. chairman of the president of the spanish football so if you got really angry. because light it is the song. he's only been in a job his name louis rubio yes he's only been in the job for one month and he simply turned up this morning with a cold because he felt that the coach has been disloyal that he hadn't informed the football association and also a month ago on may the start until he got elected on the promise to make the football federation of spain stronger so he's played with his muscles today but i think he's learned that. the spanish team and found i had always been named coach for the world cup he's landed them in the deep end and given them more trouble but

you really want to have you know two days before you start the world cup i think if you're always being honest and if you haven't been sat next to his boss in the press conference he probably said i slightly sold myself when i heard this news but he was much more diplomatic but say what you're about to say. the circumstances are what they are i accept this great responsibility i think we have a very strong skilled team i've been spain sports director for a while and i'm well aware of the high expectations that everybody has of our team i'm going to do everything possible not to let them down. and he's like he is a big personality he's been spain's and director of football if you think all of that. or two occasions. the russian left six years later he came back i was in the van but obviously he knows the job and needs a massive question and i think i need everyone respects and in spain he's been a player at the highest level since one everything there is to try to win maybe or

maybe a part in the world cup but he's been you know he is someone that the players will they will listen to but he's a different voice he's not the voice that they've been preparing with and this is where the tricky part comes in so the coach he's been looking at everything the player for months so. he knows exactly what he wants to do against portugal he's got his eleven names he knows he's prepared. for that game and now someone else with different eyes is going to look at that game and maybe pick one of two other players with might. upset the rhythm we know no these are top class professional players you've got a player from real madrid that just won the consecutive terms so these guys are used to winning so maybe all this is going to be for nothing but the pressure on the spanish is going to be relentless because what we're talking about now is going to continue that's not going to stop this is going to be an issue that's what i

will talk to power for the next day for the next week and it's going to come out yet and whatever anybody says. this is not how they would have wanted to enter the competition is coming here they are the second favorites to win this well cup after president of course most experts most pundits across the world they have them as a second favorites they can still do it but it's going to be it's going to be if it more difficult i think that chances have been anything to do it this time the really good i think we're there with the cherry on top of the world cup favorites sweeping right across russia and people are already thinking about the future lots of countries want to be in this position now and fee for members of voting for the host of the twenty twenty six competition. with the winner number six years since. john this is. going.

to be the first time this tournament has been playing across three countries one hundred thirty four nations when they're in favor of a truce but far more occupied since. the north american bit off as almost a ready made world cup experience with stadia already built or under construction the twenty twenty six competition will see forty eight teams sixteen more than the current form. p.t. in eighteen matches. earlier we were joined here by water to gori and he's a football consultant and former fee for communications director works alongside sepp blatter he told us why he thinks the north american bit swayed more voters. more awkward to face time their bidding for the for the world cup so i mean they played the motional course the presentation of the bid today they were saying. people go to africa because africa gave a lot back even if it's true but maybe there was very smart people some of the

people thought that it has to work rest if you force criticize in the past also in brazil that they're doing stadiums and then they have the so-called why the elephant and now i mean the u.s. they already already to do or to host the world cup so they're all of the freedoms at the end of us but what about the distances that the. boston needed the teams for certainly the fans they have to travel faster and often have been the distance from canada to mexico what you know the. in cup the. the world cup twenty twenty two so just ahead of the twenty six world cup there were i think at this tens of maximum promised so they will host the world cup basically and one city and i think after that the fans might be ready to travel home for the numbers of it all of this but i think. they will use the world cup experience also the three countries i

think it's not it's not a negative factor right well let's just get a bit of reaction exactly the announcement representatives from the three countries i'm speaking about they held a news conference and they were asked about their impressions of russia yesterday we spend a lot of time going through the different compounds of come for the regions and all around the center of most schools and they see. so. thousands of people going to the plaza and i saw something that when i was very excited all were mixed all were walking on the streets old were kind of a great family having fun americans have purchased i think one hundred ninety thousand tickets. five hundred and ninety thousand get get get a load of that that's a huge number of tickets for anyone who says that that we don't have passion for football you're going to see

a lot of americans around here over the next month huge crowds i've seen how you finding out and specify i think it's fantastic we're just looking here at red square and i saw people really waiting and they say it's a fantastic experience reveille said it too many people working here for the first time it's easy to say when you know really involved directly but you have to enjoy that because it's a once a life changer for everybody i've seen people already carrying the only message shirts on all the shirts so. hopefully i'm sure for us to get them. let's talk about that we have a u.s. official they're talking about passion for the game in america you know plenty of kids it's like this is different it's a misunderstanding that the u.s. and i'm passionate about we were there for. a strong nation and the world cup speaking tonight amongst others you're going klinsmann but what we found that was

a passion for football and the and that the willingness to invest in grassroots football in america is this is incredible so and one other thing we need to know this is not the u.s. but it's united states so we've got mexico and canada and as well these mexico they've only been hosting one will top in one thousand nine hundred seventy and canada is a very passionate football country as well so you know what it's a perfect time i think. probably i never want to talk about politics but we've seen the politics to win the war between mexico and the u.s. the trade go between canada and the u.s. and then the three countries take they got together and football won so that on that record i'm really really happy and magic of the whole ball and hopefully will see some magical pictures well when the first match. so the tournament kicks off with russia taking on saudi arabia and while some are at this time likely yeah one more good one let's see what jones in marine you have to say about the opening

match today in. russia saudi arabia pressure for russia. the world cup at home. the world is watching them and this is the big chance to qualify used to be the saudi arabia that in spite of some talent is a nice team is a team from a different reality and russia has to win it. now maybe four legs are better than two when it comes to making predictions killie's the oracle can not i remember achilles very well from the confederations cup spots on three times down to four when making predictions last year and the count was open for the russian flag over the food bowl for they certainly much patriotic out good to say it's also

a cold save that russia will easily get out. and to prove that it's not the patriots and its german feel this is a nation to do so in mexico. and what will be interesting to see is these pictures come out the back of the cat the sale very small marina what are you going to say if the seal beats marine one of its signing him up for much the kinds of ok here in russia no one has been able to escape the excitement even though you use you have never kicked a ball before and i'm not talking about. sure

. so that's basically everything for us today we played before. personally with a long one and more we have a game you're going to sing it is probably going to go bust see you in a week yeah we'll see very soon and let's leave everybody with what i think the will to talk about the fans this is it's for them and it's about them in my opinion and they're having a good time and hope is only going to get back to. hello

again and let's move on to our other headline story this hour the saudi led coalition has launched a major offensive to capture the rebel held yemeni port city of hold data it is feared that the bottle which is the largest of the conflict could worsen yemen's already dire humanitarian situation but saudi arabia's crown prince says defended the assault daming it's in the yemeni people's interests the coalition's operations to liberate data is part of the coalition's unwavering commitment to support the people of yemen against the tyranny imposed by iranian backed militias that are spreading chaos and destruction in yemen addressing the humanitarian situation in a sustainable. and effective manner requires liberating yemen from the control of. which intentionally disrupt the flow and distribution of humanitarian supplies well

this video reportedly shows some of the box forces heading towards ho data it's the first time the riyadh laid a coalition of nine are of states has tried to take such a heavily defended rebel city since intervening in the conflict in twenty fifty one of the few aid organizations working in the country called care ses the assault poses a grave risk to the six hundred thousand civilians in. it's also seized up the seaport feeds two thirds of yemen which according to the united nations is already experiencing the worst humanitarian crisis in modern history. well joining me live now on the program is joel martins the head of doctors without borders mission in yemen thank you so much for coming and sharing your thoughts with us this hour how devastating do you expect this assault to be for the civilians in who data. well the latest report specially after twenty fifteen. the main lifeline for the population in yemen so and then putting of the

functioning of the. name back on the population living conditions and the capacity for them to call the current crisis and of the conflict. how will this new front in the conflict affect the amount of humanitarian supplies arriving at the port because it is such an important area for feeding the country. in fact and in fact. the. for the for the. more than not a million people are leaving the easiest one of the major and the major supports in the country for many organizations over receive the humanitarian supplies food. food sport where else are stationed for sure the functioning of the seat what we will be live for you too many died in the news on your organization and where you

are doctors who i borders in yemen is it able to provide as much assistance as it would like or what are the key challenges that you are facing. well there are many challenges in the in yemen. not enough humanitarian goods is being provided m.s.f. for these is working very close to the front lines with other doctors are not we need more that money money that in access to be present but we need also the wording but the stuff i saluted the access to these years and there the fact is that these policemen very difficult security concerns by means that even bureaucratic of constraints e.g. is very difficult for m.s.f. is very difficult for all the organisations in that entity with proper access to the population and also for the but diligence the access to to the organizations and to us beetles and to schools and. basically been shifted to the population deserves we also know that

a cholera treatment facility belonging to your organization was bombed by this site he called on monday do you have any information on that has there been any response on that and your thoughts in general about such an action. it is it is it was a very difficult moment for us and unfortunately it's not the first time he sees the sixth time that an m.s.f. structure is bombed since the war started with fifteen. these specific attack destroyed the quality two months into that we're just finished to prepare in order to be a very for the for the possible outbreak of cholera so these attack completely destroy the patient world and then much then i just sent to the edge an observation area so does that end of the need now and usable and we had it we have been fully seen use of these these these attacks we have been facing these kind of situations one time in twenty sixteen we had enough people in the same year in the same area that was

one bird one thousand people were that were killed so if we would appear we're working in the frontlines where the populations to needs not of the most but we need for the wedding parties to to respect a lot of these issues it just finally it's being called the worst humanitarian crisis in the world right now do you think it's getting enough international attention enough help. it did the shit. after thirty years of war forty years of war. if you are in the field you understand that not enough is being. we need more and more doctors on the ground but we need also the warring parties to respect the humanitarian organizations to respect the population to to to get internationally money to and low and above all allowing the population to have access to food to water to health

care to education and not opening in yemen and the servant of everything very much difficult for whom and thank you so much for coming on the program john martins head of doctors what i do borders mission in the end there. ok michael is back on our screens in just a minute the much if not it legend toured around all our freshest world cup host cities this year his last stop was moscow peter's take on the nation's capital is next. after visiting the ten host cities i'm finally here last go and this is why it begins and ends i'm in this new stadium it's completely rebuilt for the world. and i'll do seven matches played in india so more than

a million people will be watching football in here and that includes of course the opening match between russia and saudi arabia and the final in moscow venues. i'm at the second moscow venue. this is spots moscow stadium and for each of the five games that have been played more than forty five thousand people will be watching on from the stands going to see illegal messi when he takes. to play the minus that that beats and the pick surprise from the euros two years ago i said that i'm in the capital an obviously a lot of stuff is going on what exactly this might and i'm going to take some of that stuff out.

i'm in the middle of a skull and you can just say in so well it's just around the corner holding games tomorrow and so many people in the streets and you can hear the accents not washing only enough. and that's when the world can sense. that the world is fine in the beginning. i'm on top of one of the pigment cells you spoke of usin taxi we've got the red square there it's completely empty it's closed that's a big crunch like going on tonight and one of the stop the fullness is a guy that i met simply just the pianist they just met so if he's invited me to it i'm not going but this is where i'm going to spend the whole world cup. that's

a studio i'll show you one. this is a lot of people they just and. these have become loose so i'm going to be looking at that for most of the world and the view is simply stunning i have to say that. who is reading this the first bit he. sees. i speak and he joins me and i have no. peace i made it easier for fans to access the championship process has been taken over by the hype. is this what. the whole program the is going to do during the world cup but being a huge player you have all the camera feeds. this is my camera.

so basically i'm going to be standing there with a with a red spot in the background. my country and. then my place on the sixteenth then we play australia and then we end up playing. france here in moscow and if you are in moscow. a really good stead if you really want to see football history we've got the football museum here that fisa has made especially for the world. i'm testing myself on the i don't know if i'm for this right. yes. so miles out of sight and. that see original world cup trophy. it was stolen. it's you know with you know one and it's never been recalled with.

since he's the only goalkeeper ever to win the ball and off and then won the the world cup in one thousand sixty six that's a long long time ago and when you have an association with them then you feel how desperate they win the trophy. you got frightened spec'ing by your own call if you don't cry fail as well so they played in the one nine hundred seventy four final and germany wanted to one. so when we were at the joy in moscow and in december i met george coupled with a legendary mexican goalkeeper while they can special forces should so last time who was not decisive you'd expect the gold people to be actually quite small but he always wore these sort of close and they will couple of numbers too big for him.

messi ronaldo that both going to be there. you contenders for that name. has this one methodology and if you managed to get it. and here. from here it's about. as a space for the two thousand and eighteen world cup here in russia so who will win this thing which will. join me every thursday on the alex simon chill and i'll be speaking to guests of the world of politics sport business i'm showbusiness i'll see that.

the world cup just just around the corner so i've gone to syria to defeat the headquarters to meet the man in charge gianni infantile. it's his first world cup a feat for president and i'm really intrigued to hear what he has to say this is your first world cup afifa president you've been obviously been to the european championships you've been to world cup before but now your fee for president so what are you looking forward to. buy don't think too much of them see the president who are. trying to think about the world cup us as i would think. i would have

thought about it four years ago or eight years ago as a football fan assessor mother was pasha obviously being fully aware of the responsibility that the position of the president is about but i'm i'm really looking forward because the world cup is the best competition in the world is where you have the biggest emotions is the competition where everyone in the world speaks about football and about the match of the night before whatever team plays whether it's. our eyes on the wild card for the first time or brazil or germany everyone in the streets in zurich or in john as work they speak about that and they live with it. and it will be it will be just fantastic it will be emotional it's also in a particular time i think where we need to feel some some unity in the world and some unity around football i think is the best that that's a that's

a very very big issue because it is no secret a lot of tension between the world and the world cup host nation. how are fifa how are you dealing with that i mean how exhaustive. coming in making this the best event in the world with all that's going on at the moment by focusing on football i think that's the key and that's the secret we have to focus on full but i think there are enough. sadly people around the world to try to just you know divide or argue or dispute or whatever we have to try to unite. football is uniting football is has this this magic and this power of bringing people together we don't want to make politics we don't want to take positions on whether and who is right or wrong we have to organize football and if thanks to football we can send those on messages of unity and football is about bringing

together about enjoying about about creating an atmosphere which will show to the world as well a country like russia with under fifty million people who want to welcome the world in their in their country and i think football has this power to change those are the perception of people about the country and about maybe a particular period in time and i'm sure that this world cup. in russia and this but they're going to moment of time will have quite a significant impact we've all unfortunately in in the years in france we saw some really ugly scenes. and it's a worry i mean looking at it from going into the tournament it's a worry that that there is this thing happening in russia with internal matches and how a fifa dealing with that or the thirty's dealing with that is again something that

people shouldn't be afraid of that is certainly something that is that with very seriously where everyone is aware but they are the authorities in russia of the situation of the different. supporter groups who are. biola and so the focus will be done. or will be will be put on on the on the rug a deal making sure this doesn't happen and this can be done in an event which is you know happening in one man's very much focus of a lot of preparation unfortunately idiots are living all over the world and violence around football is happening all over the world as well when you are over south america or. africa or whatever else this is something that we always have to focus on generally it's not an easy one because violence is also

a reflection of society. but for a big event like like the world cup the attention is very much that this is safe to go to russia of course it is safe to to russia. for this and it will be very safe but it will even say for the world to russia during the world cup because the authorities in russia very much aware of what the world cup means and they want to feel as well and welcoming country and. the preparations in terms of security for the little club are beyond any other. events so the conditions will be there for a very safe world cup and obviously those who want to go and enjoy football and enjoy a part of the summer they should go to russia those who want to go to have riots or whatever they better go somewhere else exactly go somewhere else how much how much

is fifa new involved in setting you know the security and organizing that do you have a saying and how all that should be dealt with it's the police authorities and so on and in russia who are in charge of security obviously we are in contact with them we can share with them the experience that we have teeth. from previous events coronations contacts council of europe for example where russia is also part as well as all other european countries have specific task forces in terms of security because you know you can always learn and make things better so this is all taken very much into account and we think we have an active role in contributing to that is what you said before you don't see is of his future president but you are you also a private person and

a football fan so when when you plan your schedule for the world cup how. is it important you watch all the all the teams played some point yes and i are going to do that yes i'm i'm planning to to watch all the teams and to be in all the venues at least once. then yes i can see this is that's doable but has the ability to leaven a household or other duty and that that is sometimes too much as per day. but. i must do it i want to do that i want to see those i want to experience it it's a it's a fantastic ok asian. it's also a question of respect for those who who are participating in all the future president has to be there it's very clear we we had a bit of a debate when we did the things i'm going in in moscow with the joe and since then you you have announced that it's going to be part of the world cup but it's also

been written into the laws of football yes so why now. why you know because. we tested it. for two years. and because the results of the tests were cruise if and have managed to convince us that we should. make this step this is what we have decided to years ago well let's test it for two years and in two years if it works if we are committed it works people in the laws of the game and everyone can and every competition or it has a kind of decide if he wants to use it or not. personally i was. very skeptical i have to say at the beginning i did not really believe that. it could work because i was afraid about the flow of the game and

interruptions of these kind of things. but on the other side you know for decades everyone was saying well we should have some video for the referees and so on and so forth and it's true that. in two thousand and eighteen if everyone in front of his t.v. or inside the stadium with his mobile phone knows of within a few seconds whether the press committed a big mistake and the only one who doesn't know it is the referee himself we make something wrong at the referee does noise not because he doesn't want to know it but because we prohibit him from the point but everyone else knows that it's not right it doesn't feel right so we had to make these tests i have to say that i was i completely changed my mind and i'm convinced that it's the right thing personally to do but whatever my position is generally i thought i can say that that it's the right thing to do because of the results of the tests with tessa there

around one thousand matches with more than one thousand matches. matches not friendly sufficient matches and. the result has been that without v.a.r. . there would have been or there was one clear mistake of a referee every three games with we are there is one clear mistake over every every ninety eight. the accuracy. example the a curacy of the decision we followed the. ease of ninety three percent of the referee's decision which is already extremely high ninety percent of those things are correct we three are these percentage goes up to ninety nine percent it's not a hundred percent. but it's ninety nine rather than ninety three when it goes to the interruption to the flow of the game. one of the statistics there which has really culture my my attention which i was not aware of

a lot isn't actually in every match we lose seven minutes for steroids. seven minutes throwing doesn't decide anything else while you're able to destroy the sites again. it put fifteen seconds on freaking yes but minutes that they are is one minute per game. and they decide the gate so we can lose one mate per game if this has an impact on the result. first so it's been two years since you were elected for president. an interesting time i assume what was what's it been like a very interesting time a very challenging time the last two years with me incredible

incredible experiences of course coming in in a very very difficult moment for four feet first albeit an easy task but. to refocus thief on football has been the most important to achieve thing and challenged that we had obviously reforms to be implemented but more than that i think we have we've been really focusing on the full believe element on not investment in development programs with the photo program all around the world on the. new format for the world cup with forty eight teams of twenty twenty six to give more chance to more countries all around the world to participate focusing on women's football focusing on news football focusing on the club world cup where we start the new ideas so i think not to speak about the pitches well

obviously with the we are amongst other things it will be a challenging time but i realized even more that football is the number. and sport all over the world and we have to cherish this and to protect this to a lot of good ideas and focus on the global but the fact is a lot of people left for various reasons. and you need people to implement all this is is it has been a big challenge to get the right people in and are you there now with the right organization or we're working on that we're working on it of course it's it's never easy to to change organization because you'd have to change the culture as well of the organization from the top being i would white organization it brings additional challenges as well in terms of cultures of mentalities of people and what they want to do here in fever is really also in the administration to bring people from all over the world because this. is maybe at the beginning

a bit more complicated because you need to understand each other but it is also enriching an organization like this is maybe the the biggest difference because before you were employed to lead you if and now you are elected to to lead the world of football that you have to have to look at all the diversity all the cultural differences and you have to sort of make sure there's common ground that's absolutely right that is the main the main difference is not just about executing isn't just about being mostly an operational function but it's much much wider than that and it is worldwide and who is important all over the world and wherever you go. in the world whether it's in east asia south africa or in the caribbeans wherever there are challenges and the response

for football and you have to take all of this into account and then the same time if to keep your line and do things because if you go for the lowest common denominator you don't do anything we don't want personally is a key word travelling the world to experience different ways of passion would have been surprised. of is it's really the passion of existing countries which i would never have expected like we have now to the enemies national team on the twenty three right second in the asian cup and the way they celebrated the team when it came back it took them five hours from the airport to the city center roof millions of fans and in the streets. that has been just just an amazing experience and. speaking to be enemies people what they were telling me what football brought them in terms of joy and pride for the whole country. one

hundred million people living enough has been great for four hundred twenty three tournament so it shows that they impact and power of football beyond boundaries and we all know what we can imagine is that that the thinking behind the expanding of the next world cup. that the countries like vietnam all experienced was based on the doing the will and youth level that they actually get opportunities to get into the work and playing yes that's that's exactly the purpose and on one side i think we will witness all of us that the level of football generally all over the world is is growing the passion for football is asian thanks to media is. also everywhere in the world now if these teams who are growing. qualify for the use world cups who make even some interesting results never have a chance to qualify for the main world cup just because of how the

history has developed and the slots per confederation are. and have historically been been awarded well then we don't do what our main job is which is to develop football because we all know that the best catalyst for developing this success example i'm always giving is you know imagine that match last qualification edge and you your striker. is in front of the goalkeeper and shoots and he had supposed then the ball goes out the team is eliminated it's a big big disaster in the country for the country doesn't qualify for the world cup the coach will be sacked the president of that federation has to leave the kids they go to play rugby or other sports cricket or god knows whether other than football but if they say striker instead of hitting the post well he's still the

boss but in the mall and visit to the net and you win that match in the ninety's minute changes the complete landscape of the country from october when the last majesté plays until june when the world cup starts you have an enthusiasm in the country the coach is a hero the president of the nation is a genius because he hired that course the players are all gods because they brought you to the world cup. and so on those and just this just because of a coincidence because of a goal or a post that that can change the perception of people to football and we need to foster they said we need to foster the joy of trouble could give i'm smiling because i've been there yeah i've been exacting the situation i think i was a main character there and i'm just kind of hoping that this forty eight team idea would have happened back then. it would be. on a more personal. like me you you were

a son of immigrants left it's in the camps with my father was polish came to denmark so how is that journey been for you we use enough said right at the top of the footballing world that some journey has quite that's quite a journey that's right and i think to some extent being. the son of immigrants being an immigrant. helps as well because you grow up embracing different cultures different languages. and tearing into conflicts which existed in these times even more. than in switzerland certainly. and you're into it and you have to find always you know ways to get along who has always helped. to find dialogue to find ways to fog humans and fight as well

but to do to bring together. the village were where i grew up where i was born i grew up this way said the dahlia and communities around around the bowl and the ruffle the matches and you think. so this openness for diversity in different cultures and that is helping you in being free for president . yes i'm convinced and comments that this is this is helping when you are part of a minority in a place you and you want to be heard or you want to convince of value of something well you need to have metal arguments than the others or at least that's the feeling you get but you need also to listen to the majority and and and to understand the different dynamic so it opens certainly or your mind so that

helps than when you grow to recognize that what people in different places think different they take differently they have different traditions and different . mentalities and and there's a come natural. that comes to they quite natural to me they say yes when did it not . when i was growing up and with the different fights we were having all the time you develop and you understand that it's not always you know your way or the way of your community that is the right one from from that point of you what we have seen already and what we can see what football can can move for example and speak about development of women's football in some countries and i went to iran to speak about development of women's football with president rouhani now and criticized in western europe for going to iran and

to speaking to the president of iran but for me as he thought president i don't go and if i don't speak to the president of iran and to the authorities there about women's football and women's access and state of who is going to do it what do we achieve if we just criticize if we just dispute if we just argue if we block if we boycott what do we achieve in chief nothing if we go if we dialogue maybe we achieve only a little be. it but even a little bit is better than nothing and maybe which is nothing but at least we keep the dialogue and the discussion open and maybe one day we achieve or our successes or whether we'll achieve something thanks to my philosophy has always been and will always be like this because also us as we were saying before i grew up this way and switzerland as a country gives you this opportunity and to. to grow and to make your way and to

argue and to convince sometimes a bit more sometimes a bit less but that's only always with an open mind that the very hardest question i say that i lost it's really not in the world come. into your finish here so so growing up. speaking is it five languages you speak perfect more or less include up in switzerland where you have influence from to germany to france and everywhere. and they're all there you know you have the whole. who is going to support that's a tough one but i support the referees a. good one i hope the referees team will succeed by it's tough but it's tough i think the wallet is missing and we'll miss you in the world cup he adds what we like your ideas as well you know these these traditional teams who have made the history of the world cup. but this is the best of that that so how this and it ties in with with your idea

about the smaller countries must have an opportunity yes so the bigger country needs the needs to say they need to stay on their game they can't just expect so but you still haven't answered my question which team i would support yeah. that mark i've really got one i would love we would love that to see you in every every three at the beginning and then the next three as well and then obviously you are going to get us the final so i have that i will do that was sure so. i want to thank you very much and a very interesting everything so thank you very much for spending this time from now the brilliant thank you.

spain's world cup adventure which starts with the sacking out their head coaching job just sixty days. before their first game but there are celebrations elsewhere. who will host the tournament twenty. six. cars for this world cup. gives us his prediction as to who will be. in the final on july fifteenth. or. the first of course. i'm doing. yeah

might be. in other news this hour the saudi led coalition launches its largest assault in the yemen conflict humanitarian groups call for no further escalation the port target is said to be a source of food for two thirds of yemen's population. summons the french ambassador and demand an apology for a money. decision to turn away a migrant books. ever you may be tuning in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow and to our international i will have more of our headlines stories a little later but first in the program. this time tomorrow the twenty eighteen

a world cup will be in full swing with the opening clash between hosts russia and saudi arabia already in the books the excitement is well truly ramping up for global football's biggest tournaments which billions are expected to watch let's cross live to neil harvey who's got the best view and. ily. ily. ily. ladies and gentlemen children whoever is watching you all in the first place our coverage will be taking you to the people twenty eight c. whole world cup and we're into the four seasons hotel i think eunice added that was

a beautiful vantage point just look behind me overlooking red square the crown that it is beautiful but not as beautiful as this if i just glance down to my right. is a thing of beauty some look at the families that it's all about then yes we talk about the play is a lot but without the fans there would be no competition then the guys that come that are the atmosphere the color it's for that it's really about that we've been speaking to some of those guys and getting some of the the flavor they provide in terms of spirit and character. and i think. really. was.

loaded. here before you go oh oh oh you. can if i just glance glance down. to run to the ground you can hear the sounds of singing and chanting wafting up there i've seen brazil fans mexico fans and some peruvians i think but a whole assortment of instruments even what sounded a bit like a squeaky dog's toy but if that's not your cup of tea there are other forms of entertainment to enjoy this evening in moscow are things it has done is in the center enjoying some of the more sophisticated festivities i would say what's happening down where you are. passing. well neal tonight two worlds one of classical music and all pro and beyond the other one of football have come

together to become one this is a gig where basically if you're a fan of classical music you can be chasing down the tickets to see any of the people of the people performing here live for months if not years so an unusual mix from the first glance but as you can clearly see behind me a lot of people have decided to come and join and watch all those great performers here live on the red square now this is only one of the one of the activities said one of the activities shed for tonight for fans and anyone who wants to join the fight for world cup twenty team spirit like literally hundreds of meters away from here a light show is she joined on the walls of the bolshoi theater and also in another part of moscow a couple of days ago i found zone a fever twenty two fan zone was opened some forty thousand found somebody visited it in the first couple of days it will be featuring a huge

a huge plasma screen for fans to watch to gather together and cheer for their favorite teams and of course on a way here we could see a lot of a lot of groups basically moscow city center is bustling with all of the with all the fans to all the people who have come to moscow to watch this the main the main football event of the plan. i absolutely adore this if it was down to me we just said here on mondays listen to this glorious i'm interested how many because people dress up very nicely whether it's you know opera classical music other money for shirts out there amongst the crowd. we're hearing no not too many football shirts here mostly people the crowd you know looks more of a sort of a cocktail dress party but of course it's not it's kind of chilly here right now so many people they have their cold so on but no more it looks like

a porsche more school night out not really a football gathering although as we've heard a lot of performers and a lot of people here they are also football fans including a dentist much sort of a piano player who just who opened tonight's event all of the surprise they get probably just a few of the football fans of glammed up for the thing we all do it occasionally many thanks because down there. now some of spain's fans probably less likely to be enjoying entertainment and more crying into a beer because their country's football association has just sacked the coach two days ahead of their opening game a big one against portugal. but we got over all here because we've had to dismiss the manager of the national team if they have provided no information to the royal spanish football federation we learned to only five minutes before the press conference i think it has to be a message to all employees of the rule spanish football federation that this is no way to act. now this controversial decision was made after you know in the per to

gays appointment as well madrid city manager came to light on chu state and it apparently left the spanish football federation fuming grimace and conflicting reports are coming in all morning long some saying the protective would stay for the duration of the cup of this claiming he'd been dismissed with immediate effect his replacement has been confirmed. but on the. yaro the former real madrid captain in spain sporting director and he spoke to the press earlier saying that he has total faith in his spanish squad. but the circumstances are what they are i accept this great responsibility i think we have a very strong and skilled team i've been spain sports director for a while and i'm well aware of the high expectations that everybody has over our team i'm going to do everything possible not to let them down from the bottom. now i'm on my own now but i have been joints throughout the afternoon by my arctic co-host peter smikle he analyzed how the developments might affect spain's

tournament. chairman or the president of the spanish football so if you've got angry. fans light it is the song he's only played in a job his name is will be a less he's only played in the job for one month and he simply turned up this morning and called because he felt that the conscious being disloyal but he hadn't informed the football association and also a month ago on may the seventh he got elected on the promise to make the football federation of spain stronger so he's played with his muscles today but i think he's learned. the spanish gene and he had always been the coach for the rock up he's landed them in with the payment given the more trouble that you really want to have you know two days before you start the world cup i think if you're always being honest and if you haven't been sat next to his boss in the press conference he probably said i slightly sold myself when i heard this news but he was much more

diplomatic than he is a big personality has been experienced and director for point to call it that everyone respects and in spain has been a player at the highest level since one everything there is to try to win maybe a baby apart from the world cup but he's been you know he's someone that the players will they will listen to but he's a different voice he's not. voice that they've been preparing with and this is where the tricky part comes in so the coach he's been looking at everything the players. so. he knows exactly what he wants to do against portugal he's got his eleven names he knows he's prepared for that game and now someone else with different eyes is going to look at that game and maybe pick one or two other players with might. upset the rhythm yet and whatever anybody says. this is not how they would have wanted to enter the competition is coming here they are the second favorites to win this well cup off the preserve of course the most exposed

most pundits across the world they have to miss a second favorites they can still do it but it's going to be it's going to be if it's more difficult you know i think that chances are if they do it this time they'll really did i think with that with a cherry on top. well speaking of big names coming in to help out on the big cation josie marino is with us for the torment here in our team he's picked spain to advance from great big of course that was before yellow was in and he's also mapped out which countries will make it out of the group stage and into the last sixteen then the quarter and the semifinals he's giving his predictions for which will be now the last two.

for show the residual effects of course you'll be able to say that i'm doing emotional george saying. yeah i'm going to be left over for sure for the final i will first of all go for the school. and doesn't in the german. know what i want. him. germany is the revenge of the result. so brazil will finish so. and you know it does mean is not just. like to come to. extra time penalties the level of play is that they take a penalty. that is the one more penalty and that the less penalty one takes let's see another one takes one. and i leave to go to magic. was a very funny exercise. but. an all or nos probably

didn't even go over the group phase and probably some of the teams that i didn't include in the last sixteen probably there were to be in the quarter finals and the semifinals and finals for pool isn't predictable and that's the main reason to be the beautiful game and hope you enjoy them for it to get totally different i don't understand why do you need another just i want to know well you can never have too many merinos so for the world cup we found the perfect co-host for you have so much expertise from shows that maybe you don't miss it on r.t. guys i'm not going to work with him it will take all the attention and i want another co-host. and you can find more the manchester united manager prediction simply by heading to our web site that is our team dot com and if like me portugal argentina really you don't agree with his predictions you can challenge him head to facebook or twitter and use the hash tag match.

but when it comes to punditry perhaps four legs are better than two killie's the oracle cat knows remember this feline from confederations cup last year because it was only for three cricket which is out of four this time achilles's opted for the russian flag over his food bowl for the opening game very patriotic but there's also competition from a goat that says that russia is a shoo in to get out of the group just a previous not about patriotism this german seal as his nation down to lose to mexico that's not going to be popular in germany. so world cup fever sweeping right across russia now we're back to get underway but there are big decisions happening in football elsewhere for members have just voted for the host of the twenty eight twenty six competition. the. various you should. doubt.

it will be the first time that the tournament has been held across three countries this is a whole new format one hundred thirty four nations went in favor of the trio's bid got sixty five votes north american bid offers almost the readymade world cup experience with stadia already built or under construction in the twenty eight twenty six world cup will see forty eight teams as an expanded format sixteen more than currently and they will compete in eighteen matchups. all to think of gaudio a football consumptive than the former chief of communications director alongside sepp blatter told us earlier why he thinks the north american bit swayed. the biggest number of white morocco it's a fifth time that they're bidding for the for the world cup so i mean they played the motional court the presentation of the bit today they were saying. people go

it's to africa because africa gave a lot back even if it's true but maybe that was very smart because some of the people thought that he has to work rest if he forced criticize in the past also in brazil that they're doing stadiums and then they have to so-called wide elephants you know i mean the u.s. they already already to do it to host the world cup so they're all of the freezer. at the end of us but what about the distances that the. boston needed the teams for certainly the fans they have to travel faster and off have been a distance from canada to mexico what you know the. in cup the. the world cup twenty twenty two so just ahead of the twenty six world cup there were i think a distance of maximum painting promised so they will host the world cup basically and one city and i think after that the fans might be ready to travel home for the numbers of people at this point i think. they will use the world cup experience

also the three countries i think it's not it's not a negative factor right well let's just get a bit of reaction because after the announcement representatives from the three countries i'm speaking about they held a news conference and they were asked about their impressions of russia yesterday we spend a lot of time going through the different compounds of come for the races and all around the center of most school and they so. thousands of people going to the. and i saw something that. well i was very excited all were mixed all were walking on the streets old who are kind of a great family having fun americans have purchased i think one hundred ninety thousand tickets. hundred and ninety thousand get get get a lot of that that's a huge number of tickets for anyone who says that that we don't have passion for

football you're going to see a lot of americans around here over the next month huge crowds i've seen how you finding out and spend some fun i think it's fantastic we're just looking at square and so people really waiting and. it's a fantastic experience rove said it too many people working here for the first time it's easy to say when you know really involved directly but you have to enjoy that because there's a once a lifetime can do for everybody and i've seen people already carrying not only message shirts on all the shirts so. hopefully. fantastic get back. on the shift and make it easier for fans to get access to the championships they introduced fan i.d.'s having one is essential and does have its perks come with an insured visa free travel and free rides between the host cities so you can just imagine how many fans are heading to russia and some of them have started to come

in rather unconventional style. our first time to be in the world cup. since twenty two years ago i have the first match. with the proper way in the first match but the other ticket has finished.

we will it drives russian any other car but it wouldn't be the same the joke is to try to rush a lot of. the russian car. no matter how far the team goes we will follow it in the car and so the longer the team stays the longer we drive and we were up for that we're we're excited. because if i'm seventy years old my tractors eighty to use other transport would be too easy i'd learn nothing because the country car.

the old good moments all you need three are very intensive on the roof of the building trying visit polling me taking photos to this is such a. travelling in style and hubert verges just still that well i mean he's closer to home he's now successfully arrived in moscow along with these penknife and he's even met my police patrol they didn't give him a ticket then with a friendly madam on the outskirts of the city and accompanied him police escort to his final destination but started his journey back in may and covered more than two thousand kilometers to get to russia. i'd like to start but with some journeys about to finish polities world cup all the see is just beginning and you can experience it. all here with us we're going to head out to the host cities we'll bring you all the latest from football's great to show we are

so close do not miss out on our special coverage this thursday russia kick it off against saudi arabia in just over a month will be at the finish line when most who will be crowned who will if. you know what a month it's going to be let's crack on now with some more world news italy has postponed talks with front sun summoned their ambassador in rome it comes after french president among some strong words about italy's the solution to turn away a migrant vessel from its shores sharla dubin ski has been following developments believe this week a humanitarian vessel was denied the right to dock at

a port on italy's island of sicily the rescue ship was carrying over six hundred migrants including many unaccompanied minors and pregnant women they had been rescued off the coast of libya but are now currently on route to the port of lengthier spanish authorities said that they could dock there well the french president has been scathing in his attack over italy in regards to this situation describing the country's actions as being cynical and irresponsible italy is furious at that criticism by france and is demanding an apology. the french ambassador has been summoned by a foreign minister on behalf of the italian people will ask for an explanation for the insults directed not only against the government but also against the nation which is among the first in the world in terms of generosity solidarity and asked. ality if the french have the humility to apologize the story will be closed and we

will work in the interests of everyone this president is said to told the cabinet meeting that under maritime law it's dictated that in cases of distress those with the closest coastline have a responsibility to respond and in his view that was sicily but it has since image that leaders on the french island of corsica actually offered the vessel to dock there before they were criticized harshly by the central government in paris so some including italy is suggesting that there's some double standards when it comes to migrants and france they've also now asked france to take on nine thousand migrants from their own country. on the basis of the agreements a migrant reallocation from two thousand and fifteen france committed itself to work in one thousand eight hundred sixty migrants and instead in three years they took six hundred forty so i ask president mccrone to move from just words to action and tomorrow morning welcome the nine thousand migrants front

a promise to work him as a sign of concrete generosity and not just words. well the meeting on friday between french and italian leaders did not look to be in jeopardy is this woods has been escalating but we understand that it will possibly still go ahead meanwhile a meeting between the italian finance minister who's due to come to paris to meet the french finance minister that was initially cancelled but that is said now to be back on these are tense times though between these e.u. neighbors and this is not a spot that is likely to blow up very easily. these sodhi led coalition has launched a major offensive to capture the rebel held yemeni port city of ho data it is feared that the battle which is the largest of the conflict could worsen yemen's already dire humanitarian situation but saudi arabia's crown prince has defended the assault claiming it's in the yemeni people do interests the coalition's

operations to liberate data is part of the coalition's unwavering commitment to support the people of yemen against the tyranny imposed by iranian backed militias that are spreading chaos and destruction in yemen addressing the humanitarian situation in a sustainable and effective manner requires liberating yemen from the control of who the rebels which intentionally disrupt the flow and distribution of humanitarian supplies or this video reportedly shows saudi backed forces heading towards her data it's the first time the riyadh led coalition of nine or abstained tried to take such a heavily defended rebel city center intervening in the conflict back in twenty fifty one of the few aid organizations working in the country care say two thirds of the yemeni population relies on the seaport for food the risk of the already limited supplies will be affected comes as the country to peer into what the u.n. has called the worst humanitarian crisis in modern history

a spokeswoman for the red cross told us the warring parties must do everything possible to ensure the safety of civilians. the assault risk to exacerbate an already catastrophic humanitarian situation in yemen and indeed their concerns are twofold first of all the six hundred thousand people who live in her data and who must be spared so here we launch an appeal to all those fighting in this conflict reminding them of their obligation under international law to spec civilians to spare civilian infrastructure such as hospitals and water and electricity networks as well as to allow those who would like to free to do so safely but beyond these what it is a lifeline for millions and millions of yemenis i would like to remind you that yemen is a country of twenty nine million people and three out of each four yemenis need humanitarian aid most of these aid comes through the port of data so these aid not

be able to flow into these poor it would put at risk literally millions of lives. let's bring you to spain where six young people who grouped together to restore an abandoned village are now facing jail time after being found guilty of illegal occupation. we have thought that. this bill it could be. good for our project. here we have a twenty first on a solar panels and a way to allow us to to kind of still manage over our own supplies of energy so we bring the water that was broke and the source.

when we know that this was illegal is our way we tried to get. an agreement with the local government the government refused any kind of agreement with us anyway we keep working here because we think this is good for the land this is good for the region we have this problem with the publication in spain there. is known there are. and then with less people in spain. we spend actually focuses on persons of euro we spend all the money we have here. the local government that no one does here but we know it's for economic reasons

here. hunting navia the hunting a.d.r. gives the able government a lot of money. neighbor from the military and there. are really nice ways as they really support what we are doing and this is. hope of the reunion we are already a copy of this he send or of the code. because i would trust on what we are doing and we hope we can win the. issue with the local level thirty this. i will be back at the top of the hour with more on our continent to kick off the world cup at twenty eighteen less than a day away i know it's hard to believe that you're with our two international.

alltel was home to hundreds of people in the early hours it turned into a deadly inferno notes of people who were just trapped they told us to stay in and they're coming to get us when i saw the children and they were screaming for help in their room went up in fire and i just cried like i mean it didn't come from my face it didn't get what i got back alive and there's nothing left of them that they've been left out because i don't like so i was in much twenty one years before thought so i have never never seen anything of this scale clouding and that was

what is what was so not in accordance with u.k. building regulations this is the biggest tragedy in british history since the war but it's not being treated like that because. they actually just don't care that most of the community have come to conclusion that they don't believe social murders occurred in this instance. that have you actually gone out that road took the seats that helped them. i don't trust this is closed this is the was. there was no one in charge and there was nobody willing to accept responsibility we are ensuring the support. his putting in place for people that were there was the object lesson about what the stereotype really is and looked up as he really means in britain look at that he's just going to tell.

you time after a tense when you're watching a special edition of going underground on the eve of the one year anniversary of britain's worst ever tower block fire where in front of the grand felt how about instead of social mud what is on the ground felt out today is the phrase forever in our hearts coming up in the show why was the grunfeld tower atrocity scene is emblematic opposed twenty zero eight crash austerity britain we talk to those helping the poorest community in one of the richest areas on earth first up is the organizer of the silent marches which are commemorated the dead on the fourteenth of every month he grew up in kensington and chelsea the so-called royal bara and his name is add kred. then how powerful do you believe these silent marches that have been happening every month of been when it comes to galvanizing consciousness in this area around britain and the world i mean the numbers of kind of explain the

mission and us what it's doing to this community and ministering to the community surrounding the area is no. i mean to start from the first of about fifty people to move on to a few thousands by the six month anniversary just goes to show it's it's keeping it relevant and it's giving people an option to to be counted and to. come and be united and stand with the community leaders at such a tough year and i understand that you'd learn from previous uprisings in talk to them in other places in britain that they had to be peaceful marches because otherwise people might start to attack the community in the bronx exactly. in the early days of what happened after the tower and you look at the reaction outside the first protest of the town home and that went viral the reaction to people trying to storm the town who was big news we didn't really get much news coverage until about the six month anniversary for the silence was it just goes to show how quick bad news travels and if we reacted in that or then escalated that protests at

the town hall into something greater into something more catastrophic or violent and that's the news that the rest the model see and we need to make sure that the message is being shown to what's actually happening here at the moment and we're not violent we have we have the capability to to be you know angry and to come together in in times of need there's a flipside to that though isn't that the reason they didn't cover you for six months is because a silent march is not news is considered by as it is in the media and in fact if there had been more of more flames as it were then the media would have covered it and people were always going to sympathize with this community and my question to you and that would then be why is. in these two to the media outlets why is the gathering of a community who suffered the biggest trauma of the biggest tragedy in british history since the war why is the gathering and the growth of a community and the morning of

a community and the fact that different organizations and different groups are coming together as one that's my question i'd much rather see something uplifting about what's happening around the world the necessarily just. what was deemed as popular needs which is violence and tragedy take us back. to when you're walking around here to your community you have expectations of there be some sort of relief center and there was a relief center you were a bit shocked that ever was just told to go home at sunset it was a. very disappointing. in a time war on the night when for itself i mean a tragedy like that can have been planned for. so i can understand the difficulties in in putting an emergency plan into place but. when i say the community were left to pick up the pieces for at least four to five solid days before any form of official organization started filtering down towards us you'd have to be to big to

be a little you to believe a spirit of try to explain to people before and you know we live in in england one of the most richest countries in the world and people can't seem to understand the fact or to believe the fact that the community was left to pick up the tragedy to themselves and that's the case that's what happened we have one road that separates social housing to multi-million pound homes now. when i express the fact that i live in this part of london i tend to get the most common answer or the most common response would be i was a lucky man you must be a millionaire or you're a lucky man and to be honest i think. people don't understand the difficulty of growing up in an area. where money isn't of a media option however thirty seconds gonna road we have multi-million pound homes and that confusion growing up is is a big factor but also that confusion i think has. blessed the poor people of this community myself and and the others to kind of appreciate what we have lost years

really showed we have always known that what this community is capable of and i've always been proud to live here amongst my neighbors but to see how we've carried ourselves and we've supported each other over the last twelve months is incredible and. denise the prime minister didn't meet the survivors she came under criticism at the time for that in the immediate aftermath i don't know what the community thought about that they care of the prime minister kamal yeah i mean most definitely not because of who she is as a person but as the prime minister the person who runs this country. that support that. that need that compassion and empathy was very much needed and it was nonexistent she down says in the last forty eight as she says she regrets not meeting survivors it seemed as though i didn't care but that was never the case there's your apology i suppose what do you think about the fact that her chief of staff her advisor is

a former housing minister who's alleged to have sat on the fire safety reports on previous tablet. i mean this just sums up. the state we're living in at the moment and his reaction because we're talking about. these points and these apologies that have come out look the truth is we're we're here on to the anniversary so everyone wants a story now everybody wants a story everybody wants to hear what our community feels about the government or the prime minister or the council. like i said for for myself and for this community the last twelve months have been the most difficult time i can't well we can't dwell on what had happened or how someone had felt emotionally or how someone had reacted to it it's about going forward and making sure that these things don't happen again and now answers are made and people held accountable for the tragedies that happened thousands of people that needed mental health treatment since the sense that some people believe that actually organizers are not sure those like you

are deep religious rising what is in fact something very very at its core about politics of the rich and poor in this country how do you answer that i mean the the the biggest answer is everything's about politics unfortunately whether it's crime for whether it's school fees whether it's society in social housing i mean everything stems from politics so in a time like this it's it's very hard and very draining if we focus all our attention on the political struggle we need justice and we need to make and your marches they shout no justice no peace actually we are really trying for justice actually while i've been on the marches and i'm definitely a no justice no he says well he doesn't say forever and. that's not what people are talking or people or people are angry he's people you can sense the anger on your margins. is there a danger that there is a sort of corporatization of the tragedy and the reaction to the tragedy as well as

other i don't agree with and even that question and rob you move on to another question because your you were mentioning we're on camera and you're mentioning now that the marches there are people angry now i'm telling you. there are people suffering with trauma there are people who have experience and gone through experiences and lost friends and lost family and lost neighbors moms daughters sons . and then you want to fix on the point that people are walking angry now in the silent movie has there been any violence and i don't know i don't mean just in general but as we have to be very careful in the words we use using the word angry of course there were people very angry but show me where that has filtered into the silent marches you're making an assumption based on someone's facial expression anyone will say there's a negligee in. self has remained silent from the first one to the last one so few to be able to tell me that people are angry without hearing the voices of people during the silent march means you're basing that on the on the way people look or in body language i have talked with well i mean the shadow chancellor of the

exchequer john mcdonnell he called this an act of social murder. in just what a mainstream political party said you can sense anger on labor benches the same with many of the other parties indeed some backbench conservatives who are in fact anger i mean naturally like i said we've with the disasters because it's what happened here naturally there's going to be anger again like i said over the last year we carried us off in a way where we allow our anger to filter in to each other in which you know we carry each of his burdens we carry genes are of a stresses and traumas and a con explained to you and i get the fencer when we talk about the community so apologies if i'm if i'm coming across quite defensive like i said i've seen people come together in ways that i can never experience or never explain and hopefully never have to go from again and again the questions of politics and the questions of a lame a party being outraged and conservatives potentially being outraged and because in the community want justice we want people to be held accountable and in the long

term whether you're labor or whether you're conservative we want to make sure that there's things measures put in place to make sure people are safe in their homes we don't want people to ever have to go from what we've come from because what we've gone through the last of us for ever and talking on the number of people suffering from mental health i mean the thousands is not a random random number from children five hundred twelve hundreds of children according to one hundred children kids who go into school and no longer have friends in the course of them now i'm a thirty year old man and i have nightmares i've suffered. i find it difficult to talk or to open up sometimes to to people and as a thirty year old man if i'm feeling like this the more our kids feel why are elderly feeling like in the area. the sad truth of the sad reality of what's going on and i just have to keep focusing on giving this community something to be proud of and making sure that those lives were lost for for no reason we can show that we

can make change and that. you know like i said these things. and again will the much as just go on and you expect justice will continue i mean the marches it would be a shame to stop and not just for the call for justice but the therapy it brings those people you won't see for most of the month until the fourteenth and you know i was holding the walk on the actual fourteenth of the month some consciously is helping a lot of people because it gives someone an event to give someone a place together to give someone a community to be around rather than you know if we didn't have the side of what happened on the fourteenth of the every month or on potentially have a lot of people sitting at home depressed or. you know a load suffering with depression and i think that's that's the most worrying and most scary factor about about this and just making sure that people have the option to come together and all are welcome on thursday and future much of force no matter

what skin tone what race what belief you want what political party represent as long as you come as a human being and you drop everything on arrival when you respect the science we welcome everybody from all faiths and wages to come and join us thank you after the break. instead of investigating he says your economic spock's that may have led to the grenfell of trustees are now investigating those who risk their lives to save the full and we talked to the emergency services that's coming up in part two of this special edition of going on the ground. join me every first day on the alex simon show and i'll be speaking to us from the world of politics sports business i'm show business i'll see you then.

welcome back you're watching a special edition of going underground on the eve of the one year anniversary of the worst tower fire in british history the grenfell fire i'm joined now by the london regional official of the fire brigades union surrogacy thanks for coming on the show before actually we get to the ground felt tower five thousand jobs gone thirteen hundred dead in the blazes over the six years and a twenty five percent cut from central government what is the say the fire brigades union and the fire brigades one year since gravel we are in a worrying situation my union the fire brigade union have been saying this for a long time for the last three years of four men our foreign secretary boris johnson imposed major cuts on the fire service three to four years ago that included included twenty nine. fire engines being removed from frontline service over thousand job losses in london alone and ten five stations in london

close down including one very close to one fell tower now my union warned the time that these cuts not only in london but across the country would lead to an increase an increase in fire deaths and unfortunately what we've seen in the year two thousand and sixteen three thousand and seventeen even before granted fell we've seen a thirty percent rise in fire deaths in this country you're a visual being on this program actually warning all valid but more than seventy people died over there. a year ago tomorrow the news is here that scott the new york are going to be investigating the fire brigades and your members what was your reaction when you heard that news i mean what they're investigating is a stay put policy the state policy is not the london fire brigade unions policy that's the london fire brigade really have to speak to them about that what i can say about my members my members who attended that fire on the fourteenth of june last year is they put their lives. on the line those brave men and women who went

into that building who were absolutely devastated to this day about what happened and to have people go on t.v. and to talk about what they could have done or what they should have done is really not helpful will not fall out any one of those firefighters who went into that building their work was absolutely astonishing and amazing and had it not been for the actions of those firefighters on that night many more people would have died you see i mean there's also reports of failures of your members surprised that there may be more emphasis on the than the companies involved in say the engineering of that building and the development of the building i do find it very concerning and very upsetting that there seems to be a narrative now especially from the right wing media to try and shift the blame on to the fire brigade on to the firefighters what we should be doing is looking at a system that for decades has cut funding to the fire service has deregulated fire regulations you know a system over decades where we really haven't looked after people in social housing

that's i believe what caused the incident on the fourteenth of june last year not the actions of the firefighters the firefighters who went into that building and nothing more than heroes and anyone who says anything else really are not you know not good enough to lace our boots i speak to my members who went into that family the my friend on the stand i'm based at chelsea fire station not far from here and my station where one of the first on the things are these are my friends i talked to the heartbroken about what happened they literally were having to make the choice between who they were going to save and who they had to leave behind the control workers who had to listen to people die on the other end of the phone you know these people did an amazing job there's an inquiry going on at the end of this inquiry we may get some answers we need to listen to the evidence we need to find out from the people on the scene from the victims from the firefighters from the emergency services what took place for people to come out and make these accurate

accusations is really on helpful is a going too far to say the leads are basically blaming your members instead of austerity which is being. the excuse the usual the usual accusation by your members as to why they aren't as able as they may be to us and i think it's to be expected you know anything of this magnitude where the government is you know put under focus to where stairs she is looked at where cuts to the fire service deregulation of fire safety well most things are put under a microscope of course people are going to come out and try and push for a different narrative and unfortunately you know if that narrative involves putting the blame on the people who are really the only people who went in there and saved lives then there's not much we can do about that i think the public won't be full the public know exactly what went on on that night and the survivors and the relatives of the victims they know it seems as though i didn't care but that wasn't

the case and she regrets it going to be honest with the trees or making down and met the firefighters and staged a photo op that's that's not important you know what's important to us is justice justice justice for every one of those seventy two men women and children who were burned in the building not too far behind me that's what is important you know trees i'm a standing in front of a camera whether she smiles or not it is so relevant the victims don't care about that we want justice we want this inquiry to deliver us justice we want the questions that we have to be answered unlike say ultimately we just need justice if those victims do not get justice for what happened on the fourteenth of june two thousand and seventy there's going to be anger there's already anger at the moment but people are keeping it contained you know it's you can feel it just walking around this area i mean i'm one sorry you know at least once a week almost every other day i'm on one side here and you walk around and this is feeling in the community is is it's is bubbling away there under the surface and everyone's having hope for this inquiry for this inquiry have to deliver those

answers to has to give justice to those seventy two people and if it doesn't. i think if there were a lot of anger using as a thank you. note of a so-called fourth or margins the service on that night in kensington and chelsea i'm joined by alan everett he's the vicar of st clement's a church in the shadow of the grand fell tower is also the author of after the fire finding words for ground fell but millions of words will be found arguably at the inquiry that theresa may has launched what's your sense of what the community feel about what their expectations of the millions of words will be written about that night. i think most people appreciate the need to document and to highlight the issues i think the frustration and difficulty for people is simply the time it's going to take before we get results and so people are in this

situation where they feel very helpless where they're just waiting and here we are a year on the still way waiting has an effect only really just begun grenfell tower has recently been covered but still up there we've no clear formal process for carrying forward the next stage with tower. demolition will be dirty and noisy we don't know what's going to be put in its place is a memorial site so the whole year or a member of the things i don't know exactly and i'm obviously there are still outstanding issues to do with housing so people are in a state of waiting bayonets and they feel power powerless and helpless and we're now in the middle of the anniversary week and it's just that sense of

we're on a long journey when is it going to and i mean one of you. in your church in terms of dreams and through those on the lowest incomes do you know if you listen to for use by those in power in the context of grenfell is that a feeling that is echoed by your parishioners. well i think people have been speaking about the performance of the management organization for many years when i first arrived in the parish in two thousand and ten those issues were life including the issue of safety including the issue of emergency access to fire engines to the base of the tower for the developments that took place around there so yes these are issues that should been outstanding for a very very many years i think the arm's length approach which the ducted working through the tear may. very negative implications people who live on

the estates and they felt they had a very poor level of service and so people definitely did feel neglected and this is you know no matter what shade people's political beliefs how politically active they were pretty much everybody felt very very disgruntled and frustrated by the performance of the team and so one of the things that as a result. yes management organization so one of the. one of the natural consequences was that. for some people narrative is much that this is a deliberate policy to run down the estates to pave the way for a generation change the character of the area i suppose the inquiry is meant to deal with varying but it is quite interesting. people from all faiths helped on

the night were saviors that made i find some way to be surprisingly those in the government when the archbishop. the head of the anglican church justin welby said in the same breath. going about corporations not paying tax how much is this and that this is not just about grenfell this is about a sense of inequality through out the country it's certainly the case that people in this norton tip of the rope are of kinds of jealousy feel marginalized marginal of the life of the power the main issue at the heart of all this i think really is housing. and that is clearly an absolutely huge issue but i think the bigger problem was that north kensington was really not known about before the fire if you just said kent and to people they would automatically assume that the entire

bar was extremely wealthy and this is just a forgotten corner and i think that's been the basic problem on flying everything do you think as some critics are said the story of grand could really be a story of generation people talking about social cleansing gentrification is that an element in the story of grand for there were three years of. the state's. going to be regenerated and that would include a good thing. let your regeneration of the specter i think of private housing coming into space is pretty designated for social housing so i think there were very very strong concerns about that. mind standing is that all those plans being put on hold and they had very good control actually of really green. dots which will be concealed to you when he said and some people will be i'm

sure. the inadequate response to the grim feel was ultimately a failure of values would you would you think he made that i don't know whether to talk to you about things he didn't talk to me about that i did see the archbishop of canterbury sometimes church after. he didn't talk to me i think for me if we're talking about a failure of families we're talking about the fact that. people living in poor areas people living in social housing are taken for granted people were told shoddy repairs shoddy work to the building they should be grateful for what they've been given because they didn't own the property and i think that attitude that people should be grateful for what they've got even though it was shoddy even though it was probably dangerous i think that is

a failure of i think that's a failure of compassion i think that's treating people differently. ever thank you . that's it for the special edition of going underground with back on saturday though to fathom what the singapore summit will mean for the future of the world's children keep in touch with us by social media we'll see on saturday when british workers muck about a little brief seen as a seminal fight the social democracy against the forces oh you know liberalism. the saudi led coalition launches its largest or unseen salts in the yemen conflict ceri and groups call for a no further escalation the port target is said to be the source of food for two

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