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be. the french. decision to turn away. on the lead coalition launches on the sole key port city from rebel fighters and from humanitarian groups they say the offensive could endanger millions of lives in this stricken country. every year tuning in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow onto our national union o'neill this time tomorrow we already know the first results from the world cup host russia are up against saudi arabia on day one

you can see here these are live pictures from the bolshoi theatre. the excitement not only in the capital but right across the biggest country on earth well they're well and truly ramped up for a global football's biggest tournament which billions are expected to watch lots of tourists and locals seeing this right now by the way top flight school and is primed and ready to bring you the best of russia twenty eight dean for the next one month on one day. i did gentlemen good evening and welcome to. the world cup to all

beautiful studio here right in the heart of moscow let me introduce my coach for our coverage of the championship of the next month peter schmeichel the great they have very very safe pair of pants and a fantastic sense of what to say if you're a say kearns in the studio as well said hugh dusty for that 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 chairmanship warm we're going to bring you the expert punditry inside people inside the game play is now i just hate to say love josie bring 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 i think if you visit a list and some. in the background it's a wonderful saying wherever you're watching us from in the world i just want to get a deep breath and just soak that up because that's what it's about it's football it's world cup and it's here and russia risen bracing it and i hope and i believe

the funds are embracing it and it's something to enjoy do you think as a football fan picture i think so and it's so nice that it's finally here we've been talking i can preparing myself i travel around to all the eleven host cities i've seen all the stadiums i've been very excited about that but we're away will you know our studio here with a view over the curb and the red square there where the big sort of opening the official opening but that's a big concert that's a very the russian president will be the future press. i'm going. to stop. it. tomorrow we have to face again and it's just exactly what we waited for this is much about this isn't it as well as some bracing the country in the culture it is i mean and i'm we hear a lot of. talk in the running into any everywhere. now we hear it's all

about football i. look forward to that and we can see thousand of football fans of the and russia you saw in the before you can hear them with taking in the whole state is before this opening game that we have tomorrow between russia and. just have a look at this. here . if you're

a fan of classical music you could be chasing down tickets to see those. it is a night of classical music music here. it's unusual mix i should say this sort of entertainment. getting more and more packed as people have this chance to see all of these classical music. now this is of course not the only activity here in moscow for fans and anyone who's interest. it in that 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 theatre also a few days ago in another part of moscow opened recently opened a thief a fan sensate will be featuring a massive plaza must screen and open as a venue for all fans to gather together and cheer for them for their favorite seems

the intice a patient is in the air here in central moscow as we as our crew was making way to this spot here we could see groups of fans literally moscow was bustling with fans 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 football event of the year 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 fans keep trying might be a little bit upset passion pre-term time and nerves because the country's football association decided this morning to sack the coach and that is two days before their huge game against portugal. i got it we're all here because we 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 from the federation that this is no way to act the chairman of the president of the spanish football so if you got really angry. because slighted is the song he's only been adopted then b.l.s. is going to put him a job for one month and he simply turned up this morning and told because he felt that the conscious being his lawyer but he hadn't informed the former associate and also a month ago on may the seventh he got elected on the promise to make the phone call for. of spain stronger so he's playing with his muscles today but i think he's learned the. spanish team and he had always been a coach for the rock up he's landed them in with the pain and 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'm slightly sold myself when i heard

this news but he was much more diplomatic than he is a big question he's been spain's director for point paula that everyone respects in spain has been a player at the highest level since one everything there is to try to win maybe or maybe a perfect 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 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 money 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 welcome after the result of course most experts and

most pundits across the world they have the necessary favorites they could still do it but it's going to be it's going to be that if it more difficult i have think the chances have been anything to do it this time the really good i think with a cherry on top 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 a pick spain to advance from group faith and i wonder now would he make the same choice with the arrow in charge forward to be here tomorrow but he's now. but i hope you've seen this he's matched up the front that he thinks going to go from the group stages into the last sixteen and then on to the quarter finals now he's giving us the predictions for will be the last two teams that. thank. you.

for show in brazil for the festive course you'll be able to say that i'm doing emotional jol and i think. yeah might be biased or 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. and you know it does mean it's not just normal. likened to a country with. extra time penalties the level of play is they take a penalty. that is the one ball penalty and that's the last penalty one takes to see another one it takes them in their lives to go to magic. was

a very funny exercise. but. in all those 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 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 i think you'll enjoy them. it will be totally different i don't understand why do you need another just i want to know well you could never have. too many marino's so for the world cup we found the perfect co-host for you so much expertise from josie maybe you don't miss it on r.c. guys i'm not going to work with him it will take all the attention and i want another co-host. personally i think one marine who is more than enough you can find more of the manchester united manager predictions if you had to dot com and if you thought he was talking

a load of nonsense prove it by heading to facebook and twitter use the hash tag match mirroring your give your own predictions for 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. you should. count. i. would be the first time this tournament has been playing across three countries one hundred thirty four nations when they face off with their car 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 with forty eight teams sixteen more than the

current format competing in a match. earlier we were joined here by water to gori and he's a football consultant on the form a fee for communications director worked alongside sepp blatter he told us why he thinks the north american bid swayed more voters. more awkward to fifth time their bidding for the for the world cup so i mean they played the motional for the presentation of the bit to the they were saying. people go to africa because africa gave a look back even if it's true but maybe there was. very smart because some of the people thought that these two were restive if he forced criticize in the past also in brazil that they're doing stadiums and then they have the so-called wide elephants you know i mean the u.s. they already already to do to host the world cup so there are a lot of reasons. the u.s. one what about the distances that. wasn't needed the teams for certain the fans

they have to travel faster and often have been a distance from canada to mexico what you know the. income. of the world cup twenty twenty two so just ahead of the twenty six world cup there were i think a distance 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 council come for the races and all around the center of most school and i so. thousands of

people going to the plaza and i saw something that. i was really excited all were mixed all were working on the streets all who were kind of a great family having fun mary give us a purchase 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 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 so i think it's fantastic that we just look here at the red square on the bus so people really are waiting and it's a fantastic experience wrote said it through many people working here for the first time it's easy to say when it was really in both directed but you refuse to either because it is a once

a life can do for everybody i've seen people already carrying the only message on all the show. so i would move hopefully. for us to. get 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. the .

show. let's leave all things football behind for the time being and two more world news now italy has summoned the french boss around demanded an apology from partisan after a month. sharply criticized it least decision to turn away a migrant rescue boat with the story here sharma dubin ski. earlier 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 if they had been rescued off the coast of libya but in now currently on route to the port of lengthier after spanish authorities said that they could dock there well the french president has been scathing in his attack of 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 who 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 hospitality if the french are the humility to apologize the story will be closed and we will work in the interests of everyone. present is so took told a 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 emerged 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 suggesting that they 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 friends committed itself to work in one thousand eight hundred sixty migrants and instead in three years they took six hundred forty so i asked president mccrone to move from just words to action and tomorrow morning welcome the one thousand migrants france promised to welcome as a sign of concrete generosity and not just words. well a meeting on friday between the french and italian leaders did look to be in jeopardy is this war of words 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 it 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 spat that is likely to blow over very easily or italian journalist marcelo for things for comments were misguided and will only harm relations between paris and rome. nobody here can understand how potent marker on one can blame the eternally old being heavy and not in money tight in attitude when their first heavy gun ready closed and the nonpolitical attitude is france so basically what this up is that everybody's older is here in the that the fact is that the present in the current said that. having a very negative and provocative added to the so instead of calming down the craziest these apparently excited celebrating it and this is something really worrying because the nation is very very high but you can roll back that it's.

the u.n. security council is set to hold an emergency session on thursday over a major saudi little offensive against 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 thirty arabia's crown prince defended the assault claiming it's in the yemeni people to interest. the coalition's operations to liberate had 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. well this video purports to show saudi forces heading towards ho data it's the first time the riyadh led coalition of nine are abstained

tried to take such a heavily defended rebel city since intervening in the conflict back in twenty one of the few aid organizations working in the country care two thirds of the yemeni population relies on the seaport for food the risk that already limited supplies will be affected comes as the country experiences 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

us with us to allow those who would like to free to do so safely but beyond these hoodie there is a lifeline for millions and millions of yemenis and later the mindset that yemen is a country of twenty nine million people and three out of each four yemenis need too many ten eight most of these eight 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. don't trump is back on u.s. soil after his historic summit with the north korean leader kim jong il on his presidential twitter page he posted that no longer poses a nuclear threat earlier he explained why he thinks his tough talking diploma. he was crucial in bringing up by talks and denuclearize. without the rhetoric we

wouldn't have been here i really believe you know we'd sanctions and all of the things that you would do but i think without the rhetoric you know other administrations i don't want to get specific on that but they had a policy of satellites sometimes i felt foolish doing it. but we had no choice while the singapore summit saw trump promise to go into either north security in exchange for its denuclearization pyongyang might have reason to remain wary of its historic adverse tree marotta guess the it 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.

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 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 murder him we came we saw that he died. it's almost like something out of game of thrones and we aren't even done bush 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 taken 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. i'll be back at the top of the hour with more on our continent to kick off at world cup twenty eight in less than

a day away let's just leave you with some pictures from central moscow this is the front of the bolshoi theatre perhaps not as you may have seen it before a light show which happens from time to time in fact they're showing this time around of course russian city leaders will be taking part. images of russian history let's try and leave you at lots of tourists and locals alike watching this let's try and leave you with some of the sights and sounds world cup twenty eight. russia's.