world cup festivities kick off in moscow the russian capital offering a cultural showcase from across the world on the international football's biggest tournament. party's top pundit for the world cup. will be fighting it out for. brazil.

and other news this hour the french. decision to turn away a migrant. just a few moments into a brand new day here in moscow thursday june the fourteenth i'm going to know neal this is r t international the opening of the world cup is less than twenty four hours away on day one host russia take on saudi arabia and the excitement is well and truly ramping up for global football's biggest tournament which millions are expected to watch top flight squad is primed and ready to bring you the best of russia twenty eight.

it is a gentleman good evening and welcome to. the. world cup you all beautiful studio here right in the heart of moscow let me use 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 good to say you're a safer hands 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'll get offended by changing into aussie during this challenging warm we're going to bring you the expert punditry inside people inside the game play is now i just hate to see love josie bring young people who will know the things that you could never

possibly have experienced the other thing is. just listen carefully apart from the clinking of being classes you can hear i think if you visit. some. in the background it's a wonderful saying wherever you're watching us from in the world i just want to get deep breath and just so tied 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 families are embracing it and it's something to enjoy doing things as a football fan picture i think so when it's so nice that it's finally here we've been talking in 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 will be our studio here with a view over the curb and the red square there where the big sort of opening not officially open but that's a big concept that today the russian president will be the future press. and will be there i'm going. back to join i believe it to stuff you know i'm going to

get it on his thing 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 just watching the football and bracing the host country in the culture it is the meaning of and we hear a lot of of her talk or the running into any every woke up. now we hear it's all about football i and the river literally looking forward to that and we can see thousand the football fans i've already dealt with here 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 sa you're right you just have to look at this. and you. never.

know. if. i. put out that it was never about film but i got put on both. tonight was one of classical music and oprah and the you know the other one 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 the full mazher. here live on red square now this is only one of the activities shed for

tonight for fans and anyone who wants to join the fifa world cup twenty team spirit like literally hundreds of meters away from here a light show is shakeel down the walls of the bolshoi theater and also in another part of moscow a couple of days ago a feed for twenty thousand fans own was opened some forty thousand found somebody visited in in the first couple of days it will be featuring a huge 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 the bustling with all of the with all the fans of the you know all people who have come to moscow to watch this the main the main football event of the planets. i don't see too many spanish fans down there no no but that's because the spanish fans today might be

a little bit upset passion pre-term trying to know because their countries football association decided this morning to sack the coach and that is a two days before that huge game against portugal to go to we're 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 trouble federation that this is no way to act with chairman of the president of things the spanish football so if you got really angry. they felt slighted yes the song is only played in a job his name is rubio yes it's only put in the job for one month i mean simply he 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 playing with his muscles today but i think he's learned the. spanish team and he had always been a coach for the world cup he's landed them in the pain and given the multiple 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 and in spain has been a player at the highest level since one everything there is to try to win maybe a better path 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 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 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 after the result 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 the more difficult you know i think the chances have been anything to do it this time the really good i think with a with a cherry on top now if you will see some magical pictures well funny first match of the tournament kicks off with russia taking on saudi arabia and while some are at this time i figure one more good one let's see what josie marine you have to say about. the opening match today in.

russia saudi arabia huge pressure for russia. the world cup at home. and 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 the knife 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 now i remember achilles very well from the confederations cup spots on three times down to four when they can fix things 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 the cold save that russia will easily get out.

to prove that it's not. patriots and it's german steel this is new to boost to mexico. and what will be interesting to see is these pictures come out the best the cat the sales or a small marina what are you going to say if the seal beats marine one of its signing him up for much. 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. is the winner this year it's. down and this is. going. to be the first time this tournament has been paying the cost three countries thank you for nations when they favor a truth but far more occupied since. the north american bid offers 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 format competing in a match. 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 bid swayed more than it is . more awkward to fifth their bidding for the for the world cup so i mean they play the motional for the presentation of the bid to be there 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 he forced criticize in the past also in brazil that they're doing stadiums and then they have their so-called why the elephants you know i mean the u.s.

they already already to do or to host the world cup so there are all of the freedoms. the u.s. one what about the distances that the. cross and needed to use for certain the fans they have to travel that's an offer have been a distance from canada to mexico what you know the. income. of the world cup twenty twenty two so just ahead of that twenty six world cup there were i think at this there's a maximum promised so they will host the world cup basically and one city and i think that 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 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 are 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 the can for the ration and all around the center of most schools and i so. thousands of people go into the plaza and i saw something that. when 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 a passion for football you're going to see a lot of americans around here over the next month huge crowds i've seen how he's finding out and spent so far i think it's fantastic we're just looking at square and so people really are waiting and. it's

a fantastic experience rove said it to many people working here for the first time it's easy to say what really involved the record but you have to enjoy that because it is a once a lifetime gift for everybody i've seen people already know the only message from all the shirts so. hopefully. a fantastic event this fifty to make it easier for fans to get access to the championships they introduced fan i.d.'s having what 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 years ago i have the first match. with the pope or the way the first matches but the other ticket has finished. we will drive the russian than the other car because 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 off for that we were excited. because i'm seventy years old my track series eighty to use other transport would be too easy i'd learn nothing try out the country car. yoga but we saw overnight three of very intensive on the roof of the drawing visit filming me taking photos to this is such a c.s.i. . traveling in style and hubert verde just still that well maybe it's closer to home

he's now successfully arrived in moscow along with his canine companion and he was even met by a police patrol they didn't give him a ticket on when they were very friendly but on the outskirts of the city in a company ten police escort to his final destination that started his journey back in may and covered more than two thousand kilometers to get to russia. you know what a month it promises to be let's move on to more world news now italy has summoned the french ambassador and demanded an apology from among you all micron sharply criticized it please the solution to turn away a migrant rescue boat with the details this hour at charlotte dubin ski. this week 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 theories that 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 a nation which is among the first in the world in terms of generosity solidarity and hospitality if the french have the humility to apologize the story will be closed and we will work in the interests of everyone. present is said took 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 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 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 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. when a meeting on friday between the french and italian leaders did look to be in jeopardy is this rumor of 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 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 spot that is likely to blow over very easily here we've been getting lots of reaction on this including from a tele and journalist marcelo four who thinks that mccrae comments were misguided will only harm relations between paris and rome nobody here can understand how president mark wrong can blame the eternally old. unknown money tell an attitude when their first heavy got very close to the nonpolitical attitude is

france so basically what is up everybody's interest here in the fact is that the president back around said that italy having a very negative and probably divided you saw instead of calming down the crisis is apparently. excited celebrating it and this is something really worrying because the patient is very very high between my parents. donald trump claims there is no longer a nuclear threat from north korea after his historic summit with kim jong un the u.s. leader attributed the breakthrough to tough talking diplomacy. 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 there they are

a policy of silence sometimes i felt foolish doing it. but we had no choice well despite the positive signals u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe has warned that military drills with south korea could resume if the north feels to meet its commitments to denuclearize. might have reason to remain wary of its historic adversary rutger's the if 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. 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 deal 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 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 that 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 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. piece together the puzzle prior to taping and here we are generations of presidents generations of betrayal double crossing and deception and it seems that hasn't been lost on kim. now that's where we leave our stories for now abut next fief as president sits down for a one on one with artie's peter schmeichel stay true.

to trump jim 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. after visiting the ten host cities i'm finally here last go 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 that two venues. i'm at the second moscow venue. this is spotted moscow stadium and for each of the five games that are being played here more than forty five thousand people will be watching on from the stands going to see illegal messi when he takes argentina here to play the minus that that beats and the pick surprise from the euro. two years ago i said that i'm in the capital an obviously a lot of stuff is going on what exactly this mike and i'm going 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 accents not rushing only. from everywhere in the world and sense is a place and that the world is fine in the beginning. i'm on top of one of the big one cell phone use in 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 there's 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. speak and he joins me live now. if i made it easier for fans to access the championship process has been taking a look at the hype. is this way. the whole program that is going to do during the.