and when it comes time to report earnings a year or two from now nothing for. eight years in the making of the twenty eight c. world cup in russia is here the biggest event of football kicks off in moscow in just a matter of a few out. i. found from across the globe have been out in force in the russian capital reveling in the festive atmosphere. one of a headline away from the football this morning in other world news the un condemns israel's actions during clashes on the gaza border left over one hundred twenty palestinians dead. over a good morning for me kevin though in this rather sunny thursday fourteenth of june

here in moscow just after ten am here now huge day for r.t. and russia coming up of course we're just a few hours now from the opening ceremony of the twenty eight hundred fifty for world cup football fever is really in overdrive over the coming weeks we'll have the latest from the games the fans the players all the host cities across russia the biggest country in the world the tournament kicks off the luzhniki stadium in moscow later today with a match between host russia and saudi arabia at six pm local time. so the tournament hasn't officially kicked off quite yet fans are already out in force the center of moscow is crowded with thousands of chanting and singing supporters.

the. cost. of. the. cut. cut. ok breaking news moscow has been taken over by friendly forces meeting fans from all over the world and i'm here on a mission chanting as part of football culture and i want to learn chance from different parts of the world. i don't know exactly what these guys a chance to use to but i know the channel will make them happy guys most books up close. good good good i'm going to michigan you teach many of the egyptian chance the fun of it was. done.

the below i mean oh my god that. made a oh messi oh yeah my. thing the circle proper stop drop and stop. the come because. the show was coming. i wonder what they will be chanting tonight. the cars up. the the road. we have friends in moscow one of the largest representations.

there was one out. there. all right square in central moscow meantime opera stars i did a little bit of refinement to the celebrations. carried the message that music and sports a universal language is that can unite people and there was also a stunning light show in the front of the iconic bolshoi theater to show pictures that we are of course there are eleven host cities right the way across russia all holding their own special event so we're going to head south next for the sudden result city assault she speaks and plans. to get a new one. at the beginning we were a little bit scared to come but everything turned out great we were given everything we needed we met a lot of people not just from russia but from other countries too there is

a very good atmosphere here. russia is very very beautiful fantastic. when i first came to sochi i was surprised by the city the infrastructure is great everything's very clean i expect a great atmosphere tomorrow and also the people here are very kind. it's very beautiful we were surprised by the place the culture everything he's also the top flight school of course following all the twenty eighty will cup of events is the latest from paris michael. good evening out welcome to our tease coverage of the twenty eight team fifty four world cup i know you're watching at home because they still will go what else would

you do right now i'm very pleased to say alongside me throughout it so it will be a great day paid to schmeichel twice a vote the best goalkeeper in the world you're looking very well by the way i think . and i just want to say pieces here especially basically cut for me because i'm going down to join the football fans and have a few beers say and i'm going there that's where the big concert tonight it's opening officially opening of the world cup the world cup you can smell it here so many friends already here have a look at the. course look. like. i. completely. blow and.

the first match of the tournament kicks off with russia take saudi arabia let's see what johnson marine you have to say about the opening match. 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 the knife team is a team from a different reality and russia has to win it and you can find more of the manchester united manager predictions if you had a. dot com you may think he was talking nonsense if you think so challenge and head to facebook or twitter use the hash tag match for your make your own predictions and proof is not joined by the chief executive of russia's football

players union everyone i speak to the russian team sort a little bit apprehensive about the politics of where we are is russia is the most important game for us because the games with. your wife will follow and the board that will be 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. we have a lot of young guys we have some very old guys like russia trying all for sports you know it's just good enough when you see very old. years younger than thirty six thirty seven we're still all for fall for running around like that victor newman but still i think the picture in the law will show what they've got.

so the only games are six pm mosco time but later we start our coverage here at two pm just four hours from now the united boss the acclaimed mirroring you will be joining us live then on this channel i can tell you that as a sneak preview for you russia and saudi arabia of both had their final trading sessions both say they're going to go all out for victory is where they going to be playing.

a cautious yesterday already a huge shock for team spain wednesday the country's football federation x. the head coach just two days before their opening game against portugal june in law was sacked after accepting that job to lead rail madrid next season he had been replaced by fernando hierro here's how former spain a bus load of midfielder xabi gave us his thoughts on the move but it was nitish enough that i think it was the correct decision otherwise a pretty complicated situation would have emerged beauties in arrangements in particular the official arrangements with real madrid and now i want to send my best wishes to the national team so that it doesn't the fact that it seems concentration on the place are already well immersed in the competition my best wishes to the new coach for millions of russians hosting the world cup so real dream come true but has always been the case it took a real bit of grit and determination to get the beautiful game established here in the first place r.t. interest in this one coming up managed to trace the roots of football here in

russia and it leads to of all places scotland is a day or two there. the end of the nineteenth century saw the russian empire his first official football match it was played at the hippodrome in st petersburg in between horseracing the public reaction that it wasn't such a beautiful game. that german sportsmen while it's were running round in the mud splashing down with force in the dirt and soon turned into chimney sweeps there was a remitting rafter among the pub. over a decade later things began to change football started to gain a foothold in russia but not without some serious help from a russian born scottish merchant and sports enthusiast named arthur macpherson and so in fact the history of russian football can be traced all the way back to glasgow shipbuilding was booming here back in the day in the mid nineteenth century and it was one of the shipyard owners murdock macpherson who was recruited by the

russians sought to become an engineer with the roll fleet it's his grandson of who is to become the leading light in promoting football in russia and how be unraveled this story i've managed to find and knowledgeable enthusiastic from the clan that faced in itself sandy let's face it after him self he started out football in russia organized leagues he was chairman of the association for two years we are very proud of him we're very proud of who he is important to the macpherson's and to scotland at large but a scotsman was there to start off russian football how does it make you feel thinking about those links or i think it's very proud i've personally i've never been interested but i would love to go one day and never know when they make a pilgrimage i think we should be watching the world cup with great interest i think sport is a marvelous uniting influence throughout the world probably the two greatest things

in sport are the olympic games and the football world cup they bring nations together the life. this in and miserably due to his prominence and position in the russian empire and revolution swept the country and he was imprisoned by the bolsheviks he died of typhoid in jail in one thousand nine hundred it's a known where his body was buried but in the loose fear in smolensk cemetery in st petersburg there's a senator in his honor. we also found the great granddaughter of of the macpherson lady betty glass who only very recently discovered she was related to the footballing trailblazer it was a great discovery because i know about but very little about what he did until. he must have put a lot and. it's good it's good or point of view because it's really rough in such a big country that it's amazing that the influence yeah there are very pleased that

he has somebody who did so much as had his is in his recognised as russia place host of the world cup it might be worth remembering the remarkable story of often macpherson without him the tournament might not be happening here in that era today r.t. . short

term gains at the expense of longer term growth. investing in the future and products and employees you're taking all that future revenues in your book here today just like the met is buying back all the stuff in his own store yet she bought back all of a stock in a store and he has a lot of revenue but now the store is empty and he has nothing to sell so the next quarter he says myself there's zero because i have nothing in the store to sell i bought it all myself so similarly with apple they'll buy back all their stock they want to invest in the future and when it comes time to report earnings or a year or two from now they'll have nothing to report. like in other news now away from football this morning it's really some of the

french ambassador in rome after president mccrone criticized italy's decision to turn away the migrant rescue boat shallow dubin skis got the latest only 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 and now currently on route to the port of lengthy spanish authorities said that they could dock that well the french president has been scathing. attack of italy in regards to this situation describing the country's actions as being cynical and irresponsible italy is fierce 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 have the humility to apologize the story will be closed and we will work in the interests of everyone this president is so 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 suggesting at least 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 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. while 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. was canceled but that is said now to be back on these are tense times though between these each unique and this is not a spat that is likely to blow over very easily. the un has condemned israel's excessive use of force during clashes in garza that left over one hundred twenty palestinians dead since the end of march israel and the united states

strongly opposed the vote calling it biased and one sided while the palestinian side said that resolution was not enough. the nature of this resolution clearly demonstrates that politics is driving today it is totally one sided it makes not one mention of hamas who routinely initiate violence in gaza the need to protect a lot of people in and out of this occupation remains. and unquestionably and why should that be offending anyone. we're just asking for a simple thing we want a lot of civilian population to be protected israel's actions being condemned numerous times by humanitarian organizations and the israeli defense forces have been seen using live rounds against protesters but nonetheless israel says its forces is simply defending the country's borders.

the the. this is a vital mistake and if people knew the true story about israel it regarding hamas this vote would not have gone this way a lot of times these deaths of these palestinians are actually because they're using civilians as human shields and a lot of times in fact almost all the time the violence is actually initiated by hamas certainly not by israel the claim to trying to blame hamas is just a distraction it's a form of deception which they want to try to mislead the people from seeing what's pretty clear you've got unarmed protesters who are in gaza they're you know hundreds of yards from the so-called fence and they're being shot by snipers. with

with live ammunition this is what's going on there. it is a clear recognition that it's wrong and that there is no future in continuing this kind of all pressure for. lawyers for a russian company that allegedly interfered in the u.s. presidential election twenty sixteen may be blocked from seeing evidence in the case against it that's if u.s. special counsel robert mueller gets his way he's asked a federal judge to impose limits on information that can be shared no modest says the documents contain sensitive information on investigative methods and sources prosecutors also claim the data could be used by russian intelligence services to impede further investigations executive director ron paul institute delaware kadam says miller's trying to save a fabricated case here mohler is scrambling to try to avoid giving evidence which may not exist the whole nature of the indictment itself was full of holes it made

no sense and now that he's being told to put up or shut up he's panicking inciting national security and citing you know the hysteria that's already been created it's an example of him being caught in a p.r. stunt not expecting anyone anyone on the russian side to answer the claims to answer the accusations and then when they have his bluff has been called in so he's taking out any effort he can to avoid facing the issue. big time melissa prosecutors say that they've uncovered evidence they say proving a number of other individuals and companies are continuing to interfere in u.s. politics don't know mcadams again says it's absurd than not to share that prove the idea that you're accused of a crime when you're not allowed to see the evidence against you is ironically this is an absolutely extraordinary case that robert mueller of the special counsel is now bogging and claiming well russia is still meddling so i cannot put this evidence out to not let the defense defend itself because it would be the russians

in their continued meddling in i don't know what in america certainly to me it doesn't sound right it sounds like again they're trying to escape a trap of their own creation potted recap here robert muller took over that federal government probe into alleged collusion between donald trump's campaign and russia during the twenty sixteen u.s. elections now three companies and thirteen russian nationals fell under investigation. for a down to nuclear activists have been arrested in belgium after breaking into a military base they claim the nuclear weapons stored there for the past sixty years of being kept there illegally the activists claim they managed to steal some warheads and plan to give them to nato heads of state at a summit in brussels next month to some sort of a clinical going to we're here at the end of bruegel air base it's a belgian air base with american forces who are here to oversee the nuclear weapons secondarily twenty warheads held in belgian soil illegally given the budget was

signed the nonproliferation treaty so we're here with zoe a member of the include party in the belgian parliament and a group of activists have come here to condemn the illegal placement of nuclear weapons. the activists say they want to remove all u.s. warheads from that country they also believe the government should sign a un nuclear weapon ban treaty according to estimates there are currently twenty u.s. warheads in belgium rather hundred fifty was sent to other countries by america including as was mentioned just now some non-nuclear countries one of the activists told us it was crucial to show the government that these weapons should be removed. we decided to enter these risking five years of imprisonment each person playing it. cool we're going to remove those nuclear weapons from the village and to integrate those you know we're going to be going to do you know to states it's not legal to come out of the country so we really like them to be

a way that is why people and even more. gave to the people so. nuclear weapons making the actions and all together good. we'll keep talking that story at the moment no make it come about from belgium police on the case well you know three days so twenty five minutes past ten of the morning on this thursday morning from me for all you need to know about the world cup taken off today he checked it on my site called huge section they would overlay his twenty four seven full coverage here on the t.v. side of things to right up to the latest poll four weeks from now i'm kevin elliott thanks for watching. tonight. thank.

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know world a big part of the lot 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 back 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.

this is going bust broadcast around the world from washington d.c. i'm parked children thank you for being with us we've got a full lineup and we'll be talking boyle prices and reform of the european union leading up to a meeting at the end of the month and the u.s. federal reserve as we expected discussed yesterday in the program is increase the federal funds rate interest rates by a quarter of a percent to two percent but first we pop start the show right into a major media and financial news surrounding the a.t.m. to. and time warner merger that was approved late yesterday judge richard leone of u.s. district court here in washington approved the eighty five point four billion dollar merger between eighty and time warner handing a major defeat to the u.s. department of justice the decision allows the birth of a media giant with massive and little let the capacity in creation and distribution

of content from sesame street to westworld the president also throws wide open the door to murder more merger media is that a moment when the corporate media landscape is already shifting rapidly and i trust lawyers from the justice department had demanded that both eighty and time warner divest certain assets before merging and sued when the parties block the chief of the and i trust the vision now says the office is reviewing the decision in detail before deciding whether to ask for a stay or pursue appeals and here to help us delve more into the issue and what it might mean for consumers and margot's professorial lecture at american university and andre barlow of a partner at doyle barlow that's him and mozart welcome to both of you andre have to say one i give you credit for being in that darn court room every day for six weeks it couldn't have been fun but you must to picked up on something because you called it here on our program that you thought this is what the judge was go going

to do why are you so certain of that i think you know judge leon. he was really impressed by the fact that the government's own witness in the government conceded that there was going to be cost savings from this vertical merger and that those cost savings would be passed on to directv consumers so basically you know these cost savings passed on to directv consumers which is about twenty five million subscribers out there they're all going to see reduced prices so that was a concession by the government and its star economic witness professor shapiro. besides that in terms of this case we're talking about is not a vertical for closure case which is your traditional vertical case meaning that. would withhold that turner content from distributors rather this case was about raising the cost to these other distributors and when i say distributors.