i. ate years in the making of the twenty eight hundred fifty four world cup in russia is here the biggest event of football kicks off here in moscow in just a matter of a few hours now. i. fans from across the globe a bit out of force here in the russian capital reveling in the festive atmosphere. and away from football this morning one of the world to story for you the un condemns israel's actions during clashes on the gars of border which left over one hundred twenty palestinians dead. hello there good morning from me kevin i when this rather sunny thursday fourteenth

of june here in moscow just after eleven am here now huge day for a huge day for russia coming up with just a few hours than from the opening ceremony of the twenty eighteen feet for world cup football fever's going into overdrive big time over the next couple of weeks we're going to have the latest from the games the fans the players all from those host cities across the biggest country in the world russia the tournament kicks off later today at the luzhniki stadium in moscow with a match between host russia and saudi arabia that's at six pm local time. now although the tournament hasn't quite officially kicked off as yet fans have already been out in force the center of moscow is crowded with thousands of chanting and singing supporters. the.

cut. 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 it's 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 usually but i know that china will make them happy guys most was a good. thing i'm going to michigan you teach many of the egyptian chaps.

thank god that i know. they're in the circle proper stop trouble and stuff. come. close. i wonder what they will be chanting and i think. the cars up. the road. there will be in france in moscow one of the largest representations.

there was one. great well all red square meantime central moscow little more if i may be opera stars to the celebrations check this. scurry to message that music and sport are universal languages that unite people then there was this stunning the light show is coming up now on the front of the iconic bolshoi theater that's wait for that there is greatness of course there are eleven host cities across russia all holding their own special events many many of them we went so far next to speak to some fans in the resort city of sochi. 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 got his own top flight squad following all the twenty eighteen world cup of events for you is the latest from peter schmeichel the. getting out well can see you are t.'s 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 that so it will be a great day peter 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 and i'm going there red square there's a big concert tonight it's opening officially opening on the world cup the world cup you can smell it it's here so many friends already here have a look at the. i .

thought it. was. the first match of the tournament kicks off with russia taking saudi arabia let's see what george zimmerman you have to say about the opening match. 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 meeting dot com you won't 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 player's union everyone i speak to those are rushing to sort a little bit apprehensive about the policies where we are is this really is the most important game for us because the games with. your wife will follow and the mood that will be the first game is very important we have a lot of. people who are 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 that's just kind of when you see very old how old is what are you years younger than thirty six thirty seven was still. for the ball for running around like that big tournaments but still i think their training picture a lot will show what they got.

so the only games at six pm moscow time we start our coverage at two pm that's just about three hours just under three hours from now manchester united boss and some just then the acclaim just said marina will be joining us live there too i can give you that little sneak tip off russia or saudi arabia as we heard have both held their final training sessions they both say they go for all out victory here's where they'll be playing.

of course for any of the start of there was 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 chile not to take it was sacked after accepting the job to lead real madrid next season and will be replaced by fernando hierro here's how former spain and barcelona midfielder xabi gave his thoughts about what happened but i 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 was a real dream come true but it hasn't always been the case it took

a real lot of grit and determination to get the beautiful game established here in the first place r.t. money is to trace the roots of football in russia and it leads all the way back to scotland as in the day richard reports. the end of the nineteenth century saw the russian empire his first official football match it was played at the hip or german st petersburg in between horseracing the public reaction that it wasn't such a beautiful game. the gentleman sportsmen in white outfits were running round in the mud splashing down with food for. the dirt and soon turned into chimney sweeps there was a riveting laughter 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 after the miss and so in fact the history of russian football can be traced all the way back to glasgow

shipbuilding was here back in the day in the mid nineteenth century and it was one of the shipyard owners murdoch that pearson 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 to help me unbearable the story i've managed to find and knowledgeable enthusiastic from the clan macpherson itself sandy let's face it after him so off he started up football in russia organized leagues use chairman of the association for two years we are very proud of him we're very proud to lead 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 of arsenic this in and it miserably due to his prominence and position in the russian empire revolutions swept the country and he was imprisoned by the bolsheviks he died of time. in one thousand nine hundred it's a known where his body was buried but in the loo theer in smolensk cemetery in st petersburg there's a senator in his honor. we also found the great granddaughter of off the macpherson lady betty class who only very recently discovered she was related to the footballing trailblazer it was a great discovery because i've known about him but very little about what he did until fairly recently he must have put a lot and. it's good it's good for clint's 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 such a place host to 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 tudor r.t. . short term gains at the expense of longer term growth. vesting in the future products and employees you're taking all of future revenues in your book it's just

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anyway from the phone after ten minutes or so with the rest of world news italy has some of the french ambassador in rome off to president mccrone criticized italy's decision to turn away the migrant rescue boat show they do been called the latest for you. only 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 the 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 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 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 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 to. more and morning welcome the one thousand migrants france promised to work and 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 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. the u.n.

has condemned israel's excessive use of force during clashes in garza the left over one hundred twenty palestinians dead since the end of march israel in the united states strongly opposed votes calling it biased a one sided war the palestinian side so that resolution was simply not enough of. the nature of this resolution clearly demonstrates that politics is driving the day it is totally one sided it makes not one mention of hamas who routinely initiate violence in gaza the need to protect our people under this occupation remains urgent and unquestionable and why should that be offending anyone we're just asking for a simple thing we want our civilian population to be protected. israel's actions have been condemned numerous times by humanitarian organizations and the israeli

defense forces have been seen using live rounds against protest at times but his own nonetheless 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 away 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 is a clear recognition that it's wrong and that there's no future in continuing this kind of oprah shuttle given to. boys for a russian company that allegedly interfered in the u.s. presidential election and twenty sixty may be blocked from seeing evidence in the case against it that's if you a special counsel robert want to get his way he's asked a federal judge to impose limits on information that can be shed now melissa 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 at ron paul institute study

mcadams told us is trying simply 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 inciting 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 meantime prosecutors say that they've uncovered evidence proving a number of other individuals and companies are continuing to interfere in the u.s. politics down the mcadams again says that it's absurd therefore not to share that prove. the idea that you're accused of a crime and you're not allowed to see the evidence against you is ironically this

is an absolutely extraordinary case robert mueller the special counsel is now bulking in claiming well russia is still meddling so i cannot put this evidence i cannot let the defense defend itself because it would aid 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 it's complicated story. took over the federal government probe into alleged collusion between his campaign and russia during the twenty sixteen us elections three companies and thirteen russian nationals fell under investigation. eleven twenty three here in moscow that so i was looking. for this thursday morning foley needs to know about the world cup taken off today just a few i keep checking on main site. huge section there with all the latest twenty four seven for you and of course full coverage of the t.v. side of things to from today just

a couple of. original here. right up to the very last go we'll be covering it. thank you for watching. when a loved one is murdered it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer and it be the death penalty just because i think that's the thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict is found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people was terrifying just no really doesn't mean that we're even many victims' families want the death penalty to be abolished. the death penalty here is because that's not murder victims' families what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them just. yes and we come in sang. not quite prepared for this this isn't the way.

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we're. going to welcome to worlds apart we mean we've been a global village but every corner office villages guarded by different walls on what one may or may not seem public one man's truth teller has long become another man's bigot while public debate often comes down to have done alex rachel hurling insults rather than discussing policy is it still possible to have a substantive conversation of those who disagree with you being mean to discuss that i'm now joined by katie hopkins a british journalist and media personality katie good to talk to thank you very much for your time thank you for seeing me now you're

a pretty controversial person in your own country and many people consider you purposefully offensive and yet over the past few days that you've been here in russia in st petersburg you've only nice things that have this country did it honestly is not very used to hearing nice things about itself being purposefully spiteful i saying all those things as a contrarian. people have been surprised by my reporting from st petersburg because i love this place i love the openness of it and it's been a real surprise to me we are i think in the west in my personal view you know putin is painted as a. this is very much the way of people almost actually of coming to russia because there's this idea that it's somehow a frightening place and. all i've been trying to present to people and show people i think is that if i may have a what i see or my truth and my truth from this place is that i love it i feel very

safe here much safer than in london for example and i also find people here to be really russian first so they identify as russian to me and that's a real different from the country that i well let me pick up on that point because you had want specifically about seemed to rile a lot of people you describe the city as a place untouched by the myth of multiculturalism and deranged diversity and i'm sure you've seen all those dozens of replies of people pointing out to you and. most multicultural city in. israel that of course one hundred sixty nationalities and built by. the french in the buildings and the dutch name of one i mean we also have a very vibrant muslim community who petitioned this our first mosque i don't know i had it all i see that i get what people are saying i get them but when you come to some petersburg as an outsider and i'm an outsider it steals russian people

if you speak to people in the street or with help but i speak to people in the street they identify as russian first you go to the u.k. you won't find any of that russian mean an athlete. affiliation or it may mean a national affiliation so most of the different nationalities who will love to have in this city would also identify as russian i wonder if you given that you get so much maybe multiculturalism is not such a bad thing after all no because i don't buy your definition of multiculturalism at all and just because you have one most with five thousand people able to fit into it that does not in any way replicate the europe that are you know i've just come from belgium mozambique in fact the jihadi capital of europe where they have twenty two mosques in a six kilometer square do you have miles or kilometers here kilometers yeah. coloma to square the area twenty two mobs so it's very different for me where i live in terms of multiculturalism which is much more about monocultures who live in ghettos

and it's a very different definition to the one that you might understand i actually want to discuss that but before we do that many of the three that you have posted have these hash tag putin brock's three yes which i find very ironic because here in russia you wouldn't be allowed by law to say or publish many things that you say about the muslims in particular because in this society we do prioritize social cohesion over the freedom of speech and that has been like that over many years i would even argue centuries and i think it only intensified under putin do you still think your rocks. and rocks in many ways most he found contrary to most of your ideas i mean he he would be absolutely appalled by many of the things you're saying about spine as well i think you started out by saying you know do we live in a society where we can disagree but still sit in the same room i don't mind if putin thinks many of my.