it's six pm in moscow right now russia and saudi arabia are kicking off a twenty eighteen feet for world cup in the russian capital t. is in the thick of the action of the world turns its attention to the international football biggest event. stadiums fans all eyes are on the pitch the players from across the country on the planet and our special studio is from the face. a warm welcome to all of you for world cup twenty eight team iraq. fans from across the globe have been out in force in moscow reveling in the festive atmosphere.

plus we have unique insight and analysis from one of the best minds in the game manchester united manager. from the l.t.v. center in moscow this thursday june the fourteenth get up to speed on all global developments now by heading to r.t. dot com now the greatest event in world football is finally here the world cup twenty eight teams just getting underway in the russian capital about half the entire planet expected to watch the tournament over the coming weeks team are primed and ready to bring you the best of the atmosphere from all of those cities so we live now to our world cup h.q. overlooking central moscow. lead.

on the little girl just picked up in the stadium or standing straight from anything to say in the center of moscow just as everybody's trying to find a t.v. set i think it was done at the stadium itself to people to hear myself think you can you cross things. just kicked off nearly all thirty seconds down but keep an eye on it for you but let's have a quick word about the opening ceremony to you because we were watching half an hour long wasn't it very interesting robbie williams it was you know he wasn't tough or wasn't great yeah you know it's the old things what they are you know and i think he kicked it off really well. it's all about what's happening on the pitch now. that russia she will hold the nation against saudi arabia the world cup as actually started to believe is an exciting moment it is yeah and i just saw the launch of the first attack that before we start talking about the football prophets

. stadium will be back later with his full time analysis but you know it's robbie williams. ceremony that's what he said. it's lucky that he was a phenomenal single phenomenon because he would live in the career in football but what do you this is an amazing guy we'd love for the game and specially love for children in trouble and that's why you get involved in in charity and matches playing organizing but fundamentally youth is a very funny a very happy guy in love with with life and the great affection for she's been in trouble that's why when when you say it's please george i always try to just say yes. i should be back in the studio a bit later with his full time analysis looking at the chains and they say looks like an attacking line up from russia if it does that we talked about that's your cough pain right fullback means that you can come over laughing and they've already

had a couple of men and this one attack from that left hand side that didn't end up in a in a cross but it certainly looks like that. russia is trying to win this game and and start the game by attacking early on so interesting stuff showing to be a question of whether they can break down outside your fence going to say anything that every day they have a knack of being difficult to break down but you know football is football they are nervous as well and right this moment russia they have a corner cake and can you imagine if russia scores what that's going to to change the whole atmosphere in the news media and around moscow of course as well but also what that's going to do to saudi arabia seem that's going to make the more and secure and more not wanting to be there. giving them more nerves as they probably have right now so but they didn't score. the ball is hit with ak in five years now launched it off the pitch and he's going to mean i can see it he's got an important job is need tonight the russian goalkeeper because not defense relatively shaky

quite experienced quite as well we should say i think maybe the combined age is over one hundred you know. they have conceding go happing continue go for a long time i think in the last year the average goal conceded pertains to point four single round and that's a lot of goals you can see. that's something they have to tidy up on and of course i can fly if he has a big job and he's experience he's been playing in this team for for many years i think he's he's played on the seven managers so that just shows you how long he's been playing in the in the russian team he has a big job he needs to organize his defense and he needs to be with. giving the younger players of the team the peter confidence they need to to watch understand that everything is all right and i can go and do my job and we will look after you and have your back so interested to see what happens yeah sure ok well we're going to allow you to go much that much respect to be relieved to know you were still

there for many placed in mentally ill evolution he came will be talking to peter a bit later on about how they're getting on their feet a present geonic journeymen scene i was enthusiastic too when he spoke to us so just before the opening ceremony. the whole world cup will be the best ever i'm sure when i see that and then to see as a man. when i see how russia is prepared to moscow's prepared for this game how everyone is looking forward to that. i'm convinced enjoy every second of it supports your team fully and then you know the pitch the sights but the motivation certainly there. for the saudi crown prince is also the luzhniki said a supporting the saudi side before the match he met with the world cup mascot. the wolf and signed a football. jersey he would merely

at c.u. and he's predicting a russian win tonight despite despite a lot of negativity in the russian press. if i was. checkers off i hope by sharing his name not so lots of wrong i'll be happy because. no expectations no positivity no optimism everybody expects the worst and it can be in this moment in his auto with this players preparing everybody for their. for their country pride. for their let's do it for the country let's do it for ourselves let's do it. against the ones that don't believe in don't believe in so i think can be can be a good thing for them you want my personal opinion i give my personal opinion i think there is a little bit of identity crisis in the russian team we are used at least i

think my generation used to have. the russian teams with a certain identity i think they lost a little bit of that identity there in the search of that talent is not in men's. but they have enough they have enough to win tonight they have enough to through the the group phase and of course later you will get the teams more talented with probably the best the best teams in europe the best teams in south america and then becomes a huge a huge challenge but i would say that russia has has enough has enough to get. i would say probably the five points that you need to qualify. like i was. talking to me a bit earlier but still there will be other luzhniki seven minutes gone now russia have had a couple of chances but it remains a goal

a split does look like they are attacking in force at the moment certainly in the early stages will keep an eye on it for you here's what the russian president said today i mean certainly just minutes before the game kicks off its let's just think of it. oh yes we devoted fans. of football are so numerous well millions of people i'll play that's where everyone will leave whatever traditions will hold full brings us together. in one single team. but of course there is an awful lot of pressure on this russian side in the first world cup much is always one of the most watched too is saudi arabia and russia battle like we cannot cross live to you cause you down at the stones and one of the fans owns in central mosque. sky what's the atmosphere like there at the moment eagle. won the first game of the basically folk world cup this just kicked off and we were just outside the stadium where they were and this game is taking place but trust me the atmosphere is very much like you and the stadium itself

there are thousands of football fans who have come here to watch the first game and one of the big screen on the big plasma screen behind me and i mean your fans from all over the world is watching from your russian in saudi arabian pounds while biting their nails right now as we speak who we might be called from argentina from brazil from germany from here from the cross the well as i said one of them have come here to enjoy the game and so far we've come to a number of people and a lot of them are telling us that so far they are enjoying their stay in russia very very much they're saying that the city has been very welcoming and the i mean for many of them of course the the trip the. how they were getting here he took a lot of time and one of them have told us that even asking what of course this is just the first day i mean the best way to dive into the atmosphere is to watch the

game itself. show i think she got there she was on a first in a fan zone in central moscow of course moscow isn't the only i would say see there are ten others to go to say we will tell you as well throughout the course of the song let's head up now to simply just because neil harvey is there for us so you know again that tomorrow to kick things off for so morocco around horses live there . yeah and everybody watching a very good evening i think you'll just need to take it down among a not so very intense and frantic over the rim should be more like the people of st petersburg everybody is very like that so chilled the venice of the north as they call it on helping bring to venice outside that's not. an unfair comparison the bonus being so but less expensive in st petersburg i've seen several new words couple strolling by yes there's a world cup but they're not getting too carried away about it just yet i think that will change tomorrow that will be the only much you group in morocco against their

round two teams who if we're being almost if they want to get out of a group that includes spain and portugal they really need to win it the problem for them is that they're actually both tough and probably my new best friend josie marina will appreciate this they said a very defensively both prefer to adopt two defensive midfield is so you do wonder where the goals will come from but it has suited them very well in qualification specially morocco didn't concede a single goal in qualifying but i think there will be intensity because both these sides don't get here too often it's only a fifth appearance in the world cup finals for both of them so for the players and for the fans i think they will understand. you know there's no guarantees that another opportunity like this will come around any time soon i was on the train with sam sam from moscow to st petersburg with some around france they are given food and stuff that they're going to be rocco i'm not sure that's based on any logic i think it's more pure hope and passion but that's what the world cup is about the smaller teams the ones that dare to dream that's what gives it extra

spice it's all chilled now just wait for tomorrow it will be a great game. yeah thanks a lot i'm excited here because i'm watching the match with half an eye to rush through still russia saudi arabia but i started very strongly have russia it's a good game to watch the events thanks to you know that's a meal for us up and simply to spend. now earlier mark bosnich and sports pundit and former goalkeeper for a stranger to tell us how he sees his team's chances for the tone of. the difficult fall of one campaign we had to go through the playoffs we played syria in a playoff and basically syria hit the post in the last minute if they had scored that goal they would have went through then we played honduras and beat them quite convincingly then the manager resigned and as i was talking before he resigned just out of the blue. it's a bit of a molecule step then he's only had the team maybe for three months in title he's had a camp with them in turkey it's going to be very very difficult i've been to get into frogs that we saw in two thousand and six the same got to last sixteen astroids best record ever in two thousand and ten they got knocked out of the first round

but it had the same points as two thousand six hundred difference being the goal difference i've been in game two thousand and six we won three one i've been in game two thousand and ten against germany last fall neal said this game against france is going to be absolutely everything for us is what we keep saying you know you've got three games you've got them in ten things. and the first game is more important than the second and third because it hasn't been played yet but if you set yourself up like you said in two thousand and six you set yourself up with a win in the first game it changes the approach for the second game and it changes how you would supply you see it but most certainly also how the manager wants to do it to to put your. tactical so the first game is so important you have to and you play france we play peru and the funny thing about this and this is i have to speak to you also about that tomorrow is. true is eleventh in the world how how is he not looking at them i am i'm seriously more scared of peru than i am of france and i know what france and i know the quote is but if they have what i i really do not

know what kind of polluting team job and it can be a nasty nasty shock if you're not prepared for four eleven and they say he's one hundred percent wrong itself a lot of fun same suppose they have one you can actually get on the bench oil well down to the not to see how it is before we come up here we'll talk i was trying to have side to a base proving fans were just going you know mental i actually spoke so i said this is how many fans have you brought here and he was saying to me fifty five thousand now i don't know if it is fifty five thousand but what he said about what they're i mean for every game against denmark against france they get this right they want to make it like a toss the first world cup in thirty six years before you got a lot of talk about you start this new strange thing yes nineteen years old and iranian refugee correct daniel. i mean what a story absolutely amazing story so i mean we do the local football obviously we do the premier league better strike but when these type of things come up it doesn't matter where it is what around the world they're just an amazing story so from january we hadn't heard of this kid didn't go through any of those traditional

pathways to play street football and we picked him up as soon as we saw him that we sort of thought you know what he's a player that australia has not got you know he's a player that could be maybe one day touch wood like a christian eriksen i'm going to have to leave it there thank you very much and i think you'd be surprised maybe to somebody else just to give you an idea how big these guys are. on a box who will not. be goalkeepers really so you found. there was a little earlier good news from russia from moscow a magical start so for russia here one nil it could go to. i tell you what it's a great going to watch fifteen minutes one there russia. scoring at the far post that was in about the seventh minute i think of the twelfth minute russia piling on the pressure they haven't stopped since kick off. so frantic stuff in the saudi arabia penalty area a good game to watch we'll keep an eye on it for you it's not just people here on earth and watching this one also people up at the international space station they

had a message for the russian to. france. in one of those a bit of sports. will start soon this is a huge issue in the civil war which closer from on board the international space station this week that the all participants of zicam petey's and misogynist. ok so well the first match of this tournament is underway russia taking on saudi arabia fifteen minutes gone in the first half but russia has had a magical start in moscow the leading one nil since he's scoring the twelfth minute it was fine to head it just beyond the reach of the saudi goalkeeper the moment it's been a slight break for an injury but an attacking line up that's been put forward by chess of the russian manager he's gone for a couple of wing backs to. cough so that should help attacking down the flanks and

they really have pinned saudi arabia into their own half at the start of this start of this half so it's been a good start a lot of russian fans were a bit wary of this team thought they were bit flat coming into this they hadn't won in seven games but it looks like it could be their first win tonight fingers crossed sixty minutes luzhniki russia one saudi arabia nail well let's see what joe is a critic before this guy. thanks. russia saudi arabia huge 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 first soldier rubeus that in spite of some talent years and i used to use a team from a different reality and russia has to win and. thank. you. you're watching our special coverage of the you know well cup they were

knocked say it's one nil to russia the moment against saudi arabia the league sneakiest just down the road from here twenty minutes. vacate the latest looking good for the moment will be but when you see the top of it. i think it's trying to imagine i say things just to be controversial you would not withstand the level of attacks of police harassment oh detention of having my post

of social services being called on my children my family being i'm stretch of coming to jihad these plot to behead me in nov twenty seventh i don't believe you would withstand those levels of people trying to trying to silence you if you didn't believe what you said. they put themselves on the line. they did accept the reject. so when you want to express injury. or somehow want to be rich. but you'd like to be this is what will befall you the more people. interested in the waters. there should.

those columns read the article you sent us some of our other headline stories now the un general assembly has voted to condemn israel's use of excessive indiscriminate and disproportionate force against palestinian protesters over the past two and a half months since the end of march i.d.f. troops have killed more than one hundred twenty people in gaza the resolution one widespread support with one hundred twenty members backing it forty five abstained just eight states including the u.s. and israel voted against it the palestinian ambassador said he just wants to see civilians protected while washington's ambassador claimed the vote would play into the hands of hamas. 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 and while israel maintains that its actions are necessary for defending its borders its use of live fire against the occupation protesters as unleashed a torrent of criticism from right groups. the. this is a a vital mistaken 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 is a clear recognition that it's wrong and that there's no future in continuing this kind of oprah should. have been days of animosity between rome and paris italy's deputy prime minister says his country still waiting for an apology from the manual mccrum of the french president shall be criticized it in his decision to turn away a migrant rescue boat to do bensky has the details. 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 gone 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 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 are the humility to apologize the story will be closed and we will work in the interests of everyone. present 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 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 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 ask president mccrone to move from just words to action and tomorrow morning welcome the one thousand migrants france promised to work and 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 ruhr 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 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. we can ignore the world cup especially what happened just a few minutes into the opening match of the luzhniki stadium russia got a goal despite what the naysayers may have been saying around the world and even though in a soundproof room i'm pretty sure i heard cheering in the apartment opposite let's go live to one of the firm zones now. what was annoyed when they bought across the line when. he was being somewhat of the rock you're right russia in this match already yes in the team russia since the first all this championship but you should

have the crowd go around but they're really just minutes ago one of the russians. who had to leave the field apparently he was injured so they had to be for another one and this is because it would seem the russian in this match and in the next one as well but again the atmosphere around here so it's spectacular it's just it was the stadium where the actual venue where this game is being played right now has been extended if you wanted me to this is people like you would be watching a game like the stadium now of course there are just russia and saudi arabia and runs around. right now your with my argentinians brazilians with my people germany was the world this is really the end all of them have come here to. you would think a movie would pull things pretty good this opening venue bugs you closest to home

towns to their folks because of the rule you can get me you can get me as in snacks right so this is what they would get a full payment they've told us and so far they are enjoying the state in most no right now i mean some of them have come to see just one game in their inaction on the others not planning to explode rajon from so raining mostly championship moves into people's welcomes when he'd seen these promising loads to a lot some people. yeah whether you're supposed russia saudi arabia or neither the one thing is clear that opening match for the world cup is for just about everybody around the planet all right but on the face of fans on emotion he goes downhill thanks for that. right that's it for now we're back live at all times world cup h.q. in central moscow and just over thirty minutes from now i'm calling bright this is aussie international.

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