the opening. world cup twenty eight ends for the russia doing a demolition job on saudi arabia winning. in the end. i . found from across the globe in force in moscow reveling in the festival atmosphere our team is in the thick of the action as the world turns its attention to international football its biggest event back you. are on the pitch the play is the biggest country on the planet and all special studios in the host cities will come to all of you for world cup twenty eight c. in russia. again we've got one of the best minds in the game.

giving us his take on tomorrow as much as well between spain portugal doubts all the head. center in moscow this thursday june the fourteenth a very warm welcome this hour my name's you know. the greatest advent and global sport house finally got underway the twenty eighteen world cup in russia about half the entire planet is expected to tune in at some stage to the tournament over the next month team our team is primed and ready to bring you every moment that matters so let's go live now to our world cup h.q. overlooking central moscow and find just what happened on day one.

usa. yes hello again and why because russia has a magical start here and more they give away the saudis believe me came with the night talk about it he said peter schmeichel for mine you know i could kill people and also the money and i could manage it jason really i think it's fair to say you were the first foreman. fish fry for i like i will get on to that many of these fans definitely were pleased with what i said. i i . i ok so those

fans obviously have to use the gold spleen today if i can tell you. and i think we can go through the night so you with your help the first as we know was scored early on wasn't between because he skipped. the first look first of all i think the boy is jumping in five minutes because he's in these three he's in these three of the world cups these and these three of. the russian world cup i think is a fantastic feat for for him to score the first school beautiful cross and the nice have about the second goal there for each other and then ben is then this comes from the bench and the immediate the some past the correction and and the great shots and what can you say you bobs you were coming from the bench not the best relation with the man there's a he comes from the bench first touch. dominant in the box against unarmed powerful team and the group. and i think this is this is a figure that bunch i mean he's come off the bench he you know he said he was all

the way throughout the game trying to prove a point to the manager that he was supposed to open the sideline up and i think he will be in the next game and then both of these goals here right right at the end of the game a minute the train them in the ninety's minutes so and that made it five nil and when i say is sure you know whatever i want to find that was from no that's nothing wrong with that this is exactly what russia needed and it's going to do so much good for for the whole event it's for the atmosphere around the russian team i mean i've been traveling around russian off six months and it's very little positive i've heard about the team they have now won five of those and they've convinced people that they can actually play football and compete at this level they haven't played a competitive game for two years they went out there today and they did the job they have to do it was a case when i say it's because saudi arabia was not a great team and is not a great team and i would be surprised if egypt and year ago i don't win at the same

score so that's that's why it was so important today that russia did win by five goals she will say you said earlier that it was a good performance fans should be optimistic but not see what. and i hope the russians are not like the portuguese because for us the distance between super optimistic and pessimistic is very short and i think that they didn't had reasons for be so pessimistic but now i'm a bit like like people seize each because of course is a great result of course maybe one goal becomes crucial one knows for egypt tends russia to finish with four points which is very possible to happen so everything was good snow no yellow cards the only negative point is dangerous so where but there is thing went well but in reality so there is not. at the team and like because i believe they're going to. they're going to have

a point. of good performance today saying from the russian manager. he made a lot of good calls and substitute pressure. and never i have never been there but i can imagine that to manage our own country you know world cup is a huge waiting in in your back and i think he had big decisions for making made some he choose the team to play with the players he made the right changes the changes worked perfectly for him so i think he leaves the stadium taller than ease but i think he has enough experience to to calm down and like you to say this. saudi arabia saudi arabia egypt is better than saudi and you know why it's better than egypt so calm enjoy the moment relax and feel that that happiness and the pride but there definitely challenges for the manager and i was not convinced at

all by the way that russia was defending. a team like saudi arabia should have zero chances against it and there was one big chance and then for sort of chance that could have ended up in the go and i think that's something that he really needs to work on in the days that time before the next game if he doesn't and his other games for instance he was schools and so it's suarez he's so this is something he really has to to to work very very hard on i think from the from the midfield and forward they did a really good job today when the competition and the opponents get stronger they also need to up their game and. so it's going to be interesting to see how the next game first will always get him and his team up without question marks small. all of for instance we talked about that in an hour ago of course he's a big star force probably will play but he now knows that he has other players that

he could put and put on and it would be maybe a different team different approach but it would be equally strong so there are questions that he needs to get answered before we push the next team out like i have a pension of positive stay one of them is a cherry chef dentist chair chatty chef i understand that you spot it is talent didn't you when you were at real madrid as a manager you can just tell us about how i just play in his first match in real madrid was lots what about myself it was in the in what we call the custodian the second real madrid team and in some in some cup match i brought him to the first team i gave him his he's there with you was he was a good kid he was he was fast he was confident becomes like peter was saying from a football player background just use that as a football player so it has that that virus like his boy has like my boy has like

in all the squads genetic the love the passion he was very careful to play for real i give him is there but then he went on and on longer and he come back then he played a couple of years then you want to feel real and i was i was leaving within the moment of his decision to play for russia or not to play for russia was in that period that he had to make that decision and i always tell to my players i do the same now in manchester it's quite funny and forget what people say let your heart choose you cannot play for a country where you don't feel connected by far your heart from the lads you made that decision and obviously is that must be the happiest man today and we had the pleasure of his dance company with this is it. an honor to travel for the pianist michael slow and he i can see you. back then was talking about you saw me so proud and i. cannot imagine what he would feel like today you know he sees

chosen to play for russia he sees he's not starting the game he's coming on scoring two goals and of course i can imagine because of you hundred more goals than messi allowed yeah it's changed a lot of storage is right for this if you know you think about how many goals it takes to become top scored with the girl group he's not that far away he's not that far away obviously the competition or the opponents are going to be stronger the defense is going to be stronger in the next two games but he's still got to go yeah sure now i don't know if you can hear this at home but we're hearing counting say which is russia russia they've obviously made their way back from the stadium and already celebrating out in the streets in the past that will happen i'm sure for a few hours yet now let's talk about egypt because they are different proposition on that show saying how differently g.'s think the team will have to set up against egypt compared to have set up against saudi arabia egypt has. i don't want to say the fastest but i have to say one of the fastest players in the world

we ball we dop all you can dribble you can affect space behind defenders i think russia they have to drop the clock back and they have to react better when they lose the ball because as peter was saying they consider a little bit against a very naive team against a team without any physical power and egypt. can hurt so i think they have to. to sink maybe looks a contradiction but i have to say these i don't think russia can score many goals and i'm saying these are the five nil but i don't think they can score many goals against good teams. so i think they cannot concede many goals too if they want to get results and for me that the game against egypt is the crucial match of the group if not they have to go to the last match against a white. in the searching of one piece you were saying they need to improve on

defense how much can you improve in five days what can you do on the training field to shore things up. you know i am the manager is easy you will be until you guys are good people. and probably we have different different different views of it i think is difficult to do it in the next five days by the coaching point of view is difficult to do it in the next five days but i think we. have a big strong goalkeeper personality demanding more from the players in that moment there i think and improve a lot and that's why i'm always looking for leadership on the beach because i don't play i can only play play outside but the game is inside inside so i think they have me wanting to improve the presentation levels because against various short scene because from my perspective i think that saudi arabia players they were really small compared to the russians they had the ball in the

few set pieces they have they want balls in india so i think they have to improve specially on that leave the ship on that concentration on that fear to concede goals because specially the teams that cannot score many goals they have to be very sorted by defensive point of view and again is a contradiction but i don't believe that russia can score many goals there are things he can do i mean i agree with the with with the goalkeeper part that we need a strong goalkeeper that can and we talked about that this will become fair and i think with i could see if he's been so heavily criticized and fought for many things that he's not really responsible for and you know you have a good goalkeeper needs to be nice to people technique and it is no secret that russian are suffering from a lot of injuries from their normal defend this so he's been here all the manager has been sort of taking place in an hour and his take. you know all the players already retired back in and what this is going to do this this team sheet is

actually going to give him a little bit of confidence that we can keep things she's even though it's against saudi arabia you know we always see even though you win five nil and play against an easy team you always take the positives out and you tell yourself that was great and you bring that incident speed i really agree with you on set pieces i think they were very very disorganized and not very convincing and when you play against teams that are smaller in size and you have to be much more you have to be convincing in every poll that you have it's kind of clear so everybody knows within it he says a little bit of insecurity then everybody will feel that insecurity and i think working on set pieces will go a long way. to to improve the team and improve their defending because once they have that little bit of confidence we defended that well we could see if in this then they take it up to him to open plays well. and you know the midfield players i

thought they did really well but they have to do more defensively as well. but it's difficult to judge you completely on the game today i have to say certainly as i can say i'm finally before we let you guys guy and i was pretty like i'm js a prediction then perhaps brush against the jets if you got a score in mind or. i simply withdraw i go if i could if i had to true as one of the three results i'll go for a i'll go for a draw can i go south what have you protected from this group yet i was predicting a little word to win it and russia to finish say ok we are turned around and i will go for russia to finish second with four points. yet russia rejected four points and those goals and goals for an awfully sold the will not lose by six. so you know anything at. when this is the world cup on live television tick thank you so much for coming in and there is every preacher like your insight today great

market a place that you say thank you we'll let you go and i think we're going to run a package otherwise you walk across me but you go down off down in the fan zone today to believe me to get in i hate the fact. that the people chose. the old would be no one. told anybody just. want. to leave the show. but. there's a pretty good to be so. old so many people i mean

everybody's story and some are saying they're just you watching the game to watch the game you want to see the saying they're planning to explore russia travel around the cities see the money see and see. but whatever whatever reason. told. you look. like you go shana there in the center of moscow a bit earlier but of course the world cup wouldn't be complete without sight beautiful like ceremony we had one to robbie williams perform destroying your face including let me entertain you and then brazil legend ronaldo i was also getting a child to take the opening kick and pass the ball to the world cup mascot and here's what president vladimir putin had to say when he welcomed everybody today to . so. you do mind you. just think without exaggeration the billions of us

devoted to them regardless of where we live in traditions we follow brings us to give them in one single scene. the what if had lived to be a legion you can study. for us and i understand alexei you've just come out of the make sign and of spoken to some of the russian players. yes indeed i have managed to speak to two of the goal scorers unfortunately the sheriff was stuck in the press conference obviously a lot of questions to him after his scintillating performance two goals on the night i managed to speak to who actually if you think about it scored the quickest goal from a substitute in sixteen years so that was eighty eight seconds since he came on and then he went out to score so we asked him what did he say to the bench after he scored and he just thanked them because when he was on the bench they were cheering

him on and saying that you will come on and score relax so he came on and scored we also managed to speak to the man who's who scored the first goal and if i think from now on we should call him gaza because that's what twitter has been calling him all the english twitter is not calling him gaza so you guys in ski from s.c. crossed the di i asked him. how did it feel to score the first goal of the domestic world cup and he said well it was nothing really surprising because when f.c. crossed the door opened their stadium to a brand new beautiful stadium in that city he also scored the first goal there so he's used to this kind of thing but of course he was a little a little sly on that that is something he will carry with him to the rest of his days it seems like the russian players every single one of the walking through the make zone they themselves were blown away by the result they have managed to produce five nil nobody expected even it was a marine or peter smile. well nobody predicted this kind of scoreline and the boys obviously over delivered on that but there's also

a pinch of salt year. one of the players i think you did really good in the first half before use injury was walking away to make zone seemingly in a lot of strain and it seems like a hamstring injury but sand surely and in his world cup but again the medical staff of the russian national team will tell us in the coming hours whether that injury would be very serious but other than that they seemed really happy and everyone was very very cheerful. thanks to those that actually are a shifty force there down at the legion he can stadium for the tournament second matches a heavyweight clash between spain and portugal last taking place in sochi on friday . reports now from the black seems. like a cracking start it was paracha for the world cup for the first world cup in eastern europe and particularly for the host nation what a beast it's given them i mean even in this into the music in the background and you can see by the tricks doc that a bit of a posse started to take place here in sochi where you could feel the russians you

can tell have been watching the match as it started to come out into the olympic pozza hate to celebrate and he says distinctively party festive mood ahead of what will be an incredibly important group the match between portugal and spain in the fish stadium behind me that i mean after everything that's been happening we've been hearing the opinions of germans a marine he seemed to think that the spanish team they wouldn't be affected by the fact that their boss was sacked choose days before the well comes down to it but of course he will be back in his native portugal but that it would anybody be surprised if it was a draw who knows what the score will be but the fans they'll be here on friday to cheer on by sides of this magnificent arena that was what the host and also the closing ceremony host for the sochi twenty fourteen winter olympics because last may that we people here actually because a celebrating and afterwards if you struggle to the beach will come on the pebbles and then go for a drink and celebrate along mad because we are at the black sea resort of such. it's been thirty degrees today and we're in this most southern point at the eleven

high cities we need to georgia but a big party is just starting i think after that russian victory i think it's about to carry out. there with stephanie starting you can hear it now over my shoulder well i mean i was ahead a little earlier as you know and he made a prediction saying about portugal against spain this is what he said. portugal in spain nor fresher at all because they know that both are going to qualify so i can imagine a fantastic match between the dupion champion. i received say probably the best team after time. to mention r.t. boss also told just tell you that having christiane are now though doesn't guarantee success for portugal. they are. two very good teams

spain probably a better team than us. more solutions better swards. but portugal is quite a solid team i think better than the team in that one day you will want that and to go players in the team. so i think probably the group phase one of the best matches that we can hope we can show and is going to say because portugal have run out. here but spain are so much. and i think. one thing is ronaldo in real madrid another thing is wrong although in the portuguese national team there are two different it was me with a real madrid is a better team we don't have regional depth on the cross we don't have. a muscle on carlisle two to attack and to produce as much as we do we don't have. a nine or a fake nine like him. i want to play together with with christiane so i see.

you because it is a different one what about all this this trouble that we call a power play i think it is a little bit of a play for the president. how is that going to affect the players do you think i think it would speak to me tomorrow. you'll see everything at the feet tomorrow. every single yes speaking about it can create a difficult situation for them but the group phase i think doesn't matter the result tomorrow they're going to do it so they're going to have like a couple of weeks to. digest the situation and to be ready for the call by saying spain you have a look at that it will be always become. ok those predictions there for tomorrow an awful lot going on tomorrow or three matches to enjoy but i think we should just enjoy the moment pressure of one five million for the world cup fever.

fascinating stuff there from andrew there boy well let's move to other world news now donald trump said crimea is rightfully part of russia according to online news i clicked both feet the comments reportedly came during last week's g. segment summit g. seven summit in canada also joins me live she's been keeping across this story for us hi there similar to what did the u.s. president actually have to say on the issue. well apparently according to buzz feed at trump told leaders at the g seven set summit. that crimea is russian because everybody speaks russian there and we requested statements from the white house and

the state department but we only heard back from the latter who said that they can't comment because it relates directly to the president and the white house but during the summit trump also said that russia should be reinstated because it's a world leader naturally merkel and mccrone were opposed to this but first some background crimea joined russia in twenty fourteen after almost ninety percent ninety seven percent of the population. russia but it's pretty huge that this is coming from a u.s. president so what does have to see what happens. ok thank you very much for i will be keeping across this cerise in your account lovely stuff moving all know though the u.n. general assembly has voted to condemn israel's use of excessive in discriminant disproportionate force against palestinian protesters over the past two and a half months since the end of march i.d.f.

troops have killed over 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 that the palestinian ambassador said he just wanted to see civilians protected while washington's bus very claim 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 a lot of people in 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 while israel maintains that its

actions are necessary for defending its borders its use of life fire against an occupation protesters has unleashed a torrent of criticism from rights groups. ok. ok . this is a vital mistaken if people knew the true story about israel at 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 and 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. well i was it for now on a day that so russia still in turn opening day world cup win over saudi arabia we'll have all the reaction to that these are some of the funds in the capital city cheering on their five nil victors you're watching r t international.

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