the opening for world cup twenty eight ends in delight for russia doing a demolition job. in the end. i. mean force in moscow look at those scenes reveling in the best of the spear the championship. one of the best minds in the game manchester united manager joe gives us his take on friday's match spain versus.

where ever you may be tuning in from right around the world this hour welcome to moscow and to our to international great to have your company it's been a terrific day for russia football's twenty eight dean fifa world cup on day one the hosts trancing saudi arabia five nil moscow's luzhniki stadium in the opening match of the tournament the scenes indeed across the russian capital and beyond being nothing short of jubilant. b i. b. yeah these are pictures right from the hearts of law school near to the kremlin crowds coming out in force maybe some of them were after the game. i was just enjoying and the respect they want me for the hosts

five nil and to score a lot of fun lot of musical instruments i therof of course i think i even heard of zeller a two earlier in the day we'll try and get some more pictures right here on the east scenes and in fact these pictures were a little earlier on these are live so this is the scene now from near red square a lot of russian finance taking that vantage all of there when five male to go i maybe meet some international people people from around the world coming new friendships being created maybe even sharing a drink or two so these are lots of flags in the heart of the russian capital they're celebrating their team's win just wanted to give you a flavor of what was happening right now thursday evening in moscow well our special studio on top of the four seasons hotel was over looking at those celebrations our team was there from the early afternoon these are the days

highlights. yes hello again and why true because russia had a magical start here and lost a way to society as a lesion he came with me now to talk about it he said peter schmeichel for mine you know i could kill people and also money and i could manage it yes a very i think it's face to face with the pressure it's a fulminant to shrivel i like a look at him so that many of these fans definitely plays with what i say.

be. like i suppose the fans obviously happy is the gold flea win today if i can tell you same pace here and i think we can go through the night saying with your help the first as we know we scored early on wasn't between by u.t. kosinski. there for for civilizing the boy is something of happiness because he's in d.c. he's in the city of the world cups these days three of. the russia will cup as it is a fantastic feat for it for him to score the first school beautiful cross and the last had about a second goal that chad and ben ben is then this comes from the bench and to me that the sometimes the correction and the great shots and what can we say about. coming from the bench not the best relation with the man there's a he comes from the bench for studs writs had a dominant in the box against

a known powerful team and the grid well i think this is this is a plague of the bunch i mean he's come off the pan and he you know he was all the way throughout the game trying to prove a point to the manager that he was opposed to the sideline and i think he will be the next game and then both of these goals here. right at the end of the game a minute between them in the ninety's minute so and that made it five nil and when i say is sure you know what was wrong with that fine it 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 holiday and 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 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 had 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 sure jay say you said earlier that it was a good performance fans should be optimistic but not see what. and i hope the russians are looks 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 me to seize each because of course is a great result of course maybe one goal becomes crucial one knows for egypt ends 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 danger zone where that there is thing went well but in reality so there is not

a good team 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 your own country in the world. is a huge waiting in in your back and i think he had big decisions to make he made some he choose the team to play with the players he made the right changes the changes work perfectly for him so i think he leaves the stadium taller than ease but i think he has enough experience to to come down and like you to say is. saudi arabia saudi arabia egypt is better than saudi and you know why is better than egypt so calm enjoy the moment relax and feel that that happiness and that

right there definitely challenges for them 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 changes 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 before the next thing i can get plenty of positives to one of them is a chatty chef dentist chair the chef 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 this is first match in real madrid was last spotted myself it was in the in what we call the custody of the second real madrid team and in some in some cup match i brought into the first in my giving is is that would you was he was a good kid he was he was fast was confident becomes like people were saying from

a football player background this is that was a football player so it has that virus like is why he has like my boy has like in all the squads genetic the love the passion he was very careful to play for real . i gave him his there had been the one called long long and he come back then he played a couple of years then you want to feel real and i was i was leaving with the moment that he's the season 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 did this and now in which i said it's football you know i get four people saying let's show her the truth you cannot play for a country where you can feel connected by your heart from the united states made the decision and obviously is that must be the happiest man. in the meantime as he would guess it is a busy time for sports reporters around the world so here's

a quick glimpse of what life is like behind the scenes at the media center illusion he came with alexy hour shift i have managed to speak to two of the goal scorers i managed to speak to who actually if you think about it scored the quickest goal from a substitute in sixteen yes it's just i'm still i've grown since childhood to school in the world cup and at home in our country in such an atmosphere it's through childhood dream my whole life flashed before my eyes but i also managed to speak to the man who spoke 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 se cross that i just want to start out now we have to get ready for the next game to be really important much easier ahead we have to forget as much as quickly as possible of course it's a big win but it's not the end of the tournament but there's also a pinch of salt. one of the players i think you did really good in the first half

before his injury allan's ago it was walking away from the make zone seemingly in a lot of pain and it seems like a hamstring injury but sensually ending 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. of course the world cup wouldn't be complete without id to feel like in ceremony we had one to robbie williams perform destroying your face including let me entertain you and then brazil legend renowned i was also getting a child to take me possible to the world cup mascot because you've gone off the sound of the fans and today to believe he can get his time he found thousands of people have chosen this old. boy in the opening of the world cup like a. long hard look at anybody to. believe he is going to. be one of the ones that really the. feel of the good old.

but. there's a question pretty good to be so. old so many people i mean everybody stories some are saying they're just you watching the game to watch the game seem to want to see the saying they're planning to explore russia planning to travel around the cities soon woke up twenty feet and see nothing but whatever whatever reason he. was. told. to look.

at both nations sports pundit former goalkeeper for stride to tell us how he sees his team's chances for the tony we had a difficult qualifying 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 i had scored that goal i would have went through that we played honduras and beat them quite convincingly the. the manager resigned and also called as i was telling before he resigned just out of the blue so bad a molecule stepped anytime he had the team maybe for three months in title he said it came with them in turkey look it's going to be a very very difficult i've been against france that we saw in two thousand and six the same got to last sixteen a strike is best record ever in two thousand and ten they got knocked out of the first round but they 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 lost four nil so this game against france is going to be absolutely everything for us is what we keep saying you know you got three games you 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 a seed 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 you 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 really do not know what kind of polluting team job and it can be a nasty nasty shock if you're not prepared for the eleven they have you say one hundred percent wrong itself a lot of fun same support they have here talking on that show well all down to the not to see how it is before we come up here we'll talk i was trying to have cites away these privileges were just going you know mental i actually spoke to or 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 was what they're aiming for every game against denmark against france and i guess that's right they want to make it like a high and toss a first world cup in thirty six years before you got a lot of talk about establishing you stride into. 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 privilege back in australia but when these type of things come up it doesn't matter where it is what are around the world they're just amazing stories so from january we haven't heard of this kid didn't go through any of those traditional path ways all the goal was to play straight for all i would pick him up as soon as we saw you 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 there is always going to have to leave it there very very much i think you know to somebody else but it just to give you an idea how big these guys are. out on

a box who will not. be goalkeepers really so i found the tournament second matches a heavyweight clash between spain and portugal last taking place in sochi on friday . reports now from the black sea so what a cracking start it was for russia 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 you can see by but it's dark that a bit of a party started to take place here in sochi where you get a feel of the russians you can tell by be watching the matches and started to come out into the olympic plaza 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 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 both sides of this magnificent arena that was what the host and also the closing ceremony host for the sunday twenty fourteen winter olympics but come what

may that we people here actually because the 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 sochi it's been thirty degrees today during this most southern point but the eleven host 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 on 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 pressure at all because they know that both are going to qualify so i can imagine a fantastic match between dupion champion. by researchers say probably the best team after time.

in the mansion are to boss also told just so 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 see more talented young players in the team. so i think probably the group phase one of the best matches that we can look i'm sure and i was going to say of course portugal have run out. here but when there's 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 people what about all this this trouble that we call a power play i think it is a little bit of paul play for the president to be honest i was out can i for the

players to think i think you would speak to me tomorrow. you will see everything at the feet to morrow. everything we are speaking about it can create a difficult situation for them but the group phase i think there's a measure of the result a moral go. to do with so they're going to have like a couple of weeks to. adjust the situation and to be ready for the knock out by since we are all we've looked at that will be always a big. ok those predictions are for tomorrow an awful lot going on tomorrow three matches to enjoy but i think we should just enjoy the moment after a one five nil the only game of the world cup receive.

their traffic stuff there from the boys well indeed for millions of russians hosting the world cup is a dream come true as we saw on the pictures earlier but it hasn't always been the case it took grit and it took the terminations to get the beautiful game here in the first place r.t. trace the roots of the game in russia and at leeds to scotland are and why let's let the dear a cheater explain. 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. gentlemen sportsmen in white outfits were running round in the mud splashing down with full force in the dirt and soon turned into chimney sweeps there was a remitting 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 arthur missis's and so in fact the history of russian football can be traced all the way back to glasgow shipbuilding were. is booming here back in the day in the mid nineteenth century and it was one of the shipyard owners murdock's 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 to help me unbearable the story i've managed to find and knowledgeable enthusiastic from the clan mcphearson itself sandy let's face it after i'm 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 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 we bring nations together the life of our for macpherson and it miserably due to his prominent position in the russian empire revolutions swept the country and he was imprisoned by the bolsheviks he died of time in jail 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 arthur 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 him but very little about what he did until . he must have put a lot and. it's good it's good or points of view. because it's really rough in such a big country that it's amazing that the influence yet there are. so that it is somebody who did so much as had his is in his recognized as such a place host to the world cup it might be worth remembering the remarkable story of from macpherson without him the tournament might not be happening here. r.t. .

just approaching twenty four minutes past eleven pm this thursday night here in moscow time now for more world news where across this is one we have been following closely donald trump has said crimea is rightfully part of russia according to online news are that both feet the comments reportedly came during last week's g. seven summit in color and breaking down the story some recount. according to buzz feed a trump told leaders at the g. seven summit that crimea is russian because everyone speaks russian there now 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's directly related to the president and therefore the white house but on the second day of this summit truck made a few comments in regards to russia saying it used to be the g. eight before russia was taked out and he also called for russia to be reinstated saying that they should be at the table so that they can solve the world's problems together naturally some leaders were opposed to this including mccrone and merkel

but first some background crimea joined russia after a referendum was held were almost ninety seven percent of the population voted to join russia and international observers were present at this referendum but it's pretty big that this is all coming from a u.s. president so we'll just have to see what happens. the united nations general assembly to condemn israel's use of quote 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 a hundred twenty members backing it forty five abstained eight states including the u.s. and israel voted against it the palestinian ambassador said he just wanted to see civilians protected while washington's envoy claimed the vote would play into the homes of the islamist group hamas which controls gaza. 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 our people out of 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 or while israel maintains that its actions are necessary for defending its borders the use of live fire against anti occupation protesters has on least a torrent of criticism from rights groups.

the home. 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 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 old pressure. the u.n. security council has held an emergency closed door session on the saudi led coalition's assault on the rebel held that yemeni port city of code data the operation has triggered the largest bottle of the yemen conflict and aid groups say millions of lives are now at risk the meeting was called by the u.k. which has faced harsh criticism for supplying arms to the beyond in turn saudi arabia say is that the operation will putto data under legitimate rule to ensure the arrival of humanitarian aid to all of yemen play book. well this closed door u.n. security council meeting was held at britain's request after the saudi led coalition launched a full scale attack on the port of data the saudi led coalition wants to wrestle

back control of the strategically important port but the problem is that yemen has been suffering as a result of the civil war for some three years now and the concern is that this new offensive is going to make the situation in yemen even worse although for many it's hard to imagine how it could get any worse the war there is already described as the planet's worst humanitarian disaster and aid agencies have been sounding the alarm throughout this conflict but they are particularly alarmed by what's happening now how data happens to be the port where seventy percent of yemen students supplies come through and the u.n. in the red cross have had to withdraw their stuff from the port city and a full scale attack on her day to put even more yemenis at risk of starvation and it could force hundreds of thousands of people from their homes as well as aid organizations are warning so it was britain that called this meeting the foreign

secretary boris johnson had tweeted earlier that yemen is the world's worst humanitarian crisis and that he brought together key international partners to stress the need for humanitarian access and a political solution but what boris johnson didn't mention in that tweet is that the u.k. is practically saudi arabia's best friend on the world stage especially when it comes to the arms trade the british government has licensed over four point six billion pounds worth of weapons to saudi forces since the war started back in twenty fifteen and about sixteen thousand yemeni civilians have died since twenty fifteen when the saudi led coalition first started bombing iranian backed who's the rebels there so campaign is in the u.k. say this isn't about a u.n. security council meeting what's needed is a change in policy from the u.k. government and there are questions over whether a security council meeting or a number.