guys. i was on a box will now. be go keep this room so fans for the tournament second match is a heavyweight clash between spain and portugal that's taking place in sochi on friday ok proctor ridge reports now from the black sea 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 boost it's given them i mean even in this into the music in the background and 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 that been watching the match as it started to come out into the olympic plaza here 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 there 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 such a twenty fourteen winter olympics because last may that we people here actually because of celebrating and afterwards if you struggle to the beach will come on the pebbles and then go for a drink and celebrate along there because we are at the black sea resort of sochi it's been thirty degrees today we're in 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 and i think it's about to carry out. i mean i was a little earlier as you know and he made a prediction about portugal against spain this is what he said. portugal in spring nor fresher at all because there's no the going to qualify so i can imagine for us to emerge with. a risk to say probably the best team of the time.

the mention arctic boss also told just tell you that having christiane are now though doesn't guarantee success to portugal. they are. two very good teams in probably better team than us. possible shows that us wards. portugal is quite a solid team i think better than the team that one day you will see what at and t. is in the team. so i think probably the group is one of the best matches if we can . show and in a cycles poll should have run out of. here but in the us so much. sing. and sing is rollin real madrid another season although in the portuguese national team there are two different things what about all this this trouble that we call a power play i think it is an input of i'll play for the president. i was out and i

for the players to think i think it would seem to me to morrow. you'll see everything at the feet to morrow. everything we are speaking of can create a difficult situation for them the group phase i think doesn't matter the result of moral going to to do with so they're going to have like a couple of weeks to. adjust the situation and to be ready for the novice in spain we hear all we do look at it will be always a big. ok those predictions there for tomorrow an awful lot going on tomorrow three matches to enjoy but i think we should just enjoy the moment pressure of one five million going for the world cup with each.

for millions of russians hosting the world cup is a dream come true but that has not always been the case r.t. traced to the roots of the game in russia and it leads to scotland of all places in india to exploit. 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. the german sportsmen in white all bits were running round in the mud splashing down with force in the dirt and soon turned into chimney sweeps there was a remitting rafter among the pub. over a decade later things began to change football started to gain a foothold in russia but not without some serious help from

a russian born scottish merchant and sports enthusiast named this and so in fact the history of russian football can be traced all the way back to glasgow shipbuilding was booming here back in the day in the mid nineteenth century and it was one of the shipyard owners murdoch's fierce and who was recruited by the russians sought to become an engineer with the roll fleet it's his grandson arthur who is to become the leading light in promoting football in russia and to help be unraveled this story i've managed to find and knowledgeable enthusiastic from the clan let's face and itself sandy let's face it after him self he started up 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 they bring nations together the life. this in and 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 typhoid 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 off the macpherson lady betty glass who only very recently discovered she was related to the footballing trailblazer it was a great discovery because i know about him but very little about what he did until

. he must have put a lot and. it's good it's good for points of view because it's a really rough big country that it's amazing that the influence yeah pleased. so that is somebody who did so much as had his is it is recognized as russia plays host to the world cup it might be worth remembering the remarkable story of from macpherson without the tournament might not be happening here. now let's stick with that some other news making headlines around the world. now we can donald trump has said that crimea is rightfully part of russia according to online news outlet buzz feed the comments reportedly came during last week's g. seven summit in canada artist america brought down the story for us according to

buzz feed at trump told leaders at the g. seven summit that crimea is russian because everyone speaks russian there on the second day of the cement 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 mccraw and merkel but first some background of crimea joined russia after a referendum was held where 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 well speaking at a white house press conference spokesperson sara sanders declined to expand on donald trump's remarks are aware of any comment like that i know it's been reported but i'm not going to comment on a private conversation i wasn't part of that i don't have information on. united

nations has held an emergency session on the saudi led offensive in the yemeni port city of data. the ground operation is the largest so far in the three year conflict aid groups say it will worsen the country's humanitarian crisis and saudi arabia insists the goal is to remove the rebels from who did it and bring it back to the middle or his point boy girl has more. but 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 spewed in supplies come through and the u.n. in the red cross have had to withdraw their star 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 for. says 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 un 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 of them can achieve anything while the u.k. continues its policy of arming the saudis. united nations has condemned israel's crackdown on protests along the gaza border where dozens of people have been killed since march it resolution was passed at the general assembly with one hundred twenty votes in favor and just eight against israel and

the united states were among the countries opposing the statement as it failed to condemn hamas which controls gaza and washington's envoy so the document would simply play into the hands of the islamist group 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. unquestionably and why should that be offending anyone. we're just asking for a simple thing we want a lot of civilian population to be protected israel says that the actions of its soldiers are necessary to defend the country's border with gaza but rights group rights groups say that the use of live fire goes way beyond self-defense.

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

hundreds of yards from the so-called fence and they're being shot by snipers. with with live ammunition this is what's going on there is a clear recognition that it's wrong and that there's no future in continuing this kind of oprah shuttle given to does it for me i'll be back in just less than thirty minutes with a full look at your headlines stay with us. i think it's trite to imagine that i say things just to be controversial. and you would not withstand the level of attacks of police harassment of detention of having my passport take ten of social services being called all my children my family being under threat of having to jihad this plot to behead me in nov twenty seventh i don't believe you would withstand those levels of people trying to trying

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