it was a big game and a very good victory for russia our nurse if we were to start to turn on and it was amazing the way the crowd was responding to the game amazing well done betting that russia deserved to win and i'm happy for the russians i think it's beautiful for the world cup everybody happy a great great start our last football so this is good football out of goals and a joy specially also with all the people here in russia definitely i would like russia to go as far as possible because all the time difficult the first game you see so they went through they have won and now having their chance in the end we need a second game against egypt to potentially be qualify straight away they'll be much was also a very special moment two for one russian girl cool and gillian i'm a kind of she's an athlete with down's syndrome know she was the one who got to flip the coin for the start of the match he says story. you.

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you so what to look forward to today than got three fixtures for probably want to offend anyone by saying that today's headline respect envy portugal that's going to take place at nine pm moscow time the earliest you can watch is your acquired verses egypt that's featuring star footballer's mohamed salah and luis suarez that it's six pm moscow time there's the underdog clash morocco against iran we caught up with their fans and some pages book. i know more i am with more of them were in the room where did you come from from you know young men. tend to be going to meet them why do you treat the ones

she wanted and easily to the media you. probably did we choose zero to zero you know don't listen to him you know i'm going to beat morocco three zero goals by john knox signed on as one and ask on the. yeah that much is going to tie place in the new builds and it's arena ahead of the telling of peter schmeichel explored the northern cultural capital of russia as it is. i'm innocent pete is bust a deal and i have to say looking up it looks fabulous everyone watching football in here will have a great view. but then i moved down and there's no page but don't worry that's because this is a smart stadium they rolled the pitch out and when they needed they rolled back in and the way they rolled it back again is the path just normal wheels it looks

absolutely spectacular. and it takes about ninety minutes each way. up and told that st petersburg is a fantastic city and i'm so we get to find out if that's a choose. my first stop the peterhof palace where the sas used to come every summer it's a summer residence and it's beautiful and i got the privilege to turn the thanks in on. the chairman of the men of the foundation is a pixel wolf and he happens to be one of the feast time passages from the world cup on top of being one of the best pianists in the world and i just say i had to see it play something play so i thought i'd go yeah ok ok.

i want to say i want to see you the way you play the very very aggressive and this is what i really like that there's nothing aggressive this is special and i don't mind if number three is doesn't work without personal the bullshit passion is what helps is being playful before my show called a lot of the same things for example conductor orcus. she of course wears the orchestra where something where the most important laurel is to play for the audience. will be on top of all those matches throughout the day as they come up meantime we spoke to a rainy and player who's considered number one in his national team. my

parents my sister have now moved here to support me they made me happy and when i'm with them i feel protected also give me emotional strength to play me being here helps me a lot when i play before coming here i didn't know. a lot but it was really important for me whether it was an islamic city or not and now that i'm here i'm happy people of all religions here have been really good to me everyone's been very supportive. well another team playing today you're a quad. they've held their final training session before the game for your old quad football is now the one sport one of their fans just how important it is for them. to. think that if. they identify you.

know. about the things they're trying to be a little challenge here and why you. feel like. you can't see. your. child in a. lot of the i love it. and i don't therefore. i don't. feel. i think that. question is. for the way it was a. part of it for. you to love. yourself

with. i was. going to go and. read about that guy that. you gave it. indeed to be continued love expert analysis inside all the games coming up this next month throughout the told what they were not.

twenty eight team coverage we've signed one of the greatest. but there was one more question and by the way it's going to be our coach. guys i know you are nervous he's a huge star and a huge amount of pressure you have to the center of the beach but how would you. agree. you are the rock at the back nobody gets past you we need you to get down there we go. alone. and i'm really happy to join the other thousand. meet the special one.

needs to just take the radio. latest edition as we go. against. the morning away from the football to other world news donald trump's apparently admitted that crimea is rightfully part of russia that's according to online news outlet buzz feed those comments reportedly came during last week's g. seven summit in canada. d.c. correspondent breaks down the story there. 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 this summit truck made a few comments in regards to russia saying it used to be the g eight before russia was kicked 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 of 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 for a 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 meantime white house spokesperson sara sunders declined to expound any more 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. elsewhere the winner of the iraqi parliamentary elections who's been supported by washington has announced that he's creating a coalition with probably rightly and forces next in this column open explains it's not quite the development the u.s. was expecting or hoping for. sautter the iraqi cleric whose bloc won most of the seats in the recent parliamentary election has now announced he's willing to form

a coalition government with an iranian backed militia so much for washington's hopes that he could be used to counter terror ron's influence he can't be irrational because bits of me are raining has taken over what a let down for all those american media outlets and think tanks that held al assad or as a new hope for iraq and more importantly a potential ally against iran that's interesting because if you wind back the clock george w. bush said that he was an enemy of democracy for a long time his brigades were actually killing us troops let's not get stuck in the past we are very well aware. of our all solder and his background and his positions now yes now it might have been a sign that the long time pro or reigning in cleric was changing his tune when he did some international traveling and met with the saudis but that was just smoke and mirrors at this point outsiders aligning himself with a cleric who is so pro or reining in that he actually fought for iran during the

iraq iran war this is another fail in washington's effort to roll back to iran's influence. very very concerned about increased iranian influence in iraq president obama with through our forces there and it makes it much more difficult to calculate the growing iranian influence in iraq but we must also do what we can to limit the extent of our reigning in the influence in iraq now the first prime minister after the us invasion is bringing in al jaafari he ended up being very friendly to iran now as foreign minister he speaks very highly of relations good relations between the wrong in the rock policy results for both countries and in practice they have proved to be in the interest of both countries the second prime minister now the vice president al malaki was supported by washington but he ended up being very friendly to iran too and after my. he went down the new guy also couldn't resist iran's friendly gestures alibi he is also friendly to the islamic

republic next door or what do you have the us has. invested in terms of my money. any kind of political and military for was eventually the best interest of iran it was a stupid thing and they realize that the war against iraq has benefited primarily. iran now the usa is adamant that it wants iranian influence out of iraq however its efforts are proving to be rather futile now there is one iraqi leader with a very good record of fighting the iranians his name was saddam hussein and he is long gone now it turns out that when you destroy a country you also create a vacuum and somebody is going to fill that vacuum even if it's somebody that you don't like. r t new york. the series of terror attacks in paris on the thirteenth of november twenty fifteen is still so fresh in

the minds of so many people that the assault on the budget plan theater in particular has been source of confusion and public debate since eighteen families of my father lawsuits against the government of responded to that tragic night. he spoke to attorneys of the families with one of them making a surprise revelation to. one of the docus moments in multi french history series of coordinated terror attacks across paris one hundred thirty people killed ninety of those at this popular music venue. was was. while the taro was unfolding inside the battle plan outside what eight soldiers from and tear up the trolls the parliamentary inquiry later revealed that they were told not to intervene moreover they were also the people from giving their weapons to the

police sticking rigidly to army protocol. now eighteen families of victims have filed a lawsuit against the french state demanding answers. only lead they can do they were described in the media as the force specially created against the threat of terrorism so why was this force which had the chance to intervene told not to. if the soldiers had entered the battle a lot night or if they had given their weapons over to the place how might that have changed what happened on the heretical night in paris to say luther what question or one answer is why did two and a half hours for the order to engage to be given when the officers were there from the beginning. the army however insists the soldiers had taken all measures possible securing the area around the battle and protecting the fleet victims the military intervened spontaneously they arrived where police were already present

the military secured areas around the battle plan in coordination with and at the request of the internal security forces but now one of the lawyers representing the victims' families has made a startling claim to r.t. saying that the allegations come from a member of the gendarmerie who wants to remain anonymous. on the minds of the bats a clan a tank there was a squadron of gendarme assigned to protect the house of then prime minister valves this squadron was alerted immediately deployed to the site equipped with assault rifles they entered the battle and extracted a hostage of a woman and they were able thanks to the hostage to get information about the situation of the other hostages inside and then this twenty six man squadron received a very curious order they were told to stand down. and he claims there was

also another the ukulele and equipped with emergency medical supplies but they also not deployed. if this equipment had been available to help v. it seems hosts of all the decision to intervene was being taken it's possible more people would have survived surely the question about this and operation sin to know and its role is why have we spent so much money on them wasn't it just a political masquerade to make people believe. it when we clearly see people were massacred with kalashnikovs just a few meters from this unit and then they had terrorists in this but were told not to pull the trigger artsy has asked the police to respond to these allegations so far no response was being forthcoming but these are questions that the families of some of the victims at the vatican want on this estate they want to know what

happened that night and what more could have been done to help help their loved ones so that people skate party paris. united nations has held an emergency session on the saudi led offensive on the yemeni port city of her data the ground operation is the largest so far in the three year yemen conflict there a group say it's going to worsen the country's already awful humanitarian crisis but saudi arabia says the goal is to remove who's the rebel still from the data and bring it back to legitimate control polybe has more on that u.n. meeting them. well this closed door u.n. security council meeting was held at britain's request after the saudi led coalition there 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 and supplies come through and the u.n. in the red cross have had to withdraw their staff 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 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 the rebels there so campaign is in the u.k. say the. 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 of them can achieve anything while the u.k. continues its policy of arming the saudis. the story about a russian to choose for use in rather a big backlash after posting you might think glamour swimsuit photos of the soul

from social media many said however because she did bring in a professional to distribute but then to her defense a grown swell of public support came up.

crazy for the morning or most of us is so far from our t h q this friday morning great day and weekend of world cup football actions in the forward to the get full the latest news of the games great down the seas stories not the big check out huge section we put together on our site to feel calm dedicated to the world cup in five across the whole global t.v. network we're pulling out all the stops to give you a great lineup of guests and correspondents for the whole month another for me kevin i will thanks for watching and have a very good morning. you'll

. join me every thursday on the alex simon sure and i'll be speaking to guest of the world of politics sport that's less i'm show business i'll see you than. this is rather trendy over the past few years to talk about the new world order fair enough the recent g seven combat in canada entrust the session to engage north korea for just two examples pax americana is undergoing a significant transformation. when a loved one is murdered it's natural to seek the death penalty for the murder i would prefer it be known as the death penalty just because i think that's the fair thing the right thing research shows that for every nine executions one convict

just found innocent the idea that we were executing innocent people is terrifying there's just no way that hasn't been that we're even many victims' families want the death penalty to be abolished the respect they get dealt here is because that's what murder victim's family is what that's going to give them peace that's going to give them justice and we come in and say. not quite then through this this isn't the way. we're you know welcome to all of us today we're here at a red park hyatt hotel and we'll be talking to nicole question yun the prime minister also on many of who visited a month ago and is now in the russian capital welcome to moscow miss depression.

thank you very much. i'd like to start by asking you this since you're visiting russia does that mean those who fear their countries would grow apart will roam. yes of course even now many people say so and there are many publications in the russian media where authors don't seem to quite grasp what's happened and what is happening in armenia there are forces who want to paint it in a different light and they want to make it look like anti russian police. forces have come to power in armenia but as i keep saying there was no deo political or foreign policy related dimension to the armenian revolution and as i keep saying there was no geopolitical plot it was a purely internal process that had to do only with armenia it's important to emphasize that and we say that this process will not result in a foreign policy u.-turn why do we say that because our people the people who made the revolution happen had no problem with armenia as foreign policy so they had no demands in terms of foreign policy and the way the government represent the people

who started the revolution and prevailed so we must act within the limits and demands of this political process this velvet revolution so i want to say yes those who said the political changes in armenia will lead to problems in armenian russian relations were wrong they've always been wrong and they always will be wrong if they stick to this point of view. correct me if i'm wrong but you say that not only to russian journalists but in the course of meetings as world rights i have a question about that do your counterparts hear you and believe you and tell us about how your personal relationship with president vladimir putin is developing. i think we have a very good straightforward kind of communication it's been like that from minute one i can tell you that our relationship is the kind that has no dark corners we discuss everything openly we put forward all the questions directly and answer them directly mr putin is this sort of person as far as i understand he's very comfortable with this kind of communication and to be honest so am i so we

communicate in a straightforward way not leaving any dark corners what do i mean by dark corners it's very important that everything in our relations is clear apparent and genuine it doesn't mean that we'll have no issues whatsoever what it does mean is that we will have frank discussions about all those issues without resorting to any tricks or political maneuvers which i think is very good but i can assure you that our relations are developing in a. fast and constructive way what's the most pressing issue at the moment. truth be told we have no such issues right now but russia and armenia a sovereign state in general i think in many aspects the interests of our countries align but there could be some areas or issues on which we might disagree i believe it's very important to maintain the atmosphere we have right now and i hope that's the atmosphere in which we will be discussing any issues we might have in the future i think we will be able to come to an agreement. let's talk about natural gas which as i understand is one of the issues we have on the one hand you said

that people in armenia don't feel that russian gas is cheap. yes but we discussed it and came to the conclusion that it's a domestic issue for us because yes armenia gets cheap natural gas from russia at the border but by the time it's delivered to the customers the price has doubled that's a domestic issue we have to figure out and resolve within armenia and it has nothing to do with our relations with russia. so as the natural gas supplies from russia you're not going to renegotiate the price and you haven't discussed that with them well you know we hope to get even cheaper gas of course and we need cheaper gas even though we know we buy it at a low price at exclusively for armenia but we would like to have even more exclusivities in this regard we'll be discussing these issues of course and i hope we will succeed. let's talk about your relations with the e.u. you're waiting for the ratification of your partnership agreement how soon do you

expect that to happen and how will armenia benefit from it exactly the ratification process in e.u. countries has already begun this agreement involves reforming armenia's legal system and that's been underway in armenia for many years i'd say twenty or even more but of course we'll be developing our relations with the european union but as i keep saying it won't be happening at the expense of armenian russian relations and vice versa so we won't be developing. median russian relations at the expense of our relations with the e.u. for example that's our policy we won't adhere to a policy that implies developing relations with one international partner at the expense of relations with other partners i believe we should be reliable partners for everyone every global act we have ties with our relationship be transparent to all sides and should rely on the principle of reciprocity we all should act in good faith what i mean is that for example it should be unambiguously clear for the west what is happening between armenia and rushed.