ibrahim al jaafari he ended up being very friendly to iran now as foreign minister he speaks very highly of relations good relations between iran and the rock positive 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 maliki was supported by washington but he ended up being very friendly to iran too and after milly's he went down the new guy also couldn't resist iran's friendly gestures al a body 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 or was eventually the best interest of iran it was a stupid thing and they realize that the war against iraq has benefits 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 it would mop and r t new york. now most people have posted a selfie at one point or another they may have blatant regretted but spare a thought for a russian teacher who's a swimsuit snap and landed her in hot water with her bosses until the internet weighed in.

the now looking ahead to what is arguably the match of the three and today's a world cup games and that is portugal against spain don't forget you've got the

european champions up against a team that's got a brand new manager after spain sacked as on wednesday out of nowhere it seemed so there's a lot to play for both teams have been through their final training sessions before that match is taking place on the black sea resort of sochi in a relatively new stadium one that was built for the twenty fourteen winter olympics and peter schmeichel has been taking a look around. drunk unsophisticated and welcome to such and. such it was like the soviets call this is where the in deep pain for the early days the politicians militaries and axes they all that that own designated sanatorium and this one for instance was for the teachers and the scientists. i wonder if name could see in you and that scene mates will appreciate the salvia because this will be priscilla's hole for the well caught.

so one of the really really cool things about such easy conviction to ffion the beach working on your son time in forty minutes later you can feel him still floating scheme whatever you fancy and the world cup is in june and even then you could do it so we were pretty well i think about two thousand five hundred metres even if you don't ski the still a lot of things to do up here me for instance i'm going to go for. it. tell us. one of the big attractions in such it is of course the all to drop list and fall from no one races here so far the rest both us and hamilton twice have won it.

and in a minute i'm going to see if i can do exactly what these guys have been doing in the last four years. ainge elite. it's and rest assured that the snow has gotten from salty it's now a sultry summer evening and kate partridge is across the spain portugal match which kicks off in just over a couple of hours from now well that's your headline news for me at the news center stay right here though because our world cup team a back for the halftime analysis of iran and morocco game in some petersburg is just a few minutes away. it's. a. tough

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a watch musical blood from a preschool in the. winter with a mint oh is that and there have been removed can you. hear michelle i. him a national anthem most and. i played for many clubs over the years so i know the game inside guides. the ball isn't only about what happens on the pitch pull the funnel school it's about the passion from the fans it's the age of the superman each kill the narrowness and spending to do the twenty million on one player. so it's an experience like nothing else on to because i want to share what i think what i know about the beautiful guy

a great one more chance for. a nice minute. and property and what happens prices are artificially pumped up and jacked up and some people can't afford housing the way to fix the housing problem in the u.k. is to take away this fractional reserve banking as property so that prices would come down to the level that is traditionally affordable by the average person in french. and i welcome it states skies for that will come from. an argentinian fans have

already arrived for tomorrow's game against iceland it's an action packed day here because it's already kicked off early on. lost against uruguay not just one that wasn't very nice going to another game going on at the moment around against iraq i that snail mail starting started up in st petersburg and that's what we're going to start with now isn't it because you watching the game it's quite an interesting game with a slightly better team today and they're trying and. more to win the game. than iran is to iran as we've said before the game a very solid. the college has really lined them up fantastic player. one one foot deep down so it's a tight block for the for the rockets to play golf but the biggest chance of the game came to iran and they came to a player that isn't unknown he and russia a place for who can get on. as moon he had the opportunity right before the half

time one on one with the goalkeeper. to the stock a little bit behind him but he still managed to get a shot which was saved by the goalkeeper and then again. on the rebound another great save by the goalkeeper and that is basically the biggest chance that's been in the game i have to say that's a few players in them often seen with with with a little bit of confidence. yeah one buck each who plays for out mind holland is the first asian player to be top score in a western european leak twenty one goals he scored and it shows because every free kick they have and they had a few from forty yards he shoots. just to score forty yards you really really have to hit the ball well and even on the call people's worst day you'd expect them to save the ball but that is just about all that them rocco's half and it's not the key players in the family's playing up front saying l.t.

col but he's got an interesting background yes unbelievably he was a cabinet maker in casablanca wasn't a longer guy four years ago in fact now he's trying he's tried at the world cup if he's playing then well copy and that just shows you know never give up your dream never give up stay with it yeah and yesterday we had the rainy refugee so you didn't plan for stranded daniel that's on a tank so there are only so little nugget i think he's painted bar we hope we talked about it yesterday so there it is you know he's well thoughtful well and this is for the world cup only to throw out flyers and if you remember four years ago it was a promise what they could from colombia simply just took over the world ended by getting him moved to a to real madrid. and this happens in every world cup some players they just have the knack to grab the attention and you know the opportunities that take it and show the world this is what i can do we don't know if that. fine is just playing tomorrow and he is a young guy you ever played as

a six month old suspect calls from the rocker just out of the. i can't will know how the mind sees it how time we can catch up with them as noon a couple of months ago before. because he does play. here in russia mrs what he tell. my parents my sister have now moved here they had to support me they made me happy when i'm with them i feel protected you also give me emotional strength to play me you know being here helps me a lot when i play before coming here i didn't know because i'm with islamic city to life 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 gets me everyone's been very supportive. before the guy fans who are certainly picking up the atmosphere say when i paid for their first appearance i did well company twenty eight if you don't i want that chance your chance to find out.

i think. the. dot com. has been speaking to the fans ahead of the game in sync peters but. rather let loose it is also the holy day ok they'll fit with the probably the most the most moderate to get over that to look at the patient and wishing each other well i like you don't have to be so much when you get into theirs that it's ok it's ok to. be old friends be old friends outside of the soccer match.

i like to wish all the fellow muslims are happy such of the moroccans are born today. but a lot of chagrin i think security people who don't are. going to be great have a good time. but right. now the granite sigh of today is standing sochi there she said in the south on the black sea that's where a stadium would take on portugal the european champions what a great first time can you see speeds oh my god ever since the joy i think most people have been looking at this game. it's commonly on i think. you think about the events of this week with spain sacking the coach and whatever's happened i think it's probably the right time for spain to play portugal i think everybody really wanted that to be their last group game so so you had everything to play for that maybe the first of the second position or even qualifications of the further stages but it's not it's an opportunity for the spain players to get out there and

play and not having to consider all the talk about the sacking a look at the kook who which is you know one of the biggest mysteries in in and well cup football i play i believe at least as far as i can remember so it is this great game and you know great anticipation everywhere i've been sort of walking around moscow today meeting up with people i met some old team mates of mine from ninety's to united and the first thing we talk about is this game you know it is a massive game and of course the spain the one the world cup in two thousand and ten they've got players from real madrid is just one the third consecutive champions league hugely successful players and they're playing the european champions the reigning european champions i mean can't get any bigger than that man for man pacer paper they say that spain's got the best exchange ever man for man i agree i think spain probably probably unbalanced might have the best squad man for man but this is not a man a single man's game this is

a team game and when you look at the portuguese through it's itself very good combination of experience high performance players young players with lots of experience and then young players hungry. hasn't got any idea what the world covers like i can go up there unimpressed and produce something that we haven't seen before and how this place trains are safe for to something that the spanish team has not been a are not played against before so so that kind of dynamics work sometimes a lot better than just having individual players but for me this is evenly balanced and and if my rational mind things about this game i have to say this is going to be a job because both of them will be really really happy to get away with a point here that sets him up for the next two games and as a fan i'm looking forward to seeing possibly the best player in the world up against the best paper in the world say well that's something that we when we weigh

this it is such a difference from some months ago actually back in january that was my first line welcomed i started i'm sorry i saw your face i still consider it a fist stadium you know and i was in the go and i said this is where you know that the here is gonna play probably the best goalkeeper in the world against one of the best of a probably the best player in the world random or what makes you say so good time i mean i don't want to sort of you know play you jump ahead but you were the best capable for a long period of time many people said the same elements of your game and he scared me more might see the best people. for me it's it's about obviously the individual skills but it's also in the environment that you play so when you look at that with the playing for manchester united he fits in to the way they play so the job but he has to do is a job that the tough defenders can deal with he's very very quick to react so quickly stretches incredible and the saves he makes a break a press taking and their eye catching so people they they remember the things. if

you if you hold him up against manual noir which i personally and this is nothing to do with the here but i personally think that he's a pass because i like the style e place he pushes the team along why. so he think as with everything that's behind the defense takes responsibility and the players in front of him they trust him in doing that meaning that they can go closer to the opposition goal which again every time you have the ball it makes that this niche shorter so it takes you less time to get out there and try to reduce the chance so it's all about the style of play. we have in this world these work of we have about fifteen i would say goal keep was incredible and we've already seen a couple of incredible save you saw one in the in the first game today but that probably will be one of the best saved from. a volley from karate so we will see great goalkeeping protest no doubt david to hear four times play of the matches

united i don't think anyone's ever been he is choctaw plus ok well let's see what the fans are thinking to show you because we can go live to sochi now and kate passed down there for us. taken a sunglasses off as the sun going to most happening case. i blame me for this i blame you for this because not only just before about to go on air you said something about the weather and the clouds have started to appear is right if you look over my shoulder it's very dark over there doesn't it and also as you can hear all the music in the p.a. system and the national anthem is being heard everything is going on here but yes sochi i think it's all about appearances with such ease that i do is one did what she was was going to be like when i first got here i was new as the olympic venue twenty fourteen in c. and snow but that was about it really and then you have a long time slide and you're sixty five hundred kilometers from moscow all those things but when i got here i was really pleasantly surprised by just how lovely it

was which is good for doesn't it but i've heard quite a few reports of people a bit skeptical about such events even the tweets about people with problems coming up to the olympics but we got here it was great and people were mazing a friendly i'll give an example i had to run because. you know what it's like being a journalist you have to dash and grab your food on the run and i said to the lady and this rest of us and us i have to go i have to cut you don't worry and she made up a doggy bag for me to even put my but some red source for me an apartment looking to stop but it's not just me who's found it sort of like a kid niceness about everybody here but he's pretty friendly and lovely and that's what he finds we've been surprising copy of the perceptions changed from their early experiences such as his into what i've said. a lot of people are much actually nicer and welcoming than we do. a cold place and both temperature and personality but clearly we found the exact opposite of this place is super clean super nice the people are nice but. i haven't seen anything like.

this not just the full found suv being sort of pleasantly surprised by such as well this also being a sort of weedy warm welcome for a group of schoolchildren bugs from russia and also from spain who were very lucky enough to win a competition that was organized by use it means coming back to the set if you win we'll take you to sochi and way you'll be able to be among the scots during the week which go spain match also we also take out some of the panels from one particularly lucky women will be able to take out the bowling for the referee to do the boring sausage so we caught up with these kids there as they stand in a hotel and has a left hand side about their experiences and such. but . yes so it's you know the achievement even the punch for somebody just funny enough for you.

never the machine you thought it should be even if he was. going to pose this must show so he got it just see if it will go but i see it either. there's a company in the loop is a spline you feeling at least it's like sitting in the list and i think that. so no surprise then you think about those kids were saying that they haven't gotten slade in this particular much before the meeting sure he's going out amongst the crowd as he goes with the stage you receive because i think if you push against things and see what they think the school will be and you speak with me much less this hearing. right ok thanks a kind of escape pod for each sighting of the atmosphere if not the sun at the moment and something thank you i think mentioned talked about other things so much

but there's a game earlier today was in that and you catherine maybe a surprise result that you were why didn't they beat you by more than a single gulping oh i don't think it was is it was a surprise at all but this you you have to expect that the first game is very cautious on two sides of course you've got kev on the loose was paid for your reply up front but we know egypt always play very defensively and and always very solid and they did that for nearly ninety minutes i think we can see the highlight here the game finished one. through a year ago i and i think the best player on the pitch was it was was come on and he was he was really on top form his pace up front. he looked a bit off color today he's not too harsh i think i think he spent the most of the week since he came to russia here for the world cup he's probably spend most of the week sort of talking about what happened in the game in brazil four years ago when obviously he got the red card he was suspended for ten games and he said that

suspension out he didn't play in the first five qualification games but. you know he i think that was said he needed to get through this game but he's playing partner up front cover and he was what he said that he was he was magnificent but it was from the it was the henderson. now let's have a quick look at the current standings then because this result is also a good result for russia isn't it russia remaining top i think after the five new way in. saudi arabia yesterday we guy you were telling me pacer area this was out actually puts the pressure on egypt just explained think because egypt now plays russia in the next game and the thing which we've talked about this a lot the first game is so important get something out of that because it sets you up for the next two games. when you egypt now you haven't won you haven't got to join the first game you lost and you play russia two piece how you write a rate of five now it's the host nation they've got the whole country raving about that result they've got the backing off they now have to play that game knowing

that they need a result from now and that's not easy of course you can't take it back i'm absolutely sure. that's no that's no point in resting and even if he isn't one hundred percent that he will be playing that you know he was missed greatly missed today. when they were breaking out as i said they defended really deep in the block and they had three or four opportunities to cancer. and they just didn't have the quality and he could you could show the easy imagine if most i was there they would have had the threat and the quality we would tell the most salamis on the bench to think that means he's fit all my state no faith in the house itself it's a it's a you know it's that's what's difficult about everyone being on the bench you can all twenty twenty three players are actually can actually come on you know so you play the eleven but the rest of them can actually be so happy for. not in brazil but the one before you had to nominate up to late team so we don't really know if

mohammed said i was fit to play but if it you know with fifteen minutes to go there was an opportunity. to to put him on because it was a period of time where everyone is a little bit tired and you know they had these kind of disc. but no quality and he made a stop to chew shin with a strike and took off but he didn't take months alone and for me that tells me that you know he's not one hundred percent fit and he's saving him from the next game against russia ok well thanks very much pete for this analysis but let him go because the second half is just kicked off rock around in st petersburg paid going to watch the rest of that game for us and give us the full time analysis a bit later in the meantime i hope we can show you some pictures coming of these argentinian fans just below us here in moscow you might be able to hear them throughout the day there they are they've been there for an hour and a half now singing and banging drums their head because they're going to play iceland tomorrow here in moscow spartak stadium and we've been speaking to the

munched united manager and the r.t. pundit first this world cup about how that much might go. i was going to. say an incredible talent against a very very happy team i stunk he's had plays shows happiness and they look and they love to compete without any kind of pressure they're not going to give an easy and this is a time to argentina but argentina means the talents so i think they're going to. like i will fast moving people around here in studio because we've got a former boxing champion with us a world champion causes those with us former undisputed champion of the world great to have you with us we know you're a big russia fan we know you must be what you're full of joy today relieved you

have a sore head perhaps tell us how do you actually you know actually i watched. the soccer games in my restaurant actually it's good advertising for every game going to the advice of morris and abroad. many many nice televisions and each man everyone can come and join us get a good view forget what you think you began yesterday. i don't want to be excited like everyone else was great game and great scoring but we play against of the best team. as the athletes i always think that it's only first step in so many. games say head. against great competitors. and everyone come here to win some in the competition so high. we don't have to lose our control of the mind.