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hello welcome to the sunny moscow for our special coverage of the world cup here and i think a couple of classes have been since half the names i bargain seen as they've just been held so one one draw with iceland studio where i had put the latin americans ahead the dice and to hold them back three for the silver after that alford from bogus and so let's get that he's not much united boss jos marino he's with us i was watching that going forward quite an entertaining game i have to say one one the fair result i believe so i believe so i just think. i think our son played in the limits. i repeated when the team played on these limits you cannot demand for more. if i could choose a word to describe their work compact i get one image wrong mean a stick. the nine where they had nine man plus the keeper in the box

and then i have another image on mena eighty seven where they had ten as the keeper they were compact nobody can blame them by the concept of defending. no mental man against massa no man to man against anyone of of detecting players from argentina just being come back they reduced everything in terms of space they were compact in terms of when they had to go closing the side of the ball they were compact in terms of their no space behind the last defender they were compact and they had one chance this for one goal cover little in goal or myself would be the same because i would save the same as s. coverlet on not not one single done for the situation and they were compact of course argentina had the ball of course they tried the try they tried but. you saw

messi actions always outside the box he was trying one dribble to dribble the cover was coming short. and was absolutely fantastic also the commitment the spirit the strength because you know. i think these boys from iceland the since they were babies they were eating a lot of meat on breakfast immediately all of them very very strong very very feats and the football they play is perfectly adapted to the way the key to the way they are sure i'm sure they are delighted let's look at some highlights too i think and ask rené hey if we can run the first how can you say whether. people. are likely to pick up things you have.

from fires it was to create chances but. everybody knows that that word always is absent the fantastic and with the back to the gold turns the gravity center very very low very powerful right and left the same sort of the sharpest fantastic now at that point i'm sure i wasn't alone in thinking i k they're going to get a few more now i should say no but that didn't happen and i soon got one back very quickly we can see that go now to. a close range but nonetheless they can strike. thing. inside of the box on the right side and again. i as a manager i also create these dark in my in my defendant don't trust the referee decision because sometimes the criteria is in your favor sometimes against your ok so protect yourself with your arms but when you protect yourself with your arms you lose a little bit of balance you are not able to react and to press you mean that the

storm articles about the ball come and then cover a little the second ball but the striker you know is that good he's a good finishing very confident. on the ball and then the game goes again to the beginning goals against to the draw and then the war always come from messi as we talked about was always trying today it was clear but it just wasn't going from us it just wasn't his days you know. of course when you miss a penalty. in the world cup in a moment where your your team need step the ball of course that affects you. and after that after that moment he was trying he tried the one against one that was immediately transformed in one against two in one against three because the distance between players was was so close that was really difficult for him in spite of that he hit a few shops and then he had a couple of a free kicks in some good positions. but probably even in superman even in super

players. they are humans and they have feelings and i think the penalty yes affected an interesting ok when we continue to think we're waiting for the icelandic fans to turn up in the center of town tame a mob that's going to annex the our ships he's a boss guys spacek i mean a force i don't see what's it like that side there at the moment. well i've been saying all along that spacek stadium is probably the loudest stadium of all twelve will come stadiums in russia this time it definitely delivered because it's the cuff it stayed in for a set of fans like argentina as they're one of the loudest sets of fans in the world and i was lucky enough to sit in the media try to do it which was right next to the sea off i'll be celeste the fans chanting all throughout the guy absolutely insane scintillating high decibel performance from the sets of fans the teams obviously delivered as well a very entertaining game but you know probably the most reflective of what of how

passionate the argentine fans are is the fact that when messi missed the penalty they started chanting even louder and in a few minutes from that it was started doing something like this to messi saying messi messi urging their idol urging their best player to score it didn't happen and that one won as we know but the atmosphere was absent since the lighting and for the argentinian fans one special appearance happened at the stadium diego maradona himself was sat right next to the edge of the train to the stand where the most of the argentinian fans were located so obviously there was singing is named all throughout the game diego was chanting with them clapping their hands and again this looks look like a complete feast of football the icelandic fans were set on the other side of the stadium for me but there were also pretty loud we saw obviously the famous thunder clap that they were doing throughout the game so it is indeed a fantastic atmosphere he had spotted a stadium in the next game he. i'm sure will be as loud as this one. thanks i'll

let you know i was elected ourselves before us there outside the stadium. with us in the studio. let's just pick up on the fans' relationship the icelandic fans because they captured everybody's hearts and i have a special relationship with the manager because i understand that he gives out the team sheet see i think it's the official supporters club to ask before kickoff i make it you have to imagine thing special country special country as. i said i think everything is relaxed passing everything you three thought and the kind of pressure there are just so happy to try to be icelandic that just so happens that the country is doing soiling football they are just so happy and so so proud. to go to world cups to go to euros and the relation between the players all of them abroad coming home to play for the country with the manager everything is relaxed

and you you can feel that is is anyone in iceland. going to be critic with them because they play with a block of ten men defending no one is going to blame them. all the contrary they're going to praise them for the fantastic effort and father fantastic approach by the intelligent point of view so if everything is relaxed everything for them is always a victory if they win today is a victory. if they get the draw is a bubble victory and if they win they are heroes and they have a statue back home so everything for them is that spirit of the pure football and in contrast with i can imagine what argentina is in this moment edgington is a massive country is a football there's an incredible history i don't think it's a drama i look to portugal in the euros. portugal won the euros result one single

victory little phrase so is not a drama for argentina but presented his offer of a kind of country were every argentinian has inside of him a little bit of a football manager saw i wouldn't like to be. liked to be in these moments to manage with regards to iceland you think they can get out of the screen now. do you think i son can progress to the knockout stages now i think they can i also think they could in spite of my and in my in my family prediction i like to call it that way i didn't bring them to the to the knockout but i think this point can be can be a crucial point because in our changing of the need to win matches and i think in normal conditions they have they have to do it. ok well look there was another going to earlier today in a different group it was france australia france just making that one to one in the

end and i think we can show you some highlights tape of that one briefly. where are they here they come ok so andreessen was brought down the video referee said it was a penalty and he came up and took that one quite comfortably administration responded very directly straight after that didn't they james i and again it was a similar game perhaps the one we just watched because australia were defending very well they were aggressive they weren't giving up and they were continually causing problems for france yes more than iceland create large and diverse incursions in that. was never close to lose and from was not far from from the music i think the. the double people in front of the defensive line of australia movie and. clearly players with the experience of english football there was so solid there was so much in in control that pulls difficult for friends on. i like the way france approached the game i like the sri attacking players with

freedom. griezmann we felt a clear number nine. but didn't work very very well didn't work very very well so australia was comfortable with we dropped the ball but had time and space also to play also to keep the ball off a little try to come to the last to the masters icing the midfield in in front in spite of streaming through play as police saw. and. they were not strong enough by the press in point of view and speaking by the press in point of view as seen until now ok's on the certainty but i think the main concept the main defensive concept for every team in these three days was not to press was to compact and you could see every team defensively compact defensively organized

defensively bringing the block to the first serve maximum the second serves and you didn't see really a pressing team maybe strategy maybe the fact of a short competition to be played with so many matches in one month may be a real tactical approach but passing the come back come back. and that i think is the main concept in these three days arsenal have we got a second goal to match it up to the pennant to be mentioned they can pretty much straight after france's penalty you nice. party comes on from there but that is the reason that i don't see these people because of an unusual was needed. a french defended the same to put up his hand sometimes it happens and you don't understand why and i've seen only players involved in it they can of the stand or they can explain why. at just

a moment i really can't explain because there was not apparently and the reason for a ninety two to two two to make that penalty but. was a penalty and then won one and then the game was another one and. and i think sometimes it happens things that you can't explain why country. but to france they persisted didn't i and they got a final go towards the end it did appear to me unfortunately deflection but it was poor pople wasn't charging forward here for making. me. off the ball i think that for me he's on the ball but does that action is that diminish and that's making it happen i think the majority of french players there were. too comfortable or not risking too much on not feeling enough confidence to make it happen and didn't have the great game them better the same grizz man the same the

midfield players all of them very very positional. appall didn't interfere a lot in in the game. but then yes this section the selection of a number eight because the number eight is what people used to call at the box the box box the box is actually that is one box and another box is not just box and walleye halfway line is box to box and in this case was was an action of and the packing box making it happen tried the one two penetrating run powerful guy and the great position to score was a feature that wasn't the clean shot to make it a great goal but there's a goal in three point three points like a now there's one other game in that group which does kick off i think in about forty five minutes demonstrate your thoughts not going jones i have my go i think they're very similar to humans in terms of their potential different. different

qualities but similar potential i wouldn't be surprised with an me and a possible result i see but who probably more beautiful. than mark them are more problematic more physical but in terms of quality if you take. away from that match i think the potential is is very even i should be a good one to watch thank you as always we'll let you go and i think you'll see you again tomorrow that someone you know it's a cost of a journey thank you but even if you're not thanks. for the up coming out much is a big deal for all other world cup hosts a pretty schmeichel not because his son casper is the demo number one in here is all those years ago back in one thousand nine hundred raked in a big boy now playing for less to see in the english premier league but he also plays ingolf saving painter should be in our studio to talk all about this and his emotions how he's feeling how nervous he is before this match them up and that kicks off i think in about an hour's time of on correct and paint will be in the

studio with us then meanwhile peter has also been busy in surrounds that's where the game is being played and he's had a look around the state. like show by new york the other stadiums this is purposely built for the world cup dressing room. for the last time i was in the restroom it's a play about two hundred years ago it certainly didn't look like this it's absolutely and i think in this see the goalkeepers for whatever team is playing it would be and since then my son playing the first game of users just. i think this will be cast as. i'm in the museum in surrounds and the supposed an exhibition by a fellow called step and he is an extraordinary arts is the centerpiece of the whole exhibition. is this. it's called moses was made from one.

piece of wood the model must have been some tree but it's fantastic news and so our children we all grew up his pieces that. i'm just about to go on stage now and speak to the defense of. this is where i've been playing for the first period this is where the world cup starts for me emotionally and i expect that all of you will from now on the pole that. i.

heard. it's time to remind the pages that you kick off again spring very shortly in fact it's in about thirty five forty minutes time from the pages got about half an hour to get himself to the studio will be talking about this match all the buildup so you don't think he's on task but he's playing golf or denmark will have the full account of what's happening what's going on he's going to win perhaps we don't know yet but will be plenty of analysis to come you're watching our special coverage here on out. thanks for that and a while russia may be hosting the world's biggest football events but in the run up to the tournament much of the global media's focus was on politics throughout the

sport boyko takes a look. the world cup of russia has finally kicked off and in case you missed it some idiots still think all this is about football. hundreds of years ago a pig gave up its blood people started kicking it around and in the blink of an eye no song was born men were being paid five million dollars a month to do it and coca-cola was sponsoring it every four years at the world cup the national pride is on the line and where there is a money and a captive audience you'll also find politicians politicizing this out of it but i'm a brief and been accused of using the tournament as a showcase and after spending a fortune the billion dollars on it it's a fair bet that he's looking for some decent p.r. so there was a good job there stadiums are impressive because their russian team is.

england has some of the most no practiced world cup traditions of all ahead of the tournament the media spends a lot of its time criticizing the host nation using a range of informed then the perugia then the england fans travel to the whole nation and destroy a renovated city center the old too. but in truth twenty two said this time around the british government called for an international boycott of the tournament in a show of defiance over the russian spy and his daughter who was not killed in slavery but i slept on the cool actually it was just i said the leaders of france and germany say they probably will go to see their team play but that could be because one of their teams is likely to win the ball in the u.s. probably would have joined the boycott that he's the only prize. to learn in america will be home staying in twenty twenty six and others get to join in even if

that crap. the fuel pump needed to meet the un security council level threats to his allies in order to win the bid as far as politicizing spoke that one is pretty hard to beat as for the players and the fans they've happily traveled to russia seriously believing that they're just going to watch them succeed not so. we'll have more special coverage of the twenty eight hundred fifty world cup later in the day but if you can't wait until then you can head to our website r.t. dot com where the football festival continues.

i can imagine. i don't know i wasn't there but i can imagine russia defending its national interests in a way that doesn't help the hawks in the united states but couldn't has this image of such our guy. and i would also blame him for not caring about american public opinion even more because it seems like no matter what he does there's an unfair response none the less what i'm saying is it's gotten very personal.

welcome back now the u.s. government has resumed funding for the controversial syrian activist group known as the white helmets the state department says it's releasing six point six million dollars in aid for the continuation of vital lifesaving operations three months ago the trumpet ministration froze its funding for the south proclaimed rescue organization as part of a broader programme of cuts the statement also claims the white house mates have saved more than one hundred thousand lives in syria however there is no mention of a series of controversies surrounding the group. some of its members have been caught on camera carrying the ice still flag and attending executions by terrorists and some of their alleged rescue videos have turned out to be fake however the group says these are the actions of individuals or not the white helmets as a whole the group only operates in rebel held areas of syria often in close

proximity to terrorist groups. independent journalists vanessa bailey told us most of the claims about their rescue work has not been verified. i struggle to find any evidence for the hundred thousand life saved and i would very much like to see with the millions that this group are being given by a number of nato member states some form of documentation some form of archiving some form of evidence for these one hundred thousand there is mounting evidence against this group the majority of it comes from syrian civilians in the areas that i have and that's an isa lapper an east group so i have not found one civilian to tell me that the white homeless rescued civilians in fact i've heard the opposite i've heard the way home it's where they're to work as agents for the terrorist groups and to help. when they're under attack by the syrian arab army and

their allies. today marks the fifty fifth anniversary of valentino tarrasque over becoming the first woman in space she was just twenty six on her historic voyage a crater on the moon has been christened in her honor and there's a small planet called cheika siegel in russian after her co-pay. her groundbreaking flight in the vostok thick spacecraft lost it almost three days it all but it forty eight times remains the only woman ever to have been on a solo space mission a second craft with fellow cosmonaut valery because he was nearby with the mission also checking differences in their flights impact on male and female bodies the two were in constant contact with tara show that even thinking of thong for her

colleague. i am so good. my heart flinched only when i spoke to my mother i was flying over to volker river my hometown river where i grew up and at this moment i was talking to my mother that's when my voice started to tremble you need to tell her confident words given that she became a widow with three children at twenty six we were not allowed to see where we were heading with sign a non-disclosure agreement knew that i'd been approved for the national team in parachuting when she found out about my flight she just said you tricked me and i replied smarter please forgive me i will say without a full the latest news and world cup coverage throughout the day and night.

so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy confrontation let it be an arms race often period dramatic developments only. i don't see how that strategy will be successful very critical to our time to sit down and talk. i think. russia took a real blow to its sense of self during. yeltsin years i remember even six years ago when i first came here people kept apologizing to me for help terrible everything was that this wasn't like america and for people to be ashamed of their country was so different and now i don't really see that i see people are more proud of their country and i think putting his you stalin in particularly the great patriotic war in the victory there as a way to inspire nationalist pride. who

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