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the world cup welcome to the program. of course the world cup is in full swing and day four will see some. with three games being played across. live. saturday saw some of football's heavy lifters hitting the pitch of france start

good to victory against australia after a controversial penalty decision iceland fans were delighted as their team held argentina to a draw and denmark took advantage of some pretty sloppy finishing by peru to win their first game meanwhile croatia defeated nigeria and here's some much analysis from co-host joyce i mean you know and peter schmeichel. i was. i thought i was. i i was i don't think it's a fair result i seem prefer to play at that best to play the good game they

couldn't play better than what they did with the potential they have i'll always like to praise the team. and i'll start the play in delhi means. i do what. we have every right to be actually and so i have everyone said we will come here and against france and to not be there when no one would do if we did we did something. messi is always trying today was clear but he just wasn't going from us it just wasn't his day to not. of course when you miss a penalty. in the world cup in a moment where your your team needs the ball of course that affects you.

and after there after that moment he was trying but probably even in superman even in super players. they are humans and they have feelings and i think the penalty yes affected them. to have to look ahead i think we deserved three points but we have to turn around this thing focused and i think most of all we didn't get that many things from just to try to win the racially discriminatory did my homework i looked at a lot of penalties for messi and i also looked at how i have been behaving in the last couple of penalties or tried to get into their mind so i had a good feeling that you would go. this way today let's look at some highlights go. through. here this is a good finish because that one that was after twenty minutes typical of the finishing is absolutely fantastic the problem for argentina was to create chances

but. everybody knows about war is absolutely 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 argentina but that didn't happen and iceland got one back very quickly we can see that don't matter to. a close range but nonetheless takes a strike yeah striker you know it's a good he's a good finishing very confident passing 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 fit and the football they play is perfectly adapted to the the way. to the way they are . oh oh oh oh oh oh oh oh. oh oh i think

i. i i. clean. i. it's it's a big day for this michael family and you know i have a son playing in the world cup i thought is that something this is probably the wrong word i don't know thank you thank you chris yes that's a better way thanks for that i thought i was doing my bit called i'd like to study that i'm not writing very good i really thank you it was really

a nerve racking my last period that came for for me as a fan overall receiving are you satisfied with the marks performance i mean marks out of ten what would you give them in terms of performance yeah in terms of output and ok ten in terms of performance i halfway that i think of five i think and they seem thinking so much more that what really works well today was the defense so they defended really well. as the world left prostrated after the clash with iceland on saturday especially for those that have pinned their hopes on one player in particular.

two million fans have come to russia to cheer their teams along with the adults kids are also enjoying the incredible atmosphere during this world cup. some of the tournaments. it's going to be. the body of this board that i see you.

i started the most press but i see. just that. it's a scene. just the same as boredom that i see and they happen. to. know better than. those measures they know for us the course is right what's your name. how old are you living right so you're cheering for colombia you're from poland. my family. ok so. have you how long have you stayed in moscow so far on the. one or two days how do you find moscow it's really funny there's a lot of plates here with the world cup it makes an amazing have you heard any rumors about like russian hooligans or russian hackers a while in america or. russian spies how many people are spying on you

right now on oh probably a living thousand people are watching me ok so i knew any one of them could be spies yeah all right so you're you're suspect if you're not letting your guard down i'm not. but i've still plenty of more to look forward to on this sunday that costa rica play serbia in samarra and five time champions brazil with star struck a name out of take on switzerland all defending champions germany meet mexico right here in the capital of mexico held their final pre-game training session a bit earlier they have a tough challenge ahead as they face germany which tops the latest rankings the two teams will meet at moscow's luzhniki stadium the showpiece venue of the tournament .

and germany have won the world cup four times and there's a great deal of expectation running on that now the nation has played more world cup matches than any other country now mexico who are eager to avenge last year's defeat to germany at the confederations cup are also old timers in fact twenty have taken part in sixteen world cups not having missed a championship in more than two decades though they've never actually managed to lift the trophy but their fans are already seriously in party mode. yeah. the other cheek are the

one thousand. yards. away or were. you. like. even the animals and moscow zoo getting in the world cup fever but the president mikheil making its prediction for who will win amid the mexico germany clash and it's being rather cautious apparently reigning champions germany well hold cup co-host it was a million euro has also been pondering the outcoming of that particular game. good. germany and mexico germany the know how to win. the know why they win and lessing they're going to

stick exactly the same principles mexico is a very interesting team very creative very funny way to play and to enjoy football but i think once more the power of john. lennon. is the big game stroll close up we'll be joining our special studio in the heart of moscow to stay tuned for auspex will world cup coverage. greece and macedonia have signed an historic a court to resolve the dispute over the naming of the former yugoslav republic under the agreement athens now officially recognizes its neighbor as the republic of northern macedonia however many greeks have been protesting the name change

thank you was. it was the people gathered in the greek capital calling for the deal between the two countries to be cancelled the new name northern macedonia has caused widespread anger in greece as it sounds too similar to the greek province of macedonia was decided upon as a compromise with athens which has for years refused to recognize the name republic of macedonia was a quarter past here in moscow we're back in just a moment. i think. russia took a real blow to its sense of self during thirty 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 years stalin in particularly the great patriotic war in the victory there as a way to inspire nationalistic pride in. what popes who. put themselves on the line. to get accepted or rejected. so when one of the first injury. or some want to. have to going to be pressed to see what will before three of them or ten people. i'm interested in the warnings are out. there soon.

thank you joining us for the program today the leaders of the u.s. on the korea have hailed the historic summit held on tuesday as a success saying it ultimately lays the groundwork for the potential deed nuclearize ation of the korean peninsula in exchange for kim jong un giving up his nuclear arsenal donald trump has committed to providing security guarantees young yeah u.s. president suggested after the meeting that the two had a strong relationship and that they intend to meet again the turnaround in relations coming just months after the pair had been threatening each other with all out war. we have developed a very special bond. north korea best not make any more threats to the united states they will be met with fire and fury and have men out there shooting rockets all over the place you will have no choice

but to totally destroy the north korean rocket man is a sick puppy. a frightened. i will surely indefinitely tame the mentally deranged us due to. this history has proven over and over again adversaries can indeed become friends both very honored to sign the document thank you. so the today we had the story meeting you decided to leave it behind so we're very proud of what took place today it worked out for both of us far better than anybody even predicted it's an honor to be with you. don.

the historic talks were first announced in march but in may voices anger over military drills between south korea and the u.s. and threaten to call the summit off the nine days later counseled a meeting accusing kim of hostility the very next day the white house and young yang both said things were back on track on the first of june washington officially announced the summit would go ahead and while the singapore summit promised to guarantee the north security in exchange for its denuclearization jiang yang might have reason to remain wary as well i'd guess d.f. explains. what's not to like a new nuclear disarmament deal potentially one less country with nukes where rule better off would have us and we have this truly historic moment on film.

so why does kim jong jr seems to suspicious could be anything poison assassins or trump just waiting to backstab him the united states will withdraw from the iran nuclear deal come to think of it america's nuclear deal to seem to last exactly as long as the incumbent president take the rainy and deal brok obama his partner has worked on it for years so much work so much effort just for trump to tear it all up don't forget obama negotiated the arend one of the worst disasters the dumbest deals ever

negotiated except don't feel sorry for a bomber just yet george bush his predecessor also struck a nuclear disarmament deal with gadhafi the two leaders discussed this agreement should help to bring a painful chapter in the history between our two countries closer to closure it worked gadhafi gave up his nukes and what does a bomber do well he goes in bombs gadhafi is army alternately allowing the rebels to gruesomely murdered him we came we saw that he died. it's almost like something out of game of thrones and we aren't even done bush in turn screwed over bill. clinton you stop and roll back north korea's potentially deadly nuclear program we'll continue to implement the agreement we have reached with that nation get smart it's tough clinton had worked for years to make

a deal with kim jong un's father to prevent then north korea from making a nuclear weapon and bush tore it up as seems to be tradition north korea is a regime arming with missiles and weapons of mass destruction while starving its citizens states like these and their terrorist allies constitute an axis of evil trump is one for tradition in fact he has a habit of tearing up documents memos papers when he's done with them he had a bunch of guys at the white house whose job it was to piece back together the papers he shouldn't have torn up we literally had to spend hours per day. piece together the puzzle taping and here we are generations of presidents generations of betrayal double crossing and deception and

it seems that hasn't been lost on kim. a humanitarian boat carrying over six hundred migrants has arrived at the spanish port city of islands and the vessel was initially turned away by italy sparking a major migration in europe and here we can show you some of the migrants disembark interest a few hours ago and they'll be assisted by aid agencies before spanish authorities begin assessing asylum claims france has also offered to take in some of the people rescued after president emmanuel criticism of the decision to turn away the migrants. there is a degree of cynicism and irresponsibility in the italian government spend a view with regards to this dramatic humanitarian situation the remark ignited a diplomatic spat between paris and rome with italy threatening to cancel bilateral talks the french ambassador to the country was also recalled and asked to apologize

. you know what if the french ambassador has been summoned by a foreign minister on behalf of the italian people who will ask for an explanation for the in so it was directed not only against the government but also against the nation which is among the first in the world in terms of generosity of solidarity. with the french and the humility to apologize the story will be closed and we will work in the interests of everyone. the humanitarian vessel that was turned away by italian authorities out of the aquarius was carrying six hundred twenty nine migrants those on board who were rescued off the coast of libya a week ago and were hoping to disembark in sicily before being refused entry and now italy has been one of the countries hardest hit since the beginning of the migrant crisis in fact more than a half a million people have reached the country by boat from north africa in just five years in twenty eighteen alone italy has taken in over thirteen thousand migrants

that is more than either spain and greece keith best from the european council on refugees and exiles says the e.u. has shown itself incapable of finding a common solution to the crisis. i think there has been a serious failure among many of the countries of the european union to address this issue and particularly the itself in not being a fair burden sharing i i rather hope that the stance of the new very new spanish prime minister will begin to shame other countries in europe and say well we should also play a part as well but i do understand the attitude of the italian government in saying that we've already born an enormous influx of people to relaunch or to migration flows in the migration crisis as it's termed is to try to enable people to live in

their countries of origin you you have to actually try to ensure through diplomatic and international efforts the peace at home for people so they don't feel the need to flee for their lives. this is art international it's been a pleasure to have you with us on a percentage of the weekly returns with the latest world cup starts in about half an hour with my colleague nick e r. alice stein is getting international recognition with the help of israel at least in the world of zoos m.m. bill fails to miss it like a million little pieces and my company is going to have no phil saviano maybe. john. the only palestinians who gets the most help from his jerusalem counterparts

i don't think there's some of those who in the world under the oak vision know only could get it. and that's to sell off enough knowledge to how to display any of the muscle that you had i not going to continue muslims you know do more commitments also don't piss off.

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fellow of welcome to worlds apart extra this is an addition to our regular show in research focused on the people behind the story is if asked to name the most a process soviet the russian leader joseph stalin is likely to be among the first to come up with the great terror of the nine hundred thirty still haunts this country with millions to execute it to the what is much less known is that there are only a year before the purges began stalin sought to well for the lack of a better war democratize the soviet society and the society pushed back against that these paradoxes of soviet power came to life thanks to the work of an american academic from maryland who were found here in northeast russia almost nine thousand kilometers away from the old lines they. receive their little. homily. only

really monitored in the. months along is an assistant professor at the vatican state university has been teaching here on an almost six years in the morning she's trying to expand her students' english vocabulary by discussing beauty and fashion in the afternoon she scours the local archives in. of documents which shocked light on a much happier subject the early years of the soviet state. i wouldn't be surprised to find a graduate from the state university teaching at the university of pittsburgh but i think the opposite is still quite exotic how did you up here well i started writing my dissertation on the one nine hundred thirty six constitution and when i looked in the archives in moscow there was just an overwhelming amount of material so i needed to focus on the region and one of the regions i found

a lot of material from lescure of funding was a little bit difficult to come by it's not necessarily the most sexy topic uses know the topic but i think it's a very counter-intuitive topic on many levels how did the idea pop into your well there's a difference but actually how i came to them like constitution and stalin seem like two things that shouldn't go together so i wanted to see what this was about how serious a project this was whether it was really just a propaganda exercise as it had been described or if there was something a little bit more substantive now this column here is one of the most extensively researched areas of the soviet history and it's also the one that comes with a lot of accept the conventions. this was strictly to tally terror and state where everything was decided top bottom line here you are coming out with a book suggesting that stalin actually tried to encourage what he saw at least as jay.