and alongside that it's going to be a very interesting third game for both of those teams you'd expect him to feet down in the peter you'd expect belgium to see often is he wouldn't you in the second round for the full chinese in the second half they they got some confidence into their game they were trying to take the game to england. as we said before that with the game that but some of their best players are not even in the squad to use your injury so it was kind of feeling the way forward in the first they were all over the place they got organized so maybe just maybe it's a tougher test for those of that it was for a good today but belgium i mean that's a say one of the favorites to win the world cup they should be tunisia just own up belgium of never won a world cup are they of the team at. the may break that duck and run and actually add to that list of illustrious winners have won the world cup are they good enough to go all the way if you look if you go through the list of players they have you know you see you stop just every single player. is

a teenager. what the problem both them very often is i suppose you must divide into two we've got a from each part in the got a french bar and at times the infighting between the two groups has caused that it was all to be not so good but the innocent the manager has worked very very hard of that and claims that's a really good team spirit within that in the squad and that's what you need to win any kind of tournament you need to have the chief working with you so what it is to the you know it's a long way to go away but they're looking all right so far three know the wind in the bag well in the first five days of this world cup it's going fast peter is not five days in athens we have seen the big boys fail to impress underdogs like iceland and a run securing some at big scalps on the two million fans here flocked to russia to witness the action well they have been left disappointed.

any rumors about like russian hooligans or russian hackers while in america. russian spy how many people are spying on you right now. probably living telling people are watching the stock when you get the same old sport that i see in the in japan i. could cope with the stuff as i don't get it.

god i love. the literature. that if. i if. i. close. another icon of the game to give us his predictions was manchester united boss josie a marine you know who was looking ahead to tomorrow's clash between host nation

russia and egypt. i think that's the match that's the measure that is going to the sides qualifies for the. for the next for the next round normally they both would get three points against saudi she sees them match because you know what i think is a different level of experience and mental ready for the for this level of competition so this is a big match russia has to step up solid because solid makes the makes the difference and has to impose use physicality as one of the most important points for the match. are to say under former also astros a for his thoughts on how the group stand and how the championship has gone so far. ok now before all this storm it started to make some predictions for us didn't you get i think around the predictions oh i pray now i'll

be able to take a little bit. of i have a funny feeling and trying to bring some well some salt and pepper to it let's have a great day can we we know that joe is i there was a prince in europe why i'm russia would get active there it is russia and europe was there in that position was there almost almost that russia needs russia needs a draw against egypt and job done and. to want to. make a great play then let's go into great big joe as i said i am portugal and it's only one game so i ran portugal but nothing to tell you we just need you just need to be careful when you play against iran you cannot lose against iran because if you're on the six points it's qualified and one of the big ones is all three saying let's have a look at that one. jos i said france australia the title says france denmark yeah but you saw how they lost yes australia lost not deserving to lose in my opinion

they lost but showing clearly that they were competing for points and if they compete that's where you're going strong and i still think they can do obviously a better result against against so my protection you still. break state argentina nigeria. yeah in here i think i'm going to lose with nigeria not just because they lost the match but specially because the way they lost. i didn't like a troll when i looked to paper i like many of the players i like. the names i saw nigerians typically strong african country but i was disappointed. when i see a player like john obi mikel to play. as. it is impossible to be good with playing as a fan because i think nigeria lost

a good six to get to them and to give is not i mean to the to the team playing in in that position supports move on to creeping through things. serbia brazil city didn't get i didn't my serve did look good so i told the media my predictions that i was not thinking that sort of it was going home i was wishing serbia was going home which is a different thing because i want i want my man to go on on a holiday you could see that when switzerland got to point against brazil obviously they can get three against costa rica probably they can get one against serbia and then if they go to five. my prediction can steal can still go with brazil and and switzerland but i have to confess i want my play to go on and let's move on and carry f. . g.'s a said germany and mexico germany at the bottom that green. i got

a long way to go like germany i think is going to qualify would six points. and and mexico has a big chance now to qualify even with five so you from mexico doesn't lose against three of them which is very possible and doesn't lose against south korea which is very possible all lose one but when the other ones we choose all from normal i think mexico will pull if i would five or six points and i don't believe that we're going to have a football scandal with germany going home so i think my prediction will be correct finally you being with us what a five day it is your last day today just tell us what have been you your impressions of moscow and also the world cup know the. fear in the city amazing. and you know where we are just in the most iconic place in the

city would have everybody's coming i can imagine such a cool nationalities probably even more on the streets that mysterious fantastic that's the seat these beautiful the weather is amazing food you have to believe that these are the best studio in in the. in the evidence of the vision of the present amazing experience for me but now i need a little bit of what i'd need a little bit the quality of it but i will be back. we've got to force some of finals and finals. so. 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 a hard guy. and i would only blame him for not caring about american public opinion anymore 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. what politicians do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to express them should. somehow want to. let you go right to be for us this is what the full reasonable people that i'm interested always in the waters of. this should.

welcome back the united states and south korea say they will not hold joint military exercises which were scheduled for august that announcement comes following the historic meeting of the u.s. and north korean leaders in singapore last week joining us now live as our two correspondents america on the mirror take us through the latest developments. well after the summit trump promised to cut back on military exercises with south korea saying that the costs of war games are too high but given their tense history it's interesting to witness how dramatically attitude towards kim has shifted especially in such a short period of time let's check out before and after. north korea best not getting bored threats to the united states. they will be

met with fire fury rocket man should have been handled a long time for. this reason only. that he was going to agree with. the white house also said that the drills would be paused so long as the north koreans continue to act in good faith so it seems that there are no losers in this situation especially considering that trumps keeping his word well at least for now on. american reporting live from the u.s. capitol think you for bringing us that report. to me to movement against workplace harassment has raised many questions for example how long can you stare at a coworker before getting into trouble online t.v. show provider netflix apparently has the answer our associate churkin explains.

oh sorry i didn't mean to sexually harass you netflix have reportedly introduced a policy advise in their employees not to stare at each other for longer than five seconds this has neither been confirmed nor denied by the company but the general idea is allegedly inspired by the me too movement to avoid sexual harassment in the workplace according to netflix employees quoted by the press this five second staring back as part of a package of no lingering hugs no asking for phone numbers and no flirting we're proud of the end to your usman training we offer to our productions we want every netflix production to be a safe and respectful working environment but do you think about when you think about the five second rule i have no idea what five second rule if you were to take a guess would you think it would be about i can eat something after i fall after after i drop it on the floor but only before it's placed there for five seconds so we have a three second rule in norway so we have what you have to have three seconds between

your car and the next car. in time oh really you guys were talking today urging people about netflix you know no but yes ok so they have reportedly introduced this new policy where they're after people who work with them to not stare at each other for longer than five seconds. told what sexual harassment really ridiculous company . nonsense that you want to try it sounds like small amount of time but it's actually really good it. seems ok let's start each other let's do that. like the next miley we have to do whatever you think. seems somewhat counterproductive in every single way seems a bit stupid really. just looking at people isn't sexual harassment if you and i work together can we. i look at each other for longer than five seconds because then it creates like an uncomfortable environment apparently at the y.

you don't have to look at me i'm all right now i don't front and comfort was just one i think it sounds a little bit odd that you can't have corporation with anybody and then be afraid of sexual harassment i mean that would just be weird i think you stupid it's people work together. look at each other that's a roundup of today's top headlines and sunday's world cup highlights but don't forget you can always had to our website r.t. dot com the details on all that and more. than kentucky. boy susan you can go green street funnies or you lose. money city with no coal mines left. the jobs are gone all the goal was to show.

that it was love to see these people the survivors of disappearing before their eyes. i remember thinking when i was younger that if anything ever happened to the coal mines here that it would become a ghost town but i never thought in the million years i would see that and it's how it's happened. they just don't commit this type of sloppy corruption in the u.k. that's what people respect the case for the most corruption bottlers of corruption there's a concierge of global banking corruption and they do a fine job at it but they don't do it here in shantytown. so it's seems wrong. when old rules just don't hold. any lol. yes to see if. he's. active. and engaged.

in something and find themselves worlds apart. just of the common ground. blowing welcome to cross talk for all things considered i'm peter lavelle the trumpet juggernaut continues on all fronts if he remaking the western world or merely isolating the us also is north korea coming out of the cold and much much more on this edition of crossfire.

cross talking unstable world i'm joined by my guest mark sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst we also have dmitri bob h. he's a political analyst with sputnik international and in plymouth we cross to patrick henningsen he is a journalist writer and founder of the news website twenty first century wired dot com all right gentlemen rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want i always appreciate patrick let me go to you first in plymouth so much to chew on here reflect upon my introduction is trying brought trying to recast the western world or maybe the whole world and its entirety or is this really just isolating the united states or a combination of all of i what i've just said go ahead patrick implement. you know this is this is the big challenge to determine firstly what is us foreign policy you know i think there's there's been a tendency there's a tendency by academics and by some commentators to try to look for breaking trends to try to generalize everything into sort of larger themes like is this a realist

a revival of a realist foreign policy or is this a continuation or a different version of a liberal globalization based foreign policy i think it's really difficult because if you look at history the only consistency with a lot of u.s. foreign policy is its inconsistency so you look at you see your hypocrisy at every turn no matter how many administrations you go back to but one thing that is consistent is a kind of post world war two grand strategy and so the united states as it's come out of the cold war period then entered a kind of period where full spectrum dominance was its main priority and i think to some degree that is still where a lot of washington's thinking is directed pentagon led full spectrum dominance as thomas barnett sort of you know laid out during the bush administration but in terms of donald trump i think the united states is at a very interesting crossroads because the first time where it's not expanding in

one hundred twenty years internationally it's actually having to reconsolidate its positions not just at home but abroad as well and i think dollar trump is the ideal chapter eleven practitioner maybe for this point you know u.s. history chapter eleven that's really great to have mark here i mean also you know everybody's looking for these kind of short phrases to describe i came across one no friends no enemies that would least work in the case of dealing with the i guess we can use it correct and disastrous g. seven meeting in canada and no enemies dealing with north korea at least at the time for the time being as some kind of partner illegitimate partner no friends no enemies yeah. i don't think there is a coherent trump foreign policy and i don't think that surprises us because it's quite clear that doesn't have complete control of the u.s. foreign policy congress has a multiple times attempted to usurp that right pushing him passing legislation

forcing him to put new sanctions on russia now they're putting forward a bill trying to for bid the president the commander in chief from withdrawing troops from south korea without receiving the approval of the secretary of defense that's that's fine also we also have a members of congress petitioning other pentagon to so jet fighters for thirty five's to turkey. and they're also threatening against india but the one thing that congress doesn't seem to want to reclaim is their actual constitution given power and they're very easy to do that they really clearly or they're very choosy and they really cherry pick. well i agree with the big big question is are we seeing the continuation of the same so-called liberal or would truly be real world order been be able to obviously seen something else well i think that trump is actually less dangerous than their you know the people who were viewed in their

so-called world order during the last twenty five years because if you compare the war to an apartment block you know what these people want is to demolish it completely build a new one russia and china as the biggest tenants right now voice in their objections their dolls the usual response is just don't worry you will be better off we'll give you new apartments right and wrong place just very you know open the crush and the walls around himself and you know you will see a realistic absolutely this is not i think i did not go with the original but when he is just simply you know expanding the. what patrick let me go back to you and climate at length because i think what's really interesting here is that the united states still wants to lead ok it still wants to be dominant but it's not doing it with its allies because it sees the its allies is being a dead weight ok i mean they don't pay their own way they get preferential trade

deals so the this is what makes trump a bit different he still wants to be win and be number one he decides it really care he doesn't want to carry the load for the entire western world anymore because he doesn't see it as being cost effective again he's a real estate agent patrick and climate sure that this is the transactional nature of this ministration that you see this reflected through to the white house you see it was especially through nikki haley although she's taking her wrecking ball towards multilateral institutions like the united nations and other sort of international institutions and don't trump is sort of taking the wrecking ball maybe towards nato you could say and in some ways the european union but i think you've got two different sides of foreign oil so you're need to separate you're up and what's going in that hemisphere and all the legacy post were to look see there with asia and don't trump is much more comfortable in asia and he's doing exactly the opposite of what the previous administration did which was lead from behind

this is a president now that doesn't want to be upstaged by his secretary of state he's actually taking the lead he's interfacing directly with some of the most powerful leaders in that region and i think he's more comfortable in that environment that's where the money is this is where the future is asia is forward looking and certainly on the cost of the global economic surge in that part of the world so this is definitely much more of a comfort zone for this president but in europe it's much more how the amount of patrick little issue that you get mino i mentioned the g. seven i mean and this is somewhat kind of my mantra my hobby horse here is that trump is not in tune with the postmodernist order of things that postmodern. mine think ok mindset and that's that's the g seven ok particularly in europe he doesn't see eye to eye with mccrone with trudeau with people like that because it he just has a very different understanding of everyday politics he's not a theory titian ok he doesn't have a theory he's a he's

a practitioner let me go to mark here on this yeah he's not a liberal i mean not a liberal that there are some but up and patrick thank you my brain is now imprinted with an image of nikki haley is miley cyrus driving a wrecking ball into the united nations and this is so here's the problem even though it's it's a divide between not only the u.s. deep state and the trump administration but between trump and people within his own administration like mad dog madison and so on they still want to pursue american hegemony and there's no way america has given up on the pursuit of global military financial and other means of germany around the world trump does see that as wasteful i've seen a characterization that he loathes the liberal international order that has been created since the establishment of bretton woods through the uni polar moment and so on because he does see it as not as damaging the us as transferring wealth

and the us overplaying the role of defense when it doesn't need to around the world he sees a stance of all u.s. allies like the e.u. as rivals as economic rivals because he's a businessman and that's the way that he views the world on business terms and he sees ins and outs at an imbalance particularly with europe and he faults europe as having worse trade policies for the u.s. than china jeffrey goldberg and the atlantic this week did it in article he's famous for giving this softball interview he was the one i. apologise where obama told him that his former. policy was simply don't do stupid stuff stuff yes she did it. well a jumper goldberg got three different characterizations supposedly from three different anonymous officials within the trumpet ministration of how to divine the

trump foreign policy the first one was this no friends no enemies which is a very realistic interpretation. unfortunately trump if he wanted to pursue that i don't think he's had the ability to pursue that as much as he would like one of the sec it once i think will feed a lot of conspiracy theories that may not be conspiracy theories anymore that permanent destabilisation creates american advantage while that that sums up american foreign policy and military policy and what they've done in the middle east the support of. terrorists you know in libya and syria and so on and the last one sums it up as far as the liberals are concerned we're america be think of breaking bad everybody i think. you know. also you could say in a kind of is a extra layer from what we've heard from patrick and from mark is that trump is determined to do everything barack obama did ok everything well you know

a strange way yes and interestingly not on the standing actually at all of the terrible things barak obama did southern this song but the one before you know recently he said that it will stall bamma the crania became russian he obviously meant that obama was we will solve no he looked at one of the wire around us both of the coup in ukraine without which i mean i would never never have gone back to russia people would never be pushed to vote for that referendum for going back to russia so just you know unintentionally. told the truth and if we compare trump and the so-called liberals in the us administration trump is more peaceful let me give you. the only real careful there is a wrong on the right you see here you've got twenty seconds to explain that this is just. the headline from the nation the media response to the meeting.

trump betrays a cynical attitude to south korea's security basically the media response was tromp made concessions he gave up all the exercises he's betrayed the united although i would say here still very surprised were it to defend him that's part of our to the deal gentlemen i'm going to jump in here we're going to go to a short break and after that short break we'll continue our discussion and some real news stay with r.t. .