july seventeenth twenty second business. forum dot com. this is our special coverage of the biggest football event. world cup with analysis predictions from top pundits coming right up. companies wrong. in other news a possible meeting between presidents trump and putin fires up the media room already expressing dismay. thursday june the twenty first i'm calling. the headline news a bit later in the program first. of course of the world cup in russia and the

special coverage of the tournament continues right here teams in group c. india getting that second games on the whiteside live now to. central moscow. well how they were different how this time around we're actually in our studio sessions studio overlooking red spend. time cate blanchett i'm going to hold the things you did and of course the reaction to the denmark australia match which has just ended in a draw one but yes that result coming in from some are out we're also going to share with you some tips on how to get the very best out of the well cup festivities in russia and

a lot festivities certainly have been taking place in moscow's earlier the other eleven cities twelve stadiums you can probably hear in some just behind us but it was thought you can hear us pretty well denmark australia finished before this one one danish playmaker christian eriksen that man volleying home a world taking goal you can see it there to give them an early lead no shots of the goalkeeper tool that some control the c. followed though this is to do with the let me be the referee pulled back play quite substantially to give bush a penalty australian captain white surely not in the next hour of stepping up to convert that you can see the handball of believe it was paulson was there for that offense as well meaning he's of course going to miss that key game against france from that very soon chances in the first off the other side managed to take advantage though after that that's a key point that because in terms of that penalty as well what happened was the referee didn't play for penalties straight away the they went down the other end of

the pitch there and basically what happened was the referees then we called for the v.o.r. play had continued and then they put it back for a penalty to the danes as well so the aussies out right they were actually on the bright thinking that they could get. can score at their own end and then of course he they didn't figure around what happens here works out for them in the end and that's of course part of the controversy that has happened with v.a.r. isn't it that's the first time it's been used in world cup context the video system free and it's resulted so far that of causation is you know cause and effect correlation is causation with quite a lot of penalty goals and from the last few games more so than at any other tournament but i don't know whether or not it's a case of their sakshi seeing all their full they giving more or is it ok a case of simply that there just are more penalties in this particular game because that the change in refereeing referees and more so what did you learn to make the case if there's been changes in play these days as well when the fact is there is more emphasis now on defending this more emphasis on contact years ago it was considered to be perhaps more of a less contact you know is a more context that was allowed now it's

a less contact sport people are being called up more players are pulled out for fouls now that perhaps wouldn't of been given before so changes in fashion perhaps football going forward is much more attack minded now than he used to be used to be there was an art of defending as you say now it's a case of the seem to be more penalties more fouls given before so all of these things plus the factor of v.a.r. could be taken into account and it's also subject of course while the rules are there but they were subject to interpretation fines of course in various cities celebrated in some are as well we can show you some of celebrations now of the day and celebrating their draw to celebrate you know much day but in the grand context of things of course puts little of the care that some of the group of groups i mean basically yes the danes go top by getting this particular point but then of course peru that i should say australia hoping that peru then don't do so well against france they've also got a hype so it's a case of when other results come into play really up those points you have the right well our correspondent union o'neil is and some are right now where the danes have finished their group c.

of course let's go live now to unit to get some reaction what's going on over you can get him on the line very soon don't know if you can hear us what's the general feeling there is this result but but. both teams i mean australia still do have a little chance of getting out the group don't lie but how much chance do they have what are the fans think. yeah well done one absolute belter in the first place this game was end to end for ninety minutes and really thought was the expectation going into the clash that we would get a good game here this is the same our arena and it's the second game of the world cup so fun to locals on foreign funds alike were expecting i going to be remembered and really it was this was it was some of the fonz before the match told me how to listen. to. me. oh man.

oh man. let me just explain what was going on there as well a local musician from some mara getting a little bit of help from our r.t.e. sponsors correspondent with what my friends have told me is a modern day classic and obvious just some of the fun that was going on yeah as i mentioned i was talking to lots of different funds from denmark and australia there was one woman let me get her name right because she's a very important woman heather k. outs she's a pensioner from john under she's been to every world cup since nineteen seventy four and she's in russia following her beloved socceroos to what she hoped would be at least two roland sixteen glory as she put it this is some more of what she had

to tell me an extraordinary one. i'm so happy to be here not. just. it's not helpful with these. corporate. tax. side i'm telling. you. and i have. a small. suv but i think. yes. who is it. yeah so just as the funds behind me are streaming there is

a big game to look forward to up the summer arena on the twenty fifth of june we'll be doing that all over again right here russia versus europe why for supremacy but for now us you're talking about before you came to me denmark ellis trillion well it's really just a bite still in the world cup denmark mark so looking good on top of the group. but a lot of games still to come today. hi there you know and yes thanks very much for that everybody's going to love a granny with a blue rinse an inflatable congo right action in your minds may have been issues actually excellent whether or not it's a point gained or lost actually looking from done much respect to the fans often in high spirits anyway off to the one one draw with my new. i dare. shower of beer that wasn't the case but i get also some are you couldn't tell what

it is because here it is it's you place and both cities i suppose now speaking of jubilation weeks past forces the biggest pause the biggest footballing event on the planet kicked off here and russia still treatable. weeks to go so we're down to getting a host of red bull for. eleven cities hosting world cup games twelve stadiums moscow here of course fantastic atmosphere how for so many of the troubling are the traveling fans here one particular street just a small sort of timeless preview can see on your screen there it's really become a bit of a we can all officially for supporters from all around the ball have to say the pictures you can see that that's the central mo so sweet she didn't say it's all my was there right among that crowd off to russia all that qualified from their group is just like that just like they are about you know just that just beyond red square electrifying atmosphere fans from all the all the nations mexicans moroccan spanish. argentinians climbing on the outposts and does so many people in that tiny little street i'm going to see people so many people anywhere it's truly amazing

from moscow i've never seen moscow like it kate you probably have you know i know exactly if there are that yeah they truly amazing atmosphere and trying to who's a born and bred muscovite as he likes to say he's been most of the fans and he's got this report to give you a preview of what the mood here really is like. i'm from moscow a city of more than ten million people and i cannot believe how the world cup was able to reach raul the map of latin marks in this city if you thought it was the kremlin possibly right square or the arbat street i'll have to tell you that this time you're wrong where best place to go in moscow right now by state right now just like that was going. to have to sit outside the prison where we modify the bars because once you put a card got on you go it was funny guy. like. three the streets and the like

someone i don't know on him you know you come in i don't see jo-jo but yeah so how do you find this street with the line i'll show you. now trust me you will. so you would when we get there. it is very tempting to stay on the right square but here we have to make a life. going to. make clothes or the dream. marry me during the long haul. see here full sky there are no empty spaces i'm told i'm. really.

ok this is the oh ok. ok. ok. ok this sounds like nonsense but actually if you think. that that's a street that was full of cars most of them are. coming out of the. top of getting. closer and closer. but we're now joined by ross which so williams who's the chief operating officer

pulled up but only to my kissing thank you very much indeed for joining us way up in the in the good and the gods here to tell us about what it is that you do what you do you most compliance is a kind of modern social media business. we were founded about four kind of years ago we're kind of right about the last world cup to be honest we just decided that there were there were so many more stories to tell the kind of traditional media does and the traditional kind of sports media especially way you have you know the likes of b.b.c. in the u.k. for example would do a great job of you know tell you what's going on on the pitch actually and where we're standing now you can see thousands tens of thousands of fans all together with stories to tell and so we kind of tell the human stories of football and foreign culture and what it means to people around the world and this isn't your first time in russia you mention you have made sort of pit stops here before but it's a first sort of long time of day here how the fun is so far have you found that most fair to find some of that which which you're covering i think the i think the really interesting thing about about russia and moscow and i've also been down to volgograd and you know for sure is this is truly like an international feeling

tournament which is a bit strange normally you have quite dominant groups of fans taking over doing things but here is a really nice spread and everyone's kind of able to come to life i also think that the way that that's on a russian sounds that is very different to to to go to the i was at the end of march this week i'm walking to the stadium and seeing russian fans and russian flags and with you know russian makeup on one side and even the flag on the other and they all have their other teams and that's really unique and that's that's so the sums up the culture very. very hospitable very welcoming trying to bring people in to kind of separate together and and very inquisitive incurious about where we're from than what we're about and you kind of us that again that kind of comes back one two years and bring those stories together it's quite it's been it's been a really phenomenal atmosphere so for us to go to new york and is it is it what you expected i mean if you've been to see you've been to russia before then you get an idea that even foot down and i don't mean we we know if we're finding this exception as well so is it to everything you'd expect in so in some ways yes and i

think especially for someone who spent a lot of time in the u.s. and a lot of time in in the u.k. they're obviously perceptions that people have but i've had the benefit of coming out here and we've made a lot of content and out position has always. as a couple going to live in this world cup is going to be amazing and that you know people should go and have fun and take our natural. as fans of us as has and celebrate their nations and we've definitely been allowed to do that so but on the other hand i thought it was going to great however it's been even better than i think we would imagine that and our clubhouse for example. this down over the eastern side of the city you can what you can come down and watch games and drink some coffee or have a drink and this sort of find us we've had over thirty different nations come and watch games with us and hang out so it is a it is it is international and to stephanie but the summary of things let's just full tilt fought before we ultimately that that's what fans here to see if they've got some big games here that obviously france. has some big names and really this has been a tournament as we were saying of lawton break upsets but certainly some for the

that have gone against the grain in germany brazil argentina lost points. what you make of these games that are coming up today can we see some more upsets perhaps or will things go according to plan of a messy frozen so you know for example i think i think argentina i think i thought a team in france for going to be strong today but i don't think that you're really seeing the russian to oversee these kind of teams that expected to be dominant coming out and doing it i think that there is definitely something to be said for teams in this tournament that are able to grind out results and we saw that with the with porch where yesterday we saw that with england on monday and i think that is a slight change for all this and previous two hundred teams coming out with square and beating others four five nil defensively i think people are a lot more shooting aware in the storm and so i don't think they'll be any upsets today but i think on a following one day we have to finish. russia ross thanks so much ross was a williams chief operating officer for cope and i'd like you to join the rest you'll stay in moscow sure of what you said maybe on a cold scale world that is your thought is happening scotches as. well this is the

last hour of our special coverage from the central moscow studio we'll be turning our attention to r.t.c. new football age two and then another fantastic location in a very high. absent petersburg auntie's neil harvey will be there next hour and will be joined by goalkeeping great peter schmeichel later on that before setting up camp at the new studio neil got the chance to visit some of the hot spots in russia's northern capital to. show you know professional. love is the key so how to get international kickabout here i got very lucky that we got the local fans from all over the world we got russian azerbaijan and morocco and gentlemen here from poland this is rough out now he explains why i'm doing this report today because their fans see how they got tickets to watch the games even st petersburg you be watching poland it will most

go because you cannot but he still wants to see st petersburg see the hermitage see the sights so what does he do when he wants to to the games they head to the polls pubs restaurants around the city games are being shown live everywhere where's the best place to go is the question take a look. first choice yes it's no secret i'm so going to chose it because it's popular the reason being it sounds those who are in the sunshine it's family friendly and has a great atmosphere and there's going to be a culture of the place to enjoy it. after the excitement of all the football clue that located just outside the fun zone you could find relax the gentle pull price and the venice of the no. but maybe some of the sunshine fresh ever since your liking if so a little strange but i understand so let's head to auction to go to the pub.

this is the way. enjoy the world cup football with a beer some chips. some salty is expiring global cosmopolitan here. but singularly interesting cause is a clue in the night it's called the hundred dollars bond just because it's long. and it needs to. go on some little. misleading because it's not a hundred yards long it's three hundred pages long slow don't understand the well are you having. this is not the final and i think. it's

a lot of the last is the school. i mean. to. say son was the cause of the day this guy he's a cad and he's giving up coming should. keep you. and he's percy good this is the place for all the for string t.v. commentators among it you know the guys the ones who just never shuts up while the game is on. what if you don't know who the play is how do you deal with that from my side to be dilatory if i don't remember the name of the player i just called him a kitten. so that was it sounds myers like keep him please make it past the bowl so if you want you can go in training method i thank you but never going to. school so in the second of all the next illegal all things like this by when some of the debate last year anybody who's ever in the booth i highly recommend

the show comes it but even i couldn't pull the most viewing things that people in the corner. too many players going to say. place college position oh. that's nice he's an englishman this is pretty much the same by the way i am a fan of you wait because you're only champions league will come out she's any patients or means just getting to my age. and you have a whale of a time to be just by going to public schools also playing on the front sproule when you capture the face to face up to two thousand kilometers east of moscow headed towards the real mountains peru found schools already out in force in the city flooding the whole place and now watch and read like all the nations of course have

been giving a bit of a cultural twist to russia's unofficial world cup anthem as you shop. has been thirty six years now since through last qualified for the world cup finals and turning out in big numbers for the still months the country though it didn't go according to plan frustrating one mil loss to denmark but it's not all bad there's some promising saw in seventeen shots from goal of fighting to win the game so who knows they could make a comeback. well that's it from us now from our football team central must get back to call them right now with a global headlines and news before we go back to the football but what i can tell.

welcome back they are to new center claims that. donald trump are planning to meet in europe next month of got the media room and mills working overtime with the details here's my guest here. well rumors abound the imminent meeting between the presidents of the united states and the russian federation dog donald trump and vladimir putin at a time when relations are historically low perhaps even worse than they were during the cold war and one of trump's senior national security advisers john bolton who is very very much a wolken one of the most militant officials in washington he's coming over to

russia the white house issued a press statement saying that better relations between two of the world's nuclear superpowers are in the interests of everyone but that there are pressing concerns that have to be addressed first for example the poisoning of a former russian spy in britain the events in syria in ukraine as well as alleged meddling in u.s. elections in two thousand and sixteen and that is the only part of this story that has been confirmed the meeting between donald trump and vladimir putin at this point just rumors. as far as i know mr bolton that moscow that's all we can say if you know there have been no statements regarding impossible to meet with president putin and trump at the time being have nothing to say because if and when we're reading. now mainstream pundits who

been opponents of any improvement of relations between the west and russia well they've they've gone into meltdown over this they're saying that any sort of meeting with the russians would cause does. may and alarm and be counterproductive you'd think that these two countries the united states and russia which almost came to a military conflict in syria it would be good that they improve relations but not according to headlines they had a field day with this saying that such a meeting would you know would ruin everything and that the real beef the pundits have had with with this meeting is that if during his trip to europe meets with glad to meet their foreheads into a native summit late next month that that would send all the wrong messages and that would frighten already jittery european allies. the nato

secretary general is warning that political disagreements and infighting risks tearing the international military alliance apart but at a speech in london and stoltenberg did insist that preserving nato is in the interest of its twenty nine member states these disagreements are real it is not written in stone that the transatlantic bone will survive for ever but i believe we will preserve it for those comments and stoltenberg call for unity come ahead of next month's nato summit which could lay bare the differences between them on a number of issues between member states the nato chief said within europe the e.u. political orientation and shifting values could have an impact on the strength of the alliance and the key points of contention between washington and its partners over trade attitudes towards climate change and the future of the iran nuclear deal so long on their plate let's bring in political analyst chris bambery now again do you agree with stauffenberg that nato can overcome all these differences that it's

facing at the moment. and then today i think nato will survive because it's been an important part of united states strategy the expansion of nato in particular to surround the factor with the russian federation federation and the expansion of nato of nature's presence onto russia's borders very very very important but i think what is happening here is very very interesting when you know if you look at the history of nato it was set out as part of the cold war after one thousand nine hundred eighty five a common and very much form way at least on the united states then a by paul world the united states the soviet union as we were told post the collapse of the soviet union that this was that the end of history as one commentator said afraid to wear the america america and the west the model of capitalism it represents one really hasn't quite worked out with that and i think what the europeans are now looking at is a world really beginning to see that the old maps they had no longer fits they're supposed to be the key allies britain and france in particular so western extent

germany over the united states and here we have the united states focusing particularly. foreign ministers. hello question to you so can you still hear us so chris hello can you hear us i think we may have lost the line to chris bambery there which is a shame so maybe we'll chat him off air and hear a little more from him a little bit later on so we'll wrap it up there that said from a column break for now our world cup focus moved to st petersburg in half an hour of course with neil harvey guiding you through today's two remaining matches this is r.t. international thanks for watching. because

or this is a report the show the. bars no holds holds are no bargain. oh well you seem to have lost your mind but you know it so has the u.s. in general so maybe it's you've been spending too much time there i have a headline here from c.n.n. that we haven't been able to cover while we've been here because you know we've had this stuff but i love this headline as well peter navarro says there's a special place in hell for justin trudeau that is our chief trade negotiator for it donald trump so it's quite interesting to call an ally there's a special place in hell for him and i don't know if that was because of his eyebrow falling down of space but peter navarro has apologized for this but you know i'm not sure what the big problem is with the canadians i mean we get the maple syrup and we get the hockey players and they get the tar sands tell you what stop sending

tar sands to america and be happy about that because it's extremely dangerous for people so i think justin trudeau did some sort of special tar sands deal just recently as well but nobody pays attention to them because trump is everything right but that's what everybody's paying attention to but i want to turn to another story that i promised we would cover the last episode i said we were covering this and this is finally. frets about share buybacks quote torrent of corporate training dominating the market and short term financial engineering right after the company tells the market the stock is cheap executives overwhelmingly decide to sell that's the headline and this is from wall street dot com but he's talking about an s. e c study and they find that basically all these companies are doing is they announce that they're going to do a share buyback that stocks soaring and you know what happens the insiders dump all their shares five fold increase.